The New York Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE PAILY HERALD, published every day inthe year, ‘Three cents per covy (Sundays excluved). ‘lev dollars per er abarateot one dollar per wonth for aay period than six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday dition included. free of postace WEEKLY HERALD—On ore. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on New York or Post Office money orders, and where either of Shese can be precurs the money tn a registered letser. k of sender. In order to insure hing their address changed must 8 their new nddress. py ness, News letters or teicgraphic despatches muss be addressed New Youk HeRarn, ere and packares shonid be properly seated, ejected communications will not be returned, Soeierenciadeencnennaie PRILADELPHIA UFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH INDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— SO, 46 FLEET STREET. ARIS OFFICE —49 AVENUE DE L'OPERA. lar per year, ree of ponte American exhilitors at the International—Bz position can have ‘ Geir letters if portpaid) addressed (0 the care of ow Paris ae 9F. NAPLES OFFICK—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. Bubscriptio: ‘Advertisements will be received and ferwardes on the same terms asin New York. ————— {VOLUME XLII. = SS AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ORION SQUARE THEATRE—Motaer axp Som M—Tratvep Horses, \EYCRUM THEATRE—J ot on THEATRE—Jaxe Snore and Hoxersoom, }WALLACK’S THEATRE—Tnx Jxatous Wire, SHAYMARKET THEATRE—Vaatery, THEATRE COMIQUE—Vanie } PONY PASTOR'S THEATRE. } AMERICAN INSTITUTE—Ex YEIVOL! THEATRE—Vanierr. _ WAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS BROAD ST. THEATRE, Philadel his—Epwiw Boorn, TRIPLE SHEBT. NEW YORK. IDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1878, ‘The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and clear. To-morrow it will be slightly warmer and clear, Jollowed by gradual clouding. Waut Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- Lket was fairly active, but dull and without any rmotable change in prices, Gold opened at + 10019 and fell to 1003, at which price it closed. Government bonds were dull, States Jower and railroads generally strong. Money wn call was easy at 5 a6 per cent, closing at 4 per cent. Axorner Paprovxe has lost one of his little alaves. It is a pity that he could not also have "been deprived of his liberty. Tue Last Scene of o drama which began amid luxurious surroundings was yesterday en- acted on the top floor of a New Jersey jail. Iy a Man has any regard for his personal eafety he had better not ask for “The Witchery of Archery” at the library of the Department of ¢ Public Works. ‘Tue Carp of the merchants and bankers, ypublished elsewhere, in favor of Fernando Wood's re-election to Congress, is a high com- +pliment to that gentleman. ; Fu cn Dervty Suertrrs Suoor as wildly as police- men. One who was arraigned yesterday slaimed that he aimed at a dog the bullet which wounded the complainant. “Tusre Is Noruinc that illustrates shrinkage ef values like the affidavits of husbands about their incomes when in divorce proceedings a mo- ‘tion is made for counsel fees and alimony. Mr. WenxpELL Puitiirs was yesterday nom- fmated for Congress by some Massachusetts greenbackers. If elected there will ensue some inflation speeches which will at least be en- tertaining. Reat Estate appears to be looking up. Prices are no better than they have been, but a number of sales are reported, and a sale of un- improved property, at no matter what price, Ax Hoxest Farmer (according to his own statement) has been arrested for merely having had in his possession some pieces of paper called bank notes which bore a forged signature. Every greenbacker knows that such an arrest is an outrage upon the rights of the honest farmer. Tuat the so-called combination between the republicans and the anti-l'ammany factions is wot happy and cordial will be seen by a pe rusal of an editorial in last evening's Commer- vial Advertiser, published in another column, No donbt the article is by that veteran editor, Hugh Hastings. Tae Lats Carprnan Cutten, who had long ‘been known to English speaking people as the most prominent of Catholic prelates, who was the founder of the Catholic educational system of Ireland, and who did not see inconsistency in being a patriotic Irishman and a loyal British e@ubject, has left a vacancy not easy to fill. Tne Extra Five Cents which each passen- ger paid during the low fare hours ot the first Banday of travel on the Elevated Railroad on the east side have gone to the yellow fever sut- ferers, the amount being nearly four hundred dollars, and grumblers about the overcharge will betake themselves to the twining woodbine, Tas Wratner.—After lingering during the early part of yesterday in the region of the Upper St. Lawence Valley the storm centre has moved eastward into the Atlantic south of Nova Beotia, and with considerably modified energy. Northward and westward the pressure has in- erensed very rapidly, but in the Sonthwest the Darometer is relatively low, with indications that another storm will be organized in the Central and Lower Mississippi Valicy during to-day and to-morrow. The partial dis organization of the coast storm whose ravages have been extraordinary will endure until it moves into the ocean and again recovers energy over the region of the Gulf Stream. The mnovement of the depression from the South- west will, probably, be in a direction almost flirectly northeast or through the Ohio Valley, but influences may tend to force it over the mountains to the Virginia coast, where the attendant winds would prove dangerous, In the Northwest the temperature is quite low, but elsewhere it is uniformly moderate, Strong north to Northwest winds pre vail on the North Atlantic const. Tho winds in the northwest are irom the worth to northeast, and in the Southwest are from the south and southeast. Rains have deen heavy on the coast of Maine attending the storm. The weather in New York and ite vi- cinity to-day will be cool and clear, Tomorrow it will be slightly warmer and clear, followed day gradual clouding NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1878.—TRIPL Secretary Evarts Last Night. Mr. Evarts received a very hearty wel- come last evening from a very large audi- ence. He spoke with great irankness of the issues of the day, and the delicate dis- crimination with which bis hearers dis- tributed their silence and their applause must have left on him the pleasing conviction that he was closely and eagerly listened to by @en who knew what they themselves thon pt, and were curious to see what was passing in his own mind. The audience was probably, in fact, as amusing and instructive a study for the speaker as he was to them. Three questions, he said, were to be set- tled by the republican party and its admin- istration—the pacification of the country; the elevation of the civil service and the emancipation of the suffrage from the domination of personal and private inter- ests; and the restoration of the finances and commerce, Fortunately, he added, all these tasks were placed by the republican party in such a state of forwardness that they do not require the aid or intervention of Con- gress, but are entirely in the hands of the Executive; ‘‘and,” he added, ‘‘it is not my duty to defend a republican ad- ministration to a republican audience.” So saying he turned, as was natural in & campaign speech, from the immediate past to the immediate future, to the evident relief of his hearers, who manifested no particular fondness for the administration in general, but only for the Secretary of ‘| State in particular. His statement of the Southern question was full, explicit and eminently just He asked the republican party to say that armed intervention in the South was no longer necessary. (Silence.) He promised the enforcement of the laws and the protec- tion of the weak. (Applause.) He chal- lenged any one to say that the ad- ministration had neglected its duty in these respects. (Great silence.) He asserted the necessity of using only constitutional methods in dealing with this question, and carefully explained the constitutional limitations, but here the audience clearly thought him tiresome ; so he turned to the question of civil service reform, the reduction of public officers to the number absolutely necessary to perform the duties, and the permanence of the civil service, which he declared necessary to the welfare and even the security of the country. Here, too, apparently, the audience was but very slightly interested, and, being an experi- enced orator, Mr. Evarts hastened over this subject and came to “hard money,” the mere suggestion of which, even, was re- ceived with great and prolonged applause. Being now plainly in fall accord with his hearers he went on switimingly, and, it is needless to say, made a brilliant and suc- cessful appeal for sound currency, which won cheers at every hit against fiat money and against the deluded democrats who are said to be seeking to plunge the country into rain. To a student of the political situation what Mr. Evarts said was, perhaps, less in- teresting—ably said as it of course was— than what his audience thonght; because it is not what Mr. Evarts thinks, but what the republican party de- sires ond is interested in that is of importance in a canvass where this party and its opponents ask for votes. It, then, the Cooper Institute assemblage is a fair index of the party’s wishes, we should say that it has but the slightest and most per- functory interest in the reformation of the civil service; that it thinks with disgust of the pacification of the country and regards the discussion of constitutional limitations as tiresome in the extreme; that it has a sharp and suspicious eye on the Southern democrats, whose blunders and violence it will not fail to make use of for “campaign” purposes, and that it has made up its mind that ‘hard money” is a safe issue to go to the country on. If the Hzraup were the confidential ad- viser of the democratic party we should counsel them to take notice of this attitude of their opponents, Their long and sad experience of wandering about in the dreary wilderness must have by this time convinced that part of the demo- cratic party which has brains that the republicans are not fools. The republi- can leaders have been vacillating in purpose in their duty toward the coun- try; they have either weakly or -per- versely kept open questions which for the good of the nation ought to have been closed; it is the fault of their ignorance and timidity that we are to-day engaged in a struggle over the currency and the national credit. But they have always shown a marvellously keen and correct knowledge of the drift of public sentiment, and have known how to take advantage of the blunders of their opponents, ‘Three months ago the republican party be- lieved itself doomed to defeat; to-day its shrowdest chiefs believe victory in their grasp; the best proof of which is that they } no longer talk of General Grant as their candidate in 1880. To a great extent the folly of the democrats in surrendering so generally to the inflation craze is the cause of this chamge; to which, however, must be added the recent brutal interference with the republican canvass in South Carolina, The republican leaders believe that in the | long run—that is to say, in the next two years—the people of the United States will oppose inflation and repudiation, and that they will insist upon equal liberty of speech and of political action for all men everywhere, We believe they are right, We believe that the majority of the Ameri- can people will always bitterly resent any interference with the equal political rights of all classes; and that while such gross abuses of the federal power as were the rule under General Grant may no longer be tolerated no party whose members attempt to pre- vent the other from the peaceable exercise of their political rights will be intrusted with the Presidency. It is very evident that the democratic party do not know how to manage the currency question, and they had better get that out of the way as quickly as they can, When we get back to specie payments, and when Sonthern democrats have sense enough w let their opponents nominate and elect knaves if they want to, then, and not before, the party may have a chance, on some new questions, to appeal success- fully to the country. To-Day und To-Merrow. To-day and to-morrow are the last two days of registration, and no citizen can vote unless his name is placed on the list, It is to be hoped that the number added to the registry during these two days will much more than double the total of the first two days, Even then there will be a compara- tively light registration and vote, consider- ing the importance of the election. Upon the harmony, efficiency and honesty of the municipal government depend the pros- perity of the city and the welfare of the people. We are just now at a turning point in our municipal affairs, Instead of constantly increasing debt and taxation we now, for the first time in the last eight years, have a decreasing debt and a serious and earnest effort to reduce taxation. We have also a chance, through a united and harmonious adminis- tration, to improve our streets and docks and to reap the full benefits of rapid transit. These assuredly ought to be interests of sufficient importance to call every voter to the polls, We cannot too strongly urge every legal voter to qualify himself by regis- tration to-day. Itis not safe to postpone the duty until to-morrow. It isto be hoped that the two days’ work will raise the num- ber registered to more than one hundred and seventy thousand. Patal Shipwrecks. The loss of the Baltimore steamer Ex- press and twenty lives on Tuesday night is a melancholy evidence that either the cap- tain disregarded the storm signals before leaving, or that no storm signals were dis- played until it was too late to profit by them. Our despatches state that the Ex- press left on Tuesday afternoon and ex- perienced the storm winds and heavy seas toward night, Being of light build and entirely too frail to withstand the forces of this exceptionally heavy tempest she went to pieces during her commander's vain attempt to hold her at an- chor. We are inclined to question the vigilance of the signal service in the matter of the warning expected to be issued on the approach of this dangerous storm. The midnight bulletin, issued from the chief signal officer's bureau at one A. M. on the 22d and published in all the morning papers of that date, gives the weather “4ndications” as follows:— . For the Middle States, warmer, clear weather, fol- erly winds, be- eser, For the Atlantic States, warmer, cloudy and. rainy falling winas ‘mostly Bortheasterly, aad 1: ter. . It further states :— Cautionary signals continue at Key West, Jackson- ville, Savannah, Tybee Is! barieston, Cape Look- out and Capo Hatteras, and are ordered ior Wil- mington. There isno mention made of an approach- ing dangerous storm or of signals being or- dered for Baltimore, Norfolk, Cape Henry or any of the places over which the storm commenced on Tuesday evening with re- markable fury. Indeed, we do not notice any mention of storm signals for Baltimore until the midnight bulletin of the 22d, issued at one A. M. on the 23d and pub- lished that morning, states that they “are ordered for New York, New Haven, New London, Newport, Wood's Hole, Boston and Section Six, Baltimore.” While this informa- tion was being distributed by the press the Express was going to pieces and the twenty lives were lost. If the loss of the Ex- press will serve as another warning to ship- masters to pay some attention to weather changes the dangers of navigation may be lessened; but we would urge on the Sig- nal Service Bureau the advisability of giv- ing earlierand more positive warnings to the coast and bay-navigators, even at the risk of reducing the percentage of verifi- cations, of which its officials are justly proud. The loss of the A. 8. Davis, with eighteen of her crew, lengthens the fatal list of the victims of the storm of the 23d— onethat will be long remembered on our coasts, Give the Boy a Chance. By this time the list of winter amuse- ments and sports is tolerably complete. There are many varieties of athletic diver- sion for men, and general amusements for the whole mass of adults; but what is of- fered for the boy, who constitutes about one-fourth of the entire population? There are homes and schools for most boys; but rest, food and study are not the only re- quirements of these children, from whom must graduate the men that the next gener- ation is to depend upon. In the rural dis- tricts the boy, left to himself there, as everywhere else, to discover his own diversions, can hardly fail of opportuni- ties to develop a healthful physique. But unfortunately for our country the population is centring more and more in cities. About ono in ten of all the boys in the Union are living in New York and the large cities immediately adjacent, and there are even more within the limits of Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and the other American cities whose population exceeds a hundred thousand. Tho wits of these mill- ions of boys are being forced to their ex- treme capacity, whether they are taught in the school, the shop or the street. But what is being done for their bodies? The answer may be obtained by standing at the door of almost any public or private school or academy at the hour of dismissal. The inquirer will see a crowd of undersized, listless, thin-faced chil- dren, with scarcely any promise of manhood about them, Most of them, if put to the test, would display more or less of the magnificent nerve which America has not yet exhausted, though no one deserves credit for having saved any of it; but un- supported nerve is a treacherous depen- dence, These boys, for their own sakes, for the reputation of their parents and the safety of the generations which will depend upon them for wisdom and work, demand and deserve opportunities for physical de- velopment, and as the schools will not sup- ply them and gymnasia are never arranged with a view to such patronage, it becomes an imperative duty of parents to take im- mediate stops to make good the deficiency. ee OT ae A eee ee eT ee ee ee ee ee General Pope as a Witness. Nothing was done yesterday by the Board of Inquiry in Fitz John Porter's case, and the meeting of the Board was adjourned over to next Monday. At the time of the last preceding adjournment it was expected that General Pope would appear as a wit- ness yesterday. Instead of his appearance a despatch from him was read declining to testify except on a subpoena, We think it is entirely proper for General Pope to .take this position, In the orig- inal trial and condemnation it is well known that General Pope was the real, though not the nominal, accuser of General Porter. He is a sort of party in interest, and is therefore quite ex- cusable for not wishing to appear as a vol- untary witness. He cannot be supposed to desire the reversal of a sentence which he was the principal agent in procuring. If he retains his strong original bias against General Porter his voluntary testimony on the side of the government might be attrib- uted to improper motives, and voluntary testimony in vindication of Porter would be a stretch of magnanimity which ought not to be expected of him under the circum- stances. General Pope's position as a voluntary witness would be anomalous and embarrass- ing. Not appearing as a witness for either side, there would be great confusion as to the rights of cross-examination. The party which summons a witness is precluded from discrediting his testimony by rigor- ous cross-questioning. If General Pope had consented to appear os a voluntary witness there would have been conflict and confusion between the rights which attend the examination in chief and the rights which belong to the cross-examination. He has evinced a very proper prudence and discretion in declining to put himself in so anomalous a position. He declares his per- fect willingness to appear on a subpoena, and this is all that either side has any right to expect of him. The state of the trial in respect to Gen- eral Pope’s testimony is odd and peculiar. It was the hope and expectation of General Porter's counsel that General Pope would be called as a witness on the part of the government, and there was nothing which they so much desired as an opportunity to cross-examine him. When this wish was thwarted by the failure of the government to summon him the counsel of General Porter expressed their desire that Gen- eral Pope should appear as a witness, The government so far yielded as to consent that a request should be sent to General Pope that he would come and testify, and the court was adjourned fora sufficient length of time to enable him to make the journey from Fort Leavenworth to New York. His refusal to appear asa voluntary witness necessitates another adjournment. .If the counsel of Porter ask that Pope be subpoenaed as a witness on their side the request will un- doubtedly be granted; but they do not want him as a witness whom they cannot cross-examine. They know well enough that his bias is against them and that their only means of bringing out the facts which they hope to prove by him is by subjecting him toa sharp cross-examination. It seems to us that the government is bound in fair- ness to subpoena General Pope as a witness for its own side, From his position at the time when the accusation was laid he should know more of the situation than any other witness, and his direct testimony would naturally be adverse to Porter. It is the simplest justice that Porter’s counsel should have an opportunity to cross-ex- amine him. The Board of Inquiry should have no other object than to do right, and itis the clear right of General Porter to have the testimony of the chief actor and directing mind at the time when the alleged offence was committed. It would not be in the interest of impartial justice for General Pope to be brought here in such a way as would protect him from cross-examination by Porter’s counsel. We trust, therefore, that the government will consent to sub- poona him as its own witness. By Common Consent. Itis a good while now since certain citi- zens of Tennessee pursued into the State of Kentucky a fugitive negro, and, pretending to return with him toward Tennessee, killed him on the way—on the Kentucky side of the line—in Whitley county. Apparently people there have no objection, and have ac- cepted the act as a good and honest one and are not disposed to bother themselves with whatin the prejudices of other sections of the State might be called justice. Ten- nesseeans who have indulged in homicide in Kentucky can only be forced to come into that State by requisition upon the Gover- nor of their own State, and the Governor of Kentucky, who must make the requisition, can only do it upon an indictment or an affidavit accusing the known culprits of the crime, But there has been no indictment, and nobody in Whitley county knows enough or cares enough about it to make the affidavit or has courage enough to tace the prejudices of the neighborhood byan act that might become the basis of proceed- ings against white men who havo killed a man who was not quite white. Mr. Camp + Campbell, It must be remembered by the reader that the first named gentleman is the Com- missioner of Public Works, and that the second of the name was, until yesterday, the Chief Engineer of the department. On the shoulders of the first rests the responsi- bility for ail the work undertaken by and for the city, the duties of the engineer being advisory and executive within certain limits. Now, owing to the several ‘‘accidents” that have occurred at the Forty-second street ‘‘arch,” public indignation began to be directed toward the Department ot Pub- lic Works and its officials, and criticisms, more or less justly severe, grew unpleas- antly frequent in the press. In a storm of this kind the first thing a shrewd official does is to cast about for a Jonah until a suitable one is found, The second move is to cast him overboard as an offering to the spirits of the tem- pest. Shrewd officials never volun- teer to be Jonohs under any circum- stances, because it is their solemn duty to pilot the shiv to port, and besides it is E SHEET. always better to get some one else to offer the grim sacrifice of official life whenever the whole party, and particularly the captain, is threatened with destruction. As the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works Mr. Campbell suggested and made plans and was general super- intendent of their execution, But as it was manifestly impossible for him to be in more than one place at a ‘time inspectors were appointed to repre- sent him and see that the work was well done. Mr, Campbell, the Chief, Engincer, claims that he had not theselection of these deputies, as he should have had, and that when he reported them for neglect of duty to Mr. Campbell, the Commis- sioner, he, the engineer, had performed his duty and exhausted his authority. It would seem from his statement that in- spectorships are among the choice morsels of patronage distributed by the Commis- sioner of Public Works, and that the dis- tribution is not always governed so much by the actual demands of the public service as by obligations of a personal or political nature, However this may be, Mr. Camp- bell, the engineer, had a plain duty to perform to his employers, the citizens of New York, which was superior in every sense to that imposed by his position as a subordinate to Mr. Campbell, the Com- missioner. If he has failed in the higher duty he cannot look for sympathy to the people whose interests he has neglected in the hour when he is made the Jonah of the Department of Public Works. If, on the other hand, the records show that his pro- tests against the mismanagement of any branch of the public service have been emphatit and frequent, his vindication is assured, Church Steeples. Nearly seven hundred feet of church steeple was blown down in Philadelphia on Wednesday, and about the same quantity was so badly shaken by the wind that its fall is regarded as imminent. All that which actually came down was the portion of steeple allotted to five churches, and the portion likely to continue this heavy visita- tion on the houses and streets is reported as the possession of ‘‘several” others. df at around dozen points in any city stone, bricks, mortar, slates and timber shall be- gin to tumble on the pavement or through the roofs of neighboring houses by the ton the people might be excused for inquiring what advantage civilization derives from the church steeple as an equivalent for this inconvenience. Asa picturesque feature of city architecture and as an _ insti- tution intimately associated with in- finite pleasant memories and fancies the church stéeple is firmly established in popular good will and not to be ensily done away with; but in cities it really has no use, save as it isa thing of beauty or a picturesque element in the ensemble of city sights; and, alas! it is very seldom either. Oftener for it isa horror tothe eye only less atrocious than its bell tothe ear. In either city or country it is practically obsos lete as the bearer of ‘‘beils that toll for church,” for in an age of dollar clocks its bell is'a useless monitor. But if congrega- tions with prejudices in favor of steeples must have them at least city authorities should require in the interest of public safety that they should be so constructed as not to be suddenly converted into enormous arsenals of projectiles. As actually made the most of them are very flimsy structures, They should be built so that only earth- quakes could shake them, and their height should be limited with regard to the prox- imity of inhabited houses, “Be Sure to Barn “This.” How many millions of letters have had these words somewhere in them? How many receivers of the letters ever obeyed the injunction? ‘The sentiment is not always expressed in the same words. An affectionate missive found in a, suicide’s chamber in Brooklyn a day or two ago con- tained the passage, ‘‘Please do not let these letters lie where any one will come across them.” In another the writer merely said, “Please destroy this,” But the meaning in all cases is}the same. The writer always admits that he has written something which he desires to keep from all eyes but those of the person addressed. But with what unanimity the receivers of such letters fail to act according to request! They are ‘kept just for an hour or a day, so that they may be read again, or shown to some particular friend who is sworn to secrecy, or be answered according to the remainder of their contents, and one reprieve leads to another, until at last they go into the great mass of epistolary corre- spondence which sooner or later is brought to light, and always at a time when the writer longs for the darkness of Egypt to engulf the lot and himself with them. Every one writes silly letters sometimes. The editors of the correspondence of the greatest men find a great many notes that should have been burned, or, better still, have remained unwritten, and frequently these contain the cautionary clause, ‘Be sure to burn this;” but they still live. In consid- eration of all the mischief that silly and wicked letters have caused, in spite of warning and beseeching clauses, why not change the method of caution a little and have the writer burn his letters instead of forward them? The Benevolences of the Poor. Wher tho reports of benevolent associn- tions are published, or when some special neod of individual or neighborhood awakens the sympathies and unlocks the pockets of the rich, does any one ever think of the benevolonces of the poor? The Hrenarp of yesterday contained o pitiful story of a poor woman who, with her child, was dying of hunger. At how many doors of well-to-do families she begged without result it would be hard to say, but when finally she found a resting place it was with a woman as poor as herself, in the basement of a wretched tenement house. Hercase was only one of thousands, ‘he charities of the poor are bestowed in small quantities— abit of bread here, a hardly-spared gar- ment there, a handful of wood ora scuttle ot coal, but in number they are literally countless, and in value they exceed all the gratuities of all the rich. Tho poor man knows, by occasional experience, what the miseries of destitution are, and no appeal is necessary to rouse him but that which is read in the face and garb of his distressed neighbor. Like the poor widow who cast her mite into the treasury, he cannot give at all without giving everything he has, neverthless he gives so freely, cheerfully and bravely that the greatest generosity of the rich seems almost contemptible by com- parison. The Soctalistic Bullet. It was Inst conspicuously heard of in Berlin, and it suddenly whistles through @ pane of glassin a little New Jersey city. From an attempt to kill the Kaiser in his German capital toan attempt to killa poor devil of ajuryman in the Paterson Court House may seem a great @escent in the dig- nity of assassination, but the variation ex- hibits instinctively that no murder which promises profit to the socialist is beneath his notice. Paterson is a city oddly made up as to its people. Ithasa large popue lation of workers in factories, many of them of French, German and English birth— a turbulent and uneasy element, in which all the wild theories find a fertile soil ; and it is otherwise peopled with the ‘average Jerseyman whose intentions are good— who respects the law and likes to see it enforced, Jerseymen have always been recognized as having a very decided will in that direction, and the other part of the Paterson population, under the influence of the socialist impulse to nullify all laws which they dislike, find themselves, there. fore, in rather queer company. It is evident that an odd conflict is in preparation over there, for the attempt to impose the social- istic tyranny untler peril of assassination will not strike Jerseymen as a good joke. A Ray of Hope. The admirable remarks of the Rev. Mr. Robertson, of Glasgow, spoken atthe meete ing of the shareholders of the broken bank, a day or two since, ought tu produce a great effect on the community which in¢ludes the chief sufferers from what he justly called “g crushing calamity.” It was not Mr. Robertson’s main purpose to denounce the faithless directors (although he did not spare them), but to inspire the shareholders with fortitude and manliness under their great calamity. ‘We are called: upon,” he said, “to face a great calamity, and must quit our- selves like brave, courageous and honor. able men.” Hoe does not countenance any desire on the part of the shareholders to evade their legal responsibilities, hard and oppressivé as the burden is. Although wretchedness and beggary stare a great part of them in the face this wise Christian teacher exhorts them “bravely and faithe fully to struggle through, and emerge with honor untouched and reputation un. shaken.” The truest manhood is evinced in a proper bearing under great calamities, Mr.. Robertson’s characterization of the directors was not wanting in righteous severity. ‘These gentlemen,” said he, “have been faithless to high office, disloyal to truth and the first principles of morality, What deepens the discredit is that they trod the streets of the city arrayed in the garments of religion, making long prayers while desolating widows’ houses, erecting churches while wrecking homes.” This clergyman only did his duty in holding up such conduct to the indignation and moral disgust of the community. Mr. Robertson did something better than mere expression of his sentiments. He proposed a practical plan for alleviating the calamity by making the most of the assets— a plan so wise and reasonable that, so far as we can judge at this distance, it ought to be adopted. But whether it is adopted or not’ this faithiul minister of the Gospel deserves universal praise for exhorting the victimized shareholders to bear up under their great disaster like men of un- flinching courage and true honor. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Secretray Evarts is at the Brevoort House, Lord A. Gordon Lennox, of England, 1s at the Hote Brunswick. General Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, is at the Fins Avenue Hotel. Mr. Theodore D. Woolsey; of Now Haven, is atthe Everett House, Locomotives on grass-grown bankrupt railrosds do the most tooting. Postmaster General Key and party leit St, Louis last night for Washington, The frost at Memphis ts attributed to that Boston int with Charles Francis Adams, The ith of Drs, G Sberman is so greatly improved that she will soon revisit Washington, Ireiand furnishes her people with two articles of warmtb— Irish stews and Irish treizo, and occasionally afew brotls, Some one wishes to know who is the hero of the story ‘‘A Faco illuminated.” We don’t know whether it is Jack O’ Lantern or Zack Chandier, Boffalo Express:—‘Wanted—Some old-fasnioned honesty,’’ says the New York Heratp. Wecallapon A negro hundred po Louisiana to Oregon. tion. AJersey groenbacker says things are so strange that the timo will come when the bad place will freese over, Yes; but suppose Mr. Adams should ge te on? with vory large mustaches make good politi- re skiifal men in polities who jate Messrs, Thiers and Til. He has reached his destinne a to know that North Care. Hna’s gift to civilization this your 1s 90,000 basneia of peanuts, These bivaives will do more for dyspepsia ‘ban ail the quack doctors. Buffalo Express:—“Tho New Yore Henarp thinks the trouble with Tilden 1a trying to get Into the Pros dency was that he wasn’t an Obio man; and our appy fellow citizons! that Hayes Soatn, bat yel Obio River. Tne: 80 many Southnorn tramps that they will receive a good many “nand-outs” from farmers, Professor James ©. Watsoa, of Ann Arbor, Micb., bas accepted the proposition of the Regents of ine Wisconsin University and will take charge of the of astronomy immediately. Professor Watso ty also been elocted a director of the Washburn Obsorva. tory, which will be one of tho tories in the cou: London Truth “Thero aro no such gamblers a8 Poles and Russians, They will piny until one side or other is thoroughly defeated. ‘Tho story wi me the other day of a Prince Gagarin, who lostin @ single night hie estate, horses, money, jewels, amd, indeed, everything ho possessed, including the oat. riage and horses which were awaiting him at the As be was about he remembered that nad, going bar. re ing, did mos comm ,