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BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2. 1885. 4 PARIS TOPICS. as great fidelity and promptness as it has been within my power to bestow. EVENING TRANSCRIPT icy" to which McDonald refers, is more likely to rend the Democracy than perpetuate its power, as the Indiana ex-senator suggest a the transcendent virtue of Mr.

Levi P. Morton would be a much out of place a a senator for New York or any other State, or even on the throne of the Owsars, a tbe archangel Michael would be on a barrel, waving the red flag. That such man should condescend to enter the vulgar arena of political ambition must lie sore puzzle to the uninitiated. In the midst of all this psalmody and tinkling of cymbals to the honor and glory of the heroic inaa who exposed his inestimable life to the horrors of cholera in Paris when the epidemic was over, there is one discordant note. It comes from the American Register, which it would appear so enveloped in infidel darkness that it refusea to be dazzled by the shining virtues ol Mr.

Levi P. Morton. This paper comment sarcastically and trenchantly on tb zeal of the Mortonites. General Whittier will not fight with Mr. Tevia over the Comte de Pari.

Hi decisiou is that of a sensible man. The antl-Orleanit Voltaire published, on the authority of Mr. Tevis, statements in connection with the Comte de Paris' services iu the American army damaging to tlie reputation of the heir to the throne of Hugh Capet. General Whittier, who ha probably no political bis iu the matter, line speaking a an honest mau who detests Iaa-rl-r, and. from Lis perauual knowledge, da-claieil these statement to be untrue.

There-iqou Mr. Tcvi waxed wroth, aud is said ts-liave invited General Whittier to deadly combat. General Whittier charitably sujt-I i-htii that Mr Tevis wa jesting, but give him no encouragement to carry the joke any further. He is not a Frenchman, and he is therefeve not bound by any theatrical code ofLour-r. He ran afford to laugh at those ho say he is afraid to fight.

A soldier who has seen his service i iu bo need of a stocking-needle encotijjer a in Fraraie. or an exchange of bullet at twenty paces, to convince the world that be is uot a poltroon. If can leave sr.i-h tactic to every Bombasts Furioso who stands in need of them. 7, viXA't less, no one can begrudge Miss Sarah Clarke her gallant and truly feminine defence of her friend, lately printed in your columns, and, with the exception of one passage, I am abundantly willing that it should go for what it Is worth. The exception is where Miss Clarke allows her natural good sense and candor so far to be obscured as to assert that Hawthorne, in remarking that Margaret fell as the weakest of ber sisters mighti meant to insinuate that the unfortu nate woman was never legally married Ossoli at all.

Hawthorne never entertained such an idea he was not the man, under any circumstances, to make an insinuation and the language he uses will not bear Miss Clarkes gratuitous interpretation I feel less tenderness for Mr. T. W. Higginson, who, through his female organ, has woven this matter into a theory of married isolation which has a sadly perfunctory twang about it. Mr.

Higginson, at all events, is still young enough to have known better. The majority of readers will, I think, not be inconsolable that floor Margaret Fuller lias at last taken her place with the numberless other dismal frauds who fill the limbo human pretension and failure. I am. sir, your Julian Hawthorn. Oee.Sl, 14.

Mu. Geokok August ui Sala, who begins in Boston, next week, a lecture tour which will reach round the world, is known to read-eiaof English all the world over. He has been aptly called the foremost representative of the lighter side of modern journalism. From this it is not to lie inferred that Mr. Sala has 1 the ranks of those men in newspaper life who treat all subjects, no matter what tbeir nature, with frivolous speech or sneering comment.

His gayety has never lieen otherwise than timely anil tasteful, while his exceptional talents aud abilities have always lieen direcled fur the edificaiou of his readers. Though happily blest with the lamer to carry Liinself with freedom, anywhere and with anybody, he is not to be counted with the Bohemians of literature. A voracious reader, he has given to thoi-e who read liis writings tlie beet results of liis extensive and varied studies. Hi eyes are shaip. and be well knows bow t.i b.s Uiem.

as lie bas shown in two delightful eric of url-au pictures. Twice Rouud the Clock" am! 'This Street of tbe World. All his life lie has been a worker, from tli ays ol hi youth, 'lieu lie drew caricature of pot.tical and oilier events, through the period when he was a constant contributor (J Words ami All tlie Year Rouud, later 'heu the Illustrated London News from him bis weekly instalment ol peasant liiscoi.l-ie nnJer the head. "Echoes of tin Week" and The Unique in their were tlie talks entitled "Nothing iu the laier.i."aUo printed iu the Illu-trated London News. To name all that lie ha done, or even describe tbe variety of his work, in impracticable here.

His exnerieiic es have lieen wonderfully diverse. In that great world which we call London be lias seen everything, has met everybody. No great light in literature or art tbe past thirty years or more tbat he ha not encountered. Dickens recognized hi jiower, anlto tlie great novelist lie uwes much of his ad-lauceuieiit. Thackeray detected in him an exceptional faculty fur doing many kinds ui work.

Notin Londou only, however, are his jovial face and stout figure true English types known. Over mu of the globe he Pus travelled, always lining hi eyes to the I est advantage a Yaukee in his ability to see around a corner and storing his uieiuorv for the iienetit of his reader all tbat he ha? seen and heard, to lie presented in the light but thuiongli style which best serves its purpo-e for those who must read quickly, but vi Lo still demand completeness. The paper issued by the Globe on Thursday was a very creditable piece of newspaper enterprise, end admirably calculated to foster business confidence in the community. JOTTINGS. -Those Washington office-seekers who have gone to the trouble of making out a list of offensive partisans all Republican, of course for tbe guidance of Mr.

Cleveland, may find tbat they have only labored to give intensity to the snub they will receive. -If electricity is to supplant steam as a motor, some of tbe principal causes of objection to elevated railroads, such as smoke and cinders and hissing steam, will cease. fur dealers take a great deal of comfort in todays cold weather. They "needed it badly. The Chicago Herald tells the wild Easterners that they know nothing about blizzards, which it defines as storms where the snow is three feet deep and all iu the air.

florists did a large business yesterday. A bunch ol flowers is a very appropriate New Year's remembrauce, and one likely to be appreciated in any direction it happeus to be sent. No. 2 fur Nevada last night. No.

5 will come ou Saturday afteruuon. "Victor Duraiid will he brought to I lie Glolie Theatre ou Jan. l'J, and presented there in excellent style, if the avowed purpose of the management lie fulfilled The London Times of pec. 51 devotes thirty lines to its centenary, and says, "We write our own history day by day along with tlie history of the world. A Chicago or New York paper could not have let it pa without a hundred-page supplement, London Echo moans for the taxpayer over the announced royal marriage.

Another newspaper notes that it is tlie fir. time a bridegroom consented to take bi-motlier-in-law as. part of tbe bride's trousseau. The world went on, notwithstanding the New York Stock Board was not iij goj. slon yesterday.

-Aiupng the signs of the iiuending conflict in the so! Ill (q which PcLusyl- vania's Randall is rallying tips iron-producing districts, is the Atlanta Constitution' calling Mr. Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal a star-eyed jackass of tie-prairies. Philadelphia lre waxes im-riy over the restored Old State House. i faking gayly about tlie Indian on the western end. It als has something to say about the caution lall in the gable end of tlie Oi South.

How often shall it be said tbat one must go from home to learn the news? which lias lieen uiiu-ontily high, is now plentiful and cheap more expensive Loiidjy goods have been most iu demand this season, while the falling off in the call for the more mode-t Christmas aud New Year's offering from previous veais lias been eiiurmou. This does not militate against, tbe theory that the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer. we hold meetings for almost every purpose, one can imagine tbe schoollioys together tomorrow and adopting the ioilowing: Resolved, That, on account of tlie failure of any opportunity for coasting or skating, the past vacation has been a failure, and tlie mau who strikes '22 is hereby requested to make it up to us in half-sessions when skating aud coasting are good." York city vital statistics show as follows: Paris tradesmen. What does it matter to them if only twenty people sit down of a night at the table d'hote of the Grand Hotel, if the theatres cannot pay their way, and Boiasier is forced to eat Ids own bon-bons? If this sort of thing lasts much longer, however, the -monkeys at the Jar din dAcclima-tation will have to le put on half rations. Fortunately there are signs of a thaw sotting in.

Lutetia is not the forlorn maid she was a month ago. Her lovers are coming back to her. These are the stragglers. The majority, like obstinate turkeys, refuse to come down from their trees. The political life of Pari is decidedly brisk.

M. Ferrys Tonquin baby has thriven so rapidly on Tlen-Tsin treaties, policy of reprisals, English mediation and other patent food that he has become a giant another Chang and is giving dreadful trouble to his nuise Jules. Jules is determined to strap him down and prevent him kicking, come what may. He is going to send out quite an army corps to China with this amiable intention. TLe Celestials are to have splendid opportunities of cutting off French heads during the coming spring, lor China is to be seriously invaded unless the pig-tailed luminaries who compose that mysterious liody called the Tsung-Li-Yaaien prefer to eat 31.

Ferrys leek. Up to the present time they Lave liked pig tail'' let ter, but it i uot tuo late for the taste to change. Then we hare here iu Paris the prospect o' some highly exhilarating street fights this winter, like the riot which occurred the other Sunday afternoon, when a member of the secret olice had Lis head lavishly broken with a knuckle duster, which all the Paris apeis, as a mark of affectiou for the slater republic, detu-rilied as a A.neri-ioin." The Paris population must auras themselves somehow on Sunday afternoon. I summer they sip the beauties of Nature, cither Hire or mixed with had wine and wuise cognac, such as are aoid at the ha, trihiniet of the Point du Jour; but in winter, when the weather is bad. there are no beauties of Nature to nip, and little money to spend in the utotnoirt consequently they are then liable to take to lighting as a pit oiler.

The Socialists or Anarchist, as they a re now called convene meetings to (ieiide upon energetic measures tor accomplishing tbu social revolution. They are all so lull of their subject that every man is a speaker, aud there is no audience. This soon leads to inconvenience, and the gift of speeih failing utterly to accomplish anything iu the war of social revolution, all the orators full to fighting with great spirit, so that in the space of five minutes from the time that the real business of the meeting begins, there i scarcely a chair present that can boast four hg.s. It is a very happy chair that can show one. When the meeting is fairly excited hy this excellent diecipline.

it plunges into the srei-t ami then goes for the police. The police are the only people who are not iitrouzhly amused. This is the way iu which revolution is being worked out Iaris Tituri Rochefort and the Hite of the party are cafiul. t0 kJ' oul bi scrimmage. They prefer t.

lrow mud at the police and Government in.1 Journalistic si-lc to placing their Leads in danger from sai-ie cuts and badly aimed chair-leg. They are wise men iu their generation. Rochefort make a line income out of the workingmen's aud hi Intrausigeant never Lasso good a in the fauliourg a when the working i are to be dying of hunger, liis article i a cheap and good siilwtitiitc f-r fiery cognac. Rochefort lia plenty of money and amuses himself thoroughly lie seldom mise a race meeting or a first repiesenlation. In hi private capacity he is a man of taste.

He is an excellent judge of ictures and old plate, and Lis self-sacriticing utic-u for the poor ha not hindered hint from surrounding himself with these baubles. Tlii i one of hi methods of pTOvidicg for a ra'iiy day. I must tell you a little of what i going ou iu the theatrical woi id. The subject i not worth much space, for the theatrical season far lias been singularly unfortunate. Not only are most of the houses so badly attended tLat, when they are uot losing money they are ban-lr paying their working expenses, but the dramatic production here apcars tu le suffering from a prolonged attack of nervous debility.

Not that there is a dearth of new pieces. On the contrary, fresh plays and comic operas succeed ime another at the same theatres with dazzling rapidity, but this very fact is all-sufficient evidence of their wort klesness. The most recent, as ir i also the most utter, failure is "La Ronde du Coiuinipsairs, by M.M. Meilhac and Gille, produced at theGymnase. It is so weak in its knees as to present an absolutely pathetic spectacle all the more so lecaiie MeilLac is one of the authors, and to lie trifled with by him is a sensation new iu Parisians.

The choice ui this piece is most unfortunate for the Gymuase, for the position of this theatre Lad been strengthened euurmouslv by tlie phenomenal run of Le Mairre de Forge, which ha at length disappeared from the play bills. It will probably lie revived shortly. The success of the presenr murnent i Rip" at the Folies Dramatiques. It is, of course, the Rip Van Winkle" of Roliert Planquette and Farnie. On the first uight 1 thought the audience showed very little appreciation of the broadly liumerous satire on the electiou scenes of tlie New World.

Parisian hare little taste for political skit of this kind. Rip has, nevertheless, taken root firmly in Paris soil. You may doubt my seriousness when I say that the chief cause of its success is to be found in its purity. This is, however, the truth, -t range as it may sound. The Freneh opera bouffe, tlie true product of the soil, is iu variably licentious.

Its follies are never wild and fantastic but there is a very perceptible current of vicious snggestiveuess running through them. Aud yet opera bouffe ought to be a form of dramatic entertainment especially suited to the amusement of the young. As a matter of fact, it is peculiarly adapted to their corruption. In the English versions of these pieces all the grosser allusions have been carefully pruned and expurgated, but their very meaninglessness indicates the pruriency that once made them full of meaning. In Paris, parents who understand aright the duties which they owe their children do not take them to comic operas of tlfls class, although there are always plenty of French parents who believe that tlie ears of a boy who wears a college uniform or of a girl of seventeen are already sufficiently experienced for any exercise.

These, however, are the minority. But "Kip Is a comic opera wholly free from the usual taint, and to this the most discreet people can take their children with the certainty that they will get perfectly innocent amusement. It was its high moral tone that secured for-Le Maitre de Forges its amazing success, and it is the same tone that is causing the Folies Dramatiques to be filled nightly with paying audiences, while other theatres hare to be filled with paper audiences. These two facts ought to teach French dramatists, librettists and theatrical managers that they have relied too much for tlieir success on the vicious tendencies of human nature. It may or may not surprise your readers to learn that Mr.

Levi P- Morton is elected every day a senator for the State of New York by liis journalistic friends connected with the Anglo-American presa of Taris. The impression produced on the minds of persons who read the panegyric npon this illustrious minister, and who are angelically innocent on such matters as the burrowing of political moles, is that a wan possessing CCerrespendeace of tlio TniMript! Parl, Dec. 19, 134. Society progressing by giants strides, hut the progress is towards first principles. The paradox expresses an absolute, truth.

We are going ahead so fast that wt are turning back Into barbarism. This is called a practical age, but the true tendency of modern life is towards the apotheosis of sentiment, and the more sentimental society becomes, the more tolerant it is of shooting and throat-cutting. The whole subject has become one of engrossing interest here since Mum. Hugues, the wife of the poet-deputy for Marseilles, shot the man Morin under the eyes of judges, advocates and guardien rf la pair at the Palais de Justice. Society, having showered its roses and admiring epithets upon Mme.

Hugues, is becoming alarmed at it own impulsiveness. Now that the excitement has cooled down, the idea is dawning that Mme. Hugues represents a feminine type by no means uncommon, and that this type needs but little encouragement to flourish like the proverbial bay tree. Imagine a world overrun by ladies with revolver under tlieir fur cloak, hunting calumniator with the eagerness of sportsmen stalking deer. What a nice world that would lie to live in! It would 1eareignof terror far worse than that inaugurated by Marat and Rolespierre.

Every ruau would have cause to shake iu hi shoe, whether he had a guilty conscience or uot for ladies perceptive faculties, wonderful as they are, do uot invariably lead them to ahoot at the right target. Tlie case of women would lie even more perilous; lot the irresistible charm. of conversation wonhl le continually ex-icaing them to the prompt and rigorous jus-tire of some Mine. Clovis Hugue. The prospect ol life under nucIi condition is not exhilarating.

We have seen only two act of the Ilugites-Morin drama. Act 1 wan the scene of blood and vengeance iu the Palais de Justice. Act 2 wa the death of the calumniator at the Hotel Pieu. Act 5 will be the trial, resulting probably in an acquittal or a lienevolent sentence. Will the drama end there? Possibly not for there i another woman in tbe case, and she has made up her mind to bloom into a second Mme.

Hugues. While Morin wa battling With liis agony at the Hotel Dim, a girl to whom lie had promised marriage and who Lad already taken up her residence with him was tlie only person liesl.les his mother who showed any sorrow at hi fate. She came in tears daily to th hospital to inquire about his state, and when lie brought a shroud of her owu making. uJ 0 Hned as to conceal the won lids upon his head. Thus, when the corpse was laid uion one -I1 marble slat at the morgue, it was costumed lik' 411 This woman and Morin's mother were only mourners who billowed the body to the grave, and they shared betweeu them tlie funeral expenses.

Over the grave of Murin this daughter of the people made a fierce vuw. Sin promised to avenge the fattier and hi child." though the latter i- yet nu-U'lii. Since then he has made no secret ol her resolve to turn Mme. Hugues's own method of vengeance against herself. Before Mme.

Hugues shot Morin she probably well calculated the legal risks she would incur bvtlia deed, hut left the vengeance of another woman quite out of the reckoning. Her troubles will not be over when justice has done with her. There will le a woman tracking her footsteps, watching her every movement with a hidden hand tightly clutching a re-civt-r: ever shadow will seem to conceal an assassin and all life will be a horrible dance of death. Supposing this woman is a firm aud bloodthirsty of purpose as Mme. Hugues.

and she accomplishes the vengeance she meditate she may be sure that the law will i(ot deal more hardly with her thau it lid with Mor.n murderess. Her right to kill will lie at least as incontestable a that of Mme. Hugue. When justice grow sentimental, the reign of lawlessness is begun. Thu I am brought hack to my starting point.

Albert Wolff' has lieen covering the best art of the first page of the Figaro with an article which, if it means anything, is an rlaWrate thunderbolt thrown at the lion cub of the press for troubling hi peace with tlieir growling and snarling over Jean Riche-pin. tlie poet of blasphemy. He tells that 'ne ran away from Pari for a whole week, so that he might nor bear any mure chatter about Richepin, and when he came back be found himself in the thick of it again. Had his old friend. and patron Y'llemessant been alive, he would have laid down his own Figaro and exclaimed out of the depths of the barrel in which bis voice reposed, between the spasms of Ids unctuous laugh, "Voilk! une bleu bonne! Wolff going away from Paris not to hear the name of Richepin and on his return writing three columns about him, is indeed a fine joke.

And what lias this Riclie-pin done that so much fuss should be made over him? Absolutely nothing that is to say, not lately. He Las been writing no more Blasphemes, and lie has been giving Sarah Bernhardt a wide berth. But just because he Las got cured of 8araL-mania his charitable friends of tbe press have been dapping him into an imaginary madhouse. These same friends said he was mail, because during the Sarah infatuation he went with l.er on the stage of the Porte Saint-Martiu and played the titie rule of his own drama, "Nana Sahib. Now they say he in mad becanse he haa torn himself away from her spell aud goue back to the bosom of Lis family.

It is certainly unusual for a poet to return to the paths of domestic virtue, but it is a little hard on the poet who does so to shut him up iu a lunatic asylum as a punishment for bis irregularity. As a fact, Richepin Las not been put into any lunatic asylum, for he is quite as sane as liny other poet; but it is sufficient for a mau to le reported mad for tllia distinction to stick to bim through life. Sarah Bernhardt was very ill when Riche-pins rising atar of virtue beckoned him elsewhere, bur she lias gotten over the wrench to her feelings and is now working with the energy of half a score of ordinary women at tbe rehearsals of Sardou's Theodora. She no longer bites carpets or receives reporters with a hectic fiusli, or talks to them from a bed likened to a sea of surging Malines lace. To une the French saying, she has "other dogs to heat.

She is working like a Trojan at her art, which she declares, again and again, is her only love as though any one would be so impertinent hs to donbt it. So determined is she to excel iu everything, that she is taking lessons of Agouste, of the Hanlon-Leea troupe, in tlie art of tossing golden pippins. There is an apple-tossing 'scene in Muie. Bernhardt expects, however, to be too nervous on tlie first nigbt to toa apples. And from such an eminent daughter of Eve! The social life of Paris is decidedly dull at nresent.

The cholera has quite left us, but the "trail the serpent" remains. People who have the means to amuse themselves where they please still hold aloof from Paris as though it were plague-stricken. This silly panic has a humorous side, but those who keep shops, hotels, restaurants and manage theatres can't see the fun in it. They are enraged beyond measure. But it is useless for them to fume and roar nothing that they can do will bring the people hack before it pleases them to come.

The Americans aud English look at tlio question with another eye than that el tlie FIDAY. JANUARY S. IMS. THREE CENTS A COPY. ESTER TAISMRNT8.

TODAY. Buotr Theatre. MoCanll Open Company. Bn Bee gar Student." 8. OtiOBB Theatre.

Kiralfj Brothers. Spectacle Excelsior. 8. Fabk Theatre. John T.

Raymond and Company. For Congress." 7.45. Boffroa Mcbyum. Dion Boncicanlt and Regular Dramatic Company. Colleen Hawn.

7.45. Bostov Thkatkk. Mapleson Opera Company. 7.45. Howabd Athkbabm.

John A. Stevens and Company. Passion's Slave." 8. MEOHAjrrm Building Huntington avenue. Electrical Exhibition.

10 A. ta. to JO I. M. Ctclorama BnuiM Tremont and Montgomery.

Battle of Gettysburg. A. M. to it r. M.

Low Fix Inrtitltk. Mr. Frederick A. Ober. Mexico and Ita People." 7.15, Rtuoio Building Room 13.

Bliss H. 51. Knowl-toua Charcoal Drawings. to 5. Hirtina or Finn Arts St.

avenue and Dartmouth. 2 A. M. to 5 P. U.

Old Soutii Washington street, corner of Milk. I san Historio Collection. IVtily. Y. M.

C. Union Rooms is Boylston. Open 8 A. M. to iO P.

daily. Y. M. C. Association Rooms Bovlston and Berkeley.

Open 8 A. M. to 10 P. daily. MATIHEES TOMORROW.

Boston Theatre. Lucia cli I.annuermoor. 2. Park Theatee. For OoiijreM.

2. Isijos Theatre. Beggar Student." 2. Globe Theatre. ExceNinr." 2.

Boston Museum. Colleeu Bawn. 2. Howard Athexaum. Passion's Slave.

2. old booth Milk street. Mr. John Fiske on The Critical Period of American History. 11.45.

Chick eking Hall. K. Paine. The History of Music. 12.

WFftLf.v.vN Hai.l. French Reading ny Mr. Jules Levy. 12. TUDAFS IK SI OK PAGES.

l'AOK Two. The Morning's News. Suffering of a Shipwrecked Crew. Tone of the Morning Fees. Wrangling Over a New York Office.

A New Year's Outlook. Suspended for Thirty liars. The State Militia. Railway and Finau rial Interests Newton. Salem.

Swampsoott. Business Troubles. laical Railroad Notes. Strike at the Roxlmry Caipet Factory New Tears Reception. Chelsea.

Tlie Horticultural Society. City Government. New England News. Faor Three. Facts and Fancies Scientific and Useful Woman Suffrage How the Certoons in Punch are Made.

Page Six. Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller A Boston Young Alan in Mexico Notes on the St. Botolph Exhibition. Poetry. Another Story of the Custer Massacre.

President Arthurs Church Important to Horse Owners Literary Items hat is a Found Sterling? Paoe Sevf.n. Foreign Summary. School and College Music and Drama Art and Artists. The Strange History of Washington The Weather. Tlie cold wave which sule over tie between midnight and dawn the mercury to lfri a sunrise this moruiag, a fall of thirty-eight degrees from yesloiday's record.

It was Rarely one degree higher at noon. The signs are that a still lower temperature will he felt tomorrow. T-i? wind today lias been northwest, and as cosiaequence the atmosphere has been dry, with never a cloud on tlie bright liiue surface of the shy. The New Yoke. Sen.toi:-.kif.

Tlie Albany Hrening Journal advocated Hun. William M. Evarts as the Republican candidate (or United States senator. As preliminary to the struggle in the Legislature, a contest is going inspecting the speakership of the Assembly. All the candidates for Speaker akoic to pool their votvff aftaiual llie iiamU who reprf.ienis Minister Morton's interest.

It would not bo good for the House of Representatives, or the party in the uiajority-there, if it should neglect all useful legislation, such as tariff reform, llie Lowell bankruptcy bill and the stoppage of silver coinage act. and pass the Mexican pension law. wliuh would abstract an immense sum from the public treasury, transferring the sum chiefly to the pockets of pension agents. Governor Cleveland insists on making Lis own commitrals on everything. Representative Hurd's statement that the governor became president of the first free-trade club ever formed in this country at Buffalo is denied by authority.

The indications increase that the newly elected President means to be his own master. In such an event, won't the Democratic fur fly General Gordon was all right at Khartoum Dec. 14, a fact due to his ceaseless vigilance and untiring energy. His men are well supplied with tobacco, and be is represented as cheerful. If tbeir rescuers do not now push forward with something of the ardor and intrepidity that distinguished General Havelocks force which relieved Lucknow in 1857, then British troops have lost most of their traditional spirit.

It so Happens that Mr. Julian Hawthornes letter on Margaret Fuller Ossoli arrives for publication in the same issue in which Rev. Dr. James Freeman Clarke's article collecting the testimony of her most eminent friends and contemporaries, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, appears (on the sixth page), and the reader willing to be just should turn from one to the other and weigh both. Thk Telegraph reports that articles of incorporation for an electric railroad to run Irom Rockaway to the Long Island Railroad have been filed in the Queens County clerks office at Brooklyn, S.

Y. Tlie capital is given at 8200,000. Although there have been several experimental roads, this is the first real step, in this country, towards the practi cal use of electricity as a motor upon steam railroads. The Meigs Elevated Roaii. it is understood, will not ask.for further legislation at tlie approaching session of the General Court, the present charter containing all that the company desires.

By delaying opera-tions the projectors think they have done better than by building immediately upon receiving the charter, as materials are now obtainable at about lialf the prices ruling last spring. The road, they say, will probably be began in the early spring, running into Boston over the Boston Lowell location, and thence to Bowdoin square, but not through CaiubiiJge street. Tint Address which Mr. Lee would have delivered is a long rcguin of the years work' which Mr. Lee confidently assorts will rank favorably with that ol any previous -City Council, and closes with an argument intending to show that the retiring City Council is not responsible for tlie large tax rate.

The most Important Item of news in the address is contained in the following extract: It has been my constant effort, since 1 have occupied the chair, to perform my duties, with a aeuae of the dignity of the office, with fidelity to the trait imposed upon me, with justice and impartiality to each one of your number, and with THE MAIN QUESTION. The latest annual report of the United States treasurer indicates very clearly that some measures must soon be devised for the abolition of tbe tariff-created surplus. Ao-cording to that report there were redeemed during the past year, in ronnd numbers, one hundred millions of United States bonds, of which forty-six millions were on account of the sinking fund. If this race in the payment of the public debt should be kept up, the necessity will arise for the entire recasting of our national banking system, as the bonds on which Its notes are based will be progressive-y extinguished. Measures to provide a special issue of bonds as tbe basis of tbe bank currency have lieen proosed, and some of them will be considered in tbe present session of Congress.

But none of tbe bills suggested are certain of being enacted, and at best they will only postpone the difficulty, so long as tlie tariff continues to give to the treasury a surplus in excess of the requirements of economic national expenditure. The public revenue, it is true, lor the past year has been less by nearly fifty millions than for the year previous, bnt as the annual expenditures have decreased by al out twenty-two millions, the reduction does not afford the relief to the treasury that would otherwise be tbe case. Of this diminution in receipts but about nineteen millions can be credited to the lessened income from the customs duties, the remainder lieing due to the diminished returns from the internal revenue and miscellaneous sources. Of course, tlie high-iariff men Congress will strive to get round the difficulty by pressing vigorously scheme for the entire abolition of the internal-revenue system, by demanding a serious reduction in the taxes thus levied. But no such proposal is at all likely to prevail.

The fiscal systems of all enlightened countries recognize tobacco and spirituous liquors as eminently proier subjects for taxation, and as our iuternal revenue is mainly derived from these two oTces. no good reaon can alleged why these should le exempt. The force of tiiead nsiderations is not lessened when it is remembered that our cnmbrou tariff by the burdens which it lays upon the business of the country directly antagonizes that re viva of industrial ucthity and prosperity ol which the nation stands so much in need. The treasurer note in liis report that the condition of business is quite accurately indicated by the quantity of national liank notes sent in to the treasury for redemption. During the past year notes thus presented have increased by more than twenty-two per cent.

He adds, The statistics of the past ten years show that the redeiupt ions are invariably affected by the business decreasing in spring aud autumn, when trade is active, and increasing in mid-wiuter and mid-summer, when trade is dull. The increase by one-fourtli of these redemptions during the year is a tremendous fact, transcending in immediate importance any strictly political issues. Some new departure in our industrial and commercial system is called for. 1 iik Common I'uim il, at its closing meeting for 1884, held yesterday, transacted some important public business. Appropriate resolutions were adopted respecting the retirement or sir.

wasiiimiuui r. Gregg trout tlie clerkship of the Council, after a service of forty-two years, to which Mr. Gregg responded in fitting terms. The orders were passed for the purchase of Long Island, so that it will soon become the property of the city, whatever bill of expense the project en tails. Only two memliers of the Council voted against the order to transfer 850,000 from the reserved fund to le expended in acquiring Trinity triangle.

So that matter is substantially settled as the general com inttnity will be glad to have it. Now the triangle1 is properly disposed of. or measures have been adopted that will certainly secure this result, the Journal calls attention to another step which would cause very little outlay. It says Some time since, when the laying out of Copley square was first suggested, it was proposed by Mr. Longfellow, if we remember correctly, that the street which now divides the lot aud the now acquired triangle should be discontinued, and rbrewn into tne square.

This would very materially add to tbe beauty and size of the square without other expenditure than the laying out of the jKirtion now occupied as a roadway. The cost would be insignificant compared with the desirability of tbe change. The horse cars could pass out Boylston street and sweep through Dartmouth street to Huntington avenue, or continue np St. James avenue, without the slightest inconvenience to any established line. When it is remembered that the Public Library will soon find a home in fitting edifice on this square, the city mast look ahead and perfect by this proposed enlargement of Copley square one of the finest public places tbat this or any other country possesses.

The city messenger was directed to procure for the Council Chamber a life-sized portrait of Mr. Washington P. Gregg. An order was passed to petition tbe General Court for the appointment of a State gas commission. A due regard to public opinion was paid by tbe Council in passing an order that the prizes for public library plans be awarded by the trustees of tbe public library tind the city architect, instead of a committee of their own body.

As was expected, the Council would not agree to any action favoring the revision of the city charter. It simply accepted the various reports on the subject and placed them on file. On the whole, however, the last days of the Council of 1884 were its best days. Hon. J.

E. McDonald, formerly United States senator from Indiana, and tlie ablest Democrat in that State, commends Governor Clevelands letter on civil-service reform very highly. According to an Indianapolis despatch to the Boston Herald, Mr. McDonald says Whatever may be mens opinions as to the propriety of tlie civil-service law, no one ought to expect him to disregard it, especially as the constitution makes it one of the prime duties of the Executive to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Most of the officers of the Government not affected by the civil-service law hold their terms for fixed periods, and an not subject to removal by the President daring the terms for which they were appointed, except by and with tbe consent of the fienate, and consequently removals would have to be for such cause or causes as would meet with the sanction of the Senate.

His expressed determination to make examples of such officers as have prostituted their office to political purposes will undoubtedly meet with general commendation, and its enforcement will bring abont a very healthy reform in our civil service. Taking the letter, as a whole, It Indicates a sound and safe Democratic policy that will bring the party full into power during his term and perpetuate it many yean. It will be seen by tbe above tbat tbe ex-United States senator fully appreciates the obstacles in tbe way to a universal proscription of Republican officeholders. He does nt write like Voorhees, as though he was enamoured of the spoils system. Governor Cleveland's sound and sfif? Democratic pol Ifousi.

L'Lii'i'iNo, best wanner. iiupror-J iiiitciiii.eiy. I'Rti'RR Hall, 1 W. Iiedhaw ITEAUKBS ABRlVIb. At Button 2d.

Boaton Cttv. from Louisa. At Kow Tors lit, 8 into ot Peuntyiraina. trow ie.tv gow At Kv York lit. BslgenUud.

trnm Antw-rp. At Kow York lit, Vliicenio 1'iorto, from MrIum naan At Kow York lit. Enroll, from Hamburg. At Kow York lit. Colombo, tram Cardiff and Hvo.

At New York lit, Kortb Britain, from Lmtli. At New York lit. Viamboronyn, from Wen Iiidm At Kow York 2d, Caland, from Rot ter Jam. At Kow York 2d. City of Confer, from ljivorooi.

At Kow York 2d. Acapulco, from Aiqiiuwall. At Fliiiadelpliui Id, Suffolk, from BnauMa. At Philadelphia 2d. Kate, from Kewcait.a.

Kn. At Baltimore 2. Sot Scotian, from Liverpool. At Dunkirk let, Cranbrook. from BalHmoro.

At GiAtffow lit. Mary Louiie. from Kow York. At Plymouth lit, Ella Sayar, from Kow York. Ar at Liverpool lit, steamer Csxton.

rrom 9t-leani. At Havana lit. Saratoga, from New York. At Antwerp lit. Pannland.

trout New York. At Rremeu lit, Tarpeia, from New Orieaai. At CT.fXOw lit. Anchor la. from Kew York.

Stepping ftntelligenre. PORT OP BOSTOK additional fat Nowi lea Psta Svi.i.' ARRIVED THIS HJKM.V4. Hr itcamer Buitou City, Sherborne. L-meon Die If. via Ha! lax.

NS. Slit, aim inde le (' Furuei. St'-amer soline Uopkiu. Marrh. Norfolk, with mJa to bauipiuu.

Steamer Hall, 8. John, KB. via Kavpiit and Portland Steamer Kaiatuun. Homer. Bangor.

Steamer Tremor t. Donovan, Portland Steamer City ot Gloucester. Young, Uloiimter. CLEARED THIS MORNING. Coastwise steamer Treuiout, Donovan.

Portland, by William Waeka. Sen Henry Souilier. upper. Fhra'lelplita. by Ellieott A Co.

Eon Brscni llatt.c C. Stewart, Ifihiboro. NH, by If Anderson; Magnum. German, Metegiian. NS.

Dalnus A Seaman: Mora E. Elliott. Economy, NS. by the awe. BAILED United States cutter Gallatin: br tairie Pttnnton.

By PORTLAND Sid 9i, br'p Oaitalia. Carlo-nai; icbi Eaimoutn. Look. Slauucti. 11 Convene, Sagna: A Weeki.

Henley. Cardenas NEW YORK At Su. iieamen Galileo. Potter. Boston; sau Breydel.

do. Also ar 2d. rqi ai Nova Scotia, Potter, Antwerp; Norway. Knowlee. Pernambuco.

Sla ibi City Island 2d, ick Lamoine, tor Boston thavine repaired i. PHILADELPHIA Below 3d. D'tR Daisy Boynton. Davta. Turks Island.

Sid 2d, it earner Bellini, Hamburg. law are Breakwater Ar 2d. steamers Fiuiburv. Liverpool: Louise H.Ialermo; Banina Castalln. Drag-one, St lucent.

VI. Ar 1st, steamer Wingate. Savona. and sla tor Baltimore. Sid 2d.

steamer Einisbnry. Newport News' BALTIMORE Ar 2d barque New Light, Berry. Km Janeiro; sell Ritter. Beers. Bayonne.

AIM ar 2d, steamer N'ie, Sunderland Aeolus, Mar-bella. BAMPTON ROADS Ar 1st. karquo Huntress. Gunn. Rarliadoes.

SAVANNAH Sid 1st, steamer Gat City. Hedge. Boston. KEY WEST Sid 1st. steamer A lamo.

Galveston. GALVESTON Ar 1st. reamer Ban Marcos. Yotk SAN FRAN CISCO Sla 1st, steamer Guy of Kow York, tor China and Japan. Ar lt, ships Ennerdsie, Gunson.

Liver cool Kail of Eovere.Johneon, Hall, Eng; barque Limari. Par-sell, Valparaiso. FOREIGN MARINE REPORTS By Special Despatch to Merchant Exchange. Passed Fastest 1st, ship Senator. Ball, San Franelscw for Liverpool.

Sla im Genoa previous to 1st, steamer Corinth, for Philadelphia. Sid tm Hamburg Slit, steamer Conlgsby. Boston. Ar at vamool 1st, ships Reporter. Spalding.

a-nfla; Hitchcock. Nichols, ban Francisco: barilla Unamma, Young, Charleston; Borome. Hualias. Sau Fran cues: Palermo, Walker. Moulla: fapapburst.

Burnley. Charleston. Sid 1st, steamers Lake Manitoba. New York i Sardinian. eton.

Ar at London let. strainer Kate Fawcett. Coosaw. SC; sk.p Gilchrist. W'atts.

San Francisco. Bid Messina previous to 1st, steamer Southgate, New York. Ar at oporto 27th, barque Smith, Smith. Kow York. Sid 'in Palermo previous to 1st, steamer Athabasca.

Boston. Sid in Sydney. NSW. previous to 1st, ateanidr Australia. San Sraneisoo.

Ar at Cardiff 2d, ship Sumner Mead, Park. Asro-ria. O. Sid fra Glasgow 1st, steamer State of Nebraska, for Kew York. jrprrial Kmices II.

Y. M. C. UNION. 187 a "PreciVol 18sr.

At tbo Union Ball. IS Boylston stroot, SATURDAY EVENING, this week. Thiktknth An-n i' a i. tVii raz. To lie opened hv Rev.

lieu Thov-a of Brookline. Subject, tendon." Jtlmtioted ba thr StertofilicoH. Cards, giving full list of speakers, ubjects slid dates, are ready for distribution to member and to the public at the desk. Dcors open at 7.1S, tn begin at 7.46 precisely. Tbe public, both ladies anil gentlemen, invited to the entire course.

WILLIAM It. BALDWIN, Pres. W. II. CLABKk.

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UNION. "ntramty Coarse. J' YESlStt, Jau. 2. Hr.

Oeotf H. of lloo-tou. Subject' Outline of tbe Elrnrlnrt and Pnnrliout tf the Unman Bodg." i title conrs Model. Skeleton. Anatomical jTcprtious.and chart will used.

A'otrrou Mali'! clock doors open at Member end all voung wen Invited tn attend the course, ner a nil an you a w. H. BALDWIN, President. W. B.

CLAUSE. Secretary. St Ja 1 tup: industrial department ok tup: WOMEN'S E. A I. UNION.

7d Boylston Stroot. will receive no more consignment until further nn-tlee. It ja 2 HOMp; FOR AUKD WOMEN. The Annual Meeting or the Corporation will lie held at the Home, Revere street, on the second THURSDAY, 8th day of January, at four o'clock, ja 1 (it HENRY EMMONS, Secretary, TO BE LET, A front room on Washington street; Aho front room on Milk street, in tlie Transcript Building. These rooms Lave large window; steam beat, are high studded, and up two flights ot atairs.

Apply to HF-KBEllT L. FEERY, Ku 9 Milk St. IcCni CRUSH HATS aT Just right for Preoessta SILVER CANES BILK UMBRELLAS. Pretty SKULL CAP. HARRINGTON'.

14 School SUeft-a I wmitto It A I'l'KACs that the threatened opposition to Mr. Walter Allen' editorial conduct of he loit'aml Press, which the public naturally enough supposed was intended to freeze the Boston editor out, and had succeeded in so doing, was only a piece of bluff, liis resignation was a surprise to tbe directors of tbe corporation, and was very reluctantly accepted bv them. Ui withdrawal from Maine journalism was entirely of hi own motion, and lii return to tbe Advertiser is induced by the tender of a higher and better position than he has ever held anywhere. I.k Observatory apparatus. The Lick Observatory, on Mount Hamilton, even without the great telescope in course of construc-' ion, is already ore of tbe most complete in tl.e world.

There has recently been added a meridian circle, made by Refsoid of Hamburg. ami a house ha been built fur it. Professor Holder thinks it is tbe most perfect of ir class in the United States, if not in tbe world. Two disks fur tbe great ibirty-six-incii iens have been successfully cast, aud a member of the film cf Alvan Clark Sun recently went to Europe to examine them, and to ascertain whether either of them is -tillable for the lens. If a perfect disk ha 'oc-en obtained it is thought that the great refractor may lie mounted and in use by 1S4G.

Already the otoervatorv ha a twelve-inch equatorial, a four-inch transit, a comet seeker, a verticle circle, and a six-inch equatorial. TLen there are five clocks, connected by a complete electrical system. Superintendent Fraser states that the thirty-six-inch glass, when finished, will be by far the most powerful one in the world, bringing the moon within thirty miles of the earth, whereas eighty miles is the limit of existing telescopes TLe 'wonders which arch a glass will disclose can hardly be foretold. San Francisco Call. The Way to Improve the Race.

What one knows and can do may be very short of what one is capable of knowing and doing. There being no truth more universal of the race than the above, the practical and foremost duty of the day is not one of breeding a higher type of man so much as one that will enable men to use more effectually the talents they already possess. If there is a demand for a higher type of the human race, the way to meet this demand most successfully is in making tbe very best provision nossible-for the present type of humanity. If tlie children of tbe world were properly ftd, clothed and sheltered, and educated and trained to habits of industry and true recognition of each others right aud duties, they would be so far above their parents that they would claim to be born of their teachers. Joel Dinsmore, iu Index.

Discouraged Orange Growers. Some of the experiences of the Florida orange growers and shippers this season have been such as not only to discourage but to alarm them. In many instances the' returns from sales have scarcely paid the cost of shipment, and from cities far and near comes the ominous report That the market is glutted. It is also said that the percentage of loss from spoiled or damaged fruit is unprecedentedly large, and some disgusted growers have jumped to the conclusion that the industry of raising oranges in Florida has seen it' best days, and that' they have entered upon a period of low prices and small profits. Jacksonville Times-Union.

Among the curiosities collected by the Alaska Fur Company is a salmon which in life weighed 150 pounds. In 1880 there were 25,780 i umbering establishments In this country, employing $181,000,000 capital and 146,000 hands, distributing $31,000,000 a year in wages, using 0C0 worth of material and turning out an annual product of 8233,000,000. Of the whole Product, Michigan produced 23 per ennsylvania 10 per Wisconsin 8 per and New York and Indiana about 6 per JSht. each. Few of the Southern 8tates ached a product of over 84,000,000.

The whole South is a forest region, and its great pine, cedar, poplar, cypress and oak districts are still almost untouched, and must ultimately become the centre ol this industry. There were 2401 tires, or 2.12 more thaniu The total estimated loss by fire was in 1384. HAWTHORNE AND MARGARET FILLER. To the Editor of the Trunecript Sir In the first volume of the Biography of Hawthorne, lately published, occur the following remarks about Margaret Fuller Ossoli, extracted from Hawthorne's Roman Journal But she was a person anxious to trv all things, and fill up ber experience in all directions: she had a strong and coarse nature, which she had duue her utmost to refine, with infinite pains bur. of course it could only be superficially changed.

The solution of the riddle lies in this direction nor does ones conscience revolt at the idea of thus solving it; for (at least this is my own experience) Margaret has not left iu the hearts and minds of those who knew her any deep witness of her integrity and purity. She was a great humbug of course, with much talent aud much moral reality, or else she could never have been so great a humbug. But she had stuck herself full of borrowed qualities, which she chose to provide herself itta. lint which had no root in her. There appears to have been a total collapse in poor Margaret, morally and intellectually: and.

tragic as her catastrophe was. Providence was after all kind in putting her and her clownish husband and their child on board that fated ship. There never was sucii a tragedy as ber whole story. the sadder and sterner, I e'-ause so much of the ridiculous was mixed up with it, and because she could bear anything better than to he ridiculous, it was nuch an awful joke tbat she should have resolved in all sincerity, no doubt to make herself tbe greatest, wisest, best woman of the age: audio that end she set to work ou l.er strong, heavy, unpliable, and in mau.v rt-spects defective and evil, nature, and adorned it with a mosaic of admirable qualities such as she chose to possess, putting in here a splendid talent and there a moral excellence, and polishing each separate piece and the whole together till it seemed to shine afar and dazzle all who saw it. She took credit to herself fur having been her own redeemer, if not her own creator: and, indeed, she was far more a work of art than any of Moziers star, ties.

But she was not working on an inanimate substance like marble or clay; there was something within her that she could not possibly come at to recreate or refine it, aud by and by this rude all-potency bestirred itself, and undid all her labor in tbe twinkling of an eye. On the whole, I do not know but I like her the better for it, because she proved herself a very woman after all, and fell as the meanest of her sisters might. The latter sentences refer to Margarets marriage to Ossoli, who was described by Mozier, who knew him and Margaret intimately, as a handsome animal, having scarcly the intelligence of a human being. When my mother was preparing her husbands journals for publication, it was her habit frequently to consult with me as to the propriety of admitting or excluding certain passages; and, among others, the above ex tract came up for consideration. She had copied it out ready for publication, bnt it was finally decided to suppress it, for Margaret and Mrs.

Hawthorne bad been well acquainted, and tbe formers conduct towards the latter bad frequently been marked by deficiency of good taste, to say the least, so that this might have been construed in the light of a revenge taken upon the dead. We concluded, therefore, that it should lie published, if at all, only when a complete biography was written. The biography has now come into existence, and this passage is printed along with it. I foresaw, of course, tbat it would create a fluttering in the dove cotes of Margarets surviving friends, and of the later disciples but I did net consider myself justified thereby in omitting so sound and searching a bit of analysis. Hawthorne knew Margaret thoroughly, and he has told the exact truth abQut her.

Neverthe.