The New York herald., 1874-11-19
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

on dft in political circles here, in Washington
and Boston, that the coming home OF Mr.. EI'hu
Washburne will he followed Immediately by the
retirement Of Mr.. Fish from the Cabinet and the
probable resignation OF all the other members Of
the Presidents Ministerial STAFF The knowing
ones say thai Mr.. WashDurne Will be offered the
state Department and Mr.. Edwin D. Morgan the
Treasury Department.. They dispose OF Mr. Brls-
tow by transferring him to the Department OF JUS
ice. rice Williams. removed to the shades OF prt-
vat0nle.
Lieutenant Governor John &. Robinson is at the
Metropolitan Hotel
Rev. DR.. Van Nest, OF Florence, Italy, ts stop
ping at the Westminster HOTEL
Mr.. Dewitt c. Littlejohn, OF Oswego. n T., is re-
siding at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Commodore w. A. Kirkland. United States Navy.
Is sojourning at the New York Hotel.
Major Henry G. Merriam. United States Army,
is quartered at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
The ex- Empress Eugenle called on the Empress OF
Russia at Buckingham Palace. London.
Captain Boxer, of the British Navy is among
the latest arrivals at the Windsor Hotel.
Ex Governor Henry J. Gardner. OF Massachu-
setts, is registered at the windsor Hotel.
Postmaster General Marshall Jewell and family
have apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
M. Lepthine Avigdor, Austrian Consul at Nice
and banker OF some note, has blown out his
brains.
John Lemoinne, OF the Journal des Debats, Is .
candidate for Jules Janns 'Jduteutr In the French
Academy.
Senator william B. washburn and Ex-Governor
William AMIN, OF Massachusetts, are at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
Talmage should take thought that this Is o bad
year for any extreme assertion OF morality on tho
part OF parsons.
The London Ddtly telegraph announces that the
infant son OF the Duke OF Edinburgh has been
christened Albert Alexander.
Judge william L. Learned, OF the New York Sn-
preme Court for the Third Judicial district, has
rived at the Gilsey House.
Victor Emmanuel says that NJ. Thiers Is the Little
Red Ridlnghood OF French politics, and that
Gambetta's party IS the wolf.
Chevalier Alphonse dc Stuers, Charge d'Afares
Of the Netherlands at Washington, arrived last
evening at the Hotel brunswick.
Mr. Henry s. Sanford formerly United States
Minister to Belgium. arrived from Europe In the
steamship Java and is at the Brevoort House.
.'The dead cities OF the Zuyder Zee" is what
Frencnman calls the old Dutch towns TO which
ne mas recently made "a picturesque voyage"
Alexander H. Stephens left Augusta, Ca, for
Washington Yesterday afternoon. he Is In better
neah than he has eEjoyed for the past ten years.
lie weighs eighty pounds.
The students OF st. Andrews University, Scot
land have rejected a proposal made by some OF
their number recommending that Ralph Waldo
Emerson be elected Lord Rector.
Every year the population OF France is reported
less and less Ihere Is an absolute, constant and
regular decrease, and at the present rate or de.
crease the country Will be depopulated in ls3
years.
Hon. william Edward Forster and Sir 7. F0wel,
Buxton, members oil the British Parliament.
visited number or the public schools In Baltt-
more yesterday, In company with the city OIL
cals for tie purpose OF examining the school sys-
TEN OF Baltimore.
If Grant reorRanizes his Cabinet and appoints
men like Washburne and Morgan TO the most I'M
portant positions, he may yet retrieve the falling
fortunes OF his party. There Is much virtue in .
judlcous and skilful use OF the vast patronage Of
the Executive, and no men understand this fact
better than washburne and Morgan.
N. Lub0wites, lieutenant In the Austro- Hunga-
rian armies is walking from Vienna to Paris on
wager that he will make the distance in fourteen
days. At Strasbourg ne had 143 miles to spare on
his time to that point. At Paris ne will be received
by members OF the Union Club OF Vienna ana the
Paris Jockey Club. Three millions Of francs ere
said 10 be bet on the race.