The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1876, Page 4

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The London Times had yesterday a note- worthy leading article animadverting on the Cuban circular of Secretary Fish and his own explanation of it. Mr. Fish is treated with considerable severity by the Times, the substance of whose article personal and printed this morning. It is too evident that there is a great deal of ground for the vigorous criticism of our London contem- porary, and that Mr, Fish has, to use a slang phrase, ‘‘put his foot in it.” When his extraordinary circular was first brought to the public knowledge by the Heratp despatch from Vienna the authen- ticity of the despatch was decried in o chorus of contradiction from journals sup- porting the administration, The ground of their strong declarations of disbelief was the alleged absurdity of supposing that Mr. Fish could fly in the face of the Mon- } roe doctrine as to invite European | Powers to intervene in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, ‘The placid Secretary of State must have had his serenity a good deal ruffled when he read the complaisant journals whose ignorant scepticism and mal- adroit denials rested on grounds which were a complete condemnation of his pol- icy. He must have been mortified and astounded when he saw that those who had the greatest interest in defending him were constrained to deny the facts in order to shield him from blame. Their denials had the excuse of kindly intentioned ignorance ; WANORAMA, 1 to 4? i BA Wagiery, asp.) BROC WALSE SHAME, at 5 TONY PASTORY WARIETY, at 5 4 THIRTY-FOURTH OPERA HOUSE. FARIETY, at P.M. Mai 2PM. TRE, e |. Mrs. G. C. Howard, AN VARIETIES. BO’ WNCLE TOMS CAB PARI WARIETY, at SPM. BAN FRANCISCO MIN tS P.M. ene EW YORK, V — From owr reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be colder, and | clear or clearing. Tue Henarp py Fast Mar Tratns.—News- dealers and the public will be supplied with the | Damy, Werexiy and Sunpay Henaxp, free of | postage, by sending their orders direct to this | Oflice. call loaned at from 5 to 7 per cent, ending at | 51-2 per cent. Stocks were generally lower, | with the market dull, and some evidences | that the bulls are gathering their profits. | Foreign exchange was firmer. Roscon Coyxuinc as a Canpmate.—The Bun says :— Is there any good reason why Roscoe Conkling shoilta | Mot be the candidate for President of the republican party | of New York? No, we cannot see why he would not be a good candidate for the republican party. _ Actrve Oprrarions Acamst tar Canuists Yontinue, and the cable brings full details | of the fighting in the North. If this activity | is not relaxed the government may be able | to-keep its promise and bring the war toa | but Mr. Fish, who knew the facts, must have had ‘‘a fearful looking for of retribu- tion” when the country should come to know that the very thing which his friends had discredited on the frowhd of impossible absurdity was a thing which he had done past recall and could not long con- ceal, In general popular apprehension, as interpreted by those who sincerely wished to support him, he had abandoned one of the most cherished and time-honored American principles: and perpetrated a stupendous political blunder. Their prompt incredulity and their stubborn disbelief, which impelled them to deny the facts be- cause the facts seemed so absurd, was such a condemnation of Mr. Fish as no statesman ever before received in the guiso of honest friendship. authenticity of. the Hrnatn’s Vienna de- | spatch, on the ground that it made Mr, | Fish chargeable with an abandonment of the Monroe doctrine, showed that, in the opin- ion of his friends, his application to foreign Powers was utterly indefensible. They vir- , tually told him that what he had really done, and they kindly disbelieved, was repugnant to the public sentiment of the country. When at last concealment of the facts was no longer possible, and the correctness of the Hrnatp's information was about to be vindicated by official statements, Mr, Fish told advanced | sought, or at least permitted, an inter- | i i i H , : * | comes to consider the respective attitudes of to 113 1-4 and closed at 1151-8. Money on | view with the Washington correspondent | English parties in foteigt pition: sntdd 40.| | England. As was inevitable, he regards the of a friendly dqmocratic journal, in which he undertook to explain his position and defend himself against the criticisms of the journals of his own party whose ignorant denials of the facts were a concession that he could not be de- fended on any other ground. In that inter- view he entered quite at large into the his- tory of the Monroe doctrine and at- | tempted to show that the popular con- ception of it is erroneous. This line of defence was an admission that he had gone counter to the Monroe doctrine as it is commonly understood. Qui s’ercuse s'ac- cuse, and Mr. the Monroe doctrine in that interview was a virtual plea of guilty to having Bpeedy close. Tue Kueprve is evidently driving a good’ bargain with the English capitalists, and their French rivals are displeased accord- ingly. Perhaps in the end both sides will find that everything is fish which comes to the net of Ismail Pacha. violated it in popular estimation. y But the Monroe doctrine as they understand ‘it and as it has been held for three generations. | They are ready to maintain it and fight for Tue Pactric Mam, Svnsipy, like Banqno’s ghost, will not down. Its latest revival is in the testimony taken before Commissioner } Wight in the suit against William S. King. Before the examination closes it is possible the whole story will be told all over again. | to diplomatic reserve. The country has | 8 | P y | | steadily indorsed it as it was meant, the | A Lonvoy Souicrron is the latest reported @efaulter. Honorable dealing among busi- | ‘Doss men is no longer as proverbial as it in the past, and the frequency of crim those of Winslow in Boston and S: London is undermining all faith in the honor of business men. Tar Tru. or Rupensremn, charged with it in its accepted sense; and in a} governmerm controlled by popular opinion it is absurd to go back and refine on the actual text ond history of President Monroe’s celebrated declaration. The country has accepted it for more than fifty years in its spirit, and not in its mere letter, which paid due regard popular heart not feeling itself bound by those forms of official decorum which ; this government is not at liberty to violate. | &k 8 y <@"''The people stand behind the govertiment ith in | and control it ; they regard it as their ser- | vant and not their master ; it is their own interpretation of the Monroe doctrine, which | they have both the will and the power to | ™ the murder of Sara Alexander, was began ing} enforce. If, therefore, Mr. Fish’s attenpating earnest yesterday, and some important testi- mony Was elicited. The crime was one of singular interest, and as the evidence against the accused is purely citcumstantial the case | Will attract much attention. ‘Tax Resvrz or tae Frexca Exxctrons is | not clearly defined, but the discomfiture of) the Bonapartists and the stability of the Re- public are established. These aro the facts which all earnest republicans were anxious | * to ascertain, and outside of these mere party | groupings of the Senators chosen have little | importance Exoranp rm Inpia.—The English in India have fresh troubles in prospect. The nephew of the deposed Ghicowar of Baroda has been banished for inciting rebellion; the Khan of Khelat is to be deposed, and a general rising throughout Beloochistan is feared. A crisis is imminent, and it is not impossible that Disracli will have a war where he least expected it. Tax Rxsoivrton limiting the Presidential | office to one term was discussed in the House | of Representatives yesterday, Mr. Frye, of | | historical explanations had been correct they would have been to little purpose, since the | | people have the same right to declare their | sentiments now that they had in 1823, and theit present views of European interference | on this continent are embodied in the ordi- | nary and popular view of the Monroe doc- trine. But, in point of fact, Mr. Fish's explana- tions are historically untenable as well as repugnant to settled American sentiment. The London Times is perfectly correct in maintaining, against the assertion of Mr. Fish, that the Monroe doctrine never received the assent of Mr. Canning. The Zimes, how- ever, seems to fall into the same error as Mr. Fish in confounding things that are essen- tially distinct In that celebrated Message of President Monroe there are two dif- ferent declarations, occurring in different parts of the Message. One of those declarations was suggested by Mr. Canning to Mr. Rush, our then Minister at London, and there can be no question that Mr. Canning heartily approved of that part of the Message. grandiloquent boast that he ‘had called a is cabled asa special despatch to the Henan | The confident denials of the | ish’s attempt to explain away | American people stand by the | It was the foundation of his | declaration in Mr. Monroe’s Message arose from a different quarter. It grew out of the claims of Russia and the claims of England on the Pacific coast, and that separate | declaration contains the really characteris- tie part of the Monroe doctrine. The Times would have been entirely accurate in assert- ing that Mr. Canning never assented to the Monroe doctrine and never proposed it to Mr. Rush if it had only made this distinc- | tion between the two declarations of Message and had confined its ial to the one which con- tains the real gist of the Monroe doc- trine. That the declaration against coloniza- tion, and not against the supposed designs of the Holy Alliance, was the one which has taken such deep root m the public mind, is proved by the whole subsequent history of the Monroe doctrine. We cannot at | present go into that subject in detail, al- though there is an interesting thread of his- tory which might be traced, We will merely cite one signal instance of tho | official interpretation of the Monroe doc- trine, which shows that the real source of the doctrine is that declaration of Mr. Monroe in which Mr. Canning had no part. President Polk, in his annual Message, December 4, 1845, had ocea- sion to make a very formal reassortion of the Monroe doctrine; but he made no allusion whatever to the Canning-Rush declaration, and rested it entirely an the other declara- | tion of President Monroe, which he quoted at length. It is a well estab- lished historical fact that that | part of Mr. Monroe's celebrated Message was not acquiesced in by England. Mr. Richard H. Dana, in the long note of more than a dozen pages on the Monroe doctrine which he inserted ip hig edition of Wheaton’s x ae Ee we International Law,” clearly points out the distinction between the two separate declara- tions, and says:—‘‘It is well known that nei- ther Great Britain nor Russia assented to the } position taken by Mr. Adams and now pub- licly announced by the President under his advice; for those Powers had plans of extending their colonization and | occupation, and contended that portions of | | the country were still open thereto in the principles of public law.” The London | Times is, therefore, quite correct in impugn- | ing Mr. Fish’s historical statements. Castelar on Europ: n Topics. To-day we print the second letter of Sefior Castel, It is a brilliant and lucid survey of Europe from the standpoint of a social and political philosopher, who goes just | deeply cnough to touch the marrow of the great topics of the day and to indicate those | relations of great problems to one another | which give the subject what unity it pos- sesses, From the Herzegovinian revolt, and an account of the Servians, he glides natur- | ally to an appreciation of the condition of | "Turkey; and from the Gordian knot of ' Oriental complication turns easily tothe rela- | tions of England to Russia and Turkey, and so | tories as always identified with the vigorous | conduct of British foreign relations and the | liberals as failing in this respect by their com- mercial spirit, which has made them unable | to comprehend any rational advantage of | which it was impossible to state the cash | value. In conceding that one act of Mr. | Disraeli’s has maintained the prestige of his | party in this respect he does not notice the | droll circumstance that this one act of the } | great party of the non-commercial spirit was acommercial act. It is rather queer that a | downright bargain like that of the purchase of the Suez shares should give occasion to | trumpet the aristocratic spirit of the tory | | party over the commercial spirit of their | opponents, particularly as this act the more | | closely it is regarded appears the more likely | never to have any but a commercial signifi- | cance. Sefior Castelar’s account of Ferdi- | | nand Lesseps is a felicitous portraiture of | one of the notal nen of our time, | Aw Abvenrtisraxnt—anp 4 Goop Oxz.— | George Stadly has advertised himself very neatly in a Paris paper lately. He printed in the Figaro his card, with the right hand | lower corner turned, and with a note to | “the two hundred and sixty-four French officers of the Army of Metz” who had fre- quented his ‘American restaurant” in Ham- | burg during their captivity in Germany, in- | forming them where they might see him in Paris throughout the month of February. In explanation of this quaint advertisement the Figaro -states that while at Hamburg the | | officers in question boarded at this restaurant and were often very short of money, but ever got short commons on that account ; | that when’ they left they all owed more or | less to Stadly for meals or for borrowed money, and that since they have sent for- | ward their cash from garrisons in all parts of | France and Algeria and paid the last cent. | Everybody this way will be very glad to | hear that there was that sort of a restaurant | in Hamburg, and will admire the good | | memory of our countryman’s gallant guests, ash manele Roscoz Conaurna as a Canprpatz.—The Sun says :— | ds there any good reason why ‘Roséoe Conkling showd | not be the candidate for President of the repuldican party | of New York? . No, we cannot see why he would not be a | | good candidate for the republican party. Azsovr Trost Unton Sonprens,—A num- ber of disabled Union soldiers have been re- moved from the little places they held in the Post Office of the House of Representatives, We gave a list of their names the other day. We have not heard that they have been re- appointed. Will not Mr. Speaker Kerr make haste to tell the Postmaster of the House that he must put these men back? | There is an indecency in this summary kick- ing ont of these petty places of the poor fel- | lows who spoiled their lives in the service of Maine, offering a substitute fixing the term | pow world into existence to redress the | the Union, We do not suppose that the of both the President and Vice President at | pix years after the 4th of March, 1885, and making » President who has held the ofics | oy the for two years incligible toa re-election. It | ly the question will be acted upon | Roscoz’ Coxsiixc as a4 Caxpmate.—The | Monroe doctrine. balances of the old.” Now, the sophistry practised by Mr. Fish in the interview on which the London Times comments consists in laying the other declaration quite out of view and treating the part suggested by Mr. Canning as if it wore the whole of the That part had in view the supposed intention of the so-called says :— ; ag welrs J Roscoe Contiing should | Holy Alliance to interfere in the quarrel galt or e Par | between Spain and her colonies and assist J we cannot sgo-thiy ho would not be a | her in reducing them sabjection. | demoeratic leaders would like to be held re- | sponsible for it, but if the men are not put | back soon the public will put the failure | | upon them. Count Anpnassy's Nore has been pre- sented to the Porte, and a speedy answer is | } promised. The Sultan will have to succumb to the domands of the great Powers, and in | ing into the hands of speculators. It was | the end a reform of some kind will be at- ; tempted. Andrassy's scheme may be ac- copted, but whether it wil be gartied out ig | interests of the parties to the suits in which | triumph is only tempomary. The German ‘Tho ober anostion Which led to (ho other | a dillgrent matter, The Tarif Bill. We suppose no rational creature expects that the Tariff bill, which has been intro- duced and referred, will pass both houses and become a law, The manner of its ap- pearance is such as to tempt and almost provoke the Committee on Ways and Means to pay it scant respect. It is not their bill, but the bill of Mr. Morrison, acting, not in his capacity as chairman of the committee, but as an individual member of the House. Even if it had been prepared by Mr. Morrison himself, instead of by Mr. J. 8. Moore, who is not a member either of the committee or the House, the impro- priety of ushering it into Congress in the way he has would be all the same. If he chooses to accept the work of another as his own nobody has a right to complain, espe- cially since he allows the real author of the bill publicly to wear the credit of framing it. Mr. Morrison has made the bill as fully his own by adoption as it would have been by actual paternity. If he were not the chairman nor a member of the Committee on Ways and Means his introduc- tion of such a bill, whether framed by him- self or another, would be perfectly proper and entirely respectful to the committee 3ut his official position as its head alters the case, ‘The Committee on Ways and Means con- | sists of nine members, presumed to have | been selected for their ability and their | knowledge of fiscal questions. By the rules of the House its committees keep their delib- erations secret, and it is not in order for a member to refer to anything done in com- mittee. A strict enforcement of this rule is of altogether more importance in the Com- | mittee on Ways and Means than in any other, since the prices of commodities are affected by changes or the prospect of changes in the rates of taxation, and specu- | lators stand ready to avail themselves of such knowledge if they can get it. It | might, therefore, be fairly argued that Mr. Morrison himself does not expect the success | of this bill, because if he did he would be bound, as chairman of the committee, to observe the usual precautions against play- r right enough for him to employ Mr. Moore | to supply the defects of his own knowledge, but he should have reserved the results for use in the committee. Unlike- ordinary members of the House, he has free and con- stant access to the committee, and can bring to its notice any fiscal measure he pleases without the cir- cuitous publicity of proposing it in the House for reference. It was not respectful to the committee to attempt to forestall its action by producing a tariff bill complete in all its details in advance of the deliberations and votes of its members, Of | course they will not accept such a billasa whole, and perhaps not any part of it. They will do the duty for which they were ap- pointed, and if they report a new tariff it will be the result of their own discussions and deliberations. They do not yet know \if a the mere fact dangerous principle to suffer the clerks and deputy clerksof courts to fill such positions. They are well enough paid without. them ; the clerks receiving six thousand dollars a year and the deputies five thousand dollars. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature by Senator Bixby correcting this evil, and it should become a law. But % would be well to add to it a provision that in all suits where both plaintiff and defendant agree upon a referee the appointment of the person thus selected shall be imperative upon the judge, Roscoz Conxurya as a CanpipatTe.—The Sun says :— Is there any good reason why Roscoe Conkling should not be the candidate for President of the republican party of New York? No, we cannot see why he would not be a good candidate for the republican party. “French Politics, At least one hundred of the Senators just elected in France are republicans of that moderate sort by whom the reasonable re- straints of government are not regarded as oppression and tyranny, and at least fifty of the seventy-five Senators chosen by the It results, therefore, that in a body of three hundred members one-half are men who can practically co- operate in support of the new constitution and the republican system; and all the other factions taken together at most only equal the republicans in number. It is not possi- ble to conceive a more salutary distribution of parties than this presents, For all the ordinary measures of administration, for the legitimate, proper, effective legislation in the Senate, the republican supporters of the constitution have all the votes they want. No merely factious opposition can embarrass them, since the opposition ele- ments, all further from one another than from the republicans, will never act alto- gether on ordinary measures. But i case arises where Bonapartists and Orleanists, legitimists and red republicans can all cast their votes together in pursuit of some common object, even then they cannot prevail unless a sec- tion of the moderate rational republicans shall act with them. If united, therefore, they must be united in opposition to some measure as to the wisdom of which certain republicans are themselves doubtful before their opposition can be effective ; and this is | just the time at which it is best that the re- publicans should be restrained. It is well that they should not be able to carry any measure as to which any respectable section of the republicans can be arrayed against the arty. ‘ Evidently this result of the election must have two important consequences. It must affect very greatly the elections for the choice of a new Assembly, and it must change the Ministry. In every country there are a great many who want to vote with those who win ; but in no other country has this disposition a power in any way com- parable to that it exercises in France ; and | that in two such con- how much money it will be neeessary to | gicts as that in the Assembly and raise, nor can they know until the Commit- | that before the people the republi- tee on Appropriations has determined the | pang appear to equal in number! scale of expenses. A tariff should be framed with due regard to the proposed expendi- | tures of the government, and a reduction of | twenty or fifty millions in the appropria--| tions would require a different distribution | of the duties among various articles as well | as different rates. A well constructed tariff is a thing of wise adaptations, and for the chairman of Ways and |} Means to go out into the street and | pick up a tariff ready made is as incongru- ous as it would be to go into a shop and buy a suit of ready made clothes for a man whom he had never seen, not knowing whether the proposed wearer were tall or short, stout or lean. The Committee on Ways and Means will probably reject Mr. Morrison's ready made garment and take the measure of the expenditures before cutting out a revenue to | fit them. Roscoz: Conkuina as A Canprpate.—The Sun says :— Is there any good reason why Roscoe Conkling should not be the cunitidate for #resident of the republican party | of New York ? No, we cannot sce why he would not bea good candidate for the republican party. The Reference- Abuse, One of the most deplorable features of the old Tammany rule was the bad influence it exercised over the courts, The corruption of the judiciary in the days of the Ring is a matter of history. There has been a marked improvement in the personal charac- ter of our judges since the overthrow of the Tweed réyime. Probably no present occu- pant of the Bench would allow a political leader to influence his action on the Bench and-control his decisions, But when a judge allows a political party to dispense the patronage of his court and to dictate his ap- pointments of referees in pending suits he makes a dangerous stride toward a complete surrender of his judicial independence and purity. Since “reformed” Tammany took possession of the city government and of some of the judicial offices over a year ago the list of referees appointed by the courts shows how completely the selections have been under the control of political influ- | ences. It isthe ‘‘Gratz” business over again. We have before us two copies of the legal paper, one of October 6, 1875, and the other of January 20, 1876. In these appear the names of | the following Tammany office-holders ap- pointed as referees by Tammany judges: Edward D. Gale, Attorney for the Collection of Arrears of Personal Taxes, referee in ten suits; Thomas Boese, Clerk of the Superior Court, referee in six suits; William Sinclair, Clerk of Supreme Court, Chambers, referee in twelve suits; Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr., Clerk of the Court of Commof Picas, referee in five suits—besides the following, who are referees in a number of cases each:—William 8. Keiley, Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pieas ; Thomas H. Landon, Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; Joseph Meeks, Clerk of the Superior Court ; William 1H. Boyd, Corporation Attorney; H. D. Purroy, Alderman, and the brothers of fonr of the judges. It seems to be improper that a political ‘ring should thus swallow up all the referee all the other parties together will greatly | the republicans have not won in any ordi- | nary conflict in the late elections. They have won against ‘an extreme usé of the power of the government in favor of their opponents, against a resolute and indisputa- ble determination of the Ministry to give all possible aid and comfort tq a party com- mitted to the support of monarchy. They have also won in defiance of a distribution | of the electoral power which directly and | flagrantly assisted the Bonapartists. Facts | like this imply and prove that the repub- | lican party js the party that has a deep hold | on the confidence of the people; and this | must appear more clearly still in the vote for | } the formation of the House that is supposed | in all political. systems to reflect more faith- | fully the temper of the nation. As to the Ministry, M. Buffet's exclusion is, of course, the necessary result. In the late “crisis” that gentleman endeavored to force the re- | tirement of M. Say and M. Dufaure because they were republicans, and therefore not in | sympathy with the will of the nation. Now he must retire, acknowledging that this rule | applies to him, because he is not a repub- lican. | | Chronic Diseases. The new hospital, to build which a com- mittee of gentlemen are endeavoring to se- cure fands, will be, if ever constructed, an important addition to our city charities. No other really great city of Christendom is without such an institution, and in some | great cities there are several such. In hos- pitals, however, this city is especially poor. | We'have several establishments supported | as public charities by religous denomina- tions—and the Roosevelt Hospital is a fine though not a very useful establishment—but | we have not one decent or properly con- structed or administered establishment con- ducted at the expense of the city. The new | Assembly some weeks since are republicans | | of the same character. strengthen this party for another trial. But |) o¢ Blaine, Morton or Bri A correspondent writes tocomplain of the epistle of Mr. Bergh, in which that humani- tarian says that if he should stop a car and oblige the passengers and the shop girls ta walk home in the slush and snow that the Henaxp, among others, would make a ter- rible ado about his using ‘his arbitrary authority, &e. Our correspondent wants ta know why the shop girls should be obliged to walk when most of them are thinly clad and few among the hundreds are able to buy a pair of overshoes, and thereby may take their death of cold just because some horse, in Mr. Bergh’s opinion, is a little dis- tressed. ‘To clinch his argument the writes adds :—“I know a family, father and mother over seventy years of age, and an invalid daughter that has not been out of the house in seven years, who are supported by the work of two shop girls, and they are about | three miles from it, and haye to depend on the cars to do it.” It will be seen that the painful burden or this epistle is whether the overcrowding of the strect cars is to be discontinued at the expense of poor shop girls, who will be compelled to walk in consequence. Our correspondent evidently has not fully con- sidered the question he undertakes to dis- cuss, and he berates Mr. Bergh terribly sim+ ply because his own premises are false, What the Heratp has been contending for is that the shop girls and everybody else shall both ride and be able to sit while riding, in- stead of being compelled to stand, as nowa- days. It would certainly be better for those gentle creatures who are supporting an aged | father and mother and am invalid sister if they were always sure of a seat in the street car going to and coming from their work. To gain such an advantage as this the tem porary inconvenience of stopping over+ loaded ears and compelling the victims of the street railways to walk might be borne with comparative patience, though it is not impossible that people who have consented for years to be packed into these vehicles would gramble outrageously if required to bear their share of the inconvenience neces- sary to reform. What is wanted isa seat for every passenger and plenty of cars to | accommodate every person who desires to ride. When these wants are supplied there will no longer be a question whether shop girls shall walk, and to gain these even Mr. Bergh may suffer with patience the bitter shafts of irate correspondents who write to the newspapers. Generat Grant's Asprations for a third term, it seems, are not yet at an end, and a story reaches us from. Washington that the | President has declared that if he cannot se- cure his own nomination he will at least designate his~ successor. The story is certainly a characteristic one, and it shows, if nothing more, that the third term danges has not yet entirely passed away. The designation of his successor by General | Grant, in so faras the Cincinnati Conven- tion can accomplish the President's wishes, is within his power; but it remains to be seen whether he can designate himself. Whoever the President's choice may be, that part of the story .which declares that it is cannot fail to be interesting to these gentlemen. - PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ¥ ‘ Winslow is nearing Schiedam, where he will proba | biy take some more sebnaps. Mrs. Senator Sargent quietly encourages the womay suifrage movement in Washington. Postmaster Gencrai Marshal) Jewell was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday on his way to Washington, Senator John B. Gordon, of Georgta, arrived in the city yesterday from Washington and is at the New Hotel. The press of the country, republican and demo cratic, seem to agree that S, 5. Cox has talked himself to death, Mr. Emerson says that ‘‘the essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems t be an honest or well-intended halfness,”” Mrs. Seott-Siddons is on her way to California, Japan, China and India,whence she will return im eighteen months, David Dudicy Field has for some years been trying to buy the old gambrel-roofed heuse in Haddam, Conn, where he first saw the light. In Japan the camelia grows wild, while the girls ara cultivated. In more civilized countries the camelia ia cultivated, while the girls grow wild. . The London Weekly World says, according to a ca- ble telegram, that Professor Joun Tyndall will shortly marry the daughter of the Right Hon. Lord Claud Hamilton, . Speaking of Governor Hayes, of Obio, the Chicago Journal says that as a compromise éandidate he ranks with Mr, Wheeler, of Now York, aud a legion of other possibilities, : Colone! Valentine Baker's wife has not got a divorce, as was stated, but, on the contrary, visits him daily im prison, and at the expiration of his term will come’ with him to this country. A party of native Roman Catholics, some thirty or | forty in number, living ia Tsukidji, Yedo, propose te petition the goverzment to remove all impediments to the free and open exercise of Christianity. It has long been known that fr which has beem thoroughly freed from floating particles by fire, the ac- tion of acids or otherwise, will not produce lif, amd it | may now be accepted as an axiom that air which has | lost its power of scattering light has also lost its power | of producing lite, ‘Tne last mail from the Capo of Good Hope brings the: project is to securo wards for the proper treatment of those who are loosely called “‘incurables,” and who, on account of cious to permit any one man to have a bed fora year or two. Naturally the | proposition to provide beds for the re- mainder of their lives for all persons afflicted there are many cases in which sucha pro- exercise of humanity, and the enterprise should have the encouragement of all chari tably disposed persons, ‘Tur Dent or THe District was the chief topic of debate in the Senate yesterday, Mr. Bayard, Mr. Thurman and Mr. Morton taking,’ nmy require in the way of investigation or discussion it i clearly the daty of Congress to provide the District with an efficient gow ernment, and we trust this will be done at the present session. Bumanck has been out-generalled by the Parliamentary tactics of the ultramontanes on a question touching the ecclesiastical business, without regard to the wishes or they aro apvointed. It is a wrong end laws; but, like alk victories of this kind, the government will have ifs wax in the end, this very classification, are excluded from the | other hospitals whose space is too pre- | with diseases really or nominally incurable | might alarm the charitable, and no project _ -ean contemplate so large a schenfe; but vision would be the most praiseworthy | the lead in the discussion. Whatever the past | anpouncoment that Mr, Ross Johnson, M kh A, i | about to proceed to China to make arramgements for | the importation of cool iabor. The British govern ment will allow $95 cach tor every Chinaman delivered. atthe Cape up to 1,000, ‘ t A writor in Ue Saturday eview two or three year ago called attention to a seene frequently observable om the Continent of Europe. Parties of Eaglish and Amer- | tcan travellers, Le said, when brought near each | by accident—on « Rhine steamer, aa Swiss hotel, | elsewherc—almost invariably drew apart into hease | comps; and if a.steaggler trom eithor camp happenad.to enter the other, he was regarded suspiciously asun emissary from the enemy. We learn with much satisfaction that Mr. De Lancey Kane, who has shown 89 honorede an enthusiasm in establishing a line of coaches in this vicinty, driven by gentlemen, after tho model of those which have proved so successful in London, will, with the opening af spring, establish a lino of coaches to New Rochelle, ‘to be driven by himself, The undertaking will involve wa large investmont—not less, We suppose, than $25,000. ‘Tit willrequire of Mr, Kane steady work anda dogree of persistency which would discouraga a less enthusl- astic lover of driving. Twemty-Gve horses will be acc- | essary for the running of the line, and they wil all be of the best stock, fit tomake twelve miles au hour, ; and the coaches will be Of the best modera English style. The drive to New Rochelle aloug the Sound is | one of the most besatiful out of New York, over a good road and through Sowmery always attractive. Mr. Kane, in giving %a public aa opportunity to obtaim conch drives uamer circumstances so dolightiul, is em titled to and “will receive the thanks of ail pleasure lovers, who will abundantly show their appreciation bY taking advantage of the enjoyadie drives ho will offer them. We aiso learn that on tho North Rivera tine of jie ee by goatiomen comchmen will probably pe shared —aiew Kerk Sun af wssterdggn