The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1875, Page 6

_NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1875. -TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD |*""™" *™* cacpeigenicaiey BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. vient NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henaxp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy: Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youx Henap. . Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL *NO. 6 AMUSEMENTS TO- NIGHT, THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, eweon Thivieth and Thirty: “first streets.— MINSTRELS wad WALLACK'’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—THE OVERLAND ROUTE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. John Gilbert, Miss Ada Dyas, PARISIAN VARIETIES, Sixteenth street and Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. Rew oun MINSTRE INSTITUTE, street.—Day and evening. 20 MINSTRELS, corner of Tweuty-ninth street, BOOTHS THE. BATRE, Tegnty thirds street and Sixth avenue. —PANTOMIME, at 8 OLYMPIC THEATRE, ts Broadway.—VARIETY, at. M.; closes at 10:45 PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second sireet.-THE MIGHTY DOL- Lak, at % P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. EAGLE THEATRE, Broadway and Thirty-third street.—VAKIETY, at 8 P. M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Foi! 128 West Fourteenth strect.—Open F ART, 10'A. M. to S FIFTH AVENU! ae street, nei Brondway.— THAMLET, ats PM. Feloges at 10:90 P. M. Mr. Edwin Booth. WERY THEATRE, Bowery.—JACK SHEPPARD. atS P.M. Mrs. W. C. Jones. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Twenty-third street and Esgith 1a TER TRON MASK, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:40 P. M. HOWE & CUSH foot of Houston street, East rvening. cIRcuUs, Performances day and * GLOBE fos. 728 and 730 Brondway. NSE RAT! NSTRELSY and VARIETY, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtictl: street.—ST SLOCUM, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Matinee at 2 P. M. GERMANIA THEATRE, ot, uear Irving place.—EHRLICHE AR- L Fourteenth street oad Eighth a INTIMES, at 5 P. M. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—German Opera—IL TROVATORE, at 8 P.M. Wachtel. TRIPLE ‘SHEET. NEW YORE, WEDN ESDAY. _OCTOBE R 27, 1875, From our reports s this sdrudag the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and clowly, with rain, followed by cold winds. 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A Lawrr's Oprxion or Reconver Hacxert, which we print in another column, will be found to be exactly the opposite of poor Kelly's. The lawyers who practise in the Recorder's Court are certainly the best judges of his ability on the bench, and Mr. Kint- ting’s tribute to Mr. Hackett’s merits is only the re-echo of the general opinion of the Bar, Grnmayy AND THE Vatican are likely to come to an understanding. The German bishops seem to be tiring in the conflict with the Empire, and Cardinal Antonelli asks their opinion in regard to ending the diffi- culty. Moderation on the part of the Church will lead to concessions from the German government, and then it will be seen how useless have'been the embroilments and bit- verness of the past. “I Beureve Tat tae Wannixos and ex- ce from each past year have been laid to heart during the sueceediny one, and thus sided me in my renewing wishes to serve my constituents by protecting their security of life and property. I had no right to expect a partisan nomination, and I did not ask it, A public officer nominated as I am will, when clected, owe nothing to clique or fac- tion, and cannotincur partisan debts for sub- | sequent payment, even if he were disposed | to liquidate such obligations."—/rom Re corer Hackett’s letter of accentance Seymour's Great Oppor- tunity. We are informed that to-morrow evening the Hon. Francis Kernan, Senator in Con- gress from the State of New York, and the Hon. Horatio Seymour, ex-Governor of the State and ex-candidate for the Presidency, will address the democracy of New York at the Cooper Institute, There are none of our citizens who will be welcomed with more courtesy and attention, They, represent some of the best elements in our politics. Although they belong to a political ring, a close corporation which has headquarters in Utica, with representatives in both parties, which is as extreme in its discipline as Tam- many Hall or the old Albany Regency, and although in this respect are not under the best influences, still their personal character is so high and pure that they will be treated with respect and heard with attention. But what especial business have Kernan and Seymour in New York? It is not here that the State is to be sayed. The issues upon which Governor Tilden hopes for the indorsement of his administration are of only secondary consequence to the people of this city. We are not contending about them. If the vote could be taken to-morrow as to whether the people sustain the Gov- ernor in his war upon the rings, in his efforts to give purity to the State government, in his general management of affairs, he would be sustained by hundreds of thousands, That is not the issue in the metropolis. Upon that question there is really no differ- ence of opinion among our people, no mat- ter what their political affiliations. With the exception of the few scattered remnants of the old Tweed empire who hang around John Kelly, the old corruptionists have gone, In their place we have the same causes which led to the Tammany frauds, and which, un- less reformed now, will bring about similar results. We have the “one man” power, political dictation, secret societies in politics, terrorism, “bosom friendship,” rings, inside and out every phase of polit- ical activity where they can excite the re- sentment of honest men. John Kelly is as much the master of Tammany Hall as was William M. Tweed five years ago. It may be said with truth and justice that there is a great difference between the characters of Kelly and Tweed—that one is an avowed and imprisoned thief; the other a man of integrity. But if John Kelly were Washing- ton himself, if he possessed all the gifts of mind and person and conscience which could have endowed the greatest of men, the system which he controls, which he nourishes from day to day, would none the less be false. Messrs. Kernan and Sey- mour will make speeches full of eloquence and instruction if they will show us how it is possible either for New York to have a good government or for the liberties of the people to be preserved if we are to continue under this iron domination of an irresponsi- ble secret political order. If Kernan and Seymour wish to commend themselves to the affection of the democratic party outside of this State and city, they will raise their voiees against this monstrous sys- tem which now rules in New York and Brook- lyn. They will call upon the democracy of these two great cities to rise in arms against Boss Kelly, on the one side of the river, and Boss McLaughlin on the other. They will remind: democrats of the teachings of the early fathers as to the influence of secret so- cieties in politics, They will call upon the people to break the shackles which are forged in secret committees of Tammany Hall, and which are fastened upon every independent, public spirited democrat. They could paint 4 graphic picture of the sins and follies of the last réyime, and show that, by the very logic of events, so long as this close corpora- tion exists the same trouble will again and again arise. A Tweed will succeed a Kelly as inexorably as a Kelly succeeds a Tweed. The evil is in the system. Until that is changed there is no certainty of good goy- ernment. For we take it for granted that Kernan and Seymour do not come to New York to drag at the chariot wheels of John Kelly. They are not willing followers of Tammany Hall. They cannot ignore the grave facts which surround our political situation. Much as they may respect discipline and courage in political organization, they are abeve the temptations which have bent our politics during the last few years to the will of one man. If Kernan and Seymour should take another view of their duty and confine their speeches to mere echoes of the will of John Kelly and praise of his rule the effect on the country will be disastrous. It is impossible for the democratic party in the nation to win the confidence of the people, if in New York, where it is in absolute power, it generates the fruits of to-day. How can Kernan and Seymour go through the country during the Presidential canvass as the champions of John Kelly? How can they defend the democracy as seen in its ripest expres- sion in New York city? How can they ex- plain the ‘‘one man” tyranny? This secret associhtion which governs our politics, the proscription of independent judges who decline to be political vassals, the violation of every principle of civil service in our gov- ernment, the heaping of taxes upon an op- pressed people, is making the city not merely a disgrace to our civilization but driv- ing it into the rapids of bankruptcy. The year of democratic rule which began with John Kelly's first victory, the election of Wickham—a victory which was to be the opening of a new millennium in our city poli- tics—has been one of the most disastrous and inefficient in our history. John Kelly, master of New York, can point to but one triumph—namely, the release of Coroner Croker. This is his great achievement, Beyond this the city is in a much worse con- dition than it was a yearago. The laborers receive less wages. ‘The streets are in a deplorable condition. Between the Mayor and the Comptroller there is a constant fight, impossible. The whole strength of the dem- is devoted simply to ‘imposing upon Tammany Hall. ‘These are questions that may well meet the attention of Kernan and Seymour, They are leaders in the democratic party. To a large extent they will be responsible for its viotory or its defeat before the country. It would not surprise us if defeat were to de- | oeratié p discipline” which makes ordinary business transactions | pend largely upon cnn they said to-morrow ,to the people of New York. _ If they come as ‘the champions of Hackett and Phelps, of an honest judge and a high-minded public official, if they come to rebuke the attempt to make democracy an absolute monarchy, and to denounce with fervid eloquence the cor- ruptions.of political organizations, they will bewelcome. The true democracy will honor their courage. Their glory will be known throughout the land. Of whatever value speeches of subservience and vassalage may be tothe fortunes of the mercenaries who surround Tammany Hall, and who are struggling for place and pay, the effect upon the great national party of the country will be instant and conclusive. The country has long seen that democracy in New York, as represented by Tammany Hall, is not a Healthy indication of its general system, but a purulent and running sore. It is not pos- sible that Kernan and Seymour will speak without crying out upon it as earnestly as Tilden and O'Conor cried out upon the pol- lutions of Sweeny and Tweed. A Stampede from Tammany. The attempt to crush down nearly one, hundred thousand democratic yoters in the city of New York beneath the stub- born will of one man is bringing forth its legitimate fruit sooner than was an- ticipated. There is a stampede from Tam- many Hall! Every day sees the resignation of some strong, working democrat from the General Committee, who, as one of those who retired from the organization yesterday expresses it, can no longer submit ‘‘to the Mea ice and tyranny of the one man power.” Every democrat who is sincere in his principles and who respects himself hastens to free himself from the shackles with which John Kelly and his handful of servile followers attempt to bind the party. It is the eve of battle and the army of the dictator is thinned by deser- tions. The result can readily be foreseen. A shameful defeat awaits the ruler who has discarded advice, scoffed at expostulation and attempted to compel a great party to be- come the instrament for the gratification of his personal friendships and animosities. The resignations from the General Com- mittee thus far announced embrace the prin- cipal working democrats of these districts. They will be followed by others this week, until Tammany will be shorn of one-third of the strength with which she started on the present canvass. The men who leave the or- ganization now must one and all stamp their condemnation of John Kelly’s management, which has driven them out, by voting against his candidates at the polls. They would only insure their own political ruin by allow- ing Kelly to carry the city after they have abandoned him. His overthrow is now reasonably certain. The anti-Tammany yote which elected General Jones last year by eleven thousand majority, over the Tammany nominee for Register, and which gave him nearly two thousand more votes than were cast for Mayor Wickham, is now strength- ened by the accession of the influential local leaders who have abandoned John Kelly. The success of anti-Tammany is no longer doubtful, and the leading and most promi- nent men in the new organization which must follow John Kelly's rebuke and defeat will be those ‘who now openly repudiate his overbearing and blundering rule and join the ranks of the people's party. A Heavy Storm Approaching from the Northwest. The period of winter storms is upon us, and the howling chorus of the winds pro- claims the coming of the Ice King. Telegrams from the northwest announce the steady ad- vance eastward of a great storm, the centre of which was located alittle to the north- west of Milwaukee at one o'clock, Wash- ington time, on yesterday morning.” At that hour the barometer indicated a pressure of 29.30 inches at the centre of disturbance, the velocity of the wind being at Chicago thirty-two miles and at Milwaukee twenty- seven miles per hour. Snow has fallen at St. Paul and Breckenridge, but has not been observed further east, probably on account of the unfavorable conditions for that form of precipitation over the lake region, Yesterday heavy rain fell at Duluth, La Crosse, Cairo, Indianapolis, Alpena and Erie, while sleet fell at Ottawa, in Canada. The indications at NewYork, yesterday at two o'clock P. M., decidedly forewarn us of a heavy gale over this city. The barometer fell steadily during the day, while the veloc- ity of the wind rose to fifteen miles per hour and increased toward night. The local wind was easterly, blowing toward the ap- proaching storm centre, which will be at the time of writing well advanced over the lakes, Cautionary signals have been displayed at all the lake ports, and may be looked for at any moment in this city. The dangerous velocity for the wind is now established at twenty- five miles an hour. During the recent Texas cyclone the barometer fell to 28.40 inches at Indianola, while the wind rose to eighty-five miles an hour. We may expect heavy south- erly to southwesterly followed by cold north- westerly winds and rain or snow during the next twenty-four hours. “YT Bevreve 1s Porviarn Government, in universal suffrage, in the right of the people to choose their own rulers and magistrates, andl abhor every scheme and device, open or secret, whereby political power is sought to beconcentrated in the hands of an indi- vidual for the oppression of the masses, or to their exclusion from full participation in the exercise of all political rights.”"—From Charles K. Sanford’s letier of acceptance, Tue UNvEemine or THe Jackson Statur aj | Richmond yesterday was an exceptional pon in the history of any country, just asthe re- markable soldier in whose honor it was dedi- cated was an exceptional man. Stonewall Jackson's military achievements were ccle- brated only as they were the exemplification |} end the scene was one which could take place only in a th American Republic, Tue Paice Revorvtion is at an end, and | the ending was as characteristic as the be- | ginning. Toa great extent the revolutions and insurrections in the South American re- publics exist only on paper, and this ends, as was eminently prover, by proclamation, of his virtues, and from the beginning to the | The Responsibilities of Railroad Com- panies. The verdict of the Coroner's jury in the case of the death of the lamented Frederic Hudson -exonerated the railroad company from blame, since the evidence proved that the flagman at the crossing where the acci- dent occurred used every possible effort to warn Judge Keyes and the deceased of their danger and to prevent them from attempting to drive across the track. But they add to this a finding ‘that the dividing of a train into two or more parts before passing over a crossing of a public street, as was done in this case, and which is a common practice on other railroads, renders such crossing still more dangerous to the public travel and ought not to be allowed without sufficient protection by a gate or gates.” The practice alluded to of separating a train or of discon- necting the locomotive from the cars while travelling at a high rate of speed is so full of peril that it is difficult to under- stand how a railroad company can be held blameless for permitting it in a public street, or indeed at any crossing. The loco- motive, without slackening its speed, is sud- denly uncoupled, and when released from the train darts ahead until it branches off at what is called a ‘flying switch.” The next minute the train comes thundering along the main track with but slightly diminished velocity. .It can readily be understood that a person either walking or driving, who sees an engine go rushing by, will naturally fix his eyes upon it, and as soon ag it passes will be apt to hurry across the track without thinking that a train is following closely behind. It was thus, no doubt, that the ac- cident occurred which cost Mr. Hudson his life. We doubt whether this dividing of trains is a common practice on railroads at street crossings.’ It should certainly never be al- lowed unless gates are. provided to entirely exclude vehicles and foot passengers from the track until the whole train has passed. Flagmen are of little use in such a case, or at least their services cannot be fully relied upon to prevent accidents. Many persons who consider that a railroad which is per- mitted to run through a city or village and to cross streets should adopt effectual means of preventing loss of life will not be inclined to agree with the jury that no blame attaches to the Middlesex Central Railroad for the deplorable calamity at Concord. ‘ New Light on the Usury Laws. Our State laws on usury have received a stroke from a decision just rendered in the Supreme Court that will practically render them ineffective and inoperative in the fu- ture; for all that is now necessary in order to remove a contract for the loan of money from the operation of these lawsis to have the transaction done through some one of the national banks. It will thus fall under the protection of the act of Congress for the in- corporation and regulation of those institu- tions, and that act is so liberal on the point arrived at by our usury laws that it scarcely opposes an impediment to those transactions. One who had borrowed money at a usurious rate failed to pay his debt and was sued, but he defended his fail- ure to pay by an appeal to the Usury law, which declares that such a loan shall forfeit the sum loaned. That defence was sustained by the Court of Appeals as in accordance with the State law, but an action on the same case, under the Banking law, has just been finally determined in the contrary sense in the United States Supreme Court. As opinion is now pretty well determined that all usury laws are the result of erroneous financial notions, there can be no regret at this result, The Principles of the Canvass, Our contemporary, the Sun, is making a brilliant fight in the present canvass. It refers to the fact that the principal journals of New York are all working “for the preser- vation of the independence of the judiciary and in resistance of a bold attempt to estab- lish the dangerous one man power. In minor matters of detail, which are subordi- nate, they may differ, but they are all at work with all their might, every one in its own way, for the liberties of the people and against the despotic partisan rule.” This is a clear, cogent way of stating the case. The press of New York never showed its inde- pendence and power more thoroughly than in the fight that it now makes against the one man tyranny. It is not that we care to attack John Kelly or to deny him any of his many manly qualities he possesses, Ati is because we make war upon his system, which is inconsistent with purity of govern- ment and true democracy. IfJohn Kelly were Washington himself his policy would be ruinous to the city. We have had enough of Tweedism. Kelly's rule is only T'weedism in embryo, and it will develop itself into Tweedism just as sure as the butterfly follows the chrysalis. A Porrricar, Mrxture.—The political mix- ture in the Fourth Senatorial district is of a remarkable character. John Fox, Tammany candidate for Senator, is secretly working to defeat Nicholas Muller, Tammany candidate for Assembly. Nicholas Muller, Tammany, is endeavoring secretly to beat John Fox, Tammany ; John Fox, Tammany, is pri- vately doing all he can to defeat Denis Quinn, Tammany Civil Justice, and to elect John Callahan, anti-Tammany ; and so on through the list. ‘The Honorable John” is the only one who stands with his toe to the scratch, fighting a square battle, and pre- pared to whip the whole of “Boss” Kelly's nominees, from the first to the last. Canprvat McCurosKey continues to receive honors abroad. He is soon to visit England, where he will be the guest of Cardinal Man- ning, and an imposing demonstration of wel- come will be extended to him in London, No prelate in the Roman Catholic Church is more entitled to these marks of respect, and no one could more completely honor his Church and his country either in modesty or worth, Coronano will be the thirty-eighth State in the Union after the Fourth of July next, and political prophets must take the three electoral votes from the new Commonwealth into the account in prognosticating the re- sult of the next Presidential election. | Were set up in rows to be burned down as | Captains and Crews. As the respective functions of captains and crews on ships seem to have undergone some changes that portion of the public which makes transatlantic voyages should take par- ticular notice what companies employ the most trustworthy sailors, firemen, stokers_ and even stewards. It will be well ‘also to discriminate between lines as to whether one or another carries the most intelligent pas- sengers. Passengers, sailors, stewards and stokers must all be capable of deciding every point in navigation of which the captain is in doubt, and by attention to this subject of real importance on a ship the public will consult their own interests as to safety at sea, Formerly it was mainly of consequence to the public to know that ships were in the hands of good captains, because the captains were thought to be capable of comprehend- ing the situation of the ship in any emer- geney, and of giving the proper orders which others would act upon; but in the case of the Montana we see that everybody else gives the orders and the captain obeys. In the voy- age of that ship the captain conceived that it was merely his duty to drive her ahead and not to perceive any reasons for a contrary course. Presently the passengers told him he ought to put his ship’s head the other way, but he seems not to have appreciated the advice. Soon after the sailors made the same observation. He was still oblivious to thetruth, Then the firemen called upon him by committee, and, perhaps recognizing the superior intelligenee of this part of the ship's company, or perhaps suddenly reflect- ing on the unanimity of the opinion, he put about and returned to port. As a conse- quence all these sailors, firemen and pas- sengers are now alive, while, if left to the captain, they would have been, in all likeli- hood, at the bottom of the Atlantic. It is clear, therefore, that companies cannot at- tend too closely to putting in their ships in- telligent and judicious crews, with docile and tractable captains. A Tale of Two Cities. The democratic party in New York and the democratic party in Brooklyn are both suffering from the same evil. In each of the two cities the organization has passed into the hands of a bold, unscrupulous and over- bearing ruler, who uses the leadership for the promotion of his personal desires and the gratification of his personal animosities. In Brooklyn, as in New York, loyalty to the democracy is interpreted to mean submission to the dictates of one man and the abdica- tion of all right to free thought and free speech. There, as here, the nominations to be supported by the party are made by the one man power, and are forced upon dis- tricts despite the wishes of the constituen- cies. There, as here, the independent democrat who raises a voice against the decisions of a cabal is ‘disciplined” and driven outside the party lines as a rebel. There, as here, honest and self-respecting democrats are refusing to submit to this tyranny and uniting ina movement to defeat and destroy, not the democratic party, but the handful of men who set themselves up as rulers and do their best to bring odium on the party. The people are aroused in Brooklyn, as they are in New York, and in both places the overthrow of the “Boss” is foreshadowed. . General Slocum heads the revolution against the one man power in Brooklyn as Recorder Hackett heads it in New York. The gallant soldier has enlisted on the side of the people, and will carry on the campaign with the energy, skill and courage for which he has been distinguished in other fields. In his recent speech in Brooklyn General Slo- eum happily described the qualifications and the means by which men like the New York and Brooklyn “Bosses” gradually rise to be the head of the democratic party. Political sagacity, statesmanship and other high attributes of a leader have no hand in their elevation, The degrading use of local influence, united with a good fund of impu- dence and self-assertion, are the ‘elements that bring the Tweeds, Kellys and McLaugh- lins to the surface. The picture drawn by General Slocum will be readily recognized. What intelligent citizen supposes Tweed or Kelly to be possessed of statesmanlike quali- ties or does not know that vulgar political partisanship is their sole title to the position of leaders? It is to be hoped that Brooklyn will show as bold a front against the one man power as is presented by the New York de- mocracy, and that the tale of two cities told after election will be entitled ‘The Downfall of the Bosses.” “I Rervuse ro Sancrion Your Propostrrion,” was the answer given by Recorder Hackett to John Kelly when the Tammany rnler de- manded the privilege of filling the offices of the Recorder's Court with his personal parti- sans. ‘‘We refuse to sanction your propo- sition,” will be the answer given by the peo- ple of New York in response to John Kelly's attempt to drive Recorder Hackett from the Bench, Mr. Puetrs’ Pianx.—Benjamin K. Phelps, in a letter addressed to the German-Ameri- can independent citizens, says:—‘‘I believe that you thereby declare your purpose to stand firmly with all other American inde- pendent citizens, and to rise in support of the principle that public servants are to be selected by the people and not forced upon them by dictation.” This strikes the key- note of the canvass. ‘‘Popular sovereignty, independence in judgment, no dictation, noone man power, no secret order.” Let every citizen who believes in these principles vote for Benjamin K. Phelps. Bunnie or Vinorsta Crry.—This time it is Virginia City, Nevada, which is destroyed, The burning of this young city of the Pa- cific slope brings with it nonew moral except to suggest that the lesson taught in Boston, Baltimore and twice in Chicago was un- heeded by the hurried builders of towns on the other side of the continent. Wooden structures as inflammable as tinder boxes soon as astray spark found time to ignite | one of them, and no water was provided | with which to quench the flames that were sure to be kindled. The disaster came in dne time, and the next thing in order will’ be to rebuild in the old fashion, and so prepare for another calamity. ‘The sufferers are entitled to sympathy. bnt the disaster ia RE one to which many other places are exposed, because no adequate provision is mad@ against fire. “ The Coming Prince. We have not paid much attention to the runior that the Orown Prince of Germany was about to visit the United States. We feared it was one of those things which people wished for without there being much prospect of its accomplishment. The Cologne Gazette, which now confirms the story, is a journal of so much accuracy of information that we are apt to believe in it, Wecan think of no event of national character that would be more interesting or more important in its consequences than a visit of the Crown Prince of Germany to the United States, America and Germany are closely allied in many ways—by traditional friendship, by asimilarity in race and by the fact thata large and respected element of our people comes directly from German stock. The Crown Prince would find in America millions of his countrymen who speak his language, who are proud of the achievements of himself and his ancestors. They would welcome him with all the en+ thusiasm and joy with which every patriotic heart welcomes a representative of its father land. Those of us who are not German not only will be glad to do honorto an illustrious prince, but to show our respect for our Ger+ man fellow citizens by due tribute to a chief of their race. More than all, as a nation we should be glad to remember that friendship for this Republic which began with Frederich the Great and which was signally shown in many ways by the present William. Germany was our friend when the Great Frederick re« fused to take part against us in the war for independence, and she was no less our friend when her credit came pouring into our coffera atatime when American bonds were de spised in the rich capitals of Europe. Moré than all, in the interests of peace and com<« mercial harmony, every event that will tend to bring the people, and especially the rulers of America and Europe, to a better knowledge of each other will be a step in our civilization. The main cause of modern wars and international dispntes is ignorance, The German hates the Frenchman and the Frenchman the Englishman only so long aa the one does not know the other. The Crown Prince will see in America a much greater country in some respects than he had im- agined, and we are afraid a much smaller one in others. He will see much to admire, and something, we fear, to regret. He will have a welcome worthy of his rank and hia lineage—a welcome which, we trust, will go’ far toward strengthening the ties of friend. ship that for a century have bound together the German and the American people. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, eee “ ‘phe soft money men are still hard up. P. T, Barnum has started for a trip to Colorado. Madrid, Spain, has acollege for barbers, It ought to make an A. M. of the razor strop man, Senator Justin 8, Morrill, of Vermont, arrived in thig city yesterday and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, “The fourth volume of the Count de Paris? “History of the Civil War in America’? has appeared in Paris, A scientist claims to have discovered a petrified sea lion in Missouri while looking for geological speci+ mens. The Chicago Excelsior Magazine will go no higher, having been ‘knocked higher than a kite” by the hard times. ‘The new English hangman is a small, thin man, with soft eyes and a cat-like step, and he likes to hang @ man with a Roman nose, Itseems now that Singer had five wives instead of three, and no wonder that the poor man had to get ap some kind of a sewing machine. At Monterey, Cal., great quantities of whalebone have been thrown upon the beach, anda local présa wants to know if itis useful. Of corset is, General Dufour left behind him an important manu script containing the history of the Sonder Bund War, which will be published, with a memoir of the Gon eral, One Frenchman gives to another tho following bit of advice: “Jacques, if you keep on quarrelling with everybody who loves your wife you will soon have ne friends.” The forthcoming volume of ‘“‘Lango’s Commentary,” now in Seribner’s press, will contain Ezekiel and Daniel, the latter by an American divine, the Rev, James Strong, D. D. The Detroit Free Press says:—“Oxford University: has just issued ‘tho smallest Biblo in the world,’ One aa small as a three-cent piece would be too cumbersome for some men to carry round.” “ E. D. Mansfield, a veteran political observer, adds hia testimony to the fact, which no intelligent person in Ohio questions, that a large section of the republican party voted for Allen and Carey. Professor Geddes, of Aberdeen University, has formed 4 new theory of the Homeric poems, which is, that the “Iliad” was enlarged out of a lesser poem, of which Achilleus was the special subject. Ablack pelican, measuring nino feet across its out stretched wings, has been shot near Denver, Col. Denver should adopt the pelican for its crest, for it cae drink more and say less than any other bird, “Italy Revisited” is the title of anew book in twe volumes, by Antonio Gallenga, of the London 7imes, Its object is to illustrate the new social and moral con. ditions of Italy, resulting from recent political changes, The new “History of Ireland, from the Earliost Period to the Year 1875,” from the London press of William Tegg, which is in its fifth edition, is styled by the Publishers’ Circular a well written, cloquent and authoritative history, Professer Samuel Kneeland, of the Massachusotts Institute of Technology, has in the Boston, press “An. American in Iceland,” with a description of the millen- fal colebration in 1874, and notes on the Orkney, Shete Jand and Faroe Islands. An elegant work on the French engravings of the eighteenth century, containing a catalogue of litho. graphs, steel engravings, colored plates, &c., from 1700 to 1800, is appearing in Paris, fully illustrated, from the pen of M. Bocher, A Richmond journal furnishes facts and figures to show that the negroes, obeying a law of their na ture, are "gtadually. drifting to the tropical or semi. tropical regions of the country. The editor says the black man’s “‘passage towards the Isthmus of Darien i a matter of philosophical certaihty.’” Senator Francis Kernan thus spoke in Buffalo to @ democratic meeting:—“The highest court of your State more than fifteen years ago deolared that tho common schools spoken of in the constitution were the public schoo, and that no Legislature could allow adollar of that money to go to the support of a de nominational or sectarian school,’ Bucklo says, in his “History of Civilization,” that of all the actions of men, none occur with greater rege ularity than the commission of erime where the gene. ral laws of circumstances remain tho same, and he Instances among other examples tho fact that for @ number of years tbe deaths among males in Paris wag very nearly the same as the number of persons in France who were necused of crime, the greater varias tion being on the side of ‘the deaths. Much silly writing has been expended over the forged letter purporting to have come from Thomas Carlyle to Harvard College, declining in strident, lugu. brious rhetoric the honor of a degree of LL.D. offered to him by that institution, Tho forgery was perpo trated by a Chicago evening journal, wnd, though ex: aggerated, was fairly done, Little real credence wag given to it by American journals until it was copied by the Liverpool Post, when they turned about and copies it from the English paper. The fact is that Me, Carlyle was given the degree by Harvard; but his tovses has nover beca printed,