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MMER GARDEN, i late, Bproum’s Hippodrome —GRAND POPULAR CON. | Tfats P. M.; closes at Il P. s tr. JUNE 1. HEEFT. | = — = ed From our reports thie morning the probabilities are that the teeather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy. Owe or Ovr Loxpon Lerrens gives an inter- esting necount of recent turf matters and the gossip of the Court, literature and Parliament. Ter Artaxtic Yacur Cuvs yesterday opened the season with a brilliant cruise, the partic- ulars of which are reported in other columns. ‘Tre Penroses and the future of the French | Assembly—which desires and also dreads its | own dissolution—are explained in onr letter | from Paris. Foun Conosens bave addressed a communi- | cation to Comptroller Green. They sit upon him theoretically and find him a “demnition | cold, unpleasant body’’—a verdict which will be universally approved. | Ocn Museum or Narvzat History is an excellent institution, and we are glad to know that itis prosperous. Its managers yesterday gave areception toa large number of citizens, who bad ample reason to be gratified with the alisplay. There should surely be public spirit enough to secure the paleontological and geological collection of Professor Hall, | which is now offered to the competition of | the scientific public of Europe and America. | taint Esk | Arctic Exrronation.—The departure of the Hritish expedition to the Arctic regions, north | of the American Continent, of which we have | printed a full account, ix nearly simultaneons | with that of the Swedish expedition, which is expected to leave Tromsoe this month and | make straight for Nova Zembla. Thence it will sail northeastwardly, with the purpose of i exploring the Arctic Sea, and in the hope | of discovering the remains of antedilnvian | ciant avimals. We only regret that the United States government will take no part in the ex- piorations of 1875-76. The path to the Pole is through America, and Americans should ve the first to tread it. | Waareven May Be tax Prastpryt's reser- | vations, the republicans will gladly relieve themselves of the dead weight that has been | hanging upon them for two years by accept- tng bis letter as a positive withdrawal from the snvass as a candidate for renomination. | being the case, why will not President | jrant mark the closing portion of his term | by a grand and noblofpolicy of justice toward the South; by rallying aronnd him as his | advisers men of strong minds and honest | hearts; by cleansing the government of its | hideous corruptions, and by a general patri- | otic and wise policy? He has yet time to do | much for the nation and to hand down his name to posterity in connection with those of the best of the American Presidents, Will he be equal to the task ? | i) Panttamestan? Rotes.—The absurdity of | the rales of the Britich Parliament, in respect | to the presence of the public, has been demonstrated so emphatically of late that the government has found it necessary, as a pure | matter of Cignity, to concede something to modern ideas of propriety and right Mr. Disraeli yesterdoy offered s compromising resolution, which was unanimously adopted NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1875~TRIPLE SHEET of President | eight years in office will prove unfortunate, if Political Effect | not disastrous."’ This sentence is also sig- Grant's Leticr. | Altbough this tardy letter keeps open | of retreat and comes in direct collision with the Pennsylvania resolution by which it was | extorted, it will, nevertheless, have a very | | considerable political effect. It is so worded | as to admit of two interpretations, but it is | only the sense in which it is aceepted by the | republican perty that has any very close bear- | ing on practical politics. The republicans | will unanimously construe it as an un- equivocal declination by General Grant | ot a third nomination for the Presidency. | All their party leaders and newspaper organs | are certain to put this interpretation on the | letter, and to hold its author boand by his | The there is no reason why they should not do so, and he will do nothing to obstruct their choice. It is a confessicn that he would accept a third term if he thought he could get it. A letter which contains such a confession cannot silence democratic assaults; but the republican party will stand on the per- sonal declaration, ‘I would not accept such a nomination if it were tendered,’’ and pay no attention to the qualifying phrases. friends aud Washburne’s friends and the | aging impntation, | put upon his letter. | vass deciaration in the sense in which they prefer to understand it. They can be relied on to in- terpret it in accordance with the interest and wishes of the party, which has long been anx- ious to cut itself loose from the third term millstone without an open rupture with the President. Of late their danger has become active so that they were ready to cast off the dame- | even at the risk of such a quarrel. They will make the most of the President's public declaration, and their strong instinct of self-preservation will impel them to scout all reasoning founded on the | equivocal Innguage of the letter which tends to convict its author of shuffling insincerity, As*religious sects interpret the Bible to sup- port their own dogmas so the republicans will interpret this letter in accordance with their sincere wish to get rid of the third term incubus. It is obvious that the political ef- fect of the letter will depend on the republi- | can, not the democratic, interpretation. Nobody has ever supposed that Grant would berun for a third term unless by a republican nomination. The democrats would be glad to see him brought again into the field, be- cause they think him an easy candidate to beat; but the democratic party will not make | the republican nomination. Unless his own | party nominates him (irant will not be again a candidate, and as it is notorious that they do not want him there is no room to doubt what construction they will They will maintain that it is a renunciation which binds his honor, which he could not violate without a plain breach of sincerity, If he did not in- tend to make a final withdrawal why did he write the letter? In spite of its reservations and its open line of retreat the republicans will say, and say with unanswerable force, tbat it would be egregious trifling for the President to break his long and stubborn | silence merely to leave the question as un- settled as it was before. Unless he meant to put it at rest his letter is a solemn imper- tinence. Respectful courtesy to the President | will constrain his own party to disregard his eqhivocations and treat his letter as an abso- lute renunciation of further political aspiza- tions. If they desired his third election his letter would interpose no obstacle to another | nomination; but as they deprecate the idea and feel that the party is imperilled by leay- | ing the question open they will treat the letter as an irreversible declaration by General Grant that he will not again bea candidate. They are entitled to accept it in this sense, because the only valid excuse for | writing it at all was to settle the doubt. It is the certainty that the whole republican | party—the certainty that all its accredited organs and recognized leaders will insist on this view of the leiter—that gives it politica, importence, The party will hereafter repu- diate and scoffat the idea of a third term without any seeming want of delicacy to President Grant, which is a great point gained, considering the general belief that he had set his heart on a third election. The friends of every rival republican candi- date for the nominaticn in 1876 will be free to prosecute an active can- in his favor, and they will take good care that the reservationMof the letter are not interpreted by the party in the sense in which they were doubtless intended. Neither Grant nor his officceholding brigade | will venture to utter a breath of contradiction to the sense in which all his competitors for the nomination will insist upon understand- ing his letter. actual language to the exigency of the ocea- sion, aud judze his utterance, not by the letter | “which killeth,” but by the spirit which “giveth life."’ If he intends to be # can- didate his letier is dishonest, and the re- publicans are justified, in spite of its reserva- tions and its open line of retreat, in treating it as @ square renunciation of all further political pretensions. They will unquestion- ably put this upon it, because it is for the interest of their party; avd when the whole party is brought to believe that Grant has pledged hie honor not to be again a candidate it will be out of the power of a pretorian gnard of office-holders to make him one. letter may have been intended, it settles the third term question, because the republican party will bold the President to his ostensible | withdrawal. Whenthe republican party pnts lim beyond the pale of choice no other party can step in and make hima candidate. Every- thing, theretc on the sense in which the repnBlicans accept the President's letter. If they regard ites an absolute and unconditional withdrawal it is not in the power of the democrats to make Grant the republican condidate. The point is the impression the letter makes on However this depends great practical seuse of | The party will appeal from bis | | friends of every other candidate will insist that Grant has taken himself out of the can- | vass. ‘The whole republican press will main- tain that this is the correct interpretation of the letter. The certainty that the unanimous republican party will take it in this sense, and will shove Grant aside, in spite of his qualifying reserve, gives tbe declaration an importance it would not otherwise have, It is not the democratic in- | terpretation, *y the republican interpreta- tion, that will M#fluence the republican nomi- nation ; and the republicans are too anxious to get rid of the odium of the third term to | pay any regard to Grant's studied reserva- tions. They will remorselessly push him out ef the canvass on the strength of this letter, in spite of his expressed willingness to accept | Blaine's | | | | | | ‘another nomination “under such circum- | | stances as to make it an imperative duty.” | His party will take good care to render his prediction true that “such circumstances are not likely to arise.’ Governor Tilden in Town. As the Governor has found time to spend a | few days in New York it is to be hoped that | Fire Commission is still in the hands of men | | who rest under very grave charges of official | misconduct. Since those charges were made | and declared by the Mayor to have been sub- | stantiated the disgraceful scandal of the | aerial fire escape has been par- | | tially disclosed. The office of Cor- | | poration Counsel, gne of the most | | important positions under the city govern- | | ment, remains in the hands of a lawyer who | has been arraigned by the Governor himself, | and who, since his arraignment, has very un- | wisely bestowed his patronage with offensive | persistency on the Govervor’s personal friends and associates. It may be that Gov- | ernor Tilden’s visit to the city has had for its | object the closing up of these open charges against the heads of departments, one way or | the other. At all events it is time that he | should pay some attention to New York mat | ters. What was singular procrastination | | before will soon become a wilful neglect of | official duty deserving serious consideration. | ‘The Decoration of the Graves. Thetrumpets and the bugles of the war | resounded yesterday in the streets of New | York and in the silent homes of the dead. | | This solemn music was the dirge in which the living paid their tribute to the more fortu- | nate heroes who many years ago found the | eternal rest which is the Cestiny of all man- kind, of the coward and the brave, the phi- | losopher and the fool, the Shakespeare and | he is at last about to act upon the removals | of municipal officers certified to him by the | Mayor more than four months ago. The | The War Cloud in Hurope, Whatever may be our domestic troubles we alins | Pifieant:—*I would not write or utter a word | have good reason to congratulate ourselves. | to change the will of the people in expressing | We may be ruled by an ill-defined Cmsar, or having their choice.” This means, if it | means anything, that if the people wish to | | elect General Grant a third ora fourth time | we may have lost a priceless Attorney Gen- die the itinerant carpet-bag, but we have the surest grounds for comfort, as the French | eynic assures us, in the visible miseries ot our friends. Every mail and message from Eu- | rope brings tidings of a state of things which may well cause anxiety to tbe inhabitants of the Old World. {t would appear that the situation of June, 1870, promises indefinitely to prolong itself. A great thunder cloud of military terrorism overshadows the whole Continent, Thera is indeed peace, but why? Because a despot wielding absolutely an armed nation of sixty millions has put his veto upon war. That has been the sole pro- tection against a great European conflagration. The position of affairs indeed affords a guar- antee fornothing but imminent war. Germany, | on the one hand, is determined to maintain a war footing and to conciliate public opinion 1n its own dominions to such astate of things. ‘The tax upon armaments presses cruelly upon her. Emigration, large, secret and desperately opposed by the government, proves with what feelings the nation regards the enormous de- mand upon its resources. ‘The people, apart from captains and statesmen, find that the ‘having undergone a terrible and, as it was hoped, a final war is only the commencement of new, permanent and more cruel sacrifices. ‘To meet this feeling the German government finds it necessary to show some cause for its exhausting preparations by keeping every | European Power in a state of constant alarm. | If it cannot prove to France as a réason for its perpetual demands upon the country, it indicates Belgium. Belgium, of all countries, as a cause for disquietude, This, indeed, betrays the real object of this policy. Hence we have these effects—every nation is on a war footing; every nation not merely remains there, but increases its forces; the alarm of the one reacts on the terror of the others, and we have an example in public life of what is so notorious in private existence—that nothing is so cruel as a coward. France, on the other hand, is in this posi- tion: —The attitude of her own population and the expenses of her late disasters, both demand that she stould carefully improve and in- crease her military resources. he attitude of | other nations, from their experience of the way in which she formerly used the powers she had, combined with her own weakness, compel her to mask, and, as it were, to apolo- gize for those preparations. But, howover timid may be her voice, her rapid financial and material recovery causes every added regiment, every improved arm, to be regarded as causes for hostilities by the other Powers. Russia, again, presents to Europe a huge, dumb, sewi-barbarous mass, while the stealthy march of her Asiatic empire threat- ens the opulent, abstinent British, who, in this way, or by an attack upon Belgium, may be dragged into the fiery furnace. The com- parative indifference of Russia at the present moment to European matters gives this the supremo power of arbitration on the Conti- nent. She has just wielded it in favor of peace. She may not wield it so the next time, and nothing is so remote from her ideas | as any advance toward a policy of disarma- | the Falstaffof the race, the repose in which all | distinctions of rank, of happiness or sorrow, | | of virtue or evil, are equalized in one eternal | calm. The honors paid yesterday belong more to those who live than to those who are | | dead. It is unlikely that those whose | | remains are mouldering in the ground feel | the ancient thrill of pride in the honors that ure formally rendered to their graves, or that they wou'd resent neglect and oblivion. The grave is indifferent to the degd. It mat- | ters to them nothing whether they are buried under the turf, with monu- | ments to celebrate their names, or} | whether they are sunk, uncoflined, | in the ssa. The ceaseless roar of Broadway, | | night and day, disturbs not the bones of those who lie in St. Paul's churchyard or in | Trinity, where all that is mortal of Cooke, the actor ; of Lawrence, the hero, or of Char- lotte Temple, the'victim, rests by the side of the unknown multitude, whose crombling tombstones are but objects of cariosity ; and themes of thought fdr the idler amoug the graves. Bunt thongh the dead | ‘in this world do not hear the sighs | nor feel the tears that are given to their { | memory the living ave the better for these | tender tributes of respect. It is only a mound | of earth upon which we lay the laurel, but, thongh the skeleton beneath does not know that he is not forgotten, it i a blessing to the living that heis remembered. When we forget our dead we will deserve to he forgotten ourselves. They are beyond our reach for blessing or for ban, but we can at least kindie our own flame by honoring their courage and zeal when we place even a daisy upon the unconscious grave ce Farse. —The hed from the base 1, What ear could Tan Taun Mervar gennine coin i AND fail to de R Kew ‘ clare a firm, at adherence to the written taw of ¢ public, wateh ter « aiiowed executive - eyn only come up fairiy | in the ° sition! | republicaris will take the letter in this sense, b= low. re and hold the President to his word as they Spreery Se soe ores js « “tothe Presigencr oi an understand it, the chances that theirNetional | person tor a third t vel | republicans to get rid of him, but not so far | by the House of Commons, pe political par- Prhicipate, Aix- eth of time or the republican party, who sre certain to ac- cept it as commilting the President's personal honor not to be again a candidate. As the auy puniicans o convention will nominate him next year are slendor indeed. In view of the inevitable republican in- terpretation nothing could have been moro maladroit than the wording of the letter. The President went just far enongh to enable the om nate, o change an ive becanee he nm eight years i» 14 prove unfortu- i) not @)sastrous, as to silence democratic criticism. His polit- Art tae Uavccs for the nomination of a ical opponents remain as free to impute third | democratic United States Senator to sneceed tetm designs as they were before. He has | Senator Fenton, Governor ex-Seymour diplo- the astonishing folly to detend the third term | matically declined to be a candidate, The in principle while professing to abjure | democrats took him at his word with some personal aspirations. He asserts the | alacrity and elected Senator Kernan. The 1e- right of the people to re-elect President as many times as they please, He | the Presidential contest in the same manner, says ‘‘the people cannot be restricted in their | whatever may have been the President's res- choice,” and thet “it may happen that to | ervations when he wrote his third term death change an Exccutive because he bas been | warrant, | vastly in favor of war. | that time. | wish to remove his neighbor's landmark. ment. Nor is this all. The policy ef Russia is the will ot an individual; Germany is | represented by another. A death ora paraly- sis may change the whole face of the Conti- nent. This in itself effords little prospect of security. Meanwhile the present state of things or something like it must inevitably continue for some years. may possibly, by deft handling and excessive delicacy, continue without actual war, but the probabilities are Formerly, indeed, a war demanded some Kittle exterior pretext, sowe pretext of a broken article of a little treaty; bat we have outlived Frederick the Great, though the most cynical contemner of human restraints in matters of public faith, yet would prodace some veil for his naked ambition. That seems no longer to be needed. It ap- pears to be generally recognized that war is a matter of convenience for any tyrant who may If at any moment it should appeer to any of the great armed Powers (or xather the men, or knots of men, who hold the control of the armed nations of Europe) that war would improve thelr condition, war there will be. | the old watch of | publicans will treat Grant's withdrawal from | Those who love peace can only hope for the i death of military tyrants and the succession’ of milder despots. A dismal prospect, truly; and indeed we, as we sit, dolefully grasping any potsherd, may | yet gaze, not without complacency, across the ocean and be thankful that we ere not the sa happiness and | victims of this condition of more ancient | Christianity and civilization. The Police Parade. To-day the police of the city of New York are to be reviewed by the Mayor. The men will, no doubt, make a respectable show on parade. Their uniforms will be in good con- dition, their boots clean and their clubs well polished, The captains who have been re- cently transferred to new precincts becanse of their notorious combinations with gamblers, badger-house keepers, policy dealers and other violators of the law in their old precinets, will march with a military air in front of their new commands. Captain Williams will be there, with his locust resting peacefully in its belt, | probably wondering at its inaction while there are so many heads around upon which it might be brought to play. hobble in the procession or more probably ride in a carriage at its head without his dark lentern, rettle and many-caped coat, but nevertheless recalling to mind the days of half a century ago. Dis- becker will be present, although not as leader of the band. It is to be hoped that some foul breeze from the pestilential Marlem flats may reach the nostrils of the Mayor and remind him that the police is something more than a holiday show, and that the public safety de- mands a reform in the head as well as in the body of the force. Tue Srnre in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal regions seems to be almost at an end, according to our Wilkesbarre despatches. | No matter which side wins in these battles | between labor and capital the public never | seems to be the gainer. Coal 16 always | higher in price than it should be, when the eral; our statesmen may still too deftly han- Matsell will | with # fir margin tor the profits of the | dealers. The Police irgeons’ Report. The report of the police surgeons in regard to the Harlem flats isone of the most remark- able documents ever put forward to delude the public. There is nothing either in the official position or the professional qualifi- cations of these gentlemen to demand such a report at their hands, and, on the contrary, there are many reasons why they should not have subscribed their names to the stultifying record they have made for themselves. Had they been employed by the Board of Healti and charged with the sanitary care of the city we might excuse them for their undue zeal in behalf of the department; but, as it is, they are merely put forward to deny the evil effects of the evil deeds of the Police Commissioners. | Tt is a case where the sorvant certifies to the | good character of the master in disregard of the facts, and it requires no great penetration | to perceive that this report of the subordi- nates of the department was made in obedi- ence to the orders of their official superiors. No clearer evidence could be adduced of the demoralization and subserviency which have entered into the public service, and it is not gracetul to those by whom it was made or to those who commanded it. Even a cursory examination of the report of the police surgeons reveals its unworthi- | thorough examination of the effects of the filling of the Harlem flats we are not so much as told when the examination was made. The residents of Yorkville and Harlem do not seem to have been aware of their presence, and, as was shown inthe Hrraxp yesterday, many of the clergymen, physicians and drug- gists in these localities bear testimony in direct conflict with the views of the doctors of the Police Department. Their inquiry must have been as incomplete as their indorse- ment was unqualified. Apparently there were certain things which they were required to say and they saidthem. They fail to give us the slightest clew as to the methods by which they arrived at their conclusions, while their conclusions are of a character that could only be reached after a most thorough examination unless they were taken for granted. That the whole document is full of haphazard asser- tions is clear on its face. They deny the un- healthiness of the filling in the very presence of miasmatic fevers, which could come trom no other cause. They even fix the percentage of pure earth and ashes and of garbage, but we are not told by what means they were able to determine the relations of the pure to the impure filling. How do they know that ninety-five per cent of earth and ashes was used to five per cent of garbage? Did they separate the component parts of the filling used, even to the extent of one scow load, and thus arrive at their estimate, or di@ they merely accept the opinion of that eminent authority on garbage, Mr. Disbecker, with whom their views correspond so exactly? We can conceive of no more feeble performance, either on the part of the Police Commissioners or the police surgeons, than the manufacture of this report, and we hope by this time that all the persons concerned are heartily ashamed of it. None of these people in the Police Depart- ment seem to have the slightest appreciation of the responsibility they incur in fastening a possible epidemic upon the city. To the con- tractors, even, a few thousand dollars would be very poor compensation tor the conscious- ness of having destroyed thousands of lives. The police surgeons who have made this fool- ish report can expect no share in the profits, and so their action is all the more unaccounta- ble. Such wonderful trifling with the lives and heaith of a great population was never seen before, and it is time that some action was taken that will save the people of New York from like dangers in the future. War Paint Again. “Westward the star of empire takes its way” is very fine as poetry and very remarkable as the statement of a tact. What the unficdged elocutiou of our Fourth of July orators, whose utterances make the Continent tremble during the summer solstice, would do without | this verse of Bishop Berkeley it might be hard | to conceive. It is pretty evident, however, | that the distinguished strangers who have come from the far West for the purpose of _ having a plain talk with the President, and titles Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and Young- Mau-Afraid-of-His-Horses, ave under the im- pression that it is nearly time for this ambi- tious star of empire to sei. They insist upon it that the pale faces have made money out of them, and are rash enongh to assert that a white man will even lie toa red man tor } cash. Poor Lo has at last grown suspicions | his guardians, and, like the Brooklyn + eh proposes to take his own time in the settlement of his case. Meanwhile he views himself in the French plate mirrors of the | Washington House with becoming pride, aud | dines 4 la carte with the serene air of ove who | is aware that he was once owner of all this | fair domain, but who is sobered by the reflec- | tion that h® made a poor trade when he sold it for a barrel of whiskey and a tew con- demned muskets, without reserving a tow cor- ner lots to supply the’ requirements of his old age withal. We sometimes wonder what would happen | | if the government, in some rash moraent, should conclude to be honest with the Indi- ans. Such a policy would certainly be at- tended with great anxiety, since sudden and radical changes are more or less danger- ous. It might be difficult to sweep from the reservations the vampires who pocket the | government appropriations and let the Indi- ans starve, but it would puta stop to the periodical and expensive visits of ovr painted brethren to the father of his country, aud might aid in the solution of a very perplexing problem. We have tried to administer our Indian affairs through tho medium of the broad-brimmed Quaker bat and of the white necktie of the clergyman, as well as through that of the professional politician, and we have signally failed. Which of the three has given most satisfaction to the white and the red it is difficult to say. It might be well, then, to adopt the suggestion of the war paint and allow the Indian to attend to his own | business. Let the appropriations of money, clothing and provisions which are annually | made be given in charge to certain roprosenta- easy to decide whether this report is most dis- | ness. While pretending to have made a! who are known to fame by the euphonious | | cost of mining and transporting is estimated, | tive red men, and while we eholl look for the result of such confidence with great interes! we are assured that it will not be more dis couraging than that already attained. “Big tal«’’ and “little do” is, we are convmced, | the secret of the Indian muddle. The Sorrows of the Poor. We find ourselves occasionally reading, not without a seuse of amusement at the grotesque ness and simplicity of the rhetoric, those oo casional verses which are published in news papers expressing the sorrow of surviving | relatives over the death of some friend. We read that ‘Affliction sore long time she bore,” | and that ‘God has taken Bessie to be His own,” and ‘Dearest mcther, thou bast left as,"’ and that ‘Another sweet flower has withered,” and ‘We hear no more thy loving voice,” and “Gone, buf not forgotten." All of this is simple and plein and homely, | but to minds accustomed to Homer and Shakespeare and high literature absurd. These are, in all cases, the expres sion of poverty over the death’ of a fAthes ora mother or a child. They are tributes | to affection and to the memory of the departed. | We have always looked upon them as we would ‘upon an uncouth, homely cross, or a fading | wreath, or a shapeless mass of stone that marked the resting place ot some forgotten one in the village churchyard. Although we should not accept these efforts as the highest | expressions of poetry, aud should not care to | make them a part of our daily study, we never could see that there was auything to laugh at about them, or that there was cause for jest ing in an expression of sorrow, or that it was a true source of merriment to jecrat the afflice tion of any, no matter how lowly they may be or how rudely they may give expression to their grief. sensinie peraous In, tas ropublicas. party ¢Houd permit their enemy to lorce upon them and their Parly an issue which cannot add swength to the Barty, uo matter how met."—The President's lee er President Grant was scarcely wise to make the assertion that the republicalus of Pennsyl vania have weakened their party by taking hold boldly of the third term issue. The election may prove his mistake. Besides, he may find Ohio following in the tootsteps of Pennsylvania despite his waraing, A discree! politician avoids prophecies. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. State Senator Butler B. Strang, of Pennsylvania, 1g at tne Grand Central Hotel. Ex-Governor Hoffman arrived from Albany yew terday at the Clarendon Hotel. Rev, A. C. Caperton, of Louisville, is among tae late arrivals at Barnum’s Hotel. Juage George F. Comstock, of Syracuse, is reg- istered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rev. Dr. T. K. Conrat, of Poiladelphia, is so jourping at the Hotel Branswick. Chief Engineer David Smith, United States Navy, 13 stopping at the Everett House, The President will not leave Washington, with nis family, for Long Branch ti!l Thursday, Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock, of Nevraska, hat taken up his residence at the Windsor Hotel. Prince Gortschaxoff is at Baden Baden, where ht pro;oses to remain ror three weeks or a month, General Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, is residirg temporarily at the Fifch Avenue Hotel. | Aristarcnt Bey, the Tarkish Minister, arrived at the Albemarie Hotel lass evening from Wasa ington. ° Miss Clara Louise Kellogg arrived in this cit; yesterday, and took up ner residence at ty Clarendon Hotel. Hydrophobia 18 reported as “epidemic” in Dew mark and Finland. Not only dogs but borses aot other animals are tne victims. Aud now toat the third termis to be @ conse quence of “imperative duty” how will trey create this “imperative duty!” Pay Inspector W. W. Williams, Lieutenant Com manger Charles H. Davis, Jr., and Sur; Adrian Huson, United St Navy, are attite Ho@mat House. | cari Schurz is mousing in the official archiver 1m Berlin for documents relating to the esriy bis tory of the United States, which he proposes t& write. At one piace on the excursion of the Emperor o Austria in Dalmatia he was fed on sheep roaster whols before the fire. His Majesty's chief cool has gone mad, Mr, Cuntiffe Owen, nead of the British Commis | sion to the Centenvial Exposition, arrived #. Philadelphia yesterday, on the steamer Lisoois accompanied vy Colonel Sandford, Assistant Com missioner. Apropos to the Pope’s ebghty-fourth birthday, the Voce detla Vertia says ‘His elastic step, serene brow, bright eye, ready word, robust voice | and uniailing memory show that in nim the laws | of nature have been set aside.” Sefiora Navarro, wile of the Mexican Consul a! this port, Was taken with the yellow fever in Ha vana recently wulie fa transitu tor Mexico, Sut | was enabled to continue ner jouracy, out died Orizaba soon after her arcival ig that place, A man in France who had ols ioo. amputated refused to pay the fee charged by tue surgeon and commenced an action against tne latter for dam ages because the so0o!, instead ot having deem buried, had been dissected to the interests of ect- ence. Tnere is a hardy fellow at Caen, in Normandy, wiho has twice saved the lives of meu in the water at the peril of hisown. No notice was taken o these evests, Bu recently he saved the Iie of # bali drowned cat and the ‘‘Soctety tor the Proteo tion,” &c., has given him a silver medal. How woud yea like to bave your sugar whitened with the boues of men whe died for their country? They are apparently having 1 that way tn France, ‘They have formed a factory Jor the manuiacture of animal charcoal at Metz, whitch ts suppued witt bones from tue battle feids over there, Tht prodact 1s used in refiniog sugar. ‘This notice appears tu one of the London mors ing papers:—“Mr. Peter Tate has leit bis bome His wife end children would be thankiui to any one Wio can give information of his whereabouts. hie is subject to tits, and resembies the Germar Kmperor.” It iste be hoped that ismarck wit | take this Kindly, and that it W.I! not lead to any ; diplomatic correspondence. Tu the Can‘on of Glarns, Switzerland, there are twenty-taree licensed modical practitiouers. OF these twenty-one have struck, and de ‘e they will no jonger practise without some changes te the law and some sanitary reguiations, 1% said the undertakers are alarmed at the possible effect on their industry. Vebraary about 8,00) straw hitmakere start trom Belgtam and take up their quarters in asuburb of Paris and form a hittie ev.ous there, | Most are marricd, butali leave their wives and children at home and live engarcon during thete stay at Ports, An experienced man can make at jeast eignt france a day, and therelore, by exercis- ing a little economy, they can casily save thirty jranes @ week, or about 600f during their tour months’ stay. ne Waterford (lreiand) guardians, greatiy | troubied to suppress the nuisance of tramps, have | goived the difficnity in a very ingenious but prac teal shape. They have adopted the “trapping system.” Recently two tramps called for a nighws | lodging, wich they demanded and legally wore | entitied to receive; but on appiring for their | discharge next day they were told that they were demented persons, «nd were accordirgly de- taized, despite tue most vehement protestations, They were coudned as idiots and treated as suck, | while the fellows became, if they wore not op | motly, very nearly 80, in tne course ofa (ow woeke ra