The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1879, Page 6

NEW YOKK HERALD, TUESDAY, NEW YORK HERALD Pere Myacinthe’s New Church in BROADWAY AND ANN: STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, LY HERALD, Published coory day in the your. yer eupy (Sunday's oxeinded), Ten dollars per lines tor six mouths, two dollars ts mw for th tha, or ata rate of one dollar any period lens than daree mouths, Sunday odition tmelu uday edition, eight dollars por year, free ei ist PVEEKLY I1ERALD—Ono dollar per yeur, froo of post- emit in drafts op New d where neithor of these @ regiotered letter. All York or Post Officom can bo procur hauged must give ic despatches must K ‘Letters and packages shouldbo properly scaled. Rejected communications will not be returned. -_——___-—___—_ PRIRADEER STA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. OLYNPIC THEATRE—H. M, 8S. Pixavony, BOOTH’S THBATRE—Lrrme DoKe. NIBLO’S THEATRE—Btack Onoos. ST. JAMES OPERA HOUS! BOWERY THEATRE—Custen. SERMANIA THEATRE— WINDSOR THEATRE—Noruni FHEATRE COMIQUE—Muzuigax Guagp Bau MASONIC HALL—Tux Mipasts,_ SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS—Nup Scow Prtarorg, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Cuniositixs. TONY PASTOR's—Pixsvous Butasqoe. TRIPLE SHEET. Na “YORK TURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1879, The probabilitics are that the weather in New York and its vicinity’ to-day will be colder and fair, possibly preceded by light showers, ‘To-mnor- pow it will be cool im the early part, followed by Increasing cloudiness and rising noepeneiagts Watt Srrerr -Yesteupay. —The | stock market was fairly active but weak. Government bonds were quict, States dull and railroads irregular. Money on call was active at 6a 7 per cent, and after brokers had satisfied their wants fell to 2, closing at 4 per cent. ‘Tax Crry Hatt Braxou of the cast side “L” is to be open on Sundays, as it should be. Nixery Txousany Dovrars is the price of the land wanted by the Post Office, and Uncle Sam is willing to Asotugr Sa’ $ Bank Treascrer has mado way with the funds intrasted to him, this time to the tune of $90,000. ‘Tne ConaREssionaL GALLERIES are deserted for the more piquant Oliver-Cameron trial The school for scandal is a perennial plant. Rocnester SEE8s Mayor Cooper’s game and foes several better. She indicts all of her Police and Excise Commissioners and her Mayor also. Ir Tne Mayor keeps his sword suspended over the heads of the Police Commissioners much longer all our streets will have been cleaned. A clear case of cause and effect.’ YesrerpayY the Gas Commission approved the specifications for street lightmg for another year, and the gas companies’ competitive trial of modesty is to take place on the 7th prox. Tue ENGLisn Press so seldom agrees upon any political movement that its unanimity against Canada’s extreme protection measures is, to say the least, uncomplimentary to Premier Macdon- ald. Exciaxp Neeps “Rexier” even more than the Tuited States does; yet yesterday in Loudon money was unusually easy and silver flat. How do the greenback shriekers and daddy-dollarites explain it? Tue Vanpernict Witt TRouBLe seems to be at an end. What a pity it was ever begun! It is gratifying to know that we are to have no more recriminations, for these family matters are best settled in private, the old proverb about dirty linen being still applicable to these modern days. — ‘Tux Sexare Magortry has been reproducing & Be! of Rip Van Winkle. At their Saturday night caucus they resolved upon necessary legis- lation only, and consequently a short session. Yesterday members of the same majority intro- duced many new Dills and resolutions. “We ‘vou't count dis time.” Tur, Text of the report of M. Brisson’s Com- mittee to the French Chamber of Deputies makes the treasonable intent.of the De Broglie- Rochebourt party clear beyond a doubt. The scheme to stifle the republican idea appears to have been in contemplation since the stormy days which saw the rise of “the government of mystery” after the rout of M. Thiers and his Ministry. ‘The crime of 1851 was to be re peated in 1877, and the same preparations were made to avoid failure. A riot was to be incited, a mob was to gather, only to bo shot down—women and children wero not to be spared, It was the Napoleonic theory. Prece- dent augured its success; but it was a failure, Tre Wearnen.—The storm centre te now moving through tho St. Lawrence Valley and is attended by rains. While passing over tho Jake regions the gradients on its southern and west- ern margins became very steep and the wind Increased in force. As predicted, the storm's course was to the northward of our district, so that its influence was not felt to any great degree. The barometer is high on the Middle Atlantic coast and in the central valleys and the West, in all of which districts clear weather prevails. There are indications of the approach of a» de pression from the extreme Northwest, but tho pres las not decreased very much, it being still above the mean, Rain fell only within the limits of the area of disturbance over stho luke regions. ‘The winds have been light in all the districts oxcopt over the lakes and on the New England coast. The temperature has fallon in the Middle, Atlantic, New England States, the Gulf districts and the Northwest. It has been variable elsewhere. Our special weather cable states that dnother storm has struck the consts of Great Britain and Ireland, but no dis- asters are reported. ‘The one in which ihe Colina (Bot damaged was that which arrived on the “English coasts on the 19th. The gale was west- erly, because the storm was on the northern side of the aveaof high barometer. Tho weather in New York and its vieinity to-day will be éolder and fair, possibly preceded by light showers. To- morrow it will be cool in the early part, followed by increasing cloudiness and rising tomperatare. ‘trying to get in.” Paris. The Ivnarp takes no other part in the re- ligions movements of the time than that of a deeply interested spectator, We try to be alert in discovering everything impor- tant in its incipient stages, and to be prompt in bringing it to the general knowl- edge of the world. We do not assume to be judges of the soundness of new or old tenets, but only of the interest which the religious movements of the time are caleu- lated to excite in the public mind. What- ever we deem of interest to large sections of the community we report promptly and faithfully, thinking it fair in all such cases to give the authors and promoters an op- portunity to explain it from their own poiut of view if they choose to accept the cour- tesy which we offer them of talking to one of our representatives with the understand- ing that the conversation is to be pub- lished. The very interesting interviews which we printed on Sunday with Father Hyacinthe (as he continues to be called,.because he first became known to the world by this designation) und some of his most promi- nent supporters in Paris, will eom- mand wide attention both here and in Europe, since it. is the first full. and authentic account of a move- ment which is of univorsal interest to Christendom, whether Catholic or Prot- estant, The interview with Father Hya- cinthe himself presents, in his own lan- guage, acompleto exposition of his religious position, his doctrines and his aims, while the interviews with some of his leading disciples in Paris enable readers to judge of the external aspects of this most intorest- ing of recent religious movements. It appears from the interview with Mr. Cornelius Roosevelt, a» member of the well known Roosevelt family in this city and a prominent supporter of Father Hyacinthe’s congregation, that the infant Church is already expanding to gigantic proportions. ‘In less then four weeks,” says Mr., Roosevelt, ‘nearly four hundred persons have given in their names, and there are thousands who are with us who have not yet had an opportunity of doing 80. We have to shut the doors in the faces of thousands who struggle to get in, when only twelve hundred can be seated.” It seems to us that this eager rush proves nothing as to the hold which Father Hyacinthe’s doctrine is taking upon Paris- jans. The eagerness to hear him is merely “a consequence of the fact that he is the most eloquent preacher in the French capital. People throng to hear him as they do in Brooklyn to listen to Mr. Beecher, less for the doctrine he preaches than for the intellectual repast which they expect, But his ability to. com- mand large and eager audiences is a potent instrament for the propagation of his views. Mr. Roosevelt said to our correspondent:— “An acquaintance of mine, an American clergyman, went to Nétre Dame a few days ago to high mass, and there were but fifty persons all told. From there he came to 6ur church and found thousands vainly “We have a great num- ber of priests in citizens’ dress-—last Sun- day a secretary of Leo XIIl—and the best of it is that they declare that the Pare preaches no heresies nor new- fangled doctrines.” This last statement proves that Father Hyacinthe is no Protes- tant, but a professed Catholic, aiming to reform the Church from within. Our very interesting interview with Father Hyacinthe must be carefully read as it appeared in our Sunday edition in order to appreciate what Matthew Arnold would call tho ‘‘sweet reasonableness” of his sen- timents and his religious position. He agrees in the main with the venerable and learned Dr. Déllinger, who has just entered his eighty-first year, and has been for many years the foremost champion of the “Old Catholics.” Like Dr. Dillinger, Father: Hyacinthe .rejects the dogma that the Pope is infallible, But previous to the Vatican Council in 1869 every Catholic was at liberty to dissent from that doctrine.’ The Gallican Church always rejected it up toa very recent period, The famous Bossuct, the most eloquent man of modern times and the greatost orna- ment of the Catholic Church in France, strenuously opposed it, and Catholio France unanimously supported him; or rather (to state the thing with exactness) Bossuet devoted all his great powers of argument and eloquence to sustain the position of the Gallican Church on this subject. The necessary inference is that Father Hyacinthe would have been deemed a good French Catholic at any former period, notwithstanding his dissent from the dogma of papal intfallibility. On other points what he said in the inter- view proves him to be a pretty orthodox Catholic. Yeaccepts without question that great stumbling block of recent Protestants, the roal presence, We say recent Protos- tants, becauso Luther, the father of Prot- estantism, accepted the doctrine that Christ |, was present in the bread and wine which are the emblems of His body and blood. Father Hyacinthe fully belioves in the maxs; he defends the offering of incense; he thinks the use of pictures uot only justifiable, but o beautiful nid to piety, “I do not believe,” he says, ‘any intelligent being is in danger of worshipping a picture or a statue of Christ, or any saint, any -more than a picture of a saintly father or mother. And we all know how precious those faces are when separated from them by long distances or death.” Fathor Iya- cintthe thinks auricular gonfession bene- ficial when voluntary, and wo suppose no Catholic contends that it should be com- pulsory. On the celibacy of the clergy we suppose he will be deemed heretical, but he indulges in no scoffs “I ain not op- posed,” he says, ‘to the celibacy of the priest when it is voluntary and real, when it is a virtuous state, a holy sacrifice mado for God, for the good of one’s own soul and for the, good of others. Such o sacrifice can only be made by great and pure natures for a holy cause.” It will be seen from these citations that Father Hyascinthe remains essentially o Catholic—that is to say, ho holds no opinions which in earlier ages of the Church would have been deemed inconsistent with orthodoxy. The celibacy of the clergy certainly was not a requirement of the primitive Church, for we read of St. Peter's “wife’s mother,” and St, Paul declared that a bishop should be blameless and ‘the hus- band of one wife.” Father Hyzeinthe states that the cclibacy of the clergy is not required by ‘the Catholics of the Orient.” On the point of papal infallibility he is in perfect accord with the Gallican Church of two centuries ago, His impligit Catholicity on so many lead- ing points fits him to make a great impres- sion and win many disciples in France by appeals to the former position of the Gal- licah Church as it existed before ultra- montanism gained ascendancy among the French Catholics. The very word ultza- montanism marks a difference between the Catholicism of France and that of Italy. The Gallican Church rested on national feeling, and if the surpassing eloquence of Fathér Hyacintke shall prove a powerful in- strument in reviving that national feeling the new movement andl have a wonderful success. An Unjustifiable Postponement. On Tuesday, March 18, formal charges were presented to the Board of Police against Captain Williams for an alleged violent assault on William Vincént Biake, at Gilmore’s Garden, a week previously, and the trial was set down for Monday, March 24, after an interval of six days. Yesterday, when the case was called before the Police Commissioners, Oaptain Will- iams asked for a postponement of two weeks on five distinct grounds, First, he claimed that he had not been allowed suf- ficient time to prepare a defence; second, thathe had strong presumptive evidence of tho use of illegal measures to procure evidence against him ; third, that the com- plaint against him had not been referred to the Committee on Rules and Discipline in accordance with the rule of the department ; fourth, that there had been no meeting ofthe Police Board since the papers were served on him, and that he had conse- quently had no opportunity to obtain from the Commissioners permission to employ counsel; and, fifth, that he deemed it right that the full Board of four Commissioners should preside over his trial. The reasons given by Captain Williams for the postponement of the trial are of the flimsiest character. He is charged with as- saulting a man who had committed no of- fence warranting his arrest, and he could have prepared his defence against such an accusation in five days as easily as in five weeks or five months. If illegal means have been used to obtain evidence against him the fact can only be brought out on the trial, and the allega- tion raises no cause for postponing the trinl. Tho objection that the complaint had not been referred to the Committee on Rules and Discipline is exploded by the fact that the Police Board preferred the charges by resolution, as they had the per- fect right todo. ‘The permission to employ counsel could have been obtained from the President at any moment or from the Board yesterday, and the claim that the full Board | should preside over the trial is unprece- dented and unwarranted either by the law or the practice of the Board. The law pre- scribes the cases in which a full Board is required to act, and the trial of officers is not oneof them. Trials heve seldom, if ever, been had before a full Board. Flimsy as the reasons for a postponement are, however, the trial has been put off for ten days, or until April 3, Commissioner Smith alone voting against the delay. We regard tho action of the Board as objection- able, and, under the circumstances, unjus- tifiable. If the cliarges are true the ar- raigned officer should not be allowed to carry a club ten days or ten hours. Their truth or falsity can be easily established. Delay only offers facilities for tampering with witnesses, and is particularly unjust to the person alleged to have been assaulted, who resides at some distance from the city, and has nothing but consideration for the public interest to induce him to prosecute. No reasonable person would desire that Captain Williams should be denied tho opportunity to make a defence, if he has any to make, But this is not the first ac cusation of the kind brought against that officer, and there is no reason to believe that his. rights would have been in any degree impaired by o trial yesterday. Under these circumstances the action of the majority of the Board in postponing the case will be looked upon with gravo sus- picion, and will necessarily strengthen rumors that reflect not on Captain Williams only, but on those members of the Police Commission who seem singularly averse to —r him to At Making a Bad Precedent, His Honor the Mayor goes slowly, but we hope ho goes surely, in his operations for the removal of tho Police Commissioners. There ought to be no doubt on this point The flagrant and outrageous delinquency of the Commissioners makes the necessity for their removal imperative. Is His Honor considering the propricty of amending his action in refusing the Commisioners o hear- ing? We do not believe that such b course would hurt his case. Some persons seem to fancy that a wish to see the Commis- sioners removed is inconsistent with a wish to see them accorded a proper hearing ; but it might be argued on the contrary that every- body who opposes a proper henring is socret friend and advocate of the Commis- sioacrs, since such persons urge and sustain the only course that can possibly defeat the movement for the displacemont of these officials. Refusal of a proper hearing to these delinquents seems all right now, because opinion is against them for their inefficiency, or worse offences ; but how would it be if that were all the other way? It good Commissioners, capable and energetic men, were in office, and a newly elected Tammany Mayor wanted thoir placos, the attempt to remove them without giving thom o hearing in a proper legal senso would appear to the pub- lic a gross offence, and would be one; but one of these days Mayor Cooper's action, if sustained, may be the precedent for just such a proceeding. MARCH 25, .1879.~-PRIPLK SHEET. The Expected Compromise in Wash- ington, * There is a lively state of fecling in both parties at the national capital as to the pos- sibility of a friendly adjustment of the dif- ference which has led to this regrettable special session. It is fortunate that the President was no party to the controversy in the late. Congress, It was a dit- ference between. the democratic House aud the republican Senate, and nobody has any warrant for saying what President Hayes would have done hud the House Dill tacking a repeal of the Federal Election law to the Legislative Appropriation bill passed the Senate and been sent to him tor his ap- proval, In the absolute form iu which the repeal was demanded he might have vetoed it, but this. is only plausible conjecture. Tie great fact to be considered now is thatthe President is uncommitted, and is at full liberty to actas his judgment and conscience may dictate. According to the most ra- tional conjectures which can be formed he would have approved a bill repealing the jurors’ test oath and the presence of troops at the polls, but have vetoed the clean and absolute repeal of the Federal Election law, which the late democratic House engrafted on one of the most important of the appro- priation bills. According to present ppearances the democrats of the new Congress are disposed to recede from the demand for an absolute repeal of the Federal Election Iaw, and would merely modify instead of repealing it if they.felt assured that the Presi- dent would moet them on this middle ground. ‘They affect to believe that he would, the republicans aftact to believe that 'he would not, and this difference of opinion as to the possible ac- tion of the President stirs political feeling at Washington to its profoundest depths. If it were possible to forecast the action of the President with cortainty there would be no place for all this anxious suspense and these impetuous assertions and denials of what the President will do or refuse to do. : It is absurd for either side to expect that the President will unequivocally commit himself as to his action on a bill which has not yet come before him. It is safe for the democrats to assume that he will be reason- able; but they also must be reasonable if they expect his co-operation. Ifthey arecon- siderate they will not put him in the position of seeming to yield to a threat. Should they attach the repeals which they desire to appropriation bills it would be a veritable threat to stop thie supplies unless the Presi- dent yielded to their demand: If they are wise, they will not proceed in this way. They have no reason to doubt that he will yield from conviction to their wishes on all points except the Election law, but it is improbable that they can force him to assent to a total re- peal of this law. He might consent to reasonable: modifications of it, and if they attempt none which are not reasonable they may safely trust to his well known fairness and to that well. attested inde- pendence of mere party ties which seems to-be a’ part of his character. They ought to give him an opportunity for acting on his real judgment of a bill amending the Election law. ‘They should first make sure that the bill they send to him is reasonable, and then trust to his character to sanction it. But if they hitch it. to an appropriation bill they ap- proach him with s menace which would be indecorous and improper. If he. should veto a reasonable Dill it would still be in their power to hitch it toa necessary appropriation; but it would be unbecoming to doa thing of that kind except as a last resort, when all other ineans had failed. If they are fair tothe President, if they make reasonable allow- ance for his party position, we think they may safely rely on his sense of justice, Sivect Cleaning Reformation. Two bills relating to street cleaning in the city of New York have been introduced in the Assembly and are to be argued before the Committee on Cities to-day as a special order. The urgent importance of some legislation on this subject is gen- “erally conceded, and is pointed by the charges now pending against the Police Commissioners, tho gravest of which relate to their alleged neglect of duty as heads of the Street Cleaning Bureau. One of these proposed laws simply creates aseparate department under the city gov- ernment, to be known as the Department of Street Cleaning, and transfors thereto all the powers and duties now devolving on the Police Commissioners. A single com- missioner is to be appointed by the Mayor, with a salary of six thousand dollars, and is to be removable in the manner prescribed by the charter, which has already proved a very clamsy piece of machinery. Very little alteration is made from the present law other than this transfer of anthority, but whero changes do take place they do not seem to be for the better. The amount to be appropriated for street cleaning is still left an open question for the Board of Apportionment to decide; the Commis- sioner is allowed to do the work by contract or not, as he may deem fit; the power of questionable expediency is conferred upon him to de- cide how much or how little snow the rail- road companics shall be required to re. move, and we fail to find in the bill any provision that promises to chango the present system in any feature, save the singlo one of o change of patronage and power. Tho bill is loosely drawn, as is shown by the absence of provisions requir- ing bonds from contractors in case tho work should be done by contract, and in some other respects, But these defects could, of cousse, be remedied if the measuro were a desirable one for the public interests, ‘Tho othor bill makes @ radical change in the existing system. It places the street cleaning business in the hands of a bureau under the Department of Public Works, which certainly seems a more fitting place for it than the Polico Department. All work is required to be let by three yearw contracts to the lowest responsible bid- ders, with the usual restrictions and safe- guards, and contracts for removing garbage e reauirod to be separate and distinct from those of cleaning the streets and yemoving the ashes and dirt, ‘he ad- mixture of garbage with any other substance is especially prohibited. The city is to be divided into twenty-one or more contract districts, which are to be let separately, and where a contractor fails in his work the superintendent is authorized to have the work done, and it becomes a charge against the delinquent contractor. A superintendent of the bureau and in- spectors over the contractors are to be ap- pointed at moderate salaries, and these are all responsible to the Commissioner of Public Works fog the efficient and faith- ful performance of their duties, ‘Lhe aggregate amount of contracts is not to exeved five hundred thousand dollars yearly, and an additional sum of fitty thou- sind dollars is allowed for the removal of snow. The advantages of the proposed sys- tem seem to be that it divides up the con- tracts and gives contractors of moderate re- sources achance of doing the work ; that it excites emulation among the contractors ; that it makes the superintendent responsi- ble to.a single head of a department ; thatit provides for the separation and effective dis- posal of the garbage ; that it fixes and limits the expenditures for street cleaning to a fair amount, and that it insures the work being properly done, as the contractors cannot get their pay until they obtain o certificate that it has been earned. Thus the people’s money will no longer disap- pear, month after month, while no pretence has been made to clean the streets. The latter bill is by far the more prefera- ble of the two now before the Assembly Committee on Cities, It may not be the best law for the politicians, but it is decid- edly the best for the city, for the taxpayers and for the people, and, unless some better measure is‘proposed, it should receive the support of the committee and of the Legis- lature. Man BeBe cide eS a Our Storm Warnings. The storm predictions of the Hzrarp Weather Bureau persist in being fulfilled and appreciated, notwithstanding thefunny efforts of scientific “grannies” tg prove them valueless. Unfortunately for the philosophers of the Loomis type, the world, as ‘‘Brudder” Jasper would remark, ‘‘do move,” and they must go round with it, no matter how energetic and laughable their exertions may be to reverse its revolutions or keep it stationary. Everything that is calculated to call away public attention from the meaningless gabble of such personages is looked upon by them as degrading to the high priests of science, whose oracular ut- terances have been for more than a genera- tion accepted as official from Olympus it- self. Somehow or other matters have not been going on well lately for the mental comfort of these superior beings. Meteoric showers fall where they are not wanted, and do not occur where one of the superior beings says they must, This particu- lar s. b. consequently gets very mad and files a general denial of the facts re- lated. Several big and little superior beings have denied that reliable warnings could be sent from this side to the British or French coast regarding storms. Of course the warnings were sent, and they have proved to be reliable. The superior beings are consequently very mad and mouth and scribble all kinds of absurdities in protest, Our latest warning has boen fulfilled as usual, We mention the fact in these col- umns to point out that the operations of nature are governed by grander laws than our Meteoric Loomis and his fraternity of -superior beings can ever hope to compre- hend, unless they sweep from their brains the cobwebs of prejudice and let a little of the light of modern science reach the dark corners of their understandings. ‘Two New Chinese Rebeliions. In the telegraphic columns of the Hznarp on the 22d inst. was printed a despatch from San Francisco giving the » ws from China to the 22d ult., the chief fcuture of which was the ‘‘extraordinary success of Li Yung Choi in Tonquin.” Volunteers were reported as flocking to his standard wherever he moved; every expedition against him had failed; his personal influ- ence was wholly unprecedented, ond his ulterior designs were believed to be of a very far-reaching character, ‘‘since he has already reached n point of strength and in- fluence more than sufficient to secure the falfilment of his original plans.” It was added that ‘‘the Hakka rebellion in Hainan is not yet quelled,” To most American readers this despatch must have been their first introduction to Li Yung Choi and his “far-reaching de- signs,” as well as to a matter of such subor- dinate interest as the Hakka rebellion in Hainan. Those who gave the subject a sec- ond thought must have asked themselves with some perplexity, “Who is Li Yung Choi, what is the origin and the history of his insurrection, whero is its location and what are his far-reaching designs?” ‘lo such questions no complete answer could hitherto have been gleaned from the leading Lon- don periodicals, For several months para- graphs on the subject have been appearing in the English papers printed in China and Japan, and an occasional reference might havo been found in British journals; but public attention has been so occupied with the afuirs of Bul- geria, Afghanistan oud Zululand that a movement of the greatest importance for the future of one-fourth of the human race has remained almost unnoticed, Tho let. ter dated Shanghai, January 24, which we to-day reproduce from the London 7'imes of March 12, conveys the first complete synopsis of Li Yuog Choi's insurgent move- ment which has been afforded to the Eng- lish speaking world. The head.of the new rebellion is, it ap- pears, a descendant of the royal house of Annam, who rendcred good service to the Chinesé imperial family during the war for the suppression of tho Tai-Ping rebellion. Finding himself last year treated with con- tempt by the Governor of tho great province of Kwang-si, of which ho is apparently o native, and having other grievances against his military superiors, he resolved to pro- vide tor himself and his followers by an en- terprise against Annam to ‘secure his ho | Feditary right and recover what his ancos- tors had lost,” That there might be no uncertainty as to his designs he wrote a letter to the Tartar General at Canton stating that he proposed to feud one hundred thou- sand soldiars and many thousands more of the famine-stricken populacé of Kwang-si adross the border into Tonquin, and that when he should have become king he would | very cheerfully pay the customary tribute aud acknowledge himself a feudatory of China, The sequel will be found in the letter elsewhere given. Li Yung Choi (or Li Yung Tsai, as the writer calls him) has more than made good his promises as to tho forces he could put into the field, but hav- ing commenced his enterprise by the occu- pation of a Chinese border city he found himself involved in hostilities with the generals of the Empire, and has had such success as to augur ill for the Turtar sue premacy in China, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Howe is home, Walt Whitman is South. Creswell would be judge. Jef Davis is a grandfather. Blackburn is eloquent and thin. "Tho Czar will go to Ems in July. London 7ruth hates homeopathy. Freshets came in the Lenten season, Camp meetings are generally loaded. ‘Talmage is the Rowell of the pulpit. Leadville, Col., 10,000 inhabitants, no minister. Beaconsfield knocked the Russians ‘‘ski” high, Eli Perkins’ birthday comes on the Ist of April. Cincinnati squeals about her plethora of music, Song of tho matinée flirt: —‘Mash oy, mash on.” An English firm has been selling arms to the Zula, Noah was the first commander of H. M, 8. Pinafore, Beaconatield ai colleagues as footmen, says, Truth, Circuses and waterinclons bloom at about the same time. Mrs. Oliver was a tailoress. She belonged to Sew- rosis, _ Do not fly any kites—that is, mortgages—this spring. Truth wants brides of winter to be wedded in worm } brown. When a pilot becomes a beau he is supposed to be a luffer. In Iowa you candotshoot a policeman for less than ‘$40 fine. A son of the famous Davy Crockett is still Mving in Texas, Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, is at the St James Hotel. ‘The Boston Commercial says that pencils and re- volvers are leaded. The Baltimore Gazette says that Sitka is not in jeopardy, but in Alaska. The Turner's Falls Reporter has bet all its money on the Anglo-Saxon race. Chaplain Bullock, of the United States Senate, cam bulldoze the republicans, Mr. Richard Smith, editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, is in Washington. An English c@jic says that the claymore should be the model of the cavalry sword. Mr. Clark Mills, the sculptor, of Washington, has @ daughter on the New York Pinafore stage. The Cleveland Leader will not believe that Grant is the man on horseback. He is on an elephant in India. Apublic reception to Sofior Zamacona, the Mex can Minister, last evening, at the house of General A. T. Gaston, in Cincinnati, was largely attended by prominent citizens. Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, United States Navy, having passed a satisfactory examination at Washington for promotion, has passed through the city, en roule to the Pacific coast, to resume his duties on tho Arctic yacht Jeannctve, refitting at Mare Island, Cal. OBITUARY. GEORGE W. TAYLOR, Mr. George W. Taylor, one of the founders of the dry goods establishment of Lord & Taylor in this city, died on Saturday in Manchester, England, inthe feventy-second year of his age. Mr. Taylor was born in Rutgers street, in this city, in a locality con- taining then very few houses. After obtaining the rudiments of @ common school education he wae apprenticed to a house and sign painter, and it wae while pursuing this trade that he was first brought into contact with Samuel Lord, proprictor of a dry goods establishment in Catharine street. Many of the signboards painted by him for Mr. Lord can be seen to this day in the basement of Lord & Taylor's establishment on Broadway. Several of these signs bear the doviee, “No deviation from firat prices.” Mr. Lord was not many years in the business when he entered into partnership with Mr. Taylor and established the well known firm just half scene. tury ago. Mr. Samuel Lord and his brother, whe had been ously one the business, had just then dissolved partnership. The store in Grand strect was established in 1854 and the Catharine street store was abandoned finally in 1857. Messrs. Lord . TR So warried two sisters belonging toa may ily in England. Mr. faylor’s hot it productive of while the ¢! family numl eight, four e, now living and four daughters ‘Two of the sons, George William Lange Lor Samucl Lord and Thomas Varker (the having been connected with the years) constitute the present firm, which is virtue of a spocial act of the Legislature, entitle’ to use the name of the old firm. Mr. Taylor retired from the firm thirty years ago. Fifteen years after- ward his wife diod, ‘en years later he married a Miss Wright, and was living vith her in peneone up to the time of his death. Poa ‘lor and so Mr. Walter, the latter nner built the first residences on webtytnind streot—now numbered 25 and 30, near Sixth avenue—Mr. ‘Taylor occupying the former for soveral years and Mr. Walter the latter. Mr. Walter preceded his neighbor to the silent iand meny Years ago, but the houscs to this day bear evidences of grandeur and good taste in architectural design. ‘They stood alone for many years, the site on whic! the Fifth Avenue Hote! now stands being enclosed then by a fence, within which was a hij me, After his retirement to England he resi alters nately at Brighton and Manchester, and tho in former years accastomed to visit London re; his closing days were spent in almost absolute retire. anent. In disposition Mr. Taylor was ous and table. Few men had s comer lis for wit and humor, He had « large circle of friends, and among the merchants of the chief cities vot thie country the ‘standing invitation” ig he ham on him at Fosaily secommodated, himself. to, bocteey, 12 Euge readily accomm ma: land, took an active interest a the municipal affairs of his adopted city of Manchester and became a mem ber of the Reform and Trafford clubs, BARONESS JAMES MALLET. Baroness Jamos Mallot, née Oberkampf, has just died in Paris at the ago of eighty-three. rhe fu- neral, which was celebrated on the 5th inst. at the Protestant Church in the Rue he perros was rent numerously attended, Among were ‘all the oer og bag _ ‘italioe Family? General Boron do Chabaud M, Feray, M. de Sal- Yani, MC Coruolie de we Witte Mosher Mt. Laugel, M. Solacroup, Baron Beude, kc. ‘The religious sere vivo was celebrated by the Protestant minister, M, Dhombres, . D, 3. HARTSOOK, ¥ D. J. Hartsook, president of the Piedmont and Arlington Life and Virginia Home Firo Insurance companies, and @ member of the firm of Palmer, Hartsook & Co., of Richmond, Va., died eee morning, sged iy, -six years. Tho deceased was rominent and x ily esteomod citizen and has been dentified with ness interests of Richmond for many years. bs 3 was also « prominent Mason. MANQUIS DE RIVOIRE~LA-BATIE. ‘Tho death of the Marquis Joseph Henri Kugine do Rivoire-la-Batio is announced to have taken place recently at the Chateau de Verinelle, nesr Bourgoin deceased minety> sere), The noblewan waa in his {iva year, BAILEY B, DOUGLAS, -After @ lingering illness Mr. Bailey B, Dougias died yesterday at his home, in Newark, N. J. a tina ig br an old, respected and woll known citizen, and halt [WEein'or tore unportant oes wer the Cy government of Nowark, ainong others those ‘of doputy sheriff and tax commissioncr. HENRY ©. BENNETT. Henry ©. Bennett, » well known jou ex-United States Pension Agent, diod #1 Francisco, Sestorday moraing, 1» Caley ist and at Sag dem: fa for thirt; ‘ ntill, by