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erry RAL ESTATK FOR JALE. vent Central. MEDIUM SIZE ENGLISH BASEMENT FOUR STORY brown stone House, between Oth and Gtb avs, 17th amd 22d sts, ; « cosey, comfortable dwelling, in elegant order throughout, requiring little or no expenditure. and with many ©: onveniences: possession May 1; price of house, 630,000; Carpets, Gas Fixtures, Mirrors, Shades and safes sold if desired; terms of payment very easy. Bona fide pur- a wane, to give a fuir price for a good house, call on STEVENSON, Jr., OF 33 Ewat 17th et. RAND ©) Ne ng large and small AS &t special reductions, Mailed { i pon epplightion at alther of Bis ofieca Sven erate East Side. OR SALE—HOUSE NO, 1 EAST ASD ST., 25X90; lot 100 feet; bas no superior in design, material and workmanship. Apply on the premi DAY. CORNER #: 000 FIVE STORY BRICK ng. below “8 gain; 3, Sole psslew, Owe erent bargain; cheap at West Side. —FOR SALE OR TO LEASE—FURNISHED OR unfurnished, the medium size four story brown stone ing 120 West 45th st., very low. V. K. STAVENSON, (0, 4 Pine st., or 33 East 17th A POUR STORY HIGH STOOP BROWN STONE House, 57th st., near Elevated Railroad, cost $30,000, rice $17,500; Sth st, near Park, three story high stoop, 14,000; rare chance. J. iS, Broadway and 52d st. b cine” SALE OR TO LI R LOTS, HALF OF THE block on 10th av., southeast corner of 37th st. On the tear of these is a five story brick building, 260x100 feet, with steam engine; elevator and shafting ready. to rup. For fur- ther particulars apply to H. W. COLLENDER, 738 Broad- way. #. Miscellancous, OR SALE OR TO LET—BROWN STONE HOUSE, 56th st. near Elevated Railroad; possession May 1. OWNER, Herald Uptown Branch office. SES FOR SALE AND TO RENT AT REDUCED BROOKLYN PROPERTY FOR SALE | AND TO LET. A HIGH STOOP, MODERN IMPROVE. | + ment House 484 Park av., Brooklyn, 20. minutes from ferry, to McGUIRE, 644 3d av, let in whole or in part; rent low. THOMAS | PROPERTY OUT OF THE Crry FOR SALE OR TO RENT. A —FURNISHED HOUSE TO RENT AT ORANGE; + all moderu fiaprovement: house full of rare plants, carriage house, &c; low tow nant. | R. E, WESTC 7 Park place, New York, | [AGNIFICENT COUNTRY SEAT ON EAST BANK | of the Hudson, north of Poughkeepsie, SO aeres; im- | mense quuntities fruit; brick mansion, lodge, numerous out. | buildings, large river’ front, docks,’ icehouse, unequalled river und monncain views, at a sacrifice; photozraphs at our office. HOPKINS & CARRINGTON, No. 1 East 22d st. by acres; house elegantly furnished; Horses, ¢ Carriages : everything very choice and completes seven min- utes walk to railroad station: trains run direct’ to Ceuten- nial Buildings and Philadelphia in one hour; price, including everything, only. $19,000; only $1,000 cash; balance very Address Box 59, Richlan | Centro, Quakertown sti- | eany. tio’ SALE ON ee BUILDIN ‘and Water Fronts for factories, on Steinway & Sons’ | roperty, Astoria: also Lots from $350 to $500, and tinished | Frarne and Uriek Houses, from $2,600 upward; also Dwelling Honses and Parte of Hoses to Iét, tolnway & ° mill, iron foundries, metal and wood carving nected by private telegraph, per cable across with thelr New York tuetory, oid st. and. 4th way tlall, 14th st.; also W. Willams’ venoer Walsh's Hat.cap and bonnet works are in ful Steinway's large piano factory will be removed fges, as also other largo industrial est ry Works has jus and an excellent English-Germait school opencd; the new horse railroad from Astoria ferry leads directly to the Stein- way property, a distance of but 134 miles. Send for circular With description und maps of proper’ TEINWAY & Si © tot OR SALE AT ST. aU handsome private Residence, on the P! unfurnished. Apply to WILLETY BRONSON. chunge place, New York, or ROBERT D. BRONSON, Angustine, Fla, | OR SALE—A VERY EL. N 1 dence, corner of 19th and Spring Garden sts.. Phila- de!phin; handsomely finished in hurd wood, beautifully fres- coed throughout and replete with every ‘convenience be- longing to @ first class establishment; lot, 936x100; the loca- | tiou is one ot the most commanding and beautiful in the city and surrounded by some of the finest residences and is a choice situation (or ihe Centennial, or would be admirably | ‘adapted for a physician, RICHARDSON & JANNEY, 215 South Sth st., Philadetphia, _. PWELLING HOUSES TO LET. Furnished, FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED, LARGE AND ASEnall Howsen, at reduced rente. Office Nos. 4 Pine ‘or 33 East 17th st. V. K. STEVENSON, Jr. SPLENDID FOUR STORY PARK AV. RESIDE OT Sttoo: unexceptionable b'cdk, $1,200; Lexington av.” cheap; four stor ix y: others. MINZESHLIMIER, 961 34 av., near 58D st. 0 LET—WITH OR WITHOUT FURNITURE, A FOUR story brown stone House in 20th st, near Madison av., in perfect order throughout. shanidee Wo. MEXWAGAN, 153 Bowery. 0 RENT—ON st., between Sth av. and Broadway, furnish nished. Address box 4,001 Post office. TH AV.—FURNISHED HOUSE $800; unfurnished Houses an} SE. NEAR aD 8ST, dd Flats, reduced re is. 3 DAILEY, 588 61 Unfurnished. T A LOW RENT TO GOOD TENANTS. Sietst., near Sth av., 45, bd. b. 6, April 1. 284 st., opposite London terrace. 4s., b. ., b. s., May 1. Uulversity place, corner 9th st. 4%. b.6., hs. Apply to owner, JOHN A. HADDEN, 46 W \HEAP RENTS,—SO L THAT HANDSOME FOUR ) story brown stone House 140 East 59th st., in fine o7 der; also the elegant three story, brown stone 285 East 125d st., with a fine stable and coachhouse attached ; possession immediately, THOMAS McGUIRE, ‘3d av. LET—THAT NEAT LITTLE TWO STORY HIGH stoop House 119 East 51st st,, near Lexington ay. ; mod- impro' ts; nine rooms; possession immediately. n THOMAS MeGUIKE, 644 3d av. STORY BRICK HOUSE, ven from 11 to 4 o'clock. 10 LET—A SMALL THREE © 45 West 12th st. C: FURNISHED ROOMS AND APARTMENTS TO LET. _ ! N ELEGANT FURNISHED ROOM, BATH, &C. TO gentlemen ; rent $3 to $6; private house, 58 Clinton place, Sth st., near Sth av, LARGE FURNISHED ROOM— $30 monthly. 103 10th st., near 3 HED FLOOR, Wit VERY CONVEN- for light housekeeping, to let to a small family. Inquire at 01 Macdougal st., near Bleecker, TWO PERSONS, AT 383 East 20 st NEAR LEXINGTON AV.—HALL Bedroom, $2 per week; also Parlor $4 per week, with dadroom adjoining if required. }OR HOUSEKERPING-NICELY FURNISHED Rooms, with cooking stoves, privilege of washing, $5 to $7 per week, for ladies or gentlemen;, hall Rooms. 8d West Sd st. ANDSOME PARLOR FLOOR, FINE SUIT OF Tooms,cnicely, furnished, few steps from Broadway. ‘Apply at 27 West 26th s ‘Ost GANT FURNISHE ‘S, FROM $3 to $5 awoek. Apply at 15 West 28th st., two doors from Broads N 1 S°10 LET; HOT and cold water DErviaES ol kitchen. No, 80 Lexing- ste ton av., corner of 26t) 0 LET—FUR at 36 West ences. ‘as ee NEIpPSON PLACE, BETWEEN WAVERLEY PLACE and/Sth st—Furnished Kooms to let for light house- keeping. i WEST 137M ST.—FURNISHED SECOND FLOOR, ousekeeping, or separately to xen Il improvements. ON PARLOR FLOOR, private family; refer- SHED ROOMS, th st., near Sth av. 34 BENWICH AV. FURNISHED ‘E large front Kooms to let, suitable for gentleman and wife; light housekeeping it req “Ouil all the week. 39 HAST AT St. BETWEEN BOWERY, AND. LA. fayette place.-Farnished Rooms to let, without | vourd; house contains modern improvements; reference re- quired. [23 Bast ate CENTRAL 4eO depot,—Rooms, lurnished completely for housekeep- ing, for small families oF single gentlemen: rent $3 to $8 per week. Apply on the premises or to W. 8. GAVBY, 48 jeecker st. ST., NEAR GRAND MENTS TO LET. vA THIRD FLOOR, 5 ROOMS; 47 JANE. ST: and water; rent low to a good tenant. BURNHAM 609 Hudson GAS *S, 26TH ST—UNPURNISHED ROOMS, EN suite or singly; fine opportunity for a physician; cheap to parties furnishing. BOARDERS WANTED. 2, GENTLEMEN, ALSO 2 LADIES, CAN HAVE GOOD Bourd, with pleasant Rooms; ternis, $5 for gentlemen, $4 for ladies; table board, $3 50 per week; En, family. 853 West 35th st. TH AV., NO. 91,—SECOND FLOOR, FRONT ROOMS, | O with private bath; also other Rooms for families an | single gentlemen, with Board; references required. (OR SALE OR TO LET—ON ACCOUNT OF SIOk ness, Hotel, at Lon three minutes’ walk from the depot, containing 21 rooms, three largo stores, ba outhouse! well furnished thronghout, on reasonable Fr address A. B, COX, 245 3 av. | (OR SALE OR RENT, FURNISHED—HANDS brown stone Residence, 1.810 North Broad st.. F delphia. R. J) BOBBINS, Le LATE QUARRY FOR SALE OR TO LEASE.—A | ‘quarry of pure black slate, just opened: everything con- | venient for working, and within [00 yards ot two railroads. For particulars address CHARLES T. SABIN, Montpelier, FROM RK, POI sold; suitable for gardener, milk- 50 Bowery. | ap * . sale, or to let man or pasturing. 1 Rea REAL ESTATE TO EXCHANGE. _ THREE STORY HIGH STOOP AND BASEMENT brown stone Dwelling, near 3d av., for sale or ex- ebange for small. Property near the city. Call on or ad- dress MAX dress MAX EYRER, 3 ASH AND $3, bit Landing, ) WORTH O Staten Island, free and clear, for a house | worth $10,000 to $15,000. or a good Flat or Tenement worth $5,000. GREGOR & MILL av., corner h st. | LOTS AT VANDER- 1 $5 | hood. $17 Kast 13th st. Referen | closets, &e. nh UPWARD.—BOARD AND PRIVATE ROOMS; Parlors (first floor) private, $12; convenient neighbor 0, I gic Rooms, $7 and WAVERLEY PLACE, NEAR BROADWAY,— Frout Rooms, $14 and $16 for two, with Board; sin- ($9; also Table Bourd, $4; house heated throughout by stean ransient people taken. [OTH oh, WEST, JIN—A NEATLY, FURNISHED & third fidor front Room to let, with first class Board; closets hot and cold water and grate; location unexception- ie. 14st 310 PELLENT, ROOMS, GOOD imex. JOT a Bol? gWESTCA RECEPTION ROOM ‘and Bedroom adjoining; bot and cold water, gas, excellent location, suitable for = physician: Hao handsome fursished front double el WEST 90TH ST.—LARGE AND PLEASANT Rooms to let, with first class Board, on third and WEST 26TH ST.—ELEGANT ROOMS, WITH A superior table, for ies and gentiems 29° WEST 15TH ST., BETWEEN STH AND 6TH AVS.— Two pleasant, furnished Rooms, with Board. —FOR CITY PROPERTY, 750 ACRES: | r cultivation, balance timber ; large buildings, high ground, and one mile front on James Ri Jard Landing. between Norfolk and Richmond: a era ACKERMAN, 31 Park row, room 20, | OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A FARM OF 800 AC RES HENRY IMMEN, 205 East 53d KR SALE, TO EXCHANGE OR LET—A BEAUTIFUL productive Country Seat, in Rockland county, 20 miles from New York, 4,029 Post offier HANGE FOR 4 ; also farm. private residence or merchandiso fora desirable country Tlotel on Erie railway, one hour out, 0 minutes. Address OWNERS, room 19, CHANGE FOR SMALL HOUSE IN by farm, © three story high stoop location; in good order; hax ail | ress EXCHANGE, box 110, Herald | improvements. Addi Uptown Branch office ANTED TO si dot cal | SOME VALUABLE | Brooklyn Property for » Country Hotel or Farm or | Livery Stable, well situated in any State near railre ve location, ke, Address JOHN H. KUN, 371 Fulton rooklyn. _REAL ESTATE WANTED. _ IN THE NEW YORK TIME ay 1; for accommodations which will suit .000 per annum : would purchase a suitable | within five minutes’ walk if offered at a GEO. 7, ROWELL & CO., No. 41 Park row. TO $10,000 COUNTRY PLACE WanT- y ding loca’ fair price. $8,006 on Lexington av. Sou ed, tree and clear, for a five story Flat Honse GREVOR & MILLER, 30 av., corner “PURPOSES Proot, Located on Nassau, Ann and Fulton sts. First Floor to let, suitable for bankers, insurance offices or Beer BUILDING, — Fire Jawyers. Will be let together or_in parts: be altereu to suit | tenants if desired ; adapted for offices or stores. Reasonable rents, Also some eligible Law Offices to let: APPLY ON THE PREMISES, Take the Elevator, Inquire for Janitor. LARGE STORE AND CELLAR, , 185 SPR St.; rent, $410, also cheap Lofts; also Rekery, with Store Fixtures ahil Dwelling, at 439 Ist av. ; rent, $49, Ap ply at 365 Broom T STORE NO. Lofts, each i BROADW. O LEASE, THREE 200, with Offices; rent low. | A —TO LET OR LEASE, NO. 162 SOUTH ST, COR- | « ner of Dover st., Baliding desirably located Yor ship | Ghandlery businers; oviside entrance on Dover st. to second | very moderate rent aud immediate possession. | RACE S BLY, 22 Pine st. no . 28. —VOCR STORY AND BASEMENT | Apply on premises to JOHN PAR- ROADWAY. Store to let. NS, ROADWAY STORKS TO LE’ AR UNION AND : also one on ion square; Due loca- Yon for first cl and reasonable reuts, E. A. CRUIKSHANK near two’ depots. Address offers box . | family. 158 WEST 38D 8T.—SECO) ‘LOOR, ELEGANTLY furnished, with or without private’ table; French family. * A0 EAST 9TH 8T., NEAK BROADWAY.—TO LET, with Board, large’ Rooms, suitable for gentlemen and wives; Rooms for geutiemen; day boarders accommodated, 45 EAST 20TH ST., BETWEEN BROADWAY AND +) 4th av.—Rooms, with first class Board; double and sin- gle; references exchanged. 45 EAST 22D ST., NEAR BROADWAY.—ELEGANTLY i. furnished Rooms, with first class. table, for families; re 61 es. D AV.—TWO OR THREE GENTLEMEN CAN be pleasantly accommodated with Board in a private INTON PLACE.—PURNISHED ROOMS TO ith Board, from $6 to $8 pe: 3 89 £ QQ LEXINGTON AV. NEAR 27TH ST.—A NICELY 4 Room to let, with or without Board; small iL SOMELY 129 EAST ST.—ONE LARGE, TANI 4) furnished second story roors (southern exposure), with Board; moderate terms; house and appointments hret class. 153 Bos, wo men. T 8T.—ROOMS s TO LET, WITH gentlen sand wives or single gentie- “WEST 21ST ST.—A LARGE, 8 a small one, with or without Bo 9207 WEST 24TH ST.—TO LET. Ri 4 large Room ou second story ; also Extension on par: lor story ; terms es BOARD AND LODGING WANTED. OARD WANTED—TWO ROOMS, BOTH WARMED by grate fires, for # gentleman and his sister, where Cleanliness and wholesome food are considered better th: style; t ‘not in @ costly part of the city) not to be abo $16 por weck for both; unexceptionabie references given and required. Address, for three days giving full particu- Jars, B. B. 1. Herald office. 107 HaNkY, 8%, RIVE MINUTES WALK ‘FROM Falton or Wall st, ferries.—Genteel families or gen- Uemen wishing to economize, elegantly furnished Rooms, with good Board; references require: entiemen constantly, day ladies day and evening. Hotel uecommodations. Atte NEW ENGLAND HOTEL, BOWERY AND Bayard st., are 200 light, newly furnished Rooms; lodgings, Sue. ; for gentiemen only, Brox HOTEL, FULTON ST... NEAR BROADWAY; ‘European plan; Rooms, 50 cénts upward; open ail hours. ony HOTEL, BROADWAY AND &TH_8T.—NOW open on the Kuropean plan; Rooms from 75e. to $5 per EN ALL P lemen and RANKPORT HOUSE, 202 WILLIAM ST.—O. night; 250 rooms; 5e., 3c, 80c. Gent families. (QQUEAP LorTs ON 8 to rent—Three lofts of No. # PRICE, 200 Hudson st Ce LOFTS TO. LET Broadway, Lispenard st. and 4th Dusiness, BE. A. CRULKSHANK & © roadway. BULLDINGS TO LET LOW— KE POR facturing workshops, carriage repairing, &c., on f st., 42d st, and 20th st. near Madison av. E. A. IKSHANK & CO., 68 Broadway. “EONARD ST.-STORF, BASEMENT AND WORK- shop, 113 Leonard st., to let or lease. Apply on possession, JAMES { CORTLANDT 8ST. av. suitable for any i 3 ORES AND BUILDINGS, NEAR | Nassaa st., to lot, very low, suitable for jewelry, fancy | . fers, toys, ac. E. A CRUIKSHANK & CO., GQTORE AND HOUSE TO LET—s19 HUDSON 8T., COR- ner Perry. Apply at 149 Bank st. ae j AM POWER TO LET—TWO FLOORS, 20X48, AND ove Floor 20x, Apply at 149 Bank #t QTURTEVANT Broadway. provements. Sui ninth street, for femiive: sient rates for beard a Rooms without board, $1 LEWIS & GE t ndiOUSE— AMERICAN PLAN—LARGE ams fur sing] hae A: sated je gentlemen, (a s. ERMC SEAN DS“ AVERAGE TEMPERATURE in February, ees 7} Oxq' ; <x from Wew ‘York. Firat chads Brith ros Scpenss foor thee. torear tiler etalon eth, aint Quinte AND GULE-PORTS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, 0, 20 Broadway, New York. JJOYAL ViCTORIA HOTEL, NEW PROVIDES Robes inends, «land ot peopel ecsanes Poteet cnlare, containing, tull inform ‘apply w JAMES LID- onty 700 mii steamers runnin, tag) LARGE LOPTS, 25X75, VERY NEAR BROAD- Sentaend, nal Calon square, suliable for furniture or other | q only $2,000. OGDE! LAKK, Brot way. corner Thay OOP) : a pa ER RR arch st., with Basements an @onnecting; rent $1,200, or store withoat basements, $850, LET—POSSESSIUN IMMEDIATELY, FREB OF rent till ist ‘u 5 | lighted, with See . 202 Chatham st., Fourth Floor, well LET—WITH STEAM POWER, THE WHOLE OR any part of @ baildi SOx65 ; tei dL i premises. JOHN MCCLAVE, 11 aveandd LBt—A FINE HALL OLU SOC! £4} Oth va, between doth and sik wat OS T° GET OR LEASE—THE BUILDING O17, 519, S01 oO eet 82d st., 752100, four s ar ortes, ‘with o¢ Stories. suitable a tenis aa | 70 LEASE—THE POUR STORY BUILD: ING 421 EAST ‘12th #5 Manged on oll dées: suitable for any business; Sine 252100. + 80 Bast 4th st.. near Bowery. TH AV.—TO LET, FROM MAY 8TO! 08. G7"ind 464. Apply vo GEO. G SICKLES. Ne 70 Nessa #t., room 3. LOPTS—EACH ABOUT 29x00 PRET With a2 ty feet a {std bn Syn GERWOOD & CO,, EUROPE, Pon GUARDUCCI Bankers, e x Die det Gigiio. Cireulat Notes and Drafts on London, P: Ne ‘ork cashed ot the best exchanges. Letters pits Dia mares forwarded. re pre merican English papers. Heading rooms, with . _ Goods stored and forwarded; no commission charged, WATCHES, JEWELRY, &, 5 else diamonds, watches, 7 BY ON DIAMONDS, WATCHES, &0.—DIA- Watches, Jewelry, Sere ani Seal 4 sold "ALLEN, Jeweller, 1,100 Broadway, N, and Jewelry repaired. 3 Mi 1Ath #t., near 3d ay,, LEIZED ARBLE AND MAR ) MANTELS NEW DEE. Mie oon ela upgarde: ad clon te work 2 REAVER tie eae THE CENTENNIAL. | | pose above the nations of Europe with a simple and | from the records of the State Department, lesued from | eca, who foretold the day Ex-Minister Jay on Inter-) national Courtesies. | Propriety of Inviting the Crowned | Heads of the Universe, | OUR FOREIGN DIPLOMACY CRITICISED, | | ' The “Affaire Catacazy” and the | Vienna Scandal Discussed. SUQGESTIONS FOR THE RECEPTION OF ROYAL VISITORS To tue Eniror or THs HERaLy;— The question suggested by you, whether an invita- tion to the sovereigns of the worla to viow the Centen- nial Celebration might not be attended with ‘“insur- | mountable difficulties,” is one that our experience and habit of thought would probably at first incline us to answer, as some journals have already done, “the proposition is impracticable.” Ana yet we must re- | come chronic, of disregarding, with apparent uncon- ; | sciousness or indifference, the customary urbanity of | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1876. high-toned principle and stately grace that uiumined the papers of the Congress at Philadelphia which called | forth the eulogics of Chatham, and which marked the | administration of Washington, when, im 1794, Sheviden, | in the House of Commons, pointing to the policy of America, declared that “her name and government commanding dignity?” | OUR FORRIGN DIPLOMACY. If at the present day our foreign diplomacy com- mands less adnsiration on the part of Europe, a reason for this may, perhaps, be sought in the change that | has occurred in our manners toward foreign Powers, and the subject will not be thought undeserving of at- | tention At this epoch in our history by those who have observed the extent to which both our national go ! the be- 4 our national interests seem endangered b; tige can desire shoul habit, which no true America civilized nations, Owing to the intrequency ef calla by | Congress for the diplomatic correspondence compared | with the constant demands of the British Parliament, known to the public, and from the suppression of the official imvestigation into the causes and ex- tent of the Vienna scandal the country is still unadvised of the extent of the dis- courtesy exhibited in that busimess, both in the ap- | pointment of the commission and in the neglect to in- | vestigate the scandal at New York before its removal to Vienna; a discourtesy not alone to the imperial and royal government in whose capital and under whose | auspices the Exposition was held, but to the official | representatives of all the governments of the world, whose jubilee in the cause of civilization was subjected to that unseemly interruption. Mr. Webster afforded an unfortunate precedent for rude speech and arrogant manner in a part of the reply to Mr. Hulseman that should be remem- bered only to be condemned, The Austrian Chargé had in decent language protested against the secret | mission of Mr, Dudley Mann, and the instructions given to that agent during the war between Austria and Hun- | gary to ascertain ‘the probable issue of the revolu- onary movement ’—a sort of mission that if organ- ized by European Powers during our civil war would member that the occurrence of the centennial yea the enactment of the laws directing its celebration w der the auspices of the government, the Presidential prociamation and diplomatic notes asking all the gov- ernments and nations of the workd to take part in it, constitute in our history a novelty without precedent or parallel, That our extraordinary legislation for this extraor- dinary occasion should have imposed upon us unaccus- tomed dutics and responsibilties, under the code of in- | ternational courtesy, by which international ex- hibitions are governed, is a matter of course. If, on a review of the situation, we find that we have incurred one more responsibility than we had antici- | pated; that the question of asking the sovereigns and other chiefs like the Presidents of France and Switzer- land, to visit us during the centennial year is no longer @ matter of national choice, but has become by the action of Congress and of the President, and by the respouses of foreign Powers 4 matter of international propriety, and therefore a national necessity and duty, | it may appear also that our government is as equal to that duty as any government in the world, and that, like other national duties well performed it will be attended by certain and abundant compensation, Having adopted for our Centennial Celebrationdhe | international exhibition as established in Europe, and | having in accordance with the usage of Europe solicited and obtained the aid of foreign Powers, we must look to the same usage to determine the reciprocal duties which it in turn imposes on ourselves, The Exposition | at Vienna was the latest and the most perfect of the great exhibitions in accordance with the rule which seems to have been established by successive prece- dents, and which American pride will naturally expect the American government to confirm on so memorable ‘an occasion, that each suaccceding universal exhibition shall be more periect in 1s design and execution and more useful in its results than any of its predecessors. THE ROYAL VISITORS AT VIENNA. To Vienna came for the period ot the Exposition the foreign commissions and the exhibitors of their de- partments; and there came also for brief visits, as the guests of the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia and the Emperor and Empress of Germany, the Kings of Italy, Beigium and Denmark, the Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur, the Czarowitch and his wife, the Princess Dagmar; the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany, with other princes and arch- dukes of the royal families of the Continent, Many of these were connected by ties of blood with the family of the Hapsburgs, but that was not the ground on which the sovereigns were invited. The Sultan and the Khedrve were among the expected guests, and Count Andrassy said that they would be very glad to see the President, His Excellency’s words, which may perhaps be quoted without impropriety, as showing the simple and informal manner in which such invita- tions may be properly given by ourselves, were to this effect:—*‘We never give, you know, formal invitations, but the Emperor has spoken to me on the subject and wishes the President to know that he would be glad to see him at Vienna.” Had General Grant been ablo to accept the invitation he would have been re- ceived in the same manner with the sovereigns of Eu- rope, and Count Andrassy subsequently expressed the regret of the Emperor at learning tbat the Presi- dents of the United States were unaccustomed to leave the country during their term of office. There is good reason to believe that General Grant, both from his military fame and as the Chief of the Republic, would have been welcomed by the government with cordiality and by the people with enthusiasm. TUE RECEPTION OF GENERAL SNRRMAN, ‘The year before, in June, 1872, when General Sher- man Was expected at Vienna, the Legation was advised in advance of his arrigal that the Emperor would be glad to receive the General in special audience, and “that in testimony of the high regard for this most dis, | tinguished General and Commander of the United States Army, by order of His Majesty an ‘officer would be at- tached to his person during his stay im Vienna.” When, during his reception by the Emperor, the Gen, eral spoke of the pleasant surprise with which he had | found that the Austrian officers whom he had met were accurately acquainted’ with the operations of our civil war, adding that His Excellency the Baron Kuhn, the Minister of War for thé whole Empire, had shown him maps of the South¢rn campaign traced by the Baron’s own hand while following the reported marches of our armies, the Emperor remarked in re. ply that the Austrian officers had studied with great in- terest the operations of the American armies, TRE PRECEDENT ESTAMLISHED. Returning to the question, after this passing allusion to one reason for the assurance that General Grant would have been most cordially received at Vienna, the invitations there giren, however informally, seem to show that it is a proper courtesy for the Sovereign who inaugurates an international exhibition to ask the sov- sveigns of the assisting countries to come and view the induetrial and art collections to which their goy- ernments and people have contributed, The precedent thus sanctioned at Vienna by the sovereigns of the world would be applicable wo the American Exhibition, regarded simply as an exhibition | like those of England, nee and Austria, with no | special historic meaning and no peculiar nation&l sig- | nificance. But with us the Exhibition was inaugurated | by Congress, as a fitting celebration of ‘the completion | of the first ¢entury of our national existence,” and the | Powers of the world, in the language used by the Court | of Rassia, have accepted “the cordial invitation from the Cabinet of Washington to ee in @ national solemnity for commemorating one of the grandest facts | in the history of humanity.” 1 The significance and force ot thia tanguage touch. | ing the Declaration of Independence and the birth | of the Republic become the more striking when we remember that they come from one who, | ruling. an Empire that comprises a soventh part of the territory of the globe, bas himself written a most noble page in the btstory of humamity, to which we Ameéricahs can never turn without being reminded of a similar chapter in our own story. The name of Lincoln i# associated with the emancipation of 4,000,000 slaves ; that of Alexander will live in coming ages us the emancipator of 40,000,000 serfs, But we must remember, even while listening to the | kindly words of our great friend of Russia, that the | birth of our Republic was not at the time and is not | to-day a matter of profound con; lation to ail the | empires and kingdoms, the royalties and aristocracies | Surope. And yet, with that graceful international | courtesy which marks the diplomacy of the Old World, and which should be equally conspicuous in the diplomacy of America, the governments, magnan- imoualy led by England; despite the inconvenience of the time following so soon the affair of Vienna; despite | the monetary crisis; despite the distance, the expense and the trouble of the accepted our invitation, | appointed governmental commissions, secured ern~ | mental appropriations, invoked the co-operation of their people. equipped ships and are presently comin; from all quarters—I Africa, Australia an: South America—to lignity and splendor to Centennial of our Repul 1 TY OF THE GOVERNMENT DEFINED. If it wi bh nyt ores rye of Francis | Joseph to invite the sovereigns to come to Vienna and view the Exposition iu the Prater, can we do less than ask the sovereigns, to whom we are indebted in a larger jegree, to come to Philadelphia and witness the cele- bration to which they bave so amiably contributed? i Is not this simpie requital on Fa rsh enforced by the jent? Can we omit it consistently with personal self: | an coicial Javestigation—s step which, had it been | taken tu New York when the scandal was reported and have awakened the tinkle of Mr. Seward’s bell. Mr, | Webster deemed it becoming to enforce his ingenious | | defence of the perfect propriety of Mr. Mann’s mis- | | sion and his rebuke of Austria for objedting to it by | | reminding Mr. Hulseman that the power of the Re- | public was spread over a region “ot an extent in comparison with which the possessions of the House | of Mapsburg are but as a patch on the earth’s sur- face,’” Had the statement been free from exaggera- | tion Its bearing on the fitness of the mission to Hun- gary was not apparent, and the manner of the ex- pression was not in accord with European ideas of | nauonal dignity and international courtesy. Mr, Webster’s motive, however, was clear, He was evi- | | dently not unwilling to wound the pride of Austria, | whose “iron rule” had been referred to in Mr. Mann’s | instractions, THE “APFAIRE CATACAZY,”? But take the correspondence published by the Sen- | ate, December 7, 1872, in relation to the retirement of Mr. Catacazy, whose recall haa been asked by the President atatime when, as it appeared, the Grand | Duke Alexis was about to visitthe United States, How are we to account for the tone then assumed tqward | the Kmperor Alexander? On the 9th of Sepiember Mr, Curtin telegraphed:— | “The Emperor requests the President to tolerate the presence of Mr. Catacazy until after the visit of the Grand Duke and then he will be recalled, ”? | ‘Un the 20th of September Mr. Curtin was instructed, “The President * * * has decided to tolerate tha | present Minister until after the visit of the Prince. | | That Minister will then be dismissed if not recalled.” | On the 26th of September Mr, Curtin reported the re- | sult of his interview with Mr, de Westmann, “which,” he said, “but for the condition of the recall of tho Minister imposed in your telegram, acceding to the request of the Emperor, would have been highly ami- cable, ” | “The “affaire Catacazy”? was a good deal discussed in | Europe, especially in diplomatic circles. ported that the Emperor on reading the telegram of | the 25th had said, ‘Do they doubt my word?” | ‘The useuranco that the President would tolerate Mr, | Catacazy until after the visit of Alexis, however ungra- ciously given, seems to have been relied on as protect- ing Alexis from any discourtesy {rom our government on this account; and surprise and something more was aroused atSt Petersburg, and indeed throughout Eu- rope, when the sou of the Czar of all the Russias was | allowed to leave Washington without being asked to break bread with the Chief of the Republic. Surprise has sometimes been expressed on the Contin- | ent at the smail regard for the feelings of foreign courts exhibited in the occasional publication of American | despatches presumably intended as confidential, The | publicity given by Mr. Seward to the note from Mr. | Clay, at St. Petersburg, during our civil war, develop- | ing with singular frankness his views in regard to Eng- | jand, was supposed to have been by intention; but no | | motive appeared for spreading betore the world a note | from Constantinople on the mental condition of the | Sultan, whose Minister was said to have been displeased | at the suggestion that he was an idiot, More recently our diplomatic volumes contained a despatch from one | of the ablest and inost useful of our diplomats, which | could hardly have been pleasant reading for the court | to which he was accredited. It charged the Cabinet | with blindly following the dictation of a neighboring | Power in the conduct of its foreign relations, and with being completely bewildered when its oracle was si- | lenced, and remarked, ‘Its future course in this mat- | ter, unless controlled’ by external forces, will be char- | acterized by vacillation, tergiversation and duplicity, | as it always has been, Such disclosures of views, commanicated with unre- served confidence, while impressing foreign Powers with the idea of an imperfect civilization, in which the government ts either ignorant of the amenities of social intercourse or utterly regardless of their observance, | | tend greatly to embarrass diplomatic agents in their | dealings with foreign Ministers, and thus the interest of a country may be imperilied by an act of discourtesy, | | which, however unintentional, the smallest care woul | bave prevented, | THR VIENNA SCANDAL. | But all former discourtesies to toreign Powers—even — those so unexampled and inexplicable offered to Alex- | | ander and Alexis—shrink in their dimensions beiore | | of the practices adopte still perhaps have been allowed to pass as simply an uphappy accident, for which the President had hast- ened to free the government from responsibility. But the continued discussion of the matter by somo of the suspended Commissioners and their friends, on the ground of conspiracy, was aided by a statement Washington (Avgust H, 1 note or comment in extracts from the official eorre- spondence:—‘Members of the temporary commission were largely interested in one or more sewing ma- chines.” It ws hardly strange that to the publication of such a charge by the apparent permission of the State Domemeant sy inst its foreign agents some signifi- cance should have been attached in Europe, where the governments frankly recognize the duty of loyalty , and published without | toward their agents, especially when they are unable to protect themselves, and where the simple dictates + of public justice, personal integrity and national honor render it impossible that @ government, how. | ever tempted to reverse its policy, should expose its foreign agents to misrepresentation, contumely and re- | such things may often happen without becoming | proach for no other reason than that they have faih- | fully executed its orders. THE SUBJECT REVIVED, t A year later the sunject was reintroduced in Europe by aletter from the Consul to Japan, dated June 15, 1874, to the Continental Herald and Swiss Times, an- nouncing the vindication of his management of the commission to Vienna by the President and Senate “after a patient and thorough examination ofall the | papers, records taken and evidence on file in the de- partment,” &, ‘This statement as regards the Senate is perhaps not quite correct, if they were supplied with the litho- graphed volume on the subject prepared by the State Department; for, apart from important omissions in the volume itself, the “abstract” of the evidence and report by which they are preceded, is curiously imper- fect and inexact, In regard to the second thousand dollars paid by Boehm & Wiebl the abstract says, “It is not proven,” where the report says, “$1,000 is next proven to have been paid.”’ The error, whatever its origin, falsifies the truth and destroys the value of the volume to those who are guided by the abstract, The | omissions are almost equully significant, There is no reference to the evidence of Hitzel, whose case constituted the first great scandal, nor to that of Commissioner Biodgett, nor to'that of Mr. | Francis A. Stout, who rendered most valuable service, and whose important testimony on a vari- | ety of subjects connected with the management of the committee occupied some thirty pages of the origi- | nal report, There is not an allusion to the Correspond- ence with the temporary Commissioners, uor to the re- ports of Colonel Cannon and Mr. Schultz, which ea sential to ap understanding of the case, nor to the cor- respondence with General Van Buren on his suggestion that an officer could not be suspended by telegraph, | nor to the letters of Commanders Kirkland and Bab- cock, on the testimony of General Mayer, nor to the correspondence with the chief Commissioner on the appointment of Mr. James, and there 1s nothing to show why these various omissions, occurring in differ- eut parts of the volume, were deemed proper, THR IMPRESSION CREATED AUROAD, But however imperfect the knowledge which the Senate could have gathered of the Vienna scandal from | this remarkable abstract—a masterpiece in illustrating | “how not to do it’ —the announcement that the | Sonate had approved the management was apparently | justified by their act, and the New Free Press ot Vienna, ‘said to be the most widely circulated journal on the Continent, declared that the most striking proof that be Cabinet at Washington had disapproved of the pro- ngs of the Special Commission at Vienna “was | tthe chief of the American Commission, who had been promptly suspended, had been appointed to an | influcntial consular post.» ‘Thus the government was | regarded as having disapproved of acts done by its own | orders andof haying approved of the management of | the commission at a time when the chief Com. | | missiouer himself had admitted in bis pamphlet that | his Urst assistant had not only taken moneys secretly | | from the grantees of concessions, but bad actually pro- | | prosed to rob the commission, ‘The unsuccessful at- | it was re- | tempt made under the authority of the commission to deiraud the Austrian customs was succeeded by anvat- | tempt of the lirst assistant to embezzie moneys of the United States. ‘bata management under which such offences, proven | ina governmental investigation and certified to by its own chiel, had been allowed to discredit the country at an international exposition and to disturb with its rev- elations of official corruption the repose and dignity of that stately festival should be held by the government at Washington, on a review of the facts, to be deserv- ing of approval and reward, and that that reward should be conspicuously ‘conferred in the face of the nations who had been so uncourteously treated, is a cir- cumstance that could hardly be expected to pass un- noticed in Europe, especially by those who were un- friendly to republican institutions and who were at- tempting to stem the tide of American emigration, | It can scareely be contended that such an indorsement | by our government, in reversal of the findings of an.| oilicial commission of investigation of the unmorality | in the management, should in- | crease the respect of Kuropeans for American integrity, | American culture or American self-respect. But re- cently our ‘pride was disturbed at the announcement that the Americans at Berlin, with so eminent a | scholar as Dr, Thompson at their head, had felt compelled to protest ma public assemblage against an | attempt on the part of the press to attribute the crime of Thomassen to American civilization. THR CENTENNIAL DISCUSSE: i Another International Exhibition is about to open; | this time by act of Congress, under the auspices of the | American government, and ‘invitations given by the | | President, to solemnize the birth of the Republic. | | Never had this government and pgople, remembering | the diplomacy of our early days and contrasting with | it the habit of our later years, stronger reason for | desirmg to show by their management of this | celebration that the American people, representing the | best blood, gentle and simple, of the various nations | | of the Oid World, can 1 their part at an historic | festival in honor of civilization and of the Republic | ‘with as true @ courtesy and as generous a hospitality as tes empire or monarchy in the world, f, then, we now assume that international courtesy, | as approved by our judgment and as established by recent precedent, requires that we should ask the heads of the governments that will be represented at | the ungracious part performed by us in connection | with the Austrian Exposition in the appomtment of a | | governmental commission whose official irregularities | compelied its suspension at Vienna. That part con- | cerned alike Europe and America; but, without now | alluding to the singular disregard then ‘shown to the great names of our country which represent its scien- | Ufic and artistic progress or to the wrong done to | American industries by their imperfect representation, | look simply at the bearing of the appointment of the | acting cotnmissioners and the character of their | | management upon the imperial commission, by whom | the Exposition was organized; upon the assisting. | | national commissions of foreign countries, and upon all, from the highest sovereign to the humbiest exib- | | itor and most unimportant visitor who took part in | that majestic effort to advance the harmony and cul- | ture of the world, i i POREIGN COMMISSIONS, The Emperor had appointed to inaugurate the Expo- | sition and to ask the assistance of other Powers an im- rial Commission, headed by the Archdakes Charles uis and Regnier, supported by a long list of the most eminent men of the Empire. ha proper and recip- rocal courtesy the British government responded to its , invitation by placing at the head of their commission the | Prinee of Wales, sustained by their accomplished Am- | bassador at Vienna, Sir Andrew Buchanan, the Princo of Teck, the Marquis of Ripon, Earl Cathcart, Lord Len- nox, Baron Rothschild, President Hawksley and other prominent gentlemen. Belgium headed her commis- Sion with the Count of Flanders, Germany deputed | her Crown Prince, while Russia sent the Grand Duke | Alexander. The governments seemed to vie with each lecting for an occasion so auspicious their | ablest representatives, men who illustrated | in their own characters and accomplishments the high- | est culture of age, and whose devotion to their | honorable tasks would ingure for Austria and her spirited Emperor an exhibition in each national de- | partment to which their own governments and people might point with pride. HISTORY OF THE SCANDAL. The American Commission appointed by the Prest- | dent ander the act of Congress presented an unusual feature in the fact that a majority of ite acting me: bers had been subject® of Austria and residents of Vi- enna In view of the etiquette which marks the Court of the Hapsburgs it coutd hardly be expected to give pleasure at the Austrian capiti and might pot | lend w raise the appreciation of the standard of excel- | lence recognized by the American government in se- lecting types of highest culture attained by the Repub- lig: while the management and practical results of the comimission induced comments on the effect of Ameri- can teaching upon emigrants from Europe. When, in the spring of 1873, the Industrial Palace rang with the preparations of all nations but our own, and the Ameri- can Court, apparently owneriess and uncared for, was quietly encroached upon by its neighbors, the intended participation of our country was indicated chiefly by the erection of bars and restaurants in different parts of the Prater, and a bar, with American drinks, was arranged fo = rotunda, then especially dedicated to national rophies. Quarrels between the grantees of these concession: with charges against the Commissioners of extortin; money and breaking faith, preceded the late arrival o! the Commissioners from New York, and the coming of the national ships at ite was marked by an incident little conducive to Austrian confidence or American pride. Colonel Canpon’s report showed that about 130 | doggy died ‘aiones of oe Cao eae drinking | shops n shipped wi Xposition goods froin New York in @ manner to defraud the Austrian | customs, whose officers naturally trusted to the good faith of a governmental commission. ‘The first assist- ant Commissioner attempted to throw the responsibil- ity gj the commanders of the Guard and the Weed But Commanders Babeock and Kirkland emphatically denied his statements, and one of the gallant officers | characterized them as ‘‘base and cowardly falsehoods,” | RESULTS OF THE INVESTIUATION. The Presideat bad vigorously intervened and ordered bao indicated, would have saved the exposure at vienna A partial investigation was followed by a tem- ay, Fp noe of the he gd and the be cganen ment of gentlemen ag temporary Commissioners, w' with great ability and tact, secured the honor of the country from 1g further compromised. But an ap- i to the Viennese public through the New Free ren (April 27) by the f Commissioner, with an as- surance that the suspension ordered by the President was the result of a conspiracy, forced the American scandal on the attention Europe, and especially of yenna, at & moment the least auspicious for the tas. monjous opening of the Exposition, Tho entire respectability of the management under Colonel Legrand B. Cannon, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt and Mr. Spang, and under their successors, Mr. Schultz and Mr. Garretson, tended to confirm the impression that the American government, however it had erred in the appointment of the commission, deserved credit for its prompt suspension. Thus the affair, howev: scandalous and Leemegw J or however irritating to the imperial commission the commissions otber Fowers In, ihe thought thet an Exposition of the culture should bave beon deemed by an Amer- ican commiasion @ ft occasion lor a private sab mich} Fairmount, and if our national reputation and prestige | make it desirable that we omit nothing that may serve to wipe out the recollection of our melancholy per- | formance at Vienna, it may be asked what | preparations would be necessary had we invited all the ruler of the worid and received the cordial acceptance ofour invitation for themselves or for members of their families. Judging of what it might be proper for us to do by recalling what was done at Vienna, the reception of these gentlemen and their suites would seem to bea matter of moderate cost and of easy accomplishment, AT VIENNA THE ROYAL VISITORS | were received at the railway station by the Emperor and the Archdekes and conducted to the palaces or apartments prepared tor their reception. They were attended by their host.to a reyiew or a bunt, invited toa family gala inner, tothe Grand Opera and the littie the of Maria Theresa at ScbOnbrun, with a suppor in the palace and fireworks m the park or | from the gloriette. They went day by day tothe Ex- | position, drove or rode ‘sometimes to a race or to the imperial seat at Laxembourg, entertained a tow friends at dinner when they were not dining with the imperial family, and at the close of their brief visits, lasting | generally buta few days, they were reattended to oat. special train and dismissed with a graceful fare- wel . Itis usually an object with the royal personages of Europe to escape, im travelling, the oppressive etiquette of courts; and in coming to America they may well hope to enjoy a certain degree of freeaom. While formal courtesies from governmental officers | would be proper on their arrival m the country and on all suitable occasions, they would ecarcely expect or prefer to be provided for and treated as the guests of Une President aptil they came to Washington, where it | would hardly be an act of kindness to detain them be- | yond aweek, That time would probably be ample for a dioner and @ reception at the White House, for view- ing the Capitol and public buildings, among which the Patent Office might prove the most attractive; for ex- | cursions on the Potomac and to Mount Vernon, to _ Fortress Monroe and Richmond, which would have for | some of thema certain fascination, and possibly to Harper’s Ferry, with its striking scenery and its mem. | ories of John Brown. | PROPOSED ARRANGEMENTS, | For their accommodation at Washington there might be required a hotel of medium size, or four or five ad- — joining private houses hired for the purpose, made to communicate, and properly arranged and furnished for the occasion, with @ clever chef and a perfect manager, such as may be found in the New York clubs orin a ‘rst class hotel, or jn the staff of Mr. Orton, Mr. Van- | derbilt or Mr. Scott, with stable, six or eight car- | Tiages and hot including a couple of four-in-hands | and a few saddie horses, the whole under the direction of an officer of the army, who might be charged with the entire arrangemenis, which shoald be made with military precision, punctuality being pre-eminently a | royal virtue, ‘hile in the apartments and equipages the imperial | splendor of the house of Hapsburg would be fitiy re- | Placed with a repuolican simplicity, the appointments | might still be marked by the most correct taste, and the table would at least equal that to which the guests | were accustomed at home, with novelties in the way of | oysters, terrapin, fish, game aud fruit to which they had been strangers. | THN FOREIGN LEGATIONS | could always be consulted in advance touching the | times for the visit to Washington, that the arrange- ments might accord in each case with the convemence of the guest. The royal parties would scarcely linger | long at the Exbibition, but would probably be disposed | for quiet travel and excursions, attended by their | official representatives, to our water laces and | mountain resorts and bunting spots, like the Adiron- dacks. Horse races and yacht races might be instituted | in their honor, and our cities and towns would often | cordially tender to them receptions, The study of our | institutions and our ni nal resources, and especially of | the American character, with its systematic education, quick wee Gs untiring energy abd boandiess con- fidence, would have for our intelligent visitors an in- | creasing interest as they marked the contrast between | the continents; and bad it been the aim of Congress to resent the strongest motive for drawing to the New orld the sovereigns and statesmen of the Old they could scarcely have invented for the programme ot the Centennial a more attractive feature than the Presi- dential canvass, RXCURSIONS IN ORDER, While there would be no propriety in the govern- ment interfering unduly with the freedom of its guests | after their visit to the President was ended, it wpuld | seem a graceful and proper thing, in view of the ex- tent of our country, to arrange some complimentary excursions, one especially to the Pacific, which might be made the most striking feature of their visit, im- cluding, as it would, a view of Niagara and the lak ‘of Chicago risen from ber ashes, of the prairies the Rocky Mountaina, with perhaps a buffalo hunt on the plains, a talk with the Indians and ® passing call at Salt Lake City, The suggestion of « buffalo hunt would offer wo the bold and skilful buntsmen of every court in Europe an * than that of the Exhibition. lerstand the novelty and romance, and yet more the practical hiving lessot of such an excursion for the intelligent sovereizn: n It ie easy to an | countrymen to rem | country t 3 the Old World ™ the ch: of our young Kepublic, from New York to the Goiden Gate of San Francisco, where the occident and the orient appear to meet and to mark the limit of the course of empire. It would seem to realize the prophetic voices which for centuries have been uttered since the time of Sen- when, “in later ages, Ocean should relax her chains and a new continent appear,’ to Petrarch, catching a glimpse of The daylight hastening with winged ste Perchanee to gladden the expectant Ot far off nations in a world remote; and Berkeley recording that ‘Time's n offspring is the last. Among the curious passages collected in Mr, Sum- ner’s volume are some peculiarly applicable to the cems tennial year and the coming of the nations trom afar, On the 18th of May, 1776, Galliani, the Italian gent diplomat and author, wrote to Mme. d’Epinay : epoch has come of * * * transmigration to Amery ica, * ‘Therefore, do not buy your house 1 the Chaussée d’Antin; you must buy tt in Philad phia? A half century before, in 1728, George Webb had written ;-— Rome shall lament her ancient fame declined, Aud Philadelphia be the Athens of mankini, , Thus the choice of Philadelphia as the spot where thé Centennial of the Declaration should be celebrate | Seems to have been preordained before that instrument bad been drafted, ADVANTAGES TO BB GAINED. While admitting the propriety and feasibility of ro~ ceiving the sovereigns, some may ask of ite advantage and its cost, The f placing us in our true position, with no mi. , as at Vienna, of our integrity and honor, our culture and our self respect, would alone entitle the plan to serious con- sideration. It would be difficult to count sn millions the damage to Amer! interests commereigily and in assisting foreign eflorts to check emigration @y the im- moral management of the commission which the Fres- ident so promptly intertered to suspend, and to which the government has recently reawakened attention, Our foreign guests might forget, amid the American scenes to Which they would be introduced, , the game of plunder which, under tho flag of the Ameri+ can Commission to Vienna, Was played against the par+ ties most entitled to its protection, and which was ex- tended with equal impartiality against both govern- ments when the attempt to defraud the Austrian cus- toms on the one hand, was balanced by an attempt to rob the treasury of the Republic on the other. ‘ THE TWO CLASSES, But apart from the happy effect of the ru! fs of the world lourning to distinguish between the Gducated, in- seuieeny, industrious and honorable classes of our people and tho very different ol y whom we are sometimes misrepresented, Would “hot the question looked at simply trorg an ecoomical point present ad- vantages not to be undervalued at the present inoment? Should tho internatOnal congresses and the recep- tion of the sovereigns or their representatives require together $500,000 or $1,000,000—the $1,500,000 already voted being a loan rather than a graut—apart trom all moral and intellectual and future advantages, would not such an expenditure, by giving to the Centennial celebration a higher character, by making it the holi« day event of the year for the’ entire world, prove ot immediate and practical importance to the country in various ways, and especially 1n inducing our travelling in at home, thus retaming in the, ‘ions of gold that would otherwise be ex- pended in Europe? ‘The time is still ample for all invitations and neces- sary arrangements, The exhibition will not close be- fore the 10th of November, and the latter half of August, with September and October, would be the most favorable season. Our experienced and accomplished diplomatists, General Dix, Dr. Bancroft, Governor Curtis and Governor Jewell, with many other gentle- men familiar with European life, can give judicious advice in regard to the general simplicity and quie® ness that should mark the governmental arrangements, which will bo supplemented by the generous cordiality of the people. Of the ability to find among our army and navy officers a perfectly skilful and accomplished manager of the reception there cannot be a question, and if Congress shall doubt whether the business can be managed with economy and exactness let them call | for the Vienna papers and look at the exact accounts and vouchers rendered by Colonel Cannon, Mr. Schuita and Mr, Garrettson, showing at the close a considerable balance where a delicit had been predicted. JOHN JAY, No, 22 Wasninoron Squars, Feb. 4, 1876. A DARING OUTRAGE. About eleven o’clock on Saturday nignt, as Herman Schmetzer, a pedier, residing on Union Hill, N. J., was walking through Weehawken, he was accosted by two men, who were accompanied by a savage dog. They demanded his money, and upon his refusing one of the men dealt him 2 stunning blow on the side of the head, which felled him to the ground. The dog then attacked. the prostrate man, who shouted “Murder!” at the of his voice, They commanded him to quiet, but he shouted louder. While the two men were stooping over and beating Schmetzer, Mr. Barre, proprietor of the Mountain House, who had beard the cries for assistance, rushed out, and, upon seeing him, the highwaymen left their victim lying bieeding and helpless and made good their escape. Schmetzer was finally brought to his genses and as- sisted to hia residence. He had a large amount of money in his possession, but the robbers failed to get anything. Schmetzer’s injuries are of a very serious nature, MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. WIFE OF A PROMINENT CITIZEN STRANGLES HERSELF. {From the Geneva (N. Y.) Courier.] The community were startied at an early hour op Monday morning last with the sad announcement thas Mrs, Puella D, Maxwell, wife of Henry E, Maxwell, of the well-known firm of Maxwell Brothers, had some time during the night committed suicide by strangula- tion, The particulars, as we learn, are as follows:— Mrs. Maxwell, as is ganerally known in this commu- nity, some twelve years since was afllicted with tem- porary insanity, attempting self-destruction, but since that time she has gradually improved, until, while with ber family at San Mateo, Fla., whither they had gone for the winter on the 24th of December last, Mrs, Maxwell was suddenly and violently attacked by the malady to which she was a victim, took to her bed, re- fused medical attendance, and assured her friends that she should die. By advice of physicians, oarty in January Mr. Maxweil started for home, arriving bere THE INSANE | on the 17th ult’ Ever since her return Mrs. Maxwell has been the subject of anxious solicitude, and under tho most vigilant guardianship of ber friends, During Friday last her condition was such as to alarm her family, and seemed to demand her immediate con- finement in an asylum. But on Saturday she seemed better, and on Sunday was so mach improved as to give flattering assurance that the crisis had passed, and that a speedy return to ber usual health was more than probable, Sunday night, as was her custom, she re tired with her daughter at about ten o’clock, Atone o'clock Mr. Maxwell looked into the room and saw that Mrs, Maxwell was to all appearances resting quietly, and he passed on to bis bedchamber, the room next adjoining. At five A. M. he was awakened by his daughter, who came to inquire after her mother, whom she had missed from the bed, He arose, searched the hougo, and tried the windows, which be had taken the precaution to securely fasten. Finding no trace, he aroused the household, and ® vigorous search was at once instituted. One of the pafty, in attempting to pass into the crllar, discovered the boay of Mrs. Maxwel! suspended by a sash or cloud about the neck from the knob of the door amd resting upon the stairs, Assistance was summoned and the body of the unfortunate lady removed to the parlor of her residence, Mrs. Maxwell has been subject to frequent attacks melancholy and temporary insanity since the winter 1863. Some time during the spring or early summer 1864 she attempted to take her life by plunging into Seneca Luke, and by merest accident was at that time rescued. In July of the same year she was removed to the Asylum at Canandaigua, where she remained for two years, Aftor leaving the institution, Mr. Maxwell, | to divert her mind, devoted two months to co drives over diferent portions of the State, and sh@was. finally sent to New York under the treatment of one of the most eminent physicians of that city. On her re- turn, though never wholly responsible, Mrs. Maxwell had, until the date mentioned, been much better, and had’ ina measure, had charge of ner family, it being | deemed safe to trust her to drive about in her carriage at pleasure, INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS, ARRANGEMENTS TO HOLD AN IMPORTANT COUN- CTL IN PHILADELPHIA DURING THE EXHIBI- TION. Putapetrma, Feb, 4, 1876. Among the noticeable events that may be confidently expected asa result of the Centennial movement will be the holding in this city of an International Medical Congress, beginning on the dth of September and to terminate on the 9th, The work of the previous inter- national congresses held in Paris, Berlin and Vienna having proven so satisfactory to the profession, the, medical societies of this city, animated by a spirit of pa~ triotism and appreciating the benefits that may accrue to | science from calling into council thetr brethren, have taken the initiatory steps by the appointment of delegates from their respective bodies, who are em- wered to — a scheme for the above purpose, Rig delegation as perfected THE CRNTENNIAL MEDICAL COMMISSION, with the following officers:—President, Samuel D, Gross, M. D., LL D.; Vice Prosidents, W. 3. Wa Ruschonberger, M. D., United States Navy, and Alfred, Btilld, M. D.; Recording Secretary, William B, Atkin- fon, '‘M. D.; American Corresponding es, Daniel G. Brinton, M. D., and William Ft M. D.;, Foreign Fe yay ge ee Richard J. Dung. lison, M. D., and R. M, Bertolet, M, D.; Treasurer, -— Pileens | M. e Le a ‘dstlsiiien ° 6 Congress wiil consist of de! = | foreign, the former representiny Mee aauvtes Mi Association and the State and torial Medical So- creties of the Union; the latter the principal medical societies of other countries. |The of the Con~ express themselves more fluently. os beon extended to all Cg neat medial soteeioe, in Europe, Mexico, the British Dominions, Central And South America, the Sandwich Islands, Bast and ‘West Indies, Australia, China and Japan, ‘The Centennial Medical Commission tender In advaned to their bretbren in ail parts of the world a cordial wel- come and a generous hospitality during their sojourn» Seclanie ale Srtrarsitonemy