The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD. Three cents per ca (San published every day in the year. ys excluded). ‘Ten dollars per two dollars and fi the, or at w rate of one dollar per pe 8 than ¢hvee months, Sunday ed! pstusce, EEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, fee of post- $.—Remit in drafts on New aud whore neither of these t Office money order procured send the remitted at ri ew adi: All business, news letters or Be addressed New York Hiat, Letters and packages should Rejected communications PHILADELPHIA OFFI ), M2 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STRE! PARIS ¢ NAPLES OFFIC Subseriptions Torwarded on the same terms as VOLUME XLIV "4 legraphic despatches must AMUSEMENTS 'TO-NIGHT. GRAND OPERA HOU BOWERY THEATRE BROADWAY THEATRE: THEATRE COMIQUE: WALLAC GERMANIA THEATRE—Der TIVOLI TH THOMAS’ OP! EGYPTIAN HALL—Vant WINDSOR THEATRE. BROOKLYN PARK TIL TRIPLE ~NEW YORK, MONDA The probabilities ure that the weather in New Fork and its vicinity to-day will be slightly colder and partly cloudy or fair. To-morrow it will be partly cloudy, with increasing temperature, and followed by threatening of snow. Tue Sravistics of the iron industry for the past year show un encouraging condition of that branch of business. Our elevated railroads ma- terially contributed to the increased consump- tion. merchants and other maritime experts, Governor Robinson, in his recommendations concerning ‘the harbor masters and port wardens, has run foul of common sense. AccorDING to the latest despatehes the fugi- tive Iudians have been surrounded, but they decline every invitation to surrender and be starved, The blandishments of a Napoclon gun will be brought to bear on them us soon as pos- sible. Fraycts Murrny, the temperance revivalist, said farewell to this city last evening, and in future the liquor men will have it all their own way. It is to be hoped the twenty thousand whom it is said he has reseued from drunkards’ graves will remain in that happy condition. Satire is tle last sentiment to be displayed during the Christmas season, but the story of the Toronto pastor who, in his pulpit on Christ- jas, thanked God for all that had been done for the poor, and then went quietly home and died of starvation because of his insufficient salary is the most grimly satirical narrative that ever disgraced a fashionable church, Mr. Tatmace’s Hara’ yesterday—it ean- not by any stretch of imagination be called a sermon—was perhaps the most extraordinary address ever made from a pulpit in this or any other country. It consisted of a sketch of his own life, a vindication of his course asa preacher aud a refutation of an old slander that he had failed to save his tirst wife from drowning. ‘The ‘Tabernacle rang alternately with laughter and applause. ‘Tne Sermons Yesterpay were of unusual interest and value. Dr. Hepworth explained the meaning of the vision of the ladder and the descending and ascending angels; Dr. Armitage in preaching eloquently on the benefits of youth- ful praise paid a high tribute to woman; Mr. Frothingham discussed the new ideas of evolu- tion; Dr. Newman “Home Religion and Its Relation to Church and State,” while Mr. Beecher dwelt upon the importance of wateh- fulness and prayer. ‘The meauing of our relig- jous perplexities was made clear by the Rev. Mr. Cudworth; the advantages of culture were enlarged upon by Professor Adler; repentance after death was discussed by Mr. Pullman, and the natioval capital was defended agai Talmage by the Rey. Dr. Wilson, of that Tue Wearner.—The depression that was moving in a northeasterly direction, as stated in yesterday’s Herrap, developed a storm centre of considerable energy while passing through the South Atlantic States. The*rains that accompanied the disturbance were exceed- ly heavy, causing numerous floods. In Vir- ginia, where the storm was the severest, a large wnount of damage is said to have been done. The James River aud its numerous tributaries ure very much swollen by the constant aceumula- tion of water from the mountains. ‘lo make mat- ters worse, a large ice gorge has formed below Richmond, and the inhabitants are fearful that the chokiug up of the river, together with the large volume of water that must neces surily come down from the watersheds, will Prove very disastrous. The storm is pass- ing off the coast at Cape Hatteras, its course being changed more to the eastward by the area of high barometer that overlies the Middle Atlantic and Ne giaud coasts. The barom- eter rose very quickly in the southwestern dis- triets, aud is now highest over the Lower Mississippi Valley. In the lake regions the pressure is falling slowly, but is yet only rela- tively low. No rain has fallen except in the districts affected by the storm centre. In the Northwest, however, snow storms prevail, Whe weather has been cloudy except in the avestern sections. The winds have been brisk fo high in the South Atlantic States, brisk on the Gulf coast and generally fresh elsewhere. The temperature has fallen decidedly in the Western Gulf, has variable in the Middle Atlantic and the lake regions, and has risen else- Steep gradients are likely to be formed on the coust north of Cape Hatteras during to- day and high winds may be expected. The weather over the British Islands is more favor- oc but it will probably change to-morrow and rome threatening. ‘The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be slightly colder mid partly cloudy or fair, To-morrow it will be partly cloudy, with increasing temperature, and Vollowed by threatening of suow or rain. NEW YORK HERALD; MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Distress in England—Lord Beacons- tield’s Terrible Temptation. Our London correspondent presents a gloomy picture of England in her holidays. The apprehensions of distress which en- tered into the debates in Parliament on the occasion of the Queen’s speech are more than verified. One can hardly imagine a more dreary picture. ‘The distress comes at atime when England is in the flush and joy of her Christmas season, a season es- pecially consecrated in the English mind to happiness and good cheer. The first thought that naturally occurs is one of profound sympathy for our cousins across the sea, our hope that the evil will soon pass away, and our wish to do what we can toaid them. Our English residents will have the opportunity of aiding their brethren at home, just as our Irish citizens aided their friends during the famine. Another thought that occurs to us is more particularly ad- dressed to Kearney and ruftians like him, who go about preaching aguinst our country. Let them compare our condition with that of England. America advancing and pros- perous, England receding and suffering. They will see how foolish and wild is all this clamor; how disastrous would be their agitation, if successful, to all social and political good feeling and to the best interests of the Republic. The outlook in Europe is, unhappily, not confined to England. The causes which underlie the present distress in Great Britain are to be examined by a committee. In England when any special trouble dis- turbs the general welfare it is made the subject of a Parliamentary inquiry. This might do in the discussion of the paper duty, or the malt tax, but a committee sit- ting to inquire why men and women have no bread, ata.time when men and women are starving, looks like a burlesque upon government. England suffers in sympathy with the other nations of Europe. She suffers more, perhaps, because her climate is stern and nature requires more nour- ishment than in other lands, and the people are not as thrifty as in France and Spain. We are told that England is the earth of majesty, the other Eden, a happy breed of men, a precious stone set in the silver sea, and so on, This is the poet’s rhetorical finery. England is so populous, and wealth isso unequally divided, and the land is so much withdrawn from farming purposes, that she is dependent upon other countries for food, A nation so circum- stanced will naturally bend before the storms of distress and depression which sweep over all countries. Italy and Spaih are far poorer than England. The rate of wages, the average of savings, the price of bread and the character of food in Italy and Spain are inferior. The Spaniard will be happy over his penny mess of beans, and the Italian will doze in the sunlight and rejoice over a handful of maccaroni. Much of this is from habit, much from necessity. The hard work exacted from the laborer in England and the hard climate so often sur- rounding him render necessary more food than the Spaniard or Italian requires. More food requires more money, and asa consequence the distress which now per- vades Europe takes in England the shape of want and starvation. When people starve statesmen tremble. What will Lord Beaconsfield do? If His Lordship’s Downing street closet should be opened we have no doubt that the skeleton would be labelled ‘‘Agricultural Distress.” Lord Beaconsfield has had a ro- mantic and picturesque success in the past few years. He has influenced the politics of England and Europe to a degree never before equalled by an English statesman. He has won at every point, in Berlin, in Parliament, in India. He has given new dominions to the British Empire and anew gem to the British crown. Now, at the consummation of his fame a ghastly prob- lem awaits him. ‘Distress’ in England, “depression” in business, ‘‘famine” in London! We can imagine nothing more eruel—not even in the pitiless irony of history—than a statesman bound with the laurels of Berlin and Cabul, fresh from victories over Bismarck and the Czar, calling upon England to rise up and rejoice and ring the bells—to rejoice as though another Waterloo had been won, and meeting only hungry Manchester and starving Birmingham. We know of no statesman in English public ser- vice less fitted to deal with such a situation than Lord Beaconsfield. He is a master of phrases. A phrase is oftentimes as much asa victory. A phrase will satisfy national pride or national vanily. It will not satisfy a nation’s hunger. What will His Lordship do? Astatesman of real finan- cial genius, like Mr. Gladstone, would de- vote the resources of the Empire, not to the rectification of scientific boundaries, but to feeding the people in time of want and try- ing to prevent the recurrence of it. The danger with Lord Beaconsfield is that he will try a more daring and terrible ex- pedient. One of the most cynical and selfish of Napoleon’s confessions was his avowal that he was compelled to make war to amuse and occupy the French people and keep them from thinking too much of home affuirs, Unless Lord Beaconsticld can solve the present situation the temper of his mind will be to throw the nation into a war. Lord Beaconsfield, since his Premiership, has seemed possessed by a restless longing for the fame of Richelieu and Chatham— the fame of o man whose eloquence swayed Senates and whose genius governed conquering armies. When the secret history of this time is writ- ten we foel sure that it will be seen that only the firmness of Lord Carnarvon and the patriotism of Lord Derby prevented England from going to war with Russia, In that controversy, most momentous to Eng- land, Carnarvon and Derby were aided by the eloquence of Mr. Gladstone and the unswerving aid of the Jimes. Since then Beaconsfield has grown in popular strength, Mr. Gladstone speaks to restive circles, Derby and Carnarvon are discredited and the Times supports the Premier. Behind this there is a reason for war which did not before exist. The hundred thou- sand colliers who threaten to strike would make soldiers, The hundred thousand other workers in iron and house to workhouse, craving soup, and who shovel snow and break stone for a live- lihood, would make an army with which another world could be conquered, ‘‘the liberties of Europe preserved,” and new glory won for the reign of Beaconsfield. We cannot help seeing in the present situation in England a terrible temptation to Lord Beaconsfield. The bent of his mind is for war; and how many problems warsolves! Patriotism is awakened, party feelings are suppressed, taxes are cheer- fully borne, the people pull together and support the Crown and the Cabinet, the laborers who are out of employment and food are given muskets and food, money flows in a stream, honors are showered on the privileged classes, promotions fall rapidly, industry revives, as the people at home must work for the men in the field, If there is defeat then there must be more zeal and more money. If victory, more honors and more money. How much better to have those hundred thousand colliers in scarlet uniforms, tramping over the Con- tinent behind Lord Napier, than to have them in rags, tramping along the Birming- ham and Manchester pikes under Brad- laugh! Truly it is a terrible temptation, and we see nothing in Lord Beaconsfield’s career to show any desire to rise above it. As for a pretext, nothing could be more easily found. Thestatesman who could declare war against Shere Ali as an enemy of England and a disturber of the peace, and actually prove it, has courage and imagination for anything. The distress in England is a matter, thereforg, for univer- sal concern; and not the least thing to ex- cite our concern isthe temptation it throws in the path of a daring and brilliant states- man to whom a successful war would be the crowning point of the most extraordinary career in the political history of England. “Too Thick.” A republican witness before the Blaine- Teller Committee, at New Orleans, J. E. Breda, of Natchitoches parish, testified that in his parish the negroes are ‘miserable individuals who hardly dare strike back and are killed like sheep.” He adds the astonishing statement that the parish con- tains four thousand colored voters and only one thousand seven hundred white voters, and a number of the latter, he says, are re- publicans. The public are therefore asked to believe that less than one thousand seven hundred white men actually kill four thousand col- ored men “like sheep,” even though the four thousand have a number of whites on their side. If this is true, which, for the honor and credit of the four thousand col- ored men we take leave to doubt, we must believe, on Mr. Breda’s testimony, that the colored men are arrant cowards, incapable of protecting themselves even where they very greatly outnumber the whites. Mr. Breda’s swift testimony proves too much. If he had told us that there were one thou- sand seven hundred blacks and four thou- sand whites we might credit the rest of his tale. Free government rests, at bottom, upon the belief that if A strikes B, B will strike back. It is impossible to place a corporal’s guard at every man’s door. It is absurd to cry out that one thousand seven hundred ferocious white men are killing four thou- sand black men ‘‘like sheep.” No man with a grain of manly spirit could have re- spect for the four thousand sheep who al- lowed themselves to be led to slaughter by so smalla minority. Let us have done with that kind of nonsense. We want every man, black or white, in this country to have his rights; but no class of men, any- where, North or South, will long retain their rights unless they can make their manhood respected by those who would attack them. When Mr. Breda tells the committee and the country that four thou- sand black men suffer themselves to be killed “like sheep” by much less than half their number of whites we prefer to believe that he’ libels the colored men and is at- tempting to ‘“‘stuff” the committee, to usea vulgar phrase. A Reasonable Inquiry. The reply of the General Superintendent of the New York “‘L” Railroad io the at- tacks made on the management of the Third avenue line is in general a satisfactory de- fence of the road. But it suggests some criticism, which is made very temperately and justly in the following communica- tion :— To rue Eprron or tne Hrraup L read Mr, Ricker’s reasons w! York “L”" r. Rieker is of the directors, His reasons have much force. No doubt the public ix expecting too much in clamoring for a perfect road without allow- ing time for the completion even of a very ordinary one, The line has been put through fo Harlem with almost lightning rapidity, and many of the sta- tions have not even been completed yet. ‘Theretore the directors have a right to expect patience on the part of the public, But will Mr, Ricker, if he is so anxious as he professes to accommodate the public, explain why he persists in running two Grand Cen- tral trains to one through train? As you have repeatedly asked in your editorial columns, why are spocial trains run to the Grand Central Depot at all when he knows that the effect is to erip- plo the through traffic? In other words, why are the greater interests sacrificed to the lesser ? What is to prevent the immediate discon- tinuance of these Grand Central trains? What tre- mendous engineering problem is involved? If such discontinuance would result in compelling people anxious to catch trains at the Grand Central Depot to walk one block or square, why, let them walk, sooner than incommode the great bulk of the travelling pub- lic. But even this is not necessary. You have pointed out repeatedly that the difficulty can be adjusted by running little trains perpety Thi nue and the big depot. Thave sought in Ricker’s letter for an explanation on this it be that he or the directors are intere New Haven Railroad ? SIXTIETH 8! ‘The people have no right to expect impos- sibilities ; but when improvements can be made without delay or difficulty the man- agers of the ‘L” railroads have as little right to ask the people to do without them. Our correspondent asks a pertinent ques- tion when he inquires why the Forty-second street trains are continued in spite of con- stant protests and of the evident fact that their discontinuance would inconvenience only a very few passengers and accom- modate thousands, Each Forty-second street train run in the busy hours of the day leaves behind at the stations hundreds of passengers going beyond that point, and each, if it were a through train, would help to clear the stations and prevent the annoy- ing and perilous crowding of the platforms. If the company cannot yet conveniently run short trains between the Third avenue station at Forty-second street and the Grand Central Depot it had better put the |] cotton and silk who wander from work- | few persons who go to the depot to the trouble of walking two or three blocks than inconvenience, annoy and endanger thous- ands, It is not quite clear why there should be so much trouble on the Third avenue line about terminal facilities and switches. The Metropolitan “L” road has less space and accommodation at its south terminus than the New York “L” company has at the Battery. Yet the Sixth avenue trains are run with remarkable regularity and at short intervals, If Mr. Ricker, whose mauagement generally has been excellent under very embarrassing circumstances, wishes to please the public, he will supply such accommodations as are at his immediate command without any delay, and then everybody will wait pa- tiently for such conveniences and comforts as the company will no doubt give them in good time. President Field has admitted the expediency and necessity of discon- tinuing the Forty-second street trains and running way-station trains during the busy hours of the day by means of switches. Let Mr. Ricker give us these improvements to- morrow, which he has the power to do, and then we will not press him about minor ac- commodations. Mr. Kelly Makes a Pledge. At the dinner of the Lotos Club on Saturday the newly inaugurated Mayor made a speech, the Mayor whom he suc- ceeded in the office made a speech, and a speech was made by the Comptroller, who is not merely the head of the financial de- partment of our city government, but the head and front of those elements in our political life which are commonly regarded as the real sources of all the grievances, abuses and evils generally in municipal ad- ministration. It was therefore an occa- sion of some importance, not only in the light of its relation to dicte- tics and good company, but in _ its aspects as a political event. At the Lord Mayor's dinner in London people fancy that the light in which the government views any important topic of the time is sure to come ont; and the whitebait dinners at Greenwich have become more famous in that respect than for the wines served or the wit developed. If the annual dinner of the Lotos Club is to become an analogous occasion in our muni- cipal history it will bea doubly welcome fact. Mr. Cooper said very little—not, of course, because he lacked fertility in ideas or readiness in happy terms, but, perhaps, because he did not care to violate the rule of the occasion that forbids politics—a topic that exclusively fills his thoughts just now. Puta capable man—a thoroughgoing New Yorker by origin and sentiment—in the Mayor's office, untram- melled and with a great chance, and his mind must inevitably teem with political projects to such an extent as to crowd out all other thoughts. Invite him to dinner, then, and tell him not to talk politics, and what shall he say? Mayor Ely referred happily and gracefully to his own escape from onerous duties, while Mr. Kelly was radiant, humorous and successful. He was humorous somewhat at Mr. Ely’s expense, perhaps, but then there is spitefulness cnough in any average company for badinage to be always happily received. Mr. Kelly's speech was |. the feature of the night; because, in fact, he expressed some downright thoughts in a downright way. He committed himself to a pledge as to what he would do in case he continued to be Comptroller; promised that “df” he and the new Mayor might labor to- gether for the next two years the city debt should be reduced by at least eight million dollars. He further said:—‘I wish Mayor Cooper all the success in public life that any friend of his can wish him, and I as- sure him and his friends that so far as the official business of this city is concerned there will be no disagreement between us on matters which are really in the interest of the people.” Now, when we consider that this is said in connection with the consideration that Mr. Cooper is a man who has been chosen to office by the people and is untrammelled by party pledges, we take it to be a handsome decla- ration on Mr. Kelly's part. It is to be hoped inthe interest of the city that it docs not involve any arritre pensée, for if a man in Mr. Kelly’s position should go hand in hand with a Mayor chosen as Mr. Cooper has been we do not see what obstacle there can be toa pure, effective and entirely satisfac- tory administration of the city government. Mime. Anderson’s Last Quarter To-Night. At a quarter of eleven to-night, if nothing prevents, Mme. Anderson will have walked her twenty-seven hundredth quarter mile, thus completing in many ways the most re- markable pedestrian feat ever performed in America, if not in the world. The difficulty and magnitude of her task are brought into clearer light when it is remembered that, while the number of entries for athletic contests this winter has been very large— larger, probably, than ever took part in foot contests heretofore in this country all put together—no one of these thousands of contestants has offered to attempt any such task as this. Even O'Leary, the king of them all, says he will have none of it, and joins in the universal surprise and admiration at this little woman’s dauntless courage and wonderful staying power. Over and over she has seemed to falter and threaten to give up what appeared an impossibility. And, after what she had then accomplished, had nature asserted herself, and she been content with what she had then done, she would still have won the respect and good wishes of all by her astonishing performance. But she does not seem to know how to give up. ‘That she is to have a ban- quet from prominent Brooklyn people is in no way surprising, and she will doubtless in various ways receive other recognition of her prowess. If, later on, it shall turn out that she has contrived to make popular among Brooklyn ladies and girls the prac- tice of vigorous walking, not for any money reward, but for the good health and spirits it encourages, she will have rendered a more than passing benefit, and one which will make her always deservedly popular in our sister city, while, should she at some time favor Gilmore's Garden with a similar exhibi- tion, she will find an equally hearty welcome from people who always appreciate good work and downright merit in any line, whether done by their own country people or by those from across the sea. Financier Phillips. y Mr. Wendell Phillips must not think we intend a touch of irony in calling him a financier. He knows enough of financial questions to reason on them acutely, and the dashing boldness of his conceptions by no means proves that he rushes in where masters of finance fear to tread. The famous John Law knew enough of finance to convince and mislead the most skilful men of his time, and although his South Sea Bubble bursted everbody concedes his brilliancy as a reasoner on that class of sub- jects. There is no real incompatibility be- tween intellectual brilliancy and financial skill. Voltaire, who was the most volatile and mercurial man of his century, became rich by his successful speculations, although he made little by his writings. Moreover a man may possess financial genius of the highest order and still be always hard up in his private affairs, as is proved by the example of Hamilton. Mr. Phillips’ letter, which we print to- day, is cxultant and boastful. It is 1 freshing to see how happy he can be in ci: cumstances which have spread a wet blan- ket over most men of his way of thinking. The signal defeat of General Butler in Mas- sachusetts, the fact that the flashy green- back success in Maine has resulted in the inauguration of a strenuous hard money Governor, the failure to get the new silver dollars into circulation, and the triumphant success of resumption on the day fixed by law, have not depressed the exuberant spirits of Mr. Phillips. He construes all these apparent defeats as evidences of vic- tory, and proposes to follow up these splen- did victories by an onslaught on the na- tional banks. The angry philippic deliv- ered Inst week by Senator Beck (we beg Mr. Phillips’ pardon for calling Mr. Beck’s speech a philippic) shows how differently men of like financial faith can view the same events. It is much pleasanter to listen to the jubilant Mr. Phillips than to the lugubrious and denunciatory Mr. Beck. Mr. Phillips is satisfied with the success of the Silver bill, although Beck, Voorhees & Co. declare that it has been nullified. He thinks the reissue of the greenbacks a great victory, although Mr, Beck avers that the intended aim of that law has been frustrated by Secretary Sherman’s substitution of large greenbacks for small ones. He rejoices that legal tender notes are received for customs duties, although Mr. Beck denounces it as plain violation of law. Mr. Phillips is as happy as Swift’s philosopher, who extracted sun- beams from cucumbers, or Pope’s lunatic, who thought himself a king. It would not be quite amiable to disturb this blissiul sense of victory or to question Mr. Phillips’ claim that Secretary Sherman has become his proselyte. While all the hard money men are rejoicing over the success of re- sumption we are glad to find Mr. Phillips in so merry a mood that he accuses Mr. Sherman of stealing his thunder, and ap- plies to him Shakespeare's jest over the Benedict who lived to get married, Weare too much amused with Mr. Phillips’ mirth to scrutinize his reasoning. The Cobb Trial. Bishop's testimony in the murder trial now in progress at Norwich, Conn., was a remarkable and unusual display of peculiar readiness on the part of a culprit to accuse himself of complicity in a capital crime. He swore readily to facts which he was not under legal obligation to swear to, and ex- hibited this superserviceable temper in the cause of justice because, as he said, he “wanted to tell his story.” Now, why did he want totell his story? Was it because of _Ppenitence, because of that passion to ‘‘make a clean breast of it” which sometimes seizes upon people who, having loaded their souls with a weight of crime that fills them with remorse, can never ‘be at ease until taney have unloaded? It is said that Bishop has, since his residence in prison, ‘ob- tained the consolations of religion.” He is, that is to say, one of those murderers who, if ever hanged, will step from the gallows right into Paradise, the second story win- dows of Paradise being notoriously on the same level with the ordinary hangman's scaffold. His religious convictions and the penitent spirit that flows froin them are presented as the occasion and ground of the liberal revelations of his testimony, But it seems to us that for a man under an impression of that nature Bishop discrim- inates very nicely between the crimes that are equally on his soul. He wants to clear his bosom of ‘the perilous stuff’ that re- lates to the murder with which Mrs. Cobb is accused ; but he has not any uneasiness of that sort in regard to the murder with which he is himself accused. That may lay on his soul indefinitely, it appears, and not hurt him; not a word on that point comes out of him. ‘There he stands on his legal rights. He only wants to lighten his soul as to the other murder. ‘This is a rather unusual sort of partiality for a self-accusing spirit to exhibit. But is there any other object with which he could have made these revelations than that of satisfying the instinctive im- pulse to tell all—an instinctive impulse which, as we see, was fully satisfied when he had told half? Here is a man who formally admitted that he guve poison to his wife, and whose wife died from poison. He may bo pretty safely put down as the contriver of her death, He is, therefore, a murderer. He admits that he supplied the poison for the murder of Cobb. It may be considered that a man against whom these admissions are on rec- ord is not the most reliable authority as to the detail of his offences; that he would talsify these, if there was any motive. For if a man will coolly murder with a motive, and coolly assist in the preparations of a second murder with a motive, a fortiori he will, under the influence of an even stronger motive, commit oa lesser of- fence. He who will murder, to pos- sess himself of another man’s wife will lie to escape the gallows, Now, the libidinous wretch who killed his own wife and prepared poison for his friend under the influence of his passion for that friend's wife, being detected in his crimes, and seeing discovery and death before him, is undoubtedly equal to the baseness of attempting to save his own life at the ex- pense of the woman's. Bishop is con- cerned in two murders, His theory is that, he will escape prosecution as to the Cobb murder by his acceptance as State's evidence, while if Mrs. Cobb is convicted for that crime she as a convicted criminal cannot be pro- duced against him as a witness in the other case. Thatis why he was so ready to tell his story. Cobb was poisoned, we believe; not by himself, but very likely by Bishop. Mrs. Cobb was not without some knowledge of what was on foot, but the course of con. duc: sketched for her by Bishop is a fiction of his-imagination. Reminiscences of New Orleans, It has been remarked by some one that we have too few red letter days in our national calendar—too few anniversaries which we celebrate as landmarks in ou history. Among the days not entirely over. looked or forgotten is the 8th of January, the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans. Even Jackson’s great victory often passes unnnoticed, although it marks one of the most important eras in American history, and at one time evoked more en- thusiasm than any battle in which the arms of the Republic were triumphant. And even more singular than the lack of interest in an event so important in our history is the fact that the story of the battle, with all its scenes and incidents, has never been completely told. Waterloo has been painted in all its varying phases, Gettysburg has engaged a hundred pens and almost as many pencils; why, then, should not the story of New Orleans be told by poet, historian and painter with all the vividness and reality of the picture? A correspondent to-day communicates to the Hrraxp some charming reminiscences of the battle and an account of a visit to the battle field by the ill-fated Irish come. dian, Tyrone Power, once so great a favor. ite in this country. In connection with his letter our correspondent sends a ballad by Mr. Thomas Dunn English, which we print, believing it will be welcomed by our rend- ers, partly because Mr. English’s poems have never been collected and partly be- cause it tends to keep alive an interest in the contest which marked the close of the second war with Great Britain and made General Jackson the most important figure in our history in the day when there were giants in the land. Hospitality of the Wrong Kind. A fow days ago a young man was asksd by some strangers to drink with them. He declined, but they insisted, for by the un- written law of bibulous etiquette a man may be forced to drink whenever the bever- age offered him is alcoholic.. What explana- tion the youth offered for his singular con- duct has not yet been made public, but it appears that his would-be entertainers began to reason with him, their arguments con- sisting of clenched fists, boot toes, and perhaps the butt end of a heavy walking cane. To these persuasives he finally yielded to the extent of lying upon the sidewalk. Perhaps it was the contem- plation of him in this position, lying aa peacefully as if he had taken many drinks, that caused the jolly good fellows to go away satistied and leave him alone, to be found by the police. At any rate, he was discovered insensible upon the flagging and was assisted to the hospital, where finally he died of the effects of the attentions so persistently urged upon him. It must be admitted that in this case hospitality was carried rather too far, and that the results were not such as are anticipated when men invite their acquaintances to assist at the flowing bowl; but similar mistakes will occur so long as our fine fellows consider that in matters convivial an invitation is the same thing as an order. The men who killed young Richter, with those who nearly kill their friends with importunities, should be competent to understand that a man’s physical tastes are entirely his own, and that any one who persistently urges upon these such generous attentions as are offene sive is not only not hospitable, but an im- pertinent boor and an intolerable nuisance, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of the Hrratp on Saturday last :— Ferrigan, Hugh, New York, Hotel de Londres, Ferrigan, Robert P., New York, Hotel de Londres, Eaton, 8. B., New York. Harris, Simon, Oregon, Grand Hotel de Suisse. Hughes, Dr. Henry, Long Branch, N. J., Splendide Hotel. MacDonald, R. H., New York, Hotel de Louvre. McCrea, John jew York, Hotel de l'Athénée. Naidhof, V. F., New York, Grand Hotel. Spenjer, J. J., Pennsylvania, No. 5 Rue Bastille. Taylor, Joseph L,, New York, Hotel de l'Athénée, Vincent, W. H., Pennsylvania, Hotel de Boulogne, Cork-onions shed no tears, Wonder if it is really a solid North Pole. An Irish joke is sometimes a Dublin-tendre. An Iowa man of fifty has married a girl of thirteen, A sister of General Custer will soon be married in Indiana, When Long John Wentworth went West he went worth nothing. General Grant, if successful, will be the only Irish citizen ever elected President of the United States, Sir Edward and Lady Thornton have arrived at Ottawa and are the guests of the Governor General. Pall Mali Gazette says that the danger from German socialism is that when a German is destitute he thinks, Professor Sdtbeer, a German scliolar, says the aver- age value of the gold found in Russia has risen te 93,000,000 inarks a year, After many experiments in Spain it has been dis covered that not the ripe but the half-ripe orange tt the one to use for making wine. Sir Arthur Gordon, Governor of the Fiji Islands, who is now at home on leave, is said to have in prep- aration & work on Western Polynesia, . Mr. John Forrest, the explorer, has completed the survey of the country between the De Grey and Ash- burton rivers and for a considerable distance inland, and he is of opinion that that part of Western Aus- tralia is well suited for settlement, Saturday Review:—“To make a character out of the delineations of other people is guesswork; in clever, able hands it is often the best approach to truth we can hi but still this is felt by the reader to be un- certain, questionable and lifeless compared to the hand to hand, eye to eye, ear to car encounter of per- sonal contact, Yet it is thia very personal contact which creates the need of moral clearsightedness, And it very often happens that keenness of insight into the mind, motives and actions of other people diverts the student from a parallel home scrutiny, He never suspects his own bias; he supposes himself to see things by the light of day, while they are in fact unconsciously colored by his personal wishes or prepadices.”