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

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The probabilities are Vikas ihalcesuthin' te Bae York and its vieinity to-day will be slightly warmer and fair, possibly followed by increasing cloudi- ness. Zo-morrow it promises to be warm and parlly clowly. Masor Reno's Riqu has at length been granted, and we are likely to soon get at all the facts in the Custer massacre. CONVERSION, in the opinion of Mr. Beecher, is siow, gradual and almost imperceptible. No doubt ‘of it. It is so’ slow that it never over- takes a large number of people. Next to « Visrr to the studios of our ar- tists the best thing to do isto read the deserip- tion and criticism in another column of their more noteworthy works during the past season. Wuere Dip Canisr Go after His death? is one of the most interesting of theological ques tious. Dr. Armitage yesterday tried to give a satisfactory answer, and the best he could do was that He went into the blessed division of Hades. Povesry, “Soc TALISM and kindred topics formed the theme of Dr. Hepworth yesterday. Business, in his opinion, ought not to be a game of grab, and unless the tendency to make the rich richer and the poor poorer is corrected we shall have a social revolution. Mr. Mapieson’s Trovrn sang yesterday for the benetit of one of the struggling uptown churehes. The programme was selected with great care, and the way in which it was exeeuted shows that Mr. Mapleson’s artists are as pro- ficient in sacted as iu operutic music. AMONG THE Imvrontanr Questions likely to eome before the New Jersey Legislavure at ite approaching session is that of the abolition of skilled labor in the penitentiaries. Several members have been elected upon thut issue. The result will be watched with interest by many Other States. iv sur Gas Comranies desire to be saved they will do well to turn to our Washington correspondence. The suggestions in regard to the use of gas for heating purposes are, to be sure, only the dreama of an electrician, bat the dreams of the inventor to-day are very often the realities of to-morrow. A Seppe Visi to the insane asylum at Ouou- daga, by « commit! ppoiuted for the purpose, bus revealed a terrible state of affairs in that in- Biitution, Five unfortunate persons were fonud concealed in a cell the condition ef which was untit for animals. Are there any more iustitu- tions like this at Onondaga around ? j fae Iuenovr ~ CoMarrMent of Catharine Hess to a lunatic asylum, the pariiculars of which are elsewhere given, is pretty conclusive evidence that, uotwithstanding all the reform, i it is still an easy matier to imprison @ perfectly pane mud of lunacy. ‘Chis is hota ve wf or satisfactory condition of thin : hoped the conspirators who deprived this woman of her liberty will be punished as they dese Tun Wearner —Tthe centre of disturbance has passed entirely off the coast at Nova Seotia, | and the barometer is risin dually in all the | coust districts. The depression that was over the « districts. over the person on th encourd 8, and it is to aving a storm centre ‘yon Saturday Las been pemewbat dissipated during movement toward the Ohio Valley. There however, a well marked trough of low pressure extending from the extreme northeast into Texas and the western Gulf, in which centres of disturbance issouri Val its is, are very lik to be organized. In the North- west the pressure hes risen with arkable | rapidity, causing very steep gradients in | some sections, Tho aren of high barometer | that was over the South Atluntic and | sasteru Gulf const is extending itself north. | eastward slowly and may prove a b to the advaneo of the depression th is in | the central valley districts. Rain has tallen in the Middle Atlantic aud New the northern Jake regions and the western Galt, end siiow is reported in the northwest. Clear weather has generally prevailed in all the dis- tricts except the northern lake regions and the | New England States. The winds have been fresh to brisk on the Middle Atlau the lake regions and the northwest. Elsewhe they have been generally light. ‘The tempera- ‘ture bas risen in the central valley districts, the Bonth Atlantic and Gulf States. It lus been ‘variable in the other sections. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be sligbuly swarmer and fair, possibly followed by ineteasing | cloudiness: To-morrow it protises to be warm and vurtly cloudy. | defeated by a party triumph. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, The New Governor General. The people of the Dominion are looking forward tothe events of the present week with anticipations not unmingled with care. The preparations which they have made for testifying their joy, their loyalty, the heartiness of their welcome and their en- thusiastie attachment to the royal Princess who has come to reside among them are on a scale suitable to the occasion; but the success of the festivities, and especially of the pageants, depends so much on ac- cidents of weather that some anxiety must be felt until it is seem what the week will bring. A blinding snow storm is not unusual in Canada at this gea- son of the year, and it would be unfor- tunate if the rough voyage across the At- lentic should be followed by the early set- ting in of a Canadian winter. But the protracted bad weather of the last week makes it not improbable that a bright sun and cloudless skies will add lustre to the successive pageants in different cities and make every part of the reception as brill- iant and joyous in fact as it is meant to be in intention. Most assuredly there is nothing of politi- cal caleulation in the grand demonstrations of welcome which are intended to convert this November week into a brighter holiday season than Canada has ever witnessed or enjoyed. The visit of the Prince of Wales in 1860 was, perhaps, attended with an equal outburst of loyal feeling, and the season of the year was more propitious for outdoor parades and profuse floral decorations. But in the thronging multitudes in the streets which form a great part of the spectacle which they come to witness ; in the turnout of troops and the display of flags; in the multitude of carriages and extent of caval- cades; in the bright eyes which ‘‘rain influ- ence,” and gloved hands thut flutter hand- kerchiefs from several stories of windows which line the streets; in the heartiness ot the glad huzzas which will greet the vice- regal couple as they pass, the receptions of 1860 will be outdone, because the feeling is equal and Canada is more populous, more opulent and has larger means of making a grand scenic display. If the Prince of Wales was more illustrious as being the immediate heir to the throne the Princess Louise inspires warmer affection and a more home- like fondness as a scion of the royal family transplanted to the socicty of Can- ada, which she is to lead by her station and adorn by her intelligence, virtues and graces. If a higher deference was due to the rank of the Prince a more chivalrous sentiment is awakened by the sex of the Princess. A kindlier and more affectionate feeling, equal enthusiasm and more affiu- ent means of imparting splendor and éeclat tp a great festive occasion, will enable our neighbors to surpass the ovations which they paid to the youthiul heir-apparent eighteen years ago. But, although this great parade of wel- coming loyalty is not prompted by political motives, it tends to important political re- sults. It will strengthen the ties of al- legiance which bind Canada to the British Crown and postpone for a long period both the desire for independence and latent leanings toward annexation to the United States. This expected consequence ' is, of course,’ founded on the supposition that the permanent popularity of Lord Lorne and the Princess Louise will fulfil the bright promise of their first setting out. These exuberant rejoicings bear, indeed, some resemblance to a gay christening or a brilliant wedding, which are no guarantee that the new born infant will not grieve his parents or that the parties united in wed- lock will lead a happy life. But there is no apparent reason for fearing that this grand welcome is a prelude to anything but gracious condescension on the one side and devoted loyalty on the other. All the omens are auspicious, and although the enthusiasm cannot be kept up to its present’ pitch there is no reason why the family of the new Viceroy should not grow in popularity and esteem as the people of the Dominion become better ac- quainted with them. Ifno blight should intervene and the harvest fulfil the promise of the blossoms the loyalty of the Cana- dians to the British Crown will be so deep- ened and strengthened that independence will not be sought in our time, nor, per- haps, in the time of our children. . The magical effect of a near approach to royalty is one of those unaccountable spells which defy cold reasoning and political philosophy. The sturdiest democrat in the Dominion, even if he be a demagogue and an Irishman to boot, is not proof against iis iafluence, When the Princess appears in the streets of any Canadian town the veriest democrat, nay, the veriest Fenian of them all, will catch the contagion and swing his hat and shout his huzzas as lustily as any royalist in the crowd, The general feeling will not be weakened unless the Governor General falls into the error of taking an active part in politics. The government of the Dominion is organ- | ized on the principle that the Viceroy shall maintain a neutral attitude to- ward political parties, as the sov- ereign does in England, and thereby escape their hostility and avoid the mor- tification of having his presumed wishes This theory of the Canadian constitution is now tor the first time to be fully tested. it has here- tolore been thought necessary that the Gov- ernor General shonld be a statesman of immature age and faculties, large experience in responsible stations and tried capac for government, ‘This was indispensable previous to the union of the Provinces by | | the act ofthe imperial Parliament creating the Dominion, and the practice has been continned during the first ten years of the new institutions, It was @ wise measure of precaution | in the early stages of the exporiment. Although neither Sir John Young nor his | successor, Lord Dufferin, overstepped the theory of the new constitution, it was pra- | dent to have in the government house at Ottawa a statesman qialified to assume dis | | rection it affairs should fall into confusion | ‘ a) by some unseen source of failure in the new | plan of government. The constitution of the Dominion has been long enough on trial to be regarded as established and capable of self-working according to its theory, and Lord Beaconsfield has given a signal mark of his confidence ia the Canadian people and their states- men in sending them a _ Viceroy who will play the same part . that the Queen does in England, neither inter- vening nor standing prepared to intervene if the native statesmen should prove ix competent. Tho theory of sole ministerial responsibility is now as fully established and as completely acknowledged in the Dominion as it is in Great Britain, where _the sovereign ‘‘reigns but does not govern.” Lord Lorne being thus set free by the ' constitution of Canada and the circum- stances of his appointment from any con- nection with party politics, there is no | danger that his popularity can be im- paired by political causes, If the Governor gracious and affible, and do not make themselves too difficult of access to persons who think that they possess social claims ; if they show themselves frequently to the people without too much ostentation of dignity ; if they take an active interest in education, charities and all bencficent movements which are not political ; if they make it their study to diffuse good taste, good breeding and refinement, without any airs of\ assumption, the fervid loyalty which is awakened by their arrival will at- tend them during their sojourn in the country and strengthen immeastrably the allegiance of Consda't to the mother country. South Curolina Politics. We print elsewhere this morning a curi- ous and interesting exposure, by a promi- nent and honorable South Carolina demo- who have got control of the democratic or- ganization in the lower counties of that State, including the city of Charleston. This democratic ring, as Mr. Campbell rightly calls it, has not bull-dozed the blacks; it has undertaken to bull-doze the whites. Its policy appears to be the literal realization of what is called a ‘‘solid South,” for the political aim of this ring is to force all the white voters to remain in one party, subject to the dictation of the ring, whose members have made themselves the masters of this party, and to reject the negro vote, pass laws making it difficult for the blacks to get in their votes, and then stuff the ballot boxes and put their men in by deliberate fraud. The Hzraxp has often warned the demo- erats of the political dangers of a “solid South;” it has often pointed out to them that the maintenance of the colgr line was justifiable only while their States were de- nied local self-government, and would be impossible without fraud whenever the in- terferance of the federal government ceased. This letter of Mr. Campbell shows the truth of all we -have urged on this head, All the events of the recent election show the impossibility of maintaining a ‘‘solid South,” or a solid white democratic, vote in any Southern State, except where, as in Louisiana, the federal officers and repub- lican leaders are particularly and justly odious to the people; or except where, as in South Carolina, intimidation, not of the blacks, but of the whites, united to un- blushing fraud, is practised by the demo- cratic leaders, Mr, Campbell deserves lasting honor from his State and the country for his manly stand for justice and fair play and for the solemn engagements made by Governor Hampton and the democrats of the State. That he had not the open and determined support of Governor Hamptor is a disgrace tothe Governor which must sink him very deep in the contempt of honorable men of both parties everywhere. But we wait to see if no protest will come from Charles- ton and from South Carolina, and whether that State. does not contain a sufficient number of honorable and high- spirited democrats to unite in a public re- pudiation of the misconduct of their party leaders. It is plain that if the democrats in the negro counties of the State had been faithfal to the Hampton policy of justice to the blacks these would have freely supported the democratic candidates. Mr. Campbell writes, “But for the conduct of the (demo- cratic) executive committee the republican vote of this county would have been given heretofore and would now be given to such democrats as stand by the Hampton policy, which means merely the observance of good faith, fair play, justice and the protection of the colored wnun in his rights.” We warn the Southern democrats of one thing—their States are now restored to local self-government; the responsibility of giving the colored men justice and fair play rests upon them. The old system of tederal interference will not be re-ostab- lished, and it is even probable that the next Congress will repeal the federal elec- tion laws or many partsof them. But the Northern public, feeling thot full justice lus now been done to the South, will hence- forth watch the conduct of the democrats there with redoubled jealousy, and so long as public opinion in the South tolerates such a policy as that of these South Caro- lina demcer.its so long the North will unite against the democratic party of the country. The recent events in South Carolina, of which Mr. Campbell in his letter gives only an incomplete history, will be found to have decided the Presidential election in 1880 against the democratic party unless public opinion in the South promptly and conspicuously condemns and disowns them. it is worth while for Northern democrats to | consider it. An Interview with Ewing, Herald a conversation with the Ohio champion of inflation and silver money. The note- worthy thing in this interview is Mr. Ewing's admission that resumption will be | accomplished on the Ist of January, sinee there will be no opportunity for passing a | pill for defeating or retarding resumption before that date. There is just as tittle | likelihood of the passage of such a billatter | We copy from the Cleveland as before the Ist of January. Even if it could be carried through the Senate, | which no good judge believes, it would | certainly be stranded on a veto. Mr. Ewing ‘avows his strong preference for Senator General and the Princess Louise shall be ; erat, of the gross misconduct of the men | Thurman as the next democratic candidate for the Presidency; but the course which has gained Mr. Thurman the suppert of men like Ewing must provoke the opposi- tion of all sincere hard mouey democrats. Goanod and Georgina Weldon. That “the old ones are the worst,” whether in love or folly, holds good in the eyes of the young, who can always find ex- cuses for their own weakness or stupidity. ‘The snows of age are supposed to be so cooling on the heart that the fire of pretty eyes cannot make it stir a single fibre, and when it is found that, on the con- trary, the tough old cardiac region has been palpitating like a steam engine } under the glance of a siren, public opinion oalls the owner of the heart a fool. So it was with the wizard Merlin, in the “Idyls of the King,” and so it has been with the musician Gounod. The Vivien of the Arthurian legend coquettishly wrayfped herself in the old man’s hoary beard “like a lovely baleful star veiled in gray vapor.” Lhe charming Mrs. Weldon in the contemporary story patted the com- | poser on his bald head and called him pet names. ‘the legend has all the light of poetry upon it and is seen, too, through the softening mist of time; in the plain prose ot to-day the story is under sll the sun-glare that makes unpo- etic details stick out, But the old semi-savage medicine man whom Ten- nyson made so much like an Angli- can bishop is a thing of rags beside tho polished wizard of the tonic scale—the first Freuch composer of the time. The first forest, uncleared of underbrush, that came to hand, was a good enough scene for ‘Len- nyson, in which to show how his old man was made a fool; byt it needed the late home | of the great novelist Dickens, in the largest city in the world, for Gounod to come to | griefin. Pretty and ambitious women are | the same in all ages in their way of dealing with men, and it we make allowance for the difference which is implied by scented note paper and a house in Tavistock square we shallnot find much difference between the flattery and ‘soul homage” of Mrs. Weldon and the wiles of artfal Vivien. It was with Gounod as with Merlin. Those who read the strange story elsewhere can almosi see Georgina Gaze upon him With such a fixt devotion that the old wan, ‘rho’ doubtful, felt the flattery, and at times Would tlatter his own wish in age for love And half believe her true. We do not know that there was a Mrs. Merlin, but we are certain there was a Mme. Gounod, which made a difference. The savage littie Vivien shut her old foc! up in a damp forest, ‘‘lost to life and put her old man to work and kept him at it for three years, turning out operas and oratorios, songs and symphonies in a way that shows some supe- riority in the modern method, although That is the moral of the whole matter, and | it drove the composer crazy for a time. Gounod, however, got away, while old Mer- "lin, as we, know, is left by the poet befud- dled andasleep inthethicket. ‘There is some merit in civilization after all, Holy Kis Why did the clerical investigators of the Wallingford church scandal, upon which we publish a letter to-day, omit to notice the charge that the accused pastor was fond of kissing female parishioners? If, as seems most likely, the apostolic injunction to salute the faithfal witha holy kiss seemed to forbid them, we beg tosay, inourhumble capacity of laymen, that the nineteenth century of the Christian era is-not the first, and that the pastor of to-day is a differ- ent man from his apostolic prototypes, and is living among entirely different social ard religious conditions, When an unpaid, unkempt, persecuted,. utterly religious enthusiast, as all the immediate successors of Jesus were, hurried about from place to place, exhorting men and women to purity and to preparation for that end of all things which he believed to be just at hand, the kiss he bestowed was likely to be given and received as a mere saluta- tion, according to the custom of the time. It gave no offence to the receiver or her friends. To-day, however, there is scarcely any one who expects to hear the last trump except from a reserved seat in the next world, The preacher of the Gospel is, out of the pulpit, » man like ourselves, and is judged by the social standards which are admitted by other people protess- ing to be respectable. There is another apostolic injunction, far-more emphatically expressed than that upon kissing, to the effect that under no circumstances should a man do anything which causes his spiritual brother to offend, It being an oft-proved fact that the pastoral kiss causes many men to wish black eyes and bloody noses to the bestower, and to occasionally inflict them, we submit to conferences, presbyteries and synods the question whether the peace and reputation of churches is not of more con- sequence than any social precedent what- ever? Will the Street Cleaners Go to Work! ‘The attention of the Strect Cleaning Ba- rean is directed to the report in to-day’s Henan of, the condition of the streets on seventh streets, and also to the complaints that locality. The latter evil is not, indeed, confined to any particular district, but may be said to be prompt remedy, By some unaccountable | arrangement the carts seem to make their | collections at undesirable hours, and very frequently to skip whole blocks, apparently through oversight or carelessness. It is {not unnsual to see cars collecting | ashes along Nassau street and other crowded thoroughfares at o'clock in the afternoon, when the sidewalks are thronged aud when the scat. | tering of the dust and dirt is particularly offensive. Certainly sach blunders as these | ought to be avoided and fixed hours named and ash pans, when the work will be as little of a public nuisance as possible, It is to be hoped that the street cleaning | use and name and fame;” but Mrs. Weldgn | as tothe irregulmity and insufficiency of | the visits of the ash and garbage carts in | from which yellow fever can come, general all over the city and demands o | four or five | for the collection of the contents of barrels | jand the fight, NOVEMBER 25, 1878.-TRIPLE SHEET. neglected as they did during the summer months. It is important that we have thoroughly clean streets before the snow and frost set in, If garbage heaps are allowed to be covered up and frozen in they tend to promote sickness and disease in the spring. The bureau authorities should take hold of the work in earnest, They have shown that they are able to keep the gtreets clean when they choose to do so, and there is no good reason why they should wait for an agitation of the subject in the press before they make up their minds to do their duty in an efficient manner, Why Dake Us Blush? Mr. Talmage, with a few flaps of his wings, took his Tabernacle of Brooklyn saints yes- terday morning and set it down in a den of New York thieves. Then he proceeded to exbibit burglars, bank robbers, male and female pickpockets, footpads, sneak thieves and so forth, who ~ steal an aggregate of six million dollars ayear. With what paipitating interest the good people were moved at seeing on what familiar terms their pastor was with these criminals may be imagined by picturing an innocent rustie gloating and plushing over his first dip into those flashy sketches of . metropolitafi wickedness which are circulated with make-believe secrecy among gullible countrymen and which are usually called ‘‘mysteries.” It is not probable that the saints will be any better for this reverend comedian’s fine im- itation of a runaway window smasher shouting “Stop thiet!” than the country- man for his glimpse of the alleged orgies of ballet girls and -young “bloods,” They, are both on the same plane, and the one will as little help the rustic to a high sense of the purity of life as the other will fit the abernacler fora berth on Loard that bizarre craft with “five doors,” which is Mr. ‘l'almage’s idea of the vessel of salvation. A funny thing about these sermons is that they have stimulated some ministers to recount, per contra, how good we arein NewYork. The record of our charities is slapped against the tabulation of our crimes and goes it half a million dol- lars better. Between these rival statements we feel in doubt whether it is the blush of criminal shame or of modest worth that mantles our countenance, Second Hand Humanity. An exchange tells of a pedestrian who happened to see a boy fall into a brook, The observer had a tender heart, but he had also a pair of new trousers for which he had great regard, so he hurried to a house some distance away and gave the alarm. It is needless to say that the boy was drowned before help could reach him. As for the humane pedestrian, a jury of unregenerates were so stupid as to censure him severely, apparently under the impression that ho had done something improper. If the jury- men were really correct, and the careful guardian of his own trousers was wrong, the last named gentleman deserves a great deal of sympathy, for humanity like his is quite the general thing. A very great number of men and women who behold the sufferings and dangers of others are deeply affected by them, but, out of regard either for property which they have or hope to have, they hurry about to get relief for the sufferer—by telling somebody else, Among these dispensers of humanity at sec- ond hand are many of the godly folk of this city, weeping over the drunkards of their acquaintance and turning them over to the prayers of the faithful aud the efforts of Mr. Murphy. If after thus quieting their own consciences the humane souls look backward and discover that the drunkard is no more, they have themselves to blame. The man who really wants a drunkard saved should himself plunge in and give the poor wretch a hand, even atthe risk of the operation costing something; and though there may be no regularly empanelled jury to censure him in case of non-performance of his mani- fest duty the stupidest person of his ac- quaintance is fully competent to perceive that he is a contemptible hypocrite, and to say 80. Yellgw Fever and Quarantine. Quarantine—rigorous and absolute quar- antine—quarantine that effectively isolates a place at which the epidemic has made its appearance and maintains non-intercourse for the whole time of its prevalence—this, a special commitice informed the National Health Association, is the only resource that is effective against yellow fever. | Having made elaborate and thorough in- quiry on the scene of the epidemic, and with all facilities extended to assist the effectiveness of their investigation, these doctors are satisfied that the infection of the fever was carried into every place in which it rage’ by personal or commercial communication, and was brought to New Orleans by the Emily Sou- der; that disinfectaats have been of no value, but often have done harm; that proph- ylactic medicines are of doubtful benefit, and that the most rigid quarantine is the only hope of any threatened community, | Everybody interested in the welfare and the east side between Twentieth and Fifty- | prosperity of the city of New Orleans should take especial notice of this declara- tion, for its point will be remembered next summer, and a rigid quarantine will be adopted against the Crescent City unless it enforces a very offective one against ports It New Orleans cannot make a good quarantine, some of the cities up the river can—as was seen this year —ond doubtless will. The Heman Form Divine. The undraped human figure in art is ex- citing a great deal of discussion just now, even although the photograph ot Makart’s great picture no longer hangs in the window of the Puiton street confectioner, and Bou- guerean’s study of a feminine figure has been retired from the Loan Exhibition. Across the ocean a social science congress has been discussing a paper on the relations of the nude figure to wathetics and morals, though inconclusive, was delightfully vigorous, As usual in such struggles, however, the real features of the anthoritics will set as efficiently to work to | case are entirely lost to sight. Because clean such streets as our reports show to be | wilful exposure of the person is immodess who are just now. a and indecent it seems to be assumed on the one side that there is something shameful and wrong about the human form itself; while, on the other, it appears to be claimed that because physical outlines are beautiful and honorable in themselves artists of vicious tendencies are to be justified in adapting human lines and tints to any purpose which a depraved nature may de. sire to express upon canvas. After the quarrel is over, however, the public wil! be pretty sure to go on deciding the question according to the pictures themselves, as it has done heretofore. ‘the morality or im- morality of a picture is to be found in its sentiment, instead of its material, If an artist has any imagination, either good or bad, his picture will express its exact quality, whether the figures are draped or not; and by this alone is the moral influ- ence of his picture to be estimated. If he isa mere copyist, as nine out of every ten painters are, his nude figures will have no more influence than the hundreds of their kind which hang in Enropean galleries and which are passed without a second glance by any observer, no matter what his pere sonal character may be. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of the HenaLp on Saturday ;— Allan, A, G., Philadelphia, Hotel de Londres, Bullock, J. O., New York, Hotel de Bergere, Cheney, Rush and family, Hartford, Splendide Ho- tel. Colston, General, Virginia, 44 Boulevard Hause mann. Darlingtop, J. D., Philadelphia, Hotel de 1’Athénée, De Forest, W. H., New York, Hotel Chatham, Fowler, Frank, New York State, 57 Boulevard d@’Enfer. Gould, J., New York State, 27 Rue de 1’Arcade, Hall, 8. J. w York, Hotel Chatham. Hart, G. P. and wife, New York, 118 Boulevard Haussmann. Kursheedt, A. E., New York, Hotel de l’Athénée. Larrabee, New York State, Hotel Meurice. Moyer, F. R., New York, Hotel de Lyon et New York. Michlér, Mrs., Washington, 27 Rue Boissy Anglas, Plant, A. A., New York State, Grand Hotel, Richard, C. B, and family, New York, Continenta) Hotel. Sturges, Edward, New York, Hotel de l’Athéndée. ‘Thebaud, Delphin, New York, 24 Rue St. Honoré. ‘Tryon, D, W., Hartford, 34 Rue Gay Lussac, ° Van Winkle, Mrs. C., San Francisco, 37 Rue Boissy Anglas, Westbay, H. E., New York, Grand Hotel. Wostbay, John T., New York, Grand Hotel. Senator Roscoe Conkling is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘The new paper in the Black Hills is called “the Up- Gulch Snorter, The Cherokeo Indians, of whom there are 3,000, will go to North Georgia to live. ‘ The Boston Post heard Mr. Kearney whisper not long since, ‘‘Westward the star of vampire takes its aie Why is it that cven in Berlin, where lager is no longer his favorite, Bayard ‘Laylor often, meas of the schooner of State 7 Detroit Free Press:—“It, js the Mar who wants ‘to knock you down for doubting his word. The honest man will stop to argue matters.”” m ‘The Norristown Herald says that the Chinese aia not steal Stewart or rob the Manhattan Bank, and do not belong to the finest police force in the world, an it asks, ‘Why should the Chinese.go ?” At matinées ladies love, of course, to sit near the centre aisle, even though they are compelled to give up the delight of going down a side aisle and catching a furtive glimpse of themselves in the mirrora, Ascension Island is so greatly under naval orders that workmen in the town have no twelve o'clock. ‘They go to their noon meal af ‘eight bells,” and in most respects the place is commanded like a ship, Mr. Boston Jost make all the fun of Chin Lan Pin and his Thanksgiving turkey that you choose to make; but remember that it was China wherein. roast pig was discovered. Of course-he will have pig. Ex-Minister E, B. Washburne, who lectures im Newport this evening on “Paris Under the Com- mune,” will be the guest of William Beach Lawrence, who will give a grand dinner in honor of that distim- guished gentleman. Ladies who go shopping on Fourteenth street and who are anxiousiy gazing at the windows frequently collide. They should understand that they are enti-+ tled to only the right hand half of the sidewalk either way, except when stopping at a store. ‘There are certainly no windows so attractive to the eyes of a lady as those which contain loves of bon- nets. If woman suffrage ever should become estab- lished the handsome candidate, if he be a man, should place his portrait in the window of a milliner, where it would surely be seen, Senator Pendleton is said to have expressed the wish to be considered a Presidential poasibility, be- cause Ohio ought to have & chance. Do not be afraid that Ohic will not get ull the chances that are comings but it looks very much now as if the next President will be from New York, Indiana or Mlinois, ‘The Right Honorable W. K. Giadatone forma the subject for a volume of caricatures republished from Judy and imported by Scribner & Welford. Some of the points hit off ave very amusing. Mr, Gladstone is held up tok good natured ridicule, but not so cley- erly as is the Earl of Beaconsfield in a volume of ‘Yeniel's caricatures from Punch, which was published some time before the Judy volume appeared. Pressensé, writing about religion in France, says that the higher clergy are arrogant toward the State becaure the lower clergy are kept in absolute depend. ence on them, being subject to instantaneous removal from office without cause and with disgrace, so that a bishop is enabled to say, “l keep my clergy under marching orders, like # regiment.” Pressensé saya that if ihe offices of rural curés were made perma: nont liberalism would follow from their independence, In India there are 240,000,000 of people, Of these it is estimated that the number of Protestant converta is not far short of half a million, while the Roman Catholic converts must be counted at nearly a million in Western and Southern India, The Roman Catholic missionaries do not altogether destroy the interior appearance of the temples when they convert them into churches, and the asceticism of the priests, with their shorn heads and their style of preaching, har- monizes with poiuts of character in the old Hindoo leaders. One of tho greatest bores is the man who, at @ theatre, sits next you and explains to his lady, who sits on the other side of him, the demerits of the actors, langhing knowingly at the attempts of an actress to manage her train, and saying in loud “Now he's going to kill Now sho is going to faint,” &e, Of course his wife, who listens to him and not to the actors, thinks he is the only smart man in the hall; but bie other henyers ure likely to put bim down for the ase that he reafly is, An English traveller saya™that every citizen of America is an undeveloped epicure, not being able to discriminate eo well as European gastronomists, but having good natural instincts which require cultiva- tion, Ho says that we imitate the slabby English im our bad soups; that our big oysters are inferior be- canse they have no metallic eavor; that delectable clam chowder is our national dish; that a whitefish dinner is worth an Atlantic voyage; that there is ne good meat except pork, and that no othercountry cam eqital us in corn cakes, vegetables and fruits, An English magazinist says that the manikin jockey of his country, who ts petted like a prima donna and is paid more than a prime minister, used to be sented with watches, rings and cigars, but aad has become the custom to give onty money. ey who won @ Derby race received money ine jewelry to the amount of $20,000. The regttlar fee for winners is five guineas, which sum, for lack of success, is reduced to three guiness. Yet ono jockey two years ago received about $49,000 for the season in fees and presents, He was eiyutcom years old,