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

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, —__-——- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | coveries in the mysterious regions surround- Captain Young has a high He was one of the gallant spirits who went out in the hope of finding some trace of the illustrious after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henarp will be fent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every @ay 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 Mespatches must be addressed New York Birranp. 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. 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A Lancer Concourse of people assembled wt the Cathedral, in Dublin, on Sunday, ‘when Cardinal McCloskey presided at high | mass. How they would crowd if he was Pope! | Tae Facts Coxsecren with the arrest and Gmprisonment of Frederico P. Montes, an American citizen, by the Spanish authorities ‘in Cuba, have been brought to the notice “of Secretary Fish, who has promised to give | them prompt attention. H | Tur Beans had their paws on Tarkeys’| yyesterday. A London paper's special from | ‘Vienna reported thirty-six thousand Servian wmilitiamen on the frontiers, and agents of | Avctio Discoveries—The Cruise of the Pandora. ‘ We print this morning an interesting letter from Captain Allen Young, of the Pandora. As our readers will remember, this vessel went out to the Arctic regions a few mogths. ago in the hopes of making some new dis- ing the Pole. reputation as an Arctic navigator. and lamented Sir John Franklin. In 1857, value and depth of love, planned an expe- dition under the command of Sir Leopold master, and contributed to the expenses the expedition with liberality. It was in this eruise, which has become an event in the history of Arctic navigation, that tidings were found at last of Sir John Franklin and the gallant souls who went out with him to | die. The experience then gained by Captain Allen Young, and his great and deserved fame as an Arctic navigator, pointed him out as the proper person to lead a new expe- dition. ‘The Henaxp was accordingly glad to take part with Lady Franklin and the Cap- tain in fitting out the Pandora and making a new adventure in this strange and wonder- ful land. ~ The world’s interest in the Arctic regions has strangely increased in latter years. The success of the Austrian expedition has been a kind of challenge to all the world, and especially from a nation that has never made any fame asa nation of navigators. It was rather an imputation upon countries like America, France, England and Germany, who have made their reputation in the northern seas. The idea of an Austrian seaman going into the country of Kane and McClintock and Franklin, and winning laurels from Hyperborea, was as much a surprise as if Austrian enterprise were to discover a new world. But that sense of power and independence which comes with a better political condition has shown itself in the new life which has come to Austria since her rulers have given up the mad idea of ruling a German and an Italian kingdom. The success of the Austrians demonstrated that the secrets of the Northern regions were more than ever within the range of science. The emulation that belongs to the nations of the present day came into play. The Germans, who also desire to show that a development of national power has not made her people unmindful ef the higher duties of a nation, the duties of investiga- tion and discovery, began at once to plan an expedition to the Arctic regions to write the name of the Emperor alongsifle of that of Francis Joseph and his house, which have been emblazoned forever on the contirents of the far North. England followed suit. Mr. Disraeli has always been celébrated for the adventurous tendencies of his mind. He is afresh thinker, and in his political life has shown his respect for the power of the im- agination upon the people. He had seen how much Mr. Gladstone had done for his party and for England by extending its empire into the African and Australian con- tinents. It was to Gladstone that England owed her acquisitions in Ashantee and the gold countries and the islands of the Pacific seas. These were the compensations for the discomfiture at Geneva, for the loss of the island of San Juan by the decision of the German Emperor, and for the loss of the strait claimed by the Portuguese, and decided against the English by the French in the arbitration submitted to the French government. There were no temptations to adventures in any other direction than the North. If Mr. . Disraeli could supplement the glories of the Gladstone administration by a discovery in the North, if under his rule the valor and genius of England could solve a problem that has disturbed the wise men of the world for centuries, it would be a trophy of administration only surpassed by the conquests in America in the time of the elder Pitt. Accordingly he planned and | gave the sanction of his administration to the voyage of the Alert and the Discovery, which are now in the Arctic seas, and will probably not be heard from for two years. The hopes of the scientific men of England rest largely upon what may be gained by these two vessels, which have entered upon their work with advantages in-the way of equipment, with a variety of knowledge arising from the discoveries of the Austrians and the Americans, which have never been possessed by any other expedition. ‘ Something of the regret which every Ameri- can wust feel that our own government had done nothing to extend our nation’s fame in this emulation of discovery inspired the Henaxp to become associated with an officer as accomplished and famous as Captain Young. We were not unmindful of what had been done in the way of adventure and discovery in Africa by Stanley, and by MacGahan in Asia, All England had risen up to do honor to the gallant gentleman who carried the flag of America at the head of a Henatp expedition into the centre of Africa. It is one of the felicities of journalism, espe- cially as it has grown in the modern times and in a free government, that the press is superseding the functions of government in | more ways than one. It not only changes administrations and the political relations of parties, but leads the enterprise of a people | in its desire to know that higher kind of news | embodied in the opening of new lands and the development of new continents, Al- though the voyage of Captain Young adds little to our knowledge of the Arctic regions when lady Franklin, with a devotion to her gallant husband’s memory which has given her name an immortality among those gentle and royal souls whose lives illustrated the McClintock. Captain Young was the sailing NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1875—TRIPLE, SHEET. | There is but one barrier of about one hun- dred and twenty miles “of doubtful navi- gation.” “Through this,” he says, ‘no | ship has been able to pass, owing to a barrier of ice that has hitherto baflled every effort to | penetrate it. Were it not,” he continues, “for this one barrier the Northwest Passage | would be practicable and could be sailed | through in a single season.” It was in this comparatively slight ‘barrier that the Erebus and Terror, which Sir John Franklin | commanded, were imprisoned for eighteen months and finally abandoned. During this time the two ships drifted only eighteen | miles. But, as Captain Young shows, the information possessed by Sir John Franklin | | was limited compared to that now possessed by Arctic navigators, Captain Young him- self, in his voyage in 1857, learned that it might have been possible for Sir John to haye taken another route and perhaps | continued his voyage in safety and with ste- cess, so far as the objects of his cruise were concerned. There is'also the hope that the “pack” of ice, which has disturbed the cal- | culations of all previous navigators, might not always be sealed against the enterprises of daring seamen. We regret that the Cap- tain did not find his anticipations realized. But this is the fortune of all daring men. The chance of finding this ‘pack” pene- trable was worthy of the expedition ; but if the Arctic regions are over to be made to give up their secrets to the genius and courage of the brave men who have made the hidden North the aim and ambition of their lives, it must be done, not as an adventure, but as the result of united and continuous effort on the part of governments in the full possession of all the machinery of a nayal country. There is no reason why even the North, with its strange but ever lessening mysteries, should not be- come as well known as the interior of Africa and the Territories of the far West. What we shall know when this is done is quite another question. Whether we shall have another continent open td the uses of men and capable of another civilization ; whether, hidden away in that world of everlasting ice, we shall find the solution of some of the mysteries of our creation which have thus far escaped the researches of science, are, after all, the merest speculations. It is in keeping with the spirit of the age that the attempt should be made, We are glad to have had the privilege of doing our part with as gallant | an associate as Captain Young. His letters throw new light upon the secret of the Arctic Seas, and if they do not, as was our fond hope, tell the whole story, they show that | the way is one that courage, wisdom and genius must some day force, as surely as Columbus forced his way across a forbidding and unknown sea into the land which four centuries of civilization has made one of the empires of the world. Stanley in Africa. By our London despatch it will be seen that Stanley plods steadily on in the great labor caught up from the grand old traveller who died in the harness of African explora- tion, and for whom no worthier successor in enterprise, courage and endurance could readily be found. In this latest intelligence he recounts the conclusion of his examination of the Albert Niyanza. This, it is true, is not exactly discovery ; it does not tell us, ex- cept in more precise detail, what was not told before ; but what it does is to clear the subject of some uncertainties which were a. great obstacle to right geographical reason- ings. Speke discovered the Albert Niyanza, | and declared it triumphantly the source of the Nile, and for a time the mind of the world was satisfied with that as with the solution of the whole Nile problem. But the mind of the world was soon un- settled again by the demonstration of the relations of the Albert Niyanza to the Vic- toria, by the speculations of the relationship of the Tanganyika, and by the suggestion that the Victoria was'not as described by Speke, one great body of water, but a group of lesser Inkes. In African discovery the last traveller generally has credit with the public, and it is not so uncommon for great mistakes to be made in exploration but what the view thus presented might be accurate. Consequently that part of the Nile problem was clouded with doubts, and the thorough examination made by Stanley now removes this. His farther explorations in the solu- tion of the same problem will bealso in some degree to the determination which of sev- eral views is accurate before reaching the point from which he will strike into the un- known. Meanwhile all who enjoy that kind of romance which borders on the sublime will watch with interest the trace of this man from the youngest of the nations work- ing patiently, persistently, sturdily, with the quiet spirit of a pioneer at this oldest of the Old World’s problems. | Asorurn Lamentasce Disaster is reported to-day from San Francisco by the Hrnarp’s special despatches. The steamship Pacific, of the Goodall litre, from Portland, Oregon, to San Francjsco, foundered at sea, forty miles from Cape Flattery, and all on board, with the exception of one passenger, are said to have been lost. The ill-fated vessel was ptrchased from the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and had undergone alterations be~ | fore being placed on the new line. The par- | ticulars of the disaster have not yet been re- | ceived, the sad intelligence reaching San i | Francisco by the ship Messenger, which picked up the supposed sole survivor. Tur Fast Mam Trams between New York and Washington, which will be in operation about the 20th of this month, is to leave New York at» eight A. M. and to reach Washing- ton at twenty minutes before one P, M. If arrangements can be made to avoida transfer ythe Servian government off to Paris and | it is nevertheless full of interest. The Cap-| g¢ Philadelphia this time will be shortened “London to raisg a loan. Tur Lonvon Stock Excuancs is said to be feeling bad, especially about foreign securi- dies, There is an evident uneasiness in furope, and the Throckmorton street pulse jis a good indication of the feverish condition | tain the practicability of the Northwest Pas- | yof the public mind. Tuere Is Troupe at Malacca, and the | tain went as far as he could without going | py half an hour. | into winter quarters and pursuing his voyage | on the road, so that the delivery will take | in the spring. The Captain’s hope was that | place in Washington immediately the train he could by taking advantage of the experi- | ence gained by “previous explorers to sail | through in one summer season” and ascer- sage. He still further hoped that he might | be able to penetrate that ‘sadly romantic | British Resideney at Perak is said to be | region about King William's Island in which besieged by the Malayans. the Straits settlement has started for the the difficulty, and it is to be hoped | ‘Terror and be enabled to search for still | settlement with | further relics and papers of the lost ex- | scene of that he will make a straight the Sultan Ismail and the assaulting Malay- po The Governor of | may yet be locked up the mystery still hang- | ing about the journals of the Erebus and pedition.” The reasons for this hope ere described in his letter in anotex volumy. The mails will be sorted arrives, We are evidently beginning to un- derstand the proper value of steam railroads. Tux Kaepive or Ecypr has applied to | England to send him two accountants to | balance up his books and set his finances take more complete supervision of thé Khe- | dive’s financial matters than the’ present | application contemplates. Tue Srnamsure Rotterdam, which recently straight. Probably before long England will | The Currency Question in Congress. The session which is to open in the begin- ning of next month will resemble all sessions of Congress that immediately precede a Pregi- dential election by shaping its measures with reference to the political contest. For this kind of mancuvring each party has one strong point, and will of course attempt to make the most of it. The strong point of the democratic House is its ability to probe and investigate every department of the gov- ernment and make party capital by exposing abuses. The strong point of the republican’ Senate is the advantage it can gain by follow- ing up the defeated inflationists and widen- ing the breach in the ranks of the democracy. There is needed an interval of rest and the soothing influence of time to reconcile the rag-money democracy of the West and the hard-money democracy of the East, dhd we may assume that the republicans understand the situation too well not to press the ad- vantage they won in. the elections. Instead of quietly waiting forthe democratie wounds to heal, they will lose no time after the ses- sion begins in tearing them open and causing them to bleed. If they are skilful they will have no difficulty in promoting democratic discord. It is unlikely that the democrats of the House will propose any new measures relat- ing to the currency. Their Western mem- bers, smarting under their recent defeat, might be rash enough to propose a repeal of the Resumption act of the last Congress, but that will be prevented, if possible, by the cooler democratic heads. The hard-money demo- crats will not propose any measure, because it would not conduce to party harmony to irritate and humiliate their erring brethren of the West by demanding so early and open a renunciation of their recent views. The democrats of the House will try to evade the currency question and to occupy and engross public attention with a great parade of inves- tigations. But the republican Senate is too shrewd to lose its chance of fatally damaging the democracy by compelling the House to show its hand on the currency, All that the Senate needs to do is to pass a bill for giving efficiency to the Resumption act of last Jan- uary and send it to the House. This would infallibly set the democrats of the House by the ears if the bill should be passed by the Senate in December, while the ill-feeling between the Eastern and Western democrats is still fresh. If the Senate is wise it will not pass an extreme measure and send it to the House, because an extreme measure might cause a reaction in the public mind and strengthen the inflationists. It would be safe for the repub- licans to make the Resumption act of last January the basis of new legislation, since the main feature of that act—resumption of specie payments in 1879—has beén indorsed by the people in the late elections, All that is needed is to supply means for rendering that act efficient. The grand thing in the act is the distinct pledge to resume metallic payments in January, 1879; but it is defec- tive in the methods it provides for reaching that result. It contemplates the reduction of the amount ‘of greenbacks to three hundred million dollars, but at the present rate of withdrawal that limit would not be reached before 1887, although to fulfil the main purpose of the act the limit should be reached previous to 1879. The act is also defective in the provision it makes for a supply of coin for redemption at the designated date. It authorizes the Secre- tary of the Treasury to sell four and a half per cent or four per cent bonds, at par, for gold. But as the fives are only at par at present there seems little likelihood that the Treasury will be able to sell four anda half per_cent bonds at par to obtain gold for redemption. Nothing would @be easier than | to frame a sound bill for supplying these two defects in the Resumption act—that is to say, a bill for certainly and speedily reducing the amount of greenbacks to three hundred million dollars, and for enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to sell bonds at such a price as would insure a supply of gold for redemption. The Senate will be quite safe if it limits its action toa pill for strengthening the Resumption act of the last Congress and making it efficient; and such a bill, if it were so cautiously drawn that the hard-money men could not pick flaws in it, would be a political wedge in the democratic House which, if skilfully driven, would split the democratic party in full observation of the country. Tux Parxce at Bomnay.—Bombay is ina blaze of excitement. The Prince of Wales, soon to be King of England and all her dependencies, has set his foot for the first time on the soil of British India, and all the loyal citizens, European and native, white and copper colored, rejoice. Yesterday the Serapis yielded its royal passenger into the safe keeping of the Bombay dignitaries. The Prince, after being bored with an address of welcome from the municipality—a proceed- ing which can only be rendered endurable by the eloquence of a Wickham—proceeded through eight triumphal arches and two hundred thousand variegated spectators to the rooms prepared for him at the Govern- ment House. Last night a grand leyée was held by the royal visitor, when the curry eaters enjoyed the honor of a formal presen- tation. As to-day is the Prince’s birthday an additional interest will be given to the demonstrations made in his honor, and the “happy returns of the day” he will receive will no doubt be sincefely uttered. The Prince’s visit is in truth a great event for British India, and will no doubt intensify the loyalty of that always loyal dependency. Tur Crry Buperr.—The proceedings in the Board of Apportionment yesterday, which appear in to-day’s Heranp, would convey the impression that the Board has considerably reduced the estimates for 1876. There is, however, a sort of pious deception in this array of figures which the taxpayers should understand. The assertion has been made that the estimates for 1876 have been “reduced” by a million and a half dollars from the estimates of the present year. Al- lowing for the difference in the State tax they have actually been increased just about one million dollars, The “reduction” alluded to, and detailed in the proceedings of the | Board yesterday, is from the amount first asked for by the departments for 1876. went aground in the Maas, has started on her Ariv to New Yorks | Jn arder to leave a margin for this economy the departments first made their estimates exorbitantly high, on the principle pursued by some storekeepers wha expect to be ‘*beat down” by their customers. Then the Board of Apportionment cut down the amounts and claim credit for economy, while in truth they take all they dare to take, and greatly more than they ought to take, out of the public treasury to spend on their political departments. The Hope for France. It is probable that the majority in the French Assembly will vote with the govern- ment for a law to elect the representatives in future by districts, as Congressmen are now elected with us. Our special despatches from Paris have already told us that the counting done in the lobbies indicates this as the likely result. This issue wil] be well nigh inevitable if the government assumes in the debate the attitude hitherto assigned to it by the vague reports of discussions in the Cabinet. Reports of this nature have at- tributed to the Ministry the intention to an- nounce that it will retire from office if de- feated on this vote. Althongh the re- publicans who favor the contrary method for the elections might be glad enough to get rid of the Ministry they will scarcely be glad to have the vote on the measure loaded with the immediate responsibility of producing such an excitement as would be inseparable from a change of this nature. If the vote were simply for one form of the election law or another, anda change of Ministry were not in the issue, the republicans might very likely win. Reasons for this likelihood are to be found in plenty, and some of them are such as the republicans would scarcely avow. In the first place they are for once in favor of what exists—they would not, perhaps, lose their own votes on this account, and they might gain some from the timid con- servatives, whose whole action is con- trolled only by fear of the unknown. But they would also get the sup- ‘port of the imperialists. Imperialism always comes tWrough the door opened by the excesses of the democracy, and a state of the electoral law which in the’ present posi- tion is likely to subordinate every voice in the country to the extremest republican opinion of the great cities is full of promise of that dis- turbed condition of the public life in which great political conspiracies find their oppor- tunity. Many votes will come to them from these sources, even as the case stands; but the natural hesitation to change a Ministry known to be capable and also known to be soundly republican in the best sense of that elastic word will rally to the government enough votes to overwhelm all oppositfén. Another intention of the government is appar- ently to endeavor to secure that the elections under the new law shall take place in De- cember. With the law passed as advocated by the government, and the elections con- cluded this year, our centennial year would open with the most brilliant prospect for our ancient ally yet known in her history, She would be in full possession of a republican government in the hands of the conservative elements of society, with a sound and prac- tical constitution and an Assembly honestly representative of the nation. The Press and the Election. The Times dwells upon the fact that the controlling cause of the victory in the recent election was the influence of the indepen- dent press. ‘It has been a great satis- faction,” says the Times, ‘‘to be on terms of agreement with our most powerful daily contemporaries throughout a long and bitter canvass, and we should be glad to think that in future struggles of the same kind we should find oursélves in the field with the same alliance.” ‘Nothing is strong enough to withstand the will of the people when it is expressed through the agency of powerful and truly independent journals.” The Times remarks, in commenting upon the fact that the independent press of New York fought the one-nran power during the last election with a unanimity and sameness of purpose which is rarely shown in our jour- nalism. It alludes to the fact also that this unanimity or alliance was not the result of any “understanding,” but arose from the conviction in the minds of editors that their duty was to strike the one-man power and defend the rights of the people. We do not exaggerate the influence of the press even in a country like America, where it is free and independent. A press is only strong when it is just, when it speaks the will of the people, when it in- sists upon protecting their rights against any form of usurpation. The war which the Heratp made upon Tammany Yall had in no sense a personal aspect. As we said during the canvass and repeat now, there were many men upon the Tammany ticket that we would have gladly seen elect- ed, and whose defeat we regret. But we made war “upon the one-man power in New York just as we made war upon Casarism in the nation. Mr. Kelly was nothing to us person- ally—of no more consequence than one of his laborers on the Boulevard who earns a dollar and sixty cents a day. General Grant was of no concern to us, We fought Kelly as we fought Grant, not because of the men but becanse of their system. We respected Gen- eral Grant for the traits which made him il- lnstrious and the services which have given him immortal fame. We respect Mr. Kelly for those personal qualities which, by those who know him, are said to endow his char- acter. But if George Washington had been at the head of Tammany Hall in place of John Kelly, and had run the canvass upon the same ideas, we should have opposed him with the same firmness. This is the essential duty of a free press, A journal is only independent when it is superior to all influences, political and per- sonal. In time the effect of this is to make the true newspaper the mirror of public opinion—of a conservative, healthy, inde- pendent public opinion. To a certain extent newspapers lead the people and educate’ them ; but, generally speaking, the common sense of the great community is the highest form of education. That journal is wisely governed when it finds itself able to express the common sense of the community. So far as these leaders of ‘Tammany Halland their friends are concerned the Hinanp has sur- vived generations of them, and it will sur- | vive generations more. Long before John | Kelly was known in New York polities the \ Huan was a vower in the, aovernment of -affairs, and we trust to maintain that powot long after he has passed away by following the same career, by being independent of all parties and afraid of none, and by feeling that our first duty is to stand by the people. Inbumanity to Children, The trial now going on in the Supreme Court, which is to test the right of men to make money out of the sufferings and peril of children of tender age, who are unable te protect themselves, will enlist the sympathy of every right-minded citizen. The case is one instituted by the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children, The ‘“guar- dian,” as he is called, of a little trapeze per- former, seven years old, known as ‘‘Prinee Leo,” is charged with maltreating the child, and application is made to take the poor boy from his custody. The evidence shows the terror evinced by the child, and traced in unmistakable lines on his countenance, when he is performing the feats to which he has been trained, probably through tortures and maltreatment too horrible to bear reflec- tion. It requires no stretch of the imagina~ tion to conceive the threats, the starvation and the blows by which the child has been terrified into facing death in his perilous per- formances on the trapeze. The brutality of the exhibition will be conceded. The only question is whether the law can protect the child from his tyrants when his father is willing that he should follow the business in which he is engaged. There certainly ought to be no doubé of the power of the Court in such a case. The child testified to assaults committed upon him by his “guardian,” although when he realized the consequences of the disclosures he had made he seemed to be conyulsed with terror, and it was impossi- ble to ask him further questions. Whis seems to afford sufficient ground for the in- terference of the Court for the child's protec- tion, either against his guardian or his fathgr, even if the fact that the performance in which he is engaged is perilous to life should not suffice to warrant his/cosnignment to other guardianship, It is to be sincerely hoped that the law will reach the case, and that the precedent will put a stop to the inhuman business, The society deserves the gratitude of the community for the . energy with which the prosecution has been conducted. ‘Tux Merrie of the Board of Aldermen yes- terday was signalized by the usual amount of demagogism on the part of the Tammany representatives. One Alderman introduced a resolution calling for the immediate in- crease of the wages of the city laborers to the standard from which they were reduced by the Tammany Mayor and heads of depart- ments, and another proposed an amendment requesting all those who favored the reduc- tion while themselves drawing salaries of from five thousand to twelve thousand dollars a year be requested to resign. The victory won by Morrissey, who was expelled from Tammany because he de- nounced the reduction of the laborers’ wages, has evidently created a panic among the braves. Tur Resicnation of M. Bardoux, the French Under Secretary of Justice, is said to have been caused by his disagreement with the Ministry on the question of the system of voting. Although a conservative republican M. Bardoux supports the radi- cals on this question. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. San Francisco needs a Clearing House for its banks. Karl Blind thinks that a Polish uprising 1s probable. ‘'Phe Chicago 7imes thinks that this isa bad year for “posses,” A writer says that herrings make as much brawn as beef does for Englishmen. In Texas young camels bring $450each. After their bristles grow they bring more. ‘There is a movement towards raising trees on little terraces along London streets. The Grand Duke Alexis is in Greece, and intends passing the winter at Athens. On dit, an increase in the tax on beer, to meet part of the deficit of the German budget. Sir Heury Rawlinson recommends that the Englists should occupy Quetta in Central Asia. Emperor William had ‘a severe cold.” This is why he did not grace the Stein festival with his presence, Mr. O'Connor Power, M. P., returned to this city yes- terday, and is residing temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Royalty in disguise. The King and Queen of Den- mark are travelling in Europe as Count and Countess Falster. Carlyle has the nerves of his hand so shattered that he cannot write himself, He is obliged to employ am amanuensis. M. Thiers was loudly cheered down in the mines of Anzin. He was overcome with such deep expres- sions of regard. The Lord Mayor’s show to-morrow Is not to be “desecrated with tradesmen’s trophics.” But what about the State coach? ' English chemists complain that several kinds of ale and porter contain mysterious properties of intoxica- tion and stupefaction. Nothing is more noteworthy than that the Sonthern newspapers, edited by old Southern men, are more friendly to the West than to the East, “Dog eat dog,” says General Cissey. So he has sent special officers to watch and report npon the move- ments and condition of the German army. Dr. Whitmore recommends to England that patients with infectious diseases should be isolated in houses where their friends may take care of them, : The gossips of Lyons are mystified. A Germam officer of Ublans paraded the street in uniform, and they are wondering why the mob didn’t kill nim. M. Bartholdi, French Minister at Washington, and Mr. J. H. de Hogermann Lindencrone, the Danish Min- ister, arrived last evening at the Brevoort House. Mr. Banshtleaker, a German of Philadelphia, is said by acorrespondent to be the originator of the Keely motor, or at least of a motor very much like Keely’s. Dr. Linderman estimates the probable yield of the gold and silver mines of this country for 1876, to be $ 100,000,000, about twice the average yield since 1849. “What did Prince Gortschakoff say to M. Thiers at Ouchy?” asks a Belgian journal, ‘Ah, we know,” ru~, ples a French paper, which must be very Satisiactory | to the curious, M. Ramée cries “Eureka,” and launches, upon ttf Paris public a book entitled thus, “Blistery of U Origin of Inventions, Discoveries and Human Lnstitu- tions,” Not much left after this. Field Marshal Von Moltke at Milan said, “TI cannot see any police.” Italian editors preseat—‘If fewer | police were employed in Germany on State ocoasions Italy might return the compliment.” ‘The President, Mrs. Grant and General 0. £. Bab cock, the Presideat’s Secretary, arrived in this city last evening by the iimited express train from Washington, and took up their quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Later in the evening tho Presidential party attended the Park Theatre. General Thomas F. Bourke, in his lecture on ‘Irish Nationality,” at Montreal, in the midst of the election excitement and of the Guibord preparations, hud the excellent Judgment to avoid those subjects. Genera Bourke himself has said that he does not feel authorizes to speak the views of the Popo, and that he would no speak about Gulbord whoa his audience came to lew * qbuut something else