The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1875, Page 6

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Tae Prosprecrs for the Derby and Oaks races are exhibited in our English horse notes elsewhere, with a full account of the princi- pal entries. Geyerat Smerman has at last found a warm and determined combatant. The letter of Montgomery Blair to Mr. Browne, the editor of the Southern Magazine, which we publish in advance of its publication elsewhere, is not only a contradiction of General Sherman, but an arraignment of his military career. There is likely to be plenty of contempo- raneons history written from the text of the “Memoirs.” Great fires generally vorks by ‘‘golden bal- ’ and this Tae Forest Fimes. bring rain, for natur ances of change and com happy law has check terrific eg i ons. i f prop erty has x of Osceola and ober villages has caused suffering which demands instant relief. Tae Srantsu Govrnrue The party out of power in Spain is resolved to obtain a new constitution, and has held a large meeting at Madrid, at which six hundred ex-Deputies were present, The troubles of the boy King are only beginning, and it seems impossible that he should continue long upon the throne. But all things are possible mm Spain—except peace. Even a republic is not incredible, for is not Alfonso a greater miracle ? “Tu Oxty Taciy Great Man is M. de Bismarck,'’ wrote Prosper Mérimée in 1867, and in 1870 he saw the verification of the opinion in the fall of his own country. But what would Mérimée say now could he have lived to see France regenerated and Germany pretending to be in dread of her revenge? Is Prince Bismarck to be greater than ever or has his greatness culminated? He will soon give the answer himself, for his policy is such that he must either advance or retreat. Marnmog as 4 Sacnamest.—The proceed- ings in the singular slander case in a Boston court, in which a Catholic priest is sued for damages tor having denounced from the pul- pit, by name, a man and his wife who had been married by civil process by a duly an- thorized magistrate, is only another proof that there are ignorant zealots in all religious denominations. Father J McGiew, Chelsea, like Father Waiker, of this city, one of the many who suff fo overcome their judgment Their Church would be better without such servants. Civil marriages are allowed by law, and however much a Charch which :egards marriage as a pacranont may deplore and prot puch cortracts, its ministers have denottave those who iollow the Jaw aa crimi- wale of 18 r their intole: e 63 it against 0 right to | covery of local méneys. | strange ao pardon had been thus quelled | suite. | the testtmony of Ingersoll should prove to be | | the tate session was the Governor's vigorous ! Canal Message, for which he was so greatly | The Results of the Session. In our review of the session of the New York Legislature which has just closed we | hope to keep equally clear of flattery and | vituperation, having no other purpose than to recall and to fix in the public recollection | the few things which are of permanent in- terest. We confine ourselves to a mere re. | cital of measures and such brief comments | as may serve to render them intelligible. The first bills of any importance passed at the late session were those called the Civil temedies acts, which had their origin partly | in personal and professional pride, but chiefly in a commendable zeal to bring pubhe thieves to justice. The paternity | these acts belongs to Mr. O'Conor and Governor Tilden, who conducted | the suits against Tweed and Ingersoll | for the recovery of the money they had | Those suits wore | started upon an assumed right of the Attor- | ney General to sue in the name and on behalf of the State for the recovery of moneys | which had been abstracted by fraud from | ‘ local treasuries. The Court of Appeals, in its decision delivered last spring, decided against the right, which was a deep wound to the professional pride of the gentlemen who | bad advised and conducted the suits. After the Court of Appeals had decided that their | opinion was not law they concluded that it and succeeded in bringing the ature into their view. The consequence as the passage of the Civil Remedies bills, which explicitly clothe the Attorncy General of the State with authority to sue tor the re- When these bills had passed it was supposed that new suits would be forthwith commenced against the | members of the Tammany Ring. The public was surprised and startled by the pardon of | Ingersoll from State Prison, and the rising indignation was quieted by a semi-official assurance from the Governor's triends that this astonishing act of grace was intended to ought to be, | qualify Ingersoll as @ witness against his fel- low members of the Ring in the coming pros- | ecutions. After the public indignation at so nothing further was heard of the intended | If they sbould not be prosecuted, or if of no value in compelling his confederates of the Ring to disgorge, the republicans will make a great handle of the pardon in the next election. So far as the public can see this strange pardon is, as yet, the only practical | fruit of the passage of the Civil Remedies bills. The next memorable thing in the history of aud justly applauded. But that too is, as yet, a mere declaration of war, barren of substan- tial victories. What member of the Canal Ring has been compelled to disgorge? What law has been passed for uprooting the system? To be sure, Governor Tildon’s ex- posures led to some legislation, but it is of no practical account. There was a legislative committee of investigation which made a | report that led to nothing. The Governor | was also allowed to appoint a commission of | investigation; but, alchough it is understood to be prosecuting its labors, there is no very bright promise of results. It may, perhaps, farnish matter for a paragraph iu Governor Tilden's next annual Message. Another con- sequence of the Canal Message is a law author- izing the Governor to appoint an inspector of public works; but as that officer has no power but to investigate and report his func- tion may be of no more utility than that of | the commission of investigation. The upshot | of the legislation on this subject is multifa- rious and endless investigation, but no reme- dies. There is one other law ‘which was passed in consequence of the Canal Message, but we doubt whether the Governor willever put it in force. We refer to the Removal bill, which authorizes the Governor to suspend public officers for misconduct and put them on trial before the Senate. What the Governor wanted was the power of abso- lute removal, which was wisely withheld. The that he desired it will be tarned against by bis political opponents in the next By demanding more than even his own party was willing toconcede the Gover- nor bas impaired the popularity which at- tended his great coup against the Canal Ring. So far as the late Legislature is concerned it was a mere explosion, by which nobody fac bh n. was hurt; but it gave interest and éclat to what would otherwise have been a tame Sessi0n. Another thing which we must not omit to mention is the act reducing the rates of toll on the canals. This is a measure of doubttul expediency, but it was so clamorously do- manded by the people engaged in caval navi- gation’ that the Legislature could not very well resist, and even the Governor, who op- posed a reduction of tolls in his Message at the opening of the session, thought it prudent to yield. The consequence will probably be that the canals will yield no surplus revenue during the present season. One of the subjecta which deserved the earnest attention of the late Legislature was the municipal government of this city, which is regarded by all parties as o disgraceful chaos. But nothing has been done, and the neglect ts chiefly dne to the inflexible opposi- tion of the Governor. His opposition to the Costigan bili would have been pardonabie if he had proposed and pressed some better measure. As he publicly admits that our municipal government is deplorably bad it is difficult to understand his motives for resist- ing and postponing remedies. As reasonable “ s conjecture as any is his distrust of Tam- | many Hall. He has been al) winter tacitly supporting Comptroller Green, whom the Tammany chiefs detest. Even if Green has convinced him that this is wisdom it certainly is not gratitude, considering that Mr. Tilden was indebted to Tammany for his nomination and election. The community would justily the Governor in subordinating bis personal feelings and obligations to the public interest if he were as ready to snub Green as to snub Tammany; bat we do not see how he can be excused for his indifference to the welfare of the city, At @ late period of the session he sent in a mes- , Sage asking authority to appoint a commis- sion to draft a plan of munic ‘The authority has been given, but the neces- sity for municipal reconstruction is too urgent for this dilatory method of procedure, The , suffering people of this city are no better off ipal government | Itis because we believe that the whole city | well’s Island is utterly deficient, than they were when the Legislature met in January. The one important act passed by this Leg- | islature is the last Rapid Transit bill, for which | Governor Tilden must be awarded his due | share of praise. His known approval of this | bill and bis urgent desire to have it passed | was a chief element of its great strength in the Legislature. It relates to a sub- ject of which Governor Tilden’ is | perhaps the best judge and safest ad- | viser in the State, and his known indorse- | ment secured the easy passage of the bill. He also behaved handsomely in relation to the principal amendment made in it after , its introduction. When the power to appoint the commissioners was transferred from the Governor to the Mayor Mr. Tilden made no opposition and expressed his entire acquies- | cence. The city owes him thanks for the | wise exertion of his influence, and if we | really get rapid transit under this law a | great part of the credit will be due to Gov- ernor Tilden. Foe in the Citadel=The Daty of Our Board of Health. The It is a suggestive tact, and one for which we | have good cause to blush, that just at the | time when Rome is preparing to drain the | ‘na and protect the city from malaria New York should be creating a bed of pesti- lence and death within its limits. The con- trast between the two cities is humiliating to | The Americans affect to look good- naturedly upon tho Italians as a degenerate nation, and boast of their own enterprise in practical affairs; but there is not a city in | Italy, nor indeed in all Europe, which would permit such an outrage as has been perpen trated on the Harlem flats. Campa us. | only act ona petition of citizens. The filling up of these flats was a necessity; but it has been done in the most disgraceful | way. Organic matter, filth, decaying sub- | stances, were used by the conrractors, and , | this pestilential mass was then thinly covered by earth. This is what is called reclaiming the Harlem flats, but it is really the ruin- ing of the health of New York. must be tainted by this immense bed of garbage, | and that the heat of the summer will breed | disease from its depths, that the Heraup, by a close and thorough investigation, has shown to the Board of Health whet a plague spot exists in the bounds of its jurisdiction. The re- sponsibility now rests upon the authorities, who have been fully informed, and are again informed to-day, of the nature of the evil. We want this filth removed or placed so far be- neath good soil that it shall cease to offend our nostrils or threaten the city with disease. All future dumpings must be done under the closest supervision. Thero should be no de- lay in abolishing this colossal nuisance, which ignorance and neglect created, and which only criminal recklessness can tolerate. The summer is almost here, and there is no use of @ quarantine in the lower bay if we permit more dangerous enemics than the cholera or yellow fever to attack the citadel of the metropolis. Rife Match. As the time draws near when the superior- ity of the Irish and Americans in the use of the rifle will be contested near Dublin the interest in the interpational match increases. | In little more than a month, on the 29th of June, a decision will again be attempted. If the Americins should lose the rival teams will be even and a third match wil! doubtless be made; but if they should win the laurels they gained at Creedmoor last year will be all the greener for a double victory. It is likely | that the struggle will be close, though hardly | as close as at Oreedmoor, when one shot de- | cided the victory. Elsewhere we give an | account of the propargtions apd the femms, | | with sketeh sketches os of the fa “Members of the American | team and some comparative points of their practice. We also publish a list of the prizes offered to the successful marksmen at the spring mecting of the National Rifle As- sociation. Many of these prizes are very valuable and ought to act as a spur and inducement to acquire proficiency in the use of the rifle. We are gladto see that this year more attention than usual has been paid to the short range riflemen and the National | Guard. The prizes offered to this class of | riflemen are very useful as an _ incite- | ment to the members of the wilitia to become skilfal in the use of their arma. | test are very promising, and thore is reason to hope that the spring meeting of this year will be the most brilliant in the records of the National Rifle Association. Humbug Reform—Acts, The International Tho prospects of the coming Not Words. It is mere idle chatter for the Commission- ers of Charities and Correction to pretend that they can find no immediate remedy for the sanitary imperfections of the institutions on Blackwell's Island. In our prison econ- | omy nothing can be more important than the | considerations which affect the health of the | inmates. In this regard the prison on Black- | A large | number of prisoners are huddled together in | asingle cell, where they are kept for many | hours in « stench that is mildly described | when it is called sickening. The representa- tive ot the Hznaip, who made ihe experiment | of an amateur convict, told a story of the horrors of a night in one of those cella which takes the blood curdle when the scene he descrives is recalled. And now we are-told the wrong cannot be righted because the | buildings were originally so constructed | as to preclude the possibility of | water closets being introduced into them. This is the merest nonsense, and it will impose on nobody. Are the Commis- sioners willing to retain a barbarous sys- tem for the purpose of avoiding an expense rendered necessary by incomplete and un- healthy sanitary conditions? They must not persist in a policy so unwise, It has been conclusively shown that the prison on Black- well’s Island, under present circumstances, is unfit for the habitation of human beings, and becanse most of the inmates are vile as well as unfortunate the officials in the Board of Onarities and Correction will not be justified in retaining the present sanitary evils for the mere purpose of saving « few dollara, The pubtic look to the Board for many necessary reforma in the management of our public in- stitutions and in the conduct of the subordi- nate officers who have them in charge, and the Commissioners cannot avoid the responai- bility that is imposed upon them. \ the The Preliminaries of Rapid Transit. In estimating the method of proceeding under the new Rapid Transit act we must be | careful not to confound the provisions of the | two bills now in the Governor's hands. He will certainly sign the Husted bill; not merely because it has his individual preference, but because it is the last and mature expression of the will of the Legislature, The methods of | starting rapid transit are quite different in the two bills. Under the Moore bill it would be the duty of the Mayor to select the com- missioners at once and submit their names to the Common Council for confirmation; but under the Husted bill, which is certain to be- come a law and extinguish the other, the Mayor has no power of initiation, He can ‘The lan- guage of the bill is, ‘Whenever it shall ap- pear by the application of fifty reputable householders and taxpayers, verified upon oath before a justice of the Supreme Court, that there is need of a steam railway,” &c., “the Mayor shall, within thirty days, appoint five commissioners.” Notwithstanding the necessity of waiting for such a petition under the new bill there is a better chance of expe- diting business under it than under the Moore bill, since it will require less timo to get the reqnisite petition than would be consumed in a wrangle of the Common Council over the confirmation of the commissioners. ‘Their free selection by the Mayor is more than a compensation for whatever delay may have attended the petition, With proper exertion | the petition may be proparod and signed by “fifty reputable householders and tax- payers’? before the end of the present week, and while this work is going on Mavor Wickham can look about him, take advice and be ready to name the commis- sioners as soon as the petition is presented. There may, perhaps, be some delay in get- ting fit men to serve as commissioners, since | the bill makes their compensation depend on the success of the undertaking. They are not to be paid by the city, but by the company | which constructs fhe road. This salutary | protection against sham movements may, perhaps, cause some delay; but it is better to | wait a little for an organization that will really build the road than to waste time in | going through empty forms. Commis- sioners who must look for their pay to the company which accepts the conditions they prescribe will have a strong motive | for making the enterprise acceptable to capi- talists, and, in the present posture of affairs, rapid transit is simply a question of enlisting | the requisite capital. Unless the commission- ers select a route and adopt a plan which afford a reasonable guarantee of remuneration the scheme which they put on paper will amount to nothing in practica, It is a good feature of the law which makes their compensation | | dependent on the adoption of a plan which will secure the confidence of capitalists. A rapid transit road cannot be built without a large investment of money in expectation of a reasonable profit, and the pith of the problem | consists in finding a route and plan in which | money can be safely invested. Men who are | fit to be commissioners will not consent to serve unless they see their way tolerably clear | to subscriptions to the stock of the road which they recommend. We shall, sooner or later, have several rapid transit roads under the new law; but, for the present, it is better to concentrate efforts upon one. Until one road has been constructed and found to pay dividends there | | will be no encouragement to embark capital in more. Tne commissioners to be appointed by the Mayor must therefore bend all their | efforts to one profitable road. They must | select the one route on which a rapid transit | road is certain to have the largest business, and theif plan of construction must be | |The cheapest which is consistent with | eafety. These obvious rules require the | first road to be built on the east side of the | city, for the reason that on the east side the city is continuously built all the way from | | the City Hall to Harlem, whereas on the west | side the greater part of the lots are vacant from Fifty-ninth street to Manhattanville. | | There is another strong reason for beginning | on the east side. The Elevated Railroad on Greenwich street and Ninth avenue partially supplies the wants of the west side and would diminish the profits of a new road; but on the east side there is no competition and above Fifty-ninth street it has an altogether larger population. As the great obstacle to be overcome is the hesita- tion of capitalists there ought not to be a moment's donbtas to the expediency of begin- ning on the east side of the city. The same necessity of attracting capital is equally deci- sive for preferring an elevated to an under- | ground railroad. Quite as high rates of fare could be collected on one as on the other, but the cost of constructing an elevated road would be a bagatelle in comparison with the | cost of one underground. Over these two points there will be no excuse delay on the part of the commission- ers. The first road must be on the east side, and it must be an elevated road, for the obvious reasons that no road can be built | without capital and that capitalists invest their money only in the expectation of profit. | An elevated road on Third avenue would yield such dividends that before it had been three | years in operation there would be no difficulty in securing capital for building other lines, The first great step is the construction of one | Profitable road, and Mayor Wickham's com- | missioners, when he appoints them, will easily secure this if they are at all competent. The Robbery of the Indians. Our Washington despatches show that the | negotiations with the Sioux Ladians are to be delayed, the presence of “Young-Man-Afraid- of-His-H_rses,” the hereditary chief of the tribe, being required in the capital before the | agreement can be made secum, It is ex- | plained that the Sioux have no legal claim upon the government for food, the treaty which guaranteed such supplies to them having expired by limitation two years ago. But this does not justify the statement that the Indians have no cause for complaint. The govern- | ment has admiited a moral duty by appro- priating last year twelve hundred thou- | sand dollars, and this year eleven bundred thousand, for their support. The Sioux have @ perfeet, indisputable right to complain if they are cheated out of this appro- pration, Itis just as much their money by qift as it could be by treaty. Besides this, American people have some for | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET. terest in tho matter, If they spend twenty-three hundred thousand dollars in benevolence they want to see the result, There can be no apology offered for the dishonesty of the agents who have swindled at once the Indians, who are the wards of the government, and the government, of which they are the servants. ‘The people do not care whether the appropriations to the Sioux tribe are a gratuity or a payfnent. They want them to be honestly expended, and have too much reason to believe that they have been stolen, Who did the stealing? is the question we want answered. The Evils of the Centennial. What a-pity it is that no blessing comes to us unattended with misfortune. Even the pleasure with which the Centennial Anni- versary of American independence is contem~- plated is alloyed with mortifying reflections. We shall miss our ancestors, who cannot enjoy the occasion, and we ourselves had no part in the event to be commemorated. The absence of the dead and the presence of so many of the living will cast a gloom over the proceedings at Philadelphia. Could we have Washington there it would be all right; but we cannot. Washington is gone, and there is no one who can fill his place. Another evil of the Centennial is that it en- courages hypocrisy among old men, ‘The demand for centenarians is greater than the supply. We may approve the motive but not the prudence of General Hawley’s secret cir- cular to the Governors of the States asking each of them to furnish the names of not less | than fifty men who in 1876 will have reached the age of a hundred years, We have not seen this circular, but understand that General Hawley offers to supply free transportation to the Centennial Exhibition to all centenarians and to entertain them as the nation’s guests. We shall soon have thirty-eight States, which would give us about two thousand old men, of o hundred years each, whose united ages would give them a common natal | date at a period B.C. It would certainly be a thrilling sight, that of a regiment of these | venerable relics, wearing the old Continental | | uniform and parading grandly in the presence The last age would | be reviewed by the present, and one century | | would look down upon them. It is a noble idea which General Hawley has conceived, but can it’ be executed? We are afraid it | cannot. It is unlikely that there are two | thousand persons in the country who will be in 1876 a hundred years old. ‘The effect is already perceptible in the wide demoralization of the aged community, Old men who were, but a few years ago, winking at the girls, smiling with ivory teeth upon the | conquered fair and gayly tossing back the am- | brosial locks of their luxuriant wigs have now | | changed their ambition. They no longer aim to be young, but wish to be old. ‘The young | buck of seventy no longer delights in being the successful rival of his grandsons, but as- | pires to competition w:th his grandfathers. Antiquity has become enviable, and the soi- disant dandy aggravates this virtue wh.ch he has no need to assume. The number of aged men who are in train- ing for the Centennial, were it known, would | startle the country. Dazzled by the honors | which are bestowed upon centenarians many of these individuals have gone, like prize | of the assembled nation. fighters, into a regular course of training to qualify themselves for an appearance at the | | Exhibition next year. They begin by dispens- | ing with théir wigs; next they get rid of | their padding and the infallible preparation | | for restoring the hair to its natural color, and finally they swallow their false teeth | {and pretend to have done so acciden- | tally while coughing. The loss of | these artificial attractions generally makes | | them look ten years older, but many | | of the candidates are still too young to be | | credited with a century. It is here that the worst evil begins. Rendered desperate by the | nearness of the goal and the traces of youth | they still possess, many of these misguided | | octogenarians wildly rush into the most reck- less excesses, sitting up till ten o'clock drink- ing tansy tea, putting pepper in their gruel and refusing to wear flannel in the summer. | If this does not effect the desired purpose they smoke bad cigars, drink whiskey and even brandy and water and play cards when they ought to be in their beds. There are few sights more sad than the spectadle of an old man of ninety coming home inebriated at midnight and telling his grandchildren that he has been out with Samuel Adams and George Washington. | But that this is done there can be no doubt, and the evil must be attributed to the injudi- | cious action of General Hawley and the Cen- | tennial Commission. The result will be that | next year it will be as hard to find an old man | of eighty as it is now to find one of a hundred. | Fitty or sixty thousand centenarian im- | | postors will assemble in Philadelphia and there will not be a whole set of teeth among the lot. It is a pity that our great national | celebration should encourage such widespread | | dissimulation among the aged. Every man who has a grandfather has a personal interest in the matter and should insist upon chang- ing this part of the Centennial programme. Our ancestors demand protection, and it is the duty of their posterity to give it. | A Sunday in New York. Heaven smiled yesterday upon the metropo- | lis—reluctantly, perhaps, yet with a mild- ness for which it should be grateful. Some- times we think men are not sufficiently thankful for sucha day as yesterday, when the skies are a living blue and the sun an ineffable flame, when the trees seem to leap from buds to blossoms, and on the vague horizon, be- yond the warm, dancing waves, they see the bridal of the earth and sky. It was a day of all days, child of the spring and summer, and resembling both its father and mother. George Herbert's description of such a time, to which we have alluded, is too beautiful not to be quoted :— Sweet day, #0 cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky! The dew shall weep thy fali to-night; For thou must die, holiday. In the secular week it is tantalizing to the workers in a great city, who, in fac- tories and stores and crowded streets, sve the hours pass away and know that labor shall only end when the night begins, Bat on Sunday the world opens its iron gates and lets | the prisonets go free. Who can blame them | | | to his given name, It seems a special gift of Providenes when | | such delicious weather crowns the Christian | ‘ | Unfortunately, in a fit of abstraction, he © | in- | if they preter the Harlera River, the parks, | jacquer work, ivory ana objew dart Staten Island, the bay, Yonkers, the fair Sound, to the church? Nature has its claims as well as theology, and there is ‘a church not made with hands’ which on such an oceasion finds countless worshippers. ‘There is no more convincing proof of the power of religious oratory than the fact that so many persons resist all the manifold seduc- tions of nature on such days and yield to the superior attraction of ecclesiastical worship. It should not have surprised any one if all the churches had been empty yesterday. Yet they were well filled, and who can say whether the attendants were not recompensed for the sae rifice of their carnal instincts? Those who heard the elements of true devotion analyzed by Dr. Chapin probably pitied the members of the church who were absent, The beer of Staten Island or Weehawken could hardly have compen- sated the Mohammedans, Christians, Bud- dhists and Fire Worshippers who attend upon. Mr. Frothingham’s lectures for missing his discourse upon the faithfulness of God. The Friends, at their meeting house, bore testi- mony to the superiority of spiritual to ma- terial enjoyment. St. Patrick’s Cathedral was crowded with worshippers, who wero consoled for the loss of an expected sermon by Cardinal McCloskey by the preaching of tho Rev. Mr. Farley. The Rev. Dr, Hep- worth discoursed eloquently upon the promise of the gift of the Holy Ghost, and the Reformed church of Thirty-fourth street listened to the words of its former pastor, the Rev. Mr. Stryker, upon free salvation. Mr. Beecher preached in the unre- formed Plymouth church, and other eminent clergymen found their hearers as attentive as if nature did not whisper, ‘(Come again, ye children of men.’’ When we reflect upon the worldly attractions which this city offers to the seckers of pleasure, and that the week has one day only when the opportunity can be used, the wonder is not that Christians are so few, but that all the people of New York are not pagans. That a minority are not is un- doubtedly due to the influence of the metro- politan clergy, to which unlimited acknowl- edgment shouid be made. Summer Fasnions.—The sudden change from comparative winter to decided sum- mer has brought out the light, hand- some toilets of the heated season in abundance. For weeks past the modistes have been anxiously awaiting the change in the weather which has just taken place, for new styles and new materials are very perish- able and hold their own for a short time only, whether on the shelf or on the street. Thou- sands of dollars have been lost during the past few months by the unlucky caterers to femi- nine tastes, as the weather has been anything | but favorable toward light costumes and floral decorations on hats, But now that the sum- mer seems to be a fixed fact Broadway aud the avenues are converted into conservatorivs of fashion, Taste has, at last, assumed the reins ot power in the realms of fashion, with but few rebellious subjects. The toilets of the present day show little of the vulgar ex- travagance that characterized many preceding seasons, and, what is better, American ladies manifest a decided resolve to think, invent | and select for themselves in the great question of Wilet. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Assemblyman Stephen H. Hammond, of Geaoeva, N. Y., 18 staying at the St. James flovel, Captain Wiillam Watson, of the steamship Parthia, 1s quartered at the Hotel Brunsw' The mother of Mrs. General Badeaa was ‘‘tne late Comtesse Grevon de Milhau, of Toulouse, France.” Miss Clara Louise Kellogg arrived in this city yesterday, and took up her residence at the Clarendon Hotel. When the Shenpao of Shanghai prints a choice piece of news in biue “double the usual number of copies are sold.” Speaker Jeremiah McGuire and Assembiyman ¥. W. Vosburgo arrived at vue Metropoilian Hotel | yesterday irom Albany. “Another gentiemaniy road agent” is what a | Western paper culis Obavez, the avenger of Vas- | quez, the California bandit. in monarcnies the person often saves tne prin- ciple, and in repabiics the priaciple is always hecessary to Rave the persons. Waldeck, the centenarian. had his little joke. He said “When death comes for me, people may say (iat he preferred me ripe.” Paris possesses even a ‘‘Perman colony;” and 1t took ofence lately at an articie in ste Figaro on the Shah, Tuere's sensibility. They have got a vallouni@t in a Bohemian club up town who recently went so high that wien he ‘wanted to come down he had to take exceedingly go aim to bit the eartn—it was so awiuily ute 4 bere is a Frenchman cn bis travels in England, who writes home that tn Liverpool the hearses stand at the corners in rows waiting for cus- tomers just as cabs do in other places, The wuole number of voters in the United King- dom of Great Britain and freland is 2,921,241. This leaves out nothing but the Dublin University, whose graduates all come here to wold lucrative omices. Lady Caroline Barrington, a member of Queen Victoria’s household since her accession to the throne, and for twenty years Lady Superintendent to the Royal Family, was buried at Kensal Green ; May 2. There is great complatnt in Italy of the quality of the tobacco sold by the government monopoly. Nearly ali that vwodacco goes from this city; but | whetuer it is poisoned by adulteration here or tn Italy who can tell ? Ot 686 bodies exhibited at the Paris Morgue in 1872 555 were the bodies of French persons. In 1873 Were 507 bodies, of which 460 wei French, There were no Americans. They ci find other amusement in Paris than jumping into the river. The Tichborne case still lives in the English | courts. Mr. Murray, the official whose duty itis to issue writs of error in proper cases, refused to do this jor the claimant aud was sued; bub the Jnage discharged the case as frivolous. Now they are after that Judge. Some one gave Bismarck a new clothes brash on his birthday with this inscription his brush shall cleanse the garments of His Highness from dnst or stain, 80 may he long continue to keep the German imperiai mantle free from moths and to sbake out of {t all antiquated dust.” ‘These ts some stir In New Uampshire !n conse. quence of a member elect to Congress from one of | the districts oeing voted for as Frank Jones in- tead of Franklin Jones. It was not until after he had been elected President of the United States that it was discovered Frank Pierce had a “lin” ‘They have got a Chinese poet ina Paris prison. He had po money and tried to pay his landlord's pills with sonnets in his native language. ‘These they did not fancy, and he was compelied to leave. a me some Mantel ornaments with him, ana that # to be contrary to the law. Up to the present, ten Japanese, of Yoxohama, have expressed an intention to exhibit articies at the Patiadelpila Exposition. The oxbipttors at present announced have notified their intention of sending goods to the value of $154,000, the ex. Mibits consisting chiefly of porcelain, brouzes,