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M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpar Henatp along the line ot the Hudson River, New York Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads, Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Henan office as early as possible. For further particulars see time | which political parties may carry their organi- NEW YORK Polities in France-—The Bonapartists. In the French Assembly they are again in the, heat of a battle of which the Bonapart- ists are the centre, and in which we have fresh illustration of the possible results of that sort of parliamentary chance medley; for, while the imperialists are set upon from every side—hawked at by the Left, assailed by” the Right, trampled upon by the government and shouldered out of the way by both Centres, dealt with on all hands asa party which it is dishonest and unpatriotic not to despise—yet the only tangible result of the whole mélé isin their favor, for they come out with the noteworthy advantage that they have separated the government trom the ma- jority to which it owes all that it has done, and upon which it must depend for any fur- ther support in the process of organizing the Republic. They have thus discomited the republicans and put the government for the time in an awkward predicament. In the Presence of parties charging upon the Bona- partists with equal fry from opposite sides the Bonapartists have adroitly slipped out of the way and let their opponents come in col- lision to their mutual astonishment, All the animus of the battle is, of course, in the natural hostility of the parties; but the immediate cause of the present conflict is the desision on the election in the Department of the Niévre. M. Bourgoing, a Bonapartist, was returned in the election held in that de- | pariment last year. But the way in which | the canvass was conducted in his behalf led to protest and inquiry and finally to an in- vestigation by a committee of the Assembly, and that investigation brought forth to public view the most startling page of modern French history. erly in its inquiry the committee found it necessary to determine | whether there was in existence a body called ; the “Committee of Appeal to the People,” | apart from the group of members in the Chamber who were commonly and vaguely regarded as the advocates of such an appeal; whether there was a committee so called that acted as the head of the Bonapartist party in France and directed that party with a more or | less strict discipline upon decisions taken at | Chiselhurst, and gave inspiration and im- pulse to the imperialist propaganda. To determine this point the committee catled M. Léon Renault, the Prefect of Police, and his deposition laid bare the whole organi- zation of the imperial party. With the ideas | that preyail in cur country as to the extent to i zation and their efforts to rally the people in support of their candidates and their princi- ples, and against the party that possesses the governmut for the time, we can scarcely com- prehend the effect this disclosure had in France, With us no party is the country ; and we conceive of the frame and fabric of the government as quite distinct from the party that holds it and administers the law. Therefore an opposition party is never con- templated as in opération against the govern- ment, but only against the party that is in powe?; andas the men of our race are gen- erally not believers in the paternal relations of government to people—do not regard gov- ernment as the friend and defender of the table. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy. Persons gowng out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henarp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month, — Wax Srezer Yesterpar.—Western stocks advanced in response to the better feeling among the producers of grain and increased shipments. Gold was unsettled, Foreign exchange firmer. ” Mrs. Lrxcox.—Elsewhere is printed from the Detroit Post an interesting account of the condition of this lady and of her place of resi- dence. There is, it seems, little or no hope “that she will ever be permanently well.” We Puszise in another column an interest- ing letter on the closing incidents of the American team’s visit to Ireland. The pre- sentation of the prizes was graced by the beauty and fashion of the Irish capital, and pur men received flattering evidence of the esteem and admiration of the Irish people. A Srroxe Forwarp Movement has declared itself in the wheat market, owing to the pros- pective demand in the European market, taused by the destruction of crops this year. Dur farmers will do well to send their wheat East by the quickest routes, so as get into the European markets early. The advince yes- terday was three cents per bushel, ister of Foreign Affairs to the Consul General of France in the United States will be found in another column. It confirms officially the reports already furnished by the press of the extent of the calamity that bas fallen on | France, and appoints a direct channel by | which aid edh be furnished to the sufferers. | Couna.—The reported interference of foreign | Powers in favor of a peaceful settlement of | the Cuban question is anthoritatively denied, No steps have been taken of late by our gov- | ernment, and the Monroe doctrine will be rigidly enforced, so far as other nations are concerned. Still, it isa pity a wasting, use- | leas war should be continued in Cuba when the possibility of Spain’s holding the island | is already at an end. Ove Birtzmen at Worstevon.—The mem- bers of the American team met with a friendly reception on their arrival at Wimble- | dom. It has been finally decided to permit | them to compete in several of the lesser matches. In most of these they will be at great disadvantage on account of being com- pelled to use British military rifles. General Dakin seems to obtain better results with the strange arms than do his companions. | Among the contests to which the Americans will be admitted are the Albert Oup, the Ar- thur Rifle and the St. Leger Sweepstake, Menzo Dierenporr’s letter of contrition for signing the petition in favor of John Morris- | | these organized influences was not an expres- | sey’s expulsion from the Tammany General Committees is on instructive political docu- | ment. Menzo ovidently expected to find Jobn napping. Ho was willing enough to cut Sampson Morrissey’s jocks while the giant slept, but finding that John had one eye open he thinks it better to disavow taking that formidable sealp. John will keep | ruin of our freedom—let us suppose that it people, but as a natural enemy and plun- derer—it is never easy to direct public opin- ion against an opposition on the ground that it is pursuing an immoral, improper and ure | justifiable course, or even that its endeavor to displace the government is unpatriotic, There was one period at which parties with us were in a position that presented this case in a different light. At one time the republi- can party was practically the country, and its principles and purposes were so identified with the national cause that the success of the one was justly regarded as inseparable from the success of the other. At that time hostility to the republican party was so nearly treason to the nation that many intelligent people did not care to discriminate between the two. It was only the ingrained notion of the sacredness of every man’s right to hold his own opinions and to express them that prevented such outbursts as would have effec- tually silenced the democrats or sent them over the lines; for it was freely declared that HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1875.—WITH SUPPLEMENT, spiracy to defeat the attempt at self-govern- ment and hand the country over to the shadows and feeble relic of the military tyr- anny. One man especially must find his relation to this trouble such as to fill him with a poignant chagrin. Mr. Rouher, chal- lenged on the subject, declared in the trib- une on his word of honor that there was no such committee to his knowledge and that he at least had no relations with it. But if there was anything plainly disclosed it was that the committee met at this gentleman's house and that he was its head. With all their political faults in France they have not such an easy political morality as permits people to treat such a circumstance with tho lightness with which we treat the Pacifle Mail declarations of our Bill Kings, and Mr. Rouher conse- quently finds himself left in a painful posi- tion. But though imperialism writhes in the con- flict like a wounded snake, it has managed, as the reptile might, to strike a not inconsider- able blow with its dangerous fangs. It has driven the government to a declaration that it regarded the Bonapartists as holding out the constant menace of conspiracy on one hand und the Left as presenting an equally constant menace of open revolution on the other; and this impolitie and unnecessary declaration bas brought division between the government and av important faction that has supported it. Out of this results of conse- quence may flow, for the Bonapartist battle has only developed more clearly a difficulty that was in the natureof the parties between the government and those whose votes helped to carry out its programme; there was no sympathy save such as arises in the pres- ence of a common enemy. There was, on the contrary, a latent hostility with which | they are now brought face to face, and | which it is not obvious that they can readily overcome, Rapid Transit in Brooklyn, The proposal to build a rapid transit rail- way in Brooklyn is accepted with pleasure by the people. But when the route of the pro- posed road is mentioned thereis at once a per- sistent and screeching dissent. Property holders on Myrtle avenue come forward and scream against building the road on that ave- nue, Well, some avenue must be found, and why not Myrtle as well as another? It rans to Williamsburg, into the most densely popu- lated region of the city, and will open up the country beyond. This strife about a route in Brooklyn will be repeated in New York. We all want rapid transit, but no one wants to have any trouble about it. Citizens on one avenue insist upon using another, and so on. If we listen. to these strifes we shall never have rapid transit. The true ‘way is to select the natural routes— the routes that will serve the public conven- ience—and there build the road, It is a mistake also to suppose that a rapid transit elevated railway injures an ave- Take Greenwich nue, street as an example, We have had an_ elevated railway there for years, running over the sidewalk. But Greenwich street is as much a highway as before, The stores are as prosperous as ever. The people come and go and walk and drive on Greenwich street as they do on the Bowery, and the street is not as much injured hy the elevated railway as Myrtle avenue is by a street rail- way. Ofthe two we think the street railway the most objectionable. If a business man had his choice, with Greenwich street as an experience, he would much preter the elevated railway to the surface railway. This is a trouble that we have whenever there is anything new. There was the same clamor when the street cars were firstrun, The stage coach people were furious and citizens | protested against surface railways as an inva- sion of property. So when we bad railways, Steam would frighten the game, said the nervous old noblemen, some of whom, like the late Lord Derby, are millions out of the increase of their property from the advent of steam cars. Rapid transit will do no harm toany avenue. A horse of two may jump, but that will be all. On the other hand, it the other side of the lines was their proper place. People who remember how the country felt against the democrats at that crisis can comprehend how Frenchmen regard the oper- ations of the imperial party in France, Let us suppose that when the democrats were in their deepest disctedit with public opinion—when they were looked upon as the friends and associates of our enemies and as | f party thit represented the policy of surren- der to what it was felt must necessarily be the had then been discovered that they had a fully organized government of their own in our midst; a sort of council of ministers in this city, with subordinate functionaries in every State and city; that there was a regular hier- archical relation and a regular correspondence between the parts of this machinery; that regular contributions were made by the faith- ful to its treasury, and that, in short, it was asortof double of government that stood | ready to step forward and assume office and | power tpon any day thatan unlucky stroke | of fortune should prostrate the goverrment set up by the people. If we suppose this and conceive the indignation, perhaps alarm, | with which we should have learned the facts, we shall place ourselves as nearly as possible | in the condition of mind with which the | French received Renault's deposition; for he | showed all this with regard to the Bonapart- | ist organization and its government by the Committee of Appeal to the People. Perhups cited by that disclosure did more than any other fact of the time to drive the nation into the arms of the republicans, and to satisfy the people at large with the organization of the Republic, as the only government the organi- zation of which could be secured in time to guard against the danger. As a result of the adroit bit of tactics that | produced that deposition and of the conse- quence assumed as necessary that the election in the Niivre procured by the operation of | sion“of the people’s will, the election is an- | nolled; and the formal vote to that effect | taken in the Assembly on the 13th inst. has led to the explosion of the long pent up wrath which the publication of the commit- Menzo‘in his eye, Nor will the rival John forrat him. ' partists; indignant wrath on the part of all it is not too mtich to say thatthe alarm ex- | would not surprise us if the building of a rapid transit elevated railway along Myrtle avenue would not largely enhance the value of | that highway, both for purposes of residence and business. The Outrages on the Rio Grande. We print this morning o very interesting résumé of the anarchy which exists along the line of the Rio Grande, together with a long list of the murders, outrages and robberies committed by Mexican marauders upon American citizens. This summary is the work of a committee of citizens of Browns- ville, Texas, who have gathered the facts for | the information of the State Department, with | the view of demanding the interference of the government in their behalf. Ever since the close of our civil war Cortina and his band | of thieves have been paving the way fora war with Mexico, and sooner or later it is sure to come unless these murders and outrages cease. The Mexican authorities have it in their power to put a stop to all theso wrongs by the summary punishment of Cortina, now in their hands, and if they allow him to escape and return to his evil practices on the Rio Grande they must expect to take the full responsibility for all his acts. The anarchy on the American frontier has continued too long already, and our people are in no temper to allow fresh outrages to be added to the long list of those) already committed. There is no necos- ‘ sity for actual war at any time between | the two countries unless Mexico chooses to | make it; but if the Mexican authorities are | too weak to prevent the incursions of maraud- ing bands into American territory the United | | States will have to take the matter into their | own hands. Should war result from an effort to suppress these outrages, while we would | regret it we would be compelled to accept it | as inevitable; but, whatever the cost, protec- | tion must be afforded to our citizens on the | Mexican frontier. No further wrongs, such as | aro detailed in the startling list of the Browns- ville committee, are to be allowed, and this must be understood both in the American and | the Mexican capitals. | ate anes Twrev's Lawyens have been successful in | their motion for a bill of particulars in the all intention of | tee’s report produced; bitter, envage wrath | snit of the-city for the six million dollars the on the part of the exposed and foiled Bona- | *‘Boss’’ is charged with stealing. The reform lawyers will make more money out of the suit | others at the discovery of the scheme or con- | than will the city. Arctic Expeditions. valuable chapter from Fraser's Magazine, giv- ing & narrative of expeditions Arctic Sea and of the many around the Pole. ture for centuries, For some years past the interest in it has faded, Other and more necessary purposes have attracted the great nations of the world. America has had her own solemn responsibilities. The Europeon countries have been too busy with the business of adjusting the balance of power on the Con- tinent, while England, generally first and al- ways persistent in seeking new lands, has been keeping watch and ward over her neigh- bors, not knowing what hour might bring her imperative duties. Since the peace the eyes of the restless have turned again toward the Pole. Austria bas made surprising discoveries and given the name of her Emperos to one of the Arctic territories. Germany has planned ex- peditions which are to carry the glory of the new Empire into the Arctic circle. Mr. Dis- raeli’s government, not content with adding Fiji, the Gold Coast and the South Airican provinces to the prodigious Empire of Eng- land, has sent an expedition on the track of Sir John Franklin, while another vessel, sailing under the jomt flags of England and America, goes on the same errand. So the in- terest of the civilized world turns once again to the far north, and we are not without hope that the unknown and forbidding lands about the Pole will come within the light of crviliza- tion, A portion of the globe fifteen hundred thou- sand square miles in extent*more than thirty times as large as England and nearly one-half as large as the United States, exclusive of Alaska—embracing both sea and land, is unknown to mankind. All attempts to pene- trate it have failed. There are no romances more thrilling than those which tell of these efforts from the time of John Oabot, who sailed under Henry VII., to the time of Sir John Franklin, who lost his life in the reign of the good Victoria. It was the dream of Cabot to find a short road to India through the Arctic seas—a dream cherished by the mari- ners of that time with unvarying faith. This was more than three centuries ago, when | the world was wondering over the dis- covery of America, and English daring would not patiently rest under the honors achieved by the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Dutch. These three centuries have been marked by persistent efforts to redeem the failures of Cabot. We haye our own Henry Hudson, to whom we owe the discovery of our island o:ty and the beloved river which im- mortalizes his name—urging his small vessel toward the Pole—in 1607. In one of these adventures he was to die a dismal death, abandoned by his seamen in an open boat. ‘We have the Frenchmen endeavoring to work their way north from Canada, in the time of | Charles IL, but without recorded success. The Russians also, under their great Ozer Peter, were to renew the effort in more recent times, under Behring, the Dane, who was to discover the strait which divides Asia from America. The burden of the efforts to penetrate the Arctic regions have rested upon the English. One hundred years ago we had Lord Mulgrave seeking the way to India, stimulated by a large reward. Among those who sailed with him was young Nelson, after- ward to become the mighty admiral. About | this time Captain Cook, who was to meet his fate in the Sandwich Islands and to become one of the most interesting and romantic namesin our literature, strenuously sought to open the passage to India. It was Cook who discovered the proximity of the Asiatic and American continents. So many failures bave only stimulated re- newed effort, The nineteenth century has seen many expeditions. Rewards were offered by the English to whalers to press into high latitudes. It is more than fifty years since Parry made his famous expedition, when Franklin went over the land for five thousand five hundred miles to mark its geography. Thirty years have gone by since Franklin went out with the Erebus and Terror. His instruc- tions were to endeavor to find a passage from Baffin’s Bay to Bebring Strait, and on July 26, 1845, he was last seen entering Baffin’s Bay. He was to die two years later a victim to his intrepid devotion to duty. Itis twenty years since Dr. Kane commanded his expedition | and solved some important problems. We have- the record of the Polaris, so well known to our readers; the valuable expeditions of Dr. Hayes, and the great achievements of the Austrians under Licuten- ant Payer, The problem of the North Pole ‘was never so interesting as now; Austrians, Germans, English and Americans are alike striving to solve it. There have been many misfortunes and disasters, many sacrifices | that we mourn. But every expedition adds | something to our KMMowledge of this hidden continent. Every explorer goes out guided by new experience. The difficulties that attend the attempt are extraordinary and disheartening. But in the end courage and patience will win. The nineteenth century, which has seen so many wonders, bids fair to realize the dream of every mariner since the time of Cabot--the dream of Arctic discovery, and of making the North Pole as familiar as the Equator. Reception to tox Amertcan Tram.—The | half dozen gentlemen who are known to | fame as the joint committee of the National | Rifle Association and Amateur Rifle Club | met yesterday in secret session to devise some mode of receiving the American team on their return from Ireland. As the members of the press were excluded the public lose the benefit of the oratory of the discussion, ber” are furnished with the decision arrived at. Though the joint committee dislike tak- ing the public into their confidence they have no objection to receiving the money of the public to carry out their projects. On the with a handsome testimonial, and the public are asked to send in their subscriptions. The In the interest of the team reception 1t might be well for the Star Chamber Committee to keep this fact in mind, Woe print this morning an interesting and The announce: but by the great courtesy of the “Star Cham- | motion ot Colonel Wingate it was resolved to | present each member of the returning team | Restitution=A Suggestion, + that Mr. Walsh, the er for “building” our former Cummissit to the | Court House, is atiout to restore twenty-five at- | thor tempts to discover the mysterious land | madea profound impression, The friends of This is a problem | the old statesmen talk of “restitution” as a that has attracted men of science and adven- | new influence in our politice. By ‘‘restitu- d dollars to the city treasury has tion” everything will be made smooth, and, with patience, we may have the reign of the old empire over again and the present re- formers and statesmen dancing attendance to Sweeny and Tweed as they did in the past. Jay Gould is pointed to as the great apostle of “restitution.” Jay Gould was once Pres- ident of the Erie Railway. He managed affairs so ably that on his retirement he was said to have several millions of prcperty to which he was not entitled. Now, what did Jay Gould do—the canny, clear-headed man? Did he pay out a halt million to lawyers, leeches and blackmailers, like Tweed, his old partner? Not at all. He called upon the attorneys of the company and paid them back several millions. This was ‘‘restitution.’” Since then Jay Gould has been a happy man—no care, no trouble, no indictments, no perpetual lawyers, but with abundant oppor- tunities for improving his mind. and selling Big Bonanza stocks to credutous buyers. From the way Jay Gould has kept on since he re- stored his millions it would not surprise us to sce hint the Chairman of a new Committee of | Seventy or a reform candidate for the Pres- idency. The success of this great master of ‘“resti- tution’’ should not be despised. Why should not Sweeny come home and imitate Gould? Why should not ‘I'weed dismiss his expensive lawyers and pay back likea man? We have no doubt Mr. O’Conor would deduct a half million on a¢count of lawyers’ fees and bring suit against the lawyers, leeches and black. mailers as receivers of stolen ‘money to which they have no just claim. Then we have Con- nolly, who made more money than any of the rest, and who has kept it. There is no reason why as competent a financier as Connolly should remain abroad under a cloud when he could restore four or five millions and come home as a reformer. Why should not Davidson, the safe man; Norton, the great clam cpener; Keyser, the plumber; Wilbour and Corson, who managed | the printing swindle; Garvey, the plasterer, and Ingersoll, the furniture dealer, also make “restitution ”’ These men are all as guilty as Tweed, although, perhaps, not so largely possessed with public taxes. They try to escap2, some because they think their insignificance will protect them, others because they are informers. Because a man is an informer there is no reason why he should not make restitu- tion. They should be satisfied to keep ont of jail. Why not have a restitution fund, to be devoted to rapid transit? Here is a splendid idea! Let Tweed, Sweeny and Connolly sub- scribe six millions to a rapid transit railway. A millon or two could be collected out of the rest, and so this work could go on, It would be a welcome end to a prolonged and painful controversy. Mr. O’Conor has demonstrated that however efficient the laws of the State of New York may be in dealing with the stealers of hams, when it comes to the stealers of mill- ions they are inefficient. Since they are so why pursue the subject?’ Let ‘restitution’ be the watchword now—“estitution and rapid transit.” Let us havea ‘Steam Restitution Railway’’ from the Battery to Harlem. Wil- liam M. Tweed could be President, with P. B. Sweeny, John McBride Davidson, R. B. Con- nolly, J. H. Keyser, A. J. Garvey, J. H. In- gersoll, T. C. Fields, C. E, Wilbour, Cornelius Corson and Michael Norton as directors. The money to build the road could be subscribed by the directors out of what they have stolen from the treasury. We commend this sugges- tion to Mr. O’Conor, who is practical enough to know the wisdom of taking what we can get when we cannot get what we want. Crime in New York. There seems a good prospect that the Com- mittee of Investigation appointed by the Legislature will secure such an overwhelming amount of evidence against some of our police officials as will compel their retirement into private life. So far the revelations are most damaging to the police, even Police Commissioners not escaping a suspicion of connivance with thieves and other criminals, One of the worst features of the case is the alieged attempt of some of the police captains to suppress, bya system of terrorism, testi- mony calculated to tell against the depart- ment, Enough has already been elicited from reputable witnesses to call for the strictest investigation into the man- ner in which police administration works in this city. Ifthe statements made by the witnesses already called can be satisfactorily established the police must stand in the pil- lory as the accomplices and shielders of thieves rather than the protectors of the property and lives of the citizens. This is a state of things that cannot be permitted to continue, No doubt the adcused members of the force depend on political influence to | secure them against the consequence of their acts, but in this they are likely to find them- selves mistaken, Too many interests, wholly persons charged with the care of life and property in this city should be above suspi- force of any man against whom there is satis- factory evidence of dishonesty, no matter how powerful may be his political friends. Jef Davis’ Memory. If Jeff Davis had really been hanged ona sour apple tree he would have been spared many annoyances, much weariness and great vexation of spirit. Having been permitted to survive, and having outlived the glory of his relations to a great attempt, he has fallen upon the evil days of a historical recital of events on our side and a malignant criticism of his finite genius on his own side. His latest experience is sad, General Creswell in 1864 qnoted o speech made by Davis in 1861, in which he said, “We will carry the war where it is easy to advance, where members of the team deserve all the honors | feod for the sword and torch awaits that can be paid to them, but the ‘joint com- | our armies in the densely populated mittee” would do wellto remember that with- | cities." Shocked to hear of this and ont the aid of the public and the press their | convinced that the amiable Davis was not the efforts would amount to simply notbing at all, | sort of person to use such words, a Mr. | Perry wrote to him on the subject, and the ex-President of the enough said “he had no recollection of these independent of party politics, demand that | cion to permit the continuance on the police Confederacy readily | | words,” but recollected what he thought, and it was not that. Hereupon up comes the respectable person who reported the speech and telegraphed it to the Nashville Banner, and who produces the documentary evidence that the men of the town where the speech was delivered declared at the time that it wae a correct report. Davis is somewhat in the same box with Beecher. He needs to be saved from the friends who trot him out to prove his virtues on all sorts of usnecessary occasions A New Party—The More the Merrier. The beef-eaters have taken to quarrelling, and how we have two rival republican organi- zations, This new concern does not accept meekly the rule of Boss Tom Murphy. Wedo not know its special grievance, but if the truth were known we suppose it would be that the members had not all been appointed to the Custom House. Now, a boss with a Custom House behind bim can do many things, but be cannot put a thousand pegs into five hun- dred holes. Boss Tweed used to come near it when he had Garvey and Ingersoll to arrange the bills, but the national government does not permit this kind of finance. ‘The result of this inability of Boss Tom Murphy to squeeze his thousand pegs into five hundred holes is naturally a ‘new party.” Tho split in the beef-eaters adds another to the many tactiona now drilling for the fall campaign. We hava the beef-eaters, under Boss Tom Murphy, eager for Grant, the third term, back pay and all other comforts. We have the swallow tails, under John Kelly, who hold that the true duty of democrats is to vote the edicts of the Manhattan Club card tables. We have the short hairs, under John Morrissey, who con- tend. that -the rank and file, the stalwart heroes of Mullingar and Tippérary, who vote early and often, have some rights which the Manhattan Club should respect, We have the plug uglies, under Boss Tom Creamer, who are willing to take what they can find. Now comes the new party, the discontented Custom House patriots, who will not support | Grant, because Grant does not support them, and who, we suppose, must be known as the hash eaters, or men who are compelled to eat that simple, wholesome, if not always accurate, compound, in the absence of good, sound, wholesome beef. We welcome the new party | into the contest. The more the merrier, Tus Rarm Transrr ComMissioNERs are getting ready for tbe tussle with the crowds of inventive geniuses having systems to propose, Contrary to general expectations the inventors aré neither numerous nor bold. There is nc knowing, however, what the future may bring. There are some evidences already that the eccentricities of genius will be repre sented in the plans submitted, but these can easily be disposed of. What the citizens want isa cheap and practical road, rendering it possible to go from the Battery to Westches- ter within halt an hour, and any system that will accomplish this is sure to prove satisfac tory to the public. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Judge W. F. Allen, of the Court of Appeals, if sojourning at the Windsor Hotel. Senator C. Wilson, of Montreal, arrived las{ evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. They’ve changed the name of that place from | polly Mount to Paddy Come Down. Rey. C. Bowen, of New Zealand, is among th¢ late arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel. ~ Lieutenant Henry H. Holt, of Michigan, ts resia | ing temporarily at tne Metropolitan Hotel, Morrissey seems to fancy that Vice President ‘Wilson 1s pegging away at the Presidency, Professor Spencer F. Baird, of the United Stateg Fisheries Commission, is staying at the Fifth Ave nue Hote. =, It Bowen was oniy not afraid that he mighi damage his subscription list; but he is undef bonds, you see. And so Uncle Sammy is “broke out.” Now ff) Tweed had done that what a rumpus there would have been, Mr. Jona King, Jr., Vice President of the Baltt more and O:io Railroad Company, bas arrived af the Hoffman House. General Howard wants to Christianize the In Olans. Suppose he organizes a savings bank fo) them—or a “university.” If Henry Ward really intends, as he says, to “ge on loving” just the same, at least he had better write fewer letters about it, Mr. M. E. Ingalls, President of the Indianapolis Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad Company, & stopping at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Bishop Hubbard MH. Kavanaugn, of the Method ist Zp:scopal Church, South, has taken up bis rea idence at the St. Nictolas Hotel, North. Secretary-of-War Belknap and party arrived af Omaha yesterday morning. They expect to pro ceed westward on Saturday, but may delay there until Monday. One ofthe best things the republicans could a ‘would be to let the election go by default in Oni this fall; but they provabiy have not the courage Ifthey beat the democrats there it wili save tne democracy all over the country, Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Beecher returned from Peekskill on Thursday afternoon to thets Tesidence on Colamha Heights, to prepare for tneir annual visit tothe White Mountains, They numerous visitors. On one of the bridges of Paris a baby sprang out of its mother’s arms and fell 1a the river, and the mother jumped after it, but could not swim, Another woman jumped in who could swim and brought out both, The mother wag half drowned and the baby was dead. Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George, threat ens to moucpolize the diplomats, It has now Anistarchi Bey, the Turkish Minister; Count Litta, the Itaan Chargé; Chevalter de Tavera, tne Aus trian Chargé, Baron Thielmann, the Germas Chargé, and two secretaries of the Britisn Lega tion, Hon. Power Le Poer French and N. R O'Conor, Esq. “James Brown,” of St, Giles, London, claims t¢ be reckoned among the noble bana of vivisection- ists, his trade being the catching of cats and “skinning ‘em alive.” “The simple fact ts, ne says, “1 get an honest living by skinning cats, and because skins taken irom the live cats are worth sixpence apiece more than those taken from the animal when dead I skin the cats alive whenevey Ican,” Children are children as kittens are kittens, A sober, sensible old cat, that sits purring betore the fire, does not trouble herself because her kite ten is nurrying and dasbing here and there, in @ fever of excitement to catch its own tail, She site still and purrs on. People should do the same with children, One of the aiMcuities of home education is the impossi: bility of making parents Keep still; it is with them, out of their affection, all watch and worry.— Memoir uf C. W. Ditke. The latest courmentator on Shakespeare ts the | theatrical chronicler in the Paris Figaro, He re | fers to the line in which Polontus, talking te Ophelia of Hamlet’s importunities, calls her “4 | green girl, unsifted in such perilous circum stance;” Where, of course, the green refers to the immaturity of her thought, as expiained in the second pirase. But this passage appears te have given trouble to French translators, and tne writer in question propounds as a solution of the diMecualty that the old gentieman in calling hue daughter a green giricompares her to a girl whe | Sells greens, spent yesterday in packing up and in receiving *