The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1875, Page 4

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It is as clear as sunshine that the time is ripe to abolish the Tammany Society under cirenmstances which acquit the act of all sus- picion of partisan motive. A good legal cause and a plain legal way have long con- curred, and at last a patient people clamors for the speedy execution of a righteous ven- | geance. The legal cause exists in the inveterate | perversion of the charter from ‘the purpose | of affording relief to the indigent and dis- | | tressed members of the association, their widows and orphans, and others who may be found proper objects of their charity” (which | was the sole purpose specified in the act of | incorporation), to the purpose of controlling | the political government of the city, the State, | and even the United States. It is capable of | legal proof that the income of the Tammany Society has not been applied to benevolent objects, but expended in the disburse- | ments of political intrigues; that its funds have been grossly mismanaged as well as misapplied, and thereby | the poor have been robbed of accumulations that should have been husbanded for their, succor; that its only administration of any | kind of charitable relief has been in the way | of distributing offices or labor tickets to po- | litical beggars, and that it has confused its membership and functions with the member- ship and functions of the General Committee of a political party or faction—in a single phrase, that it has both non-used and mis- used its franchise. The legal way exists in the provisions of the Code, which authorize the Attorney Gen- ‘The WERY THEATRE, Be spe -taRovull BY DAYLIGHT, at 8 P.M. James . War BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Montague sireat.—German Upera—IL TROVATOKE, at 8 ‘achive! 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SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, ‘New Overe Houve, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, a8 P. WOOD'S MU Broadway, corner of Thir closes wt 1045 PM. Muti M, reet.—-RUBE, at 8 P. M.; PM. FS. Chanfran TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE, Nos, 583 and 587 Broadway, —VARIETY, at 5 PM. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street aud Sixth uvenue.—L”ABIME, at SP. M. ter. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, Third avenne. between Tuetieth and Thirty-first streets — MINSTRELSY and VARIETY, at 8 P.M. TIVOLI THEA’ Eighth street, near Third E, ARIETY, at 8 P.M. GERM. TH Fourteenth street, near Irving fave. ai CONFUSIONS- Ral, 5 P.M ASSOCIATION HALL, Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue.—GRAND MAGL- Seen at 8PM. Edgar S. Al WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with rain or snow. 1875, Tux Henawp sy Fast Man. Trarys.—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 and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Tux Hznaxp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. i Rarm Transtr.—An interesting series of interviews with the newly appointed Com- missioners of Rapid Transit, who are to decide on the Third avenue route against the objections of property holders along the proposed line, will be found in another part of the Hrnarp. Kiyo Axroyso has complimented his royal brother of Portugal by raising the Spanish legation in Lisbon to the rank of an em- bassy. It is the fashion just now, Kaiser | Wilhelm and King Victor Emmanuel having | started it at Milan a few weeks ago. ‘Tae Icy Weatmen of the past few days | has disappeared in rain, and those who believe in the umbrella as a weapon of defence will be gratified that they havea chance to use it. We wish to show that the drizzle may be a source of pleasure to some- body. Tux War wx Henzecovima continues its | dance for the benefit of the London specu- lators in Turkish securities. Raouf Pacha suoceeded in relieving the inhabitants of Goransko by throwing provisions into the place. The insurgents assert, however, that he was subsequently defeated by the rebel commanders, with the loss of a thousand eral to bring action in the name of the peo- ple to vacate any charter for the cause of non- use or misuse of the corporate powers. The principle upon which he is thus enabled to interpose to prevent or punish usurpations or abuses of franchises, privileges or duties by corporators, is that they constitute usurpations or abuses of the sovereign power itself, against which the people, in their sovereign capacity, are bound to interpose for their own protection. But for the fact that the charter of the Tammany Society, granted in 1805, contains | no provision for its alteration or repeal at the discretion of the legislative authority which conferred it, the course would be even easier and simpler. The Senate and Assembly, in compliance with the public desire, might by a statute in three lines wipe the incorporated sinners out of legal existence, without the necessity of establish- ing the society's sins by legal proofs. It would have been wise if the subjection of Tammany to the legislative power had been required as a condition of the act of 1867, by virtue of which the society holds its Wigwam in Fourteenth street. But that precaution was neglected, and the corpo- ration stands sheltered from legislative in- terference by the famous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dartmouth College case—in which Daniel Webster exerted his utmost intellectual powers and won his greatest professional triumph—that a charter of an eleemosynary institution is a contract, whose obligation is impaired by an amendatory or repealing act for which a power was not expressly reserved and to which the corporation does not assent. The judicial authority of the government, however, remains unimpaired by the decision, and, in the lan- guage of Judge Story, in that very case, is available ‘‘to ascertain the validity of the grant, to enforce its proper uses, to suppress frauds, and, if the uses are chari- their aboriginal rites, and so as to dis- burse some other alms than political orders for the employment of la borers on the public works. Thus they think to throw tubs to the whale. But we warn Mr. Kelly and his associates, once for all, that it will be useless thus to palliate or negotiate. The Tammany Society is a | mad dog, and as such it must die; for the community, whose safety it endangers, will not be diverted from its pursuit by any promise of its owner to leash or muzzle it. | The people expect the Attorney General elect to bring his action to vacate the Tam- many charter among the very first acts of his official term, which will begin with the’new year. If he neglects to comply with their reasonable demand it will become the duty of the Legislature to instruct him in his duty; and if he needs associate counsel the report of the interview with one of his pre- decessors, which we published recently, shows him where to find it. The dem- ocratic party may still exist, next sum- mer, in undiminished vigor, but when the traveller from Cockaigne to the Philadelphia Exhibition shall, in the midst of Union square, take his seat on the rim of the basin that surrounds the Lincoln statue, to sketch the ugly structure of the Tammany Wigwam, he must find the portal closed and John Kelly weeping on the doorstep. The Story of Tweed’s Escape. The stupidly constructed story which Warden Dunham and Keeper Hagan gave to the public on Saturday as their excuse for the escape of Tweed from their custody already begins to show signs of weakness. While they could have hacked their swords and pierced their doublets and tickled their noses till they bled like Falstaff and Bardolph on Gad’s Hill they contented themselves with allowing their prisoner to walk up stairs into liberty. Indeed, it is possible they imagined that the story they related would be as good as another, and the escape of Genet, who left the slumberous officer on a pretence of visiting his wife, had irresistible charms for the Warden's imagination, and hence he brought the ‘‘old man,” in fancy, to the house on Madison avenue, where he and the keeper made the burly ring thief's shadow step up and out. The investiga- tions of our reporters develop a state of affairs slightly different from the War- den’s attempt at equalling the author of “Jack Sheppard” in relating stories of prison escapes. We think the whole truth will soon be known, and if it justifies the more than suspicions to which the facts at present col- lected point it will put Mr. Dunham and his keeper very low down in the rank of ro- mancers. If ever a story that wears the look of shallow villany deserved clearing up it is the Warden's account of Tweed’s escape. The developments of yesterday would in- | dicate that the drive from Ludlow Street | Jail was simply toa rendezvous in Central Park, where, unless appearances are very deceptive, Warden Dunham wished the great thief he was sworn to keep in custody bon voyage, as the latter ‘got into a vehicle that was to take him to the outgoing steamer for Europe perhaps, or may be for the colored Republic of Hayti, where, since the opéra bouffe time of Emperor Soulouque, they have not seen a great professor of the art of public robbery. It was steamer day, and Big Six had the choice of half-a-dozen floating res- taurants for conveyance to foreign parts. So lax, indeed, was the system under which this great treasury burglar was held in dur- table, to secure their regular administration | through the means of equitable tribunals in cases where there would otherwise be a failure of justice.” We anticipate the objection of men who will ask if John Kelly will not be John Kelly still whether the Tammany Society stands or falls. The public indignation, they will say, is really due notto the non-use or the misuse of the Tammany charter, but to the spectacle of a single man dictating the nominations of the democratic party for all kinds of offices, manipulating the officers, when elected, like puppets in a Punch and Judy show, influencing the doings of State | conventions and legislatures, invading the Executive Chamber of the State and modify- ing the policy of its occupant, and, finally, reaching to Washington and seeking to guide Congress with a view to control the selection of the next President of the United States; and all this, they will say, is done by this man as the leader of an unincorporated political committee, which will continue to | exist whatever may be the fate of the Tam- many Society. Perhaps it will. But the people certainly have a right to say that it shall no longer exist in combination with an incorporated society which is the creature of their legislation; and, with regard to the | future conduct of the Democratic General Committee, when the Tammany charter shall have been vacated, we suggest to these desponding critics the analogy of a line of | troops fighting behind shelter or fighting in the open field. Throw down the bulwark of the charter, behind which Mr. Kelly now conceals his political mancuvres from pub- lic view, and we strip him and his battalions of an important element of their fancied in- vincibility. Stark and his Continentals never could have fought as they did at Bunker Hill but for the rail fence and the stacks of new mown grass that shielded them from the sight of the enemy, and Meagher'’s | division would have carried the crest of the | hills at Fredericksburg time and again but | for the farm wall that sheltered the rebel | lines on Marye’s Heights. The present time for the reform is, as we sen killed and wounded. From tue Far East we learn that a Japanese war vessel has just sailed for American waters. She will touch at San | suspicion of partisan motive. Francisco. It is to be hoped that the result of her mission will be to produce still more | intelligent and friendly relations between the peoples of the ancient Em- pire and the modern Republic. The court of the Mikado, like most other courts and presidencies, is troubled by a series of ministerial place squabbles. ‘The commercial reports are satisfactory. A spirit of nativism, fanned, it is alleged, by English agencies, has found vent in many | little petty oppositions to American progress | (both in China and Japan, | that the trading politicians of each party | have said, peculiarly suitable; for the fact | wish to preserve the Tammany Society will acquit the demand for its abolition from af | The demo- cratic traders desire to keep their party run- | ning in the old and oily grooves; the repub- | lican managers want to avail themselves of | the repronches they can lavish against Tam- | many upon the stump; and it is only the people at large, without distinction of party, | who wish to abate the whole concern as fraud anda nuisance, The people at large, however, are more of a power than they used to be, and in this matter they mean to have their will respected. Already propositions | are mooted among the Sachems and Saga- | mores and Wiskinskies to modify their by- | | Secret Societies ance, that it is very evident he went when he really could stay in prison no longer with safety to his prospects, and not be- fore. Why Warden Dunham did not drive directly to the steamship and hand Mr. Tweed respectfully on board we cannot exactly say, unless it was from a feeling of delicacy to the voluntary exile, who, in going forth to the loneliness of London or Paris, might prefer to depart unaccompanied and unobserved—a ridiculous piece of self-ab- negation. We live in the hope, however, that all the villany which plotted the escape and connived at and assisted in its execution shall be unmasked, and the responsibility put where it belongs. To Tweed, going forth with the curse of his coun- try in his ears, we earnestly wish | the pleasure of a speedy return. He | will be watched and waited for. If he has fled to any country with which we hold an extradition treaty we hope that no effort will be left unmade to grip him and bring him back. He is one of those towering criminals with whom untiring justice should wrestle until it pins him down. To the Sheriff and those directly responsi- ble for his escape we must insist that the full rigor of the law be meted out. If Sheriff | Conner sits down lamenting that he is not to blame we have only to say that we cannot, under the circumstances, acquit him of any portion of the responsibility. Tweed was his prisoner; he knew, as all the world knew, that Tweed's condition before the law was desperate; the public press had warned him of Tweed’s continual trips round town; he had Genet’s case before his eyes, and it was his business to see that the gorged plun- derer of New York was held until legal process acquitted him of his charge, There is a bitterness in all this for the thoughtful American, Like everything be- longing to the Tammany Ring it stinks in the nostrils with the odor of corruption and | betrayed trust. It would be wholly dis- heartening but that we have an unwavering belief in the strong public honesty of the immense majority of the American people, which, when the reeking generation of Tam- | many thieves are buried out of sight, will assert itself in stronger penalties for official | malfeasance, and exercise greater care in the | selection of public servants to places of trust. and Tammany Hall, In another column we print a résumé of some of the most remarkable political socie- ties which have wrought in the dark for the ends their leaders sought to gain. It will be observed from this review that, however | specious and excellent were the objects to be attained, with scarcely an excep- tion the practical results of these associations were baleful. Secrecy in political organiza- tion is always an evil, no matter what good is sought by its means. For more than a century the Jesuits disturbed every throne Tammany | laws, so as to permit the public to witness in Europe through the machinations which proceeded from behind the veil. A secret society not only began the French Revolution but made itself the instrument of the Reign of Terror. During the present century nearly every insurrection which has agitated Europe was fomented bya secret political society, ‘The most hated because the most selfish and injurious political society that ever existed in this country—one that stirred up more strife and bitterness while it lasted than any party which had preceded it—was powerful to do harm only because it wrought in the dark. All these examples we have adduced to show how dangerous to the people and to popular liberty are societies like Tammany Hall. One man, or a small number of men, are allowed not only to dictate the policy of the society but to usurp all the func- tions and authority which ought to pro- ceed from the popular will. The offices are filled at the dictation of the directors of a secret political organization, and even the judges of our courts and the Mayor of the metropolis are often the creatures of the con- spirators who dare to speak in the name of Tammany Hall. There cap be no political freedom, and no official integrity even, in a city where the people submit to the arrogant pretensions of such a conspiracy. Tammany Hall is as much a conspiracy as were the So- ciety of Jesus, the Jacobin clubs, the Car- bonari and Young Italy and Young Europe. The New Congress. The first session of the Forty-fourth Con- gress begins to-day. The changes in the Senate, though important, do not engross the attention of the country as much as the changes in the House of Rep- resentatives, which will contain a greater proportion of new members than any pre- vious House for a number of years. As nearly as party strength can be stated it will have one hundred and six republicans, fourteen members who profess various shades of independence, and in a full House of two hundred and ninety-two members, one hundred and seventy-two democrats. Of the whole number over one hundred and eighty did not serve in the last Congress; but of these several, as Messrs. Kerr, Banks, Elijah Ward, Smith Ely and Proctor Knott, have been Representatives before. One hundred and twenty-two of the democratic members did not serve in the last Congress, and the republicans have, in proportion to their strength, a greater number of experienced members than their opponents. Less than sixty of the new democratic members are from the Southern States. ‘There will be an unusual number of contested election cases, The country will watch with curious eyes to see what the democrats will do or attempt to do with their majority in the House. As the Senate is republican by a sufficiently strong majority the democratic House can- not effect much legislation of a nature un- pleasant to the republicans or the adminis- tration. Its efforts must in fact be muinly confined to two directions: it may cut down the estimates and reduce the army and navy, and it can investigate. This will turn out probably to be a fortunate circumstance for the democrats, whose zcal will be curbed to discretion by the opposition of the Senate. There 1s a general belief that among the earlier movements in the House will be one to cut down the army to five or perhaps seven thousand men—a force sufficient for a peace footing, because the Pacific railroads have rendered unnecessary at least five thou- sand men formerly necessary to guard the overland route and protect emigrants. Our present military force numbers thirteen thousand men. the democrats is likely to be spent in inves- tigations, and it is quite possible that they may inconvenience the republicans by some of their inquiries. There are, for instance, circumstances connected with the Western whiskey frauds which the House may insist upon having explained—notably, the mys- tery which still surrounds the sudden revo- cation by the President of an order chang- ing the internal revenue supervisors, which attracted a good deal of attention last winter. The Indian contract frauds will also, proba- bly, receive attention, and there are rumors of inquiries into the conduct of other depart- ments of the government. Of such investigations it may, however, be said that to be effective as partisan weapons they need to be conducted with great skill, and with an amount of foreknowledge which shall enable the inquisitors to place their hands quickly upon the vital points of the evidence, and to develop it in so dramatic a way as to fasten the public attention upon the offence and the offenders, During the years 1859 and 1860 the democratic administration was very laboriously investigated, but most of the reports—which certainly developed gross maladministration—were of a kind which attracted only a moderate share of pub- lic attention. There are some seemingly scan- dalous mysteries afloat, such as the revocation of the order removing the supervisors, which wespoke of above, and the appointment of Clews & Co, to be government agents in Lon- don, which it is desirable to have cleared up, and with which, if a Congressional com- mittee could fix blame on any one, they might make a hit. The session is likely to be a prolonged war of tactics between the leaders of the two parties, and in such a war the republicans have on their side the balance of skill and parliamentary experience. The democrats have no one on their side the equal of Mr. Blaine in thorough knowledge of parliamen- tary law and audacity combined, and the dem- ocratic Speaker will find a dangerous antago- nist inthe ex-Speaker. The principal embar- rassment of the republicansin the House will lie in the necessity resting upon them to de- fend an administration which the leading men do not like, and which most of them would readily consent to see broken down, if this could be done without damag- ing their party's prospects in the next election, The ablest republicans in the new House are not favorites of the adminis- tration, and will have to defend what in their hearts they disapprove, and will do so know- ing that they will receive no thanks for their efforts from the President. While, however, the democrats are perfect- ing their programme for the session and drilling their forces for a general and lively attack on the administration, we advise them | to remember that the President is a person pho himself likes to take the offensive. But the main strength of | and his political advisers have probably not been idle, The republican leaders are astute politicians; they are, on the whole, much abler than their democratic competitors; they have audacity, initiative, and the capa- city, in an emergency, to unite their forces in a compact body. The democrats have not shown these qualities of late, and yet they will need them before the session is over; and may, indeed, need them as soon as it begins. The Message may present to them some pain- fal conundrums, and it is quite certain that the Tepublican party will die hard. The opening of Congress finds the democratic party in a very much less fortunate position than it occupied last December, and it is a truth which wise democrats would do well to lay to heart that this is mainly the fault of their own side. The republican party stands better before the country to-day than last fall; not because it has reformed the abuses which then disgusted the country—for it has not done so—but because the democrats have once more, by their folly and lack of states- manship, disgusted and alarmed the people. The parliamentary contest of this winter is likely to decide the Presidential canvass of next year; and the session of Congress which opens to-day promises to be one of the most interesting, though perhaps not one of the most important, of recent years. General Babcock Indicted. Our Washington special despatch relating to General Babcock's case indicates that, so far as Secretary Bristow is concerned, the full power of the law will be ex- erted to develop all the facts. An indictment, it is stated, has been found in St. Louis against the President's secretary, and it will be presented at the opening of the court to-day. Thus General Babcock will be placed on trial and his defence heard under conditions which will leave nothing to be desired. We are heartily glad of this. It will serve the ends of justice, and if General Babcock has a valid defence it can be enforced by a verdict of acquittal. The court of inquiry which he demanded will, at the same time, be en- abled to reach its own conclusions, but as these have no further force than as relates to the army standing of the accused, and as the military court's form of procedure is more tedious and less direct than the civil trial, it will not disappoint public anxiety, which is on the stretch re- garding the position of the President in the matter. The court of inquiry has been fairly con- stituted. Generals Sheridan, Hancock and Terry have too much personal and profes- sional pride to put their reputations in peril by whitewashing and acquitting an offender who may be condemned by a civil tribunal. If their finding should be contrary to evidence a conviction by a court of justice would place them before the coun- try in an unenviable light. It is to be pro- sumed that they will do their duty and that they will summon every witness from whom they can expect any information. What the Pacific Railroad Costs Government. The recent decision of the Supreme Court that the Pacific Railroad is not bound to pay interest on the bonds issued to it by the gov- ernment until the principal of the bonds see what kind of a bargain was made with that rapacious corporation, The enormity of the swindle will appear on the application of a little arithmetic. Had the road been required to pay the interest on the bonds semi-annually, as the government pays it to the holders of the bonds, there would have been a saving to the national Treasury, in the course of the thirty years, of about two hundred million dollars. This isa stupen- dous sum, but any person competent to com- pute the interest will say that it is not an ex- aggeration. If the interest were paid regu- larly the government could employ it in such manner as to get six per cent on its con- stantly accumulating amount, and atthe end of the thirty years the compound interest on the accruing interest of the bonds would have risen to two hundred million dollars. We insert from the official debt statement for the first of the present month the account of the Treastry with the Pacific railroads, as it stood at that date :— Principal outstanairs . Interest accrued and not yet pai Interest paid by the United States, Interest repaid by transportation of mails, &a Balance of interest paid by United States. ... From the data here furnished we can eanily compute the cost of these roads to the gov- ernment at the expiration of the thirty years in 1894 About two hundred million dollars of the money retained by the government for transportation will have to be paid back under the recent decision, reducing it to about four and a half millions; but we will lay that out of the account for the present. ‘he general account now stands as follows:— Principal of the bonds .. 628, 512 Acerued interest not paid . 1,616,587 Balance of interest paid by United States... 21,626,953 Now duo tho government,.........0.000+ ry) The simple interest on the principal for the eighteen remaining years will amount to $69,791,380, making the indebtedness of the road to the government in 1894 $157, 657,431, No rational creature can suppose that the road will discharge this colossal debt when it matures. In that event what will the gov- ernment do? It has asecond mortgage on the road, and can take possession of it by paying the first mortgage, which amounts to $59,119,000. The cost of the road to the gov- ernment will therefore be:— Present indebtedness. ... Intorest for eighteen ye: ys 623,512 + $87,866,062 69,971,380. First mortgage....... 69,119,000 itis sce ctegnisdauuas edecerore vise vere 16,966,452 To this sum must be added the $200,000,000 which the government will have lost in compound interest, making the actual cost of the road to the government, if it should take possession of it in 1894, the stupendous sum of $416,956,432, or $231,542 per mile, which is more than four times what it could have honestly cost to build it. We do not deduct the small abatement for transportation, because there is a set-off which greatly exceeds it, We refer to the land grants, amounting to 12,800 acres to the mile. The government mortgage does not include these, but only the road and its He | equipments, The foregoing statement of facts proves that the Pacific Railroad is the | most gigantic swindle ever perpetrated in the history of the world. shall have matured enables the country to | Our Weekly Lesson in Tolerance. From the pulpits of New York and Brook- lyn yesterday we gather a fine collection of good words enshrining wholesome thoughts. We can think of nothing better calculated to weaken the spirit of old-fashioned bigotry and sectarian intolerance than this weekly collection of pulpit droppings. When the John, Martin and Peter of Swift's inimitable satire take up to-day's Henaxp, over all their bias for this form and that ritual will steal a sense of gratification that the Gospel, so vari- ously interpreted, brings forth fruit of grand ideas for the salvation of man in this world and the next. Will not Peter feel thankful that Mr. Hepworth has advised his congregation to cling close to Christ, adorning the advice with beautiful and homely illustrations? Martin can find nothing he would wish unsaid in Dr. Armitage’s injunction to Christians to aim high. In shooting the arrows of Christian endeavor a proper “elevation” is as neces- sary as in long range shooting at Creedmoor. Who can gainsay the appositeness of Mr. Beecher's last sermon, in which he speaks on behalf of the foreign missions? Mammon and science (and journalism, he might have added,) have missions everywhere, and Christian beneficence should not be the only laggard. John, surely, severe and rigid Puritan as ho is, could not but coincide in Father Fransioli’s remarks on simplicity in dress, ingeniously hung as it is upon Jehn the Baptist—‘“‘a man clothed in soft garments” and propped up by the advice of St. Paul. Father O'Farrell’s plain talk abont backsliding after Catholic ‘‘missions” will be agreed with by those anxious Prot- estants who are looking sorrowfully, as the widow for her groat, to find the fruit of the recent rovival. Mr. Talmage is the hottest, in a sectarian sense, of yesterday's preachers; for he proclaims that the very proposition to expel the Bible from the public schools makes his blood boil. We cannot, without risk of scorching our readers’ eyeballs, pub- lish in moro than one part of the Hrnarp the vehement defiance he hurls at all who would lay expellant fingers on the public school Bible. If this would not exactly gratify Peter it would tickle Martin and delight John, and they are two to one. Oar London Financial Cable Letter. In giving our reasons yesterday for select- ing Paris as the headquarters from which to draw weekly through the cable the artistic news of Europe we called it the magnetic pole of art, and our readers will par- don us for extending the figure in referring to our cable letter of yesterday from London, which gave a detailed picture of the Europeun financial situation. If Paris is the magnetic pole ot art London is the North Pole of finance. The quotations of London rule the money markets of the world. If people go to Aut- werp to learn the price of coal oil, or to Liv- erpool to learn the rates for cotton, we need not wonder that shaky Peruvian bonds or shattered Turkish securities are taken by all the world on London's appraisement, so finely is the value-gange applied in that mighty money contre. Tho fluctuations in values, it is truo, are tclegraphed thence almost hourly; but our commercial commu- nity wants to know tho why and the where- fore, and to this end we have arranged for a weekly cable letter, which will give in pleasant form the radical causes which have produced their varying effects on tho investments which are the material over which the London ‘Change exerts its millions-sterling power. We are glad to learn that the money market there is firm, and that there is no immediate prospect of a shrinkage of values. John Bullis in good humor over Disraeli’s adroit capture of the Suez Canal, and although it came “like a thunderclap on the Exchange,” we observe that it sent up Egytians, for John Bull probably sent a benevolent paternal glance toward the land of the Ptolemies, which made him think that it would be just as well to build the shares up for the time when Eng- land would assume the debt—and the coun- try. In this matter of the Suez Cunal we can find an illustration of how things financial gravitate to London. Lord Palmerston advised all patriotic Eng- lishmen to leave the canal shares severely alone, and France was left the task of building the work; but, as there was money in it, the shares find their way to London. As it happens, they came ‘‘like a thunder- clap;” but any one familiar with the money movements of Europe could have foretold that they would have found their way there in any case, even if they came in the silent current of exchange. ‘Tae Necortations in progress at Madrid between the United States and Spain are said to be progressing favorably. If this means that Spaniards are becoming reason- able it will be news indeed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, President of the Senate Ferry is a single man. In San Francisco very many women speculate 1a stocks. Professor Proctor thinks the Americans are good Usteners. It is claimed that the late Henry Wilson’s father was once a Gypsy. Miss Meigs, daughter of the American General, is said to be the belle of Berlin, Prentice Mulford, the litéérateur, is giving @ serios of Sunday evening lectures at Trenor Hall. Senator Booth, of California, 1s said to be in favor of etary Bristow as the republican candidate for the Yr ney. Mgr. Ridel, the French Bishop of Cores, and Abbé Blanc, have left Newcbwang, China, intending to pene- trate Corea disguised as mendicants. Senator Jones, of Nevada, has had a private car built for the exclusive use of bimself and family, [1 is arichly furnished house on trucks and cost $11,000, ‘There is @ bull frog farm !n Southeastern Wisconsin, thirty acres of swamp fenced in, and the proprictor sends thousands ofthe featherless birds to New York, In Baltimore an extensive agency for taking young ladies from Northern cities to various cities in the South bas been discovered to be @ trap tor wicked pur- poses. Fx Senator Matt Carpenter, in his letter to the Chi. cago Tribune, which charged him with being connected with the Milwaukee whiskey frauds, says:—‘If yout charges are true 1 ama disgraced man; If not you are; ‘and which is the villain we will submit to the decer. mination of a jury."” The San Francisco Post bas changed hands and i« under the control of Senator Jones, The newspapers of San Francisco are in @ transitorial condition. Tho Call and the Chronicle are fighting for supremacy ; and, though both may be improved, the Chronicle, lavoring under disadvantages in many ways, shows the worthiest disposition to excel, Mr. Goodman, of Nevada, takes charge of the Post