The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1875, Page 4

—— 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 Yous Hezaxp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henao. 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. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. |/Nwelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. ‘VOLUME XL. “0, 128 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. BOOTH'S THEATRE, ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—PANTOMIME, at 8 P.M. G. L. Fox. CHICKERING HALL, Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street.—GRAND CONCERT, atoP.M. 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SAN PRANCISCO MINSTRELS, | y, corner of Twenty-minth street, | SUPPLEMENT. winit NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1875, Tux Henaxp sy Fast Man, Tramvs.—News- | dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, the South ond Southwest, also along the lines | of the Hudson River, New York Central and | Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their cone | nections, will be supplied with Taz Henaxp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers ly sending their orders direct to this office. From our reports this morning the probabilities tre that the weather to-day will be generally clear and decidedly cold. | Don Cantos is reported ill at Durango. The disappointments to his hopes and his | ambition which he recently experienced are certainly sufficient to impair the finest | organism, and we are not surprised that | Don Carlos is paying the penalty of over- | taxed energies. Tax Easrenn Quxstioy is so troublesome | that it is not surprising Russia should look | with favor upon the position of the Khedive when contemplating the troubles in Herze- govina and Servia, and fearing the possible aggrandizement of these provinces by Aus- tria through English artifices. Inperenpencta DE Cusa.—The promoters of the independence of Cuba who fight the battles of the Republic in this city are too uasty in denouncing the Heratp as inimical to the Cuban cause. We are as much the friend of the Cuban patriots as ever; but because we desire their success is no reason why we should favor an unnecessary and causeless war between the United States and Spain, especially at this time when pence is an imperative necessity with us. The inde- pendence of Cuba must be gained by other means than by the American army and navy. | Tre Brrrisa Inon-craps scem destined to misfortune. Not long ago the Iron Duke ran and sunk the Vanguard, the officers of Thon vessel being tried and severely for the mishap, while those of the tt escaped. Now the Iron Duke herself -near sinking, and all through careless- ness fm Teaving o sluice open. Somebody who before will now be tried, and the Vang disaster will add to the se- vority of unishment, as it certainly en- hances the which so nearly led to the Joss of the Our special cable despatch this morning shows that there must havo Leen extreme on the vessel, and a» few more of this kind will lead to the ovinion thet the boasted efficiency of away from him the blandishments of power. tlie Vs ak ah ada Sa ll iil (a naasonnat to be a candidate, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1875.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. erred teenertnsenetha CC SLL LL A Suggestion to the President. There is every reason to believe that the President strongly desires to see the republi- can party kept in power for at least another four years, and that he profoundly believes that a democratic success in 1876 would be a calamity, if not a danger, to the country. If he were asked his reasons for such a be- lief, and if, contrary to his usual custom, he should speak his mind freely, he would probably answer that the character and atti- tude of most of the Western demogratic lead- ers are not such as to inspire confidence either in their statesmanship or their trustworthi- ness ; that the adventurer element is too strong in the democratic party to make their rule safe ; that their success would encour- age many of the most dangerous elements in our politics ; probably give rise to financial disturbances and perhaps lead to reckless legislation, imperilling our credit and our relations with foreign nations. This, we say, would probably be General Grant's reply to snch a question as we have supposed, and while we do not intend now to express ourselves upon the matter it is undoubtedly true that a considerable part of the country agrees with the President. In this lies the main hope of success for the republicans next year. The democrats have not gained the confidence of the country. At the same time we believe the people are not inclined to accept the republican party, unless they see satisfactory reasons to expect at its hands some important reforms. We believe there are circumstances under which they would deliberately prefer the democratic | party next year, and the republicans are therefore by no means out of danger. If they are to win they must clear their ship for action, fling overboard the hencoops and other trumpery and remove everything which can be an obstacle to their success. Among these obstacles, the first, the fore- most, the most mischievous, because it is the most subtle in its damaging effects, is the general apprehension ofa third term. This rests like a great shadow upon the party’s | prospects and blights them. There are peo- ple who try to make light of its injurious effects ; but all they can say is that General Grant does not desire a third term, and that the cry is raised by some of his intimates and by place-holders who would like the third | term asameans of keeping themselves in comfortable offices. They do not deny, and | nobody can deny, that the shadow, the ap- prehension of a third term does daily tend to demoralize the republican party; that it | makes thousands of its best members luke- warm ; that it repels other thousands of in- dependent voters who are held away from the party which they prefer by their fear of third term intrigues. In short, it is now time for the party to be crystallizing— but it is still shattered and scattered ; it fails to gain the powerand force which can come only of frank, loyal, zealous cohesion. Its leaders cannot arouse enthusiasm for it. The apathy which republican politicians have so wofully complained of increases rather than diminishes. Nor is this surprising, for not only is there a universal alarm at the | thought or mention of a third term; not only | of political phrases; but, further, the suspi- cion that, whether with General Grant's as- | sistance or not, there is a third term intrigue | on foot, which will make its power felt in the National Convention, prevents the ablest leaders of the republican party from putting forth their own utmost efforts for its success next year. These men naturally have their own ambitions ; many of them cherish the hope to attain the Presidency, or to be called under a new administration to important and influential positions ; and we do not flout them for an honorable ambition. If, however, they see, or have reason to suspect, that all their efforts for the success of the party may redound only to the advantage of the present incumbent and his adherents, their zeal is inevitably | cooled. Thus in several ways the third term spec- | tre remains, a constant injury and danger to the republicans. Ought it any longer to be so? It is quite possible that General Grant | may think it beneath his dignity to check, | by personal commands or interference, the speeches and intrigues of his too zealous friends ; nor, indeed, could he, in detail, | stop the mouth of every superserviceable hanger-on of the White House. He has | other business to attend to. But there is one way in which he can summarily put an end to the third term talk, and it is the method which we here respectfully suggest | to him. If he should in his annual Message to Congress declare positively his determina- tion on no account nor under any circum- | | stances to be a candidate for another term of | the Presidency he would at one effort clear the sky and remove one of the most serious | | dangers which now threaten the republican party. He would infuse a new spirit into | the party and would bring back to it a | multitude of voters who now hold aloof and | strengthen the hopes of the democrats, and | | would set at work with freshened zeal every | | energy within his party. Nor would he | have to go far to seek words in which to | clothe his refusal. It is not necessary that ‘he should, as in his letter of last summer, | assert the right of the people to re-elect him | | if they choose; that is beside the question. | It is not needful that he shall enter upon a | dissertation concerning the possible neces- | | sity of » third term. Nor need he even | allude to those who have doubtless annoyed | him by giving voice to the deep-felt public | uneasiziess on this subject, as was their duty, A single paragraph will do the work, and it | might be in these words :— The period for a now election of a citizen to adminis- | ter the executive government of the United States | being not far distant, and the time actually arrived | when your thoughts mnust be employed in designating | the person who is to be clothed with that important | trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may con duce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, | is it to-day the most unpopular and hateful | not | that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have | | formod, to decline being considered among the num- | ber of those out of whom the choice is to be made, In these few words President Washington | declined a third term. Washington is not unworthy the imitation Executive office. holds its high place in the hearts of his countrymen who have come after him, not more by his deeds in the field and in the Cabinet than by his unselfishness in putting The example of | even of the present incumbent of the | Washington’s memory | third time was something more than & mere withdrawal from the cares of official life—it had a higher purpose than a desire for personal ease, and the great body of the American people have always so regarded it, looking upon his retirement after only two terms of service as a precedent which ought to have as much force and re- spect asif it had been made a part of the constitution. Nearly all the State conven- tions which have declared against a third term so regard it and hold up the example of Washington as the basis of their political faith. Should General Grant be again renomi- nated nothing that could be urged against him in the campaign would have such over- powering and overwhelming force as these simple words of our first President. We can- not see how their repetition is to be avoided in the next annual Message, especially as such important consequences depend upon their utterances, President Grant | could well afford to give rest and assurance to the public fears and satisfaction to the great body of his fellow citizens by these or similar words in his annual Message, re- moving his name from among those out of whom the candidates will be selected in a few months. The country would breathe freer if the forthcoming Message should con- tain such a declaration, and, as far as mere partisan advantages go, General Grant would, by such an utterance, deliver a blow most damaging to the democratic prospects. Who Started the Cuban Panic? The World discussed this question in an in- genious editorial yesterday without profess- ing to solve it, but only pointing out some of the directions in which a solution is to be looked for. We quite agree with the World that the clews it suggests and all other clews ought to be followed up and that the responsibility should be definitely fixed, whether the persons it inculpates be high or low, whether private individuals or public functionaries. The remarkable edi- torial in the London Times was preceded by the following despatch from its American correspondent, who resides in Philadel- phia :— [From our American correspondent. } Puitapgirnta, Nov. 1, 1875, Minister Cushing, at Madrid, in September, handed to the Spanish government the American note on Cuban aifuirs. ‘This was recently announced from Paris, whereupon a semi-ofiicial denial was made trom Wash- ington that any such note had been sent. This denial came ‘through the usual channel—the Associated Press, and to-day, through the same channel, an announcement is made the note was really sont, This has caused a sen- sation, and the present announcement may be made just now to influence to-morrow’s elections. ‘The government announcement withholds the exact terms of the note, but it says that they may be inferred from the President's views, which are explained fuily. We need not repeat the argument of the World, founded on the misleading phraseol- ogy of this despatch ; but it may not be out of place to supply a point which our contem- | porary has omitted to notice. It is un- derstood, in newspaper circles, that the American correspondent of the London Times is a particular friend of Mr. George W. Childs, and that he owes his se- lection for this service to the influence of Mr. Childs with the editor of the Times. It is also generally understood, only in newspaper circles but by the public, that Mr. Childs is an intimate friend of the President. We do not mention these circumstances as fixing the origin of the panic, but they do seem to explain the great importance which the Lon- don Times attached to the matter communi- cated by its American correspondent. The editor of the Times probably thought that he had a_ pretty direct line of intelligence with the secrets of our govern- ment through this chain of which its cor- respondent and Mr. Childs are the interme- | diate links. We do not express any opinion as to what may have taken place at the Washington extremity, or supposed extrem- ity of the chain, but the facts seem to account rationally enough for the great effect pro- duced at the London extremity. Tammany Hall as a Secret Society. The more we consider the recent election and the issues at stake the more we are instructed by the result. There never was a time when Tammany Hail could have ex- pected to win more easily than in the last can- vass. The issues were few. So far as politi- cal considerations were concerned Governor Tilden’s reform administration had been so successful that there was a general tendency in the minds of the peo- ple to support any ticket it repre- sented without regard to politics. Really Tammany Hall entered the fight with more than the usual chances in its favor, These were strengthened by the fact that its leader, Mr. Kelly, was a man held in universal re- spect, and admitted even by his opponents to be much better, or at least as good, as any who had held the position in the last twenty-five years. Moreover, the men who were nominated for office on the Tammany ticket were with scarcely an exception of character and ability, who had earned the right to recognition by the democratic party and whom it would have been a pleasure for that party to honor. The only reason that a party thus strength- ened, thus rich in candidates and opportu- nities should meet with an overwhelming de- feat is that it represented a principle at variance with the spirit and institutions of | our people. This principle is the same as that of a secret, dark lantern, Know Noth- ing lodge. Here it was that Tammany Hall failed. The society which came into life to gratify the infamous ambition of Burr, which lived to aid the monumental scoundrel- ism of Tweed, could not be expected to main- tain a lasting power in a city of freemen, and especially of democrats, who had been taught to believe in the glorious doctrine of popu- lar sovereignty. It is impossible that the democracy should under any circumstances retain power in New York until this whole Tammany legend is destroyed. We had hoped that Mr. Kelly himself would see | this and take the lead in the movement, but | it seems that he is disposed, like Pharaoh, to be stiff-necked, and to refuse to obey the voice of the people, which is only another form of that voice of God which the Egyptian monarch would never respect. Tar Exp or tae Frencn Assempiy seems near at hand. It is understood that its dis- solution will be moved to-day. This course is the natural result of the passage of tho Assembly is not constituted according to the principles of this measure, it is to be urged that the present body has lasted too long, and is not strictly representative of the French people. The Thanksgiving Season in Two CitiesParis and New York, ‘The year which came in so angrily and lin- gured so long amid the rain and the frost and the snow seems to welcome winter in a re- lenting mood, Society is in a period of change. We are scarcely through with the races and the election, and are awaiting Thanksgiving. The skies are clear in all directions. We have no scandals, no political campaigns, no exciting topics. ‘To be sure there is the Turkish question, about which so many are talking, but what Chris- tian soul will give a thought to the Turks, especially with the Thanksgiving gobbler fat- tening in the barnyard and everybody coming home for the year's reunion? Then we had the Cuban flurry, but even the Wash- ington Sphinx is not above the soothing in- fluence of the season, and his flurry has died away in aroar of laughter at his ‘diplo- macy.” Let the great Ulysses meditate over this ashe carves his Thanksgiving turkey and duly serves out the portions to his happy home circle. Our very cable, so serious and sententions in its utterances with only ships and cotton sales and quarrels between the Pope and Bismarck, asa general thing, now breaks from its reserve and speaks of the gayety of Paris and how the bright world beyond the seas goes on and on. Even this contains a thought which is not without its instructive features in this time of general festivity. In our enjoyments we are cosmo- politan. The people of New York feel as much interest in the first Paris night of a comedy by Sardou or Dumas as in the first night of Jefferson or Booth, And after all does not the cable do a better office in the bright narrative which we printed yesterday morning all the way from Paris than in the or- dinary narratives about kings and princes and fighting men? Do we not care more about a comedy than a battle or the reception of the Prince of Wales ? Are we not more interested in events like those which we told yesterday from France than in the solemn absurdities and insincerities which compose the greater part of what the world calls “news?” And is the time not coming rapidly when even here in New York we shall have to print our daily letter from Paris and London as we do now from Washington? Alas! for the good old days when astage coach was an ‘‘institu- tion,” and when eloquent correspondents could have time to write their brilliant dis- quisitions upon everything and nothing; when Sainte-Beuve and Jules Janin could take a week for their genius to incubate, and when the special correspondent was a power in the press. The poor special has gone with the stages and the Conestoga wagons, His eloquence, his rhetoric, his plans for reform- ing the universe cost too much a word, and we, who must deal with the immediate, whether in time or space, can only give the actual news with eloquent brevity, feeling all the same that brevity, especially in a country where advertisements are worth forty cents a line, is the highest form of eloquence, New York will not fail to sympathize with the bright moods of the great city beyond the sea, for we are now on the eve of the fes- tival which becomes more and more an event in our calendar. This is our time of Thanks- giving, the festival of home. How many hearts that go forth to worship from day to day will do so with renewed fervor, thinking of the season and the solemn and gracious memories which surround it, memories of home and friends and youthful associations, when life seemed to be always morning and the days an everlasting spring! Let us trust that this feeling will be with all of us when we celebrate the home festival, when we gather in person, or in spirit, about the family hearthstone, when we consecrate our thoughts to anticipations of that still brighter home, which, after all, should be the one hope that embodies all hopes and the ever present thought in all hearts during this Thanksgiving season. Mr, Oliphant’s Letter. Mr. Oliphant, the agent of the Direct United States Cable Company, Limited, re- sponds to the Heratp's criticisms upon his former communication to us in a letter which we print elsewhere. Mr. Oliphant takes issue with the Heranp in its argument that if even cheaper rates were charged by the cable lines it would in the long run bring more business and consequently greater profits to the owners. He answers us that the statistics of the Anglo-American Company for over ten years show that “the most paying rate as between five dollars a word and twenty-five cents is a dollar and a half a word.” If this argument were true it would tend largely toward revolutionizing many estab- lished institutions. It is an argument in favor of the abolition of the penny postage and a return to the shilling system ; in favor of the newspapers asking ten cents for what they now sell for two and three cents, If Mr. Oliphant’s “statistics” are sound the London Telegraph and Standard and News would cease their foolish flying into the eyes of fate by publishing a paper for a penny and raise their price to that of the Times. So we might show in a thonsand instances how these “statis- tics” in favor of Mr. Oliphant’s point would, if accurate, lead to the astonish- ing changes in the value of commodities which formerly it was believed could only be sold at a high price, but which are now sold ina hundred times the quantity at a much smaller rate. We are convinced that if any company wouldeep the cable rates at as low a figure as a shilling a word for a year or two the increase of business would be so large that the revenues from the working cable would be much more than they are now. Instead of one cable we should probably have twenty to accommodate the business. Mr. Oliphant is not happy in the tem- per of his note, especially when he taunts the Heraup with failing to appreciate what the cable company did before its line was broken. In the first place the Hernan has never felt that assurance in the strength of the direct cable line that would justify us in considering it as a permanent Oliphant mignt easity tearn that the contracts which exist between the Asso- ciated Press and the old cable line—con- tracts which the Heranp does not approve, although it is governed by them—make it im- possible just now for us to do more than to wish well to the management of the new enterprise. We make this suggestion in justice to ourselves, At the same time there is no harm, we trust, in re- minding Mr. Oliphant that, however well he may succeed as a manager of tele- graphy, as a controversial writer in the newspapers he will do better to avoid taunt- ing those who look upon him and his work with interest, and who have no feeling at all but the desire to see his company succeed in breaking down the monopoly under which we have so long groaned and establishing a cheap ocean cable system. The Spring Elections. The fact that so wise a thinker as Goyer- nor Tilden should be in favor of changing the municipal elections in New York from autumn to spring shows the importance of this question. As will appear on the first blush to any who look into it there can be no connection whatever between the issues upon which the people vote in the State and those upon which they vote in the city. One is a question of high politics, closely associated with the . prosperity of the State and country and the triumph of cherished political principles. The other is a question of the economi- cal management of the municipality of New York. Therefore, we trust the Legis- lature will consider this question and pass a bill restoring the old system. This will enable Mr. Wickham to do what we have no doubt he is most anxious to have an oppor- tunity of doing—namely, to respect the will of the people which condemned him and his administration at the late election. He should retire from the executive control of New York city, and in his place we should have a Mayor who would command public respect. We have Andrew H. Green, the Comptroller, whose argument, the other day, in favor of the reduction of the salaries of the highly paid city officials shows that he believes in economy which reaches the few privileged classes and not simply the poor laborers on the Boulevard. Mr. Green has fought his way to public recognition by his consistent and manly course as Comptroller, and is, there- fore, a worthy candidate for the office of Mayor. Recorder Hackett has shown him- self to be a tribune of the people by his gallant fight in favor of the independence of the Bench, and he no doubt would gladly step down from his judicial seat to lead another campaign in favor of the in- dependence of the democratic party from the secret dictations of a Know Nothing lodge, and in defence of the glorious princi- ple of popular sovereignty. Charles A. Dana, the vigorous and sturdy editor of a brilliant newspaper, has fought corruption and mal- versation with so much persistency in his journal that he would naturally be the choice of honest men for Mayor. Henry G. Stebbins has shown a conception of the duties belong- ing to him as,Commissioner of Public Works, so large-minded in its character, that he, too, would naturally come within the range of se- lection for this high office. John Agnew, who is suggested by the universal consent of all who know the value of a good officer in an important place for the successor to Fitz John Porter, would make an admirable can- didate. With men like these, available and easy to be elected, the duty of the Legislature is plain. Let the elections be changed from the fall to the spring. Let Mayor Wickham have an opportunity of retiring from office with dignity as well as promptitude, and let Green or Hackett or Dana or Agnew or Steb- bits take his place. Corner Stones in the Pulpit. The sermons in the metropolitan churches | yesterday were not remarkable for any | special feature, but almost without exception they were plain, practical discourses, setting | forth the doctrine and duty of the Christian religion. No more felicitous name could be given to these discourses than that which Mr. Hepworth applies to his present scries | of sermons, for most of them were, in fact, corner stones of Christian truth. The pastor of the Church of the Disciples discoursed on the soul here and hereafter. Mr. Beecher’s sermon was one of those dis- | courses for which he is so famous—un- studied, interesting and able—uniting the highest service of God with the grandest | aims of humanity. Mr. Frothingham ex- alted virtue for its own sake, which is! orthodox, even from the mouth of this sai —_—— Cenreat Panx.—We are glad to.see that the Commissioners of Central Park are.carry- ing out vigorously the suggestions of the Heraup and the Times in reference to the improvements of that great pleasure ground. We are to have a bridle-path, which will, we trust, extend from the gate at Vifty-ninth street along the road as far as Stetson’s, and parallel with the grand drive. Such a path, with the drive, will make the scene on the Fifth avenue side of the Park, at least dur- ing the summer and spring days, one of the sights of New York, as attractive and as pop- ular and as representative of our city as a June evening on the Prado or an afternoon during the height of the season on the drive around the lake in the Bois de Boulogne, or Rotten Row in Hyde Park. We note this evidence of the desire on the part of the Park Commissioners to meet the wishes of the people as a continuance of that spirit which has made the management of the Park a pride to our city and an excep- tion to the deplorable corruption and in- eflicieney which for the last few years has fallen upon so many other departments of our government, Tux Favre or Firz Joun Porter to meet public expectations as Commissioner of Public Works is perhaps not so much due to that gentleman himself, who would do well if he were allowed to follow his own in- stincts, but to the interference of the bane- ful political system controlled by John Kelly in our public affairs. Mayor Wickham, who has suffered more by this than any other man in New York, and with less responsi- bility for the disasters it entailed on his party, should respond to the wishes of the people, as expressed at the last election, by nominating to the position to be vacated by General Porter a citizen gifted enough to dis- charge the duties of Commissioner of Publia Works, and brave enough to defy any dicta- tion on thé part of John Kelly, Such aman we have in John Agnew, and Mr. Wickham could do nothing more grateful than to nom- inate Mr. Agnew for the office of Commis- sioner of Public Works. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Senator Thurman has returned to Washington, Walt Whitman has returned to Camden, N, J. A1,000-pound cake of ice has been manufactured at Austin, Texas, aud Catawba copblers ought to fall in price, Mr. Frank Vincent's forthcoming book, “Through and Through the Tropics,” is in the press of Harper & Brothers. Next year will be a good season for such an occasion as that which once nominated an unknown man like James K. Polk. Jean Ingelow lives in the aristocratic Kensington Gardens quarter, but ina plain and quiet way, and ia very accessible to Americans. White people, it is proved, can labor in the fields of Louisiana, where formerly the climate was considered an insurmountable barrier. Colonel Brooks, editor of the Washington Republican, who was converted and who then backslid, has recently shown that he has a renewed realizing sense of retig ious matters. e The Mobile Register ts willing that all the Congres- sional officers shall come from the North, provided that just constitutional government shall be guaran- teed to the South. “Say, Johnny,” remarked a Paterson (N. J.) boy, “we're goin’ to have bread puddin’ most all next week. Father’s an elder and has all the bread that's left over after Communion Sunday.’’ Von Bulow thinks it was a revelation in journalism that when he played in Boston a Bos’on paper should the next morning give a criticism. But, Herr Bilow, the New York journals gave criticisms on the same morning. The interminable Eastern question is abundantly elucidated in Mr. James Creagh’s two volumes, en- titled “Over the Borders of Christendom, Through Hungary, Sclavonia, Servia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dal- matia aud Montenegro, in the Summer of 1875. Tne earth being nearly exhausted, Mr. Richard A. Proctor bas gone in vigorously in writing up the heavens, His last book, “Our Place Among Intinitics,”” succeeds to his ‘Saturn and Its Systems,” ‘The Moon,” “The Orbs of Heaven,” “The Universe,’’ &e. The Athenceum thinks it very unfortunate that fifty copies of Rousselet’s ‘India and’ Its Native Princes’? are to be presented by the Prince of Wales to Indian princes. It says the book describes horroraaad cruel- ties, and is badly translated besides. The largest flouring mill in America is owned by Hon. C. ©, Washburne, of Minneapolis, Minn, It ia seven stories high, and crowded with machinery from top to bottom. Its cost was $300,000, bas forty run ot burrs, and turns out 1,000 barrels of flour per day. Miss Louise Stockton, a sister of Mr. Frank Stockton, whose ‘What Might Have Been Expected’ has gained him many young readers, figures in the December Atlantic with an intensely funny story—a sort of satire on the exaggerated Beet Harte article, which bas lately become the fashion, Mr, Disraeli bas a worn carpet and plain wooden shelves in his library, and he eats sandwiches outot hand while strolling in the London suburbs. Victor Hugo has no carpet on his library floor. Thomas Car- lyle smoke# a clay pipe. George Eliot ives humbly. One would think they never heard of three-button kids. In tho very important copyright case of Lawrence vs, Dana, in which W. B. Lawrence claimed an in- fringement by R. H. Dana, Jr., of the copyright in “Lawrence's Notes to Wheaton’s International Law,’ Judge Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, has rendered a very important decision. It rules, in effect, that an author’s notes to the work of another liberal thinker. Mr. Chapman preached on the necessity of faith, and Father | Malone on the profanation of God's | name, The exceptions to these corner | stones of plain Christian teaching were the | sensible sermon of the Rev. Matthew Hale | Smith on dishonesty in public life—a theme which cannot be touched upon too often in the pulpit just now—and the wild discourse writer cannot be used or abridged without an infringe- ment of copyright. The Atlanta Herald says:—‘‘We are sorry to loarn that ex-Senator Gwinn, of California, is now travelling through the South in the interest of the Jay Gould and Central Pacific monopoly and to defeat the movement in the South in favor of the Southern Pacific, or thirty- second parallel road, We trust this rumor is unfounded and believe it is, for it will be remembered that when Dr. Gwinn was a Senator from California he was an ar- dont advocate of this very measure, which it is now of the Rev. Oscar Hugo against the Pope. | But while most of the clergy were laying | anew the corner stones of their faith such | babbling goes for little, and the progress of the revival work in this city and out of it shows | how little regard is paid to the absurdities of a fiery and extreme sensationalism. It will be seen from our despatches this morn- ing that Moody and Sankey have successfully begun their work in Philadelphia, and our reports are further evidence that the evan- gelists who remain behind are gathering to- gether and preserving the fruits of their la- bors in Brooklyn. With the services of yes- terday the work at the Rink closed, but a series of revival meetings was opened | at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, | and there was a large meeting of a similar kind in the passengers’ room of the Delagare, Lackawanna and Western Railroad “in Hoboken. At St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church a forty hours’ devo- tion was begun, and at the Fifth avenue Baptist church Dr. Armitage preached a ser- | mon on the progress and effect of the revival | work, After all this, however, we are not sure that the corner stones of the pulpit will | not prove the most lasting, and the best preaching yesterday was certainly heard in the churches where the bread of life is | Hijoatoral pill, Aside from, the faut that the | inatitution, In the second placa Mx, | regularly dispensed, ————————— alleged he is using his influence to defeat.” Tho sentiment of the Souh has never been whipped. An unknown ex-Confederate officer criticised the statue of Stonewall Jackson {n the presence of a Southern lady, all for a joke, “The result,’ says the Rich- mond Whig, with a senge of provineialism which is un- worthy of its statesmanship, ‘was as he expected.” The “Yankee”? was getting a dressing, when gome- body addressed the wag ‘by his real title and name,” The lady folt sold. But wouldn't it be better sense than sentiment for this ‘Yankee’ business to cease to be “as ne e: ected??? The late W. M. Thackeray's library was sold at auc- tion, and in the margins and fly:eaves of the booka were numerous sketches and caricatures by his own hand. A London publisher bought them, and made up a book entitled “ Thackerayana,” contarning these sketches, with a largo quantity of extracts from his Writings; whereupon the owners of Thackeray's copy- rights brought suit for infringement, and obtained ag injunction to restrain the sale of “Thackerayana,”” Ite publishers (Chatto & Windus) have reissued the book in truncated form. A Georgia journal ascribes the evils under which the country has been laboring to the retiring of Southern statesmen from Congress at the beginning of the war. It goes on to say that in the absence of the Southern statesmen a lot of Northern statesmen, totally unfit to | run this government, unjustly stepped in, got loans, instituted national banks, and, indeed, unfairly ran tho country. There is both cheek and truth in this state- ment; but it will take a good many Georgia journals great while to convince some people that there was during the war anything but Northern statesmon to run the upper half of the country. If we had traded some of our soldiers for some of their statesmon— well, It would be bard exactly to explaig se @flack