The New York Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1878, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD | "sz" naar witness BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. £ Papers. Weare glad that Mr. Wood is setting on foot JAMES GORDON, BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, an investigation of the proceedings of John I. Davenport, Chief Supervisor of Elections, in causing the arrest and imprisonment of 4 innocent persons in the late election. It is Mirencmte yer ogy undape excluded” Tou Golturd’pet | m proper thing to do from Mr. Wood's own Year, or at a rate of one dollar per month for “ . ate : thee i als months, or ve doll jars for six mi point of view, but it is more important for WEEKLY HER. a reason which is quite beyond the scope of “SOTICE 10 SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on New | his intentions. The Hznaup has been in- York or Post Office money ord: nd where neither of these sisting, for several months, on the neces- sity of so revising the present method of naturalization as to make it more strict, efficient and trustworthy, and we are dis- posed to bestow upon this movement of Mr. Wood greater warmth of approval than it would otherwise deserve because it may be utilized in fixing public attention on the slovenly and scandalous manner in which aliens are transformed into citizens. We have no doubt at all that many of the naturalization certificates granted in 1868 were fraudulent, and we desire to see the door shut and bolted against the repetition of similar frauds hereatter. If any good comes of the proposed investigation it will consist chiefly in the stimulus it will give to a revision of the method of naturaliza- tion, Mr. Davenport's conduct ought to be in- vestigated and exposed, but exposure is probably the only punishment which will be inflicted on him. Davenport’s abuse of authority will come within the scope of Mr. Blaine’s resolution if passed with Mr. Thurman’s amendment, but as a majority of the Blaine committee will be republicans they will give their first and chief attention to the alleged Southern outrages and may not reach Davenport's highhanded doings before the close of the session, The sub- ject is too important to be slurred over, and Mr. Wood has done well in starting a separate investigation which will secure due prominence to Daven- port’s audacious intimidation of New York voters. Hundreds of naturalized citi- zens were frightened from the polls by Davenport’s threats and his execution of them toa sufficient extent to show that he was in earnest. Timid holders of natural- ization certificates issued in 1868 did not care enough for the right of voting to brave arrest and imprisonment, although they were innocent of any deception in procur- ing their papers. They quailed before Davenport’s broad and bold charge that —_—_—_—_ the certificates given that year in this city In Rio Janemo the smallpox is unusually | were fraudulent. Fe ieips the mortality being upward of four hun- Judge Blatchford, of the United States niin Circuit Court, has decided that Davenport ‘was wrong, and this judicial action gives a strong color of justice to Mr. Wood’s deter- mination to investigate and punish him. The resolution offered yesterday contem- plates no other punishment than removal ; and asthe ordinary power of removal be- longs to the President there is no likeli- hood that it will be exercised in this case. ‘The other power of removal by the cum- brous process of impeachment cannot be invoked in a case like the present, for Dav- enport is not a commissioned officer. The investigation is of course undertaken for political effect, but such exposures are fair means of party warfare. There can be no justification for the strategy of intimidation adopted by Mr. Davenport. Most certainly a fraudulent naturalization certificate does not entitle its holder to vote, but it is primi facie evi- dence of the right and is to be accepted as valid until it is revoked or annulled by the judgment of a competent court. Just as every naturalization certificate is the result of a separate judicial proceeding, so every annulment must likewise be the result of separate action by some proper court. However fraudulent they may be they can- not be cancelled in the lump, but only one by one as the consequence of a judicial inquiry. A certificate of naturalization granted by acompetent court in this city entitles the owner to all the privileges of citizenship, not only here, but in every part of the United States. No court in any other State can call its validity in question. The federal constitution declares that “full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other State.” The granting of a certificate of naturaliza- tion by a State court is a judicial pro- ceeding, and the constitution requires that fall faith and ¢redit shall be given to it in all the other States. If the person whom Davenport arrested and Judge Blatchford discharged had removed to Connecticut or California his certificate of naturalization would have been accepted as perfectly valid in his new residence and could not have been taken from him at the mere beck ofa supervisor of elections. ‘The laws make it a complete title to all rights and immuni- ties of citizenship, not only in every part of the United States but in voyages at seaand in foreign countries. It authorizes him to invoke the protection of our government in all foreign lands where he may be subjected to injury. A court of justice in Oregon or Texas, or a United States consul at Hong Kong must necessarily accept the certificate and seal of a New York court as complete evidence of citizenship, and it seems a preposterous assumption that an un- scrupulous party politician should be allowed to set it aside without a previous judicial inquiry and determination. ‘Ihe absurdity is heightened when ten years have elapsed since the certificate was given. From 1868 to 1878 is twice the length of time an alicn must reside in the country to qualify him for naturalization, and it seems a harsh proceeding to fling him into prison after so long a residence on a vagne charge of informalities in some of the certificates granted at so remote a date, without any proof that the particular certificate which he holds was defective either in form or substance. The important lesson to be drawn from the loose and perfunctory way in which naturalization papers are too often granted is the necessity of a thorongh change in the existing laws on this point. It will not do to reason as if the elective franchise were the only right conferred by naturalization. Some of the Western States do not require that voters shall be citizens but only resi- dents, and any State that chooses may in e. ALD—One dollar per year, free of post- changed must give ‘All busines De addressed Ni 1 Letters and packages should Rejected communications will SER ADRE PEA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OPFICE—49 A J NAPLES OFFICE—NO. RADA P. Subscriptions aud udvertisoments will be received and forwarded on the sume terms as in New York. graphic despatches must roperly sealed. t be returned, VOLUME XLII AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, pice No NIBLO'S GARDEN—Axooxp tax Wortp 1x Eicnty Days. GRAND OPERA HOU Ocn Boagpine House, PARK THEATRE—Comxpy or Ernous. THEATRE COMIQUE—Lonaaine. LYCEUM THEATRE—Dou BROADWAY THEAT! ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Canuxs BOWERY THEATRE—Tu. WALLACK’S THEATR! GERMANIA THEATRE UNION SQUARE TH RE i ManAGH STANDARD THEATER! FIFTH AVENUE Til KATHARINE AND Peri TIVOLI THEATRE—V NEW YORK AQUARI' TONY PASTOR’S—Vane ABERLE'S AMERI SAN FRANCISCO MI EGYPTIAN HALL—Y. WINDSOR THEATRE. BROAD ST. THEAT TRIPLE S __NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER ‘The probabilities are that the weather in New Fork and itsvicinity to-day will be cold and fair or partly cloudy. To-morrow it promises to be cold and clear. Watt Srreer Yesrervay.—The stock market was less active and stocks were irregular in price. Gold was quiet all day at 1001g. Gov- ernment bonds were firm, States steady and railroads strong. Money on call was easy at 3 & 31g a 21g per cent. Tuere Is at Le one bond of sympathy between us and the city of Tokio—our population is almost exactly the sane. Senator Bex Hu figures rather unpleas- antly in a railroad transaction down in Georgia. And Mr. Hill is not a carpet-bagger either. Tuere Is Reason to Fear that the founda- tions of Fredericksburg and forty miles around will be upturned in the effort to find the re- mains of Mr. Stewart. Pie Lare Storm raged with terrible effect in portions of Pennsylvania. Along the banks of the Susquehanna for fifty miles the destruction of froperty is enormons. Hanrvarv’s discourteous treatment of Cor- nell’s challenge has so nettled the latter univer- sity that it has withdrawn it. Perhaps Har- vard feared another defeat. Tur Reverations elsewhere printed in regard to the management of the City of Glasgow Bank show that we still have a good deal to learn in the line of financial miemanagement. Wat Has Become or tHe Fers of Judge Pinckney’s court! The late clerk of that model establishment declares that he never made a single return to the Comptroller's office. Javan, It Is Rerorren, is all right financially. Her paper circulation is only one hundred and fifty million dollars, which is much less than ‘was supposed, aud there is no intention of ask- ing a foreign Joan. It Witt Be Seen from our federal Supreme Court reports that the chief grounds upon which the Pacific railroads refuse to acknowl edge the claim of the government to five per cent of their net earnings are that they ought not be compelled to pay on the unsubsidized portionsof the road, and that in computing ‘‘net interest and running expenses should be deducted from the gross receipts. Concress was pretty industrious yesterday. ‘The Fortitieation and Military Academy Appro- priation bills and the Arkansas Hot Springs bill were passed by the Senate and the Pension bill by the House. The joint committee on the reorganization of the army presented their re- port. Thero was a short debate on the G Award bill and a speech on the Mis levees. It was agreed by the House to adjourn for the holidays from the 20th inst. until Jann- ary 6. Tue Weatnen.—The storm centre has now passed entirely off the coast at Nova Scotia, at- tended hy very strong and cold after winds from the west and northwest. The barometer is above the mean in all the districts and is bighest over Nebraska and Colorado. It continues fall- ing in the extreme Southwest, preceding the ad- vance of a disturbance which evidently lies over Western Texas and Mexico. Light falls of rain and snow are reported in the Rocky Mountain and nort lake regions. Elsewhere the ‘weather has been partly cloudy or clear, exeept in the Southwest, where cloudinesa increased | daring the day. The winds have been from fresh to brisk on the Middle Atlantie, New Eng- Jand coast and the lake regions. They have been generally light in the other districts. The temperature has the Gulf and South Atlantic States, has been variable in the central vall istriets, and has fallen edly | elsewhere. To judge by the meteorological | dogs of the steamers Lessing and Algeria, made for the Heratp Weather Bureau, the storm Ahat we experienced on Tuesday did not abate very much after leaving the coast. On the con- ‘trary, the pressures recorded on the vessels were exceedingly low, being 28.71 and 28,758 Anches respectively. Both ships were “hove to” for several hours during the height of the tempest. It is very probable that the disturb- ance approuching in the Southwest will advance into the central valley districts before Saturday, whence it will move northeastwardly, attended by strong winds or gales on its eastern and south- ern margins. The weather on the English coast is clearing again and the pressure rising. Else- where will be found turther details of the disastrous effects of the late gales. The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be cold and fair or partly cloudy, To-morrow it prom- jaar to be cold and clear, risen ip like manner admit aliens to the suffrage. In most of the States, however, citizenship is required, and it ought to bein all. But besides the elective franchise citizenship entitles its possessor to hold and devise real estate, to own ships sailing under the protection of our flag, to be a eaptain or other officer of such a ship, to receive American passports when about to travel in foreign countries, to the ser- vices of consuls and to the protection of our government in every part of the world. Everywhere within our boundaries and without our boundaries the title of a foreign born citizen to these rights is his certificate of naturalization, and inasmuch as he may have occasion to use it in distant parts of the world, where the mode of procuring it cannot be investigated, it is important that the process of naturalization should be very strictly guarded. We are not prepared to advocate its trans- fer to the federal courts alone, because this might, in some ‘instances, cause great inconvenience. But State courts should not be permitted to grant naturalization papers in any city or county where a fed- eral court sits at stated periods, Such an enactment would bring the greater part of this business into the United States courts and surround it with proper safeguards, and the county courts in rural districts might be trusted with the residue under proper restrictions. The law should also prescribe some specific mode of proceeding (which no law does at present) for revoking and compelling the surrender of fraudulent certificates. We hope this subject may be acted upon at the present session. Take Oar John! We present to the king-seeking Bulga- rians the honored name of John Foley. They may never have heard of John Foley. They may be ignorant of John Foley's im- portance in this community. If so, we can assure them that if any other citizen of New York is better known in Bulgaria than John Foley it is not John Foley’s fault, and that if John Foley’s importance has not reached to the Black Sea and the Balkans John Foley is in no way to blame. In tendering the ample head of John Foley for the re- ception of the Bulgarian crown we prac- tise an act of self-denial which forcibly illustrates the unselfish character of the American people. The ‘‘circus” may be a place of amusement unknown in Bulgaria, but here it is an institution. The most popular character in the circus is the clown, and when he finally disappears from the arena the interest in the performance ceases and the spectator feels that the mirthful- ness of the scene has departed. So will it be with the people of New York when John Foley takes his departure for Bulgaria. The -pleasant surprises of our political Jack-in-the-box will never again: enliven a dull campaign, But New York’s loss will be Bulgaria’s gain. King John will be-valuable not only as an amusing but as a practically useful monarch. He will immediately establish rapid transit between Belgradtchick and Varna, and if there are any corrupt ringsin Bulgaria—as where are there not ?—a Foley injunction will drive them into the Danube or back to Constantinople. Augustus Schell and Mayor Ely modestly decline the honor we would thrust upon them, as will appear from their letters published else- where. The Bulgarian throne is not within the optical range of Mr. Schell’s spectacles, gold or glass, and Mayor Ely is not disposed to embarrass his successor by depriving him of an available candidate for the Park Department. The Bulgarians may rest assured that John Foley—King John—will not decline their crown. Like King Arthur, he will be a worthy king, and he will secure peace to Bulgaria, for the motto of his reign will be ‘“‘the magnum bonum gold pen is mightier than the sword.” Schoolroom Ignorance and Selfishness. Until the Board of Apportionment gives the School Board enough money to pay for improved means of ventilation the best pos- sible use should be made of all appliances that now exist. Every schoolroom has doors and windows, and some of them have connection with ventilating flues; much relief can be obtained by making proper use of these, if teachers and janitors will handle them intelligently, after consulting ther- mometers. In too many rooms, however, the sensations of the teacher arc the only excuses for change of temperature. If the teacher enters the schoolroom with a cold or a sore throat every window remains tightly closed and the mercury dances aloft like the blood to the heads of the poor little victims. Sometimes the teacher, sit- ting near an open door, breathes air reason- ably pure and wholesome, while in the back of the room the children are gasping under the double infliction of heat and poisoned breath. Or a teacher hurries to her desk after a brisk walk, the heat seems intolerable, the windows are opened wide and a brisk cross-draft chills a lot of chil- dren into misery before the teacher realizes that the temperature has been lowered, If there is to be but one authority upon this important matter common seuse and hu- manity would suggest that the thermometer is far more trustworthy than any indivi- dual’s sensations, besides being destitute of the human qualities of selfishness and forgetfulness. As for the janitor, he should be compelled, by fear of dismissal in case of neglect, to thoroughly air all the rooms after the closing hour of the afternoon session and again during the noonday intermission. That this is not done at present may be ascertained by any one who will make a tour of several school- rooms before the opening exercises of either morning or afternoon, Janitors and most school trustees are ignorant enough to sup- pose that such thorough ventilation will compel the burning of more fuel; but the truth is thatthe purer the oir the greater the natural warmth of the system and the lower the temperature necessary to physical comfort, Thé healthy people who in winter clothing can enduye air above seventy de- grees are rare, while in bad air at eighty de- grees cold hands and feet are the rule. It is too much to expect that all teachers and janitors have sense, thoughtfulness and conscience enough to study these matters for themselves, but no extra appropriation |.j@ necessary to the preparation, by a compe tent physician, of a small manual of venti- lation, the same to be thoroughly dis- tributed and its use enforced by an order of the Board. Personal ignorance, selfishness and caprice become great crimes when they work such mischief aos they do daily in nearly every school building in this city. Who Is To Blame? Mr. Blaine roars.in the ears of the North and South his lament over the latest dis- covered result of the enfranchisement of the slaves and their admission into the number of men counted as the basis of polit- ical power in the nation. Our opinion has already been expressed that he does not reason either shrewdly or honestly on this point, and that hé merely assumes, but does not show that there is a grievance be- cause the negroes’ do not vote with his party. We believe, on the contrary, that the negroes have abandoned that party, and that this isan evidence of their keen per- ceptions, They have found that it is notto their interest to continue to act with the party that simply made them go bail for the hordes of thieves, forgers, pickpockets and scalawags of every stripe that were inflicted uvon the South as republican office-holders in the carpet-bag régime. But if we edmit for a moment that Mr. Blaine’s complaints are just, what then? {n ‘‘prac- tical polities,” of which Mr. Blaine is noto- riously fond, it is not worth while to go into details for which you have at hand no remedy. If the negro vote has been “scooped up” by the Southern democrats, whether by chicanery, or browbeating, or by the legitimate influence of in- terest and intelligence, Congress has no means within its reach to remedy that fact ; and all that is worth the attention of practical politicians is the result—that the South, as the final consequence of the war, has greatly increased its representation in Congress and that that representation is not divided. Politically, therefore, the consequences of the war come round to an end precisely contrary to that predicted by politicians -namely, the destruction of Southern political power. Copyright and Copywrong. Mr. Rogé spoke for himself in our col- umns yesterday on the great theme of the authorship ef ‘‘The Banker’s Daughter,” and Mr. Howard comes forth to-day with a few mild words, not so effective and dra- matic as the occasion seems to demand, which may be because they have not been submitted to the correction of Mr. Cazau- ran. Within a short time we have heard from one city manager, two or three dra- matic authors and an agent who claims to represent three-fourths of the out-of-town managers, all of whom have given some opinions, incidentally or directly, on the subject of international copyright. All that has been said has heen over the shoulders of one play an‘ one theatre ; to which we do not object, since a little free advertising for an American play is a con- tribution we willingly make toward the prog- ress of the drama, But we should like to continue the examination of the subject of copyright rather than of the merits or au- thorship of the new play, and we should like to hear from other managers or writers what possible objection any one can now make to legislation that shall compel the managers of theatres in the United States to honestly pay every author whose produc- tions it uses, except those as to which the limit of copyright protection is run out. Police Brutality. The latest sweet stories about the finest police in the world are that one officer, in arresting a woman, dragged her by the hair, and another, in attempting to capture aman, clubbed bim and tore out a portion of his whiskers. Whether these tales are true or not the willingness of everybody to believe them shows that the public has learned to consider the police force, as a whole, to be reckless and brutal. Hun- dreds of our policemen act as if the pun- ishing power were in their hands to use as they please, and as if every suspected per- son was already proved guilty. Even if these ideas were correct the punishment is generally out of all keeping with the offence. The customary ‘‘ten days” which the drunken or disorderly person gets is as nothing to the personal abuse that he frequently suffers at the hands of some blue-coated brute. The only excuse ever offered for the use of the policeman’s club, pistol or fist is that the culprit made resis- tance; but only a coward will make such a plea, and no one but a fool will accept it. Criminals and arrests are more frequent in Europe than here, but what European ever hears of police brutality? Except at dead of night an officer can always have assis- tance if he needs it, for everybody will take the part of a man suffering personal abuse, even if he bea policeman, The Commission- ers should make dismissal the inevitable penalty of clubbing, hair pulling and kick- ing, except when they ccecur in absolute self-defence, All other brutes in human employ are kept under control, and no exceptions should be tolerated among the ruffians in the police force. Mr. Reagan’s Freight Bill. There is no doubt good cause for many of the complaints that are made against the railroad corporations of the country in con- nection with the question of freight trans- portation. These corporations possess great power and use it too often for their owa benefit without regard to the public inter- ests. In their desire to obtain advantages over each other on competing routes they make shippers of freight who live at points where there is no competition suffer both in accommodations and rates, The rail- road wars that break out periodically and lead to a ruinous cutting of rates dis- turb values, operate unjustly against those who cannot take advantage of the momen- tary reduction, and end in combinations by which the people are made to bear all the loss of the ill-advised conflict. It would be well if these evils could be removed or lessened by wise and practical legislation. But the billintroduced by Mr. Reagan and passed by the House of Representatives is neither wise nor practical, It could never be put into operation if it should be- come a ,law (which is not even probable) and if it could be mada NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET, operative it would be as injurious to shippers as it would be ruinous to the railroads, If not in conflict with the con- stitution it is certainly in opposition to all the principles upon which the business of transportation can be prosperously and efficiently conducted. To apply it asa remedy for the mismanagement of the transportation business would be like en- casing a man in an iron shell to cure a halt in his gait. The railroads have added enormously to the wealth, prosperity and greatness of the nation, They have benefited all communi- ties into which they have reached, and the farmers and shippers who complain, not unjustly, of their occasional exactions and encroachments have realized through their agency wealth which but for such enter- prises they would probably never have pos- sessed, This is of course no reason why the railroads should be mismanaged or their privileges abused, and it is well to curb rich and powerful corporations by sound restrictive laws; but Mr. Reagan's ill-di- gested Dill does not come under this cate- gory, and it ought to be and doubtless will be defeated in the Senate. “OQwney” Geoghegan Again, “Reddy, the Blacksmith,” died quietly in his bed after a career of violence and crime which included a number of homicides. Whether Mr. Geoghegan expects ultimately to follow the late Mr. Varley’s mode of closing his account with the world we are not informed, but the frequency with which amen who visit his establishments come out with bullet holes in their anatomies shows that he is imitating Reddy in many partic- ulars. It seéms best to treat ‘“Owney’s’ eccentricities humorously. ‘The regularity with which he is arrested for more or less homicidal pistol practice, and the certainty with which he is triumphantly released, suggests that law is a joke to him, and Jus- tice for him wears her, bandage over only the left eye, so that she may be seen to wink with the right. Has he not shown how he could run an unlicensed saloon, whose best customers were the footloose originals of the Rogues’ Gallery—a saloon with a pistol gallery, including human targets—and at the same time ‘‘break” a police captain who objected to all this to the extent of ‘‘persecuting” the innocent “Owney?” What touch of grim humor there was in the subsequent ‘‘wake” which this fellow held in his saloon, when the thieves and miscreants of the city gathered to shed tears of rum over the effigy of a deposed officer of the law! It seems oddly enough to have made the police angry, for they ‘‘raided” him and locked him up, and he'said he would leave ungrateful Gotham. He has since, we learn, broken out in a new place on the Bowery, and the way the news reaches us is characteristic, Three men went into his saloon on Wednesday even- ing; two of them came out tattooed with pistol balls. Accoynts naturally differ about it. Lhe men said first that ‘“Owney” did the shooting. ‘‘Owney” says they oper- ated on each other. Finally, all agree that nobody knows how it happened. As justice is out of the question with ‘““Owney”—he might “break” another captain, you know— let the community take comfort inthe fun of the thing. ‘Owney” was brought up at Essex Market yesterday morning, and we are happy to say, after a little ‘‘chaff” with the Bench, was released, and he retired to his shooting gallery in high spirits over his successful joke, accompanied by his ad- miring friends. It is not funny, neverthe- less, that men of his stamp should discover how to laugh at the law. Does Alcohol Intoxicate? The great ‘‘Schenck beer” case which has been in a New Haven court has gone against the defendant, the State chemist having discovered that the beverage contained about ten per cent of alcohol, although fifty witnesses (some of them medieal and scientific men) swore that the liquor was not intoxicating. A dispassionate glance at the evidence shows that the land of steady habits still cherishes her jolly old notion that a temperance drink consists of a glass of something with a ‘‘stick” in it, but the proportion which the ‘‘stick” bears to the rest of the draught in the case of Schenck beer compels some wonder as to how much aleohol the Connecticut head can stand without knowing that a temperance pledge is being treated as a door- mat. Neither London porter, Burton nor Scotch ale contain anywhere near ten per cent of alcohol, although some honest men who have taken them into confidence have subsequently maintained a walk and conversation not exactly the thing for a blue ribbon man to be proud of. The strongest German beer has barely five per cent of alcohol, while the Schenck beer of Bavaria, upon which every native tippler who is not a bloated aristocrat gets satis- factorily fuddled, contains only about a third as much spirits as its lusty Connecti- cut cousin. Wo are compelled, therefore, to believe that alcohol, even in beer, is in- toxicating, and that the cumulative testi- mony for the defence in the New Haven case was an unconscious but magnificent tribute to the unapproachable density of that fruitful source of so many other won- ders, the Connecticut brain. Lilly Duer's Pass! The freaks of huinan nature which give us womanly men and manly women are among the most curious and occult, be- cause it often happens that there is lit- tle or no exterior guide to the psychic anomaly. Misé Lilly, Duer, who shot Miss Ella Hearn because, it is alleged, the latter repulsed her warm demonstra- tions of affection and loved another young lady better appears to be oa case in point. Miss Lilly is described as about seventeen and good looking, with large black eyes and a sad expression ; but she was fond of pistol practice and is said to have at times donned male attire. Byron was her favorite author, which is not extraordinary in itself, but is sug- gestive in view of her discovery that the morbid and self-indulgent poet's nature was like her own. Wesee here o manliness in petto that would never have excited rematk had it not been carried to the world’s gaze by the remarkable isalousy indicated above. ‘This haa not been denied in the young lady’s statement to our correspondent. Whatever may have been the facts of the shooting the case will remain a strange one. It is not a pleasant one to contemplate in any sense, but when school girls carry pistols and exhibit a passion that, though common to men and women, takes a course contrary to the ordinary rule, it may be set down that nature has departed from the usual nice relations of soul to body, with- out any tragedy being necessary to make it plain to all the world, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General Banks will lecture in Iowa this month. Mr. John Ruskin bas resigned the Slade Professor- ship at Oxford, Senator David Davis believes that he is out of the Presidential race. i Seflor Zamacona, Mexican Minister at Washington is at the Rossmore Hotel. General Devens does not like applause. That's where you touch him on the hurrah. i Mrs. General Sherman continues to reside in Bulti- more, while her husband and daughters reside in Washington. Sefior Don Juan B. Dalla Costa, the Venezuelan Minister, arrived at the Windsor Hotel last evening from Washington. When you put up a sign, “Please shut the door,” please see that your door is easy to shut. One cane not stand all day fighting a bad latch. Colonel McNeil, who accompanied the new Gover- nor General from England to the Canadian capital, will return by the next Allan line steamer. An elephant in a circus in Kansas got exasperated at a banjo player's music and went for him and his instrument, and now both the man and the banjo are played out. Des Moines, Iowa, has a brass band composed of printers. They set up type all day, set up the neigh- borhood during the evening, and then get set up themselves about midnight. English Fun (awfully fanny):—‘Mistress (to ® servant who has called about asituation)—‘There are no children, only two in family,’ Servant—‘Will you show me oyer the ‘ouse, mum? as I never takes @ situation, mum, till I've seen wont sort of a ‘ouse the ’ouse is, mum.’” =~ Mr. Park Harrison says that the tattooings on some of the people in the Australasian islands really are readable inscriptions, as he proves from a “copy” he made of a Motu girl. She must have been a regular Cleopatra’s needle. An Indianapolis correspondent asks us whether ‘Talmage is not a hard shell Baptist. No; he is more like a soft shell crab, rich and, if taken in large quan- tities, quite sickening. And, then, like the soft shell, he is rather nude in style. Speaking of Thomas Hardy—“One sees what he means, and is all the more disappointed at the clumey way in which the meaning is expressed,” says the Athencum, We long ago called his style “hard;” but isn’t his modest way of making “one see what he means” one of Hardy's real merits ? Evening Telegran:—“Mr. Francis D. Moulton says that one pound of cream cheese is equal in nutriment to three pounds of meat, but does not specify what kind of meat. There is a great difference between the nutritive properties of, for instance, veal and beef, and a great deal depends upon the part of the animal from which the cut is taken.’” London World :—‘*The accident of Mr. Gye happened thus:—He, with Mr. Spencer Ponsonby-Fane, Sir Al- fred Horsford and his host, Lord Dillon, were finishe ing the day’s shooting at Dytchley on November 28 by stalking some wild ducks, which had settled on a small pond at the end of the covert; Mr. Gye was giving his gun to a keeper preparatory to getting over a fence, when it went off, the contents lodging in the region of the groin.”” Dr. James Martineau recently said in a lecture:— “Tf, in Mr. Arnold’s vocabulary, to ‘verify’ means to ‘test by experiment,’ the complaint is true, but irpel- evant; the inner attributes of the Supreme Cause cannot be submitted to Baconian experiments, with registered results tabulated under ‘Sic’ and ‘Non.’ Yet their exemption from this criterion does not dis- credit their existence, for if a Divine Mind were really there and in its essence were purely and only Thought, and Love it would equally transcend the interroga- tions of our experience. It is not by such method that spiritual truths can be extorted.”” FINE ARTS. UNION LEAGUE CLUB EXHIBITION, The Art Committee of the Union League Club pros ‘vided for the second of this season’s art receptions and exhibitions last evening an unusually good and, we may say, the best collection of pictures which has yet been brought together on such gn occasion. The pictures were not in too great number, were, a8 a whole, full of snap and force, and were mostly exhibited thus publicly for the first time. The attendance was unusually large, for it being the evening of the election the club was full of members and the artists were also out in force, Noticing the sixty-eight pictures as they are catalogued we find first on the list J. R, Brevoort's solidly painted ‘‘Borasco—Campagna de Roma,” with a well massed sky. J.C. Beckwith's well modelled and foreshortened nude study of a little French girl is seen again with pleasure. Walter Black« man’s ‘Reading the News,” from the last Salon, does him credit and has well characterized figures, the faces. of which, however, lack slightly in force. J. B. Bristol is again truthful and pleasing in his “Evening in Vermont,” and A, T, Bricher is represented by his effective “Whitehead, Portland Harbor.” In hia “Notre Dame, From the River,” Frank M. Borys pres sents but a pleasing color study, and not picture, William Chi “Meditation,” from the same model as his fine “Ready for the Ride,” though strained in color, is full of vigorous work. J. H. Dolphs shows us admirably drawn horses, in action and well painted, in his “A Slight Misunderstanding.” « Bab-el Luweylet—C 7, Henry A. Ferguson, is a finely drawn, vigorously colored strect scene, with good atmosphere, Mr. H. A. Loop has a life-like por- trait. On the line below is a solidly painted Bavarian landscape by W. 8. Macy, in which there is a nicely toned sky, and a remarkably true effect of gray light on the road, For William a « masterly “The Young Mother’ we have nothing but praise—it is finely drawn, delicate in sentiment admir- ably true and pleasing in its color relations, A superb little Quartley, with a wonderfully luminous sky, is. called «“Morning—Georgetowa Island, Me.’ George H. Smillie hae iaade & great advance in his picturesque and broadly treated “Black Mountain—Lake Horicon.” A delicious and characterful little monk story in a plein landscape in Italy, entitled “Amateurs in Natural History,” is by Wordsworth Thompson. J. 0. Wood is seen to good advantage in two cattle pieces—one, of a single cow, being remarkably effective. A fine eky is the best i ina good example of A. H. Wyant called “Evening.” In the corner of the south wall ts one of the best pictures in the room—A. F, Bunner’s broad and solid “The Goose Girl.” A little more force in the fore- round would, however, improve it. ‘Alpine Chapel iaades”’ is a fine little example of Herbert McCord. A singularly pleasing and effective water color pas- toral is by Winslow Homer. Edward L, Henry has a delicious little miniature like bit of painting of an interior, with a figure “Reverie.” “A Cobbler in Normandy” is # stunning little example of Stanley G. Middleton, A large study by Detaille, presented to Mr. Avery and called “The Ambulance Corps,” attracted deserved attention from the artists. We note in addition examples by F. 8, Church (a good one), Cropsey, Eaton, Fitch, De For- ext (but astudy of broad and uninteresting masses of color), 8. B, Gifford, David Johnson, George Inness, dr., Edward Moran, H. H, Moore, J. C. Nicoll, Silva, Story, Tiffany, Tuttle (a ce portrait), Waller, Witt, Shurtlef, W. H. Beard, E. Johnson, McEntee, Tait, Gay and Hubbard. The collection will be open to ladies, by ticket, from twelve M. to three P, M. to-day and to-morrow. FASHIONABLE WEDDING. (sy TELEGRAPH To THY MERALD.) Wirxespanne, Pa., Dec, 12, 1878, A brilliant reception was given last evening by Colonel Hoyt, Governor-elect, and Mrs, Hoyt at their residence in this city in honor of the marriage of their neice, Miss Mary Loveland, to Lieutenant Hamen Dowd, of the Third Unifed States artillery, Distinguished guests were present from Philadel. phia, New York and other cities. To-day at noon the nuptials were cciebrated at the First Presbyterian Church, Rev. F. B. Hodge officiating. The bride was given away by Governor Hoyt. ‘The m is the son of Mr. William Dowd, president of the Bank of North America, of New York. After ® wedding breakfast the newly married pair on @ brief bridal trip South. They will Fort Schuyler, near New York, at w! place Lieu. tenant Dowd is stationed.