The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1879, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. weil La day én the year, Ten dollars per . Matinee. . Matinee. MiNaronk Matinea. AN Guaup Batt Matines Matines, AQUARIUM —Rew Rive loop. Matines. CO MINSTRELS. Matinoo, Matinea, TIVOLI TURATRE—Vaniery, Matines, TroNy ¥. Matines, Matinee. TRiOsTrLKS, uvkape Concent. TAkMaIDw® WauK, WATER OoLoRs, {UNDE TRIPLE, AW YORK, SATURDAY, Lum PreroRes. The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity t-day will be cold and fuir, followed by increasing cloudiness, rising temperature and light rain or snow toward night. Lo-morrow it will be cloudy and warmer, with rain or sno Watt $ he stock mar- ket was active and feverish, closing very strong. Government bonds were firm, States lower and railroads irregular, Money on call was easy at 243 percent, the highest quotation being 31g and the elesing Massacu ‘3 declines to demand free rail- road passes for her legislators; the gentlemen will have to ask personally for passes if they Waut them. ice COMPANLES agreed yes- to fix upon uniform rates. ‘Trunk rail- way companies have tried the same experiment all for what some men call love, will become an unpopular form of lunacy and rascality now that young Lavelle is sentenced to imprisonment for life. Faicenres in th Kingdom yesterday were for more than a million dollars, and yet not a single demand for cheap money has been heard. Are Britons dead, sleeping—or sensible? Yesrerpay’s Moxxinc Hover in the House wonderiully resembled most others of the present session in the originality of the views offered of war claims and in various points of legislative courtesy. Axotisr Buncuxe Burcnery of a criminal has oceurred, and all because the public through its lawmakers clings affectionately to the gal- lows, the most torturous means of Killing that has survived the Dark Ages. was quite tight in de- clining to ¥ « the robbers of Mra. De Bary plead y. The public should not pay in such coin, and to such men, for informa- tion which it already possesses. Jupee Gi.p: By me Passa of the railway telegraph clause of the Army Appropriation bill the com- mission advised by the Senate Railroad Com- mittee becomes unnecessary. The clause, as passed by both houses, authorizes general tele- graphic business by railroad companics owning wires. Disciosures such as were made in court yes- terday covcerning methods of detecti tions of the Excise law will result in thousands of applications to the temperance socicties for positions as “samplers.” ‘To fight in by pouring down hot whiskey is a kiud of re- form that all thirsty souls ean understand, par- ticularly in cold weather. Tue Weatnen.—The centre of low pressure that moved off the Southern New England const on Thursday afternoon has followed a course northeast dl nearly parallel with the coast line to Nova Scotia, whence it is pass- ing eastward into the A! During this progress the barometerat the re of the low area fell very rapidly, until, onthe arrival of the storm in the region between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, a very low record was at- tained, and all the conditions of a violent tempest were present. From Cape Hatteras oorthward the northwest winds have to the force of gales, but the high pressure bel the storm centre is being diminished rapi which will have the effect of decreasing the wind force for the present on the coust. Away in the Northwest a rapidly falling barometer has moved trom British Columbia over Manitoba, rise) with strong to high southeast to southerly winds on iis easterly margin, and gales from the north- west beyond the Missou Between the two well defined storm centres is now only the rapidly diminishing area of high pressure, so during toalay its entire dis- 6 rty that we may exp Bipation and the domination of low pressu over all the territory north of latitude degrees, with rains, snow and higher temp tures, Snow has fallen in the hwest, along the lake shores and on the New England and Nova Scotia coasts, also lightly in the Ohio Val- Jey. The wind directions follow the undulation of the zone of high pressure, and are northwesterly beyond the Missouri, southerly to southeasterly in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, northerly te northwesterly in the Middle States and New England. They are northeasterly on the South Atlantic coast and easterly to southeasterly along the Gulf coast, ‘The conditions on the English coasts last evening were as followe:— Plymouth—West wind, light, with showers, barometer 29.20 inches; Scilly-—West wind, fresh, barometer 20.10 inches; Holyhead. Calm. In New York and its vicinity to-day the weather will be cold and fair, followed by in- creasing cloudiness, rising temperature and light rain or snow toward night. To-morrow it will ve cloudy aud warmer, With rain or snow. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Tearing Up of Treaties. If amendments were made in the Senate tothe Chinese bill which require it to be returned to the House for action thereon it is to be hoped that the Executive may have influence enough to induce the House to | suspend for the present any further consid- eration of the measure. It is to be assumed that a majority of the House will be reason- able and patriotic in this matter, which so directly concerns the foreign affuirs of the country. We have already said, in previous allusions to this subject, that the respon- sibility for the proper conduct of the busi- ness which the United States have with for- eign countries is primarily with the President and the Department of State. Yhe President has, no doubt, taken the advice of his Cabinet, and has decided whether it is his duty to veto the bill if presented to him as it passed the Senate, and the reasons which he would publicly express in a veto onght to satisly the House, if presented privately to promi- nent members, that no further action on the measure is advisable during the present Congress. It is not believed that Mr. Evarts will stand on a point of prerogative and re- fuse to commnnicate confidentially on the subject with members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs aud leaders of both parties in the House. If he desired that a public pressure be brought to bear on China that pressure has been exerted by Congress. This is one of the occasions when a Secre- tary of State needs to practise at home the arts of diplomacy, and we look to sce Mr. Evarts arrest the Chinese measure in Con- gress, in order that the President of the United States and the Emperor of China may bere calmly review the obligation of 1868. It will be much better for the whole sub- ject to be dropped from consideration in Congress than even for the amendment of Mr. Conkling to be adopted, since his proposition only postpones our withdrawal from the treaty till January, 1880, His amendment was proposed in these words:-- ‘That the Prosident of the United States is hereby requested immediately to give notice to the Emperor of China that so much of the existing treaty between the United States aud China us permits the migra- tion of subjects of the Chinese Empire aud their domicile in this country is unsatisfactory to the government of the United States and in its judgment pernicious, and to propose such modifications of said treaty ax will correct the evils complained of, said mod- ifcations to be made in @ new or supplemental treaty to be submitted to the Senate of the United States onor before the Ist of January, 1880. Should the geverninent of China refuse or ‘omit to agree by Change of the existing treaty to such modification as aforesaid, then tho Presideit of the United States is further requested, and he is authorized, to inform the Emperor of China that the United States will pro- ceed by laws of its own to regulate or prevent the migration or importation to its shores of tho sub- jects of China, and after the Ist of January, 1880, to treat the obnoxious stipulations as at an cud. Mr. Conkling, it will be seen, denounces the treaty in peremptory terms. He, to be sure, advises the President to endeavor by negotiation to obtain a modification in order to “correct the evils” which he describes as “pernicious,” but if China refuses he then requests and authorizes the Executive to say t6 China that the obnoxious ‘‘stipulations” will come to an end in 1880. As to the perpetuity of the binding obli- gations of treaties which contain no limita- | tions as to time, or any arrangements for bringing them to an end by the act of one of the signatory parties, there cannot be much room for dispute. ‘Lo use a phrase so often employed by Mr. Thurman in the Senate, “It won't do” for the United States either to lay down the doctrine, or assent to the doc- trine, that one party to a treaty permanent in its character can emancipate itself there- from whenever it sees fit, and thus bring back the whole subject matter of the treaty within its own control. Sucha doctrine, if acted upon, would put the axe at the root ofall treaty obligations as permanent ar- rangements of peace. And yct it may be that, owing to its altered condition, a nation is unable to maintain certain treaty stipula- tions into which it has entered, and it also may be that the other contracting party will not consent to an abrogation of the treaty. An overwhelming majority of the people of the United States may say that Mongolians shall not come tothe Pacific coast, treaty or no treaty, and the Emperor of China might decline to modify the treaty. In such @ case our government would be possibly compelled to give notice that the United States must withdraw from the treaty, and especially if the government could not exe- cute it. There is, we fear, a good deal that is misleading in general declarations that every withdrawal from an international treaty permanent in its scope and tenor, and with- out the consent of the other party, must, of necessity, be an immoral act on the part of the nation which withdraws, The whole question was in 1870 elabo- rately discussed between England and Russia in the matter of the stipulations of 1856 about the Black Sea. Russia, in its circular note of October, 1870, set up various reasons for withdrawing arbitrarily from the treaty. One was the assertion that the treaty had been violated in sev- eral essential clauses by the entrance of foreign men-of-war into the straits. Another was that the invention of iron-clad vessels had changed the whole situation, Another reason was the new political condition of Moldavia and Wal- lachia. Lord Granville replied for Eng- lund that these reasons might be sufficient to initiate new negotiations, but not to rup- ture the treaty by the arbitrary act of Russia alone. Recent events have made the whole world familiar with the course of the controversy. A conference between the signatory Powers was proposed by Prussia, and their plenipotentiaries met in Lohdon in 1871. Before discussing the question of admitting Russian vessels into the Black Sea the plenipotentiaries put on record a formal statement respecting the binding force of treaties, and to the effect that ‘‘a treaty cannot be justly set aside without the consent of all the parties to it.” Hav- ing announced this truism the signatory Powers then complied with the demands of Russia, which had been put forward in direct opposition to this formulated axiom of law and morality. In respect to the Chinese Trenty of 1868 itis to be remembered that Congress does not complain, nor does Mr. Conkling sug- gest, that China has not maintained her part of its obligations. We are under the impression that the United States have never annulled any treaties, excepting those made with France in 1778 and the consular convention of 1788 with that na- tion, unless in cases where the treaties con- tained provisions for their termination. 'Yreaties of course expire by their own limi- tation; or because the stipulations are with a country absorbed by another nationality, asin the case of Algiers, or Hanover, or Nassau, or because the executory parts fall by war. Against France we did not in 1798 declare war, but the conduct of the Direc- tory was such that, when our Ministers were not received, when France de- manded money as a condition of friendship, and John Marshall returned home with his narration of events in Paris, Congress quickly enacted a series of hostile laws, and among other things declared that France had violated the treaties, had re- fused reparation for iujuries, and re- pelled our negotiations with indignity. ‘Therefore the United States said they were “of right freed and exonerated.” Bat no allegutions of that character are wade against China, and the treaty with that country contains no provision for éts termi- nation. The bill returned to the House does not profess in terms to aunul the treaty, as did Mr, Conkling’s amendment, but the measure, if it becomes a law and is exe- cuted according to its intent, will interfere with the fifth and sixth articles of the treaty. ‘he fifth was no doubt aimed to prevent involuntary emi- gration from China or the coolie traflic, but the sixth article stipulates that Chinese subjects shall have such “immunities” in “visiting” the United States, and remaining therein, as the United States grant to sub- jects or citizens of any nation, excepting the right of naturalization, ‘The proposed law, on the other hand, declares in effect that Chinamen shall only visit the United States in squads of not over fifteen persons, while we allow the citizens, or subjects, of other nations to come in any numbers. Itis not, however, whether the govern- ment at Pekin is disposed to insist on the right of its subjects to come to the United States as laborers, but certainly the Em- peror will not accept with composure such offensive discrimination against his people, and especially if he takes little interest in friendly relations with the Christian Powers. It is well kuown that many of the rights which we have by the treaty of 1868, and previous treaties secured in China, are an annoyance at Pekin, such as the trial of our citizens by our own consuls, and the immunities of our missionaries. The prob- abilities are that unless wise diplomacy quickly intervenes in Congress, as well as in Pekin, all of our treaties with China may be annulled by the Emperor. Rassia and Afghanistan. Our despatch from Tashkend announces the arrival at Samarcand, on their way to Tashkend, of the ambassadors sent by Shere Ali to the Russian Governor of Turk- estan, Itis possible that these function- aries may becharged only with the common- place mission of repeating the announce- ment of the Ameer's desire to go to St. Peters- burg, for though he has expressed this desire several times and has received the broadest possible intimations that he would not be | welcome there, it is notin the nature of statement that crosses their inclinations, while Eastern diplomacy is commonly a tedious process of iteration. But it is also possible that the mission may have propo- sitions to make of altogether another nature, In that case the instruction that General Kaufmann is said to be under will prove very significant ; for if Russia adheres to her pledges by refusing to listen to advan- tageous proffers from the Ameer she will re- move the last hope that encourages resist- ance to England, and the advantage of that to the British expedition will be of the greatest value. Russia at the present crisis could by some devious diplomacy increase England's difficulties without trouble to herself ; and if she were as ill disposed as she is pictured in England she would do it. But she seems not at all inclined that way. Society for the Suppression of Greedy Heirs. Evidently we want one more socicty to take care of an important range of facts, We have a great many societies already, no doubt—societies for the suppression of what two or three amiable gentlemen look upon as vice, societies for the suppression of a great many kinds of cruelty, socicties for the distribution of unimportant informa- tion, and so on, But we need a society for the suppression of greedy heirs and impu- dent claimants, It is one of the calamities inseparable from wealth that rich men dis- cover they have a great many more relations than they thought they had, and they dis- cover to their astonishment, sooner or later, that these heirs have rights, which, if they differ from those of the highwayman in the method in which they are asserted, do not differ from them in their essence. Thus an ancient citizen has just been compelled to stand and deliver to the tune of two thousand dollars in order to save two hundred thousand dollars. Ho has been compelled to come into court and prove that he is sane, and it has cost him that amount, though the litigation orig- inated entirely with others, and everybody who can raise a colorable claim to be a rich man’s heir seems to have the right to force him into court in this way and compel him to pay the expenses. Perhaps if there were such a society as we suggest Mr. Wells would leave ita handsome sum by his will. Bat Mr. Wells has one advantage over some rich men, His property is in his own hands yet, and he-can if he chooses show his heirs what it costs eventually to initiate a litiga- tion of this sort. Commodore Vanderbilt is less advantageously situated, but the experi- ence of his estate proves the sagacity with which he tried to divide it. The late Mr. Niblo left a not very great estate, and the society would find a field for its atten- tion there, It is understood that the Chris- tian association to which he willed a por- tion of his property is dissatisfied that he was buried with a silver plate on his cofltin, considers that in these hard times a plated one would have answered, and takes other economical objections to his funeral ex- penses, If there were such a society as we suggest a rich man about to die might make a conditional will and authorize the society to watch his heirs. It would con- Guce to the encouragement of good manners in points like this. An Old Fogy Patriot. It is an excellent thing for the reputation of George Washington that he was borna century and a half ago. As a representa- tive of that class that means what it says and acts according to its beliefs he was, probably, a success; but it is idle to deny that the class alluded to is altogether too old-fashioned to be regarded to-day as any- norance of an carlier and less enlightened age. What did this man Washington do that his birthday should be celebrated as a soldiers together for seven years on the ground that the common interests of the whole people demanded their efforts; but other commanders have organized and re- tained larger torecs for a longer time by the more potent and cohesive force of public plunder. He declined to receive pay for his own services during the Revolusionary War, which shows that he was ignorant of even the first principles of patriotism, the same being that the laborer is worthy of his hire and as much more as he can get out of the Treasury without getting himself into jail, Ie stuck dumbly to the same set of ideas from the very first, although high rank and emoluments awaited him if he would only go over to the side of the King, and what modern politician does not know that the whole science of practical politics consists in going from one party to unother when- ever the inducements are sufficient and of a legal tender character? If there were nothing else to show how overrated he was as President it is to be found in the almost uiter indifference of his administration to the political standing and influence of the New York Custom House, As a man who was equal to the petty reqnirements of his own day Washington may be respected even now ; but in the light of modern ex- perience he appears plainly as a man who could not cven be clected an Alderman at the present day, and who, if accidentally counted in, would be utterly incompetent to look out for himselt or his friends. An Important Position. The death of ex-Mayor Westervelt makes a vacancy in the Department of Docks, of which the deceased was president. As this is the first really important office Mayor Cooper has had it in his power to fill—with the exception, probably, of the two Police Commissionerships to which no appoint- ments haye yet been made—his selection will be awaited with much curiosity. The Dock Department has in trast some of the most weighty interests of the city, and is charged with duties to the proper discharge of which intelligence, experience, executive capacity and force of personal character aro essential ‘’he growth of the commerce of New York may be materially aided at this time by increased dock facilities and a I wharf and dock property. Oriental princes to accept as final any ratios bags vigorous, liberal policy, for which we must look to the heads of that department. ‘To them is confided the exclusive control and government of ‘They havo in hand the improvement of our water fronts; they regulate the charges for wharf- age and dockage, grant leases of wharves, piers, bulkheads, basins or slips for special kinds of commerce, and establish ond en- force the needful rules and regulations for the government and proper care of all tho property placed in their charge and under their control. When the extent and charac- ter of our docks and piers are remembered the vast importance of these duties can be understood and the necessity of a vigorous and strong administration appreciated. In selecting a Commissioner of Docks Mayor Cooper cannot afford to be influenced by political considerations. Mr. Westervelt's successor should possess such a well estab- lished character as to give weight and influ- ence to his actions. He should be a citizen whose position in the community is not doubtful, and who will bring to the discharge of his duties vigor, determination, activity, industry, capacity and integrity. The ap- pointment now to be made is the more impor- tant, inasmuch as it is for a full term of six years, the law of 1871, which is not changed in this respect by the later charter of 1873, providing that any vacancy in the Dock Board, ‘from death, resignation or other- wise, shall be filled by appointment by the said Mayor for o full term.” This will probably make the confirmation of the Al- dermen necessary, but the Mayor is not the less bound to make an unexceptionable nomination to that Board, and some anxiety will be felt to see whether in this important matter he will study the wishes of tho poli- ticians or the interests of the people, The Vote in the German Parliament. In the German Reichstag an interpreta- tion has been given to an important point in the law against the socialists contrary to that made by the government, and permis- sion to prosecute two Deputies for offences against that law has been refused by an almost unanimous vote of the Chamber. Perhaps it is not a very great triumph for liberal principles thata representative body should refuse to restrict its own liberty of speech, or that it should step aside to cor- rect a perverted interpretation of its own will, but at all events this course indicates that there are extremes of repression to which the Parliament will not consent, and it gives the government a salutary hint about where these extremes are to be found. And this hint was not a superflu- ous one, because the German Chancellor lias already shown that one of the things he does not know thoroughly well is when to stop. It is a great feat to mount a nation and ride it roughshod over its neighbors, It is one of the achievements that in all ages has entitled men to be called great; but if such a rider is not thrown betimes the steed is ridden danger- ously far and to its own injury. Germany, as appears by the vote in Parliament, does notintend to give herself up entirely to the control of the rough rider who has his hand ou the reins. He may push the socialists to the wall--drive them to the last extrem- | ity; Jor they aro not Germany. They are disposed to say that they are Germany, of course, just as the communists in Paris thing but an illustration of the blunt ig- | national holiday? Te kept a few thousand | said they were France, and just as the Kearneyites and Molly Maguires in this country call themselves the workingmen. But Germany does not accept the pretence of the socialists to be the nation, and, consequently, does not take up their cause as if theywere. Yet, where the government, under pretence of striking at these social- ists, strikes really at the rights of the nation the nation resists. Oar Wards in Alaska. Trouble with Indians in Alaska is proba- bly one of the necessary consequences of our owning that Territory, for as soon as the red man becomes the ward of: this nation he becomes obstreperous and wants war. In Alaska there ought to be room enough for a few settlements and for all the Indians of that country, yet it appears they cannot get on without a collision. But here at least is one case in which the burden of complaint is different from that common among the Indians on the Plains. ft is not pretended that any Indian agent has 1obbed these Northwestern savages of meat or other property. An irreconcilable difference between the views of justice held by the white man and the Indian is the source of difficulty. Somo Ind- ians, as it is reported, were guilty of a common Indian eccentricity in the way of murder. How far they were provoked may possibly appear upon official inquiry; for they were taken in custody, and it ison their account that their friends now threaten to massacre everybody at Sitka, Whether the Russians kept the peace by indulging the Indians in these eccentricities or by an administration that rendered provocations to murder impossible we cannot say, but ifthe people at Sitka are saved this point may be werth investigation. An interest- ing account is given elsewhere in to-day's Ilenato of the demoralized and disorgan- ized condition of society in the far away ‘Lerritory, from which it may be judged that the present difficulty is only the first drop of a shower to come, : fhe Zalu War. Reinforcements from England for the troops in South Africa are sent forward as rapidly as is possible, counting even the resources of a great country with trained soldiers ready, and with a mercantile marine of almost illimitable capacity upon which to call for transportation. But the painful element of the case for England is the great distance which assistunce must traverse, the time that must necessarily intervene before it can reach the scene of action, and the doubts as to what may occur in the meanwhile, Alreadya month has passed away since the slaughter ef the Twenty- fourth regiment, and the latest advices from Cape ‘Town are to January 29. Conse- quently the time to London for advices that are by cable for nearly half the distance is twenty-two days. Upward of two months— nearer three months -—will have elapsed from the date of the first calamity before any part of the troops sent trom Eng- land can take part in the operations against the Zulus, but in three days from the date of that first calamity Cetywayo’s regiments were pushing all the English outposts. It was reported that ‘the gravity of the situation had not been cxag- gerated,” that a “grand attack was daily expected,” and that the enemy was concen- trating for a decisive blow. What has hap- pened since? What may happen before offective assistazce comes? In the scraps of the “victories” reported, as well as that the savage monarch operates on military principles. Every time that the enemy is said to be “repulsed” the troops in be- leaguered posts claim a victory, but the na- ture of that victory is known to the readers of newspapers. Indeed, they can count up in the history of our own war more victories for cither side than there were battles fought. Cetywayo’s whole front is ap- parently covered by a skirmish line and he is reconnoitring every position, and the force with which he reconnoitres cach post to find out where his enemy has his strength is the force that is repulsed, His concentration is made on the facts shown by the discoveries thus made, and when he strikes he will strike intelligently, in a strategical sense. With this warlike savage, thus adroit in his opera- tions, with great force at his disposal, and in front of him only five or six thousand good troops aud a rabble of colonial mon- grels, the troops will do miracles if they stop him. We do not believe the world could regard a bad result to the troops without the liveliest sympathy for gallant men, who will certainly make a grand fight however outnumbered; but the savage’ monarch is fighting for independence from a commercial tyranny, and he also is en- titled to all the sympathy that England herself has ever extended to the oppressed African, and that she lavishes uow upon the Indians butchered, as sho holds, by our own soldiers, An Outrage at Fayal. In to-day’s Hunatp will be found a reci- tal that ought to interest some one in Washington ‘of the unceremonious way in which the authorities at Fayal feel them. selves authorized to deal with an American vessel and her captain. It appears that ao sealing schooner which had put in there for repairs was boarded and searched and a | quantity of tobaceo was found which was not upon the ship's manifest, whereupon the captain was thrown into prison on o charge of violation of customs laws. But the tobacco which gavo rise to these pro- ceedings was the property of tho sailors } anda part of their stores, With a crew of sailors on a whaler every one will under- stand that tobacco is as indispensable an article as pork or biscuit, and that what they are all to use on a long voyage would necessarily be considerable in quantity. To make the presence of such a store tho pretext for the act reported is one of those small outrages never practised against any other ships but ours, and practised against ours apparently because all the world knows that we never protect our ships if wé can help it. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘Iwo Georgians havo married eat other's danghters, Irving, the famous Knglish actor, is said tu be very of information given we may zee the nature. fond of his old iriends, even though they happen to be out at elbows, An Idaho town, having but one girl, is called One girlia. Mow far is this from Bouse City? It is said that the Queen of £ngland will this spring visit a considerable while at Coburg. Mr. Caird says that hereafter+English farming to be profitable will become market gardening. When Wilhelmj gets pootical nobody knows whether ke is tlking ubout a blue I or a blue J, At “Cinderella dances” the guests arrive at eight and rege attwelve, Lemonade is the only refresh- ment. A young Hungarian lady of noble family thought she was running away to Paris with a nobleman, but discoverca after a while that he was only a valet. ‘The Atlinta (Ga.) Constitution calls General Bragg, of Wisconsin, “the Wisconsin galoot,” because he gave them 4 litte more grape and denied any right to the loot. ‘Lhe Berwick (Scottish) Advertiser says that the story of the poor woman being driven from a Berwickshire farm honse +o that she froze with her new-born chile dren is untrue. A man at South Bond, Ind., buried his wife in nice style, but after the crowd had dispersed from the grave he sold the silver handles of the coffin back to the undertaker at reduced rates, Miss Lisetta Rist for forty years was organist of a London chinreh. She recently died and left her money in trust for the distribution of gravel on steep and slippery London roadways. ‘Tho editor of Cincinnati Saturday Night discovered that his girl wore two sets of gold mounted false teeth, and he sat down and wrote a poem entitled “Rich and rare were the gums she wore.” General John C. Fremont, Governor of Arizona, loft Prescott yesterday for Washington, at the request of the Legislature, to look after important interests affecting the welfare of the people of the Territory. New Haven Register: — I washee, washee, so well you slee, ‘Chat they velly soonce getee lid of me. Gete Mfdce of ine, for I'll lun away; All lite! Heap big monce for washee pay! Seuator Hobart, of New Jersey, has presented s Dill to prevent the defacement of natural scenery. Nearly every upturned rock in Northern New Jersey presents to the eye of the pleasure seeker the adver- tisement of some undertaker. Buffalo Express:—‘The New Yore HurRawp insists that no lady should permit 4 clergyman to kiss her any sooner than sbe will permit some other man. And we may add that no clergyman will permit her to kiss him if he hates scandal and knows when he is well off.”” ‘ The English fashion writers are very busy making a dress which combines the coolness and grace of the Greek drapery with the warmth and awkwardness of a modern pull-back. After they think they have suc- ceeded they should add a pair of indiarubber boots and # palmleaf fan. ‘The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle honestly says that thero are not official positions for all the young men who wish to live upon the public, and that if immigrants will settle in Georgia and South Carolina it will be well if some of their spirited and economical customa can be substituted for some of those of the South, which, it says, can be dispensed with at great advah- tage. FINE ARTS. HOME AND FOREIGN NOTES. The American Art Journal for the 15th inst, con- tains a reproduction of Casanova’s pen and ink sketch, ‘The Violinist.” ‘We note in the Daily Graphic of the 17th and 19th inst. excellent cartoons of the “Grand Tableau— ‘The Marriage of Bacchus and Terpsichore,” at'the Liederkranz ball, by Cusachs, and of the children’s carnival at the Academy, not signed. qm Philip Burty, the woll known French att ¢fiti¢,; has received the cross of a knight of the Legion of Honor for his numerous contributions to art criticism and his edition of tho letters of Eugene Delacroix. G. P. Healy’s portrait of H. M. Stanley, said to be the most successful and vivid of all his portraits, is to be engraved by 'T. de 5 ‘The revolutionary poet, Hoffman Von Fallerslel ben, phe have a monument at his native town of Fallers- leben. Karl Von Piloty is far advanced on his great work, the decoration of the Guildhall of Munich, which will probably be finished by Easter. The subject is the history of the Bavarian capital. M. Mercié and M. Aimé Millet will have busts of Gambetta at the next Salon. Arthur Stevens is at the head of the movement by Belgian artists looking toward the creation of a pais tose 9 by the haa at ae rance approp! e ‘present year purposes 3,000,000f, less than England, Signor Vela has been commissioned by the authori. ties of the town of Corregio to execute a statue of Antonio Allegri. , Victor Lhuillier has made an etc! of: George H. Boughton’s last Academy picture, “The Waning of the Honeymoon.” The Royal Academy is in somewhat of a dilemma about the fill of the vacant professorship of sculp- ture, which R. A. Woolner lately resigned. Of the two other sculptors who are R. A.’s one has declined, the other, W. C. Marshall, the Adienzum says, “could hardly be expected to it.” The choice seeme to lie between three associates, Messrs, ny coed Boehm and Woodington, one of whom will be el an academician to fulfil tho conditions and then be made professor, ‘The Macallum collection of old laces and embroi- decries, which the trustecs of the Metropolitan Mu- seum have [gy parercenne for $2,500, was exhibited in London in 1874, later at the South Kensington, at the museum here where it now is and at that of Boston. The collection, of over two hundred and sixty pieces, contains examples of tho earliest exist- ing Oriental embroidery, illustrating firat Persia, then Turkey ha bh lig i Late Archi- ‘lago, passes into ys, ere its development | men th maglia and coupé work into lace is exam- pled, as are the sieving snot the latter fabric:— Guipure, cushion, tape, cco, Burano, Venetian, pow er Ponto in Aria, Spanish, Venetian, rose point, &c. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT, Miss Ida Joscelyne's novel, “Love's Revenge,” ts said to be founded on fact. “Vixen” is the title of Miss Braddon’s new novel. The Examiner, apropos of the recent Burns cele. bration, says:—‘Were we a Scotch poet, living or dead, we would prefer a very little sober appreciation to any amount of drunken idolatry.” An American edition of “Mary Wollstoncraft’s Let- ters to Imlay” has been issued by Roberts Brothers in a handsome volume and contains the etchings im the English edition. Harold Parkhurst, Paul Soverne, Cresida and Athel- wyn are the high sounding names in a recent novel. Sir Charles Dilke is lecturing on “Big Gooseber- ries’ before English Literary associations. A book which promises to be interesting is “Pic+ tures of the Past, Memorics of Men I Hayo Met and Sights I Have Seen,” by Francis H. Grundy. Mr. Grundy was an intimate friend of Charlotte Bronté’s father, whose reputation he will defend, He will also give personal recollections of Leigh Hunt, G. H, Lewes and other celebritics, An account of Sir Arthur Cunynghame’s experi- ences in South Africa will be published by Macmil- Tan. Mr, Sidney Buxton in the Animal World says that dogs and horses are, as far as ho knows, the only animals sensitive to ridicule. ‘Phe Spectator says that: Mr. Mallock should never have written the “New Paul and Virginia,” or, having one #0, should have “allowed it to die as soon as possible when he had committed that error.” ‘The reading room of the British Museum is ilu- minated with an electric light. Sir Lowis Polly has made a translation of the Por- sian miracle play of “Hasan and Husain,” which will be published in England in the fall, with ilustra tions made from paintings by native Persian artists, ‘An English version of Victor Hugo's Théatre te being made by Mr, Alfred Forman, ‘A large number of autograph letters written by Southey have been added to the treasures of the Brit- ish Museum. Anthony Trollope will contribute olume on Thackeray, and Thomas Hughes on Dickens for Mac- millan’s series of “Knglish Men of Letters,” pub lished in this country by the Harpers. Macmillan has issned the authorizea translation of DBuseh’s book on Bismarck. Tho entire edition was exhausted within a week and another put upon the press. Acomplete set of L'Art was recently sold in this city for $600, Itconsisted of four yearly volumes, Quite a controversy is going on in England as to the resting place of Shelley's heart. Edmund Yates says that he, George Sala and J. B, Robinson wore the only representatives of journal isin standing beside the grave of K. 8. Dallas, ‘Tho London World says that Dean Stanley is using Americanisms in his speeches since he returned from our shares,