The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1876, Page 8

t 8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STiEET. JAMES GORDON B: BENNETT, {| PROPRIETOR All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. big ADELPHI L AOF OF FIC E—NO.112SOUTH i LONDON OPFL 0) OF THE HERALD—NO, 46 FL’ PARIS OFFICE-—AV NA 3 OF FICE--NO. Rf Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. ~ AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. YORK AQUARIUM. Dpen daily. ROWERY THEATRE. INNOCENT, at 6 YM. Mr. Dominick Marra, RAND OPERA HOUSE, ars P.M, ROOTH'S r 6 , M DRABBED AG THEATRE. KING LEA Lawrence Barrett. THEATRE. RMANIA THE ROBBERS, ats’. M. Le KING RICHARD IL, FIFTH [ME SCHOOL FOR § at BARNUM'S CIRCL WA tHE SHAUGHRAU ARK eenirae WUSETTE, at 8 P.M. NION ARE THEATRE, Iss MeLTOs, apes STEINWAY ENTERTAINMENT, tied . FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, HALL, w8PM, KELLY & LEONS MINSTRELS. usp. M. 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WAMBRA PALACE, tO THE KARTH. ‘AL THEATRE, SHEET. | EMBER 10, | LD offers two single Bullock Perfecting They are capable of print- per hour, of an eight page viper, and both aldes.4 once, and can be speeded » 10,000 if ne he working room required or cach press is 15 feet long, 10 feet wide and 7 feet The labor required to operate these two ses is four men (or boys) and a foreman. \ papas ing these presses, which are capable of an hour, we will throw in one Wet- and the following BREOTYPE MA ERY BELONGING THERE- QU ADRUPLE AW YORK, SUNDAY, DEC 1876, A dust ‘The To tA Furnace, with Metal Pot and Bonnet; sting Boxes, one of which is ribbed; Finishing Blocks, made of iron; ug Machines, for Turning Plates on, and jor Shaving Machine. ‘ash price for the entire machinery and pre: s $10,000, These presses and machinery rost They can be seen every morning at work on our daily edition. Address JAX ORDON BENNETT, New York GeRaLp, 6 Kai The lowest From our repor!s this morning the probabilities » that the weather to-day wil! be very cold and clear. Wat. Srnexr Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was moderately active, and, after a brief exhibition of strength, closed weak. The leaders for the day were Lake Shore and Delaware and Lackawanna. The largest rise was in ..ew York Central. Gold opened at 107 1-8, declined to 107 and closed at 107 1-4, Government bonds were lower and railway mortgages dul. Money on call loaned at 5 and 4 percent. The bank statement of the week shows a large gain in specie anda heavy failing off in the legal tender note average. Captain Grixpie, the inhuman ship- master, who was convicted of causing the death of one of his seamen, gets off with a two years’ sentence, No wonder that good sailors are growing searce, ‘Tue Usrrep Srares Counts have decided that there can be no infringement of patent in the manufacture of ladies’ hair nets. The judges are behind the times. Thousands of men were ensnared by ladies’ hair long be- fore a patent office was thought of. Tux Rerort ov tax Restcnation of Mr. Joseph J. O'Donohue trom the Park Commis- sion appears to have been incorrect. Mr, O'Donohue states that he has not resigned, and as he has made a good Commissioner it is to be hoped he will continue to fill the office. Tur Vesrranre Case of Francis A. Palmer against John Foley again appears in court, the object now being to ascertain the amount of damage suffered by the defend- | ant. An inquiry as to the damage sustained by the judges and juries who have con- sidered the case should be next in order. Dieromatic Parvin IN PHILADELPrta, — Fortunately the attempt to persecute the | French authorities at the Centennial under cover of the Philadelphia laws is not to be let pass, Our laws on the subject are severe. By sections 4,063 and 4,064 of the Revised | Btatutes of the United States it appears that the Philadelphian who caused the arrest of the French diplomatic and consular officers has got himself into trouble. It is provided therein that any writ or process is void “whereby the person of any public minister of any foreign prince or State, orany domes- tic of such minister is arrested or impris- oned;” und every person by whom such writ is obtained or prosecuted, ‘‘whether as party | or as attorney and solicitor, shall be deemed a violator of the law of nations, and shall be imprisoned for not more than three years.” As the facts in the case are plain and the “shall be imprisoned” imperative, Officer Smith will perhaps have enough of this be- fore he gets through, | harmonious followi | ture involved. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1 A New Departare in Our City Gov- ernment. Mr. Smith Ely, Jr, will be inaugurated Mayor of > York on the Ist of January next. He will commence his official duties under circumstances peculiarly favorable to a strong, brilliant and successful adminis- tration. The events that have followed the recent Presidential where in closer bonds of sympathy and union; but aside from this the local quar- rels of the New York democracy, which have distracted the party for years, were happily settled by the nomination of the county ticket elected last month, Mr, Ely there- fore goes into office with a’ powerful and and with associates ernment who will be in entire accord with his p The public departments will be free at last from jealousies, cross purposes and conflicts of jurisdiction. There will be no Old Man | of the Sea on the shonlders of the city’s | progress. By the Ist of January Comp- troller Kelly will be warm in his seat, and in the municipal go will have made himself familiar with the | duties of his important department. The Corporation Counsel will take into his new term of office the valuable experience of nearly two years’ service. The next Board of Estimate and Apportionment will consist of Mayor Ely, Comptroller Kelly, Tax Com- missioner Wheeler and Alderman Purroy, and besides being improved in material will almost for the first time since its cre- j ation be entirely harmonious in sentiment. In May next the new Mayor will have the | appointment of some important commis- sioners, and meanwhile if any changes in the | city departments should be desirable in the public interests Mayor Ely ean be certain | of the co-operation of Governor Robinson in securing them. We are therefore justified in saying that our new Mayor will be in- augurated under circumstances peculiarly | favorable to a vigorous and successtul ad- ministration. - Of course there are limitations to the power and difficulties in the way of a city government, however well meaning and energetic it may be. ‘The present charter is defective in many important particulars, and experience teaches us that a republican Legislature cannot be relied on to improve it in the public interest. Butan indifferent law can be made effective when its pro- visions are carried out by the right sort of men, just as a good law may be abused un- der bad officers. It has been the misfortune of the New York charter that ever since its enactment in 1873 conflicting interests, jeal- ousies and obstructiveness have marred the harmony of the departments and crippled | and embarrassed many good provisions of the law. As we have now got rid of these evils the charter, taken as a whole and in- terpreted by departments and officers in accord in their policy, will no doubt be found capable of giving us an efficient and beneficial government. It will, indeed, be fairly tested now for the first time, and the people will be disappointed if its future administrators do not find | in it ample power to get rid of the suffocat- ing policy which has too long prevailed in the city government. The new Mayor and the new Comptroller will not be nblo to build a rapid transit road, to construct lines of stone docks along our water fronts, to multiply our reservoirs and water mains, to repave the streets of tho city all at once, or to give us other desirable improvements at the flourish, as it were, of a magician’s wand. But they commence their manage- ment of the city’s affairs with advantages not enjoyed by their predecessors, and the people of New York, whose interests havo suffered severely from obstructiveness, suffo- cation and incapacity in their local govern- ment, will expect them to make the most of these advantages, and will hold them respon- sible if they fail to do so. sf There are some points to be aimed at in our_new municipal policy so plain and so desirable that they must at once attract the attention of our new rulers. Mr. Kelly takes charge of our financial affairs with a hgavy debt pressing upon the city, which has been steadily increasing for the past five years. Woe are aware that this increase is greatly attributable to unwise legislation; but it is nevertheless true that a broad, com- prehensive financial policy, which we have lacked, would have left us in a better posi- tion. It is startling to know that we are paying for a year's inierest on the city debt | ten million dollars, including the amount paid from the sinking fund. Our credit is excellent, und yet our bonds are issued at seven and six percent, comparatively few bearing 1s low arate of interest as five per cent. Money for safe investments is plenti- fal, and there can be no good reason why the city of New York should pay for her loans two per cent above the market rates on less unquestionable securities. We have been in the habit of issuing large amounts of revenue bonds, in anticipation of the taxes of the cnrrent year, to pay the running expenses of the city government. For these temporary loans we have paid six and seven, and, on a few occasions, five per cent inter- est, and have put the money into banks holding the city deposits, which have re- fused to pay us fonr per cent interest thereon. Comptroller Kelly shoald com- mence his reforms in this important direc- tion, Under capable financial management we ought not to continue to pay exorbitant | rates of interest or to commit the folly of paying six or seven per cent on revenue bonds and receiving half that amount of usance for the same money. The people of New York do not object to taxation for proper and desirable improve- ments. They wish to see the city increase and prosper, and they know that progress and prosperity do not grow out of stagna- tion and suffocation. The commercial su- premacy of the metropolis cannot be main- tained unless our docks are made equal to the demands of commerce. Comprehensive schemes of dock improvements have been proposed, and have heretofore met with op- position because of the amount of expendi- if an investment brings a commensurate profit, which in this case it would assuredly do, it 1s immaterial how large it may be. Indeed, the larger the in- vestment the greater the profit. The Mayor elect, as a New York merchant, knows how | necessary and desirable is the improve- election are naturally | calculated to draw democrats together every- | | ment of our docks, and he will no > doutt | | use all his official influence to pro- mote that object. the improvement of the docks must go the repaying of our wretched streets and the increase of facilities for handling and moving freight. Without these com- merce must in a few years be so obstructed | that the shipping at our docks would lie idle and our railroads might go into bank- ruptcy. It is disgraceful to a great metrop- olis that her business streets should be suffered to remain almost impassable, and that it should he found impossible to rescue her principal avenue for pleasure travel from the condition of a wrecking ground for horses and carriages. Another leading subject which must claim the prompt attention of the incoming govern- ment is the water supply. We have had of what we may expect unless our water | supply is placed beyond the possibility of | failure or the probability of insufficiency. | Yet this experience was only the lifting of | the smallest corner of the veil. The scarcity | gave us inconvenience and discomfort only. | We were spared the peril to public health | and life which a @ntinned drought would | have threatened ; the enormous destruction | of property and probably of human life ous districts, while the water was dribbling | through the mains, must have entuiled. to our relief; but in so vital an interest as | our water supply we cannot afford to trust for safety to chance or to expedients adopted | in the moment of danger. administration will have no more impor- ! tant duty devolved upon it than that of se- curing an ample supply of water fora New York of two millions population, with ample storage and ample means of distribution. These are some of the benefits the people of New York will expect at the hands of an administration that goes into power under peculiarly advantageous circumstances. The policy and public acts we have pointed out are within the reach of the city governmént, with a Mayor and Comptroller in unison, with heads of departments interpreting the charter harmoniously and with no cavillers to throw obstructions in the way of progress. It will be especially the duty of the Mayor | elect and Comptroller Kelly to see that the ! hopes of our citizens are not disappointed. Our London Cable Letter, The cattle show has, we tear, quite over- shadowed all other topics in the British metropolis during the past week. To that carnival of the fatted calf, the adipose ox and blubbery pig all England turns yearly a greasy glance of bucolic admiration, The Heir Apparent is commended for his swine, which shows that, although reputed a prodi- gal by the lampooners that are never want- ing around the bottom steps of a throne, he has never had any necessity to go halves with the hogs for their husks. The glory of fat meat that was gazed on by London and its visitors has been rather enhanced than otherwise by the ostentatious meeting of thin blooded ascetics who are addicted to a vegetable diet. He who recalls Hogarth’s picture of the- “Gate of Calais” must admit that the lean Frenchman, with his little bowl of soupe maigre, sets off the richness of the sir- loin of ‘Roast Beef of Old England,” which a man is seen hurrying off with, The vege- tarians gave the requisite contrast, as spinach does to a pig's jowl. A young earl, it appears, can run away with another lord's wife as well in England as elsewhere, but they do not sack cities about such matters nowadays as they did when Time and Helen were young three thousand years ago, We see that the royal family have entered on a useful career. Prince Leopold performs on the piano, and the Duke of Edinburgh, like William in ‘Black- Eyed Susan,” ‘‘plays the fiddls like an angel.” Her Majesty the Queen comes out of her retirement and promises to lead the season with royal entertainments at Buck- ingham Palace. For the rest the theatres are dull, as they always are just before Christmas. Then come pantomime and family dinner reunions—Jack-pudding and plum pudding. Our Paris Cable Letter. They have a little difficulty in home poli- ties to spice their gossip withal in the French capital, but it is not heavy enough to disguise the other condiments that flavor | the conversational repast. . ‘This is just what suits Paris, as they have not there the great | topic of the weather to fall back upon in all emergencies, which is the unfailing resource of the average and special Lon- doner. Paris talks about the Eastern ques- tion, to be sure, but it is only in the spirit of the caricaturists of the Charivari and not at the cannon’s breech, as do the English who are not followers of Mr. Gladstone. Paris loves intrigue, and as it is a long time since France could afford to look on as a simple spectator to a great inter- national war of words, we may be assured that the joy with which our correspondent | looks forward to the finessing between Salis- bury and Ignatieffis an echo of the feeling around him. Don Carlos, who was lately reported going about Paris in a quiet- looking carriage, now blazes forth as a Rus- sian recruit. Of special interest to us is the announcement that Mr, Mapleson and Carl Rosa are negotiating to give a season of operain New York, with performances | six nights a week, three of them devoted to | English and three to Italian opera, It will be economical, as the same orchestra and chorus will be used every night and the principal réles be filled by the companies of the respective man- agers. Gye, of Covent Garden, is said to have found a great Hebrew tenor hidden somewhere in the old town of Nuremberg. A true tenor would be a boon indeed, and as the gifted race from which this young man has sprung has been musical trom the time of David and long before, no one need be surprised if the operatic want of twenty years should have learned to sing by the harp notes of Israel. A studio story about ! Gérdme illustrates tho freaks of genius, but ! the French sculptor whom the painter of the | shadow crucifixion imitates had a great exemplar in Michael Angelo Buonarotti. We cannot permit ourselves to do more than commend the fashion intelligence to the Hand in hand with ; during the present year a slight indication | which a conflagration in any of the hazard- | | Temporary expedients and the weather came | The new city | | ladies. This is our duty, and we perform it with becoming reverence. Danger to Life in Theatres. Public opinion will imperatively demand of the authorities and of the directors of theatres that the Brooklyn catastrophe shall enforce the necessity of adequate provisions for the safety of life in edifices to which the people are invited to witness dramatic en- tertainments, There is no aspect in which the event that led to the solemn ceremony of yesterday is not heartrending and terri- ble; but it teaches usa lesson of the gravest consequence, our timely improvement of which may save many thousands of lives in the future. How many other theatres are precisely like the Brooklyn Theatre in those features which made the calamity sooner or later inevitable, only depending for the date | of its occurrence upon some trivial accident, as the flap of a loose curtain into the flame ofa gaslight? This is the obvious inquiry of every rational creature, and we are afraid the conscientious answer must be that there is not one theatre in our great cities that is absolutely safe. Theatres are, of all edifices known to us, those in which conflagrations are alw: ays most imminent ; they are precisely those in } which conflagrations can do most harm by the destruction of human life. All that world behind the scenes isa limbo of in- flammable material, and this material is constantly arrayed, disposed, flaunted in contact with fire. It might almost be said that it is a miracle every night that a spec- tacular play is performed without the de- struction of the theatre by fire, In that pasteboard world they fight batties, they explode mines, they present ships houses on fire; and all in a tinder box. Scenery made of light wood, dried out till | it will catch a flame as readily as a brim- | | stone match, and saturated before its desi cation by oil and turpentine; thousands of square feet of this material exposed every night with ranks of flaming gas jets only o few inches distant, and blue fire and burn- ing wads scattered almost indiscriminately— these are the common conditions. All this is within four walls which may be said to constitute a kiln, and within the same en- closure, only a few feet away, are seated in joyous unconsciousness of danger the pride and hope and loved ones of a thousand homes—fathers and mothers, with their beautiful girls and treasured boys, all hilar- ity as they sit in what in two minutes may be disclosed as an inevitable death trap on a gigantic scale. Is this danger of wholesale incineration a necessary condition of the existence of the theatre? Assuredly not. There are hardly any given conditions of danger that archi- tectural and engineering science together cannot overcome in the construction of an edifice, and the requirements of the theatre do not present to the ingenuity of builders really great obstacles. But to construct a theatre in such a way as would make it scarcely possible to destroy the audience by fire would be expensive, and as in our country these edifices are always the prod- ucts of private enterprise the element of cost is a primary consideration. They aro put up cheaply—not to be safe, but to be made to pay. We would not be understood as saying that any projector of a new enter- prise of this sort wantonly disregards the safety of the public whose patronags he counts upon; but he does not give this con- sideration a sufficient importance in his scheme, and even in so far as he considers it he persuades himself, perhaps in the presence of an inadequate purse, to meet the case with well intended expedients that never operate effectively. * The Brooklyn funeral. More than a hundred victims of the ! Brooklyn tragedy were interred in Groen- wood Cemetery yesterday. Some of them had been recognized and were fol- lowed to their long home by sor- rowing friends, but the great majority were unknown to any one who had viewed their remains, and as the great funeral cor- tége passed through the dense throng of citizens there was scarcely a spectator who could not justly tremble for fear that a friend of his own might be represented by the unrecognizable contents of some one of the coffins. The whole city seemed to go into mourning; even those who had lost no friends could not be insensible to the great sorrow of those about them, and for once the flags at half-mast, the draped buildings and the bated voices expressed for the living even more sorrow than forthe dead. The services at the great grave, though simple, were far from being perfunctory. The ser- mon, while acknowledging the wisdom and goodness of Providence, only echoed the heart questionings of the thousands who wonder for what purpose the terrible calam- ity was allowed to occur. Brooklyn never before knew so solemn a day, and her citi- zens may well pray to be forever delivered from another like it. Federal Bayonects and State Legis- latures, General Ruger’s reply to the committee of the South Carolina House of Representa- tives informs the committee that the United States troops who hold possession of the State House at Columbia aro there by his order for the purpose of execnting such orders as might be given to them, and that should the Wallace Honse attempt to enter the legislative hall his present orders would require the officers to assist those in charge of the doors to prevent such entry should they be called upon to do so, General Ruger, of course, has nothing to do as a soldier but to obey orders. But the Wallace House has now been declared legal by the courts of the Stato and has a constitutional quorum of members bearing the certificato of the Chamberlain Returning Board and Secretary of State. Should they now be interfered with by the federal troops no plea of igno- rance on the part of President Grant or of # misapprehension of orders by Gen- ernl Ruger or any of his subordinate officers could intervene. The people are now interested in tho question, How long is this interference of the United States military with purely State affairs and with so high and responsible a body as o State Legislature to continue? Before clec- tion the presence of the troops was said to and | 876.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. - be required to secure a peaceful election, After election it was needed to insure a peaceful count. Now that the returning boards have done their work why do fed- | eral bayonets still gleam in and around State halls of legislation? What is their mission now, and when will! it be ended? American Outdoor Sports. The year which is almost ended has been ® great year for outdoor sports in the United States, and their popularity is without precedent. Elsewhere we give a review of the principal athletic amusements for 1876, and it is gratifying to say that they were never better appreciated “by | public. The turf has been remarkably Successful, We find that the timo has been faster, the events more numerous and the ; son, Some of the principal achievements tides, Tom Ochiltree and Aaron Penning- as Vigil, rarely beer rivalled, while the great trotters, ; Smuggler, Great Eastern, Judge Fullerton } and Goldsmith Maid have made 2:20 time seem an ordinary event. Polo has acquired surprising popularity. Almost entirely un- known inthis country twelve months ago it is now celebrated, and besides the Westchester club there are clubs in Boston, Hartford, Chicago, Texas and California, Coaching is another beautiful amusement which has been revived, and ;next spring the club in this city will be much strengthened by the acquisition of new members, who are now having coaches built for the season next year, Yachting and boating have kept pace with other amusements, and if base ball has not regained its original popularity, cricket and football have had anew impetus. We rejoice to chronicle this remarkdble growth of outdoor sports in the favor of the people. They help to make a nation manly and healthy, and no people who neglect them can expect to have a proper and natural de- velopment, either physical or mental. The Crisis There are two reports as to the possible issue of the Ministerial crisis in France. One is that the Ministry whose resignation is in the hands of the President will be re- tained, with the substitution of Jules Simon as Minister of the Interior for M. de Mar- cere. This is improbable. M. de Marcere’s collision with the majority is an accident, an episode, in the conflict. M. Dufaure is the middle of the battle. It is not likely that the Chamber will compromise on such a chango in the Cabinet as is not vital to the main issue. This dispute arises upon the vote of money for the purposes of pub- lic worship—for the support of religious in- stitutions. It is an unfortunate part of the case that a very large vote can be rallied in the Chamber against the expenditure of any money for such o purpose, because a considerable party con- templates every sou spent in that way as a contribution toward the cultivation of superstition and the propagation of tyranny. But even the moderate revublicans aro re- solved to strictly limit this expenditure and not to permit the people to be taxed for the support of institutions whose moral or in- tellectual usefulness cannot be distinctly shown. This does not seem an unreason- able position in a country where the expen- diture of money for the ostensible support of religion has confessedly given rise to great abuses in past times. All who sincerely sympathize with the aspirations of the French people must regret that Marshal MacMahon takes a position which seems to put him in collision with the Cham- ber on this point. M. Dufaure has been the instrument of the President's policy, and the Chamber will for this reason require his retirement at least. The second report seems to contemplate this as a radical neces- sity of the case from the point of view of the majority, but indicates that the President is not disposed to yield. Should the Presi- dent carry his resistance so far as to dis- solve the Chamber he will not improve the case. His power to dissolve the Chamber is limited by the constitution. He must have the consent of the Senate, In the case of dissolution a new Chamber must be elected within three months. In the choice of that Chamber the issue now made would be before the country. The whole people would have the chance to vote whether they would be taxed to support institutions of doubtful utility, on the pre- tence that these institutions are related to religious worship. On this the republicans would be overwhelmingly victorions, and President MacMahon would do a great deal better to compromise with the present | Chamber than defy the possibilities ofa new one, in France. Tweed and Tammany, More of the secret history of the great Tammany conspiracy is given to the public to-day. Tweed we find to be like Ingo, when he said ‘From this time forth I never will spenk word.” It is trne that he con- sents to talk of the offences of the news- papers but is silent as to his own, Not even tho golden temptation of fifty thousand dollars can induce lim to tell what he knows. But all of his friends aro not so secret, and if what they reveal is not evi- dence, as Mr. Tweed claims, it is certainly interesting information, There is a glimpse of Peter B. Sweeny, too, living in compara- tive poverty in Paris, which probably means that he has plenty of money yet, and of fortunate and the richest of the three. Tweed is rich, but in jail; Sweeny is free, but poor; Connolly is both naturalization were accomplished under the Ring, how Tweed differed from Sweeny in his methods, how bills were passed in the Tammany time and why Peter B. Swoeny which more light is thrown by the informa- tion we present. Hoyorn AmMone Tureve i like honor among politicians, lasts only so long as it is safe, The burglar who was wounded by Mr. dragged from the house by his confederates, was found at daylight mortally wounded and lying by the roadside, where he had been left to die. the ; of Greek tragedy. of such famous horses as ‘en Broeck, Aris- | ! ton, and such promising three-year-olds | Fiddlesticks and Sultana have | ——— =. Dr. Schliemann at Mycens. The special despatch which brings us ®& copy of the letter to the King of Greece from Dr. Henri Schliemann, the enthusiastic German archmologist, will be read by all students of Hellenic history and lovers of Greek genius with delight. Successful as he was in his researches in the Troad or plain of Troy, his latest discoveries at My- cen outrank all his previous work in his- torical and artistic importance. To have given the mighty Agamemnon even a tomb is to have given him life other than that breathed upon him by the king and father of epic poetry and the three great masters The treasures which has unearthed from Dr. Schliemann | their resting place of thirty centuries are » | said to be of enormons intrinsic value, but purses larger than in any previous sen- | it will be seen that he hands them over to the Greek nation with the magnanimity of the old demigods whom he resenes ‘from the | land of fable.” Does he lessen them in our imagination as he brings them down from the cloud land? Not at all. He merely i gives them a new kind of existence, ‘Dr. Schliemann, we are aware, is a positivist in his explorations, and works for a distinct object which, it is held, | he often confounds with what he happens to | find. Yet the justification of his theory by the resuls appears in this case to be most marked. The world of science has benefited marvellously dur- ing tho last quarter century through the efforts of the archeological explorers, 'The age which reaches out for new lands ip mid-Africa, sends expeditions to struggle | amid the Arctic ice and scatters astronomers over an entire hemisphere to learn the mystery of the stars, finds a great and useful purpose in reaching down through the earth to find the traces of the men, the cities and the nations that have perished utterly or in all but name. It isa noble ambition to teach us something of old humanity; nobler, per- haps, than groping through the rocks and measuring « fossil with 1 horse to tell ua j that man originally was an ape. The Weather—Yesterday’s Storm, In giving due notice of the approach of the stormy change of weather which occurred yesterday the Heranp pre. pared the citizens of New York and its vicinity for the violent wind storm and intensé cold that prevailed throughout the day. It was one of those rare visita- tions which surprise this city, even in the early winter, and was ona of almost unexampled severity at some stages of its progress. Judging from the position of the centre of disturb- ance on Friday evening that its course east- ward would bring it very near this city we announced for Saturday light snow, high winds and intense cold. These conditions followed each other in the order given, and thus fully verified our predictions, With the opening snowfall which took place in the morning the storm winds began to rise, rattling window shutters and whirling the sharp, hard particles of snow like showers of small shot in the faces of Inckless pedestrians. The gale soon increased to thirty-four miles per hour, and continued to grow in fury until fifteen minutes past one P. M., when it blew al the rate of sixty miles an hour over New York. Toward evening it again mod erated to thirty-four miles, and as nighi approached decreased still more. The motn ing snow was soon swept away and the air became filled with blinding clouds of dust that almost choked those ex Connolly travelling in luxury, the most | wealthy and at liberty. How the frauds of | does not come home are mysteries upon } Greacen, at Rye, yesterday morning, and | posed to the whirling blasts. On the coast, and particularly at Sandy Hook, the gale attained the violence of a hurricane, being recorded at over seventy miles an hour at exposed points. Much damage hag been caused by this storm, as will be seen by the detailed accounts of its local and general effects printed elsewhore in to-day's Henavp. In New York and the adjoining cities chimney tops and every object, in fact, that could be moved by the pressure of the gale were injured, and even one life has been lost by the fall of an elevator. Another storm centre is developing in the Northwest, with high winds and rising tem. perature. “The weather in New York to-day will be very cold and clear. PERSONAL, INTELLIGENCE, Its proposed to make the widow of General Cus. ter postmistress at Monroe, Mich, In London there 18a fashionable form of charity which dispenses spectacles to the poor. It takes a good deal of reserve piety to make a man. smile white hie is cating a chureh-fair stew. George Eliot began to read Wordsworth at fifteen, and bas read him with pleasure ever since, Andrews’ Bazar:—“An ecl is uot as slippery as ¢ politician, but it can live op water longer.”” Southerners think that Senator John P. Jones looks as the old-time planter looked in bis flush days, Somebody whispers in the gallery that Mrs, Secro- tary Fish wears the-same bonnet sho did last winter, Somebody says that human life may have begun tn a land which has sinco disappearod in the Indian Ocean, Freeman calls Gladstone the greatest Englishman now living; but Macaulay bad a small opinion of the ox-Premicr. Senator Edmunds ts called the great objector, and hit ‘words more powerful than thatof any other man is the Senate. Miss Emma Abbott, tho singer, arrived on the steamor Britannic, of the White Star line, from Eng. land yesterday. Inthe XXIVth Odyssey, begina’ line 555, Pope’s translation, occur these words :— ach future dav increase of wealth shall bring, And o'er the past oblivion stretch her wing. Long shall Ulysses m lis empire rest, Iiis people blessing, by his people blest. | “Let all be peace,” he said, and gave tie nod, &o, Two young Texas bloods, after atwo days’ pursuit, overtook two horse thieves that had stolen two males | and bad to give them two dollars, two overcoats and two pair of boots in consideration of being allowed to return home, The local paper say ‘The young men deserve the thanks of the community for their vigilance.” Evening Telegram bili of fare for novel readers:— HN 3 g 3 g 3 3 3 3 ; ay Pgh g z ja 3 oe “outa Podrida. “Land sharks” HNTRERS, “Roart of Miu Lothian,” stafled, “Devil's Chain’? of Sausages, ROAST. Leg of mutton trom a “Black Sheep.” VEGETABLES. Cault-"Plower of the Family, LTRY, “The Ugly Duek.” GaMk. + “Birds of Prey."—Venigon provided by the “Deerslayer™ or any otter “Poather,”” “Broad and ves and Kisses,” DRINKS. “Armad-ale” from “The Siga of the Stiver Flagon, " drawn wiih the “Adam Bede" on tt, Deore cree verb rereceree sonore ncupebeaovone Wire nirhdy cece ceansetesesesseeneeseessneranesece ee eete Asinthe rule at all bang ~