The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1878, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1878.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, oe of postage. ALD—One ‘dollar per year, free of post- 2. “Novick 10 SUBSCRINE can be procured send money remitted at risk tion subseribers wish their old ax well as their new address. ‘All business. news letters or telezraphie despatches must be addressed New Yous [xnatn. Letters and packazes should be properly sealed, Hejected commuuications will nut be returned. ey LW reapinte . In ordei sarees PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO. STREET. rE NEW YORK HERALD— UB DE LOPERA. NAPLES 0) TRADA PACK. Subscriptions ad advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, PARIS OF PARK THEATER LYCEUM TH BROADWAY THEATR: Day't. THE COMIQU Joys axp Sonnows, WALLACK’S THEATR UNION SQUA BOOTHS TH FIFTI Av! DARD TH NIBLO'S GAR OLYMPIC THEATRE— NEW YORK AQUARIUM GLOBE THEATRE—Ow' DRAW DERELLA. GERMANIA THEATRE. BOWERY THEATER TIVOLI THEATRE— Fork and its vicinity to-lay will be warmer and cloudy, with snow, followed by rain and south- west lo southeast winds. To-morrow it will be cloudy and warm, with rain or snow, followed by colder and clearing weather. Firty Tuovsanp Porte at the Central Park ice ponds yesterday formed a pleasant picture of our metropolitan life. Mexico’s ForriGn Crepirors are not very likely to become millionnaires next year. Min- ister Foster says that there is not money enough to pay the oflice-holders, let alone bondholders. Brooktyy’s SociaLists welcomed last even- ing some of their brethren who were recently expelled from Germany. Bismarck and the Emperor William were of course bitterly de- nounced. Ar rue Bar of one of the police courts yester- day morning the singular scene was presented of a little boy, not ten years old, prosecuting two others of the same age on the charge of highway robbery. Arcuntsnor Purcett’s Creprrors are more fortunate than the majority of the broken savings bank depositors. His lay and clerical friends have made arrangements to meet the demands upon him, while the real estate is given as security. Tue Sueripan-Scuunz INvtan War is still in progress. In response to the request for specifi- cations of mismanagement by Indian officiais the hero of Winchester telegraphs the reply that a mitrailleuse full of them is on its way through the Post Office. A Setexpip Procrammer has been prepared by the New York Athletic Club for the winter meeting, which comes off at the end ot this week. The entries are unusually large, and the contests promise to be among the best of the kind that have taken place in many years. Tue Quarrer between Governor Colquitt and Senator Hill, of Georgia, las become so bitter that it has drawn in their respective followers in the State and threatens to divide the democratic party into two hostile factions. The pensive carpet-bagger, whose occupation down there is gone, must be slightly amused, Greserat Grant's Rec oN in Madrid ‘was not of a very impressive character. In the absence of the King he was welcomed by the civic authorities, after which came the usual round of dinner parties and receptions. Life at the Spanish capital is pleasantly sketched in the letter of our correspond ph another page. O'Leary walking around the saw dust track with the precision of a piece of machinery was a rather pretty picture, but the spectacle of the pedestrian champion sandpapering his wonder- ful heels, which is elsewhere described, borders on the ludicrons. Campana’s plight is much the same. While the two are nursing their aches the public can nurse its disappointment over the whole affai Tur Cnuurcues.—Yesterday was the last Sun- day of 1875, aud the sermons in many of the places of worship were very naturally suggestive | of the year that ia dying and of that which is to be born. Dr. Hatfield noted some of the chief events in the past twelve mouths; Dr. Armitage took an punt of the spiritual stock ou hand, and Dr. Newman dwelt upon the brevity and grandear of human life. The beanties of the moral law were pointed out by Dr. Bellows, and the lessons of the fife of Elijah by the Rev. Mr. Hull. Dr. Hepworth showed how Christ helps us through life; the Rev. Jolin Cotton Smith preached the last of his second advent sermons; Mr. Frothingham examined into the ethics of Christianity from the materialistic point of view, and Mr. Beecher invited all, poor and rich, to call upon him New Year's Day. Tur Weatuen.—The fall of pressure in the North and Northwest contin and @ more or leas heavy snowfall bas lower lakes, Upper Mississippi and the Ohio val- leys, with a rising temperature and southerly winds. In the Southwest the pressure is also decreasing, with rains and variable winds on the Gulf const. on the Atlantic coast and is diminishing in area and moving eastward rapidly, The winds being mostly from southerly points, except west of the Mississippi, the temperatures have risea atall places eastward of that line. They are quite low over Canada and the Northwest. The whole change of weather that is taking place ai present fulfila our prediction made within the past few days that such would occur. On the English const at Holyhead the wind last even- ing waa light from the south-southeast and the weather cloudy. ln New York and ite vicinity today the weather will be warmer aud cloudy, with snow, followed by rain and southwest to southeast winds. To-morrow it will be cloudy and wart, with rain or snow, followed by colder ; and clearing weather. umenced over the SOUTH SIXTH | Tho high barometer is now | Resumption Day. There will come a time when the bless- ings of a sound and stable currency, having made themselves felt by all the people all over the Union, ‘Resumption Day” will be one of the notable days on our historical calendar. For the present, it must be con- fessed, we are not all agreed upon the merits of the law which will give it its name ; though the opposition to a resump- tion of specie payments has, after the | American fashion, determined to let the law take its course and to place no factious ob- stacles in the way of a return to specie. ‘The great discussion concerning paper and coin, silver and gold, irredeemable and redeemable notes, government issues and bank issues, stops, therefore, to give the Secretary of the Treasury fair opportunity to try his experiment, or rather to carry into effect the law which stands on the statute book, There are those who sin- cerely believe that a return toa coin stan- dard will be an injury rather than a benefit to the country ; and there are yet others who as sincerely believe that resumption is impossible, and the attempt must fail. But both and all agree to let the tion, They are, of course, wise in this, for the attempt to obstruct the carrying into effect of a law at the date and in the man- ner declared in the law would only bring those who made it into general disrepute, and those who believe that Mr. Sherman must fail probably see that if they made his task more difficult his failure would be properly laid upon their shoulders by the people. But, all these merely politic con- sideratiohs aside, we repeat that the oppo- nents of resumption deserve credit that they have ceased active opposition, because they thus display the true American spirit of fair play and respect for law. We do not propose to discuss with them now the merits of the policy they dislike, but we desire to point out to men of all opinions that a financial policy of any kind, to be tolerable, must be permanent, and that, whether it is wisest to use coin or irredeemable paper, in any case stability is the one essential ele- ment required to give confidence to the operations of industry, libe- rate capital to be used for industrial purposes, and secure steady and remunera- tive employment to workingmen. The supreme importance of this is seen and felt already, as resumption day draws near, in a general renewal of public confidence. Men begin once more to talk of new enter- prises; the future looks brighter and more promising; the prospect of a general revival of industry and prosperity is in every- body’s mouth; and it would be difficult to finda man of sound judgment who does not believe thatthe next year will bo a far brighter year to every legitimate interest in the country than any ye» since 1873, Now, of course, what everybody, be he for gold, silver or paper, really wants is to see the country restored to prosperity—to seea return of good times. If specie re- sumption, when it has had a fair, unob- structed and thorough trial, is found not to help but to hinder the return of good times, then the advocates of irredeemable paper money will easily be able to carry the coun- try with them for their plan. They will be entitled to a hearing and to a trial of their method. But in the meantime, and while the present experiment is on trial, we have a right to require that every- body shall co-operate with at least good will to make it succeed. ‘The country has suffered a great deal from confused councils and from the lack of a fixed currency pol- icy ; it has now at last arrived at a settled plan, determined by law, and to unscttle it, to attempt to interfere with what is now doing, is to plunge it into still greater dis- tress ; to derange and disorganize all busi- ness and industry. That is what all sensi- ble and good men, no matter of what faith in currency matters, should now unite to prevent. What such a general and prudent consent to a definite policy—when, as now in our case, ithas been decided by law—can do for a country we see in the case of France. The French suffered enormous losses in men and property in the Franco- German war ; they lost two rich provinces ; they were obliged to pay an indemnity so vast in amount that men looked aghast when the German requisition first became known; and yet, in spite of all these losses, which threatened their ruin, they are to-day the most prosperous, and in fact the only prosperous nation in Europe, and they are so because the French public supported unhesitatingly a finan- cial policy early determined on and intlex- ibly adhered to, with the beneficent result that credit and confidence were never shaken with them; all their industries went on with confidence; the heavy war taxes were paid without distress, and from the day the German occupation ceased to the present the French people have been profitably employed and their wealth has increased. ‘They had astable, settled cur- reney; the kind, size or value of their of partisan disputes, and it is to this general agreement upon a definite financial pro- gtamme that the French owe their present enviable prosperity. hey did not allow tinkering with their currency. What we urge, then, is that parties and public men, no matter what their opinions, shall for the present remain quiet and give the attempt to resume specie payments ac- cording to law a fair and full trial, Any man who now attempts to obstruct or disturb if ought to be recognized at once as an enemy of the general prosperity; as one who would take employment from workingmen and bread from the mouths of their families. We go so tar in this opposition to any disturbance whatever that we should deprecate even an effort just now to improve the conditions of resumption by changes in the law. We do not think the body of currency legislation either wise or consistent, bat sach as it is it has a right to a trial without change, and wo hope the anti-silver men will keep quict in common with the silver men; that the friends and the opponents of the sational banks will alike refrain from agitation ; that the anti-greenbackers and the greenbackers will unite in waiting for the effects of the frane was never in this period the subject | effort be made and to cease their opposi- | laws as they now stand. It is to the inter- est of every laboring man in the country that all agitation of currency questions shall cease, and that, wise or unwise, the present laws shall be left as they stand until their full effect has been ascertained by thorough trial. Proposed Invasion of Mexico. A company of American merchants have planned, with the help and encouragement of Mr. de Zamacona, the Mexican Minister in this country, an invasion of Mexico of a novel, and, happily, useful kind. They will presently set out on a visit to our neighbor Republic, armed with sam- ples of useful American products, and animated by a desire to make these known to the Mexican people, and to learn for themselves what products of Mcx- ico can be usefully imported into the United States. This friendly invading force is to be welcomed at Vera Cruz, and prepara- tions have been made on a considerable seale to show its members the products and the interesting localities of the country. When we consider that a war with Mexico would cost the taxpayers a dozen or twenty millions of dollars at least, and that this friendly invasion will probably bring them in much more than this and ut no cost at all, we give our preference unhesitalingly to the attempt to establish more intimate and profitable commercial reljations ; and we shall be glad if this expedition made in the interest of trade shall be but the first of many more which shall gain us what by our natural position, the similarity of our institutions, and the excellence of our manufactures we ought to possess, the larger share of the commerce of all the Americas south of us, to the furthest point of Capo Horn. We wish the fullest success to the new Mexican invasion ; and we ke our compliments to Sefior de Zamacona, the Mexican Minister here, to whose zealous and unremitting efforts it is due that the attention of our manufacturers and mer- chants has been once more directed to an attempt to increase our commerce with the Mexican Republic. A Happy Opportunity. On the memorable 8th of January the Tammany braves, washing off the war paint of political battles and laying aside the tomahawk and the scalping knife, will deck themselves with their finest beads and feathers and join in the festive dance to celebrate the great victory won sixty-three years ago by their illustrious father, Man- not-afraid-of-monopolies. ‘The occasion will be one calculated t» open the hearts of the warriors of the Wigwam and to incline them toward peace and good fellowship. If the hostile tribes who have so recently left the warpath will avail themselves of the opportunity they can easily make friends with the great chief of Tammany while he is under the gentle influence of the sur- roundings of a ballroom, and, although he has just suffered defeat, his power is not to be despised, especially by an enemy whose allies may at any moment desert his banner. The memory of Jackson ,may well incite his children to union and har- mony at the moment that the principles he upheld are assailed by a powerful foe, and the leader of the rebellious clans will re- lieve himself of a grave responsibility if he tenders the pipe of peace to the Tammany braves in the first week of his rule over Man- hattan. It will be a welcome sight to see Sachem Kelly and Chief Cooper clasp hands and make friends under the soften- ing influencs of opera ties and white kid gloves, and to behold them figuring in the polka instead of fighting at the polls. They are soon to sit together at the council fire and to labor for the good of the children of Manhattan. They are both wise in council as they are powerful in war, and their united and friendly action may bring manifold blessings on their people. Let us hope that the grand ball at the Wigwam may mark the commencement of an cra of good fellowship and peace that will make the future of the braves as bright as the eyes that will sparkle around them on the anniversary of Jackson's victory. Mme. Anderson Turns the Stake To- Night—Can She Win? If she does not break down meanwhile Mme. Anderson will have finished thirteen hundred and fifty quarter miles, or one-half of her journey, at quarter-past nine this evening. Will she hold out tothe end? She has certainly stood the severe strain won- drously well so far, her plump and sturdy make keeping her from showing scarcely any of the exhausted look so conspicuous in Campana, for instance, throughout nearly all last week. In addition, it would be hard to find a woman less troubled with nervousnessthanshe. Perhaps her manner of sleeping is not, after all, so trying. ‘Lhe real distance walked—twenty-tour miles a day—is nothing for a trained walker of either sex. Because sleep is usually taken in a lump does not prove that almost equal benefit might not be had from the same amount of it cut up in small slices. Sailors never sleep over four hours ata stretch, and, in heavy weather, scarcely one. Our soldiers frequently found that three or four hours of sleep daily was all they nocded for months together. Parents with sick children would olten be glad qf that much. Wellington's five minute snatches of unconsciousness during or jast preceding critical moments are historical, and thoagh he knew a tre- mendous mental strain, to which Anderson is a stranger, he lived till eighty-three. At the end of Captain Barclay’s thousand miles in a thousand hours, almost a cen- tury ago, his attendant physician said he saw no reason why he could not keep on for three weeks longer, and this great pedes- trian lived to past seventy. As soon as his feat was over he slept seventeea hours with- out waking, and Mme. Anderson, when her stint is done, will deserve all tho sleep she can take. In her former feats she simply did not cut her sleep up so fine, getting it in halt hour allowances, instead of six min- utedoses as now, Sho has stood this new test so well, and has had such unequalled experience in work nearly similar that we see no reason why she should not accom. plish her allotted task on schedule time. But in justice to her one thing ought to be done, The managers or the police should see that, for the rest of the walk, smoking in Mozart Hail be peremptorily forbidden, The Herald’s Paris Office. We publish to-day the usual list of Americans who have registered their names at the Paris office of the Henaxp during the past week, In this respect the Henaup ex- tends to Americans travelling abroad a priv- ilege not obtainable at any other similar place of registry in Europe. At the other reading rooms and at some of the banking offices in Paris lists of arrivals are kept for reference, or merely to gratify the curiosity of ‘‘whom it may concern.” Visitors who register their names at the Heraup oftice, however, have the satisfaction of knowing | that their arrival will be cabled to New York and published in the Henatp free of expense. This is simply a variation of the principle upon which the Hgnaup's ship news department isconducted. ‘The captain ofany vessel arriving at a European port from New York or Boston or Philadelphia or anywhere on this side of the Atlantic has only tospend a few franes or shillings in telegraphing the fact of his arrival to the London or Paris office of the Hxnanp, and it is at once cabled to this side and pub- lished in our ship news columns next morn- ing. To the owners of the vessel and to the families of the captain and crew, as well as to the families and friends of the traveller whose safe arrival in Paris is thus an- nounced, these brief lines of telegraph con- stitute the cream of the day’s news. In addition to the facility thus afforded of announcing their whereabouts to friends at home the Paris office of the Henaup offers to travellers the attraction of a convenient and well supplied reading room, contain- ing files of the latest newspapers from all parts of the United States. When that oflice was first established five years ago there were, as there are at present, three or four reading rooms intended for the use of travellers. Messrs. Galignani & Co. had then, as they have now, in connection with their office in the Rue de Rivoli, a well arranged reading room, with files of the English and some American papers and periodicals. This room is a model of its kind ond reflects great credit upon the enterprise of Messrs. Galignani & Co., but it is more especially adapted to the needs of English than of American travellers. The banking houses of Messrs. Munroe & Co. and Messrs. Drexel, Harjes & Co. also have reading rooms in connec- tion with their offices, but they do not pretend to the completeness and ar- rangement which make such places useful or attractive. They are as incomplete for their purpose as the banking departments of those houses are complete and efficient for theirs, The Henaxp’s aim from the first was to establish and maintain a thor- oughly arranged and well supplied reading room. The co-operation of our contempo- raries throughout the country was asked for this purpose, and they responded nobly to our appeal. Upward of three hundred journals and periodicals of the United States are now forwarded regularly to the Paris office free of cost, and we have the gratification to add that a large num- ber of French and English journals are simijarly sent. ‘the result, we need scarcely say, is entirely successful. Tho collection is unique of its kind, and owing to its completeness the travelling American can truly say that he feels himself as much at home in Paris and as well posted as re- gards the current affairs of his country as if he were on his native soil. The Exhibition demonstrated in a remark- able degree the benefits derivable from an establishment of this kind. For the last six months it may be said to have been the principal place of reunion for Americans visiting the French capital, and an average of between seven and eight hundred arrivals has been weekly inscribed upon the books. Gratifying as all this is, it is secondary in our estimation, however, to a result which, though not anticipated, is likely to prove more fruitful of benefit to our country than any that we have as yet touched upon. We allude to the continual use that is being made of our reading rooms by the French and other Continental journalists and cor- respondents. Among our most frequent visitors are several of the writers best known in European literature, It is unnecessary for us to enlarge upon the benefits likely to accrue to us from this habitual perusal of our journals and the more perfect acquaint- ance to which it must lead with our ideas and institutions, What Is Clairvoyance? In another budget of communications on the case of Miss Fancher the reader inter- ested in topics of this nature will find some points worthy his attention. One of them should be of especial interest to the friends of the afflicted Indy, since in it the writer, who describes himself as a physician of thirty years’ practice, proposes simply to “estore her to health.? He wants a fee guaranteed in case of success, but will make no charge if he fails—a proposition charac- teristic of experience in the rural districts. In the other communications ‘‘M. H.” and “Speculum” deal again with what has been called the supernatural aspects of the case, though we regard that designation as unhappy, because the moment we regard the facts cited as related to the supernatural we may fairly abandon them as inexplicable, An explanation of unusnal occurrences is sought only on the assumption that they are derivable in some way from the laws of nature or matter known or unknown. ‘“M. HL.” is somewhat illogical in this particular because he argues for the truths of what is reported in the Fancher case from the fact that they are no more remarkable than the facts in religious history in which all bave faith. Now, events out of the ordinary way of nature as they appear in religious chronicles are presented specifically as the evidence of the possession of supernatural power. When St. Denis took his head in his hand and, in the words of the poetical chronicler, ‘‘walked five miles with- out ‘his hat,” no one attempted to explain the cireumstance on the ground of any peculiar physiology. It was and is admittedly supernataral, But supernatural power is not alleged in the case of Miss | Puncher, or if it is her ease is beyond the bonnds of discussion and calls only tor faith. “Speculum” suggests thata right use of such cases is to stuly them ; but there is a diffeulty in the way, as he himself sees, and as Mr. Parkhurst has particularly de- elared in objection to Dr. Hammond. It is said that the money test proposed was not a good one, because the clairvoyant power is so readily deranged that it will not operate in the presence of excitement. Now any test is an excitement, as any schoolboy knows who has ever bean called up for exam- ination; and how, then, can any power be tested which is dispersed by the very pres- ence of atest? Must clairvoyance only be studied in the furtive and unexpected ap- pearances it makes from time to time? Is ita witness that can never be cross-exam- ined? It seems so. It would be a good thing to know precisely what clairvoyance is —what, at least, it is conceived to be by those who believe in it. How do they con- ceive that chasm to be bridged which yawnos between any object and our intel- lectual comprehension of that object, when the road by way of the five senses is ob- sirneted? “Speculum” seems to regard it as “seeing without eyes,” and all his references to it imply a conception in accordance with the etymological import of the word ‘‘clair- voyant” that the idea reaches the brain by way of the optic tract, Now, in the ordi- nary act of vision the brain is informed by an impression on the expansion of the optic nerve in the ballof the eye; but if tho eye is covered by a bandage, or if the object is not in the range of vision, it can- not make that impression. All this is within the law of physics, of course. In- formation cannot reach the brain in that direction without an impression made on the retina, It is comprehensible that there may be subtle processes by which the in- telligence may be reached ; but why should a power stop to borrow the roundabout way of one of the senses when it is able, as de- clared, to dispense with all the senses? Our Treasury in Nevada. The chronic croaker who insists that everything and everybody, individually and collectively, are going figuratively with express speed to that Ultima Thule of destruc- tion, the devil, will be made unhappy by reading in our columns this morning the interesting story of our treasury in Nevada, an immense reserve of the precious metals that we can draw on at will. The fortuno of war, which has brought us so much nearer to the realization of a ‘manifest destiny,” gave us control of a vast region in the West where the bodies of silver and gold that have long lain motionless in the veins of the earth are now brought to the sur- face by the miners and are pouring into the veins of industry. The operation of infu- sion in this way has never failed to give new energy to commercial life and promote a revival of healthy conditions of trade that are sometimes suspended by mismanage- inent or national misfortune. It is said that ‘fact is often stranger than fiction,’’ and surely the fact that “Old Pancake” Comstock ‘‘saw some queer looking stuff in a gopher hole’ in 1859 has been followed by another fact of enormous importance to this country—namely, that to September 30, of this year, over three hundred and eleven million dollars’ worth of bullion has been taken from the lode so strangely discovered by Comstock and which bears his name, We recommend the chronic croaker to read carefully our account of the mining industry of Nevada, and although the state- ments contained therein may upset many of his pet theories as to the approach of the end he will grow wiser and croak less as he reads. ‘he world being a finite quan- tity of matter the Comstock lode will in time be exhausted, but in tho great region stretching from the northern to the Mexi- can boundary of the United States and westward of the Rocky Mountains there is room for, and there will undoubtedly be found, thousands of bonanzas as big as that struck by Comstock and full of as ‘queer looking stuft” Board Bill Lunacy, The debatable ground between sanity and insanity has assumed considerable impor- tance of late years in criminal trials. At some period or another of the judicial pro- cess by which murderers are sent to the gallows the plea of insanity has been offered, and in many instances with suc- cess, Unless juries are not to be be- lieved—and who would doubt a jury?—men kill other men under the influence of an insanity that departs when the deed is done, and had not appeared previous to it. This insanity has been called ‘‘emotional,” for want of a better term. When, however, we come down to minor offences we do not find that much credence is given to the plea of insanity, except tho prisoner is wealthy and the charge is theft, For this grade we have the term “kleptomania,” The poor man who steals or defrauds must be a criminal, and the only term he gets mad about is the one he will serve in the Penitentiary. If his motive in stealing a ham with great adroitness was to boil itand eat it it would be absurd to sny that he was crazy on the question of pork, That his head might have been turned so that he belicved that hams, like sun- beams, were common property, no one would admit. Accrtain learned foreigner now wintering in Kaston Jail appears to have strange ideas about board bills and who should pay them. He disclaims all insanity, but that is no test. Last sum- mer, after recovering from an attack of typhoid fever, he formed a plan which he pursued for some time with startling euc- cess. It was his custom to represent him- self asa Peruvian mine director to people with machinery to sell; forthwith they boarded him and téted him, and he gave them orders based on unsubstantial drafts. This is very methodical im- posture, and it is scarcely to be won- dered that an ordinary man should lay the impostor by the heels without any mis- givings whenever the “Peruvian” came within reach of the law. Yet an account of a visit to this man in his cell, to be found elsewhere, shows that he is probably men- tally unbalanced, A man hunting sparrows with a thirty-two pounder would be thought decidedly lost to the sense of proportion, if not insane, and! this man, with his deep scientific knowledge of mechanics, his practical skill, his keenness and general ability all directed to ‘beating’ his board bills, seems no less off the trae mental centre, Reason for Hope. Our despatch about the loss of the Emily B. Souder does not contain any definite as- surance of the safety of any one but the two men whose rescue has already been noted, but it certainly gives considerable ex- cuse for hope. Of the four boats lowered three are reported to have drifted away with their human car goes, as did also a life raft. The whole number of persons on the ship would not have crowded even one-half the life-saving facilities thus alluded to, and boats and rafts have lived in worse weather than that in which the Emily B. Souder foundered. Besides, the ship foundered on a coast which is frequently passed by small sailing vessels which may not soon be heard from, and the sight of portions of the cargo which was thrown overboard would cause the crew of any other vessel to keep a sharp lodkont for survivors of the wreck which the floating material would indicate, We are suggesting probabilities only, but they are such as experience justifies us ip considering worthy of attention, Stoves in the Third Avenue Cars. New York has seen them, and therefore we glout. On the entire Third Avenue railroad, with its hundreds of cars and miles of track, there are only two stoves, which may not seem many to gloat over; but the difference between two stoves and none is more enormous than would appear at first. They have had stoves on the horse cars in such outlandish places as Brooklyn and Troy during the winter for years past; they have had them, for that matter, all over the country on the steam roads. On the Metropolitan or west side elevated railroad, delightful fact, they heat the cars to a moderate temperature by steam pipes fed from the throbbing engines. On the New York Elevated or east side road they havethe pipes, but not the steam as yet. But this road is now completed to Harlem, whither a man may Horse “travel swiftly at his ease from the Battery, and, during certain hours of the day, for five cents. Now we begin to see what mighty force it took to put up those two precious stoves, As long as the elevated road ran only to Eighty-ninth street there were no stoves, but no sooner does its rails reach out to wish a merry Christmas to Harlem Bridge than forthwith two stoves ap- pear, and we doubt not that more will follow, Now, a stove takes up the place of at least two standing passengers, and as long as two passengers were obtainable to stand there it has been demonstrated that no stove would be permitted to take their place. It was useless to plead with the mean and grasping corporation that men got rheumatism and lumbago and bad colds from travelling in ice-cold cars, or that they could only be warm at the cost of breathing a poisonous atmosphere laden with the respiratory and sudatory emana- tions of humanity packed like hogs ina pen. To give them cars at once warm and ventilated might have cost the company twelve to twenty-four cents a day in fares lost, in ads dition to the price of the stoves and the fuel, and such ao sacrifice out of mere humanity to an insolent public was against every rule that sordidness recognizes. The Second Avenue Railroad now carries pas- sengers to Harlem for five cents. Let the Elevated Railroad make that its rate of fare atall hours of the day and we may yet see tea and coffee in winter and ice cream in snm- mer thrown in with the other luxuries to those who will make a through trip on the horse cars underneath. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of the Heratp on Saturday :— Campbell, George, Detroit, Mich. Clogg, L., New York, Hotel Caville, Cohnfeld, Isidor, New York, Hotel Bellevue. Correa, J. B., Boston, Grand Hotel. Harper, Thomas H., New York, Hotel de Lyon ct ‘New York. Henry, Captain Guy V., United States Army, Hotel des Trois Princes. Hyams, J. E., New York, Hotel de l'Athénée, Kaufmann, G. and wife, New York, Splendide Hotel. Keefer, W. A., San Francisco, Grand Hotel. Laprence, Miss V., New York, Hotel Bellevue, Leob, Gus, New York, Continental Hotel. Livingston, Dr. Beverley, New York, Hotel Amb rante. Livingston, F. A., New York, Hotel Amirante. Maus, Lieutenant Marion P., United States Army, No, 59 Rue Lille, McElmeil, Chief Engineer Jackson, United States Navy, No. 11 Rue Bienfaisance. Seltz, E. A. F., New York, Grand Hotel, Williams, H. R., Cincinnati, Hotel de l’Athénée, Brick Pomeroy will run the La Crosse Chronicle om a lease. The Edinburgh Scotsman's London correspondent says Dean Stanley contemplates revisiting America goon, ‘The citadel of Quebec is at once to be supplied with Armstrong breech-loading rifles of the largest calibre. Sevator Paddock, of Nebraska; Surgeon General Woodworth and Samuel A. Groon, of the National Yellow Fever Commission, have arrived at New Or- leans. A recent writer says that some men and all horses can think of bat one thing at atime. This is proba bly the reason why, proverBially, Passaic (N. J.) men can think of opening a car door, but cannot think of shutting it. Toledo, Ohio, aspires to a great commercial centre, and its people have become so fall of this idea that they sustain it in their actions wherever they go. This is a loyal manner. By the by, it may be said that no other city of its size in this country hae prettier yirls than this same aspiring, commercial Toledo. Paris Figaro:—"A man was in bed very fll, when an old chum came to see him, ‘1 am awfully bad,’ said the patient; ‘you seeLam lying on my right side, and my doctor says I ami so bad that if I were to tara over on ny left side I should die.’ ‘What an extraor- dinary thing to say!’ said the friend. ‘I assure you he did say it,’ replied the sick man, ‘I can’t believe it,’ rejoined the visitor, ‘What!’ exclaimed the sick man, ‘you don’t believe it? Then look here!* and he turned over and died in a rage.” London Wor/d:—“Enlightenment and the humanities are gradually claiming even the small tenant agrictie turist as their own. Gradually the crass, ignorant, wrongheaded, stingy occupier of the soil, perpetually steeped in beor or spirits and superior only to his Jaborers in having more money to command the opportunities of self-indulgence, is being replaced by an agriculturist who reads and thinks, does n believe that education is necessarily a bad thing ie no longer blindly opposed to contributing a ry able measure of assistance to the village rehor is thus the parson’s friend rather than his peg? for {he foo, aud in villages where npecinens of thy the Judie farmer, old type, still survive it will neualgl to his sous coveted that the public opinion of bis clise him." ther to giva i the youug