The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES ‘GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henatp will be gent free of postage. —--—_—- ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yous Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. bee LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subseriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME ea aS AMUSEME. Lye KUM THEA Fourteenth street, sixth avenu Si. Parisian Company. _— COLE street and Bro: n from 10 A. 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Tre Memnres or THE vs Revo are evidently alarmed at the prospect of a pros- | ecution. tion of his connection with the Brooklyn Bridge to-day; but as the whole subject is likely to come before a judicial tribunal these ex parte statements on one side or the other are not worth much consideration. 4 is at all times an unwelcome visitor. I st now it onght to be ashamed of itself for interfe with the visit of the Prince of Wales to British India. The re- ports of the prevalence of the disease now render it uncertain whether the Prince will visit Madras. The cholera does not even gespect princes of the royal blood. Tre Cx Iv ts Rerorrep from Washington that Pres- ident Grant, upon being congratulated by a | visitor on the result of the late elections as favorable to his own renomination and re- election, replied, “Well, wo can’t tell what may happen.” If the President by this means that an attempt ata third term may NEW YORK Public Health and the Sanitary Con- dition of the City. It is the testimony of a great poet—one but little likely to be accused of too great a faith in facts or of other tendencies to materialistic error—that To know ‘That which be(ore us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom, and, on such an authority, we may safely do- clare that the sort of knowledge put before the people in the proceedings of the Public Health Association, whose sessions at Balti- more are just closed, is not easily to be ex- ceeded in its usefulness to the mass of men. Knowledge is of relative value, and while it is good as a rule for the people to get all they can, it is much to be desired that they should get first that which is of the greatest conse- quence, and that they should be taught the relative value to them ofdifferent sorts of in- formation, No person of judgment can have any love for the mere Gradgrind system of devotion to facts; but it is undeniable that the cultivation of a popular hostility to the study of facts, the undue effort of some pop- nlar authors to encuurage the intellectual tone that contemplates actualities with con- tempt and deals with dreams and moonshine as the great realities, is all a labor in the in- terest of ignorance and evil, and results in a direct and very great injury to society. Starlight is very well, but people must attend to the sewers. It isa fine point m your culture to know the knack of Albert Durer's hand, and your eye may take in- finite delight in a window frame copied from a’ quaint corner in some old Nuremburg street, It feeds your soul, perhaps; it is a little cinder out of the celestial fire; but, then, the boy or girl in the carved crib dying—its little life overwhelmed with the fever poison that rises in your house from a neglected drain—can all the flummery of “‘leunstliebe” and ‘‘celestial fire” and pretty trash of that sort compensate for the loss you will have there? Would it not have been well to study the sewers instead of the scrolls, and to give to the drains at least as much thonght as was given to the fre This is the problem that presents itself in contemplation of the sort of facts lately enunciated at Baltimore and in the considera- tion of the relative value of different kinds of knowledge. And the study of facts of this nature is not pitiful, is not trivial, is not mean, but reaches to results that in the absence of the experience none would venture to imagine. It enables the most commonplace creature to control those elements of his existence that caused the dimmer sighted ages to think, as the superstitious races still believe, that we are entirely in the hands of Qm- nipotence. Progress in this wonderful direction is the constant result of the study of “contemptible facts.” Once every mother lived in alarm at the thought of smallpox, but now it is in the power of every mother to guarantee that her little ones shall not die from that fell disorder. And all that has come from the study of a few sores—very miserable facts, indeed. Can there be the same guarantee as to other dis- eases? Not absolutely, perhaps, but a great degree of immunity may be assured against the occurrence of e; that is to say, there is no absolute guarantee in human power; but against the larger proportion of those circumstances which lead to fatal dis- ease every intelligent person may protect himself and those in whom he takes an in- terest. Intermittent fever, rheumatism, ty- phoid fever may be classified as diseases that need never occur; that individual vigilance, in the present state of knowledge, is sufficient to prevent, wh&e irlet fever, measles, smallpox, cerebro spinal meningitis and even tubercles, may be numbered as a few of the many maladies.that can be absolutely stamped out and cease to exist in any period at which society will consent to subject itself to the necessary discipline. To the local application of those principles of public health discussed at Baltimore we give a part of our space to-day. In another part of the paper will be found a communi- cation from a very capable physician, who has practised in this city for many years and who is an authority upon the subject of which he writes—the local conditions that relate to the health of the people. There is an opinion that such facts as he sets forth should be suppressed out of regard to many public interests; but we know of no public interest comparable to that of the physical and mental welfare of the people, and we be- lieve that this interest will be better served by a contrary course, Salus populi suprema est lee—-if it was not a line in the law of the Twelve Tables —is the common spirit of every republican system. This is nota city that need huckster its attractions. It is not of overwhelming conseqnence whether the scoes ? diser Mr. Kingsley attempts an explana- | price of a house here and there is higher or lower, or whether some thousands of people, influenced by information of the sanitary conditions, stay away from the city or leave it. But itis of the greatest conceivable im- portance that all should be done that can be done to mal proper measure should be taken to secure | protection from the preventible causes of diseases ; and to this end it is necessary that the public mind should be directed very ear- nestly to the subject. Our Board of Health has dwindled to a mere machine for the report of vital statistics, ‘Through the force of routine, or the want of vigor in its members, it concerns itself only with the fopperies of sanitary science and | does not perform in any degree whatever any one of the more important functions that should be performed by an organization in- trusted with the important interests of public health So plain a viola tion of very simple laws as is ex- hibited in the filling in enormities went on happen-——bad for the reqniblican party f Cotosen Jorce Has Recerven a sentence of three years anda half imprisonment and | a fine of two thousand dollars for | implication in the frauds of the | Whiskey Ring. The sentence was passed | on the motion of the self for leave to withdraw his motion for a now trial and to receive sentence. It fs aaid that, as Joyce is now rendered incompetent as a witness, none of the Washington partners in the frauds will be prosecuted, as Joyce alone possesses the evidence that would con- vict them. Under these circumstances will it be inconsistent to look for the pardon of Joyce before the 4th of next March ¢ defendant him- | | in the presence of this body with only a mild | and diffident protest. Ifthe public health were defended with a little of that obstructive pag- nacity with which Mr. Green guards the pub- | lictill, or if the people were cared for as even the dogs and dilapidated nags are by Mr. Bergh, there would, at least, be some safety against such violations of sanitary science as | have not already been made in the structure of the city; and, if the flood of serious and permanent offences against health were once | Stopped, we might turn with some hopefal- hess to the labor of finding a remedy for | the old troubles, Our old troubles are those that will present the greatest difficulty land involve tho largest expenditure fora this a healthy city—that every | HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. remedy; but till the expenditure is made this cannot be a healthy city. ‘Two-thirds of the sewers in this city have got to be com- pletely reconstructed; rebuilt from top to bottom on one uniform plan and with re- gard to a uniform level. This will be an enormous labor, and the worst of all is that with our corrupt system it will be madea stupendous job—a great pretext for turning the current of the public treasury into the pockets of rogues. But it will have to be done, even with that certainty in view. An- ther need is to have effective drains laid on an extensive scale in every old watercourse that originally ran across the upper part of the island. With these works once effectively done the rest would depend upon the health authorities. Our only need then would be a Board of Health with vigor enough to enforce against many abuses any good code of sanitary regu- lations. Such a body would secure that the water was pure and not drained at certain seasons from the bottom of stagnant marshes; but it would need to have a president who could cast chemistry aside sometimes and use his nose. It would also guard the pub- lic against all the other equally preventible causes of disease. But we point out the needs of the case rather from a conviction of our obligations in that respect than from any immediate hope of good results. City Real Estate. That New York is not going backward ; that its population and wealth will continue to increase ; that it will remain the commer- cial centre of the country, and will thus grow with the growth of the Union and the development of its resources—all this is as certain as anything in the future can be. When, therefore, some of our contemporaries speak of the solid value of real estate on Manhattan Island and of the certainty that prices will rise considerably above their pres- ent level, we agree with them. What they say is undeniably true. But it strikes us that it would be rash to predict an immedi- ate recovery of the real estate market, and we cannot entirely concur in the views of the Times upon this subject. They appear to us to be a little sanguine. We doubt, for in- stance, if so temporary a canse as the Cen- tennial Exhibition, thousands of whose visitors will seek shelter and amusement in New York next year, can have the effect of raising the price or stimulating the demand for city real estate. This sud- den demand may affect rents next May for the year; but nobody will be willing to pay more for a house on the ground that for a single season it may bring a higher rent. There is real estate in this city composing the centre of the business part of New York which has and will continue to -have a very large and increasing value. Such property is not for sale to-day; it is owned by men who have paid for it, who know it is abso- lutely safe and mean to keep it and hand it down to their, children. There is property not so well placed, but yet valuable, suffer- ing now from the depression in business, but certain to rise in rentable value as soon as business revives, because the demand for such property—warehouses, dwellings and stores—must then increase. Those who really own such property, who owe nothing or but little on it, and can therefore easily hold it, have no reason to be downcast. They may have to accept lower rents until business revives, and they may not fora long time receive such rents for it as they could get during the period of financial exaltation, but unless they paid ex- travagant prices for it they will before very long be able to get a satisfactory rental. There is, however, a large quantity of real estate, much of it unimproved and bring- ing no returns, for which the present holders paid extravagant prices; and on which, in many cases, they paid but small sums down, the greater part of the price re- maining on mortgage. The holders of such property are naturally very anxious to realize. They find it inconvenient to pay the interest and taxes; many of them have already been foreclos and had their property sold by the ‘Sheriff; and this is likely to happen to still move. This speculative kind of real estate will, we believe, continue to fallin price for some time to come, and a great part of it will come into new hands at much lower prices than were paid for it by the present holders. This is inconvenient to the speculative holders, but it is inevitable; and, moreover, it isa useful process to the community, for it clears the market and pre- pares the way fora healthy condition of the real estate business. That men will continue to make fortunes by New York real estate in- vestments, judiciously made, is perfectly true; but they will have to put in their own money, will have to buy at a reasonable figure and will have to wait for their profits, which will then be entirely legitimate. It is not at all probable that we shall see during 1876, or the year after, a great real estate speculation, nor is it desirable. Lee eM ee ce METHING oY A SEWSATION was occasioned | in Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, by certain intimations, growing out of foreclosure proceedings, that Judge Donahue had been unduly influenced to grant an order in the case. The insinuation led to affidavits by the counsel exonerating the Judge; but Judge Donahue ‘took the papers,” and will at a future day, by some | special order, signify what he intends to do | about it. Conservative Repvsitcans, like the edi- tors of the Chicago Tribune, hope that Gen- eral Grant, when he spoke of the successes of the republican party, meant that itopened the way to the election of a republican as his snecessor and his consequent retirement from the canvass. If yes——good for the re- | prublican party f Tor Matayan Dirvicunties seem likely to | be “bridged over.” It is now thought that the murder of Mr. Birch, the British Resi- dent, was unpremeditated, and the arming | of the Malays is described as only defensive. | At the same time the British garrison at | Perak keeps its eyes open and its powder | dry. Twe Panama Raturoap Company seem bound to carry out the promising enterprise | of a new regular line of steamers between |New York and Aspinwall and between Panama and San Francisco. According to reports it will not be long before this desira- | ble highway to the Pacific will be open to | travels The Central Park and Our Streets. The valne of the Central Park as a pleas- ure home of the people makes anything we do to increase its attractiveness a work of more than ordinary public utility. Nothing could be more at variance with the true value of pleasure grounds than the exclusive policy which sometimes governs their management. A park which is closed to the people, or which is surrounded with restrictions of an annoying or a humiliating character, is of little more value than a panortma, The im- agination will enable one to find as much pleasure in a stereoscopic view or a painting as in a park surrounded with the restrictions which we sometimes permit in our public ‘places and in Central Park especially. A correspondent, in a letter we print else- where, calls attention to this in an effective manner. Visitors, and especially the chil- dren, should be allowed full liberty to romp and stroll on the grass, But just mow no one can go into the Park without a criminal feeling, as though under the surveillance of the police. We are so driven from point to point by annoying regulations that, as our correspondent says, “one imagines himself Theseus in the laby- rinth of the Minotaur.” All this comes from an extreme desire to do the best. A police- man of an active conscience in a public park can do a great deal of ‘‘duty,” and in doing so make a great many folks uncomfortable. ‘This should be restrained. It should not be permitted to enter the police mind that be- cause a citizen enters the Park he of neces- sity means to violate the law. More than this, there should be regulations in reference to the riding paths. There should be a parallel path for horsemen, a bridle path running side by side with the ordinary car- riage drives. This isso in the Hyde Park, where there is a bridle path alongside of the famous ‘‘Rotten Row.” In the Bois de Bou- logne there is a bridle path parallel with the ride around the lake. It should be so ar- ranged in our Park, and the regulations should be shorn of their annoying features. ‘These are reforms that we can urge with the more confidence because the management of the Park has always been so enlightened and admirable that the Commissioners will seo the value of any change that will commend their administration to the popular ap- proval. While on this subject of the Park we may as well call attention to the condition of Fifth avenue. This avenue is as much a part of the Park as the ‘avenue of the Champs Elys¢es is a part of the Bois de Boulogne. It is the walk of the poor and the drive of the rich. The spacious walks, the splendid architecture, growing more and more magnificent every day as our people add to its attractions in the way of public and private edifices—the fact that it begins at one park, and, while passing two on the way, ends in the great park of all, makes it our representative highway. Whatever is done to improve the avenue is an advantage to the cityand should be at the city’s charge. | There must be a general change in this whole | business of the streets of New York, and we can do no better than to begin with Fifth ave- nue. The owners of property on the ave- nue, although less interested than any others, will be glad to do their share toward this re- sult. There should be a macadamized road like what we have elsewhere. We do not crave any more experiments in the way of plaster or wood or any of the horrible chemical compounds which have made New York a city of evil name for health and com- fort. We need a well-built and commodious avenue, macadamized after the best plan, that will grow better from year to year. This should be done without any delay. It should be the beginning of a plan for the rearrangement of the whole city system of streets and sewers. This is now the crying reform. We are on a fair way to have rapid transit, unless we should have some decep- tion in the carrying out of the ‘plans laid down by the Board of Commissioners. That done let the whole question of the health of the city be made a matter of the most care- ful inquiry and of prompt remedy. As it now is the evil is ever increasing and of the most dangerous character. This city, which should be the most healthy and the most beautiful in the world, is a reproach and a shame, a reflection upon our government, anda justification of the fear expressed by the Archbishop of Baltimore that our dem- ocratic form of government is not calculated to the best interests of the community. Religious Press Topics. The revival, the elections, current litera- ture and a variety of topics, social, moral and political, oceupy the columns of the re- ligious press this week. The Boston Pilot cautions its readers thus early not to be hood- winked by the cry of Romish designs on the public schools, foreign priesthood, popish plots and the like, which are sure to in- crease and intensify between this time and | the Presidential election. This scheme, says the Pilot, will fall flat if it be judiciously | treated by those against whom it is projected. It should be regarded as a fraud and a vain political dodge. ‘here is no need, it says, for Catholics to belong to one party or another; they may belong to both parties and be good Catholics and good citizens too, The / Northwestern Christian Advocate takes up a | phase of revival, and shows that religious awakenings are eminently social phenomena, being philosophically a religious influence pouring itself through social channels, so that it often runs within the channels ° of age, sex and condition, within which it gains its current and force. The Evangelist looks upon Mr. Moody's success as the best evidence that he is called of God to the wide and deep work of evangelism, and a proof that God is not confined to means, but works in His own way, calling one man from the schools and another from the plough or the workshop. | But such instances as Mr. Moody do not justify the Church in ignoring theological | education. The Christian at Work, Intelli- | gencer and Christian Advocate unite in depre- | cating the tone and character of very much | of our current literature, and especially of much that gets into our Sunday school lib- | raries and into the.hands of the youth of both | sexes. The Christian Leader calls attention to the contrast between Mr, Moody and Elder Knapp (deceased), as illustrating the | difference between love and fear as elements lin religious revivals, Moody and his doc- trine of love wins a hundred where Knapp won one. The Jewish Messenger is trying to induct Judaism more generally into the home life of its coreligionists, and gives therefore certain data about the home as it is, was and should be. It thinks that Jews do not earn the respect of strangers by their abandonment of old Jewish customs. The Jewish Times very pertinently calls public attention to the fact that, whilo many Chris- tian merchants and firms have failed within a recent period, Jewish mercantile credit stands good throughout. Tho lebrew Leader dilates on the same theme. The Christian Union reminds its readers that the everlast- ing God fainteth not, neither is weary in sup- plying the wants of His creatures, and that His children should imitate His patience and liberality. ' > The Dramatic Season, New York is now in the full tide of its autumn enjoyments. Mr. Booth has signal- ized his engagement by appearing for the first time in a new, part, one of the most intellectual conceptions of Shakespeare, When an actor like Mr. Booth steps out of the beaten path and throws aside characters in which he has won a national fame, and which he could play for years to overflowing houses, to give a new impersonation of Shakespeare, he shows himself not simply a mercenary stage player, seeking gain, but an artist anxious to elevate his calling and to make it the embodiment and_por- traiture of the creations of the greatest writer of our race. The reappearance of Mr. Wal- lack's famous company in one of the most brilliant plays of the generation is an event which may be said to begin our season of comedy. By a singular coincidence three, at least, of the artists who made high reputa- tions in the English theatres in the princi- pal characters of ‘‘Caste” are now grouped upon the leading stage of the United States. A new phase of American life and’ a real American character have been given to the stage by Mr. Florence, whose ‘‘Mighty Dol- lar,” after seventy performances, seems to be only in the bud and spring of its popular- ity. The other theatres are doing a good and increasing business. At Booth’'s old theatre Mr. Fox, the pantomimist, is amusing the children with his pranks and grimaces. This is an attempt to introduce into New York the holiday custom of the pantomime which has become so much a feature of English society. Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer do this, however, in Thanksgiving, without waitigg for Christmas, upon the theory, we suppose, that Thanksgiving in New York holds the place of Christmas in England. We regret that the effort to make pantomime a feature of the New York drama was not under other auspices, however. We mean by this that we should have had a pantomime like those at Drury Lane—new machinery, new scenery, and, if possible, new actors, forming a speetacle that would have been a childhood dream for many, many years. At the Lyceum Theatre additional variety is given to the season by the tine acting of the French comedy company, which is so expressive that it is a study in the art of .gesture and the universal ‘language of nature for even those who are unfamiliar with the French. Of opera we have not all that we could wish; but the Wachtel season is a magnificent popular success, and no doubt Mr. Neuendorff, before it closes, will produce “Lohengrin” and others of the grand operas in which the famous tenor has increased his European reputation. Altogether the fall season augurs well for the brilliancy of the winter. But one event has occurred to sadden the gayety of the metropolis. Somuch pleasure had been given hy Mr. George Belmore dur- ing his brief sojourn in this country, so much was expected of his versatility and genial humor, that the news that the accom- plished actor is now dying in this city comes like a shack to the public. But in his last moments he is attended by kind friends, and England will not mourn more sincerely than America for this unexpected ending of an “honorable and tsefal life. The Savings Bank Laws and the Bank Superintendent. There are over'eight thousand depositors in the Third Avenue Bank whose money is held locked up by that institution, and the united amount of their deposits reaches nearly one million five hundred thousand dollars. It is a little absurd, therefore, for a small room full of men, numbering, perhaps, two or three hundred and representing probably jess than three hundred thousand dollars of deposits, to undertake to speak and act for this great body of victims. Some other power should be invoked for the protection of the sufferers by this cruel and wicked failure, and that power should be the civil and criminal courts. A sin- gle depositor has the right and the privilege to go before a court to insti- tute proceedings against the unfaithful offi- cers of the broken bank and to demand a re- versal of the outrageous appointment of one of those officers as receiver. When the courts act, although at the suit of a single victim, they act in the interest and for the protection of all the sufferers. It is much easier to reach the guilty parties in this savings bank iniquity than may be supposed. The law provides that all sav- ings banks shall make reports of their con- dition to the Bank Superintendent in Janu- ary of each year. These statements are re- quired to be faithful exhibits of the assets and liabilities of Hhe banks making them ; to set forth the true marketable value of their investments, and to be verified by the oath of the two principal officers of the bank. Such a statement was made in January, 1875, by the Third Avenue Bank, and sworn to by John H, Lyon, President, and William H. Carman, Secretary, It set forth the market value of the stocks held by the bank at $400,000, when it was in fact $280,240, and had been of no higher value at any time for two years’ ‘prior to January last. It set forth the value of the real estate to be $637,000, when, an outside valuation would be $40 It represented that the bank had an excess of as- sets over liabilities of $6,960, when, in truth it had a deficit of over $400,000. As we have said, this statement was sworn to by Mr. Lyon, the President of the bank, and Mr. Carman, its then Secre- tary and present receiver, The law says, “any wilful false swearing in respect to such reports shall be deemed perjury and subject to the punishments prescribed by law for such offences.” What Court would venture to say that Mr. Carman, the officer of the bank who swore to the last January state- ment, is a fit person to act as receiver of the bank and to protect the interests of the de- positors ? ‘There are other matters that need investi- gation besides this false representation of the bank’s condition, Between January and March $100,000 of Kansas State bonds, which are worth par, were sold ont by the officers of the bank, and $55,0000f Tennessee State bonds, which are worth fifty cents on the dollar, were substituted among the securities ofthe bank. ‘The share of responsibility in- curred by the Bank Superintendent’ should be ascertained, In March last an examination of the bank was mado by two examiners, Messrs. Reid and, Aldrich, who reported to the Bank Superintendent an actual deficiency of $219,226, irrespective of the decreased value of the real estate, and a deficiency of income of $44,791. With this knowledge in his pos- session, affording positive proof of the fraud~ ulent character of the January statement, tho! Bank Superintendent suffered the rotten: bank to continue to draw in and cheat new depositors for six months longer, and then failed to object to the appointment of Mr. Carman, who had sworn to the false state~ ment, as receiver of the bank. With these facts in their possession, Surely, some indi- vidual depositor should have the sense to institute proceedings against the unfaithful bank officers, and to seek from the courts the immediate removal of the present receiver. Tax Von Arn Drericuuty.—The Von, Arnim difficulty in Berlin seems to be destined to draw the government into new complications. The Count, who is safe in Switzerland, asked permission of the Court to remain abroad fora longer period before undergoing the imprisonment imposed upom him on account of ill health. Before his) application could be acted upon a pamphlet: appeared in Berlin containing what are re~ garded as libellous attacks on the Emperor, Prince Bismarck and the Foreign Office, in connection with the Von Arnim trial. It is suspected that the Count is the author of the offensive pamphlet; hence his application has little chance of meeting with a favorable’ response, It is evident that the best thing Count Von Arnim can do is to come to the United States, where he would be enthu- siastically welcomed by his countrymen. Boss Hvucu Hasrrmas, the successor of Thurlow Weed as the Mentor of modern re~ publicanism, is puzzled over the remarkable speech of General Grant on the night of the election, in which he said:—‘‘We have an assurance that the republicans will control this government for at least four years longer.” Boss Hastings thinks this means a third term for General Grant. If yes——bad Sor the republican party ! PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, hg Moltke will winter in Rome. The Pope is a hard-money man, % Senator John W Stevenson, of Kentucky, ‘arrlved last evening at the New York Hotel. ‘The Rassian harvest has failed. That of Great Britaim is short. That of the United States is large. Now the world should rest easy. Gortschakofs mysterious expression to Thiers has leaked out, thus— ‘Instability alone has no alliances,’” According to the Buffalo Courier Senator Conkling: bas a much greater vitality as a Presidential aspirant, than he has heretofore been credited with. The Centennial year, with its influx of visitors and {te outburst of patriotiem, will, in the opinion of the Pittsburg Gazette, help the republican party. A weak female will berate a man for letting her stand up ina horse car, and she will then dance from ten o'clock till two. This shows that dancing is better than standing up. The Cabinet of King George, of Greece, comprises gome namos that must stagger the ordinary mortal, such as MM. Koutostaylos, Karaiskakis, Soliropuloa and Tapazafiropulos. Lord Houghton, of England, accompanied by Sit Edward Thornton and Secretary Fish, called at the Ex. ecutive Mansion yesterday and paid their respects ta the President and Mrs. Grant. ‘The bones of over one thousand Chinamon have bees gathered together at Sacramento, Cal., from all parts of the State, preparatory to their being forwarded ta China, in a few days, by a clipper ship. The Richmond Whig says:—‘‘The democratic party of the Union is opposed to all thought of a repudiation of the national debt, and the conservative party of Vir. ginia is opposed to all thought of a repudiation of Vir- ginia’s debt.” Jobn Surratt married a Virginia lady last year and ia now teaching school at a village in Maryland, about twenty miles thence, Miss Surratt married a Troasury clerk, but immediately after tho nuptials be was dig missed from the department. Victor Hugo is charged by the Figaro with a heinous offence. He has published his ‘‘Actes et Paroles,” but has changed all exclamations of dissent and derision accompanying the reports of his speeches to “bravo,” “explosion of applause,’’ “loud burst of laughter,” and so forth, “Sam,” said a friend of the melancholy Bowles, leaning over the farm fence the other morning and scrutinizing the great agriculturist with deep interest, “Sam, if Charles Francis Adams should die, I do be- lieve you'd put your cabbage in mourning.” And Sam couldn't deny it The New Orleans Picayune says:—‘The trath is, that the people will always add to or subtract from a meas- ure the moral weight of the men who propose i, In other words, they must have confidence in the law- makers before they will yield respect and obedience to the laws made,”” Poople are frequently surprised, while reading ad- vertisements of deaths, at the number of pessons who die at advanced years. In the death column of the Henao for ono day the average age at death of twenty- six persons was aa follows :—23 years, 6 months, 20 days, 18 hours, 27 minutes, 41 7-30 seconds, The Count de Paris and M, Thiers met at the North- ern Railway station in Paria, Says @ French journal, “All at once the Count walked with an embarrassed air toward bis grandfather’s old Minister, Thiers took a fow steps in the same direction, The two met and ‘Thiers first extended his hand to the Prince.” Tois might bo called a meoting of extremes. Emperor William, of Germany, to Grand Orient Lodge of Freemasons, at Milat:—‘Thank ail my Ttalian brothers, and assure them that I will do everything im my power for our and their interests, Iam gowing old now, and cannot attend to much personally; bul my son, who will take my place in this great organiza tion, will continac what I have begun.” ‘A little five year-old boy, of Paducah, Ky., who was always allowed to choose tho prettiest kitten for his pot and playmate betore the other nurslings were drowned, was taken to his mother’s sick room the other morning to see two tiny, new twin babies. He looked reflect. ively from one to the other for a minute or two, thea poking his chubby finger into the cheek of the plump. est baby, he said, decidedly, “Save thia one." For tho three yoars, 1870, 1871 and 1972, there wera in New York 359 suicides, 132 of whom were Germans. Of that number also 275 wore males aud $4 fe roales, the ago of the oldest boing cighty-six and m the youngest ten, Tho months in which seif-destruction was most provalent were those of summer, August furnishing more than twice as many suicides as December, Of the occupations represented clerks figured most largely,