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

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P Broadway and Twenty LaR, at 5 P.M. Mr. GILMORE'S 8U late Barnum's Hippodrome. CERT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 ¥ MER GARDEN, RAND POPULAR CON- TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1875, | already brought disaster to the country NEW The Legal Tender Meeting. not an eminent success. + None of the famous names who were to nationalize the move- ment were to be seen. the chair, and Theodore Tomlinson made a fluent and well-delivered address, There were three or four indifferent people to speak, and a letter from Wendell Phillips to keep them in conntenance. Uncle Dick was, unfortunately, in the chair, else we should have had his famous clam-shell theory. The truth is the shadow of a great | reaction in favor of sound money rested upon | the meeting, and its projectors had to con- | tend against the adverse influences of both republican and democratic hard money plat- | forms in this State, and against the action of | the Massachusetis democrats on Wednesday. | But the meeting is useful, for it encourages | the discussion among the people of a question which has been very greatly misrepresented. The Pennsylvania demoeratic platform, fol- lowing that of the Ohio democrats, asserts | that ‘the contraction of the money currency | and cireulating medium heretofore made by the republican party, and the further con- traction proposed by it, with a view to | forced resumption of specie payments, has | and threatens general bankruptey. We | demand that this policy be abandoned,” and so on. | It is true that the country is not in a prosperous condition. The reasons for this | it is important to ascertain; and if it is | a fact that the currency has been seriously contracted, and that it is this contraction which brought upon us the general pros- tration of industry and business, the New York Legal Tender Club and the Ohio and Pennsylvania democraty perform an important public service in calling the atten- tion of the people to the matter. For it is of the greatest importancefat the country shall be prosperous ; it is of the utmost moment to remove every cause which hinders a re- vival of industry and a renewal of prosperity. Unfortunately for them the major premise of their political syllogism is false, and the minor one is too, for that matter ; but with the first their whole statement falls to the ground. They speak of ‘the contraction of the money currency and circulating medium heretofore made by the republican party,” and in this assertion they show either the most astonish- ing ignorance or an equally surprising de- pendence on the ignorance of the people. For the plain truth is that the republican party, so far from contracting the currency, has, since the accession of General Grant, almost continually expanded it. Official tables show that we have to-day in circulation, in round numbers, $769,000, 000 of paper money, while we had in 1873 but $740,000,000, in 1872 only $731,000,000, in 1871 but $711,000,000, in 1870 only $683,000,000, and so on. In 1868, the year before General Grant’s accession, the cur- rency amounted to $678,000,000. Since that time, instead of being contracted, as these democrats pretend, it has been steadily ex- panded to its present volume of $769,000,000, with but two years in which there has been a trivial contraction—in 1869 of $2,000,000, and in 1874 of $8,000,000. Unluckily for the inflationists, but for- tunately for the country, their misstate- ment may be used to fix the attention of the people upon the fact that the general depression of industry and business cannot be owing to a contraction of the currency, and thus they may prove to have rendered a real service to the country. There is no dovbt that industry has been and still is From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and clear. Tae Fast Mam. Trarys.—Newsdealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, North and Southwest, along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Penn- sylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tue Heraxn, free of post- age, by sending their orders direct to this office. Warn Srrezr Yesterpay.—One hundred dollars of currency at the close of the market was worth only $85 83. Gold opened and closed at 116}. Money on call rated at 2} and 3 percent. Foreign exchange was quiet. Investment securities firm. ‘Tae Arnoctovs Mvrper in Westchester in- terests the police, and we learn that there are new developments. Various important clews have been found, but as yet there is no definite theo: Ms that the Prince Imperial is e a tour of the world—first, to complete his education, and second, to keep him out of harm's way in the event of a new movement in behalf of the Empire. We shall be glad to see His Imperial Highness, America has always had a liking for the Bo- napartes, and will give hospitality to any who bear the name. AccorpINc To THE Spanish ConnesroxpENtT of the London Times the aspect of affairs in Spain is more hopeful. The advent to power of liberals, whose hands are clean and having & reputation for talent and integrity, is some- thing new in Spain. The people are weary of incessant change; and if, as is reported, the | army supports the new Ministry, we may look for a State government at last. Cuter or Bartarion John W. Miller has made a report to the Fire Commissioners upon the recent fire ladder disaster. The report reads like a whitewashing document, ; and will be far from satisfactory to the peo- ple. The verdict of the Coroner's jury is | much more to the purpose, and censures the Commissioners for not having submitted the | ladders to a scientific and practical test. The whole business was a job, and a distressing | job in the fact that it caused the death of so | many brave men. We Part elsewhere an interesting letter from London, giving the latest details of the British Arctic expeditions. It will be seen that the vessels have gone on without acci- dent or hindrance, and that all accounts are satisfactory. Our correspondent gives us an interesting picture of life in these far north | lands, and a clear narrative of the pains taken by the government to secure the re- sults of the inquiry. If science and skill depressed, though there are signs of a revival of business, But nothing can be more certain than that the misfortunes of the country did not come from con- traction—because there has been no con- traction. In 1869 the country was pros- perous; now, it is umprosperous. But in 1869 we had $676,000,000 of currency afloat, and to-day we have $769,000,000. In 1854 the country was prosperous, with a cir- culation, specie and paper, of $445,000,000, or $16 80 per head of our then population; in 1859 the country was prosperous, with a cir- culation of $468,000,000, specie and paper, or $15 30 per head of our then population; in 1874 it was depressed and suffering, with $777,000,000, or $18 per head of the popula- tion. Surely, it is absurd to assert that a lack of currency has anything to do with the general depression. Not only has the cur- rency been steadily expanded, but we have more to-day per head of the population, without reckoning thé gold which circulates in California and Texas, than we had before the war. One of the causes of the depression lies, undoubtedly, in the character of our cur- rency. It is a fraud—a broken promise to pay money. So long as it retains that char- acter, so long as it remains irredeem- able, it will continne to disturb confi- dence and disable enterprise and industry | in spite of a continuous inflation. And | this less on account of its volume than be- | cause it will constantly be the sport of dem- | agognes and tinkerers in conventions and in its value is a mat- | | ter depending upon the humor of the | people at the elections, or the manipula- | | tion of Congress by legislation. Before | enterprise before confidence can be restored, before capital can be in- | | | Congress; because can revive, duced to invest in manufactures, before busi- | ness can become lively, we need to have the currency so established that its value shall | | not pe affected by resolutions of political | tion of industry. Another and potent cause | The legal tender meeting last night was | is to be found in the bursting df the great | railroad bubble in 1873, We had been build- | ing railroads in the wilderness for a number Unele Dick was in | of years, largely on land grants, subsidies | | and bonds issued or guaranteed by States, | counties, cities and even townships. Enor- | mous sums were thus spent, or rather wasted ; | and this was not all. Thousands of families | | were moved upon new lines of railroad, and at high prices, only to find that when the the reach of a market for their products. In every way money was wasted in the work of building railroads. But in the manufacture of iron in all those branches used by stimulus; the iron mills, foundries and forges were all busy ; the thousands of peo- ple who were employed in them, and the other thousands who depended on them, and the still other thousands who sold them their supplies, all were enriched. became so great and the industries depend- ing on or profiting by it were so numerous an artificial and false prosperity. capital earned, but borrowed money.- When at last they could borrow no more they sud- denly stopped. What was the result? First, the thousands of men who had been used in building the railroads were discharged, and the other thousands of farmers, manufac- turers and shopkeepers who had supplied these with the aries and luxuries of life in turn lost the market for their products. Then, secondly, the demand for railroad iron—not track bars alone, but the whole mass of ironmongery needed by railroads— was seriously checked; and, again, other thousands of families were thrown out of em- ployment by the stoppage of mills, foun- dries and machine shops; and, again, still other .thousands—farmers, manufacturers, merchants and shopkeepers—found a heavily diminished market for their products. But with the stoppage of iron mills came the stoppage of coal mining ; with the stoppage of railroad building came a check to the lum- ber business, and in every case loss and diminished trade fell upon the numerous population who live by supplying coal miners, Iumbermen, carpenters, car mak- ers, &c, Between September, 1873, and September, 1875, in less than two years, over one thou- sand millions of railroad bonds in the United States have been declared “failed,” which means that the interest due to their owners has not been paid. How much of this great sum is held here is not known— probably not less than half. This, again, rep- resents a great loss of income, much of which would have been expended; and here again is a loss of market to producers of all kinds. Consumption being thus checked by gen- eral loss, poverty and prostration, con- sequent upon wasteful railroad construc- tion, it is natural that we should have a period of stagnation and hard times. We see one of the fruits of the evil we have de- scribed in the fact that the banks are filled with money lying idle and unused, and loaned by the owners at the lowest rates of interest known in this market for many years. Bat undoubtedly the crisis is pro- longed and its evils are intensified by the fact that we are cursed with an irredeemable currency—a currency, therefore, of uncertain and varying value. This checks enterprise and makes capital—still sore from the blow of 1873—cautious and desponding. If we had a sound currency industry would already begin to revive; for there are many avenues open for the prudent investment of money, if only the owner of it could be cer- tain whether his dollar which he now puts in would be worth fifty cents or a dollar and @ quarter two years from now. ne Frirz Joun Porter opens fire on Comptrol- ler Green, in a letter to the Mayor, which we print elsewhere. It seems that Mr. Green some time since directly charged the depart- ment over which the General presides with extravagance, and with squandering the peo- ple’s money upon unnecessary improve- ments. In response to this General Porter shows that his duty is to administer the laws, not enact them. This he explains at length, and prints also some interesting figures, showing that when Mr. Green was Comptroller and Treasurer of Central Park he applied for the opening and widening of avenues to the amount of $23,248,325 18, The more we examine the record of this man Green the more we see him to be a quack and a pretender. We Pniyt this morning an interesting article from the Journal des Débats, of Paris, giving an account of an interview with M. Thiers at Geneva, The venerable statesman does not lose his faith in France nor the Republic. He accepts the Republic, not as the government of his choice, but as the only government that means peace. He proposes to write a book, to be published after his death, as a sort of testament of his opinions. M. Thiers will write a clever and bright, if not a sound, work. We print tht letter of the Bonapartist Admiral in favor of the Em- pire, for the writing of which he was deprived of his command. It reads like a harmless docu- ment, and the fact that it should stir France to her depths shows the feverish condition of | the country. Tue Interestine Question of defaulted conventions or by debates in Congress, and | that can be done only by making it redeem- able in coin. There is no other way to give it interchangeable at the will of the holder for a gold or silver dollar, And there is no other way to re-establish the country in pros- perity, to set our mills and factories and thousand industries going again, than to give be affected by any circumstance whatever, There are members of the New York Legal Tender Club, probably, with the present prostration: because there has been no contraction, and because, to-day, the currency is so redundant that millions of dollars of it lie idle in banks. But the condition of the currency—not its and enterprise can solve the mystery of the Pole it will be solved now. a paper dollar a constant value than to make | to the dollar a constant value, not liable to | who will not see this plain truth; but even these must | Provinces is of no special interest. Dervish admit that contraction has nothing to do | Pacha is reported to have entered Piva, lately railway bonds was considered at a meeting | of the holders of first mortgage bonds of the | Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad held yes- \terday. The main point of the discussion | was o lively denunciation of the State of | Alabama. This whole question of defaulted | bonds must sooner or later be considered. It | nearly involves the honor of our country, and we cannot expect any return of our | cxedit until it is settled upon some basis honorable to all. Tue News rrom tum Revourep Turnisn occupied by the insurgents, without resist- ance. Of more significance, perhaps, is the statement that the Servian Minister of War has ordered troops to the Bosnian frontier, This moving of troops while making strong contraction, but its undue and unfortunate | professions of neutrality is slightly sus- |, @kansion—is only one couse of the prgstra, | picious, spent their savings for worthless land bought | road was completed they were left beyond | the meantime | railroads received a remarkable | The business | | YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. | Common Sense in the Pulpit. Every now and then an impetuous clergy- man makes up his mind that it is his duty to “reform the press.” He reads a newspaper, and finds an editorial, or a news extract, or a letter from a correspondent somewhere, which does not suit him, and he walks into the pulpit and denounces the press as a vile institution, and calls upon the faithful to dis- countenance the special newspaper which has offended him. ‘There is se: ya month | in which some one of the newspapers is not under discipline of this kind. Not long since the Hexarp was submitted to a severe | reprimand by Catholic and Protestant clergy- | men alike. When we came to look into | the matter we found that we offended the | | Catholics by publishing a report of the open- ing of the Masonic Temple on Twenty-third street, and by inserting among our reports of sermons those of Mr, Frothingham and other divines. When we looked into the com- | plaints of the Protestants we discovered that we had given prominence to a report of the imposing of the berretta upon the American é * | Cardinal, and that our editorial staff was | that the whole country felt the stimulus of | composed of ‘Jesuits and Irishmen in the pay , . | of the Pope,” and that nothing would give The railroad projectors were using not | the Hrranp more satisfaction than to see the streets of New York running with the blood of heretics massacred by the faithful. The truth is that there is scarcely a news- paper published from one end of the year to the other that will not, if critically con- sidered, give offence to somebody in the com- munity. The politician objects to the way his speech is reported. The buyer of one set of shares is offended because the money column reports another set as going up or going down. Gentlemen who find them- selves in the hands of the police are grieved at the license of the press which reports their arraignment and trial among the police proceedings. The sympathizer with France is offended at letters from Berlin, and the believer in German unity mourns over de- spatches from Paris. The newspaper thus offends some one, just as the weather, rainy to-day and sunshiny to-morrow, is sure to annoy somebody. The common sense view is that the newspaper is the history of yes- terday written to-day ; that itis the mirror of the time, and that those who conduct it care nothing for religious denominations except to do them justice. The purpose animating not only the Hrnarp, but every respectable journal, is to encourage and fos- terall religious beliefs, leaving to each clergy- man the defence of his partieularcreed. Into the questions of doctrine it is not our province to go. When clergymen comment upon civil affairs, and we find a morbid, impatient officiousness on the part of fervent divines to bring civil affairs under the control of the church, itis then our duty to remon- strate, not so much on behalf of the State as in the interest of true religion, which is al- ways injured by these efforts. Ina country where there is perfect equality of faith and absolute freedom of conscience the press and the pulpit have a similar mission. We have as much pride in the advancement of America in the development of intelligence and mbrality and the elevation of this people to the highest standard among nations as any clergyman, whether he serves the Pope or General Assembly. And this we may say of the press universally. The common sense view of this question is that the press and the pulpit have a common aim. They assist each other. They are among the pillars of our civilization. Upon their freedom we depend largely for our liberty. The Development of New Storm Cen- tres. The extended observations of the Signal Service Bureau indicate that two new storm centres are being developed, one in the North- west and another over the West India Islands. Our attention has been attracted during the past two days toa marked fall in the baro- metric pressure over the territory of the Upper Missouri River, accompanied by a very decided rise of temperature. Up to mid- night on Wednesday there was every reason to believe that a serious storm was develop- ing, which would follow the usual course for those in our northern latitudes—over the lakes and through the St. Lawrence Valley. Toward noon yesterday the area of low barometer began to move northeastwardly, transferring the centre of disturbance to the north of Lake Superior, so that in its eastward passage it would travel over the northern portions of the Canadian territory unless some change of the atmospheric conditions influenced a more southerly course. How- ever, the tendency of all these Northwestern storms to seek a path over the humid area of the lakes will, without doubt, attract the storm centre southward again, and its course will be over Northern Michigan toward Buffalo, and thence through the St. Law- rence Valley. Although the movement of this disturbance possesses great interest, on account of the danger it creates in lake navigation, we are still more impressed with the gravity of the meteorological indications in the Gulf of Mexico, where there are unmistakable evidences of the development of another cyclone, somewhere southeast of Cuba. Simul- taneously with the northward movement of the storm centre in the Upper Missouri region a marked barometric depression be- came apparent in Florida, as if the entire atmospheric body covering the United States was pressed northward by an irresistible ment during yesterday and the attendant phenomena are an exact repetition of those which preceded the appearance of the late cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico, The difli- culty of obtaining reports from Cuba and the few stations scattered among the West India Islands, while observations are being taken on our coast, leaves the Signal Office in doubt as to the character and extent of the disturb- ances indicated by the isobars of low pros- sure on our continent. We are, therefore, awaiting advices from Santiago de Cuba and Barbados, which lie directly in the track of cyclones, and, although the intelligence will necessarily reach us after the passage of the storm at these points, we will be able to pre- dict its probable course, as, wo did in the case of the Texas cyclone, We have accurately noted every feature of the recent cyclone and chronicled its progress and effects from the time it made its appearance at Santiago de | Sout to that of its disappearance off the At- force acting from the southward. This move- | the readers of the Herarp with the fullest and most timely information on a subject so intimately associated with the great and growing interests of commerce, we will con- tinue to closely watch and promptly notice any meteorological changes indicating the development or approach of storms. Life Insurance. The stability of life insurance is of such extreme importance to the hundreds of thonsands of families who depend in ao greater or less degree upon it for security against sudden, poverty or dire misfortune that in most of our States commissioners, who ought to be and oftenest are skilled men, are appointed to watch over the management of companies, to examine their assets from time to time and to prohibit companies not solyent or doing business in an un- satisfactory way from entering the State. Aside from this safeguard, the competition of companies, the. watchfulness of actuaries and the occasional investigations of stock- holders, who are generally the insured, all combine to keep the managers of companies on their guard, to force them to adopt im- provemengs and to “lead them to maintain a conservative course in all the details of their business, which is their highest duty. Every man whe keeps a watchful eye on the management of this great interest does a public service, and such a meeting as that of the Insurance Commissioners of different States, which has been in session in this city for some days, is of great importance. The address of Mr. Finch, of Indiana, will prob- ably attract a good deal of attention, but some of his views will be contested by most of the actuaries and other experts. He errs, it seems to us, in making the interest of the companies hostile to those of the insured. Tn fact, most of the life insurance companies of this country are now conducted on the mutual system, in which the company is | managed for the benefit of the assured and not for that of stockholders. He appears to think that some wrong is done to persons in- suring their lives, because a great many of them discontinue their payments. But as they insure voluntarily and drop their insur- ance at will also it is difficult to see how they low democrats in Massachusetts, California Maine, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Mary- land and Nebraska stand shoulder to shoul- der with them in opposition to Ohio and Pennsylvania, That is to say, the democrats of nine States, one of them New York, de- clare for hard money. The democrats of two States shout for inflation. It certainly does not look so well for the Rag Baby” as. it did six weeks ago, The End of the Liberal Party. The gathering of mourners at Albany to perform the last solemn rites over what was once the liberal republican party was an en- tirely decorons proceeding and marked with propriety and good taste, There was quite a gathering, considering the season and the fact that Albany is never a tempting place, not even when the Legislature is in session. It was pleasant to see old faces coming to the front—the old reformers, the chatn- pions of electoral puri nd good govern- ment, the time-honored warriors in an always inviting but rarely winning cause. There was that effervescent statesman, General John Cochrane, as frisky and cheerful as though he were not the hero of a hundred defeats; and there was Benjamin F. Manierre as Secretary and ‘Treasurer, neither of which duties we presume to have been of a too arduous character. There was Fithian, of New York, and D: D. S. Brown and Thomas E, Stewart, and that grand spee- imen of American manhood and unappreci- ated genius and ambition, Frederick A. Conkling. What thé Convention: did docs not much matter; in fact, we can scarcely discover from its resolutions what it did do, except support Governor Tilden. But we missed Littlejohn and Dorsheimey, Fenton and Merritt and Hutchings and other leaders who at the time of the mutiny were at the front. Dorsheimer has gone to the democracy and is now the stand- ard bearer of Tilden in his various progresses through the State. Merritt has been wel- comed back like a prodigal son to the repub- lican fold and supports the administration of Géneral Grant with old-time fervor. Fen- ton is ready to take his seat in the party hack as soon as room. can be found for him; are wronged except by their own voluntary act. vi i Mz. Finch seems also to reverse the posi- tions of the assured and the insurers. In fact, the person who desires to insure his life is the applicant; he has a number of companies to choose from; he has the oppor- tunity to examine the conditions on which they will grant assurance, and if, as Mr. Finch asserts, and as may be true, soli- citors sometimes make ‘undue and unfair representations,” itis the place of the insurer tomake due inquiry, as in any other busi- ness transaction. The solicitor is not a ser- vant of the insurance company, and many companies openly state that they will not be held responsible for the representations or promises of such persons. For the return made by a medical examiner of the condition of an insured person we believe the compa- nies are held responsible, as they ought to be. It may be added that life insurance companies are very averse to disputing the payment of a claim, because it brings them into ill favor with the public. Nothing would so quickly cripple a company as the fact that it frequently hesitated to pay claims or disputed them. But the private history of any of the great companies will show that they are almost constantly the objectives of swindlers, who attempt to obtain money by fraudulent insurance claims, and it is a duty which managers owe to their constituents to be on their guard against such attempts. Mr. Finch’s suggestion that after five annual payments have been made a company should be debarred from pleading false representations by an insurer is probably sound. Such a regulation would put upon | the companies the just responsibility of satisfying themselves that the representa- tions made are accurate, and would remove a cause of dispute which it is but fair to have | settled while the insured is alive to defend his interest. But, as we said before, life insurance companies are very loath to dispute claims, and when they do juries are very apt to give a verdict against them unless a clear case of fraud is proved. Melancholy Accident to the “Rag | Baby.” | When the Ohio democrats came out for in- flation there is no doubt that they startled | the country. It looked for some weeks as though they had done a very popular thing. | All the big and little paper money people all over the Union simultaneonsly litted up their voices in a shout of approval, and the chorus was quite deafening for awhile. W. D. | Kelley hastened over to Ohio to take part in the inflation movement, but came back even more rapidly than he went. Rumor says he | had boils. Uncle Dick Schell got up on his hind legs in New York and immediately | formed a Legal Tender Club. General ; Butler wrote a letter from Massachusetts to encourage Uncle Dick. Mr. Wendell Phillips appealed for more money, as one of the inalienable rights of mankind, and halfa dozen Southern editors said ditto to Mr. Wendell Phillips, Preparations were made for a great mass inflation meeting in Detroit. Senator Thurman “ducked.” Mr. | Hendricks, seared at the flood, got up on the highest fence he could find in Indiana, Governor Allen publicly swallowed his prin- ciples, and swore he had always kept them for that purpose. General Carey pranced about Ohio on his war steed shouting the battle ory of inflation. Mr. Jefferson Davis, who ought to know better, declared that Congress had no power to resume, Mr. Pendleton and Mr. Washington McLean openly announced that they would control the next Democratic Convention. Finally, the Pennsylvania democrats met at Erie and adopted a financial platform a little worse than that of Allen and Pendleton, and gold went up to 117 1-2, Just then it occurred to somebody that it was time to count the killed and wounded and look at the real condition of the fight, and he discovered to his amazement that it does not look so well for the “Rag Baby,” for the great Detroit meeting was a wretched Hutchings has disappeared from public life, awaiting the old party's summons to come to the front. ‘The liberal party in its day was never much of an organization. Italways impressed usas a kind of blackmailing business, a combina- tion of office-seekers who meant to strike either side for place and to keep on striking until they were all provided. There was never any principle behind it, never any high purpose to animate itscouncils, It had no effect upon the country. It is now little more than a ghost of a party, and we are glad to see it vanish forever from our poli- tics. The true party which, we think, will come out of these discordant, stumbling ele- ments will not be composed of removed Cus- tom House officers and disappointed aspi- rants for federal patronage, but of the best men in the community, who will. come into politics with a sense of duty and in the hope of reforming and strengthening the govern- ment. A Pourrican Inpiscretion.—Only a year ago the republican organs indulged in bitter personal attacks on Senator Fenton, blacken- ing his personal and political character and declaring that he would cast reproach upon any party organization which might be un- fortunate enough to own him as a supporter. Such assaults are always as indiscreet as they are reprehensible; for “politics makes strange bedfellows,” and in these days of loose party ties there is no knowing how soon the political enemy of to-day may be- come a political friend. Senator Fenton now casts his lot with the republicans, and the organs of that party hail his return to the fold. Butthen the denunciations and abuse in which they indulgeda year ago must necessarily be unpleasant doses to swallow. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Advices from Kinderhook stata that Judge John H. Reynolds is dying. Professor Ezra Abbot, of Harvard College, is staying at the Everett House, , Congressman J. H. Burleigh, of Maine, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Professor M. B, Riddle, of Hartford, has taken up his residence at the Grand Hotel, Roar Admiral Charles 8. Boggs, United States Navy, is quartered at the Everett House. Mr. F. 8, Chanfrau, the comedian, is among the late arrivals at the Sturtevant House. Ivador de Mendonne, Brazilian Consul at Balti 3 sojourning at the New York Hotel, United States District Attorney D. T. Corbin, of South Carglina, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Ifotel, Captain W. W. Taylor, of the Kighty-seveath regi- ment, British Army, is rogistered at the Brevoort House, Mr. James R. Partridge, United States Minister to Brazil, arrived at the Windsor Hotel, yesterday. from his home at Baltimore. Mr. H. B. Huribat, Vico President of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad Com. pany, 18 at the Windsor Hotel, Olivier Metra is regarded in Paris aw the legitimate successor of Musard and Strauss, destined to direct the: opera balls in the coming winter. Captain N, W. Wallace, of the Sixticth Rifles, Fight Captain of the British Officers’ Team in the recent cricket tournament in Philadciphia, has apartments.ab the Everett House: The French Minister of Fine Arts has appointed a commission to examine a picture lately discovered. at Orleans, which is believed to be a portrait of Jeanne Are, painted from life by the Scotch painter Power. At the council of the French Cabinet which deliber- ated on the letter to the Bonapartists written, by Ad- miral Ronciére le Noury, it was mentioned that the Ad- miral was also® deputy. MacMahon said:—“But on his ship an admiral {a only an admiral, not a politician, and that must be understood.” Figaro reports that the interview between Gortscha- koff and Thiers was not the result of any desiro of the Prince to see the ex-President, but was arranged by the Princess Lieven at M, Thiers’ request, The same lady endeavored to secure a similar favor for M. Gambetta, but the Chancellor would not see him, Uf Alfonso marries Marie Mercedes, the Duke of Montpensier’s daughter, there will be a lively fight be» tween the Duke and the ex-Queen Isabella, as to which shall be'the real, original, fully authorized powor behind the throne; and the Spanish politics of tho future will be shaped by the result of that combat. Barnaby was intelligent, even for a dog, but when ho was guld and gsont’to the home of anew master he soems not to have understood it, Naturally he ieft on the first opportunity and went again to the only home his affection could recognize, Four times he did this, Four timos he was revurned to the purchaser; and then they shut him in ayoom onthe fifth story—only tho window was open, He looked out of the window aud failure. Mr. Kelley appears to have caught | #¥ the height, Thon he went to the other side of the actab, and is out of the race, The New York democrats have adopted a strong and room and took a running start; and shortly after the po- lice called upon tho people to clean him up from tho sidewalk, Whethor Barnaby miscalculated tho dis. even defiant hard money platform, and they tance, or whother it was a deliberate case of suicide, lgntic coagt Being desixona, of furniahing | aro so far from standing ajoua, that their fala | tho osycholoziste pave pat vot detarminad