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FRIDA The probabilities are that the weathir in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and fair or partly cloudy, followed by rising temperature. Zo-morrow it will be warmer and partly cloudy. et YEST! and closed very strong. Watt S: ket was ac’ Govern- ment bonds were firm, States dull and railroads ar in price. $1y per cent. Money on call was easy at Tue Fancy of the coal monopolists is still fondly turning to thoughts of a combination. Aytr-T AD in many. plan, with y is organizing on the Tam- a few modern improvements. Tue Four Per Cents continue to go off in regular rapid transit style. Between seven and eight million dollars yesterday. Tue Lawyers are beginning to accommodate themselves to the times. According to our law reports the costs of a suit now are only a trifle larger than the principal. Six Cents Dama were allowed in one of the courts yesterday to a suitor who had been kicked by a horse. The damage to the horse has not been dete Tur Vo Corrs is be- ginning to be appreciated. The two hundred pound citizen whom they pulled out of the river last night returned thanks. Tne Averac AXPA will be glad to hear that Mr. Kelly intends to take an appeal in the Brooklyn Bridge case. He need not be in a hurry about getting an immediate decision. “Ir Is tHE Opsect of the government,” says the President, “to always deal fairly with the Indians.” As, for instance, at Fort Robin- gon, which so de Concress.—The bill of the House granting arrears of pensions to the veterans of the war ‘was passed by the Senate yesterday without amendment and will doubtless be signed by the President. In the House the bill providing for the exchange of four per cent bonds for five- twenties went through, after which the pro- posed improvements of the Mississippi River were discussed. The South is as solid as ever for an appropriation. Tur OLp Fasnionep Sxow Storm which visited the city yesterday brought with it the usual amount of discomfort and inconvenience. Business suffered and travel was impeded everywhere ept on the “L” roads, the re- sources of which were fully tested. Beleaguered trains in every direction bear evidence to the severity of the storm in the country. Along the coast some damage has been done, and one ves- ecl is ashore on the Deal (2 :) Beach. iar ace uae Ex-Secrerary Ron: ‘ made along expla- nation yesterday to the Naval Committee of the Jiouse in regard to the iron-clad and other con- tracts which have been the subject of so much hostile icism. He sho 1 that the alleged irregularities had been repeatedly investigated, resulting in his exoneration, and that the re- sponsibility he assumed in the matter was justi- fied by the threatening attitude of Spain at the time, and had been approved by former Con- gresses. Tue Weatirr.—The movement of the storm through the central valley and lower lake dis- tricts during yesterday was very vapid. Toward the afternoon it passed over the Middle Atlantic and New England States with grad- ually diminishing pressure, and is now over the ocean off the New England coast. As the disturbance moved eastward it was followed by a large area of high baron r and clearing weather. The pressure is falling again in the Northwest, and indications point to the advance of another depression in that region. Heavy snow has fallen in the lower lake regions, the Middle Atlantic and New England States, and rain in the central valley districts and on the ‘Western ¢ coast. Clear weather prevails in all the «list west of the Mississippi River and north of Louisiana and Southern Texas. The winds have been brisk in all the districts except the South Atlantic and Gulf States, where they have been light to fresh. The temperature has fallen generally in the lake regious and the Northeast, has been variable in the central districts and has fallen elsewhere. The storm that passed is said to have been the severest experienced this sea- gon, on necount of the very low temperatures and brisk winds that prevailed in the northern | districts. The rains in the central valleys have paused a general rise in the rivers, which will lucrease very much to-day, when the water will Yegin to come down from the mountains. Nearly all the railroads are more or less at: Aected by the heavy snow storms. ‘The de- yepatches printed elsewhere state that very few | Ytraing are running on time, Gales and rains coutinue on the British coasts, and the pressure Ys falling. The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be coll and fair or partly ‘cloudy, followed by rising temperature. To- morrow it will be warmer and purtly cloudy. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1879—TRIPLE SHEET. Massacre of the Fugitive Cheyennes—Is There To Be No End of Such Butch- eries “‘Man’s inhumanity to man” is a very old story, but the most revolting features of military homicide in recent times are ex- hibited in the dealings of civilized nations with inferior races. All Christendom was shocked by narratives of the barbarities practised by English troops in the great Sepoy mutiny some twenty years ago. To ram living men into the mouths of cannon and shoot them off into space may have been a necessary severity ; but what shall we say of the want of fore- sight and precaution which permitted affairs to get into the state which rendered such atrocities necessary means of inspiring terror? The recent mas- sacre of the fugitive Cheyennes at Fort Robinson may not have been blamable under the circumstances, but it was an unpardonable blunder which opened the way for the existence of such a state of cir- cumstances. Before commenting on these shocking scenes let us make a brief review of their history. The pathetic despatch from Fort Robin- son which we print this morning must stir the sympathies and melt the hearts of the most obdurate and contemptuous ene- mies of the Indian savages, The touching picture of distress which is spread out before us in the long, narrow apart- ment of the barracks in which the wounded captives are confined is fitted to excite the pity of the hardest and roughest men whose hearts have not ceased to throb with any humane impulse. In spite of their dusky complexion squaws are none the less women, and the sad variety of woe exhibited in that comfortless room in the Fort Robinson barracks proves that in all races woman is true to her own nature and that the varnish of civilization 48 no necessary accompaniment of feminine sensibilities. The gray-haired old squaw who lay in the agonies of death pierced with half a dozen bullets would have been an affecting spectacle, even if she had lain there alone in the throes of dissolu- tion. But she served as the dark back- ground of more pathetic scenes. The younger and orphaned squaws, some of them mere children, who displayed the native gentleness of their sex in trying to soothe one another, will unlock the deepest fountains of sympathy in the hearts of such of their civilized sisters as may read the description. ‘The sorrow of the daughter of the Indian chief, not without beauty, whom the soldiers have named the ‘Psincess,” is an affecting part of the picture, but perhaps the most touching incident of all is ‘that of the child squaw who had formed a doll of a bloody blanket and was swaying her little body back and forth, as in an at- tempt to lull this doil to sleep. Such a scene rivals the most affecting things in fiction, for fiction never painted the gentler sensibilities of the female or childish heart on a darker canvas of massacre and horror. When we go back of this scene to the ap- palling history gf the preceding three or four days we find that the Indian warriors were as remarkable for intrepidity as were the squaws for devoted fidelity. In all the extant narratives, of what is called heroism there are no examples of a more death-delying courage than was displayed by these resolute braves in their desperate attempt to regain their lib- erty. We do not dispute the necessity of subduing and controlling them, but the high elements of character which they have exhibited make it ao matter of regret that we cannot utilize these qualities by turning them into a different channe!: While we are affecting so much interest in the welfare of the negro race it is a pity that we cannot do something for the substantial good of the Indians in- stead of shooting them down like wild beasts for manifesting the instincts which lie at the foundation of human liberty. It may be that slaughter and extermination are marked out for them by destiny; but, considering that they are the original pos- sessors of the soil and that we are intruders on their long occupation, it would be just and humane to give this truly hervic .race a chance tor its life Had a band of negroes been thus massacred in a desperate struggle for liberty the sky would have been rent with humani- tarian clamors; but the Indians, aside from their claim as the first occupants, are a manlier race than the negroes. We have a duty to discharge to both races, but as yet the national conscience has not been awakened respecting the Indians as it has been toward the negroes. It is time to put an end to these sickening tales of slaughter which form the staple of our Indian history, and to sub- stitate a wise, firm, comprehensive, fore- casting and paternal policy for the race which we are driving out of their original possessions and are provoking to desperate resistance by our blundering management. ‘The late massacre became necessary from the moment when the Cheyenne prisoners attempted to escape, but there was no necessity for permitting the attempt. This is not merely the opinion of civilians at distance, but the opinion of General Crook himself, who lays the blame on his subordinate, Captain Wessells, who was in immediate command ot Fort Robinson. Wessells was outwitted by the Indians, as so many commanders have been before him, It is truly astonish- ing that, after so much mortifying ex- perience, Indian cunning 50 easily dupes military vigilance. When these Cheyennes were captured and put in confinement they were ~ disarmed and it is supposed that their persons were searched, It may be doubted whether the search was thorough, Certain it is that two or three weeks ago they were suspected of having arms, and several pieces were discov- ered in their possession and takenaway, A few days afterward a new search was made in | their quarters and another piece was found. ‘The leaving of these pieces to be discovered was an Indian artifice to hide their mag- azine, which was concealed under the floor of their barracks, Had they concealed them all the floor might have been taken up and the magazine discovered, but the visible arms warded off suspi- eion and prevented further search, the idea being that if they concealed any they would have concealed the whole, This adroit stratagem operated as a complete blind. How the Cheyennes got possession of arms ean only be conjectured. They were permitted to receive visits from friendly Sioux, and it is suspected that the arms were smuggled in by those visitors. It was a picce of inexcusable neg- ligence to permit their entrance wiih- out o search of their persons. Had the Cheyennes been destitute of arms their escape would have been impossible, and these scenes of slaughter and horror would have been avoided. Of course they had to be shot down after they broke forth, but the necessity resulted from an unpardonable want of shrewdness and vigilance, The desperate unwillingness of these Cheyennes to be sent back to the reservation from which they had ab- sconded, and their preference of death to such a fate, suggests unpleasant re- flections on the treatment they had re- ceived. It is alleged that they ran away to escape stérvation. This is their story, but it is supported by other facts. About two thousand Comanches and other Southern tribes esczped from the same place at about the same time, alleging the same grievance, and after they were captured on the border of ‘Texas the justice of their complaint was vir- tually acknowledged by Genera] Sheridan in his order that they should be supplied with rations of beef. Had the absconding Indians been honestly and properly fed on the reservation every part of the trouble would probably have been escaped. The time has come for a thorough recon- struction of our Indian policy. There is no more important subject which can en- gage the attention of Congress. It evinces a lamentable lack of fore- sight that this great subject has been neglected while so many things have been occurring within the last jew years fitted to arouse indignation and disgust. The Modoc war, the Nez Percés war, the horrible Custer massacre, and now this bloody work at Fort Robinson are startling reminders, and the time has come when they must not longer be neglected. What are the requisites of a true Indian policy has become a question ot the first magnitude and of the greatest urgency. The Henatp is disposed to do its part toward solving this difficult and mo- mentous: problem, but the first requisite is to rouse general public feeling to the great importance of the subject. When public feeling shall have become thoroughly en- listed it will not be difficult to gain atten- tion to the discussion of plans, Crazea by The steady gains of the republican party in France, particularly during the late Senatorial elections, seem to have com- pletely turned the lighter heads of the Lelt in the Assembly, and the distemper has been infectious fora considerable distance along the republican line. It has even be- come serious enough to have caused trouble about. the appointment of General Gres- ley as Minister of War, although, accord- ing to Gambetta’s own organ, the République Francaise, Gresley's capacity, reputation and liberal opinions are admitted, and his not being Gambetta’s choice for the position is declared to be his only fault. This is a bad showing for those French politicians who claim to be the only genuine and original republicans, The claim of repub- licanism always implies a claim of capacity for self-government and of government by the people ; consequently a quarrel about a non-essential, and with so notoriously loyal yet obstinate and combative a party as the Marshal-President, is detrimental to the claims and reputation of the party of which Gambetta is the leader. It is quite natural thas Frenchmen, remem- bering the homo uses to which their army has occasionally been put, should be some- what concerned about the politics of their soldiers’ managers, but the neighbors of France can see what the nation itself would be happier for perceiving—that the French army is not likely to be opposed to any foes but foreign ones, and that in a war with any other nation the politics of the French corps commanders or the War Minister will neither help nor hinder effective action. America has had larger, more trying and more suc- cessful experience with republicanism than France has, and the French leaders should ponder the fact that, although we have some- times been politically in positions where strict party government was apparently im- possible for the time being, we have not only survived, but seem even to have been unaffected by the political anomalies that were evident. Fortunately not all of ‘the French republicans are un- duly excited against the government, for the Ministerial declaration which the Assembly received coldly yesterday was greeted by the republican Senators with applause. It will be asad thing for Frauce if now, while the country’s peace and prosperity are so admirable, the repub- lican party loses over unimportant issues that magnificent patience and self-control which through several years of harder trials have been earning for it strength at home and respect abroad. Success. The Cobb Verdict. The announcement that the jury in the Cobb case has brought in a verdict of mur- der in the second degree against Mrs. Cobb will surprise most of the people who have been following the caso through the Henry's special reports. The magnifi- cent defence which Mrs, Cobb made for herself in her testimony in her own behalf convinced so many of her innocence that it seemed impossible that some of the jury should not be simi- larly affected and cause either disagreement oracquittal. The Judge’s charge was also favorable to Mrs. Cobb, but it is now evident that the jury have attached importance to testimony which, no mat- ter how valuable it was, has not par- ticularly interested the public. The ver- dict will at least relieve the prisoner of any possible fear of capital punishment; but it is probable that the case will not stop at this point, An oppeal in error will be taken almost asa matter of course, 80 that xs a sensation the case will still be be- fore the public, aside from the fact that Bishop, the alleged accomplice in the crime churged, is yet to be tried. Report of the State Bunks. The report of the Acting Bank Superin- tcmdent relative to incorporated banks, banking associations and individual bank- ers does not present any features of great interest. The number of such institutions reporting to the department in 1878 was seventy-five, against eighty-one in 1877. Only one new State banking company was formed during the past year, which is lo- cated at Syracuse, while seven were closed, including three in New York—the Brewers and Grocers’, the Bull’s Head and the Commercial. Eleven trust, loan and wmortgage companies have also reported. The resources and liabili- ties of the banks last year, on September 22, were $86,000,000, against $93,000,000 in 1877. ‘The reduction of capital during the year was $1,348,400, ‘The surplus ot the loan and trust companies was about the same in 1878 as in 1877, although the resources and liabilities were increased from three to four million dollars. The surplus, in 1878 were nearly $7,000,000. The report con- demns the system of tuxation of banks as “onerous and inequitable,” and believes that, if persisted in, it will drive a large amount of banking capital out of existence. It goes into an argu- ment to show that the banking laws of the State need complete and thorough revision, and suggests that legislation is re- quired to define and fix the liabilities of stockholders, to regulate the deposit of stocks in the Bank Department, to prevent private bankers from assuming corporate titles and to remodel the Bank Department. Some of the suggestions made in the report are worthy of attention, and will no doubt receive the consideration of the Legislature. Investigate It Fully. In another column we publish a letter from *“An American Citizen” in which a suggestion is made that merits the attention of Congress. In September, 1876, the Hrraxp correspondent in the Indian Terri- tory called attention to the unreliability of the official account of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, in which Custer lost his life, and made public in our columns a number of alleged facts of the most grave and serious nature, at the same time calling upon the government to investigate that sad event. ‘The nature of our correspondent’s allega- tions called for prompt investigation, yet years have been allowed to pass by the au- thorities at Washington without any action being taken to clear up the mystery sur- rounding Custer’s death ; and, more signifi- eant stjll, none of the actors in that terrible drama have during all this time attempted to challenge the correctness of our cor- respondent’s statements or relieve them- selves from the grave responsibility with which he charged them until the present moment, when a court has assembled to in- vestigate Major Reno’s conduct. In the let- ter which we publish to-day itis very prop- erly pointed out that something more than an inquiry into the conduct of Major Reno is needed—a full and searching investigation of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In order to satisfy public sentiment the in- quiry into this catastrophe, which cost the country hundreds of gailant lives, must be searching and complete, and now that the military authorities have at length moved in the matter we hope they will not pause until the whole truth is made known. This is due no less to the character of the officers who were actors in the tragedy than to the public. We value the high character of our army officers, and feel that every effort should be made to vindicate their reputation where anything which savors of dishonor is even suspected. It is not too much to say that the country has never been fully satisfied that all the actors in the Little Big Horn fight did their duty, and if the doubt on this point can be set at rest with honor to the army it should be done at once. But this can only be accomplished by such an investigation as will bring all the facts to light and satisfy the public con- science that every effort was made by Cus- ter’s subordinates to aid their chief in the hour of hisneed. The present impression is that such efforts were not made, and the evi- dence given by Lieutenant Maguire before the Chicago Court of Inquiry tends to strengthen the belief that all was not done which might have been done to rescue Cus- ter from the hands of his savage foes. As the Chicago court is only one of inquiry, und not charged with the trial of any indi- vidual, it would be easy for the Wur De- partment to modify or supplement the or- der convening the court, and to charge it with that general and exhaustive inquiry into the conduct of every detachment com- manded during the Battle of the Little Big Horn, which alone can fix responsibility where it belongs. If the department neg- lects or declines to do this Congress should promptly take steps toward rescuing repu- tations unjustly suspected whether those who bear them are living or dead. Speaker Alvord’s Committees, The standing committees of the Assembly do not on their face present any strik- ingly objectionable features, although they are exciting some sharp criticism of the Speaker's action and seem to create the usual amount of dissatisfaction, ‘The Ways and Means Committee is properly headed by Mr. Sloan, and its composition gives evidence of care, The Judiciary Com- mittee comprises no marked legal ability, although it may be the best the House affords. The interests of the State canals have been placed in the hands of the friends of the public works, Mr. Hurd, of Erie, having the chairmanship and Dr. Hayes, the earnest advocate of low tolls, the second place, backed by other equally good names, Dr. Hayes has the chairmanship of the important Committee on Affairs of Cities, to which his experience, ability and integrity fairly entitle him. This committee, in which New York is vitally interested, is composed of Dr, Hayes, Mr. Holahan and Mr, Eidmann, of New York ; Eratus Brooks, of Richmond ; General Sharpe, of Ulster, and Mr. Husted, of Rockland, who are almost New Yorkers; Mr. Trowbridge, of Kings; Mr. Duguid, of Onondaga, and Mr, Mann, of Rensselaer. Such a committee ought certainly to act intelligently and liberally on any measures that may come before it relating to the affairs of this city. The Railroad Committee is headed by Mr. Halsey, of Cayuga, and is made up un- doubtedly of the friends of the great rail- road corporations, It is, nevertheless, a fair and intelligent committee. General Sharpe is at the head of the Insurance Committee, which, it is alleged, is made up too much in the interest of the insurance companies. Mr. Sawyer, of Tioga, heads the Committee on Banks, The excise question will probably be re- ferred to the Committee on the Internal Affuirs of Towns and Counties, and it is gratifying to know that there are on this committee two New York members, one Brooklyn member, one Buffalo member, be- sides Mr. Hamilton Fish, Jr., and Mr. Beek- man, of Schoharie, who are supposed to be favorable to a good excise law fitted for the cities of the State. At the same time there is enough of the temperance element on the committee to insure the framing of a care- ful and stringent law, which is just what public sentiment demands. ‘The Special Committee on Apportionment is, we fear, made up with a view to the passage of an unfair law or the continued defeat of any reapportionment, If the injustice already done to the State is continued under a Legislature so strongly republican as the present the party will assuredly suffer the penalty. ‘Lhere is so much new material in the present Assembly that it is impossible to pass a judgment on Mr. Alvord’s selections for the standing committees until their works shall have spoken for them. Snow on the Streets, One man’s meat is another man’s poison, it’s an ill wind that blows good to no one, and so forth and so forth. \An industrious hunter in collections could find by easy count at least twenty good old proverbial declarations with this drift, which being applied to the actual circumstances may be accepted as so many evidences that, un- welcome as the snow is to many, it is not unwelcome to everybody, even in the city, Wrathy horse car directors may rail at the elements and wonder why the company cannot buy its way through the whole course of nature as easily as it can through the Legislature; equally wrathy house- holders may scold as they see their stoops and front doorways packed close with the fleecy particles, and the exasperated citizen at 2 crossing will have his opinion of the reiorm that has never yet furnished o Mayor able to stop the snow. _ But there are thousands and thousands of fellows with shovels who have waited for this all winter, and have had no great satisfaction thus far. For a man who views the snow even for a little minute in sympathy with them it has another as- pect than that of a mere nuisance. For them it is the right thing in the right -place. They have watched for it as earnestly as Lockyer for his hydrogen in the sun, or ag level-headed people for specie payment. {tis commerce and industry ; and though it is not much of either it may be the little lift that starts a wheel. It puts a little money in circulation their way, for the householder must pay them, or pay the penalty, and he can pay them easier. So the snow that puts bread into “hungry mouths is snow that we ought to respect, even when it is in the gutter. Answering a Complaint. A letter was published in the Hznatp “Complaint Book” a few days ago, signed “Subscriber,” alleging that the Sunday Henan is not delivered at the Washington Post Office at the Sunday evening delivery from six o’clock till seven, although, as it is inthe hands of the newsboys before six o'clock, the mail containing it must have been received. The person making the complaint forwarded the same to the Pust- master at Washington, who sends us the following letter:— Wasirxetox, D. C., Jan. 14, ‘9.} To tHE Epiror or Henanp:— ‘The enclosed complaint comes to us without signa- ture, which renders it simply impossible to inyesti- gate. Cannot you furnish the name of “Subscriber?” ‘The New York papers receive immediate attention upon arrival of the mails; hence, without further light as to name and address of “Subscriber,” we are at a loss to know whether there is just ground for this complaint. Very respectfully, J. M. EDMUNDS, Postmaster. We do not feel at liberty to supply our correspondent’s name; but we take this means of calling his attention’ to the sub- ject, having no doubt he will make himself known to the Postmaster, and thus aid in removing the cause of the complaint, The great value of “Our Complaint Book” is shown by the prompt attention paid to its contents both by diligent and delinquent officials. Cry Post Orric , A dury of His Peers, A person lately charged with crime hav- ing requested trial by a jury of men who were literally and professionally his peers, so that all technical evidence might be in- telligently considered, a wonder arises as to how the principle would work if applied to all classes of offenders, There is the famous ‘‘Red” Leary, for instance, whom Massachusetts proposes to try for bank rob- bery if New York will ever allow the great cracksman to tear himself away from us; where could a jury of his peers be found? And, supposing twelve competent bank robbers could be empanelled as a jury, and the familiar tools of their gentle profes. sion were passed from hand to hand while counsel for the defence explained how ‘doing” a bank with a jimmy dif. fered morally from forcing a safe lock with dynamite, what reason is there to hope that they would be more likely than any other dozen of experts to agree upon any essential point? Suppose some famous de- faulter were to be brought into court and a dozen of his peers could be persuaded for the time to forego yachting or church build- ing, or return from rounds of wathetic dis- sipation in Europe, just to give the case of a fellow operntor that intelligent consideration which would be impossible to an equal num- ber of men who had never obtained money except by the stupid, old fashioned method of earning it, who knows but that the ver- diet would be one at which a stolid public, wedded indissolubly to old methods of thought, would laugh and revile? The world is not sufficiently advanced for trial by actual peers, even if the finest police in the world could ever be depended upon to find a man’s peers when they were wanted, An Interesting Convention. The proceedings of the Convention of the National Militia Association, now in session in this city, are likely to be of much inter. est, They are the starting point of an im. Portant movement looking to a uniform militia system in all the States of the Union, under the constitutional pawer given to Congress to provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militin. The scheme contemplates an annual appropriation by Congress for pro rata distribution among the regularly organized and uniformed auilitin of the several States, for the pur. chase of arms, ammunition and other ord. nance and quartermasters’ stores; a system of regulations for the militia, prepared by a board of officers appointed by the Presi. dent, and based upon the regular army system; uniformity of uniforms and rifle ranges; national prizes for rifls matches, drill. and discipline; on annual in- spection by officers of the regular army on the retired list, and the assignment by the Secretary of War of officers from the active or retired list of the army to act as adjutants, adjutant generals or chiefs of staff of the militia, on application of the militiacommanders. All this is within the constitutional authority of Congress, and the proposed system, if adopted, would no doubt conduce to the efficiency and value of the State militia, which is all the military force that is needed in this country for protection against domestic disorder, and which is, fortunately, the nearest approach to a standing army that the nation is over likely to require. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Boston has 400 miles of street lights. O'Leary is at the Hot Springs of Arkansas. M The French are studying the English pelice system, The fashion in England, set by Lord Carington, is for afternoon marriages. "Tho Queen of England is very greatly interested in the religion of the population along the English canals, Chaplain Harrison, of the House of Representatives, is ill, The Rev. Dr. Tudor, of St. Louis, is acting Chaplain. A ballet dancer in London earns $6 or $8 a week; while if she goes to the provinces she gets as much as $10 a week. The Crown Prince of Germany has not sustained auy injury from being thrown out of his carriage on Christmas Day. Chicago Times: transferred to their reservation. several fect underground.” Mr. R. Ten Brogck will hereafter live in Europe. All the racing cups that he won in Eagland have been sold, with many other curiosities. A walking encyclopedia of a man writes to the London Times to explain that Cinderella's slipper was not of glass (verre), but of fur (vair). It was a little Scotch girl of seven years who, upon being asked whether she would marry or remain single, said, ‘‘Neither;*I shall be a widow.” ‘The financial condition of Russia is such that both at Moscow and St. Petersburg the Italian opera ia languishing and will probably have to be altogether suspended. : Ex-State Senator James F, Starbuck had a severe at- tack of hemorrhage of the stomach yesterday after- noon at hia office in Watertown. The doctors think he will recover. There was a grand ball in New Haven the other night, aud when the mext morning the janitor was sweeping up he founda set of false tecth on the flour, Nobody has claimed them. ‘The King of Portugaldas put aside his translation of “Othello” and is busying himself with the “Merchant of Venice.” His translation of “Hamlet” lias already inet with success, King George III. had a fancy, amounting almost to 2 mania, for apple dumplings. The two sons of the Prince of Wales, who are being made sailors of, have crayings—Victor for lump sugar and George for nut- megs. Mme. Anderson, the walker, is one of the results of our civilization. Had gentlemen never permitted her to stand up in tho street cara she would, probably, never have hud the physical stamina which enabled luer to perform her task. A cable despatch received at Halifax yesterday con- firms the rumor that the Duke of Edinburgh will shortly be appointed Admiral at this station. He will come out early in the summer with the Duchess, accompanied by the Russian ficet. It is rumored that M. Gambetta is among those who are most anxious to see the Chambers removed from Versailles to Paris. The ‘Trocadero has been mentioned as a suitable place for the meeting of the Deputies and the Palais Bourbon for the Senate. On this subject the Figaro observes that the Trocadero not being exactly in Paris the Deputies will not run a yery great danger, but it would be an act of the ut- most imprudence on the part of the Senate to ven- ture so far as the Palais Bourbon. And yet they talk as though France had already realized the millenium of brotherly love and peace, Dublin Irish Times:—“Thero is a queer story afloat about Dondonkoff and the roubles he is said to have pocketed since he took up the administration of Eastern Roumelia. The name, and I may add the reputation, of a British nobleman, whose political standing would be higher if it were more consistent, are involved in the scandal, which, however, has not ripened sufficiently for explicit revelation. At pres: ent it is whispered that the Russian has had # million roubles to his own cheek and that the titled Briton has had @ quarter of that figure for lis share of the swag.” ‘The Indians are being rapidly Their reservation is MR. LORD'S CONDITION. Mr. ‘Thomas Lord is still ina oritical condition, His physician says he may survive for a short time under tho stimulants administered, but is i to be carried off at any moment. EX-MAYOR WESTERVELT. ‘The condition of ex-Mayor Westervelt at an early hour this morning was about the same as yesterday. He has been cantaoriens tor several days, ARCHBISHOP PURCELL'S SUCCESSOR, cnnmentane Crxcixnati, Jan. 16, 1879, The Catholic Telegraph, the official organ of thie dio cese, today ‘sys of the press telegram an- nouncing thd ‘weveptance of the resignation of Archbishop Pureell:—*‘We doubt ite truthful would not consider the question to op ited him ‘the other archbishops of the country. Semogew all things in order,” THE NEW ENGLAND ALPHA DELTA PHI, Bowron, Mass., Jan, 16, 1879, ‘The fourth annual dinner of the New England As. sociation of the Alpha Delta Phi was held at Young's Hotel to-night, about forty members being present, At the business meeting the following officers were elected ;—President, Professor James B. Thayer, of Harvard; eight vice presidents; Secretary, A. O, ‘Treat; Treasurer, J. H. Read. An executive commit+ tee of seven was also chosen. After-dinner speeches were made by Professor Thayer, Rev. B. E. Hale, H, L, Eustis, of the Cambridge Engineering School Rev. Francis Tiffany, of Newton; Dr. Winsor, of Winchester, and others. Letters and telegrams were read from George William Curtis; from the Alpha Deita Phi of New York; John Jay, of New York; the Middletown Capter, aud Rev. 0. B. Frothti New York, The chapters represented att! were those of Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Willh vard, Aumherst aud Manhattan, of New \om.