The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1878, Page 6

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TRIPLE The probabilities are e that the weather in York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and fair. To-morrow it will be cold and fair or clear. Five-cent Fares would make the rapidest kind of rapid transit dividends, Tue Vacaycy in the German mission has developed the fact that if there is any one thing ‘in which we are particularly rich it is in diplo- matic timber—such as it is. Tur Morrsrr Beu. P Hm has proved a delusion and a snare in Virgini. It registered all right enough for a few months, but finally gave up the effort in despair. Ten Tnovsanp Dottar PackaGes have a strange tendency to get lost in Washington. The Jatest mysterious disappearance of this character took place Saturday, between the Treasury De- partment and the city Post Office. Tr Has Bren DeterMixep by the directors of the Mount Sinai Hospital to deoline Mrs. Stewart's gift. A loud protest is heard all along the Hebrew line, and it is bedieved that to a@¢cept would cut off the supplies for the year. Tne Usrorrenate SeNators whom Mr. Blaine succeeded in setting to work at hunting up election frauds are making a loud call upon him for information. He will probably reply that “‘it is all in his eye”—prospective Presiden- tial eye, of « ourse. Curcaco, Boston and some of “the other pro- vineial cities will haye their moral pictures taken in a few weeks by Mr. Talmage. The clerical Whistler of the Tabernacle seems, by the way, to have far more experience than it was thought he had. Axe WE Nor, said Dr. Hite’ heock i in his lecture on socialism last evening, organizing through our fine churches and pews a system of religion in this country to shut out the masses who con- stitute two-thirds of our society? The question is an important one for nearly every one of the. different denominations. Tux Cnances which are gradually taking place in the outward appearance of the city are ‘well illustrated in the case of Twenty-third street, west from Broadway. A few years ago it was one of the most fushionable places of residence; to«lay it is almost entirely given up to theatres, aotels, saloons and otber establish- ments. Tur Story of the daring robbery of a lady in Boston, which is elsewhere told, is calculated to add a new terror to hotel Jife. That a thief can tind his way into a first class house, pry open doors, chloroform, rob and all but outrage his Victim, without attracting the slightest atten- tion, reveals a condition of affairs that is not calculated to inspire confidence in timid people. CuristMas was naturally the theme of many of the ¢ ‘ymen yesterday. Dr. Hepworth inquired “‘if the life ot Christ was a failure ?” Dr. Armitage took the ground that “God was manifested in Christ,” while Mr. Frothingham treated the great question from the materialistic point of view. The Rev. Mr. Searles, the Rev. Samuel Colcord, Dr. J. J. Elder and the Rev. J. D. Wilson also preached on the sume subject. Tuk Weaturr.—The storm centres that moved so rapidly over the country from the Northwest and Southwest during Friday night and Saturday have reached New Brunswick, and are passing into the Atlantic with a decided decrease of pressure. The two centres travelled aide by side on the east and west slopes of the Alleghany range to the St. Lawrence Valley, and there, on about the parallel of forty-five, north, united and } n to move eastward. From the Northwest « subsidiary centre has travelled quickly over the upper lakes and Canada, and, being on the westerly side of the chief disturbance, causes an elongution of the | whole depression in that direction. This condi- tion will noteontinue, becuse the high barometer from the Southwest is pressing after the storm, and will cause by its influ a general merging of all the centres of disturbauce into one when they are on the open rocean. Rain attended the storm on ‘the Northeast coast, but has been succeeded ‘by snow, which has been falling from the Upper |Miasissippi Valley eastward along aud over the Jakes and St. Lawrence Valley. Where the high pressure has formed steep barometric gradients with the low pressure in the Central Mississippi (Valley and northeastward the winds have risen moderate to very brisk and strong. These pwill probably be felt during today from the }westward along the lake shore and ou the Middle New England States coasts. Temperatures ¢ fallon rapidly in the Northwest, the lake region aud the central valley districts. We nay look fur very cold aud generally clear weather in these Atlantic States for Christmas. (The weather in New York and its vicinity to- ay will be cold and fair, To-morrow it will be 1 ) NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Need for Commercial Treaties. The publications of the State Depart- ment are this year of uncommon interest; and they are so because Secretary Evarts, with an appreciation of the country's wants for which he deserves gratitude, has set our diplomatists to the useful task of telling their chief what can be done to build up our foreign trade. The documents which accompany the recent special message to Congress on the South American trade are very instructive and deserve the careful study of our law- makers as well as of merchants and manu- facturers who can influence members of Congress. A Washington despatch in another column gives some extracts from these reports which will lead many readers to wonder that the President, in send- ing them in to Congress, did not more pointedly show their real importance, and make some distinct and particular recom- mendations, based upon the suggestions they contain, There is no doubt that our foreign trade is increasing ; but it is also true that it needs to be very largely in- creased before it will be commensurate with the wants of the country and equal to that disposal in foreign markets of our surplus manufactures on which our real prosperity will depend. But to attain these propor- tions we need not exactly legislation, in the sense of new laws, but the repeal or modification of a good many injurious re- strictive laws, which not merely cumber the statute books, but, far worse, check and limit all attempts to re-establish American commerce on the scale which once made this branch of our industry the pride and glory of every American. It is surpris- ing to us that Mr. Evarts, having the intelligent apprehension of his country’s wants which has led him to secure a mass of very important information from con- sular and diplomatic agents concerning the trade of the world, has contented himself with flinging it at the heads of Congress, without such a State paper of recommenda- tions as must, had he prepared it, have taken rank as one of the most important public documents of the time, and could nothave failed to be fruitful of good re- sults. ‘The commercial intercourse of the world is undergoing at this time a profound, and to us extremely interesting and important, change. European nations, not excepting England, oppressed by vast national debts and with more or less disorder in their finances and their industries, needing in- creased revenues and unable to increase their local taxation, are preparing to increase largely their duties on imports. One of our most intelligent diplomatists, Mr. Kas- son, Minister at Vienna, wrote tothe State Department on this subject a year ago:— “As far as my observation extends the Eu- ropean governments (continental) are very generally reviewing all their commercial relations and interests in the sense of self- protection.” In a subsequent despatch (March 4 of the present year) he adds :— In a former cominunication I advised you that this ‘was uot the tendency of Austria alone. Other conti- nental nations are di in the same direction. Many European commercial treaties are expiring. In- deed, it xeems.to me that all Europe is entering upon what may be styled ancra of national selfishness both in its political and commercial relations. Every government in its political relations with others, and especially in connection with the Eastern question, fills the air with theasseveration, not as formerly of maintaining old treaties or the “ eof power,” but of the resolution to “protect its own interests.” Whether in England, Austria, Italy, France or Ger- many, there is the same cry. 80 it is, also, in respect. to commercial interests. There is not a cabinet min- ister on the Continent, whose declarations have fallen under my observation, who does not take this ground when speaking of new commercial treaties, or of re- adjustments of tariffs. He cites some examples for which we have not space. It is sufficient for our purposes now to call attention to this—one of the most important changes which can happen, affecting the world’s commerce and our own. Europe is returning to the policy of ‘‘pro- tection to home industry,” which means the exclusion of foreign competition. High tariffs in each State are to shut out foreign manufactures. Evidently this means, also, that our own will be shut out. The ques- tion which American statesmen have to con- sider is, How will this affect our industries, and what is open for us to do to protect our- selves against loss, or, rather, to increase our profits’ Surely no more important or more interesting problem could be pro- posed for our public men if they were ca- pable of solving it, or even of giving it the sustained and earnest attention which it deserves. We can at this time consider only one or two of its most evident elements, In the first place, however high the cus- toms duties in European States may be, these must perforce continue to be our cus- tomers for a great many of our natural prod- ucts. Cotton, grain of different kinds, beef and pork, petroleum, cheese, &c., they must buy of us; if they lay higher duties on these this will be only at the loss of their own people. Our manufactures they may successfully exclude, and probably will. Wherever we are found to compete with them they will make that competition difficult, if not im- possible. What, then, remains to us? We are very fortunate—if only we use our opportunities. South of us we have Mexico, Central and South America, a multitude of States, with a large and in- creasing population and immense unde- veloped natural wealth. ‘The people of these countries do not manufacture ; their circumstances will prevent them for a great many years from doing so, ‘They produce cheaply the raw materials of many of our most important manufactures, and they will take from us very willingly our fin- ished products in exchange for these raw materials. No better or safer conditions for building up a vast and profitable foreign commerce could be imagined than here ex- ist; it needs only that we shall have the common sense to grasp and use our natural advantages. Wise statesmanship, for ns, consists in making use of this great opportunity—in cultivating, by liberal commercial regn- lations and by friendly and well arranged commercial treaties, these many millions of customers on the two American continents, The reports just sent in and now before us concurin one important stateméent—every- where in Central and South America the people and the governments wish for closer intercourse with us; but, also, everywhere they complain that our tariffs shut them out from our markets, be- cause, as a Peruvian sugar planter said to one of our Ministers, ‘I must buy what I need where I can sell what I have.” We need not care for Europe if we control the trade of Central and South America. There lies the true market for our manufac- tures, and that we can do this by only reasonable attention to the necessary ele- ments of successful commerce, which is an interchange of products, there is not the least doubt. We are sorry to see that Mr. Evarts has allowed one of his agents to treat this important question entirely from the narrow standpoint of subsidies. It | is absurd to fancy that a great com- merce, which once we had, and lost through our exclusive customs regulations, can now be regained by subsidizing a few lines of ocean steamers without first repeal- ing the legislation which turns away from our ports the products and trade of those countries. If we should form a customs union with all the States south of us to the further end of the South American conti- nent—and we believe this is not impossi- ble—we shall need to think but little of ocean subsidies. The steamers will run if our ports are open, and with free ships our merchants would soon buy out the foreign lines. It is in that direction that we must act. A Physician’s Inspection of the Puab- Me Schools. A prominent school official has declared the sanitary condition of our public schools to be good, and what is the Herap that it should contradict a distinguished educator? Be- sides, dictionaries differ, and the lexicog- taphers upon whom the Board of Education relies may have some new and peculiar definition for sanitary. But that the pub- lic may see the schools as the pupils see them we publish this morning some notes from the diary of a physician who has made aspecial study of ventilation. As he neg- lected to inform janitors in advance of his visits he had to depend largely upon his own eyes, lungs and nostrils for informa- tion. We would have been glad had these notes justified the complacency with which the Board regards the sanitary condition of the schools, and had disproved every charge made in our columns, but the reader will speedily observe that until now the half has not been told them. Crowded rooms, closed doors, ventilators which no one thinks of touch- ing, thermometers that are never used as regulators of the temperature, extremes of heat and cold, children alternately roasted and chilled, teachers.and pupils driven into sick beds by foul air, and almost univer- sally a lazy, incompetent janitor. All these undesirable features of our school system were found to be even more pronounced than has ever been suggested by the Herarp, and were supplemented by evils not caused by bad air. Worse still, the proximity of closets and urinals to class- rooms shows that in many cases a double set of poisonous influences are at work upon the children and teachers, and that the magnificent endurance of the human phy- sique is being more severely tested in our public schools than anywhere else in the country. The first remedy that suggests itself isa general dismissal of janitors. These men are undoubtedly valuable at primary meetings and the polls, where they do valiant service to the politicians who appointed them; but let their friends take care of them. Public sentiment has got beyond the slaughtering of children for political purposes, There are plenty of men competent and anxious for janitors’ positions, with their free rent, easy work and large salaries. Teachers should at once be compelled to register thermometers as checks upon janitors, and to complain of every species of neglect or annoyance from these custodians of schoolhouses. Whatever employé of the Board is responsible for the condition of the closets and urinals referred to should be dismissed at once—he is already dis- graced for life, Until additional school accommodation is provided the Board should comply with the suggestion of our inspector—that each primary school and department should arrange their pupils in two sets, one to be taught in the morning and the other in the afternoon. A reason- able degree of floor room and air space could thus be secured, and the dangers even of blundering ventilation be greatly lessened. We greatly dislike to be alarmists, but the facts reported to-day and heretofore in our columns show what shocking ignorance and neglect exist in an educational system which costs considerable money and has in its service a large number of gentlemen and ladies of high intelligence and honest inten- tion. There is theretore great reason to fear that the sanitary condition of many private schools, seminaries, convent schools and colleges is fully as bad as that of our public schools; it may often be worse, for some show of inspection is made under the Board of Education. Wil Campana Beat O'Leary? The long expected race between O'Leary and Campana at Gilmore's Garden began at about one o'clock this morning, and both men working under the Sir John Astley rules “to go as they please” are to see who can cover the greatest distance by eleven on Saturday night. O'Leary will find this time no such man as Hughes, The latter was comparatively new at this terribly hard work, and no match for his famous antag- onist, But the volatile and good-natured Campana is a veteran at hard foot racing, not the least surprising fact about him being that he is already nearly filty years old. This contest will help to settle which pays the better in long distance tootwork— walking or running—the former being O'Leary's favorite way of going, the latter Campana’s. But the great attraction of this struggle is, that it is not only between two thoroughly first class men, but be- tween men whose record loaves it a matter of very decided doubt which isthe better man, He who wins this race will be the champion of the world, and the large force of well- known members of several of our promi- nent athletic clubs, who are to keep watch of every inch of the work, the known fair- ness of both contestants and their splendid candition and record, guarantee a magnifi- ent race, very likely covering more dis tance than has ever yet been accomplished in the same period of time. The Alleged Drawbacks to Resumption. There are two sources of fear as to the per- manence of specie payments—first, the law requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to pay out the redeemed legal tender notes and keep them in circulation ; second, the con- tinued coinage of silver dollars. Nobody contends that either of these will obstruct the immediate success of resumption, which is perfectly assured ; but apprehensions are expressed that the compulsory reissue of the notes and the unremitting stream of silver may again debase our currency and renew the premium on gold. We will at- tempt to estimate each of these supposed impediments. To begin, then, with the constant reissue of the legal tender notes after redemption. If the whole volume of our paper currency consisted of greenbacks redemption would be a ridiculous pretence with any such condition annexed as their immediate re- issue. But nearly one-half of our paper circulation consists of national bank notes, and this part of it may be contracted to any extent necessary for keeping the whole vol- ume of paper at par with gold. The green- backs alone are insufficient as a circulating medium, and the deficiency is sup- plied by the expansible circulation of the national banks. So long as the paper currency consists of two parts, one of which is fixed in amount and the other elastic, the variations in the elastic portion will be sufficient for every practi- cal purpose, The business of the country will always need a great deal more paper than the fixed amount of legal tender notes, however fully these may be kept in circulation, andif the bank notes expand or contract in proportion to the real wants of business no evil can result from the per- petual reissue of the legal tender notes. The Treasury will always have both the motive and the means of restraining the bank note circulation within proper limits. Bank notes being receivable for inter- nal taxes the government will always have more or less of them in its possession trom this source. By sending these home for re- demption it may keep down the bank cir- culation when it threatens to be redundant. As soon as itis seen that the Treasury is pursuing this policy the banks of New York city will immediately begin to send in the country bank notes which they are daily re- ceiving for redemption out of the five per cent fund and the paper circulation will be quickly curtailed to any requisite extent. This can be done as securely by operating on the elastic half of it as it could be by operating on the whole of it. There will be no difficulty in keeping our paper circulation within bounds notwithstand- ing the perpetual reissue of the re- deemed legal tender notes. But if the ‘whole paper currency consisted of green- backs the law which requires them to be constantly reissued and kept in cir- culation would completely annul the Re- sumption act and make it a stupid farce. Even the law which arrested the contrac- tion of the legal tender notes at $346,000,000, instead of allowing them to sink to $300,000,000, as contemplated by the Re- sumption act, is not likely-to do any harm. There is still a wide enough margin left for regulating the amount of currency by the expansion and contraction of the bank note circulation. Resumption is bringing with it so many unexpected uses for greenbacks that the present amount cannot be deemed excessive. The owners of gold coin will continue to deposit it in the sub-treasuries for safe keeping as here- tofore ; but instead of receiving coin certifi- cates, of which no more are to be issued, they will receive greenbacks of high de- nominations, every greenback being virtu- ally a coin certificate after resumption. This will absorb between. thirty and forty million dollars of legal tender notes. Then, again, greenbacks are to be received for customs and to be paid to the public creditors for interest on their bonds, which is another new use that will have the same practical effect as a reduction of their amount, Moreover, the law forbids the issue of any bank notes below the denomi- nation of five dollars after resumption, and the small note circulation of the banks will be replaced by legal tender notes of small denominations. All these new uses, taken together, will be equivalent to a re- duction of the greenbacks considerably below the limit originally fixed in the Re- sumption act. We conclude, therefore, that the fears founded on the perpetual re- issue of the greenbacks are chimerical. The danger from the continued coinage of silver dollars is real, though distant. For the next year silver coins can be main- tained at par with gold, but unless the coin- age is arrested in time not only the silver dollars, but our whole paper currency, will sink to the bullion value of silver, and gold will be again demonetized. The Life-Saving Service. Those who stay at home at ease when the wind howls and the great waves break along the bleak seashore on winter nights are never chary of praise of the gallant fellows who man the lifeboat to save wrecked mariners. But praise goes for little, and it is a warmer tribute to the devotion and heroism of the life-saving crews to see that they are fitted out with every appliance which can make their work more effective and less dangerous to themselves. In another part of the Hnanp will be found a carefully drawn report of a trip along the New Jersey const, which in- cluded visits to the thirty life-saving sta- tions from Cape May to Squan Beach. At Asbury Pork, N. J., to the north of Squan, an inquiry is in progress relative to the alleged inefficiency in life-saving station No. 6, A question of cowardice is involved in the inquiry which does not appear to be well sustained so far, but which apparently rests on the choice of taking a fishing boat to go toa wreck or waiting for the arrival of the government boat, On reading our report of the visits to stations 10 to 40 some important light will be thrown on this matter. In many cases the apparatus, boats and wagon are in 4 condition that is not creditable. We can well understand how a brave, impatient JSeliow would desire to take the first bont at hand through the thundering surf to the ship in distress rather than await the tardy arrival of the station boat, and impute cow- ardice to the man who, brave enough him- self, did not wish to risk the lives of his fellows as well as his own in a craft not suited for such an emergency. It is the service and its faulty equipment which is on trial as well as Keeper Vannote. We would, therefore, call attention to the defi- ciencies noted and improvements recom- mended in our article elsewhere. They are in the interest of the lifeboat men and the shipwrecked alike, Bayard Taylor's F Berlin. {n the imposing throng of imperial rep- resentatives, Cabinet officials, diplomats and German men of letters and science who took part in the obsequies of the late Min- ister Taylor yesterday at Berlin, we can plainly discern that the man was as highly honored as the Minister. It is useless to say that the scholar, journalist, travellerand poet, whose life they met to honor, would have exchanged all this sonorous panegyric and pomp of burial for a single week of peaceful life in his native land. It was decreed otherwise, and there was a fitting crown to his career of worthy labor in the presence of men of high official position at the last sad rites and in the culogistic words of the princes of letters above his coffin, Although a world-wide traveller and a cos- mopolitan in his liberal views of men and peoples, he had long been a devoted admirer of German literary genius, and nowhere else outside America could his sterling worth have been so promptly and generously appraised. The farewell of the brilliant Berthold Auerbach to his departed friend was doubt- less as touching and as whole-souled as the warmest of Bayard Taylor’s friends in America could have uttered in his place, and will be well worthy of reproduction here. The late Minister’s widow will ac- company his remains to the United States, where, we doubt not, due honor will be done them ere they are consigned to the final resting place, Paul Boyton’s That distinguished American citizen, Cap- tain Paul Boyton, of life-saving suit celeb- rity, has returned to his native land, fuli to the chin of recollections in which crowned heads are clustered as thickly as startling adventures by river and sea. Looking on the gallant fellow in the light of an en- terprising drummer for the latest thing in waterproofs, a philanthropist who de- sires to make every man at sea his own life-preserver or a Neptunian knight errant of the most dashing order, his story in any case must be interesting. Elsewhere he tells a portion of his remarkable narrative, the scenes of which muinly lie in Ireland. It need not be thought at all surprising that the good people of the little village of Baltimore, on the southern extremity of theIrish coast, believed Mr. Boyton to be the Old Gentleman himself when he appeared there one stormy morning fresh from the Atlantic Ocean with his long paddle over his shoulder. Baltimore has had good reason to suspect visitors that come in such questionable shape. It is a good while ago, but the memory is still preserved of some ocean visitors who came there in the night, sacked and burned the town, and carried off those they did not kill into slavery. They were Algerine pi- rates, steered thither by a renegade who was afterward hanged. Thomas Davis tells the story in his ringing verse. Small wonder, then, that the Baltimoreans crossed themselves at sight of this visitor from the deep. If he had been a person of color, it is possible that he might have had his mundane. journeyings cut short by the fate of Hackett of Dungarvan— He who steered the Algerine. Journeyings. Senator ‘eanting. Although this distinguished statesman has been doing nothing of any note since the November election he is the subject of a great deal of political gossip and specu- lation. So far as we are able to judge there is little that is authentic in the intentions which are so incontinently ascribed to him, We do not believe that he has the slighest shade of anxiety respect- ing his re-election, nor that he will indicate any preference among the candi- dates for Speaker of the Assembly. They are all Conkling men who will support him with’equal zeal, and his sense of dignity and sense of fairness will not permit him to interfere in a contest in which he has no interest and between competitors who are ali alike his friends. He will feel a very allowable pride in his third elec- tion to the Senate, a compliment which the State of New York has rarely paid any of her distinguished sons. Rufus King was thrice elected to the Sen- ate, but his three terms were not consecu- tive; and Silas Wright had three elections, but his first was not for a fullterm. Mr. Conkling will be the only Senator ever elected from this State against the oppo- sition of a President and Cabinet of his own political party and pending an unsettled quarrel with them, The obstacles over which he has triumphed make his victory one of the most signal ever won in American politics. It is quite natural that the public mind should be a good deal occupied with such a man, and that in the dearth of new facts it should be prone to loose specula- tion and baseless gossip. When he returns to Washington after his re-election he may give the country something authentic to talk about, 'The latest piece of gossip, that Mr, Conk- ling is not a candidate for the Presidency, is credible enough although it needs con- firmation. He has measured himself against a President in office, and the result of the experiment is not calculated to make him overestimate the importance of that posi- tion or to undervalue the influence which a public man may exert os a mere Senator. He probably sees nothing very dazzling in the political fortune of President Hayes, nor, just at present, much to repine at in his own, He is too attentive an ob- server not to have perceived that the republican preference has been for some time setting in favor of General Grant, and is too wary to cross it in the present stage of its development. Should it con- tinue to grow no rival will be able to stem ; Bismarck. it, and no republican having any preten- sions to the nomination will submit more sincerely or more gracefully than Senator Conkling. It will be remembered that he refused to be a candidate in 1876 until President Grant had unmistakably declared his intention not toran. Mr, Conkling is a shrewd judge of opportunities and knows how to bide his time. Princess Thyra’s Wedding. King Christian of Denmark has done so well with his children in the matter of mar- rying them off that the alliance of his third daughter with a young man who, although heir presumptive to the Duke of Brunswick is at present merely an English duke, with his fortune in a particularly bad chancery, will not be considered @ very great one. For an ordinary small sovereign it would be a fair mateb, but not for a royal father who has a son already on the Greek throne, ason who will sit on the Danish throne, a daughter who will sit on the royal and imperial throne of England and In- dia, while another daughter will wear the diadem of Czarina of all the Russias, The Duke of Cumberland is, however, respectable. If he is not a king he is one of the next best things to it— namely, the son of a dethroned monarch, Such a young man is handy to have in the family if any fresh kings are wanted, as in Greece, or not long since in Spain and at present in Bulgaria. A reason for the mar- riage will be found in the fact that both the bride’s father and the bridegroom have grievances against the Empire of The iron man keeps his trap shut upon a portion of King Chris tian’s territory and upon the bulk of the late King George of Hanover’s property, which consequently has not gone to the King’s new son-in-law. Two very important claims will, therefore, be in the hands of one attorney, so to speak. Be- yond all this, the young people, are in love with each other. It is a feather in the cap of the son of the ex-King that his bride lately gave the mitten to the son of |an ex-Emperor, little Prince Napoleon, j who, be it remembered, has also a griev- ance against Bismarck. Stranger Than Fiction. It is the fashion to sneer at any man who professes to have abandoned bad habits, but the reader of ‘A Convict’s Promise,” published in another column, who can fail to have his own heart deeply stirred and his sympathies aroused can have but little manliness or honor in his composition. The world applauds the hero who, with all eyes upon him and with promise of glory in case of achievement, braves the dangers of flood and field; but how slight is the strength, the courage, the endurance demanded of such a man, when compared with the long, lone, desperate fight which the criminal who was his mother’s darling has been making against terrible odds and without even creature comforts to help him! The mother love that is too homely for a play, too practical fora novel, yet too great for any romancer or dromatist to comprehend, much less adapt, throbs powerfully in every line of the letters which even transla- tion is unable to weaken, and hints at a re- formatory influence which is greater than law, though the legal mind takes no note of it. Toward the ex-convict himself no true man can have any feeling less than that of hearty good will, and with this will generally be combined a great deal of con- fidence, for an outcast who for love and re- spect of a departed soul will suffer and starve, alone and friendless, in this city, so full of chances for criminals, has certainly in him the stuff of which true heroes are made, and can make for himself u character and position which will be viewed with satisfaction, even by his faithful lover in the unseen world. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of the Henaxp on Saturday :— Bergholz, W. R., New York, No, 22 Rue de Gram mont. Cahn, M.J., San Francisco, No. 36 Boulevard da eines. Cauchois, R., New York, Continental Hotel. Chamberlin, H. and wife, New York, Grand Hotel, Cogswell, W. N., New York, No. 33 Rue Caumartin, Cronin, Rev. P., New York, Bon La Fontaine, Grau, Maurice, New York, Hotel Helder, Hayden, J. A., New York, No. 33 Rue Caumartin, Hunter, D. McBurney, New York, Hotel de vAthinée. Irwin, W. H., New York, Hotel Bellevue. Kauffmann, 8. H., Washington, Grand Hotel, Levy, M. B., New York, European Hotel. Pane, T. H., Baltimore, Md., St. James Hotel. son, R. L., New York, Hotel de Castille. Wetmore, J. H., New York, Hotel du Trois Princes, Whedon, D. D., New Jersey. “Daisy Dimple” says spell “regal lager” backward, Hannibal Hamlin likes sweet baked ‘apples, with milk, Senator Henry M. Teller, of Colorado, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. There were three hundred cases of diphtheria in Salt Lake City in one week. Indiana people feast on quail ata cent and » half apicce, and killed with five cents’ worth of ammuni- tion. A Missouri man dreamed that money was hidden in a certain place in the country. He dug and found $9,000. Wilmington, Del., has “pronouncing bees,” and Russian names conquer some of the most ambitious members, Representative Riddell, of Tennessee, has been very sick for several days, and will leave Washington for his home in a day or two in consequence, Congressman Thornburgh, of Tennessee, has been sick for several days with symptoms of pneumonia, but there have beea no critical indications. C.) Observer says that owing to the school system the younger generation of North Carolinians are growing up in ignorance, An order has been issued for the introduction into the Prussian army of a new kind of drum, with metal drumsticks, invented by Herr Bertram, of Rendsburg. ‘The Children’s Aid Society, of New York, has pro» vided homes among the farmers of Southern Virginie for morg than two hundred boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen years. If you are looking for a house to rent and wish to know what kind of children live in @ neighborhood, getapair of noisy street musicians to play there, ‘This plan never fails of success, and itis not patented, Buffalo Ezpress;—'The editor of the Kingston Free man says he wears tho blue ribbon, We are glad be mentions the color. It is so stained with beor drip pings that a thoughtless person would be apt to call it yellow.” Gloucester fishermen have $70,000 worth of salt mackerel; aud, apropos, to those who cannot eat broiled mackerel a very delicious way of cooking the fish is to stew it in a frying pam in just enough water to cover it, and to give its liberal supply of butter while it is bot, Ci