The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1876, Page 6

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From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day witl be slightly warmer and clear or partly cioudy. Watt Srreer YesTerpay. —The stock mar- ket closed irregular and weak. The transac- tions continue to be small. Money on call loans was supplied at 5 and 2 1-2 per cent. Government securities were weak, though moderately active, and railway bonds were Bteady. Fracrayt anp Sricr—The theft of $6,000 worth of vanilla beans ‘and spices in Old slip yesterday. Cannot the police get a “scent ?” Tus Mutvar Gas Company offers to light the lamps around the statue of Franklin in Printing House square. Cannot light be thrown upon some more of the founders of the constitution? Some of our national legisiators could profit a great deal by it. Tue Derscrion of Yale and Harvard does not frighten the other rowing colleges a particle. Yesterday the College Rowing Association resolved to allow all colleges to participate in future regattas, even when not represented in the association, and they made provision for the retention of veteran oarsmen by making eligible all students who are studying for degrees. This action will afford Yale and Harvard excellent ex- cuse for the contemplative and melancholy sucking of canst thumbs. Tur Bustness Men of New York are about to investigate the condition of our docks, and the sentiment of the public will be that there is plenty of material for investigation, As tenements for rats our docks are an un- doubted success. They have afforded the city a wide assortment of odors, which have surpassed Lubin’s in range and pungency; as woodpiles they have demanded respect by their magnitude; they have done fre- quent and prominent service as pitfalls, while as cities of refuge they have earned the lasting gratitude of river thieves; as wharves, however, they cannot for a moment compare with a Mississippi mud bank in the essential points of stability and spa- ciousness. As Preprcrep in the Henap, the depres- sion which made its appearance in the Northwest a few days ago has moved east- ward north of the lakes. During its progress it has developed toa remarkable size and aow extends from Fort Garry to the Gulf of 3t. Lawrence. It is probable, as we have oefore stated, that this depression will unite with that which was developed off the Nova Scotia coast during the past two weeks and which influenced the weather in that region up to Tuesday night. Very stormy weather may therefore be expected in the North At- lantio and on the northwest coast of Europe within the next seven or eight days. The centre of high pressure having moved from the region of Northern fexas toward the Gulf coast, with light rain at Indianola, the temperature has generally ison porth of the Gull, er month for any period | A Ghastly Harvest of Death. The scenes presented during the day and evening yesterday at the site of the burned Brooklyn Theatre and in the adjoining street fill the imagination with horror. It was not suspected in the morning, when the search amid the ruins began, what a stu- pendous and appalling revelation would be made in the course of the day. It was thought when the examination be- gan that possibly a few lives might have been lost in the flames which so suddenly devoured the edifice, and even this conjecture seemed sufficiently awful. But what was the horror, the consternation, the torture of mingled suspense and fear which took possession of the anxious multi- tude assembled around the scene of the calamity as the desolating truth was dis- covered beneath the blackened débris, ex- panding from hour to hour to more stu- pendous proportions! When it was found, as the day wore on, that the victims were not numbered by tens, nor by scores, nor by fifties, but by hundreds, and this constantly growing tale of horrors was cir- culated in successive extras from the news- paper offices, an oppressive and ever thick- ening gloom settled upon the people of these two great cities. This is a feeling which all can understand; but who can gauge the anguish of those who thronged around the pjace and besieged the morgues in quest of missing friends and uncertain of their fate? When the terrible reality, when the hideous magnitude of the disaster was brought to light from beneath the smouldering ruins, all minds went back and attempted to pic- ture to themselves the scenes of the pre- ceding night. A shuddering sense of the weakness of human nature would willingly draw a veil over its average exhibitions when suddenly overtaken by great peril. The most mourniul thing in such occurrences is not the physical suffering, but the tyrannical supremacy of the selfish in- stinct of life overall the gentler feelings. The fondness of lovers, the attachment of husbands, fathers, brothers, the chivalry which prompts the strong to rescue and succor the weak, so often break down beneath the overmastering love of life that instances of this kind are the saddest feature of such great and sudden catas- trophes, although they are relieved by bright examples of noble self-devotion, To die is not the great calamity; soldiers and heroes and martyrs have stripped death of all its terrors when it is met in a spirit like theirs. A death of torture even by fire has so often been met without quailing by men burned at the stake for their faith when one retracting word would have saved them, that pity is lost in admiration when we read the history of illustrious Christian martyrs. But we cannot expect ordinary human nature to rise to that sublime level. In circumstances of sudden peril some are paralyzed by fear and utterly helpless; many lose every manly and generous feeling in a frantic struggle for life; and it is only the self- possessed and noble few that face a sudden danger bravely and forget self in disinter- ested care for the safety of others and especially of the weaker sex. There were such noble spirits in the Brooklyn Theatre when the audience was seized with panic, as there always are on similar occasions, but they were too few to prevent swooning women from being trampled upon by persons of the other sex in their mad struggles to escape from the flames. The fearful loss of life is less regrettable than such exhibitions of human selfishness, which are the insepa- rable attendant of these sudden panics. 1t is some consolation to believe that the sufferings of those who are burned to death within the walls of a building are very brief and that the end is painless. The combus- tion generates large volumes of carbonic acid gas, which, being heavier than the atmospheric air, sinks to the lower part of the building and envelops the people on the floor before the flames reach them. As soon as they are sur- rounded with this deadly gas they become insensible and are spared the excruciating torture suffered by persons burned where the‘air can freely circulate. The relatives and friends of the victims may spare them- selves the shuddering feeling that those whom they have lost gave up their lives in extreme physical or mental agony. Their capacity for suffering was probably extin- guished before the flames reached them. This is the most appalling calamity of the kind that has ever occurred in the United States, It is the most appalling in recent times with the singlo exception of the terrible holo- caust at the burning of the church of the Jesuits at Santiago, the capital of Chili, on the evening of December 8, 1863, when “over two thousand souls passed through that ordeal of fire to the judgment seat of God.” The victims on that occasion were mostly women and children, ‘One hun- dred and fifty cartloads of unrecognized corpses were on the 9th and 10th car- ried to the cemetery. Beauty, wealth and the proud Spanish aristocracy all had their representatives in that awful cortége.” We have had innumerable cases in this country of the sudden destruction of theatres and churches by fire, many of them attended with loss of life. The burn- ing of the Richmond Theatre in 1821 was an early and awful instance. Between seventy and eighty persons perished, including the Governor of the State. In the evening of May 27, 1875, the Catholic church at Holyoke, Mass., was burned, and seventy-five persons perished in the flames. In 1846 fifty persons were burned to death in the Quebeo Theatre. The burning of theatres in this city has been a common occurrence. The Winter Garden Theatre was burned ; Niblo's Theatre, the Fifth Avenue Theatre, the Academy of Music ; the Bowery Theatre has been burned thrice; Barnum’s Museum was burned on the ground on which the Hznatp Building stands, and there have been othor instances which we need not specify. Hap- pily these conflagrations were not attended with loss of life, but they show how very liable this class of buildings is to destruc- tion by fire and how dangerous it is for an audience to be present in them. The safety of the community requires that the publio authorities should nov, at last, No DECEMBER 7, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. take this subject in hand. It is their im- perative duty to make and enforce regula- tions to protect human life and prevent not merely the recurrence, butthe possibility, of such horrors as now send a shudder through this community and the civilized world. It would be easy enough to make efficient safeguards, It may be difficult to remedy all atonce the faulty construction of existing theatres, but there is no reason why ampler means of egress should not be pro- vided without delay. But there are still better measures of precaution than those which relate to architectural structure. Even with the largest doors and widest passageways a fire suddenly breaking ont in a theatre would throw the audience into @ panic, and many persons would be injured in the rush and tumult. It should bo made impossible for an ac- cidental fire in a theatre to spread at all. A fire during a performance almost always originates on the stage, and nothing is easier than to prevent its spreading be- yond. The Paris theatres are provided with a wire screen just in front of the drop cur- tain. This screen is let down ‘in case of a fire, and the flame cannot penetrate beyond the edge of the stage. Readers will recollect that the famous safety lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy con- sisted of a wire gauze lantern out- side of the lamp, it being an ascertained fact that flame cannot be communicated through the meshes of the wire. Such a screen in the Brooklyn Theatre would have saved hundreds of people from a horrible death and a whole city from mourning. Another simple precaution which is re- quired in the Paris theatres by law is the presence of firemen, or pompiers, during every performance, with pumps, hose and adequate means for the prompt ex- tinguishment of a fire before it gains headway. The firemen, in uniform, are frequently observed behind the scenes by a Paris audience. The knowledge of their presence with proper apparatus would have a reassuring effect at the begin- ning of a fire and prevent the panic and crush which are almost os fatal as the fire itself. We insist that these simple and easy safeguards shall be promptly supplied in all our theatres. We hope the proprietors will furnish them promptly without waiting for the coercion of law. But asa security against negligence the Legislature must make such regulations compulsory. South Carolina and the State Courts. The legislative contest in South Carolina is so purely a State matter that it must of necessity be finally settled by the State courts. If Governor Chamberlain has been declared elected by an unauthorized body calling itself the State Legislature, but not being so in fact, then he has no more legal title to the office than if he had received a certificate of election from the Sheriff of Richland county. The Hampton party claim that the Mackey House of Representatives is not legally organized, has never possessed a legal quorum, and has no right or title to call itself o part of the State Legislature, or to do any legislative or official act. The South Carolina House of Representatives consists of one hundred and twent#*four members, and the State constitution de- clares that a majority shall constitute a quo- rum. The Mackey, or Chamberlain, House met without this number, but nevertheless organized by the election of a Speaker and other officers. It is claimed that it had no legal power to do this first act; that its pro- ceedings were null and void, and that fifty- nine members had no more legal right to organize or proceed to business than half a dozen members would have had. The State constitutional provision is plain, and the action of the Thirty-seventh Congress in deciding that as the rebel States had failed to send Representatives to the national legislature a majority of the members chosen from the loyal States should consti- tute a quorum to do business does not ap- pear to affect or alter that provision of the South Carolina constitution. The Supreme Court of the State has now decided that the Mackey House is irregu- lar and illegal, and therefore all the subse- quent acts of that body. become null and void. Suppose, however, that Gov- ernor Chamberlain and the Mackey House, with the republican Senate, refuse to recog- nize the authority of the courts and set orders and injunctions at defiance? What follows? The Legislature, acting in con- tempt of the courts, must pass laws neces- sary to carry on the State government. Taxes must be imposed. The people will refuse to obey the laws or to pay the taxes. They can only be compelled to do so by legal process, so that the courts will in the end have the power to decide upon the fact whether the alleged laws are in reality laws or mere waste paper. The people of South Carolina can therefore afford to await the result with patience. Justice will be done in the end. Meanwhile the Wallace House, as it is called, has now a clear constitutional majority of representatives who bear the certificate of the Chamberlain canvassing Board and the Secretary of State. The ac- cession to this body of members elected as republicans gives hope that some of the re- publican Senators may in like manner change their position, and in that event the two houses would of course obey the orders of the Supreme Court and undo the wrong that has been attempted. Tux SuPERINTENDENT oF THE Crty ScHooLs reports only a single school building over- crowded. He refers, probably, to desk room alone; but does not the condition alluded to exist in every schoolroom—no matter how numerous its empty seats—in which there are more children than can be supplied with wholesome air to breathe? Ordinary school- room air is productive of delightful profit to doctors and undertakers, but asa means of supporting youthful life it is a most lament- able failure. Tell us why children grow pallid in cheek and dim of eye after sitting an hour or two in the buildings which are not crowded, Mr. Superintendent. Tux Opposrrion of the railroads to the Hudson River Tunnel project has been with- drawn, a compromise having been made. The tunnel commissioners met yesterday to condemn lands in Jersey City required for the tunnel, and the work will now pro- ceed, The Vote in the Electoral Colleges. The Presidential electors assembled yes- terday, according to law, in all the States, cast their votes for President and Vice Pres- ident, made out their certificates, appointed their messengers and, having discharged all their functions, adjourned sine die, There was nothing to break the dull uniformity of these merely formal proceedings except in Vermont, where Mr. Aldrich, who received the highest number of democratic votes on the 7th of November, claimed a seat in the Electoral College in the place of Mr. Sollace, who was ineligible, and a similar claim on the republican side in Missouri; both of which were disregarded. The regular certificates, which will be forwarded to the President of the Senate, authenticated by the Governors of the sev- eral States, give 185 votes for Hayes and Wheeler and 184 for Tilden and Hendricks. On the face of the certificates Hayes is, there- fore, elected, and we judge it probable that this result will stand. At all events, the burden of proof is now on the side of the democrats, with the primd facie case against them. Under ordinary circumstances the certificates of the Electoral Colleges are accepted as con- clusive, and it requires the strongest rebut- ting evidence to impeach their validity. The democrats will make a vigorous strug- gle in Congress to have the certified votes of Louisiana thrown out, but we doubt whether they themselves have any expectation of success. They may gain a party advantage by agitating the subject and parading evi- dences of fraud, but it is against all proba- bility that they will succeed in making Mr. Tilden the next President of the United States, They may lay the foundation for breaking up the republican party, but they are not likely to prevent the inauguration of Mr. Hayes. However strongly the demo- crats may be convinced that they have been cheated out of the election they will not go to the length of violence or revo- lution, but, after resorting to every con- stitutional and peaceful means of remon- strance, they will at last uccept the situ- ation and attempt to make political capital out of the frauds which have been practised upon them. Governor Sey- mour's recent speech and all the utterances of accredited democratic leaders bear in this direction. There will be no resort to physical force, but our party politics will probably be more bitter and envenomed for the next two or three years than they have ever before been in this generation. The democratic party has a better prospect for ruling the country in the future than it would have had if Mr. Tilden had been de- clared elected and had come into office with a hostile Senate and embarrassed by the notorious split in the democratic party on the currency question. If the country shall be convinced that the democratic can- didate is defeated by fraud the republican party will find that it has dug its own grave. But whatever may come afterward, it is alto- gether probable that Mr. Hayes will be the next President. Sind The Extradition Treaty. It is evident from our London despatches that the English newspapers, as quoted in the cable reports yesterday, had misinter- preted the arrest of Brent and the other acts of the British government bearing on the subject of extradition. England's present desire appears to be to secure the renewal of extradition on ‘the former basis”—that is, of course, on the basis of the treaty of 1842, and as it had been practised for thirty-four years. This was the only course that could be taken under the initiative of the British Foreign Office, inas- much as this yields the contrary claim made by the British authorities through which Winslow, Gray and Brent escaped. Our government has all the time stood by its de- mand for the recognition of the validity and sufficiency of the treaty which it had itself enforced in good faith for so many years, and would scarcely have yielded its demand so far as to entertain the proposition to make anew treaty in the present circumstances, Without regard, however, to who it is that yields its presumed dignity in the ease the fact upon which the two countries are to be congratulated is that both governments are now of the same mind as to the desirableness of restoring the efficient operation of the machinery of justice in this particular, and if there is any especial credit to be given it is, per- haps, due to the side which relinquishes its honestly entertained convictions on a detail out of respect to thoge large demands of an enlightened public policy which disregards national frontiers in the pursuit and punish- ment of crimes against the common interests of society. Events in Louisiana, General Nicholls has followed the example of Wade Hampton and published an address to the people of Louisiana, denouncing the work of the unscrupulous Returning Board, claiming to be the rightfully elected Gov- ernor of the State, but urging peace and exhorting his people to refrain from violence and to rest contented in the assurance that the American peopie are now moving in behalf of free government. This forbearance and good sense on the part of the leaders cannot fail to have a beneficial effect, and if the present threatening crisis passes without serious trouble the men who have counselled pa- tience and peace will deserve honor and gratitude at the hands of the American peo- ple. The democratic electors, armed with McEnery's certificates, met yester- day and went through the business of casting their votes for Governor Tilden. No interference was attempted by the republicans. The Kellogg Returning Board, apparently emboldened by the suc- cess of the work it has already accom- plished, reconvened with the design, it is said, of further doctoring the returns so as to throw outa sheriff, several judges and ids local officers in Orleans parish and count republicans in. The Returning Board has evidently come to the conclusion that a whole loaf is better than half a one, A Broxen Wine caused tremendous com- motion in Florida yesterday; so did a broken wire at Hell Gate o few weeks ago, Manipulators will do well to remember what happened in the last named caso, A Pleture or. the “Fire. The burning of the Brooklyn Theatre was so replete with incident and episode that, apart from the awe and terror of the calam- ity, the event will be long remenibered on account of the circumstances attending it. ‘The representation of the evening was near its close. In another five minutes the curtain would have fallen upon an audience impressed only by the sorrows of the mimic scene. Some of the actors had already quitted the theatre. The heroine lay on the pallet of straw in the boatman’s hut, and the other actors were either on the stage or awaiting the summons of the call boy. The attention of all was absorbed in the drama, when a flash of flame darted out from a border light in the flies and soon wrapped the stage and all its paraphernalia, the dome, the roof, the entire edifice, in a mantle of fire. There was scarcely time for any one to escape, while haste was death. The actors, dazed by the suddenness of the danger, still pre- served that rare presence of mind which upon trying occasions is courage, and, byan action which might well have been part of the play, compelled a moderation which un- questionably saved many lives. Never did a company behave more nobly in the face of imminent peril. They were the last to leave the theatre, and even then they es- eaped as if by a miracle. The fire had closed the ordinary stage exit against them. It was only possible for them to save them- selves by the subterranean passages which led into the auditorium and the lobby. Through these they passed in safety, some of them witnessing part of the agony which is related in the Heratp this morning with so much detail, but most of them were unconscious of the terrible tragedy which was then en- acting. Indeed, this utter want of appreci- ation of the extent of the calamity is its marvellous feature. Even those who were in the building and escaped both the crush and the flame had no idea that many, if any, lives had been lost. The scene on the stair- way which led from the gallery was not imagined until the dead were discovered in the morning. Those who saw it were ap- parently unconscious that they had seen anything remarkable, and the story of the horror was held in abeyance until the horror itself was revealed. Then was shown a scene heartrending and terrible. The charred remains of human beings were found in a blackened and solid mass in the débris, and the cries of alarm and terror which gave to the calamity so much of the dramatic dread with which its story is invested were changed into sobs of grief and exclamations of sor- row and despair. No event of the kind was ever so terrible in itself or in its conse- quences. The calamity came as a revelation, unexpected, terrible, agonizing. Even this morning many of our readers will hesitate to read the list of killed and wounded which form such a dreadful array in our columns, fearing that among them will be the name of some loved and lost one. Then, too, there will be sorrow for the two young actors whose lives were sacrificed in the holocaust. They were men of promise, both of them, and were still in the sunny glamour of their youth and hopes. The sun of their genius has set in the agonizing calamity which is the talk of the hour; but even their career thus cut short when their fame was in its bud is only one of the incidents of a conflagration which has brought deep-seated grief to many hearthstones' and must bring sorrow wher- ever its story is told. When the votaries of the drama are thus sacrificed in the temples of the art some stop to mourn and some to reprove, but in most hearts grief for the dead and sympathy with the bereaved are the only sentiments which will find a place to- day. Sherman’s Louisiana Report. The President sent in to both houses of Congress yesterday the report made to him by Senator Sherman and other distinguished republican politicians on the canvass of the vote for electors in Louisiana. In the Senate, aftera short but sharp debate, the report went to the Printing Committee under the rules. In the House a vigorous attempt was made to consign the message, without reading, to the Louisiana Select Committee, but the republican side insisted that the Message must be either read or printed for the information of the House. In this view the Speaker coincided, and, in accordance with his decision, the Message and accompanying papers were read. At the conclusion of the reading Mr. Fernando Wood expressed his surprise that the President, after eight years’ experience, had sent to the Honse a communication from persons clothed with no official position or authority, thus giving to the document the character of a record of the government. He discovered in the acta recognition by the President of the authority of the House to inquire into the correctness and integrity of tho electoral certificates, but his objection was that the President had given an official character to an unofficial and ex parte story. On Mr. Wood's motion the Message and ac- companying papers were laid on the table. Mr. Wood is in error in supposing that the President's action is without prece- dent. It will be remembered that Presi- dent Johnson sent General Gran¥ on a special mission to the Southern States to ascertain their true condition, and trans- mitted to Congress the General’s report, just as President Grant yesterday laid before the two houses Senator Sherman's report. As to the present document it certainly has the mis- fortune to be not only an ex parte but a partisan statement of a case that has excited much political feeling, and on which great political interests depend. If President Grant had requested prominent democrats, as well as prominent republicans, to visit New Orleans and watch the action of the Returning Board; or if the republicans who went at the President's invitation had united with them in their work the distin- guished democrats present in New Orleans ona similar mission, the Sherman report would not be open to the objection now justly urged against it. Its statements, even though they may be truthfal, are im- paired by the fact that they are admittedly the statements of strong republican parti- sans. ‘They will be further damaged by the indorsement of ‘the notorious Louisiana Re- | turning Board, with which Senator Sherman has thought fit to accompany them. It is too late in the day to attempt to give the Louisiana rascals a good character, They stand impeached by republicans as dis honest men, capable of altering or forging election returns. They have been branded in a Special Message by President Grant; branded by an important committee of the republican United States Senate; branded by two committees of a republican House of Representatives. It would have beez better if the document presented to Con gress had been a fair, impartial report made by men of both political parties and free from partisan prejudice and zeal. It would have been better for the Sherman report, such as it is, if it had not been accompanied by a laudation of the notorious Louisians Returning Board. The Cremation Folly. The Baron de Palm is now only a little heap of ashes. Our correspondent vividly describes the ceremonies of the cremation of his mummified body, and the account will be read with mingled curiosity and disgust. In the mere fact of cremation there is nothing repulsive, though many persons view it with repugnance be cause of custom, That is a beauti- ful feeling which causes those who have lost a friend to look upon the mound where his form crumbles into dust as a sa- ered spot, yet it is only a feeling which grows out of habit. The ancients paid re- spect to their dead by burning their bodies. The description of the funeral pyre of Patroclus is one of the finest epi- sodes of the “Iliad.” In England cremation was frequent, as Sir Thomas Broune has shown in his ‘Urn Buri- al.” In later days the body of Shelley, killed by water, was finally destroyed by fire on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, The disposal of the dead body is of small importance if it is attended with respect to the survivors and accords with the laws of health. But such ascene as that at Washington, Pa., yesterday, when the Baron de Palm's remains were burned, is simply a farce. There was no reason for the ceremony. The body had been embalmed, and had lost nearly all of its weight. It should have been left tocrumblein the grave. Instead of that charity Colonel Olcott and other well meaning theo- rists dragged the poor corpse from its tomb and made it a spectacle for fools to jeer and clowns to despise. Not one scien- tific purpose was served by the ‘cremation. It was proved that a mummy could be burned, but that was known before. The Egyptians forages plundered their ances- tral sepulchres to kindle festal fires along the banks of the Nile. Cheops became kindling wood, and Pharaoh was taken from the Pyramids to cook the din- ner of an Egyptian Zellah. But thig cremation ceremony ins small Pennsylva- nia town was merely a desecration. The obscene jokes, the heartless levity, the absence of any useful purpose, the scan« dalous management are faithfully depicted by our correspondent, and the result will be inevitably to bring the whole theory of cremation into contempt, which it ba not really deserve. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Judge Taft looks solemn. Spurgeon still suflers from gout. William Alien Butler is fifty-one. Mr. S. B. Mills is registered in Cincinnatt, General Rafus Ingalls is in San Francisco, SMrs, Sartoris ia vecoming pretticr and stouter, Count A. d’Oultremont, of Belgium, is at the Albee marle Hotel. Donn Piatt says that General Belknap has regained: all his old confidence, Eliza Pinkston will lecture in Cincinnati under the auspices of the Enquirer, Lord Byron’s books, busts and pictures will not be exhibited until next May. The Chicago Tribune is trying to create an American interest in German cookery. The Patagonians are giants, and their neighbors, the Terra del Fuegans, aro very small. sician and grasp his hand in far Evening Telegram (first edition yesterday):—About this time the Baron is almost done.” Ex-Governor Emory Washburn is the senior mem- ber of tho Massachusetts Legislature, The London Jews are taking measures to protect their brethren in the Turkish provinces, Mrs. Ames, daughter of Goneral Butler, will, with her two children, spend the winter with him, Mrs, Dahigren will hold the meetings of the Literary Society of Washington at her house this winter. In Knenish Prassia the public roads are planted with fruit trees, which are seldom disturbed by the peopie, Captain W. Gore Jones, naval attaché to the Britisg legation, Vieited the torpedo station at Newport yea terday, Lord Churchill says that the time has come when the sanitary condition of dwelling houses should be subject to government inspection. Daring the war, and while Richmond was being de « Enquirer ot that city used to speak, plundering audacity.” When the Esquimaux, of either sex, enter a house, custom compels them to remove their seaiskin Jackets, leaving nothing but Esquimaux, Dr. Storrs says that the greatest danger to religion in this country isfrom the mechanical philosophy of the day, which is producing a community without 4 conscience, Evening Telegram :—‘General Grant once came to an issue of veracity with President Johnson, and it ap- pears as if another is likely to occur between himself -| and Mr. Abram 8. Hewitt.” Chicago Inter-Occan:—'‘The eye stone, so-called, iss calcareous concretion found between the outer and in: ner coats of the stomach of the common European crawfish 19 August, shortly before the moulting sea. son, The use of it for the removal of foreign par. ticles from the eye cannot be teo strongly condemned,’® Dr. Croll says:—*If gravitation were an impact, no planet or comet could move everlastingly in an elliptia orbit. Bat the mutual disturbing forces of the planets will always maintain them in elliptic orbits, and it would, therefore, follow that gravity alone, without any resisting medium, would ultimately bring the planets to the sun.” The French statistics of education of criminals are given Jor the total of tho two sexes without distine- tion, and the totally ignorant amount to thirty-six por cent, as compared with forty-four per cent in Ireland, On the other hand, those who can read and write well 1n France amount only to nineteen por cent, as come pared with thirty. five per cont in Iroland. Evening Telegram bill of fare for ragpickers:— POUCLO OE LO LCLEEE OLE OLOODE IE HE DODE LODO LE DEDEDE DOD H: r, ‘sour, Garbage—Box stew. FIStt. “Picker”el, ot (second) course, ENTRERS, Ragout of anything sheep. ROAST, When there's notoing in the h’ash barrel, VEGRTANLES, Mashed potatoes trom garden patches, GAME. Gattor snipe, DESSERT. Hot ragawmuiling, DRINKS 3 014 Clos Vignaux (for them only)—Amiseedy cordial. Qeecerene nena nee mp rete te te eReOre DETER HEM EE LE EEE No delogation need como to the office to rewura thanka, ene en enee tt ae et Ret et At OeeT Ne eevee cena secs cess esaessee es se { } 4 q Me