The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1877, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ++ PUULADELP HT a OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH RDOS OFPILE OF or oe NEW YORK HERALD— VOLUME XI AMUSEMENTS BHEATRE CONIQUE-—Do JON: SQUARE TH BEW YORK aQcaklu) EaGlLE THEATRE-& PHEATRE FRANCAIS- Tu O-NIGHT. Broapwar. iN DOMIXOR Ocrorus. ADY Buaxcue. x CIRCUS 4xD MENAGERIE, BOWERY THEATRE— NIBLO’S GARDEN—M. YIFTH AVENUE TUE. GERMANIA THEATR! AMELICAN INSTITULE. THE NEW AMERICAN N COLUMBIA OPERA HUUS! TIVOLI THEATRE-V. OLYMPIC THEATRI TONY PASTOR'S -Vai MEADE’S MIDGETS HALT. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE Invonraxr Notice to iacetaaee —o fmsure the proper classification of advertisements i is absolutely necessary thal they be handed in Before eight o'clock every evening. From our reports this morning the probabilines are that the weather in New York and its vicinity today will be cloudy and coli, with rain, followed im the afternoon by clearing weather and very low sniperature. Watt Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock market was dull and weak. Erie led the. declining movement and was joined by almvst all the ‘ac- tive stocks. Gold was steady all day at 102%, Government bonds were weak, States merely mominal. and railroads strong. Money on call Was ensy at 506 pe ycent, Tne Srrme or Tue Cicanmakers has ex- tended to spear and New Orleans. Tue MercHanrs oF Livenvoor | have made a very handsome contribution to the Fernandina sufferers. Are SEATS 1N THE Corron EXCHANGE property? This question has never been legally decided, and a suit has becn brought in one of the courts by o bankruptcy assignee to determine the matter. A Veny Heavy Faiture is announced in Springfield, 111.—that of Corydon Weed, # pri- vate banker. ‘The liabilities aro put down at two million dollars and the assets almost nothing. Baxk Exauixen Best's Caxp in regard to the Union Dime Savings Bank. will be read with in- terest by the depositors. His examination ‘of the bank has not yet been finished and the re- port will Lot be ready for ten days, but he be- Meves it will show u surplus, notwithstanding the depreciation of the securities. Tae Worcrster avy Provivercr Rattroap has been compelled to ask a big mortgage. In the discussion of. its affairs yesterday the state- ment was made that if it were not for the free passes the road would be a valuable property. It ecems to be run mainly for the benefit of the Mussachusetts and Rhode Island Legislatures and their friends. Tuar tHe Apvertisinc Paces of a journal like the Herap are as interesting as its news @epartments is shown by a single one of our columns this morning. In the list of deaths will be found the announcements of the decease of nine persons every one of whom was over sey- enty years of age. Four of them were between ninety-four and ninety-nine years. ‘Tae State Derarrment Cikcutar in reter- ence toour commercial interests las received the approval of the government of the Argentine Republic, and a very great desire is manifested that’ the policy it scems to foreshadow will be carried out. That country is execedingly anxious to effect closer commercial relations with the United States and will second any steps that may be taken in that direction. The report from Britiah Guiana on tho same subject is interest- ing and valuable. Tux Wreatuter.—The barometric trough, which was formed early yesterday morning in | the regioa west of the Mississippi by the union of two depressions, one advancing from Southern | Texas and the other trom Dakota, has under- gone exactly the same process of organization into a cyclonic storm as that of November 2. The conditions in both cases were alinost similar, and consequently we perceive like results. At about midnight on Wednesday the barometric trough referred to had formed between Minne- svte and the Gulf, with a very general rain and | svow full on its eastern and northern margins. Yesterday morning the depression had advanced to the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, but with very much shortened length and the longest diame ter from northwest to southenst, the centre veing between Louisville, Ky., und St. Louis, Mo. General and heavy rains extended trom tlic uppor lakes to the’ Gulf and between the Missouri Valley and the South Atlantic coast, the heaviest fall being slong a line from north to southeast of the arca of lowest pressure. Tn the evening the storm increased in energy snd had moved into the lower lake district still attended by heavy rains, with snow on the northwestern quadrant. At this stage of the storm’s progress the pressure behind it rose rapidly in the Northwest and West, with u de- cided fall of temperature. The rain com- mesced at NewYork between five and six P.M. and fell heavily toward midnight. The wind also increased in velocity as the storm approached, and the temperature rose as the wind direction changed to the south- ward, ‘The storm centre is now entering the St. Lawrence Valley, but the southern portion of the area of lowest pressure will undoubtedly puss over the New England States when mov- ing to the const. ‘Nhe weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cloudy and cold, with rainj followed in tho afternoon by clearing weather aud probably very low temperature, ‘and putting it out of politics. ~NEW YORE HURALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9%, 1877-—-TRIPLE SE NEW. YORK: Do the leaders of the democratic party in Washington know what they are doing? Do they know that the victory in 1890, on which they count, as it seems to us, with entirely too much certainty, is slipping out of their fingers? Have they not learned by tho experience of many weary years of defeat that if they want to secure suc- cess they must first of all teach the country to trast them? and that it will never trust @ political organization whieh parades be- fore the voters with its heels uppermost? which allows its Communists and its dema- gogues to control its policy? The elections of this week ought to teach the real leaders of the democratic party—if itshas any—that there is no such tidal wave in (their favoras some of them seem to have | hoped dr;looked for. The majorities give nowignrof such»’a freshet as could land o -| lotyof political dead wood in the White House*in 1980. In spite of the demoraliza- tion ofthe republican party, whose chiefs have, like the leaders of a balky four-horse team, turned around to stare the couch in the face—in spite of the memorics of last winter and the rage of the republican machine politicians with their President, the democratic victories have been made by the voters’ judiciously small, and yet the democratic leaders—if there are any—show not the slightest sign of alarm or uneasiness; they allow free scope to the eccentricities of their young men ; they are playing at politics ot Wash- ington in a way which is slowly but surely convincing the country that General Grant was not far wrong when he said, in an inter- view with a Heuacp correspondent not long ago, that the democrats need pot be feared, because they would always: commit some timely folly-which would prevent the coun- try putting them in power. The Southern question: is past. The re- publicans cannot get any advantage from that in 1880; but has it ever occurred to the democratic leaders—if there are any— that neither can they hope for any advan- tage from it three years hence? Already, to-day, there is no South ; already in every Southern State the “independent” ticket gets votes, and occasionally elects its candi- dates. Do the democratic leaders—if there are any—imagine that they can keep the Southern whites all bottled up in one big junk-bottle for three long years, ready to be uncorked in 1880? Can they not see that the divisions which have begun there will increase rapidly and constantly ; that there will be, ag there ought to, two parties in those States, each cuntuining a share of the wealth, intelligence and influence of the community? This division is going on under their noses. In Mississippi to-day, as a Vicksburg democrat bitterly complains to us in a private note, the inde- pendent democratic candidates are already so troublesome that the regular democrats think, with regret, of the days when they had only the carpet-baggers opposed to them, Andvit isso in all the other South- ern States. And yet the democratic jenders are fiddling and dancing at Washington; passing silver bills with a ‘Hurrah, boys;” attacking resumption, or allowing their young men to do so; attacking in every way the credit of the country, as though this was the best, instead of the very worst, time in the world for them to blunder. If the democratic party means to elect a President in 1880 it will have to be united ; itsleaders—if it has any—will have to devise a policy on which they can unite their fol- lowers; and if they have any idea of doing this their first business must be to get out of the way the one great, troublesome, end- less question of the currency, on which the party is split apart, on which its Eastern wing and its Western wing are as wide apart as the two poles, or, let us say, os a communist like Mr. Ewing and a sensible, hard-money man like Senator Bayard. But, instead of taking pains to get this ques- tion out of the way, and by settling it mak- ing it at least possible for the party to unite on some of the new questions about which Senator Lamar spoke last summer—instead of this we sco them apparently careless lookers-on while the ignoramuses and demagogues of their party put this question entirely beyond settlement. Has’ it oc- curred to the democratic leaders—if there are any—-that the Silver bill and the Anti- Resumption bill, if they are passed, force these measures and. policies upon the demo- cratic party in 1880? Has it. occurred to them that thoy .areallowing Mr. Ewing and his supporters to drive’ still deeper the wedge which is splitting their party? Can they not see that to succeed in 1880 they ought by all meaus, by every effort, to secure resumption at once so as to get this question out of the way? If Mr. Ewing werea re- publican in disguise; if he were enguged in a deep design to ruin the prospects of the demoerntic parly three years hence, he could not do shrewder or more effective thing than that which the democratic leaders—if there are any-~—are just now calmly allowing him todo. The republican party was split to pieces by just such a wedge as Mr. Ewing's. ‘The Southern policy, on which its lenders 90 long and stupidly insisted, made irreconcilable differences in the party; dif- ferences which could not be healed in any other way than that which President Hayes has taken—by settling tho question Before 1880 comes around the Southern question -will have ceased to be a cause of dissension in the republican party ; but, in the mean- time, here are the democrats keeping alive with great care and industry o question which is even more dangerous, moro surely fatal to them than ever the Southern ques- tion was to the republicans, If the currency question is an issue in the next Presidential election no one need be anxious for the democratic nomination. Whilo that question remains open, while it still remains o political issue, it is idle for democrats to hope to elect a President. If the democrats, holding the House and almost controlling the Senate, cannot get that question decently buried out of the way they may as well give up at once all hopes of the future. If wo had arrived at specie resumption to-day the only obstacle to a firmly tinited democratic party would be out of the way. But what do we see? The demoorstic leaders apparently nursing’ Salpereni « this bone of contention, as though it was the most valuable weapon in their armory; submitting to the wildest and crudest polit- ical demagogery, us though it wis states- manship; allowing the party name and iufluence to be used for measures which attack not only the national credit, but the savings of the industrious poor and their safeguards against want, If the democratic party had leaders such folly would not be tolerated. But what is the use of 2 party without leaders? And what is the use of a lot of middle-aged gen- tlemen in Washingion comfortably dream- ing about a democratic victory in 1880 when the ground is slipping away from under them as they sit and doze? The Dollar of the Daddyites. “As the ancient ounce of silver was a good enough doilar for our daddies it is a good enough doilar for us, and ought to be a good enough dollar for everybody else.” This is the grand theory on which stands and from which has arisen the school or sect in finance known as the daddyites. Every groat sect, every great revolutionary element in the history of the world, has arisen in precisely this way. Some devoted few, conscious that they are the salt of tho earth, have seizod upon a subject which filled a large space in the thought of their time and declared their opinions in regard to it. These opinions havo been at variance with the common view. ‘Thereupon has arisen a division among the people. Some have de- clared for the common opinion and others for the uncommon one, and the thing has been argued out or fought out. Occasion- ally, where the new opinion has coincided with men’s inclinations, it has made its way, like Mormonism; but where it has been less happy in that respect the followers of the new school have been reduced little by little till, and, finally, put in o lunatic asylum. It is evident, therefore, that the new sect has great possibilities before it in either direction and may become as famous as the Jebusites and Hittites of the Old World or the Millerites of modern times. It is the theory of this sect that every generation accepts the standard of excel- lence from its daddy, without regard, of course, to any -changes that have taken place in the world since that daddy died and was gathered to genera- tions of earlier and even more ridiculous daddies, ‘Thus our daddies had a dollar that was made of an ounce of silver, and we must have that also, But our daddies had other things of equal excellence. They had blunderbusses and horse pistols for fire- arms; they went to Albany in schooners and to Philadelphia in stage conches ; they wore long-tailed blues and hurrahed for General Jackson. All these, their excellent possessions, were as good as their dollar ; and though the changes in the world have put them out of date this is not more true of them than of that ounce of silver, which is now worth not a dollar, but ninety-two cents,. Naturally the daddyites will insist that we shall return to them all. But there is more than this in the daddyite financial Feligion. In the history of every faith it may be seen that the faithful pursue the application of their first dogma to the limit of consistency. Ere long a strict interpre- tation of the daddyite religion will show that as this generation accepts its daddy that daddy’s generation was bound to the standard of the grand daddy, and so up- ward each generation must havo accepted its ‘daddy ; and this will inevitably land us amonga queer set of institutions formodern times. In arms we shall come to the bow and arrow, in raiment to a few feathers and in money, by way of the continental cur- rency, towampum. There are about five millions of our people known as American citizens of African descent. The dollar of their daddies wus cowrie, and it will indi- cate a great want of respect for their rights if Congress neglects to re-establish that dollar with the dollar of other men’s daddies, What Will MacMahon Dot An Italian comic paper has ventured to suggest to Marshal MacMahon that ho was “bottled up” by the result of the recent elections and gives its readers a happy sketch of the doughty President crouched in a cramped attitude at the bottom of a Florence flask, with the motto, ‘J’y suis, J'y reste.” If this joke was not suggested by the presence in Paris of a distinguished man who once made a somewhat famous use of this comparison it is at least a happy coincidence, It is certain that recent events have created a diflicult position for the Marshal, and that an adverse major. ity of one hundred and twenty is a formidable stopper to the ordi- nary means of escnpo from difficult positions. But perhaps he may break the bottle; perhaps he may refuse to recognize those constitutional or oven rational limits which in the joke are typitied by the thin glass walls of his prison house, At the present moment the great interest of the drama centres on that possibility. Marshal MacMahon has declared that he will neither submit to the voico of the majority nor resign his place. He conceives that to sub- mit would be degradation, nnd he cannot accept that; but to resist any further by means of steps presumably within political or parliamentary limits would be absurd. It would be like » man’s continuing to play for stukes that he kad already lost. He would be only laughed at, and degradation itself is not more fatal than ridicule, If, therefore, he will not resign and will not submit, and cannot longer fee sist within legal limits, ho must resist out- side of those limits. Will hedothat? No one has yet consented to believe that the Marshal would ondeavyor by tho use of armed force to set his own will above that of the nation; but the recent declaration that the President will hold his place because he believes the ruin of the country would follow his leaving it is very near to the assumption of the réle of ‘tho providential man.” Men who get into their noddles tho notion that they are necessary and aro divinely provided instruments to savo society can readily enough reconcile with their consciences the violation of what they regard as a fow tram- | pery laws. It is not altogether certain, there- fore, that this possibility is excluded from the drama now in progress at Versailles— thomore : especially as an organ so moderate and ‘well informed as the Journal des Débats } declares that the prospect for the triumph of moderate ideas is hopeless. A Piece ne Mr. Conkling’s Mind. ‘The eminent New York Senator spent the greater part of yesterday in this city. He was on his way back to Washington from “HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. is re UE TITY LY gC oes >| gi ld Gabgial ca te Sueinah tw Diels | te sanlly Chih do thy of the captains of our great industrics come together, and the com- pliment it implies mist be grateful to the gentleman to whom it was paid. Mr. Mor- gan is to the large majority of his country- men better known in Europe than here, where he was born. Nearly a quarter of a century ago he became the partner of that Utica, where he had been to vote, and was | other great American banker, the late Mr. in a jovial, communicative mood notwith- standing the election of a democratic State Senator from his own district, His buoy- ancy and gayety were doubtless owing to the election of a republican majority of the game State Senate that will assist in electing his successor or re-electing himself in the winter of 1879. His prospects for a re-elec- tion. are all that he could expect at this stage of the business. He talked yesterday with singular openness, and his free and various conversation was enlivened with dashes of sarcasm which were none the less cutting for being playful and humorous. ‘The co- pious report which we publish cannot in strictness be called an interview, because Mr. Conkling was not asked for answers to a series of questions with a view to publica- tion. But he knew that his free and ex- cursive talk was in the presence of a repre- sentative of the press, and when. near its close an intimation was made that it might be reported he expressed no dissent. We accordingly give a faithful report of the greater part of what Mr. Conkling said on many .of the subjects about which he was so ready to talk. It will be found entertaining reading, both in this city and State, aud in political and espec- ially administration circles at Washington. This conyersation can leave no doubt in the mind of any reader of Mr. Conkling's hostility to and contempt for the adminis- tration. Though he is careful to observe all the forms of courtesy in mentioning Mr. Hayes himself he speaks of the Secretary of State as “little Evarts,” indulges in mock- ing sneers of Mr. Schurz and declares that four members of the Cabinet are not repub- licans, He says that the defeat of the re- publican candidate for State Senator in his own district was owing to the fact that the Hayes republicans voted the demo- eratic ticket, and that money was furnished by the Hayes republicans in this city to be used against the republican candidate. Mr. Conkling mentions ‘‘little Roberts” and several others who were openly active against the ticket of their own party. Mr. Conkling thinks the nomination of new Custom House officers in the week before the election was meant as a notification that the administration desired the defeat of the republican party in this State. From these opinions and other remarks let fall in the course of the conversation it is evident enough that when Senator Conkling gets back to Washington he will not disguise his hostility to the administration. The reasons have ceased for the politic reticence which he observed previous to the election, The ‘Senator was very incisive in his re- marks on the Louisiana question, blaming Mr. Hayes, nof for withdrawing the troops, but for improper interference with the poli- tics of the State in intriguing for the estab- lishment of the Nicholls goverguent, which Mr. Conkling thinks quite as unwarrant- able as military intermeddling with the af- fairs of a State. Itseems too evident that there will be breezy times in Washington after Mr. Conkling’s return. His personal remarks and criticisms on various public characters will be found perhaps the most piquant part of this remarkable conversa- tion. Are the Public Schools Pesthouses? Professor Frank H. Hamilton told. some startling truths in relation to the sanitary condition of our public school buildings in his excellent remarks before the Medico- Legal Society, on Wednesday night, and spoke very plainly about the Board of Edu- cation and the Board of Health. The most competent medical authorities in the city of New York have for more than a year given the subject special attention, and they find that while the training of the mind is going on in our public schools the health of the body is, through ig- norance or carelessness, shamefully neg- lected. Evils exist which endanger the health and lives of over one hundred thousand children, and many of which under proper laws and intelligent adminis- tration are remediablo at once. Jt ecarcely needs medical science to assure us that overcrowded schoolrooms, imperfect ven- tilation, bad arrangement of the light, faulty construction and dangerous proximity of closets and too long confinement are incon- sistent with healthfulness in our publio school children, a cruelty to them and an evil to the city. When a surgeon of Dr. Hamilton's reputation points out these faults and calls for legislation which shall prevent children under six years of age from being received in tho schools it is inconceivable that the Boards of Health and Education should ig- nore the subject. Yet the several commu- nications of the society to both these boards have remained unnoticed. On the same night of the meeting of the Medico-Legal Society, and while tho ablo men in that body were listening to the in- teresting romarks of Dr. Hamilton, the Board of Education was in session. Its action consisted of fining a “lady” principal of a primary department for boxing o pupil's ears soundly ‘tin a moment of excitement," and in squabbling over a resolution request- ing the trustees of the Nineteenth ward to resign their appointments, What wonder that Dr. Hamilton regards the members of the Board as “not the proper men for the responsible trust imposed upon them,” and that tho people do not differ with the Doctor on tho point? A Notable Gathering. The banquet last evening to Mr. Morgan, the London banker, was in many respects ono of the most remarkable assemblages that has ever taken place in this city. Apart from the vast amount of wealth which tho gentlemen who thus metto do honor to one of their own classand whois at the same time their countryman represented, the meeting was the embodiment of the commercial ge- nius, enterprise, foresight and sagacity which havo’ made New York one of the great business centres of the world and the United States the chief of commercial nations. It Peabody, and is his successor in the vast busi- ness which he created and the most trusted manager of the princely charities he founded. It was fitting that the merchants and bankers of New York should have thus honored at home one of the most distin- guished and honored of American bankers abroad, Frotting in the Tolls. . The enemies of rapid transit die hard. Oue might well suppose that they had ex- hausted tho patience and the partiality of the courts and their own ingenuity in appli- cations for injunctions against the rapid transit ‘roads, but it is evident that they still havea reserve to draw upon. Tho legal situation in the Gilbert Elevated Com- pany's case stood on Wednesday morning last as follows:—A judgment rendered by Judge Sedgwick, at the suit of the Sixth Avenne Horse Railroad Company, restrained the building of the Gilbert Elevated road on the ground that the rapid transit law of 1875 was unconstitu- tional. ‘There were other points involved in the suit, but as Judge Sedgwick decided for the plaintiffs on the main issue, those minor points were left untouched by him in the judgment he rendered. An appeal was taken by the defendants to the General Term’ of the Superior Court against Judge Sedgwick’s decision. Before that appeal to the General: Term ‘could be reached sum- mary proceedings instituted by the Gilbert Company against certain owners whose prop- erty was required for the uses of the road got to the Court of Appeals, and on these proceedings the law of 1875 was pronounced constitutional. This decision of the highest Court virtually destroyed Judge Sedgwick's judgment ; but still that judgment existed and was operative until reached and reversed by the General Term. Even then there would remain the minor issues in the Sixth Avenue Railroad suit to be decided. Feel- ing confident that the decision of the Genoral Term would be in their favor, and wishing to avoid delaying their work until tho appeal could be reached, the Gilbert Company obtained an order from Judge Van Vorst some three weeks ago allowing them to proceed with the construction of their road pending the decision of the General Term, provided they gave an ad- ditional bond conditioned to pay such damages as might accrue from the resump- tion of the work if the decision should be adverse to them, ‘They gave such bond and proceeded with the construction of their road, ; On Wednesday last the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company obtained from Judge Speir an injunction restraining the Gilbert Company from prosecuting its work and ordering its president to show cause to-day why he should not be punished for con- tempt for disobeying the Sedgwick judg- ment. This absurd injunction, which was in direct antagonism with Judge Van Vorst’s order, ‘was yesterday promptly quashed by the General Term of the Superior Court, having had barely twenty-four hours’ sickly existence. This is carrying rapid transit into tho courts in earnest, and it would be well if judicial blunders or eccentricities could be always so promptly corrected. To-day the appeal from Judge Sedgwick’s original judg- ment is to be argued, and it is to be hoped that the decision of the General Term will put astop toall further harassing obstruc- tions to the great work, the completion of which is so earnestly desired by the people. Stanley and Ptolemy. In the last number of Harper's Weekly is published a reduction of Ptolemy's map of the world, from a copy in possession of tho American Geographical Society. This map is believed to have been made in the second century of the Christian era, but was cer- tainly not made later than the fifth century, and presents, therefore, the knowledge of that continent which was possessed by the ancient world. In an article of reference to this map Mr. Paul du Chaillu refers to the interesting fact, first pointed out by Judge Daly, that the great lakes which re- cent travellers have proved to be tho sources of the Nile are set down as such sources on this ancient map, which thus proves that some of our recent important discoveries in African geography are only rodiscoveries—merely fresh acquisitions of knowledge which ao forgetful world had lost. In on article of plensant reference to Stan- ley’s discoveries the editor of Harper's Weelely obseryes that the great river flowing to the west upon this map “conforms sén- gularly to the Congo.” But this river is marked Niger. It is, moreover, all north of the Equator, while the Congo is mainly south of it—only a loop touch twoanda half degrees north latitute, Our Border Perits. The Heratp’s special correspondent at San Antoaio telegraphs that on the 19th day of last month a force of oighty-seven Mexicans, under command of Don Narcios Anago, of San Carlos, crossed the Rio Grande and attacked a party of Indians belonging to the Fort Stanton (United. States) reservation, who had, as alleged, been committing depredations on Mexican soil, ‘The encounter occurred in the vicin- ity of the Guadalupe Mountains, in Texas, and resulted in the killing of six Indians and as many squaws, and the recapture of sixty-cight head of stock charged to havo been stolen from people living in the neigh- vorhood of San Diego, Mexico. Itis prob- able that the Indians formed a marauding band and that the stock was brought from Mexico, although the chances are that it had been previously stolen by its reputed owners from the United States. ‘he slaughtered Indians are said to haye been provided with United States reservation blankets, and the Mexi- cans exercised tho right of pursuing the depredators across the line and attacking them on Amorican soil, claiming, no doubt, that the American government had rendered its ‘tertitory liable to invasion through its failure to prevent such marauding raids. The'United States government can Rave nothing to complain of, provided the Indi- ans from our side had really been depredat ing in Mexico. In fact, the prompt action of Don Narcios Anago's force sets a good ex- ample to our own people who have suffered so severely from the Mexican bandits who have lived for years mainly on the proceeds of their thievish raids into Texas. At the same time the fact that there are depre- dators on our side of the Rio Grande ag well as on the Mexican side serves to show how necessary is concert of action between the two governments to put a stop to such dangerous practices. We cannot expect such affairs as the fight of the 19th of Octo- ber to occur often without involving the’ two nations in more serious difficulty, Congress Yesterday. The House of Representatives, having lost its chaplain, went to work yesterday with- out the usual devotional exercises, Those who read the debate on the Army, bill this morning, and who are sceptical on the sub- ject of the efficacy of prayer, will be very likely to have their doubts removed, for during the five lours the session lasted the House was a perfect Babel of confusion and contradiction. The bill of the commit- tee provided for an army of twenty-two thousand men for the first four months of the yearand of twenty thousand for the last eight months. It was the plain duty of the House to pass this bill’ as it came from the committee, for a large portionof the money is now due and, as was stated in the debate by some sensible member, every day it remains unpaid represents a loss of two thousand dollars in interest to the offi- cers who are not any too well pafd now, and who have been compelled to borrow money to support themselves. and their families. The subject’ of an increase or a diminution of the army was foreign ‘fo'ths discussion and, ought to have been avoided.” That is a matter for future consideration. But gentlemen who were talking for their constituents and endeavoring to keep on the top of what they believe to be the popu- lar wave could not be restrained, and every imaginable subject was lugged in, from the heathen’ Chinee to the miners’ strike in the coal fields, until finally the adjournment came and shut off the stream of buncombe, In the Senate nothing of importance was done. A resolution charging the Union Pacific Railroad and its branches with a vio- lation of their charters, and calling on the President for information, was offered, anda financial bill, which indicates a disposition on his part to yield a. little to the Western clamor, was introduced by Mr. Matthews. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Dark groen ts trimmed with cardinal, ‘Talmage is the toney pastor of Brooklyn, Ex-Marshal ig still living at Madrid. Ex-Empress Eugénie would like to live at Cowes. British cavairy regiments will hereafter bave ptoneers, The Shah of Persia is gotting ready to go to the Parly Exposition, An Ainsterdam sajoon has a sign, “Upright Enghish ginger beor.” Sir Henry Havelock ts writing a book on the cam- paign in Bulgaria. “Thiers gained much of his oratorical power from eating codfish balls, A Glasgow drm will use condensed alr instead of 1o¢ for transporting beet. The rarebit of injormation comes that Iowa is to be the great cheese maker. Count Litta, Italian Chargé d@’Afaires at Washiog- ton, ts at the Albemarle Hotel The Detroit man tso’t satisfied because Webster docan’t define a schooner of beer. The pouthful editor of the Bridgeport Standard fainted the first time he entered a stocking factory. Mr, St. John Day bas published, through Tribner, of London, “Tho Prehistoric Use of lron and Steel.” M. Eugéne Pelletan’s “Eliste: Voyage d’un Homme fila Recherche de Lui-M¢me,” has just appeared at Paris, A new book on the “Life and Works of George Sand,’ by L. Katchem, will shortly be published at Letpaig. A forthcoming book entitlea “Pioneering in South Brazil,” by Thomas P, B, Wither, !)luatrates prairie and forest life in Parana, Mr. H. T, Williams, of Now York, has jast reaay , “Bouuttful Houses, ’? devoted to household ornament, and ,rofusely Silustrated. Mr, Augustas Haro, whose “Walks in Romo” had so Much success, will shortly issue his “Walks in Lon- don,” with 100 tilustrations. An abundant future for booksellers and publishers, with a vast demand for cheap editions, is promised by the London Publisher's Circular. 5 The Danbury man has been informed and he be- HWeves that hugging a girl in a perfect fitting corset is Nke putting your arms around a cold parlor stove: The third volume, accompanied with en atlas, of the “Geology of New Hampshire,” by Protessor C, H. Hitchcock, is in the press of E, C. Eastman, Concord, A new series of Egyptian texts, wolected and edited from many of the best ancient writings by Dr. 3. Birch, will soon appear from Bagster’s London pres, Dr. Carpenter says that the discases which the poor suffer are mainly those which might be prevented by good sanitary government, He calis them “State diseases." ASt Louls paper Gnds fault because the President could not find time toattend Senator Morton’s funeral, which, 1% says, ‘was not, however, a Confederate cattle show. ”? Louis #, DiCesnola has in press ‘Cyprus: Its Ane client Cities, Tombs and Temples, Darrative of re Searches and excavations duriug ten yoara’ {n that island, “The Fersonal Government of Charles L.,"" in ¢ volumes, is the naxt forthcoming history by Mr. 8. Gardiner, whose books on special periods of Brij history bave had great success, ‘Aa evineing the close interost that Engli: take {no questions of hygiene, wo note that * Law of Public Health ana Local Govera: passed through nine oditions, The Turnor’s Falls Reporter speaks of a wm wont round lecturing on “How to Got Ric! who badn’t enough money to pay bia hotel! bill must boa slap at some New England nows| The Easton free Press is of opinion that thi down bats make a mao appear as if all thi things ho over did in bis life baa fallen once. Yes; but they givo bis ears a vacation surrounding country. D. Lathrop & Co,, Boston, will issue, under of “Poot’s Homes,”’ an elegantly iliastrated tion of the inside and outside of tho ¢ Longiellow, Whittier, Lowell, Bayard Taylor, Howells, Stedinan, ka Dr. Philip Lansdale, Onited States Navy, surgeon of the Mediterranean squadron, arri city with his family on Wednesday last. He abroad three years, spending the groater time in Italy and France. Many ladies in Alsatia wishing to show of Germany wrote their addresses to Berlin red mk on white envelopes and placed on stamp, thua tonding the rod, white sud Geri officials cow effectually cancel the black. A gentioman at Edinburgh counted ia er’s ladten’ room twolve iadies drinking orale, & gitl of tourtcen taking # bottie the counter two misses in their teons w (three brandy-end-sodaa, School girls, he Bis of cherry brandy,