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

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOB. Pe oe THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in Shree cents per copy (Sundays ‘exeludedy” Ten Soe ‘POF cur, five dollars for six months, two dollars and fifty cents = ormt arate of one dollar per mouth for a than three months, Sunday edition included, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on New or Post Oftico money orders, and where neither of these registered otter. Al ‘order to insure atten- ress changed must give 88. raphie despatches must mild be properly sealed. will not be returned. pit i PepApET rata OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE, OF Ov THE NEW YORK HERALD— LES OF! Kubscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms us in New York, VOLUME XIV PELE SRE EN a NO. 44 AMUSEMENTS _ TO-NIGHT. THEATRE COMIQUE—Mvuucay Guarp Batt. WALLACK’S—Ovns. UNION SQUARE THEATR! NIBLO’S GARDEN—H. M. | ‘ux Baxken’s DavcutTes, GERMANIA THEATER! LYCEUM THEATRE—H. M. 8. Prvarorn. BROADWAY THEATRE—OmnELto. TONY PASTOR'S—Vanuety. TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaurery. NEW YORK AQUARIU. 8AN FRANCISCO MI’ ACADEMY O HEET. 1879... YORK. “THURSDAY, The probabilities are that the sonather in wee York and ils vicinily to-day will be cooler and partly cloudy or fair, To-morrow it will be slightly warmer, with increasing cloudiness, and possibly light rain or snow. Watt Streer Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- ket was active and lowér. Government bonds were quiet, States strong and railroads higher. Money on call was easy at 11g a3 per cent, closing at 2 a 3 per cent. Tne Mannatran Bank Burcuars have left Hope behind. Ir Is NEEDLESS to say that no one from this city appeared yesterday before the Salary Re duction Committee at Albany. Op Commovore VaNpERBILT could not un- derstand how men could play cards for fun. And yet when he played his cards he generally had all the fun. * Whar ¥f, J Rebowte of sae Ma Jobn ‘Aetley's ‘reptedent ntives® io i vorin, to tind hitn Yor keine’ timé past, have walked’tleat out of az) ih Corte, Woottry & Co. are to be summoned. If there ever, in the language of the cipher despatches, was a time when “the night fire dell ought to be rung,” it is now. Pa itt Os ae HE Kranaut, the church debt raiser; Arbuckle, the cornet player, and the illustrious pastor himself formed a rather notable trio of ‘wit- nesses in the Tabernacle trial yesterday. . Omo McitpenEns “are pecaming Pa particu} Ono ‘of ‘tlieni, willbe ‘ to-day, « "eri feally examini ands Was 80 well ‘satisfied that he’ pias ed it “a hice job.” Ir tne Burtt introduced in the Legislature yesterday in regard to the Department of Build- ings becomes a law it will make some important changes in that branch ¢ the municipal ma- chine. Great Brrtarn is energetically sending for- ward reinforcements to the scene of the recent defeat of her troops in South Africa. An article on another page describes at length Cetywayo, his dominions, army and people. Crivm Service is to be begun in earnest in the Custom House. The latest mandate from Washington orders competitive examinations, propotion for merit alone, and all that sort of thing. There is no joke this time. Is Tus Samira Tria yesterday the testimony went to show the intimate relations between the wife of the murdered officer and her dlleged guilty accomplice. Mrs. Smith’s neighbors seem to have been deeply interested in her. Acconpixe to His Own Testimoxy before the Teller Committee, General Reuben E. Davis, of Mississippi, is the best kicked politician in the country. When a boy he declares ho was kicked out of the democratic party, kicked out again on the currency question, and now he is kicked and kept out of the fold by force. He has just begun to kick back. Tur Wearner.—The storm centre moved within the past twenty-four hours from the lake region to the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, attended throughout by heavy snows, rains and very high northwesterly to westerly and south- westerly winds. The chief force of the storm has been expended overa comparatively limited area of the Middle and New England States, Canada and the British maritime provinces. The intluence of the storm, however, extended far to the north, south and weet of ita centre. On the easterly and southerly margins the precipitation took the ordinary form of rain, but on the north- erly and westerly margins it was snow. Very steep barometric gradients were formed along the jake shores and in Now England; conse- queutly the winds were heaviest in these re- gious. In the West the pressure has risen very quickly, and heavy winds prevail on the castern margin of an area of very high barometer. This, with the low pressures immediately southward of it in Texas and New Mexico, give indication of an- other disturbance, which will probably enter the Lower Mississippi Valley to-day from the Southwest. Temperatures rose briskly in ad- vance of the storm centre and have fallen as | | standard of demeanor at the same time with decidedly behind it, ,This will probably arrest for the present the “breakup” of the ice in the Western and Northern which otherwise would have taken place by reason of the freshets from the recent rains, As it is, freshets are commencing in Penvsyiva- sia and Connecticut which may prove damag- mg. The severest snow storm of the season is reported from Quebec, The weather in England iw Gall, with easterly winds at the Channel mouth. In New York and its vicinity to-day the weather will be cooler and partly cloudy or fie Tomorrow it will be slightly warmer, with mereesing cloudiness and possibly light yan oF sanrw. river, | | pray with you and trade with you, and, at NEW. YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1879—TRIPLE SHEET. England’s Troubles at Home and Abroad. Another of England’s “little wars,” of which news has been scarce of late, is brought forward in the ample despatches from Turkestan given in the Henaxp to-day. For many days not a word of any impor- tance has been heard from the British forces in Afghanistan, Some vague hints and rumors have been put forth from time to time that efforts were on foot to negotiate with the Ameer'’s son left at Cabul, but these have been contradicted almost as soon as reported, Accounts of hardship in the advance, of bad commiseariat, of elephants and camels killed by cold and want, of discontent among the troops—this was the staple of the last definite report from the military columns in Afghanistan. It.has been the opinion, freely given by persons well acquainted with the military problems involved in this frontitr war, that England could not be sure of Afghanistan till she had conquered it all as far as Herat, and that opinion is re- peated by General Kaufmann in our de- spatches. With the state of the army as reported that eonquest 1s not imminent, and the difficulties in the way as well as the troubles in South Africa may well stim- ulate efforts to negotiate with Yakoob Khan. Russia’s policy with regard to Afghanis- tan and its fugitive sovereign has evidently been distinctly communicated to the com- mander of the imperial forces in Turkestan while Shere Ali loitered by the way; for the lines of that policy as exhibited in the in- terview of our correspondent with General Kaufmann are in notable contrast for dis- tinctness with the dim fancies the General had on this subject when our correspondent was in conversation with him some weeks since, Royal honors are to be paid to the Ameer upon his arrival at ‘'ashkend, for he is the sovereign of a neighboring State who pays a friendly visit, the object of which visit will be known when he communicates it, Should the Ameer’s. throne fall into other hands while he is thus absent from his own country he will cease to be ao sovereign—will be only & pretender anda person of correspondingly less importance. Russia cannot touch the quarrel between the Ameer and Great Britain, for she has a treaty with Great Britain by which she binds herself to refrain from any acts in that direction, and will re- spect the treaty. Itis true she sent an offi- cer to the Ameer’s Court last year; but that was only a courtesy, and did not infringe the treaty. Moreover, last year’there was trouble in Europe in which England was likely to become involved; and if she had been involved all treaties would have equally lost effect, and Russia thought. it wise to be ready for eventualities. Such is Russia’s present policy, which is compre- hen-ible on the clear ground of common Out despatches give some of the opinions Bf dhe Gf Shere Ali’s nephews on the chances of the future; and as these are the opinions of an expert, a man especially acquainted with the Afghan variety of human nature, they may prove of especial value as indica- tions of the possible upshot of the war. How England was to get out of it has been, as noted above, one of the difficult prob- lems with overybody in Europe who dis- gussed the subject. In the theories of this fibpiiew an issue is shown. He believes that" hi cousin Yakoob Khan, now in ac- tual’ possession of the throne, will hold on to “it, to the exclusion of Shere Ali, and that he will make a treaty with the English and accept an English Resident at his capi- tal in consideration of England’s guarantee against his father. Certainly there could be no easier issue than this to England’s entanglement in that direction. Hold the country she cannot without an expense it is not desirable to add to the Indian budget ; and she does not want to push’ protracted operations, even successful ones, for the same reason. Besides, if she should be forced into the expensive proceeding of con- quering Afghanistan, she would thereby be left in a worse position strategically than she was in before the invasion. She is there far from her own resources and compara- tively near to those of her enemy. Conse- quently the probability presented by the opinions of Abdul Akman is a glimmer of light for her in those complications, England went into Afghanistan under the impulses of an aggressive, imperial policy; not to punish wrongs done her by a neigh- bor, not to make British subjects secure by -showing the danger of a disregard to their rights, but in order to enforce a brace of fine fancies as to imperial policy and dig- nity, in order to teach a barbarian poten- tate the peril of assuming an impudent demeanor toward Her Majesty’s representa- tives, and in order to secure a scientific fron- tier that will be useful some day if anybody should attempt to invade India on that side. In South Africa the Zulu war has resulted from ideas of the same nature. Between the Transvaal and the Zulu coun- try there is a disputed frontier, and Eng- land in this dispute has taken the view that gives the largest periphery to the country she has absorbed. But it is evident that the depredations which Cetywayo has com- mitted in that country are of a doubtiul nature, and’may be regarded variously as one side or another is taken in the frontier dispute, English officials regard the depre- dations as of slight account and as more than balanced by the depredations of the brews in the Zulu country ; but then they hold that a “lesson must be taught ;” that the King must be shown the danger of lifting a finger against any one under Brit- ish protection, In that idea is the source of the Zulu war. Perhaps it is well enough in its way to send out to the savage and the heathen o your missionaries and your Birmingham goods and your troops; to force them to the same time, to ameliorate their style by the dictation of a code of etiquette toward England and England's allies, But, then, it is expensive; and a point likely to awaken in Parliament doubts as fierce as the rage of the Zalus is whether or no England, with the trouble she has at home, can afford thus to constitute herself the instructor general of all the barbarian princes in the East and South, Indecd, considering the situation of affairs in England just now, with a weakened condition of internal credit and thousands of idle workmen lis- tening to the cries of starving wives and children, it is straining things somewhat for Englishmen to dictate even to savages the code of morals that should govern them in any particular. If these “little wars’ helped in any way to relieve the pressure at home England might claim with some trath that her well known policy of making other people pay for the support of her own is as good now as ever it was, and, as it generally proved pretty effective, that she is justified by her traditions in adopting it. But seemingly the rule does not hold good just now, for England's troubles at home are not lessened by her troubles abroad. Emperor William’s Speech. The brief sketch we receive by cable of the Emperor William’s speech at the open- ing of the Reiehstag does not present any very striking features. The members were thanked for assisting in the suppression of the socialist agitation, and there was prob- ably some little significance in the expres- sion, of the hope that they would continue to*help the government as far as might be necessary in the cure of the socialist evil. It seems that the German government ap- preciates the danger that may lurk in this skeleton in royal closets, despite'thé pre- cautions already adopted, and foresees that the occasion for yet more actively repres- sive measures may arise in the not distant future. The Emperor explained that the abrogation of the fifth clause of the Treaty of Prague was prompted by the desire to putan end tothe uncertainty of the people of North Schleswig respecting their future destiny. The hope was expressed that the Russian plague, owing to the energetic measures of the government, would soon be suppressed and the traffic on the frontier restored. In referring to the customs policy of the gov- ernment the Emperor spoke somewhat plainly in favor of protection and ‘the pres- ervation of a German market for home production.” He regretted the abandon; ment of the “‘well tried principles” which have marked the nation’s policy since 1865, and hoped for a reversion to those princi- ples in the near fature. In his congratula- tions on the existence of satisfactory rela- tions with other nations the Emperor throws out a hint that the power of United Germany may be exercised as a sort of peace police over Europe, ‘The promotion and development of friondly relations with and among the Powers,” he says, ‘‘is the task to which should be devoted the great power achieved by German unity.” The strength of the Empire is to be used to regulate the relations ‘‘among the Powers” as well those in which Germany has 4 direct and immediate part. Why Trade Should Be Opened with Mexico. An estimate of our present limited trade with Mexico is not easily made because it is broken up into innumerable fractions by reason of the manner in which it is con- ducted. For her area Mexjco presents an immense coast line, with very few available : ports, and her northern frontier extends from the Gulf of Mexico:tothe Pacific, offering a thousand points where goods can be sent into the country without the preliminary passage through a custom house. But if we estimate her consumption, and deduct from it the at- tainable value of goods* imported from European and other.countries besides the United States, we will find that our share of the trade is far from large and certainly out of all.proportion to that which our position as a neighbor and our capacity for production and supply would lead us to expect. Nevertheless, there is no reason why we should not compete with other na- tions for the trade of Mexico and ultimately control it by making it the interest of the Mexican people to give us the preference, Our special commissioner iu Mexico tells us in a letter, which we publish to-day, that we must go into the struggle in a businesslike way, and follow the example of our competitors by establishing our wholesale and retail houses in the important ports and cities of Mexico, with the object of selling our specialties in manufactured goods and productions. He gives a detailed list of the number of packages of goods im- ported from the United States by one line of steamers during the past four years, While this number is not large it still represents a certain rather feeble trade that may be strengthened by good management and commercial enterprise. Mexico has many products which find a large consumption in this country. Coffee alone forms an item worthy of notice, and if we could establish such trade relations with Mexico as would induce her to pro- duce more of this, and so that we could take it in part exchange for our commodities, we would benefit both countries. Brazil, for instance, sends us a great deal of coffee and other products, but tukes comparatively little from us in return. Her trade goes to Europe. Suppose she saw that Mexico was likely to become our source of coffee supply, is 1t not likely that she would bid tor a con- tinaance of our custom by becoming our customer? Sho cannot afford to lose our market for her produce, Let her offer us, -then, a ‘market for ours. Legislative Retrenchment. Mr. Skinner has introduced a bill to limit the expenditures of the Legislature, and its provisions are such as to effect a saving of seventy-five thousand dollars over the present cost of running the two houses for a single session. The bill plays havoo with that industrious body of individuals, the clerks of committees, limiting the numbor to three in the Senate and three in the House. At present the Assembly may ap- point seventeen clerks of standing com- mittees and os many messengers, while the Senate is at liberty to go into the business as prodigally as it may please, without limitation. No doubt Mr. Skinner's bill has merit and justice on its side, but it has little chance of becoming a law. ‘To be sure it has one advantage in its favor— that it will not affect the present session, andthe next Senate and Assembly will both be new bodies. But then many of the sitting members hope to return to Albany next vear. and committee clerks have generally been valuable links between | is at present ready for business. Society the legislators and the lobby. Besides, Mr. Alvord is Speaker, and Mr. Alvord is an exceedingly liberal gentleman in the mat- ter of legislative expenditures. No doubt Mr. Skinneris sincere in his retrenchment efforts ; but it is the fate of many reformers to fight windmills, and we fear that this is about all Mr. Skinner's tilt against legisla- tive prodigality will amount to. Governor Robinson Steps In. Governor Robinson has taken prompt and efficient steps to prevent the sale of milk from diseased cows and to check the spread of the evil by quarantining the stables at Blissville, L. L, adjoining Gaff, Fleischmann & Co,'s distillery, which have been complained of by the local authorities. Under directions from Albany the Sheriff of Queens county yesterday placed a strong guard at.allthe entrances tothe offensive premises, and no cows are allowed to bo either taken into or removed from the stables, The Governor's orders also prohibit the sale of any of the milk from the seven or eight hundred cows now confined if the stables, and which have been reported by the Brooklyn Board of Health to be suffering from fever and disease. This action of the Execttive will give satisfaction to the people of New York and _ Brooklyn, who will no longer experience the uncomfortable suspicion that the milk they use at breakfast or give to their children comes irom the diseased animals that are said to be stewing in the foul atmosphere of the Blissville stables. It is to be hoped that the present movement will bring to an end an evil that has been suffered to exist too long through the inanity of the local authorities, A vjgorous Board of Health would ere now have put a-stop toa trafic which is carried on in violation of the law prohibiting the sale of unwholesome, or swill milk. Now that the Governor has moved in the matter there is a good pros- pect that these stables and other similar nuisances will be broken up altogether, and that the law will ‘be put into torce against any who may hereafter violate its provisions, Contracts and Day's Work. It is not easy to understand just wit Alderman Sheils means by bis resolution providing that hereafter all work done for the city inthe various departments of the government shall be: performed by day's work, and that the contract system shall be abolished., The charter. provides that when any. particular piece of work: is to be Cone, or any particular supplies are to be furnished for the Corpofation, the several parts of which together involve the ex- penditure of more than one thousand dol- lars, the same shall be by contract, ‘‘unless otherwise ordered by a vote of three-fourths of the members elected to the Common’ Council.” This gives the Common Counoil the privilege when any particular piece of work or aoy particular amount of supplies is ordered to set aside in that special case the contract system. By- exercising this power in each separate case the Aldermen might by piecemeal legislation, it is true, virtually abolish the contract system. But they cannot do so sweepingly by a gen- eral ordinance or resolution any more than the Governor of the’ State, who possesses the power to pardon a burglar who has been convicted and imprisoned, would have the right by a general proclamation to declare a pardon for every burglar who might be sen- tenced to the State Prison. A head of a department having to doa piece of public work involving more than one thousand dollars expenditure would find on one side a city ordinance instructing him not.to give it out by contract, and on the other side a State law declaring that it shall be done only by contract, unless otherwise ordered by a vote of three-fourths of the members elected to the Common Council, It would evidently be his duty to obey the State law, unless he received official instruc- tion.that the necessary action to suspend its operation in that particular case had been taken by the Common Council. If, therefore, Alderman Sheils’ resolu- tion contemplates the abolishment’ of. the contract system altogether it is inoperative. If it relates to work done in or through the several departments not involving an ex- penditure of over one thousand dollars, and therefore not embraced in the scope of the charter provision regarding contracts, itis unauthorized and impertinent, The heads of departments are responsible for the manner in which the work they con- trol is done and for the careful and honest expenditure of the amounts appropriated to their use. he charter, which defines and limits the powers of the Common Council, nowhere gives them authority to interfere with the departments in any such manner as is contemplated by the resolution in question. Indeed, there is good reason to suppose that the votes in the Board of Aldermen by which it was adopted were cast with the object ot making a little cheap capital among laborers, and not on the merits of the question. The resolution will no doubt be vetsed by the Mayor. Should it finally pass it would probably be disre- garded by the departments, A New Redeemer Discovered. Methods for the redemption of humanity are not new in the world’s history, for over since the first era in which there was a man who could see humanity as it is and imagine what it might be the wish for some comprehensive form of elevating the world “has been the father of systems and prophe- cies almost innumerable. Tho newest plan is that of Mr. Henry James, Sr., a gentle- man and author, of high aims and charac- ter, who pronounces society the universal redeemer and in the highest sense, Mr, James is undoubtedly right, it wo regard the ideal society, for what virtue was ever urged upon humanity, either by Pagan or Christian, that is not neoessary in its fullest measure to the pertected sogiety of which all of us sumetimes dream with vivid distinctness but never behold with our waking eyes? For society’ to redeem mankind there is but a single prerequisite, which is that somebody or something shall redeem so- ciety, and so careful a writer as Mr. James is probably ready to tell the world what this is, He certainly would not have us annvose that his newlv discovered redeamar has done inestimable service to humanit; by ostracising brutal murderers, vulgar thieves, shameless, adulterer: and certain other bad characters of whose lawlessnexs the world has always had good reason to stand in awe; but who dare say that it has exorcised the evil spirits which are at the bottom of human misdeeds? Inclination, selfishness and expediency are still the rules of life of nearly. every one who is not exceptionally religious, and the Golden Rule, which is the only standard by which society can be compared with other redeem- ers accepted or suggested, is anything but the popular rule of life. Who or what does Mr, James appoint to redeom society? Postal Savings Banks. There is no longer any hope of the Passage of a postal savings bank law by the present Congress, The bill of Mr. Phillips, of Kansas, was overslaughed in the House a day or two since by an ndverse vote on a motion to suspend the rules and permit its passage. It not only -failed to get the requisite two-thirds, but was defeated. by an overwhelming vote. The next Congress may perhaps be wiser. As to the great’ benefit to the laboring classes of postal savings banks there is no room for doubt or question, It has been tried in Great Britain with the happiest results, experience of its effects for nearly twenty years having niade it in- creasingly popular. The experiment has been tried in Canada with nearly equal success; it has been iried and become popular in Australia ; it has been adopted with some modifications in half. the nations of Continental Europe, and no country which has established postal savings banks has found any reasons for retreating. ‘there is ground for believing that a system which has worked so well elsewhere would be equally beneficial and satisfactory in the United States. The security and convenience it would bring to the laboring classes'is unquestionable, Its necessity is apparent in the wrecks of such a multi- tude of savings banks as have collapsed within the last two years, entailing great loss and: hardship on the most deserving class of the community. On the great point of safety it is impossible that there-should be any dispute or question. Unless: the government itself should become bankrupt the depositors in a postal savings bank could never suffer any loss or ever fail to get their money on demand when they might want it. The merits of the system are, therefore, incontestable so far as the secur- ily of the depositors is concerned. The advantage which would accrue to the government is equally apparent and incon- testable. With postal savings banks the savings of the people borrowed by the gov- ernment at a rate more than two per cent less than the interest on the five-twenty bonds, would enable the government to take up those bonds and make a large annual reduction in its interest account. Why should there be any hesitation in adopting a system which has worked admirably in England and every other country in which it has been tried—a system which would give absolute security to the depositors and would enable the government to gave more than:two per-cent interest on @ large pro- portion of the public debt? The only thing that has been said or that can. be said in opposition to these great and manifest advantages is put in the form of a doubt of the constitutional au- thority of the government. But it would be merely an exercise of the power of the government ‘‘to borrow money on the credit of the United States.” The money received at postal savings banks would be simply a loan from the laboring classes, which is just as legitimate as loans from bankers and capitalists. The allowa- bility of promoting the convenience of the people by pecuniary transactions through the Post Office became, long ago, a settled question. The postal money orders, which are so popular and convenient, are inde- fensible on any constitutional principle which would not equally permit the estab- lishment of postal savings banks. There can be no difference in point of constitu- tionality between receiving thé money of the people in one place to pay it outin another and receiving the people’s money to be paid back in the same place. ‘fhe loss of Mr. Phillips’ bill does not discourage us, be- cause we are confident that public discus- sion will remove all the objections to postal savings banks. The New Indian Bill. The bill for transferring the Indian Buyeau to the War Department is a failure in the present Congress, but Senator Pat- terson’s bill relating to the Indian Terri- tory is so reasonable that it ought to suc- ceed. There are two distinct and separate questions relating to the Indians. What we shall do for the tribes permanently settled in the Indiun Territory is one question; what we ought to do with the savage and nomadia tribes which wander at large is quite another question. It is with refer- ence to the nomadic and warlike tribes of unsubdued savages that the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department is important. As for the peacetul tribes, which have long been settled in the Indian Torritory, the duty of the government is comparatively simple, ‘The bill reported by Senator Patterson from the Committee on Territories proposes to establish courts of justice for the adjudication of con- troversies and the protection of individ- uals; it proposes to revoke the grants of Indian lands to railroads and to give the inhabitants of the Indian ‘Territory a Dolo- gate in Congress to represent their interests, ‘There can be no reasonable objection to such a bill, and wo trust it may pass before the close of the session, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Colfax is in Chicago, Jefferson Davis is in very ill health, Shere Ali is & very common name in the East. Ex-Minister Washburn is in Texas, and will lecture on the Paris Commune, Cincinnati papers are always impressed by scheme for Southern railroad, The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle is shocked because the is so much lynch law in the North. ‘Tha Civeinnat! Commercial sava that no one has rent . } the fund for ee irkin of oleomargarine to the White House as @ “fraud,” ‘We ave afraid, Mr, Tilden, that by this time Black- stone is 4 xaddler if not a wiser horse. ‘Lhe weather is becoming so warm that it is safo to take the blankéts off the thermometers. Unless Edison gives us the electri: light by June lovers will have to walk by moonlight alone. Governor Pinchback has accepted tho position of revenue agent of the Louisiana district tendered him some time ago, General Sherman aud party returned to Jackson ville, Fla., last evening, from up the river, A recep tion is be given him this evening. Mr. H. Clay Lukens will th’s evening lecture in the Thirty-soventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church on Roe Mother of Betsoy,” and the 1eciure will be very anny. Bishop Foley, of the Catholic Church, who caught a severe cold in Baltimore 1ast week, and on arriving at Chicago last Saturday had a severe attack of bron- chial-pneumonia, which has for some days jeop- ardized his life, was much better yetterday, and his phyicians rogard his recovery probable. A party of English people ascended Vesuvius, when @ lady, with her guides and chair carriers, became separated from others of the party. The villaing threatened her with being carried to the crater unless she gave jowcls and money. She could only promise money, and eseaped. Americans are advised to leave money and jewels behind them, and to keep to- gether, A Japanese student at Yalo College, New Haven, called on a young ludy and was invited to call again soon. Ho called again in about an hour. Another student, being invited ont to dinner, was sitting at table when the jar of currant jelly was passed to him. He very proudly and dexterously turned the jartul of jelly out on his plate and felt jolly all the evening over his skill. Tho Saturday Review says that he who through life is always acting tho part of “best fellow in the world” exacts his fees as rigorously as the doctor or the lawyer, and that he is always artificial and not natuyal-hearted., It adds:—“ ‘Scratch the Russian," said Napoleon, ‘and you will find the Tartar.’ Scratch the Best Fellow in the World, and you will generally ind what the Americans call ‘a pretty cone siderable humbug.’ FINE ARTS. A BRONZE BUST OF WILLIAM PAGE PRESENTED TO THE ACADEMY OF DESIGN. ' Not many visitors to the water color exhibition st the Academy of Design last evening were aware of what an interesting affair was in progress on the floor below, where the quarterly meetings of acade- micians are always held. The niceting of last even- ing was notable as having been made the occasion of an honor to an old and respected artist, who both by his works and as*an individual has long been familiar to the people of this city. The gentleman referred to is’Mr. William Page, tho well known portrait painter, whose bust, by Mr. W. B. U'Dono- van, was presented to the Acadomy by a number of artists.and persons connected with or interested in art affairs. This bust, of which some account has already appeared in these columns, was completed just before the opening of the last anpual exhibition = = Acalemy, and attracted no little attontion the works therein displayed. It is of bronze, life. size and life-like in its resemblance to the original. The treatment is frec and Spoon venepel. : yet serious and dignified, and it is not poe ct much to say that the Academy wa ereter Peptic probed its venerable vice preside: erates ures. Following are Cy ae of the Socmmuer ho wi straight the peth of the Wherever he went he creat road manded respect for his life had devoted. Before concluding his marks Mr. Gadwin paid high tribute to the the Gg Mr. O'Donovan, who had # well in the intel ’ of the Academy President Qj Godwin's praises of tlie Brorite Ht ofr Page and hia wie . ance un at on Staten Island, wi eke hohe ‘tor, ‘#03 confined by Hiner, to visit the color exh tion, and on his entrance to the ‘ibeary, where bust was placed, was heartily welcomed by tric nuniber of artists, seademiclans abd ‘were present. THE KNOEDLER SALE LAST NIGHT—$17,854 yoR EIGHTY PAINTINGS—TOTAL OF SALE, $31,064. The Clinton Hall salesroom of the Messrs. Lesvitt ‘was crammed last evening at tho second night's sale of the Kpoedier pictures. The prices were better than on the previous evening, the total for the evening being $17,854 for eighty pictures. The re- sult of the first night's sale was $13,210 for the same number of ‘canvases, making s grand total of $31,064 for the 160 paintings. They are said to have cost about $40,000, but under the circum. stances the sale can bo considered o suc pal pictures, prices and names last sane: wale are w epanithes $245, Mr. Spaul neta $455, R. Butler; Desgoffe’s wobtate $1,475; ‘De ‘Penne's “Hound, * $165, Vibert's “Cardinal and Boarer of Mr. Fallon, of St. Louis; Porrault's r,”” $840, Mr. Grosbeck ; te ; Le $115, George Kemp, Walker's “Arabs Vording a Stream,” $350, Kemp. BLACK AND WHITE EXHIBITION, af The Kurtz Gallory was pleasantly filled last even- ing at the private view of the cxcellent exhibition of works in lack and whiteof the Salmagundi Sketch Club. The gallery will be open to the public this morning. ee " ARMY AND NAVY CLUB. ‘Tho rooms of the Army and Navy Club, No, 28 East Thirticth street, were crowded last night to their fullest capacity by the members and their friends, it the occasion of the third rocoption of the club for the present. season. The doors of the salons were thrown open at o'clock and a stream of the members and in uests poured in until e Inte hour. Desides the satis- fiction C2 ah comrades who te oe aoe come the cam- Peeltations during the oni The party y beeee up att alate hour, ee HOME FOR THE AGED, A performance will be given to-day at the Grand Opera House for the benefit of St. Joseph's Home for the Agod. The programme will include an overture by the orchestra of the Union Square Tyeatre; the comedy “A Kiss in tho Dark,” by the members of the Fifth Avenuo Theatre Company; “The pind bonds,” by Mr. Loo Cooper Kenting and Sands in their ‘pkotch “Moving In;" “Pleasant hepon si by the membors of the ere House Com, Professor M, O'Reardon musical a] tion} “The Little Hero,"” Tosltetion, iy Mine Hattie aon, a seene from the eto of Venice” by Mr. Thomas Wi Watord. oe orig he i elude wi ”" by mon the Broadway and Bowbey Thea Theatre companies, panaer wien, ARCTIC ADVENTURES. Dr. 1. I. Hayes will tell about Arctic adventures and discoveries in the Sunday school hall of the Church a a ond Joseph to-morrow evening for the benefit of the poor. THE LIEDERKRANZ. One of the great events of the ball season wil) take place’ to-night at the Acadomy of Music, The Liederkranz Society will give their annual reception to Prince Vee ig who will attend, surrounded by @ glittering court of maskets. The inost oxtensive rel 8 have been made for the occasian, \