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ThT la ometlng curiously unpleasant dabaU in Congresa on quertiona which war auppoaad to have been aettled by vxm long and bloody war" whioh closed with the triumph of the Union fourteen yeara ago. Many thousands are VoUrs now who. were boys when that itramilA 1 1 1 -a'" vc(u, auu 11 ia not ncouragtng to think that they are likely to hate to go orer much of the ground that their elders traversed ao painfully. But it annot be denied that the argument which Mr. Robesom made in the House on the Army bill waa substantially identical with t-Rt by which the power of the National Government was sustained erush the rebellion, to assert ttm sovereignty against the pretensions of the States, and to defend by force the rights which the Constitution bestows on all citi- And the arguments of Mr.

Tucker, of Virginia, to which Mr. Robeson replied', were la spirit and in efft WW A-U 44V AA Uko-those whioh were employed to show thikt the National Government was powerless to pnt down the rebellion. We are con-- dent that when the people get a chanoe a express themselves on this issue, they wiu reamrm tne aecision made by the war ut we should be glad if their attention ould be spared from such a controversy to le given to other questions which are of ital importance, but whioh will always give way when the fundamental principles our Institutions are brought into dispute. The elevated railroad companies are attempting to settle their differences by in-roking the aid of the Legislature to steal a tew more publie thoroughfares and confiscate several additional millions of dollars' worth of private property. When the Bapid Transit Commissioners of 1875 uu- om tne routes which were en-tered upon by the New-York and -letropolitan Elevated Railroads, their report was accepted as a final disposition of the entire subject, so far.

at least, as it related to Manhattan Island. It was then announced that the representatives of the two companies having met together, have entered into amicable arrangements to build certain Important portions of their lines which are located la common by a union of their joint funds, tons securing double strength to the common object It has been found, however, that the joint use of these sections, instead of being aa element of double atrength, ia source of double weakness. The publie idea remedying this state of things is that the railroads shall arrange for any division of their joint rights that shall dispense with level crossings and the common use of certain portions of the track. The surrender of any more down-town streets to tne use ot these corporations will unquestionably bo resisted byvery weapon which the law applies. The Railroad Committee of the Assembly las come to the relief of the elevated railroads with bill Intended to reopen the entire question of rapid transit routes, and to enable the companies to enter upon street bob formerly allotted to them with the least possible danger of interference trom property-owners.

The amendments to tbe Rapldl Transit act which were before the eimmlttee prohibited Commissioners heretofore or hereafter appointed from altering, extending, changing, or creating any route tOr any railroad ta the City. Instead of tese, there have beea substituted and reported esseadaeaU bearinc ebvieus marks of the authorship Jof Davto Dud-LET Field, providing that if an route or routes located by the Commissioners of 187S" shall prove to be inconvenient or ineligible, the company using the same may change it tir another, with the consent of the local authorities and of the property-owners, or, ir lieu thereof, the determination mentioned in the fourth section of this act," that is to say, the decision of three Commissioners appointed Iy the General Term of the Siibreme Court to hear all parties It is extremely probable that should; the House entertain this measure at attempt will be made to introduce, in thei same underhand way tht has been pursued through the comuiittee, some change which will make it? a still more impudent invasion of public jrighti. A Corporation whose legal David DoDLEriFiEt-D needs more than usually careful watihing, and probably Mr. Seebacher, the Taxman member of the Railroad Committee, Would be no worse of a little watching, a good dealiof un in local There, seems to be necessary exeitetufnt circles over the! Police Commiasiouifrship question. Ail of political and legislative possibilities ar( supposed to depend- upon the decision of the Governor on tfee cases before him and the Mayor's action in filling the vacancies either existing or to be created.

It may be safely assumed that in the probable event of the removal of Commistiouer Smith, the Mayor will select his suceessor at least as much with reference to considerations of fitness for the position as to any merely political end be served by tho appointee. It fihty: also be taken for granted that Mr. Wheeler will be allowed to retain his place till the Board of Aldermen confirm the nomination made to fill the vacancy which, oa! any theory executive action, exists by the termination of Mr. Erhardt's jierm. We shall be greatly surprised! if Mr.

yHEELER be allowed to hold over" any longer than is necessary lot the purpose of maintaining a quorum for the transaction of business, and we shall hold to thejopinion, till we' find proof to the con trary' that the reconstructed Beard o( Po- U' Ml i uce wm De i oody better fitted to command public respect and confidence than the present one. HE4DS OF DEPAltfMEXlS C0)S- GUESS. It i is the intention of Mr. Pesdletq to callj up to-day his bill giving seats in "the two houses of "Congress to the heads of the several departments, and requiring them to answer questions which may be presented to them under certain prearranged rules. It 1b to be hoped that the course of the Army bill will be such as to permit Mr.

PlXpLETOK to carry out his intention, for no gian of either party has lately brought to the attention of the Senate a measure of mor general importance, or deserving mori careful and thorough discussion. It is very creditable to the Senator from Ohio that! he has thus early taken up a subject of this high order. However we may differ from; him on general politics, or look distrust on his previous course regarding finale, we recognize in his latest step an act of genuine statesmanshiD. Mf. Pendleto.v's bill is not a radical one.

It isjvery moderate in its scope, very simple! in its machinery, and very guarded in its. conditions. In effect it only puts into practice "a system which is provided for in! the: laws; as they exist, and which has been distinctly recognized at various periods in our political history. It is generally conceded thatjthe duties of the heads of departments are be prescribed by Congress. Tho Constitution does not define them, and it does not control over them upon the President The various Secretaries uct; under statutes passed from time to time and Amended by Congress.

These statutes are quite independent of tho co-operation of the Executive, and do not contemplate his Intervention. They are the charter if we may use that term whichcreates thede-' partments, provides for their Organization, specifies the powers of the chiefs and, in many cases, of their subordinates, and leaves to tjie Executive nothing but the original right of appointment, with the consent of the 3enate, and the power to call for information or advice in writing. These statutes are j-epealable and alterable in the same way; as others. They place the heads of partmentu substantially under the direction of the law-making branch of the Government, the restriction involved in the veto power being, of course, always The basis of Mr. Pendleton's bill is.

therefore, solid beyond question. The' powfer which he proposes to exercise It is a question of policy as to how and how-far shall be employed. Uu this point; theill is very carefully drawn. It sim- ply to the heads of departments: seat in the House and the Senate. It requires that they shall occupy these seats two 4ays in the week in the House and twd otheedays in the Senate.

Together with the rules hich are suggested in connection, with the bill, it provides that any member may -propose a question to any head of department, which may be called up any time after at least three days, when thti ofiBceij will be required to answer. In proposing, the question and in replying to the member and the officer are confined to suci statements of facts as are necessary to clearly explain their purpose. Neither one will be regarded as in order if he iutfoi duces irgument The sole object of the bill is to obtain orally from the heads of he information which they can giv better jthan any one else. It will be seen that this is a method of communication between die executive officers and the Legislature holly different from that involved in ordinary parliamentary government. Jt is not to! lead to debate; that result is expressly guarded against It not intended that thejpower pf the heads of departments to influence Congress, or rice versa, shall be at all increased.

The officers do not appear as ehamdiona of their own views or critics of those the members of either housil They arerequired simply to give by word of mouth! and face to faee the information which may now be asked of them, and often is asked. them, in writing. It is, of course, a question how far these limitation can be preserved in practice. may be that the relation of questioner and respondent which the members and the officer wi sustain toward each other may develoa to, mm extent lata that of di. apptopriat I embers.

pirt dejtrtmental sought lueni es iebt itke tut putanti. thatth tnotive Officers; Which with done, tb or their fan set Of clerksb istratioti. be under on the the is the facts fully infi iudgm iightent-d public exert The bwnt. tueaoui that it iif an turuingj troduc system trial, lio good barra droppe jlroppe behind Well, that it of Con Our owi that if it thint; Legisla are ext time is irrespo jress td Jitical leaders purpose general! can fai the law istered their fects and pralc dep intimate ments than eible, coupleJ ut it is by ao means probable will go far, if it occurs at alL The for- it is wanting. The executive are limited precisely the power now have.

They can still dicker members, as they sometimes have obtain favor for their propositions ions for their departments. on the other hand, can continue in the illegitimate commerce, and their suppoirt for favor in the way ips or local advantages in admin- i But there may be, and ought to this system, a good deal more light gilimate anil necessary portions of work, and light, after all. west police iagency known. If the (fating to anyproposed policy can be out, day by day, underhanded will be lesi powerful, the honest of members of Congress will be en-and strengthened, and, finally, pinion will Lave an opportunity to If. hole thing is necessarily an experi- it is olio of the merits of the as suggested by Mr.

Pexileton admirably adapted to the purpose Experiment. It proposes no over- of the existing methods. It in-no new eleiients into the existing If it does iiot succeed, if, after a ngress is persuaded that it produces results, or gives rise to any era- or confusion, it can be and when it shall have been it will leave no permanent traces On the other hand, if it work we are entirely confident ill, it will be within the province to extend and improve it. For part, we are quite willing to admit fehall hope that this experiment. succeed, shall lead to some- more complete and thorough.

ive methods here as elsewhere mely defective. A great deal of pasted in the restless struggle of sible individual members of Con- push their personal or local or po- schemos. There is too little ip, too little concentration of too little Of respect for certain principles, by which the country PJ" judge its representatives. Now which Congress passes are adrnin- In the departments. It is there that deration, their virtues, vices, or de- most and best known.

Logically tically, the Connection between the and Congress should be more and the influence of the depart- may very safely be extended rathur ided provided, which is quite pos- at with increased iower should be increased responsibility. set sstnent lis iess 1 artiients avb lfU son So ni tue pu injgrat and Sour to telligenpl movement one sidi preciat are as are occurrep plicitly effect politica without! facts esta that politida left to fluenee trust li able to falseho genuind excused! is requl hand, td otaer tb trust worth dr I int- i obt nlust mfcre wo connee recogi sumed meauiu cratic colored the fm grows tho niorfc to remqv old sla where witn Southe not affeit The bla. they friends, politics to be The found to the ditiou in whicll ments States have strength without whioh new aud are to cause question wrongs disc- render prising, But tliis ably endu; to show derived tion of organization L-ontant ty sthg class pendent) in Kan si every as well quires panic the Putting they agency tion. agency agents exa Gffi' gtfo-jjfoth gimts I WSmv Sprit 24; 1879. blisbed peih- THE BLACK EXODUS.

ch partisan feeling is apparent in Llished stateinents respecting the of colored people from the South to Kansas that it is not easy fiict from fiction or to judjie in ly of the real character of the This feeling is not confined to The Democratic attempts to de-the significance of the movement idently dictated bv partisanship as Republican versions of the same ces. It is as impossible to trust itn- a narrative whose kev-note is the wholesale migration upon the power of the South as to receive misgivings a of alleged ttiich starts with a denial of well- oeeurrenees. To the extent rersiou and exaggeration affect the aspect of the subject, they may be rk their own cure. Their evil in- is confined to the tendency to dis- ich they naturally engender. Un- determine where truth ends and begins where the movement is and where spurious men may be if they insist that further evidence red before they respond, on one trantie appeals for aid, and on the lieclaratious that impeach the mess of the movement generally three considerations more or less with the movement called for on before the movement had as- loticeable proportions.

One is the which the restoration of Demo- eudeiicy conveyed to those of tho people who understood the value of hise they had acquired. Another of the disposition on the part of intelligent and enterprising blacks ye from neighborhoods where the e-owuing spirit still lives, aud ierpetuul inferiority is associated 'dW All the protestations which Democrats have indulged in have either of these considerations. ks have learned that to vote safely vote against their political j-that they bj-e free to meddle with pniy so loiirf as thev allow politics ebutrolled by their former masters. pushing among tbeni have too, that to escape obstacles improvement of their eon- Rhey must leave the localities they were slaves. Liberian ijnd the removal of groups from old tne richer lands of the South-west some time past indicated the of this feeling.

We are vt Mata, however, as to the degreo in ese general influences exist in the larger movement Westward. Thv be thought of at present only be- snow that, apart from the labor or from the vague dread of fresh k-eported from Louisiana, causes of are in operation which would rdinary migration not at all sur- is not ordinary mic-ration. Pr-K. gh is known w-itli I i. Ithat the mivTat i nmir.to'.u I liUt.

from the intelligent and thrifty por- ne o-jiorea people. Nothing like a appears among them. As a are so Door that vcvuiug uc on charity lorng before they arrive 4.l mojr seem so Helpless at ige so sorely in nd ii charity tht the movement ac- puicui oi me character of a unan ot a hopeful effort for int of a. freer 1. ogether these features of the i to sugeest the bot entirely of commenda-le attemnt to oortnof anAV.

Fith the every-day nbins of ti.vt fpr getting buiine will unim vmr uuiuenees ox another I fdr seetn oinsltion. kln4 may be imagined that would be suf-ficent in the first instance to produce the vague unrest and fear which seem to be at the bottom of the movement. Once begun, it soon acquired the momentum which keeps it in motion. Alarm is easily excited in the minds of ignorant people whose deliverance from bondage is recent, and whose experience since emancipation, and especially aince the return of the Democrats to local power, predisposes them to believe reports which In other circumstances might be discarded as incredible. The anxiety prevalent among them in Louisiana in regard to the action of the Constitutional Convention now in session illustrates the depth of a feeling which, however groundless, is not unnatural in a State where Democratic successes have been achieved by brutality and despotism.

Nor is the feeling confined to that State. Its full play anywhere affords an almost adequate explanation of the painful features of the movement. An indescribable terror impels the poor creatures to flee as for their liies. It is infectious. The departure of one party leads to the formation of another.

Such a movement is not a fit thing for partisanship to play with. It involves too much suffering now, and will give rise to too much misery by and by, to be applauded as something worthy of encouragement. The call upon the War Department for rations is not suggestive of wholesome migration and would alone be enough to awaken distrust It is quite as certain, however, that tho planters whose interests will bo injured by the want of labor at this season are adopting the most effective method of justifying the fright of negroes and of enlisting Northern sympathy in their behalf. For some days past, reports have attributed to the planters of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas a determination to stop the exodus by brute force. The correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial epitomized in our news columns yesterday proves that the threat has been put in operation.

Famished groups on the banks of the Mississippi await the arrival of steam-boats which are not allowed to take them on board. The unlawful cruelty which thus reveals itself is capable of any outrage, and will go. far toward persuading the North to mitigate the miseries of a movement which on its merits is not clearly deserving of support. TUE SQUABBLE IX TIIE SEX A IE. It cannot be pretended by anybody that the time of the United States Senate has been very profitably employed in the long debate provoked by the proposition to make a clean sweep of its subordinate officers.

The Democrats propose the removals because they have their friends to reward and their enemies to punish. Tho Republicans oppose the removals, because their frienJs are the subjects of removal, and they know that, for a time, they will not be so well served by the new men as they have been by the old appointees. The discussion has been long aal acrimonious. It has developed nothing new. It Lus wearied uninterested listeners; and it must have been inexpressibly fatiguing to the cloud of ex-Confedfi-dtcs in the gallery, who are yet to enter in the scrub-race which wi 1 take place when all restrictions to a clean sweep are finally removed by vote of the Senate.

To be sure, the debate has shown that the Democrats in tho Senate, even including such eminently respectable men as Senator BaYaed and Senator Thcrmax, are as greedy for official pap, aud as regardless of all sense of fitness in framing eivil service rules, as the most abandoned cross-roads politician who makes no pretense to decency or high-touedness," as Messrs. Bayard and Thcrman- do. Bat we knew all this before. It was not necessary to hold a long debate over the filling of a few paltry offices in order that we should be convinced that the Democrats are both hungry and unscrupulous. A standing rule of the Senate requires that removals and appointments ba the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms hall be approved by the President of the Senate.

The present subordinate officers ot the Senate are, of course, Democrats. The President of the Senate is Vice-President Wueeler, Republican. Thus a Republican holds the power of confirmation or rejection over the power of removal or appointment which is lodged in the hands of the Sergeant-at-Arms and the Secretary of the Senate. Theoretically, Senators are not supposed to bother themselves with the petty details which are involved in the appointment of clerks and underlings about the Senate. The subordinate officers of the Senate, elected by the Senators, are allowed to exercise their discretion in the selection of fit men to fill the minor places, subject only to the final review of the presiding officer of the Senate.

The head of this august body does not interfere unless he sees the eomfort of individual Senators interfered with or dispatch of public business retarded. This, by way of theory. The practice his been for the members of the political majority of the Senate to divide among themselves so mucn of the official patronage of the Senate as might be taken from the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms without exciting a mutiny. These two officers have sometimes murmured, but their interest has inclined them to docility. The theory and the practice are both of ancient origin.

The standing rule to which we have just referred was framed when the Senate was Democratic, and when nobody dreamed that it could ever be anything else, least of all Republican. In the good old days when Masox, Slidell, and Toombs ruled the Senate, the division of the smaller places about that branch of Congress was' made on a basis as clearly defined as it ever has been since. The only variation from the standing rule, so far as history relates, was when a Senator from Georgia played "a friendly game of draw" with a Senator from California, and lost a twelve-huudred-doilarclerkship by "standing on a bob-tail flush." The Republicans took and Used the rule as they found it They reformed the ancient usage in some minor particulars. Senator Wallace, of who has a keen appreciation of the value of political spoils, consented to lead the Democratic onset, and he offered a resolution to repeal the standing rule. The new rule, for such it would be, was framed in'such a way as to take from the President of the Senate all part and lot in the confirmation of appointments, lodging the whole resooaaibility fat least nominal- -I ly) the hands of the Secretary and 84r- (reabt-at-Arms of the Senate.

Senator Ep-MCvba resisted this with a resolution to tie effect that the correct and safe performance of tic publlo business required the main tenance of a tenure of office depending lot-ly upon fitness and ood behavior. To this Senator Pexdletox added an amendment, tha the removals and appointments made by he subordinate officers of the Senate should be to the acceptance of a majority of tie Senators." Although the gallery of the Senate 5s filled with crowds of hungry place-hunters, who gnaw their fingers with the impatienfe of long-deferred hope, the leisurely Senate conies to no conclusion. Senator Edmuxds amendment has been rejected, of course, of course. Senator PexdletonPs has beeu adopted. But the main question has not been put.

In its baldest form, tie proposition, which is certain to pass, Is simply the taking from the President of tie Senate the power of revision of appointments and giving it to "a majority of tie Seuators." This is all there is of the whole contemptible and petty business. It necessary that the Democratic majority of the' Senate should control the appointments. They would control the President of tie Senate if he were a Democrat. They wilt control the Secretary and the Sergeant-at-Arms if they cannot, they will put out those functionaries as summarily as the put them in. The Democrats who have sneered at Republican violations of thf principles which underlie any genuine civit service reform have rushed swiftly to stamp upon and deride those very principles.

They have heretofore stood afar off, reviling men who had places and patronage, and hav Used places aud patronage as politician wilt Now that they are given opportunity to practice the virtues which they have forced upon their opponents, the uj.c nasie 10 grau, to wallow, and to de? vow, just as though they had never preached temperance and self-restrainti The standing rule of the Senate if repealed; after twenty-five ears' usage, in order that the victors may have th roils. I DOUsLlluLD KDLCATIOX. i We hear a great deal nowadays about whaf is called the higher education of women, a phrase to which it might be objected that it at least seems to imply slur upon the education lor which it ia In effect proposed as aaubstltutev Of that other education, which consistency quires to be called- the lower education, bu which if degree of elevation has any proportion to fitness and to importance, deserves no sucli inferior raukinc. We hear little, and of that little not in a very encouraging way. A ladjf has recently written to a Loudon newspaper say that iu the viljage near which sho livef no marrie I woman among the farm la borers' wives knows how to take care of; her home, how to cook, or to look after bet children aud she mentioned several instances: iu which the poor children had died for tb.Lv lack of kuowledge.

That this lady's experience; amdnir the country people in England is not-singular will be admitted by any candid and-competent person wbo has had opportunities: for observation there is admitted, indeed, by-Enyliili writers upon social subject. Not, in--del, that all Englishwomen in humble life are? thus iguorunt, Lut that a very large numberr are; and that tho tendency of the time Is; toward such ignorance and neglect, rather to the opposite knowledge and carefulness. It? bears upon this subject that just about the saule time a London comic paper published a social Illustration, said to represent a show-; ing a maid servant applying for a jiace, with this legend: "Lady You have not been out to service vet. therefore you have no character; Applicant N'o, mum; but I've I got three School Board certificuta. Lady Ah.

I well, that's something. Are they for honesty. cleanliness, or. Applicant No, please, mum, lor lueratoor, jograffy, an' free 'and drorin. The satire needs no change to make It applica- blolous.

If the experience of housekeepers; in York and its neighborhood, in this re- spect, were told, we know that it would be that i tha voung women who come to them frjm the pufe.ic school know nothing whatever of house- hold wont, and of anything else not enough to -be pf any use either to otheri or to themselves. The gii 1. whose emigrant mother they may have kupwu as a good, helpful, contented servant. reads aud writes in a certain way, and knows a -little mure of "jograffy than her mother did. but is a tiiuisy, tiigiity.

useless creature. Ketter, say theso sorely tried housekeepers, a raw girl, "green." just out of Garden, if she is only willing, honest, and fairly intelligent, than the product of the public school. M. however, the housekeeper were herself: put to the miestion. wo fear that she would not cotoe triumphantly Out of the ordeal.

She, a woman of mature years, possibly middle aired, knows, we will as.ume. (and it Is something of an! assumption.) enough of the way in which household work is Ut be done to detect and to flud fault with the shortcomings of her servants, aud possibly to set them right But how is it with her daughters, girls between 14 and or '2S What do they know about household work. If tUey were to have recommendations given to thuni, honestly, would thse recommendations be for excellence In housewifery, or fur literature, geography, and free-hand drawing, with French, dancing, and the use of the piano I We should like to take the vote of the fathers upon this question, aud of the elder brothers, and the husbands that have had two years' experience of; matrimony. Of the thousauds or youmr women who have been bridesmaids at the long array of marriages announced during the paat year In The Times, how many could take their friend three-months old baby and wash It and drees it properly, or even know whether their nursery-maid did it in such a way as to make thje little creature clean aud comfortable. How many could superintend the cooking of a dinner, or even order one with taste, discretion, and economy.

How many could direct intelligently and effectually the energies of the workwomen wbo come to clean a house How mny send a large wash properly to the laundress, or receive it when it comes home, look it through, and put it away promptly and In order Some of them may be able to mnke pretty bonnets for themselves, but how many of them can mend their own underclothes and those of any hapless men who may be dependent upon them, neatly and aer-vceably We see some of them curling their lips in acorn at these queries, and saying that they have no need to know auch things. But. In very deed, they have need. No younc woman who does not know thoroughly well how each and all of these things should be done, and who is entirely without some personal skill in them herself. Is fit to be a wife, even If she lives In a French flat, and her father or her husband is at rich as very few mien are now.

For she la incompetent, uneducated in that which, whatever her pleasure! ot1 her charities, is to be the serious, dally occupation of her lire. Xo wife can escape tula occupation, thl duty, unless ana is rich enough to hare competent and trustworthy housekeeper, and even then she ought to be able to be that housekeepers overseer. The remedy proposed br the aa-Uaa lady for tbe defects which afce Batate4 oat, waa that an this saouM be taught ta ecbocla, aa weU ac arithmetic and the ase of the glebes," and the aaggeetloa waa weJeoaaea, aad of Toms a oa school boards hope wae express that, owing to her preeeaee sow la England, talaaaggee-tJoa be carried eat, We wwa4et at sack a suo geatUa from a woman who La, as frosa hererls-tdsoj, we assume, a competent boaaakeoper. This sort of thing cannot be taught a acboole and In elans. Tea may tonca chemistry so, possibly even some little theoretical knowledge of the art of eookory, bat boasewifery la to be learned only ia the house hold nndsr the eye of a competent housewife, by acting aa her assistant, following her example, sad listen! a to her counsels.

Illustrated by the expert men ta' that are going oa the while. Housewifery Is learned partly by precept, more by example, and yet more by being Imbibed day by day frota the life of aa orderly well-directed bras hold, It may be passing nway among the loot arts it may be that machinery and French fiats wilt be brought to such perfection that housewifery will no longer be needed, although this we do not believe bat if ever it is to bo revived ia its old glory among either the higher or the humbler classes, it will not be so by the public teachings of a paid instructor, but by its transmission from competent mothers to willing, sensible daughters. We are apt to think, sod other nations are of oar opinion, that reckless extraitatanee ts well-alga monopolized by American srivea. This ia tar -em trn. as Is shown br facts that have been dixrloMd la connection with the Los wales, wbo hare reeontly become so oarbarraas4 flaaaeialfr that the Earl, the bead of boose of Lowtber.

has Veen compelled to sell his great collection in London. He has been married barely nine months, (bis srtfe sraa Lad? ULAPts HiBBSBT. a Terr tall, dark. Jewish type ef beantT. often called Tbe Gypsy.) and has lived at soeh a rate, bis bride assisting him Terr actively, aa to be on the border of baakraptry.

She has been notet for her eager permit of pWasar alaes her entry into soeiety. and she met Lord Loxsoals while she sraa eonspienoasly radiant at the height of a London season. They seemed to be fond of one another In a welVrcjralated war, of course and after their union tber scattered gold lavishly all orer Earooe. Balls, dinners, yachts, races, hunting sweeeeded tn unbroken succession. She wanted ererytolnc.

and be bought bar everything. The Old World waa ransacked for curio, luxuriea, object of art, and aa Income of 16,000 was not u3icUnt for their pur-ehasa. Her diamonds cost her 1 200.000. and her fnrnitnre. pictures, marbles, and tbe like, more than In seven months; and yet she waa not content They appear to have loved the gnat world aud Its resplendent gawds more than they loved one another before their honeymoon was fairly over.

While bs was yachting in the Eastern Mediterranean, she was daneinc at Monte Carlo. He dlaed late and long at tbe Maisoa Doree. when she captured yonng noblemen and watched the stars from the cliffs of Sorrento. She Is 23. and he 31 1 bat both have lived long enough and fast euoach to feel weary, jaded, and old.

She la tbe daughter of Srpstsv Hibdsrt. of fair renown and Crimean fame, and tho sister of the Earl of Piubboks and tbe rapid pare at which she and her titled husband have gone has set the tons Jes of Tyojrnla and Belgravla wagging and drawing morals from matrimonial Indifference and wild extravagance. Tbe mea say he baa ruined hor the women declare she has ruined him. Prob aoly thy are both right. Lord Chelmsford has under him two officers of great experience, who are doing rood service, la the persons of Lieul-CoL Evklts Wood, V.

(X, and LieuU-CoL Btovxas Bculib, C. both of whom served under Sir GiRXiT Wouselit In Asbantee, and tb Utter was with him also In the Ed River troubles. Col. Wood is nephew to Lord Hathiblv, ex Lord Chancellor. His rrxudfithsr.

Sir Matthi was a relebrated Lord Mayor bavins tsrlre filled that oflle whose name fifty years ago was a household word in England In connection with the trial of Vnn CaKou.ve, the unhappy wife of Ogoaos IV. Lord Mayor Wood was one of her Majesty's most vehement supporters, and the Mansion House In his day was the rallying ground of the nnti-Carlton House party, at a time when party toirit was at boiling point. CoL BcLLia is a man or -10. a bachelor with S75.000 a year, and areat estates In Devon and Cornwall. He Is tbe head ot aa ancient, a9nut.

and Influential family, a junior brancfi of which representing au eminent "hanging Judge, who is reputed to have laid it down that a man mtfht beat his wife with a stick as large as his thumb, (he had a very small thumb) was rsised to the peerage by the Ut Lord Dibbv. i in his mother sid Col. Bi llih Is of tbe family of the Duke of Norfolk. It Is wU for a country tohsveoScers who. though able "to live at home at ease on a splendid fort an, are ready to go and tutht Zulus Instead.

Col. Bi'LLER, If be survives this campaign, will writ "Sir' before, and after bis name. ho are the hundred greatest men of hls-torv This is a delicate question, and ran naver be answered to the satisfaction of everybody, but a London publishing firm hare grappled will it la a way that lit their solution of It to sunt notice. Having resolved to puMisb a work in eight quarto volumes, to be entitled "The On Hundred Greatest Men of History," with full biographical sketcoes and portraits, they bav circulated among the leading set-olars and men ot letters of England, France, Germany, and America, two forms ot blanks, one being a list of l.OOJ or mors names, with a request to check th hundred most Important, and the other a list of eight classes, tbe recipient of the list being asked to enter tb nam of tn greatest la the class with which he was most familiar. Whan th cheeked lists were returned, th publishers counted the votes," and th result Is announced in th prospectus of the forthcoming work.

Now, a list prepared In this way Is worthy of some respect. It does not represent tbe views of one or two possibly narrow-minded and ill informed men, guided her by prejudice, there by caprice, and verywbr by vague general impressions, but the deliberate judgment of tb majority of the best-informed minds of four great nations Let ns look at the result. Very few men. perhaps not on, so widely do taste differ, would give it their unqualified assent. Ia th first class, poetry, Including posts, dramatists, and novelists, we bav Homes, Pi sua Sophocles, EtBIPlDES, AalSTOf-HASt.

Mesaxdeb. Lccbc-TIlS. VlBOIL, Date. Eabelais, Cebvaxtes. Shake hear.

Miltox. Moljebk. Goethe, and Scott. We fancy that the legions of English and American admirers of Track seat and Diceebs would Insist on their nam being added, and perhaps fair minded classical scholars would consent to drop Mi audi of whose comedies tim has left only fragmenu or Roman Imitations. It Is hard to take any other names from tb llat ven to mak room for Bauac.

Passing over th classes, art and religion, we find that Phlloeophy la led by the nam of Thales, who certainly might step down to let ia some leading name not la any of the classes. Greek philosophy could spar THALES without sensible diminution ot Its splendor. History, Including orators, grammarians, humanist, ac. an Interesting class thus made bp Hebo DOTIS, THlCTDIt-E, DCHOsTSESf ES, ClCEEO. TaCI-TVS.

PLtTABCK, LtCtAS, MOXTAIUXS. SCAUOEB. MoTBSvVIEC, VOLTAIBX. DlIEBOT. Roi SKAC, Lessixo.

Gibbo.m. This list appears to bare been' mad up by French and German huxnaaleta, to judge from the preponderance) of scoffers and step ties. It Is preposterous to include Scauueb and exclude Geoboe GboTe, or even N'iebibb. wo waa the real founder of tb rational method ef studying ancient history and perhaps It Is hwasss DiliEbot waa so small a man that he navta room "here there Is none for Macaclat, white th -'-'-at of MosTEssciEU and Lssaixe invite acruthay. Wr on of them omitted.

Ev cud Bight have found a plac ia th Bast lass, which la devoted to science. With th seventh class, warriors and statesmen, every American will find fault. Wash-UfOTos is there, of course, but tb nam) of XxLsoa appears where should stand that of aHX Waa-steb, who limitations, as all know, were of temperament, and not of mind. The eighth -'sis. Inventors and discoverers lnclndea rv.

I entire list, which is subject to revision, an eou-l tains JOB names. Of these. Zi lived before sad 77 v.iist. i hers are ZB Greeks. Kemaaa, SO Germans, ltf French sen, 16 Englishmen.

AsneH-caua, Spaniard, 11 Italians. 1 Chinaman. Jews. 1 Persian, 1 Arabian. 1 Aryan, (Bri4ast and 1 Afrieeev RECORD OF DnAMlTlC AXD ItVSlCdL.

Taa Arss results of Vr. Steele Xtsckars. saa sine ail tbe settee vera a. kl Xaw sA persona who tee the v. a asuin i astabsoe as weB a Bhj ssasilsea.

bhiii am. wen to excite at curiearty and msuby. and. as asj' sVsshra seeaaed to as arttnu. 1.

1 1. a wave snansMsjii ta favee of tea It only rsmslsi tea said tha Mx. Mackayai farther and better esTorts. Ttfrlar-i-'4 mT ea this pleasant ssasl.n tiled the iknxn aaa pleaded tbe perfermsara Taeatse lissfwassn. Is ts (sir eonaily their atteatiou.

fortM vice. Fmat, UtW ahesa -a word which assy be as en of A There are ao traces of the eld rifla-A. eemiie tm vee mile sou eneie Jta Bays bss causae to Ai-a- si bis eempaay. It i pretty ma, brigbUy decorated, sad outwardly very attiaetHe. uiuiiu7, e- vvvnj anaytee.

atrial Kn Aa extremity tew assllss. aa asoet eatire lack of von til at tee, and a steso of Jiar sUmisutlTiniss tbisi ate objections wait Bsn be fferlively urged against tt, Tb be net only destroy the harmony of the srtsui' tisaa. also serves to eur-eea irate th BIB. Treks aooa tiiian excessively bests. Tab) comfort Is aggravated by tho want sf Ulatiosv The smalls e-f la a matter of a matter of snore Issuer.

A stag- should always be spacious eaoega ts tins effectively tho twe parts of a theatre, that batsss sad that behind the footlights. Oa Ma stage, however, tb asters are brenght ea saeat to the svssUeaeo that nil "'tt'tu Is and tho result ts nnUiicaily einati, Tb actors, furthermore, are oat ef tan. portion to tbctr and sesb want of proportion ia apt to sear one' sslij nesn eery materially. These facts are vrortby of th at teatson of manager whose object ts to plena fas pubis. Of course, it mast be remsmlisisd thus Mackay ia making aa experiment; a see as will bs so sr omr4 aa le be aahled give.

I orK a theair worthy of its patronagu- Tbo performance last evening was aa suasuaCi pleasing ene, sad served to Bring forward a sear paay selected with a great deal of taste and skflk Th play was Aftermath." better known "Yea At La which was secressfaily prod need si WaV lack's a season ago. The author. Mr- Mackay Ussasif, (who thus served la th trial capacity ef njs. wright. actor, sad nssusr.l bss made sosm tloas la tho original work, whir-b, tn bs treatment, Mvenhelees, remains tho sank, a la, a most of our renders probably knew.

a piece oi purely noin tn Intel set, very and very human in motive, sad with considerable fresh sees and strength. ItsrXhi unnecessary to rabeara here the story which a although we may state that it at lean pu nertra) th relations between a mea of tho i'iewiny. nod a sweet, simple girt, whobseasssi his wife. Grace learns on her usilslag aaj mei ut man vo wnom an nns sansiiilsm as basil -cares nothing for her; that la worn-out. cQsst paiad.

cynical being, wbo has found all love heQeu -and all woaea deceptive, Thl knowledge sssbsWs ber to assert her dignity of Tnresrilieed. sag thereupon shs decides to be nothing tt John FUmiHg. Tbe latter, as sees as at learns to comprehend the astute ef tat woman be has married, learns also to respect and tt venerate ber, and the play is thus employed pk tur tb growth of his lore and to depict the ihstx do which be must overcome before ho sea rightfuV ly snd manfully claim her heart as truly his sws This motive is skillfully lotervovea with sees light intrigue, and many of th seen sre tslsf dft snd natural touches. Tb ton of th srhei quiet, although sot at all dulL In th hands of feed actors, tb piece Is on that should win publie regard. On th whole.

Mr. Mackay' eosv pany la mad up of good elements, He hisses Tt Is an actor wbo understands his art be I not nt all sympathetic, aud in passages rsJUag for ssliraTs tender treatment be Is unpleasantly kardi bat his manner ia well controlled bis gesture, though often too mechanical, ar limltraalj and hs uses his voiee, which ts not devoid of gees tones, with harmonious ease. Ia the strong max was picturesque sad forcibla is vry sens superior to th late Mr. Mso. tague: but the delightful grace and srinslaf personality of that lnmented young act wan wholly wanting in Mr.

Mackay' charncterixstise. To Miss Agnes Loring. new-comer, who appeal-el as Cf, not much praise can be asrarSedi he has been Intelligently trained, sad sat seemed to be st home spun the etege, bat there waa no trace of ulni tm Je- tw emotion was of that atrniaed aenUmeatel km! which la too of tea mistaken for feeling. Her sctis was Inherently weak and crude, and stteriy deveel ot sincerity. Mr.

Couldock. with bis sun pi snd earnest manner, was a touching- contrast to this young lady. Mr. Couldock ia always la earnest, as therein dwell hie strength. Hss comedy bs oeerthe heart, and it Sows naturally into the ssa.

plest paths. Ia certain Lines of old man's pari Ut. Couldock has ao saperior apoa our stage, Tb other members of the com paay were generally efficient, epcially Mia Gabriel ds Sauld ma tin. Bumtxr, Miaa Genevieve Rogers a rm FUJfiwU, and Mr. George Browne a oc ItriscU.

Mr. Brown hs little to do, but bo See that l.ttls with extreme neatneea. "FATIXITZA" AT THE FIFTH AVEXUE. Suppe's comic opera of was performed for th first tim but evening; at tho Ftfta Avenue Theatre. A first tterforsnsnee hsbl to show some unevesneea, as was th saas laat evening, but tho general effect sraa so good and tho artist eatered thoroughly into tho spirit of tb scsbsb, that ecee-alonal lmpsrfectiooa may he readily excused Tb boas wss fill, sad the applause showed that the enjoyment una guanine, and that "retinites" Is certain to bo success.

Tho mass brilliant and taking, and tho story afford abundant opportunity for amorous dialogue sad comic Incidents, which keep tho aacLsors always merry a ad Interested. The snnnagesnent knee bees fortunate la tho ee lection of th nriactsel artatts. Mia Jeaaaie Winston ns Tievsiatir. a young Lieutenant, wbo rTlagnlses himself as ft sad captivates the Re sal an General urhC prosecuting his twn suit wish th Gear ral's niece, tho issues i-ydta, was i nssitwjgl good, both la ber singing sad acting. It Is not tee much to ay that ber difficult role waa wtts se much of cleverness a le entitle to high praise as a eousk she sang with taste and skill.

She assise I as aeienua, with sa bsbusIbs suggest: of her previous shsraoter of risdsassr. the Last net, when she returned to the role, she waa very rearming snd graeetal, sad ran-d-red th part with spirit sad good efface KW bailie Eebe was ao less JVinrn Lfdim. Sho baa and sane tbe music of ber part stnswtaly s4 artistically. She made a piquant Pi ia i s. aad esse musics ted something of her gay aad eieiselag spirits to the artists ea the stege as well as a the Bsdieae.

Mr. W. H. HassUtou. as tho General, was good aad dseervsd thl aHkm of bis merits bo received tress audience Mr.

Merges, as the special panor correspondent, was amusing sad sneeed himself to bs hricnt sctor ta sosnis aorta the hU voiee was hardly strong saoagb In th musts ss-signed to him. Tas other parts were ts tBval rf well don, aad will doubtlos bo better after a Sr snore pert ornaanee. Th eseei sail nsiomsrss new. aad added mach to the samn of tho sissmf asunlly good. sad.

In dee a. tee entire opera at well ssounted aa cnrefsnT srraagesV is th third net test evening, th tn tilem taidi ta 'iisrm and tne PjrTcsondwf was sMja aevereJ Uases. aad win unaoubtesUr Bauson te vevile eevs silk tho salliaasi who aseMSshat boar Tatiaitsa," nrxzrr bcjdzjd ms it or stmizm. CUCUXATI, April '23. A special ettsaasta from Terr Haute.

IseL, state that sboat lassa are ea a strike asse that.