The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1878, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD « BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. : pal esha ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the your, “Three cents por copy (Sundays excluded), Ten dollars per FOF at & Fate of one dollar permonth for any period loss six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, tree of postage. © WEEKLY HERALD—One doliar per year, free of post- "Novick TO SUBSCRIRERS.—Romit in dvafts on New sYorkg or Post Office money orders, and where er of these tenn be procured send the ey in a registered Lotter, AML In order to insure atten- must give % aphic despatches must New Youk Henatp.¢ ‘Letters and packages should be property sealed, Rejected communications will not be returned. +PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— MO PLEET STKE AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. PRIBLO'S GARDEN—Nuw York axp Loxpox. WNEW YORK AQUARIUM—c “GLOBE THEATRE—Oxty A GRAND OPERA HOUSE—C ‘PARK THEATRE—Basss IN 1 ‘THEATRE COMIQU. SWALLACK’S THEATR ACADEMY OF MUS) BOOTH’S THEATRE—Ev. a. GERMANIA THEATRE—Iinx Pasta, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—Riv Vay Wisae. (STANDARD THEATRE—) ra Lig MINNIE CUMMIN TONY PASTOR'S—Vane SAN FRANCISCO MIN! ABERLE’S AMERICA: WINDSOR THEATRE. TIVOLI THEATRE—Vauti STEINWAY HALL—Onatori NEW YORK, THURSDAY, D! ies are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and fair pr partly cloudy, followed by slowly rising tem- perature. To-morrow it will be warmer and fair. -E—Vaniety. Tue Ice Men are happy. Tae Bax goes up this morning. Tus Dectsion of the Missouri Court of Ap peals that divorce cases cannot be sent to a referee is likely to ruin one of Missouri's thriv- ‘ing industries. Tuere Is No Mosry for the Blaine Commit- tee. As the Maine statesman is the only one likely to be benefited by the thing he ought to Foot the bill himself. Tue INTELLIGENCE that there is no prospect of an Indian war in Washington Territory makes the New Year's outlook for the Indian contractor pretty blue. ‘Taree Cases or Stabptna, one possibly fatal, ® probable murder and an attempted suicide, all in this city, form a rather heavy criminal calendar for Christmas Day and night. Crscrxnati’s CouLeGe pr Music celebrated Ste first Chriaw “last evening by the presenta Ligh. of the *‘ \>ssial” under the leadership of Theodore Thor: s and a chorus of six hundred woices. ni PE, «Se the scores made in the con- test on Long «land yesterday for the cham- pionship of America were surprisingly low, but it was doubtless owing to the severity of the mreather. Boeron sends the story of a terrible Christmas Eve tragedy—the murder of a young wife by ber aged busbaud, who completed his bloody work by suicide. Jealousy was, of course, the sotive of the crime. Tue Ixvestication into the charges of mis- Management and cruelty in the Onondaga In- pane Asylum has established the fact that the Btmost brutality was practised in that institu- tion. Have we any more Onondagas in the State? Tus Bes of king killing appears to be growing rapidly in Europe, the King of Den- mark being the latest addition to the long list of intended royal victims. According to a despatch from Copenhagen a hotel keeper has been arrested in that city for having threatened to shoot His Majesty. Accorpine ro Our Reports inland naviga- tion has come to anend North and West. In Missouri the rivers are frozen, and four feet of suow has fallen in the northern portion of this State. Very severe weather has been ex- perienced on the Sound during the past forty eight hours; steamers are generally detained, and one or two disasters have occurred. Iris Reroxren from New Orleans that a band ef political roughs stopped a river steamer a few evenings ago, at the muzzles of their ritles, com- pelled the pilot to land, seized two election wit- nesses, and, it is supposed, lynched them. If the story is not mere political campaign litera- ture there is evidently need of a good stout gallows and some good hemp in that State. Ar Mipwicir last night O'Leary was about fifteen miles ahead of Campana; but the latter does not seem to be very much discouraged, and he is confident, if his condition is favorable to- day, that he will be able to make up the differ- ence between himself and his competitor. The great interest felt in the match was shown by the presence of upward of twelve thousand apectators. Tur Weatier.—The snow storm and heavy wales have moderated somewhat in the vicinity of Buffalo, but the barometric gradients con- tinue to be steep in the Upper St. Lawrence Valley, and the wind directions from southwest to west remain unchanged. The low pressures over Canada have been moving to the coast and @ill probably develop into a storm off Nova Weotia. A very marked decrease is percepti- Mole in the area of the high pressure from jthe Rocky Mountains eastward to the ‘South Atlantic coast. The volume of air \wepresented by this area is being exhausted very @apidly, and we may look for depressions in the FWeat and Southwest to follow during to-morrow gand the following days. The disturbance in fhe Southern or Gulf region is slowly moving Roward and over Florida, attended by light and unusually low temperatures. Indeed, he Gulf coast States are now experiencing cold as sharp os we have in the North during wiu- fter. Beyond the Roéky Mountains the barom- yeter is low, as we announced yesterday. Al- ready indications that an important weather ehange is at hand in the West are presenting ‘themselves. Temperatures continue low over yall the districts, being lowest in the Northwest. he weather in New York and its vicinity to- day will be cold and fair, or partly cloudy, followed by slowly rising temperature. To- morrow it will be warmer and*fair, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1878. England's Misfortunes—Englishmen Must Emigrate. The general and very serious depression of industry and commerce in England is a phenomenon which becomes more startling and painful the more closely it is examined. The ablest observers there and here unite in the belief that it is not a passing and temporary misfortune, which must be en- dured but will presently cease ; they see, on the contrary, such deep-seated causes for the present unfortunate situation of England as demand immediate attention of her wisest men and the adoption of radical remedies, ‘The poverty and suffering of the English laboring class may be for the moment alleviated by public and general aid and by private beneficence. The difficulty and danger are that the industrial disturbance and prostration are not temporary, They arise out of causes which time will not re- move, but only intensify. England has depended for many years, not merely for her wealth but for her existence, on her command of the markets of the world for her manufactures, and she has now lost her most important customer, the United States, and worse yet, finds our manufacturers her most dangerous rivals in all other markets. She is in the posi- tion of a merchant who has long controlled a lucrative trade and who suddenly finds @ younger, more energetic rival disputing the ground with greater capital and better resources. She cannot go into a new busi- ness; she can compete with us only at a constantly increasing loss; our planet has now been so thoroughly occu- pied that she cannot expect to discover at once or even to develop in many years to come any new market adequate to her necessities; Central Africa and New Guinea alone remain to be ‘‘developed,” and neither promises a great demand for what civilized nations make. Finally, the vital difference between our own condition and that of England is in our possession of vast quantities of unset- tled lands. On these, during the dreary years since 1873, many thousands of our people have sought and found refuge from want; and there has been a constant and continually in- creasing draft to the country and to agri- cultural life from our cities and manufac- turing centres. Without this outlet we should not now be on the upward way to renewed prosperity, but stagnation would be continued, and deeper than ever. But England has no such harbor of refuge for her unemployed manufacturing population. To speak plainly, she is overpopulated. The family is too large for the income, and the income is decreasing and will continue to decrease. It would not be extravagant to say that she has begun to encroach on her capital, and, very great as that undoubt- edly is, no nation, as no family, can live on its capital without seeing poverty and de- struction in the future, Almsgiving, public or private, is no curo for this condition. If her statesmen are equal to the situation they will see that they cannot avert the great calamity which threatens their country by any such trivial means. If they are wise they must see that emigration, and on a great scale, organized and carried out by public contribution, is the only way to avert the danger which they have cause to fear. Nations are but large families, and when the family nest is too full the younger, more active and reso- lute go out into the world to seek their for- tunes; and happy is the family if this emigration begins before the family means are too severely drained, so that something may still remain for those who stay at home. What we are saying will be extremely un- welcome to Englishmen. They will resent the suggestion that their island cannot sup- port its people, and it is probable that many futile expedients will find favor be- fore the rulers of England are forced to publicly recognize the facts which be- leaguer them. A change in the system of land tenure and a simplification of the laws regulating the purchase and sale of land are already publicly discussed, the argu- ment being that with small holdings and garden culture a much larger population ean be comfortably supported. This is true, but the very argument proves the cor- rectness of what we are saying. We should not, however, think it neces- sary to enlarge on this painful subject were it not that we wish to urge upon the mana- gers of our land grant railroads and upon the States which seek population to settle their arable lands the advisability of making an effort to attract to these lands the multitudes who must presently see that their only resource is emigration, and whom, as English speaking people, men and women of our own race, we can, with benefit to ourselves as well as to them, encourage to come hither. The Legislatures in many of our West- ern and Southern States are about to meet, and we recommend this matter to their earnest consideration, If they are wise they will send agents to England to make known in the most thorough manner the resources of their States; the cheapness of lands; the ease and certainty of a com- fortable subsistence on these lands; the ad- vantages and facilities they can offer to settlement in colonies; the inducements they can hold out to men with some capital—to the class called ‘‘farmers” in England—to bring over capital and labor- ers and transfer their operations from Eng- land, where they complain of exorbitant rents and decreasing profits, to this coun- try, where they may become the owners of estates and pursue their calling with cer- tain profit, The condition of England, and inaless degree of Germany also, is such that with persistent, carefully directed effort we can turn a new stream of migra- tion toward this country, which will not only enrich us, but establish millions of our European brethren in comfort who now see before them only anxiety and want. We do not believe that we overestimate the gravity of England’s situation. ‘Lhe worst is far from being known there yet ; and when it is known it will be seen that the failing banks are but a symptom of a general breakdown; that, in tact, the country has been living ahead of its incgpme for some years and with a decreasing busi- ness, and that recovery, except by a great emigration, is not possible. In what direc- tion that tide shall be turned will depend largely on us. Our country is the nearest, the most cheaply reached; capital and labor are alike secure of large rewards with us, What we need is that the advan- tages which the Western and Southern States can offer to industrious settlers, with or without capital, shall be thoroughly and systematically advertised, and that the stream, which must soon begin to flow somewhither, shall be skilfully turned in this direction. It is not individual migra- tion which needs to be especially en- couraged and made convenient and safe; the means should be found for inducing colonies to settle here; trades unions, co- operative associations and all the labor organizations should be utilized, and the farmer class, who see their capital lessening in England, should be shown that they may advantageously bring hither not that only, but their laborers also, and thus build themselves up securely on new foundations, but with the old materials, Thisis the best work which many of our State Legislatures can do this winter ; but they must, to begin with, select agents for the work who will scrupulously tell the truth. Through to Harlem, Mr. Cyrus W. Field gave the public another evidence of his determined energy on Tuesday by running a train of cars through to Harlem Bridge over the Third avenue elevated road before Christmas Day. The trip was only an experimental one, it is true, but the construction of the road has been pushed with commendable vigor, and Mr. Field has kept his word. Nothing less was expected of the man whose untiring per- severance gave us the Atlantic cable, and no doubt before many days have passed we shall have regular trains running over the Third avenue line trom the Battery to the Harlem River. Another excursion trip was made over the road yesterday, the time from Whitehall street to One Hundred and | Twenty-ninth street being forty-five min- utes. This is an excellent time for Mr. Field to strike boldly out in the direction of cheap fares. Now that he has given the people of New York their first through rapid transit route let him also be the first to enable them to use the road at all hours of the day for five cents fare. This will at onc2 more than double the traffic and increase the receipts of the company, while greatly benefiting the poorer classes of our citizens. Mr. Field has truthfully said that the Third avenue road, with its present facilities, finds it difficult to accommodate the number of passengers it already carries. But this re- mark refers only to the hours during which the fare is five cents. At other hours there is seldom, if ever, a crowd ata depot. If the regular fare should be placed at five cents there would be no such pressure at any time of the dayas . now experienced during the cheap hours, and the simple dis- continuance of the short ’orty-second street trains, with the starting of a few special trains from way stations during the busiest hours of the morning and evening, would enable the road toaccommodate without in- convenience more than double the number of passengers it now carries. Mr. Field is just the sort of person to make this grand experiment, and his business instinct ought to assure him that it must beasuccess. We owe to him more than to any other indi- vidual the privilege of being able to send telegrams across the Atlantic Ocean, and it would be pleasant to also owe to him the boon of rapid transit at a rate of fare that would bring it within the reach of all our citizens. The Christmas Celebration. The almost universal observance of Christ- mas yesterday by all ranks and classes of society, by churchmen of nearly every shade of belief and by the representatives of the many peoples who goto make up the rosaic of our metropolitan population, shows that the oldest festival of the Christian year is as sweet and sacred and precious to the world as ever. In this Western continent we have not, as a rule, taken kindly to the holi- days of the Eastern Hemisphere ; but Christ- mas was naturalized among us almost irom the very beginning, and it has never lost its place in our affection and reverence, New England for a long time blotted it from its calendar, but the Puritan heart has at last opened to it and learned to love it for the wondrous event it commemorates, for the inspiration to good will and kind- liness it infuses and for the thousand sweet and tender associations that cluster around it. Although its observance is now only limited by civilization itself, in no part of the world, perhaps, is the day more honored than within our own municipal metes and bounds Our reports on another page tell of the right royal wel- come we gave to it this year, of the severely simple services of one branch of the Christian Church and of the splen- did ceremonial of the other with which it was ushered in; of the burst of music and praise that went up from a hundred differ- ent churches, sweet as the song of the angels nineteen centuries ago, and, better than all, of the good deeds that were done in the name of the little Child, Santa Claus was, indeed, abroad in our avenues and streets, and his richest gifts are perhaps not so much with those who received as with those who gave. Hare and Hounds. Our breezy description elsewhere of a run made in this jolly game yesterday will call some attention to “hare and hounds” as a healthiul, cheap and available diversion for the little-exercised American schoolboy. There can be no question abont its proba- ble popularity, for in many English schools it has long been a favorite sport, the safety of the boys being looked after by the teach- ers, who, in the schools referred to, are ex- pected to remember that a boy's body deserves as good health and as careful training as his mind. Cannot some American teacher or school board take the initiative in making physical training « portion of the school course? Between the American tendency toward undue nervous and cranial develop- ment and the habit of nearly all our teach- ers to cram the pupil as long as his mind is capable of receiving anything, the coming generation bids fair to be greater in promise and less in performance than the last, un- less physical culture is made obligatory and systematic. With this end in view, every new athletic game, and particularly those in which the greatest number of boys can participate, should be welcomed and studied by teachers and given a place in the regular school course. John Lothrop Motley. We print in another part of this sheet an interesting and most intelligent review of the memoir of Mr. Motley by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, This isone of the rare instances in which a literary review de- serves the prominence of editorial refer- ence. The reviewer, as well as the memoir writer, “treads on burning embers which have not yet gathered cinders to cover them.” Asamere record of Mr. Motley’s life, of the gradual development of his talents for literature, of the sudden rise of his fame when he found his true vocation as an his- torian after abortive attempts as a novelist, the narrative and the critical estimates of Dr. Holmes, valuable as they are, interest only the republic of letters. The review which we publish does justice to this part of Dr. Holmes’ “labor of love;” but what entitles it to wider attention is the light it throws on the unfortunate differences which arose between Mr. Motley and his | government in his discharge of diplomatic functions. It is here that Dr. Holmes and his reviewer tread upon the embers of a controversy which is not yet extinct, and which touches the reputations of Mr. Mot- ley, Mr. Seward and Mr. Sumner dead, and of General Grant and Mr. Fish living. Our reviewer, writing trom his personal knowledge, contributes some new facts to the history of Mr. Motley’s diplomatic ca- reer, He states that after the accession of President Lincoln, in 1861, Mr. Sumper made an urgeat application for the appoint- ment of Mr. Motley to the English mission. He was told that the only condition which Mr. Seward made in accepting the first place in the Cabinet was President Lin- coln’s assent to the appointment of Charles Francis Adams tothe Court of St. James, This statement was accepted by Mr. Sumner as decisive, and he was content that his friend should receive the mission to Aus- tria, Mr. Motley’s sense of insult at the interrogatories sent to him by Secretary Seward on the occasion of the McCracken letter led to a prompt and indignant resig- nation, Mr. Motley returned home, took an active part in the political canvass which resulted in General Grant’s first election, and at the instance of Senator Sumner was appointed to the high diplomatic post for which he had eight years before been rec- ommended to President Lincoln. ‘his seemed not only a vindication against Mr. Seward, but the crowning satisfaction of Mr. Motley’s political ambition, But his relations with Secretary Fish proved even more exasperating than his former relations with Secretary Seward. He soon found himself again-in diplomatic hot water, and was forced out of the position to which he had so long aspired. On which side the blame ought to rest is still a subject of bitter controversy. There may have been faults of conduct on the part of Secretaries Seward and Fish, but it is not easy to resist the conclusion that there were faults of tem- per on the other side. Even the friendly and defensive memoir of Dr. Holmes makes it evident that Mr. Motley had more than the usual sensitiveness of the literary character. As a boy at the Northampton school he is described as re- markable for a temper which was ‘wilfully impetuous, sometimes supercilious, always fastidious;’ and at Harvard College, al- though a jovial companion of his own set, he was “haughty in manner and cynical in word” to the mass of his fellow students, If it be true that ‘the child is the father of the man” it should not seem very surprising that in mature life Mr. Motley, though inspiring the enthusiastic triendship of the literary guild, was not very well fitted for the abrasions of public life. The fact that he quarrelled with two successive administrations may perhaps justify the impression that with all his genial qualities Mr. Motley never over- came the sensitiveness, fastidiousness and haughtiness which marked his boyhood and youth. Dr. Holmes thinks that he died the victim of his ill treatment by the govern- ment, and this tends to confirm the im- pression that Mr. Motley’s mind was mor- bidly proud and sensitive. Dr. Holmes thinks that the letter of Sec- retary Fish, in which the ludicrous and satirical comparison was drawn from ‘‘Mas- ter Humphrey's Clock,” was only signed by Mr. Fish but written by Mr. Bancroft Davis. But the writer of the memoir is of opinion that the reported conversations of General Grant and Mr. Fish in the Heratp bear internal marks of genuineness. Dr. Holmes’ temperance of statement and apparent fair- ness of argument are calculated to secure belief, and the other side can hardly afford to leave his memoir as the last word of this singular controversy, which is destined to become historic. Nearly a Calamity. The Pavonia ferryboats must bo either very unfortunate or very incapably man- aged. They are constantly coming into collision with other vessels and are gener- ally in fault. On Tuesday evening last, about six o'clock, one of them, the Erie, ran into the Hoboken ferryboat Hacken- sack, and it seems a miracle that a number of lives were not lost. It appears that the Hackensack was lying in midstream waiting for her companion boat to leave the Barclay street slip, when the Norwich line steamer City of Lawrence came down stream from her pier. At the samo time the Erie left the Chambers street slip, on her way to the Jersey side, ‘When nearly op- posite the spot where the Hackensack lay the Erie gave the signal to the City of Lawrence to slacken her speed, the object being to pass in front of the latter’s bow. ‘The Lawrence reversed her engines, but it was still necessary for the Erie to increase her speed in orderto prevent a collision with the Lawrence, which was only nar- rowly escaped. Asamatter of course, how- ever, although she just missed the Law- rence, the Erie ran into the Hackensack, which lay beyond the Lawrence, and did her best to run the Hoboken ferryboat down. At all events, it was not the fault of the pilot of the Erie that a terrible cal- amity did not ensue. There will, of course, be an attempt to prove that the Erie was not to blame, but the case, if correctly reported, is too clear to admit of a doubt. The pilot of the Erie was criminally reckless in rush- ing past the Lawrence, instead of waiting until that steamer had passed by. If fit for his position he must have known that the Hoboken boat lay just beyond the Law- rence, besides which he only escaped by a hair’s breadth, as it were, a collision with the latter boat. A man who would take such a risk needlessly ought not to be in- trusted for an hour with the lives of passen- gers. A thorough investigation should be promptly made, for it is evident from former occurrences, as well as from this, that the Pavonia ferry is fust becoming a danger to life and property on the North River. An Ex-Convict’s Complaint. It is now nearly two years since the first leat of “Our Complaint Book” was pub- lished, and the entire volume now consists of over six hundred pages. Unlike most books it deals with facts as they are, and no words are wasted. ‘Though it occupies but, a modest corner of the paper there is :no doubt that it has done a great deal of good and in a variety of ways. People having grievances of general public interest send a letter tothis complaint column, and in nearly every instance find the matter remedied. Dirty streets are promptly swept, gurbage boxes are emptied, dangerous pavements are re- paired, annoyances on the cars and terryboats receive attention, insolent ruf- fians are subdued, innocent people are pro- tected, impostors are exposed, delayed mails are qnickened, railroads are regu- lated, indolent policemen are disciplined— in fact, a thousand and one trifling evils are | corrected by the magic of ‘‘Our Complaint Book.” No wonder it is popular with all that the lesser triuls of life are the hardest to bear, and many people find ay appeal to the complaint column of the Hzrarp a safety valve as wellas a means of relief from the special grievance in question. To-day we print the longest contribution to the book that has ever appeared in its pages, but it is one that deserves special attention. ‘The case of Charles Fisher, the ex-convict, whose experiences while en- deavoring to gain an honest livelihood formed a thrilling chapter of real life, as published in these columns a few days ago, proves how hard it is for a man to win back the reputation he has lost by crime. The letter printed to-day is from another ex- convict, and the writer endeavors to show the degree of responsibility resting upon the Prison Association. If he is correct in his facts neither the ussociation nor its executive officer is pursuing the course most con- ducive to success, and it behooves the offi- cers of the society to see that all stumbling blocks are removed from the path of repent- antcriminals. We trust that this Christmas addition to ‘Our Complaint Book” will be as successful as any of the six hundred that has preceded it, for the question is one that affects a large and, unhappily, a grow- ing class in our community. If George Henderson’s story is true the path of the repentant thief is indeed harder than that of the confirmed law breaker. A Good Time for Charity, The *‘cold snap” has come upon us sud- denly, and although the clear, sharp weather of the present week is seasonable and enjoyable, it is to be hoped that our citizens will not lose sight of the fact that to some it brings nothing but suffering Many thousands of our citizens are without the means of procuring sufficient clothing or firing to protect them from the cold, and by these the Christmas frosts are dreaded as un enemy whose coming makes their ordinary sufferings harder to bear. Chil- dren who sat shivering yesterday in cold, comfortless rooms, without fire, without covering enough to give warmth to their limbs, probably without food—and there were many such in New York—must have wondered what made the world outside so gay, and brightened so many faces as they passed by. It is to be hoped that the gay- eties of the season wili not prevent a Christian people from recalling these well known and constantly repeated facts, or from aiding in such degree as their means may warrant to relieve the misery of the poor during the winter months. The Hunaxp calls attention from time to time to individual cases of suffering that come within the knowledge of its busy reporters, and these are all worthy of relief, as the facts are thoroughly investigated before they are made public. But there are sev- eral excellent mediums through which charity is dispensed to the destitute with- out formalities or delay, and to these dona- tions may safely be confided by those who are too busy to distribute their gifts in per- son, The season of merriment and rejoic- ing is an excellent time to bear the poor in mind, and it isto be hoped that our citi- zens generally will contribute as liberally as their circumstances will allow to the relief of those to whom a cold winter brings only additional sorrow and suffering. The South Carolina Elections—Demo- cratic Statements. So little has been heard from the demo- cratic side concerning the recent election in South Carolina, and so much from the republicans, that,we have thought it due to justice and gratifying to the American love of fair play to print the letters from promi- nent South Carolina democrats which ap- pear elsewhere. They concern mainly the counties of the First Congressional district (Rainey’s), and a perusal of them will con- vince candid renders at least that there are two sides to the story of the election. The reasons given for Mr. Raincy’s un- popularity among the colored people are quite sufficient to account for his defeat, and the fact that the republican party was so disorganized that it ran no State ticket and no complete county tickets in many of the counties, that in some counties it ran two Congres- sional tickets, that Mr, Rainey did not classes of society. It has been well said | make a canvass or put in an appeat ance even in’several of the counties, makes it easy to understand why in a district where there was a preponderance of negro voters it is yet not necessary to accept fraud and intimidation as the only means to account for the defeat of the republican candidate. The letters we print are from prominent and responsible citizens and are written in a moderate tone and good spirit, They-ap- pear to us worthy of credit ; andin any case the republican politicians who claim that they were defeated by fraud will have to prove their assertions, If there was intimi- dation or fraud they ought to be exposed and the authors punished; but if judicial inquiry should prove that the republican politicians of South Carolina have asserted untruths or grossly exaggerated, public opinion will punish them as contemptible and mischievous disorganizers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Jones’ wife wanted point lace, but he denied her point blank. The man who didn’t get much in his stocking put his foot in it. The Chicago Times says that Anthony Comstock goes to bed in the dark, Hoyty-toity, how is this? There are three Governor Hoyts now holding office in the United States. Ex-Governor Cooke, of the District of Columbia, is said to have made a fortune recently from a Colorado mine, As alady goes down the aisle of the opera her silver bangles make one’s blood tingle as one dreams she is out sleigh riding. General Jack Logan is trying to work for the socialist votes of the Ilinois Legislature in his favor for the Senatorship. A Missouri cynic says that ex-Governor Seymour's head has virtually turned to cheese. Well, is there no virtue in head cheese ? Bronson Alcott is in his eightieth year. He is ar- ranging for “‘a summer school of philosophy” in his orchard house at Concord, Josh Billings:—‘‘Thare iz a kind ov propriety in all things; the innosent vanity of the peakok would make a goose look ridikilus.”” Circumstances alter all things. A man with agum boil has frequently been robbed of the enjoyment of displaying a new watch chain. A Jersey boy, whose father threatened to pound him for laughing during grace, suggested that an ounce of prevention was better than a pound of cure. The ex-rebel guerilla chief John S. Mosby left Washington last night for San Francisco, en roule to assume his dutics as United States Consul at Hong Kong. In Iowa are acouple aged 104 and 101 years, and they are going to revisit the East before they dic. Let them go to the minstrels and hear some of the good old jokes of their childhood. General Sherman says that the reason why Secre- tary Evarts does not have ladies at Cabinet dinners is because he wishes to introduce the English style of discussing affairs of State at dinners. There is another blow at women. It is two or three days since the last newly discovered American prima donna has been cabled about. We can’t do without our regular forty-eight hour prima donna, especially as there have been no planets of the ninetieth magnitude discovered for a fortnight. If you are too poor to get a telescope that will dis- cover planets invisible to the naked eye buy a pair of club skates, strike out boldly on the ice, and when your blood is upand your heels are also up, lool right into the blue sky and the planets will come right down and play tag around the tip of your nose, Mrs. A., of Bergen, is kuown for the thinness and weakness of her apple whiskey toddies, which she urges her gentlemen callers to take to keep them warm. Sunday was a cold day, and Mr. B. was vainly trying to swallow the bot water and sugar toddy, when he said, “Madam, the flesn is willing, but the spirit is weak.” OBITUARY. REAR ADMIRAL HENRY kK. HOFF, NAVY. A despatch from Washington announces the death in that city yesterday afternoon of Rear Admiral Henry K. Hoff, United States Navy, from congestion of the brain, Admiral Hoff was born in Pennsyl- vania in 1809. His parents moving to South Caro- lina when he was quite a child, he was appointed from that State to the naval service and on the 28th of October, 1823, he was commissioned a midshipman, and soon after assigned to the West India squadron, serving in the Brandywine, Constitution and other vessels until March 3, 1831, when he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and as such served on board the frigate Potomac until 1835, when he was placed on waiting orders for a time and afterward or- dered to duty as recruiting officer for the Brazilian squadron, to which he was subsequently assigned, on board the Independence line-of-battle sbip, of fifty-four guns. On being detached from this vessel he was on leave and “waiting orders” for some months, when he was ordered to the frigate Savannah (1542), the store- ship Relief (1844), and the frigate St. Lawrence (1849). On November 29, 1853, he was promoted to the rank of commander, and as such com: the frigate Independence, sloop John Adams and the ro- ceiving ship Philadelphia. In 1860 he was commisy sioned a captain and placed in command of the Lane caster, then attached to the Pacific squadron. On July 16, 1462, he was promoted to commodore, and during’ the War was on shore duty at Philadelphia, On April 13, 1867, he received the commission of rear admiral, and in 1868 was placed in com- mand of the North Atlantic squadron. It will be seen from the foregoing that Admiral Hoff did not participate in any of the numerous naval e1 ments of the rebellion, Admital Hoff gained much credit by his energetic and prompt measures to pro- tect American citizens residing in Cuba when, im 168-69, he was at Havana on board the Con’ He was retired in 1870, having served forty-seven years, seventeen years of which time had been spent at sea, He died at the residence of his son, Lieutenant Commander W. B. Hoff. His widow is ae ‘+. daughter of the late Commodore William ge, United States Navy. ‘The body will be taken to Phils adelphia for interment. UNITED STATES REV. URIAH SCOTT, D. D. The Rev. Uriah Scott, D. D., pastor of the Church of the Redemption, died yesterday at his “late residence, the Ashland House. He was a native of the cathedral city of Lin- coln, England, the son of a zealous mem- ber of the Wesleyan Church. On completing his studies in 1845 he was admitted to the ministry, His last appointment in England was to the city of Oxford, He inherited a competency from his father, and in 1855 came to this country and took his position a6 local elder in the Quarterly Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Union Church, of Philadelphia. In 1857 he was received into the Episcopal Church by the late Bishop Pot- ter, of Pennsylvania, and was immediately ap- SS to the rectorship of Milford — Great nd.» During the ensuing yout re ceived several calls, ep others one to Grace Church, Honesdale, of Wayne county, Pa, which he accepted. During his settlement there he inarried the daughter of Daniel Bartlett, of Towanda, His wife's health requiring a change to @ less severe climate, he resigned his rectorship and New York in 1861. On Trinity Sunday, 1862, ed for the first time in the Church of the Redemption, in place of Rey, Robert Dixon. The of the latter in 1866 led to Mr. Scott's appoint: ment as rector of that church, EDWARD BROOKE. Edward Brooke, senior member of the firm of B. & G. Brooke, died yesterday afternoon, after a lingering illness, of pneumonia, at Birdsboro’, Pa., nine miles west of Pottstown. ‘The deceased man was a promi- nent and wealthy citizen of Eastern Pennsylvania, and bis death will prove @ sad loss to the comimu- nity in which he resided. He was about sixty years old, It,is @ «inguler and sad coincidence that two of the leading iron men of Pennsylvania—Samuel J, Reeves, president of the Phenix Iron Company, Phoenixville, and Mr. Brooke, living twenty miles apart—should die within rtnight, of the same disease and about the same age. Mr. Brooke was @ brother-in-law of Congressman Clymer, of Berks county, Pa. THOMAS RK, BANNON, Thomas R. Bannon, a prominent member of the Schuylkill connty (Pa) Bar and an old citizen of Pottsville, died in that city yesterday evening of pa ralysis. Hoe was a member of the Pennsylvania Con« stitutional Convention, <= »