The New York herald., 1872-12-02
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE,

Seior J. de 7. Pinto, OF Peru is registered at the
Clarendon Hotel.
Minister E. D. washburn is In town, staying at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Congressman B. T. Eames OF Rhode Island, is at
the Albemarle Hotel.
Congressman william H. Barnum of Connecti-
cut, is at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican,
has bowled along to the Gilsey House.
Congressman at Large Lyman Tremain is con-
tent with room at the Gilsey House.
Colonel @. B. Phillips, OF the United States Army,
is IN quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel.
General w. D. Whipple, Of the United States
Army, has quarters at the Hoffman House.
General A. II. Terry, of the United States Army,
yesterday arrived at the Sturtevant House.
General Joe Hooker yesterday arrived at the Bre-
WORT House from his home In Watertown, in this
State.
Private contributions have made good $780, 900
OF the loss OF. Harvard Universltyb by the Boston
fire.
The editors and publishers OF Maine are to cele-
brate BENJAMIN Franklin's birthday on January II.
Lemonade and tea and nice speechesl
poor man who hanged himself owing to domes-
tic aticton OccasIoned by his wife, Is thus disposed
OF out West:-"Henry Lyman, shoemaker, Terre
Haute-bedcord. Jealousy.v
Some OF the Western papers are still insisting
that Wendell Phillips intends to act umpire lec
turer In the Froude-Burke controversy. Wendell
for q wlnd-up Is good.
DR.. Dohrn, young German naturalist is making
great aquarium at Naples, the cost of which in
great part comes from his own packet 1t is harm
less amusement
The editorial pages OF exchanges are filed with
articles on Horace Greeley. An almost afectonate
sympathy permeates the announcements OF the
great journalists death.
The late Mr.. I. Combe, OF the Clarendon Univer-
sity Press Oxford, has, 1t Is said, bequeathed to
the University his valuable collection Of Pre-
Raphaelte pictures, said to be worth the large
sum of fD,O0O.
Tee Springfield Republican demands three years.
imprisonment and a fine OF $500 each for Susan B.
Anthony and her fourteen sisters. The Republican
parenthetcaly promises to do all it can to hasten
the day when women may vote.
Mr.. Ernest Renan has been as warmly received
in Naples, where he now is. as in Rome. The
clergy since his departure from the Holy City,
reported to have celebrated q "triduo" to expiate
the PROCLAMATION OF his heretical presence there.
The japanese rapidly become cosmopolitan in
their tastes. The ambassadors now In England
have acquired liking for beer They were lately
taken by Sir Henry Parkes to the brewery OF
Mcssrs Allsopp, at Burton-0n-Trent The chief
ambassador having announced his preference for
the strongest, he was presented with butt OF 1t.
The Baltimore American has sympathy ior Con.
grcss II Alexander H. Stephens is elected to the
Senate. There was once, 1t says, a lecturer, who
was so ''extended" in his remarks that he thought
it prudent to tell his audience that he speaking
for posterity. One Of the audience mildly, but
promptly told him, 'he guessed that they would all
be along soon to hear him."
Mr.. Froude laid before the jury OF American pub
lie opinion his side OF the Ang0-Irish question.
Father Burke, the attorney for the defendant, re-
piled. Mr.. Froude last Saturday night rejoined to
the reply. Let the case now go to the jury, which,
by the way, will not agree. In the meantime will
not Mr.. Froude talk to us upon literary subjectsa
But few OF us have heard him. and the most bril-
liant historian Of the day must not return to Eng
land till he has q clearer understanding OF Ameri-
hospitality and OF American love OF free speech
than he was given at Boston, where 1t Is made to
appear that two Irish Catholic servants with mis-
guided zeal, refused to walt on the opponent OF
Father Burke.
The rumor that Police Commissioner Henry
Smith has defnitively resigned his position as
President OF the Board is without foundation. Un-
der statute OF the Legislature the President of the
Police Board is ordered to meet the Mayor and
Comptroller before December /, to pass finally upon
certain street-cleaning estimates. As Mr.. Smith
was prevented attending through illness it was
necessary that some one filling his position should
be present, hence the resignation al interim which
has been paraied by certain journals in this CITY,
II is believed that Mr.. Smith will be able to resume
his duties tomorrow, when Commissioners Manierre,
the acting President will resign the presidency to
make way for him.