The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1879, Page 6

’ ere cena = 0 NEW YORK HERALD orden BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Lasse alls ee oh JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Shas dives Swonthe, Dancy eal .D—One dollar per year, free of post- emit in drafts o where neither ¢ address. ‘as well as their ni apie despatches must u All Imtsiness, news letters 0 Le addressed New You Hx. Letters and packnxes shoul perly sealed. Rejected communications will wot be returned, NO. 12 SOUTH SIXTH EF NEW YORK HERALD— Xi DE L'OPERA. NAPLES OFFI ADA PACE. Subscription advertisements will be received and e terms as in New York. forwarde ENTS: ~TO-NIGHT. GLOBE THEATRE—! SRAND OPERA HO! PARK THEATRE—Dor._ NEW YORK AQUARIUM—OCrspenates. LYCEUM THEATRE- % COOPER I WINDSOR THEATR TIVOLI THEATRE The sabaneace are that the caine in New York aud its vicinity to-day vill be cooland cloudy, possibly with light rain in the early portion, fol- lowed by clearing. To-morrow it will be colder and partly cloudy or fair: WALt Str YESTERDAY. he stock market wasvery activeand strong. Government bonds were weaker, States steady s and railroads strong. Money on cull was enay, at2a3 per cent. A Gnersnack Vicrory.—The verdict for Mr. Peter Cooper in the libel suit against him. GENERAL SHERMAN is going South. His march through Georgia this time will be in a palace car. ‘Tne Names of the new United States Sen- ators-clect ure printed in our telegraphic despatches, Avyorner Decision has'been scored up against the County Clerk, but his books are as much of a inystery us ever. Hanvarp's. Rerorr for “the past year shows @ most encouraging condition of affairs. The English universities will soon haye to look to their laurels. MAyor Coorer, according to our reports, Goes not understand how the head of a depart- , ment can exceed his appropriation. He evi- * dently has a good deal to learn. Ix tHe Corp Case thé all important but modest witness turns up, as usual, when itis too late. If a new trial is granted a lady declares she will testify that Cobb told her (confi- dentially, of course), that he was in the habit of taking arsenic. Ix Tuer Zeat to serve their party the demo- eratie Senators and Assemblymen, iu their address demanding a reapportionment of the State, have made themselves very ridiculous. A new apportionment ought undoubtedly to be amade, in obedience to the provisions of the constitution; but to talk in the same breath of the nomination of General Grant and of demo- cratic economy in Washington is absurd. Ty New INSTRUCTIONS from the College of the Propaganda to the Catholic bishops of this country prescribing low offences against ec- clesiastical discipline shall in future be dealt with «appear to give satisfaction to all concerned. They are undoubtedly the preliminary step to the introduction of the canon law in this coun- try, so far as it is possible to make it effective in accordance with our institutions. Tuexs Was a Row in the democratic family in the House of Representatives at Washington yesterduy, the root of the trouble being the favorable report made by Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, upon a claim for supplies to the Union army during the war. Mr. Bragg, a Western democrat, saw in the bill a precedent for the payment of war claims generally, and as such vehemently opposed it. After some sharp expressions all around the storm finally blew over. In the Senate Mr. Blaine spoke earnestly in opposition to free ships and, as may be expected, in favor of heavy subsidies to beeun lines. Tue W EATHER.—As the depression was moving over the lake regions on ‘Tuesday night a subsidiary centre of disturbauce was devel- oped in the Missouri Valley. This low area in- creased rapidly im size, and toward yesterday morning dominated the weather in all the dis- tricts west of the Mississippi River. Itis now advancing through the central valley districts, but as yet no precipitation attends its move- ment. northern disturbance passed over St. Luwrence Valley districts and has now el into =the = ovean off the coast Nova Scotia, attended by heavy snow and followed by rapidly inerens- ing pressure. The barometer is highest iu the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States, where clear weather generally prevails, Snow in the lake regions and the North- winds have been brisk over the utral valley districts and the Rocky Mountain regions, and fresh to light elsewhere, ‘The temperature has risen considerably through | out the country, except in the Northwest, where it is falling slowly. The approaching disturb. | ance will probably reach our district today, ac- compauied by light rains and increasing winds. It will be followed on Friday by winds and clearing weather. The weather .continyes over the British ds, as will be seen by our special cable, The anxiety for the safety of those vessels sup- posed to be caught by the tempest in the chan. nels is only natural, because when a ship is on | the broad occan there is far less danger in a storm than when she encounters a gale in a nar- row passage with rocky coasts on cither side, ‘The storm is likely to continue for a few days. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-lay | will be cool and cloudy, possibly with light rain in the early portion, followed by clearing. To- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEKT. True Economy—Save the Army and Navy and Cut Down the Diplo- matists, It is difficult to always draw the line be- tween true and false economy, ‘Lhe temp- tation to pass bills without any reason, to please local interests or pander to local prejudices, often overcomes cold business sense. What we want is not economy for ecopomy’s sake, or lavish disbursements for anybody's sake, but such a control of our finances as any sensible merchant would apply if the interests were his own and not the interests of the Commonwealth. This is seen in such measures as the River and Harbor bill, which comes to us every session, and where Representatives from out of the way towns combine and log-roll, and before they are through pile six or seven millions upon the nation. One biil of that kind will cost the country more than a dozen retrenchment bills will save, and it is passed to plexse certain Congressmen and “make them strong” among their people. This is false economy, and itis also a false economy to tinker our army and navy the way Congressmen did last session. In the army political questions enter. This is a fatal mistake. Some of our Southern friends think the army too large, be- cause. its officers took part in the last war and because we have not restored the Southern officers to the rank they abandoned. ‘his is the revival of sectionalism in its worst form, and if persevered in will do the South harm, as, indeed, every sectional question must nec- essarily do harm. We have a good army in point of character, but itis too small. It is a proud thing to feel that some of the most distinguished generals in the world, men who have won immortal renown, should still be in their country’s service. That speaks well for our future should another war arise, and so long as we maintain our self-respect and our patriotism these men will be cherished. ‘To cut down their salaries or their rank would be an outrage. Beyond this we need the army to protect our settlers, look after the Indians, watch our public property and repress such outbreaks of lawlessness as in the railroad sttikes two years ago and the riots in New Orleans and Memphis. We need the army as a nucleus and a nursery in the event of war. We should have a large and intelligent staff, good artillery and engincer corps. From these soldiers fit for the highest commands can be detailed to drill infantry and cavalry. The last war showed in, the South, as well as the North, that while we had the ma- terial for good soldiers these soldiers were nothing without trained generals. The best generals on both sides—Grant and Lee, Sherman and Beauregard, Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson—came from West Point. To cripple the army which sapplied these men and which in the event of war would be expected to supply men to take their places would be suicide. ‘The same argu- ment applies to the navy." Even as ao matter of economy we cannot spend money to better advantage than in keeping our ships in good condition and not allowing them to rot in dockyards. This argument is so plain that we aré almost ashamed to press it upon the attention of an intelligent Congress, True economy will be served by reform- ing our diplomatic system. knife can be driven in wide and deep. Our diplomatic system is on a false basis. It is @ remnant of monarchical ideas, and we send men abroad half the time to swell the entourage of a monarch or court. What suse have we for diplomacy in such coun- tries as Austria or Turkey? 1t is a courtesy to these Powers to send them Ministers, It gives the President desirable appoint- ments. Bat why sould we keep men on our payrolls to pay atten- tions to foreign princes? And if these appointments are so desirable why should we not send men abroad who are wil- ling to hold the places forthe honor and not expect salaries only second to the sai- ary we pay our President? Why should our Minister to Berlin receive more money than the General of the Army, the Vice President, the Chief Justice or the members of the Cabinet? It was said of the late Minister to Berlin, an honored und worthy citizen, now, unhappily, taken from us, that the principal reason for his ac- cepting the office was that he might write the life of Goethe. Now, a life ot Goethe, such a work especially as Bayard Taylor would have written, would have been an addition to our literature. But why should men be appointed abroad to write books? Or if wedo appoint them for such a purpose why should they not look upon the office as an honor and an op- portunity and hold it for a small salary? The appointment of such a manas Bayard Taylor to Berlin was in itself so commenda- ble a use of government patronage that we can refer toitas showing the folly of our diplomatic system. It indicates that our authorities regard these foreign appoint- inents as to a great degree unnecessary ex- cept as rewards to men more or less deserv- ing, oras courtesies to foreign princes. How much better, if these are honorary posts, that they should be held by gentlemen who will value the honor, who will be content | with small salaries. General Meredith Read, our Minister to Greece, shows an ex- | ample of this by remaining in Athens alter | Congress has withdrawn the salary. We have many citizens who would follow the example of General Kead. If we expect our Ministers to compete with Lord Lyons in Paris, or Layard in ‘Lurkey, we do not pay them half enough. If they are only honorary cfficials, appointed out of cour- | tesy to other Powers, we pay them too | much. We think the whole service jshould be reduced to a business | system. We need Ministers in London, | Madrid and Mexico. Those are our im- portant places, because those governments are on our borders, and questions are | always arising out of that border relation. | In China and Japan we have commercial | and industrial interests that pomise to be of great magnitude, especially when we | consider the Oriental emigration to our shores. Therefore it wonld be well to keep morrow itwill be colder and purtly cloudy or | able men in those two countries, not as faire Ministers merely. but as residents like There the’ British residents at the minor courts in India. Our agents should remain, and not be changed with every administra- | tion, Our other diplomatic appointments | are ornamental, Congress should so regard them. We should reduce our European missions to five—London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, St. Petersburg. We should pay the representatives--London and Madrid, per- haps, excepted—nominal salaries, enough for expenses, and no more, Then we should improve our consular service, and select strong, wise, hard-headed busi- ness men for consuls general. The law should be changed so as to allow us to send good army and navy officers to these posts. Their education and their experience would be of advantage. What we especially want to avoid is the tendency of our diplomacy to ape the man- ners ofthe monarchy and aristocracy, ‘That cannot be too steadily resisted. If our re- publicanism means anything we should never cease to profess it, always profess their faith and compel the world to acknowledge it. Monarchy means divine right—the Republic the rights of man. We*think our principle the sacred one. We should not be ashamed of it. It looks as if we were ashamed, as though we were in a condition of constant apology for our principles, to keep up a service whose main duty is to be an appendage to foreign The monarchists ! courts, Let us abolish it altogether and reorganize the whole diplomacy on business principles. On the Cheyenge Trail. Captain Wessells reports thet he has struck the trail of the fleeing Cheyennes, who now, he judges, are making for the agency of the Ogailala Sioux, where, if they once arrive, the task of identifying them in the first place, and getting them in the second; will prove more troublesome and dangerous than the present so far fruitless pursuit. There are two bodies of «troops operating against the little Chey- enne band, and 1f it is merely a race for the Ogallala Agency one or othér should over- take them; but this is not to be re- lied on if we recall the splendid strategy of the Indians since they burst from their prison house, and the singular in- capacity to cope with it displayed by the military. In view of what had occurred on the first day after the escape it is hard to imagine by what process short of a fight the desperate Cheyennes could be made to fall into the hands of our troops, yet we hear continually from the discreet commanders that they could effect nothing without a sacrifice of life, and,so they did nothing. When the Cheyennes made their famous rush they understood for them- selves the force of the French fighting proverb that ‘tyou cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs,” for they left nineteen braves, nine squaws and four children stiff in death behind them before they gained the bluffs. A little of the same determination bn the part of the officers would have taught a lesson that would be spread with some effect through the entire Sioux Nation. As it iswe are enlisting the Sioux—a confession of weak- ness not to be madé to savages—-to help us capture or kill this little Spartan band of their blood relations. A Princess in the Republic: It was only for ao little while, just long enough to hear some of the free born ice of the Republic crackle under the heel of her royal bottine; but she was the daughter of a Queen whose grandfather once. ruled the destinies of the people on both sides of the Niagara River. In this way great wars have begun—o harmless locking little advance, a pretty little retreat, but the first reconnoisance has been effected. We cannot tell how many hearts Her Royal Highness may have captured in the brief incursion; but we hope that she has carried off as prisoners, never to be released, as many pleasant recollec- tions of the American Falls as pos- sible. The wonders of the ice wreath- ings glittering in the sun, seen while standing beneath the Stars and Stripes, are worth the remembering, but we should have preferred being able to show something American that was a little warmer than that enchanting prospect. Her Royal High- ness must not return to Ottawa in the belief that we are only great on ice. Perhaps in her unobtrusive way the Princess would prefer finding out our greatness through the four seasons and the forty- -Six States and Territories without the aid of forty million index fingers to guide her; but she would find that many at her service if they were needed for that patriotic object. Under the circumstances we cam only assure the Governor General of Canada and the Princess Louise, that, brief though their visit was, they were heartily welcome; and we hope, now that they have literally ‘‘broken the ice,” we may see them again amid warmer surround- ings before very long. The Child-Killing Senson. Next to the offspring of the helpless poor no one has better reason to dread the colder winter weather than some of the children of the rich, Fashion once decreed that bare knees were the properthing for chil- dren, whether in winter or summer; and although this rule has been modified to some extent the custom almost invariably prevails of restricting children to a single thickness of cottori or wool as sole protec- tion of knee and lower leg against the cold. How this senseless and ernel violation of physical law ever became popular is more than the sane intellect can imagine ; but the fact that it is so will force itself upon the attention of ony one who observes childron under ten years of age. It may be too much to hope thatthe generality of mothers will modify a dress that looks pretty, but ordinary humanity demands that the extremities of children be very warmly clad, and if the present style of dress is not to be altered in shape and effect a change to thicker clothing for feet and knees will be of unspeakable benefit to hundreds of thousands of children who suffer keenly from weather such as we have had of late. Broadway presents some sad sights, but none more enraging than that of a mother in a sealskin sacque accom. panied by a shivering child in beautiful clothing which is none too heavy for com- fortable use in thes summer season. 3 The Mystery of the Cipher Deipatetiiils ‘The vemarkable statement made yesterday by General Butler respecting the six hun- dred and forty-one telegraphic despatches now in his possession adds force to the pre- viously existing reasons foran inquiry by the Potter Commitiee into the larceny by which they passed into the hands of the party or parties which furnished them for publication. General Butler states that they were sent to him in an under- hand manner early last spring; that ‘they aiterward disappeared; that he could not explain their surreptitious removal; that they were subsequently restored to his private office without any notice to him, and that he stumbled upon them by accident, He then had them numbered, stamped and put away in a safe place. He offers to deliver them to the committee, and contends that they shou!d be printed in order that every member of the committee may have an opportunity to examine them. ‘The covert manner in which they were thrust into his possession, their subsequent mysterious disappearance and their equally mysterious reappearance make a singular piece of history. These surreptitious pro- ceedings should be probed to the bottom, ‘They are enveloped in a secrecy like that which shrouds the stealing of Mr. Stewart's corpse and other great criminal movements, asecrecy which attests the mean and skulk- ing character of the transaction, The things which were thus done in darkness should be dragged forth into the light, and the conscious and self-condemned thieves be exposed and punished. General Butler in his speech on Tuesday exonerated the Western Union Company from all blame in connection with the de- spatches. When General Butler made that speech he could not have seen the inter- view with President Green published in the Heraip of the same day. Dr. Green stated that after vain attempts by Presi- dent Orton and the directors ofthe Western Union to resist ‘the subpena nearly thirty thousand despatches were put into a huge Saratoga trank and sent to Wash- ington ; that the same trunk was afterward returned and supposed to contain all the despatches which the company put into it ; that its contents, however, were never ex- amined after the trunk was sent back. It is impossible to exculpate the Western Union from a loose and careless manner of transacting important business. Instead of huddling the despatches pell mell into a trunk the company should have taken a careful ‘inventory and kept a record, marking and numbering all the despatches, and comparing the returned contents of the trunk with the inventory. It appears from Dr. Green’s statement that nothing é6f the kind was done, and that the Western Union neither knew nor adopted ‘any means to ascertain whether all the de- spatches sent to Washington came back in the Saratoga trunk. That they did not all come back is evident, and the company must be held responsible to public opinion for gross and culpable negligence. Hada proper inventory been taken when the de- spatches were sent to Washington, and a strict comparison been made with the inventory on their return, the theft would have been promptly detected and there would have been a better chance of discovering the perpetrators. There may be a difference of opinion as to whether the Western Union should have obeyed the “drag-net” subpeena; but there is no room for any difference of opinion as to the loose, negligent and unbusiness-like manner in which the despatches were sent to Wash- ington and received back. A huddled mess was sent without any record or inventory, and a trunk was sent back whose contents were never examined! It is too evident that the Western Union had no proper sense ofits confidential obligations to senders of sages. We are amazed that so Little was said in the debate on Tuesday respecting the most important feature of this strange business. The speakers seemed to be occupied only with the partisan view of the subject, and to have been quite oblivious to the interest of the community in the inviolability of its correspondence by telegraph. But this is the paramount question. The vindication or condemnation of Mr. Tilden is really a very small matter in comparison with thé safety and sacredness of telegraphic de- spatches. Had the mails been rifled and a large batch of private letters been pub- lished there would have been no bodnds to the indignant denunciation and the demands tor justice against the perpetra- tors. ®But there is no valid reason why letters and telegrams should not be equally protected. The Great Dre: < Room Question. At last there seems to be for a moment a little lull in the world’s great activities. Attempts at regicide are stopped in Europe, "| nobody roars over the Berlin treaty, Canda- har is taken and the French Ministry has come, down, while here at home Roscoe Conkling is elected to the United States Senate, specie payment is more or less re- stored, Mr. Stewart's body is found want- ing, Mrs. Anderson has stopped walking and Mrs. Cobb has gone to jail, and we sin- cerely hope that the public, having put be- hind it all these and other great and mo- mentous issues, will stop a little and con- sider what is to be done ubout the over- whelming and stupendous dressing room question which agitates, or has agitated, or will agitate every theatre in the United States. Few things are more iniportant than that a prima donna should be well dressed. It is exceeded only by the re- quirements that she should have a voice and ‘know how to use it, and be equal to the part in which she is to appear. In all these respects Maric Roze is above reproach, Neither can it be said that she falls short in the picturesque arts of the make-up. But it seems, alas! that she makes up under difficulties, She has to contend with conspiracies in the theatre against her peace, and if she makes up well it is a new evidence of genius, She is like those artists who have painted grand pic- tutes in wretched garrets. But, behold, a champion braver than Quixote and stouter than Sancho Panza hos come to the rescue ) een oer st more eapeommeraneempenesninjecrsten=eseeeictenaonibsceaon euanetnintaoceaee cease sasezagiiretice--ec oostevo tee tne it A Re A TC a rere neem eaeenerracaeett and resolved that there shall be no peace in the theatre until all the world stands aside and coneedes this point. The champion is the lady’s husband, and his energy in this dispute really determines one great point in natural history —the real fanction of the husband ofa primadonna, But it is a pity to have a little war in the theatres every tew days about Marie Roze's dressing room, and we therefore commend as worthy consid- eration the suggestion of a correspondent that it shall always .be fixed in contracts made with this lady precisely what shall be the size of her dressing room and where it shall be. Umsalaried Foreign Ministers. Without intending to do so our corre- spondent ‘‘X,” whose communication is pub- lished in another column, makes 2 very forcible argument against the maintenance of salaried Ministers at second rate Euro- pean capitals. We indorse all that ‘‘X” says in praise of General Meredith Read. He has served his country well and faith- fully in various posts of honor abroad, and is entitled to all the good opinion our cor- respondent has of him. That so excellent a representative should be willing to serve without pay is not, as “X” would have us believe, an argument for paying a salary, but the best reason in the world for not paying ove. General Read is the type of a class of cultivated and honorable men who would deem it a high distinction to be called upon to represent their country in Athens or any other capital of Europe, entirely irrespective of silary or emolu- ment. Such men would carry to their po- sitions not the narrow and mercenary sen- timents which a paid clerk bears his em- ployer, but the zeal and disinterestedness of high-minded patriots. General Read is a bright example of this class. Mr. Bel- mont, Mr. Beach Lawrence, Mr. O’Conor and Mr. Longfellow we take to be others who would represent their country at the great foreign capitals in an equally disin- terested and efficient manner. No doubt there are a hundred others, of means sufii- cient to support the dignity of a Minister's station, who would be willing and glad to be sent abroad simply for the honor at- taching to official service, We think that upon reflection ‘‘X” will coincide with us, and we hope Congress will perceive the common sense and fitness of economizing in this direction and not by reducing the army and navy. A Red Letter Year in Science. We transfer to our columns from the London Times of the 2d inst. a remark- able exhibit of the progress achieved during the year 1878 in the domains of astronomy and physics. Muny circumstances therein conspire to indicate the practised hand of Mr. J. Norman Lockyer, who is understood toexercise a species of protectorate over the ably conducted scientific department of our British contemporary. Among these reasons may be noted the prominence given to the eclipse of July 29, to spec- troscopic research generally and to Mr. Lockyer’s own “implicit announcement of the abolition of the elements,” which alone, if proven, would cons stitute 1878 ‘‘a red letter year in the history of scientific diseovery.” The peculiar allusion to a “rumor that American astronomers ‘got up’ the eclipse of July 29 to give themselvee and their Eng- lish confréres an excuse fora holiday,” and the sceptical reference to Dr. Henry Draper's discovery of oxygen in the sun are further indications pointing to Mr. Lockyer as the writer, though he surely might be expected to remember that the latter discovery was made in 1876 and that it was fully made known in 1877. Thesame remark applies to Mr. Edison’s carbon telephone. It may be well to warn Mr. Lockyer that Americans are by no means disposed to surrender without a struggle one of the scientific triumphs of our land even to a gentleman of such emi- nence as the editorot Nature. His own re- cent claims to discoveries of unexampled magnitude have received and will receive respectful consideration in our columns, but they will not be accepted in America without more convincing evidence than has hitherto been afforded tothe savans of Lon- don. Mr. Lockyer has the floor, and we await his proois.with judicial impartiality, The Cheyenne Scandal, It is important to ascertain by. what means the Cheyennes confined at Fort Robinson were supplied with the first class arms by the use of which they made their escape. ‘The bandying of accusations between the military and the Indian agents amounts to nothing so long as this question is unan- swered. It is obvious that the country would not have been shocked by the escape, the massacro and the baffled pursuit if the imprisoned and guarded Chey- ennes had been destitute of arms, How were those arms obtained? The fatal blunder of allowing the captive savages to accumulate and conceal a store of weapons cannot be chargeable upon the Indian Department. During the whole period, from the capture to the desperate escape, the Indians were in military cus- tody and under military surveillance. If they were not disarmed when they were shut up in barracks and put under guard it was the fauit of army officers, If arms wero afterward gmuggled in it must have been owing to a criminal want of vigilance on the part of the officers at the post. No light has yet been thrown upon this mys- tery, but whether it is ever solved or not the blame must be at the doors of the mili- tary officers at Fort Robinson. Revival of the Syndicate, The shrewd and sagacious bankers who did so well for themselves and rendered so important a service to the government last year in taking the four-and-a-half per cent loan, by which gold was supplied to the Treasury for resumption purposes, are again in the field as competitors for the purchase of the new four per cent bonds. it is understood that their contract obli- gates them to take $25,000,000 of the four per cent bonds previous to July 1, 1879, and (what is more important) entitles them to take the whole of the unsold residue which may remain at that date, We are therefore in a tair way for the speedy conversion of all the remain- ing we per cent bonds into four per cents, which will bring a great relief to that part of the annnal public burden that is paid | for interest on the national debt. But the diminution of interest is not, perhaps, the most gratifying aspect of this new transac. tion. ‘he Syndicate would not have un- dertaken to sell these bonds in Europe unless its members were thoroughly con- vinced that we are to maintain the gold standard, ‘There are no better judges, and their willingness to enter into a Jurge trans- action on their faith that the government will maintain the gold standard is a satis- factory proot that we have passed the point of danger. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Wendell Phillips, of Poni: is at the St. Denis Hotel. The Youkers Gazette is hereby informed that « frozen ham is not a cold shoulder, The wedding of the Duke of Connaught will take pluce in “semi-state” at Windsor either on Tuesday, March 11, or on Thursday, March 13, A Cineinrati man, who is music mad, writes to the Enquirer, asking whether Ralph Waldo Emerson ia the manager of Emerson's Minstrels, Cincinnati is music mad, Whenever any other city has a row in an opera the editors take out their pens anf write, “See what you all are for not being Cin- cinnati."”” Propare to laugh. Here is a side-splitting and rather new joke from London Judy :—“Strange, but true, Matrimony is frequently nothing more nor less than a mutter-o’-money.”” A Cleveland wretch, signing himself “Molecule,” writes to us asking whether that which we call flour would by any other name smell as wheat. ‘There is 9 grain of sense in this question. Men of decided convictions—convicts.—Newbury port Herald, Men ot scents—perfumers.—Boston Dust. Men of parts—divorce lawyers.—Cincinnaté Commercial. Men of many minds—phrenologiste. The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, aske whether, since we are after death to become dust, ashes or earth, it is better to become so by the short and clean way of cromation or by the long and nasty usual way. Evening Telegram:—“Professor Tyndall will be ins terested to know that Senator Wade Humpton attrib- utes the successful healing of his broken leg after amputation to the prayers of his friends, and parti- cularly of the Methodist clergy.” London Punch :—‘**Beg pardon, sir! But I’ve just caught these two young rascalé makibg a slide in front of your doorstep, and they say as yon gave ‘em permission.’ ‘It’s quite correct ; I did, policeman, ‘The fact is, I expect my mother-in-.sw to luncheon.’ ” London World:—The General (Grant) expressed to Lord Napier his high admiration of the troops. He had seen none in Europe so well discrplined. ‘Their tiring pleased him. ‘They had learned,’ Le said, as ho watched the mancuvres, ‘how to fire low aud fire slowly.’ ” Detroit Free Press: —“When people write flattering biographies of powertul magnates they, of course, ex* pect something from the flattered subjects. ‘The bi- ographer of Hayes got a nice place, and now that Mr. Conway has written a history of the devil no doubt— but the future will show.” Here and there in some parts of the ete you find some of the good old fashioned people sticking to the royal old flannel-bound hot brick, which they put into the bottom of the sleigh when they start out. The old man usually gets home, howéver, with the brick wrapped up in bis hat. To the busy housewife who stands in the market stall looking at the great bunches of rabbits ready for pie or stew, there comes only a sense of the prac- tical. But did you ever stand of @ chill twilight on the white hillside, with its background of bare, dark maples, and, as the cold sun slipped down under its clouds of bfonze and vermilion, see the little dun rabbit putting the gentlest of tale-telling tracks in the snow? Vicar General Bessoincs, of Indianapolis, last week said,. speaking of his little log church:— “Father Neirinck was a noted man in the Catholic Church in its early days. He lived at Bardstown in 1824-5, and told his par ishioners that when bitten by rattlesnakes they should come to him to be cured. He gave no medi- cine; merely blessed them aud they departed cured. After he had left there and gone to the far West, it is said the bells chimed one midnight without the help, of mortal hands and it was found that he had died at that very hour in his new location. Ah, he wasa@ saint!” . GENERAL SHERMANS TRIP. Wasutxatoy, Jan, 22, 1879. ‘The General of the Army intends at an early day to makes long contemplated tour of inspection through Florida, Georgia and the South Atlantic States, in the course of hich he will return after anu absence of ‘forty years to the scene of @ part of his earlier life as well as revisit many of the points of- interest covered by his later campaigns. The direct object of his trip, however, is to examine certain abandoned military posts and other neglected property of the Unitéd ‘States in Florida and at Atlanta with a view to ascer- taining what measures should be taken to reclaim and preserve the same and secure the interests of the general government therein. He will be absent ten days or two weeks, ‘THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION. INTENSE POPULAR INTERUST IN THE DIFFER~ ENCES BETWEEN PROTESTANTS AND CATHO= Lics, (BY TELEGRAPH To THE HERALD.} Pererspune, Va., Jan, 22, 1879, Several new forces have appeared in the field of theology, which was opened in this city last week by Bishop Kean’s lecture on “The Church and Human Nature,” aud public interest is acquiring much addi- tional warmth. Rev. Dr. McDonald lectured at the Firat Baptist Church last night on “The Reason Why 1 Changed from Romanism to Protestantism,” and ‘there were in the congregation, besides many Catholic laymen, Rey. Fathers Wilson, of this city; McQuade, of Lynchburg, and Donahoe, of Mar- tinsbi all Cathol riests. Dr. Witherspoon, of the Presbyterian Church, will pteach next Sunday on the subject of “An Infallible Church or an Book-—Which?” and Father Wilson on Monday night will follow on the sub; ject, ‘How I Tried to Become @ Protestant and Couldn't.” Protestants think it is not likely Father Wilson ever tried very hard: is so fara good spirit and pourtesy on all Hides, but ft on jon is novel here and excites intense in- ferest. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. “Cartouche” is the latest novel by the author of the “Rose Garden.” A prother of “A Ride to Kiva’ Burnaby lives in New York, Joaquin Miller has made @ play of his poem “The Baroness of New Yor! He has added several characters and altered the dénoucment. Fanny Kemble condemns Victor Hugo's “Notre Damo” as mental dram drinking. ‘The Academy says that religious novels are an American specialty. Dr, Schliemann’s remaius are sold out. ‘The author of that delightful novel “St. Olaves* has written a new story entitled, “The Last of tho Line.” We hopo that it will not prove the last of her line, which is too admirable to come to anend et, % “Brian Boryf’ is the name dramatic poem by one J, 1. B, Herbert Spencer will winter in the South of Frange, Moncure D. Conway wrote the obituary of Bayard ‘Taylor for the London Academy, ‘The February Lippincott is acapital number. Out of thirtecn contributors nine are women, Mr. 8. L. Frey, the author of an excellent article, “Relic Hunting on the Mohawk,” which appeared in late number of the American Naturalist, hus made @ “find” in the Mohawk Valley which is likely to canse agreat interest among grchwologists, consisting of skulls of @ very peeuliar formation and several ims plements of unknown use, and he is soon to con tribute a full description of it to some one of the magazines. M. F. Laurent, the learned jurist of the University of Ghent, has just finished the thirty-second aud last volume of bis “Princives du Droit Civil.” « new Irish