The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, \ PROPRIETOR NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On end after January 1 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Herarp 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 Yore Heracp. 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. VOLUME XL... ANUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WUOD'S MUSEUM, comer of Thirueth street. KARL, KLINE. at 8 at : TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE, Nos, 585 and 587 Byoadway. RIKTY, at 8 P.M. 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Evi- dently the attitude of England on the t- ern question, when taken in connection with | the purchase of the Suez Canal, is produc- tive of an uneasy spirit among the great Powers, and it is not unlikely that the Prince's visit has a political significance. Tue Frexcu Assemuty has adopted the Electoral bill, and the next question will be the time for holding the general elections and convoking the new Assembly. The re- sult of the elections, which ought to be heid at an early day, will be looked forward to with great interest because of the influence i will have upon the form of government in France. All parties will show great activity in securing the election of their candidates, d hope th lic: ill | | Be aes eats ian a it. What they aimed at was to get a quasi away their strength in useless divisions, as it is upon the temper of the next Assembly that the security of the Republic depends. Ovrvoon Rexrer in a great city like New | every nerve to accomplish that object. But | day. These properties suddenly acquired York is always a difficult problem, and in part both public and private charities of this class have been administered without plan or system. It is now proposed to abandon HERALD 10:45 P.M, Matinee at 2 P.M. George 8. | | he can rely on the known bias of his friends. Fourteenth, street. “SELECTIONS FROM CHOPIN, at 8 | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1875.:-r'KIPLE SHEET. ene speakership—-Tammany Stock Declining. The animated contest which engrosses at- tention at Washington looks from hour to hour more favorable to the suecess of Mr, Randall. The withdrawal of Mr. Wood is a good symptom, even if he should stand neu- tral between the remaining candidates. It has long been well known, both to himself and his friends, that Tammany looked upon | his pretensions with extreme disfavor, as an obstacle in the way of Mr, Kerr. His sup- porters were necessarily anti-Kerr men, or, at least, had no predilegtions for the Indiana claimant, and they are pretty sure to cast their votes against him without any persuasion from Mr. Wood, The fact of his withdrawal will cause the | transfer of their support to some other competitor of the Tammany candidate. If there were any doubt of this Mr. Wood ought to relinquish his neutral attitude and | give his active influence to Mr. Randall. Mr. Wood is shrewd and sagacious, No man has @ more thorough knowledge of the Tam- many intrigues in relation to the Speaker- ship which have been on foot for ‘the last four months. He also knows how weak and odious Tammany has become here in New York. He has witnessed the abortive attempt to give it a varnish of respectability since | the disgrace which overtook it in the Ring | exposures ; has seen its ignominious defeat | in the late election ; knows that the people repudiate and detest it, and that | no public.man can hereafter link his | fortunes with that odious organization | without bringing destruction upon himself. position to him it is only because he thinks Mr. Cox still remains in the field, but he also knows that the strongest opposition to his aspirations has proceeded from Mr. Kerr's New York supporters, and that he went against the wishes of Tammany in becoming a candidate. When he’ releases his friends camp of his most insidious foes. Mr. Cox has encountered no such hostility in any other quarter as has been steadily made by Mr. Kerr's Tammany adherents, Aside | from these personal motives Mr. Cox's | Ohio friends will strenuously oppose -Mr. | Kerr on principle, preferring any other can- didate to the favorite, the protégé and the | ally of the sinking Tammany clique of the | New York democracy. Mr. Kerr's Tammany | connections, now that the facts are becoming known in Washington, damage him immeas- urably. We copy the following paragraph from a Washington despatch to the Commer- cial Advertiser: — The current is setting in stronger every hour for | Randall. ‘The revelations in regard to ‘Boss’ Kelly’s | visit to Indiana last summer to confer with Mr. Kerr has not improved the Hoosier's chances. It 1s said that “Wash” McLean met Kelly on his way, and adroitly drew trom him the object of his mission. Kelly admitted that Tilden had induced him to make the visit and to give Kerr the assurance that Tammany Hall and the New York delegation would be a unit for him. McLean at the time intimated to Kelly that Til- den could not deliver all he promised, and intimated that Elijah Ward and Abram 8. Hewitt would not con- sent to be sold out by Tilden. Kelly expressed the be- | lief that Tilden could, and the parties parted at Cincin- nati The story is made much of bere, as indicating | Tilden’s sharp practice in political trickery. Kerr is | now labelled the Tammany candidate, | | At the time when the Grand Sachem went | West to negotiate with Mr. Kerr this gentle- | man doubtless lent a readier ear to the | Tammany seductions than he would do at | present if he were not committed to this | “entangling alliance.” Last summer, at the | | time of that visit, the hopes of Tammany | | were high. It was counting on a majority of | seventy thousand in the State, and anybody | | who had suggested that it could not even ! carry the city would have been laughed at by the bargaining ‘‘Boss” as a political | lunatic. The over-confident Grand Sachem | then fancied that he had everything in his | | gift—the city offices, State offices, the Speak- ership and the Presidential nomination. This secret mission to Indiana was his first grand move on the national chessboard. By an ingenious proc of counting chick- | ens before they were hatched he had | convinced himself of an overwhelming ma- | jority in New York, and supposed this castle | in the clouds afforded a solid support for the | lever by which Tammany would move the | national canvass. The first intended step | | was to go out of the State and make a Speaker; the next was to make a President. The po- | litical sky has changed since those bright summer dreams. Tammany has been de- feated, disgraced and well nigh demolished by a great uprising of the people against it, and its attempt to dictate the politics of the nation when its dictation has been spugned under the shadow of Tammany Hall itself is a vain ambition. It is unfortunate for Mr. Kerr that he got decoyed into such an entanglement. The | | | | | | ' talents, and, up to a recent period, he has been for many years in infirm health, He might again break down in so trying and arduous a position, if he could succeed in gaining it. But he is in no danger from that | source. This is an unlucky business for | him, because his first conspicuous appear- | ance in national politics is made under such | | bad auspices. Deluded by the false appear- ances of midsummer he has launched his | | ship on a sinking tide. His candidature was | | a movement of New York politicians in the | interest of a New York candidate for the | Presidency, and Mr. Kerr was unwarily t | drawn into it by the confident predictions | making through it would probably give shbs | of the noted emissary who went West to ar- } range the bargain. Mr. Kerr had no reason | to doubt that Mr. Kelly and his associates | would do their utmost to fulfil their side of | didate for the Presidential nomination, and they have strained and are still straining their power was fatally weakened by the re- sult of the New York election, Had they realized their expectations, had they carried the State by the predicted seventy thousand We are confident that he will not vote for Mr. | | Kerr, and that if he does make a decided op- from their pledges of support, it is quite un- | likely that they will go straight into the | | reference to the President in tese de- | national indorsement of the New York can- | the old methods altogether and to substitute | majority, and strengthened their ascendancy | in their place a plan suggested by Mr. Theo- | in the city, their political influence in Wash- dore Roosevelt, whereby greater intelligence | ington would have been much greater than in relieving the wants of the poor and more | it is. They might then have borne Mr. permanent benefits from the distribution of | Kerr to the Speakership and have claimed it | alms will be obtained. The organization of as an indorsement of their policy and their the machinery for these important purposes | pet project by the national democracy. Un- could not be placed in better hands than | fortunately for them, “‘there are more men those of Mr. Roosevelt,,and we trust that he | who worship the rising than the setting will meet with sufficient co-operation to se- | sun.” Tammany a broken, political hulk, cure the complete success of his system. | stranded in the mud, is not a vessel on which the national democracy are axtious to embark for the Presidential voyag. They do not choose to make the electin of a Speaker a triumph for an ambitims New in its own State. e This attempt of Tammany to get a tational indorsement is an example of ‘vaultng am- bition which o’erleaps itself and dlls on other side.” The New York policyand the Néw York candidate will be still further weakened by a signal defeat in Wanington 80 soon after mortifying reverse a home. Instead of demonstrating their stragth, as they expected, they will only make afurther exposure of their weakness, They wll give a new proof that the things they urdertake do not succeed. Their failure at Vashing- ton will react upon their hopes in Niw York, and hasten the downfall which is already assured. It has been said that ‘nothing succeeds like success,” and it is equilly true in politics that nothitig so alienavs sup- Porters as a series of failures. General Babcock and Rg! ak All the world kndWs how well tle Presi- dent sustains his dignity when tlis duty Seems to require merely that hy should ignore unpleasant facts. But the country will be apt to believe that in te crisis reached in the whiskey investigaion that method of sustaining the dignit of the Presidential office is inappropriatiand can only lead to painful misconceptins. The silence of the President's secretay in the presence of published evidence thatseems to implicate him in a conspiracy to practice a | great fraud on the national Treasur will be taken as an ddmission that he camot deny the implication. But if the secretry is dis- posed to be silent then the sileme of the President can at least only mean hat he is | more tender for his friends than resolute and careful in the preservation of oficial pu- | rity; that, in short, it makes a grat differ- ence in the case of an offender wheher or no he is an intimate of the Executiv. From | the only point of view that the piblic can possibly hold this case is very clea. There is no possibility now that the inputations are mere scandal or slander. Tky could | not possibly arise as they stand een from any man’s perjury. Here is doamentary evidence produced in court by yhich the President's secretary appears to be in secret correspondence with men known » be en- gaged in a public robbery of enornous pro- portions. Can the President's priwte secre- tary give any explanation of this fact con- sistent with his innocence of conplicity in the crime? Can he show tha he did not know the character of his corespond- ents, or that the despatches to and from himself referred to other stjects; or that he was not in correspondere with the conspirators, and that the apearances against him are false appearances? If he can show any of these points the time or him to do so has come; if he cannot therthe way | should not only be opened for his leparture | from the Executive chamber, bu a court | martial is called for, and a crimina prosecu- tion, There is an easy and familir style of the Vhiskey | spatches; but the country knows tat when the threat of these disclosures was nade the | President met it with a defiance tht is itself an evidence of his rectitude. Bu his duty is plain to see that the atmosphereof official life near to his person is cleared up. Charges | that have long floated in the air have tow as- sumed such a shape that they cannotbe ig- | nored; and if they are not explained t will | necessarily be thought that this is because | any explanation that may be given rust be worse than any conclusions the pubie will draw from the disclosures made, Tiat will be a damaging admission. | | * \ sthmus Ship Canal. The No one with faith in the commercialluture of this country can for a moment dout that the construction ofa canal by which ships can pass from ocean to ocean at some point | of the Isthmus connecting North and jouth America is any other than a questin of time. Our own opinion is that the ppject must inevitably be carried out at a nq re- mote period. There are various views ¢ the practicability of one or another point,|and the Board appointed by the governmet to | examine the several routes proposed wil, it appears, report definitely that the Nicaagna route is preferable to all others, and tht a canal can be constructed on that pdute for sixty millions of dollars. In| an outline of their report, already gven to the public, some views are presated on the subject of water supply for the chal, *from which, of course, it is necessarily be inferred that the committee contemplatk a canal with locks, and running abovethe level of the sea. We do not believe tha is the sort of canal that will.eventuallybe made or that should be made. The wrk that joins the Atlantic and Pacific must ba through cut from ocean to ocean by wich the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific {ill meet. Necessarily the cut through the Ja- teau on the Pacific side will be a very hevy one, but the greater expense of that cut isto be weighed against the cost of the structre and maintenance of locks; and takinga period of twenty years’ operation the dep cut will prove the cheaper in the end, [If such a cut were ever opened the tidewy plenty of sea room within a few years, | | Canaz Damacrs.—The testimony whih has been elicited before the ica ont al committees inquiring into frauds upon canals, presents nothing more remark: | than the story of the claims for damages | the mills at Oriskany, which we print | great value in the eyes of their owners, bi | nobody can tell upon what principles t! York clique that has failed to maintan itself | A Charter Election in the Spring. Governor Tilden has at last selected the commissioners for framing a new charter which the last Legislature authorized him, at his own request, to appoint. No reason is given for the long delay. It was supposed, when he sent in his special Message on that subject and the Legislature com-~' plied with his recommendation that he would appoint the commissioners in the spring, giving them time for mature delib- eration during the summer and autumn. He has strangely waited until within a month of the meeting of a new Legislature, and the commission will hardly be ready to report until a late period of the session, This delay indicates that the Governor does not regard the evils we suffer under the present mu- nicipal government a case of urgency; but on this point the public opinion of the city does not agree with him. Our citizens, on the contrary, think this the earliest subject which should engage the attention of the Legislature. They will have no patience with attempts at procrastination, As both braiches of the oe are re- publican we presume they will not wait for the report ofa commission which ought to have been appointed, if at all, several months ago, and have been ready to report at the be- ginning of the session, Governor Tilden’s ideas as to the main essentials of a good char- ter have long been on record and are well known. It will be safe for the Legislature to act on them. They are, in _ brief, the choice of city officers in the spring, and such a municipal organi- zation as will enable the people to make a complete change of rulers in every election Unless he has changed his opinion the Governor is wholly opposed to commis- sioners appointed for terms of four, five or six years, and so intrenched in office that no Mayor can change the administration of the municipal departments during his term. We hope the Legislature will give us a new charter, based upon these sound ideas. The Governor has put it out of his power to veto such a charter, and the Legislature may pro- | ceed with confidence. We have no doubt that the Legislature will give us a new charter and a spring election. The success and popularity of the new form of government will depend on the first Mayor ehosen to administer it. If we should have an incompetent Mayor during the first term his personal failure would bring the best charter into discredit. The | first Mayor must be a man of capacity enough to bring out the good points of the charter and satisfy the people of its ex- cellence. We would be content with Mr. Green, Mr. Hackett, Mr. Stebbins or Mr. Agnew, but our preference would be Mn Dana. He may not want the office, but the office wants him ; not, indeed, for permanent service, because his talents are too valuable | in another field, but during the early and critical stages of the new experiment. It is not beneath any man’s capacity to exhibit an example of what the municipal government of a million of people ought to be, and when Mr. Dana shall have furnished the model it will not require men of equal ability to follow it. His sentiments are so admirable that we again insert them:—‘‘It is only when honest men of every name exhibit a deter- mination to revolt against the management of party leaders and to select their own candi- dates for themselves that parties can be kept within the bounds of decorum and be made to pay a due regard to the public welfare in se- lecting their nominees.” It is not merely be- cause Mr. Dana has expressed himself so well on this subject that we desire his elec- tion, but because he has the force of char- acterand administrative ability to put his sound ideas in execution. It is one thing to think and write with clearness ; another to act with vigor. Mr. Dana is equally capable of both, and as Mayor of the city he would translate his sound views into useful acts. A Bitter Cold Day.-* Where it came from or how it came we hardly knew, but suddenly yesterday a cold wave descended upon us with that intense chill which only the hardest physical exer- cise, and scarcely that, can resist. If it had come more gradually we should not have cared, but it leaped out of the mild, bracing fox hunting temperature of November in this latitude with all the fierce, bitter white bear hunting freeziness of the Arctic regions. Men can bear great extremes of heat and cold when they are reached by gradual stages, but they are not fitted to endure these sudden shocks. An icicle, if gradually pushed down the small of your back, may be borne with patience, but nobody likes one to be titrust rudely under his collar. The way in which our part of the world was plunged into a cold bath was, therefore, quite a shock to its sys- tem, especially as ‘Old Prob” had been talking in a vague way about snow or rain. It was the first really cold day of the winter, and as such will be remembered. We hear of the mercury going down thirty degrees below zero in Canada; but a fall of nearly forty degrees in twenty-four hours in New York was quite enough for us. A strong wind added to the general discomfort, and the very sun seemed to shine coldly upon the frozen city. It was a day for charity, and yeta day when even the warmest friends turned each other the cold shoulder. It is the nature of suffering to make the sufferer selfish ; but no doubt those who were cosey by hot fires, or who shivered in great coats, must have thought of others who had neither fires nor coats and possibly not even food. Such a tremendous fall in the temperature cannot but cause great distress, and to-day is the best time to relieve it. The winter is upon us. Let us do the best we can for the poor. Jvupez Apvocare Ganwrat Hour has been retired upon his own application from the position he held for so many years and in wh#h he made a great figure. As the prose- cuting officer before the courts martial dur- claims for damages were based. There ha’ been no more remarkable investigatio since the investigations began. \ A Spmrrep Piczos Matcu was shot a the Pimlico track, Baltimore, yesterday, bey tween General E, Burd Grubb, of Philadel: | phia, and Mr. B, F. De Forest, of New York, for fifteen hundred dollars a side, General Grubb being the winner. Another match between these parties has been arranged, and | January, ing the war he was frequently brought into prominence, and, as was natural in a position where so much partisanship was excited, sometimes info obloquy. Upon his retire- ment, however, he will carry with him the \good wishes of most of his countrymen. Now tat Tax Sxvuprscuina is in session ‘once more another Servian demonstration lof sympathy with the revolt in the Herzego- yina may be expected, That body is the | is to be shot at Philadelphia on the 15th of | ly hope of the insurgents against the peace- «J ible intentions of the Rringe Milan- I Mr. Bergh and His Friend the Fer. Anumber of correspondents have lately ad- dressed us in reply to Mr. Bergh’s recent at- tack upon fox hunting, and though it is too much to hope that he will be convinced by the arguments, he should certainly be bene- fited by the tone of these good-tempered re- ukes. If Mr. Bergh were not incorrigible he would have learned long ago that tenderness to the inferior animals often becomes inhu- manity toman. There is a sect of Berghs in India which holds it a sin to take the life of an insect, and its members, therefore, pa- tiently endure the stings of whole armies of sacred bugs, holy fleas and other saintly ver- min. Ifonly these morbid philanthropists suffered by their religion it would not matter much, but unfortunately the bugs and fleas they protect upon their own per- sons have a habit of emigrating to the bodies of unbelievers. This naturally causes an unfriendly feeling between the sceptics and the Berghs, and the former complain bit- terly of the mercy which is nothing but cruelty to them, Another division of the Berghs devotes itself to the cultivation of sacred wild, bulls, which are per- mitted to gore the infidels. Then there are the Berghs of the Nile, who have a society for the prevention of cruelty to crocodiles. They consider it asin to kill a crocodile, but the crocodiles do not consider that they do wrong when they have a Bergh forlunch. Now these peculiar creeds may do for barbarous countries, but no such re- ligion can ever be popular in New Jersey. Foxes are now Mr. Bergh’s especial pets and fox hunters his particular aversion. But why should foxes not be hunted? Why should the method adopted by the hunters be stigmatized bd immoral and cruel? is treated well The fox for an out- lawed beast, a robber, a midnight assassin of unprotected hens. Here arises a suggestion which it wquld be wise in Mr. Bergh to consider. Has the hen no claims upon his benevolence? Imagine the hen sleeping upon her perch, dreaming, perchance, of omelets, or wondering whether she would prefer to be served with celery or sage. She does not dream, how- ever, that near her lurks one of Mr. Bergh’s emissaries in the form of the cruel fox. The agent of the society approaches nearer ; one leap and he has the hen by the throat ; over his back she goes, and he trots off to his den, strewn with the bones of other victims, where, it is to be hoped, after his meal is over, he thanks Mr. Bergh for the blessing. It is plain that Mr. Bergh is actually the president of a society for the prevention of humanity to chickens. It would be differ- ent, no doubt, if the chickens were his own. The famous Knight of the Sorrowful Coun- tenance, the renowned Don Quixote, may be appropriately called the Henry Bergh of Spain. One of his exploits was to set free, by the power of his sword, a company of | malefactors who were being led in chains to the galleys. When he triumphantly turned to receive their thanks the cutthroats and ras- cals of every degree at once set upon their deliverer and, after robbing him, beat him so badly that he was left for dead upon the road. We shall not draw the terrible moral of this story, We only say to .Mr. Bergh, You have resolved to save the fox. Beware! beware ! lest he should cook your goose. Mississippi Affairs. Mississippi, from all accounts, is as quiet and happy since the election as Arkansas was when Congress refused to overthrow Governor Garland. There has been a gen- eral reconciliation, and the only question just now is whether the ‘cra of good feel- ing” will not be made use of by Governor Ames to get his numerous offences condoned. Before the election the democrats had deter- mined, in case they carried the Legislature, to impeach and remove the Governor. Now, it is said, the fire-eating wing of the demo- eratic party are in treaty with him, and | promising that, in case he makes certain ap- pointments to suit them, they will protect him against impeachment when the Legisla- ture meets. This body will also have to | elect a United States Senator in the place of | Mr. Alcorn, and there are signs of a singular | combination for this election against Colonel Lamar, who is the most prominent man men- tioned for the Senatorship. Mr, La- mar’s influence throughout the State, and his bold and determined attitude at the Democratic State Convention, defeated | the color line movement which had been begun by the Vicksburg fire-eaters and which threatened to create a reign of terrorin the State. For this defeat the extremists have not forgiven Colonel Lamar. They were forced to submit during the canvass, but they now mean to defeat him for the Senate, and it is said that Governor Ames, who also | favored the color line, is willing to lend them such assistance as he can by appointing some ofthe extremists to office, and by turning such influence as he may have in favor of Colonel George or some other of Mr. Lamar's competitors. The new Legislature is a respectable body, made up, it is said, largely of old whigs and conservatives, but also of men inexperienced in political action. Besides Lamar and George the principal candidates for the Senatorship are General McArdle, of Vicksburg, the leader of the extrem- ists; General Walthall, an excellent citizen and moderate man, and General | Featherston. Of all these Colonel Lamar is the only one known to the country at large, He has just been re-elected to Congress from his district, and he deserves well of the State and the country for his sensible course in committing the party in his State against the color line. He is probably the most popular man in Mississippi. The contest in the Leg- islature promises to be exciting, and the re- publican newspapers in the State prophesy that it will produce a split of the democratic party. Baibars Coronet Joun W. Forney is the victim of | a very general misconception just now. Many of the papers denounce, while others praise him, for advocating the third term in Forney’s Washington Sunday Chronicle. The fact is that he sold that paper years ago and has nothing to do with its management. Colonel Forney is now in Europe recuperat- ing from the effects of his Centennial labors by listening to Mr. Martin Farquhar Tupper read his own poetry, or recuperating from the effects of the poetry by returning to his work, England and Egypt. In London they say that other nations were not consulted 4s to the purchase of the Khedive's interest in the Suez Canal because, in fact, there was not time; but that if there had been time it would not have been worth while, because no other nation has any right to protest against the purchase. That is to say, the British Cabinet, apprehensive that several Powers would protest and could as- sert a right to protest, seized the opportunity somewhat precipitately to get the shares se- curely in its hands, convinced that this would be the more advantageous position from which to consider whatever protests might be made, In Russian opinion, however, “it seems impossible for the affair to ‘be completed without an international arrangement.” It is all right, of course, the Russian would say. We do not object to your possession of the canal, nor even to your possession of all Egypt; but there are things that must bo done formally. If done otherwise than for- mally it is the success of trickery—a mere snap game, not worthy a great nation in a transaction which involves the interests of other great nations ; a success that can have no worthy admiration, and that will not be treated by other nations with espect. In short, Russia, though quite willing that England should have Egypt, wants to know what Russia is te have as an equivalent, and supports her demand for that knowledge by the hint that there are several Powors behind her who would like to feel assured that the great international route is not to be used merely in British interest in the future. There are very different views of the trans- action, England in the view given exposes @ consciousness of sharp practice on her part, and Russia somo irritation, while France is greatly excited. It does not ap- pear yet that Constantinople has any opin- ions on the subject. But it matters little what is thought there, and not a great deal what is thought in Paris, while Russia and England are not so widely at variance but skilful diplomacy can reconcile their differ- ences. Tue Brooxtxn “Inrtationists,” the Lough- ery brothers and Philip Lewinski, now on trial in the United States Circuit Court for increasing the volume of the currency by the manufacture of bogus nickels, seem well to deserve a name that the friends of rag money had previously regarded as their own. Theso were unusually skilful and successful coun- terfeiters, and we cannot doubt, if the alle- gations are sustained, that their punishment will be as severe as their operations wero bold and unscrupulous. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, {s in Washington. We regret to learn that Mr. George Jones, of the New York Times, is il, Mr. Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Old Probabilities will for five months hence find it easy to say, ‘Probably cold weather.” Senator William B.’ Allison, of lowa, is at tho Brevoort House on his way to Washington. Alige Tilton bas left her mother and is now living with her sister Florence in the family mansion. Miss Sickles, the eldest daughtet of General Sickles, 1s said to be about to marry a Spanish nobleman. Sir George Bowen, Governor of Australia, with party,, westward bound, passed through Omaba yesterday, Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Richardson arrived in, this city by the Abyssinia and proceeded to Washing- ton. Edgar A. Poe’s only sister, Miss Rosalie Poo, die last year an Inmate of a charitable institution in Wash- ington. Baron Chiumecky, Austrian Minister of Commerce, believes in¢government controlling railroads, and so stated in the Refchsrath, Will Anna Dickinson explain why it fs that, these cold mornings, the wife, and not the husband, has to put up with the coldest plate of cakes? ‘The Governorelect of Maryland, Jahn Lee Cérroll, and family, are visiting his father-in-law, the Hon. Royal Phelps, of East Sixteenth street. Dr. Strousberg possessed about $40 when the Berlin officials called on him for payment of the 20,009 thalers he owed the government for postage stamps. Mr, William M. Gwin, formerly United States Senator from California, has returned to this city from an extended Southern trip, and is at the Windsor Hotel. M. Thiers caught a severe cold in attending the mar- riage of Emmanuel Arago’s two daughters, and now he thinks {t must haye been from the draught from the organ loft, The skeleton of the horse that carried General Sher- idan on his historic twenty-mile ride to Winchester, Va., during the war, is owned by a Rochester (N, Y.) man and is to be exhibited at the Centennial, “We shall not go to Canossa,”” For this phrase to the German Parliament Prince Bismarck is to have a statue on Mount Harzburg, near the old chateau of Emperor Henry 1V. The first stone was laid October 31. The Kieviianine of Kiew (Russia) says that a young woman of their acquaintance had fallen in tove with a doctor who was studying at the St, Vladimir Univer- sity. She went to ask him to marry her, He refused, | She shot him. Cora Pearl is ‘said to be incomparably the finest equestrienne to be seen in the Bois de Boulogne. Her figure is fine, ber dress is faultless, her horse superb, and all this is fortunate, for she is getting so old now that she only looks to advantage on horseback. Vice Admiral Enomoto Takeaki, Japanese Ambassa- dor to the Court at St. Petersburg, gave a grand recep- tion on November 4, at which everybody appears to have had a jolly time. Prince Gortschakof toasted the Emperor of Japan and Takeaki toasted the Em- peror of Russia, 40 that between the two he was well “done.” From Honolulu, November 12, we learn that the out. going steamer conveys His Hawaiian Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary, Elisha H. Allen, to America for Washington, where he is to labor in the interest of bis fellow sugar planters to secure the needed legislation by the House of Representatives for the final confirmation and passage of what is knowa as the “treaty of reciprocity with Hawaii,” Ex-Speaker Blaine wishes to settle the school ques tion by & constitutional amendment which shall reaa:— “No State shall make any law respecting an establish« ment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise theres of, and no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools or derived from any pub- lic fund therefor shall ever be under the control of aay religious sect, nor shall any money so raised ever bo divided between religious sects or denominations,” For eome months past there has been no seeret mado of the fact that the President and the Camerons aro “out.” If we may believe the Washington correspond- ent of the Baltimore Sun, the President has for some time been aware that it was entirely due to the in- trigues of General Cameron that the anti-third term resolution was put through the Pennsylvania Republi- can Convention last spring. This was in revenge for the refusal of the President to allow General Cameron to control at will the federal patronage for Pennsyl. vania, Lately a movement bas been startad by General Cameron to provide for the election of the Pennsylvania delegates to the National Republican Convention as early as next March The object of this is to secure an anti-Grant delegation, or a delegation. which can be used by the Cameron clique exactly as it may further their interests, The friends of the President in Penn- sylvania are at work to checkmate this move, and lively ttfmes among the Pennsylvania republicans may be anticipated. Already the oppononts of the Cameron faction in the State are talking about the necessity of sustaining the President. The result will be apt to show how much real strength the third term bas ia Penpsvivania * ee oe