The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, pa SS pudlished every day tn the year, exclude. dollars per Hfifty conts month for ree of WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, freo of post- | age ‘NOTICE TO SUBSC on New can be procured send th money remitted at risk of tion subseribers wishing t F be properly seated, Letters and packaxes show Rejected commun: cations will not be returned. Serene PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH MASONIC MALL—Tom BOOTHS THEATRE— NIBLO'S GARDEN—Hxn STANDARD THEATRE— PARK THEA’ NEW YORK AQUARIL WALLACK’S—Ovns, OLYMPIC TH FIFTH AV UNION SQUARE TE AMILIE, COOPER INSTITUT) SAN FRANCISC TONY PASTOR'S—Vani WINDSOR THEATRE. “MONDAY, JANUARY The probabilities are that the weather in New Fork and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy, with increasing winds, and rain or snow foward night. To-morrow it promises tobe cloudy, with vain or snow and higher temyerature. of the great Jewish Society of B'nai Berith, which met in Philadelphia yesterday, is very largely attended by delegates from ull parts of the country. The objects of the association are benevolent and the elevation and union of the Hebrew race. . Co Centra Park’s Lakes were alive with merry skaters yesterday, while the snow-covered drives were thronged with equally merry sleigh- ing parties. During the day nearly thirty-five hundred family sleighs and twelve thousand single teams passed through the Fifth and Eighth avenue entrances to the Park. An Iciustrnation of the loose way in which important legislation is rushed through in Wash- ington is afforded by the Supplementary Dill. No one appears to have the least idea how much money it will take out of the Treasury, while its provisions are so vaguely drawn that it is sus- ceptible of hulf a dozen different interpretations. Tuat Genxerat Grant and his party whilo in Ireland should have been suspected of being Fenian emissaries 1s one of the ludicrous in- cidents of his journey abroad. It will be seen from our Dublin letter this morning that ‘ badly scared detective kept a close eye on the ex-President and his friends up to the very hour of their departure. Ax Expcanatioy is in order from some of the members of the Connecticut Legislature of four years ago. ‘The stub end of acheck book of the National Capital Insurance Company comes down from its pigeonhole to tell how thirty-five thousand dollars were expended in influencing legislative action by the representatives in 1875. of the Land of Steady Habits, InTuer Reports, recommending the transfer of the Indians to the War Department, the members of the joint commitice of Congress say:—There exists a ring composed of con- tractors, employés of the Bureau and wealthy and intlucutial persons outside, whose object is to swindle und defraud both the government and the Indians.” Is there no way of finding out the names of the members of this corrupt combination t Tne Sermons Yesteupay were certainly not sensational. Even Mr. Talmage was calm and subdued, although his theme was “The Perils of City Life.” Mr. Beecher pointed out the folly of fretting, Dr. McGlynn the efficacy of faith, ond Dr. Frothingham endeavored to dis- cover the basis of virtue and the reason why men feel constrained to do good. The future of free religion was discussed by Professor Adler and Paul's idea of preaching was explained by Dr. Hepworth. Tux Weatner.—The storm centre has passed entirely off the coast and is now moving toward Europe, attended by very heavy gales and light snow. The area of high barometer advanced over the lower Jake regions toward the New England States yesterday afternoon, The predic- tion that a depression would move into Dakota during yesterday has been fully justified by its appearance in that region early in the day. It is organizing a storm centre of considerable energy that is likely to prove very severe throughout the country north of Tennessee and Virginia: as it is now the barometer is very much below the mean in the Missouri and Upper Mississippi valleys. Rain has fallen in the northern lake regions and on the western Gulf coast. Snow fell throughout the northern section of the New England States as the storm passed off the coast. Cloudy weather prevailed in all the districts with the exception of the South Atlantic States. Morning fogs continue in the Gulf districts. Gales prevailed over the Mid- ile Atlantic and New England States early yes- terday morning but decreased gradually, and in the afternoon the wind was generally brisk. It bas been from fresh to brisk in the lake regions and Northwest, and elsewhere light. The temperature rose considerably in the North- west and the Gulf States and has fallen in the other sections, ‘The rapid advance of the dis- turbance from the Northwest will make the spell of clear weather in our district a very short one. The winds will increase again today on account of the formation of steep gradients by the area of high barometer that overlies our coast district acting as a barrier to the eastward progress of the advancing storm centre. It (the high area) will tend, however, to force the disturbance more to the north. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy, with inereas- ing winds, and rain or snow toward night. To- morrow it promises to be cloudy, with rain aud higher temperature. Why We Should Retrench Our Diplo matic Expenses. Tho reason why the Henaup desires to see most of our foreign embassies abol- ished and the enpual cost of the others curtailed does not rest on any narrow or niggardly notions of economy. ‘The sav- ing to the Treasury would not be large if all the missions were swept away. It ap- pears from the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, at the beginning of this ses- sion, that the diplomatic salaries paid jin the last fiseal year amounted to $353,721. This, though not very con- siderable, is too large a sum to be wasted, ‘The country would not grudge that sum if it were getting the worth of its money; but, in point of fact, the greater part of what we pay for diplomatic service is worse than wasted. Mostof the missions being quite useless all that is spent on them would be simply wasted if the men who fill them were an honor to the country and ornaments of the diplomatic profession. But it is worse than mere waste to spend money for maintaining in foreign countries various asylums for the politically blind and halt and maimed who reflect discredit on the country by their unfitness. The | few missions which it is expedient to retain would be more respectable if regarded as mere posts of honor to be filled by citizens of standing and culture who might be willing to accept the honor as their chief compensation, On this system the great missions would never want incum- bents any more than there are vacant seats in the British Parliament, whose members receive no pay, and sometimes spend many thousand pounds in election expenses. Among those who inherit or acquire large estates the chief use made of wealth is in gaining or maintaining social distinction, and a first class foreign mission brings greater social advantages than almost any other position under the government when the person who fills it has other claims founded on culture, on great services or on high consideration at home. The true rule for the great missions should be similar to that which Washington prescribed to himself in his long career in,the service of his country, which cannot be better de- scribed than in his own language in his first inaugural address :—‘‘When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which Icontemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compen- saticn. From this resolution I have in no instance departed ; and, being still under the same impressions which produced it, I must decline, as inapplicable to myself, any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a per- manent provision for the executive depart- ment, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the position in which I am placed may, during my continu- ance init, be limited to such actual ex- penditures as the public good may be thought to require.” The adoption of this rule in our diplo- matic service would of itself suppress all the useless minor missions, and it would elevate the greater missions by tilling them with citizens of high standing, great accom- plishments, disinterested patriotism or emi- nence in letters, arms or the learned pro- fessions—by filling them with men who, having achieved the highest distinc- tion in their respective walks at home, would feel a just pride in this kind of recognition. The riff-raff of vul- gar politicians, who seek foreign mis- sions for the mere salaries, would be sifted out, and our diplomatic service would no longer be the reproach and scandal of the country. Economy is one reason for the change, but it is only a minor reason, al- though economy is a plain duty in every branch of the public service where expendi- ture brings no adequate return. All our nationai expenses should be regulated with a view to the largest advantages at the smallest cost to the Treasury. It would be true economy to increase our army and render our navy more efficient. If we had had an army of thirty thousand men in 1860 either the rebellion would not have been attempted or it would have been crushed in its incipient stages, and the country would have been spared the enormous expenditures, the appalling loss of life, the derangement of business, inflation of the currency und gigantic pub- lic debt which have made the last eighteen years a period of business disturbance. With the Indian problem on our hands we need an army large enough to inspire terror and hopelessness in the savages and to carry out some steady policy without the two or three bloody Indian wars per annum which are rendered possible by the false economy of keeping up too small an army. We believe it would be a wise and enlightened economy to maintain a respectable navy. We offer no apology for the misdirected expenditures of the predecessors of the present excellent Secretary of the Navy, and of which the fruit isa set of wretched tubs and rotten hulks. But we should be glad to see Sec- retary Thompson, or successors like him, intrusted with liberal sums for the con- struction of a navy which would bo an honor to the country. If we should get in- volved in a war with any European Power it would be fought out on the ocean, and we can best make our rights respected by showing that we are formidable on that element. The surest preventive of wars is inll preparation. Our charac- ter and déclat abroad depend more on an adequate navy than on any other exhibition of our national pride. If wo are to rehabilitate our ocean commerce we need a gallant navy to protect it. Still we would have the merits of our navy consist less in the number of our ships of war than in their excellence, Every government vessel should be a model of naval archi- tecture—the most scientific in its plan, the stanchest in its build, the most perfect in its workmanship and armament, the swiftest in its speed when speed is requi- site, the most pliant in its capacity for manceuvring, the best manned and the most skilfully commanded of all war vessels afloat, making it an object of intélligent curiosity in every port which it might visit in its constant cruising, and { doing credit to the unrivalled mechanical ingenuity of our people. Nothing would tend so much to prevent insults and to fore- stall oceasions of war as an American navy of the highest efficiency perpetually offering itself to the inspection of other na- tions.’ Diplomacy can do little for us, be- cause we are so remote from Europe and have so slight an interest in the questions } with which European diplomacy is occu- pied. Such treaties as we may desire are best negotiated by special envoys, and be- yond the negotiation of treaties our only interest in foreign politics is that of mere spectators. With the growing influence of public opinion the arts of diplomacy are becoming of less and less importance, even among the nations which have a direct in- terest in the affuirs.of Europe. The tele- graph and the press furnish better and more copious means of information. fluence of diplomacy is steadily declining even among nations which spend the most on their forcign embassies, Our inter- national intercourse should be chiefly com- mercial and not political. We need efficient consuls and a navy to protect our com- merece, but very little intercourse with foreign governments through the ordinary diplomatic channels. Why should we en- cumber ourselves with an expensive system which is not suited to our circumstances? Our Indian Policy. The joint committee which has been con- sidering the advisability of transferring the management of Indian affairs from the In- terior Department to that of War having disagreed by a tie vote, the members in favor of the proposed transfer have made a report, which we publish in full to-day, and to which we invite attention, because it embodies nearly every argument which has been made against the old method and in favor of the new. The signers of this report have had the comparatively easy task of pitting a hopeful future against a dis- graceful past, of lauding what might be while the desire is yet unaccomplished; but in the particular matter under discussion the odds are so overwhelmingly against the past that ad priori arguments deserve more than ordinary respect. By giv- ing free rein to the imagination it may be possible to seo how Indian affairs might be very badly managed by the army should they pass to the control of that branch of the service, but no fancy is fertile enough to suggest anything more disgrace- ful to the nation than our experiences with the Indians to date. he dismalness and disgrace of the story are not exaggerated by the report, for the reason that exaggeration is in this case impossible. Good intention will not be denied to some of the Cabinet and bureau officers who have handled In- dian affairs, but bad results have been too frequent and serious to leave the old system any excuse for continuance. Let the pub- lic read and determine for itself. Sisters in the Paris Hospitals. Women connected with some one of the religious orders are the regular attendants in the wards of all the Paris hospitals, and very devoted, very intelligent and very skilful attendants they are. They are ona large scale there what a few Sisters of Charity are ona small scale here, and they are also a regular part of the machinery of the hospital administration. They are paid for their services. Each one receives from the city the great sum of forty dollars a year. Outside the religious orders, apart from the association of this service with the idea of religious duty, women of the same class or capacity could not be had at any price whatever. ‘hey are the best part of the hospital service in that great city. But the powers that be have declared they must go; the Council of the Seine has voted that the Sisters must give place to nurses of strictly civil status. ‘These sub- stitutes for the Sisters will be paid one hundred and sixty dollars a year, and will assuredly be inferior attend- ants. To nurse public paupers will be their trade, their daily avocation, and they will pursue it as such while the Sisters certainly pursue it in a very differ- ent spirit, ‘Lhis is a reform not likely tobe a public advantage. Apparently it is a step reached in the progress of the tendency toward dereligionizing the public service. People in France have had a fight for the right to be buried without a priest—and for the right to be married without u priest. Indeed, it was at one time as difficult for them to do any act in life without calling in a priest as for an Englishman to turn round without calling in a lawyer; and all the time the man who had to call upon the priest had perhaps no faith in religion. They have overcome all that. They have their civil marriages and their civil interments, and now they want civil and not religious assist- ance inthe hospitals. They are pushing a | good idea to a foolisti extreme, and in the name of reform they are striking a blow at a part of the public service that was scarcely susceptible of improvement. East Side Rapid Transit. The ill-timed bill introduced in the As- sembly to prohibit the Metropolitan ‘L” Railroad Company from constructing its east side or Second avenue line might be made useful after all by a happy amend- ment. If it could be altered so as to au- thorize the company to change portions of the east side route and to prohibit the vse of any part thereof in common by the Third avenue and Second avenue trains, it would be a decided public advantage. It is said that for a short distance the two companies are to run over the same rails, This will be a serious obstacle to the suffi- cient increase of facilities on the east side; for if one line cannot run enough trains over the rails to ace commodate the travel during the busy hours, certainly two lines cannot do so when they use common tracks for any por- tion of the distance, There is so urgent a demand fora Second avenue line that it should be made as efficient as possible, and should be required to have tracks of its own along the entire route, Am east side line, constructed as admirably as that on Sixth avenue, and affording similar excel- lent accommodations, will be a great public convenience and will serve to hasten those desirable improvements promised by the New York ‘‘L” Company on its remunera- tive Lhird avenue line. The in- ; NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1879.—-TRIPLE SHEET. Libel Suits Against Newspapers. The suit for libel against our contem- porary, the 7imes, which was terminated a day or two since by a verdict for the plain- tiff, recalls attention to a subject of some interest to the public, but of more interest to the press. The disproportion in this case between the damages claimed and the damages awarded conveys an instructive lesson to the bringers of such suits. The plaintiff, Colonel Keitt, of South Carolina, set out to recover fifty thousand dollars, and the jury gave him—six cents! Colonel Keitt seems to be a man of character and honor, who was misled by some of his friends, and perhaps also by his own impulsive temper. His experi- ence in this matter is of some value to him, and should be of greater value to men, totally unlike him, who institute libel suits against newspapers, not to vindicate their character or to express their resentment, but only as a blackmailing dodge. The insignificance of the damages recov- ered by Colonel Keitt should not mortify him, considering the handsome and even magnanimous treatment which he received from the Times on the morning after the verdict, The justice done him and the not undeserved compliments paid | him by our respectable contemporary are alike creditable to it and to him. Evidently they were not extorted, for after the substantial failure of his suit the Times might safely have expressed a feeling of insolent and annoying triumph. We believe that our contemporary has only done now what it would willingly have done at the outset if it could have followed its own impulses without seeming to yield to a menace. We believe that there is no journal of standing in this city which would not promptly repair any injustice that might be done to individuals in its col- umns on proofs that it had been misin- formed, presented without any accompani- ment of threats. No respectable newspaper traduces pri- vate character except by inadvertence or misinformation, and for its own sake as well as for the sake of the person injured every respectable journal cheerfully makes. the amende honorable as soon as it is con- vinced that it has fallen into an error, ‘he law of libel perhaps needs some slight amendment so far as it relates to the public press. A perfectly equitable law would exempt the press from damages for truthful statements published in the exer- cise of its ordinary functions. A member of Congress on the floor ora lawyer speaking in court frequently makes libellous state- ments, and yet is not subject to prosecution, because such freedom is a necessary incident of his duties. A great deal of the news necessarily ‘printed by the press touches the character of individuals, and the press ought not to be punished for things which are incidental to the ordinary discharge of its duties if the publication is made in good faith and without malice. Still, we have little complaint to make of the existing law of libel when it is administered in a spirit of equity. It would be insufferable for the press to destroy private character with im- punity. But in cases where it promptly corrects errors of inadvertence or where injurious truth is printed without malice, there is no justice in awarding damages, and it is satisfactory to know that upright courts and honest juries are more and more inclined to take this equitable view of the subject. The greater portion of libel suits against the press are instigated by shysters for the purpose of extorting blackmail. It is ex- pected that a newspaper will consent to pay a few hundred dollars to save itself the trouble of a lawsuit, and if the trick does not succeed the suits are seldom brought to trial. It is the duty of the press to with- stand all such blackmailing operations, never consenting to be bought off, but re- lying on the justice of courts and juries. Nominal damages of six cents do not en- courage this species of litigation, A Useless Investigation. The Congressional committee charged with the examination of United States Com- missioner Davenport's official conduct is to begin its work to-day. The inquiry is called for in consequence of Mr. Daven- port's interference with the registration and voting of naturalized citizens holding cer- tificates issued by the New York courts in 1868, and his arbitrary arrests in cases where persons attempted to exercise the right of electors under those papers. It is not easy to see what good can be accomplished by the investigation, and the time of the com- mittee will probably be mainly occupied with political squabbling. Mr. Davenport has no doubt done much by his activity and efficiency in compiling perfect lists of voters toward securing honest elcctions ; but he has, either through ignorance of his duties or a desire to help his party, com- mitted a grave error in depriving a number of legal voters of their rights and their liberty. This isan offence which deserves punishment ; and as Mr. Davenport's con- duct has been condemned by an unim- peachable and able Court he ought to be removed by the President. It is imma- terial whether his serious error was com- mitted through incapacity or designedly. Thejudgment delivered by Judge Blatchford should have secured his prompt removal. If the President does not recognize the pro- priety of protecting the people in such a case the committee's investigation will not have any effect upon him. Mr. Davenport can only be reached by the parties aggrieved through personal suits for damages, and all the committee can do is to make politival capital out of the inquiry. It is scarcely just to call upon the people to pay the heavy costs of an investigation for such a- purpose. What Will When rogues fall out honest men get their due; but when good men quarrel what happens to the rogues? The large and highly reputable religious denomina- tion of Baptists has lately been excited unpleasantly by some severe remarks of one of its preachers concerning another, the subjects of criticism being the war record of the offended clergyman, and his opinions concerning the identity of the un- | popular beast described in the book of Revelation, Meanwhile o series of state- ments have followed an address by the Catholic Bishop of Richmond, some of this dignitary’s hearers having been Protestant clergymen, and the address haviog had something to do with the character and motives of the actors in the Protestant Reformation, In the last named case the correspondence is said to be courteous, but in both the Brooklyn affair and that at Richmond there is manifest willingness to question per- sonal character on the ground of personal opinion, and this fact, when the publicity the cases have gained is considered, is sure to impede the progress of the great work of turning men from the error of their ways, to which work we believe all the parties to both disagreements are earnestly devoted. The right to individual opinion about re- ligion and everything else is one which both law and custom concede in Amer- ica, In business and politics this is every- where admitted, though numerous selfish influences are known to work industri- ously in these two spheres of human effort. In religious affairs, however, where earthly considerations are comparatively small and personal character is believed to be far above the average, it would seem that honesty of intention would be at least as |, freely conceded as it is upon less exalted planes. We have nothing whatever to say upon the relative positions of the Rev. Drs. Fulton and Samson, Bishop Keane and Dr. Witherspoon ; we merely ask, in the in- terest of the good work to which all of these gentlemen, each in his own way, are de- voting their lives, What will sinners say when pillars of some churches begin to tumble against pillars of other churches because the latter are doing or have done their duty according to their own under- standing of the same? A Knight of the Oar. In the olden time, when knights wore coats of mail and roamed from country to country, with vizor down, insearch of wars and battles, it was customary for them to be attended by trusty squires and faithful followers, who shared in some degree the renown achieved by their brave lenders. Nowadays our knights content themselves with ulsters and tweed trousers instead of cuirass and greaves, Still, they are sur- rounded by faithful henchmen, who look after their interests and personal comforts. Yesterday there arrived in town a knight of the oar who has won twenty-six victories in twenty-eight contests—a record of which Edward Hanlan, “the Toronto sculler,” has every reason to be proud. The entry of this modern knight into our fair city was a very modest one, albeit he is on his way to Merrie England to joust with men who have gained renown in the sculling lists beyond the seas. He did not, it is true, ride into town on his curveting charger, but rolled into our railroad castle ina palace car, and as there was no draw- bridge to lower he was content to see the huge gate rise to let his carriage pass. Coming so suddenly from the snow packed streets of his native city, where the musical jingle of sleigh bells sounded so pleasantly on the ear, Mr. Hanlan must have marvelled at the huge hummocks of dirty stuff that lined the route of his progress through New York. Probably he wondered why so great a city was thus disfigured, for that is a question even New Yorkers cannot fathom. This young knight wears his laurels decor- ously, and, though confident in his bearing, is evidently willing to let his actions speak for themselves. We publish to-day the story of his professional life; as told by himself, and it will be found both interesting and instructive, for it shows what a man can do if he possesses pluck and a determi- nation tosucceed. Hanlan’s career has been a phenomenal one, but it has been marked by hard work and honest endeavor, which is saying a great deal in these days. Let us hope he will be as successful abroad as he has been on this continent. If he is Han- lan may expect a hearty reception at home and many challenges for the honors he holds, No doubt he will defend them to the utmost. Some Southern Claims. Onur special Washington despatch about a noted cotton claim indicates the cause of the pesuliar feeling of the better class of Congressmen, regardless of party, toward claims ar.sing from military acts during the late civil war. The claim alluded to has been considered by the Court of Claims, Congress and the Supreme Court, and adversely reported upon in each in- stance. It would seem that these ‘various considerations and decisions would have proved to the claimant the fairness of the nation and the weakness of his case, but no such desirable result has been at- tained. On the contrary, a favorable minority report of ao Senate commit- tee has secured for the case another hearing, which is to be had this week. We have alluded to the history of this single claim because it is but one of thousands which have been pressed with all the vigor which the claimants’ means have al- lowed, and will be pushed just as per- sistently in future unless good-natured Congressmen persistently relegate all claim- ants to the tribunals which have been created for determining just such matters. The claim business has nearly always been so unreasonable, when not worse, and has become so enormous since the late war, that the reputation and usefulness of a Con- gressman is likely to be seriously injured by any contact with it. A Precautionary Measure, The fact that the Sub-Treasury building, on Wall street, is to be fortified like a baronial castle in the feudal days and put into » condition to withstand a siege is likely to disturb the nerves of some of the timid old gentlemen who have been peace- ably amassing wealth in that highly respect- able neighborhood for the last half century. To see howitzers peeping from vaults and turrets, and bullet proof shutters, from which loopholes for musketry keep a con- stant lookout for danger, will not add to the sense of security felt by the million- naires of the street, who will regard these precautions as an evidence that New York is not wholly exempt from those perils that are making most of the old nations of Europe shake in their venerable boots, But the arming and fortification of the building is no evidences of any real danger from the disturbing ele- ments of society in this city. We have had experience ofa riot in New York at a time when we were more at the mercy of a mob than we are likely ever to be again, and the experiment was a costly one to the ruffians who attempted it. Our police force, as far as coolness and bravery in the hour of danger are concerned, may truth- fully be characterized as the best in the world. While there is much to find fault with in the details of the police management, and while the heads of the department are showing their jealousy of each other in spiteful personal squab- bles, the men are always found willing and able to grapple with the monster of dis- order and to subdue him at once. Com- munistic or socialist ruffianism, if it should ever show its head in New York, would be speedily disposed of. At the same time the arming of the Sub-'l'reasury is a wise precautionary measure, as in case of any trouble a mob of thieves might succeed in robbing the building by a sudden and quick assault before it could be checked. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of the Henaxp on Saturday :— Adams, Harry, Brooklyn, Splendide Hotel. Hall, G. £., Brooklyn, Splendide Hotel. MacKnight, James A., St. Louis, No. 13 Rue Con- stantinople, Mrgnus, Charles, New York, Hotel d'Europe. Rose, 8. J., Hotel de Bade. Stens, William, Hotel de Bade. Welch, J. C., Pennsylvania, Hotel du Louvre. What did the paper collar? Some of the half breeds half-breed confusion. A Minnesota State Senator hes refused a railway pass. A paste made of lard and gunpowder will cure frost bites. A Wisconsin professor had his ears frozen in nine different languages. Another prehistoric giant in a fossilized condition has been found in Nevada. At a Deadwood, Black Hills, the wedding feast con; sisted of fried liver and ice cream. Here is a Minnesota girl who offers to grind 2,700 quarters of wheat in 2,700 quarter hours. fExcept at table, Queen Victoria will not be waited upon by those who are not of gentle blood. A squatter’s shanty out near the Park bears this sign:—Fresh eggs for sale, laid every day by Mrs. Cooley.” Paris journals of yesterday publish reports from Constantinople that the Sultan is ill. Will he say scissors? Among the arrivals in Washington yesterday wero Senator James Shields, of Missouri, and Governor Bishop, of Ohio. . Jesse Pomeroy having proceeded so far as to trans- late the Lord's prayer into Latin, has begun French, He is nineteen and stout. The Boston Jost says that Uncle Sammy looms, Weave nothing to say to warp his chances, but hope he’ll shuttle little while for repairs. ~ Mr. Oscar Browning deprecates the agitation against teaching Greek, and Truth says that if only one dead language is to be retained, let Latin go. Will somebody-elect please rise and say something different from, “I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the high honor you have conferred upon me?” ‘The Crown Prince of Germany always speaks Eng- lish at the English Court, and his august mother-in- law writes her letters in English to her German rela- tives. Do Maine girls Bangor curl their hair?—New York Mail. Oh, they arrange it in a Calais sort ofa way.— Boston Post. And when ao barber doesn’t do his duty they Kilmarnock his head off, Another insult to a suffering public!—Passengers on the Third Avenue “L” are made ticket-of-leave men by the new rule requiring them to drop their tickets on leaving the platform. Queen Victoria likes Dickens’ novels, and some lit- tle of George Eliot, but her chief favorites are Wilkie Collins and William Black. Scott she. reads and re- reads, She does not particularly like the novels of Beaconsfield, Thackeray and Lord Lytton. Venice, with its “glorious climate,” had from the middle of October until near the middle 9f December almost constant drenching rains, and then there was a week of snow and frost, during which time travel- lers, not finding fires, were compelled to go to bed to keep warm! A Pall Mall clubs are protesting against the use of wooden pavement in front of their doors. We can inform the editor of London Truth that if it is any- thing like the wooden pavement tried in New York it will not remain down long, but that while it does re- main down it will be full of duck ponds, His Excellency Sefior Don Felipe Mendez Vigo, the new Spanish Minister, has arrived in this city and is staying at the Albemarle Hotel, He will start next Wednesday for Washington for the purpose of pre- senting his credentials to the American government. After a brief stay in the national capital he will re- turn to this city and take up his residence. London Truth:—‘I do not wonder that a protest should have been raised against the destruction of Haworth Church, where Charlotte and Emily Bronté worshipped and in which they were buried. There seems to be a barbarous desire among the Goths of the district to extirpate all traces of the family through whose genius Haworth has become known to all the world, If the church requires restoration let it be renovated ina suitable manner; but why it should be removed off the earth it is difficult to cone ceive, and such vandalism ought not to be permitted,’”* ~~ OBITUARY. — WILLIAM TREEN. In the death of William Treen another link in the connecting chain of the old school of trainers and the new is snapped. Poor Treen had just reached the allotted three score and ten at the time of his demise, for he was in his seventieth year when he succumbed at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, England, on January 8. Few men who go racing did not know the dapper form of Treen, though of late years his tread had lacked the elasticity it possessed before he went abroad, but he was always a safe find in a paddock when anything like cracks were being put to rights, und, leaning on & stout oaken stick, he could explain the points of a race horse as well as most men, for he had had experience ot foreign as well as English race horses. So tar as training wus concerned he was nutive here and to the manner born, tor he graduated as a jockey, and, what is more, he had a history in the kingdom of jockeydom, as the records will show, As a trainer he had stables in several parts of during his career, but for more than thirty years he had a big- ish establishment at Beckhampton, and then East fiste: claimed him for itsown. He was also located at Lambourne, and for a time he pi animals for their engagements on the out- skirts of Dublin. He was two years in India, from which place he returned with his health shattered, As a sockey he rode very trequent for the late Lord Palmerston, and as a trainer among his omployers the lato Earl of Howth, Lord de Mauley, Sir William Gregory, Mr. William Downall, the late Hon. G. R. Bruce, Mr. F. Higgins and Mr, James Smith, for the last of whom won Cosarewitch of 1862 with Hartington, Windixchgrats, who took the Goodwood Stakes in 1450, was also asso- ciated with the name of Mr. Treen, who had to do with the double Chester Cup winner, Leamington, While Montebello, Queen of Spain and Deception wore turned out by his hands to win the various races in which they were successful. The last horse of any importance that he won a race with was Juan, ‘An incident in the life of the dec may be men. tioned in the fact that when Lord Palmerston was Prime Minister he employed Treen—because of hig light weight—to ride a swift horse to meeta treaty of peace. JUDGE CADWALADER. John Cadwalader, Judge of the United States Dim trict Court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, died in Philadelphia of typhoid pneumonia yesters day morning, after an illness of only a week. He was born April 1, 1805, son of the iste Thomas Cadwalader grandson of General Jonn Cadwalader of Revolution- ary fame, He was admitted to the bar September 30, 1825, and was appointed Indge of the United States: District Court by President Buchanan in April, 1854, since which time he has oveupied a seat on the bench in that Court. He served one term in Congress from the old Fitth Pennsylvania district.