The New York Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1877, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD | “nee * BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON ‘BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must New Yorn Henatp. shonid be properly sealed. + will not be returned. Kejected communici PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LOADON, OFFICE, oF THE NEW YORK HERALD— BIA te ERE VOR i joreriptions rtixements wil be received and | on the same terms us in New York. HELLER'S THEATRE—Paestipicitation, VIFTH AVANUE THEATRE—Tux Prixcess Rovan GRAND OPERA HOU! NEW YORK AQUART BOWERY THEATRE—Se ACADEMY OP MUSIO~ Ricouxtro. PARK THEATRE—Ovn Boanvixo Horse \ protest against the miserable condition of BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Smavonnacn STEINWAY HALL~Coxcur EAGLE THEATRE—H} TONY PASTOR'S THEA’ TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaniery BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRY LS EGYPTIAN HALL—Vani COLUMBIA OPERA HOUS! THEATRE COMIQUB—Vantr NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM. QUINTUPLE SHEE ~NEW YORK. SUNDAY, API “187 “COUNTRY ‘The Adama Express Company nsylyania Kal T, 8 187 DEALERS. & speclal newspaper and its connections, four A.M. daily and Sunday, carrying West ay Harrisburg and Phiindelpite at a quarter-p: one P.M. ir From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather in New York to-day will be sooler and partly clowdy or clear, Wau Srreer Yesterpay.—An active mar- ket was characterized by another great de- tline in stocks. There was hardly any active stock which did not suffer, but the trunk lines were principally affected. Gold opened at 1065s, advanced to 107 and closed at 106%, Govern- ment bonds were a little stronger and railroads steady. Money on call was quoted at 2 a 3 per cent, closing at 2 a 219 pe nt. THE ParaGuaYAns have revolted and assassi- nated their Presi ‘ANADIAN PILGRIMS Tue FaReWweELl. To THE ‘was even more kindly and tmpressive than the reception. A Lonpoy Letter gives the details of the | great walking match, in which O'Leary beat Weston, himself, and every other pedestrian | whose time is on record. Persons Expect: To JOY on Sc¥veR | the spring anniversaries of religious societies will tind in another column the complete list, with dates of meeting. ANOTHER Batcnt oP CHALLENGES appears this morning. but all from athletes. The great talk- ing matches will not begin until Congress as- sembles in cxtra session. Success Seems AssuRED to the coming Carni- val. Business men see money in it and have put their own money into it, and money is a! lever that seldom fails in New York. Haves Is a Lucky Name Tus Szasox.—A gentleman of this name carried off the ‘Turf, Field and Farm” badge at Creedmoor yesterday, having won it three ti in ion. Tuer: Ane No Compiatxts or Dutt Times | at the Post Office, the quantity of mail matter received and transmitted exceeding by twenty | per cent that of the corresponding season of last year. H A Party or Brigit Y Turxs reached New York yesterday to study our country and its institutions. They can perform a patriotic | service for their own land by observing the bene- ficial effects of disarmament in ours. Ir Is Rerortep that the locomotive engineers on the Lehigh Valley Railroad will strike—a pleasing bit of information for the other mem- | bers of the Brotherhood of Engineers, out of whose pockets must come the money to support the strikers while idle. Potics CommissioneR Ernarpt’s Orricran Suoes still remain empty: but if they could ax commodate all who would like to occupy them the shoe famed in nursery rhyme as being a pop- ulous residence would, by comparison, be a howling wilderness. How Hanpy a Priace Atnasy Is for any one who wants to annoy his neighbors! lynites in the neighborhood of Atlantic street could not get an injunction in their own city | against rapid transit movernents, so they went to Albany and the de as done at once. Goon axp f em to have combined strangely inthe man Sterling, the terrible de- tails of whose alleged crime and exceution ap- pear in another column. ‘The crime, by whom- soever committed, was unsp ably atrocious, yet the determination and success with which the prisoner hid or destroyed all tr tity, apparently to shield his family from dis- grace, were indicative of a truer sense of honor than criminals of better birth and breeding | usually manifest. Tue Weatner.—The depression of Thursday has now moved northeastward to Nova Scotia, with a diminishing rain ares and decreasing winds. Snow has fallen in the St. Lawrence Valley, where the temperature fell decidedly yesterday morning. The urea of highest preseure is now over the lake region and central sections weat of the Alleghany Mountains. Fair weather prevails eastward of the Mississippi, but on the western side the barometer is falling rapidly. The depression in the Northwest is developing into @ serious storm, but little or no precipita- tion has yet resulted therefrom. Very heavy gales, however, prevail in the Upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys, particu- larly at St. Paul, Breckenridge, Pembina and Bismarck. The temperature is also very high in | that region, as well as in the Southern States. A Gulf disturbance is probable within a few days. The prevailing low pressure in the Northwest is the same as that recently noticed on the Pacific coast. As it nd- vances into the low valley lands of the central regions wemay expect very tempestuous weather, for the present barometric gradient westward is extremely steep. ‘The conditions also in- The Brook- } ves of his iden- | | through the dirt satisfied that the millennium | | of the pestilence breeding garbage beds on | | in that case, in accordance with his plan, he | the business of street cleaning from the | these lose their power or whenever anybody dicate the probability of tornadoes in the region embracing Illinois and surrounding States. Slight variations have oc- curred in the river levels. ‘The weather in New York to-day will be cooler and partly cloudy or clear. SI SEE Za aaa TTT NOT ee ae Ae TEE TT OT aeRO SRD OU een eT RET the | and Street Cl The universal discomfort caused by our dirty streets is making itself known in | public meetings of citizens, such as that | held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Fri- | day evening. We are glad to see such signs that the people are losing patience, and would like to see meetings every day to the streets. It is doubtful whether any- thing short of a “protracted meeting” will save us. But while the sheep are gathering we trust somebody will keep away the | wolves, Whenever a community gets ex- | cited about an abuse long suffered and at last become intolerable their indignation is pretty sure to become an opportunity for some nostrum monger who uses the occasion to recommend himself and his method, with the view to turn a more or less honest penny for himself. We are glad to see the citizens indignant about the streets; it is high time for wrath ; but we hope they will be careful not to commit themselves rashly-anywhere to any particular remedy which ingenious schemers may bring forward. The account given of the strects at the Fifth avenue meeting was all right; indeed, muck stronger words might properly have been used, But we notice with some alarm that the real object of the meeting seems to have been, not to protest against the dirty strects, but to introduce and advocate and get popular favor for a particular scheme for cleaning them which seems to belong toa Mr. J. W. Ambrose, who addressed the meeting and urged, first, that the cleaning of the streets should be left exclusively to the Board of Health, and, second, that the Board of Health could then dump the gar- bage into vacant lots, screen it and take away the bones and offal. Thereupon Gen- eral Shaler, Mr. Dexter A. Hawkins and Colonel Scott proposed two resolutions, which without the least hesitation approved Mr. Ambrose’s plan and ‘‘most earnestly urged” the Legislature to adopt it; and it makes us laugh to read that these resolu- tions were “unanimously adopted.” We laugh because the trick is so old that | it ought by this time to be stale and out of use, A meeting of citizens 18 called to pro- test against the dirty streets; the citizens attend in more or less muddy boots, which are in themselves a protest. Mr. Am- brose opportunely appears upon the scene and declares that he knows how to keep the boots of the meeting clean, Thereupon the ; meeting shouts for Ambrose and goes home will come if only the Legislature will do | what Ambrose wants. Now who is Mr, Am- ; brose? We seem to have heard his name | before, and, oddly enough, in intimate con- nection with what, by a stretch of fancy, is called “street cleaning” in New York. In the Hznarp for May 26, 1875, in an account | the Harlem flats, we find mention of a Mr. Ambrose in these words:—“The Mills & Ambrose contract at One Hundred and | Sixth street is marked by an almost exclu- sive use of city filth; indeed, so reckless have these men been that not many days ago ao horse slipped into the | water hole now being filled at this point and was drowned there, and remains there still, covered with garbage—-a sure founda- tion for some future pestilence.” We hesi- tated at first to believe that the Mr. Am- brose who so unanimously addressed the Fifth Avenue Hotel meeting on Friday even- ing could be the same Mr. Ambrose about whose garbage handling the above paragraph speaks, because we naturally supposed that would have at least screened out the horse. But, alas! we find he is the same Mr. Am- brose, horse and all. Well, he at least may know something about how not to clean the streets. He may even know something about how to clean | them. We do not object to hearing his suggestions; but when we find that the main object of Mr. Ambrose’s bill is to turn Police Board over to the Health Board we hesitate—at least until we have a Board of Health whose head is a very different person from Professor Chandler. We should prefer, if it is all the same to Mr. Ambrose, to keep the cleaning of the streets cut of the hands of a | man whose ideas of sweetness and cleanli- ness are such that he actually backed up the late lamented Professor Disbecker in the theory that the reeking foulness of the Har- lem flats was healthiul and grateful to the senses, Such is Mr. Chandler's record, | Under his care Mr. Ambrose would not have | to screen out the drowned horses; which | might be a convenience for him, but it would be a calamity to the city. The orator Ambrose assures us that at present the Board of Health has only the power to warn us against the danger of malaria, but that if the Board were charged with cleaning the streets it would remedy all our grievances, Well, we will be plain with Mr. Ambrose. We do not believe him. We have an impres- sion that the Board of Health already pos- sesses complete power to remove or abate nuisances. We remember that when it was appealed to a few years ago to use this power in relation to the Harlem | flats nuisance it was only after weeks of daily protests from the Herarp and the people that the Board, | headed by Professor Chandler, consented to do anything, and then what did itdo? Did it screen ont the unfortunate horse, and his multitudinous and equally effete neighbors, the deceased cats and dogs? Not at all. Some disinfectants were thrown in, and the nuisance will break out afresh as soon as attempts to build in that neighborhood. Let the citizens protest against tho dirty streets, by all means; it is their right and their duty. But let them refuse to give their approval to any special plan that may be opportunely brought forward. The fact is, the Health Board, the Police Board and the street contractors have all failed wretch- edly and expensively. The more we. pay the dirtier the streets are, Why try to amend the old machinery? favor mere expedients? There is way to get the streets cleaned, and it has often been suggested by the Henatp. Why not give it a trial? Give Why | one | lt | London. the absolute and uncontrolled power to clean the streets to the Mayor and hold | bim responsible. Boards are never respon- sible to anybody ; New York has had a long and bitter experience of their inefficiency. But the Mayor is one man; everybody knows where his office is; everybody can find him. If he were charged with this duty he would cither keep the streets clean ; or he would be made so uncomfortable that | he would resign and let another Mayor try. We believe if Mayor Ely were told to clean the streets, and having done it to bring in | his bills, we should have clean streets. ‘ There is no mystery about the business ; it | is really only an extensive enterprise in | collecting valuabie manure—an enterprise | for which the Mayor, if he were charged with its conduct, could get abundance of help, and he would not need chemists with disinfectants, but men with brooms, shovels and carts—and no screens. In the hands of a determined Mayor, with full powers, a@ great multitude of unemployed and suffering laboring men could have been profitably used during the win- ter and spring to clean the city. They would have earned bread ; the Mayor would have gained reputation and the gratitude of the citizens, and the city would have gained in visitors, in good name and we believe in money. Mayor Ely would, we are sure, if he were charged with the duty, give us clean streets. He has shown 0 dis- position to do all in his power, as is shown by his attempt to substitute a new, and, we trust, a more efficient Police Commissioner for Mr. Erhardt. Moreover, the Mayor is a business man; he knows that, in the lan- guage of Sam Patch, ‘‘some things can } be done as well as others.” If the Legisla- ture will tell the Mayor to clean the streets we are confident he will do it, and he will not swindle the city. Wecan afford to pay tor clean streets, and we have so long been paying heavy bills for dirty streets that we should like to see once what it would cost, in the Mayor’s hands, to keep them clean. Will not some member of the Legislature introduce a bill giving the Mayor of New York absolute power to clean the streets and making him thus responsible for their condition ? Our London and Paris Cable Letters. | Paris comes to us talking of stormy | weather very much asa stage fairy would complain of having to perform in a shower. seems as if a little rain would wash the rouge and pearl powder off her tace, take the starch out of her airy muslin, dim all her spangles and spoil forever her satin shoes. London, on the contrary, re- ports its storms with a certain gusto on the principle of the English divine who used to walk against the driving rain to put himself in good spirits. ‘Another Henratp storm, by the living jingo !” says “More rain from the New York Henatp, alas!" says Paris. We are very sorry | we cannot please all parties, but we shall try. The bad weather seems to have dis- tracted the attention of the French from the threatened war, while all England has been absorbed during the week in anxiously watching over the fate of five miners imprisoned in the depths behind forty yards of coal. This story of London's great heart throbbing over the fate of a hand- ful of poor Welshmen is a curious instance of the great and growing power of the press. As our correspondent has pointed out miners have died in collieries by hundreds without awakening more than a spasm of hor- ror; but in this case the work of the graphic writers who depicted day in and day out the heroic efforts of the miners to save their brethren told by accumulation upon the nerve centres of the kingdom, until every man and woman in Eng- land worked in imagination with the gallant rescuers and suffered in fancy with the all but entombed. That the story ended with a remarkable rescue makes it all the more pleasant to recount; but even outside of England and Wales, the five men in the Cimmerian dark- ness singing Cymric hymns as the pick-thuds of their rescuers came nearer and nearer, will recall the great story of the Hebrews in the fiery furnace chanting the praises of Jehovah, } who bent down from the heavens and wrapped them round so that the flames harmed them not. Such stories do men and women good to read; for they strengthen man’s trust in man and vindicate his trust in God. From sucha subject we have no mind to turn and detail the sparkle and spice that will be found in our cable letters, save just one mention of the plucky struggle and victory of our sailors on the Bosphorus over a picked NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL English man-of-war's crew. Wine at Dinner. Washington gossip has busied itself with the possible appearance in White House hospitalities of the temperance scruples of Mrs. Hayes, and has hinted that no inore highly flavored fluids would appear on the Presidential board than the cider vinegar in the cruet and the frightfully cold ice water recognized as a national beverage ; but we are glad to note that the Executive has entertained the sons of the Emperor of Russia and some Myer distinguished per- sons at a very successful dinner without virtually insulting them by the imputation that, if trusted with wine, they would probably exceed by their indulgence the limits of discretion. From this fact it is to be inferred, as it is cer- tainly to be hoped, that the gossip to which we allude is merely idle report, without even so much foundation in fact as gossip ordinarily has. Any other course than the one pursued in this case would be simply an exhibition of bad taste; and if, as itis hinted, the present courso was ex- ceptional and is to be reversed on future oc- casions, it is to be hoped the President will not give many dinners, or, if he does, will invite only Americans, who, from whatever section of the country they may come, will be able to make allowances for narrow pro- vincial or Puritanical prejudices, In say- ing this we do not, we believe, intrude upon the domain of private opinion ormerely personal inclination. We respect temper- ance and temperance scruples as we do all other scruples originating in moral inten- tions, and we shall consent always that Mrs, Hayes shall have her own way in her own | penses. 22 “4, It is not @ merely domestic establishment. | In giving state dinners as the President of the United States Mr. Hayes performs 4 public function, and in the discharge of that function should conform to the recognized social usages of the world. To endeavor to foist into the discharge of that function some illiberal and provincial views as to what peo- ! pie shall eat or drink would be a mistake. The War—Russia’s Purposes. The Emperor of Russia declares to the world his intention to make ‘armed inter- vention” between the Ottoman government and its Christian subjects, in order ‘to ob- tain such guarantees for his distressed fel- low believers on Turkish soil as appear ab- solutely necessary to their future wel- fare." He does not contemplate con- quest, he does not aspire to Constanti- nople, he does not propose to drive the Moslem into Asia, He announces simply the purpose to give effect to the declarations that all Europe has made for halfacentury in regard to the people of Turkey's Christian provinces, and “he pro- poses to oceupy and hold the most impor- tant of those provinces as the one essential guarantee that the people shall be really protected, as all the Powers have declared over and over again they should and must be, It can hardly be necessary to point ont how wide is the difference between what is thus proposed and what has always been aileged were the real purposes of Russia— alleged, that is to say, by Powers un- friendly, if not inimical, to Russian do- minion in the East. Who is right? Has it always been a calumny that Russia, in the pretended endeavors to alleviate the bur- dens of an oppressed people, really | thought alone of her own aggrandizement, or does the Czar now put forth to the world a declaration that is merely a cover to other intentions? Declarations | made at the outset of a war are perhaps not more to be depended upon as indications of what will be done than party platforms, in- augura)l addresses and other pieces of that sort of literature. If the results of wars gen- | erally were compared with the intentions with which they were begun abundant variance would appear: and it may prove now that the war will go ere it ends far beyond the purpose disclosed. Yet not to accrodit the Emperor with a sincere intention to limit it | as he declares would be to accept the malig- nant innuendoes of those whose present policy it is to represent him as an arch dis- turber of the peace of Europe. Should the objects proposed be accom- plished and the war end at that point it will, of course, be strictly a local conflict. Not only will that bugbear of all the Cabi- nets, » general war, be avoided, but the Emperor of Russia will overcome at once both the Turks and their British allies—the first by hard fight- ing, of course, but the other morally by the demonstration how much loftier and purer were his aims than any that British | writers or statesmen deemed possible fora ruler in his position, Nobody has had the ear of the world on this subject more effec- tively than England. All British literature and the exceedingly well written Brit- ish newspapers have, for a generation, teemed with declarations, somewhat dis- guised at times, but oftener open and coarse, of Russia's duplicity, mani- fested on all occasions, strikingly con- trasted, of course, against England’s hon- esty and love of “fair play.” More than half of Europe gets its news fiitered out of the English press by the various news agencies and by Continental newspapers, which use the great London dailies as our own country papers use the city journals. With the news the opinion is disseminated, and thus this constant operation of national hostility has made the English opinion with regard to Russian policy the current opinion of Europe. In this country it is in some degree the same, and to venture to believe that the Emperor of Russia is as honest as other men seems to expose one to a charge of over-innocent credulity. Even a former Secretary of State of this country dealt with the Ozar in diplomatic intercourse as if it was to be assumed that His Majesty was a sort of crowned Artful Dodger. Yet it would not be difficult to prove that the Russian government has kept its en- gagements very much like other govern- ments, and has been fully as honest as Eag- land herself. Indeed, it might be shown that the weakness of the Czar has been of the contrary sort; has been not duplicity, but an over-blunt and cynical plainness in the declaration of the purposes of the sort | that other governments commonly disguise | with fair pretexts. We believe that the declaration made by the Czar is simply a statement of the real intention of his government. Only a very foolish ambition, only a greatly mistaken policy could lead him away from the line of action therein sketched. Within the limits of that programme he has the guarantee of Europe that he will have to fight only the forces of the Ottoman Empire. He has an admirable army, well disciplined and well ; equipped, which can be increased almost indefinitely, the regular war footing being | one million eight hundred thousand | men, while the Ottoman, Empire mus- ters even on paper only a force of six hundred thousand, a large part of which is of no great value, though there is some fine material in it. With such o disparity of forces there can be no doubt of the issue of the struggle confined to these two Powers, as the struggle would be so long as it sought only the objects named in Russia's declarn- tion. It would, therefore, bo folly for Russia to tempt great uncertainties by any step beyond that policy in pursuit of the visionary schemes attributed to her, That folly she will not commit, Tho Serenad Fand. When popular enthusiasm is once fairly aroused it is as resistless as a great river. It seizes on every form of expression and extends over the land, permeating every section of the community. It isas taking as diphtheria in a dirty tenement block and often as difficult to understand as a Police Board statement of street cleaning ex- Never, perhaps, in the his- tory of New York has one idea taken 1877.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. | prosperity of the paper. their Mulberry street Olympus. rule the destinies of New Yorkers. Surrounded by clouds of dusty dirt and heaps of dirty dust these divine personages receive the homage of their creatures and smile com- placently at those daring mortals who would overturn them, but do not. In an- other column of to-day’s Hunaxp we print a number of letters from special devotees of the god “Baldy,” who are determined to honor him with musical services, The vast sums of money and the valuable and appro- priate character of the other contributions testify to the sincerity of these good people and the pious fervor of their devotion. It is positive that a well known poet is writing a magnificent ode for the occasion of the serenade, The opening line is, ‘From pave and gutter odors rise,” and special refer- ence is made to the fact that the streets have not been cleaned since last fall. A Famous Legal Struggle. The romance of reality has seldom ap- peared so prominently as in the famous suit which reached a final decision in New Or- leans last week. The prosecutor, Mrs, Myra Clark Gaines, first brought her case into the courts more than forty years ago, and the time, the talk and the papers pertaining thereunto make Dickens’ Jarndyce case rather s tame affair in comparison. Nearly every American lawyer of the past half cen- tury has sharpened or dulled his wits on this dispute, even when not stimulated by a re- tainer on either side, while hosts of able jurists have taken part in the struggle until a higher court summoned them into another sphere with their labors un- finished. The plaintiff herself has on oc- easion appeared in court as her own attorney and by her wit and wisdom damaged the saying that he who is his own lawyer has a fool tor a client. The prize which Mrs. Gaines contested for was a double one, An enormous fortune and the greater satisfaction of established legitimacy gave the stimulus which has sustained her through a struggle which few men would have dared to attempt. Few people will ; be ungenerous enough to begrudge her the completeness of her triumph, and thou- sands of women who are the victims of sim- ilar circumstances, over which they had no control, will bless her for the persistence through which she has established a prece- dent of which they can avail themselves. May she live long to enjoy the millions which, though long ago hers by right, she has so splendidly earned by her own efforts! A Happy Day for Louisiana. The troubles in Louisiana are happily at an end, and that long suffering State will, it is hoped, once more know peace and pros- perity. The announcement of the with- drawal of the United States troops was yes- terday the signal for the breaking up of the Packard Legislature, although on the previ- ous night the caucus, under the lead of Mr. Warmoth, had determined to stand by Gov- ernor Packard. This immediate result isa striking proof of the wisdom of President Hayes’ policy, even a3 a measure of peace and in the interest of law and order. The members of both houses of the defunct body repaired at once to the Nicholls Legislature to take the oath and their seats, Mr. War- moth and his immediate triends being eventually of the number, and only delay- ing long enough to make a bargain with the Nicholls government that they should be paid their salaries and mileage. In the now legal Legislature the best of feeling prevailed. There was no disposition on the part of the successful side to triumph over their defeated rivals, but a commendable desire was displayed to cultivate good feel- ing and to invite the confidence especially of the colored republicans. The Herald To-Day. We call attention again this morning to the quintuple Henatp which is presented to our readers. Were any evidence needed to size that afforded by nearly seventy-three columns of advertisements would be sufficient, The public see clearly enough where business interests are best served by advertising, and therefore the Henarp columns are filled. As we remarked in a former article on this sub- ject, the advertising columns of the Hznaup afford as interesting reading as the news col- umns, full as the latter are of the latest in- telligence from every part of the world. We therefore take as much care of one depart- ment as the other, feeling satisfied that ! both are necessary to the popularity and No one who takes up to-day’s Heraup will fail to find in its columns something to attract his at- tention and perhaps suggest an idea that if worked out will turn vantage. The bricfest as well as the longest advertisement has its definite purpose, and must interest those who desire information, It is only in the Henann that such a varied array of facts and statements is possible. Pulpit Topics To-Day. It is well to be prepared for anything, and Christian manliness, which Mr. Hepworth and Mr. Tyng believe in, ought to prepare some to walk in God's way with Mr. Hull and teach others, with Mr. Bell, what to do with their enemies and with Mr. McCarthy to make progress in Christ. Dr. Armitage’s fidelity will sccure for him the holy unction which he encourages others to seek and possess. extinct genus—wili be presented by Mr. Moment, not as the soul's greatest desire, but as an example for aspirants to civil and political office. Twelve truits of the Holy Ghost will be exhibited by Dr. Ewer, and the | weeping and tender-heartedness of Josus by | Mr. Colcord. The true remedy for scep- | ticism—-the comfort for troubled hearts— will be prescribed by Mr. Herr, and the relation of religion to the busi- ness affairs of life will be set forth by Mr. Searles. A natural view of future pun- ishment will be taken by Mr. Newton ; Babel and its builders will be made to fur- nish spiritual lessons to Mr. Lloyd's con- gregation, as the companion of fools will to Mr. Talmage’s. oilers with hand and foot, probably sewing machine operators, will re- such complete possession of the public house as much as any other lady. But the | White House is not altogether her own house. mind as that of tendering grand serenade to the worthy officials who, enthroned on ment from this pasior to-day if they will visit the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Christ is to explain the necessity of a Hznatp of this | to his or her ad- | The model office-holder—an almost | ceive some words of advice and encourage- receive honorable mention by Mr. Frothing- ham; the immortality of the soul to be asserted and expounded by Mr. Alger; the life and labors of the late Dr. Muhlenberg to be embalmed in living words by Dr. Washburn ; the Christian’s pilgrimage and his imitation te be explained by Mr. Jutten, and the education of woman in freee dom will be insisted on by Mr. Adler. A Comedy in Ludlow Street Jatl, We might search in vain through the pages of novelists and dramatists for a more genuine comedy than that enacted in Lude low Street Jail yesterday, where an invese tigating committee of the State Senate gravely met and summoned before them the distinguished ex-Tammany Boss, William M. Tweed, to examine him in regard to his pecuniary transactions with the notorious Legislatures of 1870--71. The deposed chief. ; tain, whoonce held almost the entire Senate :and Assembly in his capacious breeches | pockets, must have enjoyed hugely the roar- ing fun of the farce, notwithstanding, the many tribulations he has recently known. Indeed, 1t evidently afforded him intense amusement to play with the committee. His answers were so framed as to whet the appe- tites of those of its members whose experience in legislative operations has not been exe tensive, and who were kept during the en- tire examination in momentary expectation that the next reply of the Boss must be in the form of a bombshell, whose explosion would tear to pieces his old associates and tools. But no sooner was this hope excited than the still facetious Boss would figura- tively apply his thumb to his nose and practically ask the committee if they could discover anything green in his eye. The fact is that Mr. Tweed, like Sterne’s starling, to use his own language, wants to | get out. He is willing enough to impart to | the Senate committee the surprising infor- | mation that he knew A. D. Barber, Senator Winslow, William E. King, Senator Woodin, Aleck Frear, a ‘‘man” named Garvey, and “a man, or one supposed to bea man,” named James H. Ingersoll. But he is not willing to say what use he made in his old Ring days of any or all of these persons, or what money he used to corrupt legislation, ex- ceptasthe price of his release from jail. The statement of his counsel sets the mat- ter at rest. He admits in substance that he has given to the Attorney General copies of a number of checks and other evidences of payments made by Tweed, informing him that the proof of how and for what purposes the money was used can be obtained on 'Tweed’s liberation. The decision is, there- fore, in the hands of the prosecution. If they want to get at the bottom facts of the Tweed villany they have it in their power to do so, _ Senatorial investigations are only so much froth and folly. The only question is whether it will be better in the public interest to keep Mr. Tweed in jail for the remainder of his natural life and allow all his accomplices to escape scot free, or to let Mr. Tweed out and convict those who shared in his crimes, and many of whom are probably now enjoying riches and honors through the influence of their ill-gotten gains. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Poached eggs are a little down tn the mouth. Mr. George Wilkes sailed yesterday for Europe. ‘The best fish for the millions on Friday comes C. 0, »v. If you wait long enough maple sugar will be down te ten cents a pound. Ben Batler is pot at all addled, notwithstanding that he ia a bad egg. Georgia is sending pine to Holland, Some of this pire is knotty, but 11’s nice, Minister Washburne was among the passongors of the Germanic, which yesterday sailed for Liverpool, A Mr, Nuther was recently married in Wisconsin, ‘That is tho old, old story. The girl married a Nuther, Brooklyn policomen jam citizens up against tampe posts, and citizens have little chance between peoer and posh The son of a Lord was bragging not long ago that he did not need to go by one name alone. Noither does a pig. Che Courier-Journal gives the Burlington Hawkeye ateartul rap. Gentlemen, can’t we stir you up to a little ightng? Republican politicians one after the other desert their colors, and so lose victory. They will not stay wicked enough, Evening Telegram:—“Chatham street is to be called Park row hereafter, but they will fit you ‘like the paper | on the wali’ all the same. | Hamiiton Fish has more ‘‘ex’’-es to his name than almost any other mac. When he was a boy at school he had about ns many Xs as anybody. ‘A goat at Newburg recently ate up all the stoves in front of a warehouse, and when the police really got at him he had begun to eat the ladies’ cabin off a forry- boat Theodore Thomas is handsomo and looks down mod estly as a coy maiden, and his English is just enough broken to make him as intcrosting as a chair with three legs Hayes will cat his dinner et the plebian hour of nova, and at nine o’clock at night he goes down the back steps and gets a dipper of buitermiik off the banging shelf. ‘At a dinner the other night a gentleman said, in re- sponse to the agricultural toast, “I speak of beets; rather, I refer the subject to the porson who will talx about hotel waiters, "’ As ono Bergen county man meets another now-a- days, be approaches hin in a zig-zag manner, catcheg hold of @ horse post, avd making three or four aguish gestures says, “Let's shake.”? Aud then they shake, A New Jersey man, who, at a dinner, was invited to speak on an agricultural subject, made the remark that the only agricultural inhabitant of the dairy that he ever raised was rye, but that the rye also raised him, The paragrapnor of the St. Louis «lobe-Democrat saved eight lives at the great hotel fire, He had just out thirty personals from the New York Hrratp, and so bad time to go around to the scene. At the same time it may be said that he stole the eight servant girls out of a window. Seflor Alfred Bablot, editor of the Mexican Federale ista, member of the Mexican Commission at the Cen- | tenniai Exhibition, special commissioner tn this coun. | try, sent by the government of Lerao de Teja ine | quire into the condition of American manufactures, | &c,, sailed yesterday for Vera Cruz via Havana, on bie way back to Mexico City. An English critic says:—‘May I be allowed to ask whether a member of Parliament who, through want of carly training, i not a master of his aspirates, and talks, let us say, of ‘the honorable member for ’Am- moremith,’ w guilty of as great offence against good breeding as the Senators who burst into a roar of | laughter at bis lack of cultare.”” Next month will bogin the seagon when men get | black eyes by running up agaimet a post in the dark, It ts also the season wheu men say to their wife that they cot the black eye in the street where, as she go up and down the next morning, sho discovers there are no posts, which fact makos her remember, too, Vhat it was a moonlight nicht A new comer in tho Detroit Free Press office was from college, and the very first article he wrote began with a G, which he swung in Hourishing style !rom one line above to two lines below, and Lewis said, “Young fele Jow, they'll have to go down into the job office fora @ aa big ag that’? Then the tyro scratched it out with his knife and wondered whether he would over get to be as big a man as old Gran