The New York Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1879, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Three cents per cons (Sundays excluded). Ten dollars per our, five dollars (or six months, two dollars and fifty cents for three mouths, or at a rats mae dollar per month for ny period less than three months, Sunday edition included, tree of postage. WEEKLY HERALD—Ono dollar per year, free of post- ¢. : “Norick 70 SURSCRIRERS.—Romit in drafts on New York or Post Office money orders, and whore neither of these eun be procured send the money in a rayistered logter. AIL moncy remitted at risk of sender. In order to insilre atten- tion subscribers wishing thwir address changed must give their old as weil as their new address. All business, news letters or wlographic despatches must be addressed New Youk Fxeses ou! properly sealed. bo returned. POILADELPATA OFFICE. . 112 SOUTH SIXTH iS A LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—49 AVENUE DE L'OPERA. MAPLES OF FICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms us in New York. fouuME XLV AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. @ALLACK’S THEATRE—At Last. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tux Bayxxn’s Davcaten BOOTHS THEATRE—A1pa. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—Rip Vay Wixete. STANDARD THEATRE—M iss, 100! NIBLO'S GARDEN—Davy OLYMPIC THEATRE— NEW YORK AQUARIU GLOBE THEATRE—M) GRAND OPERA HOU: PARK THEATRE—Banks 1 tuk Woop. LYCEUM THEATRE—Ey. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. GILMORE’S GARDEN. MASONIC HALL—Tow WINDSOR THEATRE: THOMAS’ OPERA HOUSI TIVOLI THEATRE—Vanierr. EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanerr. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE—Comrpr or Exnons TRIPLE SHEET. “NRW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY, 1809 The probabilities are that the weather in New York aud its vicinity to-day will be cool and partly cloudy. To-morrow it will be warmer and fair, SJollowed by increasing clowdiness. ‘Tre Jupcs who married a burglar in court last Saturday and then sent him to jail evi- dently forgot the Scriptural injunction on the subject. Tr Is Esrrmartep that there were upward of one hundred thousand persons on the Central Park ice ponds yesterday. Some one missed a big chance for a corner in skates. ~ Mx. Tarmacr’s opinion of tho national capital is, on the whole, a favorable one. It was a very bad place, but there has been a great improve- ment during the last ten or fifteen years. ‘Terk Is a Prospect of some rare sport on the Upper Hudson this week. The ice is in superb condition and the ice-yacht ficet will be skimming across it to-day or to-morrow at the rate of sixty miles an hour, Coneress again meets to-morrow. A large number of the appropriation bills have been disposed of, arid if it will resume work in tho spirit in which it began it there will be no dan- ger that an extra session will be necessary. Tux Estasuisnment of life saving stations along the docks, such as are suggested by Cap- tain Boyton, and under the charge of “Nan,” the newsboy, and his gallant little associates, would save the city annually a good many lives as well as a nice round sum in coroners’ fees. Tux Sare ARrivat of the Abyssinia, of the Cunard line, will be a great relief to a large number of people in this country as well as in England. She encountered heavy weather off the coast, but at no time was the slightest ap- prehension felt ou board in regard to her safety. Mae. Axperson is still walking away, ap. parently as fresh as when she began. Her bili of fare, elsewhere printed, may solve the secret of her wonderful endurance. Peanuts and port wine, it will be seen, are included in it, but it is not clear to which of the two the credit of her performance must be set down. ‘Tue Cuances proposed by the Burnside com- mittee in the reorganization of the staff depart- ments of the army are not relished by army officers, particularly by those interested. Mr. Calhoun is the father of the present system, and its abolishment would, it is claimed, se- tiously interfere with the efficiency of the ser- vice. Ovr Cornresronvent with General Grant de- scribes on another page the visit of the distin- guished traveller to the Escurial, which was built by Spain's famous second Philip, and to which he retired when he became weary of his trade of royalty. St. Lawrence's gridiron, there is a story, furnished the plan of the structure. The White House gridiron at Washington is smaller, but more comfortable. Tue Sermons Yestervay. covered a wide range of thought and discussion. Manly Chris- tianity was cxplained by the Rev. Mr. Reed; the unification of the Church was considered by Dr. Newman, and the formation of character by Dr. Hepworth. The old claimed the attention of Dr. Armitage; Mr. Frothingham expatiated upon the powers of kindness; Professor Adler upon conscience, while the Rev. Mr. Lloyd ex- teuded a New Year's greeting to his congregation. Tue Wearicr.—The change “in the meteoro- logival conditions since Saturday has been very slight. The area of highest pressure continues over the Central Valley districts and the West. The barometer is lowest, but rising gradually, iu the northeastern districts, the storm centre hav- ing advanced far into the Atlantic. Snow has fallen and continues to fall in the lake regions and the northern Middle Atlan- tic States. A considerable amount has also fallen in the Gulf States, turning into slect and rain in the southern districts. In the West the weather has been generully clear, with oceasional flurries of light snow. The winds have been from fresh to brisk on the Middle Atlantic, New England und Gult coasts and in the Northwest. In the other districts they have been fresh. A full of temperature has taken place in the South Atlantic and Guif States; it has been variable in the Mid- die Atlautic districts, and has risen de- sidedly elsewhere. Although the pressure over the ocean along the Atlantic coast is only relatively high, it is ‘not likely that our district will be affected to any great extent by the disturbance that is evidently moving uorth of the Weat Indies. The weather iy New York and its vicinity today will be coul aud partly cloudy. ‘To-morrow it will be warmer aud fair. followed by increasing cloudiness. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1879—TRIPLE SHEET. Is Alcohol Injurious or Beneficial ? The New Year's festivities over, its jun- keting done, there comes a moment of dys- peptic reaction when moderate drinkers begin to distrust their daily glass of wine, and it may not be untimely to seize the moment to lay before our readers what English men of science have recently said on the use of alcoholic liquors. Is alcohol, ask seven most notable physicians of London, a beneficial or a deleterious agent of civilization? What is its influence for and against a man’s working power? The habitual drunkard being ruled out of court—since all agree that there is no more .pernicious animal on earth than the self-destroying and family- destroying sot —does it give to the moderate drinker that extra dash of vigor which the struggle for existence, of against existence, demands from him? Does ,it lend strength to men engaged in anxious callings or in intense mental exertions, or thaw the numbness of advancing age, or fan the em- bers of diminishing vitality? Does it help the scientist wrestling with an abstruse problem, or the singer in quest of a lost note, or the musician striving after delicacy of touch? Should the sportsman linger over that last glass of Mumm at lunch, or field laborers drink beer on their way to the harvest field, or the delicate housewife take a constitutional glass of sherry every morn- ing? Or, again, when you come home from business, your brain irritable, your head throbbing, does a glass of wine tend to set you right, calm your worried nerves, smooth away the day’s friction, counteract its wear and tear and oil the whole ma- chinery of a life spent at high pressure? Thatis the question. The answer will be received, with the more satisfaction by all moderate drinkers, because, contrary to their expectation, it is entirely in their fayor. r Sir James Paget’s fame is worldwide. His research is immense, \his genius high, his impartiality unquestionable. And Sir James Paget speaks plainly thus:—‘‘My study makes me as sure asI ever would ven- ture to be on any such question that there is not yet any evidence nearly sufficient to make it probable that a moderate use of alcoholic drinks is generally, or even to many persons, injurious; and that there are sufficient reasons for believing that such moderate use is, on the whole, generally beneficial.” Sir James supports his position by an argument drawn from the laws of heredity. ‘If moderate drinking were a bad thing, then the accumulated evils of thirty generations of men devoted to that practice, the total abstainers in their number bal- ancing the habitual drunkards, would cer- tainly now be noticeable. Yet compared with the heirs of thirty generations of ab- stainers, all the world over, they will be found better men in force of body and mind. A human being hasas many bloods in his veinsas he has lineal ancestors. Black- stone, the jurist, shows that in the twen- tieth degree every man has more than half a million of ancestors. What, then, if alco- holic drinks were mischievous, would be the condition of each of us, seeing that on each of us some measure of evil must have come along each of the half million lines, with constantly accumulating and con- vergent force? And to demand the repeal of a custom which is certainly pleasant, probably useful, on the ground that intoxi- cation is a rapidly spreading vice, is about as reasonable as to urge that honest people should cease to gain money because there are so many misers, swindlers and thieves. The medicinal uses of alcohol in fever cases are too well known to need mention. But it also serves, in healthy life, to call upon the reserve store of energy and im- part power to accomplish things that would be othérwise impossible. Sheridan delivered his great oration against Warren Hastings under the influence of two bottles of champagne. Dickens could write with great finency after dinner, though he sel- dom approved of his work in the morning. Lord Derby drank cherry brandy while he translated Homer. And all those men whose lives were merely a succession of flashes and spurts—pleasant companions and brilliant talkers—have invariably quickened their mental process by stimu- lants and have generally lived to a green old age. During the Ashantee war rations of rum were served out to tho fatigued troops and fairly supported their strength till lassitude supervened, and then recourse was had to beef tea, which seemed to work as well and to be followed by no reaction. But at the end of the march the exhausted soldiers found that nothing but rum would unlock their digestive organs, numbed by fatigue. So there is a strong relish of worldly wisdom in Paul’s advice to Timo- thy—“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.” 4 In short, a moderate use of alcohol is uni- versally pronounced to be true temperance. Sir William Gull, the Queén’s physician, advises every out-of-door man to drink beer, Teetotalism is soundly rated. It is said to Jay hold of three classes—namely, the strong and gvod natured people, who are led by philanthropy to join the cause ; the weaker, who are influenced by the ac- tion of the strong, and sots in their phases of repentance. ‘To the first class alcohol is harmless, though unnecessary, Just as the trne poet nepds no spirit lamp to@ight the chamber of his imagery, which is diffuse daylight, so the robust man wants no extra fuel to heat the fire that supports his life. To the second class alcohol in its medicinal form is nearly always a necessity. The sot is rarely reclaimable. How he be- came a sot science cannot tell, He defies the scalpel and retort of physiology. But these seven wise men of Britain have no hesitation in saying that he who takes “nips” throughout the day upon an empty stomach and she who feels o ‘‘sinking” about eleven o'clock in the morning, ure both on the high road to join him ; for they all agree that the man or woman who has an acate consciousness of tho hour of eleven is # being both physically and mor- ally lost. Our excise agitators and tem- perance fanatics will, of course, see in con- clusions like these the terrible voice of temptation that comforts and encourages indulgence in the moderate use of wine. In the performance of our function as pur- veyors of hews we lay before our readers what has been said on this important point in a great periodical by distinguished men of recognized capacity, who may be contem- plated as experts in regard to the physical influence of certain fluids upon the human system, They pronounce in favor of the use in defined circumstances and in mod- erate quantities of a fluid which the fanatics would like to obliterate from the number of created things and for,the very existence of which some of them would impeach the wisdom of divinity. But the point of view taken by Gull, Paget and the others in England, is widely different from that taken by the agitators. Agitation has for its corner stone the habitual drunk. ard—the lost and depraved. It starts from him, holds him up as an awful example, and would regulate all the world on princi- ples constructed to prevent this occurrence, which is irrational—a little as if people should be required to sit on sofas all their lives because the practice of walking some- times results in broken legs. But the phy- sicians set the habitual drunkard aside as a result of exceptional circumstances and dis- ease, and deal with the indulgence of wants felt on the supposition that men can con- trol their appetites. They take the more generally correct view of humanity. The Elections in France. When the French Legislature meets on the 14th inst., it will, as foreseen tor some time past, have a republican majority -in both branches. Nevertheless the extent of the republican gains in the Senatorial elections yesterday must have been a sur- prise to all the friends of the Repub- lic, except, perhaps, those who direct the party. It has been no loss to France that the conversion of the government to republicanism throughout has come so gradually. Had the republi- cans at once obtained control it might have been difficult for the wiser and cooler heads of the party to have resisted the impetu- osity of the extremists. The delay enforced a moderation among the radicals, and gave the leaders like Gambetta an opportunity to demonstrate to the hesitating that the Republic meant safety, while leaving the royalists and Bonapart- ists to prove that any other form of government was impossible. The elections by the local councils, yesterday, of sufficient republican Senators to secure a majority of nearly sixty, were a logical sequence of what had gone before, Every three years.one-fourth of the Senate is re- newed, and it is significant that this repub- lican majority should have been secured with oue-fourth of the original Senate of 1873 yet to be renewed. France is to be congratulated on this easy transition, for the government goes over to the Republic with as much absence of shock as has been notable in the return to specie payments in the United States. ‘The way had been so thoroughly prepared, and the country had so, unmistakably made up its mind that the most timid could not get up a feeling of alarm, and the little devices of the lessening band of reactionaries for disturbing the public mind scarcely excited curiosity. It is not improbable ‘that some changes will shortly take place in the Cabinet. A few de- partmental officials may be removed, ‘he Duke d’Audiffret-Pasquier will, doubtless, give place to a positive republican in the Presidency of the Senate, and the republi- cans will- obtain the majority of all the important committees. All these things will be effected without much difficulty. President MacMahon, even if he so desired, would be powerless to alter the course of events. Amid so much perturbation among the monarchies of Europe it is gratifying to see France seated in popular sovereignty, calmly fulfilling her destiny. Europe's New State. Nine months from the date of the Treaty of Berlin was laid down as the utmost limit to which the provisional government might be extended in the Principality of Bulgaria. Within that period the new State was to be governed by an imperial Russian Commis- sioner. He was to have the assistance of an imperial Turkish Commissioner and of consuls named for the duty by the signa- tory Powers, By the limitation given the provisional government thus constituted might run until the middle of April; but the election of a prince will be proceeded with, it appears, on the 18th inst., which implies that the constitution is nearly com- pleted, for that was to be made “before the election of the Prince.” Some days ago it was reported from London that the Emperor of Russia had proposed to the British government the name of the Duke of Edinburgh as his candidate forthe new throne. Perhaps some views have been exchanged on that subject, for an English prince would be a pleasant change from the policy of grafting Danish and Bavarian sprouts on all these small East- ern thrones ; and a prince who was the son of the English sovereign and the son-in- law of the Russian Czar might fairly be re- garded as a person with claims to consider- ation when crowns are passed around. But the consent of all the Powers would be necessary, for this choice is within the prohibition of the third article of the Berlin Treaty, The words are :— “*No member of any of the reigning dynasties of the great European Powers shall be elected Prince of Bulgaria.” By a double exclusion, therefore, the Snilor Duke is aut; but a common consent of all the Powers might set this clause aside in his favor. Lord Beaconsfield would likely assent to such o modification of the treaty less readily than any other statesman in Europe ; for, though he plays with great assiduity the réle of a grand cour- tier and does his utmost to exhipit a noble solicitude for the advancement of the royal family, yet it is clear that, with a son of Victoria on the Bulgarian throne, the first and common sentiment throughout England would be one of regret that the Kingdom of Bulgaria was not groater and did not in- clude all of Turkey north of Constanti- nople; and that sentiment would react against the Earl, for the reduction of Bul- guria to its present proportions was his especial achievement. He would be classed once more as @ maladroit bungler, who, with infinite art and sagacitv. constantly created false positions for his government, But the Duke’s chance, if he has any, is not brilliant, It is certain that the candi- date favored by Russia will be chosen, and not at all certain that he is that candidate, Courtesy and Catholicity at Cork. The Town Council of Cork has done more to advertise itself in connection with Gen- eral Grant than the municipal authority of any other city in Europe. ‘The respectful hospitalities of which the American ex- President has been the object since he left his native shores nearly two years ago have been so constant, so uniform, so unbroken, that the recital of them was beginning to pall upon public attention. Monotony at last grows tiresome, even if it be a mo- notony of highly seasoned compliments. A break of continuity in the long round of festive receptions given to General Grant heightens their effect by a little dash of contrast. It is like ond of those rough lines which poets sometimes introduce into their compositions to recall attention to the har- mony which pervades the general structure of their verse. The Town Council of Cork has made a discovery which had escaped the rest of Catholic Europe and of Catholic Ireland. It proclaims as a justification of its discourtesy that President Grant went out of his way to insult its re- ligion. The deeds of General Grant have not been done in a corner, and it seems odd enough that it was reserved for the Town Council of Cork to detect and proclaim a fact which has escaped the knowledge of Europe and America, Our travelling ex-President has been as warmly received in Catholic Italy and Spain as in Protestant England and Germany ; he has been as much honored by the Catholic President MacMahon as by the Protestant Queen Victoria ; and even Catholic Dublin has not fallen behind the sister cities of the United Kingdom. ‘The Town Council of Cork would seem to be better Catholics than the Pope himself. - General Grant had decided, before learn- ing of the singular action at Cork, that it would not suit his convenience to pay a visit tothatcity. He thinks that its author- ities have convicted themselves of a strange inattention to American history. It is, in- deed, well enough known that General Grant is not a Catholic ; but it is equally well known that he is superior to all narrow and illiberal prejudices against members of that communion. His two most intimate friends in the army are General Sherman and Lieutenant General Sheridan, both Catholics, He did all in his power to advance the interests of these distinguished soldiers be- fore he became President, and atter his accession he promoted them to the two highest positions in the American army. His zealous friendship was not founded on their religion, but their personal qualities; but their Catholic connection never abated in the least his generous care of their in- terests. In civil affairs his freedom from religious bigotry has been equally genuine, though less conspicuous. He appointed Mr. Thomas Murphy Collector of the Port of New York, one‘of the most important and responsible positions in the civil service, and both in office and out of office Mr. Murphy was treated by him os an intimate personal friend and favorite. We suppose the Cork orators must have heard of President Grant’s Des Moines speech, in which he declared himself in favor of anti-sectarian free schools. But many American Catholics are supporters of our common school system. Theablest and most distinguished Catholic now in public life in this country, Senator Kernan, has always been a steady friend of our common schools, He was for many years the most efficient member of the School Board of Utica, the city ofhis residence. Tho Town Council of Cork has acted on a misconcep- tion and, its members have reason to be heartily ashamed of their ignorance, as well as of their illiberality and discourtesy, More Bridgeport Miles. The sport loving public has heard that the mile, as a standard of distance, was re- constructed at Bridgeport last November by the exquisitely simple process of cutting off @ large piece of it. hey were not in- formed, however, that a special improve- ment in walkers’ records was devised at the same time, and was industriously tested upon the record of Campana. It is not ab- solutely necessary to believe that ‘‘Sport” was a party to this labor-saving operation, which consisted merely of chalking up a few extra miles to the walker’s credit while no one was looking, but it is a great shame that when his record was susceptible of im- proyement by such a method it was allowed to stand at only five hundred and twenty- one and one-quarter miles for six days, when a few extra strokes of the marker’s chalk could have made it outfigure the best scotes ever made by the tedious, stdpid, old-time system of walking fifty-two hun- dred and eighty feet tothe mile, Indeed, there is no positive limit to the new system of computing disffince, so we may yet hear of some exciting walking match in Con- necticut in which nearly all the work will be done by the marker while the contestants lounge ensily in a single tent and play euchre for the prospective gate money of the last and decisive day. Big Guns in Turrets. i" Within a few years national preparations for war have become a sortof rivalry as to what country could make the largest can- non or put the heaviest plates on ships. One day it was reported that a certain gov- ernment had made a gun that could easily send a missile throngh ten inches of iron, and all the world believed for at least twenty-fout hours that this cannon had circumvented the pestilent contrivance of armor clad ships, Next day came tho re- port that some government had covered a ship with twelve-inch plates. Then came a story of a gun ten tons heavier, that could pierce twelve-inch plates. Then they used fourteen-inch plates, and then ten tons more were added to the weight of the gun, and so the governments kept on ina rivalry not unprofitable to theiron founders and plate rollers, but tough on the tnx- payers. It was a matter of rational curiosity for reat while what would be the limit of this sort of seesaw between cuna and ——$——— armor; and the catastrophe on board the lently disposed to personally look up the Thunderer seems to indicate the direction in which the limit is tobe found. The iron founder's art does not keep progress with the need for increased power in can- non, since castings beyond a certain size cannot be certainly made’ without flaws; and however these great guns are built up the basis is always a casting. Armor can be put on ships as heavily as it can be floated, and it does not lose in qual- ity by addition, Guns lose in quality in proportion to the addition of weight. It is easier to increase the resistance to the di- rect operation of foree than to increase the power of an implement in which scarcely calculable forces are to be developed. How many of the big guns in the world to-day are as worthless as the one on the Thun- derer? Since the mania for this sort of ar- tillery seized upon governments these can- non have never been brought into actual use int any war, and when they are the; may prove worse for the many in the tur- rets than for anybody outside. Perhaps an attempt to bombard positions on the Bos- phorus would have been absolutely fatal to several British first rates, Our Silver FPreasures. In the chapter on another page describing the magnitude, location and methods of operating the great mines of the Comstock lode, more especially those known as the “big bonanzas,” the reader will find a good deal of.valuable information in regard to our silver deposits, the risks involved in such speculations and the labor incident to their development. Mining for the precious metals has become one of: the most important of our industries, requir- ing courage, skill, perseverance and an enormous outlay of capital. In it, as in every other branch of business, the invention and ingenuity of our mechanics have found a wide fic!d for their operation. Thirty years ago our mining contrivances were of the simplest and most primitive character. To-day the machinery employed in the conversion of ore into bullion is a marvel of completeness and perfection. So great has been the progress made in this respect that it requires only thirty hours to take the ore from the depths of the moun- tain and, submitting it to the various pro- cesses of crushing, milling and amalgama- tion, convert it into the bullion of com- merce. The calculation which our corre- spondent enters into of the extent of the big bonanza mine, the story of which is one of the romances of silver mining, will enable New Yorkers to realize the value of the im- mense deposit. This great silver pocket, according to his figures, is about one-half the size of the City Hall Park, from the Mayor's office down to the end of the Post Office building, and twice as high as the latter structure, Some years ago certain enterprising gentlemen found a pretty big bonanza in this same piece of ground; but, unlike the Comstock lode, it has, fortunately for our citizens, “given out.” A Consistent Physician. There was something charmingly logical and consistent in the disposition which the date Dr. Habel made of his own physical remnins. Understanding by experience the great service to the healing art of the study of ae structure by actual physical e: ation, and knowing how great is the demand for subjects, he be- queathed his own body to a surgical col- lege for dissection, It was cruelly sug- gested a few months ago that the eighty thousand physicians in tha United States might put an end to the business of body stealing if each would by will present his own remains to his profession, for this plan would provide about two thousand subjects per year, which would really be somewhat in excess of the demand. The profession did not respond as promptly to the suggestion as amateurs in science might have expected; perhaps the physicians thought the cheapest way out of the logical conclusion was to provide a substitute, for “subjects” seem to have been pretty cheap within the year. Dr. Habel, however, appears to have loved his profession more than himself, and thus reached that degree of unselfishness without which consistency is impossible. It may be, however, that he is but the first fruits of the above sugges- tion, and that his professional brethren, as a body, are going to follow his example, One Quart of Beans. A few days ago, under the head of *‘Always With You,” the Hznatp mentioned a certain family as being extremely needy. Many thousands of well-to-do persons read the paragraph, and sighed ‘Poor wretches!” or something ofsimilar meaning. They looked at clock or,watch, determined that by that hour in the morning some dozens, if not’ hundreds, of people as warm hearted as themselves had visited the sufferers and carried sq much food and raiment that tho wolf at the door had been compelled to slink away to some tenement not yet visited by a Henan reporter. Some of these great hearted people honestly determined that early on the next morning, and before they read the news of the day, they would search the morning paper for similar cases and hurry, off to reliove the unfortunates whose names they would find, proving for themselves the truth of the saying that it. is more blessed to give than to receive. Meanwhile the family alluded to shivered the long day through, and shivering was no idle occupa- tion yesterday and the day before. They breakfasted, dined and supped upon ima- gination, but finally—blessed be the earnest- ness of a whote city full of people who are really charitable at heart!—they received asingle quart of beans. Beans are quite nutritive when properly prepared, and the recipients of the quart alluded to were ex- tremely grateful for their temporary reprieve from starvation, and wo call attention tothe case merely to show the benevolent piblic how uncertain is the barrier of life against death when poverty, must depend tor re- lief upon people each of whom leaves the matter for somebody elso to attend to. Perhaps other persons, whose dire neces- sities havo been made known publicly, have been lucky enough to get quarts of beans from charitable hands, For fear, however, thet some of them have been neglected it might be well for the benevo- cases. that are reported irom day to day, re- j membering that if they allow the saying ‘‘what is everybody's business is nobody's business” to go uncontradicted there is considerable probability that many ofthe suffering poor may freeze and starve to death while well-to-do people, with the best intentions, are weeping sympathetie cally over their privations. Still Unsettlea. Tho delay in the arrival of members of Assembly at Albany, consequent upon the storm, leaves the question of the Speakership apparently in doubt, although the strong probability is that the prize will be secured by Mr. Thomas G, Alvord. Our Albany correspondence points at the possibility of 4 new movement which might bring forward either Dr. Isaac I. Hayes or General George H. Sharpe, and this would unquestionably be a wise policy to adopt, in view of the ques. tionable influences that have been actively at work for at least one of the ex-Speakers, The names of those who are laboring on Mr. Alvord’s behalf and of the members who are likely to hold prominent places on his committees, as given in our Albany cor- respondence, are not calculated to recom. mend his clection to popular favor. Mr, Sloun does not ‘‘give up the ship ;” indeed, he insists on representing his chances of success as superior to those of Mr. Alvord; but we believe the only chance of defeating the latter would be to start some new candi- date, like Dr. Hayes, whose character and qualifications are unquestionable, nnd who could obtain votes:that will not be cast for Mr. Sloan. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The following Americans were registered at the Paris offico-of the Heratp on Saturday :— Camron, W. W., and family, Oakland, Cal., No. 29 Boulevard Haussmann. Carson, William R., New Jersey, Hotel de l’Athénée, Crombie, C. B. B., Brooklyn, N. Y., Hotel Binds, Donaldson, George E., New York. Bunter, D. McBurney, New York, VAthénée. * Lieb, M. M., Pennsylvania, Hotel Bedford. Merryman, John, and family, Baltimore, Md., No 9 Rue Cblisée, Mynderse, Aaron, New York, Hotel de Lille et, a’Albion, Sainuels, J. H., New York, Hotel de l’Athénée. Wilds, Miss Jennie, New York, No. 20 Boulevard Haussmann. 7 7 Williams, W. 8. G., Baltimore, Mfd., No. 9 Rue Colisée. Mark Twain now drawls in German. Wade Hampton had roast beef for Christmas, Senator Newton Booth, of California, dresses neatly. Hotel de Senator Blaine gestioulates mainly with his left — arm. Private Dalzell claims Pennsylvania as his native State. : Memphis people use large quantities of oleoman garine for butter. Joe Jefferson dresses carelessly and wears a cape cost and slouch hat. The question in Chicago is, Who does General Jack Logan's literary work? Lester Wallack likes to ride on the platfarm of acar, studying human nature. Some of the Washington hotels serve salted salmon for fresh as a second course, ‘The Duchess of Edinburgh wishes to be popular in England, her adopted home, ‘The salary of the Mayor of Savannan has been re duced from $2,500 to $2,000, MoLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is a very shy man, who does not talk much. New Yorkers who are summer residents in New | port pay taxes on $10,000,000 there. Nashville officials have just had an opossum din ner, and it was cooked by s colored man. Weather-wise Illinois people say ‘that they have just had the deepest fall of snow since 1231, ‘Wealthy men in Boston consider it the thing not ta be publicly spoken of much while they are living. ‘A Detroit boy applied to be sent to a reform school so as to get away from the cruclty of a stop- brother, j Buffalo Bill has made $135,000 on the stage, and he has bought 6,300 head of cattle in Kansas, where he will live. Englishmen of the sentimental class are anxious to givo Bret Harte @ hearty welcome as a lecturer in Senator John P. Jones is daily growing chunkier, and his Californis chin-whisker is growing more silvery and silken, i ‘The Cabinet officers havea dinner at’ the house of one of the membérs every fortnight, and they attend in morning dress. Richard U. Sherman has been appointed by Gov. ernor Robinson Commissioner of Fisheries in place of Horatio Soymour resigned. . OBITUARY. REV. BARTHOLOMEW WEED, About three o'clock yesterday morning, at his house No. 211 Plane street, Newark, Rev. Bartholo- meow Weed died, Though the venerable patriarch of the Methodist Church had been confined to his hous¢ for several months past it can scarcely be said that he died of illness, His death was the result rathes of old age and a long lifetime of arduous labor in the ministry. His end was calm and peaceful. His last ministerial act was to baptize two of his grandchil- dren, who were brought to him for that purpose @ weck or 80 ago. Mr. Weed was born at a place called Ridgefield (now Danbury), Conn., om March 6, 1793. In 1415 he was licensed to officiate as # local preacher by the Philadelphia Conference. Fo sre ter, in 1819, he was ordained s degcon | jhop Roberts, aud in 1921 he was made an elder. He was then at Milford, Del. For twelve years he travelled an extended circuit in Pennsyivania and New Jersey. Then he went West and pursued his sacred calling in LIlinois and lowa, the latter not being raised at that time to the ae nity of @ b opaipev al Here he served cight es presiding . His wife, to whom he n married twenty odd years, having died, he mar. ried « second time in 1844, his second wife being @ Southern lady and deo imbued with Southern ideas. About this time the Methodist Chureh divided into the Methodist Church South and the Methodist Su tehat te The Missouri Carmien, ma then pro-slavery in its sym} some of Te btthren withdrew, Dut vould not finda pastor A call was vent to Mr. Weed to goto st. ais and he secepted it, reaching that city, with his wife, in December, 1846, Here vores f remained fifteen months, subjected to great moral and social [etna ae on the part of the ery Method its and others, They used to be pointed at scorn. fully in the strecta and scoffed at as abolition. ists, which they wero not. E in 1847 they went: to Now Jersey, Mr. Weed having asked to bo sent there, After remaining st Haddonfield « while Mr, Weod waa transferred to Newark in 1860, and remained there until his death. He served a4 pastor of ‘Tri Church two years, and was soon after ‘on the retired list. For eleven years he hea acted as cl of the Fasex County Jail. He administered religious consolation to three person who were han, Since the death of Father Boehm he has been the patriarch of the New.Jersey Confere the oldest ‘minister t by nineteen years, ence— NOAH GIL Noah Gill, @ well known citizen and politician of Baltimore, died yesterday morning in the Baltimore City Prison, aged fifty-five years, He was picked up on the strect at w late hour on Now Your's night badly injured by # fall, and, not being nized at the time was sent to the City Prison. When he was re. on the following day he was too ill to be en to his home. Ho was au active membesof the reform party, ® prominent temperance advocate and president of the Seventeenth Ward Dashaway Club, and some years since, ® member of the City Council, DR. WILLIAM K, SCOTT. Dr. William K. Scott died at Buffalo yesterday, aged ninety-ono yours. He was graduated at Dart. mouth College, and afterward attended lectures in New York, Mayet peg his course in the same clase as the Yalontine Mott. He ‘was the first payee licensed by the censors of the State of New York, he being at that time only nine- teen yoars of & He was married in 1314 to 9 daughter of M. Richard Gay, of Kast Granby. Coun,