The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1879, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD. ished every day in the Three couts per copy (Sundays excluded). Ton dollars por sear, five dollars for six mouths, awo dollars and fifty cents for three mouths, or ag rate of one dollar per month for ny period le » than three months, Sunday edition included, ‘of posti EKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- ICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on Now it Office money orders, and where neither of these procured send the money In nragisered letter. All remitted at risk of sender. In order to insure atten- tion subseribers wishing thetr sateess changed must give ir new addres tiers or tolagraphie despatches must Te Md pack ges should bo property sealed, ‘ters and packages should be propprly seal ected coaiuntentione will uot We returned. PRTLADELPEIA OFFICE_NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH VENUR DE L‘OPERA. 7 STRADA PACE. de received and 8 will prions and “advertisente: safe and abstracting its contents and steal- ing his private letters or telegrams. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1879:-TRIPLE SHEKT, Pufish if Possible, but Legislate. Mr. Hunton’s sub-committee completed its invastigation in this city on Saturday and returned to Washington. Tho testi- mony taken by this sub-committee supplies all the confirmatory, or explanatory, or ex- cusatory information of any consequence which we are likely to possess respecting the history and the contents of the stolen cipher despatches. ‘The question now recurs whether there was any justification for the theft ? We suppose nobody will undertake to justify theft, simply as theft, whether the booty consists of property having intrinsic pecuniary value, or of private papers locked up in the desk of the owner, or of letters im their passage through the mail, or of telegrams, which are entitled to the same protection ag letters, ‘There is no moral difference, and there ought to be no legal difference, between breaking open a man’s We do not dispute at all that the interests seorecy to be punished as a mere contempt is an inadequate mode of dealing with so grave an offence. Ifsuch a theft is perpe- trated in a committee room in the expiring days of a Congress imprisonment for con- tempt during the few days the session lasts is no adequate punishment, and an expiring House, can inflict no other. Tho offence is so much graver than a more petit larceny that it should not be left to be dealt with by the courts on that doubtful basis. The stealing of a letter from the mail is‘not left to be treated as a mere larceny, but is made a separate offence punishable by specific penalties. ‘The vio- lation of private correspondence while in the custody of a committee of Congress or of a court of justice should also be made a specific offerice with appropriate penalties severe enough to be ‘a terror to curious and prying thieves. Andas in other cases of theft the receivers of the stolen goods should: be punishable as well as the actual thieves, unless they can make it appear that they had no guilty knowledge of the means by which the stolen despatches were pro- AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. LYCEUM THEATRE—H, M. 8. Pivavore. BROADWAY THEATRE—Orarito. THEATRE COMIQUE—Muruicas Guarp Barn. WALLACK’S—Ours, UNION SQUARE THEAT NIBLO'S GARDEN—1 GLOBE THEATRE— GRAND OPERA HOUS) BOWERY THEATRE. PARK THEATRE—Tnx FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—UH. M. 8, Pixarons, BOOTH'S THEATRE—Couxux Baws. STANDARD THEATRE—H, M, 5. Purarore, MASONIC TEMPLE—Mitx TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaniery, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, WINDSOR THEATRE—Vauierr,_ TONY PASTOR'S—Vaniery. NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Rxp Ripixg Hoop. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Iwo Hxapxp Lapr. CHICKERING HALL—Bautap Concnnt. ACADEMY OF DESIGN OLORS. COOPER INSTITUTE—Bittsat GILMORE'S GARDEN—S BROOKLYN ACADEMY. BROOKLYN PARK THEA’ of justice sometimes require the seizure of private papers to be used as evidence. But there is a regular legal process for getting possession of such evidence, and most as- suredly the stealing of it by unauthorized and irresponsible individuals is not to be recognized as among the legal methods of procedure in such cases. Even when public officers descend to play the part of spies and eavesdroppers they sub- ject themselves to great odium unless the necessity is so overpowering as to fur- nish its own justification. , When Sir James Graham; then Home Secretary, caused the letters of Mazzini to be opened in the Eng- lish Post Office he raised the most violent storm of popular indignation with which any British Minister has been assailed within the last forty years ; and yet he had the authority of law in issuing the warfants for that purpose. There is nothing against which the spirit of freemen more promptly rebels and takes fire than this kind of in- trusion into private correspondence. In the last century the papers of the noted cured. The telegraph has nearly super- seded the mail in important busi- ness transactions, Thousands and thou- sands of merchants buy and sell every day in the year on _ .confidential information received by telegraph. They are compelled to use the telegraph to keap up with the actual state of the markets, and the success of their business depends on the inviolability of such communications. The protection given by the law to the pri- vacy of sealed letters is of minor \conse- quence in comparison with the necessity of shielding telegrams from intrusion and lawless curiosity. iz Banker's DAUGHTER. Pixavore. “Marching Through Georgia.” General Sherman has been traversing Georgia again—not by stage coach, as he did nearly half a century ago, nor at the head of the victorious and destroying army which he led from Atlanta to the sea within the memory of the majorjty of men now living; but he has carried the same sharp ‘SIC—H, M, 8. Pixarone- TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1879. ~The ‘probabilities are that the weather ig. New Fork and its vicinity to-day will be cool and Tair, followed by warmer, with increasing cloudi- ness. To-morrow it will be cloudy and warm, probably ivith rain. THERE Is at least one point of resemblanc8 between Brazil and the effete deapotisms—sho has a first class national debt and it is getting bigger and bigger every year. GREENWICH, Conn., will celebrate this month the one hundredth anniversary of General Put- nain’s escape from the British. It is not very probable that any one will ‘undertake to repeat the famous leap of the old hero. | ‘TrEeATREGOERS will be interested in the arti- cle on another page giving the compensation of some of their stage favorites, “However it may be with the managers, the ‘‘stars” are coining money, but whether they keep it or not is another thing. Tur Svurr which has been brought on bebalf of the holders of the internal improvement bonds of Tennessee involves some important ,legal questions which are of wide interest. If a State can by legal and legislative chicanery invalidate @ contract it will be an iuteresting point for many people to know. Tue Ixvestications by Professor Law, the State Veterinary Surgeon, of the stables of Gaff, Fleischmann & Co, has resulted in the discovery that several of the cows there are suffering from inflammation of the lungs, a consequence of pleuro-pneumbnia. The milk of animals suf- fering in this way induces, in his opinion, indi- gestion and diarrhea in children. Dvrixe THE War the ambulance system of our army won deserved commendation from all who witnessed its operation or who unfortu- nately became more closely acquainted with it. The majority of New Yorkers who read our columns this morning will learn for the first time that an ambulance corps, thoroughly organ- ized and equipped and ready at a woment’s no tice to respond to the click of the telegraph in- strament, is a part of their city machinery. Ose or THe Leavine St. Louis Eprtors, Mr. McCullagh, glances at the Presidential horizon, and, according to an interview in another column, sees written all over the political skies the name of General Grant. Sherman, Blaine, Conkling, Washburne, he thinks, have little or no chance. Grant is the only great national mun, and he will be nominated because he is necessary to the republican party. If Mr. Mc- Cullagh correctly interprets Western sentiment the soong republicans step on board the Grant train the better. Tne Sermons YesteRDAY were rather cheer- fulintone. ‘Sunshine” formed the theme of Mr. Talmage and the ‘*Problew of Life” that. of Dr. Chapin. Dr. Hepworth discussed ““Man’s Cov- enunt with God;” Mr. Hatfield gave his views on sensational preaching, and the Rev. Father Hunt pointed out the relations between priest and people. Professor Adler explained the differ- ence between the old and the new in the matter of religion and Mr. Frothingham gave his ideas on the subject t of * “Honor.” ‘Tue Weatuer.—The centre of low pressure which was moving over the lake district on Saturday has advanced to the coast of Nova Scotia, attended by light snows over the lower lakes and the New England States. Steep gradients were also formed from the area of high barometer that now overlies the lake and Ohio Valley region and the Middle States, toward the northeast, causing strong winds along the coast northward from Cape May. The eentre having re: ed the region of #@change off New Brunswick and Nova Scotia may de- velop into a storm of some severity while crose- ing the ocean. Pressure will undoubtedly fall atter passing cast of longitude 60 degrees. In the West a much more important disturbance has extended its influence into and castward of the Upper and Ceutral Mississippi Valley. The area of high barometer above referred to sepa- rates this disturbance from that on the coast. Already heavy winds are experienced along the eastern margin of the depression with indi- cations that a storm of considerable energy will move to the Inke region and northern tier of States during to-day, ‘The conditions favor the development of local storms or tornadoes through the Upper Missie- sippi Valley. Rains will also be abundant with the iverease of temperature as the storm moves cast. The temperatures have risen in the Northwest, West and central valley regions, but have fallen ao little in the Middle Atlantic und New England States. Foggy weather set in last evening at halfpast five around Holy- In New York and its vicinity to-day the weather will be cool and fair, followed by warmer, with increasing clpudiness, To-mor- row it will be cloudy aud warm, probably with head, rain. John Wilkes were seized by the English government on a general warrant. sued the officers and recovered two thou- sand pounds damages, seizure on a general warrant having been adjudged illegal. was with the Wilkes controversy i that our fathers adopted the fourth amend- ment of the federal constitution, which reads as follows:—‘‘The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, by oath or affirmation, and particularly de- scribing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.” This was supposed to shut the door and bolt it against seizures by a general warrant—that is to say, without a specific description of the things to be seized and a previous oath Wilkes It ind and socizures shall not be supported making it probable that the seizure is justi- fiable. It is needless to say that the ciphor despatches were not procured in pursuance of this method. “Théy were stolen from the committee room of the Senate Committee on Elections, of which the late Senato: Morton was chairman. It was a theft of precisely the same grade as the stealing of private papers from:the desk or table of a citizen in his own house or the stealing of letters from the mail, Even if the method of obtaining the cipher despatches had ‘been legal and regu- lar, the investigation shows that they were not of sufficient importance to justify the violation of private correspondence. They farnish no evidence which can serve as a foundation for criminal proceedings, except, perhaps, against the persons who stole the despatches. They prove, indeed, that there was an attempt at bribery by two individuals—namely, William T. Pel- ton and Smith M. Weed. If the at- tempt of these two pergons had not been abortive both of them would have begn subject to indictment under the laws of South Carolina, and Pelton under tho laws of Florida ; anda requisition might have been made on the Governor of New York to surrender them for trial, But as the crime of Pelton and Weed was merely inchoate they will never be indicted nor theirsurrender demanded. Even ifthe cipher telegrams had not been obtained by the crime of theft they could not have sub- served the ends of justice in any criminal prosecution, which is the only legal excuse for violating private correspondence when it is done under the authority of law and by methods which the law sanc- tions. No indictment could hold or will be attempted on this evidence which was procured by theft in violation of private rights. That there was no ac- tual bribery is proved by the fact that the electoral votes in question were given against Mr. Tilden. ‘hat the inchoate bribery was not abetted is proved by Mr. 'Tilden’s recalling Pelton from Baltimore in impatience and anger as soon as he learned what he had gone there for, and by Mr. Marble’s destroying Pelton’s despatch to ‘Tallahassee as soon as he had read it and never mentioning its contents, These facts wore sworn to, and there is no evidence to contradict them. There is abundant evi- denco of intended bribery against Pel- ton and Weed; but aos they will never be arraigned and tried, andas the public does not care a straw whether they are arraigned and tried or not, it is suf- ficiontly apparent that the crime of stealing the despatches is not excused by their im- potence as evidence against any individual liable to punishment, The thieves who stole the despatches from o committee room ought to be pun- ished. Wo suppose they might bo indicted for larceny in the District of Columbia, and might also be imprisoned by the Senate for tempt. We hope the sevorest penalties may be inflicted which the laws allow, but there is a necedsity for more efficient legis- lation, Congress claims the power, and the federal courts possess and may sometimes exercise the power of compelling the pro- duction of private telegrams to be used as evidence. Careful provision should be made by law for the protection of such de- spatches while in the custody of the officers of a court or a committee of either house of f Congress, ‘To leave violations of their ‘eyes and shrewd brain which accompanied him on the other tours alluded to; so his letter to a prominent citizen of Atlanta, which we reprint on another page, is full of interest alike to Northern and Southern readers, He says of Georgia’s natural ad- vantages and inducements everything that the ‘most enthusiastic Georgian could desire of him; but comparing the State with some in the North and West he finds that it is far in the rear, the reason being that to all of the latter ‘‘men felt at perfect liberty to go, with their families, with their acquired wealth ond with their personal ‘energy.” Georgians themselves will admit that there “wos a time when this could not be said of their own State,-and a reason why it cannot yet be said is found in the implication con- tained in “the General’s request that the South should ‘let up” on its hobby of “corpet-baggers.” As the writer of the letter says, not one in fifty of the men who built up the Western country were natives of the States in which they lived, dnd ‘our Supreme Court, Congress and our most prominent and intellectual men now hail from localities of their adop- tion—not their birth.” The meaning of this, which not oply Georgia but the whole’ South should comprehend and remember, is that American emigration is prompted by enterprise, and that the distinctive Ameri- can idea is that one man is just as good as another. “Look shead and not behind” is the General’s counsel in his closing lines; when the South can do this:the day of her prosperity will dawn; until then she will continually mistake moonrise for the break of day. The Celtic's Log. We have the pleasure of laying before the friends of the passengers of the steamer Celtic, the safe arrival of which vessel was announced in the Heratp of yesterday, a special cable despatch embodying the log of the ship for each day between New York and Queenstown. This shows that. the delay, which was* caused by the )pro- peller breaking when the vessel was only five days out, was madé as short as possible by some excellent sailing—e hundred and eighty-five miles having been made on one single day--a record which sailors would hardly expect of's ship carrying the limited amount of canvas peculiar to the morchant steam marine. The good behavior of the vessel and the excellence of her manage- ment are proved by the decision of the pas- sengers, to proceed with her to Liverpool, although they were offered the option of proceeding by other and popular methods. A Popular Saint’s Day. Absent though his name may be from church calendars and lacking his counter- feit presentment in collections of holy men’s statucs there is no other saint so popular with the public as St. Valentine. Other saints are obliged to get along each with a single day to himself and a wee share of All Saints’ Day, but Valentine— blessed bo the tender sentiment of which he is sole guardian—is specially honored not only on tho 14th day of February but dur- ing the six dgys that follow, while maidens secretly long through the succeeding fifty- one weeks for his reappearance, and stay their souls by staring at the post. man, who is the good saint's visible face totum. Valentine has no solemn or sad- dening emblem to identify him—no grid- irons, swords, arrows or skulls. He carries nothing more affrighting than keys, and os these fit no locks but those that guard the portals of feminine hearts the better sex will vote them ao little the sweotest thing that ever existed in saintly fashions. And now the calendar doy of St. Valentine is upon us. Preparations for it havo beon making for months in artists’ studios, lovers’ brains and printing offices, while postmen have endeavored to accumulate extra vitality, and letter carriors have won- dered how much weight the department imagines that aman can carry, Walk as rapidly as he may, the carrier cannot ring the bell too soon; be his load a back break- ing one, every woman he meets will wish herself able to reliove .him of his entire burden. Does any ross materialist dare to say that the missives from lover to sweet- heart aro mere paper and ink? Woman knows better, and on this day of all days she testifies to her knowledge by wearing more smiles and brighter eyes than she has done since—since the last Valentine's Day. Marshal Ney in North Carolina. A strange tale comes to the Hxmaup from the Old North State., In the wilds of Iredell and Rowan counties, heretofore identified only with moonshiners, random volcanoes und Mecklenburg ‘‘Declarations,” one of our correspondents has accumulated a- mass of detail bearing upon the singular career of one Peter Stuart Ney,-who for thirty years taught school in that remote mountainous region, and departed this life in 1846, leav- ing upon his pupils and friends the general belief that he was none other than the “bravest of the brave,” Michel Ney, Mar- shal of France, Duke of Elchingen and Ptince of Moskva. Stranger things than this have happened + and may happen again; but it must be con- fessed that it will require somewhat strongor evidence than that now submitted to the public to reverse so well attested a fact as the execution of Marshal Ney in the gar- dens of the Luxembourg on that melancholy morning of December, 1815. The bronze statue which now adorns the spot cam tell no tales,@ut may not the mortuary monu- ment in Pére la Chaise, have some decisive evidence to offer no less than the lonely grave at Third Creek Mecting House? The physical peculiarities of the Marshal are too well’ authenticated to render difficult the identification of his remains. Rumors from North Carolina coupled withthe name of Ney have been occasion- ally heard for many years, but it is believed that the letter to-day given to the public by the Herarp narrates the firgt systematic attempt to probe it to the bottom. ‘hat there was in Iredell county a mysterious Frenchman calling himself Peter Stuart Ney, that he had served inthe Grand Army, maintained an active correspondence with France, received strange visits and allowed it to be supposed by those around him that he was the celebrated Marshal of the same name, there can be ne doubt. The testi- mony is too cumplete and unanimous to be challenged. But it would seem that he never deliberately asserted his identity, even after the fall of the Bourbons and the renewal of the Napoleonic legend under the Citizen King would have made it ex- pedient to doso. Even from a legal point of view it would have been perfectly safe to return to France at any time after the “three days of July” which ushered into existence the Orleans monarchy. Can it be believed that consideration for his eldest son, who through all those years bore thé pater- nal titles, and who was married to a daugh- ter of Lafitte, would induce the real Duk: and Prince to conceal himself in ‘the A: palachion Mountains? Whence came those numerous letters, presumably forwardéd by King Joseph Bonaparte from Borderi- town, if not from his own family? And would the inheritors of his titles and estates in France have allowed him to languish in poverty in his mountain home when he might have lived all those years in Europe with his devoted wife and his four sons? Nevertheless, the evidence before us is not to be lightly dismissed. It will now be in order-for the lovers of histori¢al myste- ries to adduce the evidence of the shipmate of 1816, still living in a Western ‘Soldiers’ Home,” and to enlightén us as to the shadowy Myers, ‘“‘member of the New York Historical Society,” who figures as the cus- todian of the shorthand manuscripts of the deceased Marshal of France. There can at the present moment be no difficulty in finding the key to the cipher, however in- tricate, and the contents will certainly re- pay perusal, ‘Will There Be an Indian Wart Judging from our special correspondent’s despatch from the Pine Ridge Agency there is good ground for believing that the dis- affected Cheyennes are ondeavoring to join Sitting Bull’s band. ‘These warlike Indians were well armed and mounted and carried abundance of ammunition and provisions, The fact that there were no squaws shows -Clearly that this band is bent on mischief. Our correspondent also states that the whites are thoroughly convinced that a war will break out in the spring, and he mentions the significant fact that the “quiet” Indians at the agency fre- quently pat on war paint and mourn for the slaughtered Cheyennes. People resid- ing inthe Indian country are very apt to magnify the movements and actions of the warriors; so it is not surprising to find them predicting war on an extensive scale. Sometimes these ‘‘signs” do not turn out true, but the recont treatment of the heroic Cheyenne braves at Fort Robinson is cal- culated to inflame the breasts of the red men, and if they do go on the war- path it will not be surprising. Tho Indian question was never so perplexing as at present, and we trust that the govern- ment will grapple with it in such s manner as to prevent farther hostilities and con- vince the several tribes that peace is for them the best policy. Now is the time for the ounce of prevention. By and by it may need the pound of cure to bring the Indians toterms. The first is the preferable course; for we have had enough of Indian slaughters and Custer massacres. A National Conscience Demanded. Because the pastor of Plymouth Church has for a long time been silent on national affairs he has been suspod¥ed of dropping back into religion as it is tanght by books, but his sermon of yesterday morning shows that he has ‘“‘been keeping up a powertul thinking.” He vigorously asserted the need of a public conscienge, particularly in ro- publics, where exceptional rights imply greater moral duties; but that such an influ. ence does not exist in the United States he proved-by instancing our .vacillation re- garding the Mormons, negroos, Indians and- Chinese; the shameful failure of great States to pay their debts, the s«unrebuked openness with which facilities for vicious indulgence are sold and the low character of most public officials. The worst thing about the preacher's charges is their truth, A public impulse to determine national questions on moral grounds has never been created by any party; the pross, with very rare and isolated exceptions, has never been free enough of partisan fetters to ox- press itself according to its desire and ability, while the pulpit, that self-affirmed source of moral teachings—well, Mr, Beecher himself has characterized the su- pineness of the pulpit more vigorously than any layman would dare todo. Most of the men who pray on their knees on Sundsy’ may prey on their fellow men during the remainder of the week without any pulpit utterances to mo- lest or make them afraid. Who is to start the needed reformation that Mr. Beecher demands? No influence is more independent, more familiar with moral truths or better able to utter them with authority than the pulpit -itself. Grate- fully acknowledging for ourselves and our contemporaries the Plymouth pastor’s com- pliment to newspapers as ‘‘winged pulpits,” we must yet declare thot the duties of.the press are multifarious, while those of the pulpit merge into a single one, which is to make mon better. ‘The strength of a chain isonly that of its weakest part, the foun- tain cannot rise higher than its source, and public morality in matters of gencral im- portance will never exceed that of the in- dividuals of whom the public is composed. Let the pulpit cleanse the source if it would have the kealing stream broad, pure and powerful. The. Seventh’s New Armory. Wo are sorry to learn that the subsorip- tions’ for the Seventh Regiment Armory Fund are not coming in as rapidly as was wished in order thatthe building can be finished. It is stated that’ under these em- barrussing circumstances the officers and men of the command have decided to as- sume the responsibility and borrow snuffi- cient money to complete the building. Legislative permission is to be asked to make this loan as a corporate body, and'as it is doubtless the only ‘way the armory can be finished there will probably be no op- position to the proceeding at Albany. The Armory Committee also intend to ask the city to grant the regiment n yearly sum equal to the rent of an armory, until they can pay off all theirindebtedness. By this means the burden of interest on the debt will be somewhat lightened. As the Seventh regiment will surrender an armory to the city for some other regiment this proposi- tion seems quite reasonable. Our militia regiments have done such good service in the past, with abundant promise of con- tinuing it in the future, they should be fostered in every way ; otherwise we cannot expect young men to keep the ranks full and ready for any emergency. A Conundrum Answered. A correspondent who does not seem to favors street, railroad on Broadway sends ct) | the following inquiry os to how the pro- ‘posed road can be legally laid down and operated without a ‘juggle” similar to that which he alleges was attempted by theryhhp- pily departed Board of Aldermen just before the close of their term of office:— To Tne Eprror or THz Hrratp:— In vie view of the current discussion of the She suliiict of horse railroad in Broadway will the Hrrarp sora inform the public how, considering the ex! ing laws, such 8 road can be constructod? Wo know how it was proposed to juggle a road of a eon ilar character through Forty-second strect and t! Boulevard, but the “baseless fabric’, of that irom will not bear a moment's contem “yee gal daylight. i ‘A CONST: EB. The answer to the conundrum ie simple enough. A street railroad may be con- structed on Broadway under a law author- izing ite construction ‘‘upon the congition that the consent of the owners of one-half in value of the property bounded on, d the consent also of the. local authorities having the control” of Broad- way “sHall be firat obtained, or in case the consent of such property owners cannot be obtained the General Term of the Supreme Court in the district * * * may, upon application, appoint three com- missioners, who shall determine, after a hearing of all parties interested, whethor such railroad ought to be constructed or operated, and their determination, con- firmed by the Court, may be taken in lieu ot the consent of the property owners.” , An Unwise Policy. Among the immediate effects of rapid transit it appears that some owners of dwelling houses are looking for an advance in rents next May, and agents are in many instances endeavoring to persuade their principals to étand out for higher prices, There is no reason why rents should go up. Material, labor and ajl general expenses are lower now than they have been in many years, and the burden of taxation is grad- ually growing lighter. Any attempt to ad- vance rents at this time would bea great blunder on the part of property owners, for it would check the disposition to re- turn to housekeeping on the part of many who have been driven to boarding houses by the high prices of the last few years, and would deter people who now have their homes in New Jersey and Kings county from taking up their residence in New York. Reasonable rents up town will in- duce all who can afford to do so to leave the crowded tenement house districts down town for more healthful localities; but if rents are advanced tho full benefit of rapid transit to real estate will be postponed. Indeed, the best speculation that can now be made by capitalists is the erection of cheap but comfortable, cosey cottages, such as are to be found in the suburbs of Lon- don, which can be profitably let at low rents, This is just what the peoplo of New York whose incomes are modergte require, and just what will aid, more than anything else, the growth and prosperity of the city. Can We Create a Trade with Mexico? In considering tho resources of Mexico, the foundation on which an international trade can be built up for the benefit of our producers ond her consumers, people aro apt to forget that something else is wanted to insure success besides tho prestnce of population and natural wealth, Mexico represents oa larger area than all our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, but, unlike it, possesses no railroad facilities for collecting and concen- trating her productions for exportation, Consequéntly her productive power is dwarfed, her population is impoverished and hor internal politics are unstable, In the face of such conditions nnd although both the American and Mexican peoples may be willing to trade with each other, POREAAR has yet to be done to make such trade possible and then mutually protita ble. Ruilroads, harbors, docks, warehouses, cottén presses, grain elevators and othe: facilities for trade must be constructed anc created betore it is within the power of the most enthusiastic advocate of international commerce to do anyt! ractioal in the desired direction. such As Mexico has confessedly no capital to spare she must depend op foreign money for the development of her productive and commercial resources, But until Mexico guarantees protection for such capital and its reaults—the interests created by ita application to her wants—it will nofbe con- tributed. We call attention to-day to a letter from our special commissioner mow in Mexico with the American indus trial deputation, which points out very clearly some of the difficulties to‘be over- come in establishing trade with that coun. try on a satisfactory basis. Thes¢ points are barely touched, but they suggest to the intelligent merchant all that is necessary to guide him to a correct idea of the condi- tions antagonistic to security which prevail in Mexico, but which need only a strong and stable government to change for the better. Opprossive general and local tariffs have raised smuggling to the rank of a pro- fession.’ Again&t such odds the honest mere chant cannot fight, and both Mexico and the United States suffer accordingly. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of the Heap on Saturday :— Bradsher, A, R., New York, Grand Hotel. Brown, F. F., New York, Hotel du Louvre, Claghorn, Clarence B., Philadelphia, No. 35 Rue Luxembourg. Claghorn, J. Raymond, Philadelphia, No, 35 Rus Luxembourg. Gross, H. B., Philadelphia, Grand Hotel. Howell, Admiral John C., United States Navy, Levi, Daniel, New York, Grand Hotel, Moran, F. A., New York, Grand Hotel, Mosher, Mrs, A. T., New York. Paid, Lieutenant F. H., United Stetes Navy. Proctor, George H., and wife, Cincinnati, No. py Bue Sainte Honoré.’ Raser, William H., Philadelphia, No. 22 Rue Louis le Grand. ‘Tilley, Lioutenant B. F,, United Btates Navy. Woodruff, F., and wife, Connecticut, No, 146 Champs Elysées. Few ladies sow where they never rip. Robins have not yet come to the cedars. In Florida the corn is s foot high and the people are eating young cabbages and green peas. ‘The Pall Mali Gazette sneers at the “American tion”’ against the wearing of low neck dresses, If we were to believe the Salt Lake Herald—— But by the way, we don't beliove the Salt Lake Herald, This winter the wind has blown the dust in London as madly as the summer winds blow it in San Fran- cisco, - Southern pspers talk about reclaiming lands and building up industries. In this respect the South is praiseworthily solid. Horatio Seymour looks as young as he did twenty years ago. Andyet there are people who claim that choese is unwholesome. Cincinnati is making s grand splurge over Eataly ong opera. The opera house is packed as close as—no, nots sardine box—bat a pork barrel. Danbury News:—‘In Hartford a ton of ice costs thirty-seven and a half conts, or three tons for $1, This does not include postage, of course.” Charles Mackay says that the word “caucus” must come from the Celtic “‘comh,” meaning with, and ‘‘cuisg’ meaning business or procedure. A Boston man reading that Aristotle and Plato both had dark brown hair turned to his daughter and said, “Rodentia Alkaloid, they had the very same color as mine.” Indianola, DL, has a college called Simpson. Its tutor of Gieck is a young ledy, and she is sixteen years old, At eight she had read Homer. Shois also a Latin, Fronch and German scholar. If the Southern brigadiers in the House do not want Southern war claims paid why was General Bragg 80 greatly in the wrong? Merely for even sup- posing that there could be such a thing as a Southern war claim? Just because in some parts of Nebraska there isn’t enough timber to grow s switch a foot long the Chicago Journal advises boys to induce thetr parents to migrate to that State. Yes, but just think of the rawhide there is in Nebraska. * As wo were sitting in a restaurant yesterday a piece of the ceiling fell down, some of it going plump into @ plate of tomato soup, splashing the table cloth with red and white and gray. Twenty years from now that table cloth will be exhibited as one of Turner's paintings. « There is a Westchester farmer who owns one sheep which costs him almost nothing to keep, and yet ae a walker on the churning machine the sheep egras that farmer scores of dolisrs «year. Inn's this a de- vice against white labor, Mr. Communist ? Well, the sheep must go. HERALD WEATHER PREDICTIONS. —— {From the Irish Daily News, Dec. 31, 1878.] At length the tablos are about to be turned on the originator of what has hitherto been deemed 4 very deep and wise saying. The fact is there seems evory |. likelihood of the weather indicator of the Nzw Youre Henawp becoming a prophet in his own and ip every other country. He has been busy predicting storms and frosts in tho most extravagant and, to farmers, most disgusting fashion, all through the lasPyear, A tow days ago he promised us a nice little storm all to ourselves, duc just about now. Accordingly windows are rattling and rain pouring, and so there is every chance of tho ill-omened prophet being once again right in his conjecture, “It's an ill wind blows no body good,” and some lucky Irishman may have an English mother-in-law staved off for couple of weeks longer. OBITUARY. MRS. L. G. FOWLER, The English newspapers annotince the death at London, January 26, of Mrs. L. Golger Fowler, wife of Dr. Fowler, the phrenologist. The immediate cause of death was pleuro-pneumonia, but it is be lievod to have been accelerated by blood-polsoning, contracted by Mrs, Fowler in the dischargo of hes duties as one of the district visitors of Dr. Parker's church. The deceased ad pes pirew m cnwh gna cine at Rochester, N. ¥:, and was the first Tiquished « area in'Mow York cit nt a : jaan oat land. in oruse ta lecturea to ladies from whom it is tho Amor! herited his mathematical and estrouomical ‘Yho Golgers scem to havo shared the same = uncle of Mrs. Fowler constructed an astronomi< clock calculated to run for ninety-nine herself a aes student and war! ng scientific rexeal Last summer ina ‘ od ured in London st ‘at the Mansion House dion of the British by ance Soo! her er iat ef effort in this cause being in November last, when sho lectured witht De. had eg hy 4 the Leicester Square Congregational A who wan remarkabl or the dignity rot Fomgrter: § was highly rospocted by the leaders of tho medical profession, GORGE H, JONES, Goorge H. Jones, the first chief engineer of the Nowark (paid) Fire Department, w! ‘was organized June 13, 1864, died at his home in Newark on Satur: night. He wae about sixty-threo years to ae eon i ices than @ week. Wee, Sones weave an ineer nearly three years, and was suo sind aby ‘illiam H. ittemore. He ha 7 fig uy nS and realy exces by the Stace many years ago. Shotives™ LYMAN BENNETT. Tgman Bennett, s prominent citizen of Troy, N. Ya and the founder of the Freedmen’s Academ; Gteoubore, N- O. lod at tus formas city yoatordars ©