The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-19

General Horace Porter is at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
Wendell Phillips yesterday arrived at the ST.
Denis HOTEL
Ex-Mayor H. G. Eastman, OF Poughkeepsie, is at
che Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Mr.. Wedderburn has resumed his connection with
the. RichmOnd Enquirer.
Ex-Congressman Thomas H. Garfield. OF Vermont,
is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Ex-COngressman Thomas Cornell, of ROndOut, is
staying at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
General William A. Pile, our Minister to vene.
zuela, who is at home on leave OF Absence yester-
day arrived at the Aston House.
The temperance papers down East are making
quite point out of the remark Of General Grant
that he did not like to use glasses.
Franklin T. Ferguson, or Massachusetts,, lately
appointed United States Consul at the Cape de
Verde Islands, is at the Astor House.
confidence man in st. Louis has arrived at the
conclusion that there is honest man out of Con-
gress and one ''white one" in st. Louis
Ex-Attorney General william M. Coleman. Of
North Carolina, is at the Astor House, while at.
tending the twenty-sixth annual convention of the
Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
There has been little castgating affair in WASH
ingtOn between two newspaper people. party
called browns Young Man" seems to have been
the victim, some way other,
'Disraeli. how can you live with that old woman,
your wife ?" brutally asked an M p OF the EXPIRE
mier, after having literally dined. because" an
swered Disraeli in his most cutting manner 81
possess virtue Of which you are incapable-gIati-
tude."
"what do you think Of the Emperor9'' asked Eu
genie, some months ago, OF friend who had not
seen Napoleon for year. 81 think he looks and
appears remarkably well, was the reply. "Do you
indeeds" answered the ex-Empress moi, je le
trOuve tnbeciler
Mr.. Thomas Winans, whose inventive genius Is
as great as his wealth, employs his leisure mo-
ments in constructing musical instrument which
is to be played by steam from the top Of his house
for the benefit OF Baltimore, far and near Mr.
winans' house is the centre of an unbounded hos
pitality. Though more than three score years and
ten, Mr. Ross Wnans has lately written a book Of
much research and thought, entitled zone Rel-
gion, Many Creeds." 1t is clever family that has
sufficient material to furnish both father and son
with brains.
1t is not often that anything is done quietly In
tins country, yet the original small painting of
Paul de la Roches "a, HAnycile" has actually been
here for several months without having been her.
aided in the newspapers. Secured during the up
heaval OF the Paris Commune, 1t Is now the prop
erty Of a wealthy Baltimore merchant, Mr.. Walters,
whose gallery of modern French art is one OF the
finest on this Continent. Nothing can exceed the
quiet elegance OF taste which Mr.. walters has dis
played in the accessories of his gallery, and to say
that there are not six indifferent pictures in it is
to say much yet not more than the truth. This De
la Roche Is particularly valuable, showing In reality
much more OF the masters hand than the painting
in the Beaux Arts, which was largely the work OF
De In Roche's pupils. We congratulate Baltimore
upon the possession of so excellent art connois-
seur as Mr.. Walters and we congratulate Mr..
walters upon the possession OF his gallery