The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1878—TRIPLE sHEET. NEW YORK HERALD |" ®™ Soot rene BROADWAY AND aeiealatipbiiedicuoanes JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, MESES ERE THE DAILY NWERALD, puttished every day i) Sliree cents per copy iS iuded). Ten en their vid as ‘AML busines be addressed . 12 SOUTH sixtu | NEW YORK HERALD— ‘aud advertise e sane terns i TO-NIGHT. T Penerant. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. E—FOUNDLINGS. BOWERY TE NEW YORK AQUARI BOOTS THEATRE—Lass 0° Lownie s. STANDARD THEATRE—Atxost a Lire. LYCEUM THEATRE BROADWAY THEATRI TIVOLI THEATER KURTZ GALLERY—. TONY PASTOR'S—Vawi EGYPTIAN HALE—Vau ABERLE’S AMERIC BAN FRANCISCO MIN: BROAD ST. THEATRE, PHILADELPHIA—Unciz Daw TRIPLE SHEET. MBER 4, 187 NEW YORK, WEDS The probabilities are that the weather in New Yori? and. its vicinity to-day will be warm, with rain or snow. To-morrow it will be colder and parily cloudy, with strong winds. Watt Srrerr Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was active but feverish. Gold was rather weaker. selling at 10014, Government bonds were firm, States steady and railroads strong. Money on call wag easy at 2Jy a 3 per cent. Mayor-Evecr Cooper seems to be in a hurry to get in. He took the oath of office yesterday. Tne Lawyers are again in lack. If reports be true there is a fifty million dollar suit ahead in regard to the ownership of the city picra, _Ir tue Resotvutions in Congress yesterday looking io the abrogation of the Bancroft treaty pass American citizenship will be at a pre- mium in Germany. Wesrriztp, im New Jersey, is threatened with a dose of the Blue Laws by the pious peo- ple whose churches cannot stand the heavy Sune day opposition of the drug stores and barber EMENT of the purchase by the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad Company of two squares in the upper portion of the city, for con- struction shops, will be good news to mechanics and real estute owners. Now that the yellow fever is at an/end a | section of the Potter Committee is thinking of going back to New Orleans. It will do well to keep out of the way of Mrs. Jenks, who is worse than halt a dozen epideniies. Wues, in accordance with the request of the Aldermen, the elevated raiiroad structures are painted white, so that they ean see them, it is uot improbable that they will behold two roads where they cannot now iind ore. Ir Lirigayts axp Lawyens desire to have their referees sworn they must uot, one of the judges decides, wait until he has reported against them; notwithstanding the new Code the o!d law of waiver is still in force. Ir Ayy One ha piece of ground near the city suitable for a ritle rangeand which he would be ing to sell for less than a million dollars | now ia the time to speak. A committee of the National Rifle Association is looking for a more eligible place than Creedmoor. Mr. Corntx, one of General Grant's brotiers- in-law, thinks the report that the ex-President | has been thought of for King of Bulgaria “too funny for anything.” He admits, however, that he has no information on the subject, his dis- tinguished relative not having honored him with is confidence in regard to candidacy. Mr. Biare’s Southern election resolution is | so acceptable to the democratic Senators that | they have determined to vote for it, provided it | is made broad enough to include all the Stats, | Of course Mr. Blaine cannot reject so reasonable an amendment, which will fully cover Mr. Davenport's peculiar operations in this city. Tue Weatne: over our dist the ocean off entre that passed. } ton Monday is now moving iawith increased ener | Another centre of disturbence bas moved into | the lake regions from the Northwest, and is ad- vaucing rapid)y eastward, attended by raius, snows and strong winds. The barometer is sbove the mean in the West and the Gulf and South Atlantic States. Rain and snow have falleu in the New England States, the lake regions and the central valley districts. The wiuds have beeu iresh to brisk on the Mid- die Atlan and New England coast and the lake ions, brisk to high in the North west and West, und generally light elsewhere. The temperature bus fallen in the lake regions, the Middle Atlantic States and the Gulf dis i szicts. it has risen generally in the other sec- tions, As the pressure is rising but slowly, Zollowing the disturbance that is over Nova Beotia, it is very likely that the centre of the advancing depression will pass over our dis- triet, there being no area of high barometer in front of it that would tehd to throw it more to the north. .This storm centre, like the one that has just passed, will, no doubt, be | very severe along the coast north of Cape Hatteras. Vessels going to Northern ports will experience very bad weather dusting to-day and part of tomorrow. The strongest winds will blow from the west and northwest. We print elsewhere an account of @ terrible rain storm in and about Caraccas, the capital ef Venezuela. Over four inches of rain fell within an hour, causing floods in the agricnitural districts. ‘The numerous and heavy rains that fell in Maine have produced damaging freshets throughout the manufacturing sections. The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be warm and clowdy, with rain or snow. To-morrow it will be colder aud partly doudy, with strong winds, | the South the region of writtgn law. In the interesting extracts presented in Saturday’s Hrnaxp from Dr. Moritz Busch’s volumes of-the Prince Bismurck’s table- talk the point of greatest importance was the clear insight afforded into the German Chancellor's views upon the question of race—the great key-note of modern politics and statesmanship. These views ot the Chancellor have guided his conduct through- out his momentous career, and it becomes. a matter of extreme importance to ascertain whether, when subjected tothe keen, bright sunlight of publicity, they prove to be scientifically correct. It is not a question of sympathies, but of facts.. Nobody can blame the Chancellor for preferring his own race to all others, but it may be that he is not accurately informed even upon that topic. Ever since the disaster of Sedan French ethnologists of repute have dwelt with evident satisfaction upon the thesis that the Prussians are not really Germans, after all, but that the basis of that nation- ality is Slavic. Deprived of rhetorical bom- bast end of a good deal of special pleading the statement rests upon a substantial basis of fact. Inthe daysof Roman suprem- acy the territory now known as Prussia was almost exclusively Slavic, while o great part of what is now North Ger- many was Celtic. Although controverted by ultra-Saxop writers of the school of Freeman, it is nevertheless intrinsically probable that Homer's Cimmerians, trom whom the name of the Crimea is derived, and the Cimbri who fought against Marius with the Teutories and left their name to the Cimbric Chersonese, now Denmark, were identical with the Cymry of Welsh tra- dition, whence the names Cambria and Cumberland. The German argument is to the effect that the Cimbri of Marius were so intimately associated with their allies, the Teutones, that they must have been of com- mon descent; .ergo, the Cimbri were not of Celtic, but of Germanic race. The premises of the argument are sound, but they have recently been turned with great effect to prove the converse of the above conclusion— namely, that the Teutones themselves were Celtic and that the name was adopted at a later period by Germanic invaders, from the people whom they subdued, just as the offi- cial designation of Great Britain recognizes the fact that the substructure of British na- tionality is not Germanic or Scandinavian, but Celtic. When Prince Bismarck contrasts the French with the Germans, upon the assump- tion of the Celtic character of the former, he ignores a fact of the firsts importance— namely, that the French are quite as com- posite a race as any in Europe. It will not do to call the French simply Celts; they are Roman as well, and they are also Germanic just so faras they are Frankish, They, are, moreover, Basque, Belgian and Scandinavian to a considerable degree, but it is upon the Romano-Celtic union that the greatness of France rests. ‘The very name of France, as derived from the Franks, is a misnomer, for the lifeblood of Gaul and Gallic civilization has always re- pelled the Frankish feudalism, which be- came predominant in the North, and by adcidental consolidations, rather than by conquest, imposed its name upon the whole country. It is well known to legal students since the time of Montesquien that modern France was divided into two great sections as regards its local laws, the North being the region of customary law, It is not so well understood, however, that the legal frontier was also an ethno- logical frontier, that the inhabitants of Northern and Southern France are really two peoples. What Prince Bismarck asserts of the ‘‘French,” therefore, must be taken with the qualification that it does not apply to the people of Frankish descent, but to the Celts, in whom he has rightly recognized the “predominant element. He was wrong in not drawing the distinction clearly, and doubly wrong in not recognizing that it was with the Celtic element alone that Roman civilization became assimilated. When the German Chancellor amuses him- self by classifying the French into “two nations—Parisians who rule, and provin- cials who delight in being slaves’—he just misses making a valuable generalization. There are, in fact, two nations in France, as we have shown above, but the distinction does not lie as between Parisians and pro- vincials. That is a purely eccidental dis- tinction, one which holds to a greater or less degree between every great capital and the remainder of the country. When the provincials settle in Paris they become Parisians ‘‘with all that the name implies,” and vice versa, The distinction would be the same if Paris should exchange its population en masse with the smaller cities | and rural districts. The Chancellor was upon the verge of stating a fact of prime importance, when he said that ‘‘in 1789 the Germanic nobility of Gaul were put down by the native Celt.” Add to the ‘native Cel” the element of Roman blood and civilization, and the re- mark is not only true, but is the traest of all possible generalizations concerning that Revolution which, with its .train of con- sequences, was the greatest fact of modern European history. Headers of Carlyle and Taine are beginning to be familiar with the idea, which cannot be too strongly pressed, that the French Revolution wasa revolt against ‘‘feadalism.” Translated into other words it was a successful revindication of Gallo-Koman tradition against the intrusive Frankish element. As Prince Bismarck properly points out, the great nobility which perished on the guillotine and whose vast estates were confiscated for the benefit of the small proprietors, were chiefly of Frankish descent, In the favorable estimate which the Chan- cellor expresses of the Engiish and the Americans he is, of course, complimenting that ‘‘Anglo-Saxon” raee which is so nearly akin tothe modern Teutons. But Prince Bismarck las not a word to say in reference to the Celtic elements which enter so largely into our race that it might pruperly be called the Celto-Angiian, Whatever the Greens and Freemans may write, it is cer- tain that not only are the Celtic, Eose, Gael .and Cymry the only unmixed portions of the British people, but that the inhabitants of England herself are quite as much descended from the Britanno-Roman population of the. fifth century as from the Anglians, Frisians and Ju- tish adventurers, who, unaccompanied by their wives, gained a foothold sas warriors upon British soil, And had the penetration of the Chancellor been as great as is generally believed he might have seen that the ultimate solution of the political questions which agitate the United King- dom can be no other than a union of the Celtic element of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and of England herself in a sort of Pan- Celtic contraternity, which will ultimately abolish the remnants of a feudalism im- ported from the Continent, and establish a systein more in accordance with the genuine repnblicanism inherent in Roman and Celtic blood. It must not be overlooked that the people of thethree Celtic races of the British Islands are dissenters, both in politics and religion, from the dominant systems in England. Scotland is Presby- terian, Wales is Baptist and Congregational, while Ireland is Catholic, and in none of these portions of the United Kingdom was the feudal system ever firmly planted, [t must soon go to the wall, and the chief agent in this political revolution will be the “Celtic blood” which Prince Bismarck so strangely depreciates. General Shermam On the Indians. The General of the Army appeared and testified yesterday before the Committee of Congress appointed to inquire into the ex- pediency ot transterring the management ot the Indians from the Department of the Interior tothe War Department. The re- markable quickness and penetration of this officer, and his thorough acquaintance with the Indian country and all that has been done in it since the close of the civil war, give to kis opinion a value and authority which belong to that of no other individual. Still, if his views were found to differ from those of other army officers of equal or nearly equal experience among the Indians, such conflict of views might cause distrust in the soundness of General Sherman’s judgment on this subject. Butin point of fact there is no such conflict. Every army officer of eminent standing who has served long in the Indian country and knows it well, including General Sheridan, General Pope and many others, holds precisely the same views on this question as General Sherman. It is only people who have not had their opportunities ‘that impugn their judgment. When Secretary Schurz holds one opinion on a question of Indian policy and General Sherman holds another, the opinion of the Seerctary being supported only by civilian agents and that of the General indorsed by all the higher officers in the army, it looks ‘too much like ignorance pitting itself against knowledge. An amusing illustration of the liability of the Secretary of the Interior to be im- posed upon by his Indian agents is afforded by the dispute respecting the quality the water at Fort Sill. One of the chief ; direction, for socialism concerns the entire | Deealogue. ‘ bd The War in Afghanistan. Operations in Afghanistan have reached apparently very nearly the point at which they will stand still ‘or the winter, Shovld the fighting actually on hand in the Peiwar Pass not be in its results all that the British commanders would like there may be some continued activity on that line, but the seem likely to remain where they are, the outset the purpose of 2 movement this was desired only to get positions from which a rapid advance might be made more advantageously next season, and it was even thought that the Khyber column would go only to Ali Musjid; but as prepa- rations went on that intention seemed to be | forgotten, and we heard of the plan \#o push one force forward to Jelalabad jand the other to Kandanar., he first | portion of this scheme may be carried ont at | once if Jelalabad hus really been evacuated. | But there was trouble with the Kwettah | Kandahar column, and it was evident that a | very slight resistance on the part of the en- emy at that point, added to the natural dif- ficulties that had to be overeome, would | cause serious trouble. General Roberts’ column found the enemy in its tront and did not get on rapidly, and had {o even halt and get things in shape to storm a strong post that the enemy seemed disposed to contest with a will. Monday was appointed for that storm, and our despatches report ‘the fact of the figh:. With thease two columns held in check the Khyber column could not go very far without more dunger than it was wise to venture, and the facility with which the pass can be closed behind that column, as shown a few (lays since, is a lesson, perhaps, not lost on the military administration. So the intention to stop it at’Dakka is resumed, and the fighting.at Peiwar is ali we shall hear of this winter. Postal Savings Banks. The plan proposed by Secretary Sherman in his annual report to facilitate the invest- ment ot small savings in government bonds isastep in the right direction, but it is altogether inadequate to the wants of the laboring classes. Its adoption would only afford them a chance for making permanent investments, but a majority of them are not ina condition to put their money where they cannot readily draw it from time to time as they may have occas‘on to use it. We prefer Mr. Sherman’s proposal to noth- ing. Itis very well so far as it goes and ‘it might lead to something better. What the Secretary recommends is the passage of a law authorizing bonds for so small a sum as ten dollars, and to make the post offices agents for their sale. _The ‘Lreasury would issue certificates of deposit for sums not less than ten dollars, bearing interest at the rate of 3 65-100 per cent. per | annum, these certificates being exchangeable of | for four per cent bonds of the sxme amount at any time within a year, It is probable reasons alleged for the removal of the-| that a considerable amount of four per cent Indian agency from that point was the badness of the water. General Sher- man thought this reason a ridiculous display of ignorance, and in his written indorsement of General Sheridan he stated on his personal knowledge that the water is excellent. This seemed a staggering blow, but Mr. Schurz thonght he could parry it. To be sure, he replied, the water at Fort Sill is good enough, but the stream which supplies it runs through the post and is contaminated by its filth before it reaches the Indians, who are located below. This answer has the same defect as the orfginal statement—it is founded on a ludicrous error of fact, General Sherman is reported to have testified yesterday that the Indian encampment is not below the post, but above it, suggesting a new application of the old. fable of the lamb and the wolf. When the wolf accused the lamb of roiling the water the defence of the latter was not more logically perfect than General Sher- man's reply to the charge that the soldiers defile the water at Fort Sill. The wolf was up stream, like the Indians. This incident shows how easily Mr. Schurz can be prac- tised upon by his civilian informants, and illustrates the difference between Sherman and Schurz in the quality of their knowl- edge of the Indian country. General Sherman maintains that the pres- ent Indiarf system is bad economy, because it requires two organizations to do the work which might be performed by one; that the present system creates Indian wars instead of preventing them, because it is a cireum- locution office which does not permit prompt action to nip difficulties in their first stages ; that it is unjust and inhumane, because it exposes the Indians to be de- franded by dishonest traders. It is under- stood that Mr. Schuyz is to appear before the committee and give rebutting testimony on Friday. It is one of the cheering signs of the times that several sermons upon socialism were preached in this city last Sunday. We are not of those who belicve that socialism or any kindred absurdity can ever reach dangerous proportions in this country, but so long as a few knaves and many half-thinkers are urging it as n general ponacea tor personal grievances, and many of the destitute and discouraged are believ- ing what is told them on the subject, it is proper that the moral aspects of the vaunted institution should be discussed by all teachers and custodians of the public conscience, The best antidote for social- ism is a line of teaching that shall enable the misinformed and discontented to comprehend that the happiest, strongest, menliest individual is he who takes care of himself, Such teachings are fully within the power and scope of the Church, and are indicated by more Scriptural reflections, injunctions and historical passages than any preacher can avail himself ot betore social- ism becomes a dead issue in America. Bee sides, all pastors bave ready made au- diences whose confidence is already secured, and are justified by their profession in ape plying to the subject those high moral tests which, in spite of human selfishness, the world is all the while accepting toa large degree, and becoming better by doing so. eonds could be disposed of by this method, enabling the government to call in a corresponding amount of six per cent bonds and save two per cent interest. Besides benefiting the Treasury it would be a convenience to such people of moderate means as can part with their money for some length of time. But its chief advantage would be in paving the way for regular postal savings banks, such as are working satisfuctorily in Eng- land, in Canada andin many other coun- tries, What the wages-earriing classes need is something similar to an ordinary savings bank in convenience, without its risk and hazard. People who have but little money need to keep it within their immediate control, so that they may be pre- pared for the ever-recurring accidents of life. If the wages-carning members of a family are thrown out of employment they must pay the butcher and the grocer outof their savings. Ifa daughter is to be married, if a journey is to be made, if Christmas or birthday presents are to be given, if a doctor's bill is to be paid, if fu- ner.l charges are to be met, if the family isto be removed toa distant city or State, cash is convenient and a bond inconvenient, be- cause the bond would have to be sold at a shave. What is necessary for the protection of small earnings is the convenience of a savings bank united with the perfect secu- rity of a government bond. Wooden Cages. A few days ago at Special Sessions a man was found guilty of the offence of keeping dogs shut upin close wooden cages, and was sentenced to pay a fine or suffer im- prisonment. No doubt the penulty was properly exacted. Tut afew days ago an unexpected examination of the Onondaga Poorhouse disclosed the fact that pauper lunatics were confined in close wooden cages in a cellar of the insane asylum, and ‘treated more like wild beasts than like human beings cr domestic animals, We have not yet heard of the arrest and pun- ishment of the poorhouse authorities for their brutal treatment of these afflicted creatures. We have not even seen an uc- count of their removal from office. Do the Onondaga county people regard their in- sane poor as of less consequence than New York dogs, and are the Supervisors of that county prepared to become responsible, by inaction, for the inhuman conduct of their appointees ? Cover Them Up. We may expect a fall of snow at any mo- ment now that we have entered upon the Christmas month, The people look to the elevated railroads as a most valuable relief from former obstructions to travel in case of a heavy storm and a snow blockade. But how are they to get to the east side elevated stations if the stairways are to be left un- covered and to become blocked with snow and rendered not only difficult to ascend and descend, but absolutely dangerons to life and limb? his will assuredly be the case unless the stairs are properly roofed, as they now are partially on the Metro- politan road. The railroad authorities may suppose that it will bo easy enough to shovel off the snow and sweep Kwettoh column and the Peshawur colwun | At | | year was explained on the theory that it | their mistake when a snow storm is upon us, Every stairway leading to the clevated stations should be properly roofed, and it would be well if canvas should be provided and arrangements made for speedily putting up and changing at will side coverings as | well, so as to prevent the snow from blow- ing in, and to protect the passengers trom the | harp winter winds as they ‘nseend and | | descend, Nothing is, more certain than | that the steep stairs will become nothing better than so many shatts of solidly packed | means are adopted to cover them in. It will be to the advantage of the roads to attend to this very necessary matter without delay. : ° Congress. The House of Representatives made an excellent beginning of the important work of the session yesterday by passing two of the Appropriation bills, one for the sup- port of the Military Academy and the other | | for the fortifications. If this prompt | attention to business is continued Congress will not be pressed for time toward the close of the session, and there will be less danger of the passage of ernde and mischievous legislation as | the day of adjournment approaches. It was of course natural that a large number of bills should have been intro- duced. Not oneinten of them will, as- suredly, ever be heard of again. In the Senate the Texas and Pacific Railroad sub-. sidy project put in an early appearances un- der the sponsorship of Mr. Stanley Mat- thews, who advocated its pas-age, Mr..) Matthews’ magnificent ideas are not likely to be carried out this year. In accordance with the suggestion of the Secretary of the Treasury Mr Morrill introduced a bill pro- viding for the issue of certificates of deposit as low as ten dollars in exchange for coin or United States notes bearing interest at the rate of 3 65-100 per cent perannum andcon- | yertible into .our percent bonds. Mr. Beck submitted resolutions asking information in regard to silver payments by the Treasury, and the standing committees were reap- pointed. The proceedings in both houses were devoid of all political excitement. “Crib-Cracking” in China, To our baffled Dogberries, who have failed equally to discover the man who stabbed Al- derman Morris, the Manhattan Bank burglars or the Stewart grave robbers, a crumb of comiort.comes from afar-off. In China it seems the professionals ‘‘crack cribs” too, and escape—at jeast in Hong Kong. In the latter British colony almost the en- tire. revenue is devoted to a police foree recruited from the Indian Sepoys, whose numbers may be guessed from the service costing three-quarters of a mill- ion dollars per annum. There are banks and warehouses and gold dealers’ establish- ments in plenty, so that we have all the conditions for a comparison. Now it seems that the Chinese brethren of the “jimmy” concluded to relieve a Chinese gold dealer hundred. armed men, turned out the gas, posted sentinels in true burglar fashion, and then coolly ‘cracked the crib.” They found a safe and they set to work on it; they hammered it; they pounded it; they made noise enough to awaken the neighbors, though they could not open the safe, The alarmed neighbors called to all the gods in the Chinese calendar and the thieves shéuted fire. Then came the po- lice, like all true police, armed with clubs when they should have been armed with pistols. Atan order from the burglar chief all hands were piped to repel Dogberries, and after a couple of the police had been speared the remainder thought it best to hurry home for more deadly weapons. Then the sweating burglars returned to the obstinate safe and pounded and hammered it again, When tired of this they retreated to their steam tug as calmly as they came, ond have not been heard of since, It is true that one Chinaman was killed, but a Chinaman, more or, less, is of lit- tle account in China. Since that night in September clews that led to the water's edge, and nowhere else, have been plenty in Hong Kong. Now let our “sleuthhounds of the law” take comfort, With bloodhound or terrier they tracked the late Mr. Stewart's remains to the church- yard railings ; they traced the stolen bonds Let the Church do its whole duty in this | down the stairs, but they will find out| fore the money voted is expended his hazardons enterprise may be more or less secured from failure. Should it turn out that the caution ot the delegation arises more from a jealous regard to their con. stitutional rights than flat opposition te Andrassy’s schemes he may carry his point after being smartly lectured; but the lesson will not be thrown away upon the imperial statesman. ‘To know that he has to reckon for his official acts with the sextuple Parlia- ment of Austria-Hungary will make him more careful than he has been. It is another snow iff case of a heavy fall, unless some} blow at the “heroic” system of interna- tional politics, which deals in grand strokes, and throws the results belore the people to like or dislike as they please, but in any ease to pay for and stand by. The power held by the Austro-Hungarian Pariiamenta over the ambitious Count is in sharp contrast to the helplessness of thé ‘‘constitutional” English beiore the fantastic policy of Earl Beaconsfield, which has saddled them with | Cyprus on one hand and the Aighan War on the other—whether they are pleased or soured, Cairo, Til, has a Rev. B, Y. George. Jett. Davis’ saddle is owned in Georgia. Georgia people are enjoying watermelons on ice. Toombs has celebrated his forty-eighth wedding anniversary. A young man in a Memphis theatre laughed so much at Colonel Sellers that he fell in a fit. ‘The Secretary of the Navy is improving in health, but it was thought prudent that he should not leave his house yesterday. New Orleans Picayune:—“If you want to know what new books arc out just go to a circulating library and try to borrow them.” y Madison (Fud.) Herald:—“Except the New York HeEnALp, the Cincinnati Enquirer is the best newspa- per published in the world.” ‘The condition of Mr. Frederick Gye, who scciden- tally shot himself while gunning near Oxford on the 28th ult., is believed to be hopeless. . Fourteen of the crack shots of Augusta, Ga., shot at 140 glass balls—ten e224. One of the balls was bit, and the man who hit it won a silver cup. Dean Stanley has conseated to the erection of a memorial window to the late Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer, in Westminster Abbey. Senator Sargent, of California, was unable to ap- pear in the Senate Chamber yesterday owing to a relapse from his recent illness, He was better last night. y James Mace, the ex-charupion, has two sons who are preachers among the Plymouth Brethren, one of them.being a young man of striking promise and ability. 3 i ‘The Chicago Zines is hereby informed that Mr, Hayes announced himself as devoted to only one term, .It may have been unnecessary for him to say it, but he did. It is reported in @ Berlin letter to the London Globe that some of the gencrals and high dignitaries: bitterly offended at the libellous attacks alleged by Dr. Busch to have been made by Prince Bismarck against them, intend applying to the law for redress. Chicago Journal:—“Pretty soon the fashionable thing will be to invest in presents for friends—candy to make the children sick, Slippers to make men catch cold, silverware for young couples who always board, smoking caps for people who have no spare change to invest in cigars, and other like purchases.’” Saturday Review:—‘Expressiong which are ap- parently fanciful and illogical are sometimes more telling than others in which no criticism could find a flaw. For instance, the curious and rather awkward phrase ‘giving the cold shoulder’ has acquired by usage a force which could scarcely be equalled by the of his treasure, so at night they landed a | -most faultless English.” Agirlof twenty from Missouri went to San Francisco, and donning boy's attire seemed to be about fifteen, obtained « situation as paper carrier early in the morning and another as candy maker at night, and during the day attended schoo), studying very hard. She was suspected and she confessed that she is a girl, saying that she could get work more easily as a boy. London Court Journal:—‘‘What will be thought of the United States shipping plum pudding to England, potatoes to Ireland, oatmeal to Scotland, toys to Nuremberg and lager beer to Germany? Yet such are the facts, and they are no more astonishing thag the now thrice-told tale of the regular and profitable sale of American cotton goods in Manchester and American cutlery and hardware in Birmingham.” London World :—*‘Once more the smile of Majesty, itself is to gladden the hearts of the histrions. On the occasion of the marriage of His Royal Highness the Duke of Contiaught Mr. Henry Irving has been commanded to provide a dramatic entertainment at Windsor Castle. Since the lamented death of the Prince Consort the Quecn has not entered the walle of # theatre or witnessed a play—unless, indeed, the costume recitals (as they were called), given by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan and Mr. Alexander Yorke, can be so termed. May this happy occasion be the com- mencement of a new era!” FINE ARTS. ART STUDENTS’ LEAGUR MONTHLY EXHIBITION. ‘The Art Students’ League gave their usual monthly art reception and exhibition at their rooms in Fifth avenue last evening. The display of pictares, atadies in oil and ‘water colors, charcoal sketches and pen and inks was, we think, the best exbibit yet made, and was thoroughly enjoyed by those present. These monthly exhibitions are to the door of the bank, and they followed | pjcasant affairs to attend, for there is élways a good the assassin’s knife to the outside of the | deal worth sceing. Much credit should be given to Alderman’s coat—and the Hong Kong police | the committee of League members who get up the have done no better. ‘There is one point of | Mite collections: fr tee, aie veron thelr walle i difference in the story worthy of note—the | always full of life and snap and eminently artistic old Chinese dealer in gold did not give the | toned portrait of Duveneck, my Professor Chase's well admirably ion” fae mens Haan wae einen oie Le ‘. j . west wall of the life room, y it were some pesecircniss ici the janitor. tures loaned by him; “A Wet Day on a River Side,” c= by Velton; an example of the work of the talented Honorable and Honest, pobre age age strong gg of ate : s a! 'y . nl 01 — A savings bank in New Hampshire has ”, Lenbach a stare’ by Duveneet, van a i i 7 colorful le ei « by fe upp. Near failed, with about three hundred thousand Gave ‘a little landscape ands rock wtudy by dollars due to depositors, and it is stated | Robert Minor; several effective studies of Venetian that almost one-haif of the resources are in- | $21 other noenes by, 2. f. Banner: wom cubes Oe manages ‘® private banking house as well, and it is alleged, according to the tele- graphic report of the failure, that the funds of the former have been used in the opera- tions of the latter, in violation of the Sav- ings Bank law. At’the same time we are informed that the Bank Commissioners of the State have made an investigation, and find nothing but ‘honorable and honest conduct” on the part of the treasurer. From this we are bound to believe that the savings of the poor people who intrusted their money to the institution that has closed its doors were not made use of by the treasurer in the operations of his own private banking enterprise, os such an illegal application of the deposits would honest conduct. Count Andrassy’s DiMicalty, The “Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs is not yet over his troubles. The Budget Committee of the Austrian Delegation has made a compromise with him by which Jess than hulf the sum needed for the expenses of the Bosnian occupation has been granted and the whole question in its political aspect left open for the meet- ing of the fall delegations, possibly by them to be relegated to the Parliaments. The gain by the Count is, however, an im- portant one, for it gives him time, and be- certainly be anything but honorable and | og Brown's ‘kling, i onal 5 iti fishing life at the Grand Menan, and a strik- veated in personal and collateral secur! ties, =m ee tae Little te Bie The treasurer of the suspended institution | weil known art patron by SO Renetne On the south wall were — hun; se fine charcoal sketches from nature by 3. Ho} kinsom Smith, They are executed with great skill, work being broad and quick and yet full of suggestive and delicate beyond There was bust and a tile club portrait, modelled by William B. O'Donovan. In- teresting studies in .oil snd water colors, b; Touis C. Tiffany, were on the north r as were & couple of oil studies by 1. W. Wood. A number of A. F. Banner's excellent pen and ink sketches in Rothenburg, Bavaria and Venice iam with etchings by Fortuny and Whistler, Inthe joining portrait class room were arranged on ® screen over the fireplace, decorated with tiles by Winslow Homer, a number of his delicious little water color pastorals, some of the excellent resulte of his sum- amer’s work, WRECK OF (BY TRLEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) New Lonpor, Conn., Dec, 3, 1878, ‘The steamer John Bramhall, ashore on Little Gull Island, broke up during the night, and not » vestige of her ia to be seen this morning. Tho southerly A STEAMER. on Monday created s heavy sea, which struck with terrae force, tod under it she went to pieces. ‘The wrecking steamer Ielief left here early Mo! morning, being tinable ‘tg live in the heavy swe! ‘The Bramhall was to have been sold at auction in New York to-day. My SSE i A WAR ON BEER. (sy TELEGRAPH To THE HORALD,] Norwicn, Conn., Dec. 3, 1878. City Attorney Ripley to-day arrested twenty parties for selling Schenck beer, which is alleged to be am intoxicant, Forty more writs are to be issued against parties to-morrow, and it really looke-as ti the attorney was destined to become the wealthiest man in this section. The State guarantees §10 on each cotoplaint. Brewers and chemists from abroad will be called pon to testify, The preliminary trial wild commence next week, to whick time the cases are nearly all adjourned,