The New York Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Youx-Henaxp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subseribers, year. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nzw Yorx Henap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. eed LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—NO. 61 AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street,—SIN AND SORROW, at 2 P.M. FACE TO FACK, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10% TO-NIGHT. 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This will not help in- | flation much. © Post Orrice.—Efforts are being made to | improve the lighting and ventilation of the new Post Office. The employés who will have to labor in the basement of the new building will owe the Henatp some grati- tude for having promptly called attention to the existing defects in the important matter of lighting and ventilation. Tue Centenstan.—The intelligence of French workingmen is proverbial. They are adopting resolutions urging on the mer- chants of France the necessity of having the industrial products of their country properly represented at our Centennial Exhibition. In this they display a keener appreciation of the value of peaceful international rivalry than their more opulent mercantile countrymen. ‘Tue Norra Canonina Convention has met and organized. From the nature of its com- position we may expect some stormy scenes, ‘The first efforts made to secure an adjourn- ment sine die have been defeated after a very close vote, but the contending parties are so closely matched that it would not be surpris- ingif the friends of the status quo should in the end carry their point and secure an ad- journment. Tue Cantists.—News from Madrid must generally be taken with “a grain of salt,” but there is no reason to doubt that the pros- pects of the Carlist cause are well nigh as gloomy as they are painted by the enemies of Carlism. Dorregaray is in full retreat before the forces of the Madrid government, his own bands reduced to a mere handful. Catalonia is on the point of being pacified, and the | They have no hope of winning on this issue, | ent have resolved to make a serious effort to capture Estella. History is repeat- ing itself. The hardy mountaineers of the four northern provinces have exhausted themselves in the effort to impose their will on Spain, and now the moment has come when they must abandon the fight or be ex- In continuing ao hopeless | terminated. struggle Don Carlos displays a selfishness and indifference to the wellbeing of his friends that ought to disgust them with ‘di- vine right of kings,” and no doubt would, were it not for the religious fanaticism which is the great prop of the Carlist causa ! The Republican Convention at Sara- toga. The Republican State Convention yester- day was so odd a specimen that it ought to be ticketed for a cabingt of political euri- osities. In calling it an anti-Grant conven- tion we do not refer solely nor mainly to its resolution condemning a third term, since that might mean much or little, according to cireumstances. A maiden may repel her lover from coyness, which means to consent at last, or from deep and instinctive repug- nance, which persistent courtship can never surmount. Watchful observers discern whether she has a real fondness for the suitor on whom she affects to frown, and they make up their minds as to whether she | tempts to capture the citadel. If the Sara- toga Convention was not really opposed to the third term it was a great adept in the art | of dissimulation. The suitor in the song | deemed it regular enough that the lady stairs. President Grant might fitly address the Saratoga Convention in the words of that ludicrous song. The republican delegates did several things which President Grant cannot easily con- strue in any other sense than as downright insults. It elected Mr. Curtis as its presiding officer, although Mr. Curtis resigned his place on the Civil Service Commission in disgust and attributed the failure of that great reform to the insincerity of the Presi- dent. place on the ticket, although he has a chronic dislike of General Grant, and it is but little more than six months since he made a vigor- ous harangne against the President in the great hall of the Cooper Institute, denouncing his Louisiana policy. They offer the Comp- trollership to ex-Treasurer Spinner, who re- cently resigned his office in a huff and har- tion. The New York republicans have offered their highest honors to the enemies of President Grant, and he differs from or- dinary men if he should not feel stung by the insult. The election of Mr. Curtis as President of the Convention, and the proffer of the most honorable places on the ticket to republicans who denounce and deride the President, are significant signs of the times. This strange One is to strengthen the party in New York by winning back the liberals, and the other to unload the party of the great burden of quence of General Grant's irregular personal aspirations. As the liberals cut loose from the party out of sheer hostility to the Presi- | dext it is supposed that they can be allured | into the fold by treating him with contumely. | | It is expected that Mr. Fenton and his fol- | lowers will again act with the party when it | publicly washes its hands of General Grant. Mr. Fenton has thrown out intimations to | that effect, and the Convention, instead of | meeting him half way, has gone to his very | doors to solicit hisaid. The praise bestowed | upon President Grant in the platform is | merely a sugar coating to the bitter pill | administered in their unequivocal declaration mingled with gall. thrust at the President in what is said about a ‘generous and forbearing policy | in the Southern States” and “a firm refusal | to use military power, except ‘for purposes | clearly defined in the constitution.” This is | an obvious though indirect condemnation of President Grant’s military interference with the Louisiana Legislature, which Mr. Evarts denounced with fervid eloquence before the assembled multitude at Cooper Institute last winter. The Convention has indorsed and promulgated the ideas of Vice President Wilson both in relation to a gen- efous treatment of the South and in relation to welcoming back the strayed liberals into the republican fold. The language of the platform on the third term question is une- quivocal and satisfactory. With some sweet- ening introductory phrases the Convention say, ‘‘We declare our unalterable opposition to the election of any President for a third term.” If the opposition be really ‘‘unal- terable,” if it is founded on principle and not put forth as an_ electioneering | expedient, it extinguishes the hopes of General Grant. Now that the New York republicans have added their declaration to those which have been made in Pennsylvania and other States, the renomi- his opponents stand their ground. But these declarations must not stop with New York. Every republican convention here- after held must take the same ground, in order that the corpse of the third term may be buried. It cannot be construed as per- sonal opposition to General Grant if they ing his letter as an absolute withdrawal. The reform resolutions are good in them- selves, but they contain an obvious fling at Governor Tilden, when they speak of reform- | ing abuses, punishing offenders, and ef- forcing retrenchment ‘‘without boastful, os- tentations pretensions;” but they recognize easily | would be pleased or disgusted by further at- | should dissemble her love, but thought it | rather hard that she should kick him down | They solicited Mr. Evarts to accept a | bors a deep grudge against the administra- | against a third term. But the honey is | There is a sidelong | nation pf President Grant is impossible if | imitate the New York Convention in constru- | tice will quietly grow if mischief-makers and busybodies do not provoke hostility by arousing religious prejudices. The resolu- tion on the subject of the curreney is sound | one equally strong, and, as New York is unanimous on this subject, no votes will be | gained on either side by declarations against | idflation. | The ticket is respectable, but not strong. | The only two candidates who are generally known are Mr. Seward and Mr, Spinner, the former as the worthy son of an eminent father, and the latter by long service as | United States Treasurer. No man in the list has been prominent and influential in State affairs. No man in the list has a strong body of followers or in a private position could contribute much to the ‘success of a ticket beyond his individual vote. Had Mr. Evarts or Mr. Bigelow or Judge Robertson | yielded to solicitations and consented to be candidates the ticket would have been strengthened by their recognized standing. But as it is, every candidate owes his im- | portance to the fact that he has been nomi- | mated. If there be an exception it is General Merritt, put on to please the liberals, and his nomination probably receives the support of his friend Mr. Fenton, who is an active, dexterous politician. ‘The nominations went a-begging, and, with the exception of Messrs. Seward and Merritt, the candidates are a j second or third choice, taken up after men of | greater mark had refused to run. The whole proceedings of the Convention | bear the impress of weakness. The candi- | dates it preferred have no confidence in the | success of the party and refused to be put on ; a ticket destined in all probability to be | beaten, The excellent resolution against a third term was like throwing a part of the | cargo overboard to lighten the sinking ship. | The dragging in of the school question by ' the ears is like the desperate clutching of a | drowning man ata stray chip in the hope that | it might keep him afloat. The fifty thousand | democratic majority of last year is not likely | to be overcome by such desperate expedients, | in the face of the strong popularity of Gov- | ernor Tilden, which his democratic and | republican enemies are alike constrained to | recognize. | A Model Democrat. | In 1865 a man named Richard Hamp- ; ton broke the shop window of a harm- course has been adopted with two objects. | Jess watchmaker in Woolwich, England. | | He was sent to prison for nine months, | and on the very day of his discharge returned | to Woolwich and smashed the same window. odium under which it staggers in conse-|Phis time the Court gave him eighteen | months; and once more, on the day his sen- | tence expired, he returned and again broke in the same window. His third sentence was for ten years; but the other day he was, for good conduct, discharged on a ticket of leave, having served nearly eight years. Promptly, forthe fourth time, he went straight to Woolwich, and once more smashed the same window, and being thereupon brought into court for a fourth sentence, he remarked that he would break that window as often as he got the chance, for the rest of his life. He is in for another ten years. His talent | is wasted in England. There they send him | to the treadmill. Here he would change his name to Pendleton and run the democratic | party in Ohio. If Boss Kelly could get hold | of him he would make him a Sachem of Tam- many at once. He is just the stuff of which the democratic party has made its leaders for about twenty years. In all that time the party, as well as the leaders, have been going continually to the ‘demnition bow-wows.” But every time they are ‘‘sent up” Salt River they vow, like poor Richard Hampton, that they ‘will smash that window whenever they have a chance.” Ex-Corporation Couyse, Surrx put in his bid yesterday for some federal appointment by making a speech in the Saratoga Conven- tion against the anti-third term plank of the platform. He came to grief in the Conven- tion; but as he did not aim to influence its decision, but only to attract the favorable notice of the President, it remains to be seen whether he did a good thing for himself. Having been turned out of two offices for malversation he naturally covets | another, but he has probably miscalculated. If President Grant rewards him for his futile service in standing in ‘‘the imminent, deadly breach,” it will be such an open confession of third term aspirations as will make his | self-denying letter ridiculous’ President | Grant is ambitious, but he is not a fool. He is not likely to bestow a fat office on a twice | disgraced functionary for an unsuccessful | attempt to stem the tide of public opinion. He has no reason to be proud of his solitary, superserviceable champion. Poor Smith! Mornrssry is by no means knocked out of time. He is on his feet, and will be found | hopping round the political ring at Syracuse; and, unless the leopard has changed his spots there will be some vigorous blows struck right and from the shoulder before Mr. Morrissey is disposed of. There will be quaking and shaking among the Tammany braves when he appears on | the grounds and growls his dissatisfaction at his boastful efforts by pledging the republi- can nominees to give their faithful support to every honest attempt at reform. They say, | further, that “the guilty offenders in the management of the canals should be brought to speedy punishment, and the Executive, under the powers already conferred upon him, should suspend all officers who have violated the laws.” This is meant as an inculpation of the Gov- ; Canal Commissioner Sweet. Their resolu- tions are all very well; but, unfortunately for | the republicans, Governor Tilden has got a | long start of them in the race for reform, | and have dragged into the canvass an excit- ing question, whose agitation will be purely | mischievous, as it is introduced without any | The common schools are in no danger from Catholic influence, licans would have passed that necessity. | immediat | and the repu subject in silence if they had not been con- | sciously weak on the proper issues of the | canvass. The best way to endear the com- mon schools to the people is to make them, excellent and forbear to inflame religious animosity against them, There are tens of thousands of Catholic families who send their children to these schools, and the prac- ernor for not suspending the democratic , | the course pursued by Mr. John Kelly. | Cnantry Ross.—The trial of Westervelt | for his connection with the abduction of | Charley Ross has developed some important testimony that, if supported, will probably se- | eure his conviction on the charges brought against him. The web of evidence has been skilfully woven around him, and at present there seems little chance of escape. It may be, after all, that the mystery of Charley | Ross’ disappearance will be cleared up and the parties implicated in his abduction brought to justice. The testimony of Mrs, Peer, if not disproved, disposes of Wester- velt completely. Licutnrsa Maris.—The Post Office au- | thorities are waking up to the need which | exists for the more rapid distribution of mail matter, and, having been shown by the Heratp how the reform could be effected, have set to work to organize for the | public benefit fast mail trains modelled on | our Lightning Express, which during the summer months brings the Henanp with astonishing speed to the dwellers in distant watering places. It is creditable to the Post Office authorities that they do not hesitate to follow the lead of private enterprise in their efforts to promote the interest of the public service, enough, but the democratic party will adopt | Mr. Roberts on His Knees. The Hon. Elis H. Roberts, editor of the Utica Herald, one of the ablest as well as one of the most unappreciated statesmen of the republican party, is dissatisfied with its attitude in reference to the third term. In @ recent article in the Utica Herald he calls upon the Saratoga Convention to declare “that the republican party is unalterably opposed to a third Presidential term for any man, whether it be the present President or any who may come after him.” Mr. Roberts shows that among the leading republican journals in the State sixteen are in favor of such a resolution and three are opposed to it. “The policy of silence,” he says, “is the policy of cowardice, Let every paper speak as its mind prompts it and as it understands the people to feel.” - If Mr. Roberts had shown as much anxiety to meet the third term issue when it first came before the country, when he was a leader in the republican party in full ofli- | cial position, a prominent member of the | House of Representatives and high in the _ confidence of the President, he would not now be on his knees before the leaders beg- ging them to destroy an issue for which they are altogether responsible. When he quotes the “sixteen republican journals” in favor of this resolution and three opposed to it he | does not rightly express the true feeling of | his party. Two of the journals opposed to the resolution are those edited by the | Hon. John M. Francis, formerly Minister to | Greece, and the Hon. Hugh J, Hastings, suc- | cessor to Thurlow Weed as the Mentor of the republican party in this State. It is very certain that any political measure which is | sustained by Mr. Francis and Mr. Hastings | will not be without great strength among the followers of the organization. Since the re- tirement of Mr. Weed from active political life it is well known that Mr. Hastings has been the Nestor of the republican party, the power behind the throne, and that the power that Mr. Weed formerly held in Albany is now wielded by the ex-Minister to Greece. Mr. Francis and Mr. Hastings are shrewd men. They are old politicians. They know the pulse of the people. They are not apt to be carried away by the noiso of any “sixteen republican journals,” country or metropolitan. They have advised ‘the policy of silence.” The Con- vention will accept it, and we fear that the prayers and tears of Mr. Roberts will little avail. The Convention at Saratoga will be under the same influence which controlled the last Republican Convention. Its mem- bers will care more for the beck of Mr. Conkling's little finger than for a hundred supplications of Mr. Roberts. If they really believe in the party and in its future they will certainly take the advice which Mr. | Roberts at this eleventh hour so urgently proffers. It is not enough to pass a tepid, meaningless declaration like that which we had from Maine and Minnesota. We want a resolution declaring a third term or a second term incompatible with the true spirit of republicanism. We want, above all things, an expression of opinion from this Convention as to which of our eminent citizens it desires to nomi- nate as its candidate for the Presidency. If New York republicans are honest in desir- ing to defeat a-third term let them name their own candidate. Let them name Mr, Conkling, Mr. Morgan, General Dix, or Mr. Pierrepont, or Mr. Roberts even, so they put themselves upon the record squarely. The voice of a New York Convention pre- senting some one of ourown eminent citi- zens as its candidate for the Presidential nomination would do more toward destroying the third term issue than anything that could be devised. Do not imitate Pennsylvania, where a nominal candidate was presented, a man of straw, practically, good enough to | stand up until the National Convention meets and then to be pulled down for Grant. Nothing is easier to do than what should be done by the republicans at Saratoga. But we shall be surprised beyond measure if Mr. Conkling, Mr. Cornell or Mr. Murphy have the courage to be both braveand wise. As it is we think the party will be governed by the foresight of John M. Francis and Hugh J. Hastings rather than by the tears of Ellis H. Roberts. Light in Dark Places. The investigation into the causes of crime in this city is likely not to be wholly barren of results. Before the labors of the commit- tee charged with this important work have been brought toa close light will have been thrown on many dark spots in the public service. Yesterday some evidence was pro- duced which went clearly to show that much of the unpunished crime of this city is due to the corruption or incompetence of the District Attorney's office. This is a state of things that demands immediate attention. Every consideration of public policy de- mands that so important a branch of the de- partment of justice should be relieved from the suspicion of sympathy with the criminal classes. The evidence so far adduced points to the fact that against influential criminals the law is powerless. It is no wonder, under such a lax administration of justice, that erime should be rampant and murder an every day occurrence. Reform is needed here of a thoroughly radical and sweeping character, for under the present system neither life nor property can be considered safe while the very officers appointed to pun- ish crime use their powers to shield the crim- inal from the vengeance of the law, } { Tae Kixospnicx Roav.—The owners of won a substantial victory in their conference with the Aldernsnic Committee on Roads, As the persons most interested, they de- manded that the work of grading and mac- adamizing the road should be done by con- tract rather than by day’s work. This claim was conceded on the part of the Aldermania committee, and it is probable the work will be done under the direct supervision of the people who will have to pay for it. Betta Jonzs’ Dzatn.—The testimony given by Mr. John Moore in the case of Bella Jones’arrest shows clearly the necessity for a careful investigation into the causes that led to the death of that unfortunate woman. On the side of the policemen accused of using violence to the girl while conducting her to the police station there are not want- ing witnesses to declare that no wrong was done; but Mr. Moore details the scenes of the arrest with an exactitude and apparent truthfulness that gives great weight to his testimony, Argonauta vs. Atalanta. The uncertainties of boat racing have been seldom more obvious than yesterday after- noon on the Kill von Kull. Which is now the champion four-oared amateur crew of America is not easy to say. At ten minutes before six o'clock last evening it was the Atalanta crew, of Harlem; at ten minutes after six o'clock it was the Argonauta, of Bergen Point. Twice recently, without ap- parent difficulty, the former have beaten the latter, and now, though in good condition, they in turn are defeated quite as easily. A new proof has been added of the danger of tackling an enemy on his own ground. To say nothing of the running down of the Atalantas and the wrenching of an outrigger just before the race, the swirling, rushing waters of the Kill, ploughed occasionally into surf by passing steam- boats, brought a new and valuable ex- perience to the Atalanta Club; To dash through a ferry swash in a twenty-inch boat, eight inches deep, at a hot pace, is no easy thing to do, and a feat at which the Argonan- tas are plainly better than the Atulantas. Each club seemed to row the race in the way it had before marked out. The men of the Harlem, caring little for the start, settled promptly into their usual stroke, and rowed it with tolerable steadiness to the end, while the men-of the Kill, with a cousin of the Ward brothers at the bow, at once, after the fashion of that famous blood, made a terrific dash for the lead, got it, and would not be de- prived of it. This latter plan works well with the well-seasoned professional, but is hazard- ous for the amateur, simply because he has very seldom the stamina to row a hard race after such trying work in the first mile. But a more important question suggested by this contest is whether—as one of these crews is probably the fastest amateur four now together in the country—we can safely trust our interests with it in the races on the Schuylkill River early next July. A novelty in American rowing is promised then, no less than the advent of the flower of the whole rowing navy of Europe. Can either of these New York crews then do for the best of the foreign oarsmen what our rifle team did for the Irishmen at Dollymount? Whether they can ar not, both have yet much todo. The work of the Atalantas yesterday was surprisingly rough. The starboard oars often did not strike the water together; the lack of parallelism of the stroke and the man next him was glaringly apparent, and all save the stroke rowed too much with their arms. If this is a fair sample of their row- ing they are evidently in need of rigorous coaching. As to the Argonautas, while work- ing much better together and swinging their bodies harder through the air, yet, notwithstanding the superb way in which their stroke did his work thranghout, they, tike their rivals, not only do too much arm- work, but almost entirely fail to get the ad- ditional good they would if they rowed as Ostrom, of Corneil, rows—namely, by throw- ing their heads far up and back in the last half of the ssroke, It is better to mend these things at once than to delay it, and unless they are mended there is serious danger that, whatever the fact may be before the Cen- tennial meeting, after that event the amateur championship of the world at the oax will re- main for a time at least with the men across the water. More power, too, in the Ar- gonauta boat, and a change of one of the Atalanta men, would create a feeling of more confidence among all who want to see Amer- ica win in the great contest. property along the Kingsbridge road have | Senator Gordon on “Carpet-Baggers.” At a democratic meeting at Holly Springs, in Mississippi, on Monday, Senator Gordon, of Georgia, it is reported, urged the negroes to join the democrats and help them to “drive out the carpet-baggers.” He meant, we suppose, to expel them from power in the State; and we refer to his remarks only to say that he blunders in his denunciation of “carpet-baggers,” which is a term applied in Mississippito all Northern men. The present State government of Mississippi is corrupt and inefficient to the utmost degree, and all good citizens should be brought together for its overthrow at the polls. But the State con- tains a large number of Northern men, “carpet-baggers,” “so-called, who are men of relations of life. It is rank folly in the democrats to repel these from their party by such foolish denunciations as this of Senator Gordon. There are Northern men holding important public offices in Mississippi who are men of honor and culture, and these ought not to be rashly de- nounced. The democrats could easily carry Mississippi if they acted with wisdom and moderation. The majority of the white republicans in the State are opposed to the present republican rulers. But when, on the same Monday Senator Gordon denounces “carpet-baggers” at Holly Springs, and some of his fellow democrats break up a negro meeting at Clinton and “go out gunning” after black men, do they really fancy them- selves taking the best means to conciliate their opponents and win votes for the demo- cratic party? We have before us as we write a private letter from a Mississippi republi- can, who complains bitterly of the reckless corruption of those who control the republi- can organization there, but asks how he and those who feel with him can go to the demo- cratio side, when they are constantly de- nounced as ‘“scalawags” or ““carpet-bag- gers” and covered with insult. These Mis sissippi democrats are just now doing a good deal to make a “third term” possible and to cause a reaction in the North toward the ex- tremest measures of the radical republican policy. In fact, they could not do more if they were hired and paid by Senator Morton, Rarston’s Mumony.—San Francisco last night paid a high tribute to the memory of the late Mr. W. C. Ralston, whose tragic death is still fresh in the public mind. The deceased financier left after him many and warm ftiends, It is not, therefore, to be wondered at that the demonstration last night was an immense success, It was provoked by the uncharitable conduct of two prominent San Francisco journals in attacking with great bitterness the dead financier's life, How bitterly the friends of substance, honest and honorable in all the | 5) ERE at Ca eae T the Ralston family resent this can be judged from the resolutions passed by the meeting and the active measures of retaliation they have resolved on. Perhaps the best tribute that can be paid tothe memory of the late Mr. Ralston is the warm and large hearted interest shown by his fellow citizens in his good name, Banks and Trust Companies. ‘The unfortunate suspension of the Bank of California was caused by the managers loaning the funds in possession of the bank in ways which locked them up, so that when confidence was shaken the bank could not get its loans in and had to stop. Bank capi- tal cannot safely be applied to such purposes. A bank loans not only its own capital, but the money left with it by depositors, This is all right ; but the most serious duty of a banker is to lend only on perfectly good se- curity and on such short time as will enable him at all times to command a quick return of his loans, It is said that some of our banks and trust companies have of late been revising their list of loans, and begin to take a prudent tack. We hope this is true, It is of very great importance that our banking institu- tions of all kinds shall be managed with con- spicuous care. It would be a seriovs matter if any of our banks should be so itapradent as to involve themselves in the specu- lative operations of Wall street just now, when cautious men are with- drawing because the risk is too great, and when a break may happen any day at the will of the speculator who uses the street for his own purposes. For the mere stock gamblers no one need care, but the sound condition of our banks, trust com- panics and other institutions of credit is of vital importance to the whole community, and a general belief that they were lending their funds for the purpose of an extremely hazardous speculation would help to shake confidence and might precipitate a disaster, dangerous to them as well as to the general community, New Junsery's Exxcrion.—New Jersey has adopted all the proposed constitutional amendments except the taxation of mort- gages. The most exciting feature of the contest was the struggle over the education - question, The Catholic priests made great efforts to have the amendment relating to the public schools voted down, but they were not heartily supported even by their congre- gations. Considerable dissatisfaction was caused by the introduction of politics into the pulpit, and many prominent Catholics re- sented the interference of the priests by voting and urging others to vote against them. Carpinan McCrosxkey was yesterday re- ceived by the Pope with great cordiality. The arrival of the first American who has reached the dignity of cardinal was a re- markable event in Rome, and was madea subject for congratulation by the assembled. prelates. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Count de St. Paul, of Paris, is sojourning at the Al- bemarle Hotel. Very Rev. J. Hickey, of Pittsburg, is staying at the St, Nicholas Hotel. ® An inventor in Paris advertises a wash that will turn common cats into Angoras, Naval Constructor W. L. Hanscom, United States Navy, is registered at the Astor House. Major L. L, Dawson, of the United States Marino Corps, is quartered at the Hoffman House. Rev. C. M. Wines, of Cleveland, and Rev. W. T. Johnston, of Baltimore, aré at the Hoffman House. Brevet Brigadier Genoral Isracl Vogdes, United States Army, 1s stopping at the Union Square Hotel, Mr. Nicolas de Voigt, Russian Chargé d’ Affaires at Washington, has apartments at the Clarendon Hotel. Harpers’ Weekly says there is a “suspicion of corrup- tion in the public service.” This needs investigation. Professor Spencer F. Baird, United States Commis« sioner of Fisheries, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rustem Effendi, Second Secretary of the Turkish Le- gation at Washington, is residing at the Albemarle Hotel, Captain Aufry, Naval Attaché of the French Lega- tion at Washington, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House, Mr. J. H. Devereaux, President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, is at the St. Nicho- las Hotel. United States District Attorney D. T. Corbin, of South Carolina, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Caprera has had a sensation in the departure ofa company of Garibaldians for Herzegovina, Garibaldi remains at home to “{ullow later.” ‘The Paris Figaro publishes for the benefit of duelliste miniite instructions how to get to Longwy by train. So the season is apparently about to commence. Sefior Don Adolfo Ybaiicz, the recently appointed Chilian Minister at Washington, arrived from Liverpoot in the steamship Bothula yesterday, and is at the Clar- endon Hotel. Earl Russell will subscribe £50 to help the Christian revolt against Turkey. Earl Russell is the foremost of the three tailors of Tooley street, and his opinions, consequently, are important, “ The Journal des Connaissances Medicales reports a cure by bromide of potassium of a case of apparent hydrophobia—bydrophobic symptoms in a man wha had been bitten by a rabid dog. Thiers complained that the sunshine hurt his eyes and a friend proposed blue spectacles. “Change the color of my spectacles!” said the veteran, “Oh, not The country would be agitated for a month,” Mr. Nicholas R, O’Conor, Second Secretary of the British Legation at Washington, has taken up his resi- dence at the Westmoreland Hotel. Mr. O’Conor will shortly sail for Rio Janeiro, to fill a position in the British Legation in Brazil, Harpers’ Weekly thus pronounces against Grant aa @ candidate:—‘In every point of view, therefore, with perfect remembrance of the President's past services and the most grateful respect for them, he scems to ua unquestionably the weakest and not tho strongest republican candidate.”” Governor Leslie, of Kentucky, is reported to have given the title of Colonel and @ position on his stall to his nephewy aged six months, Perhaps there is na saiary, and it may be only the Governor's little joke— anintimation that that sort of staff oficer is just aa useful to a governor as any other. We understand that the Queen bas presented a half. length portrait of herself to Mra. Tredwell, of Mineola, in the United States, Mrs, Tredwell is tho widow of an American physican who died two years ago, leaving be- hind him a number of papers and old documents, While searching among these not long ago Mrs, Tred- well camo across a lotter written to a Miss Campbell by the governess to the children of George III, The letter contained glowing descriptions of the six princes and threo princesses of the royal family, all of whom were especially praised for their ‘“deportment.” The letter was in many respects a uniquely interesting ono, and Mrs. Tredwell sent it to Her Majesty, who appears ta have been much interested in the document, Mra, ‘Tredwell has now received an acknowledgement of her present from Buckingham Palace, through the British Legation at Washington, accompanied by the photo. graph we havo alluded to, It is enclosed in a bronze framo, with fnely wrought bronze doors, and contains the following inseription:—‘In recognition of the gift, by Mra, Tredwell, of an old family letter, dated 1774, in which is @ most interesting description of the children of George ILL, written by thatr govornggs, "Athena,