The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1875, Page 6

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 Yorx Henaup 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 York Axnacp. 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 | geceived and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, WALLACK'S THEATRE, and Thirteenth street.—CASTE, at 8 P. M.; eloses . M. Mr. George Honey, Miss Ada Dyas. Broad at 10:45 PARISIAN VARIETIES, Bixteenth street, near Broadway.—VAKIETY, at 8 P.M. AMERICAN INST! Third avenue and Sixty-third street. ITUTE, —Day and ever" THEATRE COMIQUE, Mo, 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, New Opera House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, ats P.M. HEATR! BOOTH’S: STS ANTOMIME, at 8 Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue. P.M. G. L. Fox. CHICKERING HALL, | Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street.—GRAND CONCERT, | a5 P.M. Vou Bulow, | PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty street.—THE MIGHTY DOL. LAR, at’ P.M. Mr. a Fiorence. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Ko 328 West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10'A. M. to 5 | P.M. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—(ierman Opera—POSTILLON DE LONJUMEAU, at 8 P.M. Wachtel. FIFTH AVENUE THEATR) Twenty-eighth street, near Broadway.—RICHELIED, at 8 ¥. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Edwin Booth, EAGLE THEATRE, Brosdway and Thirty third street.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M, | GLOPE THEATRE, | it resembles the St. Domingo business, the NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER Are You Satisfied, General Grant t— Leading Trumps Too Soon—Bluster~ ing Diplomacy. What might have been a tragedy has ended ina burlesque. All of oar bluster, all of our “bounce,” all of our defiant men- aces to poor Spain, all of our war prepara- tions, our diplomatic notes, our veiled threat- | enings, our mysterious hints about Cuba and “manifest destiny,” and the American eagle and our ‘whipping all creation,” have come | to nothing. Spain, as might have been ex- | pected from a thoroughly peaceable nation, | with more than she enn do now, with her Carlists in the north, her ‘Irreconcilables” in the south, her finances all going to th | bad and the country rent with internal dis- | sensions, with religious and political ques- tions disturbing the government, ministry | after ministry endeavoring to steady an un- | certain and trembling throne, surrenders. | | What conld have been expected but the result | | which comes to us from Madrid and Washing- | ton? Spain, undera pressure which we would | neyer have applied to a nation not in the throes of revolution and civil war, has yielded to our demands. The military prep- arations, about which there was so much telegraphing to General Sherman, will cease. The refitting of ships will be interrupted. Mr. Cushing will exchange ‘assurances of distinguished consideration” with the high- mettled Dons of Alfonso’s Cabinet. There will be a new shipment of troops tothe Ever Faithful Island, and the Cuban question will be forgotten with the many deplorable and | humiliating exhibitions of American di- | plomacy, which have given our country a reputation so unenviable in the past. | It would be interesting to know if General | Grant is really satisfied with the result of | this opéra bouffe diplomacy. It reads as | we look back upon it like one of | Offenbach’s operas. We might have had | something of the kind in the Grand Duchy | of Gerolstein or in one of the queer king- doms which Swift describes in his “Travels of | Gulliver.” But we can hardly believe ita chapter of real contemporaneous history. It is certain that the whole business, like so many of the exploits of the administration, is the President's own work. In this respect | “peace management” of the Indians, the first appointment of the Cabinet, and many of | the achievements in which the President | acted from his inner consciousness and not | from the advice of men like Mr. Fish and | Mr. Pierrepont, who are not, so far as we know their record, men who would seek complications as Don Quixote sought antagonists, in wind- | mills and travelling menageries. The | whole business is the President's own. No | Nos. ee 730 Broadway.—MINSTRELSY and VARIETY, ae eP. 4 | = | WOOD'S MUSEUM, orner of Thirtieth street.—JIBENAINOSAY, | closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at2P.M. Mr. PASTOR" W THEATRE, | 987 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Mati. | THEATRE, and Thirty: tS P.M. THIRD AV Third avenne, between Thirtie MINSTRELSY and VARIETY, frst streets— | | LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near avenne.—ROBINSON | CRUSOE, at8 P.M. Mexi ‘eniles. | BROOKLYN ¥ OF MUSIC, Brooklyn.—English Opera—BOUEMIAN GIRL. at 8 P.M. | Ciara Louise Kellogg. — my | GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteonth street, near Irving place.—LEMONS, at 8 P.M. | TIVOLI THE Eighth street, near Third avenue TRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—SI SLOCUM, P.M. Mr. Frank Frayne. cOLoss Thirty-fourth street and Broadway. pais. Open from 10 A. M. to | PRUSSIAN SIEGE OF M. and 7 P. M. to 10 OLYMPI No. 624 Broadway.—VARIET TRI + NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1875, | | ) | From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and | partly cloudy. John Agnew reowld make an excellent Commis. | sioner of Public Works, in place of Fits John Porter. 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General Grant's He is himself | alone, as much as Bombastes Furioso, who placement of a pair of boots, or of the Cap- tain Bobadil, who had a mathematical process | for extinguishing his enemies by single com- bat, or of some of the wildest madmen in the Reign of Terror, who insisted that when the enemies of France were swarming on the frontier it was only necessary for the sons of freedom, like the Spartans of old, to wear | flowers to show that the country was in dan- ger. It is nothing but rhodomontade. | The lesson to be learned from this whole This was | When France became restless and the people began to chafe under imperialism and to yearn for liberty the Emperors opened some of the “questions” which are ever present in Conti- nental politics and declared war. The peo- ple rushed after the flag, and when the war was over they were too exhausted to do any- thing but submit in patience to whatever their master determined. Napoleon I. | made a strange confession of the necessity of | war and of “glory” which the Empire forced upon him. He could only rule France by | Every aspiration for freedom was drowned in blood. The way to imperialism is only another form of that Ce#sarism against which we have never ceased to warn the people since we first saw the tendencies to it in the policy of the President. The | Cuban question, as we have managed it in the past few days, is Cesarism in its most dangerous form. It shows that we have an administration not above bringing the se- verest calamity that can befall a people upon the Republic only to perpetuate the rule of a party and satisfy the ambition of a President. The credit of this must be said Wau Street Yestenpar.—-Stocks were a trifle stronger. Goldhigher, at1143-4. Rag money 87.14. » Governments steady and railway bonds firm. - Yesrenpar Appezp only three to the list of jurors in the Scannell murder trial. Ten jurors have now been obtained. A Nosrz Grrr.—Ten thousand pounds sterling have been placed by a gentleman in England at the disposal of the Church Mis- sionary Society, in response to Mtesa’s ap- peal for Christianization made through Stanley. The name of the donor is not given. Tax Crows Prince of Denmark appears to have met with a severe accident through a fall from or with his horse. The Herarn's special cable despatch reports the Prince to be seriously ill. It is to be hoped, how- ever, that his injuries are not such as to create any apprehension of a fatal result. Tax Gumonp Boxts.—The bones of poor Mr. Guibord have been placed in their grave and are unconscious of the trouble they caused prior to their interment. But the living actors in the matter are not yet at rest. Father Rousselot, the curé of Notre Dame and the priest who first refused ecclesiastical sepulture to the deceased, writes a letter condemning the injustice of proceedings against the Fabrique of Notre Dame. He maintains that concession and refusal of sepulture in consecrated ground, with the prayers and ceremonies of the Church, are essentially within the juris- diction of the ecclesiastical and not of the sivil authority. The general feeling is that the case has been carried far enough, and that the peaceful burial of poor Guibord should be regarded as sufficient vindication of the rights of the civil authorities. to originate with the President. He is the | first President who reduced his Cabinet to | the rank of mere staff officers and his party | to the level of enlisted dragoons. So he is the first who ever found in the always delicate relations with our neighbors and peaceful | nations a means of political success. It was | not so with Fillmore, who had twenty times | more reason to quarrel about Cuba than | Grant has found. It was not so with Pierce, | | the credit of being the first President who made the relations of the Republic with a | foreign Power the means of party prosperity, | and who found it a way to political advance- | ment to tamper with the peace of the coun- | try, we show the progress which Cwsarism | has made in our polities. There is no use in | underrating this movement or the tendencies which it has developed in our administra- tion. The President and the men around | him do not mean to surrender power until it | is wrested from their grasp. We have shown | this on twenty occasions, which it is not | worth’ while to recall. But we have never | seen it in so grave an aspect as in this Cuban | complication. Here are the army and the | navy, used for no other purpose than to | enable the republican party to main- | tain power and to secure General | Grant in its absolute and unchallenged | possession. Perhaps we shall be censured as alarmists and partisans for our continued iteration of a theme which is not pleasant, because it is in some senses a reflection upon our patriotism and our capacity for self- government. But we cannot shut our eyes to the growing and unchecked tendencies of events. We wish it were otherwise. It is not pleasant to be forever marking the ad- vances of despotic and irresponsible power, | to be forever noting a new departure from the time-honored traditions of the fathers who founded this Republic, not to be the halidom of a successful military chieftian and the pretorian guards of a political party; but to be a noble and prosperous Republic, an example to all nations for its moderation, its respect for the rights of the people, its obedience to international obligations, its devotion to a pure and _ virtnous democracy, in which all men would be ‘zee and equal. General Grant's Cuban demonstration would be among the absurdi- ties of our politics if it did not mark a ten- dency which bodes evil to the nation and its liberties. The indignation which this most cite throughout the country, when its full measure is known, may’ have a beneficial effect in arousing the people to a sense of a long despised but ever growing danger. As it is we have never been ina more humiliating plight than at the present time. We sincerely trust that the President is satisfied, and that counsellors like Fish, Bristow and Pierre- pont do not feel something more than shame in belonging to a Cabinet which is not above consenting for political gain to the dishonor of our country, not only at home, but among the nations of the world. John Agnew would make an excellent Commis- sioner of Public Works, in place of Fitz John Porter, - Critieal Conjunctures in our Foreign Relations, It would be very instructive if some per- son of competent information and ability— say Mr. Charles Francis Adams—would write the diplomatic history of our govern- ment, presenting a connected and compre- hensive recital of our intercourse with for- eign nations and our generally consistent foreign policy. In such a work the critical periods, when peace has been imperilled, would stand ont in great prominence, for these are the most interesting as well as the most instructive parts of this subject. This important branch of our history lies at pres- ent ina state of chaos, scattered through doc- uments not easily accessible to the general public, but which, if collected, sifted, arranged, and their pith presented in a_ readable style, would be, intellectually at least, the brightest part of our national annals. There is nothing which reflects greater credit on the national charac- ter than the sound judgment and genuine ability of our successive Secretaries of State. In this brief article we can hardly lift one of the corners of the veil which rests upon so broad a subject; but the recent complication with Spain tempts us to throw a passing glance on the varying, we might almost say variegated, history of our diplomatic relations with that country. There is no other with which we have been so often in diplomatic hot water, and yet, by fortunate events and the skill of our statesmen, the United States and Spain have never been at war. The policy of peace which has been, steadily pursued by those who have had charge of our foreign relations is signally illustrated by our constantly emerging difficulties with Spain and the uni- formity with which every wave has passed under the ship and left it to float on in safety. Our difficulties with Spain began from the moment that we were acknowledged in Europe as an independent Power. At that time Spain possessed the whole continent | south of us and west of us. Georgia was | our southern limit; Spain held Florida, a | continuous belt of territory extending thence along the Gulf to the Mississippi, the whole | western bank of that river and the vast region stretching behind it, Our first | difficulties with Spain related to the | navigation of the Mississippi, which con- | who would not allow a Minister as fiery as | Sonlé to disturb the peaceful relations be- | tween the two nations. It was not so with Mr. Lincoln, who stood alone against the fury of the people when they insisted upon fight- ing England rather than return Mason and Slidell. It was not so with Mr. Johnson, who had an almost irresistible temptation to send the finest army in the world across the Rio Grande and drive the French out of Mexico. If Mr. Johnson, with all of his fanits and his not always calm _ perception lof the limitations and responsibilities of the Presidential office, had been governed by the ambition which we see, | unhappily, in Waghington at this time, | he could have won a great fame and almost irresistible power by sending Sheri- dan with his victorious army to Mexico, It would have been & popular enterprise. We were fresh from our own war. We had all the fever of combat. We were flushed with victories, continued and overwhelming. We had an army and a commander who could have marched over every French army in Mexico almost without disturbing its parade formation. And President Johnson, as the “conqueror of Napoleon” and the States to onr dominion as the price of our intervention, and have walked into a second term almost without question, Therefore, when we give to General Grant iour of Mexico,” could have added new | tinued long, and were only partially settled by the treaty of 1795, and which broke out | again in the early part of Jefferson's admin- | istration, when Congress passed on act an- | thorizing the President to call out eighty | thousand State militia to be used against | Spain in asserting our rights. Spain had al- | ready, without the knowledge of our gov- | ernment, ceded the Louisiana territory to | France by a secret treaty, which did not come to light until 1802. The next year we gained complete possession of both banks of the Mississippi by the purchase of Louisiana from France ; but Spain still retained Flor- ida, and questions of boundary and difli- culties relating to the depredations of the Florida Indians kept constantly arising to disturb the relations of the two governments | by the purchase of Florida in 1819. But new differences with Spain immediately | arose, in consequence of the revolt of her South American colonies, to whom we first accorded belligerent rights and afterward recognized their independence, ‘There was en an interval of quiet until our filibus- began to fit out expeditions against Cuba during the administration of President Fill- more, which caused great irritation on the | part of Spain. This slight sketch shows that our relations with Spain have been disturbed | and precarious during great part of our national existence ; but peace bas nover been unfortunate and deplorable business will ex- t | the people, and not the bosom friends of until that source of strife was at last closed | interrupted. Again and again there have been far graver causes of irritation than those which have recently occasioned so much bluster; but heretofore our controversies | with Spain have been managed with com- | bined firmness and moderation, and no- body, looking back upon our past history, regrets the just and pacific spirit of our government toward that declining nation. We can better afford to be self-poised and considerate, now that she has become so weak and we have grown’ so strong, and when the grounds of quarrel are so insignificant in comparison with what they have been in some former periods. It | would evince lack of skill, want of temper, or sinister motives, if our government could not now maintain its honor without a war with Spain, considering the safety with which our diplomacy has navigated more difficult channels in the past. John Agnew would male an excellent Commis- sioner of Public Works, in place of Fitz John Porter. The Spring Elections. The fact that Governor Tilden is found to be in favor of the changing of the election for Mayor and municipal officers from autumn to spring will give strength to our suggestion that there should be an act pro- viding for this at the earliest possible time. There are many reasons for such an act. Public policy dictates that there should be no connection between elections for munici- pal officers and elections for Governor and President. The party questions upon which the people thronghout the country divide have no place in the discussion of the proper men to manage the affairs of our city. It is not democrats or republi- cans that we want in the government of New York, but honest business men, who will control this city as our great merchants control their business affairs. Mayor Wickham was ostracised by the vote at the last election, not alone by the people of New York, but by his own party. It only remains, therefore, for the Legislature to carry out the will of the people by passing a law changing the elections from autumn to | spring. This is necessary to secure us proper municipal officers. It is a mistake to burden the canvass for judges and Mayor with issues about the currency and free trade and reconstruction, which are national, not sectional. There is no possible resemblance between the two forms of the suffrage. This is Governor Tilden’s idea, and we have no doubt he would heartily co-operate with the Legislature in the enactment of some measure changing the elections to the spring. This done we should have good candidates. We should nominate positive, independent, representative men, who would be friends of some particular leader, like John Kelly or Thomas Murphy. We would indicate as proper men from whom to select a candidate John Agnew or John K. Hackett, our fear- less Recorder, who showed his personal strength in the last canvass when he tri- umphed over all opposition. Or we might select Charles A. Dana, the editor of the Sun, who has had experience in politics and in office, and who declined the nomination for Mayor during the last canvass. Mr. Dana would, no doubt, make a war upon public -peculators in office as vigorously eas he makes it in the columns of his journal. He certainly would command the support of the independent press of the city. The nomination of Henry G. Stebbins, President of the Park Commis- sion, one of our high-minded, public spirited citizens, would also meet the approval of all classes. Or we might take Andrew H. Green, the present Comptroller. Mr. Green, as the readers of the Heraup may imagine, is not an ideal politician. There are many things about his administration which have given rise to criticism. But no one has ever criticised his honesty, and it may be that his faults as Comptroller are faults inseparable from a harassing, irri- tating position, which would pass away in the more independent office of Chief Magistrate of the city. Any of these men would make a suitable candidate for Mayor, and as the people by their voice at the recent election have pro- nounced upon Mr. Wickham and declared him not fit for the place, it only remains for the Legislature to pass a law changing the elections, and for the people to give them- selves 9 Chief Magistrate who will redeem the promises which Mr. Wickham made in so lavish a manner when he entered upon the duties of the office—promises which were only made to be destroyed. John Agnew tcould malce an excellent Commis« sioner of Public Worles, in place of Fitz John Porter. Bascock anv Svuprnvison McDonatp.— The trial of John McDonald, the Supe- rvisor of Internal Revenue at St. Louis, seems likely to bring to light a con- siderable portion of the hidden features of the whiskey frauds. It appears now to be satisfactorily shown that prominent | persons in the department at Washing- ton were made aware of the dishonest trans- | actions, and failed to take any steps to stop them or to bring the offenders to justice, | Indeed, from the correspondence given in the Henaup’s special despatch from St, Louis, | it would seem that a perfect understanding existed between the parties involved that the operators were to be protected at all hazards, | McDonald's share in the frauds is now under- going investigation, and it seems not im- probable that others yet higher in the trust and favor of the administration will yet have to submit to a similar ordeal. As | General Babcock’s name has been freely | mentioned in connection with the “Ring” | it will be important to show if any and what correspondence of a confidential character | has taken place between him and McDonald, and whether any of the parties implicated in the frauds have been kept in or restored to office through the influence of General Bab- cock. exerted at McDonald's request. | Tamorayy Hatr.—The Evening Post has | commenced the publication of a history |} of the Tammany Society in a series of papers, of which the first appeared tere | day. We reproduce elsewhere the editorial comments of our contemporary on the subject, The recent uprising of the peopl» 19, 1875,-TRIPLE SHEET. | cert at the Pyramids. | for violin playing might have been discoy- i} | nobody any good.” The accomplished young | informed those officers that the law required | | nouncement on such high legal authority | as the young Corporation Counsél supposed, of New York against the political assump- tions of this secret, Know Nothing Society, and the apparent determination of the democratic majority of the city not to sub- mit any longer to its dictation apd tyranny, give interest to these timely reminiscences. Who Shall Be Commissioner? Mayor Wickham has shown commendable wisdom in some of his recent appointments, especially in the nomination of John Gran- ville Kane to be School Commissioner. We trust that he will continue this policy in distributing the patronage that remains to him during his brief remaining tenure of office, He will have a fine opportunity in the nomination of a Commissioner of Public Works in place of Fitz John Porter. Gen- eral Porter's term will soon expire, Although his career as an army officer is that of a man more sinned against than sinning, and al- though he has many estimable qualities as an officer and a gentleman, yet still he has failed to satisfy the people in his high place. The developments before our Legislative Committee, showing that in the distribution of’ work he was governed by the absolute command of a local, political, Know Nothing, secret organization, and permitted incompetent men to superintend as impor- tant a work as the laying of sewers, upon which the health and comfort of a great city turns, proves that he is not strong enough to defy political dictation even when it inter- feres with the welfare of the people. There- fore, with all kind feelings toward General Porter, it is clear that he should retire from the head of this department. Mr. Wickham should nominate for the office John Agnew. Mr. Agnew possesses more requisites for such an office than any man we know who would be likely to accept the trust. Let the Mayor follow up the good example set in the nomination of Mr. Kane and other gentle- men of similar character by giving us Mr. Agnew as Commissioner of Public Works. Good News for Pedestrians, Onur readers will be glad to know that the criticisms of the Hzraup upon the manage- ment of Central Park have had a good effect. The Commissioners, who have already won a large share of popularity by their liberal, economical management, have resolved to ex- tend its usefulness. Plans have been arranged for the opening of a bridle path parallel to the Drive, as is the case in the Avenue de l'Impératrice and the Tour of the Lake in the Bois de Boulogne. This will encourage horseback riding and make the Park more of afestive gathering place, like the Prado in Madrid, which has been celebrated all the world over as an afternoon resort in the clear, inviting summer days. These plans also contemplate the building of a large side- walk near the entrance of the Park. We are glad to know that the restrictions which have prevented ladies and gentlemen from walk- ing on the carriage drives does’ not arise from the regulations of the Commissioners, but are simply the overzeal of the police, who have taken upon themselves to usurp their authority. We congratulate the Commis- sioners upon the attention they have given to the protest of journals like the Times and Heratp. At the same time we feel satisfied, as we have all along, that with a Board like the present it is only necessary to bring any abuse of the Park to their attention to have it remedied without delay. Two In1eaan Voters were yesterday sent up to Sing Sing until after the Presidential election. Their ballots cost each of them eighteen months of liberty. Dow Carzos 4s A Parrior does not seem to win confidence or to excite sympathy on the other side of the Atlantic. His recent letter to Alfonso is sometimes ridiculed and some- times abused, but always receives hostile criticism. One London journal declares that Carlos owes his “long respite” only to the Cuban war. An- other says that he makes the supposed difficulty with America the pretext for insulting the Spanish nation. The Pall Mall Gazette thinks the letter, with its bom- bast, indicates an intention on the part of Don Carlos to retire from the pres- ent conflict. Meanwhile King Alfonso, by « royal order, directs General Que- sada to receive no communication in future from Don Carlos, except it be his un- conditional surrender. The worst news comes in the shape of an announcement that the Carlist committee in London is without funds! Atall events Don Carlos may con- sole himself with the thought that his letter has caused a commotion among his enemies, Tue Heratp Sprctan Cane Despatcu gives aglowing description of Ole Bull’s trium- phant progress through Europe with his violin and bow. We are told that in Copen- hagen the maestro’s last notes made the audience wild with excitement, and that his journey has been marked by wreaths of flowers, thundering applause, crowded houses and police difficulties. To crown all, the great violinist, at the special invitation of the Khedive, is to give a con- We should imagine that a more convenient and adaptable place ered by the Khedive, but this is a matter of taste, Ole Bull is certainly a very popular and a very fortunate artist. John Agnew would make an excellent Commis. sioner of Public Works, in place of Fitz John | Porter. | Tux Canvass or Vores.—The blunders of inexperience are sometimes productive of good, probably on the principle involved in | the proverb, ‘It is an ill wind that blows | | Corporation Counsel, in a learned opinion on the duties of the county canvassers, recently them to count all the ballots that had been cast in the election, This astonishing an- evidently suggested to the minds of the can- vassers that if they were not expected to go through the labor of counting all the ballots, | it would be well to have the ballots pre- served and within their reach in case of an | error or dispute in any election return, They, therefore, suggest such an amendment to the registry law as will accomplish this result. The suggestion is a good one, and should be acted upon by tho Legislature. The Cold Shoulder in India. Our London despatch points to the proba- bility of the sudden return of the Prince of Wales from India in circumstances far from gratifying to his pride asa prince and even less agreeable as an indication of the unsatis- factory political relations of the British gov~ ernment with its great dependency. All the Indian potentates are, in familiar language, disposed to pout at the heir apparent ; or to look the other way and be unconscious that he is in India ; or to have pressing engage- ments in some other part of the country ; ot to be unwilling to leave their mothers, like the Nizam of Hyderabad; or to be filled with a spirit of ‘‘pure cussedness” and total depravity, determined to stand in a corner with their faces to the wall and not be good on any terms what. ever. This is not intended by any wily Hindoo politicians as a lesson or a rebuke, It is an instinctive operation of the Hindoo will; and it might have been differ- ent if the course taken by the government in the case of the Guicowar of Baroda had been other than what it was. As it is the princely mind accepts what it deems neces- sity when it comes in the shape of deposi- tion, or other unpleasant shapes ; but refuses to pretend that it likes its situation by mak- ing itself agreeable to the royal visitor. In this condition it would be easier ‘‘to split the hard wood sami with a leaf of the blue lotus” than to make the Indian trip either pleasant or politically profitable, and tha decision to return, if really taken, is wise, sioner of Public Worle, in place of Fiz John Porter. Tue Commissioners appointed to nego- tiate with the Sioux in reference to the Black Hills country do not cherish the hope that much good faith can be expected from the Indians, and are of the opinion that the government is not under obligations to use very extraordinary efforts to keep out white settlers so long as the Indians do not keep faith with the government. A Terrmie Ramroap Disaster is re ported by the Heraup’s special cable de- spatch to have occurred in Sweden, between Stockholm and Malmo, by which sixty passengers were killed or injured, The details are not given. Malmo is a sea- port, on the Sound, and the train to which the accident happened is more likely to have been filled with business men than with tourists, 2 PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Christini Rossetti is an invalid, and lives with her mother and brother, ‘Secretary Robeson arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hote? last evening from Washington. Hon. Wells Williams, Secretary of Legation from the United States to China, is at Montreal. Deceased members of the ing-Harman family, of Boyle, Ireland, are always buried by torchlight, More diplomatic trouble for Turkey, The Turkish soldiers at Carina have butchered an Italian nobleman, The Utah Mormons number 100,000. In Salt Lake City there are 30,000, There are two Gentiles to ten Mormons. These are late nights for falling stars. Lovers and gentlemen who have been to the lodge may at any time a fine display, Jean Ingelow lives in the aristocratic Kensingtom Gardens quarter, but in a plain and quiet way, and is very accessible to Americans. | Mayor Wickham yesterday appointed Mr, Jacob D, Vermilyea School Commissioner, to fill the unexpired term of Mr. R. W. Townsend, who has just resigned. The Vicksburg Herald says:—-‘‘We have long since forgiven the North for licking us, but the North haw never forgiven us foribeing so infernally hard to lick." Mr. Pinney, of California, is one of the few govern’ ment defayiters whose conscience or opportunitigs did not permit him to steal $1,000,000. He stole $950,000, Elmer E. Washburn, Chief of the Secret Service Bue reau of the United States Treasury, arrived in thie city yesterday and will leave for Washington this even. ing. Colonel Brooks, of the Washington Republican, whose conversion a few years ago was a matter of doubt, hag made an affidavit that he intends to join a praying bang with Secretary Bolknap. Tho Swiss government does not parley with offend- ers. The French curate of Meyrin refused to give up the keys of bis charch when ordered, so he was ar- rested and sent to Geneva for trial, Old Perhapsibilities says that for some States there may possibly be probablities of certain snowballs within a few days; but the unscientific boy of the period need have no hopes of soakers yet. The Gazzetta del Popolo ot Turin, says that women are allowed to become physicians if they accept the male regulations at the universities, What would the Vassar girls do under the circumstances? Agirlin Berks county, Pennsylvania, only twelve years old, rises daily at four A. M., milks thirteen cows and prepares breakfast for the family, Her hair isn’t “banged,” and she doesn’t wear a one-legged dress. Guibord Limself did not make much fuss about being buried. He said that if he could walk for tourteea minutes inared shirt, with a brass band in tront of him anda target carrier behind him, he would sell out cheap. The Atlanta (Ga) Herald having tried to make a joke, and having been corrected into absurdity by the printer, cries out, “The intelligent compositor is » blessing in disguise. Tho only trouble ia that he is sometimes too deeply disguised. ’” Chief Justice Waite says that in the line of hie profession he has reached the highest place he could ever hope for, and thathe can never, under any cir- cumstances, be a candidate for President of the United States. That 1s the way candidates always talk, The ladies of literary London have no meetings there, as they have in America, George Eliot is sometimes seen in literary clubs with her husband, Mr. Lewes, but very rarely. Sue lives in a quiet, humble way, in the north side of London, in a little two-story house. A Chinese poet writes of outside political customs:— “The foreign women carry umbrellas and walk with their husbands shoulder to shoulder. The fangwi walk, walk, walk; they talk, they converse, they discuss; their velocipedes are swift, they pass by thereon like a cloud.” 4 Mayor-elect Bryant, of San Francisco, is said by the Sacramento Bee to expect that he will be the demo cratic candidate for the Presidency. Mr. Bryant shows a good deal of sense. Democratic conventions usually drop four or five big men and take a no-account man, and Mr. Bryant has as good a chance to be nominated as any of the 3,000,000 of democrats, The stenches and education differ at Cologne. Thir. ty-two azpirants for the military college state in their examination papers that the battle of Sedan took place on November 21, that the last war of Germany with Denmark was in 1774, and thatthey knew of no re. lationship between William I, and Frederick William Iv. The Richmond Dispatch gives the following solema warning to the democracy of New York:—"We sus pect that the next President has not been named yet; | and, more than ever, the political gamblers of New York are warned that that State 18 not the world, and that a State which named two Presidential candidates to be beaten will pot be allowed to name the third, Governor Tilden isa local politician, of local education and habits, and he will so remain, [tts the idicat thing in the world to be pressing him upon a peopla who are entirely indifferent toward him,’” The Syracuse Journal says:—‘The result must con. vince the most sceptical that the republican party with faithful and worthy leaders is destined to control the nation for years to come.”’ But the party has for three years boon asking for worthy and faithful leaders and | docs not soom to be pleased with what it bas found