The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1877, Page 4

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ConGressMan So. , of South Carolina, has been convicted of bribery while be was a mem- ber of the State Le ature. His majority at the last election was 1 ly fifteen hundred, but his successor will probably be a democrat. | Tut Pasronat Lerrer of the Episcopalian House of Bishops, read in the churches yester- day. vigorously discusses many of the social questions of the day, and is a strong appeal in behalf of a higher and better morality. Mem- bers of other denominations will find in it a good deal of sound advice and instruction. Speaker Ranpate will, it is thought, call the attention of the House to-day to the irregularity aitending the passage of the Bland Silver bill. It was passed when, under the rules, it could not properly come before the House. The Sen- ate will probably be asked to send it back, and a vote will again be taken in duc form, CotoneL INGERSOLL’s appointment to the German mission is by no means certain. Ad- vices from Washington say that it has not been tendered to him and that the only foundation for the report lies in the fact that the President has expressed an intention to give the place to Illinois if the republicans of the delegation in Congress can agree upon a candidate. That they are not unanimous in Mr. Ingersoll’s behalf is shown by the fact that some of them are advo- cating the selection of Mr. Baker, who was in Congress with the President and is on intimate terms with him. Is it the Pennsylvania business over again? Tue Cuurcurs Yrsrerpay.—Mr. Frothing- ham forcibly pointed out the evils of sectarian- ism, which must be carefully distinguished from the sectarian spirit. The former must always exist, but the latter, which is the root of all un- eharitableness and religious hatred, can and ought to be eradicated. The Rev. Mr. Hep- worth endeavored to point out the true way of ending the struggle between modern science and the Chureh. Professor Adler spoke cloquently on the “Religion of Humanity.” Father Byron preached on the Blessed Virgin as the Patroness of the United States, and the Rey. Henry Ward Beecher endeavored to show is and | is not responsible for his r . The other sermons were of unusual interest and value. Tue Weatner.—The influences in operation and that have produced raiu on the coast have now ccased so far as the Middle Atlantic States are concerned, and clear weather follows the threatening cloudiness that prevailed for sey- eral days past. Except in the Northwest, where the barometer is slowly falling, | the entire t ory eust of the Rocky Mountains lies within the area of high pressure. The highest barometer during yeSte?day was in the Lower Mississippi Valley,/and the Atlautie coast line of the United States and British Provinces lay between and neatly _paratel to the isobars of 20 and 30.30 inches presstre. This gave a g northerly direction to the winds along the coast line. In the West Gulf States the winds were more from the northeast, but toward evening began to veer to the south. | eastward and tlow toward the depression ad- | vancing from the Northwest. ‘The pressure also rapidly diminished, although — continuing | throughout the day relatively very hig! S cept on the North and Middle Atiautic Coast, and there in the early morning, no | rain fell yesterday east of ihe Missis- | sippi, and a general but slight rise of | temperature took place. ‘The pressure is now slowly decreasing west of the Alleghanies. We | invite attention to a special cable despatch which is published elsewhere this morning. It | announees the “marvellous” verification of our storm warning seut to London at halt-past thice A. M. on the 8th aud predicting a storm for the British and French coast about tie 10th. As a matter of fact, the storm margin reached the British Isles on the 10th, because rain com- menced on that day along the Irish and English cousts. The storm now passing over England wus thus announced three days im advaneo | of its arrival there, giving ample time for preparations to meet its extraordinary violence, When the same storm was passing over the United States we stated what its probable char- acter would be when it reached Europe. Tho opinion then expressed has been fully sustained by the announcement by cable of its arival and violence. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and fair or partly oloudy. | the further retunding of our public debt, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1877.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Silver Heresies. It will prevent confusion of thought and conduce to clearness for the public to bear in mind that there are two bills on the currency question now pending in Con- gress, both supported with equal zeal by the lunatic inflationists, but not equally strong with other members. One of these crazy projects is the Bland Silver bill, which so surprisingly passed the House and is now pending in the Senate, ‘The other is the bill for repealing the Resumption act, which is to be debated from day to day in the House as soon as the Army Ap- propriation bill is disposed of, which it probably will be to-day. We feel no anxiety or uneasiness respect- ing the repeal of the Resumption law, for although it may pass the House it is likely to get stranded in the Senate, and even in the improbable contingency of its passing the Senate it would certainly be vetoed by the President. The assurances which have been given on this point leave no room for doubt. Besides the well known views and committals of Secretary Sherman, the explicit statement of Secretary Evarts, reported in our Washington correspondence on Saturday, is fitted to inspire perfect con- fidence. On this point the Cabinet is a unit, and its three most influential mem- bers—Messrs. Evarts, Sherman and Schurz— are not passive supporters, but steadfast and ardent champions of the well known views of the President as to the indispensable neces- sity of standing firmly by the Resumption law. We regret that Mr. Evaris did not, in describing the policy of the admin- istration, express himself with equal vigor and decision respecting the wild and perni-- cious Silver bill which has passed the House and gone to the Senate. We also regret that the trumpet of Secretary Sherman gave so uncertain a sound on the silver question in his otherwise satisfactory article just pub- lished in the North American Review. We do not doubt what the action of the President will be on the Silver bill if it should pass the Senate, but we are sorry that Mr. Evarts forebore to express his opinion of this dis- graceful attempt to swindle pablic and pri- vate creditors. 5 There is reason to believe that the admin- istration, or at least the Secretary of the Treasury, favors the remonetization of sil- ver, under certain restrictions as to the amount coined or as to the extent to which it should be made a legal tender. Consid- ering the reckless audacity of the silver fanatics, it proves to have been a mistake for the administration to give them any countenance. But its incautious conces- sions do not in the least commit it to any stich absurd scheme as the Bland Silver bill. While Secretary Sherman, in the re- cent article to which we have alluded, says that “silver may be made a most essential aid to resumption,” he is careful to add, ‘‘if confined either in the amount or mode of issue or in its legal tender quality.” But the Bland bill, so far from satisfying this requirement, makes the amount unlimited, the mode of issue unlimited and the legal tender qual- ity unlimited: If this bill becomes a law everybody who owns ninety-two dollars’ worth of silver can take it to the Mint and have it coined into a hundred silver dollars, and this debased money can be used to pay all debts, all duties at the Custom House and the principal and interest of the national bonds. It is possible to be a much stronger silver man than any member of the administration has shown himself to be and yet to repudiate as dishonest and ruinous to the public credit such # project as the pend- ing bill. The silver lunatics should not flatter themselves that their scheme can escape a veto by the favor heretofore shown by some members of tho administration to the partial remonetization of silver. The intelligent silver men will scout a project which puts them in such bad company and covers remonetization with the scorn of honest men. The ablest and most distinguished advo- cate of bi-metalism, either in Europe or America, is M. Henri Cernuschi, who was examined before the Monetary Commission at Washington last winter. M. Cernuschi is an Italian by birth and an LL. D. of the celebrated University of Pavia. He fled from his country during the political troubles of 1848 and established himself as a banker at Paris, where he has since re- sided. We think this a suitable time for bringing the opinions of M. Cer- nuschi to the attention of the mod- erate silver men, both in the Senate and the administration. They will see that this enlightened advocate of a bi-metallic standard strongly condemned in advance every scheme resembling that which has passed the House. Mr. Cernuschi thinks it would be a blunder for the United States to remonetize silver except in concurrence with the commercial nations of Western | Europe. He strenuously contends that re- monetization without such joint action would not establish « bi-metallic butan ex- clusive mono-metallic currency in this coun- try, banishing gold and making silver our only standard. He also maintains that it | Would isolate us from the commercial system If these opinions of Mr. Cernuschi were singu- | lar they would have less weight, but they are the opinions of every intelligent political economist who advocates the remonetiza- tion of silver. It is athing that this coun- try cannot doalone witnout cutting itself off from easy intercourse with foreign na- tions and arresting the farther sale of gov- ernment bonds, We will take our quotations from Cer- nuschi out of the little volume published last spring by the Appletons containing his testimony before the Monetary Commission, and o reprint of some of his writings on the same subject. In answer to Mr. Boutwell he said:—“In my opinion no country can coin silver alone; any country that coins only silver will remain alone and will not have the money for paying abroad. If the United States coins silver and Europe coins gold, what can you do with your silver? You cannot pay Europe. In that case it is far better to maintain your green- backs” (p. 19). In answer to Mr. Bogy he said:—"Then if you coin at 16 you re- main alone; and it were better to maintain | ship. fthe 1d, reduce our foreign trade t | rendered that instructions o! worl: duc: eigi ade to rine > 54 ssibility of its being one d require barter, and erect an insuperable barrier to | hte y neing one day required | can be shared by England and America, greenbacks than to coin silver, if this metal is not also coined in Europe” (p. 36). Yo the chairman he said:—-‘If silver is not restored in Europe how can you sell bonds in Europe? Who in Europe will buy silver bonds if silver is refused at the European mints”? (p. 39). Again to Mr. Bogy:—‘Tho injury would be that at the first moment all your gold would disappear. Q. But no gold would go abroad unless it went to pay adebt abroad? A. I beg pardon, Germany will send her thalers to your market and buy drafts on London--that is to say, gold payable by Americans” (p. 41). Again to the. chairman:—‘“My proposition is still the same. If you are without & common money with Europo it is useless for the United States to attempt to resume specie payments, and it is a useless \ expense for your government to redeem the greenbacks by opening the Mint to the coinage of silver dollars” (p. 43). Again:— “But this is not the worst; the worst is that no fixity would ever be possible be- | tween the value of gold and the value of silver. If you are bi-metallic while Europe is gold mono-metallic you are bi-metallic only by name; verily, you would be a silver mono-metallic country, such as India, and the monetary position of the United States against Europe would be exactly the same as is the present position of India against England—a position which engenders heavy losses to both countries” (pp. 48, 49). The following relates to the Bland bill offered in the last House:—‘You begin by issuing in Europe bonds to be paid for in silver. Nobody in Europe will buy these bonds payable, interest and principal, in a metal which is not coined in Europe” (p. 51). In an explanatory note relating to our bonds M. Cernuschi says:—-‘‘Europe has taken them because there were no silver dollars existing, and no silver dollars could be coined. But if you begin to recoin silver dollars all is changed; silver dollars are then at your disposal, and as the coinage of silver is now prohibited in Europe, and silver is there no more than a merchandise without monetary power, your bonds would be unsalable. Austria, which has always issued silver bonds, was recently obliged to issue gold bonds” (p. 75). We have made these quotations chiefly for the purpose of calling the attention of the Senators to the book, which is a magazine of arguments against the Bland bill from the ablest of the bi-metallists, The inevitable ef- fect of the bill would be to banish gold, make silver our only standard, depreciate greenbacks to the level of silver, reduce our foreign trade to barter and put an utter stop to the sale of our bonds. Such being the nature of this project, even from the point of view ofthe most intelligent advocate of silver, we cannot doubt that the Bland bill will encounter the President’s constitu- tional negative if it should pass the Senate. Tax Srxs or THe Faruxns shall be visited on their children, &. ‘The ‘dollar of our dads” is to be visited on the poor laborers of the country to swindle them out of eight cents on every dollar they earn by hard work, The Dying Pupe. The Heraxp's special cable despatch from Rome indicates that the last hours of the venerable and beloved Pontiff, Pius IX., are rapidly passinguway. Gradually and surely death is approaching to claim the great and the good as he comes to claim the humblest and the vilest. The moment of dissolu- tion may be close at hand or may be fora brief space delayed; but the report gives no room to hope that the event so long an- ticipated, but which will no less deeply move the whole Christian world when it does occur, is any longer doubtful. Al- ready partial paralysis has deprived the lower limbs of feeling, and the attendant physicians announce the approaching end. The head of the great Catholic Church now lies as powerless as the humblest of its dying votaries. If his soul has not already re- turned to its Maker millions of Catholics, as they read the announcement of his con- dition, may join in the prayers which will ascend with it to heaven. “Tars Is a Lona Surmiixa,” said a cab driver to Charles Lamb, who had taken the cab the full extent of the shilling fare—-two miles, ‘Is it?” replied Lamb in a surprised tone; “bless my soul! give it me back—I thought it was a round one!” The ‘dollar of our dads” is a round coin. It certainly is not a square one for the poor man, British Courtesy to Stanley. Our cable despatches this morning an- nounce the pleasing intelligence that Stan- ley, accompanied by his courageous and faithtul band of followers who with him made the great transafrican journey, have arrived safely at Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope. The means of transportation from St. Paul de Loando to the Cape have been fur- nished to Stanley and his wearied and enfecbled party by the gener- ous commander of a British war It is not too much to infer from the promptness with which this service was covering the were transmitted to the captains of Her Majesty’s ships on tae West African coast by the British Admiralty. Indeed, the news had only reached London of Stanley's arrival at Simon's Bay when the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty hastened to communicate to the Hrranp and London Daily Telegraph the fact of Captain Purvis’ courtesy and attention to the travel- ler, The text of this official letter appears in our columns this morning. We are happy to perceive that among the high officials of the British Crown there exist no narrow- minded ideas regarding Stanley's work or the means he was forced to adopt in accom- plishingit. ‘he glory of his recent success It is only the ultra philanthropists who regret that he did not sacrifice his life to the poor African’s desire for blood and beads, Tur “Dotan or Our Dans,” worth ninety- two cents, is approaching repudiation by de- grees, like the lady who, having been as- sured that “docking” would improve the appearance of her favorite ‘‘black and tan,” wanted to have the dog’s tail cut off ‘a little piece at a time.” The Senate Caucus. From the little that has leaked out re- specting what took place in the caucus of republican Senators held on Saturday we conclude that the leading speakers against the policy of the President were Mr. Conk- ling and Judge Edmunds and that his chief defenders were Stanley Matthews and the two Massachusetts Senators, the former car- rying with them a majority of the caucus. Mr. Matthews is so much indebted to the President that he could not desert him without exposing himself to a charge of per- sonal treachery, and Messrs. Dawes and Hoar were emboldened by the signal suc- cess of the Massachusetts republicans in the late election on a platform strongly indorsing Mr. Hayes. On the other hand Mr. Conkling’s oppo- sition also grew out of personal and lgcal motives, so that Judge Edmunds seems to have been the only strong man prominent in the debate who acted merely on broad views of party duty. Had Mr, Blaine been present he would also have acted with the opposition, and these three—Conkling, Blaine and Edmunds—since the death of Mr. Morton are commonly regarded as the ablest members of the Senate on the repub- lican side. The caucus is said to have been called at the instance of Mr. Conkling, who has resolved to ‘carry the war into Africa” since the New York election, which was more favorable to his Senatorial hopes than he had any reason to expect. We do not see that he is likely to make much by forcing this contest; still it cannot be ruinous to him, as it would have been had he been without allies among the republican Sena- tors. Supported by a majority of them, including some of the ablest, he is in no danger of being put in a state of isolation and read out of the party, as he would have been last winter had he voted against count- ing the Hayes electoral votes irom Louisi- ana. In his present attitude he has too many fellow Senators to keep him in coun- tenance to imperil his party standing, but still he is too weak to make any effectual opposition to the President. To accomplish anything practical he needs the nearly unan- imous co-operation of the other republican Senators, whereas this caucus has proved that the President has so many friends that he cannot be foiled by repub- lican votes and that no republican runs any risk of losing caste by supporting him. With the republican party divided as to any fit nomination democrats enough will vote with the President's friends to carry it through. If Mr. Conkling had not given the President's supporters this oppor- tunity to discover their own numbers in a place where they were concealed from dem- ocratic observation some of them might have succumbed to a majority that seemed larger than it really is, It makes a great difference in Mr. Hayes’ liberty of action whether his party in the Senate is unanimously against him or whether it is divided. He has reason to feel obliged to Mr. Conkling for showing him the real state of the Senate. “Give Us tHe Dorr of our dads!" cry the Western farmers, ‘‘it’s good enough for us—and then we can pay off our debts at ninety-two cents on the dollar.” Murad’s Friends. One of the most famous Turkish institu- tions is the bowstring—an institution of which comparatively little has been heard in recent times, for they seem to prefer to experiment in Constantinople with the in- stitutions of Western countries—with consti- tutions and the voice of the people and commodities of that sort-—and to be in some sense ashamed of their own homely and well tried contrivances for the regulation of exuberant enthusiasms. This is a common vanity, for all men seem to take in a similar kindly way to the gim- cracks of foreign fashion and to aban- don home products with equal unseemly readiness, Formerly the bowstring was the great guarantee of the Ottoman monarchy. It was also akind of pendulum or regulator. In other countries the rights and privileges of the monarch are guaranteed by the con- stitution, defined by the courts and de- fended by the army. In Turkey the bow- string stood for ull these and was as effective asany. No more economical political in- stitution was cver known, and good Mos- lems, when they learn that forty of the friends of the deposed Murad have heard the twang of this great string, will rejoice that the ancient institutions of their native land are recovering their favor and prestige, Ir Is Jusr to ‘pay every man in his own coin.” But it is a swindle to pay our credi- tors in our daddies’ coin and so cheat them out of eight cents on every dollar we honestly owe them. Leprosy. An interview with a leper by 9 San Fran- cisco reporter is one of the latest evidences of the rash spirit of enterprise that carries the journalist into all the perils he can find. From the record given in another column it will be seen that leprosy, one of the most dreaded of all the diseases that afilict the people in Eastern countries, bids fair to be- come naturalized in California, Reference is given to three cases of leprosy in white persons, and in each case the melady ap- pears to have been derived from contact with the Chinese. It is clear that if the al- legation could be made on substantial evidence that the immigration of the Chi- nese was to result in the introduction of this scourge it would become a great instru- ment in the hands of that kind of grown-up hoodlumism that memorializes Congress against the heathen Chinee. Statements that the Chinese are responsible for the in- troduction of a horrible disease would, therefore, have to be cleared of the sus- picion that they were evilly inspired in that: respect before they could gain confi- dence. At the same time it seems quite eredible that these wretched people, com- ing from a land where the disease exists and retaining in some degree the habits of their own country, might import and prop- agate it here. ‘Tux “Dotan or Our Dans” is a nice, bright, large silver coin, The workingman will be obliged to receive it in payment for a dollar's worth of hard work, becauso he can’t refuse legal money. When he carries it to the butcher's, the baker's or the gro- cer’s he will be able to buy ninety-two | cents’ worth of meat or bread or groceries with it and no more, Mr. Fish’s Rejoinder. Ex-Secretary Fish, in the letter printed in another column, discharges a javelin which pierces quite through the armor of Wendell Phillips, even though it be formed of triple brass. In a contest between rhet- oric and recorded facts it is always safe to bet on the facts, If Mr. Fish had undertaken to fight Phillips with his own weapons he would probably have been pretty badly worsted, being no match in vituperation for the most copious and entertainingly brill- iant male termagant of the nineteenth century. But, Mr. Fish asserts, and, what is more, he proves, that Mr. Phillips garbled a public document and falsified a date in his attempt to impugn Mr. Fish’s truth- fulness by quoting against him one of his own official letters. Mr. Phillips found in the diplomatic correspondence a despatch from the Secretary of State to Mr. Motley, dated June 28, 1869, expressing approval of his conduct as Minister. An approval at that early date, when Mr. Motley had been as yet but a few weeks in London, was too pointless and irrelevant to suit Mr. Phillips’ purpose, and so, with a clear perception of what hisargument required, he post dated the letter by a full year! But even this did not suffice. That early letter conveyed an explicit instruction to Mr. Motley to let the Alabama claims question alone for the future, and informed him that the negotiation when renewed would be withdrawn to Washing- ton. This passage Mr. Phillips thought it expedient to suppress, as it would Lave shown plainly enough that the expression of approval of Mr. Motley’s general action did not imply any confidence in his fitness to conduct the Alabama claims negotiations, the only important controversy then pend- ing. Mr. Fish expresses a very proper re- gret that the estrangement between him and Mr. Sumner has become a topic of pub- lic comment at this time, and he would have dropped the subject if a reporter of the Hezravp had not called his attention to Mr. Phillips’ use of the aforesaid letter. His allusicn at the close of his letter to Mr. Phillips’ well known lecture on ‘Tho Lost Arts” is a stinging witticism. “Give Us Taz Donran of our daddies!” cry the silver lunatics. We wish we could give them some of our daddies’ sense. Grand Juries in Jersey. The action of Judge Kirapp, in New Jer- sey, who twice refused to discharge the Grand Jury of Hudson county because they had failed to find indictments against the poolsellers, and declared his intention of keeping them in session untilthey did find such indictments, seems to us to be as un- necessary as it certainly was unusual. The Grand Jury is sworn to secrecy, and the Judge’ can have, or ought to have, no means of knowing what testimony is given in the jury room. he testimony may in the opinion of the Grand Jury have been incon- clusive as tothe probable guilt of the ac- cused, in which case they would not be jus- tified in indicting. The Judge's course, too, might excite the suspicion—no doubt un- just—that he prejudges the case. If the Grand Jury wilfully evaded its duty in re- fusing to find the bills the Judge’s remedy, it seems to us, had better have “been in charging the next Grand Jury to bring in the indictments than in forcing them out of the jury room by threats. The Dollar of Our Dads, Soon after the original Charles Mathews died, a Hebrew gentleman, named Lazarus, appeared at the Liverpool Theatre to give an “Evening at Home,” after having ex- tensively advertised himself os ‘the only successor to the lamented Charles Mathews.” After having secured all the money taken at the doors the actor appeared before a large audience and commenced his performance. Before he had been talking five minutes hisses were audible. Five minutes longer increased these sounds of disapprobation, After fifteen minutes had elapsed there were indignant shouts of ‘Off! off!” ‘Swindle! swindle!” Mr, Lazarus was equal to the emergency. Rising and approaching the footlights, ‘Ladies and shentlemens,” said he, “I don’t mean to dispute the point with you. It ish a swindle.” He then disap- peared from the stage and the house, car- rying the receipts with him. Mr. Bland, Nevada Jones and the other champions of the ‘dollar of our dads,” like Mr. Lazarus, don’t mean to dispute the point. They ad- mit that the ‘dollar of our daddies” is a swindle, and they mean to escape, if they can, with tho profi Grant Sumner, General Grant, Hamilton Fish, Wendell Phillips and John Jay have somewhat aired their several vocabularies in references more or less pithy to those unpleasant relations which arose some years ago between Senator Sumner and General Grant, then President of the United States. It will be remem- bered that the General spoke plainly of some characteristics of the deceased Senator, and used words that have an unpleasant sound to persons who greatly admired Mr. Sumner. But Grant had been put on his defence by allegations proceeding from the Sumner lines, which were to the effect that he had | quarrelled with the Senator solely through chagrin at finding it impossible to bend the Massachusetts statesman toa certain corrupt purpose of hisown. In answering an insult- ing imputation of that nature a hard headed soldier is not apt to go delicately through fear of cracking some porcelain reputations, and he spoke out his mind and cited facts and dates to show that there were needed no underhand reasons against Mr. Sumner, as there were plenty of fair ones, He referred to Mr. G. W. Curtis as a gentleman ccgni- zant of those facts. He did not, perhaps, intend this as a defiance, and yet it was such ; for it challenged a man known aso devoted friend of the deceased statesman to come to the rescue of his memory if he pos- sibly could, knowing what he did of the truth of Grant’s declarations. Mr. Curtis has not publicly referred to the subject in any form, so far as we have seen. He has, on the contrary, declined to make any state- ment to » reporter on the ground that it would bea breach of confidence to repeat any part of his conversation with General Grant on that subject. Now, a man is bound in confidence to him with whom he converses, and not to any other, because that is the person who has reposed con- fidence in him. But General Grant has shown by an open declaration and the per- mission to print it that if he ever cared to have the secrecy of that conversation main- tained he cares for it no longer, His dis- closure of what was said entirely releases Mr. Curtis from any obligation as to con- fidence. He may therefore say what he will ; but he prefers to remain silent, though his speech might be a defence of his friend. In these circumstances it is hardly credible that Mr. Curtis would remain silent if there were anything he could say in vindication of Mr. Sumner. His silence has tho air of an admission that he knows General Grant's cbarges to be true. Tue Contractors want the ‘‘dollar of onr dads.” It’s good enough for them, they say. Besides it will enable them to swindle their laborers out of eight cents on every dollar they earn. | A Deserved Compliment. Dr. Talmage in his Friday evening's lec. ture upon the secular affairs of the week paid Senator John Morrissey a high compli- ment. ‘He has been re-elected,” said Dr, ‘Talmage, ‘‘not by his old-time partisans, but by republicans, Hamilton Fish, Gen- eral Grint’s Secretary of State, voted for him. Peter Cooper, the friend of education and the founder of a great institute, voted forhim. The brown stone fronts voted for him. The Fifth avenue equipages voted for him. Murray Hill voted for him. If some of you had lived there you would have voted for him.” This is simply a statement of facts, but it is certainly flattering to Mr. Morrissey. Nevertheless we scarcely regard as just the implication of Dr. Talmage that all the ‘‘old-time supporters” of Morrissey voted on the side of the Senator’s Tammany opponents. ‘Tue Bragemen, track hands and laborers on the great railroad lines get the starva- tion wages of eighty cents a day. When they receive their pay in the blessed ‘‘dol- lars of our daddies” they will get seventy- four cents a day, losing six cents for some- body’s profit. The high officials will, of course, be paid in gold. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The following Americans aro rogistored at the Paria office of the HeraLp:— F, E. Triacca, New York, Hotel Violet, D. F. Burke, New York, Hotel ¥ésélon, J. F. Shorman, New York, Hote! Splendido, G. U. Fairchild, New York, Hote! Splendide, H.W. Redington, California, Hotel Spiendide. . L, Nowcombe, New York, No. 8 Rue Rovivo, Mrs, M, N. Scudder, Calitornia, Hotel Splendide, Mrs, General Redington, Calitornia, Hotel Splendida, § J. Murphy and family, New York, Empire Hotel Robert R. Singer and family, Pittsburg, Hotol Athé. née. Dr. Sydney Darrin and wife, New York, Grand Hotel. CG B. Wright, Wilmington, Albort. J. G. Schumaker and family, Brooklyn, No. 12 Rue Paquet. { Dr. A, C, Fairbairn, Cape Vincent, N. Y¥., Hotel Béranger, A German put it rather nicoly, though brokenly, when he said, yesterday, ‘1 vant to know vedaer ‘we aro some uations or somebody.” Keeley’s mule hasn’t bogun to kick yet, ‘The pastor who speaks most bitterly against the stage usually assumes the dramatic manners, Rear Admiral William Gore Jones, naval attaché of the British Legation at Washington, is at the Claren don Hotel. J. P. Piumer has retired as ono of the proprictors of the Riggs House, Washington, leaving C. W. Spofford in possession, The Washington Republican, with our encourage. ment, continues to copy the P, L of the Hexatp, Tho Republican 13 a nice paper, and of course its personal column is its best feature. A Boston young man goleg along the street last Monday saw a pair of anova havging to a clothes line, He immediately oxclaimed, “Cut ber down! cut her down! Here 1s Lydia Thompson committing suicide.”? M. Broift had charge of the cantecn at Russian head- quarters, Ho charged over $3 for a bottle of vin ordi- naire and for other goods In proportion, He was or- dered to leave, aud trading is now done with Germans, On tree days at the Metropolitan Museum of Art there are many artstocratic carriages in front of the building. On the days when it costs twenty-five cents to go in there aro few rich people who visit the col. lection. A lady writes to say, in reply to a question in the Herakop, that vo miss should be kissed by her gentle man friends after sho is twelve. A gentleman writes “Let us not kiss ber atall.’? A girl writes, ‘As we nover know when we begin, do not let us think whes wo leave off,” We have received no satistactory auswer. N. C., Hotel Prince MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Mr. D, H. Harkins has carried “Metamora” to the Bowery. The musical and dramatic attractions of the weok aro unusual. An entire change of progreammo will bo mado at Bryant’s Opera House this evening. Miss Lydia Thompson and troupe’ perform thit evening at the Eagle Theatre in the burlesque, **Rob Inson Crusoc,”” Janauschek plays in ‘‘Chosney Wold’? at tho Broad way Theatre to-night, filling the dual parts of Lady Dedlock and Hortense. At Niblo’s Garden “Tho Drunkard’s Home” fs billed for this evening and until further notice, Mr. W. J, Fleming enacts the drunkard, “Pink Dominos,” at the Union Square, will be fol- lowed, on Wednesaay, by Sardou’s play, in five acts, entitled ‘My Mother’s Secret,’’ Robert Stickney will make his first appoarance in several years at Gilmore’s Garden to-night, when he will perform a four-horse act, Miss Helen Potter appears to-night at Ubickering Hall. Her recitations and personations of Charlotte Cushman, Joho B. Gough, Anua Dickinson and others aro said to be very fine. At Wallack’s Theatre “False Shame” will tako the placo of ‘Marriage’? to-night, It is said to bo a charme ing comedy. ‘The cast embraces among others Messrs, Gilbert, Montague, Eytinge, Hoiland, Mme, Pouish, Miss Rose Coughlua and Miss Stolla Boutface, Mise Mary Anderson, a promising tragedienne, makes her New York début this evening atthe Fiith Avenuc Theatro as Pauline, in the “Lady of Lyons.” Mr. Eben Plympton will play Claude Melnotte, The interest excited by ber performances elsewhere will probaly fill the house, The brace of wonderful little people known as Meade’s Midgets, who have been holding their lovees the past week at the new hall corner of Fifth avenue and Fourteenth streot aro attracting the attention of « large number of poople, and they rarely fail to be surprised. Levees are held daily in the forenoon aud afternoon, and on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. “Rip Van Winkie’ Booth’s, “The Crushed Tra Redian’”’? at the vark, ‘Uncie Tom’s Cavin” at the Grand Opera House, equestrianiam and gymnastice at the circus, the Elks’ benefit at the Academy of Mu- sic, negro representation ut Bryant’s and the San Francisco Minstrelr, varieties at Tony Pastor's and the Olympic, Dr. Damrosch’s Saturday matinées Steinway Hall, Theodore Thomas’ public rehearsal: tho same place on Thursday, the Aquarium, the American Museum and half a dozen smailer things— this is surely a bill of fare that should satisfy the daintiost taste,