The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1875, Page 6

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Extraordinary inducements Offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this offic Watt Srreer Yesterpay.—The big bo- hanza advanced 41-2 per cent on the re- ported favorable decision of the United | Btates Supreme Court. The rest of the market was heavy and dull. Gold opened and closed at 1145-8. Rag paper is worth 67.24, Money on call, 5 and 4 per cent. Tue Frexca Atsewpry has finally adopted the clause in the Electoral bill providing for voting by arrondissement. ‘Tae Eoyprtans have suffered very severely st the hands of the Abyssinians. Now we may expect to see the mettle of the Khedive's pew military organization tested. Tar Tween Svrrs.—There is some pros- | pect that the Tweed suits are to be tried at last, the cases having been placed on the | talendar for the month. We trust that noth- ing will be allowed to interfere to prevent | party to -hard money and paying off the the trials. ge | West by a local compliment, which the Kwoxanp. “The news is confirmed that | Western democrats would regard as an in- | the Russians in Central Asia suffered severely | sult to their principles, the democratic party in the uprising in Khokand as well as the natives. It is not possible, however, that | the Russian hold upon that vast country is | Presidential election. We might as well expect | democratic candidates, and the very most | | the party could hope would be to carry the to be unloosed. the English to give up India. ‘Tae Savuxcs Bank Scane continued yester- day, and there was 1 run on one or two of the suspected institutions, but no addi- tional suspensions took place. Now is the time to stop all unsound banks for savings, and no other course will satisfy the public, days. enyices in Boston yester- day over the remains of the late Vice Presi- dent Wilson were of the same imposing character as in Washington and in this city. It was only when he was dead that the coun- try knew how profoundly the homely virtues and sincere patriotism of Mr. Wilson were respected, and the death of tew of our public men has been attended with such general and widespread grief. His remains will be finally interred at Natick to-morrow. | The | until that NEW YORK HERALD, ihr NOVEMBER 30, 1875.—-TRIPLE SHEET. The Contest tor the Speakership. If we could trust the latest rumors sent forth from Washington to the press of the interior cities it would seem that the strug- gle for the Speakership is practically nar- rowed down to two candidates, one of whom is Mr, Kerr, of Indiana. It is for the inter- est of this gentleman to have such a report disseminated, because its supposed tendency would be to unite all the opponents of Mr. Randall on Mr. Kerr. This is too transpar- ent a stratagem to have much success. Be- sides, it is by no means certain that the de- feat of Mr. Randall would insure the election of Mr. Kerr. None of the candidates is likely to receive a majority upon the first bal- lot taken in the democratic caucus, and we think it safe to predict that Mr, Kerr will receive more votes in the first than in any subsequent ballot. We proceed to state some of the reasons why Mr. Kerr cannot be con- sidered as a strong candidate. In the first place, his personal aptitudes do not fit him for that position. Inall his long ex- perience in the House he has never distin- guished himself as a leader in any crisis wherein success depended on parliamentary tactics. He has never shown any of that quick perception and thorough knowledge of the rules which enable a leader to pilot his party through a difficult situation. He is nota man whom any Speaker would ever think of calling to the chair when he wished totake the floor himself ina critical con- juncture. Mf. Kerr's mind is merely logical and argumentative, without the executive readiness which is a primary qual- ifleation of the Speaker of the House in sudden emergencies. It is not every useful membcr that would make an able Speaker. Now, it is a sound rule, dic- tated by common sense, that officers should be selected with a view to their fitness for the peculiar duties of their place. Measured by this standard Mr, Kerr is the weakest candidate that has been mentioned, as he is also for the social duties and courtesies of intercourse which are expected of the Speaker, and which are an important though subordinate qualification for that conspicu- ous position. In the second place, the claims set up for him by his supporters are not such as a ma- jority of the democratic members are likely to recognize. One of the strongest points urged in his favor is that he returned his share of the ‘‘salary grab.” That fact might help him with the people if the subject were still fresh; but it is a matter about which the people have ceased to care, Moreover, the Speaker is not to be elected by the people, but by the members of the House, and such of them as served with Mr. Kerr in the Forty-second Congress think no better of him for his course in relation to the salary grab. A majority of them took the extra pay, and they are not going to cen- sure their own conduct by treating Mr. Kerr as if he had done a meritorious act. In their opinion his surrender of the back pay was not an act of virtue, but of policy. They know that he hesitated long and delib- erated anxiously before making the surren- der; that instead of the prompt and in- stinctive rejection, which would have been his duty if he had thought the extra pay a fraud on the Treasury, he painfully consulted his friends and finally gave it up, not because he believed it wrong, but in deference to popular clamor lest he should injure his political prospects. His fellow members who took the back pay will regard his course rather as a weakness than a recom- mendation, and they are not likely to vote for him on that ground. The only other point made in Mr. Kerr's favor is that he is an uncompromising hard money man, and that his election to the Speakership would commit the democratic party to that policy. Now, it so happens that a majority of the democratic members do not wish to make a demonstration on that subject at so early a day. They prefer to leave it for the Demo- cratic National Convention next summer. They were elected last year during a lull in this controversy, and before it threat- ened to divide the party, and they feel that they have no commission to act on it in its new aspect. The delegates to the National Convention will be specially instructed, or, at least, be chosen in reference to this question, and will really represent their constituencies. As the demo- cratic members of the House will think it inexpedient to commit the party to hard money so soon after an angry schism on that subject Mr. Kerr is more likely to lose than gain votes by his recent hard money record, In the third place, it deeply concerns the democratic party, especially since its losses | in October and November, to avoid a split | between the East and the West. It used to | be said of President Van Buren that he was | | “a Northern man with Southern princi- ples;” and, in a spirit quite as far from being | complimentary, the inflation wing of the | democracy regard Mr. | man Kerr as “a Western with Eastern principles.” they would wish a man who Western opinions. represents If it were possible for the Eastern members to elect Mr. Kerr to the Speakership, would immediately be divided on a sectional | line which conld not be obliterated in the There would be two election into the House with all the evils and dangers that attend that mode of choice. wiser and more considerate Eastern members will not consent to bring such a peril on the party by pressing Mr. Kerr in | opposition to the democratic sentiment of ‘ . | the West. in view of the revelations of the last few | In the fourth place—‘‘last, but not least"— | Mr. Kerr is the Tammany candidate, and fatal and decisive, even in the absence of every other. Tam- many is a load which the democratic party longer carry; Tammany touches nothing which it does not defile ; it can no longer take up a man without bringing upon him blight and ruin. Every candidate for office who is known to be favored by Tam- many inust be unrelentingly stricken down, putrid excrescence” is dissected out of the democratic party, It brought dis- this objection would be can no If the | | Western democrats were to have the Speaker thereby committing the | | in courtesy and friendly feeling. grace and sali on the party in 1871; forced it to go out of its own ranks 8 Presidential candidate and got beaten in 1872; it caused the defeat,of the party both in this State and this city in the late election. It now seeks to save it- self by clutching at the skirts of Mr. Kerr and claiming his election as a trophy of its power. Tammany may drag him down, but he cannot lift Tammany up. That odious band of secret conspirators is mancuvring to control the next Presidential canvass, and Mr. Kerr's election to the Speakership is the first step in their game, It is something more than a mere plan to take the Speaker from the West, in order that he may not stand in the way of a Presidential candidate from the East ; it is a policy of ‘rule or ruin,” in- tended to force the democrats of the House to such acommittal on an exciting public question that the party would thereafter stultify itself by running a Western demo- erat for the Presidency, Nothing less than this is the Tammany scheme, and nothing is so certain to foil itas the knowledge of its origin. When Tammany, after having been beaten and disgraced at home, attempts to transfer its scene of operations to national politics and again resorts to the stale trick of masking its character be- hind a respectable figurehead, it deludes nobody but itself. The democracy of other States understand the artful, underhand ways in which Tammany influence has been exerted to get Mr. Kerr pushed in places remote from New York and thereby escape detection, The plot is perfectly seen through, and the fact that Tammany is at the bottom of it will cover it with democratic scorn, All the underhand activity which has been expended during an industrious summer and autumn, with a view to make the democratic organization of the House a means of killing off every Western candidate for the Presidential nom- ination, has completely miscarried, as will be seen when the question of the Speaker- ship is brought toa vote in the democratic caucus. Stanley’s Triumph. The work of Mr. H. M. Stanley, the com- mander of the Heraxp and Telegraph expedi- tion, has already received the sanction and indorsement of the British Royal Geograph- ical Society; but the meeting yesterday, of which we have a_ special report by cable this morning, is even “more significant than the more formal dis- cussion some days ago. The assem- blage was an unusually brilliant one, being graced by the presence of many distinguished persons, among them some of the most noted African travellers of the time. The purpose of the meeting was to hear an address by Colonel Grant on the value of Mr. Stanley's discoveries and explorations, and the paper is described as a com- plete indorsement of Mr. Stanley's views in regard, to the Victoria Niyanza. Sir Samuel Baker joined in Colonel Grant's high estimate of the value of our explorer's services, and suggested that no reward was too great for him upon his return ; but the most remarkable feature of the meet- ing was Captain Burton’s acceptance of Stanley's verification of Speke's views and his graceful acknowledgment of his own error. This ends all contro- versy over opposing theories in regard to the sources of the Nile problem, and gives anew importance to the remarkable letter which we printed yesterday, and adds a new interest to the still unfinished work of the expedition. Mayor Wickham and His nity. The fact that Mayor Wickham contem- plates retiring from the Mayor's office— and, resting as he does under the ostracism of the last municipal election, he cannot re- tire at too early a day—should stimulate him to do something to vindicate the confidence of his friends who chose him to the honor- able position of Mayor. He should rise above the temptations and alliances of political schemes and remember that he was thrown overboard by Tammany Hall in the crisis of the last campaign. He has taken occasion to say a hundred times that this treatment was harsh and unjust to the last degree. Now, let him go a step further. Let him say that he will use his patronage, not for Tammany Hall, not for John Kelly nor any other John, nor for political leaders or bosom friends, but for the people. Let him begin this new departure by nominating some such man as John T. Agnew to be Commissioner of Public Works, in place of Fitz John Porter. A nomination of this kind—like the action of President Grant in calling Bristow and Pierrepont to his Cabinet at atime when everybody sup- posed the administration was going to the devil—will do more to restore public confi- dence in the Mayor and to enable him to re- tire with honor at the spring election than anything else he can do. Mr. Opporta- Ir Is Sarp that Sunset Cox is claiming to have ten, or fifteen, or twenty, or we don’t know how many votes as candidate for Speaker. Sunset Cox should not throw himself away upon a contingent of this | kind—personal friends who vote for him as | they would drink a glass of wine with him, He should take his contingent, if he really has any, over to the banner of Randall, of Pennsyl- | vania, who represents the backbone of the | democratic party. If he does not we are afraid that Sunset Cox will find the sunset of his political life really at hand. He can- not afford to throw his canvass away on champagne cocktail votes, which are the most plentiful about Washington before an election like this, but which never amount to anything when the votes are really counted, Above all, Mr. Cox must not, from apathy or supineness, or even from any | direct action of his own, contribute to any | action that will tend to nationalize the influ- election of any Tammany candidate for Speaker. Such a course will make him more odious in our ence of ‘Tammany, or aid in the | New York politics than if he had voted. for | the salary grab ten times over. Tue Panama Ratrnoap Company having determined to establish a line of steamships to be run in competition with the Paeifie Mail steamers an injunction was obtained in the Supreme Court, before Judge Donohue, . Henarp's candidate it | restraining the railroad company from the consummation of this purpose. Upon the order to show cause why the injunction | should not be continued the whole question was argued yesterday, but the decision is reserved. The arguments in behalf of the injunction are at best only technical, and we see no reason why commerce should be im- peded by legal quibbles. The Pacific Railroad Decision. The decision delivered yesterday by the Supreme Court of the United States affirm- ing the judgment of the Court of Claims that the Union Pacific Railroad Company (and, of course, all the Pacific roads) are not bound by law to pay the interest on the bonds issued to them by the government until the principal becomes due at the expiration— thirty years from their date—will shock the public sense of justice however conformable it may be to law. Attorney General Pierrepont showed in his argument, by citation from the debates, that Congress intended that the interest should be paid as it accrued, but the Court put this line of reasoning aside and refused to consider it, resting their decision on the language of the statute itself. If the decision is cor- rect the statute was a huge blun- der. In addition to all the other swindles perpetrated by this company, in- cluding the scandalous Crédit Mobilier, it artfully contrived to get a law passed couched in such language as defeats the intention of the Congress which passed it. It is a most extraordinary and unexampled thing for a debt of thirty years to be allowed to run through the whole period with the interest unpaid until the principal falls due. It is as repugnant to all sound business principles as it is contrary to custom. If such be the meaning of the statute Congress did not pass it with its eyes open, but was hoodwinked by some of the cunning tricksters who had the enterprise in charge. The long argument of the Court in justifi- cation of so monstrous a law does not seem particularly pertinent. All the considera- tions founded on the necessity of the road for purposes of national defence are quite extraneous to a mere ques- tion of interpretation. Of course Con- gress recognized the necessity of the road, or it would not have given the enor- mous subsidies in the form of land grants, nor have issued and guaranteed the bonds. But it does not follow that Congress meant to violate the plainest business principles in allowing the bonds to run to maturity before the payment of the interest. If the strict wording of the statute requires the Treasury to be thus swindled the Supreme Court would have discharged its duty in so declaring, without trying to justify Congress in passing so ab- surd a law. The Court has quite needlessly gone out of its way to indorse a blunder for which Congress is alone responsible. We are bound to accept its decision as the true construction of the law, but the passage of such a law was fraudulent and indefensible. Nobody has any reason to rejoice at this de- cision except Jay Jay Goul Gould and his associates, The Spring Elections, The people of this city, without dis- tinction of party, are gradually coming to the opinion that it is necessary, for the purity of our republican institutions, to strike down Tammany Hall, and that the surest way of doing this is to change the municipal elections from autumn, when they are now held, to the spring. The argument is clearly made that there can be no wisdom in postponing elections to the autumn, on account of the merchants and business men of this great city. In the country it is wetl enough, for there the farmers have put in their crops. They have a resting spell, time to talk politics, to read and to take part in public affairs. In the city very often the fall is our busiest season. The canvass that suits the agricultural com- munity is frequently neglected by the merchant and business man because they cannot leave their affairs. Beyond this we know that Governor Tilden has taken high ground in favor of spring elections. That gentleman will see that as he never can be elected to the Presidency as the creature of Tammany Hall, he should use his justly earned influence and great power in striking it down. Let us have, therefore, the clec- tions in the spring, and let the Legislature when it meets do two things—first, recall and destroy the charter under which the Columbia Society has been able to rule Tam- many Hall by a dark lantern, Know Nothing secret lodge influence; second, change the elections. Then we can have a canvass for the Mayoralty which will give us a man possessing the confidence of the people. The issue will not be either democratic or republican, but Tammany Hall, with its dark lantern, Know Nothing tomtoolery on the one side and the people on the other. Then we shall have men elected to office who do not believe in running up taxes every week and squandering the people's money on foolish and corrupt schemes. The head of this movement should be some such man | as Andrew H. Green, the present Comptrol- ler, who, whatever may be his faults of tem- per, tact and judgment, has stood like a stone wall between the treasury and the pub- lic thieves, What a canvass we can make for “Stonewall” Green, if we might borrow an adjective from the illustrious Confederate commander to express our apprecia- tion of his granite-like integrity. Or we might take John K. Hackett, who, hav- ing defended the independence of the Bench as a candidate for Recorder, would no doubt be only too glad to lead the same ‘host against the Know Nothing system of Tammany Hall. Or we might take Henry G. Stebbins, our popular and far-seeing head of the Park De- partment, or John T. Agnew, who is the for Commissioner of Public Works; or we might take Charles A. Dana, the editor of our brilliant and coura- geous contemporary, the Sun. Mr. Dana has made a good record in and out of office. He has shown his contempt for thieves and his courage and persistence in fighting them. We printed yesterday a letter which he wrote to a political committee ot this city, which should be published in letters of gold, espe- cially that part of it in which he says:— “It is only when honest men of every name exhibit a determination to and to select their own candidates for | of the Brooklyn city government is of deep | against the peculations of men in authority. revolt | against the management of party leaders | | the danger that threateas the republican or- themselves that ‘asides can be kept within the bounds of decorum and be made to pay a due regard to the public welfare in select- ing their nominees,” Upon this record Mr. Dana would carry the city by a furious ma- jority, and we do not know but that, after all, he becomes the most available of all gandi- dates to succeed Mr. Wickham. Tae ANNouncement or Cater Justice Warre that he will under no circumstances be a candidate for the Presidency before the Republican Convention is an example that might well be followed by the President of the United States, It’ ‘may be said that it is beneath the dignity of the President to take this step, but certainly the dignity of the President is not less than that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. If President Grant will only follow the example of his learned colleague in the government, the head of the judiciary, it will a. for the republican party. The Paris Office of the New York Herald. The interest excited by the publication of the weekly cable letter from Paris, which ap- peared in Sunday's Hxeraxp, justifies us in again drawing attention to the opening of our Paris office on the Avenue de l'Opéra. We have attached to this office a reading room containing newspapers from all parts of the world, and especially from the United States. We have on file at this time over two hundred and thirty American journals, representing thirty-nine States of the Union, so that any citizen sojourning in the capital of France or travelling over the Continent will find all that there is of America in the way of journalism in the Parig office of the Hrratp, This makes our Paris office the rendezvous or the focus around which continental travellers cluster. Heretofore Americans were driven to the banking house and hotel rooms for a sight of an occasional newspaper from home, There was no general place where they could meet and compare notes and feel that they were in the atmosphere of home, The Paris office of the New Yorx Herap supplies this want and illustrates more and more the tendency of journalism to bring the great cities of the world together. Whatever we may think of the French people and their character, their customs and their government, it is certain that we are largely dependent upon France. In our art, literature and drama and fashions France is the source from which we derive a great deal that tends to beautify and illuminate our social life in America. Therefore when a journal like the Henaup finds itself tele- graphing every week a special letter from Paris we are simply answering the same de- mand which made us years ago telegraph a letter from Washington. The telegraph is so universal in its range, so swift and so accurate in its service, that the true journal is compelled to use it for every purpose. There is no more reason why a citizen of New York who reads the Hxraxp should have to wait two weeks for news of the last play of Dumas, or the latest fashion, or the goy- erning sensation in Paris, than that we should have to wait for stage coaches and the ails to bring us in the detail of the debates in Washington. Paris is as near to New York by telegraph as Washington. To be sure the distance makes telegraphing more expensive, but this is a question that cannot be con- sidered by an enterprising journal. Our duty is to utilize any agent which enables us to print to-day the news of yesterday. If that agency costs us seventy-five cents or a dollar a word, as is the case with the cable news, or only a few cents, as is the case with despatches from Philadelphia and Washing- ton, that is our concern. The public has its rights which the trne newspaper is only too glad to respect. Turner 18 One Facr which ought to be re- membered by democrats, especially in con- sidering the Presidential question and the Speakership. They cannot go into busi- ness on a national basis and take charge of the country with success upon any theory that Governor Tilden is the only honest man in the New York democracy and Mr. Kerr the only honest democrat in Congress. This is the nature of the present canvass for the Speakership in Washington. It is a danger that the democrats should avoid, because if the country should take them at their word it might turn out——ad for the democratic party. The Brooklyn Ring. The fact that the Attorney General has concluded to prosecute the leading members interest from two points of view. In the first place, it shows that Governor Tilden is bent upon reforming this end of the State as well as the canal regions; and in the second place, if these officers of the Brooklyn Ring are innocent of the crimes charged against them, the sooner that fact is proved the better for themselvés and the public morality. Wedo not express any opinion as to their guilt or their innocence, except to say that we trust that they will be | speedily tried, and, if innocent, released from the odium that has fallen upon them. Public opinion has become disgusted | with the reiteration of these charges against | the rulers of great cities like New York and Brooklyn. Now, if these men are not guilty, then it is due to the public that they should | be promptly and thoroughly acquitted. If they are guilty they should be punished with a severity which we need not attempt | to exaggerate, We trust that the trials of | the Brooklyn Ring will be more snecessful | in attaining the ends of justice than the trials | of the New. York Tammany Hall leaders. The result of the trialy in this city is to demonstrate that the law is almost helpless for the purpose of protecting the people We trust that a different state of affairs will be found in Brooklyn. [f the members of the Ring are guilty let them be punished and the Ring smashed. If innocent they cannot be in too much of a hurry to demon- strate that fact before the court and jury. Taz Exampte or Cnine Justicn Waite in retiring from all competition for the Pres- idency and declining positively to be named | in connection with that nomination suggests | | hunt in the woods. ganization from the continued reticence of President Grant as to the third term. The President does not seem disposed to follow the example of the Chief Justice. We have only to say that if he allows his ambi- tion to exceed his patriotism, and if he still clings to the idea that his name or military exploits or political power make him an in- evitable candidate, it will be——bad for the re pwhlican party. Fernando Wood and the Speakership. We are pleased to observe that Mr. Fer- nando Wood has withdrawn from the con- test for the Speakership. In view of all the circumstances this action on the part of Mr, Wood is wise and proper. He could scarcely hope for an election, and by remaining in the field he might have done infinite harm to his party and the country. It is possible that Mr. Wood, who is an unusually astute and clever politician, was influenced by these considerations in withdrawing from the con- test ; but accepting this as the fact it will not do for him to stop here. A still greater duty is imposed upon him, for no one knows better then he the trickery of Tammany Hall, and no one can deal a heavier blow just now at the one-man power of that or- ganization. If he wants to place the coun- try under still greater obligations to him for his act of self-sacrifice he will throw his in- fluence in favor of Mr. Randall, because to support Mr. Kerr would be to assist Tam- many. Should he fail to do this he will fail in his duty and injure himself. Knqwing Tammany Hall as well as Mr. Wood knows it, there would be no excuse for him should he help to fasten the rule of that odious society upon the whole country. We hope he will not allow any such imputation to be fastened upon him, either by giving his sup- port to Kerr orshowing lukewarmness in the contest. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Hon, C, M. Kerr was born at Titusville, Pa. The French Assembly will be dissolved about Decem- ber 15. It is the wife who never says “I'll do as I please at my own table, won't 1??? Governor and Mrs. McCormick are sojourning at San Diego, Cal., before going to Arizona, Governor Gaston will return to the practice of law in Boston on the expiration of his term la December. Joe Jefferson’s boy Harry, who recently died in Lon- don, was born in Chicago on the night of the great fire, Miss Edith Wynne, the celebrated singer, was mar- ried, in London, to Mr, Aviet Agabeg, an American lawyer. The house in which Prince Pierre Bonaparte shot Rochefort’s editorial tiger, Victor Noir, has just been sold for 118,000f, M. Guizot’s prize of 3,000f, for the best work om French literature was awarded at the Académie Fran- gaise to Leon Gautier, Little Greece has scandal on hand, Messrs, Nicow lopaulo and Valussopaulo, Cabinet Ministers, havo been arrested for taking bribes. Senator Roscoe Conkling, of Utica, and Samuel B. Maxey, of Texas, arrived in this city yesterday and are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lord Houghton returned to the Brevoort House last evening from Boston. He will sail for England to- morrow in the steamship Abyssinia, A Warsaw (Ind.) brother got up in meeting and op- posed the purchase of a chandelier for the church, be- cause there was no one to play on it. ‘The Earl of Derby will visit Edinburgh on the 17th and 18th of December. On the 17th he will deliver the inaugural address as Rector of the University. ‘They have “goose” parties at Dey Moines. And the young men who attend them have their eyes, like those of other geese, near the tops of their heads. It is said that all the principal aeronauts in America are rigid temperance men. Donaldson did not useeven tea or coffee, Still, they sometimes get pretty high, Professor Proctor, while interesting himself one night the other week in looking up at an occultation of stars, was being blest at home by an occultation of twins. The German Deputy from Magdeburg, Herr Lucius, now states that the Prince Chancellor never told him he iniended to resign. Political critics ask why he started a lie, then, ‘The Khedive of Egypt was educated in Paris, speake French to perfection, is a capital talker on any kind of subject, and takes an especially keen interest in Eng- land and anything English. M. Ricard must have read the ‘‘Inferno” pefore going into the tribune at Versailles the other day. The law of May 31, 1851, he designated as ‘the work of Louis Bonaparte and his damned souls,” “Long live Nicolas L (Prince of Montencgro), Czar of Servia.’’ For placarding the walls of Belgrade with this notice Prince Milan has ordered about twenty eminent politicians to be arrested. It is announced that the famous Count Wimpffen iste goto Paris as Ambassador for Austria and Hungary. He is father of the General Wimpffen who assistea Napoleon III. to band over Sedan to Germany. When the heir to the Brazilian throne was recently born, Depoul, a Paris doctor, attended for a tee of over twenty thousand gold dollars, Considering that Brazil 1s unhealthy just now, that is a big price for boys. John Lemoinne discusses Mr. Disraeli’s position tn reference to the ‘financial catastrophe of Turkey,” ana declares that it must be admitted “the old alliances are dissolved and the bases of European equilibrium changed.” Count Arnim’s pamphlet, entitled “Pro nihilo! Pro- drome du procés d’Arnim,”’ has been seized by the German police authorities, notwithstanding it was said to justify Prince Bismarck’s conduct, Perhaps that may be “treason”? too, The knight-errant of Spanish journalism in New York has written a letter to Madrid declaring that Gen- eral Grant’s administration may havo Cuba if they cas take it, Such an offer from Allonso's Cabinet would be much more interesting. A young woman, on being discharged from a house in Paris, went and drowned herself in the Seine, J) Opinione thinks she considered herself in the fashion, for suicides are becoming more frequent than marriages atthe Mairie, Que diable! The first piano ever taken west of the Alleghonies was one owned by Miss Sarah Sproat, the daughter of Colonel Ebenezer Sproat, an officer of the Revolution, who emigrated to the Northwestern Territory in 1798, and located at Marietta, Unio, Alter the feast of the Immaculate next month, the Aligemeine Correspondent says, the Pope will convoke the Sacred Colloge, formally receive the new Cardinals Anucl-Mattet and Geoffroy St, Marc and preconize the new bishops recently announced, A “wedding agency” is about to be established tr Paris, There will be a chapel and a branch of the Mayoralty, 8 that civil and religious weddings can take place under ono roof. Carriages, lawyers, priests, ball- room, muste and even the wedding finery will be fur. | nished, The feast of St. Hubert at Prouilly (France) endod ir a tragedy this year, After mass M. Moulin got apt A fox was started, and Moulin after shooting at what he considered a veritable Roy nard, discovered he had killed a young man ninotece years of age. A special correspondence to the Heratp from Monte. vidoo, under date of October 2, reports as follows: The distingnished citizens of Uruguay who were deported in the war vessel Puig, which arrived al Havana, and was drivea off by the Spanish authoritier to the more hospitable shores of the United States reaching New York in July last, speak in the bighes: terms on their return to the River Plate of the treat ment received from the American people. They wert not permitted to 1 here, aud proceeded to Buenos Ayres, trom whence they have, with but few excep tions, crossed to this territory and espoused the reve Jutionary cause, Colonel Courtin, who was their cus | todian while in banishment, and Sefor Garsia, Consul General of this Republic in Now York, arrived here by ‘way of France on the 28th alt