The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1877, Page 8

8 NEW YORK < HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1877. —QUADRUPLE SHEET. _ NEW YORK < HERALD ——~-—_— BROADWAY AND. ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. HERALD, published day in the year. Saesee: Upy Gundays excluded). ‘Ten dolturs per year, or at arate of one dollar per month for any period less ian cix'inonths, or five dollurs tor six months, Sunday edition Inciuded, free otace. WELKLY HEMALD,~One dollar per year, treo of post- SCRIMERS,—In order to insure atten- ng their ad¢ress chunged must give their new address. ors or telegraphic despatches rust ‘Letters and packs: Rejected communic SIL ADELA 0 cr SO ad NEW YORK HERALD~ PARIS OFFICE—AVEN NAPLES OFFIC TANG Ge Subscriptions and ajeocicen n the same terms o: TO-NIGHI Uincus 4ND MENAGERIE, HADES, BOOTHS THEATRE BROADWAY THEAT. GRAND OPFRA IL0U; OUICKERING H+ LL—Rve BOWERY THEATI PIFTIC AVENUE TIT PARK THEATRE — THEATRE FRANCAL xy Wow, ny's TOME AND MEcHAaNICcs, UNION SQUARE TH GERMANIA THEATER: EAGLE THEATRE. TIVOL THEATRE, OLYMPIC THEATE TONY PASTOR’S—Vaniery, MEADE’S MIDGE!'S HA! BAN FRANCISCO MI EGYPTIAN HALL—V. ‘Dworraxt Norice 10 Aby rusts Ab insure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely necessary that they be handed in before eight o'clock every evening. From our reports tus morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be worm and clear or partly cloudy. Watt Srrexr Yesterpay. stock mar- ket was more active, but prices were Iower as a rule. Gold was steady at 102) Government bonds were lower, States steady and railroads higher. Money on call lent at 5 a 6 per cent, advancing to 7 per cent and closing at 6 per cent. Tuere Witt Br « Merrixe of tho Queens County foxhounds at Mineola to-day. Tue Hore. Prorrietors are loud in their defiance of the temperance men and dare them todo their wor: Genekat Banks has introduced a bill in the House to give everybody everything without cost to anybody Tue Sreike oF THE tunately benefited girls who are now be rolling the fragrant v IGARMAKERS has for- n large number of young ig taught the mysteries of . Tne Orrstons ome of the teachers on the coeducution of the sexes, elsewhere given, will «l with interest by parents and others. good deal to be said on both sides of the question, Coxeness ought to adjourn on the 224, as y the Ways and Means Committee, . Judging by its performance on the Silver bill the quicker it leaves Washington the better. Tur ALper yesterday of looking coming year. wise that th deerease t ‘ough the formality the estimates for the It is more fortunate than other- have no authority to increase or Tur Fryaxce Commirrer the Senate has made a good beginning on the Silver bill in re solving to strike out the clause which provides for the coinage of silver bullion at the expense of the governm ‘Bankers axp Ff ss Men will be inter- ested in the ation printed in our Washington despatehes which has been re- ceived by the cretary of the Treasury in re- gard to coun notes. commun Turre Seems to be a good deal of opposition to the reorganization projeet of the New Jersey Central Railroad. The stock and bond holders do not appear to be » to see théir way clearly through the operation. Ex-Comrrrotten Conxouvy, it is said, has sent his autograph home ou the receipt for the summons and complaint in the suit against him for seven million dollars. His name on a check for the money would have been more accept- able. ‘ Secretary Evarrs urges the passage by Congress of the legislation necessary to enable him to distribute the Mexican claims. Many of the claimants are poor and it is unjust to de- prive them of what is due them any longer than ig absolutely required. Ex-JoupGe Lronarp, referce in the old Devlin Buit againstthe city, refuses to be bound by the statute in the matter of his fees, and the case has been taken before the Supreme Court. The controversy forcibly illustrates the evils and abuses of that portion of our judicial system, Tue Morven or tub Passencers on the western bound train from Richmond, Va., Mon- flay evening, at a point thirty miles from that tity, was planned by some fiend, who removed a bolt from the «witch, Fortunately no one was killéd, The train was badly wreeked and the escape of those on board was almost miraculous. Tue Exrenience of the American masons who went to England has been anything but pleasant cither to themselves or to the contrac- tor who employed them, y had searcely arrived in the British metropolis when the larger number of them joined the English strik- ers. Those who have gone to work are dissatis- fied with everything and everybody, wages, clothing and board. Not the least of their com- plaints is that they have no gas in their rooms aud are compelled to sleep on spr ingless beds. Tue Weaturn.—Except in the Northwest the barometer continues high throughout the region cast of the Rocky Mountains, with the highest pressure over the Atlantic coast. T temperature is generally higher in all the dis- triets, except immediately southward of Mani- toba and the St. Lawrence Valley, The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day wil! be warm aud clear or vartly cloudy. “~. Description of the Great River=Frank Stunley’s Lualaba or Congo Poecock’s Death. We are at last enabled to present to the readers of the Heratp an accurate descrip- tion, from the pen of Henry M. Stanley, of the great river whose course from Nyangwe to the Atlantic Ocean he has ex- plored with so much courage, endur- ance and success, ‘The announcement of Stanley's arrival on the West Const of Africa awakened in the minds of all stu- dents of geographical science the liveliest curiosity regarding the details of his won- derful journey. He was safe, and had brought with him the secrets of Central Africa, the solution of the mystery that had so long Daflled explor- ers and left the geographical features of half‘a great continent still open to speculation. He had won the prize which Livingstone had sacrificed his lite in striving for, and was, above all living ex- plorers, the only one qualified to fill the blank which still remained open on the map of Africa. Therefore geographers and those interested in the extension of human knowl- edge have been impatiently waiting for the details of his work, tho number of miles he had travelled, the parallels of latitude and the meridians he had crossed, the actual description of the wonderful rwer which has been opened to commerce by his energy and daring. ‘This long desired information has at length commenced to arrive, and the Henatp, whose representative Stanley has been in all his work of exploration, hastens to lay it before the people of America as the London Daily Telegraph does for the peoples otf Europe. The letters we print this morning, al- though only introductory to the story of the great march and canoe voyage from Nyangwe to the Atlantic, aro yet filled with geographi- cal information of the highest interest. They are the authoritative declarations of the only man’ who knows on the subject of the Congo or Lualaba River and are rich in all that makes such statements yaluable. Stanley prefaces his description of the great river by correcting an erroncous impression as to the propriety of calling it the Congo. He says the territory of Congo is of a very limited area and lies southward of the lower section of the river and between the ocean and a_ range of mountains which border on the great inland African basin. As many names are given to the river from its source downward as there are distinct tribes inhab- iting its banks, and he declares that for geographical purposes the proper name is that given it by Livingstone, who first discov- ered it—that is, the Lualaba. In a carefully prepared map which he sends with his letters the course of the Lualaba and of the lower sections of its principal affluents are laid down, together with the sites of the two groups of cataracts which break its flow near the Equator, on the twenty-sixth meridian of east longitude, and for 180 miles above the Falls of Yellala, near the coast. ‘The source of the main river lies eastward of Lake Bang- weolo or Bemba, in about 33 degrees east longitude, and the lake-forms its first great basin. Livingstone died when ex- ploring this inland sea, and was convinced that it formed a part of the lacustrine system of the Nile. Stanley believes that Livingstone desired to prove it to be so on account of his religious and classical regard for the mighty river of old Egypt, whose lower valley is filled with relics of early civilization and biblical asso- ciations. But, although Stanley confesses to o similar desire, he furnishes the evi- dence that Liviftgstone was in error and that the Lualaba empties the drainage waters of eight hundred and sixty thousand square miles into the Atlantic Ocean. The brave old Doctor expressed the most decided objection to being made “black man’s meat” in any effort to connect the Lualaba with the Congo, end therefore pursued his Nile theory to the end; but, as Stanley remarks, scientific geogra- phers were unable to reconcile the water volume of the Lualaba with any possible affluent of the Nile. This flow Stanley establishes by measurements at Nyangwe to be one hundred and twenty- four thousand cubic feet per second—a yol- ume too enormous to be carried by any of the Nile’s known tributaries from the westward, even though the Luslaba had not been actually followed to the Atlantic, Even the natives and Arab merchants at Nyongwe discussed tho course of the Lualaba, and: opinion was as much divided on the subject in that Central African town, as in the geographical societies of Europe and America. But now that all doubts are set at rest forever the interest centres in the new found river and the character of the countries it traverses. We will leave to the reader of Stanley's letters the enjoyment of the information they contain and simply point out how consistent with probabilities are the speculations of the explorer as to the origin of this mighty stream, which Stanley classes as the Ama- zon of Africa while ranking the Nile with the Mississippi. He says. tho Lualaba furnishes water enough for three Niles, and suggests that its forma- tion was duc to the same great terrestrial disturbance which created the Inkes that stretch like long gashes on tho surface of tM continent to the eastward ot the river, The Chambezi,is the feeder of Lake Bangweolo, which reservoir is con- nected with Lake Mweru or Moero by the Luapula, and from thence the river flows northward as the Lualaba to the Equator and thence southwestward to the Atlantic, having o total length from its source of two thousand nine hundred miles. Immediately north of Nyangwe the even flow of the river is interrupted by the falls, which form the first group that ex- tends almost to the Equator. Below these the river widens into a great canal almost approximating to an elongated lake, and into which the greatest of the affluents flow. One of these, the Aru- wimi, may possibly be the Welle of Schweinfarth, but its source is yet. un- known. Further down tho Lualaba the Sankuru, the Ikelomba, whose length is es- timated at one thousand miles, and other great tributary rivers. add their auota to ‘Zanzibar ~ to | the Lualabs Lualaba, ‘tinting the main stream with their brown waters. Further below begins the series of sixty-two falls and cataracts which extends for one hundred and eighty miles between the Ntamo and Yellala falls, and where the river has again nar- rowed to its ordinary width. Along the |p river banks the character of the country and its population changes rapidly. From the Arab settlements at Nyangwe the explorer entered a region inhabited by savage cannibal tribes, who proved cow- ardly or warlike according to their strength in numbers, but were uniformly treacherous and bloodthirsty. In other regions Stanley describes the people as dwelling in a state of comparative civiliza- tion and being friendly to strangers, But although the journey was not always im- peded by the attacks of the natives the dangers that arose, from hunger and the fearful cataracts on the river were constant sources of alarm and frequently proved as deadly as the hostility of the cannibal tribes. This. brings us to 2 sad contemplation of the fate of poor Pocock, Stanley's last white companion, It cannot be necessary to add one word to the culogies of Pocock con- tained in Stanley's letters. He was a brave and faithful friend, whose sad fato casts a gloom over the achievements of his more fortunate leader, By the constant exhibition of courage, prudence and un- stinted generosity Pocock endeared him- self to even the suspicious natives with whom ie was brought in contact. The man- ner of his’ death proved his devotion to Stanley and showed that, although he was bowed down by fatigue and sick- ness, the spirit that carried lim from the fatal cataract was unbroken to the last. The map accom- panying Stanley's letters is intended to give only a general, but yet accurate idea of the course of the Lualaba, It corresponds with Stanley’s own map in all essential features and will prepare the reader ‘for the study of that interesting production when it is published. mipstces The Pope’s Health. The fact reported in our special de- spatch from Rome, that the Pope yester- day gave a public audience and received twenty-two persons, is a sufficient evi- dence that if the news of his almost hopeless condition was true when sent his wonderful vitality has on this occasion as- serted itselfas much in the rapidity of his recovery as in the fact of the remarkable change in his condition. So far as appears in the report ofwhat was observed at this aue dience the paralysis is confined to the lower extremities, Such a limitation of disorder is not uncommon, and isnot invonsistent with a sufficiently vigorous performance of bodily functions to sustain life fér years, Mr, Morton's case was an instance, though not an extreme one, of this fact; not extreme because the paralysis was not absolute in the region invaded till near the end. Longevity is a family attribute with the Ferreti—the Pope's brothers having reached the ages of ninety-five and ninety-six. It is even recorded that they were as fre- | quently reported at the point of death for the last ten years of their lives respectively as even the Pope himself has been, so that it may be seid that not only is longevity a family attribute, buPalso that a tenacious vitality is associated with the frequent re- currence of symptoms which, while very alarming, are always remediable. The Cuban Insurgents. General Campos, whose courage, ability and energy as asoldier will, it is confidently believed at Madrid, be the means of bring- ing the long struggle in Cuba to an end, isnot meeting with unchecked success in his cam- paign against the patriots. During the past two months he has succeeded in gaining sev- eral important advantages, which must have disheartened the revolutionary leaders, but now we have the news of a slight victory which will go farto comfort them under. their recent reverses and destroy the idea of the invincibility of the Spanish commander. **Last month the patriots surprised a party of Spaniards in the East- ern Department, when several of the enemy were killed and wounded. Thenews comes entirely through Spanish sources, and it is, of course, impossible to get at the real facts or to ascertain the magnitude of the Spanish loss. That it was far more serious than the Havana authorities report is absolutely certain. But the news is significant in another respect. It shows that the Spanish declarations so freely made recently that there is no armed force anywhere on the island are all nonsense, and that the patriots are still strong enough to contest the advance of the Spanish troops. Gen- eral Campos will find it more difficult than he suspects to reduce the island to subjec- tion. Congress Yenterday. The country will commend and the navy will thank the House for its prompt passage of the Deficiency bill yesterday without opening the floodgates of debate and making it the pretext tor an unsecmly political wrangle, Whether the late Secretary of the Navy was or was not guilty of a violation of the law in using the naval pay fund for other purposes than that for which it was intended was not, strictly speaking, before the House, but with the latitude allowed to or taken by gentlemen in Washington it could easily have been brought into the dis- cussion and thereby delayed indefinitely the passage of the bill. The result, of course, would have been to compel the officers to wait still longer for the money they have earned, with the additional wrong of losing a portion of it in interest, which they are pow compelled to pay. In passing the bill so promptly tho House has acted fairly by the navy and deprived itself of no rights in regard to the accountability of the late head of the department. Tho only other feature of interest in the proceedings was a short discussion of the bill to repeal the Resumption act, upon which Mr. Chittenden and Mr, Monroe spoke in opposition to the bill, The Sen- ate did very little except listen to the speech of Mr. Chaffee on the Pacific rail- ronds and their branches. Mr, Hamlin re- ported back the resolution in regard to a treaty of commerce with Mexico from the Foreign Relations, Committee, with the re- mark that he thoucht the subiect belonged | ———— el O—— to the Exeeative Dopedwkat or to the Honse of Representatives. It is possible that the Finance Committee, to which the question was then committed, may have dit- ferent views about it. As a step toward the extension of our trade the proposition ght to receive in some quarter the con- sideration it deserves. The French Cri Perhaps the clearest indication of what is really on foot in France is to be inferred from the article of the République Vrangaise, for it is the vital issue of the hour that Las led up to that article; while in the reports of what is said by one party and thought by another and intended by a third there is only a confusion that it is impossible to disentangle, Judging by the article to which we refer the government seriously contemplates a second dissolution of the Chamber, and is not so hopeless as has been thought of the necessary assent of the Senate. Repub- licans must indeed regard not only’ the proposition for dissolution, but its success, also, as imminent when they push their arguments against such a measure to the point of urging that the Chamber of Depu- ties would be bound to resist it. It is to be hoped that their resources are not already reduced to that degree, for a point of physi- cal resistance, no matter where, is precisely what the Ministry has sought in vain, and once found would relicve it from its des- perate straits, Any fact by which it could overcome resistance with military force and appear to be plainly within its right under j the law, or not so flagrantly outside of its right but it might be reasonably defended by impartial persons, would be a boon with which the republicons should not favor it just now. No doubt the argument of the limitation of the right of dissolution derived from the constitutional reason for the existence of that right is a good one, so far as it goes; but it does not invalidate the right of the President to dissolve, if he can get the nec- essary support, any Chamber that the peo- ple may send up. No theoretical attenua- tion of this right can displace it from the constitution, where it presents a plain way for the Executive and the Senate to put o troublesome Chamber out of their path. They may make an outrageous use of their power, but, under the constitution, they are the only judges of the expediency of dissolution, This may bea ‘feeble point in the constitutign, but it would not mend matters to mect it with resistance that would be hopeless, even if not illegal. Shall Justice Mis ry? The evidence in the prosecution of Robert L. Case, Jate president of the Sécurity Life and Annuity Insurance Company, for pory jury in having sworn to false statements of the company’s condition, was brought to a close yesterday. ‘he defence is purely technical. The law makes it the duty of the officers of such companies to make an annual report, under oath, and provides that wilfully false statements thercin shall be perjury and punished as such, ‘The ey- idence shows that this report was made, signed and certifiod as baving been sworn to by Mr. Case and other officers of the com- pany, and that it cash and real estate assets were grossly and wilfully misrepresented soasto make the company appear solvent when it was hopelessly bankrupt. ‘The de- fence, so far as Mr. Case is concerned, is that he signed the report without knowing the truth of its details, and that he never swore to it. A colored meggenger employed in the Security office testified that he had carried the report, after it had been signed by Mr. Case and tho secretary, to a notary’s office, who had certified it as having been sworn to. This, he said, had been the practice with all reports. ° It is barely possible that the accused may escape under this technicality. But if so, while it will be a deplorable failure of justice, the evidence adduced’ makes the indictment and conviction of the accused for the lesser offence of misdemeanor a cer- tainty anda duty. If a public officer may evade punishment by the trick of pretend- ing to swear to an official report and not actually taking the required oath, then the laws are a mockery and delusion. There is another point in this evidence that de- mands the attention of the District Attor- ney. It is clearly misconduct on the part of a notary to falsely certify a paper as hav. ing been sworn to when no affidavit has been made. On page 446 of volume 3 of the Revised Statutes of New. York will be found a section (38) which provides for the “criminal prosecution and punishment” of an offending notary. It is about time that snch dangerous offences as are developed in this trial should be put a stop to. How Temperance May Be Promoted. ‘The temperance people seem resolved to keop up the: agitation of the license ques- tion, although it is doubtful whether their efforts, however well intentioned, will result in any substantial gain to the caus» in which they Inbor. It is stated that the proprietors of some of the leading hotels in this city, including the Astor, Fifth Avenue, St, Nicholas, Metropolitan, Branswick, Win- chester, Grand Central, Gilsey and Grand, are to be brought into the police courts to answer for alleged violations of the law, including the sale of. liquor on Sundays and election day. There is also to be a revival in the arrests of saloon keepers, both on the charge of not being hotels or inns within the meaning of the Excise law now supposed to be in operation, and for other alleged infringements of the law.’ We have no doubt that these prosecutions are all made in good faith and with laudable inten- tions; nevertheless, their expediency is at least questionable. The action of the Excise Board and Police Department since the decision of the Court of Ap- peals which left us without any ‘license law fitted to tho necessities of a largo city must be accepted as evidence that it is impossible to enforco prohibition in New York or to carry out strictly the provisions of such a Jaw as that of 1857. The practical question, therefore, seems to bo whether we are to live under a statute which cannot be enforced and is only pro- ductive of litigation, of arrests that seom to do no good and of cvasions calculated to bring all laws into contempt, or are to have, with the assent of reasonable temperance people, stringent license law which can be enforced and which can be so framed as to place o desirable restraint on the liquor business and materially decrease intemper- arce, Massachusetts is a State in which, if any- where, it ought to be possible to enforce ‘prohibition. Governor Rice, who has just been re-elected in that State by a handsome fnajority, himself a temperance man, vetoed a prohibitory law passed at the last session of the Legislature, on the ground that prohibition had always been inoperative in Massachusetts, while the existing license law is strictly enforced and has, as the statistics show, greatly decreased intemperance. This might well be accepted by the temperance people in New York as ‘an indication of the policy that ought to control their action in this State. If they will devote their time from now until the Logislature meets in framing a stringent, well-con#idered license law for New York they will do more real good for the temper- ance cause than by making a thousand use- less arrests for violations of a law that is practically ignored by the authorities as well as by the people. —— Partisanship Rampang. It would have been well for Mr. Purroy if his connection with the city government had ceased when he took the manly course of withdrawing from the recent political canvass after his indiscreet conduct in the Nyack Senatorial Convention. He would not then have still further injured his pub- lie record by tlie sorry exhibition made by him in the Board of Aldermen yesterday. The renomination of Colonel Henry G. ‘Stebbins for Park Commissioner, which was made to the Board by Mayor Ely some days ago, was as creditable to the Mayor as it was satisfactory to the people. Colonel Stebbins by experience, culture, capacity and integrity is well qualified for the pas sition he has go longheld. But Mr. Par- roy insisted yesterday that because he is not a Tammany democrat he should he rejected, and the Tammany Aldermen, agreeing with their President, refused to confirm the nom- ination. Mr. Purroy has no thought or care for the public interests or the good management of the Park Department. He wants a Tammany democrat to hold the'po- sition now filled by Colonel Stebbins, and he denounces the Mayor for studying the interests of the city in preference to the in- terests of Tammany Hall. Mr. Purroy furthermore thought proper to charge Mr. Stebbins with the responsi- bility of the reduction of the wages of city laborers a little over two years ago—an act for which, whether wise or unwise, a Tam- many city administration whs alone answer- able, and announced his intention of intro- ducing a resolution at the'‘hext meeting of the Board of Aldermen aski ing that the half million dollars to be spen next year in street repairs be paid to] Inborgks., instead of to contractors, Mr. Purroy of course knows that laborers do the work and get the money whether it is done under contract or by the city. In the former case the honest laborer finds employment. In the, latter case the political loafer who hangs about the corner groceries in idleness and only takes upon himself the character of a laborer. when money is to be got out of the city treasury, on the strength of an Alder an’s recom. mendation, obtains the k to which the honest laborer is justly ha Heavy Cost of Reform, The bottom seems to have fallen out of the Aldermanic investigation of Mr. ‘weed, now that the election, for which it appears to have been specially designed, is over. On Monday there was a meeting of the com- mittee, and the master thiet of the period was present, “chatting pleasantly with those around him” with as much sangfroid as if he were an honest man, entitled to the respect of the community, instead of a self- confessed felon, whose proper place is a Sing Sing cell. ‘There was no examination of Tweed or of anybody else, but a singular episode filled up the committee's brief ses- sion. Mr. Taintor, one of the late Comp- troller Green’s experts who was employed by him to ferret out the Ring transac- tions, was called to the witness stand and shown a schedule by which he is credited with having received the large amount of ninety-one thousand dollars for his services, Mr. Taintor refused to say whetfier the amounts were correct untfi he had been allowed time to ‘prepare himself,” which, he stated, would take ‘‘a few weeks.” In answer to questions the witness an- nounced that he had other charges against the city for work on the Connolly, Walsh, Tucker and Coman eases, so that the full cost of his services is not yet fully known. Ho alleged’ in general terms that his ‘‘expenses” had been heavy and his actual recompense not more than ten or eleven thousand dollars a year. It seems extraordinary that the Finance De- partment which, under Mr. Green, con- sumed in salaries some two hundred thou- sand dollars a year, should*have found it nesessary to employ in addition a special agent at such an extravagant cost. The most singular part of the affair, how- ever, is that according to Mr. Taintor's statement before the committee he is in pos- session of warrants and vouchers belonging to the city, which were placed in his cus- tody by the Finance Department for the purpose of tabulation, and he regards these as his personal property “to quite an ex- tent.” What ground Mr, 'Taintor can have for so absurd a claim, aiter he has been ex- travagantly paid for services of which the people know little or nothing, we are at o loss to perceive. But certainly Mr. Kelly should demand and take possession of all city papers in Mr, Taintor’s hands and should take care that his services in the fu- ture, if reqoired at all, aro more moderately recompensed. Making Them Work, Tho Overseers of the Poor at Jamaica, Long Island, have hit upon ahappy method of ridding the town of the tramp and able- bodied pauper nuisance, ‘These sturdy vagabonds have been plentifal at Jamaica, the pleasant air of tho place proving attrno- tive to thom, and the: cost of supporting them in idleness has been o heavy tax on the poople. It has been dctermind now that ‘all able-bodied men who apply for relief shall be immediately set to work in sheds. provided for the purpose and come pelled to break stone ‘for’ repairing ‘and macadamizing the roads, This is tolerably steady work, especially when men are placed over the gangs who will see that they do not shirk the labor, We have no idea that much stone will be broken, however, for as soon as the rascally tramp and. chronic pauper find themselves. obliged to work for the relief they receive they will desert Jamaion for less unreasonable localities, where vice is fed and lodged in idleness, The example set by the Jamaica authori. ties might very well be ‘followed in New York. ‘There is no good: reason whatever why the paupers who are a charge on the public here should not be set to work on road repairing and cleaning. At present we pay out an enormous amount of money for street cleaning and get- nothing or very little for it. The streéts have never been so shamefully neglected and so dangerously filthy as under the present worthless Street Cleaning Bureau. The whole business, despite its costliness, is scandalously mis. managed. On Nassau and other “crowded downtown streets at eleven o'clock in the morning barrels of ashes and dirt line the sidewalks. ‘Chis nuisance arises from the blundering incapacity of the bureau, which is not even competent to arrange for the removal of the dirt and garbage except at the most inconvenient hours of the day. If a portion of the paupers should be turned out at night under proper supervision and made to clean the streets, and another por tion should be set to work in the stables, at the dumps, or driving the carts,.we should either ‘save most of the money now squan- dered on the warthless payrolls of the Street Cleaning Bureau or should soon re lieve the city from the cost of supporting an army of able-bodied vagabonds whe :pursut the easy calling of tramp or pauper ‘as « steady profession, A Siuguimr Wedding. A ‘singular se@he was enacted in the Supreme Court, Chambers; on Monday. A young man, twenty-one years of age, was taken from Ludlow Street Jail before Judge Lawrence and married to a young girl of eighteen, at whose suit, by her guardian, for breach of promise‘and seduction, he had been imprisoned. ‘To escape from jail he had consented to marry the girl, and after two or three questions from the Judge and answers trom the young couple, ‘You are man and wife,” said Judge Lawrence; “the prisoner is discharged.” The hastily made bridegroom had stated that he married for his liberty and that he was unable to sup- port a wife. In the papers which announce these proceedings appear the storiés of two terrible tragedies enacted in this city, the result of rash and unhappy marriages. In one, young, refined and educated lady took her own life to escape from an unfor- tunate husband, from whom, in six short months, she had learned to turn in terro1 and disgust. In the other,a man, mad. dened by the curse of an intemperate wifo, murdered his children and killed himself, Is such a marriage as that in the Supremé Court, Chambers, likely t@ have o happy ending? Is there not a timely voice of warning in the pastoral letter @f the Epis. copal bishops, depicting the evils which re sult from ill assorted and inconsiderate man ringes ? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Garfield calls on Hayes. The Boston Herald calls Goneral Le Duc a Bardwell Slote, Colonel Snead is writing a political history of Georgia The Empress of Austria will visit England shortly alter Christmas, Alum mixed with sugar, to make it palatable, ja sald to cure croup. Threo thousand sharks havo been caught for pre- milums at Melbourne, Bismarck will remain with his family at Varzin until after Christinas, San Franclaco wishes her poor fed by contributions from all parts of the State, Boston type founders have nover before known 80 dull @ time in thoir business, Beautiful Circassian girls can now be bought at the $200 stores of Constantinople, The country population of Culitornia is oaly equal to the population of San Francisco, Senator Francis Kernan arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening from Wasbiugton. Mr. Langston, United States Minister to Hayti, and Adrian H. Lazare, Secretary of Legation, sailed yesters day for Port au Prince, John P. Gross, of Plainfield, N. J., Bas ‘received the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy: from Lafay- ette College, at Easton, Pa The funeral of Chief Engineer George J. Barty United States Navy, took place in Philadelphta yee terday morning and was attended by a large number’ of relatives and frionds, Including officers of the navy, Andrew B. Irick, formerly President of the First National Bank, of Harrisonburg, Va., and of the Bank of Rockingham, after long suffering from consump- tion, now lies apparently at death’s door in Harrison. burg. Mr. Schuyler Colfax writes from an Iowa town to’ the Chicago 7'ribune that cuudurango did not cuca the cancer with which his mother was afilicted, und he adds that he is not willing ever again to be a public officer, Miss Amelia B. Edwards and other English ladica have started the Great Western aod Parisian Laundry Company, with a capital of $25,000. An ominent physician will weokly inspect the apparatus. The washerwomen sivep ou the premircs, The Chicago’ Zimes spoaks of girls searco out of childhood who, in the Cap\fo¥ at Washington, listen with glowing cheeks to fezpliments paid them vy great men 1n corners (@@MMer. (uut paper says that Ianguage betwoen gray-haired Senators concern. ing girls, whose acquaintance they make in tho gallo. rics and vestibulea, is too bad for the Chicago Timea to print, It must be protty bad, then, ° {From tho ning Post of yosterday.] SENATOR CONKLING'S CONVERSATIONS, My. Conkling beltoved it to ve worth while to make 4 personal explanation yesterday jn rogard to certawa rewarks which were recently roported to have boon tmade by him tn regard to cortain persons more or lest conspicuous jn public Ifo, We aro glad of this be cause it would be a miefortuno tor a citizen Lolding the high office of Senator to be insensible to the bivition which that report made of him or careless whether of not the people thought of him what thoy could not help thimking if thoy believed the report, While wo are glad that Mr. Conkling explained wo re- grot that ho did not explain satisiactorily. A careful examination of bis deliberate words fails to show that ho contradicts spocifically anything which was printed in the Heratp. Wo aro still at liberty, £o far as the denial is concerned, 10 believe that tho most angra- cious and undignified of the utterances attributed ta him really were his simply because he does not they were not. We may choose for carselves which arotrue, bocause Mr. Conkling does not tell us which aro falso; and unfortunately tho worst are the most probable becauso they are in harmony wjth the undia- puted record of his performances at Kosbester. The Henao stands by its report, and says, certainly with force and pertinence, that ‘is is needless to say more until he (Mir, Conkling) choasas ta ha mara anasian