The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1878, Page 6

. 6 NEW YORK ITERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. mut DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, ‘Tiree conts per copy Sundays excluded). Ten dollars per ear, or at a rate of one dollar per period jews than six months, or five dollara , Sanday edition included, free of postage. WEEKLY HERALD—Oue do axe. jOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. York or Post Office money orders, and where neither of these enn be procured send the money in avegisterad letter. All remitted at risk of sender. In order to insure atten- ivers wishing their addres changed must give well as thelr new address, jetters or telegraphic despatches must ORK HERALD, ages should be properly sealed. s will not be returned. jonth for a six month per year, free of post- emit in drafts on New ‘Letters and p Rejected ecm tete —o OBRRADEL Puts OFFICE. NO. M2 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON POERICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— PNUE DE L/OPERA. NO. 7 STRADA PACE. cna LO NEW YORK AQvani PARK THEATR! BROADWAY THEATRE. LYCEUM THEATRE—Jos BOWERY THEATRE—Wowan ov tax Prorux * WALLACK’S THEATRE—Tie Rivats. ST. JAMES THEATRE GEEMANIA THEATRI ‘WINDSOR THEATRE THEATRE COMIQUE— ABERLE'S AMERIC. HiVOLI THBATRE—V BGYPMAN HALL—V. SAN FRANCI6CO MINST: = NEW YORK, "FRIDAY, "NOVEMBER b, The probabilities are that the heer in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and fair, Sollowed by gradually rising temperature. To- morrow it promises to be slightly warmer and fair or partly cloudy. Watt Srr ket was active and strong. Gold was quiet all day at 1001g. Government bonds were higher, States quiet and railroads strong. Money on eall was eusy at bide 4 per cent. OxpeR Acaix Resons on the Island of St. Croix. Jaray has made short work with her military mutiveers. Fifty-three of them were shui to death last month. Sasriaco, in Chili, is bravely sustaining the reputation of the South American countries in the revolution business. Murrur’s Nooxpay Tr are reported to be succeeding adinirably. not try a midnight gathering ¢ Ir Wii'Be Seen from our despatches that the Stewart grave desecrators have opened a branch establishment in Zanesvi CUNNING RANCE MEETINGS Why Freperick Leicuron, the new 7 president of the Royal Academy, is, it will be seen by the sketch in another column, well qualified tor the position. Tue Lance ATTENDANCE capitalists and the spirited competition at the real estate sale yosterday are encouraging signs of the times. Tux Decision of the federal ‘Supreme Court in the Utah polygamous cases, the first of which ‘was argued yesterday; will be awaited with in- terest. Tue Prower Detection of the young forger who attempted to operate in the Custom House speaks well for the business efficiency of that establishinent. As THe New System of heating the street cars does not cost more than two cents a car per day it ia not improbable that the Third Avenue Com- pany will-adopt it. Commopore GaArrr enjoys the distinction of baving o three million dollar suit against him. If the Commodore is not happy it is very certain bis lawyers are. The Art Recerrions of the Union League Club open well this season. ‘The attendance at the first one last evening was large, the pictures Bumerous, and, as a rulg, good. RETRENCHEST anp Revorm are the wateb- words ia Onba. The decree annonnejng a re- duction-im taxation will be welcome news to the American owuers of sugar plantations. Crews ayp Turoxtes in regard to the Stew- art remains,are as numerous as the autumn leaves, but no one yet seems to have hit upon the right one. The rumor that the body had been found in Shemong, N. J., is denied. Ix 4 Communication in another column the fost driving question on the upper boulevards is presented in a proper and sensible light. The owuers of fast horses have, after all, some rights Ubut onght to be respected. Nexr Evacuation Day the national, State aud city colors will be raised for the first time on the new Seventh regiment armory. . It is to be hoped the funds required to tinish the build- ing will have been rian by that time. AN Sibi iSacteiele bearing upon the Jaw of sending and returning foreign cormmis- #ions will be found in our court reports. To be effective they must in all respects be in com- pliance with the statute, even to the address. The Wratarr.—The area of low barometer has now passed entirely into the ocean at Nova Beotia, and the pressure has risen very rapidly In all the districts east of the Mississippi River, except over the eastern Gulf, where it has Fallen. slowly eastward the depressior! that lies over the ‘West and Southwest begins to affect the weather in all the districts from Manitoba to the Gulf, nd will very probably extend its influence into Bhe central valley districts and jake regions Waring to-day. Very little rain has fallen during Rhe past twenty-four bours, but there are indi- gations of an advancing rain area from the Bouthwest. The winds have been generally fresh on the Atlantic coast, irom fresh to brisk wver the lakes and Northwest and light else- fwhere. The temperature has risen decidedly in the West and Southwest; claewhere it has fallen. Strong northerly winds prevail ovet the | ee Islands and the pressure is rising slowly. weather in New York and its vicinity tor de will be cold and fair, followed by Wradoally rising temperature. To-morrow it | sereuaad be slightly warmer and fair or partly NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. Failure of the Berlin Treaty. Earl Beaconsfield’s latest utterance could not possibly be adapted to any music in either “La Grande Duchesse” or ‘‘La Belle Héléne.” -Neither the fine diplomatic mo- tives of the first, nor the profound political themes of the second, are a®all in the vein of the explanatory, deprecatory-—almost | solemn—after dinner delivery in which the | public are informed how the great Earl |, views the latest complications of the East- ern trouble. How completely changed is the style of the Premier, therefore, the world can understand. As the piece has been sketched for us by eable it seems to be without even an epigram. Not once is the foot of oratory thrown into the air in the exuberant spirit of cancan politics. From one end to the other of the speech, as reported, though there are several sentences adroitly framed to de- ceive, there is absolutely not one ridicu- lous guisconception of the relations of Eng- land to Russia and Turkey, and such things in a speech of this nature, from the man who was Disraeli, beeome very con- er Yesterpay.—The stock may- | As the area of high pressure moves | spicuous by their absence—when they are absent. But he was, perhaps, not oracular merely to be dull, though he was reason- ably dull. His speech is rather to be as- similated toa royal speech, which is care- fully studied not so much with regard to what is to be said as with regard to what must not be said. Apparently it did not suit the policy of the moment that the Premier should say a great deal about the complications that are preparing in the neighborhood of Constan- tinople to trouble the relations between England and Russia, which it was supposed had been so magnificently straightened out ‘ot Berlin that they could never possibly be- come tortuous again, and so the Premier gaye the leading place in his speech to the trouble on the Indian frontier, an order which muy safely be reversed by whoever cares to consider as most important that which is likely to have.the most immedi- ately notable consequences. a. Earl Beaconsfield ‘thought it .quite im- possible for any signatory to attempt. to withdraw from itsengagements” made under the Berlin Treaty; assured his hearers that “the determination of Her Mujesty’s govern- ment is that the Treaty of Berlin shall be carried out in spirit and to the letter,” and that the government ‘‘would, if necessary, appeal with confidence to the people to,sup- port them in* maintaining the treaty with all their energy and resources.” It is an- nounced that this fine fancy was received with repeated cheers, a tribute which was given, perhaps, under the impression that it involved a warlike threat ad- dressed to the Russians. But inasmuch as the Czar of Russia has just promised, ‘‘in explicit terms, a faithful and complete execution of the Treaty of Ber- lin,” it would seem scarcely necessary to threaten him prematurely with the wrath of the LondoggAldermen. Why, then, this lofty language @ Merely that it is thought necessary to throw dustin the eyes of the British public on the subject of the effect -of the Berlin Treaty ; for the simple truth is, as the British Ministry now discovers to its chagrin and dismay, that treaty may be fulfilled to its last and littlest detail, and yet not secure to England those objects whioh Beaconsfield declared were finally secured when that treaty was made. One of the most important of these ob- jects is the withdrawal of the Russian armies from Tarkish soil. Without the vio- lation of a line of the treaty Russia may keep her armies indefinitely at Adrianople. England never meant that, it is clear; but Ear! Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury, with a blundering incapacity for diplomacy almost without parallel, have, by open treaties and secret engagements, committed her to such a position, and they are simply endeavoring to cover this fact with solemn bravado—to hide it from the public by dis- cussions of the enforcement of the Treaty of Berlin, with the intention to declare one of these days, if Russia keeps her troops in Turkey next year, that she has violated the treaty. It should be remem- bered that the relations of Russia and England in Turkey have been re- cently defined by three instruments—the Treaty of San Stefano, called the prelimi- nary articles of peace; the Anglo-Russian agreement made by Count Schouvaloff and Lord Salisbury, and the Treaty of Berlin. England was a party to the making of two of these; butby declarations made in one of the two she became an assenting party to certain provisions of the third. England’s consent to*certuin parts of the San Stefano Treaty was given in the April memorandum in these words:—‘Her Majesty's govern- ment engage notto dispute the articles of the preliminary Treaty of San Stetano which are not modified by the ten preceding points, if atter the articles have been duly | discussed in Congress Russia persists in maintaining them.” By this, therefore, England agreed not to dispute the arrangement Russia might make with the Sultan in regard to war in- ' demnity, and not to dispute the time agreed upon for the withdrawal of tlfe Russian troops from Turkish territory ; and, tarther- more, recognized that the provisions of the San Stefano Treaty not repealed between Russia and England would remain valid, whatever was done at Berlin ; that proceed- ings at Berlin might revise that treaty, but swould not repeal it. Now, of the two points | thas resérved for settlement between the Czar and the Sultan one was not touched at allin the Berlin Treaty ; the other was touched in a way to leave it eventually to the terms of the San Stefano preliminagies, It was declared at Berlin at what period the Russian troops must be withdrawn from Bulgaria and from Eastern Ronmelia; but there are other parts of European Tuykey than these, and as to those other parts no time for evacuation was named. As Bulga- tia was to be independent of the Sultan and Eastern Roumelia partially independent, no skill was spared on the part of the Otto- mans to widen as much as might be the limits of the territory thet was to be left | subject completely to the Porte ; and in the territory so widened the Russian troops | may remain, for afty treaty to the contrary, until it shall suit the Snitan to agree on “definitive” articles of pence, to take the place of those “preliminary” articles made at San Stefano. In fact, by those articles the Bussian troops are to withdraw in three months after the “definite conclusion. of peace.” By this phrase the Russiars clearly understand the making of that definitive treaty as to which the Sultan’s Ministers have been so slow. Adrianople is within the territory which the Russians thus have the right to occupy—and which they probably will oc- Pcupy—until the Sultan pays this war in- demnity or gives them guarantees with re- gard to it. Lord Beaconsfield appearsto have spoken as indefinitely of the trouble with the Ameer of Cabnl—the other great blun- der of the time—as of the failure to stip- ulate for a wijhdrawal of the Russians from Turkish territory. He said that ‘‘the rectification of the northwestern frontier of prosperity;” but if Mr. Layard succeeds in his efforts ‘to embroil England with Rus- sia in Europe the Ameer is likely to take such acflon.as may rectify that frontier on the wrong side the line, The Campbells on the Water. The farewell of the Marquis of Lorne to old England, as described in our cable de- spatcHes, was something which will doubt- ‘less fix itself pleasantly in his memory. The presence of so many members of the royal family gave an éclat to the event which was excuse enough for the citizens of Liverpool to give their kindly demonstration vast dimensions, But, inasmuch as one of those children of QueenVictoria was his wife, the young Marquis will be right in appro- priating a fair share of the popular mani- festation to his own individuality. Gov- ernor General of Canada as well as heir to the dukedom of Argyll, he departs from the shores of England with the best wishes of its people for his future, immediate and re- mote. By the vast mass of the people he is regarded with friendly ° eyes, for they do not share \in® the remotest degree the jealousies of some of his own caste over his selection of a bride from among the Queen’s daughters. Beeause of that selec- tion they will take a friendly interest in all that he undertakes or accomplishes in his* new sphere. As the Sarmatian steamed down the Mersey and out upon the sea his new life, with all its glorious op portunities, opened before him. Hemmed in by his pe- culiar position while he stayed in England there was little that he could achieve. Now his achievements need only be limited by his abilities. ry Body Snatching. One of the reasons given by the police for the want of especial attention to city grave- yards is that ‘body snatching has gone out of fashion ;” which, in the rough, is true for this neighborhood, since the theft of a body like that of Mr. Stewart is apart from the ordinary offence of that name and its niotives differ widely from the ordinfry temptation held out for the supply of ana- tomical material. But there is plenty of recent evidence that the police do not per- mit themselves to possess any knowledge“ of facts outsiile of their respective precincts if they donot know that at this present time ‘‘body snatching” is not out of fashion, but in many places not far away is an oc- cupation pursued with energy and success. It has not gone out of fashion—it has only | gone West; for did not a policeman at Zanesville, Ohio, yesterday capture a wagon containing the bodies of ‘four prominent citizens who have been buried since Mon- day?” Perhaps there are wagons like that on all the roads in Ohio; for since the Presidenticonctuded the appointments he made just after he went into office we haven’t had a word of news about the people of Ohio except in respect to the persistency with which ‘rascals dig them up ond sell them to the doctors. But it is not only in Ohio. that this ancient industry is main- tained in full vigor, if we may accept as facts the things sworn to in arecent murder trial in Connecticut, where not only body snatching was shown to exist, but the more dreadful institution of Burking. ‘There are two remedies, one of which must be pur- sued by all communities that wish to pre- serve decorum in their graveyards—crema- boys must “be sent to study anatomy in great cities, where legal provision is made for the supply of material. Quarrels of the Temperance Apostles. Unions and associations formed to pror of individuals directed toward the same object are all commendable and deserve en- couragement. But the first duty of mission- aries who preach temperance to others is to practise temperance in all things them- selves. When the apostles of the good cause indulge in abuse of each other and conduct themselves in a manner better suited to a barroom than to a meeting of Christian phi- lanthropists they inflict more injury on the temperance movement than it could ever receive at the hands of its enemies, It matters little which side may be in the right or which in the wrong in the quarrel that has arisen between Mr. Mundy and his backers and Mr. Shaffer and his friends. ‘The former publicly charge a prother with violating his pledge of ab- stinence and using profane language ina church, and insinuate thatthe popular tem perance revivalist, Mr. Murphy, requires to be advertised, like Mr. Booth or any other star actor, and te be well paid for his ser- vices before he will enlist ina campaign. | There is much malice in this insinuation, for Mr. Murphy seems to be doing good service in reforming intemperate people by his pathetic appeals, and the idea that the tears he sheds and the earnestness he displays are paid for after the fashion ofa star actor's impersonations is not likely to increase his usefulness in the missionary line. The best advice any one can offer to the quarrelsome and ap- parently jealous members of the Temper- ance Union is to retire from the association, even if they go into the liquor business. hey certainly could inflict no greater in- jury on the temperance cause than they do by remaining in the Union, slandering ite members, discrediting the sincerity of ita apostles and, in the expressive words of one of their associates, ‘furnishing nuts for the liquor sellers to crack.” India would imerease England’s power and-| tion.zanst be adopted in place of burial, or | mote the causeof temperance and the efforts | Lord Salisbury Retracts. In his despatck of November 7,to Mr. Welsh Lord Salisbury remarks that he did not intend to be understood in a previous despatch gs having. “even by inference” justified the Newfoundland fishermen in their attack upon our people, or that an act of a colonial legislature could be held to in- validate a treaty provision or abrogate treaty rights, This is the vfew we took it for granted he would take whenever the question was brought plainly before him. ““Hér Majesty’s government will readily ad- mit,” he writes, “what is indeed self-svi- dent, that British sovereignty as regards these matters is limited in its scope by the engagements of the Treaty of Washington, which cannot be modified or affected by any municipal legislation.” That is all right, and ends the contro- | versy as everybody knew it would end. Now. Mr. Evarts will’ pay over his five and a half millions “like a gentleman,” as Lord Dufferin neatly put it, and Lord Salie- bury will consider the claims of our fisher- men for damages suffered by Me lawless violence of the Newfoundland men. Theso claims.amount to over one hundred thou- sand dollars, and we have no doubt they will be paid when they are proved. As the frontiersman said, when a threatening dis- pute had been amicably adjusted by mutual apologies, ‘“There's no fight, boys; you can all go home,” It grieves us, however, to see in the Mon- treal Afuil o view of the fishery award which, we trust, is not that of our Canadian neighbors generally. “It is not often,” says the Mail, ‘that the Yaukee nation is ‘stuck’ in an arbitration or on a treaty, for its representatives are not only a cute but an unscrupulous generation, who think it a patriotic duty to overreach, evap by means of bogus inaps, old fogy statesmen of Europe, who have certain scruples against resorting to that sort of diplomacy. But they are fairly ‘let in’ this time, and if they have any desire to stand well with foreign na- tions they will pay up on the 24th and show ‘the world that public morality and national honor are not wholly extinct among them.” Itis evidently fortunate that the British, and not the Canadians, are toreceive the five and .a half millions; for itis de- sirable on all grounds, not only that we shall ‘‘pay like a gentleman,” but that the other side shall receive our moncy “like a gentleman,” and not like a man who is 1e- joicing openly at having successfully per- petrated a swindle. General Sherman on the Indians. The Indians fight, says General Sher- man, because they would rather fight than starve, They go on. the warpath because the government, which has made them pau- pers, does not give them enough to eat. He is right. Captain Jack, df the Modocs, said he broke out because he was ‘‘tired of eat- ing horse ;” which meant simply thatthe government agents, who were supposed to supply beef to the Modocs, found it more profitable to feed them with the nieat of old horses. In this way it is ‘‘no great trick,” as they sny. out West, to get up an Indian war. It would be easy to create a revolt in almost any poorhouse on the same terms. Starve the paupers and they will fight, especially if they have had notice beforehand and havo | been allowed to buy ‘arms of precision” and accumulate ponies for -a .cam- paign. General Sherman remarks — that the white people have use for ail the land, and that there is less and less room for the Indians every year, which is also true. A nomadic tribe living by hunting requires, as has been calculated, about two thousand six hundred acres for each man, womanand child to.yield them a comfortable support; and at this rate it is not wonderfal that the advance of the settlements presses on the means of subsistence of the Indians. The Indians are increasing in numbers, says Colonel Mallery; and they must be more skilfully handled, says General Sher- man. But so long as they are forcibly ag- gregated into tribes by the federal power, and treated not as individuals, but as com- munities or nations, so long they will be abused, and when they can no longer bear the abuse will fight. It may be good be- ginning to get a wild tribe on a reservation; they are there the policy should look to getting them off it again. As an individual the Indian is: harmless and will presently become useful; but the reservation system makes it the interest of a great number of greedy and unscrupulous men to prevent him from becoming an indi- vidual. We agre@with much that General Sherman says, but the true policy with the Indians requires that they shall be made individtally self-sustaining as rapidl} as possible and that every effort should be made to get them off the reservations and open for them ways for each man or family to earn an individual livelihood. Instead ofthat the present system has been shame- fully misused to compel numbers of In- dians, already peaceably living by useful toil, to abandon the homes they had made and be cooped up on reservations, That is | the grave and fatal fault of the reservation system, Moving Up. The removal of the wholesale department of Stewart's dry goods establishment to the Tenth street store directs attention to the up town movement of business in Now York. It is known that Judge Hilton has for some time been contemplating the open- ing of an extensive retail store above Thirty- fourth street, and it is probable that the change now made in the location of the wholesale branch of the business will, before long, be followed by the realization of this project. Our retail trade has. for some time been "pressing steadily northward, and many of our best stores are already to be seen where a few years ago only private residences were to be found, The move- ment will be accelerated by the completion of the rapid transit roads, which will natt- rally make the picturesque territory of the new wards and Westchester county the site of our handsamest and most costly dwell- ings, and will besides draw the great bulk of the middling classes of the population along and above the line of the Central’ Park, In a few more years there will, no | but it is only a beginning, and as soon as | doubt, be a marked change in the features of the city. The residences and the retail stores will adorn the upper parts of the island; a middle space will be reserved for whole- sale houses, while {rom Chambers street down we shall have vastly improved streets and buildings, thronged with shipping houses, banks, izisurance offices, the “‘inns of court,” the never changing Wall street and the ever living and ever busy boards of |, commerce, produce and stocks, Old cities always have thege distinctive localities which come upon them gradually with time, and New York will be mo exception to the rule, although her two river’ fronts will probably prevent the lines from being so rigidly drawn in her case as they are in London and some other cities, Mr. Talmage's “Facts.” It was to be hoped that when the Rev, Mr. Talmage left off reciting the immoral things he had seen in his midnight trip through New York and turned to give the, world his views upon New York’s pauperism we should have heard something of value even if a little luridly colored. It has been sus- pécted that this holy man on his run through the haunts of vice and misery was “guyed” by his guides, that, in fact, they took a profane delight in giving him ifformation of a kind not authentic. A correspondent, with scarcely pardonable anxiety for the good fame of this city, writes to us respecting Mr. Talmage’s statement that one hundred and seventy thousand familics in New York sleep fourteen in a room on the bare floor or a heap of straw. Our correspondent thinks this is untrue, It is, That makes no difference to Mr. Talmage. In 1875 there were in all two hun- dred and thirteen thousand four hundred and sixty-seven families in New York ; there are « few more in 1878, in spite of the hard times. That two out of every three fantilies in th.a city live in such squalor ought to be difficult even tor Mr, ‘Talmage to swallow, although his great capacity has been long unquestioned. ‘That three persons out of every ten in New York live on charity will probably strike somebody else as doubtful, but we beg of him not to write to us on the subject. It should be distinctly under- stood that we do not propose to contfadict all the inaccuracies of Mr. Talmage; it is bad enough to print them.’ He probably serves some purpose in the plan of an inscrutable Providence. ‘When he preaches on pauperism his tacts may be as contorted as his waving limbs ;- his remedies may be as puerile as a police- man’s “theories,” bat He at least does not draw such pictures as are likely to stimu- late a desire on the part of the young mem- bers to try a little poverty on their own account. We could not say this when hé was handling some other features of his journey in New York. Murder in the Streets, The latest murder is flagrant and horri- ble enough ; but as ghe criminal was taken almost in the act,"the case is without the element of mystery and will not retain a hold on public atteation to displace inter- est in the outrage on the Stewart grave. Perhaps, however, it will attract some atten- tion, not in vain, tothe queer world of street wanderers of which the victim and the murderer were a part. Vagrants from all parts ofithe world seem to make up the mass of that lower life, with a preponder- ance of numbers in* favor of Chinese first, and Spaghlo’s countrymen or Levantines next, In that world there are many quarrels, and they are short, sharp and decisive—for a keen pointed “knife is tobe found under eyery jacket—not less under the jacket of the childlike and bland John Chinam’n than under that of the fierce and revengeful mongrel Italians like Spagnlo. Drake was apparently a ily { and a violent fellow—a sort of ‘‘boss” ii the world of pedlers — —as may be ‘echoed from his administering knock-down blows asa discipline to those who refused to sub- seribe for the benevolent purpose of burying his acquaintance. As between him and the assassin he seems to have been an aggres- | sor, for the encounter which ended fatally was clearly only a continuation of the vio- lent one of the day before ; but it is doubt- ful whether in this relation there is any clement likely to make the crime less than | that of deliberate murder. New Men in the Next Congress. Of the 148 democrats elected to the Forty- sixth Congress 53 are new men. Of the 133 republicans elected 54 are new meb. ‘This excludes men who Lave served in, previous Congresses, such as General Ha: vley in Con- necticut. ‘Lhe eight greenbackers are all new wen, and the Forty-sixth Congress will have therefore 115 new members out of a total of 293. Twenty-one of the 53 new democrajs are from Northern States. It follows that the greater part of the Forty-sixth Congress will be composed of experienced members, Some States, like Mississippi and West Virginia, have re- elected the whole of their present dele- gations ; others, like Massachusetts, South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana, have changed but one or two, New York will send 18 inexperienced legislators, Pennsyl- yania’ 10, Ohio 8, Missouri 9 and Illinois 7. A State which keeps one delegation in Congress fora number of years inevitably gains largely in influence in the national council, even if its representatives are not conspicuously able men, and a political party which keeps its men in Congress for a term of years can make itself felt, even if it is in the minority in the House. It takes a new member almost the whole of his term to learn the ways of the House, and it is scarcely ever before his second term that he isable to make his influence felt over ‘the body, though there have been some notable exceptions to this rule, for conspie- uous ability tells in the House even against its traditions and rales, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE: Baby, Minister « of “Inland Revenue, was to-day re-elected at Montreal by acclamation, ‘The November Ninefeeath Century will contain o paper on “Electoral Fact,” by Mr. Gladstone, and articles by Professor Ituakin, Professor Tyndall and others, When the publisher of Bentley's Miscellany said to Jerrold, “I had some doubts about the name I should dive the magazine; 1 thought at one time of calling it Hon. G. The Wits’ Miscellany.” “Well,” waa the rejoinder, “but you needn't have gone to the other extremity.” Willjam H. Boote, a mining capitalist, ‘formerly of the United States Navy, was married on Wednesday night at Trinity Church, San Frangisco, to Kate RB, ‘Trowbridge, of Detriot, Mich.,in the presenee of a brilliant assemblage. A reception followed at the Palace Hotel, ik ‘The Atheneum says that although the Dean of West-_ minster has been well received in America, his claims to distinction have not been sliogether understood, aud states that he received an offer of 4 considerable sum of money if he would give @ lecture on hig African exploration in 8 Western city! \ In London there are for sale in shop windows many photographs of pretty ladies. Recently a beautiful young Philadelphia girl discovered in a London win flow her own portrait annexed to an almost undraped figure and labelled pa.”’ After considerable trouble her father had all photographs of the kind de- ' stroyed, except those that had been sold, No imprint was on the pictures, and the process of joining the head to the demi-nude figure ia called “cooking.” The Washington Capital, speaking of very young girls who marry very wealthy and very old men, says:—‘She feels that her youth, innocence and beauty have commanded a price counted up in the frivolous things of this Ife, and to the enjoyment of these she gives herself without restraint. “She was purchased for a price that she has paid, and then feels that she is at liberty to get from a low sort ot ~ life all that can be had in the way of compensatio#s”* Henry Holt & (0, will publish Frances Ann Kem. ~ ble’s “Records of a GiMhood in This Country. The book begins with the author's earliest recollections and ends with her marriage.’ In it we read of Mrs, Fitzherbert and the Prince Regeut; of the French exiles; of great actors like Talma, Liston, Young and Mathews, and, of course, the Kembles; of Mr. Alfred ‘Tennyson; of Mario when’ Marquis of Candia, and before he became a popular singer; of Arthur Hal lam, John Sterling, Mrs. N , Theodore Hook; Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord McRWourne, Lady Morgan, Lady Cork, and of other notable personages, LITERATURE. The first issue of Progress, Colonel John W. For ney’s new journal, is just out in Philadelphia, It is ® handsome twenty-page weekly paper, with an at- tractive appearance and a varied and interesting selection of articles, The editorial paragrap! current eyents, thé theatres, &c., are followed by letters from London, Paris and Washington; the first of a series of sketches of Philadelphia clubs; an in* stalment of Justin McCurthy’s. new novel, “Donne Quixote;” a poem by Walt Whitman, and the begin- ning of what promises to be an interesting series of sketches of “Our Living Old Men.” Colonel Forney, late of the Philadelphia Pressyis the sole editor and proprietor of Progress. Manly. Miles, M. D., late professor of agrichlture in the Michigan Agricultural College, has published through D. Appleton & Co. “Stock Breeding; a Practical Treatise on the Applications of the Laws of Development and Heredity to the Improvement and Breeding of Domestic Animals.’”’ The book will be found a very interesting one by breeders of stock of all kinds, and should be read attentively by all en- giged in such pursuits, as, if the Doctor is correct in all the theories he advances, great improver ments can be made in our live stock of all kinds, “History of the Administration of the Right Hon. Frederick ‘Temple, Karl of Dufferin, by William Leggo: Lovell Printing Company, Montreal, and G. M, Adam, Toronto. ‘The object of the above named attractive voluime ‘is to iMustrate the p in British North America of the’ political system ‘there. kudWn as ‘responsible government,” but which is simply an imitation of the constitutional form of government which has been slowly evolving itself in Great Britain since the reign of George IIL, As the author justly observes, it has been left to the Earl of Dufferin to place the centre stone in the arch, and it is with this scheme always in view that the writer proceeds analytically to explore the labyrinth “of political questions that nathrally occur in the reorganization of government and the introduction of new clements of success, Among the latter, without indulging in fulsome panegyric, the author dwells upon the importance of a genial, democratic, sociable nature on the part of a Governor General of the Dominion of Canada, composed as it is of many provinces differing in laws, language and religion, -and quotes the example of the Earl of Dufferin 4s one that may , be emulated to the advantage of future ruiers. It is peculiarly true of Canada that the bitterness of partisan te has been Often assuaged by the interposition of the genial influence of the Executive, especially during the late administration, and the author is fortunate in being able to select such an admirable diplomat and gentleman 2s the Earl of Dufferin wherewith to illus. trate his argument. If there are & people on the face * of the globe loyal to their rulers and jealously proud of their history it is the present generation of Can- adians, and it is not a subject for wonder that a keen observer of events should have noticed the effect pro- uced npon this peculiarly patriotic affection hy the charms of conciliation, the exhibition of a generosity almost prodigal in its outpour, aud the personal con- tact between chief and citizen that has characterized the official and social associations of Lord Dufferin and the people of British North America from Halifax to Victoria. The work will amply repay perusal and-ia full of instruction. “Canada Under the Administration of the Earl of Duterin.” By George Stewart, Jr. Rose-Belford Pub- lishing Company, Toronto. There are few statM@men of the prevent (ime who have travelled more exten- sively than Lord Dufferin, late the Governor General of Canada, There are none who have made them- selves more thoroughly familiar by personal observa- tion with the wants of their constituents than this noble Irish Earl, and it is evidently @ labor of love that the editor of the above named work has under- taken in compiling and arranging the speeche’ made ob many Occasions which illustrate the condition of affairs that existed during the Viceroy's administra-” tion. These speeches are in themselves a part of the history of thé country, for they embody facts of a political and geographical character that are of no little interest. ‘The book is, therefore, more descrip- «| tive than philosophical, and the author evidently de- pends for instructive reading matter more upon the strong light thrown by Lord Dufferin rather than Npon his own resources, and the many romantic and practical incidents with which the modern history of Canada abounds, It is a noteworthy fact that the Karl has given no fewer than 500 medals during his recent administration. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Jd Tt is sajd that the “Work About the Five Dials,” to which Carlyle contributed a prefatory note teati- fying his belief in and esteem and affection for the author, is written by the Hon. Maude Stanley, “Carmen.” By Prosper Mérimée, The original work, from which the opera of “Carmen,"’ now betng presented by’ Miss Minnie Hank and Miss Kellogg, © was dramatized, has been translated into English from the French, and will be published in a few days by T. B, Péterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, in their popular square duodecimo form, price fifty cents, _ uniform with “Theo,” “Kathleen, “Saveli’s Expia- tion,” “Dosia,” “Marrying Off s Daughter” and “Sonia,” published by the same fitm, ‘Tho translation of Gegenbauer’s “Comparative Anatomy,” in which Dr. Lankester has been so long engaged, is now finished, and the book may be looked for ina few days, It will be issued by Macmillan & Co., along with the “Treatise on Coal; Its History ‘and Its Uses,” prepared by Professors Green, Miall, Thorpe, &c., of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, Among ths announcements of the same firm to be issued later ato a new and revised edition of Fitickiger & Hanbury’s “Pharmacogrephia,” Nf may be looked for next year, VERMONT LEG MSLATURE, Montes. 1m, Vt., Nov. 14, 1878, ‘The State Assembly to-day elected George Nichola, of Northfield, Speaker of the House, and ‘Truman ©. Phinney, of Montpelier, Sergeant-at-Arms, The As- sombly in joint session, clected thé following State officers:—State Auditor, K. H. Parnell, of Richfords Adjutant and Inspector General, James 8. Peck, of Montpelier; Quartermaster General, Levi G. Bing ley, of Rutland; Judge Advocate General, Frank G. Butterfield, of Rockingham; State pepe Education, Eiward nant, of diolph, Ad- journed to meet Thursday aftervoon next to complete the election of State offers