The New York herald., 1874-10-07
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mr.. Albert Bierstadt, the artist, is at the Bre-
WORT House.
Jimmy OBrlen declines to run for Congress. hts
head is level
Archdeacon Balch, OF London. Ont, Is registered
at the Everett House.
Bishop Henry G. Lay, Of Easton. Md, has arrived
at the St. Denis Hotel
Hodges confidence in Beecher is ''nrm as the
hls.n Important II true
Judge George F. Comstock OF Syracuse, is re-
siding at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Congressman James s. Negley, OF Pittsburg, is
staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Rev. DR.. W. G. Cattell, Of Lafayette College, is
sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel.
Commander Henry Wilson. United States Navy.
is quartered at the Westminster Hotel.
State senator F. W. Tobey. OF Port Henry. N. T.,
yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Professor George 8. Mallory Of Hartford. Ii
among the latest arrivals at Barnum's Hotel.
Mr.. J. d. Cameron, son OF the Pennsylvania Sen
ator. has taken up his residence at the Brevoort
House.
An enterp-ising downtown restaurateur an
nounces s'paroxysmal stews' as specially on hts
bill Of fare.
Frencnman named Jacoliot has written book
on the customs and mode OF life OF the women OF
the Far East.
Mr.. John william Wallace. President Of the HIS
torcal Society Of Pennsylvania, is at the Filth
Avenue Hotel.
Secretary Belknap viii on Monday next attend
the annual reunion Of the Army Of the Tennessee,
at Springfield, Ill.
ssThomas Peascod" Is on trial in England. Shake
speare, like Dickens, seems to have taken his 0dd
names from real people
Its reported by cable from Rio Janeiro that his
Dodv Epnno nfR 1u ko1 tn
visit this country next year.
Bishop Richard II. Winner. Of Alabama, ana
Bishop Joseph P. B. Wilmer, OF louisiana have
apartments at the New York Hotel.
A history Of the savings banks OF the United
States has been prepared BY Emerson W. Keyes,
OF New York. and Is on the eve OF publication.
1t is reported in Ireland that an answer will be
published, on the authority OF the Roman Catholic
priesthood, to the arguments OF Tyndall and Hux-
ley.
Htzig. the learned German critic, has pub
lished o commentary on the book OF Job. Nothing
he writes should be overlooked by the biblical
student
How do you like rne Repuoltc2 Would prefer
ours with less Ku Kiux and Southern "reign OF
terror" If you please. Moreover, we never ad-
mired the make up OF the country weekes.
A charming book about the rights OF cage birds
is lust out in London entitled .'Cage Birds Their
Cages and Their Keep" by X. A. Buist, who. we
venture to assert, is q lady, and Is both eloquent
and accurate on her pet theme.
GAN that's bright must fade, )" and even the dog
pound has reached the period of Its existence. IL
is closed to-day, and the dogs are happy. Bergh
also would be happy If so many otner animal mlser
les did not SIT heavy on hts liver.
Rev. Drs. LEVIN and Hubara OF Maryland; Rev.
Dr. Stringfellow; OF Montgomery, Ala, and Rev.
I, r. nbncn nj nrd do1
the Episcopal Convention TO be held In this city
to-day, are at the Grand Central Hotel
F. Diaz Covarrubin, Francisco Timenea, Manuel
Fernandez, Francisco Bulnes and Agusten Bar
roZo the Mexican astronomical commission sent
out to observe the transit OF Venus, arrived at the
New York Hotel yesterday from Philadelphia.
They are on the way to China
Senator Thurman, who has just returned to
Washington from the White sulphur Springs, was
taken with the chills yesterday while at rhe Capt.
toll He hopes to be able to fulfil his eng agement
in Baltimore on Thursday, where he Is to deliver
the annual address before the Maryland Agricu-
tural Society.
Mr. s. Baring.Goud, whose researches among
crypto.rengious documents have been very extern
sive will publish "Lost and Hostile COspelsD
belng an account OF two Hebrew Gospels circulat-
ing among the Jews in the Middle Ages, with
critical examination OF the notices OF Christ In the
Talmnd, in Josephus and In Jnstus.
Evidently all the roguery in the Police Depart
ment is not IN the precincts. 1t appears that an
order Of the Commissioners forbade the captains
last year to interfere with gambling establish
mcnts, policy shops, &c. What was the precise In
tent OF that order' Who proposed it-who voted
Tor it-and how many millions were in itS Several
conundrums together.
Mr.. Hepworth Dixon is at the Brevoort House.
He bas come htsher iecturing tour, and will
lecture nrst on the 10th INST His successes In lit
erature cover wide field, and are such as neces-
sarly involve extended experience in their author.
His contribution, therefore, to the entertainment
OF the lyceum Will be knowledge OF permanent
value In al attractive form.
Kelly to Havemeyer:-I have to say In six col.
umns in answer to yours in three columns that
you are an old ass, and that your imDectity makes
you pre-emineutly ridiculous. II you had been
able to understand plain subjects you would have
discovered In the matter OF those accounts that
they are according to law and state the exact
number OF persons on whose crimes was entitled
to. collect fee. Yours, KELLY.
Compliments OF the season. Havemeyer to
Kelly have to inform you IN three or four columns
that you are rogue, and while you were Sherin OF
this county you fraudulently drew from tine public
treasury $4,000 bv falsely representing that very
| much larger number Of your countrymen were
| sent TO prison than really were. You are there
fore no more honest than anybody else. Yours,
uAVRNRYER.