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DECEMBER 18, 1878. The probabilities art that the weather in Yew York and its vicinity to-day trill be slightly warmer and clmidy, icith light snow. To-morrow it will le toiler and cloudy, followed by clearing weather. Wall Street stock market was active ami weak at the close. Gold opened at 1001? ami fell to par.

Government bomls were linn. States weak and railroads strong. Money on call was active at 3t-j a 4 per cent, advanced to 7, and closed ah 5 a 6 per cent. Sitting Bcll, the Indian contractor will be pained to hear, intends to spend Christmas and New Year's in Canada. The Execution op Khhoe, the notorious Molly Magi lire leader, is set for to-day.

All hope of a reprieve has been abandoned. New Orleans is not likeljr to suffer for a lack of notaries. If General llutlcr is to be believed 110 first clans aaloon is considered complete without one. The Glort op Creed moor seems to be ou the decline. Owing to the difficulty of access it is not improbable that the spring meeting will be beld at the Brinton range, near Elizabeth.

It Is Not lMi'tioB-tiiiE that the resolution of the Aldermen prohibiting residents of other States from holding stands in the public markets has a more or leas remote connection with the Tammany machine. According to the Despatches from Washington the members of the Cnbiuetat the meeting yesterday felt like indulging in an oldlashioned breakdown over the general peaceful condition of the country. The Cipher Despatches were for the first time alluded to yesterday in (be House. The style of their reception leads to the well belief thnt each party bus-a little colored chap under the Woodpile. Governor Hampton, this morning's despatches any, has experienced a ebauge for the better, and it is now thought that be will recover.

He partook of solid food estcrday lor the first time since his illness, and is himself full of confidence in regard to his restoration to health. It Seems Strange that, notwithstanding our commerce, the exact metes und bounds of the harbor master's authority should be a matter of doubt. That such is the fact, however, is shown by the suit in 1lie courts yesterday. The result will be interesting to shipowners and captains. Morton and Hi iix, the Philadelphia-street railroad men whose financial exploits in putting upon the market nearly two million dollars' worth of frauilnlent stock will not soon be forgotten in that city, have been sent to the State Prrion for ten years.

While the sentence is severe it is ut the same time richly deserved Trip. Uncertain-TV attending the action of Congress in regard to the tax on tobacco is, it is alleged, the chief cause of the depression in that important branch of busiuees. If the Washington legislators cannot help they assuredly ought not to hart trade, but they seem to Ihs endowed ith a faculty in that respect. adilition to the paesagc of the Blaine election resolution the Senate yesterday disposed of the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, refusing its concurrence in the reduction of the salaries of the different foreign ministers which had becu made by the House and restoring tbein to the old figure. The Postal Car Deficiency bill led to a partisan ilckaite in the House, in the course of which each party Civ di-nTorcd to show that the economical professions of its opponent had no foundation in fact.

As soon us the party fireworks were all exhausted the bill was passed. The pressure has increased, in the Northwest anil Southwest, hpt is falling aJoiig the Kocky Mnuptain range ss an area of low barometer winch overlay Southern Utah nd New Mexico on Monday advances i-nstwunl. The relatively low pressure recently west of the Upper Mississippi alley hns umuciI to the lake region, causing light snow from tho Upper Mississippi to the Ohio Valley. Clinidine-? still prevails north of Tennessee and eastward to the Atlantic coast. Tho weather is clear in the Slid West, Teinpeiatni'i'S oontinuo very low all over the country, especially iu the West, Northwest and upper hikes.

They will undoubtedly riso today along the Koeky Mountains and probably ou the Atlantic coast. The weather on the English coast last evening was cold, ith light ut some points, north to northwest winds and a pressure of 2U.OO inches. In New York und lie Ticinlty to-day tho weather will he slightly warmer and clomlv. with, probably, light snow. To inorrow it will he colder and cloudy, followed by oleaiing wcathur.

Uoltl at sump ion Praet ArhUvml. For the first time since the issue of legal tender notes they were recognized yesterday in the financial world as the lull equivalent of gold. The premium on gold antedates the passage of the Legal Tender act, that act having been passed February 14, 1802, and the premium on gold having begun in the preceding month. The original comparison was between gold and the notes ol the State banks, which varied between par and a gold premium of five per cent in January, 1802. We do not know the precise date when the first legal tender notes were issued, but it could not have been earlier thun March, 1862, since time required for engraving and printing after the passage of the Legal Tender act.

Hut in March, 1862, the lowest premium on gold was 1 1-8 per cent, and the highest 2 1-2 per cent. Bat it rose very rapidly afterward, and reached an enormous height in critical stages of the war. Now, when the volcano of public passionB and fears has burnt out and become extinct and gold has finally sunk to pur, it is curious to inspect record of the fluctuations in the price of gold for the sixteen years during which it has been at a premium, and especially the rajpid and violent fluctuations in critical stages of the civil war. As a physician judges of the condition of a patient by marking the varying rapidity of his pulse, so the national hopes and fears and the varying pvospocts of success and defeat during the civil war are registered in the sudden fluctuations of the gold premium which were the consequence of military events. The premium reached its highest point in July, 18G4, when gold was rated one day at the stupendous price of 285, making the value of the greenback dollar only thirty-five cents.

That was the darkest period of national gloom, the tremendous crisis when citizens and the government itself came nearest to despairing of the Republic. In those dark days steam was kept up on a government vessel in the Washington Navy Yard on which the President and Cabinet would have embarked with the public archives had the rebels under Early forced their way into the capital. Lee, sorely pressed by at Petersburg, had sent Early around into Maryland, and it was owing to mere luck and accident that Washington was not captured and the government put to flight. Grant had despatched the Sixth corps of the Army of the Potomac to Washington, and by a fortunate coincidence General Emory, with the Nineteenth corps, which had been ordered from New Orleans after the failure of the Red River expedition, had just arrived at Hampton Roads, and, without debarking, it was sent up the Potomac to follow the Sixth. Bat even that timely assistance would have proved unavailing if Early hod not quailed in the very pinch of the crisis.

On the morning of the 11th of July his van was close up to the fortifications covering the northern approach to Washington, and in the afternoon the Confederate infantry had come up and was arrayed in front of Fort Stevens. The works were slightly defended, and Early might eusily have made a dash into Washington and driven out the government if his vigor had been equal to his opportunity. The capture of Washington and flight of the government would have led to the immediate recognition of the Confederacy by France and" England, and the war for the Union would have been a failure. On so slender a thread hung the xlestiny of a great nation It was in that trying time that gold reached its highest price of 285, and the greenback dollar was worth only thirty-five cents. From the calm waters in which we now find ourselves, with gold at par, it is interesting, I and, even at this distance, almost exciting, to look back upon the dangers wo have passed.

The most compendious and suggestive of the civil war anywhere recorded consists of the tabular statement in which is set down, month by month, the fluctuations in the price of gold during those four eventful years. The astonishing rises and falls within brief periods, correspondent to the violent fluctuations of public feeling, are the surest index to the important events of the War. A person may take up a military history of the war and read on and on with littlo profit to his judgment; bat if be will take a tabular statement of the changing premiums on gold and attompt to trace out their causes in contemporaneous occurrences ho will acquire a just appreciation of the relative importance of the events as estimated by the shrewdest observers of the period. The suddenness of the fluctuations attests the extreme anxiety and sensitiveness of public feeling and the trying alternations of hopo and depression while the fate of oar country soemed to tremble in the balance. Even in that gloomy and appalling July, 1M4, there was but a transient approach to for although tho highest price of gold was 285 its lowest was 222.

In the preceding month it had fluctuated between 169 and 251, and in tho Soptember following between 185 and 255. Those extraordinary ebbs and flows did not result from redundancy of tho circulating medium, but from the interpretations pat upon military events, exaggerated, to be mire, by the gnmbling speculators in gold. It requires an effort to realize the great importance of the ehango which has been accomplished in the monetary condition of the country. It has been achieved through much suffering, but it is worth all it has cost. The terriblo panic of 1873 and the long years of business prostration which have followed were necessary means of 1 bringing tho country to the point now reached und from which there is no appreciable danger that it will recede.

Tho legal dote of resumption being only two weeks distant, all business will be shaped, trom this time forth, with reference to the par vsiue of our paper currency. The reason why paper money is at par in advance of the dato of redemption is found in the refusal of tho Treasury to give any more gold certificates. In consequence of this tho owners of gold coin can no longer make it an article of merchandise. A man who buys gold dues not wish to incur the risk of keeping it in his own custody, and his only choice lies between giving it in charge to a sate deposit company or turning it into his ordinary bank account. A safe deposit company will not take it without charges which would reduce its value below that of greenbacks, and unleas the owner is willing to incur the risk of keeping it in his own safe he must deposit it in a bunk, lint no bank, at this stage of affairs, will receive gold except as ordinary current money to be checked against like any other form of currency.

This puts a final end to the business of the gold brokers. "Othello's occupation is gone." Gold coin can no longer be sold and bought by a mere transfer of gold certificates, but only by actual deliveries of the metal, which arc too cumbrous and inconvenient to justify operations when there is but a vanishing shade of difference between the values of gold and legal tender notes. Hereafter the owners of gold can do nothing better with it than to deposit in the banks which they make the custodians of their other funds, and which will hereafter make no distinction between deposits of gold and deposits of legal tender notes. Having reached this point the mero legal date of resumption ceases to bo of any consequence. In the transition from the 31st of December to the 1st of January there will be no shock or break, nor even the slightest ripple of disturbance, and it is not probable that any considerable amount of legal tender notes will be presented for redemption during the month of January.

Wo congratulate the business community and the Secretary of the Treasury (to whose skill the present condition of things is a great compliment) on the ease and smoothness with which we are passing out of the old into the new era. The Swedish Arctic Expedition. Letters from Professor Nordenskj old's Swedish Arctic expedition, in search of a practicable northeast passage from Western Europe to Behring Strait via the Kara Sea, have been received, and there now exists no doubt that the attempt has been crowned with success. After penetrating the Kara Sea with his steamers, the Vega and Lena, Professor Nordenskjold reached the mouth of the Yenisei. From Dickson's Port, a trading point established there by the Professor during a former stay, the expeditionary steamers sailed along the coast line toward Cape Cheljaskin or the North Cape Of Asia, which was passed successfully.

The voyago continued until finally the mouth of tho Biver Lena was achievement unequalled in these seas. The details of the voyages of Nordenskjold, as well as the of the history of exploration in the Kara Sea and its vicinity, will be rendered more interesting by an examination of the accompanying chart, which shows the immense extent of continental coast line explored, the positions of the North Gapes of Europe and Asia and of the great rivers of Siberia that pour into the Arctic Ocean. The reader can easily imagine the commercial advantages of navigable route from Western Europe to Japan and China via the Kara Sea and Behring Strait. Such a route, if found practicable for steamers even during a few months of each year, would open up to trade the northern half of the vast continent of Asia now drained by the rivers Obi, Yenisei and Lena, which will, withont doubt, provo navigable for great distances from their months. Professor Nordenskjold has shown already that trading vessels carrying profitable cargoes can roach the mouth of the Yenisei inAugust and September, andso as to return to Europe laden with marketable freight before the ice again closes the Kara Sea.

The success of Professor Nordcnskjold's Arctic explorations goes to prove the wisdom of the Swedes, who, instead of following the routes pursued by the English so long and ad fruitlessly, have struck out a new line, and with very great, if not complete, success. No one donhts that the Swedish ship Vega, in which Nordenskjold is completing his voyage to Behring Strait, will reach a Japanese or American port. Indeed she is said by whalers to be near the Strait, but beset with ice, and has thus practically made the journey. The progress of Swedish'exploration in this cose proves the wisdom of the late Dr. Petermann and others who urged the adoption of new routes, and shows that the way to greater discoveries and perhaps to the Pole itself is not by Baffin's Bay and Smith Sound, but via cither Behring Strait or SpltzbergeD.

The American expedition which will leave San Francisco next June, may, perhaps, in case Professor Nordenskjold's vessel meets with any mishap this winter, which Ileavcn forbid, fall in with his party and bo able to offer them means of rescue. Should such prove to be the cose uo doubt tho Swedish explorers, having accomplished so much by way of the northeast passage, would seize the opportunity to join forces with the Americans and proceed with them toward the Pole. It would be at least a great achievement to add so much to the geographical knowledge of the world, as would be contributed by a thorough exploration of the land to the northwest of Herald Island, even though the seoret of the Pole should not be reached. Tike Ball tor Bulgaria. Our poor friends the Bulgarians are still without a sovereign, and one of our brilliant contemporaries proposes to send tbem Talfnage, the howling dervish of the Brooklyn Presbyterian circns.

But we are afraid they have had a surfeit of dervishes already. Besides, Talmage's habits of thought would not incline him to the toleration that must be practised in aland in whioh the religious division of the people is of primary oonscquence. He cannot tolerate what he does not understand and he does not understand much. We, therefore, should not like to commit the American people to this recommendation. But there is reverend man of another sort, who possesses all the good qualities of Talmago and none of his defects.

We refer, of course, to that great prophet and medicine man of the Hiuux, Hitting Bull. As the Bulgarians want an American they may prefer an American of the original breed, and the Ball that Squats is a good specimen. He is a during, bold and sagacious ruler, wlio maintains his hold on a ruder race than the garians by his superior qualities, his eloquence and the success of his plans. With a handful of savages he has repeatedly whipped the whole United States, and laughs at the Indian Bureau conducted by a great statesman bred in Europe. He will make the Bulgarians a groat king, but we warn them they will have some trouble in catching him.

A Remedy Murh Needed, Morning and evening there are hours when tho rush of passengers to the rapid transit trains overtaxes the proper carrying capacity ot the roads under the present arrangements and leads to the dangerous crowding the cars. It is not easy to deal with this difficulty, especially on the east side line, which is not yet open to Hulrlem Bridge, unless the companies are willing to afford increased station accommodation and to furnish extra trains. There are several points along the road where central tracks could be laid which would afford facilities for the operation of special trains that would carry off tho crowds that collect at some of tho way stations during tho "rush" hours. This system is attempted to be put in practice by the starting of a train from Franklin square, but it makes no appreciable impression on the crowding because it induces a crowd to gather at Franklin square station, everybody hoping to get a scat there. Now if trains were started simultaneously from Fifty-ninth street, Sixty-seventh street, Eighty-ninth street, and some station between Eighty-ninth street and Harlem Bridge daring tho morning rush, and from Fulton street, Chatham square.

Grand, Houston and Ninth streets during tho evening rush, people reaching these stations before and after working hoars would not be compelled to stand in the cars all the way down and up town.The only difficulty to be overcome will be met by providing switches and sidings for trains at the points mentioned. For morning service the "extras" could easily be put in position without interfering with the regular traffic, but in the evening it would be necessary to make some trifling alterations in the present running schedule in order to send empty cars to the crowded stations. Let us suppose that on the New York Elevated Bailroad all the proposed tracks and station sidings are constructed. Up to Ave o'clock in the evening all trains coming down town ran through to the Battery. After that hoar four trains coming from Harlem display flags, lamps or signs to indicate that they will be switched off at ortain stations, thus warning through passengers to take the next train.

The switches are opened at Fulton street, Chatham square, Grand, Houston and Ninth streets in the order given, as their designated trains arrive, and the latter are run on the extra track or siding for local passengers. When filled they start north again, and are succeeded at intervals by other downtown coming trains, and so on until tho rush is over, Then the switches are locked and all trains eome to the Battery from Harlem. On the straight line of the New York Elevated Hail roail, and with ordinary carc, this system could be operated with the most satisfactory results. All that is required, as we have stated, is for the company to furnish trains and station accommodation. Trucks along both sides of the Bowery can be doubled without interfering with surface traffic, and in the narrower streets the difficulties are by no means insurmountable.

By strengthening the transverse bracing girders they can oarry switchoffs and extra tracks, and where this cannot be done let the company purchase spaces in the blocks for their trains. The whole trouble now arises from the fact that large crowds from a limited district assemble at neighboring stations cftx the main linn If, for instance, terminal branches, snch as the Chatham street line to City Hall Park will be, or one through Worth to Broadway might be mode, were in operation, they would take the crowds from Franklin square and Fulton street, Chatham square and even Grand street, and the main line vronld be preserved from the danger of blockades dne to pressure at its stations. Judge Hilton and the Hebrew Charities. The refusal of one of the Hebrew institutions to accept a gift from Mrs. Stewart because it was to be transmitted through Judge Hilton seems to have resulted from a misapprehension.

If the managers of the hospital had restrained their resentment until they had become better acquainted with tho facts they would have evinced a wiser and more considerate spirit. It appears that Mrs. Stewart, At the approach of tho Christmas season, made impartial donations to all the principal charities of tho city without any distinction of religions creed. It is to be regretted that this act of praiseworthy benevolence should have been understood in any instance in a different spirit from that in which it was intended. Mrs.

Stewart's venerable age, her unostentatious virtues, and the great affliction to which ahe has been so rudely subjected by a recent instance of unfeeling barbarity, should have protected her from any new wounds at this time, and especially from an act of charity being turned into a source of bitterness. Resentment, however just, against her business agent ie not a sufficient excuse for a thrust at this venerablo lady through the sides of Judge Hilton. Under all the circumstances it would have been prndent and self-rospcoting for the managers of the hospital to have quietly ignored the offer if they did not choose to accept it. Had they waited a few days until they could ascertain the facte they might have discovered that there was no reasonable bar to their acceptance of the gift. It was not a gift to the managers but to the poor sufferers under their charge, and if sho hod divided it into small suras and offered it to individual sufferers it would have seemed a strange proceeding for anybody to have stepped between her and the beneficiaries and intercepted her charity.

This set of hasty resentment will be regretted and deplbred by that large portion of this community who disapproved of Judge Hilton's indiscreet demonstration in connection with the Saratoga hotel. Murdrr in Our sister liepublie clings to hej nnrepublican modes of government with curious tenacity. The features of arbitrary rulers, swaggering soldiers and intriguing clergy are preserved ufter every revolution. Against ono class or the other the people from time to time revolt, but change brings no relief. It is strange that when they rise up they do not make a clean sweep and put despotism of every shape out of the way.

The fact is that Merfcuns are divided into two who eat and those who are eaten. Like the famous eels that got used to being skinned, the Mexicans who are the food of the predatory classes do not object to giving, so to speak, a leg or an arm now and then, but are inclined to protest when they are asked to contribute their entire bodies to the official repast. Some faint endeavor in the way of a petition to procure the remission of a heavy tax upon real estate and capital in the State of Jalisco procured the entry of a number of Jaliscans into prison, and a moss meeting with the same object in the town of Guadalajara brought out the soldiers, who fired upon the assembled citizens, killiug five merchants. Wo cannot understand in the United States how these things occur in Mexico without leading to an upheaval. We sent the English home about a hundred years ago for doing things to which the Mexicans either submit or else, making a change, leave themselves liable to the same treatment from their new masters.

It is more than probable that Prosidont Diaz will be able to tell all meddling inquirers that peace reigns in Jalisco, that the tax is being cheerfully paid and as cheerfully collected, and that the firing on a peaceable crowd, which our correspondent writes of, was a little indiscretion that, however, had a salutary result Miss Panther's fuse. Dr. Hammond's return to the case of Miss Fnncher in bis recent suggestion of a method by which her capacity to discover the contents of sealed envelopes might be put to a practical test has provoked two replies, which we print to-day. Ono is from Mr. Henry M.

Park hurst, the other from a Brooklyn physician who signs only his initials. Neither of these gentlemen is satisfied that Dr. Hammond's proposition is either fair or logical, and they turn the tables on the distinguished neurologist by applying tests to him in his turn. M. H.

seems disposed to apply a quasi religious test and to argue tho defective spiritual nature of a man who cannot believe more than he can understand, while Mr. Parkhurst is inclined to a test of the Doctor designed to expose his expertness or inexpertnes8 with sealed onvelopes. Dr. Hammond, it will be remembered, said with all respect for Mr. Parkhurst that his test of a sealed envelope was really worthless, because as it had beon loft with the person whoso capacity was to be tried the apparent integrity of the seal was not an evidence that it had not been opened.

If it were evidence on that point, the "cabinet noir" maintained in all European post offices for hundreds of years for the examination of suspected letters wonld have had fewer chances to discover people's secrets. Altogether the now words on this topic are of some interest. SL theory of the transposition of the implies that people may sometimes see' with their a fine piece of professional imagination. Hoaxiag the British la the (able despatches it is reported from London that the British Board of Admiralty has made an official declaration of the lulsity of "an interview with the Duke of Edinburgh while at Halifax, pablishod recently in a Now York journal, in which His Royal Highness is made to say that he looked upon the author of England's new peace with honor policy with feelings of the utmost disgust." Alas! we ore afraid those solemn and fearfully respectable men are destined to be laughed at, and are the victims of their incapacity to see a joke. No New York paper published on interview with the Duke of Edinburgh except the Hzbald, and in our interview there were no expressions such as are referred to by the Admiralty.

But a lively little paper published in this city, and which puts forth happy skits from time to time, published a somewhat pithy parody on our interview, and in that parody His Royal Highness was made to say many startling it is the privilege of wit to make things piquant without regard, to the proprieties. Alas that the British Admiralty should be fooled by our neighbor's drollery. A Suggestive Comparison. For more than a century the Black Hole of Calcutta and the fiendish cruelly of the heathen who, for a few hours, made a prison of it, havo ranked high among the stock horrors of the world. This "hole" was a cell about twenty feet square, and as its two windows, both open, were too high to be reached trom the floor, its ceiling must have been at least twelve feet from the floor.

Into this cell the natives, who reconquered the city from the British, immured the garrison, numbering one hundred and fortysix men, for an entire night, with the result that only twenty-three were alive at daylight. The cubic ullowanco of air per individual was only about thirty-three feet, and the ventilation afforded by the two open windows waa not sufficient in the hot climate of India. But in a communication addressed to the Board of Education within two years by a committee of physicians, the air space per pupil in some of the rooms of a single pubHc new estimated thirty-one to thirty-four feet. There are some important differences between the two cases. The windows of the Black Hole were always open, while those of the schoolroom are usually closed, and the Calcutta building had no artificial heat being steadily foroed into it Still more, the sufferers at Calcutta were grown men and soldiers, with the adult physical quality of resistance, while the children are young and peculiarly submissive to physical influences, The world has learned a great deal about ventilation wince the morning when a hundred and twenty-three dead Englishmen were dragged from the Black Hole, but 6chool boards do not seem to have taken their lull part in the general improvement.

Tlt? Blaine Resolution. This resolution has passed the Senate, only six democrats voting against it. We are sorry that this small handful had not the good sense to give a silent vote, nnd that some of them thought it necessary to make speeches on the subject. Fortunately the speeches were not of sufficient mark or interest to do much harm. The majority of the democratic Senators judged wisely that it is better to let this investigation take its course, and not to waste the time of the Senate in a debate which would merely have obstructed business of real importance.

The country is heartily tired and sick of the everlasting Southern question, and further agitation will only deepen the general disgust at politicians who are willing to subordinate great interests to thfir ambitious hopes. Wo are passing into a new era, when questions relating to tho material interests of the country will bo the hinges of politics. Mr. Blaine iB attempting to ride a dead horse, and it is preposterous to consume valuable time in attempting to prevont him. He will discover his mistake, nnd before he gets through with this experiment he will regrot it.

As no legislation can possibly result from his investigation it i9 wise to let him alone to discover his folly and want of foresight. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Texas is receiving many German emigrants. Cupoul has lout money and lias closed the Sallo Ventadour. Governor Lucius Robinson arrived from Albany last evening at the 8t.

James Hotel. Colonel John Carstairs McNeill, C. Equerry in Ordinary to Queeu Victoria, is at the Windsor Hotel. Representative Williams, of Michigan, wan still alive at a late hour last night, but was not expected to survive nntil morning. Frank lluckland, the naturalist, gives entertainments to his scientific friends on Saturday evenings, and calls them "pipes and grog." An Italian in San Francisco has been prosecuted for cruelty to cats, of which he has been in the habit of buying dozens from boys.

He is a sausage maker. Lord Beoconsfield will receive to-morrow the deputation which camo to present to him an address and casket from the English residents of the l'aciflo Coast. The English agricultural laborer receives the year round a little more than 15 a week, with a small allowance of beer money. Tho agricultural unions art fighting for more. nigger bee the rite to vote.

We under stand that and respect it. But there must be llmitashuns. Ho may law sez the law don't say how he ahel vote. That is for us." General Iguatleff writes to a friend that the cause of Russia is being better served in Constantinople by the English Minister, Sir Henry Layard, whom he regards as a blunderer, than it could be served by any Russian. Norristown New Yobk Herald it giving specimens of bnmor from Lomlon comia weeklies If a man bos just lost a rich aunt, and wantr to aesumc a funereal and grief-stricken expresnion to fit the supposed solemn occasion, he.

should road tho chunks of foreign humor now appearing daily in our New York namesake. An able-bodied onion as a tear-produoer is no comparison alongside of them." London World quiet 'extra sort of rwagger give me a fashionable jockey! One dainty little gentleman down at Kompton Park last week was hailed by a friciyl of mine, 'Hallo, where have you been? Missed your mounts been riding much, so on. And the languid jockling made answer, 'I? quite too beastly horrid and damp for then, with the smallest of shivers, 'Bcally must get away to Nice for a month or off he drove in a Nice, I Captain Richard Burton, the traveller, is living at Trieste. He is five feet eleven, square shouldered and deep cheated, and he has little feet and hands. He resembles an Arab; his gray hair is close cropped, and he has piercing black eyes.

Under a straight nosa and over a square mouth is a black mustache. On his travels he the Bible, Shakespeare, Euclid and the Breviary. Mrs. Burton daily swims for a couple of hours iu tho Adriatic and takes broadsword exercise from a Ocrman trooper, after which she promutes a society for preventing cruelty to animals. THE THIRD AVENUE A QUIET DAY AMONG TUB STREET CAB DETERMINED TO HOLD OUT.

The striko of the car drivers of the Third Avenue road was continued yesterday without any noticeable events. The company have the inside track and are determined to keep it, and their helpless employes have to grin and bear it. In the morning a vast crowd of men, over five hundred in number, collected around the depot at Sixty-fifth street. The police of the Third inspection district, under command of Inspector MeDcrmott, were on hand as on the day prcvioua, and were sufficient by their presence to forbid any idea of a riot The drivers met iu consultation at a couple of places ou the avenue, and the general deposition wss to maintain the strike at any coat. Late iu the evening they m-t at No.

I.Utl Third avenue and held aconsultation, and the prev stent feeling was to keep the strike going. James Kenny, the car driver who was arrested oa Monday night for interference with a new driver, was yesterday In the Fifty-seventh Court fined $10 and held in default of 1500 bail to keep the peace for six months. paid tho fine and secured a bondsman. Ou the 'i'lrtrfy fifth street branch of the road none of tho "bobtail" cars have been run since the strike began. Home say this is because the company would not trust new drivers, while others say the oara da not pay and have been withdrawn altogether.

AN AITKAL 1'OR TUB DillVKits. New Yore, Dec. 17, 1878. To the Kditor or nu Believing that you are and always have been In sympathy with the working classes, and especiaUy with those who are willing to work for a moderate fompcusation and who dosiro only a more subsistence in theso times of depression, I confidently appeal to you to use your powerful influence In behalf of the car drivers of tho Third Avenue Railroad. These poor men, ulany of whom have families, find it Impossible to support themselves ami those dependent upon them on tho wages proposed by that company, and therefore I conclude and I think every humane and just man will agree with mo that this strike on the part of the drivers is at least justifiable.

I know it is not within the scope of your power directly compel that company to do bettor forAlte'ir men, but I have not tho least doubt that you conld, If you see fit. indirectly compel them, by suggesting to the public, who largely sympathize with these poor nten, to travel by other lines until tbia dominant railroad shall hnvefy iclded to just demands, p. McCartney, Beach street, FLUTTER AMONG OFFICIALS. It was rumored in official circles In Newark I set evening that efforts are IMng made to have the Common Council indicted for alleged Improper use of th? public funds. The amended Htate constitution (article 1, paragraph 1.) Nu county, city, borough, tews, township or village (hall hereafter give any nmuey or property, or loan Its money or credit to or in aid of any Individual, associativa or corpo.

ration, Ac. It ia asserted that the Common Council has violated this provision of law on various occasions during the year, such as making appropriations for the National Begatta of Amateur Oarsmen, held on the 1'aeeala lliver laet summer, and for tho celebration of tho Fourth of July, City clerk Kutphnu, when asked for information on the subject of tbe rumored indictment, gave it ae his opinion that the Council had violated no law. Nevertheless the rumor has created quite a flutter in official circles. Tho (trend Jury iff now in.