Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1874 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE ; SENTINEL; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1874,

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10.

Chang and Eng, or rather their corpusee have been taken to Philadelphia, for an an tpsy by the college of physicians. Tho bctlles aie in excellent condition. The Maryland legislature, in joint session on Wednesday, elected James B. Oroome, of Cecil, to ba governor for the unexpired term of William Pinehney Whjte, elected United States senator. Toe CmMrTatives in. the elections in Great Britain hare the innings now, unless the return from Scotland and Ireland should preve to be overwhelmingly Liberal they will ii ! into power easily. 'ÄKyar of Virginia claims that in 1S63 he -was el est e J to the United States Senate to fill the uuexpired terra cf L. J. Borden, but that ly the division of the state into two, hisejaotion became invalid. He now thinks he an get away with a trifle of bick pay. Strange ,bow long a Segar which has been onco extinguished can retain a spark of hope. if Off York is swamped by a snow-storm of aevoro proportions. The street cars at once give out and thousands of men, women and children, some of them not over strong, are compelled at a late honr, perbap, to walk miles to their homes. There will come a time, one of the dailies observes, when underground or elevated railways will become a necessity, and all the petty annoyances now inseperable from the .present street railway system, be obviated. Got. Woods, of. Utah, does not crave an investigation of the affairs of the territory by the general government, and inamessage o the legislature accompanying a veto of the memorial to congress, asking for such an investigation.he takes occasion to enlarge upon the continuous intermeddling of everybody -with the business of the territory. lie asraigne the laws which are defective, and he deplores the fact that the courts repeatedly and habitually exceed the limits of their jurisdiction. The work of scenting out frauds in the machinery of the government at Washington seems to be endless. Mr. Garfield has found the annual sum paid for the expressage of official packages amounts to the enormous figure ot a quarter of a milllm of dollars. The rates paid the express companies on heavy materials, is in some instantes the same as for money. It is also said that the item of three millions appropriated lor the paymemt of the expenses of the national loan, covers expenditures for other matters of widely diffeit'ut character. Gov. Harvey, the newly elected Senator from Kansas, declares himself unequivocally, an Independent. His success was brought about by a combination of the decent Republicans with the liberals and demcn crats. Gov. Booth will have company In h's sally into the Senate. Indiana must send a man of the same kind to succeed the partisan whose time expires presently. When the people begin to get real representatives in the Senate, we shall have less Credit llobilier and eccentricities of the grab sort. It looks now as though the Senate were to be the representutive of the nation's beat metal rather than the meanest and most incapable. Probably the average man and brother is wickedly unaware of the amount of paternal expenditure lavished upon the people's comfort by the sages who run the concern we aro wont to facetiously call the " government." General Garfield who plays Cerberus to the Treasury, has been investigating the printing bills footed by the taxpayers and makes a woeful exhibit of waste. For the felicity of seeing bis members elo quent disquisitiona embalmed In the glory of printers' ink, the thrice blessed taxpayer doles 171,000 for each session. To enjoy the transports of seeing the patent office reports and kindred literature adorned with, illustrative works of art, the favored son of toil helps the bloated bondholder in paying the modest sum of $2,225,000. Gen Garfield and Judge Holman and other nnappreciatlve souls who have no eye for the beautiful are wickedly clamoring for a cutting off. They think that we can Jail forego the fine stimulus of the member's daily speech and may even survive in a vale of tears which shall not be enlivened by the pleasing presentiments of patent, hand churns, or double back action ready made letter writers. The English Elections so far as heard from givs the conservatives an overwhelming ma jority, the liberals electing but twenty-five members to the conseratives thirty-one, the result is significant of the reaction pre-figur-d on the recent defeats which the Gladstone minestry has suffered on test votes. The change however is brought about by causes widely pilfering from thoso which are op crating against the republicans in this country. Gladstone while unquestionably responsible for many errors in the last two years.has in the main answered the advanced demands of the more conservative radicals. His Irish University bill, which met defeat through the faithlessness ' of the liberal delegation from Ireland, was a xneasurs of great breadth. It was the result of caroful study, and if carried Into effect would have placed all classes on a plane in Ireland, so far as educational advantages were concerned. The great weakness of the Gladstone ministry is however itsown ranks. The liberal tories are quite as averse to the advanced measures as the radical leaders as the true blue tories. The present revulsion will place Disraeli in power when the Parliaament assembles and prebably give the government the benefit of a new foreign policy somewhat less conciliatory than the present. Rusia must be conventional or nothing. It is reported, on the aathority of a London dispatch, that Russia refuses to take part in the centennial exhibition In Philadelphia, because it is a private affair. Now it is the time to press its claims to a national character on the yielding congressmen. Appropriations, sir, are what are seeded.

Otsego Lake bas been selected as one of

the fields for fish farming, and a better one could hardly.be round. It is in Otsego Coun ty, New York, the head waters of the Sus quehanna River, is nine miles long and Crom one to two miles wide. The waters are remarkable for purity' and coolness, so that - the - native bass ' taken front this lake have a wide reputation for excellence above any fish of the kind found in any other place. Cooperstown, the home of the novelist, lies at the foot of the lake, one of the most pieturesque of American towns. In March, 1S72, the ex periment of stocking the lake with hsh was begun. Another attempt, which failed by some adverse luck, (was made in November ot the same year. Again cn January 8, 1S73, 20,000 salmon trout eggs were successfully hatched aDd set free, and shortly after 100,000 Otsego bass fry were safely deposited. Following Up in last November another installment of 115,000 salmon trout were added. Some blaek bass, and rock bass have also been planted, and altogether about half a million of fish have been started in those clear waters. As the conditions are all favorable in this case, the result will show what can ba done in the line of raising fish under the best circumstances. It ii an experiment that should be watched with interest by this state, as the northern part of Indiana, especially, abounds with lakes and ponds which may by a similar process be made of more value than the land which surrounds them. The operating managers of the Wabash fc Erie canal held a meeting at Lafayette, Tuesday, to consider the problem of the fu ture management at that troublous channel. The result of the convention was a virtual resolve fo abandon it to the care of the trus tees, or whomsoever else has an interest in the concern. In this uncertainty the difficulty lies. It is a piece ot propertyjwithout an owner so far as the rieht to .manage efficiently is considered. . The trustees may hold the canal while it goes to decay ,tthey may lease it if they can ; but the chances are that if the existing company cannot find it to their interest to run it, nobody else can. The old manajer, Capt. C. W. Colton, has been as faithful, devoted and enthusiasts In trying to keep the "old ditch alive, as any man that could be found in the state. He has come very near making it profitable, and would do so but for the crippled state of his exchecquer. The canal is a valuable property to the state, has cost a great deal of mony, and a vast amount ot hoosier and objurgation. It may still be of vast benefit, not to this state only but also to Ohio, and if as was noted yesterday, it be extended to St. Louis, to the whole country. It is hardly probable that it will be abandoned and allowed to go down. But something must be done by the State to identity some power which may be justified in investing money to put it in good, effective condition. It must be taken down from between wind and water, and have an owner or a capable guardian. While advocating the saving of their public work, the Sentinel is not deluded by any visionary dream about the superior value of woter transportation. Railroads are destined to do the 'transportation .of the country. They grow and thrive on the banks of the best water courses and will always hold snd premacy. But that does not imply that water transportation has not also a future on the continent of wonderful importance. Both rail cars and boats on river and canal will be required to move the inland com merce of the United States when the vast product and population shall have come to a full development. But this is not a ques tion of building a new canal. The property is here. It is to be seen whether or not it will be thrown away. It is not absolutely certain yet that the present company will let go of it at this time. There is a disposition in some cases to criticise some of the best features of the, school system, which happen to be novel. In reviewing some aspects of taxation in Gibson eounty, which have a bad look, the Princeton Democrat takes occasion to arraign the County Board for allowing teachers their wages when attending the monthly township institutes. It calculates on 108 teachers in the county, attending six institutes iu the school, year, allowing them two dollars per day each. The aggregate sum paid to teachers while in attendance on institutes would be $ 1,296. The Democrat assumes that this money (should not be so expended to aid in qualifying the teachers lor good work, advancing the somewhat plausible argument that if the teachers are not qualified, they should not be employed. It is a yery narrow and one sided view. The money paid in this way is, without doubt, the bent investment possible. Teachers are never so advanced in their profession that they cannot improve by drawing upon the knowledge and experience of others. No teacher becomes so well qualified that t attendance upon a good institute will not make him worth $2 00 more intrinsically to his employers than he was before. It is not altogether in the addition to knowledge that tho value of these meetings of teachers consists. The quickening of ambition and zeal, the waking up of vigor by contact with the profession is worth twice the cost, even if little really new is learned. This for the well qualified teacher. But it is a fact that a full supply of that kind cannot be had. They are scarce. The schools must be taught, and teachers have to be accepted, who, though qualified in a certain sense, and to a degree, may be made a great deal better by an occasional day spent in consultation with other teachers. This is the case with young .teachers, for beginners in the business must be employed. To assume, therefore, that those should or could be found who are masters of this most difficult work, is an error. Everything which can be done to improve the teacher's efficiency is a saving of money which is wasted in proportion as he falls short of the best work. Institutes are an exceedingly economical way of giving a new impulse to all the schools of a county, of arousing enthusiasm and infusing vitality. The State has deemed it wise to build and sup-

port a costly normal school to improve its

educational agencies in quality. .But that cannot yet supply a tenth of the trained material needed in t the schools. . Institutes do something to supply the deflceincy. Tbey are needed and do immense service in dis seminating rapidly the thongnts which would otherwise be slow In gaining general effect. Other arguments might be 'intro duced rto show the inappropriateness of striking at the action of the County Board in that respect, but they are not needed. - " This decision of the Senatorial caucus on the Louisiana business, lets day-light anon the motives of the gentlemen who have upheld the Pinch Dack, Kellogg robbers all along. In the first place the Senatorial cabal under lead of our own Oliver decided that no election should be held in the overturn ed State until tha Kellogg Legislature has adjourned. That no action shall be taken in Pinchback'a investigation until aiter that as, were he denied the seat, the Legislaturetwo thirds colored would set to work at once and reelect him. So it is neatly fixed that on the fourth day of March, when Congress ad journs, a new election win De ordered in the state and Pinchback'a seat declared vacant. Then the ingenious Mr. Kellogg promises to appoint brother-in-law Casey to the vacaacy and if tho ring carry the State, he will be elected to continue there. That explains the withdrawal of the Presideat's londy trumpeted message. He found that "the party couldn't "unload" so big a scandal as the Louisiana outrage- Without imperiling its existence. When to this was added the little-notion that brotber-in-law Casey could obtain the coveted senatorship it need not surprise the faithful that the god man reented, or repented bis Spartad purpose of reforming the party. Altogether the Louisiana affair pans out deeps of unexpected meanness at every sjage of ita progress. Just now Oliver audi the president are hand and glove again on this congenial theme. A correspondent recently interviewed the original granger Mr. William Saanders at Washington, , who told man? interesting facts-bearing on the inception nnd development of the- order. Mr Saunders is a Scotchman, typical in appearance and character. He came to this ' coun try in 1847. The. order of the Patrons of Husbandry was ' first thought of by him seven years ago ills object was the general improvement of husbandry, the promotion of the welfare and happiness of those who engaged in it, and the consequent increase of the wealth and prosperity of the whole country. He saw that the appliances in use for this object were faulty and insuffi cient. He saw that for the welfare of the predating classes ' and efficiency of their labor two things were ' essential instruction in the best methods of production and unity of action these two essentials be "kept and still keeps steadily in view. Settled" on these two points he spent ten years in correspondence with the leading agriculturists of Great Britain to get them interested, but with little . success, and finally, in 1867. he organ' ted a grange at Washington com posed of members from all parts of the Un ion. Soon after, one of the. members on a visit to Minnesota organized a grange there. Then followed a slow ' up-hill discouraging work for four years, until 1572, since when the astonishing increase of the order is a matter of daily wonder. Mr. Saunders emphatically corrected the notion that the patrons of husbandry was an order to fight monopolies and control political action. He has no fight to make with the railroads nor the middlemen, but has solely to do with the farmers and the moment they begin to act together the railroads will become their tractable servants and middle men disappear for there will be nothing left for them to do. In regard to the secrecy of the organization Mr. Saunders declared that there really were no secrets more than in families or business firms, who, undertaking to mind their own affairs, must do it discreetly. He Is constantly at work devising means for the better ordering and welfare of the members. One is an improved method of insurance lor farmers; another is to have a portion of the funds . of the National Orange, which now 'amounts to$35,000, expended for libraries for subordinate Granges. Al ready the edncational interests have been to an extent provided for by the creation of a a lecturer in eacn grange whose duty it is to give special attention to the improvements in agrieultmre and iastruct the grange.,ReferriDg to their marvellous growth, Mr. Sunders said the order had passed out of his control and he could only watch it, and while so much had been done- in the past year he felt oonfident it was only a small beginning of an order of Ihings which should assure a golden future of prosperity and happiness to the husbandmen of America. A resolution was introduced a day or two ago in Congress providing for an official enquiry into the condition of those colleges and universities which have received aid from Congress under the Morrill Education Act; better known as the Agricultural College Act of 1862. The resolution is simply the embodiment in practical form of a sentiment in Congress which has been gradually coming to the surface, strongly tinged with distrust , against the agricultural colleges. The prevailing feeling of other institutions towards the former, and notably the open expressions of such men as Dr. McCosh of Princeton and Dr. Eliot of Harvard, have not encouraged a tendency to allay this distrust. There is certainly a very general prejudioe still remaining against the very attempt to establish those Industrial and technological schools, which is largely intensified by the taanifest failure of some of the first efforts to realize the conception of the act which gave than an existence. What the result of the proposed enquiry may be cannot be predicted. It is certain threats were made last year to rescind the charters of some prominent institutions, and among them, Cornell University, whioli was charged with an affection of the Mobiliar type. There may be cause for investigation, reprimand and reform in

mors than one instance. But before a movement is made to suspend attempts at the new education, every member of .Congress r-,nd every intelligent citizen aught to read carefully the powerful address of Prof. Andrew D. White of Oornsllj delivered on the twenty-first of last .month before the state agricultural society of. New "York at Albany. As may be presumed, the- efiort is a special argument for ' the exiting agricultural col leg and a-pointed defense of the Morrill bill - and- the doubtful policy of giving away the government lands to institutions cf learning. There are plenty of interested, parties and oothens-inaon-siderate who clamer to. giveaway lands for any and all purposes, bat especially to promote education. The bald stupidity of such schemes of cofrajtfion need, not be argued here. The whole ground is covered, and the Btundoua- mischief uncovered in the- exhaustive letter of the lion. George W. Juliaa, on land bounties to soldiers written more than twelve months ago. In this part of his argument Prof. White descend to- some narrew special

pleading that is. capable of easy refutation. But when he rises above this to tho defense of scientific industry, and skilled artizanship, his showing of facts and logic is both conclusive and elegant.. It need not be said that the address is a classic in style, beauty and finish.. That;. isinapJied in its author. Hut it is as overwhelming as an avalanche to. the mind of a. strict business man, to the aeonomtoi and the tax-paying citizen.' Tbik of Lhis- in .mechanics. The writer says i " ' A few years since, with a small party of our fellow-aitizens I visited the West Indies in a national ship. She vaa a nable vessel and her engines bad cost, it is said, nearly eight huuired thousand dollara The en gines showed inzenuityi nut they were so deficient in the proper elementa-of construct ion that our voyage was prolonged until we were all siven up as lost and had the honor toJ nave our-ooituaaes in tea leading newspa pers. Tae first voyage f thone engines wea the last Thev were sold, for eld iron and tha sum lost on tham alona was sufficient to ea dow th finest institution foa mechanical ear gineeriag in the world. Of c3dl engineerings Pr. White asserts that on the seventy-thousand miles of railway in the United States, it ia no exaggeration ,to say that millions of dollars are lost every year by. tha - employment of half-eduaated civil engineers. - Add to this the daxaage, waste aad. nonsensical squander ings on public- works, streets, , budges, and watet works, in oities, the eonse essence ot incompetent engineering and the amount cf waste for want f knowledge becomes incalculable. But a greater fact than this is the loss of life, Eminent English authors show by statistics that visions sew erage engineering costs Great Britain 100,000 lives annually. A gentle hint for the little village . of Indianapolis. It ' is impossible to review the Bix ' col u ma address, all .of it füll of : sound thought, and conclusive in demonstrating the econ onoy of that education ' which links labor with learning and crowns both with the best glory of humanity. It is no time to turn Dacs ine wneeis oi educational progress into the old professional ruts. Rather opea the way for a broader sweep of science that will comprehend the whole people. . PERSONAL. Mrs. LeVina Miller, of Bartholomew county, . Ind., a grandchild of a sister of Daniel Boone, is in possession of the veritable fiddle formerly owned bv the aforesaid Daniel. ; Dr. Livingstone has been called "the great English obituary provoker." Catherine Meagher, aged 103 years, died last Friday in Boston. When a little girl she once saw General Washington and The Boston traveler calls William D. Kelly "an inflation BilL". Josie Mansfield, according to Olive Logan, with bar face "full of beauty which has been fatal to herself and others," has left Paris and gone to St. Petersburg. Tme editor of the San Antonio Herald acknowledges the receipt of two fresh and beautiful scalps. Henri Rochefort is living In what is described as the healthy and pieturesque valley of Numbo, on the peninsula of Ducos. He keeps apart from other convicts, and desires to remain quiet and unnoticed. , A Boston letter writer says that next summer, Mr. Ho wells is to give away as ed itor of the Atlantic to Mr. II. K. Scudder, a literary,' partner in the (publishing firm of Houghton and Co, , , Bret . Harte, it is said, can command a higher price for Lis work than any literary man In the metropolis. Scribner's Monthly ha9 paid him as much s f 100 aa page. A new writei upon Lord Byron says that Madame de Stael attempted to effect a reconciliation between the. poet and his wife. Mm. Stowe would have accomplished it. Asa Packer, of Manch Chunk, is one of the wealthiest men in Pennsylvania, or, indeed, in the Republic. He is worth at least 25,000,000, and began life without a penny as the driver of a canal boat on the Lehigh Canal. His immense fortune came mainly from the purchase at low rates of coal lands in the region of his present place of residence the lands advancing enormously within a short time after he bought them. Somehow intellect will tell. A.JB. Walker, the new Mayörof Liverpool, is to build an art gallery in that city at a cost of 20,000. He is a wealthy brewer and colliery proprietor. George Nunn, a fireman, has been removed to the Bellevue Hospital, New York, insane, the result of the inhalation of heat and smoke when he burst open the doors of the Stiner mansion. ' Gail Hamilton (Miss Dodge), is said to be the brightest woman wherever she goes. She possessed the art of investing the slightest topiowith interest, and is not backward in making it available. Amadeus, ex-King of Spain, has a little farm near Milan, known as Monte Yecchio. It Is there that he resides, perfectly resigned to the "taking off" ot his royal but somewhat hazardous pomp and splendor. Monseigneur Dupaloup, the archbishop of New Orleans, is spare in person, of medium height, and has a finely shaped head and a clear black ejo. Although generally very haughty in manner, he can be winning enough when it pleases him. Clara, daughter of Amasa Stone, Jr., of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, was married Wednesday evening to John nay, of the New York Tribune, at the residence of the bride's father. No. 1S3 Euclid avenue. The ceremony was private, but a number of notables were present including Whitelaw Reid and Colonel Bob Lincoln, A banquet tendered at the

Unioa Club-House by FvH. Mason, of the Leader editorial stall, to the gentlemen guests, was a recherche afiilr. Mark Twain got sea sick -on his voyage: to England, and a joker madhim believe that holding a spike in his mouth would care him. He hung to the spike four straight hours, and then got discoojged. The rare beauty of Anna Dickinson's- face has reminded a Vermont editor of " the sun pouring a f-nud of light vpao a collectioaiof diamonds." Slight circumstances sometimes have important reeults. Jones, of Louisiana, would have gone to Congress but. for the vöies- ot three mervwho were down on him bscauso he wouklnt act as referee- ah a dog figkt.. Somebody bas sent Matt Carpenter a copy of "Xhe Woman in White."

THE DIPLOMATS AT WASHINGTON. THK KJND OF PBQPLE THAT RKPKESKSC.THB. WOEKhAT UJJCLK Ba' COUKT AKASOW THE JJHOAVB THKMSKLVXS. A Washiagton letter to the NeTrYorit Times gives this interesting sketch t-Th oratio t the average-diplomat aroof. lbs easy sohool of the European cootinent, but kare iu Washington the limits , are so. aarrcs they have tbaeyes of the "world to such an extent upon , them that they do not act up to the froedom of their- ideas, nies it is when they visit Nri. York, whih is so convenient ly.near that the visits of the various members of the cor;p to Tie Metropolis of America are not few.- and. far betroon, but ott repeated. The largest legaticahere is the Spanish, consisting of eigit members; the ne3t is-the British,. and the French Legation ranks third in . point, of number. The B.itish Government is- the, most liberal in the treatment oi its repressaiative, Sir Edward Thorntor It. pays f 3the rent of ha Jxouse, and is now building an excellent resideace at the cast of $100,ftOCVda Conn ecticat avenue. widcLnäs to be, in future, for the exclusive use of the British Legation. The style oi living of the foreign representatives-is quite plain, as fcbe maioritv of them are net; wealthy men. However, to .this there are accept ions. The Marquis De jNoailles keep-up or rather na-kept up. a (large establishment here. Probably his official salary Jost about paid fir .the lent of his house i a "Washington and: cottage in .Kewport. The British Minister, too, lives tin excellent style, and entertains very elegantly duriagihe season. The Austrian Legation is made up of Minister, and Birst Secretary. The Minister, Baron Chns, Lederer, is a man of agreeable but rather-ppmpous manners. He has been in Washington since Sept. ,4,. 1S68 in fact, ranks neatto Sir Edward Thornton in point of time spant here as a Minister. If Sir Edward we to leave he would become the Dean oft the Diplomatic Corps. Baron Lederer may be a great diplomatic genius, but as bAhas never had aa, opportunity to display his powers, the world cannot as yet estimate the full. extent of his diplomatic capacuy. Ii First Secretary,, Mr. Hengel muellMr De Hengervar, has won fame in Washington, not so much by the display of. his gisas dipiomatio talent as by his hand some- lace- and Dy bis wearing tue gorgeousrun itxees or toe uungaana upon state oc. casions, which then makss him the observed of alL observers. A sky-blue velvet suit, triiaamed with fur and gold lace, one would fancy would constitute a striking make-up. THK FRKNCBi USOATIQX - consists ot a Minister, one secretary, one attache, and a Chaneeiter. The Marquia de Naailles is of a high Legitimist family, a son of the Duke of that name, and descended faon Louis XIV. aad Mme.de Mslntenon. He has much literar taste, and lives in a tyle that might expected of a family celebrated for its wealth and refinement. The Marquis speaks .English with the greatest fluency, and it it were not for his occasional slight accent, one could not detect that he is a foreigner. He has, in company with his charming wife, given some of the finest entertainments since his arrival here, ( July 24th, 1872) According to the diplomatic etiquette, foreign representatives, during their first year at any post, need not give entertainments. But the Marquis did not take advantage of this conventional exemption but reciprocated society's attention from the first. He will leave for France on his way to Homeowners he is to be stationed as Minister, on the 7th of February. The departure of the French Minister and his wife will be a loss to Washington society, especially to the diplomatic people who made the house of the Marquis one of their very few and most pleasent ral lying points in tnis dullest or capital, m. Bartholdi, who is to take the place of the Marquis, will le here In about six weeks. Meanwhile Count Clermont Tounerre, the first Secretary of the Legation, who arrived in this country a few days ego, will act as Charge d' Affaires. The British Legation consists of a Minister, three Secretaries, and two attaches. Sir Edward Thornton, the Ministor, is a thin, tall gentleman of about sixty, of verv dignified manners. He is however, verv affable and auite as easilv annroached as the average member of the diplomatic corps. He is regarded as a good, safe man, eminently respectable and most careful in his actions. He lives in an elegant house in I street, where his wife. Lady Thorn ton,' and two daughters. entertain their visitors in a way that has made for them numerous friends. Sir Edward is one of the greatest pedestrians in the district, and thinks nothing of taking a little walk of ten miles or so every ' day. Of the six members of the British Legation there were tnree married and tnree single, but tne number ot bachelers has been recently decreased by the marriage of Mr. William Oswald Charlton, an attache. . UT THK 8PASI3H LEQATIOK, besides the Minister, there are three Secreta ries and lour attaches, and yet this is the hardest worked Legation in Washington, thanks to the exertions of the Cuban patriots and the consequent complications. The Spanish Minister, Admiral Polo, De Benrabe, is a very pleasant-looking gentleman of about fifty years of age. He speaks Eng lish very fluently, and in appearance would be taken for an English or American naval officer. He lives in very good style, but as all his family is in Spain, with the exception or a son wno is an attacne oi toe Legation,' of course he does not give lormal receptions. His first Secretary, Mr. Potestad, is considered a gentleman of first rate abilities. He has an American wife, and is in all essentials an American, ' having in fact been born is this country and lived here for a great many years. The Russian Legation is equal in point of number to the French The Russian Min ister. Baron D'Offenberg, is an old bachelor of about sixty years of age. lie speaks English with tolerable fluency, and is fond of good living. He is a kind, benevolent old gentleman, and deservedly popular. The Japanese legation excites the most comment. Mr. Arinorl Mori, the Charge d'Affaires, is at present away in his native Japan on leave of. absence, aha Mr. Goio Yano fills bis place. There are at present three mem bers of this legation, Yano, Assano and Samro TakakL. They go out a good deal in society, but not even here, where outlandish people with outlandish titles are all the rage, are thev very popular. They stand about as wall-flowers, with a timid look in their eyes and a sad, deprecatory smile, as if they were lost in a strange world. All of the members of the Legation are very diminutive and very active in their movements. They wear the English dress 38, and speak our language tolerYano, the Cbafgd d'Affaires ad ably well. interim, is a new comer. He has a wife with him, whom none of the diplomatic people have ever seen. Yano has kept her completely hidden slnoe his arrival here, and there is the greatest curiosity to see what

Mrs. Yano is Ilka, The Japanese interests are very likelyHo suffer t-a great extent in this country, owing to the fat that the Japanese house in this city is divided against itself, and tratst therefore fall. Mr. Takaki became. Charged d'Affaires when Mori went away, and ;naturally expeopeeted to remr so Bu the iron entered into his soul vau the despotic home government sracr outmp."k.ho to act in that capacity. ; This was such a Wow to Taka'-as pride that he left the bouse of the Legation and is now rooming out near tiie Georgetown Ceaatery, in whose surroundings ha. finds -sympatnv with his gloomy thourhts. The lunaiest "member of

j. the Japanese Legation is Mr. lLmgro Assajm, unu, mu u a in over lour leet in height, lie looks like one- uf the elks that persecuted Gabriel Grub. He was at the re'ception of tbaJSccretarytof State the other day. When the time came lor refreshments the usual rush, began, aad little Mr. Absano would have &red badly had not a hearty, berfevolent-'aoking old. gentleman caught him up, as if he were a baby, aud passed him over" the herds of the crowd. But Mr. Assano is by no means a baby in years, but a married man wrtki responsibilities. The benevolent old gcatlemau above mentioned is an American, -ha seems to be a great friend of the Japanose and especial admirer of. Assano's. At receptions" he is always with the latter, and treats him .with the most endearing tamiliasities. Oca evening the old. .gentleman amaaed tllB dibtingui.sued crwd by picking U3. Assano by the ears, and.; then playfully describing an elliptical circle with Khe distic-'juished Jag's heeis. Think of the nower oi the Japanese aristocrasy being treated in. auch a m&ner. But ho did not seem to mind it. Perhaps it appeared to him onlv annthorrnstrim of thia kunirvSta1 l.nd pThe German Legation is repreiented bv four me-abers onl, one of wbum u -a naval attache. Von Sckloeier. the Minister, who came hem in Augnst, 1871, is a man of exceedingly simple taste, and a thorough German in aöpearsnae. He has the air. of a man born and ground under an isn system, which ad never-let him tread outside the path o: routine. The Legation is made up of old bacheldra The Argentira.Republic ia represanted by one official w'ao is absent. muÄ -r, a.' - . . . mo -ooigmu jjegKiiun consols oi tnree f offlcials.. Mr.. Deltosse, Minister is sh dUtingaished-lookintr, man, who was here in the! capacity ot.'Mln ister- Resideat for nine years. before he was raised to the rank of Minister in 1S73 Mr. Boages, the Brazil an Minister, is a wealthy man, married, ami lives in good sty is. Mr. Gonzalez, the CLilliau Charge d ACkirs, is a young gentleman, .-nephew of the President of Chili, and not remarkable foj.anythin except reticejce. Mr. Flores, Minister of Ecuador, came here in 1870, His wife, a ladx of -Cuban parentage, ia one of uw nanasoinesi woman in, Washington. Mr. Stephen Paeston, tha Haytiaa. Minister, has aboui. an eighth of African biped in his veins, lie has a white wife. He is not very we!2 liked bv, Mr. Fish !on accouat of his alleged.officiousaess in tha San Domingo matter. Rut he is.a very able, courteous gentleman. Count Corti, the Italian Ministor a hnr-alnr fa a liftin rmr. -. . V , . f.l- 'ft nacious looking man of an exceedinglytesty temper. II e is at present in Europe on . lsave of absence, and vüll not probably rerurn. There is only, one other member of; the Italian legation, Count Zoanini. Mr. Mariscal, the Mexican Ministen, is more re-, publican in his sentiments and habits than . any of the diplomats. He is a, Spaniard, with a slignt dash of the Indian in his looks but is thoroughly American in his . manners. His Wife is a hanr!.fvmA A mAnVan lady. One Secretary and his wife complete Mr. Mariscal's Legation. Mr. Bernhard de Westenberg, who was once thought tobe a. confirmed old bataheloi . will shortlymarry an. American widow, prominent in society, circles. Col, Freyer, the Peruvian Minister now aDsent in iuurope, is said to be inexhau8tingly rich as the gold mines in his native Peru, Eduardo Villena, First Secretary, is Charge d'. Affaires in his abeeuseThe two representatives of Sweden and Norway, Mr. Stenerson, the Minister, and Mr. Grip, tho Secretary, are two magnifieont Goths, and great favorites everywhereTurkey isthisyear represented by Austaschi Bey, a Greek. Baltaxzi Effendi. hia Secretary, is also a Greek aud a bachelor- Tha third member of the legation is tho only Mahammedan representative. Galib All, a promising young man of twenty-twa. has four wives at home, and is ready to add. to the nuraber if he finds any anxious to become fifth and sixth in his affections. Mr. Martin, the representative of Colombia, together with his family. Secretary of Legation, and attache, is absent. So tha Colombian Legation may at present be considered tum est. Guatemala and San Salvados have the same representative, Mr. Daxdon, who liTDs in New Ywk. Nicaragua is at present . rnrepresented. Mr. Schieffelin, the Charge d 'Affaires of Liberia, is as great a savstary as Yano's wife It is not even known by his dipiomatio colleagues whether he w an African or a Caucasian. lie has- never been seen in Washington, and is supposed to reside in Yonkers, N. Y .Denmark is represented by Mr. Lindencrone, a dostinguishedlooking gentleman, whose data ot arrival here is Jan. 22 1873. ESTABLISHED 1837. 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