The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1876, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY | AND ANN” STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ee All business, news letters or telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yorn Henane Letters and packages should be properly sealed. dejected communications will not: be’ re- turned. z BEEADE, LPHLA OFF IC SIXTH DON OF! IC HERALD—NO. PARIS OFFIC NAPLES OFFIC -NO, 7 STRADA PAC E. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. NO.112 1 OF THE N SOUTH YORK Lye KUM THE RE. i oa ats Liwin Booth. wa THE SHAUGHRAL. PAR MUSETTE, at 8 I. M. UNION SQU MISS MULTOS, a8. M NEW YORK AQUARIUM, RE THEATRE, Open daily. THEATRE, ats P.M. Oliver Doud Byron, y WALL, KO! REBEL TO THE © STE CONCERT, at 8P.M 'S GARDEN. VAL, ase, M. VARIETY AND SHAM TONY I ARIETIES, vIVOLI THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. FAGLE, VARIETY, at & “8PM. KELLY & LE uSP.M. UEL PRESTIDIGITATEU It. COLUMBIA 0) FARIETY, at 8 P.M. THEA COMIQUE, VARIETY, at 8P. M N 2 TEMPLE, CROMWELL'S IL ats P.M, € THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 I PHILADELPHIA THEATRES. KT i RA_ PALACE. ‘Oo! Tur PARTIE 1 THEATRE, T T QUADRU PLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, From our reports this morning the probabite Ves are that the weather to-day wil! be very told and clear or partly cloudy. SHEET, DECEMBER ts 1876, Waxy Srrert Yzsterpay.—On account of the increase in specie the bank statement shows a gain of $3,760,000 over last week in the surplus reserve. The principal activity of the stock market was exhibited in Lake Shore end Michigan Central, due to the termination of the railway war. Gold opened at 107 5-8 and closed at 107 3-4, sell- ing mennwhile at 1077-8. Money on call was supplied at 4 1-2 and 5 percent. Gov- ernment bonds were firm. Reap Coronen Sanronstatt’s account of his Southern trip, and learn how Florida alligators are not the only voracious animals in their native land. Ws Privt an Intenestixe description of the electric light and its possible influence in subduing gas companies and making easier the path of the taxpayer. We Print To-Day all that is known on the street about the end of the railroad war, and readers of a judicial turn of mind will find enongh in the news to occupy all their Spare moments, Oxx Wovutrp Suppose that our city charter was akin to the constitution of the United States by the number of attempts that are being made to modify it. On another page are foreshadowed some of the onslaughts it must snstain at Albany this winter.. The Legislature deserves the prayers of the righteous and the sympathies of the tor- mented. Warr Drrrenext Hicn Toren bodies were debating about what should be done for “Ginx's Baby” the poor wretch starved to death. There is a promise of a similar re- sult from the lack of harmony among the | workingmen’s relief committees, The | points of disagreement aro detailed in an- other column, with some information about the sufferers. Any benevolent soul who wants to know more can be accommodated by the magistrates at the Tombs. Wren tHe Conrnacror who erects a shocking bad house presents the architect's certificate stating that the work is complete sccording to contract it is generally con- sidered the thing for the unfortunate owner to pay the bill and look to profanity for his sole satisfaction. Thero is something in our court reports to-day, however, which arouses a trembling hope that hereafter an architect's decision may be no more final in its nature than that of a returning board, and that if what is apparently a house turns out to be only # barn or a model fora ventilator it need only be paid for according to what it is. Tne Brooxtyy Brivcr.—The engineers of the Brooklyn Bridge Company have finished testing the one hundred pound samples fur- nished by the bidders for tho contract of six | million eight hundred thousand pounds of wire, Mr. Albert Hill has rather severely criticised the fundamental formulm upon which the specifications were based, and also makes a severe attack upon the mathemati- | enl work relating to the ‘‘total stretch.” It | appears strange to find ina work of such magnitude as the Brooklyn Bridge errors in the specifications for the letting of a con- tract. If Mr. Hill, is correct in his state- ment it would be well for Mayor Wickham end Mayor Schroeder to look into the mat- ter and see that the taxpayers of both cities ‘re protected from failure and consequent loss that might arise from any fiasco in such an important and expensive public work. |! of the robber who squanders his plunder | We awoke from our dream one day to find | this power. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET. What Will They Do for Us? With the next year we inaugurate a new city government and commence anew de- parture under new conditions in our mu- nicipal affairs. The people of New York have not been fortunate in their rulers fora number of years. Under the old Tammany régime there was a great deal of apparent progress, plenty of money afloat among the politicians, easy living all round, and a wonderful inflation in real estate. But our seeming prosperity was the extrava- gance of the spendthrift or the liberality with a princely hand as long as it lasts. that the men who, in the populir phrase, were ‘doing so much for the city,” in reality held us in the grasp of the highwayman, and were emptying our pockets and choking us to death at the same time, When we got free trom their hands our municipal affairs fell into the keeping of reformers, who reformed us too much. Be- cause public improvements had been reck- lessly pushed by the old rulers for their own purposes the new rulers deemed it necessary to put drag chains around us and prevent us from advancing an- other step. Because dishonest men had robbed the city treasury honest men double locked its doors and refused to pay our just debts, thus squandering in vexatious litiga- tion what had been saved from the hands of the plunderers. Because one set of public men had acted without principle another | set acted without sense, and the people who had been just saved trom being bled to death found their lives in danger from suffo- cation. . When the old officials were detected in | their crimes and sent adrift the conflicting interests of the reformers gave us a hybrid government controlled by a law the main object of which seemed to be to make all the public departments independent of each other and to fix responsibility nowhere. Mr. Havemeyer’s administration was hon- est, but imbecile, and nothing better can be said of its successor, Both meant well, no doubt, but neither has accom- plished anything for the advancement of the city, the revival of business, the improve- ment of real estate interests, or the con- venience and comfort of the people. Our new boulevards and avenues are much as they were left in 1871. Our downtown streets are in the same wretched condition as they were five years ago. Our docks, with some few exceptions, are as steadily rottmg away now as they were then, It has been claimed that the divided responsibility attendant on a mixed govern- | ment, the inharmoniousness of the depart- ments, the obstructiveness of some public officers, the conflicting interpretations given to the meaning of the law by jealous and squabbling officials, have been the principal causes of our difficulties and have smothered enterprise and progress in our municipal | affairs, Ifthe Mayor and Common Council have desired to push forward a public work they have stumbled over the obstruction of the Comptroller. If the. Commissioner of Public Works has desired to move ahead he has run against the bars of the Finance De- partment. If the Commissioners of Parks have stretched out their hands they have been rapped over the knuckles by the Mayor. The departments, which are in- tended as the motive power of the munici- pal government, have had their heads turned in different directions and have been pull- ing all ways at once. But as these evils no longer exist; as we have now a harmonious, friendly, Tammany democratic government from the basement of the City Hall to the dome ; as the Mayor elect and the heads of subordinate departments are all in accord; as the legislative, legal and executive branches areas united as the Tam- many Hall General Committee, we have a right to expect and demand better results in the future. Mayor Ely, in connection with a friendly Board of Aldermen, o friendly Board of Apportionment, a friendly Commissioner of Public Works and a friendly Comptroller, i can give us well paved streets down town | and wherever they are lacking in the city. The Common Council has power to “provide for and regulate street pave- ments,” and no one will now place obstructions in the way of the exercise of Mayor Ely, whose duty it is to recommend to the Common Council all such measures as he shall deem expedient, can call attention to this most necessary and desirable reform, and can insure the favor- able action of the democratic Aldermen on his recommendation. He will greatly dis- appoint the people who have elected him if he does not make this desirable reform a prominent feature of his first message. Will he do so? Mayor Ely is required by the charter to keep himseif informed of the doings of the | several departments. He is an old resident of New York and an old and active politi- cian, hence he knows as well to-day as he will know on the first anniversary of his in- auguration the exact condition of our docks and the difficulties that have interposed to hinder the carrying out of a thorough sys- tem of dock improvement. He can ‘‘call to- gether for consultation and co-operation all heads of departments,” in accordance with the charter, and he, therefore, has the right to signify to the Dock Commissioners what he requires of them without being charge- able with improper interference with their duties. With his friendly associates in the | Board of Apportionment—Comptroller Kelly, Tax Commissioner Wheeler and Al- { derman Purroy--he can insure the Dock De- partment the means necessary to carry out proper and desirable dock improvements. Will he do so? Mayor Ely can insure New York during the two years of his administration against | any failure of the water supply or any in- sufficiency in its delivery in the fature, ‘The laws give the city the power to increase the supply and to spend as much money as | will be required to secure sufficient means for its proper distribution through the city. If the warnings of the engineers of the Fire Department and of the Croton bnreau and the fears of the citizens have hitherto been | unavailing to protect us against the danger of a scarcity of water and insufficient inains that the necessary work has found obstruc- | city in earnest and to insist that the neces- ! felonious hands upon his mother-in-law’s tions in some department or another of the city government. Mayor Ely has now only to take hold of this vital necessity of the sary means shall be forthcoming, and the work will be no longer delayed. Will he do so? Mayor Ely is required by the charter to be vigilant and active in causing the ordi- nances of the city and the laws of the State to be executed and enforced, and he can thus insist that every department shall discharge its duties in an efficient and satisfactory manner, This gives him in truth a supervising power over the whole city government. There is a depart- ment of buildings, for instance, which, if it properly enforces the laws, can do much to protect the people against the danger of fires in places of public re- sort—a danger that has recently been so terribly illustrated. We mention this only incidentally as o specimen of what Mayor Ely can do toward giving us an efficient city government. He can aid the departments materially in their work, as well as enforce energy and efficiency on their part, Will he do so? Comptroller Kelly, as the political and personal friend of Mayor Ely, can do much toward making the new administration a brilliant suecess, The power of the head of the Finance Department is very great, even without being strained and made to interfere with and infringe upon the duties of other departments. In harmony with the Mayor and the other municipal oflicers it can be made a useful and beneficent power. In all the acts we have enumerated as pertaining to the new Mayor's du- ties Comptroller Kelly can materially aid. He can exercise a wise discretion in liberally interpreting laws that are meant to give the city desirable improvements and to insure its progress and prosperity. If the Mayor can sceure for us, through the co- operation of the Common Council and the departments, well paved streets, improved docks and an unfailing water sapply, Comp- troller Kelly can help the Mayor by promptly paying the city laborers and con- tractors and removing all financial obstacles, Will he do so? Comptroller Kelly can save money to the taxpayers in various ways. He can adopt a broad, liberal and intelligent financial policy, which we have hitherto lacked. He ean discontinue paying for money for the | city’s use one or two per cent above the regular market rate. He can discharge ail honest city indebtedness promptly and without captious opposition, and by so doing can insure more favorable bids trom contractors and get all public work done at more reasonable rates. No person will work as cheaply for the city as for private individuals when it is notorious that they will only get their pay at the end of a long lawsuit. This is the difficulty under which we have hitherto labored, and Comptroller Kelly can remove it. The Comptroller can also save much individual suffering by promptly paying the salaries and wages of all who work for the city. Will he do so? In a word, Mayor Ely, Comptroller Kelly and all their democratic associates in the new democratic city government can do their duty like sensible men and _ honest, capable public officers, and the people of New York expect that they will do so. Our Paris Cable Letter. The Ministerial crisis having passed away without leaving any very widespread bitter- ness behind it, Paris settles down with a seriousness as great as that with which it goes to war to preparing for the Christmas holidays. Perhaps the Frenchman's most earnest moment is when he is getting ready to be excessively jolly. As for the French woman, she brings so much vivacity to her serious seconds that it takes time to find out when she is enjoying herself in earnest. The very pov- erty and apparent contradiction in terms of our attempted explanation will con- vey faintly the difficulty the for- eigner experiences in divining Lu- tetia’s frame of mind at a par ticular instant. The men_ amilliners, with the daring of their profession, are busy cutting the ladies’ ball dresses down to the shoulders; the dealers are busy displaying their Christmas novelties for the juveniles ; the theatrical managers are hard at work getting up their reviews of the year ; the official censor is busy cutting them down; parents are busy laying out their “economies” for their children, and the latter are busy dreaming of toys and sugarplums. Such is life just now in Paris, but it has its darker side. There is a fashion in suicides os in Christ- mas snowballs and Easter eggs. Scan- dals flit hither and thither, and jeven the sacred institution of the mother-in-law no longer inspires its accustomed terrors. What they are we all knowin this favored land. Men have been found in America who privily cursed them under their breath in remote by- ways; but what shall be said of a land that can produce a young Count who lays diamonds, and——but the shrieking pen re- fuses to do more than refer tho curious to the bolder despatch elsewhere, There, in- | deed, will be found other pieces of intellig! gence—social, political and dramatic—but nothing so horrifying as the story of the | wicked Count. i Our London je Letter, “Chill and dreary” the weather is reported to have been in London, and the passage of the uncomfortable words under three thousand miles of cold wintry water does not warm them particu- larly. Other bits of news, however, come out of the ocean with a cheery ring, Christmas is coming, the great English home festival, and its benign influence is felt though there be such fiery talk abroad of war to stalk along the Balkans. They do not forget the poor there either, and in the heaving heart of mighty London there is nn ocean of thin, poor blood. We are not pleased to hear that murder is rife in England, but until the millennium is reached we must England, probably because the hypocrite when there produced is a specially odious animal, and the handsome young officer who ran away with another man’s wife whom he first pitied and thep in the kinship of the passions proceeded to love fell a victim to this prejudice. against him, and his defence would elicit a contemptuous expression from the average New Yorker, which would translate the judge's decision into bold vernacular—he would call it diaphanous. Yet we must remember Joseph. The Prince of Wales has taken a fitting place at the head of British endeavor to explore and civilize Africa, and thus we may soon hope to see this matter, which has been hitherto left to individual effort backed by private means, taken up in a broad spirit by the nations who have passed the continent of Hannibal and Au- gustine by with a reference to the mission- ary and the traveller. Following the Fire. The inspection of theatres and other places of resort continues, and we read every day of the various ways of exit which exist. To determine whether these are sufficient, and whether their arrangement is as good as can be, seoms to be as far as the law allows the authorities to go. Sugges- tions of fireproof scenery, drop curtains which would be impervious to flame and fire brigades of theatre employés are numerous and sensible; but until the law can be made to enforce them the danger is | as great as it was prior to Brooklyn's night of horror. The public will closely watch owners of theatres to see what precautions they will take of their own free will, but in the meantime there is great deal that the authorities can do under such laws as are in operation. One cheap and effective preventive of harm in case of fire consists in letting people know where the ways of escape are and how they are to be used. No matter how many doors and windows a theatre has, people never think of getting out by any but the few and narrow passages by which they got in. Every door and window available for exit should bear a conspicuous placard announcing the fact and tell- ing how it may be opened. Had such information been familiar to the audi- ence of the Brooklyn Theatre many of the victims might have escaped. It is also within the law to prevent the accumulating of people about the doors of crowded build- ings. It should be made the duty of the police to force people away from a burning building as fast as they escape, instead of al- lowing them to form a circle as near the flames as they dare to stand, and thus prevent others from getting away. Another safeguard is in the hands of the authorities in the case of buildings still to be erected. Almost every theatre is in the centre of a block of buildings and approachable only through two or three narrow alleys. It is in the power of the proper bureau to refuse to issue a building permit for any new theatre unless itis to be built upon a corner or with a front which shall all be available for passageway. The reports of inspections of churches will be awaited with peculiar interest. To run the risk of being roasted in this world while listening to warnings against the same fate in the next has altogether too much sameness about it to be agreeable. People are generally as reluctant to go out of church as they are to go in, and builders of sanctuaries have taken advantage of this habit to locate congregations behind narrow doors and even up single stairways, and to fill aisles with fixed or movable seats. The danger of fire is not so great in churches as in theatres, but the least risk is enough to justify the utmost caution. The Weather—A Destructive Storm, Yesterday’s heavy gale in New York and along the coast, as well as in the lake re- gion, Canada and the Eastern States, has fully verified ourstatements and predictions regarding the severity of the storm. The erratic movements of these great atmos- pherio disturbances render it necessary to follow them closely in every stage of their progress in order to pre- determine their local influences in this city and its vicinity. We noted the depression just passed before its centre had come within the area of regular obser- vation, and then remarked that the indica- tions were decided enough to warrant the prediction that it would prove a genuine | storm—that is, one accompazied by violent winds and considerable precipitation, The effects of the gale in New York and its neighborhood include some damage to ship- ! ping in the harbor and to house property at exposed points, but in the former instance it was out of all proportion to that caused by the storm of the 9th inst., although the gale was equally violent. The timely warn- ing given by the Henatp, and the prompt display of the danger flag by the Signal Service Bureau, prepared shipmasters for the coming blow and enabled them to secure their vessels against damage. The ravages of the storm throughout the regions swept by itare very great. Wo print elsewhere the details so far as known, but we fear that they do not present the full losses sus- tained from the gale. The temperature in the Northwest during yesterday fell as low as 38 degrees below zero at Pem- bina, 33 at Fort Garry and 28 at Duluth, ; At other and more southerly points the cold was proportionately intense, and snow and rain féll along the Inke region, in Canada and inthe Northeast, while a slight flurry of short duration was observable in this city. Generally clear but cool weather pre- | vails in the South, with high wind at Indianola, Texas. The centre of high- est pressure is now moving eastward over Lake Michigan, accompanied by decided cold, The temperature at New York varied considerably yesterday, being 5 degrees warmer in the morning than on Friday afternoon, and only 10 degrees above zero as night approached. Although intensely cold weather prevails through the St. Lawrence Valley there are points on the Nova Scotia const; within the central area of the storm, where the temperature is 5 de- Marks, Fla., yesterday morning. not be overshocked if man ‘‘breaks into man’s | grees above freezing, of equal to that of St. and hydrants it has been owing to the fact [too house,” as Shakespeare hath | There is a latent dislike of hypocrisy in Another storm centre is now moving east- Appearances were sadly | i | ward from the far Northwest. During the past few days we have noted that the weather conditions on the Pacific coast have been indicating the movement of a distutb- ance through the region west of the moun- tains, This depression has now reached the head waters of the Missouri kiver. Judg- ing from the velocities and directions of the wind at points in the Missouri Valley we are confident that another storm will soon pass eastward, perhaps equal in severity to that of yesterday. The weather in New York to-day will be very cold and clear or partly cloudy. Freedom of the Press in France, An important suit against a newspaper has just been decided in Paris, and, contrary to the usual rule, not by the condemnation of the journal. This seems to imply at once a great change in the way things are seen by those who administer the law, and an admis- sion that the recent legislation has so far modified the relations of the press to so- ciety that there are some things ao jour- nalist may say with impunity. In the Paris Figaro an- article was published entitled ‘The Military Demi-Monde,” ‘which satirized certain elements of tho army, that element particularly which is known to believe in the Republic and does | not regard the Empire as a sacred tradition. Certain soldiers who are members of the Senate were also touched sharply by the ar- ticle, As the law makes it an offence to vil- ify “constituted bodies,” and requires the, government to prosecute, proceedings were initiated by the criminal authorities. But the Court held that government could only prosecnte under the law upon com- plaint from the vilified body, and neither the army nor the Senate had com- plained, and that the bodies named were not vilified as such or in their entirety, but only certain members of them, indicated with sufficient clearness to enable these persons to demand individually at the hands of the Court the punishment of their assailants, Judgments in favor of news- papers have been rare in France, but this case seems to indicate an easier future for the press in that country. Marshalling the Forces. The demands made respectively by Russia and Turkey before the conference are such as evidently to put further away the possi- bility of agreement. For Turkey to demand an indemnity from Russia on the ground that her covert help to Servia prolonged the war, and for Russia to demand that Turkey shall pay the expense of foreign military oc- cupation of Turkish territory, is as if either sought to make adjustment impossible. This attitude of the disputants will give in- terest to a consideration of the military prep- arations. If a nation that prepares for war may therefore be supposed to desire peace then Russia is at this moment doubtless the most pacifically inclined of European Powers. The order last issued in regard to the mobilization of the army will increase her active force to an army larger by fifty thousand men than the active army of the Ottoman Empire. Russia has mobilized under the previous orders six corps d'armée. Each corps contains twenty-five thousand infantry and about five thousand cavalry and artillery. Thus the six will count one hun- dred and eighty thousand men, and thirteen regiments of Cossacks, not attached to any corps, will raise the number to two hundred thousand. Four of these corps will constitute the army of the Danube, though that designa- tion is not yet officially given, and two are placed in reserve, one at Odessa and one in the Crimea. With the Danube army there will be four hundred pieces of artillery, or one hundred to a corps. By the recent order one humdred thousand men are added to the force thus underarms. Russia will there- fore have with the colors, probably before the end of the conference, three hundred thousand men, and this will certainly be sufficient to open operations with a Power whose active army is rated on paper at two hundred and fifty thousand. It is evidently the intention of the Rus- sian government to add very largely to the forces now mobilized, so that if the army concentrating on the Danube should be roughly handled in a first collision with the Osmanli there will be another not far behind it ready to deprive the enemy of any advan- tage he might otherwise gain from victory. English correspondents and recent English writers generally have greatly lauded the military quality of the Ottoman sol- dier; but the great excellences they claim for him are more apparent to their favoring eyes than in the history of late wars. In the Servian war he was a triton among the minnows; but Russia is not Servia. It is possible there may be sur- prises in store if war really occurs; but we incline to the opinion that the nation which maintained a resolute struggle for a year with the united forces of England, France and Turkey will be able to give a good ac- count of Turkey alone without an extreme trial of her resources. " Toys for Christmas. Now comes the delightful season when toy shop windows are like glimpses of fairy- land; when the queens of dolldom take part in imaginary minuets with their suitors, the Princes Prettymen; when Noah and his train—the dogas bigas the elephant, and Shem, Ham and Japhet out of all proportion to the other beasts—issue from the Ark in grotesque procession; when drums end bugles suggest visions of horror to parents | and of delight to boys, and Santa Claus, with his inexhaustible basket, brings all his latest inventions for the children. It is the merry Christmas season, which has de- scended from immemorial times, when youth rules the world, and when the wise men bow down before the little ones, as many centuries ago they knelt at the side of the Babe in the manger. The improvements made in the toy shops are great. Science has become the help- mate of pleasure, and so we have walking babies, jumping jacks and crying bibies— as if the latter were not superfluous~-besides automatons of all kinds, The days of Tackleton, the toy merchant in “The Oricket on the Hearth,” are over. He was, as Dickens describes him, ‘a do- mestic Ogre, who had been living on chil- | dren all his life and was their implacable enemy.” He delighted to make toys a tor- ment, and ‘anything suggestive of apony 4 nightmare was delicious to him.” The ex- pression of the countenances of his giants, goblins and devils in boxes, ‘‘was safe to de- stroy the peace of mind of any young geatle- man between the ages of six and eleven forthe whole Christmas or midsummer vacation.” But Tackleton is dead and beauty now pre- sides in the toy shop. Yet children are fantas- tic in their likes, and donot always prefer the magnificent creatures who parade the latest Parisian fashions for dolls in the windows, Little girls, like large girls, often misplace their affections and adore the most horrible effigies of humanity. Little Four-year-old will love with all her heart and soul some bald-headed doll, without a nose, deprived of a leg, hopelessly blind, and _ will hug it to sleep in her crib. Charlotte Bronté tells how such a forlorn gypsy cone soled Jane Eyre in her childish grief. No dazzling beauty from Paris could atone for the loss of the first love, awful as it may appear to the disinterested eye. Are we not all deceived by similar illusions? If the girl loves her doll and cherishes it in all its afflictions the boy regards his toys more philosophically. He cuts open the drum to see what makes the noise, am- putates Harlequin and sinks Nosh and the Ark in the washtub. ‘Che simplest toys, we think, are the best for young children, as the simplest. pleasures are the best for children of a larger growth. But Christmas toys and Christmas joys are not to be sep- arated, and to all who remember their own childhood there are few sights as charming as that of a toy shop filled with the Pappy faces of children. The South Carolina Troubles. The Chamberlain government in South Carolina seems to be doing its best to pro- voke an outbreak, but is not likely to suc ceed. There is a rumor that it is the intention of Governor Chamberlain to cause the arrest of General Hampton on a charge of treason, and our special report indicates that in case the attempt should be made by any force other than that of United States troops it would be resisted. The Mackey House has passed a law de- claring that any persons setting up a government or claiming to be a gov- ernment against the legally elected government of the State shall be ad- judged guilty of treason, and im- posing very heavy penalties in fine and imprisonment. Ali who aid or abet in the offence are subjected to similar punish- ment. But such a law, or the arrest of General Hampton with or without sucha law, would be futile. The question would still remain, Which is the regular and legally elected government? The State courts alone can decide this, unless the State is pul under the military rule of the United States, Suppose General Hampton should be ar rested? He would be taken before the courts on a writ of habeas corpus and re- leased. There would be no necessity for forcible resistance. Suppose the Mackey House law should be passed by the Senate and signed by the Governor? The courts would pronounce it waste paper and no law at all. It is true the Mackey House and Governor Chamberlain threaten to turn out the judges of the Supreme Court and put in creatures of their own, but this would excite such general indignation that it could scarcely be carried out. The 4th of March next would terminate the out rage if Governor Hayes should then be in iy the Presidential chair. The friends of Gen- eral Hampton have only to keep the peace, under any and all circumstances, and to let the law take its course. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ben Wado fs in Washington. San Francisco has apron fairs. Turkish women have little intelligen Graco Greenwood loves prune pudding. Holland is called ‘the paradise of cows.” Horseradish and vinegar poultice cures neuralgia, Tne Count de Turenne sailed for Europe yesterday, Mr. Matthew H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, is at the Hoffman House. Miss Sallie Schenck puts a little brandy in her de- leious chocolate. Mr. Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Aristarchi Bey, Turkish Minister at Washington, ts at the Albemario Hotel. Nothing but dualine can burst up the dual govern ment in South Carolina, It was a high compliment to Mr. Watterson to put him on the Committee of Ways and Means, Owing to the closing of restaurants in Now York many Frecch counts are out of employment, Secretary of the Senate Gorham, of California will soon marry Miss F. A. Bassett, of Washington, Cremation ashos and white sca sand in equal pro- portions will grow the most beautiful hyacinths. Dr. Mary Walker says that girls do not know the un- checked pleasure of sliding down stairs on the bannis- ters. Noxt to throwing kittens into a mill pond the sad dest sight is that of alady ata church farr drowning two or three poor little oysters in a gallon of this milk. Washington Star:—‘‘General and Mrs. William Bob knap and their little daughter are at the Arlington, All are enjoying the best of health, and Mra Belknag is looking, if possible, handsomer than ever.’? Murat Halstead says:—‘‘The pool sellers are, throughout the country, democrats, and they are drawing bets—or declaring them off. This shows very plainly that Mr. Tilaen’s gambiing friends do not claim his election.” Atadinner party in Edinburgh a discussion arose about Burke, and his view of the French Revolution, After some little time a **bailie’’ who was present, but had not nitherto taken part in the conversation, struck tn, all at once, as if anew light had occurred to him, “Burke, Burke! yes, I had to see bim hanged,” The Paterson Press derides our suggestion that bean soup should be given to the poor. Gentlemen, 1 is betior to feed a few tramps by mistake than to have even one worthy person go away bungry. Remem- ber that woman who starved in Paterson, where there is an intelligent republican majority, She was not strong enough to tramp. Evening Telegram bill of tare for the nobility :— ee ce ae POO OLE OO LO RODE DEDEDE OE HOOP: Crémg de la creme Ae! asparagus, Cod, & Ia parvenu, Blue blood pudding, eee Tving according to tho doomsday book. Count-ry sausages, ROAST. Hind quartering of matton, with a golden fleece. Baron ot beef, VEGRTABLES, Eari-y potaioes, ais A lion rampant; sauce royale. DESSERT. 3 GA! Fruita froma genealogical trge, DRINKS. Bourbon, from a bar sinister, POLL ORE RELE IEEE COLE LELOLO DERE HERONS BOLE HEOYDELE: The cookery necessary in the preparation of the above should be performed over an emblazoning fire, The wood from ancestral oaks is the best material, LOLI EL AE LE LEO DE DORE LE REELED ‘ %