The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1875.—TRLIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hxaarp 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 @unau. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. sR ata Boy LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XI Aid AMUSEMENTS TONIGHT. SAN FRANCISCO MIN =TRELS, Froadway. corver of Twenty-ninth siureet -NEGRO MINSTE SKLSY, ate P.M; closes at 1) P, M. HEATRE, cond and uP. M. ighth at Third avenues.— ARIETY ‘ arg 'S THEATRE WAL R Prpadway. 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Kiguoid tier. ‘The appeal of the democratic Goveraor of ‘Texas to President Grant for military protec- tion against the marauding incursions of Mexican land pirates, printed in the Henaup yesterday, proves that these raids are formi- dable and threaten to depopulate the rural counties of Texas which border on the Rio Grande. Certainly Governor Coke, who was elected by a democratic majority of nearly fifty thousand, does not intend to play into the hands of General Grant and assist him in manutacturing a foreign war for political pur- poses. But the fact that tho raids are real and extensive is favorable to the ambitious proj- ects of the President. If he were to get up difficulties with Mexico on false pretexts without any real grievance his motives would be too transparent and he could not stand before public opinion. Unfortunately events, without any apparent agency of his, are creating a situation which may be easily nursed into hostilities while he is seem- ingly acting for the protection of our citizens and the defence of our frontier, It is quite possible that out of these border difti- culties there may arise canses for a just quar- rel with Mexico, and it is only in a war waged with a strong color of justice that President Grant could expect the support of the country. The aspirations which he is known to cherish render every chance of a foreign war previous to the next republican nomination for the Presidency an occasion of anxiety and apprehension. But let us first consider these troubles on the Bio Grande with simple reference to the facts as they lie on the surface, without regard to the danger- ous uses which may be made of them. It may be asked why Governor Coke does not employ the State militia of Texas to drive out or puoish these marauders without apply- ing to the President.’ The Governor of Texas may justify himself by a solid answer. Be- fore he could march State regiments to the Rio Grande the freebooters would escape across the river and he would have no right to pursue them. All he conld then do would be to divide his regiments into companies and station them along several hundred miles of river frontier. So long as they remained (if their numbers were sufficient) there would be no sign of a raid, but as svon as they were withdrawn and dis- banded the robbers would again cross and renew their depredations. Now, as the fed- eral constitution requires the United States to protect each State against invasion, if a per- manent stationing of troops is necessary for this purpose, it is proper that the expense be defrayed out of the national Treasury. There is a still stronger reason why these plunder- ing Mexican bands should be dealt with by the uational government. Our foreign rela- tions are under the exclusive control of the federal authority. It is the clear duty of Mexico to restrain her lawless citizens, and only the federal government can demand the fulfilment of this duty and hold her responsi- ble for its neglect. When our Fenians under- took to invade Canada after the close of the civil war the President took them in hand and sent troops to the Northern fron- tier to suppress their attempts. Nearly forty years ago, when bodies of our citizens were on the point of crossing the Niagara and the St. Lawrence to take part in the so-called ‘Patriot war” in Canada, President Van Buren adopted similar meas- urea of prevention. Mexico owes the same duties to us which we faithfully discharged to our northern neighbors. Texas cannot hold her to these duties, but only the federal gov- | ASSOCIATION HALL. wenty-third sireet—LECTURE, at 5 P. M. orem us. Professor LYCEUM THEATRE. yarteenth street. near Sixth avenue.—LE JOLIE PARYUMEUSE, at8 P.M. Mie. Aimee. TRIPLE SHEET. ~~ YORK, FRIDAY, APIUL bal 1875, ' NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the pressure of advertisements on Ehe columns of our Sunday editions we are | obliged to request advertisers to send in ad- | ‘vertisements intended for the Sanday Hzranp | during the week and early on Saturdays, thereby insuring a proper classification. From our reports this morning the probabilities ware that the weather to-day wil be cloudy and cooler. Wat Srezet Yestenpar.—The stock mar- ket was moderately active, with some higher at the close. Gold scold at 114} a 114§, | and closed at 114}. Money on call loans was abundant at 4 and 5 per cent. Tux Icn Gorces are melting away under the genial heat of the April sun. The Dela- ‘ware and Susquehanna are well nigh free of ice, and all serious danger seems to have passed. As Hoxeer Mzacnant with money he de- sires to invest would have abont as much chance of a good purchase among the Big Bonanzas of Wall street as a diamond dealer Jaden with wares would have among the ban- dita in the Spanish mountams. Tux Mone Tnovsies are assuming serious proportions, as the workmen seem determined to establish a reign of terror. A large body of militia bave received orders to hold them- selves in readiness to act against the rioters; but we hope means of averting a conflict may ‘be found by the interposition of the friends of ‘Tue Iermuve Canat.—In another eolumn -will be tound a letter from our special corre- spondent with the party now on the Isthmus of Darien engaged in the prosecution of the surveys for determining the best route for a ship canal from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. The special duty of this party is to examine the route in the neighborhood of the railway from Aspinwall to Panama; to report on its feasibility and to give such precise indications of the engineering difficulties as wiil werve for data in the calculation of the cost. With this definite commission they are re- as making admirable progress, and ‘though the survey is not completed and the final result therefore cannot be known, it is ot least certain thet a feasible route has been found and that all the difficulties hitherto pated are ench ag may be readily overcome: ee | Clearly, to call on the Mexican government to | as to what means of redress we shall employ. ernment. It is not right that this country should be subjected to the heavy expense of maintaining troops all along the line of the Tio Grande to secure our citizens from incur- sions and robberies from which we have a right to be protected by the vigilance of the Mexican authorities. Governor Coke's appli- cation to the President is entirely proper, and itis the clear duty of the President to give him the military protection he asks. This brings us to another phase of the ques- tion. When the President has sent troops to the Rio Grande what is the next step? give security against @ repetition of these | himself of egregious folly and moral cow- raids, It is the duty of our government | to protect our own citizens, but not for any length of time, by 40 | expensive a method as keeping the left bank of the Rio Grande liued with sol- diers to insure the good conduct of Mexican subjects. It is the business of Mexico her- self to see that her subjects do not cross the boundary to vex and harass her neighbors. If, after proper representations, she pleads inability or fails to perform this duty from any other cause, it becomes a serious question It we march beyond the frontier to pursue and chastise the robbers she has a right to construe the violation of her territory as an act of war, and would probably do so. There | is a possibility that war may grow out of these difficulties if Mexico either cannot or will not reduce her lawless subjects to order and give us such guarantees as will make it safe to withdraw our troops from the Rio Grande. | With such plausible and perhaps just pre- | texts for a war with Mexico looming up in the | near future the country has reason to fear the uses to which General Grant may turn so tempting an opportunity. A foreign war, if it could be made by o seem- ing wecessity, would bring a great addition to his political strength, especially if one or two brilliant victories should be won at the beginning of the first campaign. Gen- eral Grant has, therefore, a personal interest which conflicts with the true interest of the | country, and the great danger of the situation lies in the fact that but a little adroit cultiva- tion of the troubles is necessary to put Mexico so clearly in the wrong that a large portion ot our countrymen would consent to war. Canning emissaries from this country could easily stir up the restless Méxican population to acts of outrage, and that region is so dis- tant from the Mexican capital and the means of communication so difficult that the honest intentions of the might be thwarted. But who, it may be asked, would have any motive to employ such emissaries? We answer, everybody who has an interest in a foreign war. Without casting | any imputations on the President we can point out a flock of cormorants who would | be glad to fatten on a foreign war. | In the first place, there is the tlass | whose individual sentiments are put into Mexican government The Troupies on tho Mexican Fron- | the mouth of one of his characters by a dra- matio poet: —‘*We shall have wars, and I will sutler be.’’ In the noxt place, there are ‘thousands of men who would expect to get rich as dealers in army supplies. Then, again, a reckless band of speculators would see a harvest in a general unsettling of the currency and a great rise in the premium on gold. More dangerous than all, there is a powerful band of rich men in this country who are deeply interested in Mexican mines and would expect annexations of territory at the close of the war—territory in which they would purchase large amounts of valuable property for a song during the conteatand profit by its immense rise after annexation. There are so many political interests and pe- cuniary interests that would reap advantages and reach coveted objects by a war with Mexico that we look with alarm on occur- rences which craft and selfishness may easily nuree into hostilities. The cloud on the Rio Grande may, before the year ends, overspread and darken the whole political sky. Publie vigi- lance should be alert until this danger is past. Mr. Mr. Beecher was on the witness stand dur- ing a great part of yesterday's session of the court, but his testimony had no very close bearing on the case. It was merely introduc- tory, Mr. Evarts directing his questions with & view to bring out a sketch ot his client’s per- sonal history, his various labors, and the man- ner of his acquaintance and nature of his Beechor as a Witness. intercourse with Tilton, Moulton and Mrs. Tilton, previous to the commence- ment of the troubles which have culminated in this trial. So deep is the in- terest felt in this remarkable man that even the introductory matter coming from his lips, and conveyed with occasional flashes of his peculiar aptuess of expression, will rivet pub- lic attention. His bearing on the witness stand was excollent, as everybody expected it would be, because, whether innocent or guilty, he possesses, among the abundance of his talents, that of a great actor, and nobody ever doubted that his manner of testifying would make a favorable impression on the jury and the public. It is not, however, the manner but the substance of his testimony that will help or hurt his case. To-day he will come to the pith of the questions which relate to the grave offence with which he is charged, and this day’s testi- mony is likely to be the most important of any he will deliver on his direct examination. He has been carefully prepared, or, as college people say, “coached” by Mr. Evarts, for bis appearance on the stand, which will tally in all points with the private rehearsals. Lvery- thing has been arranged between him and bis examiner to bring out his testimony with the most impressive effect, and if the case were to close when Mr. Evarts gets through with him there is little reason to doubt that even his indiscreet letters would wear an innocent face. The combined tact, ingenuity and resources of two such able men as Mr. Beecher and Mr. Evarts could hardly fail to give a plausible view toa more desper- ate case than the present, in which there is no direct proof of the acts charged, no specifica- tion of times and places supported by a par- ticle of evidence, and everything depends on alleged indefinite confessions and infer- ences from his own extraordinary letters. All that is required to clear him in public estima- tion is to explain away a mass of merely cir- cumstantial evidence. There is ne reason to doubt that he will succeed smoothly enough in this if his explanations are not broken by the searching cross-examination to which he will be subjected. All good | men must hope that he will so pass through this trying ordeal as to remove the painful doubts which have been created principally by the documents which exist in his own handwriting. The public will not care how fully he may convict ardice (and he cannot be very tender of him- self on these points) if he succeeds in showing that these have been his greatest faults. vT Black Hills. General Caster is to make a thorough ex- amination of the district that has lately at- tracted so much attention from the reports of its mineral wealth. He goes with a sufficient command of troops and accompanied by ge- ologists and other qualified persons capable of noting and reporting accurately the charac- ter of the country. As the area of the district to be examined is only about forty by one hun- dred and twenty miles, and as the presence of General Custer will be a guarantee of the thoroughness of the work done, we shall soon have some real knowledge of the Black Hills. If it is reported that there is gold there—and gold to anything like the fabulous extent that has been reported—there will very naturally be some pressure for the extinguishment of the Indian title to the country. And it will be right enough to come to some terms with the Indians and get the country; but what then? If itis thrown open like all the rest of the Western country there will be some individual advantages, and the general advan- tage will be infinitely little. For our part we | do not contemplate with supreme satisfaction | the current results of our mineral wealth— | that is, the making of two or three billion- | naires to buy their way into the United States | Senate as the representatives of future States; | avd it does seem to us a pity that there is not some way, under the shadow of the Indian title or otherwise, for the government to hold | on to that mountain of gold, if it is there, and | use it for the reduction of the national debt. Tur Qvanne, between Concha and Jovollar | seems likely to terminate in the withdrawal | of the latter from the Ministry. The alleged reason will be some irregularity in his pro- motion before his conduct as Governor in Cuba bad been examined and approved of as the law directs. The real trouble between all these generals is, that having failed to pat down the insurrection, they are each anxious to throw the responsibility on the other's shoulders. {n the meantime the Cuban torch moves toward Havana. Real and Fanciful Issues. When the democratic party came into power in the State of New York the Hznatp Jaid down for its leaders a certain chart. We ventured to advise them that so far as they followed this chart they would be successful. We called attention to home rale and to in- dependence in city government. We pointed out the peculiar position of New York, iso- lated, stifled, thrown back by misgovern- ment, and sinking inthe scale of prosperity, while its neighbors were thriving at our ex” pense. We admonished them to beware of the blunders of the Grant administration, es- pecially to sustain the civil service and oppose the third term, and not to allow the hacks and adventurers in politics to come to the front. We showed that, for the first time in many years, the city and State of New York were in the hands of one party, and the in- ference was that if the democratic party showed itself worthy of confidence it might look proudly upon the next Presidential elec- tion with an assurance of victory. Now, what do we see and what has been done? Home rule has been destroyed. It is a delusion. Mayor Wickham has been tliree months endeavoring to remove an officer whom he has declared to be an intriguer and to be practically in collusion with the thieves of the Tammany Ring. He is believed also to be anxious to remove from office the Comp- troller, whose policy for ten years has been more disastrous to the growth of New York than that of Sweeny or Tweed. We are no nearer rapid transit now than at the beginning of the administration of Governor Tilden. Civil service in New York is the same mockory that it was in the past. Instead of a system of effi- cient examination of applicants for office and the economical distribution of the necessary work to be done in municipal affairs we have an arrangement between Morrissey and Kelly on the one side and the Mayor on the other by which Tammany Hall politicians are to be planted upon the city upon some nursery principle—so many politi- cians from each ward and precinct. The third term, which was so efficient an element in the canvass, has been forgotten, and not one of the democratic leaders who denounced it so loudly in the canvass has said one word about it in Congress. The back pay and the salary grab questions have been forgotten. ‘Demo- crats who took prominent part in these ne- farious transactions are now the chosen lead- ers of the party and candidates for high posi- tions. Instead of electing statesmen to the Senate, men of the new school of democracy, in nearly every instance wornout political hacks have been ‘chosen who represent noth- ing but the Bourbonism that brought on the war and prolonged its prosecution. ~All this time we have had new issues, misty, vapory, illusive—meant to attract the people and to cover up the intrigues of politicians. All the roads lead to the Presidency, and the demo- cratic suecess in the North is simply one steady intrigue on the part of its leaders to gain power. So far as New York is concerned it is not too late for our democratic friends to learn wisdom, Certainly, if they read New Hamp- shire aright, they will not fail todo so. Here first is rapid transit. Governor Tilden’s at- tack on the Canal Ring is brilliant and effec- tive, and will do him much good, but it can- not last. Campaigns of this kind are soon forgotten. Tuey die out like the blare of the trumpet or the beatof the drum. One great work benefiting New York, silently accom- plished, tedious in performance, without noise or romance or opportunities for display, will give him a more eniuring fame and do his party more good than ten thousand ‘‘ex- posures."” Governor Tilden has it in his power to give New York rapid transit. We do not mean by this simply building a rail- road from the City Hall to Westchester, but a generous system—the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, the opening of the tunnel to New Jersey, the connection of Staten Island with New Jersey by a suspension bridge. By these public works New York city woald become like London or Paris, no longer pent up in an island and for part of the year liable to be severed from New Jersey and Brooklyn, but with power to extend in all directions, so that this island would be the city of the me- tropolis, and its suburbs would extend to New Jersey, Staton Island and Westchester, and become not only tho greatest but one of the most beautifal espital cities of the world. This, we repeat, is a real issue and a real duty. It is not attractive. It does not give opportunities to great ‘‘statesmen”’ to write elaborate opinions, It could hardly be made @ Presidential question. It would be difficult to rally the party upon it outside ot New York. It would not give the Governor much popularity in Minnesota or Alabama, and would scarcely add an additional vote in the convention, because he would have New York’s votes already. But it is the real thing to do after ail, and if Governor Tilden is truly a statesman and not a politician, and if the men who surround him are wise and far-seeing, they will enter pon these real issues in such @ manner as to bring them toa prosperous conclusion, and give the party a strength that it never can gain from this beating of the drams and roaring about corruption in Al- bany. The Street Cleaning Question. In handing over the care of cleaning the streets of New York to the Board of Police | Commissioners the Albany legislators made aserious blunder, and they cannot do better now than undo the evil as promptly as possi- ble. A bill is now before the Assem- bly, introduced by Mr. Campbell, which proposes to relieve the police from the duty of removing the mud from our streets and vest that important fanction in a body specially appointed for the purpose. The police have quite enough to occupy them in repressing crime and maiutaining public order, without being burdened with the clean- ing of streets. Under the present arrange- ment they neither perform the scavenger nor the police work to the satisfaction of the taxpayers. In their efforts to perform the double duty that Albany wisdom cleaning the thoroughfares intrusted to them. That was an innovation reserved for the enlightened wisdom of the patres con- scripti who legislate for our benefit up the Hudson. We would suggest, in all humble- ness, that the opinions of the citizens of this metropolis should be consulted on this im- portant point, and that the cleaning of the streets be handed over to a separate commis- sion, who may be held responsible for tho proper execution of their duty. No change that will take this important branch out of the hands of the Mulberry street magnates can be for the worse. The Enforcement Act Before the Su- preme Court. One of the most important and interesting questions that has ever been brought under the judicial cognizance of our highest tribunal has been argued for the last two or three days in the Supreme Court by counsel of the first eminence, The case comes up from the Cir- cuit Court of Louisiana by writ of error in consequence of a division of opinion between the judges of the lower court. The chief point to be decided is whether the Enforce- ment act is repugnant to the constitution, The arguments take a wide range and em- brace many points which only trained legal minds are competent to estimate at their proper value. But there is one main point on which the controversy chiefly hinges, and we will try to make that main point intelligible to the popular mind. The Enforcement act professes, on its face, to be a law for enforcing the Yourteenth amendment to the constitution. That amend- ment prohibits the States from passing any law abridging the equal privileges ot citizens, its main object being to prevent discrimina- tions against the colored race, By its very terms this amendment operates on the State governments, forbidding them to do certain things or pass certain laws which would im- pair the full equality of colored citizens. It would accordingly seem to follow that if the State governments abstain from such legisla- tion there is nothing on which the fourteenth amendment can operate. The language of the amendment is—‘‘No State shall make or enforce’any law which shall abridge the priv- ileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property with- out due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction tho equal protection of the laws.” Thisis so clearly a prohibition on the States, it refers so exclusively to State action, it is 80 obviously limited to restraining State legislation adverse to the colored race, that until a State government violates it by the passage or en- forcement of unequal laws there is nothing on which the amendment can act. But Congress has assumed to give the amendment a much wider scope. Instead of,m act for nullifying unequal State laws, if any State should pass such laws, it has taken the whole subject into its own junsdiction, and has legislated for negro equality precisely as if no State govern- ments existed. But the amendment is aimed solely against a particular prohibited class of | State laws, conferring upon Congress no author- ity to legislate on the subject except in contra- vention of such forbidden State action. The amendment does not take certain subjects of legislation out of the hands of the States and give Congress power to legislate on them, but leaves these subjects within State jurisdiction with the single exception that whatever laws a State passes for the protection of citizens in general shall give equal protection to citizens of the colored race. The amendment merely clothes Congress with a negative on unequal State laws, leaving the States as free in other respects as they ever were. But in the En- forcement act Congress overstepped and went | altogether beyond this limit, and undertook to legislate on the subject as freely as if no State governments existed. It is chiefly on this ground that many distinguished lawyers think the Enforcement act unconstitational, and they are very confident that, after a tair | hearing, the Supreme Court will feel con- strained to declare it void. The Canal Controversy at Albany. The Assembly concurred yesterday in the Senate’s supplementary bill relating to the commission to investigate the canal frauds. It is understood that the Governor will nominate two democrats and two republicans, and to’spare himself the mortification of having any of his appointees rejected he will probably hold private consultations with republican Senators and allow them to make suggestions. This commission is al- lowed so much time for their investigatioys | that they are not expected to report in season for any action by this Legislature. But it is | too evident that the gigantic canal frauds should be rendered impossible by immediate legislation. Unless preventive laws are to await the action of a future Legislature the commission can be of no practical service ex- cept as farnmishing information on which the | Governor may direct prosecutions against the | canal robbers. As we have repeatedly said, the Legisla- | ture has already facts enough to enable it to | apply proper remedies, and the fact that the most notorious members of the Canal Ring are among the loudest to clamor for investigation , proves that they value elaborate investigations | asa means of postponement and that their desire for postponement ought not to be grat- | ified. The Governor's Message is a sufficient | basis for, legislation, since it cannot be dis- puted that the facts recited in it are substan- tially true. Por executing justice on guilty , individuals investigation may be necessary, | but surely not for curing a disease whose | symptoms have been so long understood. | The people have a right to demand that this | | Legislature apply effectual remedies without | | awaiting the result of investigation, which | will merely pile up additional instances of | the same kind as those exposed in Governor | Tilden’s vigorons and applauded Message. | Meanwhile the Governor is warmly sup- ported by the best intelligence of the State and by the honest masses of both political parties. | The great meeting of New York merchants at | In tae Orpen Trws, when slavery was an | imposed on them they of necessity are some- the Produce Exchange yesterday should give institution, negroes under suspicion wore an | times obliged to sacrifice one or other of their | him peculiar satisfaction—first, because they iron collar with protrading spikes. This was | functions. Asa result we have a system of | aro fellow townsmen who know him well | | street cleaning so inefficient that it is a dis- | grace to our city. In Europe, where they | to keep them from running away. We always think of the iron collar when we see a poor | and have perfect confidence in his intentions; and, secondly, because they are competent it for immediate legislation. The season of ea- nal navigation is about toopen and our com- mercial classes will not be satisfied if legisla- tion has to stand still and await the result of the Albany investigations. They demand wholesome laws anid low tolls, with a view to the canal business of the present year. All Fools’ Day. The day of All Fools came and has passed. It was thoroughly enjoyed by at least a por- tion of the citizens of New York, The young folks especially took the license of the day as an excuse for annoying all the irascible old gentlemen who were thrown into their hands by any evil fate. For the most part people took the fooling good humoredly, though perhaps they do not deserve as much credit for this as might be thought at first sight. The fact is New York is accustomed to being fooled, and pretty badly. At one time it is boyw, but we easily get over them; at others by politicians, and these are much more practical in thoir jokes than is quite comfortable. Indeed, unless history bas been very anjust, some of the lat- ter class of jokers were under the impression that every day in the year was by special grace an ‘‘All Pools’ Day,” on which it was not very wrongful to put one’s hands into the general fool's pocket and take out whatever might be found there. Young New York contents iteelf with the appearance of stealing; but the more mature © genius of this great country seeks tangible material results,.for even fooling would cease to be interesting if there were nothing to be made by it. Some saturnine philosophers may quarrel with the usages and customs of the Ist of April, but we would not see them destroyed, because we feel it would be wrong to wipe out a festival which is ap- propriately dedicated to the mass of humanity. Dom Pedro. It is rumored that the Brazilian Emperor, weary of the cares of his kingdom, wants to lay down his crown and come to this coun- try to devote himself to literary and scientific pursuits. His well known love of letters gives to the strange rumor an air of possibility. Tt would not be the first time that members of his house found the crown a bur- den and voluntarily resigned it, and it must be cheering to the philosophic sect to see one man in this degenerate age scorning the at- tractions of honor and power for sake of the pursuit of knowledge, In the vulgar scramble for weulth and place constantly going on in the great world the example of an emperor leaving be- hind all that the common herd—the ignobile vulgus—are striving and plotting and sweating to rub their skirts to, will arrest at- tention. It would he useless to hope that the lesson would be heeded, for humanity in its limited intelligence has always cried for bau- bles, and no amount of good example from saint or king or emperor will be likely ever to effect much change in human nature. ‘Turner Is a painful ramor from Washington that Colonel Grant, son of the President, means to resign from the army. General Sherman, however, will still remain in com- mand. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Governor Henry Howard, of Rhode Island, 1s at the Fith Avenue Hotel, Sir David Wedderburn, of Scotiand, has apart- ents at the Windsor Hotel. Senator Morgan C, Hamilton, of Texas, is regis tered at the Sturtevant House. » Captain F. 8. Haggerty, United States Navy, la quartered a® the Sturtevant House. General Cabrera says that Don Carlos ta the only obstacle to the success of Carliam. The Marquis de Chamvrun arrived from Wash. ington yesterday at the St. Denis Hotel, Congressman Benj.min T. Eames, of Rhode Island, is stopping at the Albemarie Hotel. Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsyi- vania, 18 reading at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rev. Dr. T. K. Conrad, of Philadelphia, formeriy of this city, is staying at the Hotel Brunswick. Prote . B. Rogers and Judge Josiah G. Ab- dott, of Boston, are at the Westminster Hotei, Congressman James G. Blaine, of Maine, ta among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hote, Bismarck was only sixty yesterday, and he may turn the world upside down two or throe times yet. Mr. Robert G, Watson, first secretary of the British Legation at Washington, is at tue Weat- moreiand Hotel. Coant de Kergarion, of Brittany, retorned to this city yesteraay irom Niagara Falls and is at the Hoffman House. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived in this city yesterday and took up his residence at tue Grand Central Hotel. Mr. Wallen’s first act as Minister was the pro mulgation of an edict against the use of tobacco im the public schools. Mr. Charles A. Washburn, of California, formerly | United Srates Minister to Paraguay, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Tweive thousand persons were recently sick with “the grippee” at one time in Geneva, and Geneva is not a very large city. In Russia @ commission is to examine the expe- tency of reducing the number of holidays en- joyed by that too happy people. Torpedoes are now sent into whales at the end, of anewly-invented harpoon in use at Norway, Thoy kill the Gish without delay. The Prince of Monaco makes nearly the same boast that Charles V. did, that he cannot see the sun Set on bis dominions, But the Prince is bund. The Rev. E. istant rector at Dr. S.-H. Tyng’s church, m tins city, has received a call from the Church of Zion, at Newport, whieh, it is believed, he wili accept. On Sunday, March 14, Mr. Joseph Riggs and Mra. Fiorence Rice Knox sang in the service at the Church of St. Roch, in Paris, There was a great gathering of Americans, Postmaster General Marshall Jewell arrived at the Futh Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washing- ton, He is on his way to Connecticnt, to take part in the election there on Monday next. Emperor William has written to a descendant of Handel that a new quarter is to be added to the city of Berlin in which all the streets will be named after Germany's musical celebrities, A cable telegram, dated at Vienna, reports tnas the Hon. John Jay, late Minfster of the United States at the Court of the Emperor Francis Jo- seph, left the Austrian capital yesterday, ist inst, on his journey of return home to America, Three priests have just been sentenced in France to ten years, three years and two years imprisonment, respec tively, for having organized an agency for the sale of masses. They procured the celebration of mass im any church at a fixed price. The Jardin d’Acciimatation, Paris, has a chim- panzee which measures four feet in height, is per- fectly fame and extremely gentie. While its master lived at Sierra Leune it performed in tne house the functions of @ servant, saluting visitors, opening the door for them, escorting ther out *and offering them their hats, Monaco is in danger. In that switch of a state conductor on a street car with bis bell-punch, | manage these things very much better, it is judges of most questions relating to the man- | a German was put in prison lor two months. He And yet men will carry bell-panches in a | the duty of the police to report upon the con- | agement of the canals. Our merchants and prod- | country where the Homostead law gives every | dition of the streets and to see that the sani- | uce dealers desire to see the investigation go | | able-bodied citizen a farm, if he will only go | tary regulations of the cities are properly car- | on until all the frands are exposed and the | these gunboats he will mercileawly bombard the But in po case is the work of | thieves brought to erief: but they also wish | whole Svate—the /rince’s palace, parucularir. and take it. ried ont, | ts now out of prison and in @ rage. He has sold hia property in Germauy to buy two gunboats, and has sworn some dreadful oavis that with