The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1875, Page 8

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Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. be cloudy, Wart Stnerr Yxesterpay.—Stocks were again dull and showed no important ad- vance. Gold declined to 113 5-8 and ended at 113 3-4. Money on call loans was freely supplied at 6 and 7 per cent L’Ameniqve has been towed into Queens- | town. Her passengers have had more for | their money than they bargained for, and yet doubtless many of them are not happy. “Tur Tuonperine News from the Straits of Malacca” is not so exciting as might have been expected. The natives display the white flag and the Union Jack takes its place. A Lexar Gar or One is something for English parliamentarians of that way of cut- ting the British loaf to be joyful over. Such again is reported from Sussex, and shows that the southeastern voter is not to be daz- zled by Oriental canal statesmanship while his hops want a market. Prorgsson Norpensxrouy's Letrrr on his twenty years’ work of patient scientific ex- Ploration within the north Polar circle will de read with great interest. If his water pathway between the basins of the Ob and Yenisei and Northern Europe can be made available, even dyring a limited portion of the year, for the transit of Siberian products, he will have enriched the Empire of the Czar by more than all the Rothschilds could subscribe if they made him a present of their united bank balances, ‘Tue Pursmernt, Supreme Court and Con- gress, or a very largo number of the latter body, spent yesterday at Philadelphia in- specting the Centennial buildings and listen- ing to arguments why the government should assist so great an enterprise to meet ita present want of $1,537,140. Wo hope when the members of the House of Repre- sentatives are all satisfied about the disposal of the committee chairmanships that they will look at the great symbol of free Ameri- ¢a’s growth in a century with kindly eyes. Ia helping tho Exposition with an appropria- they will pass a proper and ® popular From our reports this morning the probabilities | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEKT. The Spring Elections. If the day for the municipal elections in New York were a matter for the convenience ot a few politicians we should care little whether it took place in spring or autumn. But great principles are involved. There- fore we press it earnestly upon the atten- tion of the Legislature soon to assemble at Albany. We trust that it will be con- are no political issues involved in it, because the city of New York, when well governed, is never so from a political point of view. New York should be managed as economi- cally as a merchant manages his business. We should regard also the general comfort of the inhabitants. We should ever remember that tinent, and to be worthy of the Republic. Politics have no business with these considerations, but with finance and tariff and reconstruction and public improve- ments, questions that must be decided by the State and the general government. It is not whether a Mayor or Comptroller or the Common Council are right or wrong on finan- cial points, but whether they are earnest, that large and prudent ambition which sees that the way to make New York a great city is not simply to limit the expenses of government, but to keep constantly in view the fact that it is a growing city; that it is now among the largest in the world; that it is the metropolis of this continent; that it should be worthy of the commercial, social and industrial renown of the Repub- lic. politics to be separated from national politics ifthe election takes place in the city and State on the same day. Let us suppose the Presi- dential canvass, with its party machinery and the country burning with fury of a tremendous canvass. It would be quite impossible for any city reform party in such a time to elect candidates especially which control the canvass for the Presidency. So long as we allow the canvass to take place on the same day in both city and State we intertwine the two isms so closely that thieves and practical politicians and those who control the canvass through the ma- chinery of the primary elections and stuffed | ballot boxes and debasing associations, like ! the dark lantern, Know Nothing, Tammany | Hall and the Custom House republican ring, have it in their power to vitiate the will of the people and to elect bad men. It is to avoid this, to secure an economical and en- terprising government, and to’strike a blow at the Tammany influence, that we urge this change. So far as the convenience of the peo- ple is concerned this change would be an advantage. The antumn is the time for the farmers to vote. Then their crops are garnered. The summer's work is done. They have time for thought, for conversa- tion, for the exchange of political views, for reading the newspapers and attending public meetings. Itis their season of rest. In the city it is different. The autumn with us is generally a time of great business activity. We have a little spring ripple, but it soon dies away before the coming of the dead summer. In autumn we have the rising tides of the year’s business, the Christmas holidays creeping on and the increase of business inseparable from that season. Election day in the autumn can only be observed by the merchants and those who are engaged in commercial affairs at a per- sonal sacrifice. Therefore our elections are neglected by the classes most concerned with the real interest of the city. Taxpayers are almost forbidden to take part by the fact that they only can do so at an injury to their business. Now, this can be reformed by a transfer of the election day from the fall to the spring. If the Legislature, for the convenience of the agricultural com- munity, arranges an election in the autumn, why should it not, for the convenience of a city community, give us the municipal election in the spring? This change is justified also by the opinions of the wisest men in both parties, by the general sentiment of the republican party as represented inthe as well as by that of the democratic party, as indicated by the positive opinions of Gov- ernor Tilden. bh Let the Legislature, therefore, pass an act without delay giving us the municipal elections in the spring. This will be the beginning of a reform. Then let it strike at Tammany Hall. Let it abolish the dark lantern, Know Nothing lodge on Fourteenth street, which, by an old secret organization, is enabled to stifle the will of the demo- cratic masses of New York and to give power to one dynasty of bosses after another like Kelly and Tweed. So long as our politics are at the mercy of an organization like Tammany Hall, so long as an inside circle of ‘“Sachems" have power to dictate to the masses of the party, we shall have no good government as a city. We shall have Tweed again as we had him a few years ago, because the machinery by which Tweed came into power, and the men who enabled him to gain it, and those who surrounded him in the fulness of his strength, still live in Tammany. They follow the banner of Tweed. The way to strike down this in- fluence is for the people to have these elec- | tions at their own command, Let light fall upon the iniquity and the darkness of this secret lodge. Let the democratic masses of this city, without regard to “ring” or ‘‘boss” or local complications, meet in convention, select their candidates, and hold those in authority to the strictest responsibility. This will be the beginning of a reform which is sorely needed in our tax ridden metropolis. When we have given good men authority then comes the future of New York. This is of a& much consequence as “thrift.” We must avoid the mistake into which men as worthy in public esteem as Comptroller Green have fallen—the mistake that the way to govern New York is to strangle it, to repress all growth, to remain content with the shameful results of the Tammany domination. Let us tear up all political secret societies and corruption by the root. Let us have a generous system of public works, of docks and parks and improve- iments. Let us arrange our taxation so that sidered without regard to politics. There | this is the metropolis of the American con- | courageous, of executive capacity, and with | Now, it is impossible for our municipal | the | opposed to the far-reaching organizations | action of the Union League a few years ago, | Kelly with the devotion they showed to | we shall pay from year to year what our city costs. Let us have a thorough system of drainage, so that we may stamp out diph- theria and typhoid and those malarial dis- eases which come mainly from misgovern- ment, and which have given New York such an ill name. This is the future that we hope | to see in our politics, for which we labor | and pray. It is for this that we urge that the elections be held in the spring. It is tor this | that we impress upon the democrats them- | selves the necessity of freeing themselves | from the domination of Tammany Hall. | That done, and we trust it will be done | lifting herself out of the misgovernment and folly into which her affairs have fallen, should not go onin a new career of pros- perity and splendor. How It Strikes a Stranger. The foreigner who, twenty years ago, landed in New York, found in the condi- tions of society, especially as regarded the | diversions and amusements of men, a striking contrast to those which found favor in his own country. Athletic and manly sports were comparatively unknown, or their practice was confined to a few; ‘‘sport,” So-called, was rather a byeword of reproach ; the noblest exploits of horseflesh were | Tepresented by the performances of a ‘‘fast | crab ;" cricket had obtained but a sickly hold, chiefly among the English members | of the St. George's Society; the national game of base ball was in its infancy ; hardly a single boat club existed, and the rare matches were confined to the sculling strug- gles of Whitehall champions; while That stern joy that anglers feel In fishes worthy of their reel was known to a very few who had the taste or leisure to seek it. In the streets and | avenues our intelligent stranger found car- riages and vehicles of a fashion unknown to him, drawn by quadrupeds in whom blood or breeding was conspicuous by its absence, | while the box was adorned by a driver, | dressed usually in his master’s old clothes, | and sporting a fierce mustache. The visitors who are to be attracted hither | by the Centennial Exhibition of next year | will discover how great a change has been | | wrought by experience and the advantages of | | foreign travel. We can now boast of cricket | | clubs, with their select ‘“elevens;” boating | clubs, that possess oarsmen not unworthy to | vie with the Oxford or Cambridge eights ; of | athletic clubs, of the racket, jockey, four-in- hand and coaching clubs, while the South | | Side Club of Long Island remains the joy | of the followers of Izaak Walton's gentle | craft. He will see the streets filled with all | that elegance can dictate in equipages, and | horses, liveries and servants, handsome | | houses, splendid hotels, in short everything | that taste and money can provide or procure; | but our stranger will be undoubtedly as- | tonished on discovering that amid all | | the perfections and refinement of a metrop- | olis the city religiously preserves its ancient | traditions as regards the filth and dilapida- | tion of its streets and avenues, and not | merely in the business streets and the minor | thoroughfares, but in the finest and best | part of the city. With what a feeling of dis- | grace must we admit to the visitors from all | | the great European centres of the highest | civilization who are to throng our hotels | next summer that the only approaches to | our beautiful Park are either disfigured by most inconveniently laid iron rails or paved | in sucha manner as to endanger their necks if they venture to ride upon them! Within a few weeks the Legislature will meet, and this is an important subject for | their first consideration. Wise suggestions | have already been made as to how their duty can be best accomplished. Let us | begin by having Fifth avenue macadamized. It will bring a blessing to the dust-wearied | pedestrian, a comfort to the parading militia- man who now hobbles over the uneven stones, and, above all, it will effect an ines- | timable saving to the owners of vehicles, from the unassuming grocer’s cart to the | dignified drag. ; Such an improvement would be a sad blow to the carriage and harness makers, but then it is impossible to gratify everybody. ij The Dolan Case, The feeling in reference to the writ of error granted in the case of Dolan, under sentence | of death for the murder of Mr. Noe, continues, A suggestion worthy of consideration is made by a lawyer of eminence—namely, that in all cases of capital punishment the condemned should have the right to appeal to the Court of Appeals as a matter of right, and that this supreme tribunal should pass | upon the law of the case without unreason- able delay. This is only fair, and the matter | might be arranged by the Legislature passing a law making it incumbent upon the courts, even the Supreme Court, to return all capi- tal cases to the Court of Appeals for revision, and directing that the Court of Appeals shall bear and pass upon them within a cer- tain time—say in thirty or sixty days. Then it might be understood that, after the opinion of the Court of Appeals, the matter, so far as the law was concerned, is at an end, and | unless the Governor interfered the execution should take place within three weeks or a month. This would be to apply to our own | jurisprudence something of the English | custom, and also to give the prisoner every possible right umder the law. Above all, it | | would secure @ rigid administration of jus- | tice, There is no value in capital punish- ment whatever unless it is swiftand prompt, | As it is now, the law is frequently a dead | letter. The matter should be considered by | the Legislature at the earliest possible moment. Ovn Mencuants who suffer from the un- just discriminations of the railroads against New York in the way of freight rates yester- day presented a petition on that subject to the Mayor. Their fight with the railroad combinations is one which interests every- body here whose means of livelihood are de- pendent upon commerce, Some Panticunans of the life of the man who attempted to blow up the Mosel with dynamite for the sake of the insurance, and who committed suicide on the awful but providential miscarriage of his diabolical without delay at the meeting of the Legisla- | that thero will bea Methodist nomination | ture, and there is no reason why New York, | for the Presidency. There will be nothing | ceeding, to say the least ;” and it trusts that | the Catholics as a political Church, | tion that some of our Protestant contem- | apostatize from the Catholic Church, but | | tion at the time and under the circumstances | | in which he made it. The Religious Press on the Thira | Mr. Conway's views we agree with him that | England and FrancemSo Near atid Term, The prominence given to Bishop Haven’s nomination of President Grant for a third term has very naturally excited the attention and awakened the interest of the religious press in the proposition, The Methodist pa- pers, whose editors ‘‘know their man” better than any others, treat this nomination very cavalierly, as one of the eccentricities of the Bishop. The Methodist, of this city, thinks the secular press has given too much impor- tance to the thoughtless remarks of Dr. Haven, and secks to dispel the public fears of the sort, for Methodists, it says, are utterly opposed to mixing Church and politics, to turning ecclesiastical gatherings into cau- cuses, and the Methodist influence will be used to keep Church and State apart. And if it should happen, says the Methodist, that any ecclesiastic enters into intrigues with politicians to bargain away the Methodist vote, he will not be able ‘to deliver the goods.” That, it adds, is just the difference between Methodists and Catholics, The Christian Advocate ridicules the timidity of “certain papers in this city upon whom the name of Grant operates much as the sight of water acts upon rabid dogs, vr a red flag upon a mad bull,” for their abuse, deprecation and denunciation of the parties concerned and all their relations in the Bishop's nomination. We may doubt, says the Advocate, the advisability of what was said about the election of President Grant for the third term, but now that that question is raised it is not to be put down with a sneer orascowl. We are not committed to that measure, but rather opposed to it ; yet if, as Bishop Haven thinks, the safety of the freed- men against a fate worse than slavery can be secured only by the re-election of President Grant for a third term, the Bishop's nomina- tion will not have to wait long for a second, nor fora tremendous confirmation, for the American people are desperately in earnest about that matter. These are the views of the two leading Methodist papers, and the only two published in this city. The provin- cial press holds to similar views. The Observer is the only Presbyterian journal that notices the matter, and in its opinion the Presbyterians are no longer ‘‘the Lord’s foolish people,” that distinction being henceforth due to the Methodists. The Christian Union thinks “a Presidential nomination by a clerical body, called to- gether for consultation upon Church matters, a very objectionable and a very unwise pro- no other sect will ever imitate this bad example. The Independent, after reciting the manner and matter of the Bishop's nomination, suggests to the clerical guther- ing that indorsed it ‘that it is quite an innovation to turn a religious meeting into a political convention, and that if the Metho- dists do much more in that line they must not complain should they be classed with The Catholic journals do not take the same “innocent” view of this third term nomina- poraries do. The Freeman's Journal can hardly keep patient with a President who “has made a Methodistic ass of himself,” and who “‘is doing a dirty thing politically” | in ‘wounding sorely and seriously the | ‘liberal Catholics’ who are not ready to who up to this time have been his friends.” Had ‘‘the Jesuits” bought up General Grant and held the disposition of his words and acts, the Journal thinks, he could not more eminently than he is doing have played into their hands, The Catholic Review thinks | this third term nomination of Bishop Haven is of a piece with his miscegenation and woman suffrage utterances, and that he has neither hurt Methodism nor injured Grant | by it, because their common hatred to Popery will make it all right. The Baptist papers are decidedly opposed to this kind of clerical caucusing. The Hr- aminer and Chronicle insists that it was Bishop Haven’s design to draw out the sense of the meeting on his nomination, and that the vote given by the Boston meeting was not, there- fore, a mere compliment to him, but an in- | dorsement of the President for another term. The Christian Leader thinks Bishop Haven | made something of a mistake in his nomina- While we want more | Christianity in our politics we want, says the Leader, no Methodism, Catholicism or any | ism. From the Church Journal's knowledge of Bishop Haven he is just the man to nomi- nate a President of the United States and | elect him at a Sunday school meeting. The Churchman classes the Methodists with the | Catholics as the only two religious bodies in | this country seeking political power. Mr. Mr. Moncure D. Conway, who, after a resi- dence of ten or twelve years in London, has returned to New York and delivered a series of lectures upon topics of great public interest, is reported to have made a speech at one of our clubs, suggesting that the tenure of the Presidency should be based upon the Swiss plan. Mr. Conway's idea, like that of the advanced republicans on the Continent, is that the office of the President should be limited in power, rather like the chairman of a board of directors than a | potentate clothed with high duties and pre- | rogatives. One reason why the Presidential | office is so strong and almost unassailable is that we give the President the absolute con- trol over avast amount of patronage, As | every single appointment is a source of | power, so this prerogative gives the office vest authority. The argument in favor of | limiting the Presidential term to not more than one or two years finds favor with the re- publicans in France, At the same time they are opposed to anything like a Senate or asecond House. The theory of republicans like Mr. Conway is that the power should | rest with the people, that the government should be the expression of popdalar will, | that the power should be wielded by a par- | liament fresh from the people, and that there Conway's Plan. the Presidential office should be shorn of many of its prerogatives. Judicial Homicide. Some societies have destroyed their con- demned criminals with poison. And of that method the case of Socrates was a memora- ble instance. This method apparently came from the East, where deadly potions have always played a conspicuous part in human history. With the primitive people in other parts of the world the obvious club has always been the handy servant of justice. John Smith’s head on a stone and the stal- wart subject of Powhatan armed with a sap- ling are the types of the victim and the ex- ecutioner that have prevailed and still pre- vailin the preference of the dark skinned races. Even the murder of the Jew pedler by the three negroes was done like an African execution, with knotted sticks. Steel and hemp come in the history of judicial homi- cide as compromises between the poisonous juices of trees and the trunk of the tree itself, or a branch made into a club. Poison strikes at life through the stomach ; the club addresses itself to the head as the most evidently vulnerable point ; but the sharp steel moves to the practical separation of head and body, while the rope works an equally effective functional separation with- out mutilation of the body. Steel as an in- strument of the law has several forms, and has been found susceptible of improvement. The rope remains brutally what it probably was in its origin—a mere lasso or a longer bowstring. Both the sword and the axe have found favor; and there are as many fables of the skill with which the former has been employed as there are instances of bungling butchery done with the other. Our modern form of the axe is the guillotine, which is simply an axe, moved by wooden arms _ that do not become unsteady at the critical moment, because their nerve never fails. Spain has supplied a characteristic mod- ification of the executioner’s steel in the garotte, which is, in fact, the dagger, framed as the French have framed the axe, It is a characteristic national prod- uct, and it is one of the strange contradic- tions which constantly turn up in human history that the cruellest race of people treat their murderers most mercifully of all. It is, perhaps, sympathy. But the garotte is an ideal instrument for expeditious and infal- lible execution. It pierces the spine at the base of the brain, the essentially vital point. Clumsy and uninventive in this partic- ular, the English and ourselves adhere to the rope, which, in the hands into which it usually falls, is an instrument of torture. It does not shed blood, and in the times when it was thought salutary to exe- cute in public it was effective for this and | for the reason that it is an execution all of | whose processes immediately address the eye of the beholder. It is calculated to impress the multitude with terror. But since the theory of executions before the multitude is | relinquished the clumsy rope should be re- linquished also. Our murderers should be killed by the galvanic battery. Pulpit Topics To-Day. In presenting our city pulpit topics to- day we find a budget good, bad and indiffer- ent. But as society is made up of just these classes of persons each will be suited. The Baptist pulpit will be represented to-day by Dr. Armitage, who will call upon his hearers to take sides for Christ ere they come to the | swellings of Jordan ; by Drs. Sampson and Simmons, who will prove that Christian heirship implies unlimited possession, and sketch the early struggles of Baptists for lib- erty; by Mr. Kennard, who will, in answer to inviting voices, begin a series of discourses on scenes in our Saviour'’s life with the commencement of that life—the Nativ- ity ; by Mr. Knapp, who, in showing how worldly tribulation is neutralized in Christ, will present God's mercy to those who visit | him ; by Mr. Leavell, who will demonstrate | that all things work together for good to those who have faith in God, and by Mr. Jutten, who will present the cause of fureign missions. The Methodist pulpit will be rep- resented to-day by Mr. Lloyd, who will pre- sent the ground of the believer's security and the modern analogies to Christ’s wilderness | temptations. In this theme young men are interested. The Methodist pulpit will be represented also by Mr. King, who believes and will so declare that the religion and | morality of the Gospel are inseparable; by i Mr. Willis, who believes there is work for the million, but he wants them to get on the true foundation first; by Mr. Johns, who thinks the Christian so fixed is im- movable, and if he sows he will reap a great harvest; by Mr. Lightbourn, | who advocates the practice of the higher life as found in the Bible; and by Mr. Harris, who has been searching prophecy and history to find out how near the millennium is to us. He will give the results of his inves- | tigations to-day. Dr. Talmage will lead the Presbyterian pulpit by commencing a series of sermons on public iniquities, and Mr. Phelps will apply the prayer test. Dr. Preston will represent the Catholic pulpit with his closing lecture on the Eucharist, which he will show is the fountain of light | as he has already demonstrated it to be the fountain of life. Mr. Baker will uphold the | status of the Episcopal Church with a dis- | course on the Bible in the schools, in which | he will take the position that to insist upon | its retention is an infringement of individual | liberty and opposed to the genius of | Christianity. Mr. Hepworth will pre- | sent the joy and sadness of the Chris- tian life; Mr. Alger will repeat the | history of the weeping of humanity and | present the distinctive characteristics of orthodoxy and liberal Christianity; Mr. Nye will tell us something about the wise men of the East and the star which led them to Christ, and will give us some of the best | methods for converting unbelievers to the Christian faith and life; Mr. Giles will teach | his people how to walk in righteousness; Mr. Seitz will paint the Prodigal’s appear. ance after his return home; Bishop Snow | will bring the judgment dispensation noar; | should be no Executive, no Senate, to stand | Mr. McCarthy will refute Dr. Draper's between the people and their will. This is | science and Dr. Talmage’s logic; Mr. Lynn | Hungarian and Gerinen expeditions, hus wolt said “that a beautiful theory, but we question how it would succeed even in America, Thus far | plot, are furnished in another part of the Heap, it has never been tried even in France with will discuss the relations of Church an State in America, and Mr, Brown will tell us Yet So Far, When the readers of the Henanp have conned over our London and Paris cable let- ters they will appreciate a thought which occurs to us regarding the two capitals and the two nations they typify. The facts in the one are those that might transpire with the Royal Exchange for a background ; those in the other would exhaust the resources of the stage for a setting. London is a shop; Paris is a theatre. The English letter might be discussed in the solemn recesses of a bank parlor at four P. M.; the Paris letter in a brilliantly lit café after midnight, Stocks, bonds, foreign loans, shareholders, a high- way for commerce, politics as touching the pocket and Christianity as an associate with industrial developments, are settled with all possible gravity in the cable letter from England. When we turn to Paris we see politics on their emotional side. They seem to be ever in the third act, with a startling dénouement possible and a farcical éclaircissement probable. If we were to hear that the Disracli Ministry was likely to fall on the question of the tax on beer, or any of the other great English questions, we would. regard it with very different feelings from that which the report evokes that MacMahon is likely to choose a military Cabinet to overawe the refractory voters who think that a Republic is the thing they want. The beer question would draw forth visions of grum-faced brewers and frothy-lipped yeomen at a rural tavern, The military Cabinet gives us a clink of spurs, a street charge of cavalry with sabres drawn, and a dramatic ‘whiff of grape- shot.” We see the beer question decided at the polls, The British artisans are hurrahing “between drinks,” and the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer is settling how much of the rejected tax he can put on tea and how much on sugar. The military Cabinet has been settled in France, with the success of MacMahon, let us say. Very well! The republicans have buried their fallen brethren in the morning, and the cafés in the evening are full as ever; Gleck continues. to play Macbeth, after one night’s intermission; the painters and dramatists (and doctors) have fresh subjects 5 the modistes substitute military cockades for herons’ feathers in ladies’ bonnets. “Hurrah for beer !" shouts the Englishman. “Vive la bagaielle /” shouts the Frenchman, And they are building a tunnel under the little salt river between these two peoples, who are as far apart ethically, wsthetically and politically as if one inhabited Iceland and the other Madagascar ! “Distressep Mempens.”—The charter un- der which the Tammany Society exists was passed April 9, 1805, more than seventy years ago, at a time when the friends of Aaron Burr were controlling Tammany Hall. | This charter, among other things, is ‘for the purpose of affording relief to distressed members.” Now the only two ‘distressed members” of Tammany Hall who have re- ceived relief from their ‘fellow members,” so far as we can learn, are Harry Genet and William M. Tweed. Harry Genet was a “distressed member” on his way to jail, and was relieved by the aid of an officer of ex- Sheriff Brennan, alsoa Tammany member. William M. Tweed was also a ‘‘distressed member,” in sore tribulation, and _ his relief came from a protégé of John | Kelly, both of them Tammany fellow members of Tweed. The question arises, and it might be well for Mr. Clinton to ex- amine the subject, whether the provision of the charter directing Tammany “‘to afford relief to distressed members” means that when a Tammany jailkeeper has in his pos- session a Tammany jailbird his obligation to the secret, dark lantern, Know Nothing lodge compels him to let the jailbird go. Tur Tamp Avenue Savines Bank, which failed recently, affords, we are sorry to say, rich ground for the searcher after official mis- management, The disclosures elsewhere will be read with painful interest because they show how _ ineffective the State control has been over these institutions, when irregularities that the law may yet punish as swindles could be carried on for years. It was the money of the poor and the hardworking these “gentle- men” handed round to each other so lavishly. If there is legal punishment for such acts they should be made to feel it. Narionan Gvanp, Arrention !—The State authorities have resolved on disbanding the Fifty-fifth, Seventy-ninth, Kighty-fourth and Ninety-sixth regiments of the New York militia. They could not fill their quota, and hence as regimental organizations they cease to exist. Here is a chance now for our “crack” regiments to recruit. ‘This news will help to console the Seventh for their re- pulse yesterday—in the courts, the only. battlefield open to them at this season. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The battles of Asia arc fought in European counciim, ‘The definition of the word “moral” has been the subject of debate tn the Mexican Congress. A wearied young lady hastened the departure of a tedious caller by remarking, as sho looked out of the window, ‘I think weare going to have a beautiful sun- rise,”? Senator Phineas. W. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, and Congressman Elias W, Leavenworth, of Syracuse, rrived in the city last evening from Philadelphia, and are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. A French writer who seems to be minutely acquainted with the conststution of the Suez Canal Company asserts that the shares which the English government has acquired confer no right of voting as long as the dividends aro-suspendod. Wine is perhaps cheapest in the most temperate country in, the world—the rural part of Tuscany; and drunkenness (s less in Mavnich, whero-beer runs like water, tham in London, where it costs, of the same | quality, three times the sum. Professor Mosler, of Germany, is, now successfully treating phthisic, or pulmonary consumption, by mak. ing an incision through the wall of the chest and draw. ing off the pus with a syringe, and afterward washing | out the ulcers with weak carbolic acid. Chicago Tribune:—‘And caast thou always love thus, Alfred,” she murmured, “oven when age has crept upon me and left bis traces hore?” There was a pause on his part, bat ‘twas only momentary, when he re- plied, in a tose of doop romonstrance, “Can a duck swim?” Lieutenant Woeyprecht, who was with the Austro. a | the Polar regions offer, in certain important respects, greater advantages than any other part of tho globe for the observations of natura! phenomena—magnet. what unbelievers beliew -. And here we may | ism, the aurora, meteorulogy, geology, botany and success. Without committing ourselves to rost for the present, woology.”