The New York Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, iineretoremen JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weelly editions of the New York Henarp will be sent free of postage. ——-- THE DAILY HERALD, pulished every day in the year. per eopy. ‘Twelve collars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subsoribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic Four cents Gespatches must be aldpessed New Yors Heray Letters ond packages should be properly sealed Rejected communications will not be re- turned. —— LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L/OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms es in New York. VOLUME Xt Broadway aua Fu PM. anny Day Nos. 685 PARK THEATRE, Broadw: y-second street.—THE CRUCIBLE, at Ee, VARIETY, at 8P, M. Jat 8PM. Mr SAN FRANCIS! 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Tue Henrarp py Mam. Traixs,—News- dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Penn well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, ihe North, the South and Soutlacest, also aiong the lines of the Hudson River, c York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be sup, with Tux Heraxp, free of posiage, Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers ly sending their orders Girect to this "AS Tae Mystenrs or whiskey will soon be laid before the public. The modes of cheating the government differ but little from those employed in St. Louis. It is, however, plain in all cases that only through official connivance have the frauds been perpetrated. ‘Let no guilty man es- cape.” Cuicago's “crooked” Tar Miwp Wearues of yesterday proved a Breat inducement to pedestrians, and the churches reaped the benefit. The spring temperature, however, did not sit comforta- bly on the heavy winter clothing worn by the wise majority who distrust “Old Prob” at this time of the year, even when bearing thermal gitts. * Lrevrexant Camenoy’s Srony of his won- erful journey from Ujiji, in the centre, to Loanda, on the west coast of Africa, will be oubtless very interesting. It was hoped at first that he had solved the great problem of the destination of Livingstone’s great river, the Lualaba, but it would seem that he was forced aside from this task. Fuller details will be awaited with impatience. The news, as far as received in London, will be found elsewhere. Reutsorovs Eqvatrry, local self-government, including the fixing of tax rates and the abolition of serfdom, are what the Great Powers demand of Turkey in the way of re- form for her disturbed provinces. The Porte is willing to concede all they ask, but as our Paris correspondent remarked in his cable review of the European new year's situa- tion, “the Herzegovinians are sceptical” about the fulfilment of Turkish promises, ‘Tue Sranisn Press took the reference to Cuban affairs in the President's Message in a very unequal spirit. Indeed, although they had a day extra to think over it before writ- ing about it, they do not seem to have been indieated. He dares not offend Tammany | able to make up their minds as to what the enigmatic passage really meant, Thus we find that the liberal Imparcial views it with ble calm, while the Jberia, with our old friend Don José Ferrer de Conto in the character of a picador pricking it on to mad- - | thing to the promotion of his Presiden NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1876. Meeting of the Legistatare—Chae stn the City (harter—Spring Elections. ‘There i no reasom why the new Legisla- ture suld not be organized within an hour -fter it assembles to-morrow noon. It is «ready a8 good as decided that General kusted, ‘the Bald Eagle of Westchester,” will be Speaker of the Assembly, and proba- bly another Westchester man, Mr. Robert- son, will be elected President pro tempore of the Senate, an office of some importance different political party from the majority of that body. The appointment of the Sen- Senator Woodin is also a candidate for the place, but the con- test between him and his rival | will be settled in the ¢: s this evening, and by one o'clock to-morrow a joint com- mittee of both houses will probably have been appointed to wait on the Governor and inform him that the Legislature has organ- ized and is ready to receive any communi- cation he may have to make, when his An- nual Message will doubtless be sent in at once, It unfortunately happens this year at Al- bany as well as in Washington that the Chief Magistrate is a candidate for the Presidential nomination of his party. In both cases per- , Sonal ambition is a drawback to the useful- Governor Tilden’s well pro tempore, ness of the officer. eye is steadily fixed on an event which has | little connection with good government in | this State—namely, the appointment of the New York delegates to the Democratic National Convention. This is the pole star which will guide his political navigation throughout the session, and his | temptation to “look one way and row | another” is probably too strong for human na- | ture to resist. Ho will try to bend every chances. | ‘The canal frauds will make a great figure in the Message, because Governor Tilden re- gards administrative reform as the trump card in the Presidential game—a conclusion which does no discredit to his political sagacity. But, unluckily, he has hung his reform lantern—or rather his powerful cal- cium light—at the stern instead of the bows. It pours a blaze of illumination on the foul waters through which the ship has d, but gives little aid for directing its future course. There is a great difference between retrospect and reform, Most of the cases which Governor Tilden has so relentlessly exposed are cases of ex- tra compensation claimed by and paid to canal contractors. He seems to have quite ignored a provision of the amended State constitution which came into force last year, forbidding extra compensation to be paid under any circumstances. The language of the amendment is: Yo extra compensa- tion shall be paid to any contractor, but if, from any unforeseen cause, the terms of any contract shall prove to be unjust and op- pressive, the Canal Board may, upon the ap- plication of the contractor, cancel such con- tract.” This excellent provision shuts the door and bolts it against the kind of abuses which Governer Tilden has expended so much zeal in exposing. The method by which those obsolete frauds were perpetrated was for contractors make deceptive bids and afterward seek relief either in extra compensation or in pay for extra materials enormously beyond the quantities specified in their bids. The amended constitution precludes such frauds by forbidding even the Legislature to authorize any variation from the terms of a contract. If it proves unjust and oppressive the Canal Board may aunul the contract and let out the work anew to the lowest bidder ; to ania, 4S ut there is no longer any temptation to | 5 make delusive bids with a view to extra com- Governor Tilden has been sue- cessful in making exposures, but the credit of reform belongs to the authors of the new amendments to the constitution. This pre- ventive part of the work was completed be- fore Governor Tilden came into office. His personal ambition has made him unjust to the real reformers who preceded him. There is an important subject on which he ht gather laurels of his own instead of tr y to appropriate those of others. We refer to municipal reform in this city, wherein the whole work remains to be done. ‘The Governor shies this task for obvious rea- sons. Genuine reform is what Tammany does not want, and Tammany will have too potent a voice in choosing delegates to the Democratic National Convention for Gover- nor Tilden to its displeasure. But he is so fully committed by his past record on some of the cardinal measures of municipal reform that he could not have the face to op- pose them if compelled to act. pensation, m | cordingly, his settled purpose to fight off the subject and carry it past the choice of delegates to the National Convention. It is a question of such urgency that it ought to have been acted on by the last Legislature, | Dut action was artfully obstructed by the Governor. Late in the session he Sent in a procrastinating Message, of which the chief aim was to prevent action by that Leg- islature. He recommended a commission of capable men to digest a plan of municipal government for all the large cities of the State. In compliance with his re- quest authority was given him to appoint such a commission, but as his policy is post- ponement, not action, he allowed the spring, summer and autumn months to pass and neglected to appoint the commission until the time approached for the meeting of another Legislature. Had he acted with reasonable promptness he would have ap- pointed the commission soon after the last Legislature adjourned, and its labors might have been completed in season to be presented ' to the new Legislature at the beginning of the session. His conduct is inexplicable on any other theory than the one which we have because he deems its support indispensable in the choice of the New York delegates. When Tammany was his enemy, instead of his ally, he did not practise such arts of eva- sion, In the spring of 1870 he went to Albany to oppose the Tweed charter, and the when the Lieutenant Governor belongs to a | ate committees will devolve on the President | ™ | | tion to beheld in the spring for choosing It is, ac- | ness, plunges at the Message like an angry | views he expressed in his speech before the / pull st a red rag. We have, indeed, had too | Senate Committee on Cities were as sound | many enigmas from President Grant, and | and wise as anything which has ever been this last perhaps the most undignified of | said on municipal government. It is not a all. We surely can afford to speak our mind | subject on which he needs any time or addi- | plainly to voor, worried Syain, | tonal assistance to make uv his mind and | t ¢ the oommlasion which ne askea authority to appoint last winter was a mere subterfuge for postponing the question. He would have been ready to act on it in 1870 if he had been Governor at that time, because he had then no motive for courting Tammany, but he evades it now because the co-operation of Tammany is necessary to his success. He | has not forgotten that Mr. John Kelly was | his champion at the time of his nomination, and that if Tammany had not fought his battle he would not now be Governor. His Convention by the admission of the Tam- many delegates. His success in the Conven- delegates is impossible if Tammany should | work against him, and he will therefore con- | tribute to no reform which Tammany has an | interest in opposing. | One of the points on which Governor | Tilden has so unequivocal a record that he cannot change his views is the necessity of holding municipal election in the spring. The reasons for such a change are appreciated by the Governor, and nobody could state them with more conclusive force. But the trading Tammany politicians do not desire a spring election. | them from subsidizing candidates for State and county offices and candidates for Con- gress and the Legislature and making them tributary to the schemes of a city ring. We trust that the republican Legislature, which does not wish to play into the hands of the democratic Governor, will take up this question at an early day and pass amendments to the charter, containing such reforms as Governor Tilden has approved and cannot veto, Changing the elec- tion to the spring has n6 necessary connection with the organization of the city government. <A spring election would be | salutary, whether the Mayor has much or ‘little power, whether the other city officers comé in and go outwith him or not, and our cil, A-spring election wonld be beneficial | under any form of organization, and even if | be carried at this session it would be worth while for the Legislature to pass a bill trans- ferring our charter election to the month’ of April. Such a bil! would no doubt embarrass the Governor when it came before him for his signature, but he could not afford to veto it. The Herald's Cable Letters. When Dumas, wishing to illustrate the po- tentiality of money, wrote Monte Cristo, he made the escaping prisoner, who had the secret of the wondrous treasures, ery ex- | ultingly:—“The world is mine.” Placing a subtle mind and an agile body behind illimitable wealth, the novelist creates an entity which the reader feels nothing can thwart or prevent from working its will, Snch a creation is the perfect newspaper of to- In a fuller sense than implied in the sway of king or prelate the world belongs to it. It can make | anew land tributary to it in halfan hour, | We need not explain the process : it is too | well known, A glance at the Henaxp of yes- ; terday will show how smoothly it works, how | astonishing its results. Our cable letters | represented the instantaneous subjugation of continent. At a word all Europe poured | her riches in our lap. No royal potentate | received tribute as we did yester- | day from Paris, London, Rome, Vienna, | Berlin, Athens and St. Petersburg. Yester- | day it was our task to tell how the first day | of the centennial year passed in Americ | but what could better set off that intelli- | gence than to tell at the same time how thd | stay old world beyond the Atlantic passed its New Year's festival. In contrast with the plain republican celebration at the White | House we told how the Kaisers of Germany, | the King of Italy, the Pope of Rome, the | Queen of England and the Marshal-President | of the French Republic passed the day. What court splendors here, what vicarious receptions there, what formal State visits, |Then from the rulers to the people we turned and gave our citizens, for contrast with their Now Year's calls of Saturday, the manner in which the European peoples made much or little of the day. Praying, ‘\ateh- ing” and prophesying or revelling in London; showering avalanches of é/rennes | and compliments upon each other in | Paris; hailing the New Year with song ‘in Berlin; celebrating St. Sylvester's | Evein the kindly warmth of the family | circle in Vienna. Then the merchants and financiers had their word of cheer from | shorn of their retrospects of the year to tell the thonghtfal how those intelligent | judges weighed the good and ill of the ‘ twelve months that lay dead before them. from the English University boat clubs that we hope to see on the waters of the Schuylkill, contending with our college | boys. The gossip of the theatres was re- tailed to the world of art; the rather gloomy political outlook in Europe was unfolded to our statesmen. Diplomacy unlocked its | Spanish State secrets for us; the latest vati- | cination of Dr. Cumming was given to the | believers in signs and portents and handed over to the sceptics. But, if even the mil- ' lennium does not come when the Turks are | wiped out of Europe, we are sure that the centennial day of our independence will mark an epoch of very great importance to mankind. The Doctor places his date any- where this side of September; we place ours on the Fourth of July. Thus did the Heratp prove yesterday that all the world belongs to it, and it to all the world. ‘Tax Concenrnation or THE Cantist forces near the French frontier, as reported from San Sebastian, doubtless indicates that some lively times are ahead for Moriones, who was recently reported to have arrived at that point. ‘Tue Anniva or THe Sater yesterday in this port with a number of the survivors of the Deutschland disaster and some of the | passengers of the Mosel at the time of the dynamite explosion reawakens the mournful interest in these horrible catastrophes. We publish a number of interviews with the Salier's uassengers sense of obligation was shown at the last | It would prevent | whether he has the sole power of appointing | them or shares it with the Common Coun- | no other measure of municipal reform could | | that ever lived could have demanded and | | what simple domestfe pleasures elsewhere. | London, and the great London dailies were | Our athletic brethren were told the news | Tho President's Reply to Congress. It may be taken for granted that there is nothing more important to the American people than the character of their own | government. Wars with Mexico or Spain, | new treaties of commerce, &c., are specu- | lative or possible events, but the election | of a President this year is a certainty in | which the whole country has an immediate | interest. It is time that both great parties should have some knowledge of the inten- | tions of their leaders, and epecially of the persons who are to be candidates for the | Presidential nominations, We hold it un- worthy of any man claiming to be fit to oc- eupy the Presidency to steal into a conven- tion and, by the arts of cunning or bargain- ing, to win a place upon the ticket. Who- ever aspires to that great office should be | manly enough to say so, If this is true of candidates generally it is especially true of a candidate who is also | the President. General Grant, if he isa | candidate for renomination, has inestimable | advantages over all his competitors. They _are derived from the influence of his office. He is also, in that case, the author of an in- novation on republican customs. He is bound, therefore, more than any other man in the country to declare his purposes in re- spect to the Presidency. To refuse to grat- ify the natural and just demands of the peo- | ple is virtually a breach of trust. The policy of silence which the President has hitherto maintained must soon end. For, independently of the broad and general rea- sons which make it a matter of honor for him to relieve the national suspense, he is now confronted with an official question. He has declined tg answer the conventions of hisown party. Hehas treated With haughty silence | the protests of the press. We are now to see whether he will treat with equal contempt the formal interrogatory of Congress. The people have waited, not impatiently, for his response to the anti-third term resolution passed by the House of Rep- resentatives on December 15. then declared by the overwhelming vote of 252 yeas to 18 nays that in its opinion “the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in re- tiring from the Presidential office after their second terms has become by universal con- currence a part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic, and fraught with peril to our free institutions.” This was a direct challenge to the President, through whom alone this peril to our free insti- | tutions can come. Can he afford to neglect it? He might frame excuses for not answering party conventions and protests of gress, as the official and immediate repre- sentative of the people, has no right to put | him to his purgation. We expect, therefore, that as soon as Congress reassembles Pres. ident Grant will make a frank, honest re- sponse to its authoritative summons. refuse to speak now would be to confess that his designs on the Presidency forbid him to be candid, or to treat the nation with | undisguised contempt. Where Shall the University Race Bet—And Are the English and Irish Oarsmen Coming ? The two questions of most interest to the public which are tocome upat the Convention of the Rowing Association at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-morrow are :—Where is the race to be rowed? and, Are the English or Irish University oarsmen, or both, to compete ? | Our national university course ought, as the English one was, to have been fixed long ago, but several of the colleges will probably vote to-morrow for a place wholly untried and equally unfit for their purpose—New Lon- don. Harvard and Dartmouth are to so vote; Bowdoin, very likely ; Brown, Trin- | while | ity and Wesleyan, very likely, the five votes from the Middle States will almost certainly be for Saratoga. Whichever way, then, the two remaining votes go, if they go together—namely, ‘those of Am- herst and Williams—so will go the race. Last year the majority for Saratoga was not large, but it was well understood in some quarters that this was to keep the town up to its work, All this doubt now may be again fora bid, but it is hazardous ground. To choose the best place in all respects has never before been nearly so important 9s now and will hardly be so again this century. Visitors | from all over the world are expected in un- precedented numbers, and our country and | its products are to be thrown open to their inspection. A first class athletic contest, ‘ especially between gentlemen, is always in- teresting to most men, and ladies, too, and often exciting. The greatest one we have ought this time to be conducted with pecu- liar care ; for not only will our guests desire to witness it, but many of them, coming from nations far ahead of us in athletics, | will view it naturally with a critical eye, The course should be the best we have; so, too, the accommodations for the visitors. Is it wise, then, at this juncture, to depart from , a track which has been twice proved excep- tionally fit for the American style of univer- sity race, and especially when there are near by the greatest and best appointed accom- modations for guests that can be found in our or any land and go to an untried track, certain (being a tidal one) to give very per- , ceptible advantage to the crews drawing favorable positions, and so be unfair; and where, in the month the race is to be rowed, there will hardiy be comfortable bed room for the fathers of the hundred and more oarsmen alone, to say nothing of te thousands of graduates and the legion of other friends who would like to see the race, the public at large, and especially our foreign guests ? judgment and extreme discourtesy to public feeling which will very rightly go far—much farther than did the wretched mismanage- ment of the Convention at Springfield a month ago—to throw our university race into disrepute, and it will be plain to every one where to place the blame. Again, ifthe word is that but one of the foreign universities accepts the invitation to | participate, care should be taken to leave to | a competent committee full power and in- structions to strive their utmost to yet in- sure the presence of two, if not all three, of tha renowned institutions so invited, There The House | the press, but he cannot pretend that Con- | To} It will prove a piece of bad | are seven months to work tn, and while no advantage should be sacrificed which simple justice and common prudence alike demand, every step short of that should be taken rather than fail. The present Regatta Com- mittee is an excellent one and can safely be intrusted with such power. Speaker Kerr's Health. The rumors from Washington that Speaker Kerr's health is so impaired that he will be incapable of discharging the duties of his position, and that a Speaker pro tem. will have to be chosen to relieve him, have a strong color of probability from the fact that he has been for years a valetudinarian, com- medical experts ami obliged at one time to give up all business and make a trip to Eu- rope in the hope of recovering his health, His friends, had they been real friends, would have dfssanded him from run- ning for so laborious and exacting | a position as the Speakership. Health is the most invaluable of blessings, and an invalid of many years, who had lately regained a little strength, was badly advised when he put his frail constitution in peril in accept- ing an office whose exhausting duties are a daily drain upon the nervous system, especially when broken nerves were the foundation of his long-standing malady. It is given out that his visit to the bedside of a dying brother, at Pittsburg, is the cause of | Speaker Kerr's present prostration ; but the sion of Congress; but since Mr. Kerr has been enticed into so trying a position the | public will look upon his shortcomings with considerate indulgence. It is not so much his fault as that of indiscreet friends who wished to utilize him for political purposes that he is destined to the depressing lassi- | tude of attempting to carry a burden to which his physical strength is unequal. Mr. Kerr's appropriate place in this Con- gress was the Chairmanship of Ways and Means, for which he is admirably fitted by his abilities and studies, and whose duties would have been congenial, and therefore not wearing. His mastery the questions which come before that com- mittee would have made his labor a pleas- | ure, and his readiness on the floor have ex- empted him from a very severe tax in ex- plaining and defending the measures recom- mended by the committee. He would have had many days of comparative rest and ease while questions were debated on which it | | very comfortably through the labors of the | session. It is a pity that so able, upright | and amiable a man should be sacrificed to | the political projects of questionable friends A Materialized Crooked Whiskey Spirit. | Babcock is to come ont unseathed, say | Babeock’s friends. The convict McDonald says the private secretary is innocent, and that there was no whiskey in it; that it was woman, lovely woman, made the gentle Babcock | stoop to folly, | And find, too late, that moa betray. | She was, it appears, to the Whiskey Ring | what the Goddess of Liberty is to the | constitution—an embodied ideal, a mystic personification, in whose worship even | Babeock bent the knee. For her sweet sake did Babcock masquerade as ‘‘Sylph.” To see the portly private secretary dressed in the gauzy next-to-nothings which we associate with the classic creatures | of that ilk would have inspired Matt Mor- | gan with a theme that would not shock all the decencies. Indeed, when Grantis no | longer President Babcock may turn at last an honest penny by attaching himself to a side show and exhibiting himself as a St. Lonis | sylph writing ‘“‘mum” telegrams. But why | stop with Babeock? For her we will be told | that Joyce, throwingaside his poetical diction | ; and pathetic moralizing, wrote the cheery | words, ‘Things look all right here. Let the | machine go.” For her he penned the joyful and watch sharply.” For her MeDonald | flung his cap in the air as he dashed off the | | mystictelegram, ‘Dead dog. The goose hangs altitudulum.” It is new language to apply to a lady. would associate with a sylph; but when | Brooklyn created an emotional language of | “birds singing in the breast,” of ‘‘nests,” of | “true inwardness” for the use of its scandal, why should not St. Louis invent a bold set | ot phrases racy of the wild land of the West? | The geese of Rome saved the city, and the | goose of the fable laid golden eggs. Why | not a guardian goose, then, for St. Louis’ | goddess, since we know she had eggs of | | gold? Venus had doves and swans; Juno had peacocks; let the Lady of the Ring have | | her ownsacred bird, Seeing this, we pity the | chivalrous Babcock. We can almost pardon | the secretary of the President for stooping to assume an alias. We are sure that a weep- ing jury will believe his story cf the sylph, and accept his ‘Katie King” as the object of all his interviews with | _ Douglass and all his anxieties about keeping the men since convicted as revenue robbers undisturbed in St. Louis, How, they will say, could he protect the goddess if her high | priests were dragged to the calaboose? ‘Therefore did he labor with the President ; therefore did he hang around Commissioner Douglass’ office ; therefore, should ‘‘matters be hunky” therefore, should “the goose hang altitudulum.” He will shine in the | annals of Missoun as Pergeus Babcock, who slew the monster that sent such thrills of fear to the heart of the Whiskey Ring's Andromeda—if the jury believe him. To be sure, the Internal Revenue sylph is as yet but poorly materialized; people can | B00 through her. McDonald and Joyce and | Avery, as they hope for pardon in this world and the next, will see that she dons modern , attire, from “a love of a bonnet” to a ‘pull- back dress,” until she steps forth as full of | satisfactory explanations ff everybody as _ the heroine of a French comedy, And who knows, even if she fails to save Babeock, but MeDonald may be commended for his effort | | in high quarters in Washington? Like the other “unjust steward,” he has “acted wisely,” and in the day of Executive par- dons it maw ba remembered to hin, L ing frequently to this city for the advice of | to preside over the House during a long ses- | of | belonged to the chairmen of other commit- | tees to take the lead, and he might have got | | despatch, “Matters are hunky; go it lively | The goose is not the bird one | Rr The New Year in the Putpita. It was natural that in many of the churches yesterday the preachers should have dwelt upon the thoughts suggested by the birth of the year. Thus Cardinal McCloskey and Mr. Hepworth both met in the reflection that the year gone by has left many of our promises broken, our resolves unfulfilled. Both drew the lesson that love of God is the one cure-all for our ills, so that in the utter- ance of the solemn prelate of the old dog- matic Church and that of the young pastor of an untrammelled congrega- | tion we can trace their inspiration back to its source in a common Gospel. Observing this point where they meet—the inculcation of a love of God—we can panso | to wonder ‘that sectarian hate could tind a | foothold anywhere between Christian and Christian. Mr. Beecher’s sermon waa dif- ferentiated from the New Year thought to | the changing influences of time. He con- tended that things should live in essenca and not as figures of memory. | Painting with pre-Raphaelite detail the Saviour as He lived eighteen centuries ago he considers archwologizing Christ, while what man wants is to feel the breath of a living Redeemer in his nostrils, It may be that Mr. Beecher wished to show how hard, for instance, it is to write the “Life of Christ” acceptably now- adays, while it is easy as wishing to realize Him in onr hearts, This is a wholesome religious thought and the real cause is doubtless the excitement | better that it may be an unfavor- which attended hig election and the | Sble hint to Mr. Beecher's publishers. strain and anxiety of the uncon- |!" Mr. Harris’ sermon at the Allen strect genial business of forming his committees, | Methodist church we find the allusions to It requires firm and elastic health the New Year more direct and local than in any other, He pointea his moral with refer- ence to the ladies’ tables on Saturday, and | adorned his tale with a homily upon the salutation of the season. In view of the un- | certainty of time he thinks it sounds ‘‘like a | ghost’s langh ;” but we hope that it may | prove ‘‘a spirit of health” to all his hearers, and not what Hamlet feared his father’s spook might otherwise be. Mr. Conway's | elaborate essay on “The New Testament” is worthy of careful perusal, as well from its | learning as from its evident earnestness. It contains new thoughts, but on a weightior subject than the Now Year. Tue Frexca Senatortan Exxctions, shows | ing the cause of the conservative defeat in the | balloting, are ably treated in our Paris letter elsewhere. Now that the Chamber is dis- solved and the ex-Deputies returned to their homes for electioneering purposes, the pas- sions which agitated French parties a fort- night ago can be studied with interest. The government has gained its point relative to | the state of siege, which was then in doubt, | and both parties, the Left and Right, go be- fore the people, each somewhat chastened | and somewhat elate. The same tact, how- ever, which made the powerful Right Centre the laughing stock of France in the Senato elections managed to make the vote on the state of siege yield some benefit to those it was intended to crush utterly. The judi- cious management of the Left in all its late Parliamentary battles is another strong prop to the Rep ublic. Ir Is Disckacsrvt to our government that the first news of its attempt to negotiate for European intervention in the affairs of Cuba should come from abroad. ‘The Heraip’a special cable despatches from Madrid and Vienna first unmasked this unrepublican, Rip Van Winkle diplomacy, which has for its object the dragging of European influ. ence into American affairs. The miserable piece of underbandedness now reveals itself in our despatches from Paris, where it found the light in the columns of the Liberté. Even there it will be found that President Grant’s humble prayer for French intervention is prefaced by a disclaimer of any desire on our part toannex Cuba. The American people do not want Cuba, but the witty French will not be slow to say to Mr. Grant:—‘Qui s’a- cuse, s'uccuse.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, PERE i “Ts Tweed in this city 2” conundrums the New Or- leans Bulletin. Give tt up. ‘Tho “glorious weather” was the topic of conversa tion at no less than 99,999 festive tables on Saturday last. Scott Wike, Congressman from the Quincy district tm IMinois, ts tn the city. He believes in Morrison’ | Very nataral, ; Senators Bainbridge Wadleigh, of New Hampshire, and Phineas W. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, are residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, A contemporary gravely asserts that the entrance of he centennial year was more demonstratively cele- brated than any of its “predecessors. "” A Western paper remarks that it required that tho people should detect the merits of Governor Bedio, of New Jersey, before Princeton College made an LL.D. of | byn. rege has just lost one of its earliest settiers and most prominent men by the decease of Dr. James McBride, formerly a member of Congress, at the age of seventy-three. We are indebted to an Indiana paper for the informa- tion that Harriet Prescott Spo(ord’s husband is Libra- Tian to Congress and Grace Greenwood's is Chief Clerk of the Land Office. Dr. J. P. Ordway has introdueed into the Boston School Board an order prohibiting corporeal punish. ment in the public schools of that city. It should | have been abolished long ago. | Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, is called a “whipper- snapper” by the Boston Traveller, just be- cause he snapped Whipper and Moses from the judicial | bench of that State so summarily. The Washington Republican asserts that, from the very outset of the investigations into the whiskey frauds, the President and the Secretary of the Treasury have been {un perfect accord, The statement that Cassius M. Clay will present bia own name to the Democratic National Convention asa candidate for Vice President does not appear ta create much of a sensation anywhere. One hundred and twelve of the most enterprising business men in Willamsport, Warren county, Ind, have organized a greenback club, The green backed monster is still unchained in the West, Secretary Belknap left Wasbington Saturday night forlowa, Itis already known that he is a candida for the United States Senate, in the place of Judge Wright, who retires in order to resume the practice of Jaw in that State, The Pottsvile (Pa.) Miners’ Journal thinks that ong consolation for nervous peopie is that they will uot ba calied upon to endure another such night as last Satur. day for a hundred years, The miners there raised the racket, and the minors here {initated them. The last instalment, about seventy five iy number, of the Southern refugees who emigrated to Brazil at the close of the Rebellion, have reached Port Royal, 8. C., in the United States steam frigate Swatara, They are doubtless glad to get ‘home again.’ Referring to the lowa United States Sengtorabip, the Keokuk Gate City remarks that if Harlan is solectod for the position a large majority of the Congressional districts, including the First, will thenceforth send democrats to Congress—which will ba bad for the re publican party, ’