The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1878, Page 6

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Secretary | ‘Tnomsos thinks he will be able to get along with about fourteen millions for the aavy next year. Or Cours: > could not get along without an injunction in the case of the street venders around Washington Market Tne Osty Derixire that can be learned about the oil men is that their efforts are solely directed to putting up the price. Ip me Steere Creantyc Bureat will turn | to another column they will tind the names of some avenues and streets that sadly need their attention. Tue Ovpv Tor ATES between Newark and the Hudson Ri arenrelic of the Durk Ages. t is some comfort to see a movement toward their abolition. . fr Skems as dificult to find out who got that fifty thousand dollars in the settlement of the Rogers and Jones claims as to discover the desecrators of the Stewart grave. ERAL CESNOLA’S Opinion, given, that the treatment of his brother by the Kuglish officers in Cyprus was simply bratal is pretty much the opinion all aveund. elsewhere \ In Perv the outlook for the paymeut of cither the interest or principal of the foreigu debt is pretty blue. If an eartixjuake were to swallow up the majority of her po’ ns Perv would atand a good chance of gettin long. Tur Testimony yesterday of two of the Ttalian children alleged to have been kidnapped for the Ita slave trade in this country shows that they have been pretty well schooled by the padrone. His eseape is not improbable. militiamen Jail for non- t is not very cred- stable to the military authorities. expect a man who cannot buy bread to pay fines is rather bard A Two Henps of anything Ame ly tur Stories of some of the who are confined in Ludlow Si payment of fines be trac D AND FiPtibtit ANNIVERSARY in should remind us that we are not such a giddy young thing of a vation atter all, and when th ion of such a cele- bration is religious ty of sentiment Is comes sill greater. — F these vetlections we have to thank the shades of the sturdy Duatch- meu who, two und « half centuries ago, estab- lished their Church on Manhattan Island, and | whose act was fittingly commemorated yesterday by their successors, or inarked change rologieul condi- Tan Weratner.—The out That has occurred in the mete tions during the past twenty-four hours is the | general northward movement of the avea of high barometer that extends over the South- Western districts. Two distinct cetitres of low barometer have been developed within the de- pression that overlies all the districts east of the Mississippi River—one on the Middle Atlantic coast and the other iu the northern lake region. Rain bas fallen in the central valley and lake districts and on the Middle Atlantic and New England coast. Clear weather prevails in all the districts westof the Mississippi River, and cloudy elsewhere. The winds have been from freal to brisk over the luke ion aud the Northwest, brisk over the Western Gulf aud generally light i im the other districts. The ‘cwperature bas tisen in the Middle Atlantic and New I ad States, the Gulf districts and the Northwest. Elsewhere it has been variable. Increasing winds are probable for the Western Guli, where steep gradieuta are likely to be developed, and | also ou the Middle Atiantiv coast during the next few days. As pusses olf the coast the soon as the depression weather will becou het aud will continu: a few days, when it will probably cha gain. Tt is possible that the high area whieh extends over the Southwest and South will turn the depression’s course more to the ne t which case we will not ex- perience the that att it, The weather fu New York and its vieinity toalay will be warm aud partly « in the morning, possibly with occasional light rains, followed aring aud h, | transactions between England and colder weather, Tormorrow it promises to be eold wud fair, | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, England at War. By a peculiarly maladroit piece of diplo- macy the British government some time since put itin the power of an enemy to compel them to make war or to accept be- fore the world an affront from a Power too important in a warlike sense to make the affront merely ridiculous. There is no worse whist playing, we suppose, than that which clearly opens a way for your adver- sary to force you to play your great cards at some other moment than that at which you would play them from deliberate choice, and so there is no worse diplomacy and no more palpable evidence of the ab- sence of statesmanship than acts by which a great Power attaches its dignity toan option that is in the hand of another Power, and binds itself to make war at a certain date in certain contingencies, regardless of | the unforeseen. With the past relations of the Indian and Cabul governments this one fact has no connection. It is a blunder that stands alone, and where it had its source may prove of small account; but the despatch | just given to the public in England seems to cast it somewhat ostentatiously upon Lord Lytton. Perhaps they are of opinion in London that they have blunders enough on'their score already without this capita) additign. It was declared to the Ameer that he must agree to receive at his capital a permanent British mission, give amnesty to tribes that had offended by an exhibi- tion of good will to the English and make afulland suitable apology to the British government for having shut the door in the face of its envoys, and that, unlesshe senta satisiavtory reply on all these points by No- vember 20, he would be regarded and treated as a declared enemy. It was thus left in the power of the Ameer to determine whether there should be war or peace. He could have war if he wanted it, in condi- tions favorable to him and without making it himself. He had only to observe an in- activity more or less masterly—merely main- tain that haughty silence with which he had treated the English advances lately— and the English would be foreed in the given time to come through thé mountains with their armies and trains in the early days of the winter and find him. But should it, for any reason whatever, suit him not to fight; should the Power upon which he placed dependence for some support in the conflict seem unlikely to do what he might deem necessary—then, at the last moment, he might send his couriers to Peshawur and make his peace. He did not send them, and it isto be inferred therefore | that he is all right in respect to whatever calls he may have to make upon that other Power. England therefore agreed not to fight if the Ameer was hopeless of help from Russia—if he was in a condition in which she could somewhat more easily whip him ; not to fight if fighting were very | likely to be favorable to her, but to fight if her chances of success were rendered des- perate by a satisfactory understanding be- tween the Ameer and his nearer and stronger neighbor. Russia is of course to be counted in the scale in all these negotiations or other the Ameer, All the world understood last year when Russia made war on Turkey that England was not only deeply interested on the side of Turkey, but that she was morally and in some important respects practically a party to the conflict. ‘Through- out the world the clamor of the English press sustained the Ottoman cause ; it was English money that armed. and supplied the Turkish forces; English officers made plans and an officer of the British Royal Navy commanded the Turkish fleet. Eng- land assisted Turkey against Russia with even more will than she assisted the South- ern Confederacy against the United States. She assisted her as much as she } would be called upon to assist Canada if it were at war with us, for the on'y thing Canada would not get from Eng- land would be the rank and file, and that was the only thing that Turkey, like Canada, could produce better than Eng- land. Afghanistan is now like Turkey, with the part of invader exchanged between England and Russia. Russia invaded then and England encouraged and aided the de- fence. England invades now, and Russia, as has been already declared, wilf maintain “the same degree of neutrality” that Eng- land did then. But Russia is, perhaps, involved in this present quarrel in even a further degree then is implied by the parallel with the war in Turkey. Afghan- istan is in Asin now in a position somewhat analogous to that of Ttaly in Europe in the Middle Ages, or of Belgium in the war of the Spanish sneces- sion end the wars of the French Revolution; | it is the point of inevitable collision be- tween the great Powers and ambitions struggling for absolute mastery. For suc- cessive generations Italy was the arena in which the prowess of Germany and France fought out gigantic wars that had no rela ; tion to any other Italian interest than that the seit of an intangible principle of su- premacy was in an Italian city. Belgium was ‘the cockpit of Europe” because’ its territory lay on the easiest military route between Germany and France and neur enough to the sea to give an advantage to whoever controlled naval forces, Afghanistan is of moment between Russia and England fer both the reasons that put the German and French wars in neighbor- ing States not strong crough themselves to guaranteetheir own territory—for the strat. egic veoson and for the reason related to the national ambitions, On that side Eng- jand’s Indian Empire is vulnerable, and to | have a safe military frontier the English strategists believe they must bs able to be sure of the Power that holds Afghanistan, But the very fact that thus makes England interested in that country attracts to it the keen vision of the Russian advance in Asia, Russia also wants to be sure of the Power that holds Afghanistan, be- cause it is the ground from which England's empire in Asia may be not only menaced but endangered. Hence the Ameer has found himselt between two rather over civil neighbors, exceedingly snxious at va- rious times to take absolute charge of him, and occasionally disposed to resent his coy- ness by military cocupation, He was under i the necessity to guarantee himself against one by a treaty with the other; but he had great difficulty in determining which he should be with and whichagainst. He saw, from the example of Hindostan and tlre crowd of Indian princes, what would be his fate on that side, He liked better the rela- tions to Russia of the Central Asias she dealt with and he inclined that way; and he has not taken the responsibility of his defiance to England without certainty on the side of Russia, Aud this war comes at a time when England ought to desire to keep gr hands free out of consideration of trouble nearer home; for of course Russia has played the Ameer in response to that parade of force made by England when she brought her Hindoos to Europe last year. Russia reasoned then with all Europe that England had no men, Seven thousand Hindoos were sent to Malta as a hint that England had an inexhaustible store where those came from, and Russia now puts forward the Afghans as a means of giving those Hindoos occupation and will go on with her projects in Hurope. The Wonderful Cavern of Luray. The first accounts published in the Herat of the discovery and partial explor- ation of the great cavern at Luray having excited general interest we deemed the matter of sufficient importance to warrant the detail of a gentleman of high attain- ments and experience in scientific matters to make a thorough examination of the cave ; and to report the result of his investigation. Our special commissioner’s first letter ap- peared in yesterday’s paper. His second is published to-day, and we may here state, to set all doubt and cavil finally at rest, that we vouch unreservedly and positively for the truthfulness and unexaggerated character of every statement that has been or may be made by our corre- spondent, With the steady, well dis- ciplined mind of a man of science he set about his task, as his letters state, with the impression that he should find our first glowing descriptians of the won- ders of the cave at least more enthusiastic than the facts would warrant. His first examination convinced him that his doubts were not well founded, and his pictures of the crystal chambers, with their fuiry-like adornments, prove that the beauties of the cave could not even be adequately described except by a master hand, One might well imagine that the skill and taste of the scenic artist had been employed to create the effects painted by our correspondent, and the description of the music produced by means of the pendants in the stalactite grotto callto mind the wonders of Alad- din’s Cave. It is natural that so remarkable 4 discoy- ery as the great cave of Luray should bring tothe surface the accustomed number of overwise critics and doubters. The Bualti- morean publishes an article in which the assertion is made that the cavern isan old and well known concern, called Ruffner’s Cave; but this story is set at rest by our special correspondent, who shows that the Luray Cave is a quarter of a mile distant from Ruffoer’s, is in no way connected with the old cavity and leads in a different direc- tion. ‘This is confirmed by statements from some of the original explorers of Ruffner’s Cave and from many of the oldest residents in the, neighborhood. There is no doubt that the discovery has brought to light as interesting a natural curiosity as can be found on this continent, and the letters of our special correspondent, as thorough in scientific knowledge as they are rich in descriptive merit, will be read with absorb- ing interest in all parts of the world. The Halifax Award Paid, The sum of five and a half million dollars awarded by the Halifax Commissioners was paid in London yesterday by our Minister, Mr. Welsh, and duly receipted for by Lord Salisbury. part of the transaction the occasion of a note, one half of which consists of explana- tion and the other half of protest. He explains to Lord Salisbury that the award is paid in consequence of the President's sense of the importance of keeping the faith of treaties and of not bringing into discredit the method of settling international disputes by arbitration. ‘The first of these reasons is conclusive and might have dispensed with the naming of any other, ‘The duty of ful- filling a compact cannot be strengthened by any reasons of utility outside of the moral obligation and the binding sentiment of honor. It was equally our duty to stand by our bargain whether the bargain tended to enconrage or to discourage any particu- lar moe of settling future controversies, ‘The protest which forms the latter part of Mr. Welsh’s note is judiciously confined toasingle point. The money is not paid under protest with a view to demand it back nt some future time, but only with a view to preclude tie idea that we shall ever consent to regard this award as a standard for estimating the value of ‘the fisherics after the termination of the pres- ent arrangement. There is no protest that | the award is not binding because the Com- missioners were not vwnanimons, as this would be perfectiy idle with reference to future arbilrations, When our govern- ment makes another treaty of the kind it can, if it should think it necessary, require an explicit stipulation of umanimily to make the decision binding. The country Will heartily approve of the manner in which the President has exercised the dis- erction with which he was clothed by Con- gvess in the act making the appropriation, The New Reward, The reward of fifiy thousand dollars offered by Judge Hilton for the arrest of the men concerned in the Stewart grave robbery, or of ten thousand dollars for any one of the malefactors, is in accordance witu the suggestion made inthe Henanwa few days ago, and affords, we believe, the best possible chance of the discovery and conviction of the criminals. It is, of course, a distinct notification to all concerned that the family and friends of the deceased have fully resolved never to give n dollar to the robbers for the restoration of the remains, but to leave no means untried to accomplish the capture and punish. meut of the guilty parties, It will therefore N OVEMBER 22 Mr. Welsh made the business | 2, 1878.— be evident to the thieves—first, that they can never realize any money out of their erime by holding together; and, next, that they cannot all hope to escape this deter- mined and unflagging pursuit. It will simply be a matter for them to decide, each for himself, which shall be the first to turn State's evidence against his associates, and thus not only escape punishment, but secure a share of the reward. the grave robbers studies the old adage of “honoramong thieves” will be sure to find himself before long in the felon’s dock with one of his accomplices on the stand as a witness against him, Bismarek as Seen by His Boswell. It is not surprising that Bismarck should have found his Boswell in the person of one of his trusted secretaries, Dr. Moritz Busch, who has just published » work at Leipsic— “Count Bismarck and His Men During the War with France.” Therein we find the taiks ‘ut the wings” and in the greenroom, as it were, when the Man of Blood and Iron had come momentarily off the great stage of European politics, in 1870, only in an instant to goon again. These talks do not throw any new light on his character, but here and there flash a gleam upon events which must be seen from every sido before taking their proper relations in history. Upon the men who acted with him or against him he was unsparing of comment, and he judged them by a severe stand- ard. We know him in statesmanship asatonce the shrewdest and most daring character in the history of the last thirty years—a man who went to his purposes that laughed at the professions or scruples of others, that cared nothing for consist- ency--a man that respected only what could thwart him, As he has been little thwarted he has few to respect. When he sneers at Napoleon for a dull sluggard who wrapped himself in a reserve that had the appearance of cunning and forethought, or calls him stupid and sentimental; when he launches his sarcasms at Jules Favre’s tears and pallor in the negotiations for peace, say- ing that Favre did not weep, but tried, and put white paint on his face to make him look pale; when he says Thiers had no talent for diplomacy, being far too sentimental and ‘‘without gumption enough for a horse dealer,” we see not mercly how pitiless the man is, but how, gloating in the success of his own methods, he Cisbelieves utterly in any other. Whata blessing for humanity, ft after all, that men like him and the First Napoleon are so seldom born into the world, with their ideas of nations ruled by | armed bullies and cheating horse dealers, albeiton a Titanic scale! He was ‘play- ing billiards once, in 1864, with the Duke of Augustenburg, whose claim to Schleswig-Holstein kept the German question boiling in the diplomatic pot until the war with Denmark put that little priacipality out of the way. ‘The Duke was intractable to Bismarck’s argu- ments, First Bismarck called the Duke “Your Highness,” then came down to “Your Serenity,”’and lastly told him that there was nothing to prevent Prussia wring- ing the neck of the chicken she had hatched. word. When General Reille, who delivered Napoleon's letter of surrender at Sedan, said to Bismarck that sooner than accept severe terms the French army would blow itself up, the Count replied, ‘‘Fuites savter: that is youraftair.” What could be more grim and yet what more natural in aman who respected force alone and despised all sentiment, real or’ theatrical, in politics? Of his German colleagues also he seems little sparing. By the side of his latest achievements in making an empire there is a strange interest in the story of his first cigar at the German Diet in 1848, where, until he lit it, no one dared smoke but Austria. Since then he has put ont Austria’s pipe in German affairs effectually. In these talks about others where those he has been able to fling at his feet are held uj to scorn and ridicule, he illustrates an egotism so savage that it cannot be viewed with pleasure, Never was there a great man who revelled moreinhis strength. We | can see the force in one of his statements that he has no time to make himself be- loved, What wonder, when he has spent and still spends so many hours in making himself feared! The The Marquis of Lorne and his illustrious consort, the Princess Louise, will, it is thought, see the end of their ocean journey on either Sunday or Monday next. They aro expected at Hulifax about that time, and it will be seen from our despatches this morning that the most extensive prep- arations are making to give them a recep- tion entirely worthy of their position. ‘The fact that.the Duke of Edinburgh was sent in advance of the viceregal party to receive them shows the interest which the Queen and her government feel in the event, ond it must be exceed- ingly gratifying to Her Majesty and her Ministry that the citizens of Halifax, and the people ot the Dominion generally, have of their own motién so enthusiastically re« solved to more than meet the measuro of the expectation that was anticipated at their hands. The reception at Halifax will be invested with all the splendor the army, the navy and the civic authorities united ean conter. To-day the fleet will leave Halifax for the purpose of meeting the Sarmatian and escorting her in double jine tothe harbor. As they pass, on their re- turp, the forts and batteries will send forth their thundering welcomes. On shore the viceregal pair will find the city gay with bunting and streamers, its streets festooned with the hardy evergreens of Canadian forests and spanned by numerous triumphal arches of unique and striking design, The train that will bear them to Quebee will be the finest that ever whirled overa Canadian railroad, All this cannot fail to be exceedingly pleasant to the new Governor General and the Princess. It will be unprecedented in the annals of vice. regal receptions, and will form an auspi- cious opening of an administration that in one way or another promises to be the most interesting and important io the history of Canada, Welcome to Lorne, Whichever of | with a frankness almost brutal, a cynicism. And when thetime came he was as good ashis | —TRIPLE SHEET. ? The Gambetta Duel. The hostile meeting which took place yesterday between M. Gambetta and M. dé Fourtou naturally causes asensation in spite of its bloodless result. ‘I'he bare possibility that Gambetta’s life might have suddenly terminated at this interesting stage of his career is not o pleasant thing'to think of, even by those who share the opinion of ex- Governor Hoffman, expressed in the inter- view which we printed yesterday. ‘‘A good deal,” he said, “depends on Gambetta's life, but the Republic does not now depend on any one lifo or two.” Still it can- not be disputed that the Republic has at present no leader who could fill Gambetta’s place. One of the greatest misfortyes which could befall France would be the loss of its ablest statesman and the one man who possesses the unlimited confidence of the republican party. The Republic might flounder on to,established success without him, but the loss of his guidance would be an irreparable national calamity. While re- joicing that he was unhurt we regret that he was exposed to danger. * It was impossible, howeveg, for him to decline M. de Fourtou’s challenge. Hehad given just occasion for a challenge and was compelled to accept the consequence jm- posed by the social opinion of Paris. A charge of falsehood was an injury which admitted of no other redress short of an absolute retraction, but the withdrawal of the word which he made in the Chamber of Deputies was mercly in deference to the rules ot the Assembly and therefore could not heat M. de Fourtou’s wounded honor. He wisely refused to make any other form of retraction—wisely, because it might have been ascribed to his fears, and even the suspicion that it was extorted would have im- paired his influence and usefulness. He was governed by the same inotives which led our own Hamilton to accept the chal- lenge of Burr. Gambetta’s mistake con- sisted in using the word, not in refusing to retract it. He is naturally impetuous, but | a sobering sense of responsibility has en- abled him to get the beiter of his impulsive temper within the last few years, and we trust that this single lapse will not be re- peated. It does not become so powerful a leader to violate the decorum of debate, much less to employ an epithet of which a duel was the necessary consequence, Suicide with Accessories. “My life is my own to do what I please with, and I propose to take it,” said Mr. Rowland Levine to his friends on Monday night, and his friends appear to have as- sented to this peculiar view of his. case. He had swallowed two ounces and a half of laudanum two hours before; was deter- mined to die; would not swallow an emetic—nor permit the employment of any means to relieve his system of the poison— and was ‘prepared to put anybody out of the room who attempted to use force. His feeble willed friends, therefore, sat and looked on through the whole of the period in which it would have been possible to save his life, and when at two o'clock he became helpless through the operation of the poison taken they essayel tardy rem- edies too late to prevent death. Even the dector is reported as believing that his course was ® proper one. As to the as- sumption of the man’s rights in the case, which appears to be at the basis of their error, no man in civiiized societies has any right over the life of any mem- ber of the community, and he is himself, of course, a member of the commanity. No man has a right to killany one in this State, not even himself. This man was therefore engaged in the commission of a crime, and the police should shave been called in and should have used any necessary amount of violence to prevent the success of the crim- ixfal attempt. It is a theory extensively favored'by the police of some countries that no man kills himself or attempts to kill himself while in the use of his right mind, It is a theory that is practically convenicnt; and if applied in this case it would have put the friends, had they forced proper treatment, in the charitable position of those who contro! a lunatic for his own good. In any view of their duties as friends or citizens they should have resisted the sticide’s attempis. As it stands they are accessories to the crimehe committed. Any pezson who deliberately assists another in the commission of self-murder is, under the statute, guilty of manslaughter; and what attenuated proportioa of ‘such guilt fulls upon those who only consent, but do not actively assist, may be anice case for the courts. ew Tae A Criminal Ron ance. Mr. Peace is an English murderer and ‘burglarof attainments. His story, as told in | the Hinarp yesterday, may be regarded as one of the strangest revelations in the history of crime. About his early youth we are not informed, but burglary and picture dealing appear to have been co-ordinate profes- sions with him until two years ago, when he feil in love with anothér man’s wife. The lady rejected his suit and he threat- ened to murder | The husband, Mr. Dyson, moved his household to another place, and in about six weeks Mr. Peaco waited for the lady in the back yard of-her | house and fired a pistol at her. He missed her. Mr. Dyson came to the door to see what was the matter and received a bullet in his head. He died, The detectives “scoured the country” for Mi. Peace, but he slipped through their fingers; he even managed to have the idea prevail that he had . killed himself through remorse, This simple tale of lust and murder is, however, only the prelude to a career of crime which makes all the romance about | Claude Daval, Sixteen-string Jack and the dandy Barrington fade into insignificance, For two years alteg his escape, having set- tled d6wa in the suburbs of London, he led the life of a burglar and a gentleman—very tiuch burglar and very much gentleman. So much of a burglar was he that he seems to have worked out three districts sueces- sively, and so inuch of a gentleman that his establishment at Peckham was the pride of the neighborhood and him- soll one of its most honored residents, Now, here was a murderer with a price on his head ravaging whole neighborhoods at | his ease and playing violin ‘solos between times, while the astute detectives of ‘Scot- land Yard declaréd themselves unable to account for it. It was a wonderful career, but—and here is the consoling part of it— it came to grief, In one of his nocturnal raids he dropped into the arms of &-com- mon policeman, ‘There was a struggle and some shooting, but the burglar went to jail, and bit by bit his story was unravelled, He will doubtless be hanged for the mur- der. All there is to be said about this case resumes itself in the thought that rascality is the surest guide to ita own detection, Mr. Conkling and the Senatorship. Some of the democratic papers are trying to worry Mr. Conkling’s friends by discuss- ing the possibility of his defeat for the Senatorship in spite of his brilliant triumph in the election of the Legislature. What they have toesay on the subject is very wild iwaddle indeed. Had there been any possi- bility of beating Mr. Conkling he would have been beaten in the Republican State Convention, A vigoroas effort was made by all his rivais and enemies of every stripe and description to elect hostile delegutes to the Saratoga Convention. Everybody knows what a fiasco they made of it, His opponents could not muster in force enough to dare to make even the semblance of a fight. They were so cowed and disheartened by their failure at Saratoga that they made no serious attempt to control the republican nominations for members of Assembly. It would have been idle and ridiculous for them to have undertaken anything of the kind, because the nominations of members had to be made by the same Assembly districts that chose the delegates ta Saratoga, As Conkling controlled the districts when all his enemies were strenuously working against him he had less difficulty in controlling them after his great success in the Convention had dis- couraged his opponents and added to his own prestige and power. It was much easier to nominate Conkligg men for the Assembly than it had been to elect Conk. ling delegates to the Convention from the same districts, and this was done in all such districts without even a show of opposition, Every district that sent Conkling dele- gates to Saratoga nominated a stanch and reliable Conkling man for member of Assembly. The consequence is that Mr. Conkling has a pledged majority, £ the republican members—true and tried adherents on whom he can perfectly rely and whose fidelity cannot be shaken. All the talk about a formidable opposition to him in the interest of ex-Governor Morgan is idiotic rubbish. We shall not be sur. prised if Senator Conkling is re-elected without the formality of a caucus, as Sen- ator Gordon was in Georgia a day or two since, We doubt whether Mr. Conkling will op- pose the confirmation of Collector Merritt, although he might do so without at all en- dangering his re-election. If Collector Arthur should be reinstated in March le would only have a fraction of a year to serve before the expiration of his term, and it is not worth while to embroil the party over so small a matt PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Towa has more than three hundred blind people. Mr. George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Garficid says that Randal! will be Speaker, and Gar field is a republican. When you mect a policeman who cannot read you may be sure that he dyes his mustache. General Hancock, who won the sword at the Catholis fair, over Shields aud Johnston, ia fifty-five years old, Mr. Kurd Von Schlizer, the German Minister, ar rived at the Breyoort House last evening from Washington. Women who attend trials in court that call for salacious explanations usually have square brows and thin under lips. How much more intellectual looking is the inventor of a Inbor-saving machine than a king in Europe, Compare the portraits, Colonel Burbank, of the New Orleans Picayune, is writing a book called “Jack and 1; or, Thirty-five Nights with the Yeliow Fever." Will soine scientist please calenlate how much black dye is taken to color the bristly red mustaches of the most hair dyed police in the world ? ‘The Burlington Hawkeye man visited Chicago's gallories and sent back un article praising a painting of “Ulysses Bending His Bow,” bnt, not being up in art and the classics, he spoke of it as “Ulysses Bend ing His Etbow.” Near Bellevue Ho@Mtal there is a brutal whistle which bursts ferth just at noon, and the pale patients, on their clean, swect conches, in the female ward, shyink and put their hands to their heads when the sndden sound s: 4 them. Yesterday we asked @ waiter, not many miles Sqm the Hrnatn office, how many hours he stood on his feetinaday, He replied, “You must not calculate by the day; I have now beou in service just seven- teen hours out of the last twenty-four.” Danbury News:—-"Mr. Edison is not able to prevent the norse on the elevated railway. He bas got a con- trivance to stop the noise and@he has discovered where the noise comes from and knows where {t goes to, but don’t appear to bo able to find any place in be tween to put the machine.” ‘The police forceof New York has been severely criticised. So has the detective force. Yet Talmage has been going round, and no one of our police force hes hud the courage to arrest him in his favori haunts, If it were not for such men as Talmage det of iniqiity wonld not be left open, Chance custom ers are the game, Allowing for @istortions of features caused by the pains of death the faces of the people photos graphed for the gallery of the Morgue show that, with perhaps six exceptions, they who killed them- selves were not of: high order of intelligence, In- deed, the city of New York in taxed to take care of a large number of imbecilesy who kill themsclves on the least occasion, London Truth:—“Nothing tends to check the devel- opi tof the mind and character of the young so much as what usel to be ealled ‘setting down." Unless people are preposteronsly conceited, or in- tolerably forward, snubbing is a bad regimen. You might as well think to rear flowers in frost as to educate people stvceasfilly on reproof and’constant critivixm, Judicions flattery is one of the necessi+ ties of life; as necessary as air, food, or water,”” Saturday Review:—"As young men grow older they will find the mo o think of in Mr. Arnold's poems; and eny of them who may feel themselves moved to write verses will do well to give his ork a still more particular attention, It will correct by example all the commonest fwults of youth. Ardent young poets may learn from it that ouly genius can afford to be exuberant; and that guarded and even anstere so- briety of style will produce a far greater effect with given means than any straining after novelty, “In the visitor's book at the Gospel Hail,” sage Treth, “will be found, quite at the bottom of the page, ‘Alice Prabyn,’ ‘Albert Edward,’ ‘Alexandra,’ ‘Sif D. Probyn.’ This trifle shows the unaffected style the Prince and Princess of Wales keep when they are not on the official stage. In visiting a public institution the Queen, when akked to enrich 9 visitor's bouk'with her autograph, always, {fori the day on which she went with Louis Philippe aud the King of the Bele gians to Chelsea Hospital, wrote on the top of a blank bide,