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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. every day in the year, Ten dollars jars and Bfty ee jar per month any perl edition included, free of postage. WEEKLY HERALD—Ono do! Pe ar per year, freo of post- drafts on New ither of these red letter. All Remit wh en ged must give aphic despatches must rly sealed, ot be roturned. 112 SOUTH SIXTH Or THE NEW YORK HERALD— TREE, {NUE DE LOPERA. Poor. Matinee. . Pinavore. Matinea Mare, Matinea, BOWE ‘AroRK, Matinee, D OPERA HOL THEATRE Matinee. Matinee. oe Vievias. INAVORK, Matinee, 0. Matinee, Pixarork. Matinee. varp Bart, Matinee, TUE RE WALLACK UNION SQUARE—Tuk Bax GERMANIA THEATRE—Kie THE AQUARIUM—Rep Rive MUSEUM—Iwo I Hoop. Matinee. pep Lap. Matinee, ¥ OF DESIGN—Warer Corors. HALL—Pepestata: TRIPLE NEW YORK, The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and partly cloudy, with increasing westerly wind. To- morrow it will be cold and fair. tive, but feverish. Govern- rm, States dull and railroads irregular. y on call lent at 2 a 3 per cent, advanced to 5, and closed at 2 3 per cent. Canaba weather of low-neck Wuo Re tine yesterday ? sterday was the reverse Db a good natured comic valen- accused of murder ‘Cove” Ben- nett seems a most injudicious talker. For a May New Your is a great place. Where else in the world did a man ever offer to goon the bail boud of a woman who shot him? Has Ir Come vo Tuts—that a Judge is to be suspected of drunkenness because he is affable to counsel? See Pinckney proveédings. Pouitics are not everything in this world. Albany has the State House, the Governor and Legislature, but her gamecocks were beaten yesterday by those of Troy. Ayorner Trareze Perrormer has met death or something worse. How much longer will the law permit performances the principal at- traction of which is their danger? Ir Licut Wixps are tormenting to yachts- men on the water, what must they have been to the owners of ice yachts that sailed—slid— over the frozen Hudson yesterday ? A Grortous Figur between railway giants is going on in the State capital of New Jersey, and there are rumors of plenty of gate money for everybody who will enter the ring and help either side. Tue Weri1s Case continues to excite con- siderable attention in court and private. Rich men, who do not want to be dragged into pub- licity, will take warning and not try to afford the luxury of being eccentric. A SMaLL War CLarm occasioned the usual amount of talk in Congress yesterday. The Thibetan praying machine could be easily mod- ified to do such work, the speeches, like the cases, being about the same every time. WesTERN RPRISE.—A mail robber at St. Louis was yesterday arrested, tried and sen- tenced, the entire operation consuming only four hours. If Mayor Cooper really means ecouomy let him contract with St. Louis to dis- pose of New York’s thieves. IN Anorner CoLtcmy “Patriot” makes an appeal for the remainder of the runaway Chey- ennes. The people and the Haratp agree with him, but neither the public nor the press bas any influence with the powers that make the Indians disaffected and keep them so. Now that busy railroads begin to tumble into the bowels of the earth, as a portion of one did near Pottsville, Pa., yesterday, it is likely that legislation will provide for scientifie superin- tendence of coal mines, so that lite and prop- erty above ground may not be endangered by the ignorance and cupidity of mine owners. Tue Wearnen.—Hligh pressures have moved from the Northwest into the Central Mississippi Valley, and the barometer has commenced to fall again in the region of Manitoba and west- ward. The barometer is also relatively low off the South Atlantic coast, where an undulation of th pbar oceurred, which created something like the ¢ ci that was dissipated again during yesterday afternoon, The storm centre which was leav- ing Newioundland has moved rapidly east- ward over the Atlantic, followed by clear or fair weather. The snowfall yesterday ex- tended over the Middle States and the lake re- gion in small Last night it lasted in this city for more than an hour, just coating the pavement with white. Very heavy snow is re- ported from the Northern I fie const, and chiefly from Vancouver's Island, where the storm was fatal in its severity, Tem have fallen in all the districts east of the Mis- gissippi, but have risen slightly in the North- ‘west before the advance of another de pression. The cold in Canada is reported to be inten As low as forty degrees below gero is recorded, On the approach of another rainfall and thaw serious freshets will probably occur in our rivers, and t may be agera- wated by ice gorges. Over England the barom- eter is low, but the winds on the south and west coasts are moderate. In New York and its vieinity tovday the weather will be cold and partly cloudy, with increasing westerly wind. Mamorrow it will be cold and faite Salaries of Diplomats. Public attention has recently been called, and very urgently called, to the compensa- tion of diplomatic agents sent by the United States to foreign governments. On two occasious the Secretary of State has, within a few weeks, made a special communica- tion to oné or the other House of Congress on the subject—once in reference to the pecuniary condition of the family of the late Minister to Berlin, and again, within a day or two, in respect to the inadequacy of the pay of the Minister to London, as represented by him to the Department of State in an official note, These two are special cases of a recent date, but, as every one knows, the question of what is the proper salary to be paid to our public ministers in foreign coun- tries disturbs and delays the delib- erations of nearly every Congress. This last certainly ought not to be, nor ought there to be sent to either House such communications as those to which we have referred by name, The question of the pay of such public agents should not only be answered by Congress, but answered in away to give permanency to the answer. In the case of the late Mr. Taylor it is represented to Congress that he incurred pecuniary obligations for house and furni- ture which, since his term of office was so brief, his estate is unable to mect. If an adequate performance of the agency upon which the late Minister to Berlin was sent by the government compelled the under- taking of those obligations and his estate cannot meet them then obviously the govern- ment should respond. And so if in London Mr. Welsh is incurring similar obligations, whether they are or are not beyond his own pecuniary resources, a similar necessity presses upon the nation. The real ques- tion in both cases is this, Is an annual salary of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars sufficient for a public minister of the United States at London or Berlin? The answer to this obviously depends first, on the expenditures in either of those cities, which must necessarily be made by a diplo- matic agent of this country to enable him to fitly perform the duties of the agency intrusted to him. In deciding this ques- tion Congress will, of course, satisfy itself as best it may whether the satisfac- tory performance of the ordinary offi- cial work of the legation necessarily demands expenditures in a social way, aside from ordinary personal outlay, and if there be a demand of that character what will be the probable extent of it. There will come an inquiry for what sum, as compensation, 9 competent man ought, in the absence of any special circumstances, to undertake the agency. And when the salary is once fixed, upon a proper Ameri- can basis, it should be considered as estab- lished beyond the reach of such special appeals as are now before Congress. It has been urged that there are, and ought to be, those in our country who are competent, and would be willing, to undertake a diplomatic life in Europe without an official salary; but there are those who say that such terms of employment would not be well for the agent nor economical or wise for the government. But, however that may be, the rule of official salary is now in force, and it is not likely to, be presently changed. What, then, shail be the scale of salaries? Ob- viously it must be American, Our foreign salaries must be in harmony with our home salaries. As our Minister of Foreign Affairs and the chief of all our diplomatic agents has but ten thousand dollars a year the pay of public ministers abroad must have a proper relation thereto, in view of the actual situation at the particular foreign court. Much of the confusion and uncer- tainty about diplomatic salaries among our own people who are at home grow, we fancy, out of a misconception of the nature of the work which, in the present condition of diplomacy, our government has need of at the hands of its diplomatic agents; and a great deal of the dissatisfaction of those agents with their pay comes of what they think that our people require of such agents in the sense of hospitality or social display. Our public ministers abroad are, we suspect, unhappy very often about representations which may be made to Senators or to the Secretary of State about their style of living, as the phrase is; and it is no doubt true that many superficial and thoughtless persons do think and say that our public ministers should live and dispense hospitality as does the British Embassy in the great political capitals. But no sensible man or woman in Europe expects that or recognizes any occasion for it. The United States are in an important sense outside of the European family of sovereigns. Its diplomatic agents, whether called ambassadors, or legates, or nuncios, or internuncios, or envoys, or ministers, or deputies, or commissioners, or ministers resident or chargé d'affaires, cannot have the same relation to a member of that European family as one of the diplomatic representatives of another member of tho family would have, An American cannot have tho same associations in the court circle of Berlin as Lord Odo Russell has who represents a sovereign who is the mother of the Crown Princess of that court. The annual salary of the British Ambassador (the United States have never given the title of Ambassador to one of its diplo- matic agents) at Berlin is seven thousand pounds, besides liberal allowances for special purposes, and the salary of Lord Lyons at Paris is ten thousand pounds, which is as much as President Hayes receives, The British Minister in Wash- ington has six thousand pounds sterling » year anda home in the Legation, But no other solvent nation comes upto the scale of British salaries, And in London the United States can scarcely have pending a kind of diplomatic questions tho answer to which may be influenced by court tendencies, as Russia, Germany, France, Austria and ‘Turkey are constantly having, and wherein the maintenance of # splendid embassy may be not only useful bat important. In the business which Mr. Evarts requires Mr, Welsh to transact in Downing strect what thought will the Marquis of Salisbury or his Under Secretary, Lord Tenterden, have for the “style” in which Mr. Welsh may live? What influence on the fishery dis- pute could have been exerted by a big house maintained by Mr. Welsh, or elaborate entertainments and a round of visits paid to the nobility at their country seats? English people whose opinion is worth regarding know all about our system of governmert and our seale of salaries, and, indeed, they find out pretty much all that is worth finding out about the public ministers we send to London. Their opinion is not to be changed by the personal or oflicial expenditures of our diplomatic agents in London, For the United States the business of diplomacy in these days of telegraphs and fast steamers isthe business of attorney and client, or, to speak more narrowly as to London, it is the work of communication or mediation between Mr. Evarts and the Marquis of Salisbury, and if that work is well done it matters little whether the agent lives in a small ora big house. If a merchant could get the advice or service of Mr. O’Conor in a controversy over a question of law would he stop to inquire in what sort of a house the great lawyer might live? It is sometimes said that consuls could transact our government business with European ministers of foreign affairs as well as diplomatic agents with prescribed titular designations. But that is an error, for the reason that diplomatic business has traditional surroundings upheld by modern public law, to which the United States must conform in their own interest. If the United States would have access to the per- son of a foreign sovereign they must send an agent to whom the law of nations, as uni- versally accepted, accords the right to de- mand an audience, and to whom if such audience be refused the law denounces tho refusal as an international offence. It would greatly tend to clear the queston of diplo- maticsalaries if our public ministers could be made to realize that they owe no ofti- cial obligations to anybody in the United States but the President, and that their social relations, in the sense of personal expenditures, aro as personal as if they lived abroad as private citizens, Filibustering for an Extra Session. We do not suppose that any considerable number of the democratic members of either house will lend themselves to a pro- ject for forcing an extra session from so pitiful and degrading a motive as that of giving the offices in the bestowal of the Sen- ate to their own partisans for the few months that would intervene between the assembling of the new Congress and its regular annual meeting on the first Monday in December. The pres- ent House of Representatives being democratic its Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms and other officers furnish no spoils to be pre- maturely seized by the party. It is only the offices of the Senate upon which a party raid can be made, and it is incredible that the democrats will take the risk of blocking the wheels of the government by refusing the annual supplies merely to give a few greedy hangers-on so small a number of paltry places. Last year’s appropriation bills provide for the wants of the govern- ment up to the Ist of July, and the Presi- dent might not call the extra session before the middle of that month, which would be early enough to meet the payments due on the 1st of August. The offices of the Senate for the few months which would in- tervene before December are of too little consequence to be the actuating motive for so disorganizing an attempt as is now under discussion in Washington. és If it be true that a sufficient number of the members elected to the new House are liable to lose their seats by criminal prose- cutions to deprive the democrats of their majority, this is a motive which, however unjustifiable, can be easily understood. If the danger is real there will, no doubt, be a strenuous effort to ward it off What is alleged is that a number ofthe democratic members have violated the Federal Election law and are liable to be convicted and imprisoned between now and December. It is because thera are colorable grounds for such prosecutions that some of the democratic members are willing to go all lengths for the repeal of the Election law under which the indict- ments would be made. They are willing to force an extra session and even to dis- solve the government rather than incur the risk of losing their party majority in the next House. ‘They think that by forcing an extra session before the trials take place they can secure the organization of the new House, and that the Federal Election law can then be repealed by a majority democratic in both branches, which will preclude the possibility of any convictions under it. This accomplished they will be ready to pass the Appropriation bill in the usual form without further delay. Whether the democrats in Congress resort to this ex- treme measure will depend on their esti- mate of the danger of being deprived of their majority in the next House by crimi- nal prosecutions under the law sought to be repealed. A Bold Thief—A Cowardly Crowd. The outrage perpetrated last evening by o daring thief in the public street, arid in presence of a large crowd of pramenaders, in garroting and robbing a Indy, may well create a doubt in the public mind as to whether we can practise economy any better than by dismissing our police force and quietly submitting for the future to the tender mercies of the highway robbers. We suppose that these gentle- men of fortune would not be violent to their victims while robbing them of purse or jewolry if they could be certain that they would not be in- terfered with by the police, And as the “finest in the world” do not seem to exerciso any influence in checking mere thieving we may save ourselves from vio- lence by dismissing them altogether. Really it is time to compromise with Dick Turpin, for Mulberry street has lost its terrors. We give the de- tails of the robbery this morning, and cannot help saying that the lady who was the victim was unfortunate in not finding in all the surrounding crowd one man capable of protecting her. The policeman, of course, came up ready to club anybody when the affair was all over, Message to the Dominion Parliament. The time having arrived for the new Governor General to address the Dominion Parliament much interest attached to the manner in which he would make his début as a practical ruler, and his Message was looked for with considerable curiosity. Lorne’s We publish the full text of the address this morning. Modelled on the royal messages which the British legislators are accustomed to listen to at the opening of each session at West- minster, Lord Lorne’s address has the merit of being free from the platitudes that frequently render the official utterances of his royal mother-in-law conspicuously non- comunittal on questions of foreign and even domestic policy, leaving them specific only where they relate to that of supplies. He dismisses the subjects of his ap- pointment as Governor General and the loyal reception which greeted the arrival in Canada of Her Majesty’s daughter and himself with a few gracefully worded sentences expressive of his thanks, and after paying a compliment to the Prince of Wales for the interest taken by him in the Canadian exhibits at the Paris Exposition turns directly to the more important busi- ness of the new administration and the proposed work of Parliament. Lord Lorne has very little to say about the fishery award paid by the United States to Canada under the provisions of the ‘Treaty of Washington. He merely informs Parliament that the money has been paid and that arrangements are being made to divide it between Canada and Newfound- land. In relation to the cattle embargo he that the trade is between the and that the assumes Dominion and England, order excluding American cattle is intended for the protection of that trade. Viewed from the Canadian standpoint this ‘‘protection” is, of course, all right, as with the co-operation of the Brit- ish government it secures for the time be- ing a Canadian monopoly of the meat supply which was being sent to England from this side, and furnishes a sample of the policy toward this country which became inevi- table when Sir John A. Macdonald became Premier. ‘The Canadian Pacific Railroad is to be pushed westward with the ut- most vigor, so as to connect ‘Lake Superior and the great Northwest.” Under the head of general legislation Lord Lorne proposes several important measures which possess intrinsic merit. Regarding ques- tions of finance, the recommendation to re- adjust the tariff, with the view of increasing an inadequate revenue, will, doubtless, meet with the favorable consideration of the majority. It is a tacit acceptance of a a policy which the British free traders will not indorse in priuciple, although they may be glad to profit by its practical application. Our Art Museum. The building which for nearly six years has contained the collections loaned to and owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art was closed last evening by a reception pre- paratory to their removal to the new build- ing in the Central Park. In this connec- tion it may be well to say a few words about the past and of advice forthe future. It has been very evident to occasional visitors to the building in Fourteenth street that it was of little use as a means of public in- struction, both on account of the small publicity which has been given it and of the restrictions which the general public were under in their visits. On Sunday, that day on which the art galleries and museums of the Continent are thronged by those who can- not visit them during the week, our only museum of art has been closed. I. a country like this, where there is, strictly speaking, no class of non-workers, few can find time to visit such a place during week days. There have been two free days a week, and on these, strange to say, the attendance of people who can afford to pay was the largest, and private carriages were numerous in front of the building. Let the trustees make ao fresh start in the new building; resolve that the treasures com- mitted to their caro shall be of real benefit to the public, and open the galleries on Sundays iree, thus giving three free days a week. If they have money on hand—which they must have, since they have lately been deliberating as to whether they should purchase a collection of laces or one of scarabs—let them add it to the legislative appropriation for moving and installation, and see that the new museum, in all its internal arrange- ments, is worthy of this great city. Then jet them exert all their influence to secure an annual appropriation from the Legisla- ture sufficient to properly maintain the establishment and for the purchase of col- lections and single objects. We would also suggest that when once installed in their new quarters they commence the collection ofagallery of contemporary art, both foreign and American. If the national government will do nothing toward elevating the art stand.rd of the country let the State of New York lead the way. Commissioner Erhardt’s Charges. Mayor Cooper commences to-day the in- vestigation of the charges made by Police Commissioner Erhardt against his associates in the Police Board and against the general management of the department of which ho has for five years been an uncomplaining associate director. The Mayor very properly cuts short the attempts of Mr. Erhardt to avoid the responsibility of appearing as the accusing party by peremptorily requiring him to attend at the Executive Chamber this aftern6on and substantiate the allega- tions he had publicly made. The inquiry is due to the people, who have long de- manded an investigation of the department, and to the Commissioners, who have been arraigned by ono of their own number. But it will not be satisfactory to any one unless it is publicly conducted and made thorough and searching. Written affidavits and statements and counter statements may tell a fraction of the truth and conceal the bulk, or may be so ingeniously worded as to make unsubstantiated asser- tions take the semblance of facts or facts appear like wnsubstantinted assertions. ‘Lhe Commissioners should be subiectad to NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1879.—TRIPLE.. SHEET. verbal examination under oath and the proceedings should be held with open doors, There should be no postponements, no delays and no toleration of technical points, Mayor Cooper has done right in insisting on these proceedings. He will do wrong if he fails to make the inquiry thor- ough and to conduct it with open doors, so that, whatever may be the result, the people may be satisfied that full justice has been done, Another Social Problem. The Oneida Community has long been an eyesore to most of the organized religious bodies in the Unifed States, and. the sentiments of the various churches found expression yesterday in a con- vention, which was held at Syra- cuse, and attended by prominent members of several denominations, As was admitted by the prime mover of the | newly organized opposition, the members of the Oneida Community are ‘good citizens, orderly and cleanly in the manner in which they conduct their homes,” but it is useless to deny that their habit of holding women as well as property in common is one which civilization cannot regard with favor or re- spect. It must be admitted’ that they are not breaking any existing lays, and that their refraining from proselyting relieves them from the suspicion, so unavoid- able when the Mormon problem is considered, that their pecular faith is stimulated by uncontrolled animal pas- sions. The character and reputation of the community and its members are so gocd that probably no legal action will ever be taken by their immediate neighbors, who know them best and who dislike the peculiar feature of the organization as much as other respectable people do. The fact remains, however, that woman as transferrable property, whether on grounds material or spiritual (so called) is to the great majority of humanity an idea too abhorrent and unnatural to be en- tertained for an instant, {nd that those who so regard her must exist by sufferance and not because of respect for their peculiar theories. It is possible for the Oneida Community, by exercising what, according to their spokesmen, would not be a great degree of self-denial, to quash all opposi- tion present cr prospective by yielding that peculiar featuro of their practice which gives offence. They claim not to be lustful or immoral, and the public would gladly believe as much of any body of people so industrious and inoffensive; but self-denial, in one way or another, has, ever since Christianity was insti- tuted, been necessary to an agree- ment between the many bodies pro- fessing the same faith. Aside from their customs regarding the sexual re- lation the Oneida Communists are valu- able members of society.. Why should they weaken the good influence which they naturally desire to exert by a practice which offends every outsider who hears of it? The “Marseilidise.” “An important announcement is made by General Gresley, the French Minister of War, of the intention to put the ‘Marseil- laise” in office, to make it a national hymn by Ministerial revival of the decree of 1795. It would take a great many decrees to make any given poem or piece of music an ex- pression of national sentiment or aspiration if the poem or music had not previously settled this point with the popular mind as the ‘‘Marseillaise” has done; but when that point is determined even the Ministerial decree is of consequence, because it puts aside the objections of ill-disposed com- manders at military posts and makes the favored air a legitimate part of all public festivities. Toward the ‘‘Marseillaise” this decree is a piece of justice in which every- body will rejoice who has sympathized with the sentiment of that great chant. In its day the ‘‘Marscillaise” has been howled by many a cowardly and savage rabble from the gutters flowing with the blood of good men; but even these as- sociations have not been able to degrade it. In the whole number of national hymns it is the noblest. It is, indeed, the only one that is grand and true and aational. Our own hymn takes our standard as o tangible presentation of the national idea—which is one of its picturesque yet minor details; and the English and German hymns put the sovereign for the nation—an equally de- fective style. But the ‘‘Marseillaise” was the voice and accepted utterance of the sentiments and aspirations of agreat poople at a sublime moment in their destinies, and tyrants are always compelled to suppress it, as they would try to suppress a volcano under the throne. It isa good sign that the present government is not only not afraid of it, but dares to patronage. The Cattle Trade. Live cattle are still sent out by ship from this port for England, and will, it appears, continue to be sent despite the fact that they must be slaughtered on arrival. Perhaps the English authorities may discover after a few thousand animals have been slaugh- tered that none are diseased, and what may help to open their eyes is the sharp criticism made in England of the government's hasty action, Pleuro-pneumonia does not exist in the cattle of this country os an epideiic disease. In some stables of milch cows kept near large cities—and particulariy near this city—it has been found, and has existed for months and years, and is no worse now than usual, Ifthe existence of this disease at these places isa reason for the action of the British government in arresting the trado of live cattle between this country and English ports the same reason existed last year. Possibly some outgoing cattle kept in stockyards here or at other seaports were contaminated by some of these diseased cows, which might have been adjacent to these cattle in the yards, os travellers in different directions may meet at the same station, Such a fact was only possible before the authorities had their attention called to the conse- quences, It is not possible now. That it was possible exhibits the helpless and shilly-shally spirit of authority with us on many voints of grave imnortanoe, Everv power that has any right to interfere with these swill fed cows has been aware of the condition of the cows in swill stables a great while, Over and over again has the Hegary exposed them, and every other paper has done the same ; but the Board of Health has folded its hands while the owners of these stables trafficked on publie health, and the Governor never thought the subject worthy of notice. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Most dogs object to tin wear. Captain Eads is in Washington, ‘The Detroit Post steals paragraphs. ‘The Zulu chief says to the English, “Cetywayo up again.” Cleveland (Ohio) papers quarrel as papers did at Eatonswill, Zach, Chandler has defeated the proprietor of the Detroit fine cut chewing tobacco, Bertha Von Hillera, as the protégée of two wealthy ladies, is pursuing her studies at Boston, From the evidence in the Smith murder case it seems that a little soft scratch usually turned away any answer. New England newspapers find oveasion to discuss problems about the moral, physical and mental edu- cation of the young. This administration is sugar-coatead.—“P. I,” Does the “P. 1." mean to insinuate that this administra- tion is to be remembered for its pillage ?—Graphie. General Sherman and party have left Jacksonville, Fla., for Cedar Keys, where thoy will take ®@govern- ment steamer for New Orleans and points on tho Gulf, “H. H.,”” Mrs, Helen Hunt Jackson, the poctess, who married a wealthy miner of Colorado Springs, has one room which is entirely ornamented with Japanese fans. In 1877 Mr. Schurz wrote to Zach. Chandler, “I shall be happy when leaving the department to have achieved as good a reputation for practical efficiency as you have done.”” Eureka (Nev.) Leader:—“Speaking of one of the actresses who lately favored Eureka with a visit Judge Harmon says :—‘'She can lift the rear end of her dress with almost as much grace as a two-year-old mule can kick a fly off his ear.’’” Ex-Minister E. B. Washburne is in Texas, hoping to rid himself of a severe bronchial affection. He is stout and his face is ruddy, while his hair is white. He has been lecturing at San Antonio, where he has been in company with Japanese Minister Bingham and General Ord, Utica (N. ¥.) Observer (dem.):—“This experience in amateur politics—this trial of unknown men—has served to teach the American people a lesson. They might have done better than to call back the ‘old set’ of republican corruptionists, but reactions are more often violent than wise. Opinion will settle into a moderate middlo course presently. No man whose strength rests on his alleged negative virtues will be named for Prosident next year. One fraud- ulent term of Hayesism has sickened the country of amateur politics for years to come.”” OBITUARY. DR. ULYSSE TRELAT, FRENCH POLITICIAN. Dr. Ulyese Trelat, a distinguished French physi- cian, formerly a colonel of cavalry, Deputy and Min- ister of Public Works under the Republic of 1848, died at Mentone, Italy, January 29, aged nearly eighty-five years. Dr. Trelat was born at Montargis in 1795; educated at Macon and at Paris in medicine and surgery; served as assistant surgeon in the cam- paign of 1813 in the interval of his studies; became physician to the asylum at Charenton; took an active part in the secret political societies which largely contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy of the Restoration ; was dissatisfied with the government of Louis Philippe; edited in 1834-5 the Patriot pewter in the department of Puy-de-Dome; volun- ‘is services in @ political trial in Paris, 1836, ‘was condemned to 10,000 francs fine and three years prisonment for spoken in open court; suf- the full term of imprisonment st Clairvauz; obtained by competition in 1838 the post of physician to the Salpetriere Asylum; was an ardent partisan of the Republic in 1848, when be was appointed Commis- sioner General to the Departments of Allier, Creuse, Le ory 4 and Haute-Vienne; became Lieutenant Colonel of the Twelfth legion of the National Guard and pepty for Puy-de-Dome; was Minister of Pub- lic Works a short time, from May 12, 1848, and = vp the ‘national workshops;" resumed medical post at the Salpetriere; took no part in poli- tics under the Empire; was director of an ambulance corps at Sedan during the Franco-Prussian war; was elected to the Paris Municipal Council in 1871, and became its president in 1875. Ho was an officer of the Legion of Honor, and author of several works on insanity and hygiene. SAMUEL USTAZADE SYLVESTRE DE SACY, FRENCH ACADEMICIAN. Acable despatch from Paris last night announces the death of Sylvestre de Sacy, sou of the celebrated Orientalist of the same name, M. de Sacy, who was born at Paris, October 11, 1801; educated at the Ly- ceum Louis-le-Grand and at the Law School; became an advocate at Paris, and was the chief politica* editor of the Journal des Debats from 1828 until the coup d'état of December, 1851, when, being unwilling under tho new Press laws to sign his name to poli- tical articles, he ostensibly confined himself to literary criticism, but remainod the directing editor for reseed later. apeomee conser- vator of the ‘in Library in 1836, he be- its director in 148, and was clected to the French Academy in place of Jay in 1854. In his discourse of reception he congratulated himself for hay never published beads, Dawe t in news- ‘was 8 distinguished bibliophile and pub- soveral exquisite editions of ancient religious treatise, fama, the “Imitation of Jesus Christ’* ), the “Introduction to the Devout Life of St. cis de Sales” (1855), the “Spiritual Letters” of Fenelon (3 vola., 1366) and the “Letters” of Mme. de Sévigné (11 vols., 1861-64). Ho republished two volumes of his “Literary Moral and Political Varieties” (1858) and two articles in review of the Emperor Napoleon's “Life of Casar.” M. de Sac; accommodated himself about 1464 to the imperial licy, was appointed in that year member of tho Imperial Council of Public Instraction and became a Senator December, 1865. He hud been dangerously il since January 28, 1879. camo WILLIAM 3. HOYT. Mr. William J. Hoyt, a well known hardware men chant of thiscity, died yesterday at his residence, No. 72 Rush street, Brooklyn, KE. D. Mr. Hoyt was of the Jate firm of Hoyt, Besict & Co., and’ has beon in the hardware business in this city for the past twenty years. He commenced with the house of Phelps & Sheldon, which subsequently became Sheldon, ¢ &Co. Deceased leaves a wife and daughter. The funeral will take place from his late residence to~lay. THE KING OF CORKA. Tho death is announced from Japan of the King of Corea, who ruled the country of that name, tributary to and receiving bis investiture from the Emperor of China. Gospel temperance meetings have been held in the Jane Street Methodist Church since Sunday evening last, under the auspices of Messrs. D. I. K. Rine and Stephen Brady. Rev, Dr. J. M. Reid, secretary of the Methodist Mission, when at the Methodist preachers’ meeting on Monday afternoon, made charges against Mr. Rine, saying ho was a deposed minister, that he had been arrested in Chicago for robbery and that at ono time ho was a confirmed drunkard, Mr. Rine heard of these charges, and last evening, at @ meeting in the Jane Street Church, he referred to them, When opening the services he prayed fer yently and long, and on choosing his Gospel text ho selected one bearing on his case, to which he called the special attention of his congreyation. This was from = Matthew, —xviil., 1—"*So, koe wise shall =omy = ‘Heavenly — Father do. unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother his — trespasses.’ He said he knew he had fallen from a high position, that of ininister of the gospel, and that the charges of Dr. Reid had troubled him mueh, and asked the prayers of the congregation prosent, as a right and not in sympathy, He had been an able minister and deemed Dr Reid's charges were made in o spirit of malice, He then read the following letter:— JM. Ret, D. D., Mission Secretary :— Dia Sin-—I find I cannot eome to your office until about two P. M., when yo to wee you. 1 hat t dooply, 0 $0 indiseroe self show the recor ja hat yo porte te tp ow, ‘There wae we right life from some of the diseiph Seasting out devils.” Lam iT f proving gl allog he trouble, but Fam ng righ! . the * breath of suspicion.” Lahall ask the amende hwaorable, Lam yours for the fallen, DL K. RINE. Mr. Rine will conduct his last mecting in the Jane Street Church to-night, Attor the services last night the people crowded about him and expressed much avmpathy with him in lis troubles.