The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1875, Page 8

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Z remarkable dying statement iscon that point, thongh the question as to the ree sponsibility still exists. d upon : than , or rather ad. muxation of Dr, and we give the been ascertained It is lusive upon very interesting Tibes the enterpri g lake Fa land were ed ( + Traum Evorxeenma letter from Rome desc Prince Torlonia in dro which forty thou claimed. The P his co-operation ng the new pc already the d map explain: great work ace Tue Raopr Istayp Exvecr to-day, and the forth by our Px The liquor question enter contest, and as candidate for re-« y ture there is an indirect issue on the term, of which he is understood to be a His friends are anxious, yet profes be confident that when the new Assembly votes for United States Senator ‘‘the child's \npme will be Anthony.” , by and acres of Te- aribaldi yvidence third ne—LA JOLIB | : ty-ninth, etreet—NEGRO | atloP. M NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. The Pardon of Ingersoll. Governor Tilden’s pardon of James HL Ingersoll, sentenced less than two years ago to State Prison for five years for the crime of forgery committed in connection with the infamous Ring frauds, creates almost as great a sensation as his Canal Message, and is alto- gether more unexpected and surprising. Governor Tilden’s Canal Message was in pur- suance of his settled hostility to public thieves and in perfect keeping with his character. But his pardon of the notorious Ingersoll is anact of clemency to one of the worst and guiltiest of the thieves who plundered the city, and it excites astonishment and curiosity by its apparent inconsistency with the Gover- nor’s relentless severity toward knaves of that class. The too free exercise of the pardoning power has long been a standing complaint against State executives, but their weak yield- ing to the urgoncy of petitioners has com- monly been in the cases of criminals in relation to whom public feeling had become indifferent. It was not supposed that Gover- nor Tilden would yield to this weakness, and, least of all, that he would allow his sympathies to be moved in favor of a man like Ingersoll. Aneminent legal writer has said: —“‘Every pardon granted to the guilty is in derogation ofthe law. If the pardon be equitable the law is bad; for where legislation and the ad- ministration of the law are perfect pardons must be in violation of the law.” But as courts may occasionally err, or extenuating circumstances may abate the criminality of an offence, pardons are sometimes proper as a means of remedying injustice. But there are no such reasons for the pardon of Inger- sol. He has suffered no injustice. There 1s no qfestion of his guilt; his sentence was not excessive; and, moreover, clemency toward an offender of his class tends to lower the tone of public feeling at a time when a vigor- ous popular sentiment is needed to support the public authorities in bringing a multitude of unwhipped rogues to justice. For this amazing act ot mercy there must be some ade- quate explanation which the Governor has not yet seen fic to communicate to the public. Pending his silence some of his friends have volunteered an excuse which has a great air of plausibility. The surmise is that Gover- nor Tilden 3 pardoned Ingersoll in order to qualify him as a witness in the prosecution of other members of the Ring, under the recent | Civil Remedies acts. If Ingorzoll is willing to | tell all he knows the administration of justice | may be promoted by his pardon. Itis well | Imown that convicaon of an inmmous crime | destroys a man’s competency as a witness. | Ifthe prosecution offers such a witness the | counsel for the defence always object to his | being sworn, and tne Court will sustain the | objection unless the defence fails to furnish | proof of the conviction, or the prosecution shows that the offence has been pardoned or | the sentence set aside by a higher court. A | | pardon granted to remove a person’s incom- | petency as a witness is not precisely the same | thing, though somewhat of the same nature, | romise of impunity given by a prose- | g officer to one of the confederates in a crime on condition of his turning State's | evidence. In the latter case the defence can- not shut out his testimony by pleading his | | the scene of dazzling beauty vanished with crime; but a convicted forger can- | | not testify in a court, however willing ‘he may be, unless his disability | is first removed by a pardon. If Ingersoll has promised to tell all he knows there can be no doubt that his testimony will be im- | nt enough to justify the act of clemency ch he could be brought upon the witness tted to swear. No court ve his evidence against the objec- | ot opposing counsel without a pardon, alone remove his disqualification. ion, therefore, probably foreshadows cution of suits for recovering | under the new statutes islature a few weeks ago, edies acts. @ vigorous pros e acts is very wide. They | sin the previously ex- | e down the former civil | | nst mm sib rsof the Ring. In the : Court of pees pro- n this same Ingersoll was e being ‘The | * ‘The turning | cision was that as the prop- » recovered belonged to the could be brought only in the county, as the law then stood; | conceded that the Legisla- of t aithough the arme tur Bai the State to sue | and recov Such laws have been | passed by islature chiefly through the exertic yvernor Tilden and Mr. | O'Conor. I uits will have to be com- | it nothing bad been done; no longer doubtful, their ly on getting sufficient rely evidence that the frauds | ich and such individuals, | ent disposition of their ond the reach of the kind of evidence ver- robbers would amount to this view the testimony of be all important; for no man in the secrets of the Ring fora r its explosion and while its 2 engaged in attempts to put eal their fp tention of t members of the ign co m as well law. With erty. sovernor to prose- Ring who have fled sand taken their property as those who have not es- | We infer this from a passage in the | et which Mr. O’Conor pub- part of the winter previous medies acts and advocating One of the points he made was arts of ju: wud entertain: | anty book or lished in t ccasion that we chiet wre onor, “had withdrawn Wek limits of our States, 1, xt ied with them t ident that great iff 1 tempt to estab- h i 1 courts the title of local boar oO maintain actions for these public m If the to the stolen funds were din the State by statute the remedy in all cases and in all courts and places would be plain and e the State of New York would be more readily | recoguized in foreign countries os a suitor, aud more fully respected than auy corporate | Some days will pass before the formal in- | | triumph than was indicated by the news of | | that any republicans who voted against Inger- | the republican vote has also ine: | eratie papers pronounced or quasi corporate official body claiming to | represent the interests of a local constituency.”” Mr. O'Conor was of the opinion that as the law stood at the time he wrote ‘attachments against assets which have been transported to foreign climes and writs of arrest against persons who have fled to Belgium or Brit- tany”’ would be futile, but he believed that if the right to sue were vested in the State ro- covery of the money would be possible through foreign courts of justice. The Martha Washington Tea Party. The glories of the American Revolution are celebrated in various ways, In Boston they honor the inemory of our fathers by throwing tea into the sea, In New York, last night, they fulfilled the same duty more agreeably by drinking it. The tea party and ball at the Academy of Music was a brilliant affair, and, as something of a novelty here, we give it special attention in our columns. De Quincey says that tea is the beverage of intellectual persons, and no one who had the pleasure of seeing the thirteen times thirteen young ladies who officiated at the tea tables could doubt this opinion. Pope also recognizes the intel- lectual inspiration of tea in his description of Hampton Court, when he exclaims :— ere, thon, great Anna, whom three realms obsy, Dost someumes couis¢] take—and sometimes tea. Thus showing that the term “teapot,” now occasionally irreverently applied to old fogy British statesmen, was considered compli- mentary in the days of Queen Anne. The wisdom displayed by the one hundred and sixty-nine ladies last night was only rivolled by their patriotism, and that was only equalled by their loveliness. Teas of all kinds were provided—the Oolong, Hyson, Sou- chong, Japanese, the green, the black, and we are told that English breakfast tea was as popular as any kind, evidently having lost the bitter flavor it possessed during the Revolu- tion. The cup that cheers but not inebriates passed round, and its odor perfumed the air. Cambric tea, tansy tea and beef tea were, we understand, not admitted to the honors of the table. If you had come after tea, as alphabetically you always must, you would have seen the tea party dissolve into a ball, It is impossible to tell which of the two was the more delightful. In the one was reproduced the manner in which General, Washington used to take his supper at Mount Vernon, and the other represented the wa; in which the Father of his Country, accompanied by Martha and the family, used to waltz upon the lawn. But the night, and this morning all that remains of the tea party will be found in the leaves of iin Firemen ba ool The Cardinalate. The delegates from the Holy Father bearing the appointment of Cardinal McCloskey and the berretta, which signifies that honor, arrived in New York yesterday. They were met in the bay by the Committee of Reception, and Mgr. Roncetti replied eloquently to the ad- dress of welcome, atter which the distin- | guished visitors were escorted to the house of the Cardinal, where brief speeches were made | by His Eminence and Mr. Charles O'Conor. Elsewhere we give the particulars of these interesting proceedings, with sketches of Mgr. Roncetti, Dr. Ubaldi and Count Marefoschi. vestiture of tbe mew Cardinal, and it is not known what ceremonies will be adopted in the way of presenting the berretta to His Eminence. The whole ques- tion is so novel that we presume the authori- ties of the Catholic Church in Now York will be compelled to make precedents instead of following them. It is still uncertain what will be done about the black horses. The committee of Irish Catholic gentlemen are | still busily engaged in endeavoring to find a pair worthy in all respects to draw the coach ofa prince of the Roman Church. In a few | Peace however, we presume the whole matter | | will be settled, and we shall sce then the most | extraordinary ceremovies ever seen in the | Catholic Church it in America, The Result in Connecticat, The full returns show a greater democratic | Monday night. Ingersoll’s plurality over Greene is 9.! in of 2,747 since last year, when his plurality over Harrison was | 6,782. The gain does not prove, however, soll last year voted for him this year, because | sed, though not in so large a proportion. cratic vote ij 784 this y lican party. The democratic party made the issue third term or no third term, Grant or | anti-Grant, and the event proves that it was | an issue well selected to win. The Memory of a Dream! The cable informs us of an interesting cele- bration that took placo on Saturday in the beautiful city of Trieste. A monument has been erected to the memory of the late Maxi milian, Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico, This monument was unveiled on Saturday in the presence of the Emperor, the Archdukes, the Austrian Ministers and an immense concourse of people. Woe are told that great enthusiasm was shown, that speeches were made eulogistic of Maximilian, and expressing the affection of the people of Trieste for the House of Austria, The Em- peror was deeply moved, and he cordially thanked the people for their manifestation of loyalty. Trieste was the home ot the Emperor Meximilian, and those who have visited that beautiful Illyrian capital will remember the Gothic Castle of Miramar, which juts into thesea. This was Maximilian’s home. Here he spent the best part of his life. It was here he received the delegation from the Mexican Assembly of Notables, who offered him the crown of Mexico, Here he renounced solemnly all his right to the Austrian crown, and on the 14th of April, 1864, in the thirty-second year of his age, sailed in the Austrian frigate Novaro, toenter upon the government of his new dominion, The story of that reign, of the French occupation, of his abandonment by Bazaine, of his gallant resolution not to be taken out of Mexico by French bayonets like a refugee, the treason of the adventurers who surrounded him, of his last gallant at- tempt to sustain his crown, of his imprison- ment, his condemnation by a military council and his execution at Querétaro, on the 18th of June, 1867, in the thirty-fifth year of his age, form one of the most tragic chapters in the history of the nineteenth century. If anything would round this tragedy it would be the still sadder iate of his wite, the beauti< ful Carlota, sister of the Belgian King, who, while all was going badly with her lord, took that sad errand to France and Rome to entreat the interference of the Pontiff, whom she believed to be all-powerful with God and the French Emperor, who was then thought to be all-powerful on earth. The result of that errand was the loss of her rea- son, and since then she has Jived in the splen- did palace of Lacken, the object of the pity of mankind. As princes go, Maximilian was. model gen- tleman, a soldicr, a scholar and a statesman. He showed princely ambition in leaving his position as an Archduke of the Austrian Em- pire, high in the confidence and affection of the Emperor, with all the splendors of a noble court, to found a dynasty in Mexico. What- ever may have been the motives of Napoleon in supporting him we have always looked upon the part taken by Maximilian as the generous effort of a bold and gifted young man to add to the glory ot his house and to be of some use to mankind. To us the occupation ot Mexico by Maximilian was a political menace addressed by Napoleon to this Republic at a time when it was thought that disunion would destroy our power. The execution of Maxi- milian was regarded by many of our people as a just retribution for the part he took in what was practically a threat against the Union. But if any sovereign could have made Mexico a great nation it would have been Maximilian. His dream of founding a Latin empire on the shores af America had a swift and tragic end- ing, and with it forever passed away any hope of establishing an empire in North America, But the memory of Maximilian will always be respected by those Americans who honor personal virtue, courage, scholar- ship and high nobility of soul. He died like agentleman andaking. There was nothing in his administration of the Mexican nation to dishonor either his manhood or his rank. ‘This dream of Mexican empire is revived by the story of tha monument at Trieste and the gentle and solemn ceremonies that at- tended it. So far as our sympathies are con- cerned they go with the Emperor of Austria, who mourns the death ot one of the most brilliant of his race, and one whose fate has already become a romance, and whose name will probably live more tenderly in the imagination of posierity than if he had been | a successful conqueror or a great king. A Confederate View of the Centen. nial, last year, showing a democ: iss gain of 7,029; while the total republican vote this year is | 44,256 and was 39,793 last year, showing a | republican gain of 4,463. ‘The temperance | vote, which was 4,960 last year, has fallen to a difference which accounts for one- | half of the republican gain. The increase in | the aggregate vote of the State is due partly | to the fact that no Congres last year, partly to a spirited canvass on both sides and partly to the bright weather | on election day. In accounting for the increase of the demo- cratic majority we must recur to the topics most dwelt upon in the canvass on the demo- cratic side. Of course th and newspapers knew w clectioneering points were most likely to effective in that State, and if the election really hinged | on those made most prominent the demoe tic victory is chiefly owing to the third term question. Certain itis ¢ the two thing: one was always certain to mect in looking over the democratic upers of Connecti ent from day to day du 0 the third term and Mr. Gre in honor of Grant's Loui a policy. In the opening speech of the made by General Hawley he found ssary to answer certain ques ito him by the democratic Ha: es as io whether he favored the third term, i his factory, because he failed to not vote for President Grant nit th Republican National Convention should nominate him. by % set in motion was kept fiying throughout the canvass. With ihe term | tear lurking in the miuds of the citizens it was bad policy tor the republicans to in- dorse Grant strongly in their platform and | nominate “‘hundred-gun Greene’ for their | candidate, Those “hundred guns” were kept | booming and reverberating throughout the canvass. doing infinite damage to the repub- nen were chosen | 5: | jong and mantully; that ‘‘she was beaten in cratic leaders | of the Mobile Register from the pen of Raphael Semmes, the well-known officer of | the Confederate Navy. In this letter Admiral Semmes comments upon the proposal of | Alabama to take part in the Centennial. He recites the fact that he became a rebel, re- | signing his commission as an officer of the navy to accept the service of the Southern | tates. He assures us that Alabama fought the contest by sheer force of numbers ;’’ that, | “after being beaten, she was spit upon with He recalls the | fourteenth amendment, with its distranchise- coutumely and contempt.’ ment of certain Confederates, including Mr. Semmes. miral has been insulted ‘by an infamous slander published on the floor of the Senate."” Notwithstanding these grievances, State has consented “to stand at this radi lo States, al whose equal she is, but who have branded her as deseribed.’’ He thinks that this would be a humihation and degrada- tion, a concession attended with dishonor. asnres us ciliation with the people of the North. sme time, until the stain is wiped out, He 2, in his judgment, cousent al Semmes will be read through: the It appeals to a sentiment as obso- at which inspired the Crusades. The editor of the Kegister, 2 Southera statesman than Admiral S to his cone ms, sud would be far better for d shoulder to shoulder with Pennsylvania than to Adm of more eminence objects thot it bama to tho deme quarrel w sult Pennsylvania in answer to hor invitation. | We certainly agree with Mr. Forsyth in his comment upon the letter of the Admiral, | Admiral Semmes is one of those unfortunate Ale- in We print this morning a letter to the editor | As a special grievance the Ad- | | Baltimore, they | pray for ‘the pe feast side by side with certain sovereign | that he is anxious to have | n of political distranchisement, no | | faithfal clergymen. | be explained. gentlemen who had no reputation before tho war and who has had none since, and like many of those who fought on both sides bis principal function in peace has been to excite sympathy by showing a broken leg or a wounded arm or some offensive bruise, and appeal thereby to our sympathies, Ever since the close of the war we have had a large number of soldiers and sailors of tls kind, who have limped up and down the Union, en- deavoring to win, by exhibiting their wounds, applause they never gained by their valor. In the South the favorite themo of these gentlemen is to inveigh against the North as tyrannical, the Yankees as vulgar mudsills, the Union as an oppression, and to appeal to the memories of the Confederacy in the hope of revenge. Not content with making a fight that will live with the most meritorious strug- gles in history, not content with having stood by “the lost cause’’ until it was lost beyond all hope, they insist upon continuing by prejudice, animosity, hatred and bitterness the contest which should have ended with the last gun at Appomattox Court House. In the North we have had a feeling corresponding to this which is constantly appealing to us to overturn the Southern States and ‘punish re- bellion.”” Both these feelings are unworthy of the North and the South and entirely so of an officer of the reputation of Admiral Semmes, The invitation which was extended by Pennsylvania to Alabama represents the friendliest feeliogs on the part of the former State. The North asks the South to meet at the Centennial in the most fraternal spirit. The Southern States have nothing to gain by remaining away and everything to lose. They lose their own self-respect, the opportunity of showing their intrinsic greatness, their powers of recuperation, their resources, their skill, their industry. Suppose Fronce should have remained away from the Vienna’ Exhibition because Germany was permitted to sit side by side with ber in the Industrial Palace. The result would have been that she would have become ridiculous in the eyes of Europe. She showed that, though punished by a cruel war, she had not exhausted those extraordinary resources which had made her so powerful in the past and which offer so brilliant a future, Let the South think of what France did at Vienna and profit by the example. Tho Papacy and Republicanism. There isa curious statement in the Paris Journal des Débats to the effect that un- der certain circumstances the Pope will take up his residence in the United States, It bas long been a reproach to those who control the temporal affairs of the Catholic Church that it was not in sympathy with re- publican institutions. Americans, who were sensitive enough during the war, felt unkindly toward the Pope, because he alone, of Euro- pean potentates, gave Jefferson Davis a quasi recognition as President of the Confederate States. Not jong since His Holiness, in a public speech, spoke with unusual kindness of aristocrats, saying, if we quote him cor- rectly, that Jesus Christ loved the aristocracy. In the Roman court all the royal forms have been preserved to the highest degree, and even now the imprisoned Pontiff insists upon the etiquette that prevails in the oldest palaces, In the republican experiments in France and Spain it was felt that the influence of the | Church was against democracy. Consequently the impression has prevailed that the policy of the Roman Church is inconsistent with a republican form of government. We think that however irue this may have been in the past a new light begins to dawn on the Holy See. The rumor, else- where printed, in reference to the coming of the Pope, and the appointment of Cardinal McCloskey confirms this. We must frankly confess that there has been nothing in the republican experiments in Europe to justify any enthusiasm of democracy on the part of the popes. Generally the first step of the Continental republicans has been to shoot the pricst and confiscate the revenues of the Church. has ever supposed him if he would calmly bless and encourage the murderers of his Furthermore, the repub- lican movement abroad has been often asso. ciated with socialism and infidelity and with attacke upon the ordinances aud sacraments of Christianity. Consequently the hesitation in welcoming republicanism as a Christian form of government can easily But, on the other hand, His Holiness has seen in America the true ex- pression of republicanism, He has seen that here, in a Protestant country, with the public sentiment of the >eople opposed to his Church, among the descendants of those Puritans who detested the whole Roman system as tio abomination of all villanies, that by the «peration of republican governments Catholicim is freer than in the most Catholic countries of the world. Natu. rally, then, His Holinvss sees, if the Church can flourish without jersecution in a Protes- | tant government undr republicanism, why | not look to enlighteted democracy as the only solution of the troubles that have now fallen upon the Churel? If our readers will rmember a conversation published in the Hemp between one of our correspondents and Archbishop Bayley, of will recall a remarkable The Bislop said that “in for. fatoful were required to afd unity of all Christian ¢ Pope Pius com- statement. mer encycli princes,’ but in the lis mands that the praye. and ‘unity of all Chrstian people,’ 6 though ho lacked confidene in prayers for the rulers.’ Our reaérs will observe also that for the fire time in the his- | tory of the Cath Chureh has the ‘high honor of cndinal been bestowed upon an American p ‘Those of us who follow the public sp of His Holiness ie Centennial and virtually in--| will not hove fa he speaks of Ar tude snd « dri the Cath canis, aud we upen Ww und s with peculiar grati- nsequently we iCourch toward republi+ ce of the grounds see & t of ch it is Wy s tho empire, pers Protestant Americs un a republic, mits it to grow im prtect freedom, Catholic Italy, under « kig, makes war upon tho Holy See. Cathob France, under a presi-+ dent, is to-(ay ‘s stauchest defender in | Europe. Why, thn, should not tho Pope | appeal from the conarchical system, from View kings and pmces who have too often used its power forheir own selfish purposes, Pius IX. would be what no one | hall be for ‘the peace | 6 observe that whenever | Protestant Germany, | Charch, | and rest bis ease with the peoplo\ or, after all, there is no Church more repthlican than the Catholic in the very erence of its discipline. Before the altar i] races ond nationalities are alike. Duritg the fierce antipathies which existed beween the black and white man béore the war the Catholic priest gave the saga. ment to the master and the slave, withow distinction of person. Where can we find a better illustration of that spirit of equality and fraternity which underlies the republican sys- tem? Why should not tbe Pope, by allying himself with the republican movement in modern times, make himself a terror to: those kings who despise and annoy him, and give the republican movement an impulsé which would in ten years overthrow every crown on the Continent? If he should really come to this country—which 1s hardly possible—it _would be a step in the road to the independ ence of the Roman See. He understands at peopie, that liberty means liberty in all things, and not liberty to obey. The alliance of, the Roman Church with re publicanism would lead to an extraordinary revolution in human affairs, It would be a singular ending of the drama which has long been acting on the political stage of Europe if the successor of St. Peter should avow himself a champion of republicanism, and should sustain by his infallible wisdom the political dogma that all men have beem created free and equal. Judge Roosevelt. One more of the lingering mementoss of another time has just passed away in the pers son of Judge Roosevel:. Seventy-nine is not @ very great age; neither did the face or figure so familiar for a generation to city people indicate in any peculiar degree the ravages of time; yet the contrasts with the present suggested by the merest memorandum of the events of his life act unconsciously on the mind in moving him further and further into the past, until we find ourselves almost fancying him a man of a century since. He lived ina time when gentlemen were candi- dates for Aldermen, a time of which the gene eral public has little or no knowledge. He lived before the deluge of municipal democe racy came down upon us with such fury as to sweep away from the public all the advantago of the possession of liberal laws; but the deluge was so active that his not remark- ably long life stretched over to the time when the public began to be encouraged with the hope that the waters were likely to subside. In the earlier times we had healthier conceptions of republicanism and democracy. All were equal in politics; so that a man of honorable descent and aristo- cratic family was at least as good as a rough, But we got over that, and the time came when ‘‘ equality” assumed its levelling point from the lowest grade, and when the ‘en- deayor to put a man of such class as the men sented as an attempt upon the reserved rights of “the honest masses’’—the honest masses being in this case the name assumed by the swindling rogues, many of whom are now in prison or in exile. It seems, therefore, te give Judge Roosevelt an age much greates than that to which he really attained to rev member that with his name and family associae tions he was once a foremost man in our local politics. No better wish can be indulged over the old Knickerbocker’s coffin than that the time may be again upon us when men of | equal social value-and instructed talent, of equal uprightness and purity in their concepe tions of the true meaning of democracy, may make themselves felt in the government of the city whose prosperity and welfare he sa greatly desired. | PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Bismarck says he “docs not belleve ina State God.” Vice-President Henry Wilson has apartments | at the Grand Central Rotel, Captain Haward Simpson, United States Navy, is staying at the Everett House, Mr. Richard Smisb, of the Cincinnatl Gazette, ie residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Senator Roscoe Conkling arrived in this city last | evening and ts at the Fifth Avenus Hotel, Commodore Stephen D. Trenchard, United States Navy, 18 sojourning at the Brevoort House. | Mr. Clayton MaecMichael, of Paiiadelphia, te among the late arrivals at the Albemarle Hotel. Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, hes taken up his quarters at the Westminster Hotel. Mr. Robert M. McLane, of Baltimore, formeriy United States Minisier to China, bas arrived at tha New York Hotel. Messrs. George W. Childs, Antnony J. Drexey and Leonard Myers, of Philadelphia, are at ty Fifth Avenue lLovel. Mr. J. H. Devereux. President of the Atio#tl and Great Western Railway Company, is storPIng at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Brevet Major General George Stonep@0, an¢ Brevet Brigadier General Peter V. Hap#eF, Uniteé States Army, are registered at the<lith Avenue | Hotel. The house once occupied by D«tmas’ D'Artagnan, | on the Quat I'Horloge, at Pris, has just deem pulled down. Ambrose Pa, the surgeon, once lived in the same house. Postmascer General 4eWweil returned to Wash- ington yesterday mong from bis electioneering | labors in Connect@t. He attributes the defeat oj | his party to lacrOf organization, A late act orCongress entities General Sickles to retain his »face on the retired list of the army, with the y4y Of @ major general from the date of his reswnation of the Spanish mission, Prence Albert 18 said to have asked the juvenile rfince of Wales ata moment of interesting an ticipation “whether he wouid rather have a little sister or brother,” and he to have answered that he would rather have a pony. Protessor J. E. Nourse, of Washington; Rev. J. P. Thompson, Rev. N. Bjerring, of the Grees chureh, of this city, and Rev. Willam P. Morgat wiil represent the American Geographical Society at the forthcoming Congress In Paris. Donizetu, who wrote very rapidly, was re | proached by a friend with abusing his own facil ity. He suid, in answer, “There are authors woe nave to plant aud raise fowers ta thetr brain, but 1 find them aiready grown and only have togather them.” | Viscount de Losgeril has investigated apothe- caries’ profits, He says that # oottle of # s water, soid for twenty-iive cents, costs to make jtone cent and # half, and that other profits | generally are in tins proportion. He proposes ta sales of tis Class, pe Veressat, now at St. Petersburg, and the quest of the Geographical Society of that city, tsa Tartar Homer. He ts seveaty years old and bind, and bis Foapsodies are the only known relics of the ancient legends of the Ukraine. It 18 te ve hoped the society will have them written, Here is @ versicle that was once attached to the | colomn in the Piaca Vendome when the statue of the first Napoleon stood on that monument:— Tiget Vprany hong h Bg on high, Were gathered nere, tau snigae: at Well mgm Drink, nor yet incline thy head. | | | with Knickerbocker names into office was ree last, let us hope, that he can trust the