The New York Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1875, Page 6

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Tr 1s Uservs. 10 Kwow who are to govern us during the coming year, and hence we print in another column the personnel of the State and city governments and the Legisla- ture during the year of Linens 1876. ‘Tar Boanp or AupERMrx have resolved to hoist the City Hall flags on New Year's Day in honor of the Centennial year, and wish the press to inform the whole world of that fact. We do so. Axotner Canisrmas Mvrper is reported. This time a New Jersey village is the scene, a colored man the slayer and a colored woman the victim. It almost looks as though Christmas in America would soon be worthy of the reproach which the London Times, as related in our London cable letter of Sun- day, bestowed upon Christmas in England. Taz Frevce Rervpuic is taking shape. An amendment to the Press law was carried providing penalties for attacks against the Republic. It is an odd indication, but in a government where a bare mention of the Re- public by a Cabinet officer was almost worth the official’s place, it is progress. A free press is a thing undreamed of yet. Navotxon Bowapante is once more on the Column Vendome. There were crowds, but no ceremony. France loves the memory of this soldier, and on that love the greatest band of adventurers the century has seen traded successfully for over twenty years— from December, 1848, to December, 1851, and thence to Sedan. ‘Tax Heant or tHe ‘Man or Inox.”—Death is a king before whom the haughtiest bow. If there is one tender vein in a man it bleeds into the heart when he stands by the bier of one to whose life his was closely linked. Who shall wonder then that the great Prince Bismarck wept by the coffin of the young | tempt to procure a joint intervention, as | special message on Cuban affairs. | terious supplement attracted more attention NEW YUKK HERALD, TUESDAY OKCKMBER 238, The United States and Cuba. We publish this morning a cable despatch which our correspondent at the Spanish capital attempted to send from Madrid, but was prevented by the government sur- veillance over the telegraph. He found means to forward it to London, whence it was transmitted to us yesterday. This despatch is fitted rather to pique public curiosity than to satisfy it. It shows that “there is something in the wind;” that a mysterious diplomatic correspondence is going on between our government and that of Spain; that unusual precautions are taken to keep the substance of the negotiations from the public knowledge, and that it is deemed so delicate and so urgent that long despatches are sent in cipher, It is known that Cuba is the subject, and the haste and the secrecy may be accounted for by sup- posing that President Grant is anxious to reach some result in season to send a special message to Congress when it reassembles after the holiday vacation. From Wash- | ington we learn that a report prevails | there that America has appealed to Eng- land, France and Germany for a joint | intervention in Cuba, but without satisfac- tory results so far. Whether Spain is keep- | ing her temper or losing it a few days will | tell, and the coming of Jovellar to Havana as Valmaseda, is, to a cer- tain extent, a pledge that moderation in deal- ing with us is the present Spanish keynote. ‘That part of President Grant's annual ~ | Message which related to Cuba is as yet an solved enigma, unless it relates to the at- | stated vaguely in our cable despatch, and circumstantially nt from Washington. He into a detail of reasons why our Thment cannot recognize the in- dependence of Cuba, nor even accord | to it belligerent rights; and had he | stopped there nothing could have been more | tranquillizing than that part of the annual | Message. But, atter closing the discussion | on the two great heads of independence and | belligerent rights, he went on to throw out | obscure iftimations that there was something in the background which he could not yet re- veal, telling Congress that important negotia- | tions were in progress, and that when they reached a termination he would send in a ‘This mys- abroad than it did at home, the foreign press regarding it as the reverse of reassuring. The London Daily News, which has no Spanish | likings, said in its comments on this part of the Message:—‘‘We have no sympathy what- ever for the Spanish governmentin trifling, as it seems to do, with the Cuban insurrec- tion, and allowing the Spanish volunteers to keep up a reign of terror in the name of the mother country. But a peremptory interfer- ence, such as President Grant seems to inti- would create general sympathy with Spain, and, however it might affect the state mate, | of parties at home, would detach from Presi- dent Grant and his administration the moral support of all the outside world. We hope, however, that no such meaning lies behind his words, and that his threatened further appeal to the present session of Congress would only be for support in some further diplomatic step in the removal of a scandal of which the Americans justly complain and which public opinion generally will sustain | them in urging the Spanish government to eure.” The London Times, in commenting on this part of the Message, said:—‘‘But all these soft phrases are merely the prelude to @ peculiarly sharp note of menace. The President throws in, as if half carelessly, the threat that if so ‘ruinous’ a conflict should not be speedily brought to an end, it ‘must soon compel the States suffering therefrom to consider what their interests and their duty may demand.’” We infer, from the despatches we print to- day, that the ‘peculiarly sharp note of men- ace” which the foreign press detected was a correct interpretation, and that the Presi- dent, in spite of the reassuring parts of the means to precipitate the Cuban question to a crisis. In going over the ‘‘sharp note of menace” in the light of more recent developments it is not difficult to discern in it a determination to compel Spain either to promptly wind up the Cuban trouble and restore peace to the island, or to face outside intervention for this purpose. He alludes to certain proposals of the Spanish government, the full text of which, he had not reached him, for the settlement of the island, and adds:—‘Persuaded, however, that a proper regard for the interests of the United States and of its citizens entitled to relief from the strain to which it has been sub- jected by the difficulties of the question, and the wrongs and losses which arise from the contest in Cuba, and that the interests of humanity itself demand the cessation of the strife before the whole island shall be waste and larger sacrifices be made, I shall feel it my duty, should my hopes of a satis- factory adjustment and of the early restora- tion of peace and the removal of future | causes of complaint be unhappily disap- pointed, to make a further communication to Congress at some period not far remote, and during the present session, recommending what may then seem to me to be necessary.” Public opinion at Madrid regarded this part of the Message as a threat, as was shown by our Madrid despatches at the time, and the cable message we print to-day proves that the excitement in the Spanish capital was not without foundation. If Spain does not adopt satisfactory measures for tranqnil- | lizing the island President Grant intends to interfere ‘‘in the interests of humanity,” and to ‘demand the cessation of the strife before | the whole island shall be laid waste,” That | kind of intervention would lead to war as certainly as English or French intervention to arrest hostilities between the North and South would have led to a foreign war dur- ing the progress of the rebellion. It is all the same to Spain whether the United States acetrds belligerent rights to insurgents or aids and protects them in some other way. ‘The only chance for intervention to be at once peaceful and effectual lies in the co-op- Message, says, laid 1875. of the island. An ixtervention for what President Grant calls in his Message “the interests of humanity itself” ought to be a joint intervention if it is to have any moral weight or looks to the indorsement of the public opinion of the world. It would be absurd to say that the United States is the only nation that has any concern in ‘the interests of humanity itself.” The local proximity of Cuba our shores cer- tainly gives us a title to take the lead in such a movement in the interests of humanity ; but if humanity, and not territorial aggrandizement or other selfish motive, prompts our efforts, we ought to de- sire the aid and countenance of other Powers, Acting alone our motives would be open to suspicion and our intervention would be im- puted to motives quite different from a desire to protect “the interests of humanity.” Besides, a joint intervention would not lead to waras the separate interference of the United States would be certain to do. If the three great Powers named should com- bine with America their moral force would not need to be strengthened by a military or naval array. Next to our own government that of Great Britain has the deepest interest in the peace and prosperity of the West India Islands. ; She owns the large and fertile island of Jamaica, which is nearer to Cuba than our own State of Florida; she owns the whole Bermuda group and a large proportion of the other West India islands; she has a larger commerce with Mexico than any other nation. Her interests in the West Indies j and the seas which surround them are scarcely inferior to our own, and if we are to intervene in Cuba ‘‘in the interests of hu- manity” England is the first Power to which we should apply for co-operation. What- ever might be done by her consent and with her aid would command the respect of the world and be exempt from dishonoring im- | | putations, Her co-operation would prove | to Spain and would satisfy other nations | | that the intervention was really in the inter- ests of commerce and humanity, and not a pretext for covering other designs. Hence | we shall be particularly chagrined to learn that, if negotiations for a joint intervention have been under way, they should have failed or be likely to fail. If Presi- dent Grant is sincere in his professions, and if there is no present intention to ac- quire Cuba for the United States, our na- tional honor would be best protected and war most surely avoided by a joint intervention, Thin-Skinned Americans in Berlin. By a cable despatch we hear that some American residents in Berlin have thought fit to protest against the tone of the German | press in its comments on the ease of the | | steamer Mosel and the attempted crime of | Thompson. Crime does not happen to be of any country; and if the German editors have argued that there are some American kinds of crime, and that this frightful endeavor to send a ship to the bottom for gain is of a character that is national with us, it would be a great deal better for Americans who may feel aggrieved to answer them rather than to protest with an injured sense of patriotic pride. It is be- lieved on substantial reasons that a man once attempted to blow up the British Par- liament while in session, and all for a gain that would have been pitiful by comparison with what the present rogue promised him- self. Here is the very same crime, the un- dertaking to kill some hundreds of persons for personal gratification. But even in Berlin they will scarcely argue that Guy Fawkes was a Yankee, though they have some quaint historical fancies. From time immemorial men have killed other men, with motives financial, fanatical, political, social or amatory; and though this crime departs from the general category by its magnitude, by the number of persons condemned, it is unfortunately not without its parallel in that particular in the history of every civil- ized people. The French Senate. It is reported that M. Thiers will be- come a candidate for the Senate from Bel- fort from which it must follow that Belfort is certain to return him. M. Thiers is fully alive to the unpleasant consequences of failures in political life, and has re- fused to stand for the Senate in several de- partments as he previously refused to stand in the Assembly, because his election was not infallibly certain in any one of these places. From what has taken place in the Assembly it seems probable that he could | easily have been elected there; but it is not easy to compute how many old ani- mosities would have blazed anew at the pre- sentation of his name, It appears that the republicans triumphed in the Senatorial elections because as the tickets were framed it was a pretty even battle between them and the adherents of the Orleans monarchy, and in that nearly even battle the Bonapartists and the extreme legitimists together wielded a casting vote, Both these factions prefer the republican party to the Orleans party, the legitimists because a family quarrel is the fiercest of all quarrels and the Bonapartists because they believe the Republic the more likely of the two to fall into those extravagances and errors that will open the way to the re-estab- lishment of the Empire. Hence both voted for the republicans and laid the foundation for a Senate not inimical to the constitution of the country. Over Benuw Lerren gives the latest social and political items from the Prussian capi- tal. Prince Gortschakoff's confaence with Bismarck on the Eastern question, which has resulted in the Porte acceding to certain reforms, is a prominent topic therein. Tas Arnrvat or Genenat Montones at San Sebastian shows that the Alfonsists are de- termined to open winter campaign with the Carlists. The wisdom of. this is ques- tionable; but as the government cannot afford to keep its forces idle something must be done to keep up popular feeling on the eration of other governments with that of the United States—such a proposed interven- tion as would appear to have all but failed if the Washington report is reliable. This treatment of the difficulty we would regard in Cuba as more tranquillizing Count who was to have been the husband of end reassuring than anything which has been suggested in relation to the affairs young King’s side. We shall shortly know whether this move means business or is only for show. One ofthe plans for pacifying the Basque provinces was to land an army at San Sebastian and sweep the conntry in a southeasterly direction, and this is the one probably adopted. The trouble is that the Carlists can fight or run as they choosa, Brilliant “Practical Politics.” General Fitz John Porter's brief term of service as Commissioner of Publie Works is about to expire, and his administration has been so unpopular and so damaging to the democratic party that he will not be reappointed. ‘A burnt child dreads the fire,” and not even Mayor Wickham can be cajoled to repeat the blunder of such an appointment. Nobody conversant with city politics is ignorant of the source of that capital mistake, and it is mot sur- prising that Mayer Wickham has lost con- fidence in the self-vaunted skill in ‘‘practi- eal politics” by which he was misled into an act which brought upon him the male- dictions of the democratic leaders in the recent election, and which gave John Morrissey the principal weapon with which he defeated Tammany. That great feat of ‘practical politics” is a mar- vellous title to democratic confidence. How can the city democracy ever pay its debt to the uncommon master of ‘practical politics” who modestly adds to the obliga- tion by blowing his own trumpet ? That admirable stroke of ‘‘practical poli- ties,” for which the city democracy in gen- eral and Mayor Wickham in particular, no doubt, feel profoundly grateful, was also a beautiful exemplification of principle and consistency. The adviser of the appoint- ment had been for years sounding his bugle and courting all the political echoes by infi- nite variations of the demand for ‘home rule,” and this democratic doctrine was re- markably illustrated by importing a New Jersey office-holder to take charge of an important city department in New York. The oracular master of ‘‘practical politics” was rather late (considering his boastful claims to foresight) in coming to a knowledge of the magnitude of this service. When the Henaxp predicted in October that the democ- racy would be defeated in the city and lose a great part of its majority in the State, the oracle deigned to remind it that it was in “irrelation with the currents of politics,” and, therefore, incompetent to form an opinion. A laborious statement of reasons was paraded showing why the democracy were certain to increase their majority both in the city and the State; but unluckily the result of the election verified the oracular predictions ‘‘by the rule of contraries.” But defeat did not disturb the serene professor of ‘practical politics,” who never gets into “irrelation” with his besutiful diffidence. The appointment of Mr. Morrison as chairman of Ways and Means is a feat of “practical polities” of the same brilliant order as the selection of General Porter to be Commissioner of Public Works, and Speaker Kerr will, in the end, be as proud of his ad- viser as Mayor Wickham has such peculiar reasons to be. Mr. Morrison caused the adoption in Illinois of the New York dem- ocratic platform, whose authorship has been so industriously proclaimed, and this valu- | able service is made the strong justification of his appointment in a quarter which ought to be well informed, at least, on that point. It is safe to say that there is no ‘‘irrelation” (we admire learned words) between Mr. Mor- rison and Mr. Kerr's ‘‘guide, philosopherand friend.” Hence this recent parallel to the “practical politics” which conferred on the democratic party the incalculable advantage of the ‘‘irrelation” in the late election between General Porter and the city democracy. A “Crooxep Warskry” Putosorner.— In another part of the Heranp we print an interview had with Colonel Joyce in the Jefferson City Penitentiary. It is not often. that we see in the convict's garb a man of such well informed parts, such ready wit, a poser and a philosopher, a romancer, a rhymester and a criminal at once. Locked in this man’s bosom, we have no doubt, isa key to the inmost chamber of the Whiskey Ring's rascality. No one but he knows the heights and depths of corruption which the Ring touched or sounded, It will be seen that he holds back all the information he possesses in the hope of securing a pardon for what he will not say. It is, we believe, a futile hope, for even if the President de- sired to release him he could not face the consequences of the act. The cheap and “crooked” philosophy with which he pro- fesses to sustain himself will not last long; his silence will not, as he supposes, give him any better claim to esteem or dis- esteem than he now enjoys. He had better speak—for the sake of justice aswell as for his own. Tue American Coronizarion of Brazil has not resulted successfully. The letter we publish elsewhere from Para shows how the American settlers that went there on the col- lapse of the Confederacy fared. They did not like the country, rich as it is, and the country returned the compliment. Hence scarcely a remnant was left when the Swatara reached Para, the settlers having found their way homeward as well as they could during the last seven or eight years. Still there are many ways in which an am- bitious American may improve his fortunes there; but, with scarcely an ex- ception, it must be said the same man could do as well here, not perhaps in the crowded cities, but where the wilderness is being opened up and settled. In Brazil an enervating climate, a strange people speak- | ing a strange language and with different customs and with little commercial energy meet the American. On our frontiers he has all the scope he wants. If he desires to settle the people growing up around him will be his people, and that counts for a great deal, Tae German Government aNd Emicra- tion. —The defeat of the government in the Reichstag, on its attempted revision of the penal code, has happily prevented the enact- ment of a law which would have done much to embarrass emigration from Germany to this country. It was proposed to punish with a year’s imprisonment ‘whosoever un- der false pretences either wilfully induces or attempts to induce Germans by groundless representations to emigrate.” It is, of course, wrong to use ‘groundless representa- tions” to forward any cause; but, with a gov- ernment bent on keeping its people at home and not over scrupulous in the means it em- ploys, such a clause could easily have been twisted by pliant judges into an engine of terror. We congratulate the Reichstag on its good sense in rejecting it, | can do all that. TRIPLE SHEET. The Commissioner of Public Works— bed Spread of Manly | America, While we are not an athletic people, and the average Englishman will outrun the average American or outrow or ride or swim him, or while the German will outfence him, it is yet gratifying to note that we have lately been going in the right direction. Such buildings as the costly and elaborate Racket Club house now erecting in this city, and the large attendance on our base-ball matches, rowing and yacht races, our wrest- ling-bouts and foot-contests, evince the in- creased interest in athletics, which, if rightly handled, may yet make us physically the peers of any people on the globe, Already not only in the (to us) newer pastimes, like polo and racket, curling, Greco-Roman wrestling and fox-hunting, but in the older, such as cricket, skating and swimming, walk- ing, rowing and yachting, running, jumping, foot ball, base ball, sparring, rifle shooting and velocipede riding—everything in short which exhilaratesand toughens the man, and enables him to test his fellow—there have been great strides forward, and to-day ten men can talk intelligently of their bodies and what brings them power and skill and stay, and comeliness, too, where one could before the war. In rowing, alone, the facts are sim- ply astonishing. In 1868 the whole num- ber of boat clubs in the United States was fifty-three andin the British provinces three. On the 30th of November, 1870, these numbers had increased to two hundred and forty- seven, and when we consider the great im- petus given to this sport by the visit of our students to England, and of the Renforth and Taylor-Winship crews, and Eng- land’s fastest scullers to this country since then, the sudden enlarging of the annual University race from a match of two crews to the grandest race in the world, with fourteen six-oars abreast, and of the National Amateur contest at an equally surprising rate, it is quite safe to say that there are now over five hundred rowing organizations in the United States alone. Keep up a simi- lar increase for the next ten years and we shall actually begin to hold our own with the English in general interest in this pastime, and make true the prediction that ‘‘the time is not far distant when wherever in this broad country there is a harbor, river, lake or stream fit to float a boat, there rowing will become, what it well deserves to be, one of the most attractive as well as the principal of athletic sports.’ Athletic clubs, too, are springing up in al- most every State, and it would be better if we could say every county. Atthe students’ athletic meeting at Springfield, in 1873, there were three entries ; at Saratoga, last July, one hundred and eleven, and the time made in some of the contests was highly creditable and pleasantly near that of the best English amateurs, The effect ofthis physical awakening cannot fail to be wholesome and beneficial. It is just what we want. More bone and sinew, leg and lung power in our indoor men; better fitness to stand the hours and years they must pass in close and badly lighted rooms, heated by steam and furnaces—stronger digestion and heartier good cheer, and the manly indepen- dence that comes with them—and whether times are dull or bright the nation is richer and healthier and happier. Men will come to be proud of their vigor and, de- lighted with the way it braces them for un- wonted effort, will husband it jealously and be slow to yield to anything which will lessen or dissipate it, or cut them off from a ripe old age. The older men are shrewdly seizing on the coming notable year in our history to compare their handiwork with that of all the nations of the world. Let the younger ones be awake also to their chance, and, generously inviting to our shores the best men physically whom the world can furnish, either beat them at their own work, or carefully discern just what it is that beats them, make a note of it, and never let the like occur again. Reminder Vale Harvard. The manly letter of Captain Nicoll, which we publish to-day, shows that, whatever others may do, Princeton will stand boldly up to her duty in the Rowing Association, and do what she can to keep the weak-kneed from the demoralization which seems to threaten some of them. It has been well known for some time in rowing circles that Princeton’s to and Yale and Harvard have been trying to cover | the unpleasant side of their proposed with- drawal by urging Columbia and Princeton to go along; but the resolute refusal of the | latter, with the very plain words in her letter, and the almost certain indorsement of her course by Columbia, promise well for American college rowing interests. tain Nicoll tells the bolters that in running away in the year of all years, when the world will come to look at us, they are false alike to duty and courtesy. And certainly, to join in an invitation to gentle- men to come three thousand miles to row, and after they have considered and per- haps acceded to your request to suddenly turn and wholly ignore them, is, to put it mildly, anything but flattering to our no- | tions of good breeding. Nor does it better it much if the rumor is true that Yale and Harvard have already challenged Oxford and Cambridge to a separate race in eights, The English university men should distinctly understand that, if they whip both Harvard and Yale, they have not beaten the best American college oarsmen, by any means, and that there are several crews here who One excellent course is open to the visitors. Let them accept the chal- lenge of the Rowing Association and decline that of Harvard and Yale, stating their ground—namely, that they prefer to row the first college crew in America, not some third | Then the result will de- | or fifth rate one. termine whether the famous British oarsmen can beat us or not; otherwise it will notat all. Tae Prrwovrn Crvncn Fioar still pro- gresses, with the pastor leading his forces, and cheering them with a speech like Rolla’s to the Peruvians. The report of the business meeting last night is, therefore, warlike read- ing. Cunistmas Has Hap rts Snapows in the Old World as well as in the New. A school- houseful of villagers enjoying the great festive occasion suddenly fell through the flooring of the building, and eighty were killed and fifty more or less iniureds Cap- | Sports im) Crime in tho City, ‘The annual report of the Board of Police Justices shows, by comparison with the pre- vious year, an actual decrease in the number of arrests, while the increase in the number of commitments indicates a more vigorous enforcement of the law. When it is remem- bered that during the year strenuous efforta were made to break up disorderly and gam- bling houses and to prevent violations of the Excise law, the number of ordinary arrests is still further decreased; but it must be ad- mitted that 84,399 cases are enormous for a city like New York. This number is in the proportion of one to twelve of the entire population of the city. Fortunately the number of cases of felony and misdemeanor is not so great as we might be led to expect from this showing. But the proportion of the more serious offences was one to fifty- eight of the population, and this exhibits a prevalence of crime too great for any com- munity. A remedy must be found, and it is possible to find it only in such measures as will reduce the lower grades of crime. During the year there were 36,891 arrests for drunkenness, and the police justices estimate that from seventy to ninety per cent of all the crimes committed in this city are due, directly or indirectly, to the use of intoxicating liquors. The Board asks for ampler powers in dealing with the class known in police phrase as ‘drunk and dis- orderly.” Imprisonment is the remedy the justices suggest for this disease, but it is likely the cure would be worse than the malady. It would not be well to give the usually irresponsible judges who sit im our police courts great discretionary power in cases of this kind. Even now innocent men are often sent to prison, but if drunk- enness can be made so serious an offence as the Board desires, trumped up charges of in- toxication would become almost as common as intoxication itself, The remedy, it seems to us, is in avery different direction. Drunk- enness is a sin which can only be prevented by improving the condition of the poor and elevating the moral tone of the community. This is a work for the benevolent and relig- ious societies rather than for the Legislature, and until these do their whole duty we can- not expect any appreciable decrease in crime in this city. Tury Hap a Granp Trvm at ‘l'renton yes- terday celebrating the ninety-ninth anniver- sary of the battle of that name. George Washington was there, armed, we presume, with a little hatchet, for we are told that the costumes, &c., were historically correct. The Hessians were, of course, compelled to surrender, and George W. then formed part of a classic tableau representing him in the arms of his colored nurse and attended by two hundred Philadelphia waiters, each in the character of George Washington's faithful body servant. After all this we say, Hail to the Centennial year ! PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mrs. Lee-Neilson is recovering from nervous exhaus tion in Paris. The Queen of Denmark has taken her departure from Paris for Copenhagen. A daughter of Grace Greenwood is takiug singing lessons of Wartol, in Paris, Mrs, Kate Chase Sprague isin Paris, children speak German, but not Englisa. Premier Disraeli bas left London tor Ashridge, Berk hampstead, on a visit to Earl Brownlow. Baron Thielman, of the German Legation, arrived at the Hotel Brunswick yesterday from Washington, Ajcable telegram from Cairo, Kgypt, under date ot 27th inst., reports that M. De Lesseps has arrived there, Professor Theodore D. Woolsey, of New Haven, an@ Bishop Alfred Lee, of Delaware, have apartnents at the Everett House, Lord Henry Thynne, member for South Wiltshire, will, it is said, succeed Earl Percy as Treasurer ob Queen Victoria’s household, ‘The baptism of the infant Princess, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, was solemnized at Windsor Castle on December 15. Senator Samael B. Maxey and Congressman J. W. Throckmorton, of Texas, and Senator Henry G. Davis, of Wost Virginia, are at the New York Hotel Colonel J. W. Foster, Minister to Mexico, was given a dinner and reception last night at Evansville, Ind. He leaves with his family to-day for Mexico, Ex-Senator Harlan is working hard for the Senator’ hip from Iowa; but the fact that he is one of the old Crédit Mobilier crowd is working against him. Mr, William Whittaker Barry, of Lincoln’s Inn, Lom don, barrister-at-law, third son of the late Rev. Heary Barry, rector of Draycot Cerne, Wilts, has been lost tm ® enowstorm on the Krimmler Tauern Pass, in the Tyrol. The Faculty of Letters of the new Catholic University of Paris was opened on the 15th of December. About 150 students, among whom some thirty wore ecclesias- tical costumes, assembled. The chatr was occupied by the Abbé Demimuid, who selected as his theme “Féné- Jon and His Times,’’ The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnatt Commercial says that the President bas in his hands evidence that Secretary Fish has inspired newspaper articles against him on Cuban questions, and that Mr, Fish’s son-in-law, Mr, Sidney Webster, attorney of the Spanish government, has done the work. Very Rev. Dean Stanley, of Westminster, attained the sixtieth year of his age on the lath of December. On that day a deputation from the South London Work- ingmen’s Institute, Biack/riars, attended at tt> Doan- ery and presented Dr. Stanley with an illuminated ad- dress expressive of the respect in which he is held by the members of the association, We recently chronicled the marriage of Americag Consul Atwater to Princess Moetia, of the Tahitian islands, 4t#eems now that the four kingdoms of the Society islands are, by the influence of this Princess, to be united under American rule, Dorrence Atwater ig a native of Vermont, not yet thirty years of age. He has been United States Consul at Tahiti some fous years and the best and most popular Consul we ever had there. Betore going to Tahiti he held a con- sulate in the Indian Ocean, and by his own request ‘was moyed to Tahiti, Like Steinberger he is a pet at Washington ai appears to have the friendship of President Grant, _Dongressman Martin I. Townsend, of Troy, one of the wits on the republican side of the House, is disposed to be facetious over his humble assignment in Speaker Kerr’s committees, He writes to a fri —"T was put upon the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, ano Claime of the War of 1812, so that if any false prooft were presented { could correct them from my ows memory.” “A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Lom don,” writes to the Times:—‘'To throw salt upon snowy pavements is not merely a dirty and idle habit to save the trouble of scraping and sweeping, but it is one fraught with danger. Snow and salt when mixed to gether form a muddy liquid of the temperature of zero, or thirty-two degrees below the freezing point o water—a degree of cold long considered to be the Jowest attainable, and it needs not to tell how dan gerous must be the saturation of the shoes with suck aliquid, The practice should not only be prohivited, but it should be made a penal offence.”” A Chinese cook, with # butchor's hatchet as sharp ® razor, will, in ten seconds, thoroughly bone and skin ¢ fish, so that not a particle is wasted, He will give you an unbroken orange full of ten different kinds of jet lica, A Chinese acrobat is the only man who can (at from a trapeze plump on the top of his head and laugh “t you, Yet there i# a law forbidding Chinamen carry their baskets along the sireous of San Veamainom Two of ver