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Gold was, steady at 112 7-8 113. Money on call loaned at 5a 4 per cent. Government bonds were very strong. Railway bonds were also in active demand at higher prices. Tar Grey Nuns Act was repealed unan- imously by the State Senate yesterday. It could not ‘come to time” after Morrissey’s “knockdown.” Tue Lonsbax Srnrxx appears to be ended, the men resolving to return to work on Mon- day. They have lost three weeks’ wages and have gained nothing. Tae Five Arr or Burciany was exempli- fied in the Northampton Bank robbery. | Twenty-five thousand dollars reward should stimulate the police to match their skill against these daring thieves. Tur Bru defining the validity of certain pre-emption and homestead entries of public lands, where the titles appear to conflict with railroad grants, was passed by the Dnited States Senate yesterday. Tar Hovse or Rernesentattves discussed the bill amending the law for sending obscene matter through the mails. An animated de bate took place tending to show the loose wording of the amendments, and the bill was recommitted. SEs can be reduced How tre Anwy Exp without reducing the fighting force of the | army is examined in a Washington letter in | another part of the Hera. Judicious economy is one thing, but simply chopping ‘off so much of tht force to cut down so much “expense is an absurdity. Tae Peace Panty 1x Avsrnia aims vaguely at European disarmament, if we may judge from the movement to consider a reduction of the imperial forces and to engage an in- ternational congress to discuss the matter further. Itis too soon. The bayonets have not yet drunk blood enough. Bavanta has been warned from Berlin not to exempt priests and ecclesiastical students Zrom the conscription. A Capuchin friar in fall military uniform is among the luxuries which the profane look forward to, and we do not wonder that the Ultramontanes are looking for a compromise on the Falk laws. Tae Rev Srectnx is the weapon of abso- tutism in Germany and reactionism in France, whereby timid legislators are fright- ened into placing fresh manacles upon free thonght and action. The majority in the Reichstag, however, does not seem to have been much terrified by Count von Eulen- burg’s picture of the coming of ‘‘the Red Re- public with Communism and Atheism,” for they rejected the amendments to the Criminal Code which Prince Bismarck has framed. Cowrnapicrony Reronts from the theatre of the Herzegovinian rebellion make it very | difficult to say how the victory is turning. On Tuesday the insurgents report that they defeated three thousand five hundred Turks, and a Vienna despatch states that on Wednesday the Turks swept the insurgents before them. It might be possible to recon- cile these statements if we were certain they did not refer to the same engagement. Whether the Mussulmans were coming to the succor of Trebigne or were engaged in a gortie therefrom is not plain from either re- t, with a Turkish port. Another ‘ victory, is reported, which may be identical mith that in the Viennese despatch, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Reorganization of the Republican Party | votes will be given to the democratic candi- |" in the South—Masks for the Cincinnati Ball. We have in our moral and matronly State of New York @ statute which forbids the wearing of masks, a statute which the Legis- lature has recently had the kindly civility to relax in favor of innocent gayety when the managers of an entertainment can satisfy the police authorities of their respectability and procure trom them a dispensation suspend- ing the law in their favor for one designated night. Our amiable and indulgent Legisla- ture resembles & virtuous mother whose gentle nature can forbid her thildren no pleasant recreation so long as it is pursued under such mild restraints as suffice to guard its innocence. Unfortunately, there is nothing corre- sponding to this motherly blending of strict- ness and indulgence in any authority em- powered to watch over our national politics, which are in the same condition as society was in this metropolis before our good | maternal Legislature saw the necessity of passing any law as to the wearing of masks. When you are accosted by faultless elegance of silk, lace and kids of exquisite fit, with a mask where nature tabanded aface beaming with innocence, you cannot know whether you ought to reply with the respectful courtesy due toa lady or with the freezing curtness due to ¢ female whose sex is her only title to exemption from ruder treat- ment. Now, the wearing of masks in poli- tics is more objectionable than in a miscel- laneous ball of unacquainted people. Where all wear masks all stand on the same footing and each shares whatever advantage there may be in concealment, But masking in politics is like wearing masks in the public streets, where rogues incognito can ply their vocation with every facility for selecting their known victims. On the virtuous maxim that all is fair in war, love and politics, we dare say political masks might be ingeniously defended, but we have some doubts as to the moral beauty ofthe maxim. As to that form of political masks known as secret societies we have for some time been retty clear in our judg- ment that they aré not suited to our instity- tions. We have accordingly done what we could to tear the mask from Tammany Hall and to lift it far enough from the new anti- Catholic secret order—whose existence came to light by the publication of a purloined let- ter addressed to Mr. Blaine—to give the coun- trya glimpse of the face concealed behind it. ‘There is a new political mask in preparation in the Southern States, made on a different pattern and more ingeniously contrived to look like a real face, which we must also attempt to lift for the gratification of the curi- ous, although we take but a slight interest in the purpose for which it is worn. We have already aljuded more than once to a new movement, whose headquarters are in South Carolina, for reconstructing the republican party in the Southern States and putting it on a more honest basis. A truly laudable aim if pursued in good faith! Ex- cepting in Mississippi and one or two other States we doubt whether it is practicable even if attempted with perfect singleness of motive. The republican party in the South- ern States is controlled by the federal offi- cers, and an attempt to take that control out of their hands will prove futile so long as they are favored by President Grant and supported by his influence. Both he and Senator Morton discountenance the new movement and hope to nip it in the bud Against their joint opposition the utmost success it could have would be to split the republican party of the South, already a minority, and this is probably all that is aimed at by those who are pulling the wires to promote it. Its ultimate object is to create an organization which will send contesting delegations to the Repnblican National Con- vention, and thereby nullify the influence of the South at Cincinnati. This is a pretty desperate game to play, but it would be an adroit way of foiling Gen- eral Grant and Senator Morton if it could succeed. If General Grant should be a can- didate he will start in the Convention with the solid support of the Southern delegations ; if he should not be a candidate Mr. Morton | is the regular heir apparent to the same ad- Other candidates, who must de- pend wholly on Northern support, could | play a dexterous game if two sets of delegates should claim admission from each of the Southern States with a | sufficient color of regularity to present a prima facie case for the contestants. The ef- fect would be to exclude the South from par- tic pating in the organization of the Conven- | tion. The credentials of both sets of dele- gates would be referred to acommittee which | eould not be appointed until after the tem- | porary organization, The temporary presid- | ing officer would be chosen by the Northern delegates, and would appoint a committee on credentials so composed as to reject the Grant or Morton delegates from the South | and ‘admit their competitors im eyery case | where there may be the show of a pretext to base such a decision upon. Southern influ- ence in the Convention being thus nullified the contest would be fought out between the Northern supporters of the rival candidates. We do not believe that this craftily masked project can succeed ; but if it could succeed vantage. Mr. Blaine. | the Southern delegations if they should be chosen by the republican party in the South as now organized. They would all be for Grant, or, in the event of his withdrawal, for ae Before this masked scheme for _ splittifg the republican party in the South and getting up contesting delegations had been invented Mr. Blaine made a desperate bid for Southern support by raking up the | horrors of Andersonville and crucifying the political skeleton of poor old Jefferson Davis. | The most he could have expected to accom. | plish by that escapade was to furnish his supporters at Cincinnati with a reply to the Southern delegates when they objected to his well known hostility to the Civil Rights Dill of last winter. As for any active support from the South, Mr. Blaine was not credulous enough to expect it before the masked strategem wus devised for getting up contesting delega- no consequence to the Cincinnati nominee, whoever he mav he. | it might strengthen the waning chances of | He has nothing to hope from | date. But although the Southern delega- tions to Cincinnati will represent no elec- toral votes, they will be just as efficient in the Convention as if they could contribute to the election of the candidate whose nom- ination they may control. Of course it is for the interest of Mr. Blaine and his supporters to strip the Southern delegates of their influence and give them back seats. But unless they are shut out of the Convention by the success of contesting delegates there is no obvious way to deprive them of the influ- ence to which they are entitled by their numbers. It is quite true, in- deed, that our national political con- | ventions are inequitably and absurdly con- stituted. There is no fairness in permitting the States in which the party is in a minority to turn the scale in favor of a candidate whom their constituents can do nothing to elect. In this respect the old exploded Con- gressional caucuses of fifty years ago were more equitably constituted than the national conventions which have succeeded them. Each member of Congress who participated in a caucus for nominating a Presidential can- didate had a constituency of his own party behind him, his credentials consisting in the fact of his election. The nominations were made by men who represented votes ; but those caucuses were nevertheless such hotbeds of intrigue that they sunk under public odium and were abolished. But, un- fair as the system is which succeeded them, the delegates who represent no electoral vote cannot have their influence curtailed so long as the system lasts. All the delegates to a national convention stand on an équal foot- ing and have precisely the same rights. There isno way of making the republican delegates from the South take back seats at Cincinnati after they are once admitted to the Convention. A hundred delegates from the South will be just as fully entitled to their preference and have the same right to urge it as any hundred delegates from States’ in which the republicans are a majority. This is the common law of such conventions, which Mr. Blaine and his friends will be compelled to accept, however little they may like it. Their only chance of nullifying the Southern vote at Cincinnati lies in the suc- cess of their masked project for creating a new republican organization in the South to serve asa mill for grinding out contesting delegations. We doubt if even the most con- summate political dexterity can make such a project succeed against the official patronage of General Grant, the shrewd activity and vigor of Senator Morton and the rooted in- fluence of both among the Southern repub- licans, Hon, Robert C. Schenck. The Associated Press despatch from Lon- don, stating that the Daily News has informa- tion that writs have been served on General | Schenck, the American Minister, and other persons prominently connected with the Emma Mine Company, is too vague and blind to convey any precise information. It can hardly mean that General Schenck has been summoned as a witness to tes- tify in the case, because a writ is not the form of proceeding which is adopted in summoning witnesses. Moreover, the other persons included in the writ stand in the relation of parties or de- fendants, and a writ issued against Albert Grant and including General Schenck must regard him as a party and not as a witness. He is of coursé protected by his dip- lomatic privilege if he chooses to avail himself of it; but he could hardly afford to do this, since it would imply that he has no good defence, and dares not go into Court and confront the accusa- tion, It is to be presumed that he will waive his diplomatic privilege, and trust that the same explanations which satisfied Presi- dent Grant, Secretary Fish and Mr. Reverdy Johnson will suffice to clear his honor in an English court of justice. Let us hope that this is not too confident an estimate. Indiscreet Mr. Schenck has undoubtedly been, but his countrymen should be slow to believe that he has been dishonest. That he was a conscious instra- ment of deception and fraud is incredible. He was no doubt convinced by the schemers who made a tool of him that the Emma Mine was the rich bonanza which they represented it tobe. It is charitable, nay, it is just, to assume that he is a victim to be pitied, and not a criminal to be pun- ished. He was inexcusably, fearfully indis- creet, and his example should serve as a} warning to persons in public stations. But that he was a knowing accomplice ina gigan- tic swindle cannot be credited without at the same time inculpating the President and Secretary Fish, who have no known reason for shielding General Schenck unless they think him innocent, and too deep a stake in the honor of the government to retain him in office if guilty. We therefore trust that it is safe and wise for Mr. Schenck to waive his diplomatic privilege and meet his ac- cusers with the confident air of an honest though credulous man. Hzxr vor Bosroy.—Evidently another fast mail train is wanted—for the encouragement and enlightenment of the cities of the East, In another column a communication signed “Reader” details the grievances of the intel- ligent people of Boston with regard to the newspapers of this city for which they tions from that section. The actual vote of | | the South in the Presidential election is of | The Southern electoral |hanker. These papers arrive at half-past | four to five P. M. at the Boston Post Office, | and lie in the merchants’ downtown boxes | till next morning. Some improvements in the administration of the Boston Post Office | would therefore give them a partial remedy. | But a fast mail train in that direction— | hitherto unexplored by this great agent of modern civilization—is the real requirement. Boston should have the New York papers by ten A. M. every day, or at the latest minute by noon. Leaving this city at four A, M. the train would reach Springfield, Mass., at seven, and there connect with the quarter past seven train from Boston. All New Eng- | land could have the papers before night, greatly to the advantage of the people ; for | there is not a first rate newspaper printed between the Harlem River and the Banks of Newfoundland. GUATEMALA AND San Satvapor are reported to be on the brink of war. Perhaps a good earthquake would bring them to theirsenses. | Penny-wise Economy. The democratic party in the House of Representatives is, perhaps, excusable for showing a little awkwardness in beginning to economize, The leaders of the party elsewhere—in this city, for instance, under the rule of Mr. Tweed—have not accustomed it to be sparing of the public money, and it is only charitable to lay the bungling be- ginning at Washington to this cause. Being beginners on a road untrodden for several years by either party the democrats may not be ungrateful for a little advice ; and here we give it. To cut down the mod- erate salaries of our consuls abroad is poor and penny-wise economy. Our foreign service costs very little; the State Department has never been extravagantly managed. It may be well to abolish some useless foreign mis- sions, but the House, if it is wise, will is- creasé the salaries of consuls general in South American States and require of them valuable trade returns and statistics which will help our merchants to re-establish a foreign trade which has too long languished. To cut down the salaries of West Point professors and of the scholars there is also a trivial economy, sure to be made at the ex- pense of the public good. The total saving will be very small, and if the military school is tobe kept up at all it ought to be fairly dealt with. Let the retronchment committees look else- where, For instance, they can safely cut off at least six millions of the navy estimates. We do not need a formidable navy, because we onght not to go to war with anybody and nobody wants to make war on us, The entirely needless expenditure of the Navy Department during the Virginius excité- ment—not less than six millions flang away for nothing—would support West Point a dozen years; it would build a railroad half way from the Texas border to the City of Mexico; it is more ‘than equal to the foundations of Yale and Harvard, the two’ great universities of the country. Nobody is going to attack us, and we need not waste money gn a great naval establishment. Then, again, why not sell some of the navy yards—the one at Boston for instance, and even that at Brooklyn ? ‘They are of no use, and are constant sources of corruption and expense. The yard at Boston is frozen up every winter anyhow, and that at Portsmouth, always free of ice and far more economical to keep, is quite sufficient for the Eastern border. Again, there is the army, with its barracks and its allowances and its various leaks under the present management. Millions can be saved by judicious retrenchment of War Department expenses. This place needs a thorough investigation, and the committee, if it is industrious, will be amazed to see how much waste it will uncover and how much money it can save, In the expressive language of Colonel Sellers, ‘There's millions in it.” Let them examine, for instance, the expensive and useless fortifications, on many of which from a hundred to two hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars are flung away in massive masonry every year, when itis the universal conclusion of engineers that sand or earth batteries, cheaply thrown up whenever they are needed, are better de- fences than the most costly stone walls. We have fallen too readily into the European fashion of extravagant and constantly in- creasing armaments. But nobody is going to attack us; we have no ambitious neigh- bors, and we do not mean to rob any one else, ss Again, let the democrats take a good look at the Post Office Department. They can save millions there by judicious laws and regulations, without increasing the rates of postage. They need only reform old abuses in the contract system, turn the express matter out of the mails and make judicious reforms of other kinds, and millions will fall into their lap. Here are the true fields for economy, and we advise the democrats to turn their atten- tion to them at once and leave off the petty business about which they are now wasting time and getting nobody's thanks. Canal Auditor Schuyler. Governor Tilden will perpetrate a great blunder if, as his friends give out, he de- cides that he will not send another name to the Senate, now that it has rejected his nomi- nation of Mr. Schuyler to the office of Canal Auditor. He could justify himself only by a qnibbling technicality which violates the whole spirit of the law. It is the plain in- tent of the statute that the person holding the office of Canal Auditor shall be the joint appointee of the Governor and Senate, the Governor being authorized to fill vacancies only during the interval between the happening of.the yacancy and the meet- ing of the Senate. That Mr. Schuyler is not entitled to hold over by his appointment to filla vacancy is acknowledged by the Goy- ernor himself .in the fact of his nominating him to the Senate. It is his clear duty to proceed as he would inthe case of an original appointment, and send in a second name when his first choice is rejected, The technicalities on which a refusal to do so is attempted to be justified will not bear a moment’sexamination. The Governor's sup- porters quote this section of the constitu- tion :—‘‘When the duration of any office is not provided for by this constitution it may be | declared by law, and if not so declared such | office shall be held during the pleasure of | the authority making such appointment.” ‘The last clause of this section, which is the one relied on, is utterly irrelevant, because | the term of office of the Canal Auditor is declared by law, which precludes him from | holding ‘during the pleasure of the ap-— pointing power.” There is a statute which gives a more plausible color for the non-action of the Gov- as soon as it is looked at. In the act creating | the office its duration is declared to be three years ‘‘and until his successor shall in like | manner have been appointed.” The plain | purpose of this provision isto bridge over | the interval between the Ist of Jamuary and | pointed successor. If Auditor ‘Thayer had not been suspended and his term had ex- pired on the Ist of January ‘the Governor would have had precisely thessame right, and no more right, to keep him in office by re- Schuyler. Hoe will damage himself if he carries out sucha purpose. He cannot succeed in such a policy if he attempts it, for the statute relating to filling vacancies in office enables the Legislature to take the whole matter out of his hands, The following provision of the act of 1849 gives the Legislature’ a perfect remedy:—t‘Any person appointed by the Governor (except State Prison Inspector) may be removed from such office by concurrent resolution of both houses of the Legislature. On such removal both houses shall forthwith, by joint ballot, appoint a person to the office made vacant Ahereby.” Governor Tilden cannot, by any technical quibble, parry the force of this plain statute. Rapid Transit and the Horse Cars. It has been asked by a querulous corre- spondent if the Hzganp had abandoned rapid transit to advocate reform on the horse railroads. To this we answer that the two things are parts of a whole, for which, in the interest of the community, we shall not cease to strive until both are ac- complished. We have never relaxed our efforts on behalf of providing steam transit for New York, but our cor- respondent must remember that local travel which will not call for steam communication will remain to be supplied, and the grasping corporations. in whom are vested the fran- chises for supplying the accommodation therefor show no sign of honestly theeting the public want. If it is fgxid that travel falls off on any of the hovse car lines, owing to the superior attractions of the steam rail- roads, we shall see the companies draw in the pumber of carg until the crowding % ms “peatitie ~ 35 Us bad as at present, unless a law is passed compelling them now and henceforth to give aseat forafare. The companies have slid away from many of the provisions of their charters, until those only remain in force which compel a passenger to pay his fare for half an hour or an hour's suffocation and crushing with the alternative of being left on the sidewalk, The companies have pitched their profit pt so high a rate that in the face of rapid transit they would seek to pre- serve that rate by reducing the expenses and leaving the public that would use their cars no better off than before, It is a plain mat- ter in regard to the horse cars. They take a fare and offer in exchange ‘“‘the chance of a seat,” which during the hours of going to and returning from business means one chance in four, oras twenty-two is to seventy- seven, the number which a Third avenue car director likes to see on a car, with all its ac- companiments of unhealthiness, discourtesy and indecency. Another Democratic Blunder, A communication in another column re- lates a pitiful story, which will, we suspect, create a good deal of indignation through the country, and not unjustly. It seems that in the Post Office attached to the House of Representatives there were employed a number of Union soldiers, all but one, as is shown in the list, disabled, which means, we suppose, unfitted for the active duties. of life. It was not only a humane, but an eminently proper, act to give these poor fellows the petty places they held, and they ought never to have been allowed to fear removal from them. Such support for their declining years they have a right to claim. But it seems the democratic majority of the House has made haste to remove them all, and to. fill their places with men who, according to the kind of oath they were obliged: to take, served against the Union. We warn the democrats that they will excite just indignation and re- sentment by such a course. The Hzraxp, as is very well known to all its readers, has, in every way and constantly discouraged sectional bitterness or any revival of the war feeling. What the country wants is har- mony and good feeling. But it is impossible to get these unless both parties show good sense, and the democrats ought certainly to pay respect to the claims of the poor fellows who were disabled in the service of the Union. We should be glad to see the lead- ing democrats in the House take immediate measures to restore every disabled soldier in the list which has been sent us to the place from which he has been expelled. They cannot succeed on any narrow policy, and they will be held responsible in this matter. Breaking Cables. Apparently it is believed in the Direct Cable Company that their cable, which has been repeatedly broken by violence, has also been broken by design, and that the gain of the persons who have originated this nefari- ous practice is to be secured by the conse- quent rise in value of the shares of the Anglo-American Company. Every one is very apt to reason that any fact which regu- quence of that other, and excited men who see speculators making money out of their calamity would be more than human if. they failed to conceive that such speculators might be the cause of the calamity. Per- haps, therefore, the charges made may have only this origin; but the case seems suscep- tible of determination. If the administration of the Direct Cable Company knows that ceftain men have had knowledge of the calamities that were to befall them before the calamities came they must know who these men are, and it would seem worth while to try whether a good detective could not con- nect these persons with the fact of this great federate villains to practise such an outrage, and it is scarcely possible bat some one vil- lain would betray the others if closely pushed. Noone doubts the possibility of the fact hinted at by Mr. Lushington. The money to be made by a change in prices of tion; and where the property upon which soeasy o method of affecting prices as the damaging of that property will commend itself to many persons; and the financial morality of the age is no guarantee against it. But there would be also a very great variation in prices if the speculators should the confirmation by the Senate of an ap- | break the cables of the Anglo-American Com- ' pany; and yet they do not do that. If all the other cables were broken, and the world | Jeft to the cable of the Direct Company, the | price of its shates would go up enormously; | and if such a depredatian should ever be fusing to send another name after the Senate to pursue the same tactics in favor of Mr. | committed there will ba good reason to be- had rejected his first nomination that he has | lieve that Mr. Nashington's charge is justi- (fied larly follows another is therefore the conse- | depredation. It requires a number of con- | any importent stock is a suflicient tempta- | Champion Morrissey and Champion Grant, Let not the truly loyal start or the tough democrats of the Seventh ward frown if we say there is a certain resemblance between Senator Morrissey and ident Grant. We would wish to make this socomplimentary to both that the partisans of each would bless us. They are both victorious fighters, both dogged, obstinate and courageous. Neither was afraid to “take punishment,” and tho Senator from the Fourth, facing Jack Heenan or Yankee Sullivan in the roped arena, round after round, with his brawny chest bared to the raining blows, may aptly be compared with General Grant grimly advancing amid wholesale slaughter through the Wilderness, Each was certain he had endurance enough to whip his man “‘if ittook all summer,” as Grant neatly said, or “if it took till the in- fernal regions froze over and there was skating on the ice,” as Morrissey more elaborately remarked. They have achieved public honors undreamed, of in their early days; their tastes ard in many respects identical. Both are ha- bitually silent men. Accordingly, when Grant speaks. the world sets its ears to listen. He has spoken lessin public than any other President we ever-tad ; and al- though four years a Congressman and fow @ State Senator, Mr. Morrissey until Wednes- 4 day never opened his mouth, On the samo, subject as Grant's speech at Des Moines, it will command, we have no doubt, equal at- tention. The man of the sword saw a “bogy” in Rome; the man. of the mauloy saw a ‘‘bogy” in sectarian bigotry, for thoy” looked at the shield from different sides ; but both are loud in championing the pub- lie Schools)”"The ‘indi of the sword would pile up another hundred thousand corpses to protect them; the gladiator would fight any man in the United States for five thou- sand dollars a side (the money to go to Mr, Bergh’s society) who would displace a brick in them, With Morrissey and Grant as champions of the schools they aré safe, and Mr. Blaine’s amendment is as superfluous as his late post-mortem patriotism, With the schools safe we may admire Sena- tor Morrissey’s speech. When Othello comes before the Venetian Senate and says:— Rude am I in speech, And little blessed with the set phrase of peace For since these arms of mine bad seven years’ pith, Till bow, some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented fleld— we at once become sympathetic, because wo feel he thinks himself at a disadvantage. So, when the man of “first blood” and ‘first knock down” rose to use the tongue upon the Senate when he would gladly have punched its heads, individual and collective, he was listened to with the intentness that Dooney Harris would bestow in watching an “Unknown” in his opening rounds. And the speech was manly and direct, though it came gurgling upward from the volcanic depths of his chest. It was an unmetrical New York Othello that said, regretfully, ‘I know and feel the necessity of education;” but the “round, unvarnished tale” that he delivered won the hearts of the Senate at Albany as that of the. valiant Moor did those of the Senate of the Adriatic’s queen. “OurstpE BarBagtans” are apparently not growing popular in that great Empire where prejudice is almost immovable, China. A general war on foreigners is thought to be looming up. The Chinese have been making improved artillery of the largest calibre and adopting breech-loaders for their immense army, so that an excursion to Pekin will not be as easy as when the French and English made their last retalia- tory march and sacked the palace of the Em- peror. McKes, or St. Lovis Whiskey Ringyfame, is said by our correspondent to have pre- sented a good defence through the witnesses for the prosecution calling each other liars allround. The proverb about rogues fall- ing out, &¢., seems to have goné wrong. The progress of the Milwaukee and Chisago PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. William Beach Lawrence, of Rhode Island, is-at the Albemarle Hotel. Professor Theodore D. Woolsey, of Now Haven,.ar- rived in phe city yesterday and is at the Everett Houso Acabie telegram from London, under date of 27th inst., reports E, Tonge and Lawrence Alma Tadoma, the artists, have been elected Associates: of the Royal Academy. Proadhon, the leading writer of the modern Frenoh socialistic school, said:—‘‘My real masters, those whe have caused fertile ideas to spring up in.my mind, are three in number. ' First, the Bible; next, Adam Smith, and last, Hegel." William Cullen Bryant could not go to a Williams College dinner; so he poetically wrote:—“Old ago | shrinks from cold as from areminder of the grave- yard, and loves warm corners and nestles. in saug | nooks out of the wind.” A San Francisco paper, speaking of a suicide, says:— “When a Chronicle reporter visited the house shortly | after the occurrence ‘the Chinese boy servant was.an- | concernedly engaged in clearing the tabie of the food, | which had been untovoled. ” oe A Massachusetts clergyman, Rev. Bromley, saysthas: | baked beans are ‘devils’ food,” just because Bo : | has them cooked on Sunday morning, Rev. theology ie wrong; the devil does not hire a baker ow | Sunday mortiing; be pays a sexton. | During the past year 199,307 tons of ore have been extracted from all the levels of the Consolidated Vir- ginia mine, Nevada, and 169,004 tons have been re- | duced, which yielded $16,731,653 in ballion. Of this | amount $12,204,000 were paid out as dividends to | stockholders. | Layer after layer of cedar trees have been discov- ered in the marl beds of New Jorsey. The newest lay- ers are 1,200 years old, Ten thousand shingles ara sometimes made from one of these trees; and there ars. not jackknives enough in Jersey to whittle the shingles down to a democratic majority. An Irish dramatic eritic, of New York, recently in- vited a brother journalist to take a pint bottte of cham- pagne “But,” said the journalist, “Iam in company with twenty or thirty friends and can’t leave them.’ “© pshaw!”’ said the critic, “bring yer thirty friends | along, we'll hov the pint bottle anyhow.” =~ | Dr. Fergus, of Glasgow. writes:—“Streams should never be arched over and used as sewors, because, as ernor, but it is merely specious, and will fade | the value of shares depends is within reach | the bed is always trregular and uneven, the flow will be retarded and refuse matter will lodge and decompose in the crevices. If ft ts ever advisable to follow the AMPurse of astream, then a reguiarly built sewor should be conatructed. "* A Philadelptian, who is glad that Congress wag patriotic enongh to vote for the Centennial appropria- tion, advertises a shoot for-a prize; “the conditions of the shooting to be—Three. rats each, twenty-one yards. | rise, six yards boundagy, one and a half ounce shot. | Open to all shooters. No outside shooting allowed, | Plenty of rats alwayseon hand."’ | A woman correspondent, who gots her chicken salad fornothing in Wawhington society, writes, in payment therefor, that Mrs. Babcock is very petite in statare ‘and attractive tn appearance, not through her pret ness of features, but from her dark skin and eyes being Sot off to striking advantage by her bait, which ts sof and gray. like tendrils of Soanish mos® i