The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1875, Page 6

_— 6 NE BR YORK HERALD ait wat 2S WAY AND ANN’ STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SU after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henarp will be | sent free of post i THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the Four cents per copy. An- mual subscription price $12. year. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SR ee MARCH 29, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. |The Ways and Works of the © Ring. We do not like the look of things at Albany. The attitude of the Governor is as right as right can be, but we distrust the Legislature. It contains too many known members and suspected allies of the Canal Ring. They are | doing things which the Governor has not asked them to do and leaving undone the things he most desires. He has not asked chinery of investigation. He has probed the canal corruption himself. He set forth in his Message, not vague suspicions or conjectures, but fully ascertained facts, of which the evi- dence exists in authentic oflicial records. All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Your ‘Herarp. Rejected communications will not be re- tumed. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. X.ONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | the session in beating about the bush under What he asked for was not legislative in- quiries, but legislative action—the prompt passage of laws which will enable him to cut up these abuses by the roots. It is preposter- ous to squander the tew remaining weeks of the pretence of finding out whether our canal system is, after all, really corrupt. The corruption is notorious; it has been notorious for years. Its nature is as well known now as it willever be. The most that the com- mission of investigation and the committee of Bubscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. ——— VOLUME XL. —_ ACADE Fourteenth strect.—EN Logg. Y OF MUSIC, LISH OPERA, atsP. M Miss STE! 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M. to, Mt A HOUSE, Sixth avenue.—NEGRO BRYA. ‘West Twenty-third str MINSTRELSY, &c., a ; closes at 10 P.M, Dan | Bryant | GER NIA ‘TA THEATRE, | Pourteenth street —UIKOFPLE-GIROFLA, at 8 P, M; | €loses at 10:15 P.M. Miss Lina Mayr. NIBLO'S, at 8 P.M; closes at 1035 — —HERRMANN, RA TIOUSE. | M.; closes at 10:45 | RO- Mr. Fisher, Mr. PARK EATRE, Broadway.—DAVY (ROCKET, at'8 P.M.; eloses at | Yo: P.M Dir. M. GRAN) CF 35 585 Broad VAL M. L THEATRE, ats PL M.; Closes at 10:45 BOWE, ND THi rr WOF ATRE, Bowery. —AROU D IN EIGHTY Days, Mt GRAND OPERA avenue and Twenty-t oLE SHEET. SE, reet.—AHMED, at 8 hind bend oe 1875, PUBLI Ow ng tothe heavy pressure of advertise columns of our Sunday edi- will serve their own inte usto x will intended nake a proper cl: le assi- tt hereafter send in the Sunday the week and early on Ley nents for nanp during aturdays, From our reports this morning the-probabilities are that the weather to-day will be:cloudy, with rain. Tze Deatn of a conveyed from Bellevue for the oor woman’ while being Hospital yesterday is inve tion of the another case Coroner. Tur Captatn Gexeran or Cusa has issned to the the Cinco rm which claims that the e between civilization and bar- citizens of k he proclamatio ps itis, but not in the way ler is it. New Spanish suc- reported f mm; but the yurned with Valr a is resolved to re po! but threats and not, thus far, had much effect tations are st executions bay upon the patriot Tre SE nraL Excursion To Mexico is 1 by the Siate Department to have no significance. Colonel Thomas A. s iys that it has no business si Colonel Mac tms that it I se} wignificance, y Brist ys he shall not give it the financial ance of his com] Tue Secrets or Taz > grand heme for the diversior the Tiber from its be@ and the recl pagna marshes, in tallen the lead, has é It has long b tt n d that immer hidden beneath the waves ¢ ‘Tiber, : accumulation of ct % letter of Signor Lanciani to the Hinanp relates the romance and ex- plains the probabl h of these specn- Janie The celebrated archeologist is en- titled to speak authoritatively upon the sub- ject, and believes that the mud of the river bed will keep the ancient treasures which it is supposed to have engulfed. The facts .or Kanciani quotes are singular and in- teresung. | precisely the same kind as those exposed by _ supplies all the facts that can be of any im- | new-born zeal of the Canal Ring for multi- | three days’ recess between Friday evening and | terfuge may be hit upon by the canal thieves ! majority of the Assembly may insist that he | shall have the sole power of appointing the investigation which are proposed in the | Legislature can do is to multiply mstances of The Governor | { the Governer in his Message. portance as a basis of legislation, and the plying investigations and pursuing the offenders looks too much like the ery of “Stop | thief!’’ raised with all his strength of lungs by an adrcit culprit when a crowd is at his heels. It does not yet appear what form this noisy parade of investigation is to take. We know, indeed, in what shape it passed the Assembly, but it sticks as yet in the Senate, and ia the this evening nobody can tell what new sub- | and their abetiors, The Assembly, instead of accepting Governor Tilden’s facts as true, has passed resolutions for testing his statements by two different methods. One of these is ao commission to be selected by the Governor himself; the other a joint committee of the two houses. The Senate has acted on the commission to be appointed | by the Governor, but it has amended the | resolution so as to require the consent of the | Senate to the Governor's selections, Of course this must go to the Assembly for its concurrence, affording an opportunity for the Ring to gain time and utilize their skulking supporters in both houses. Under a mask of pretended contidence im the Governor a commission and deteat it altogether by a disagreement with the Senate. Party feeling mey be dexterously played on to accomplish sucha result. The republican Senate may for an elaborate time-consuming double ma- | 7°" - | lation, but for comprehensive amendments to object to the exclusion of their party trom any voice in the commission, on the ground that | if the Governor appoints it alone the investi- | gation would be conducted in the interest of | the democratic party and of his own ambi- tion. If the Senate should adhere to its amendment and the Assembly refuse to con- cur, the skulkers could keep up a pretended zeal for reform while acting in the | interest of the Ring. If the proposed commission should be defeated by this or any | | similar juggle, the only rerious cause of re- | gret will be the loss of time and division of feeling over an attempt to gain further proof | | of facts that are already so well known as to justify immediate legislanon. Tue joint com- mittee of investigation will, doubtless, be ap- | pointed in some shape or other, but all the secured by diflérences be- aid the Canal | chief purpose is to slave off legis- deluy that can be tween the two houses will Ring, who lation during t é The two great objects at which Governor Tilden aims, or ought to aim, are—first, pre- vention, and then punishment; and he 1 not permit the found them if he can help it. ui m anal ae to mix and c If your house st on fire ries the most urgent thing is to get the engines on the ground to put out the flames. It would ysurd to ston riy known; 7 and in: hile your pro 3 ari Governor with all ging Te tice, if he i slow action ot them to jus- Buc $ through the has ev: r guilt. parst the courts with no great cer- tainty of either convicting them or recovering while the stolen money, the same kind of abuses will continue preventive lo are passed by this Legisiature. Itis for the i terest of the scoundrels that the remn d the session be fritter ay in investigations tion, utterly need]: or pretenc: 38 legislative for guidi tion, and useful only tor tracking out particular knaves and bring- ing them to auswer in the courts. It two or three inv $ are set on foot the Ring and its sec will have o plausible ex- cuse for postponing legislation until at least the proposed joint committee reports, and lone befc the close nothing will be d yb the session. he proper ¢ se is to Jaya s refo. ng hand on these flagrant abuses at onee, and then, when stringent laws have rendered their repetition imp: give the Governor such additional power as he needs for compelling the orge and t ng them to pun- The suceess of such prosecutions ut can be no doubt at all that an honest Legislature could put a stop to the robber’ “An ounce of preve worth a pon but in this particu- | lar case it which weighs cure may prove ot either house is to think further proof s of remedial nave in collu- canal article which wonld medy if the new const formed a part, had not been rejected. It was so wise an article that the Constitutional Commission adopted and recommended it several years later, and one of the most upright members posed it in the early part of the session as a separate amendment. We will not discuss nor even describe that admirable amendment now. proof that the canal frauds have been per- fectly known for at least eight years, The published proceedings of the Convention of 1867 abound with evidence that these abuses were as fully known then as they are now, and that the information then possessed was thought a sufficient basis, not merely for legis- the constitution. For example, this preamble and resolution were passed by the Conven- tion: — Whereas it appears by authoritative testimony on the files of the Convention hi 8 corrupt com. bination was entered into, &c., Resolved, ‘that the ‘Attorney General be re- quested to mediately commence legal proceed> | igs to Vacate such contracts for traud and to take Such proceedings in relation to officials of the State, if any, implicated, as shall vindicate the honor of the State aud vindicate its mterests for the future. The debates of that Convention were full of charges of wholesale canal frauds, which nobody made even a show of contradicting or extenuating, except so far as the opportunities and temptations of a bad system might serve asa palliation, Nobody had the hardihood to question the facts. Mr. Alvord, who is now a member of the Assembly, made this state- ment in one of his speeches in the Conven- tion: —‘‘Those who have charge of the canals have little more than tided aloug. They only get together to see how not to do it, and if they can tide along without an actual stoppage of navigation and pocket fifty, seventy-five or eighty-seven and a half per cent of the money appropriated for the repairs of the canals they will accomplish their object and return the canals upon the hands of the State utterly dilapidated and ruined ; and one reason of this is that our system is all wrong.’’ Other speakers in the Convention depicted the canal frauds in still darker colors, and from that day to this no intelligent man, unless he were a canal thief, has denied the magnitude of the evil. Even the confederates of the Canal Ring in this Legislature have not the face to deny that the system is utterly rotten. Why, then, is time | | and their superstitious dread of the future, to be wasted in tedious investigations to find out what everybody knows and confesses? What can we think of these investigations and these cries of ‘Stop thief!” if they be not artful devices of the Ring for postponing legislation ond gaining an opportunity to forestall it by packing the political conven- tions of both parties next fall ? The Easter Sermons. The services yesterday in our principal churches were of a more than usual solemnity and earnestness, for they celebrated the anni- | versary of the event upon which most of all the hope of the Christian is based. The resur- rection of the Saviour from the dead is the evidence to man of the future life, and it is naturally commemorated with reverential joy and thankfulness. Easter Sunday is, there- | fore, the greatest religious festival of Christian nations, and our pulpit orators, with few ex- ceptions, chose appropriate texts for their discourses. Thus the Rev. Dr. Thompson spoke of ‘The Life that is Eternal,”’ and Dr. Morgan upon ‘The Risen Lord.” Mr. Varley occupied Mr. Hepwortt’s pulpit in the morning and detailed with much force the growth of the doctrine of the resurrection, which was preached by the early apostles. Dr. Armitage also treated of the historical evidences and the spiritual truths of the rising from the dead, while Mr. Beecher preached upon the importance of obedience to Christ, asa Prece- | dent condition of cormprelensi truth. F r McDowell eloquently in: upon the sermon which E to all who can appreciate its be soul-inspiring truths. These and other dis- courses will be found in our religious depart. ment to-day, and will, we trast, receive the at- tention of all belic without regard to f or prejudice. It is a micro- rears, sectarian bel: cosm of these re rte ports King Kalakeua at Home. The tendency to hero worship is inex- tinguishable in humau nature, and has done much to retard and to st the progress of nations, our own more simple pe faith a ve Ti , where King K: is is th sas afather. His retura to Honoluln after his long tour in this country was hailed with de nt, and our letter from the Hawaiian ¢ , descriptive of the State the larity of the monarch. a affair, in which all nations were re officers of three Am: Engl} el, t forcign gov dignitaries cy of the ms and u iy ances remarkable. Itis impossible for mind not to rec r iol more sente one h ves: the tive th brilii: Antique war of ders co enter re modern he of a realking Kalakaua is th royal coutemporaries in Europe. Amadons, who fled from his capital; / who con- templates the abdication of » and Don Carlos, who is fighting against his own sul jects, whose » such pictu » Bour Bonapa factions, is pr ed in Hawaii. King Kala- kaua reigns by the will of his peopl seeks no wars, no new conquests of glor jand—the piness of his ple is his prin- cipal object, and his rub in example of national prosj 3 ce. Of all the kings in our day now of none who better deserves the crown than the kindly, upright wis otleman who presides over the des tines: of the Hawa Our Rarm Transre PANIES Albay letter to-day general survey of the political sit rtienlarly inter- esting ir nplete st nt of the rayid transit plans now bef vislatnre and “ vhich hb been chartered at It will be se t there is no ns 3, but very 6 been 1 by active rivalry on paper ‘ the the Manhattay, the Central the Hudson Tunnel, and the Cen Under- no of these companies, which ground are s We allude to it only as a conspicuous | the Christian world that we present in | | | | tee of we think have wasted valuable time in divided | \ of the present Assembly, Mx, Seward, pro- | efforts, when union is so greatly needed, Religious Stimulants. The Protestant Church appears to be pass- ing through one of its periodical awakenings. Its progress does not seem to be that of o train on an up grade, where there is a steady pull and a steady advance, but that of a series of excited leaps, with an intervening series of rests or pauses. The necessity for these in- termittent jerks it is not easy to discover, since religion, if it has any value at any time has an equal value at all times, and men ought not to need to be rhetorically taken by tho neck and shaken over the pit that they may | get a sense of the danger in which they stand. Nevertheless, if a religious body is ‘under the law” of this novel mode of progression it should be judged by that law. We have watched the movement which is exciting the interest of tens of thousands in Europe and America with some degree of cu- riosity, and regard it asasign of the times not to be ignored by any thoughtful student. We have remarked that it is much easier to rouse the masses of London to overwhelm- ing excitement than to stir up the people of New York. Moody and Sankey are doing in England a very important work. We wish Mr. Varley or any other evangelist could accomplish the same in this city. But we fear the days of eloquence aro over in this country, or, at any rate, the days when an American audience can completely forget ifself in the fervor of a speaker. The middle classes throughout the Kingdom of Great | Britain are vastly lower in the scale of educa- tion and general thoughtfulness than the same classes here. The proportion of religious ex- citement across the water is in keeping with this fact. To educated people religion is a conviction, while to the ignorant it is an emotion. The latter are easily roused by powerful and magnetic eloquence, and are easily carried away by nervous delirium, which they fondly dream to be a possession by the spirit, but which every physician knows to be nothing more than epilepsy or catalepsy. A vast deal of the work done by Moody and Sankey is done by a forcible appeal to the emotions of the crowd, by exciting their fears and is, therefore, of the spasmodic sort. While the fire blazes the water will boil, but when the fire goes out the water will go back to the old temperature. We have very little faith in such methods, and believe unnatural excite- ment to be both unhealthy and demoralizing in the end. It is, doubtless, well enough to get intoa religious mood, thcugh it be only temporary, but lasting character is based on religious convictions. We look with sus- picion upon all movements which depend upon stimulants. It is about as well to leta man alone as to scare him into heaven. New York, however, can be safely trusted in this matter. There is not the slightest dunger of any unnatural religious excitement among us through the ministrations of Mr. Varley or of any other evangelist. The average citizen of this great city is too clear heaged to allow himself to indulge in any ecstasy that has no reference to money. He spends his nervous energy in the purchase of a freestone front, and reserves his calmer and sleepier hours for religion, This has been abundantly proven during the past two weeks by the fact that immense efforts have been set on foot to rouse the community and that to a very important extent they have failed. ‘Though the various meetings held have been largely and enthusiastically attended, nothing 1s more evident than that the congregations have been composed of church-goers, and that the masses have not yet been reached. Mr. Varley, himself, is an earnest, honest and somewhat finent speake: His face shows that he enjoys the doctrine he preaches. He is full of good will and kindness. He has, APA nothing of the fire of the orator, ely ever rises to grandeur of utter- f is revivel movement has shown more plainly than ever the lack of unity in the Protestant Church and its religious torpidity. | A very large number of clergymea © been conspicuous by reason of the’ the various gat! They have not co- operated with Mr. Varley, little or no sympathy with him. their own methods of church work and can- not be persuaded to adopt others. Unity of effort among Protestants is a miracle oceurrence. They seldom or never platoons. They keep up a running fire all along the line, but never charge in a body. Those glorious historic triumphs which are the result of uni’ Yori are unknown to the Protestant Ci siastical leadership it repudiates, ‘gyman and every sect own go , in whose heart is just y and rivalry to make a union ible. lergy and the churches of the uggish condition. Even to excite only a ripple and the work he has began on the echo of his voice 8 very little They preside over nerally ornamented with o They delight in high-priced sectability, in solid dig- salaries, and in return they refrain from g with the mori i their hearers by a sermon that is rings. is its of fore Just now the city re ds iuisters. inte p of y to overstimulate, The roiss' 'y spirit of Prote: tism is woll nigh dead d a score of evangelists cannot revive it. e some of the signs of the times themselves known to us as we the five hundred steeples of the city note of the r us spasms from la part of the community is suffering. trnth is that the city and the country willing to work and whatever olie, shall u0 ar ear- ch, be ready to toil most fa rithfully for the conversion of the thronging multitndés, that Church must eventually possess the hearts cf the people. Tus B. haviag been wou another war Dboyins over the division of the spoils, Tam- many distressed by the rivalry—not less art vn that of the Guelphs and the Ghik of the Fitz-Wickhams and the Fitz-K As the latter did the most of the voting they should be conceded a fair share of the patronage Ti Proops.—The West Branch of the Sus- quehan' rising so swifdy that a disastrous flood is anticipated. Our correspondence trom Lock Haven is explanatory of the dan- gers to which the towns in the beautiful Sus | quebanna valley are exposed. ‘ernest | | offer ready ¢ abscnes from | and evidently have | They have | ot rare | fire by | | solute | nor to weep the salt | pickpocket, who was simply an object of dis- Reuter’s Telegrams. Onr correspondent in Spain presents us with an amusing account of the services being ren- dered by Reuter's agent to tho cause of con- stitutional monarchy in that country. Acting | on a well known maxim of Johnson’s, he is determined that those Carlist dogs shall not get the best of it. Unfortunately to the best intentions anda bo!d imagination this gen- tleman does not think it necessary to joina study of such irumpery things as facts, A dutiful son once observed of his father that he was very clever, but so dreadfully ignorant. Indeed, he qualified his sire’s deficiency of knowledge with an even stronger adjective. So it may be said of Reuter's agent, that an acquaintance ever so slight with the events of the last three years is all that he requires to render him a valuable ally to the government of Don Alfonso, For both the young King and Marshal Serrano before him unquestion- ably owed their recognition by the other Powers of Europe to a belief onthe part of the latter that the Carlist chances of success were desperate, and this opinion must havo been in large measure due to the bold action of Reuter’s agent, or, as Horace would have put it, to his ‘splendid mendacity.” But the decent outward appearance of accuracy will be lost by many statements, such as the one that the liberal General Loma had “‘succeeded”’ in introducing @ convoy of provisions into the Carlist town of Andoain. The great lexicog- rapher would hardly havo stated in his ac- count of the debates in the British Parliament that the opposition, headed by Sir Robert Walpole, had carried a vote of inquiry into the conduct of the First Lord of the ‘Treasury. It may seriously be asked whether Baron Reuter is treating the press quite fairly in thus supplying it with official communications instead of news. It is nothing less than a breach of contract to doso. American and English newspapers have a right to expect carefully weighed and sifted intelligence for their money. Instead of this they are given the slovenly inventions ot o clerk who has received general instructions to send reports favorable to the party in office, whatever it be All that can now be learned from Spain by means of Reuter’s telegrams is the opinion which Sefior Canovas del Castillo and his friends wish for- eigners to entertain in respect of the political and military situation, Four months ago the only intelligence vouchsafed consisted of the views held by Sefior Sagasta and his col- leagues. A few weeks before King Alfonso entered Madrid amid the acclamations of the populace one heard that the inhabitants of the capital were infuriated against the Bourbons. If newspapers were read exclusively for amuse- ment a false piece of information might be swallowed without much detriment to the mind. But the pulse of the Stock Exchange beats quicker or slower with each record of the passing hour that is flashed across land and sea. Fortunes are made and lost ina moment of panic, and heavy is the responsibil- ity of men who lightly set these tremendous influences in motion. Untrustworthy news has ceased to affect the student of history alone; itis a deliberate fraud upon the mer chant, and it may be upon the widow and the orphan, whose pittance is too often swallowed up in that ocean of bankruptcies known as a monetary crisis. Sympathy with Crime. “Prison reform’’ is a phrase which runs | glibly from the lips of a certain kind of phi- lantbropy. Heaven knows it is needed, even more in this country than in Europe, but it should not be of that sentiments which forgets the crime m pity for the enminal. It is not necessary to movke a man a hero becanse he happens to be a murderer, gust untii his treacherous fingers were found in the wrong place. It is a tendency of the times to overlook the criminality to ses for it and to be affected by g in the region of the heart when a villain kills some one else’s rela- tions rather then ours. We moralize in the most poetic fashion over the temptations of the dangerous classes and set our cecasional sympathy to the music of a passing sigh. This is not the product of a true philanthropy, as we fondly dream it to be, but rather of ab- indifference to the public welfare. When we are so becomingly stirred with pity, it is that peculiar kind of pity which lights another cigar, m urs ‘Sad, very sad, in- and then lets all ality drift out of Lo be soft-hearted an) sorrow- of crime, a very weak feelin: deed,"’ its thot 2] character } of sorrow over a! a $$$ $$$ our criminals were men whose education had been wofully neglected. Even the most eriti- cal felt that ignorance was at the root of the difficulty, and that school books, properly ‘is tributed, would do much toward making a radical change. It is easy and eminently proper to pity a man whose passions have had full swing whilo his brains were asleep- But tho plea of ignorance cannot be made for modern criminals. Of the thousands who have been sent to the Penitentiary during the last twelve months only twenty per cent were unable to read. Eighty per cent of the eleven thousand convicts had a knowledge of both reading and writing, and a very large number had a fair education, Neither is our commiseration stimulated by the extreme youth of the convicts. Eighty-four per cent of all who were admitted to our prisons were over twenty years of age. In these days, with an ordinary school educa tion and with years enough to insure a knowl- edge of tho world, if one wilfully chooses the profession of a burglar it is a mock senti- mentality that would cosset him, and a false charity that would send him sweetmeats, Let the charitable and missionary institu- tions of the city be well supplied with means, that every possible endeavor which religion can devise may be applied to the prevention of crime. When prisoners are released be- cause the fall penalty of their guilt has been paid, let charity and hope do what they can. But while the prison doors are closed aguinst them let the strictest discipline be enforced. Hard and constant work will be a healthy change, and the pressing consciousness that the mattress is rot stuffed with down will not be unfavorable to future good behavior. We would not seem to be over critical on this matter, but we feel sure that the indifference toward, or foolish sympathy with, crime and the criminal, which makes one of the signs of the times, is largely responsible for the dar- ing and recklessness of the dangerous class, Railroad Antics and Antagonisms. We print in other columns a lucid exposi- tion of the causes and present state of tho contest which has been waged for some time between the great railroad lines which connect the East with the West. In the prevailing stagnation there has been comparatively little business to be done, and the struggle of each road to get its share engenders the jealousy and underbidding, which is of some transient advantage to the public while it lasts, but which will cease as soon as trade revives, If a herd of wolves fall in with a single lamb they will tear each other to pieces in their struggle over so small a meal, but let the flock be large enough to appease the hunger of all and they will treat each other like well dis- posed beasts, It is desirable for the generad. prosperity that this railroad war should speedily end, because when the roads have a great deal to do it is a sign that the business of the country is in a healthy condition. It is not for the interest of the country that the railroads impoverish each other by carrying freights or passengers ataloss. Railways are of such incalculable value that capitalists should be encouraged by liberal profits to invest their money in them, and thero is nothing which we so much regret in the railroad management of this country as the low dividends or absence of dividends, while dishonest officers or specula- tors have got rich at the expense of their stockholders. The real owners of the roads, the abused stockholders, are greater victims of railroad mismanagement than the commu- nity. ‘here is no class of people to whom the country is more indebted, or for whom it should feel more sympathy than those who ntured their money in railroad enter« I the great through lines think it indis- able to have their principa! Eastern tere minus in New York, the commercial supreme | acy of this city is assured if we will only have ful is not the fulness of a genuine phil- | There is a pity which has orga: ized its mi: ries, gathered its libraries, established its Sunday schools and night schools and spent its best energies to make the dangerous cla lift the sub-cellar population of New York to the level of the The vi ported as th the prevention of crime. by them tells in a twofold anthropy. y are, are doing lusty Every dollar spent direction; it saves the man who is ready for misdeeds, and it paves and the demoralization of a bad always been our to urge the most gencrous contributio ward this rk of fanning the er of self-respect in those who have only too much reason to feel that every man's hand is inst them. One mission school is better yeneral OTS a the prudence to furnish proper facilities for the cheap handling of freights. We call atten e ions on this head in the article to which we refer. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, v= Congressman Engene Hale, of Maine, 1s staying at the Filth Avenue Motel. Miss Adelatde Netlson, the actress, has apart ments at the Windsor Horel. Governor Thomas A. Osborn, of Kansas, 1s ree siding at the St, James Hotel. General $. W. Crawford, United States Army, ts quartered at the Glenham Hotel. Genera! George P. Bueil, United States Army, ts registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Olaf Stenersen, Swedish Minister at Waste ington, Is sojourning at the Motel Brunswick. At Rome they expect a beautiful scandal whem | the judicial inquiry 18 made into the murder of ses loss dangerous and to | than a two-volume treatise on theology, anda | best methods of makiog a paradise out of the Five Points is more profit- able than any tournament of the knignts of dogma that was ever held. Still, a pri hotel. The crime should be snfiiciently empha: discussion of the mu should be a prison and nota actnal and rigid punishment of d to in- timidate the burglar and the felon, The strictest discipline should be enforced and the hard labor should be a fact and nota f: For ourselves, we are apt to think tt sorts of sympathy shonld be offered a man so hy is an long 18 toan Iuntarily leads such honest life; but when he a course that society finea him in a dun- geon it should be understood all around th the italicized experience of the next few years is to be punishment. It is not necessary for the warden to b tal, nor to forget that even a muardorer is a hun bei but it is necessary to the general wellare that rogues should ’ understand that the way of the trans- | gressor is not macadamized, but an old | fashioned corduroy road. nor SOnZOgUd. ytain Wiilam Prince, of the Ordnance Depart mont, United States Army, 18 among the late ar. rivals at the Metropoittan Hotel, M. Waltoa, author of the French constitution, is the original of the ancient piilosopher, Colline, pictured by Henri Murger in “La Vie de Boheme,’ In the course Of a case brougnt by Emmanuel, the London jeweller, 1t was shown that he charged $20,000 for @ necklace which Was valued by a Paris Jeweller at $7,509 It costs the Shah of Persia a little to buy a bone net for mis wife, ‘There are fifty of her. One case with that number of new bonnets was sent from tne other day directed to His Majesty at Te- ny Tipperary women made a pledge never to tu, taik wlih, cook for, wash for, court, marty or countenance, but let live and die as they like, apy 9m Who will not vote for John Mitchel Jor Tipperary. M, rs “parole d'honneur” is likely to be come as famous as his “Jrmeats.”” He dectared, “on nis word of honor,” in the Assembly, that there ‘not, to his knowledge, any Bonapartist organ. operating througaout Pr and now gation has proved that this organization hat he 1s the head of it. idorstood that to-day the Supreme Court {Staves will te against the claim nor, WHO aed the right to vote posed herself to be eme . Louis, but who braved in the amendment of the constitution as 9 waik citizen having ali the rie ot the male gender, Her own case ia of minor Tmportance, compared with the principles involved, The do: pointed to examine into the case of Louisa Lattean, the Belgian lasting cari, whose ‘ natization aad aostinence from food are sd to be miraculous, Nave sentin a reportig whien they aay they are convinced that she 1s supe pied with jood. AS to 1 ky of the stige 1 the report savs they can %» aecounted for on At birmingbam + aagerie Hon got out of pis cage. ‘They tie xOoU picea Of ment tow strong rope, ana ‘on seized the bait. Ties the men pulied on rope, aud ihe hon, consid ering that th ed mat meat on with his teeth and { Lap with wis fect as they proved 100 strong, aud before they sopped ne was 5a/@ iu lis cage, Thus docs peute isad we Fifty years ogo a very large proportion of | captivity.