The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1875, Page 6

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LYCEUM THEATRE, near Sixth avenne.—Lh JOLIE P. Mile. Aimee Matinee at Fourteenth | stres PARFUMECSE 1s) P.M RANCISCO MINSTRELS, Iwenty-ninth street.—NEGRO. P.M.; closes at 10 P.M. Macinee at Prosdway, MINSTRELSY, a “ TRIPLE SHEET. APRIL 3. NEW YORK, SATURDAY. 1875, E TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the pressure of advertisements on the columas of our Sunday editions we are obliged to request advertisers to send in ad- vertisements intended for the Sumday Henatp | during the week and early on Saturdays, thereby insuring a proper classification. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with rain, followed by clearing ana cooler weather. Wars, Sreexr Yesreapay.—Stocks were but inactive. Gold receded to 114 and closed at 114%. Foreign exchange was tins and money on call abundant at trom 2) so 4 per cent. strong, Tre Law against masquerade balls is likely jo be repealed. We are growing liberal. Wer Permasn in another colamn 4 graphic description of how His Excellency, General passed the time yesterda Grant, Govenson Harrnaxrt bas not issued his proclamation concerning the mining troubles in Pennsylvania, but will do so to-day if the Joeai authorities fail to suppress the riots, ‘Tae Spanish Avcrsorrrmes in Caba have flecreed the ment of an “income tax’’ of filteen per c At this rate property will goon be worth very littie in the ‘‘Qneen of the Aniilles.” 1 Fravps.--The friends of the Canal ng are throwing every difficulty in the of a prompt investigation into the trans- actions 0 body. Very natural, is it not? Bint, gentlemen, we want light, and must have it, whoover may suffer. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 38, 1875-~TR The Connecticut Election—In Whet View It Is Important. The annual Slate election in Connecticut is to take place on Monday next. In Connecti- cut, as in all the other New England States, the Governor ond all the important State officers are chosen every year—a custom inher- ited from an early period, which has not been adopted in other parts of the country. Out of New England the terms of the State officers vary from two to four years. In their orgamic structure the six Eastern States have always been the most democratic in the Union, so tar as prompt responsibility of public servants to the people is a test of democracy, using the Every member of the last Congress has been renominated—Barnum by the democrats, and Hawley, Kellogg and Starkweather by the re- publicans. The democrat, Barnum, ought to be defeated, but he has good chances | | of a re-election. With the exception of | | Hawley the republican candidates who have been renominated richly deserve defeat. Judge Foster, who is running against Stark- | weather in the Norwich district, is an admir- able democratic candidate, and would be worth the whole Connecticut delegation in the last Congress; and Judge Phelps is infi- | nitely superior to the republican Kellogg. If these excellent democratic candidates are de- word in its philosophical and not its party | feated the democratic party will have no sense. Besides its State officers Connecticut elects this year four members of Congress; their election subsequent to the date when their terms begin being another relic of a bygone era. Congressmen are elected in most of the States in the autumn preceding the 4th of March, when their terms and salaries com- mence, ‘Ordinarily the practice of New Hampshire and Connecticut in this respect is attended with no inconvenience, as the regular annual sessions of Congress do not commence until the following December. But in emergencies which require extra ses- sions early in the year it subjects these States to a loss of representation. The Connecticut election, this year, has no national importance, except as an index or weather vane to point out the currents of the political atmosphere. It will serve to show whether the causes which produced so great and unexpected a revolution last year are still in operation, and its result will be valued by politicians only as a premonition of what will be hkely to tollow in the more important antumn elections. In other respects its result can have no national interest, although mem- bers of the national legislature are to be chosen. Neither the democratic nor the re- publican party can gain or lose anything but mere prestige by the success or defeat of their candidates for Congress in Connecticut, Let this election go as it may, the democratic party has a strong majority in the next House, assured by the Congressional elections of last year, and the whole Connecticut delegation might be thrown on either side without changing the political complexion of the next House of Representatives. The result of the Connecticut election is theretore a mere matter of party prestige and a basis of prophecy for the later elections of the year. In no other view is it of the slightest political significance. From present indications it seems probable that the democratic party will elect its State ticket by a diminished majority from last year; but if the Aemocrats barely save their State ticket the effect on their party in other States will be discouraging. It will show that the vaunted “tidal wave’’ of last year has been arrested, and if Governor Ingersoll’s majority should be smaller than it was last year it will prove that the “tidal wave” has been tumed back and is on the ebb. If Governor Inger- soll cannot hold his own against such a | candidate as has been nominated against him the country will interpret it as a significant decline of democratic strength. And this | will be a tair interpretation. In per- sonal standing and respectability there is no eomparison between the contesting candidates for the Governorship. So far as the election may be influenced by wholly on; the side of the deniocratic candidate. The advantages also preponderate in Mr. Ingersoll’s favor on one of the most | important political questions which led to the splendid democratic victories of last year— namely, the third term question. No citizen of Connecticut donbts the entire soundness | of Governor Ingersoll on this great point; | whereas Mr. Greene, his competitor, is one of the most servile and sycophantic of President Grant's admirers. Mr. Greene is at present the Mayor of Norwich, and, acting in that capacity, he ordered one hundred guns to be | fired in that city as an indorsement of the Grant-Sheridan ‘‘banditti’’ policy in Loui- | siana. If there is any citizen of Connecticut who stands ready to go all lengths in support | of PresidentGrant that citizen is James Lioyd Greene. Moreover, the republican platform in Connecticut on which Mr. Greene was | approval passages from the President's Mes- sage indorsing Sheridan. The ‘hundred | gun” enthusiasm of Mr. Greene has been one | of the chief topics of the democratic press and throughout this campaign, and, third term and anti- | third term, the line is very distinctly drawn between the two candidates for | the Governorship. The republican candidate | being thus heavily handicapped with servility | to Grant, if Ingersoll’s majority should be lees than it was last year the election will | have to be regarded as an ominous demo- | cratic loss. According to the ‘tidal wave’ theory Governor Ingersoll’s majority should be very much increased from last year, even | if the opposing candidate were his peer in personal standing and public estimation, and | had not shown the “hundred | gan’’ devotion to Grant and the ‘‘banditti” | policy. If the republicans reduce Governor | Ingersoll's majority, with so heavy a candi- date to carry, the outlook for the democratic party in the fall elections will not be hopetul. Suggestions have been thrown out that votes for Governor will be traded off against votes for Congressmen, | agreeing to vote for Ingersoll on a pledge that a corresponding mumber of democrats will support the republican candidates for © gress. We are slow to credit such intimations. But if Governor Ingersoll should owe his re- election to this kind of base bargaining it would | prove a great decline of democratic strength | since the election of last year. If the demo- cratic party of Connecticut feels that it is as strong now as it was last year such bargain- ing would be needless. Butif the three publican members of Congress should be re- with a democratic majority on the orators as = respects sycophantic some of the republicans re- elected, wu the control of the government. personal considerations the advantages are | nominated recites with warm expressions of | | reason to rejoice over the Connecticut elec- tion. According to present appearances the result in Connecticut Will not encourage demo- cratic hopes, although Governor Ingersoll will probably be re-elected by a diminished ma- jority. Mr. Blaine’s Speech, The great problem of the republican candi- dates for the Presidential nomination is to save the party without surrendering it to Grant. ‘To raise the party above all possible danger would be to place it exactly where it was in 1872—at Grant's feet. On the other hand, unless the demoralization | of last year is checked, the whole party will run down the hill into the sea, like the sacred beasts into which the | devils entered, and like them will be de stroyed. (See Mark, chap. y., verses 11- 14). Either of these events would be re- garded as dreadful calamities by the republi- can statesmen, and it would be hard for some of them to tell which they would the more regret. But they hope that both evils may | be averted. Thus they would emancipate | the party from servitude to Grant by demon- | strating the disastrous results of the third term plan, and would succeed to his power by proving that the democracy are not fit to gov- ern, This requires able management. It is their policy to keep the republican party like | asinner on a sick bed, now revived by hopes of recovery, now alarmed by fears of death. They nearly killed it last fall, and are trying to medicine it into convalescence this spring. That delicate part of the republican party which exists in Connecticut has just had a | strong tonic administered by Mr. Blaine, whose speech at New Haven last evening may be compared to a dose of quinine in a case of | chills and fever. It is rumored that he isa candidate for the Presidency, and in this speech skilfully endeavored to keep the office still within reach. He had not a word to say of the third term. The bane having done its work for the present, he promptly presented the antidote in the shape of an unconditional impeachment of the democracy as a party which cannot be trusted His orrible prophecy of ruin is compounded of dreadful ingredients—Jeff Davis, the war, a | new revolution, the sullen South, the am- | bitions North, are pounded in his mortar | with the ghost of Buchanan, and the | pills are not sugarcoated. Their effect | | upon the patient wi!l besoon known. Buttons | it seems that this is rather heroic treatment of | the goose that lays the golden eggs, and some | of these days it may lift up its reproachful | voice and address its experimenting doctors | in a single word which we are not impolite enough to utter. Charity Murders. With the Stockvis inquiry fresh in the pub- lie mind, and with two other cases on hand of | persons done to death in our charitable insti- | tutions, the people have some material upon which to base an opinion of the way in which the Commissioners of Charities and Correc- | | tion permit the duties of their department to he administered, and of the sort of persons to whom they confide the care of those who need public assistance. Just now one Coroner is | engaged in the effort to determine whether a | lunatic who died on the island was really beaten to death by one of his keepers, and another Coroner is investigating whether the | temperature of the cabin of a boat in which a | woman gave birth toa child was such as to | cause her death from cold. It is evident that | | neither of these inquiries would be possible, much less necessary, if the administration of this important department were not | infamous. And the truth is that, if the story | of the various establishments under the con- | trol of these Commissioners were truthfully told, no revolting picture of historical horrors | would equal it. Bellevue Hospital itseif is divided in character between a pest hole and | | aslanghter house ; the establishments on the | island are worse, and the very existence of the boat and the wintry passage of the sick up that cold river seems to assume that all the known laws of disease are suspended for the conven- ience of jobbing barbarity. But there is a | duty in the case, and this lies with the Dis- | | trict Attorney and the Grand Jury. Some | salutary punishment of persons touched by | the Coroner's verdict in these cases would go | a great ways toward righting the matter, Tae iyrensationan Rirte Matcu.—The | arrangements for the international rifle con- | | test to take place next June in Ireland between | the American and Irish marksmen are being | | pushed on vigorously. The joint committee | of the National Association and the Amateur Rifle Clab have undertaken the organization ot the American team, but call on all Ameri- | can riflemen to take part in the contest to decide who shall be the representatives of | America. Under the rales Isid down in | another column all native-born Americans are eligible, and it is to be hoped that the best | marksmen in the country will come forward to strengthen the team. The reputation of the country is at stake, and no effort should | be spared to retain the laurels so brilliantly | won in last year's contest. Sprisc Fasstons.—Tae enjoyable spring | weather with which Easter week has favored | us has created a stir among the modistes, and in another column will be found an account Lavon Ovraace.—A peculiarly savage and | State ticket, the surmises of political trading of the latest styles and materials for spring | on a workman ante is reported from could not be easily refuted. [¢ is hardly con- and summer—a subject of particular interest I the siate quarries of Bangor, Pa The guilty | ceivable that, by any honest process of voting, | to our fair readers. The departure of gruff | J are Welsh quarrymen who wished to a democratic Governor should be elected and | old Winter and his disagreeable manner of | pe 4 fellow workingraan from accepting | three-fourths of the Congressional districts be | making everybotly uncomftoriable has been a” of pay the msidered too small and | carried by the republicans. If such should be | hailed with especial delight by the ladies, , “track ageinst. It is to be hoped that the | the result it would seem a pretty conclusive | who longed tor an oppor.unity to see for raisereants house anil wreaked on bim their savage ven- geance will be brought to justice and sich an | and exchange of votes. ‘ shonld be worn for the warm season. example made of them as may deter others | democratic party makes no gains it will show | week for their patience in waiting for sunny from following their example | teat the ‘‘tidal wave” has greatly ebbed | days, The Transit of Venus. The crowning achievements of the Ameri- can expeditionary parties, as officially re- ported by the astronomers, are chronicled in our columns this morning. The southern ob- servatories were all-important, and the suc- cess of the Halleyan method of calculation, adopted by the American Transit Commis- sion, hinged to a great extent on success at Tasmania and Kerguelen. At the former station no mathematical de- termination of any of the planet's contacts was possible, the sun being wrapped im clouds and rain. No ‘‘black drop” blurred the planet’s rim—another confirmation of the theory that such .phenomenon is due to tele- scopic imperfections. The Tasmanian suc- cesses comprise many valuable photographs and an elaborate estimate of the geographical position of the observatory. The observa- tions there are closely paralleled by those made at Kerguelen, excépt that several measurements of the phases of Venus between the first and second contacts were made with wondrous accuracy by Pro- fessor Ryan. This favorable incident may rescue the gigantic problem from the cruel fate of being given to the photographers. The solution of the question by them depends on the measurement upon the photograph of the distance between the tracks of Venus as viewed respectively from a north and a south station. This must be effected to within the fifteen-thousandth part of an inch, if it is hoped to mval the French and the English in accuracy of result. Weare not too sanguine of such a microscopic marvel. It is not probable that our astronomers can an-: nounce the grand result without consulting the records of the foreign scientists. Many years must elapse before the task can be fully pertormed, and the most perfect solution of the whole problem will be that obtained by the astronomer of future times who will review the works of the observers ot the various nations. We have every reason to expect that our own country will not be last among the honored ones on that occasion, and that the historian will chronicle in our behalf a victory in the domain of science as brilliant as that we have already won in the solution of material and so problems. Prospects. The interesting letter we publish to-day from our Spanish correspondent shows con- clusively the deep hold which Cariism has on the people of the Northern provinces. Not even the defection of their most trusted chief can shake the devotion of the brave moun- taineers to their king—for Don Carlos is truly a king in the power he exercises and the chivalrous valor he displays in his fight for the Spanish throne. Not for this, how- ever, is his success assured ; for while his par- tisans are powerful in the North all the great centres of industry and intelligence are a unit to resist his accession to the throne of his fathers. The very theories that make him strong in the Nortbern provinces render his cause hopeless in the rest of Spain. He may continue the war indefinitely, pro- tected by the difficult nature of the country where his chief sirength lies, but even here time must prove fatal to his cause. Already some difficulty is found in victualiing the immense army which has rallied for “God ard the King,”’ and a forward movement must soon be made or the army will be forced to disperse. In view ot the superior strength of the Alfonsist army and its more complete organization a march southward might prove fatal to the cause of Don Carlos. Even if Madrid were to fall into his hands the con- quest of the country or te establishment of his throne would be far from complete. Owing to the important victory of Lucar the defection of Cabrera has made little impres- sion on the minds of Don Carlos’ followers ; but, should they suffer a severe check, there is no doubt the cry of treason will again be used as an excuse bythe soldiers, who are tired of the profitless struggle, for deserting a hopeless cause. Filthy Streets. The indifference displayed by the Street Cieaning Bureau to the condition of the streets in the poorer districts of the city offers a curious commentary on the eflicacy of popular government. The officials charged with the duty of keeping the streets clean evidently think that the poor have no rights they are bound to respect, and there does not seem to be public spirit enough among the rich to defend the rights of the working classes. Under the present system of clean- ing one or two favored streets and leaving the rest of the city in a state of filth injurious to the public health the Street Cleaning Bureau acts in » way to invite pestilence. No doubt it is the poor who chiefly suffer from diseases induced by the bad sanitary condition | of the neglected districts; but once disease has gained a footing it is just as likeiy as not | to extend its ravages to the homes of the wealthy. For this reason, if for no other, it | might be well if the solid men would nse their influence with the politicians in favor of re- moving the garbage and rubbish which is left to poison the air in the thickly peopled dis- tricts where dwell the poor. Tee Itnecan Mrrcwen Parape.—Has it oceurred to our Irish friends that it may not be agreeable to the family of the late John Mitchel to read daily in the newspapers of the abortive attempts to organize, coutrary to Jaw, a funeral procession in honor ot bis memory? There are several points in the subject which it would be wise to consider. First, a public patade is, after all, but a poor | way of showing respect, and generaily serves to display the magnificence of the mourners more than the merit of the man they mourn. Second, it throws away upon music, banners and chariots of war and battle steeds money which might be much better employed. Third, such a parade as that now persistently urged is in violation of the law itself. If to this must be added the reyret of the family that an attempt is made to illegally honor the memory of Mitchel, we think that his best friends are those who will give up the parade and devote their efforts to helping those he | loved. Sraret Crranixc.—Two bills are before the Assembly dealing with the question of keeping the streets of this city One is in favor of the Police clean, Board; who broke into poor Hughes’ | proof of political trading and a corrupt barter | themselves what Madame Fashion had decreed | the other aims at creating a new board. The | We wish official scavengers would use their | case of Lizzie Stern promises to be as unprofit- As to the Connecticut Congressmen, if the modistes have been rewarded during the past | brooms instead of engaging in legislative | able as most inquiries into the misconduct of tactics. It would improve very much the cleanliness of the city, TIPLE SHEET. ‘The Centennial Regattas, Such an opportunity and such inducements as are offered by the Centennial regattas should not, and doubtless will not, be lost by our oarsmen. We would call their attention to the fact that, even though they have never yet shared in a public contest, they can with the long notice given, if they are men of the right energy and determination, thoroughly pre- pare themselves in the interval, and either force the Beaverwycks, for example, to cut down their time far below the best they showed last summer—for it was far inferior to that made in the University strugglo—or in- trust the amateur championship to more de- serving hands. Again, it is high time that in the matter of crew rowing there should be a uniform and standard style of boat, Our students row in s1x-oars; but for years hardly any one else has done so, and for many reasons it would seem better to discontinue the practice and resort to fours. They cost less, last longer, are more easily handled and transported, and guarantee far closer and better racing. There probably never was’ a six-oared crew in this country which had not one man in it who could not do a sixth of the work, while tour good ones can about al ways be obtained twice as readily as six. Again, the foreigners, when they come, cannot row in sixes, for most of them never even saw one, eights and fours being the kinds to which they are accustomed. To make the crew races for fours only, as there is already a tendency, can work no hardship to the club that has eight good men, and will insure the very best material in each case, while the danger of ob- jections being raised afterwards, because this or that man was not in his best order, will be practically done away with, owing to the ease with which, as should always be the case, a good spare man can at once be substituted. Moreover, another very desirable end can be attained. Instead of as now, having, in order to get at the relative merits of present crews with those of the past or future, to make an allowance of so much per oar, a matter practically little better than guess work, the question can then be settled at a glance, and so men and boats and styles and currents can be compared in a way at once satisfactory, be- cause evidently correct. And as when our student oarsmen went to England to row they had to adopt a plan new to them, and on a straight course useless—namely, of car- rying a coxswain—it will only be gracetul on the part of our guests to fall into the fashion in vogue here of dispensing with that en- cumbrance. The London Rowing Club learned from the Atalantas what an improve- ment it was, and the English professional crews which visited us in 1871 quickly showed themselves adepts in the same direc- tion. Once expunge the coxswain and make the four-oared race the national one, and not only will the best rowing be had, but the standard will then be uniform all over the world. Tne Brxcuer Jcrors.—The Kings county Board of Supervisors have passed a resolu- tion disapproving of the increase of pay pro- posed to be given to the jurors in the Beecher trial. We can scarcely imagine what kind of men these Supervisors must be. We thought that there was not 4 heart in the community. that did not sympathize with the twelve un- fortunate men who are having their wits muddled and their ideas of right and wrong so confused by counsellors and witnesses that it is probable they will never en- tirely recover from the effects of it, Not alone is it just to grant these Beecher jurymen an increase of pay, but it would only be scant justice to pension them for life, with a reversion to their families for at least two generations. It is certain that they will leave the jury box impaired in bodily healtb, as well as in intellect, and it seems only just that men who are sacrificing them- selves for society should be taken care of by the community in whose cause they suffer. Important Truz.—And now we know on the authority of the pained but cheerful Mrs. Woodhull a great and important detail | of the Greeley nomination. Our later Frank- lin, as a candidate for the Presidency, was a product of the imagination and en- ergy of the erratic husband of the shockingly white souled Elizabeth; in fact, Theodore Tilton. Schurz we had heard about and of the liberals we re- member some vague report, but Theodore Til- ton as a President maker! ‘‘Baby bye, here's afiy!'’ And Tilton was to have had a secre- taryship. Secretary of the Treasury was it, | or the Interior, or what? Ah! if the pithy | Victoria would add to the curiosities of our literature and politics the queer scheme of the rest of the government conceived in the same vein! Geygran Sprxner.—Old General Spinner went perhaps a little further than was worth | whils in declaring that he would resign, but | then he did not know the sort of people he had | todeal with. He fell into the grave error of be- | lieving that they were interested in having an | honest and capable man in the office he held, and of supposing that, therefore, they would | sacrifice some crumbs of patronage if he were firm enough. But they would just as lief | have a dishonest and incapable man there— | perhaps a little rather; for an honest man is a restraint, and a capable man, if they tamper | with his department, has to be an accomplice and therefore must be trusted. They were glad enough to get Spinner out, therefore; | but if he bad understood this we are not sure | that he would have had the virtue to leave. Snangry.—The soundness of the old proverb about never hallooing till the woods were safely | passed is about to be exemplified in the case of Sharkey, the escaped murderer. Had he been content to withdraw himself trom public | attention he might have ended his days in | | some foreign land with whatever comfort his | | conscience might allow him. But he would | halloo, and as a result he is likely soon to be | requested to inform his fellow citizens what | he has to say why the sentence of the law | should not be executed upon him. His return to prison will not fail to exercise | a beneficial effect on persons inclined to im- | | brue their hands in blood. It will teach | | them that civilized peoples will grant no | | refuge to the brood of Cain, This lesson can- | | not fail to be salutary and deterrent. Lizz Stern's Deata.—The “inquest in the | | public officials in these United States. On the | most vital points witnesses contradict each | “Memoirs of a Cossack,” in which Abt | pretured; the Pays denounced iv pre other flatly. One of the doctors swears the river boat was cold and without fires, while other officials describe the accommodation as perfect. It is evident that some one is swear+ ing toughly in this business, and it may be necessary for the jury to look closely into the possible motives of witnesses who come fore ward to prove that no one is to blame. The Most Unkindest Cut of All, For the moment third term stock is down The Arkansas Message was too much of. good thing. The President overdid matten alittle. To use an inelegant but expressive phrase, which he must sometimes have heard from his friend Senator Powell Clayton, he “bit off more than he could chaw.’’ He ap. pears to be aware of it too, for it is reported that he treated with scant courtesy the faith. ful third termers who, on the adjournment oj Congress, called on him with modest requests for offices. Itis sald that he told them that the offices were, like the measles in Artemm Ward’s family, not enough to go around It is always an ungracions thing to say to friend “I told you so ;”’ and the Heraup does not like to do ungracious things to General Grant. But we cannot refrain from pointing out to him that he had fair warning from the Henarp long ago that the third term would never do. Nowhe begins to see that we were right, and no doubt he regrets that be paid so little attention to the only really faithful and disinterested friend he has. For, not only was it never possible for the third term to succeed, but it begins to leak ont that most of the third termers did not themselves be- lieve in it, but only pretended to as a meant of ingratiating themeelves at the White House. One of the most notorious and positive of the Southern third termers put the matter in hia rough way, to a friend, soon after the adjourn ment. ‘We had to go third term you know,”” said he ; “it was the only way for us to get sanything out of the old man.” We always said it would turn out just that way. RerNrorcEMENTS FoR THE Spanish ARM? continue to arrive in Cuba, but in such small driblets that they are really useless as a means of crushing the insurrection. With a criminal disregard of human life these poor fellows are sent out at a most unhealthy season of the year to fall victims to the dis- eases of the climate before they have even a chance to become acclimatized. It would be better for Spain to give up Cuba and keep her soldiers at home. Te Svurrry Bou.—An effort to introduce an item of fifty thousand dollars for the bene- fit of the Catholic Protectary into the Supply bill was defeated in the Assembly yesterday by a very narrow vote. The supply was then thrown out by the vote of the New York dele gation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. “Tears from the depths of a divine’s despair,” The Governor General of Canada wili sail 10; England May 1. Ruskin callsa glacier @ cataract which takes fifty years to fall. a Next year will be held at Milan the filth congress of breeaers of the silkworm. Ex-Senator James A. Bayard, of Delaware, & residing at the New York Hotel. Captain MeMickan, of the steamship Algeria, tr quartered at tne Brevoort House. Congressman Samuel J, Ranaall, of Potiadelphia, is registered at the Hoffman House. Senator John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Gilsey House. A new society of anthors, lor the improvement of copyright and stageright law, has been formed in London. Mr. Aibert Keep, President of the Chicago and Noriawestera Railway Company, is sojouraing ai the Windsor Hotel, The Emperor of Russia will go to Ems in May, and it 1s possibie that the Emperors o: Germany and Austria will meet Bim there. A. J. Bickneil & Co., of New York, will add to their popular architectural works “Woodeo and Brick Buildings, with Details,” in two quart volumes, To-day the Emperor of Austria will be at Trieste, where he will assist in the consecration of a mon. uments to the memery of his unfortunate brother Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico. Paul Cassagnac says that every imperialist keeps the birthday of the Prince imperial, bat keeps it privately, because the emotions excited by the occasion are too sacred to be indulged in public. Rignt Rev. Thomas Grace, Roman Catnolw Bishop of Minnesota, arrived at the Metrupolitar Hotel yesterday on bis way to Rome. He wil sat for Liverpool to-day in the steamship City a Brooklyn. Mr. Dewit: C. Ellis, Superintendent of the New York Bank Deparcment; Sevator Wiliam John son, Assemblyman F. W. Vosourg and Mr. A. D, Baiber arrived from Albany last evening at the Metropolitan Hotei. Au American lady, once very well known on the European operatic stage as Mile. Gorabella, has recently made @ great hit at Drury Lane, Lon- don, under the name of Miss Genevieve Ward, in the part of Rebecca, in Scott's “Ivanhoe.” Sne | will probably ‘star’ in this country mext fall. ‘The manufacturing imdusiry apd art of the Hible forms the subject of a new book by James Napier, F. R. 8. The book is very learned on cop per, tin and bronze, ani treats of guid and silver in genaine Namboyant style. Mr. Napier, however. does not show that the mauutacwurers of the Bible were stimulated by a high protective tarig. At seast one important re‘orm seems likely te cyme cut of the agitation of cremation. Tots ia the substitution of other material than wood for coffins. Just now the muuicipal authorities of Paris are deliberating the propriety of requiring that all cofins shall be made of cement, as they were, in fact, in the Gailo-Roman period of Frenep history. M. Caro, just admitted to the Academy Fran caise, Was a professor at tne Sorbonne. One day his lectare was disturbed; there was a lively clamor, which he could not silence, He conié scarcely be heard for minutes, But he seized a moment when the noise was a little thinner and shouted, “Gentlemen, let us only talk four at @ time’ They laughed and became tranquil, ‘There was recent.y sold in Tipperary, treland, the lease of twenty-one acres of land, witnou' houses of any sort on it, The lease has flty yeart to run, the yearly rent is $16), and the lease sold for a premium of $2,500. Ireland, therefore, 1s hot In 80 bad @ condition as the agitators would make out. In this country very good land can be | bought lor the rent paid as above. At Patw’s benefit, in St. Petersburg, she sung in “Rigoletto.” ihe imperial family were present and remained to the end of the periormance. The Emperor sent for Mme. Patti and co: her on her success. A diadem, sapphires and diamonds, was pres subscription, while the crowas, baskets 01 flowera and bouquets showered on her were innumerauvie, Mme. Olga de Janina, ® Rossin princess, re cently chastised M, Paul Cassagnac, of the Varia Pays, in a public calé. Mme. Janina wrote the ast wat tty suarpiy, So the lady dressed herself in mate attire, went | to the Caté de ja Paix, where the writers ‘or that Journal are sometimes found, and, fluding these | only M. de Cassagnac, bad a few words with him, and then slashed him severely in the lace with @ light cane,