The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1875, Page 6

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From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be threatening, Wart Srazer Yesterpay.—Stocks were | lower and the market feverish. Gold ad- vanced to 116}. Foreign exchange was lees | firm. Money easy. Mz Bracx hes again interfered for the bet- ter protection of animals. Ungrateful hogs, indifferent dogs, irreverent horses—none of the beasts will ever thank him for his services. Suanaer's Retcex.—The report that Shar- key, the notorions murderer, who escaped from justice, is now on his way from Havana to New York, has crested much excitement in this city. Taz Orrxrxc Races of the spring are, of course, interesting, snd we give a tnll report of the trotting meeting at Fleetwood Park, in which Tornado Maid and Lady Blanche were the winners. Ter Porr, according to our special cable despatches from Rome, is delighted with the enthusiasm shown in America on account of the elevation of Mr. McCloskey to the Cardi- ualate. | Tar Wratner yesterday was an assurance that spring has come at last, with June as her | hesitating, delightful companion. We may now believe that winter is over and that over- coats and shawis toay be laid away till fall. | Rarw Trawsitr.—The Husted ill, or, as we have called it, the Tilden bill, bas passed to a third reading m the Assembly. The vast responsibility is thus thrown upon the Senate, which, in duty,to itself and the pub- | fic, is bound to act upon the question | promptly and with regard only to the general | interest. | Tar Crem Justices Covrts bill was de- feasted yesterday in the Assembly, but a vote for reconsideration was taken, so that it may again be called up, reconsidered and passed. Tis defeat is not to be regretted. We need a reform in our district courts, but this bill is said © have been the offspring of a bargain for the judgeships between certain democrats and | republicans. Such combinations are always objectionable and have invariably given us undesirable public officers. Opsraverise as Ierensarionan Contest.— There is trouble in Great Britain. A bridge at Clontarf has been pronounced unsafe, and | ne it lies in the road by which the contestants in the great international rifle match are to reach the grownd heretofore selected as the theatre of the struggle for the championship of the world, the government has insisted that it shall be repaired. The local autiorities— men of the Jerry Mc(inire stamp-—are not to be dictated to. Anything that looks like coer- ion throws them instantly into a condition of shirt sleeves and slullalabs. The rickety bridge becomes the tail ot their cozt—-the chip on their shoulder. Repair it? Never! under Saxon dictation! So we are informed by | trom official papers?” As if to strengthen | a policy of repression and illiberality in a | | time of his associates. | Dasty.”” | expressly says that | able information.” NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET, | War Records and War Issuce. Our Washington correspondent telegraphs us that tbe publication of General Sherman's | “Memoirs,” and the criticisms attending it, bave produced a profound impression in Wasb- ington, ‘The feeling among many army and navy officers,"’ he says, “‘is intense against the General of the Army, and a thousand pens will leap to the defence of the privcipal characters who have been so harshly criti- cised, ‘fhe complaints will not be confined the fortheoming work, there will be broad- sides to give as well as to receive.” ‘The severest censure,” continues our correspond- ent, ‘the book has yet received bas been from the old army officers who served with General Sherman in his Western campaign, and who | | were in his confidence in the most “eS! movements.’ Our correspondent fur says that the friends of General Grant urging bim to prepare material for his memoirs of the war. ‘His experience,’’ be adds, “has been more varied than that of General Sherman, and advantages for col- lating facts and arranging them are offered | the President which General Sherman did not enjoy.” So, altogether, we are on the eve of an interesting and lively discussion. Before we drift too far into this debate let | us see what the situation really is. General | Sherman publishes his ‘‘Memoirs” in two vol- | umes, giving a graphic, brilliantand complete | history of his connection with the war. In | this work for the first time he enables the | country to measure his exact status as a gen- eral. In doing so he follows the example of | the greatest commanders, of Cesar, Frede- | rick, Napoleon and Scott. In speaking of | generals who served with him he uses a | frankness which is censured, but we think un- justly. General Sherman has as much right | to express his opinion of officers who are liy- | ing as any other critic. Napoleon did not hesitate todo the same even during the life- Murat, Napoleon said, was # man of “extraordinary courage and little intelligence.” ‘One who remained cour- ageous and nothing more;” who deserted his cause with unfeeling brutality and ran with ‘tanblushing baseness to hail the new dy- Ney was ‘‘the bravest of the brave and nothing more,’’ who sacrificed his honor in his defence at his trial. vanity and all sorts of mean passions.’”’ Angerean was a brave. Junot a spend- thritt and a boor. Jerome Bonaparte was of “boundless extravagance and most odious libertinism.” Berthier was a goose, who im- | agined himself an eagle, while Wellington was a man whose “faults were enormous’’ and whose glory was wholly “negative.” So | that General Sherman's criticism on his as- sociates in the war are by no means as sharp | or comprehensive as Napoleon's, Sherman | he does not care | to write anything that will bring annoyance | to many of those who were actors in the war | and who are stillliving. As to whether his | judgment of the different generals is right or wrong we, of course, cannot say. That is a matter of history and of discussion. But why | there should be so much indignation in | Washington at the publication of a frank, | manly ststement of the part taken by an illus- trious general in a great campaign is sur- prising. The only question to be considered is, “Does General Sherman tell the trath?” | If se, then he can stand the criticisms upon his work. Clearly enough General Sherman is justi- fied in writing this memoir. He shows that the admirers and the friends of President Grant have steadily fostered the idea that to the President must be attributed the credit of the march to the sea, which is universally | | conceded to have been the most brilliant | Some of the admin- | achievement of the war. istration journals now say that there was no justification for this feeling on General Sher- man’s part; that the President himself never has claimed the credit of the achievement of any other officer. Geveral Sherman has another opinion in his book His exact words are :—‘General Grant has never, in my opinion, thought so or said so”—namely, that he planned the march to the sea. And, as we have all along contended, General Sher- man is justified in feeling that an attempt has been made to take from him the credit of his illustrious achieve- ment. General Badeau, whose life of General Grant is, if anything, official, and who writes with clearness and eloquence and the fullest information on the subject, says expressly that General Grant frequently ex- plained to his staff, of which General Badeau | was a member, his plan for fighting his way | to Atlanta and then cutting loose with the army for either Mobile cr Savannah. Furtber, according to General Bedeau, when Geueral | | Grant left the armies of the West for Wash- ington to take command as Lieutenant Gene- | ral, ‘it was his firm intention to return: to Chattanooga, and, while he retained control | of all the armies, to lead in person those which moved toward the sea.” This is a clear, explicit ststement, and from the President's chosen and cherished historian. In the pretace to his work General Badeau says, in order that his evidence may have the utmost value, that he was a member of General Girant’s staff be- fore the President assumed command of the armies, that he remained with him until the end of the war. ‘‘I have not,”’ says the Gen- eral, ‘‘meant to state one fact, unless it came under my own personal observation, or has been told me by the General of the army or | one of his important officers, or unless I know it from official papers.’ To General Sherman he expressly returns thasks ‘for much valu- Now, if the official biogra- pher of General Grant, not only an honorable but a trustworthy writer, affirms, as he does, | on page 571 of the first volume of his work, that General Grant had conceived the movement which ended in the march to the sea, and was so impressed with it that he thought of returning to Chattanooga and leading in person the armies, certainly Sherman has a right to assume that, unless he vindicates his own fame, tt will suffer. Upon what authority does General Badeau make his special statement? Did it come to him from his own “personal observation,” or was it told to bim by General Grant ‘‘or one of his important officers,’’ or ‘‘did he know it | dent, the dispenser of power. that this whole movement to the sea was one of Grant's grandest conceptions. We do not see how Genera! Sherman could, especially with the evidence which he presents in his “Memoirs,” remain quiet while the ad- mirers of General Grant were steadily depriv- ing him of his reputation. General Sherman simply shows by letters and despatches which are matters of record, and, of course, by his own averments, that the march to the sea was his own conception ; that General Grant op- posed it at first, being anxious he should at- tack Hood ; that Grant only consented to it after repeated urgency on Sherman's part. | He shows, further, that’ the capture of Savannah was General Sherman's act, and that General Grant's orders would bave taken the army off west from G<orgia and left Savannah in the hands of the rebels, if General Sherman had not successtully pro- tested. We should be glad to bave General Grant give his view of these campaigns, as our correspondent believes to be his purpose. They aro rapidly passing into history. The names of those who acted in them will never die so lovg as the annals of this Republic are read. Far beitfrom us to take away one laurel that rests, and justly rests, upon the | brow of the President. It would be unworthy of him and unworthy of his fame to even, by his justly acquired triumphs. We can only understand the feeling in Washington which our correspondent so graphically describes as another phase of that adulation which offi- | cers in the army as well as other place-holders are only too willing to heap upon the Presi- What we wish, however, is truth, not flattery. If General Sherman has not told the truth let it be made manifest. As the controversy stands now he | has simply done his duty likea gentleman | and a soldier. He has only conttoverted im- pressions for which General Badeau, Charles | A. Dana and others are responsible. It re- mains for those who dissent from his opinions to tell us upon what they base their case. ‘Blackwell’s Island. We print this morning a startling story of \ | onr modern life. Having heard from mauy sources of the cruelties practised in various city institutions the Heravp resolved to put ‘one of them to a severe and practical test. Selecting an adventurous and ingenious re- i _ Bernadotte was | porter, not without experience indealing with | peace and insist upon it by the strongest “swayed by personal considerations and silly | the hard ways of the world, a man who has | pressure. here could scarcely be a war on dived into the under world to see what man- | ner of men and women there abide, we ar- | ranged that he should make a practical trial | of the real life on Blackwell’s Island. | tution which plays so large a part in the dis- cipline of New York society. Our intrepid | agent found his own way of coming within the stern operation of the law. He owes much of his success in achieving his mission to Mr. Bailey, of the Board of Charities and Correction. That gentleman entered heartily into the work. Asa public officer charged with an important trust he saw plainly enough that it was to the interest of the people that we should know fully the manner of life on | the Island. Our readers will comprehend the whole story. They see how it is possible | that an, institution partly for punishment and partly for reformation should become an agency of cruelty and shame. Now that | public attention is directed to Blackwell's | Island in the only manner in which #é con | know the truth the best results will follow. | Already President Bailey and his colleagues, | upon learning of the state of affairs as | pictured by our reporter, have taken prompt | measures to reform it. In this way what was | in the beginning an inquiry, actuated by the natural spirit of enterprising and progressive | | journalism, has become a benefit to the com- munity by compelling a salutary retorm. Mistakes of Infallibility. A Roman newspaper announces that the | Pope has resolved to convoke the Vatican Council again to discuss certain ecclesiastical | | reforms in the Cutholic Church. We do not | | know how true tkis story is, nor are we dis- posed to accept it without reserve. be difficult to assemble the Council in Rome without embarrassments which the Pope | would scarcely wish to encounter. Consider- ing that the last Council, before it adjourned, made the dogma of infallibility an article of faith, we do not see why it should be neces- sary to reopen its deliberations for the pur- pose of discussing ecclesiastical refurms when it is in the power of the Pope, as a supreme head and absolute master of the Church, to proclaim these reforms by the stroke of his pen. Nor do we know in what respects the Holy See considers reform to be necessary. At the same time, if we were allowed to ex- press an opinion, it would be that the course | of the Pope toward Spain, for instance, is a blunder, and calculated to do harm to re- ligion. We observe in @ despatch from Ma- drid to the London Daily News that the Papal Nuncio had made a formal demand upon Al- | fonso to restore the Catholic religion to the | position it oceupied before the revolution. In other words, that the Catholic religion should be the only tolerated faith in Spain; that no other churches should be allowed but those dedicated to the worship of its creed; that | no cemetery should be opened but those which | had been consecrated to the use of per- sons who died in the faith We can- not imagine any religious system more disheartening and narrow than that which prevailed in Spain before the fail of Isabella, and which the Pope would now re-establish. It is to the honor of King Alfonso that he has | not permitted his clerical advisers to restore | it. He answers, according to the despatch, that he is resolved to maintain liberty of worship in Spain. This isa just answer. It is incredible that the Holy See in this nime- teenth century, and in the presence of what may be seen in America and Eogland and other free conntries, should make ench « demand as this npon the Spanish | government, It only gives rise to those criticiems of the Catholie faith which in the efd do harm. The Holy See has no more faithfal followers than in the | United States. In no country bas its minis- ters so much freedom nor are the decrees of the Pope so widely respected. Why, then, | hhberty extended to its churches and priests | in a republic largely Protestant, insist upon implication, consent to deprive Sherman of | This | | seemed to be the only way of testing an insti- | It would | | shonld the Holy See, in the presence of the | Christian ssetem can be tolerated, what reason have we to doubt that the same de- | mand would not be repeated in America if the prayers ot its prelates could be answered } aud the Ameyican States were to become Catholic in as large a proportion as the } provinces of Spain? | Engiand and Peace. The Paris Moniteur informs us that we owe | to the influence of England the fact that | | Europe is now at pence. We do not know | how far this is exactly true, but the words of | the Monitewr are care{uily expressed. ‘Eng- land,” it says, “by raising her voice in favor of peace has naturally recovered her just au- thority and influence in Continental affairs, and the present Ministry has acquired a de- 1 gree of strength and power which will procure for it the grateful respect of Europe.” It it ; can be demonstrated that Lord Derby has really succeeded in preventing a contest that | must have become one of the most extraor- | dinary calamities of modern times, then he has won for himseif an enviable fame as a states- man. The reproach so often addressed to the late Ministry of Mr. Gladstone was that Eng- land had abdicated her functions as a leading European Power ; that she had been content with taking a second rate position among the | nations ; that the glory she had won in the | time of Napoleon had beon surrendered to a commercial and money-loving spirit. Wo think it was Mr. Carlyle who said, in a con- yersation reported to us by an inquisitive | Awerican correspondent, that Mr. Gladstone | was simply a ‘“bagman,” and that he dealt with England as though he were at the head of a large dry goods business, He | | believed that Mr. Gladstone had surrendered \ the best interests of his country at the dicta- tion of America when he consented to the ar- | bitration at Geneva, and that this contributed | more than any other influence to the destruc- tion of his Cabinet. When Mr. Disraeli came | into power it was with the assurance that | | England was once more to become a vigorous | “member of the European family of nations. | | If it can be shown that the influence of his | government has preserved the peace, even | | against as restless a country as France and as | imperious a statesman as Bismarck, it will go | far to redeem Victoria’s reign irom the re- proach which has fallen upon it. | Itis natural that England should ask for | the Continent in which England could remain | neutral. She is bound by treaty to guarantes | | the independence of Belgium. She is closely | allied to Germany by interests of religion and | commerce, the family relationship of the | reigning houses and a common ancestry. At the same time, during the last thirty years | there has grown up between England and | | France, hereditary enemies in the past, the closest relations of commerce and friendship. | While there does not exist between the French | and English the same natura! and’ binding | ties that we find between Englishmen and | | Germans, still in the movement of affairs in diplomatic interests they are | even more strongly allied. France is the only country in Europe upon which England | can depend to assist her in maintaining the | route to the Indies. France is the natural | ally of England in every question which may lead to war, except, perhaps, the independ- | ence of Belgium. Therefore ang war be- | tween Germany and France would necessarily _ involve England. If England were to stand | | by and allow the destruction of France there | | could be no reason why Russia would not march to Constantinople. | England sees also that the misfortunes of | seized upon by the Russian Power to abrogate the Sebastopol treaty and allow | Russia to resume possession of the j Black Sea. All the results of the | war of twenty years ago were destroyed | by one stroke of the pen, simply because | | France, which could have aided England in | cherishing them, was lying bleeding at the | | point of Germany's sword. The public opin- | ion of Earope is in such a condition now tbat | the next war must necessarily be universal. Itis hard to see how with these armaments | growing larger and larger every day, with the | war spirit, controlling the councils of the dif- | | ferent empires, with the soldiers making | | ready for the combat, with so many angry | questions at issue, questions like those | | between Bismarck and the Holy See, calcu- | | lated to rouse the deepest spirit of indigna- | | tion, how we could have any war but one | the mest comprehensive and destructive in its | ] character. Nor can the most far-seeing | | philosopher anticipate what the result of | | such a war would be. Great questions are | brewing in Europe. The knowledge of the | people grows clearer and clearer every day. | i "The legend of divine right, the time-honored | | monuments of nobility and royalty, the estab- | | lished churches, the established castes and t established armies have no longer the same | | influence upon the common people. In Eng-— | land especially we see public opinion drifting | | rapidly from any allegiance to either Church or State. Tens of thousands of men assemble | | in Hyde Park to declare that the Lord Chief | Justice of England is a corrupt judge and the | | verdict of an English jury the result of in- | timidation and fraud. It is easy enough for | kings to make war, but can they control the | | people when war has begun? England, | therefore, in compelling peace, has no donbt | | prevented a revolution, the extent of which | | cannot be imagined. | Steam Lanes and Summer Travel. |. ‘The constantly recurring steamship dis- | asters on the high seas, painful as they are, | might in the end become a blessing if every calamity could be made a lesson. Lagt year, when the world was shocked by the disaster to the Ville du Havre, the Henaup urged | upon the steamship companies to establish a system of ‘“‘steam lanes ;"’ in other words, to lay ont « certain track across the | kocenn, south of the range of ice to be not more than twenty miles in | breadth, over which all steamers should sail. | The effect of this would be that with the large number of steamers leaving our ports, | especially during the summer season, there would practically be a vessel always in sight. ‘Therefore, in the case of a sudden calamity like that of the Ville du Havre the chances of es- cape would be largely increased. In the | be credited, of a policy toward them | | protracted session, without passing laws pro- France and England and the United States to define by treaty these steam lanes, and to compel the ships bearing their flags to ob- serve them. This discussion took a wide range. Many eminent scientific men con- tributed to it. Now that we are about to begin our summer season the discussion as- sumes a new value. We certainly think that the owners of steamships could do nothing to commend themselves more heartily to the people than to assemble and quietly lay down the route between the Old World and the New. There is no reason why such a route cannot be designated and observed. If they hesitate, then the maritime governments should take the matter in hand. The President Appeated To. There is something almost painful in the journey of the Sioux chiefs to Washington. As stated in our despatches, they called at the Interior Department yesterday and had a for- mal but brief interview with Commissioner Smith. It will be remembered that when these chiefs complained at Omaha that the Indian agents had compelled them to take with them interpreters who would present only the smooth side of any picture, they were termed a band of liars bent on an errand of slander, and that extermination was the muldest punishment they should expect. Red Cloud has turned the tables on his enemies, however, for said he yesterday, “When I speak I always call on the Great, Spirit to hear me, because I tell-the truth. The white man tell me lies.” He became troubled in his mind about the constant lying and de- termined to journey to Washington to tell the Great Father all about it, There are certain general facts about the Indian question that no one wil] dispute. These agents have for years and years made vast sums of money. The Indians under their care have either been exterminated or destroyed by disease or forced into wars | which ended in their massacre. Steadily from year to year our Indian system has driven the red man West and has almost obliterated the ancient tribes, and has been an advantage to no one except the Indian agents. The only way these agents could make money is by robbing the Indians and cheating the govern- ment. We know enough of the power of rings of this kind over our administration to fear that the government is perfectly helpless, unless the President will deal as promptly | with the Indian frauds as he has dealt with | the frauds upon the revenue. Itis due to President Grant to say that he has never hesitated to strike a blow at any system in the government, no matter how | powerful, if it could be shown that it was stained with corruption. Here he has a | splendid opportunity. Whatever we may | think of the Indian character and of its cer- tain sad future, the sentiment has gone deep into the American mind that we have, either actively or by our neglect, treated the Indian na pertidious manner. These poor savage chiefs who come on their wandering errand to the East have a story to tell of wrongs un- speakable, of infamies that would scarcely and their ancestors which has no paraliel | for baseness in the history of crime. Delib- | erately, for purposes of gain, in violation of | our pledges snd .our treaties and Sere | itself, we have permitted these Indian agents | to fasten upon the tribes that once owned this | Continent like vampires and to suck their | blood for their own nourishment. The agents | have grown rich and great and powerful, | while the Indian has melted away. The er- rand of Red Cloud to President Grant is | almost mournful in its tenderness and pathos. | its highest sense, the justice and humanity of | the American people. i The Repsving and Cleaning of the | Streets of New York. | If the Legislature should adjourn, after its | viding for the repaving and the proper cleap- ing ot the streets of New York it will be guilty of a gross injustice toward our citizens. Un- der the existing charter it is found impossible to undertake a comprehensive system of street | improvement. The lower part of the city suffers great injury from the wretched condi- tion of the pavements. Business is inter- rupted, and in some instances almost de- _ stroyed, by the obstructions to travel and tho impossibility of dragging heavy loads over | the roads. While taxpayers down town are | called upon to bear their proportion of the expenses of uptown improvements they find their own property deteriorated from the want of absolutely necessary repairs to the streets on which it is located, and no sufficient power exists in the city government to afford them relief. A bill to provide for the repavement | of the streets of the city has been for some time before the Legislature, but its prog- ress has been unaccountably slow, and we find it at this late day reported from the Committee on Cities in the Senate, with a number of amendments. As it at present | stands it authorizes the repavement of the old streets at the general expense, when the | Commissioner of Poblic Works, the Mayor | and the Common Council agree that the work ought to be done, and it gives the selection of the sort of pavement to be used to the said | Commissioner and places the work under his | control. We do not see any objection'to these | provisions, and as the necessity of passing some law under which we can secure the re- pair of the downtown streets is conceded it is to be hoped that the bill as reported in the Senate will be passed before the adjournment. ‘The street cleaning abuse is patent to all | our citizens. We are forced to pay nearly or quite a million doilars a year for street clean- ing, and the work is never done, the money | being used as a sort of political pauper fund. Ignorance, incapacity and dis- honesty have been found heretofore in our street cleaning business, and we can hope for no improvement until the system is radically changed. It has been proposed that the present law he abolished, and that an act be passed compelling the property owners to | do the street cleaning themselves at their own expense under a heavy penalty for neglect. Considering the manner in which the money appropriated to the work is now used the ex- pense of this system would probably be less than under the existing method, and certainly | the work would be better done. But if this cable that the international rifle match will be | this statement Mr. Charles A. Dana, at that | country where its followersare paramount? If | event of the steamship companies not con- | experiment is not to be tried wo should held st Curragh, place not in the vicinity of Dublin. Wicklow, or some other | time Assistant Secretary of War ands mem | the Holy See demands in Spain that, because | senting to this measure, we then felt it the | at least have some change from the present | ber of Grant's military family, expressly says | the Spaniards are generally Catholic, no other | duty of the governments of Germany and | spstem. Chambord’ th, The Count de Chambord, heir tothe throne of France as Henry V., has written a letter to his faithful follower, M. Belcastel, to the effect that he still has hopes that France will summon him to the throne of his ancestors. Although everything looks toward a republic in France, and although the influence of Ger- many, so far as it can affect French politics, would be against the accession of a prince who believed in the claims of the Holy See, still everything is possible in a country which has seen so many governments 1n the past century. It is hard to see upon what foundation the Bourbon’s hopes rest. It is mow nearly half acentury since a Bourbon lived in the Tuil- eries. The restoration wasa misfortune to the Bourbon throne. It was what might be called a new trial of the family, which ended in sum- mary dismissal as unworthy of the throne. Count de Chambord has no personal quality to render him attractive to France. Heisa stout, middle-aged, somewhat lame gentleman, who has spent his life in writing letters and going to contession. He might have been the King of France if he had not staked his crown upon the color of his flag. There were two opportunities for the Count de Chambord— one when France, in the panic of surrender and humiliation after Sedan, elected a Na tional Assembly largely composed of Bourbos dukes andgheir followers. The other oppor tunity was when Marshal MacMahon indicated his willingness to take the Count de Cham- bord it he would give France the tricolored flag. Since that time the march of events has been directly against the Bourbons. The Assembly, which would have welcomed him as King, has, by a slow process, been led into the proclamation of a Republic. There are but two parties in France with any positive personal strength, The one is the Bona partist, the other the republican. The next election will be between these parties. The republicans will probably carry France, be cause they will have the active aid of the royalists and the passive aid of the legiti- mists. They hope by continuing the Republic to keep the door open for the Couut de Paris or the Count de Chambord, while the proclamation of an emperor means that there shall be but one throne of France, and the prince to occupy it a Bonaparte, not Bourbon. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Baron Klenck, of Germany, has apartments at the Albemarie Hotel. Major C. W. Hutchinson, of Utica, is sojourning at the New York Hotel. Ex-Governor John Evans, of Colorado, is staye ing at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Judge R. D. Rice, of Maine, is among the late arrivals at the Fith Avenue Hotel. Senator John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, bas taken up bis residence at the St. James Hotel. Boston has had its firs; bobolink, and it now seems very probable that spring has come, Very Rev. W. 8. Bond, Dean of the diocese of Montreal, bas arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Daniel Needham, National Bank Examiner, arrived from Boston last evening, at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. Captain Edward Simpson, Chief of the Torpedo Corps, United States Navy, is quartered at the Everett House. Adjutant General Franklin Townsend, of Gov- ernor Tilden’s staf, is residing temporarily at the St. James Hotel. “Before the war,” says @ French publisher, “we never sold more than 4,000 copies of & manual of geography. Now we sell 14,000 almost before we kuow it.” : At a spiritual s¢ance in Paris lately, the spirit of Cartoucae, the famous thief, was called up and came 80 practically that nearly every one present subseanently missed & watcl or purse, ‘fhere are now in the Frenci army 90,000 horses. If the same army were put in active service it France have become the opportunities of | We trust that the President will feel, in deal- | wonld require 220,000 horses. Hence the impor. Russia, The recent war with Germany was ing with these chiefs, that he represents, in tance of tnat German decree in relation te horses. Upon the death of ber husband the lady married his brother, and when a iriend saw the portrait of the first hnspand in the house he said, “is this member ot yourfamiuly ?" ‘It is my poor brother. | to-law,”? she sald. Duke Edmond Lonis Rose d’Achery has just been raised by the Pope to the dignity of a Roman prince. This gentleman is a descendant ot Pierre d’achery, otherwise known as Peter the Hermit, of Crusading fame. Max Miller happened at Florence into the Insti- tute of Superior Studies when Professor Trezza was expounding Cicero to his class, and the whole audience rose to 11s feet and gave him a round o/ applause which lasted some minutes, ge story of a practical joke with . That ® man might be shot in such a case is in the highest degree probable; but to come so close as to have bis throat cat with a a carving knife without discovery seems in- credible. A lieutenant In the Russian Navy has invented a device for quickly stopping holes made in ships b7 conisions. It consists of a waterproof, plabie patch, with mechanism by which it may be readily adjusted on the outside of the leaking surface. ‘Tre Russian men-ol-war are being supplied with it Some one has several good diplomas for sale, He advertised in Paris that he would jend money to physicians upon the presentation of their diplomas, Many young doctors left these treasnres at his establishment to be verified, and be disappeared next aay. So the diplomas will be offered snortiy. Louts XVILL. wanted to see Bojildieu, and when the composer came His Majesty sad, “How de you manage to find all these charming melodies?” Boildieu sald, “Your Majesty, 1 have no morit tr it. I seek them, it is true, but they find me.” ‘N. B.—The reason why Boildieu comes up just now is that bis centennial occarred the other day. An article ‘nm the Journal de St. calls Germany “she electrical machine’’ of Bagope, and says:—‘‘Let Germany no longer charge her pile; the Coniinent will then be no more shaken by her experiments. and the nerves of the Teutonic people will be relaxed in @ very satisiactory man- ner.” Pretty variation to have a battle in your parlor. ‘They were a ilvely and polite company, in the height of their enjoyment, and an enormous New: foundiand dog, evidently mad, made & bounce through the window. Fancy the scene. Sixsuote from revoivers, &c., were necessary to bring him to terms. Mr. Henry Howard, Secretary of the British Le gation at Washington, has been transferred to corresponding position in the British Legation at The Hague, Mr. Howard arrived at the Bre | voort House last evening from Washingtou, ane | wiil sali for England with bis family to-day in tne steamsbip Scythia. Artists in Italy are excited over the suit o Tommaso Gagilardi against Larkin G, Mead for sixty per cent of the money paid for tue Lincoln monament. Itis claimed that Gagiurat not only made ali the designs, but first induced Mead to become a competitor, the latter not being inclined to enter, becanse persuaded that the order would be given to Miss Hosmer, ain the recently published “Memoirs of Odiilon Warrot,” it is recounted that in the course o: the flight of Charies X. his party encounterod one tre mendous diMenity, They came to w town in Which there were only round tavlets0t a square table in the whole place. Ata round table ali are equal. Only a square table permits a king to att alone, For a littic while it was apprehended that they could not dine, but they solved the great Problem, They cul a round table and made it anna,