The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1876, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER SB 22, 1876.—QUADR <4, NEW YORK HI HERALD BROADWAY AN AND ANN: ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON )N BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business, news letters or telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yore Henavp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ahisiacoetin PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH t. SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XU ———— = -NO. 296 nit S THEATRE. M. Mr. bangs and Mrs, Agnes Open from 9 A. ¥ sv: ¥ HALL. THOMAS’ GRAND CONCERT, at 8 P.M. HOUSF. M. Mrs. Howard. ATRE, UNCLE TOM’ WALL r FORBIDDEN FRUI1, ats P.M. SAN FRAN! MINSTRELS, atsP. M. CHATEAU MABILLE. VARTETY, at 8PM KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, ets P.M. COLUMBIA OPERA HOUS: VARIETY, ats P.M ' THEATRE VARIETY, at SP. M. 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Srrtmmc Buit.—The mysterious Indian who killed Custer and then ran before our troops is now in want of ammunition and has the audacity to ask fort. The govern- ment is astounded at this audacity and looks at Sitting Bull much as the beadle did at Oliver Twist when that young scamp had the impudence to request “more soup.” Wr Ane Sunpnrisep that Prince Bismarck, notwithstanding his hostility toward the Henaxp, should impose the character of a Henaxp correspondent upon one ot his spies in order to persecute a few innocent but credulous subjects of the German Empire who choose to believe in an appearance of the Virgin Mary at an insignificant town in -Germany. According to a special cable despatch this morning the astute Chancellor has just perpetrated a serious joke of this character. Quimpo Arpo’s Fxats at checkers revives the famous performance of Ah Sin at poker, with this difference, that in the one case the “Heathen Chinee” was worsted, while here he is victorious, Appo is a noted criminal, but while he was able to escape the meshes of the law in the past it is to be hoped that in the present instance he will be brought to a just punishment. His account of tho affair, as it is reported in the Heratp this morning, isso ‘‘childlike and bland” that itis clear that it may not be said of him that murder isa game which he does not understand. Still it is a question whether he can be hanged under the laws of this State. He despatched his victim so quickly that “premeditated killing” may not be part of his offence, simply because he killed his man before he could make up his mind to do it. Croton WatEn. The Board 0 of Aldermen are taking a commendable interest in the important question of securing a proper supply of water for this city. Although the resolutions adopted at yesterday's meet- ing do not exhibit a very profound knowl- edge of the subject on the part of the framer they bring it to the notice of the public in a manner that will probably insure an early relief from the present discom- fort suffered by the citizens. The adminis- tration now in charge of the Croton water supply is compelled to shoulder all the blame which properly belongs to its prede- cessor for the stupidities and shortsighted- ness that have produced the failure of the water supply. We would wish to see a more independent course pursued by the Commissioner and the engineers, in which, while frankly admitting existing defects, they will inform us how they can be most speedily remedied. New York will then willingly foot all the bills, I proving New York. In the opinion of many of the wisest and most careful citizens all over the country we stand near the threshold of a new era of prosperity. It is generally believed that the hard times are nearly over; that we have re- covered most of our losses; that habits of economy, patient industry and careful trad- ing have once more very generally taken the place of the wild and speculative habits bred of the war and the paper money era, and that we may hope from the next Congress such favorable legislation as the country needs to | set it going again. But nothing is more certain than that a general revival of industry and commerce will pour into New York a largely increased volume of trade; ships will crowd our port as never before; the grain, provisions and other products of the West; the cotton, rice and other products of the South; the manufactures of the East and Middle States and the swelling imports from abroad will meet here in greater quantities than ever before, Is it not the part of prudence to prepare in time to accommodate this vast commerce, to welcome it, smooth its way, to make the business of exchange cheap, safe and convenient? Some of our citizens think not. Some days ago we printed a communi- cation from Mr. Martin, President of the Department of Public Parks, who, though he thinks the city is too poor to venture on some improvements which he believes to be necessary, shows that the Park Commission has not neglected preparations for them and that it is ready to do its share and the city's share toward the completion of one of the most needed of our public works, the Har- lem River Improvement. We are glad to know this, and we urge upon the attention of the merchants of New York the necessity of getting the federal government to do its share at once, That improvement is needed, not for the use of the population and business now there, but for the use and convenience of an immense and con- stantly growing traffic which for lack of this improvement is now crowded into the lower part of our water front and put to needless loss, expense and risk. It is the commerce of New York which needs the completion of the Harlem Canal, and it needs it so much that every week’s delay is dangerous to us and inflicts and threatens irreparable losses. In his address last week Comptroller Green agreed entirely with the Hxenaxp in this matter. Since he spoke Mr. Smith Ely has been nominated for Mayor, and he, too, has a thorough and intelligent comprehension of the wants of the city in which he has been a prominent and suc- cessfyl business man for many years. Mr. Ely as Mayor will possess both the knowl- edge and the influence over the merchants to stir up our whole community to interest in these public works, on the completion of which the future prosperity of our city so greatly depends, The Hrraxp has frequently urgea that we ought not to be expected to defray the entire cost of such works as the Harlem Canal. Indeed, very few believe that we ought. The federal government claims rights of its own on that water way, and if the New York delegation in the House will this winter do their duty to the city, and if the Chamber of Commerce, the mer- chants, the Mayor and the other city digni- taries will hold them to their duty, Con- gress, made aware of the necessity of the work, and of the very moderate amount needed to complete it, will make the neces- sary grant. A little over two and a half millions, according to the careful estimates of General Newton, will complete the canal, and he has the sur- veys already made. But to complete the canal will be to change the face of New York. It will be to invite hither all the commerce which naturally flows to our port, but much of which is now repelled. Wg take the liberty of calling the atten- tion of that comfortable and dignified body, the Chamber of Commerce, to this and other questions which, as they bear so vitally upon the future of the city as a metropolis of com- merce, should interest the body of mer- chants more than any one else. If the Chamber of Commerce would depute some capable persons to make for it a study of the present condition of the city, regarded sim- ply as a great commercial centre, and of its requirements, to make the deposit and exchange of products safe, cheap and convenient, we believe most of the members would be surprised, not to say startled at the result. They would at any rate be able to make recommendations; to unite their efforts toward a well-planned system of improvements ; to show up abuses and the evil results of neglect and unsyste- matic or misapplied labor. The Heraxp has for years persistently urged this great ques- tion upon the attention of the merchants and other citizens; delays now begin to be dangerous. We are at present in a depressed state of business; everybody complains of hard times and the dulness of trade; yet the business streets even now are inconveniently crowded, and the great body of our commerce is conducted under circumstances of delay, cost, riskand loss which would be unbearable had not everybody become accustomed to them. What, then, will be our situa- tion when trade really revives and when the commerce of New York is doubled? If we do not act quickly and decisively the merchants of New York may as well write “No Admittance” over the entrance of our harbor, and set themselves up in a comfort- able and moderate, but not exciting, retail business. We need here a good many things ; but, most of all, New York needs a little system in its public improvements—a little deter- mination that they shall not be put off by neglect or hindered by appeals to courts or made the sport of swindlers by mischievous legislation at Albany. One of the improve- ments most vitally needed, as everybody knows, is rapid transit. For years we have hovered on the edge of a proper rapid transit road; for years various and varying interests have prevented the con- struction of such a road. Does any consid- erable body of the merchants or the influen- tial citizens protest? Not at all. A para- graph in the newspapers conveys the news that once more, by a decision of a court or through some other device, rapid transit is killed, and that ends the matter. Unless such bodies as tho Chamber of Commerce use the influence which they ought to have | we shall go on hoping and expecting rapid transit roads and othgr improvements and never getting them. To say that New York has a heavy debt and is severely taxed is no answer, for it is not necessary that the city shall carry out, at its own expense, all the needed works. The city is not ex- pected to build rapid transit roads. But the citizens ought to see to it that somebody is allowed to do so, under proper restrictions and regula- tions. The city need not build the docks and piers which are needed ; but the citi- zens ought to demand that private capital should be invited to build them under proper regulations and on a plan which should be in all respects well fitted for the purpose. The same is true of warehouses, of elevated roads, needed to make a cheap and rapid connection between ships and warehouses and between the water front and the railroads. Private capital would do all these things for us if it were allowed. It could do them better than the city if only the city would mature plans and regulations and submit these to capitalists. The docks of Liverpool and London are neither owned nor built by those municipalities ; but they grew up in the hands of private owners, working under a general and well defined plan, whose object was to systematize the work and to make of all the parts a well considered unit for the convenience of com- merce. In like manner New York can get most of her needed improvements by the help of private capital and with very mod- erate municipal expenditures. Tweed. Tweed escaped from jail on the 4th of last December. He was discovered in company with the person calling himself Hunt, on a rock, a few miles from Santiago, on the southern coast of Cuba, on the 11th of June. Where had he been in the meantime? Our Vigo correspondent suggests, on some hint obtained there, that he had been in Cuba for some months before he openly appeared as John Secor, in Santiago, and that his sudden landing on the rocks, near Santiago, in June, accompanied by Hunt, the notorious diamond shirt studs, and a quantity of leather valises, was, in fact, an effort to escape dis- covery or pursuit in the other part of Cuba where he had previously lived. The pass- ports certifying Secor and Hunt to be Ameri- cans are dated, it seems, in early April. Tweed's account to the authorities of San- tingo was that he sailed for that port in a vessel from St. Augustine, and was landed in asmall boat at night by the master. If this story is false it was still ingenious. There is no Spanish Consul at St. Augustine to certify passports; hence the Cuban au- thorities could find no fault with the docu- ments. Where had Tweed been from the 4th of December until the 11th of June? This is one ofthe mysteries which perhaps he wili clear up when he arrives in New York. But this is not the only one. Why, after weeks of detention, was he suddenly and uncondi- tionally released by the Cuban authorities, when, within twenty-four hours after he sailed, they ordered his rearrest and sent a cruiser after him? Why did Governor Til- den wish him to be refused communication with everybody? At whose instance did the Secretary of State move for his apprehen- sion? Who first discovered his identity, and how and where? Were detectives on his track? and how long? Who is Hunt? The Heratp has answered that query. Mr, Maginnis, the son-in-law of Mr. Tweed, has been travelling under the name of Hunt, with his father-in-law, and the iden- tity of Maginnis has been established by a photograph. How did Rich- ard Tweed know of his father's where- abouts? Was the journey to Vigo part of a prearranged plan? All these are in- teresting questions. Some of them are an- swered in the correspondence and reports we print elsewhere in the Hrratp to-day. Some of them Tweed or his companion Hunt will perhaps answer later. Tweed returns to New York to find one of his ancient enemies nominated for Mayor by the Tammany Hall which used so obediently to do his bidding. He returns to find his name a byword of contempt in the streets out of whose bad pavements he used to make a “commission.” He willbe landed at one of the docks he used to superintend for his own gain; he will be lodged ina jail which has contained many of his pals, but out of sight of the Court House which is the last- ing monument of his peculations; he will find the venerable O'Conor alive and ready to prosecute him, and the scarcely less ven- erable Field alive and ready to defend him ; he will see himself an object of curiosity to many who once looked up to him as the enduring sharer of ill-gotten riches ; he will miss some friendly faces, as that of Nathaniel Sands, and he will know, and perhaps will enjoy, the knowledge that his return bringsa pang of dread to the hearts of not a few conspicuous, or would- be conspicuous, city politicians of both parties. At present the wonder is whether his slightly attenuated frame is suffering from sea sickness. When he lands the greater wonder will be whether he will at last con- fess. He could no doubt ‘‘a tale unfold,” which, though amusing to the majority of New Yorkers, would be the reverse to many. Survicrent Tux Has Exarsup since the “Tammany nominations were perfected to test public opinion in some degree in re- gard to the ticket. The selection of Smith Ely, Jr., for Mayor is generally approved, and he will be supported with enthusiasm. On the other hand, the defeat of Colonel Roberts for County Clerk is severely com- mented upon, because his nomination would have been a worthy recognition of the Irish element in this city. In other quarters there is some dissatisfaction, but no serious indications of a defection within the ranks. It is not yet determined whether there is to be a union of the republicans and anti- Tammany, with Comptroller Green at the head of the ticket, and the decision of this question will be the feature of municipal politics this week. On the whole, there isa prospect for a lively and closely contested local canvass, in which the Presidential issue will not enter to any appreciable extent. - of vacillation. Turkey and Europe. At the edge of a precipice Europe gave up Negotiation as hopeless; but, having looked into the abyss and acquired a wholesome horror of it, she turns to negotiations again with a desperate resolve to try and extort from diplomacy sonfe endurable condition, Thus the war which but a day or two since was regarded as a visible reality seems less im- minent, as in the return to the endeavor to reconcile conflicting views there is an indis- position to admit that any obstacle is in- superable, There is a general “show of hands” in regard to the armistice. Turkey, it will be remembered, proposed a six months’ truce, and Russia insisted that hostilities should be suspended for six weeks only unless in that period the belligerents had mutually accepted the terms of a durable peace. Va- rious reports were current of thé attitude of the several Powers in regard to these points; but it now appears that England was the only Power which supported Turkey’s prop- osition, and she declares her readiness to abandon it. Germany is indifferent as to the duration of the armistice, but expresses vaguely a hope that the Powers will agree. Austria, Italy and France support, or are prepared to support, the Russian demand from the consideration that the Turkish proposition would be oppressive to Servia. England gives a singular evidence She alone supports Turkey's demand, and she alone had declared the proposiion of which that demand was an evasion to be her ultimatum. She had formally told the Sultan that she could hear no other answer from him but the accept- ance of her note ; yet when he madeanother answer she not only heard it but became its advocate with other Powers. England now informs Russia that as she has supported the six months’ armistice she cannot oppose it, but will not oppose the counter proposition. She might as well have said that, as she has already been on both sides with regard to this armistice, she can now readily return to the side on which she stood at first. Perhaps the most hopeful fact in the news for the prospect of peace is that England, returning to the position she assumed sev- eral days since, when her three points were given to the Sultan asan ultimatum, now seems really to abandon him to his fate un- less he accepts those terms. If he accepts those terms peace is secured.- So long as he refuses to accept them England, as now ap- pears, will refuse to deal with him, and in- timates that if he requires other terms he must make them for himself by direct nego- tiation with the Emperor of Russia. Cer- tainly the greatest obstacle there has been at any time to the settlement of the politics of Eastern Europe has been that the immediately interested nations never dealt directly with one another, and the declaration now practi- cally made by Effgland that the Sultan must make his own terms with his great neighbor is the abandonment of the traditional policy of England. England’s persistent endeavor has always been to prevent such a direct understanding, for it was only in that way that she could give to’ her own in- terest that importance which properly was due to the natural interest of the Ottoman rulers and ‘the neighboring nations. Every time that Russia sought to protect the Christian subjects of the Porte or sought to make terms with the Sultan on any point she found that the case had to be determined not in Constantinople, but at London or Paris, and the effect of this fact upon the Ottoman government was to per- vert natural principles in politics, for the Sultan did not accommodate himself to th circumstances in which he must live. did not concede or yield what was demanded in proportion to the resistance he could offer, but depended always upon the interests of the Western Powers to support him in his defiance of justice. Compelled now to abandon that artificial support his Empire may be saved by timely concessions, It would appear that the principle of the Sibylline books applies to the price of Tur- kish tranquillity. Every time that the Sul- tan rejects a proposition he finds that the succeeding note contains an addition to the terms. The English note demanded an unconditional armistice, the stalus quo ante bellum for Servia and Monte- negro, and a liberal autonomy for Bos- nia, Herzegovina and Bulgaria. He re- jected that, is now handed over to Russia, and she demands an armistice, »dministra- tive self-government for all the Slavic proy- inces and the concession of reforms under the direction of 1 commission appointed by foreign governments, and to be protected by a foreign armed force. This would reduce the Sultan’s sovereignty to a nullity ina large part of his dominion; but the progres- sive tendency of the demands should sug- gest to him the wisdom of accepting with as little delay as possible, lest future condi- tions should be far harder, Southern War Claims, Some weeks ago we advised democratic candidates for Congress in Ohio and Indiana to answer frankly certain questions put to one of them, Mr. Milton Sayler, about Southern war claims. Mr. Sayler, after some hesitation, made a satisfactory reply, and has been re-elected. If the democrats in the East are wise they will also make some declaration on the subject, which is attracting a good deal of attention, and doubt as to their position on which is likely to injure them. The question is, What will the democratic party do, if it comes into power, in relation to claims made by citizens of Southern States for damages inflicted on their pftop- erty by United States troops in the course of military operations ? Republican speakers and journals put forward this question and frequently assert that such claims would have great and perhaps unrestricted recogni- tion in a democratic Congress. It is at pres- ent, as everybody knows who listens to cur- rent political conversation, one of the most | impressive points in the republican can- vass; and it is strengthened by the un- doubted fact that there are not a few silly people in the Southern States who fondly imagine that under some conceivable cir- cumstances they can get pay from the gov- ernment for use, occupation, waste or de- struction of their property by our armics. v damages have been awarded and paid by the republicans to loyal Southern citizens, or men supposed to have been loyal. What has been done, they think, may be done again ; and they suppose that possibly the requirement that claimants shall prove loyalty may be repealed. We wish the leaders of both parties would publish at once their pledge to grant no such claims hereafter, of any kind whatever, whether to men claiming to have been loyal or known to have been the reverse. The whole business is a fraud and an incentive to fraud. The war has been over more than leven years. At this distance of time any one who is knave enough may set up claims and may hire witnesses to prove both the damage done and the owner's loyalty. It is high time for the whole Southern war claims busi- ness to stop. It is a constant source of frauds upon the Treasury. Here are the questions which were put to Mr. Milton Sayler, democratic candidate for Congress in Cincinnati. They are brief and pointed, and can be easily answered :— First—As a Representative in Congress, are you in favor ot, or opposed to, refunding to the Southern States, outof the United States Treasury, the $2,402,110 direct taxes paid by them ? Second—Are you in favor of, or opposed to, refund- ing the cotton tax, in whole or in part, levied and collected trom 1803 to 1868, and amounting to $68,072,388? Third -Are you in favor of, of opposed to, the pay- of stores and supplies taken of of rent for the nd occupation of property, including vessels, where the ciaim is in favor of @ citizen who was dis- Joyal during the war? ‘Fourth—tt you ure opposed to the payment of such claims, are you im favor of, and will you aid in the passage of a resolution, or bill, or some declaration by the House of Representatives, against the recognition or payment of them by the United States? We should like to see the candidates of both parties pledge themselves to reject all Southern war claims whatever, whether pre- sented by persons claimizg to be “loyal” or otherwise. It is high time to stop the whole business. But we warn the democrats that they run the greatest risk of losing votes by silence. It would be well for them if Gover- nor Tilden and all democratic candidates for Congress should at once, and positively, make answer to the above questions. The Governor and the Bank Super- intendent. Some doubt seems to be cast upon the power of the Governor to rid the State of an incapable, unfaithful or negligent Superin- tendent of the Bank Department. Both the power and the duty of the Governor in such a case are clearly defined in the laws relating to the subject. The statute govern- ing the Bank Department provides (sec- tion 2) that the Superintendent and his deputy “shall be in all respects subject to the provisions of the sixth tit of chapter 5 of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same may be applicable ;” and (section 3) that “the Superintendent of the Bank Department shall possess all the powers, perform all the dutics, and be sub- ject to all the obligations and penalties now conferred by law upon the Comptroller of this State, or to which the Comptroller is subject in relation to banks,” &c. Referring to the Revised Statutes of the State of New York we find in section 69 of title 6, chapter 5, part 1, that a “Secretary of State, Comp- troller, Treasurer, Attorney General, State Engineer and Surveyor, Canal Commissioner or State Prison Inspector may be removed by the Senate, on the recommendation of the Governor, for misconduct or malversation in office, if a majority of all the members elected to the Senate concurtherein,” &c.; in section 70, that ‘the Governor may sus- pend any of the officers” (enumerated above) “during an investigation against said officer, and may appoint a suitable person to perform the duties of the suspended officer dur- ing such suspension;” and in section 72, that if such suspension shall occur when the Senate is not in session then the Governor “shall convene the Senate in extra session within thirty days thereafter for the purpose of proceeding with the investigation of such charges.” The Governor, therefore, has the power to suspend the Bank Superintendent for ‘“mis- conduct or malversation in office” during an investigation, and to appoint a suitable per- son to perform the duties of the suspended officer during such suspension, but he must convene the Senate in extra session to try the charges within thirty days after the suspen- sion shall have been made. Governor Tilden may think it ‘‘inexpedi- ent” to call an extra session of the Senate to try Mr. Ellis, or he may think that the pres- ent Senate, with a republican majority, might refuse to remove the Bank Superintendent, who isa republican, But as the Governor is sworn to see the laws faithfully executed it is difficult to understand how he can con- scientiously connive at their gross abuse and at the ‘‘misconduct” or ‘malversation” of a public officer on the plea of expediency, In the case of the Third Avenue Bank the proved facts are that in January, 1875, a false statement of the bank's condition was made by two of the bank's officers under oath, to the Bank Department, showing the bank to be solvent, with a clear surplus of seven thousand dollars; that in the following March an official Bank Examiner reported to the department that this, sworn statement was false, and that the bank was insolyent over two hundred thousand dollars without taking into consideration the depreciation of its real estate ; that Bank Superintendent Ellis, with this information before him, allowed the insolvent bank to continue its business for six months longer and*to increase the number of its swindled victims ; and that eventually he connived and assisted at the appointment of one of the officers who had sworn to the false January statement as receiver, thus enabling the latter to close the doors and seize upon the securities and records of the bank before the depositors knew of its banktuptcy. This is one case against Mr. Ellis. If the Governor thinks that the protection of two or three hundred thousand poor depositors is not of sufficient importance to warrant an extra session of the Senate he may at least suspend the Bank Superintendent thirty days before the next Legislature convenes. But there is another way to reach the Superintendent. He may be, and ought to be, indicted by a grand jury for misdemeanor in office, and on conviction of that offence he would for- feit his office, Perhaps District Attorney Phelps will attend to this feature of the case, They are persuaded to this hope by the tc | The Weather. that more or less of such claims for Despatches from’ Havana, Cuba, and Key: West, Fla., announce the severe effects pro- duced at both places by the movement of the hurricane. Contrary to the opinion of the Signal Service Bureau, but agreeably to the prediction of the Hznaup, the great storm passed over Cuba in describing its parabolic curve from the Cartbbean Sea, The influence of the movement of the hur- ricane through the Atlantic Ocean is now felt at New York, the prevailing northeast wind being tangental to its circumference. We do not, however, experience a gale, be- cause the storm centre is very distant south- eastward from this city. Key West has been swept by the western quadrant of the hurri- cane, which has followed the, axis of the Gulf Stream and will probably be felt on the coast of Europe during the coming week. Eastward and westward bound vessels on the Atlantic will be likely to meet with heavy northeasterly and north- westerly gales if they come within the area of thestorm. The disturbance in the West has moved northeastwardly toward Lake Superior and the British territory, and an immense rain area extends from Nebraska to the Atlantic coast. New York is, therefore, between two storm centres, whose influences are very widespread. Another storm centre is developing in the Southwest, but it will, probably, pass over the Gulf and South At- lantic States to the Atlantic. The weather in New York to-day will be cloudy and foggy and warm, with possibly light rain in the early part of the day. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The Universalists of New York and Brooke lyn are about to inaugurate a series of re- vival meetings, to be held alternately from week to week in their respective churches, Mr. Sweetser will therefore break up the fallow ground to-day in preparation for the seed sowing during the week. Mr. Clarke will show us the benefits of a live religion, such as he believes in and enjoys, and Mr, Hepworth will tell us how to prevail with God and reveal to us the laws of success, Temptation is something that comes to Mr, Martyn’s congregation, as well as to others, and enterprise with a view to profitable godliness ought to be encouraged in all congregations, as well as in Mr. Rowell’s. In the progress of his journey toward Rome Paul stopped on his way many years ago at the Three Taverns, and Mr. McCarthy proposes to call at the same place to-day, figuratively, while Mr. Colcord utters God’s call to the impenitent, and Dr. Deems pre- sents the inevitable and the responsible, Dr. Armitage knows a friend in need who is a friend indeed, and whom he can recom- mend to all who need such a friend and who’ will give as hearty a welcome to every re« turning prodigal as Mr. Lloyd can portray. For, as Dr. Goodspeed knows and declares, there are wonderful things in Christ. He is the chief of Christianity. He sits on the temple throne, as Mr. Kerr beholds Him, and, through His spirit and power, we, aa well as Mr. Lightbourne will recognize ous friends in heaven. ‘ Governor Smrrn, or Gsonrata, begins ta feel how unpleasant it is to have one’s own ox gored. Inthe old anti-slavery days it waa a great grievance at the North to be come pelled to join in the hue and cry aftera runaway slave. Now, even the militia of Georgia refuses to obey s mandate of the United States marshals to act as a posse comitatus in carrying out the Enforcement act. The proper course would be to obey the law until its unconstitutionality is fally established. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ingersoll is speaking in Iowa. ‘The French are woak in cavalr; Austrian officers speak many languages, The latest novelty in Paris is perfume hats, New Jersey democrats oreak up republican meetings, William Everett bas resigned his professorship in Harvard. Ex-Governor Gaston, of Massachusetts, has gone "' Wisconsin, Wyoming antelope are being slaughtered solely for their hides. A Darragh young man wrote a eed to his girl and took it himself. The Big Bonanza mill consumes 30,000 pounds of quicksilver a day. The Cincinnati Gazetle regrots that Wade Hampton was not hung in 1365, Dom Pedro's book on the United States will be pubs lished about January 1. Slade, the spiritaalist, is thin, while his business partner, Simmons, is fat, In Paris natural hair and short curls will come into fashion with cold weather, “A. D. F."—You are wrong. An aplary is note place for keeping monkeys, Ex-Postmaster Generai Marshall Jowell, of Hartford, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General McDowell, who is loeated at San Francisco, is coming East for his family. Baron Heyking, of the Russian Centennial Commis. sion, is at the Albemarle Hotel, Mr. Rupert Carington’s recent parliamentary ex penses for Bucks were $65,000, There 1s a Western rumor that Hugh McCulloch wild be Tilden’s Secretary of the Treasury. The Shah's son, who is twenty-two, is to have @ teacher ci French, a lady, sent from Paris, General Alfred T. A. Torbert, United States Conse! General at Paris, is at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel, “The country needs a change,” as the pool seller anid to the jockey when he sold tho first heat, nada thistle is becoming ao climated on the Pacific slope. Thistle make the farm: ers swear,” In one California county the patient Chinamen Save dug $4,000 worth of soap root this year. No white man would so employ himself. Vrofessor Volt, of Munich, says that a fat man may bo badly nourished, and that it is not weight but quality of flesh that makes a healthy man. Dr. D. R. Burrell, of Bloomingdale Asylum, New York, has been appointed resident physician to the hospital for the jt Canandaigua, N. Y. From Punch:- ianthropist—‘There's a penny for you, my Jad. What will you dowith it?” Sweeper— ‘What, all this atonce! 1’ll toss yer for it, double or quits !?”? From London Fun:—‘‘Farmer’s daughter—‘What nasty wet weather we've been having Intely, Mr, Swizzle.’ Mr. Swizzle—‘Oh, you, Miss Betty, very wet, indeed; but it’s been mainly outside wi’ me!’ " « Some one remarked the other day to Goneral Toombs that they had seen an Item in a newspaper stating that he had joined the Methodist Church, when the General replied, “Yes, 1 Knew it was 4 lie as soon as I saw it,” A French journalist saying that he interviewed Bou, cicault, makes the dramatist say that he is fitty-f was first a mathematician, wrote a drama at sixt appeared On the stage at vhirty, in order to win Jady who is now his wife, and does not like the present Freneh plays. The directors of the Academy at Venice huve shows. their respect for Mr. Ruskin by offering him every facility for seeing large pictures, causing them to be taken down frora the walls and placing them in a room where ho may examine or take sketches from them af lelsure. Mr. Ruskin has been, as usual, nard at work,