New-York tribune., 1880-01-11

The Paris newspapers cOntnue to bring accounts
of the unusual cold spell prevailing in that city.
number of deaths have occurred from cerebral con-
gestion. OccasiOned by the low temperature. Public
warining-rooms have been opened, where poor Pc
destrians can stop and thaw themselves out The
Seine ls frozen and it is the fashion to cross 1t on
the ice. Nearly everybody in Paris. it Is sup
posed, has yielded to this curious mania. Ey-
cry day there is a seigbmg carnival in the
Bos de BOulone, and equipage drawn
by 4 team of superb dogs makes great sensation.
The skaters have a jolly time on the Seine, and
their cries and songs keep the people in the neigh
boring houses awake late at night. Wood has gone
nm To fabulous prices The suffering Occasioned by
the cold among the poor 10 in some measure ameii-
GRATED bv the active charities Of the better classes
What n different state of things exists on this side
of the Atlantic 1t Is now midwner by the cal
endar. and vet, while all Europe - freezing to
death. it would be difficult to decide
whether we are enjoying n belated fragment
of last Autumn or some exceptionally enterprslng
and prcvious section Of next Spring. Over IN New
Jersey the natives are fighting mosquitoes, which
are plainly stragglers from last years army
of invasion while the dandeOns yet in
bloom are not troubled with 50 much mod
cstv as to decline the honor Of being
considered the advance guard Of the new years ilo-
raj procession Meanwhile farmers are breaking up
sod ground the sap is rising IN the trees the grass
s almost verna in the freshness of its green. straw
berries axe rpening the vines as far north as the
Caroinas and everybody seems TO enjoy II all except
tbc man who owns an icc-boat and the marlet-gar
dencr who salarmed lest the cauAower and cabbage
pants in his cold frames will keep on growing all
Winter and become too tall and eggy for successful
transpIanting in the Spring. Who can account for
the pnzzl:ng ecccntrioitics of the weather.
Fast upon the intelligence of the IIaieh forgeries
and the troubles of the Grocers Bank, followed last
week the sadder exposure of Mr.. Bogert's dishon-
e,ty and his suicide under shameful circumstances.
The latter varied little the monotODy Of the story,
a Ittle old OF rcsDectabllity found to be rotten.
Indeed, Mr.. Bocert seems to have bad standing
high enough to have carried him through the emer-
cency il his moral courage had been sufii-
cient for the effort. He was so much
liked and trusted that a frank avOwal of his diff
cultics would have brought him sympathy and sub
srantial assistance. Mr. Bogert," SAID one mer-
chant would have been helped out of bis trou-
bles without any one knowing about it, if he had
only spoken to u.s." The remark was kindly one,
but the unfortunate man knew perfectly well that
his were troubles out of which nobody could help
him. 1t was too late. Too many people knew that
be was not to be trusted any longer.
and that hercefortb, if he lived. there was
nothing before him but distrust aud shame
and comparative penury. Business men, after
such a fall. seldom rise again. They hang
about the Exchanges they make desperate efforts
TO reengage in trade. they pited By some, they
are helped just n little by Others; but the old
prosperity seldom il ever comes back again.
Mr. Bogert had seen too many instances
of such mortifyng degradation to care TO
encounter it. He had played desperate game
and been beaten he knew precisely the value Of
the good repute which he had lost; it was his cap
ital it was gone; and moreover 1T was capital
which. in the nature of things could not be reoov-
cred. He did not choose to figure as a broken down
specuIator; ne preferred to die; and he is dead.
When will men take to heart the moral enforced by
such n tragic endingi