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6. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1 NEW YORK HERALD! BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Peadiechabins THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. ‘Three cents per copy (Sun- day excluded). ‘Ten dollars per year, or at rate of one dqllar per month for any period less than six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, free of pestace. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Henrawp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA [A OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-NO. 46 FLEET STREET. ARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’OPERA. NAPLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms a New York. vou ME XU. AMUSEMENTS THs APTERNOON AND BVENING. GERMARIA quEaTRE. LUFTSCHLOESSE K, at apne HANT OF V. . M. pe Be THE SCHOOL FOR § t SP. M. 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HOUSE, 1876, I CEMBER 16, NEW YORK, SATUR DAY, NOTICE 51 NENSDEALERS AND THE PUBLIC. Owing to the action of a portion of the carriers, newsmen and nows companies, who are determined that the public shall not havo the HEnatp at three cents per copy if they can prevent it, we have mado arrangements to place the Hrxaup in the hands of all our readers at the reduced price. Newsboys and dealers can purchase any quantity they may desiro at No, 1,265 Broadway and No. 2 Ann strect, and tico from our wagons on the principal avenues, All dealers who have been threatened by the news com- panies are requested to gond in their erders dircet to as, at No. 2 Ann strect. From our reports this morning the probabili- lies are that the weather to-day will be slighth warmer and cloudy or partly cloudy, with hig! winds and possibly light snow, War. Street Yestenpay.—Tho stock mar- ket was animated and in the main firm. The principal transactions were made in Lake Shore. Money on call loans was supplied at 5, 4, 2, and finally at 4 per cent. Gold opened at 1075-8 and closed at 107 3-4. Government bonds were strong and in fair demand, and railway mortgages were steady. Tre Panticunans of the reorganization of certain branches of our police will be read with great satisfaction by the business public. Tux Mozy Maccrnes have for a long time been demanding justice, and on Thurs- day night one of them got it. See our Pittston despatch. Tne Proceeprnes in the Emma Mine case grow jn interest daily, and everybody is anxiously awaiting that stage of the “game” in which General Schenck will be ‘‘called” and “show his hand.” Resrpexts or Hovses adjacent to mills and factories will be interested in tho at- tempt begun in the Superior Court yester- day to stop a marble factory's machinery because it annoyed the occupants of ‘The Albany” apartment house. A man might as well try to sleep beside an industrious cannon, or on the floor above a perpetual democratic ratification meeting, as in some excellent New York houses that abut upon manufacturing establishments. Aw Arpran To THE Bexevouext.—In the columns of the Hrraxp to-day will be found full details of the intense suffering of the destitute in the great coal field districts of Pennsylvania and painful pictures of squalor and misery in ourowncity. The intimation that famine is impending shows the extreme gravity of the situation. It has passed beyond the question of how soon business will revive. It is now a doubt as to how many will starve to death mean- while, We repeat our appeal to the benev- plent not to leave to organized charitable associations the entire work of relief, but for every family to be its own almoner. And to those associations we again say that for each family they will discover in want they can immediately find abun- dant help by making the fact public. With tlevators all over the country groaning with the weight of grain, with the statistics of the fall crops staring us in the face, it is a dis- grace to a Christian land that it should ap- pear in print that fears of famine are enter- tained in any part of it. We have sent ships to Ireland to starving men. Let us care for those of our own household, Let Governor Hayes Speak Out. Governor Hayes believes that he has been fairly elected to the Presidency. That is an opinion in which many of his fellow citizens agree with him and many others do not. But as he has said so we do not doubt that he, at least, sincerely believes that he has 185 votes in the Electoral College. Very well ; now, then, let him declare his policy. The time has come ; the air is full of rumors and reports of what he intends ; there are even stories of private promises and intrigues which are not quite credita- ble to him, and which, thérefore, we do not choose to believe for the present; but it seems to us that on many accounts the time has come for him to make a public declara- tion of his policy. Weask that he shall do so, not in the name or for the sake of the politicians of either side, whose anxieties we can afford to regard with great com- placency ; we ask it for the people, who, when they hearthat Governor Hayes believes himself elected, instantly want to know what sort of man he is whom they may see in the White House after the next 4th of March. What they want to know is whether Governor Hayes sticks to his letter of acceptance, or whether he has surrendered to the politicians, the Chandlers, Camerons, Mortons, Logans, Pattersons, Chomberlains, Kelloggs, to whom there is no doubt he owes his elec- tion, and who will set up 6 claim to rule him if he really becomes President. That isa real, a vital and a proper question for the people to ask, and, we conceive, for Governor Hayes now to answer ; not ina corner, not in private conversations with | leading or would-be leading politicians, but publicly and frankly. If any one should object that the people have no right to demand such confidence from Mr. Hayes, and that the demand has no precedent, we reply that the nature of the canvass which Mr. Hayes’ supporters made and his attitude toward it and them are also without precedent. Consider for a moment what this was. The Republican Convention promised civil service re- form and general pacification, Gov- ernor Hayes, in his letter of accept- ance, deliberately and carefully intensi- fied these promises. Thereupon his political allies began a canvass in which they mentioned neither Mr. Hayes, nor his letter, nor his character or public services, nor their platform, but gave their whole time to a set and deliberate attempt to “fire the Northern heart” and to revive the war feeling, and actually misused not only the civil service, but the military service also, to carry the election, carrying their partisan demands on government clerks and other oftice-holders to an unprecedented extreme. This course of theirs lasted three full months, and during that whole period Gov- ernor Hayes, the unmentioned candidate, the man in whose name all this was done and who was said by his friends to be hos- tile to the whole of it, was silent. We say that the situation is without precedent in our political history. Never before has a party conducted its canvass deliberately and entirely on grounds dia- metrically opposed to the declared princi- ples and policy of its candidate. Hence the people are naturally and properly anxious to know where that candidate stands. it seems to us they have a right to know. Has he been swallowed by Chandler, Cameron, Patterson, Chamberlain, Kellogg, Morton and the rest? Orishe to-day the man he was when he wrote his letter? That is a very im- portant public question, and it is this which the whole country is asking. In other times the principles of the candidate and those of the party were identical, and there was no need for inquiry about a policy which was shouted from every stump in the land. But now it is very different, and this difference is caused by Mr. Hayes himself. It might, to be sure, be taken for granted that Mr. Hayes had been captured by his “wicked partners,” and that, being elected by their efforts and never having protested against either their policy or their acts dur- ing the canvass, he would accept them and fling in his fortunes with theirs. This would bea natural conclusion were it not that, no sooner was the election really over, than reports were spread that Mr. Hayes stood by his letter and his own policy. A Cincinnati correspond- ent of the Hzraup, two wecks ago, gave us, apparently on good authority, a systematic account of Mr. Hayes’ proposed policy, asserting that he intended a thor- ough reform of the civil service and total exclusion from office and influence of all who had been prominent under the present administration; that he would call one or two prominent Southern men, of the character of Mr. Lamar and General Hampton, into his Cabi- net; that he would take the advice of such men as to the conduct of Southern affnirs, and, to use the words of ex-President Woolsey, ‘put Southern men in Southern federal offices.” This account of Mr. Hayes’ proposed. policy was generally bruited abroad for some time ; it came to us finally from one who professed to know whereof he spoke; and, as we remarked some days ago, Governor Hayes has not since denied the substantial accuracy of our correspondent’s report, at which wo are pleased, because the policy is a very sensible one, and we should be extremely sorry to see him repudiate it. But silence in this case cannot argue consent, because Mr. Hayes was silent also when the lead- ers of his party debauched the civil service and revived sectional hatreds in his interests. He cannot possibly be supposed to consent to two policies diametrically opposed to each other. He has himself to blame if he is now asked where he stands, and we repeat that the question, the de- mand that he shall speak out, shall publicly and frankly declare the policy he means to pursucif he enters the White House, is legiti- mate and proper. We repent also what we have once or twice before said, that the latest version of Mr. Hayes’ policy is entirely consistent with his letter of acceptance. That promised a thoroughgoing reform of the civil service, and everybody knows that no such reform oan be made unless he who undertakes it be- gins by ridding himself of every promi- tant officer of the present administra- tion, because all of these have most shamelessly prostituted that service to partisan ends, As to the South, Mr. Hayes’ letter hinted plainly at what he is now reported to intend—a policy in har- mony with good government in the South- ern States; and we remember that one of the journals of his own State, which has most strenuously supported him—the Cin- cinnati Commercial—when the letter of ac- ceptance was published urgéd Southern men to “take Mr. Hayes at his word,” telling them they could safely do so. But if Mr. Hayes really and sincerely means what his letter promised, what his personal friends have held out, what our Cincinnati correspondent and other reports asserted and what he has not since denied—if he really means constitutional rule, thorough reform of the civil service, local self-govern- ment in the South as it exists in the North, this is precisely what the mass of the people, North and South, mean and want, and he need not fear to speak out. Such a policy will win the applause of every hon- est citizen all over the land. Its mere public announcement would do almost in- finitely much to soften political rancor and to allay public anxiety. It would, we suspect, exasperate the political extremists of both sides. But if Mr. Hayes becomes President he must make up his mind from the beginning to act without regard to this class. He cannot afford to be a par- tisan, and the best way for him to break off with the men whose policy his letter of acceptance denounced is to take the Ameri- can people into his confidence now and without delay. Hence we osk Governor Hayes to speak out. The Weather—Another Storm. As predicted in yesterday's Hmnatp the depression which was central in the North- western Territories on Thursday morning has developed into a genuine storm centre. Its rapid movement eastward over the lake region has now brought it to Lake Huron, with a central pressure of only 29,20 inches. Violent gales have accompanied the storm on its western, southern and east- ern margins, and presumably on its entirecircumference. The heaviest blow has been at Grand Haven, Mich., where the wind velocity was forty-one miles and over per hour. Alongthe southern shores of lakes Erie and Ontario the wind velocity varied from twenty to thirty-eight miles per hour. Rain and snow have also fallen within the storm area. The depression that passed our meridian on Thursday evening is still on the coast of Nova Scotia, and it is probable that the coming storm will unite with it and form one of those dangerous tempests on the North Atlantic which navigators dread so much at this season. It is also likely that the disturbance will traverse the ocean and strike the British Islands within the next six or seven days. The tempera- ture continues below freezing point east- ward of the Mississippi and nortbward of the Ohio, except in Nova Scotia, where it is above at some points on the const. Fine weather prevails in the Sonth, but a sharp “norther” has been experienced on the Texas coast. General Myer, chief signal officer of the army, reports that the department under his charge is in an admirable state of effec- tiveness, and that one hundred and forty- five observation stations have been main- tained throughout the year. The success of the system of weather predictions has reached the high average of eighty-eight and three-tenths per cent, which, consider- ing the difficulties to be overcome in mak- ing correct forecasts of the weather, is highly creditable. The display of storm signals has proved of immense ad- vantage to commerce, as also have the re- ports on the condition of the Western rivers. By the latter owners of property are warned when the river levels approach the ‘‘dan- ger line” and there is a probability of in- undations of the valley lands. As the effi- ciency of the operations of the Signal Service Bureau mainly depends on the intelligence, sobriety and zeal of the non-commissioned officers and privates of the Signal Corps, who are charged with the observations on which all predictions are based, it is impor- tant that such a valuable body of men should be fairly remunerated for their ser- vices. As itis they are paid only the same wages as the rank and file of the regular army, and without any re- gard to their superior intelligence and important work. One of the first reforms that should be introduced into the signal service is the payment of the observer ser- geants and their assistants such wages as would encourage them to persevere in their good work. The weather in New York to- day will be warmer and cloudy or partly cloudy, with high winds and possibly light snow, followed by westerly winds and clearing weather. Very Liss a Wxarz.—The whale in the Aquarium had a ‘new sensation” yester- day. He was “‘lifted bodily out of the water and into the air by means of strong tackle, and held suspended between heaven and earth while a number of men cleaned out the bottom of his prison house.” The whale was not the only “fish out of water” about these days. There are the troops in the State houses in the South lounging at the foot of the statue of Liberty, with their guns resting against the figures of Washington and other patriots, They are fish out of water. Such harmless warriors as Chandlor, Cameron, Morton, Hewitt, Fernando Wood and Proctor Knott, who aro disposed to settle the Presidential question by the bludgeon, would be ‘fish out of water” indeed if any real fighting should take place. Our friend the whale, while “suspended between heaven and earth,” called to mind the two Presidential candi- dates, who have been in a state of suspense for more than five weeks. Two or threo times during the operation the monster of the deep was raised up, only to be let down again by the slipping of the tackle, remind- ing one of the elevation and sudden drop- ping down that has attended now the action of the Louisiana Returning Board and now the smart dodge of the Oregon Governor. It is only to be hoped that some one will “glean out the bottom of the prison house” before the suspense in the Presidential case is over. Reap Ovn Story of the Inst love feast at the Union League Club Rooms. The Eastern Negotiations—No Solution. Our special cable despatch reiterates the position of Russia in regard to Bulgaria, which, it is thought, will make war inevita- ble. If we accepted fully the declarations solemnly made on either side there would be no ground for any hope in the success of negotiation. Russia demands the occupation of Bulgaria and will not be satisfied without it nor accept any settlement that does not involve this fact; but Turkey, we are as- sured, will fight rather than assent to this occupation. ‘Therefore, if we credit the declaration, Russia will make war if the terms are such as to satisfy Turkey, and Turkey will reject the proposition of the Powers and venture war if the terms are such as to meet Russia's de- mands. Thus the positions are neces- sarily irreconcilable. Will the two governments respectively stand by them, or do they only make these demands in a spirit of diplomatic strategy? Russia, it is tolerably certain, will not yield. Her honor is involved, as the Czar has declared, and that alone makes concession scarcely possible, But that Turkey may yield is not unlikely. Indeed, it is the theory of Gen- eral Ignatieff, the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, that the Ottoman states- menare the greatest tricksters in Europe, never mean what they say, commonly im- pose their opinions on others by sheer im- pudence and imposition, and always yield if dealt with resolutely and firmly. It is worthy of note in this connection that the inquiry is made as to what Russia means by Bulgaria, as if the Sultan wanted to know just what territory is in- volved in the concession; and if he was resolute for resistance he would scarcely care to know this. It is answered that with regard to the grant of autonomy Russia considers that it is Bulgaria ‘“‘wherever the Turks have burned the villages, murdered the men and violated the women.” This, therefore, gives a boundary that the Sultan Permanent Opera in New York. The great disappointment in the amuse- ments of New York this season is the ab- sence of Italian opera. We have a fine pianist in Mme. Essipoff, and the symphonic concerts of the Philharmonic Society and Theodore Thomas are valuable for novelty and power. There will be plenty of classica] music and *‘music of the future,” for Wagner is almost as well known in New York as he was in Baireuth’ But the lyric drama has been of late a stranger, and to thousands of persons it is the most attractive of all tho forms which the genius of music assumes. To omit it from the higher amusements of a metropolitan win- ter is to take away one of the season's prin- cipal charms. The announcement made recently in the Hxnap that Colonel Mapleson, of London, was about to arrange with Carl Rosa, of whose ability as a manager we have had ample proof, to give Italian and English opera in New York, for sfx nights a week, alternately, is an encouraging sign. We shall not be entirely destitute of opera if these gentlemen fulfil their present inten- tions, and Colonel Mapleson, who has visited the United States, knows that we want nothing but the best. Inferior companies cannot succeed in this country now. It hecomes this winter, as we trust he will, undoubtedly he will bring the finest singers he can command, and Mr. Carl Rosa’s troupe we know to be one of the best that ever sang in this country or in London. But accidental or uncertain Italian opera is not what is needed by our musical com- munity. Opera should bea permanent in- stitution in New York. Music should be like a queen in her own palace, not like a doubtful guest. We must not depend upon what Mr. Mapleson or any other foreign manager may choose to do. New York can support opera of any kind, and ought to be independent of either London or Paris. Mr. Strakosch’s proposition to build a grand opera house in New York is the only plan that meets the public demand. It is well considered, practicable and pru- dent. We are glad to learn that it is approved by the best classes of society and by those business men who understand the value of artistic amusements to a city, and that there is every prospect that Mr. Strakosch will succeed in his great enter- prise. A Word to the Political Warriors, That was a happy phrase employed by Ben Hill in the recent democratic caucus in which he hit off the Bobadils of his own party as ‘invincible in peace and invisible in war.” We are in receipt of numerous letters from irrepressible gentlemen of that impetuous type remonstrating against the pacific counsels of the Henaup in this exciting conjuncture. If the crisis were not so grave we should rather enjoy the effusions of these ‘‘invinci- ble” and “invisible” gentlemen. Bobadil swearing his tremendous oath, ‘‘by the foot of Pharaoh,” and Bob Acres, his legitimate dramatic offspring, are among the most diverting characters in comedy. If we were in a mood to be amused we would not object to the exemplifications in real life of the fidelity to nature of the delineations of Ben Jonson and Sheridan, which our belligerent and bombastic correspondents furnish at their own expense. But in existing circum- stances we must respectfully decline the spasmodic kind offices of Messrs. Bobadil, Bob Acres & Co., when they propose them- selves as models for our imitation. These blustering political captains have but a faint likeness to the war horse ‘‘whose neck is clothed with thunder,” so superbly described in the book of Job; but they at least resemble him in this, that ‘he smelleth the battle afar off.” They may be trusted never to come near enough to it to snuff the odor of burning gunpowder. And yet these vaporing incendiaries might do a great deal of mischief. It requires no talent to fling firebrands, A fabric which it required the genius of architects and the laber of ages to rear may be reduced to ashes in an hour by people not worthy to tie the shoe latchets of the builders. The political fabric reared by the wisdom of our ancestors, cemented by their blood and pre- served by the patriotic sacrifices of their de- scendants in this generation, must not be 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. violence @ wrong for its then isa sure and efficient remedy by the peaceful agency of the ballot, which, as a patriotic American poet has said :— Falls like the snowflakes on the sod, And exgcates the freemen’s will As lightning does the will of God. What could any party expect to gain by extreme measures? Would our currency be restored by bringing back the same condi- tion of things which led to the issue of irre- deemable notes as a war measure? Would the promise of parties and candidates to lighten the burden of taxation be fulfilled by plunging the country into new scenes of bloodshed? Would the refund- ing of the national debt be pro- moted by civil broils and ao new drain upon our resources? Does the expe- rience of the late civil war, with its arbi- trary arrests, suspension of the habeas corpus, military trials and executions, fur- nish any warrant for believing that personal liberty and political rights would acquire new safeguards by following the counsel of the Bobadils? View it on whatever side you will, a resort to force would be stupen- dous folly, We denounce every man.who foments strife in this juncture as a seditious miscreant. Cold Weather and the Water Pipes. It must be remembered by householders in New York that we have entered on a sea- son during which the water supply must necessarily be one of the most important questions in domestic life. In the early fall the setting up of the stove and its contingent lengths of pipe formed the chief subject of discussion in many family circles; but now, when the icy breath of winter searches the smallest nooks and crannies of our houses and plays fantastic tricks with the plumb- ing, it is necessary to adopt precautions which have been, perhaps, neglected in many instances. During periods of ex- treme cold, such as we have just ex- perienced, exposed water pipes are liable to be frozen up and the supply of Cro- ton cut off at the most inconvenient times. There is alsoan element of danger in this condition of affairs which it is well to guard against. Variations of temperature occur so frequently, even in mid-winter, that a thawing out of the ice obstruction in the pipes takes place as suddenly as a freezing up. Consequently the housekeeper is not unfrequently surprised by an inflow of water, which, if it does not cause the waterback of the kitchen range to explode, may deluge the house from open taps or neglected cisterns. Water when it freezes expands about .075 per cent, thus exercising an enormous pressure on the pipes. If these are of iron there is little danger of their bursting, but if of lead an'{ of the ordinary weight per foot, the tenacity of the metal is not sufficient to resist the immense strain, and the pipes burst open, with a longitudinal rupture. There are only two ways of guard- ing against this trouble. One, the most effectual but inconvenient, is to cut off the water at the main, and procure a supply by the pailful for domestic purposes. The other is to guard the pipes from freezing by protecting them with a proper non-conduct- ing substance which will keep the water at the same temperature as that in the mains. As a general rule too little regard is paid to the plumbing of our dwelling houses. The pipes are laid so as to be beyond the control of the housekeeper unless he tears up his flooring and digs away in cellars and under sidewalks to reach them. If this is not done the first precaution must be adopted. If it is, then the best way to save the pipes from freezing up is to surround them with at least one foot of fine dry ashes or clean sand, where laid in the ground. Where they are laid along walls or under flooring exposed to cold currents of air the pipes should be cased in wooden boxes, filled with dry sawdust, and in such a manner that the covering can be easily removed when warm spring weather returns. By this simple means an uninter- rupted supply of water can be secured during the coldest winter season, and the hygienic condition of the house kept at a healthy standard by insuring the flushing of water closets, sinks and sewer pipes. It is a safe rule for tenants to demand of their landlords the underground pro- tection of the water pipes when renting houses. It would bea poor piece of economy for the latter to refuse this necessary expen- diture of a few dollars. The Department of Buildings should insist on builders laying underground water pipes in ashes or sand, and the exposed pipes in such a manner as to facilitate their being properly protected in winter. Another important point worthy of the attention of the inspectors of buildings is the strength of lead pipes. If these are put in too light they will cost more in the end than really substantial fittings. A vast waste of water may be saved by the proper authorities insisting that there shall be no “slop work” done by the plumbers, The Doubt a the Spade. “The tomb of some great king, but one who probably lived much later than Aga- memnon,” is the poet and Hellenist, Will- iam Cullen Bryant's, conjecture regarding Dr. Schliemann’s discoveries among the Cyclopean-walled tombs at Mycenw, The details of the discoveries published in Tues- day's Heraup, though not describing them jn full or up to the date of the Doctor's letter to the King of Greeco, show that he has taken more pains to assure himself of the great antiquity of the trensures and architectural remains than Mr. Bryant's phrase, ‘‘a moment of exultation,” would imply. In an age when, as Mr, Bryant ob- serves, writings or graven inscriptions ot any kind were rare, and the chances of their survival to our time so preca- rious, other means beyond the actual writ- ten character must be relicd on for verifica- tion. Norneed these be so incomplete as at first would scom from their nature. Sus- tained first by direct traditions and next by the“ great epics and trage- dies crystallizing them, the explorer takes up the tale of the descending ages at the point where it is admitted to be historical, and carries it down to the present day. Then he takes his spade and digs backward through the ages as he digs down into the earth, The signs by which he marks the limit of the various historic epochs need not posed to danger im order to redress by | bo dwelt upon, Those who recall Dr. Schliemann's researches on the Trojan plain will remember how he marked the antiquity by the descent ; how he passed through twa buried and burned cities before be came upon the great masses of masonry upon the virgin soil which he claims, and with great reason, to be the Ilion of Priam and Heetor, the pictured city ot Homer. At Mycenm the Doctor worked with less chance of error than on the marshy Troad. He had the testimony of Pausanias to guide him; he had the Cyclopean remains to locate the Pausanian tradi- tion. The Doctor's work must speak for itself. Wedo not purpose to go shead of his guarded announcement or to go bes hind it until the full story is before us. A Mycenm there has been hard, honest and patient work inthe right direction, down into the bosom of Mother Earth that may conceal, but surely holds from entire de- struction, the relics of the great monument- raising men of other times. By her kindly process of heaping the dust of ages upon them and moistening the dust with the rain- drops of heaven she has but hid them for the time when they will be enshrined in o brighter appreciation than they could come mand at any epoch since they were first in- terred. The doubt has had its long day. Said Byron, having in his mind a Mr, Bryant who, eighty years ago, wrote a book to prove that Ilion had never existed but in the song of Homer :— I’ve stood upon Achilles’ tomb And heard Pe doupted: time will doubt of Rome, The very generations of the dead Aro swept away and tomb inherits tomb, Until the memory of an age 18 fled, And, buried, sinks beneath its Where aro the epitaphs our fath The patient German answers the question with his spade. Marermts ror 4 Tarmuixe romance will be found in the story, given elsewhere, ot two men who were lost in the snow and pine woods of Wisconsin. The sights the poor fellows thought they beheld will awaken many memories in the minds of men who, when overtasked in mind and body, have been the victims of strange hallucinations, Wun tax Wars of getting out of theatres excite more interest than those of getting into them our reports of the inspections now being made will be read with interest, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘Titions has a tumor. Danes like Mormonism. Baron de Palm got up and duste@, Ex-Senator Stewart is in Washington. Bayard, of the Brooklyn Argus, refuses to leetare Mr. Dolane, of the London 7imes, is dangerously 11, Count Brunetti, of Spain, is at the Brevoort House, Mrs. Secretary Fish will spend the holidays in Now York. Burdette, of the Burlington Hawkeye, is going to lecture. When a Ragsian gets drunk he becomes good natured. “Vick’s Annual Floral Guide” is beautiful and im structive. Senator Sharon will leave his beautiful daughter ig San Francisco, Congressman Walker, of Virginia, is the handsomest man in the House. Goneral Spinner {s in Florida, and his signature is ag bull-dozed as ever. Mr. Nicolas Shishkin, Russian Minister at Washinge ton, ig at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, are rived last evening at the Windsor Hotel, Captain R. Antrye, military attaché of the French Legation at Washington, 1s at the Brevoort House. General McClellan expects to winter in Baltimore, He has already manwuvred as far as Jersey City ferry, False hair has gone out of fashion, and boarding house butter bas had to fall back on the old original style. Some one says that T. De Witt Talmage was named Theophilus D, Talmage; and that 1s Theophilust name wo have beard yet. Hon L, Letellier de St, Just, Minister of Agricul- turo, was yesterday appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Quebec. Stairways are now mado so that a man may atiwe o’clock in the morning slide the whole length of the hall with snow clumps on bis heels, Danbury News :—‘There are 170,000 wolves in Rus- sia, The man who counted them has been severely missed in this country in the past month.’” Plaid stockings are both beautiful and handy, for two Vassar girls can sit up halfthe night playing checkers with half a pair and a handful of buttons. Stanley Waterloo thinks that all good journalists gota little paste on their coats; but there was one in Chicago the other day who cot a little paste in the oye. A man out in Nevada couldn’t soll an American eagle for oven fitty cents, and yot it has cost this country thousands of dollars for cuts of democratic roosters, Portugal has a royal family with whieh it 1s satis. fled, a constitution which contents it, it cam pay ite way, can find money for its own wants and is scarcely ever heard of. People travelling in California will find these para. Rraplis regularly reproduced in the San Francisco Post, which bas, therefore, the best personal column west of the Missourl. Théophiic Gautier observes that no civilized race can make three things—namely, a set of barccss, an ordinary water jag and a mat—which couid compete ip point of taste with the productions of a barbaric race, The Irish people are beginning to support native un- dertakings. Even in cases where Irish concerns are “pronght out” in the first instance in Engiand the sbares are being gradually bought upon Irish account and absorbed locally, Paulton, the famous dramatic author, was invited by Garrick to write a ballet with plenty of smart dialogue in it for the present lessee of Drury Lane, “Ob, I ace,’ said the author actor wag, “you want a ton o’ chatter tor Chatterton.” Said a Hackensack preacher the Sunday after a fox bunt:—‘‘They say that Nebucbadnezzer was crazy enough to eat trass; but right down at tbat hotel I saw a lotof sane men sucking the juice out of twa straws.”’ Woll, shan’t a mi now his own fodder? Nothing makes a man feol so sad as to go back in his middlo age to the old homestead and seo the cat-o’- nine tails hanging against the cupboard, while the old lady who used it 1s gone. He feels as it he could He right overa chair and take a fow whacks on the old homestead to call her back to lite again. Burlington Hawkeye :—fhis is the awfalest thing we ever saw, and wo don’t know where it comes from, and we're afraid to credit it by guess lost wo draw down upon our timid head the sarcasm of the Hzratp ¥. 1 man again. But iv’s too dreadful to throw away:—‘Cnemists bave discovered that a purp yell color can be mad@grom tho bark of dogwood.’” Evening Telegram bill of fare for tovacco users :— ne: re 3 A cavon-dish, ‘Navy’? style, Suckers, as applied toa peed cigar—Any others from tbe domains ot “Neprune,”? caught by the “Yacht Ciub,”” ENTREKS. Smoked bam, well cured— Hash, vory “fine cat” — Ragout naa “Pigtail” i g 3 g : Ro. H Boof from a "Durham’* com, VEGETABLES. Hy H Potatoes from the “Sunnyside” of a hill, z 3 POULTRY. ‘ 3 z Fowl from the yard of a tobacco barn, GastE ; “Three Black Crows.” FY DRKSERT, z z"Limerick Twist,” bread pudding—“Fruits and bhasheirr Paste. H 3 DR! “Green Seal,” in pipes. i vartak at a “Golden MOLL OO DEDEDE DE EDOO DELETE LE REOOL ODI LODODE SOLE DONEG, Such a dinner as tho above is s'naffin to be sacezed a