The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic eapatches must be addressed New York HERA. ‘Rejected communications will not be re- tnrned. ane THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the pear. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. a Volume XXXIV MENTS THIS EVENINU. AMU! OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Htocory Drocorr Doox. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 st., between 5th and 6th ave.— Tuk Lavy or Lyons. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Lith street. Morure Hovsarp. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—FRA Diavoro— Romno Jarriku JENKINS. — BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tuat Rascau Par— IxioN—DECHALEMEUX. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tu® SPECTACULAR EXTRAVAGANZA OF SINBAD THE SAILOR. | eIETH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue aud Twenty- fourth street.—La PERICHOLE. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afvernocn and evening Performance. MRS. F. B. 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The cable telegrams are dated June 14, The Irish Church bill was brought up in the House of Lords last night for @ second reading. A large number of people thronged the galleries, and the streets in the vicinity of the Parliament House were crowded. The debate was opened by Ear! Granville, who spoke in support of the measure. Earl Harrow- by spoke in respouse on the opposition side. Lord Ciareadon then took up his position tu favor of the Dill. He was followed by the Duxe of Rutland and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and others. A great public meeting in opposition to the Irtsh Church bil was held in Dublin yesterday. A riot has taken place between the people aud police in Shandon, Ireland. The Oficial Journal of Paris of yesterday, containa explanations regarding the recent disturbances. It says the government was fully apprised of the in- tentions of the instigators of the riots, and this Knowledge enabled the authorities to keep the disturbances in check. Secret papers re- laung to the troubles have been dis- covered and are now in the hands of the authorities. Liberal reforms wii! shortly be introdaced, so says the Duke de Persigny. Baron Haussmann has resigned, Ismael Pacha has had an interview with Napoleon. General Prim says that-in the present unsettled condition of Spain no candidate will be brought for- ward for the Spanish throne. Cuba. The volunteers have disagreed among themselves and have so far falled to organize their proposed co- lonial government. A court of inguiry into Dulce’s conduct has been instituted by the volunteers. They are jubiant over the countermanding of Duice’s oraer for more troops, as they bad an idea the troops were intended for their own subjugation. Affrays between them and the regulars are occurring inthe futerior, Quesada ts closely pressing the siege of Puerto Principe. Paraguay. The State Department has become seriously alarmed tor the safety of Minister McMahon. Com- mander Kirkland thinks he is @ prisoner. McMa- hon’s sisters are at Buenos Ayres, and are so alarmed that they have demanded the intervention of the State Department. Lopez, it is said, refuses to re- ceive fags of truce, and has fired upon several. New Zealand. Advices received in London yesterday give ac- counts of fresh maasacres by the Maori chieftain Te-Koo-Tl. Three Englishmen, with their wives and families, together with forty frieadly natives, were murdered near Napier, on the east coast of Ulster, The New Dominion. The Repeal League Convention, which has been Gitting tn Halifax, adjourned on Saturday, having Gocided to make annexation Its policy. In the Canadian House of Commons on Saturday the bill granting additional subsidy to Nova Scotia a4 an inducement to keep her in the Confederation was adopted, with an amendment making the sub- sidy payable July 1, 1869, Miscellaneous. The President has Issued @ proclamation alvolish- ing discriminating duties upon merchandive im- ported from the country of its origin in French ves- aela, in reciprocity for a decree of the French Em- peror similar in purport and relating to American ‘vessels, Mr. Henry Howard, the attaché of the British Le- gation in Washington who made the remark to Mr. Sumner that England's bil would offset the United ‘States’ claim in the proposed Alabama claims con- vention, has been ordered to Madrid by his home government, » A duel took piace at Lundy's Lane, in Canada, on Sunday morning, between the Spanish editor of A Cronista, & newspaper of this city, and a Cuban, who was incensed at an article styling the native Cubans cowards, The Cuban was seriously wound. @4, shot through both legs, and waa taken to the In- ternational Hotel at Niagara Fails§in a critical con- dition, The adyir has apparently veen pending me time. . Bids for the sale of eight tron-clad movitors—six ying at League Isiand and two at Washington— ere opened yesterday by the Navy Department. ne offer, made by a Vhiladelphia firm, for the ves- | sels at Philadelphia, was at an average of about $20,000 each, making an aggregate of $120,000 for all of them, and another was made by Richard Wallach, of Washington, who offered to take any two, at the choice of the government, at $160,000 cach, A fire occurred in Georgetown, Ky., on Saturday, which involve! a loss of $228,000, on which there Was about 40,000 Insarance. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. whom wasghis landlady, tn Covington, Ind., on Saturday, and then, hurrying down the atreet to find his employer, he snapped his pistol at two men. One of these disarmed him and carried bim to Jail. ‘The Soldiers’ Home at Albany has been closed for want of a necessary Legislative appropriation, and the inmates have been removed to the Augusta (Me.) government institution. In a coal mine near Brazil, Ind., yesterday a loaded car on a steep grade broke the rope and rushed back ata terrible rate for 200 yards. Three men, all of whom bad commenced work at the mines for the first time on that day, were struck by the car in its descent and two of them were killed, one having his head torn off. The third was not fatally wounded. The negro Jesse Edwarda, who was charged with outraging and murdering a Miss Sarah Kite, was taken from the jail in Lexington, Va., on Saturday night by a disguised party of lynchers and bange? to atree. When the rope was round his neck he was made to climb the tree to a low limb. Ashe was being pushed off he caught desperate hold of the limb with bis hands and was finally swung off oniy after a hard struggle with the lynchers. Boston is overcrowded with visitors to the Peace Festival, The Coliseum was being completed last night, and will pe ready this morning. Perkins, the proprietor of the River Side Park, Boston, it is rumored, has disappeared, with thou- sands of dollars tn his hands as atakes. The City. ‘The trial of James Glynn and Wilham Cruthers, officers of the James Foster, Jr., for tuhuman treat ment of her crew and passengers, was conciuded yesterday, in Judge Benedict's court, in Brooklyn. Both the men were found guilty and remanded for sentence. In the sutt for damages against the owners of the James Foster, Jr., Judge Gross, in the Marine Court, decided yesterday that the defendants could not delay the case in order to obtain the evidence of tne British passenger inspector at Liverpool. ‘The Inman line steamship City of Boston, Captain ‘Tibbetts, will leave pler 45 East river at eleven A. M+ to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, calling at Halifax, N. 8., to land and receive mails and pas- sengers. The Hamburg-American Packet Company's steam- ship Germania, Captain Kier, will leave Hopoken at two o'clock P.M. to-day for Plymouth (England), Cherbourg and Hamburg. The mails by her will close at the Post Office at twelve o'clock M. The steamship Idaho, Captain R. C. Cutting, will leave pier 46 North river to-morrow (Wednesday), at half-past ten o’clock A. M., for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The sidewheel steamship Ntagara will leave pier No. 37 North river at three o’clock this afternoon for Norfolk, City Point and Richmond. The stock market yesterday was irregular until late in the afternoon, when it underwent a sharp de- cline. Gold was heavy, closing 138% a 138%. The market for beef cattle yesterday was only moderately active, business being interfered with by the inclement weather, and, with a tair supply, prices were heavy at 15\4c. a16\c. for prime and extra, dc. a lic. for fair to good, and llc. a 133¢c. for inferior to ordimary. Milch cows were slow of sale and heavy in price; we quote:—i’rime and ex- tra, $90 a $125 each; fair to good, $75 a $35, and in- fertor to common, $45 a $70, Veal calves were in moderate demand, and the supply was fair. Prime and extra were quoted at 10‘o, a 115,c., common to good 8¢, a 10c. and inferior 6c, a %c. Sheep were only moderately sought after and in increased sup- ply. Extra sheared were quoted at 8c, a 81c., prime Te. 4gc., common to good 6c. a 6c. and inferior 4ige. a 54sec. Lambs were selling at 12c. a Ide. swine were quiet but firm at 934c. a 10¢. for common to prime, with arrivals of 7,730 head, chiefly for slaughter. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel J. T. Preston, of Connecticut; Dr. J. Brainerd, of Washington; Colonel D. Monahan, of the United States Army; H. N. Tilden, of California; General H. L. Palmer, of Milwaukee, Wis.; A. Myers, of Portland, Oregon, and Charlies P. Dilla- may, of the United States Coast Survey, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Major J. N. Knapp, of Albany, of Dayton, Ohio, are at the icholaa, A.C, Bernondy, of St. Louis; John G. Whitbeck and Thomas Day, of Lancaster, Pa., and W. E. Hughes, of Kentucky, are at the Maltby House, Colonel P. G. Taylor, of San Francisco; Dr. H. Crawford, of Cleveland, 0., and James Wilmon, of Schenectady, are at the St. Julian Hotel. Rayner Alexander, of Mexico; J. T. Beck, of Mobile, and N. Burke, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel. General John Rawlins and J. W. Forney, of Wash- ington, are at the Brevoort House. Dr. RK. D. Arnold, of Savannah; P. M. Nightingale, of Georgia; H. A. MeGlenen and W. 8. Blake, of Bos- ton, are at the Westminster Hotel. W. Bodisco, Minister, and Boris Dauzas, of the Russian Legation, and Captain W. Black, of Scot- land, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Professor Adams, of Philadelphia; C. 8. P. Bowles, of Paris; ex-Senator Dixon, of Connecticut: BE. L. Bummer, of Chicago, and Edward Carpenter, of England, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Starring, of Washington; E. Thompson Gale, of Troy, and G. V. Aucker, of Charleston, S. C., are at the Hoffman House, General 8. M. Bowman and J Shafer, of New York; E. Sbippen, of Philadelphia ; J. R. Partridge, Minia- ter to Venezueia; R. N. Corwine, of Cincinnati ; Jas. Rea, Consul to Belfast; and H. B. Plant, of Georgia, are at the Astor House. Prominent Departures. General A. Myers for West Point, Major Starr for Saratoga, Dr. G. T. Rouse for Baitimore, Dr. W. Lawson for Buffalo, Jonn McDonald for Phiiadelphia, Captain Wilson for Niagara Fails, and Professor Willams for Canada. and Samuel Gibhart, “Justicg TO IRetanp."—The London Times says that England will do justice to Ireland by passing the Church Disestablish- ment bill, after an agitation of eighty years’ duration. The destruction of the State Church in the island will ‘‘undo an injustice,” and be hailed as an act of ‘‘peace and unity.” Took a long time to ‘“‘see it” —eighty years. Goop IsteNtions.—All the virtue of Grant's adpinistration seems to evaporate in its good in- tentions. Every now and then it makes a grand splurge toward some well-defined object in the nature of reform of official abuses; and scarcely have the people done applauding before it has changed its mind and determined not to do what it promised, Tur Texement Hovses.—The mortality in the tenement houses of one of the three districts which the Board of Health marks on the map of the city was last year eighty-three per cent of the mortality of the whole district. Yet the condition of the people in that district is described as ‘‘vastly superior” to the con- dition of the people in another of the three districts, and their sanitary wants are said to be such as ‘‘may readily be met by a remedy of the merely architectural mistakes that prevail to a great extent in the dwellings of the hum- bler classes.” Here is a grand réle for the “architectural mistakes” that occur in the construction of our tenement houses. In a third of the city, and a part peopled to a very great extent by the thrifty portion of our population—mechanics, tradesmen, carmen, | ship carpenters, calkers, &c.—the tenement houses have four in five of all the deaths, and the greatest sanitary need of the tenement houses is the correction of the “architectural mistakes.” buildings who once discovered that the old Herarp Building was a “tenement house ?’’ Ilad he not better attend to some of these A mauiac Dawed Reniter. who had been crazed by mistakes? Where is that superintendent of Grink and cards, shot and killed two women, on¢ of | The Administration and the Country—The Do-Nothing Pelicy and Its Dangers. The President, Vice President and half the Cabinet are absent from Washington. The government, like a railway train in the absence of the conductor and engineer, is standing still. Yes, standing still and losing time which may never be regained under General Grant. The country is perplexed and disappointed, the outside world is incredulous; but still, while at home the impression is daily gaining strength that we have nothing to expect, the idea is beginning to prevail abroad that we have nothing to fear from General Grant's administration. Dry rot has seized upon the Cabinet, and the republican party is falling to pieces, The Secretary of the Treasury is doing something to stop the leaks and keep the ship afloat, and we see occa- sionally some spasmodic signs of life in the Navy Department and the War Office; but otherwise, like an abandoned hulk, the gov- ernment appears to be drifting along at the mercy of wind and wave. Strange questions are beginning to be asked, such as these, concerning General Grant :— Is he a man of genius ora man of luck? Has he any of the qualities of a statesman, or is he simply a soldier? Has he any desire to make his administration famous in history, or is he satisfied with the honors he has achieved? Orishe afraid to move on the right hand or the left, or to push forward, for fear of making a mistake? Is it Grant or McClellan that is President? Can it be that the hero of Donel- son, Sniloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, the Wil- derness, Petersburg and the vigorous chase up to ‘the Appomattox apple tree,” has become the head of an establishment of Quakers, from the State Department down to the Indian Bureau? Can it be that, too much impressed with the misfortunes of Andy Johnson in his efforts to maintain his own policy, General Grant has resolved to do nothing without ex- press authority from Congress? Or is it pos- sible that he does nothing because he knows not what todo? Are his designs so broad, deep and comprehensive that we cannot grasp them? or has he any clear perceptions of the duties, advantages, opportunities and respon- sibilities of his position? We cannot answer these questions. So far the do-nothing policy of the administration answers them to the prejudice of General Grant. We had supposed that in rushing through the repulsive drudgery of the division of the public plunder he was anxious to get at the more important matters of business before him, touching our foreign and domestic affairs. It would appear, however, that he was desirous of getting this distasteful job of the spoils off his hands in order to have a longer enjoyment in the summer recreations of a Congressional recess; and that, come what may in the inter- val to December, he has made up his mind to let our domestic and foreign relations take care of themselves, so as to be free, at any inviting call, to go anywhere, and take his afternoon drive and smoke his evening cigar in peace. We cannot imagine that General Grant is still casting about for his policy. His inaugural leads us to a different conclusion. We believe that he has a policy matured—a broad, progressive and comprehensive American policy; but that he thinks the Treasury needs repose, and that he and the country, and England, Spain, Cuba and Mexico can wait till the reassembling of Congress in December. In this view the executive branch of our government becomes a cipher. It was a department of recognized power in the worst days of Buchanan, and its strength even against a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress, was still made manifest under John- son, With a do-nothing President in 1861 the administration would have gone to destruction without a battle, and Jeff Davis would have taken the place of Lincoln ; and so, with a do- nothing President in 1869, in the absence of Congress, the administration signifies nothing. Hence it is all the same whether the President and his Cabinet are in Washington, at West Point, Long Branch, or the Great Salt Lake. The chief clerks of the departments all the same can dispose of the routine business of posting the books. General Frank Blair has expressed the opinion several times that Gen- eral Grant, if installed in the White House, would become a despot, and take good care to hold his place to the end of his life. One would suppose, however, that he is satisfied with one term of four short years, and means to enjoy it; that he intends to leave all respon- sibilities with Congress, and does not care a snap of his finger for his policy, his party, or for Cuba, the Alabama claims, Mexico, or the succession, or anything else. One would think that, in avoiding the troubles of Andy Johnson, be has resolved, in having a good time, to follow the example of Captain Tyler. This, indeed, is a most lame and impotent conclusion, and will not do. The country de- mands something better of General Grant, and the time demands it. His opportunities for great things, looking to the extension of the borders of the republic and of its name and weight and power among the nations, admit of no trifling. The crisis demands business be- fore pleasure ; and the people, in view of the glorions results promised, expect their Presi, dent, upon several great questions, to assume the responsibility of decisive action. It is not becoming to the United States any longer to play the petty part in the world’s affairs of a German principality or of Mexico. If General Grant's Cabine! is unequal to the occasion, let him change it. Congress has given him the authority. Nor is it wise to do nothing for fear of a blunder. Under this rule General Grant's fine army of the Potomac would have perished while waiting on the Rapidan for some precise information of the strength and position of Lee. The excessive amiability of Louis XVI. cost him his crown and his life; the boldness of Napoleon gave him the empire, To come nearer home—we must have a touch of General Jackson from General Grant, or we shall have the collapse of Van Buren A do-nothing policy will bring upon this ad- ministration the derision of England, the mockery of France, the disappointment of our neighbors, the scorn of our enemies and the contempt of the American people, In brief, until General Grant shall have shown that he realizes the fact that he has duties to perform which will not admit of evasion or delay his administration will be a failure. At thig day to stand qtill on his part ip to ge fowa, Spain and the Volcanic Elements im Eu- | Ready to Lay the French Atlantic Cable. rope and America. Revolution or a foreign war is the dilemma of half of the governments of Europe to-day. Everywhere the volcanic elements are gather- ing, and the revolutionary fires are brightening beneath the compact mass of six millions of bayonets which hold them in repression. Domestic agitation and an increasing debt attend the governments, while stagnant trade and scant food wait on the peoples. The British House of Lords shrinks in alarm from its own resolve to resist the disestablishment of the Irish Church, before the muttered cry of “Down with the lords.” Imperialism and democracy thrill alike in France, with the fears and hopes springing from the results of the late elections, Germany is agitated from centre to circumference with the centralizing measures of Prussia and her demand for increased taxation. Peoples, kings and priests view with kindred dis- trust the Ecumenical Council. Everywhere the signs of the times point to impending cuange, but whether this shall come in the shape of revolution or reform lies in the bosom of the future. Governments may resort to foreign war as their only resource to stave off the issue of revolution or reform at home. But it is in Spain, where a temporary gov- ernment holds sway, and the kingdom is con- vulsed with the great question of constitutional reconstruction, where a new organic law for the monarchy has just been formulated, and the privileged classes are steeped in in- trigue for the succession to the crown, that the democratic and volcanic elements are assuming the most threatening aspect. The republican members of the Cortes, since their defeat on the great question of a republic, have studi- ously withheld from participation in the votes on the clauses of the new constitution and ab- sented themselves from the demonstrations on its publication, In the eastern provinces the democrats have promulgated the revolutionary “Pact of Tortosa,” which has called forth a riotous demonstration in Cordova, and is running like a wildfire through the south of the Peninsula, The government, pressed on all sides, sees no recourse but to concede arms to the militia, and what this means will be comprehended by our readers who have watched the recent course of events in Havana. The Spanish militia means mis- chief to kings and priests, and a spark will be sufficient to light a volcanic explosion in Spain which will be felt all over Europe. The aims of the democratic leaders among the Spaniards are already set forth in a report made by our correspondent in Cadiz, published in yesterday's Heratp, of a conversation with Salvochea, one of the foremost leaders of the Andulasian democracy. There is a calm deter- mination in his tone which bodes ill to the re- actionary and stationary elements of the Spanish peninsula, But most remarkable is his philosophic recognition of the power of the telegraph and rail as elements of revolutionary force. ‘Kings have had their day,” said he ; “the wire which communicates witb Madrid, Paris, London, New York and San Francisco is the king of the times.” His views on Cuba, too, are remarkable, and worthy of the attention of our very respect- able Secretary of State, who holds European opinions and European complications in such awe. Cuba is simply a public crib for the aristocratic place-holder, and is not held to be of much account by the Spanish democrat. He prefers a good breech-loader, in the hands of the militia, to all the bombast about Spanish honor on the other side of the Atlantic. In the meantime, as will be seen by our telegraphic reports published in another column, the volcanic element in Havana pro- poses to send a commission to President Ces- pedes, and make arrangements for a mutual respect of life and property. This is the step which it would have become our government to have taken, and which the Ministers of Peru and Chile, as well as the agents of Presi- dent Cespedes, have asked it to take. Even now our influence and our honor may be saved if Mr. Fish will only awake to a recognition of the true state of affairs both in Europe and America. He need fear no European compli- cations now. Europe is too busy taking care of her own household to put herself to any trouble about Mr. Fish. Let him recognize the belligerent rights of the Cuban republic, and address a kind letter to both parties, re- commending them to humanize their war. Cvsa.—Our government has recognized the revolution in Spain, and where does it find in Cuba the government that rules subordinately to the one it recognizes in Spain? Can Mr. Fish tell us? Af that we can see in Cuba is that there are two organizations in revolt against the government of Spain. One revolts in a reactionary sense and in favor of Isa- bella; the other revolts in favor of greater freedom than Spain will allow. Our duty is to recognize the one that is most in sympathy with us and that best respects all our rights. We must acknowledge the free government of Cuba. Navo.eon as AN Acrrator.—The official journal of Paris says that the Emperor Napo- leon had accurate knowledge of every fact re- lative to the inception of the late disturb- ances previous to the elections, and knew very well what was to take place in the city. If so, it was his duty, as head of the executive, to prevent the sad results by an immediate arrest of the parties implicated in the plot. It may be, however, that he wished for a little out- break as an excuse for an exhibition of “law and order” imperialism. Lord Castlereagh said that the union of Ireland to England could not have been carried but for the Irish rebellion of 1798, and that he knew all about that event beforehand. Quveer.—The copperhead organs are argu- ing just now that the republican party occu- pies the legitimate ground of the old demo- cratic party. epee Bap ror THE New Zearaspers.—From Dunedin, New Zealand, we are informed that a Maori chief has caused the murder of several English settlers, their wives and families, with forty friendly natives. British troops had reached the scene of the slaughter, where they found only the ruins of plundered and fired homesteads, This is really bad for the Maoria, as they will be eventually ‘wiped out” by the civilizers. Macaulay's man may be among them and will, consequently, nover visit London, Our European telegrams inform us that the Great Eastern, having on board the French Atlantic telegraph cable, had moved safely out of the Thames, was altogether in admira- ble trim and would reach Portland to-day. The Chiltern had gone ahead as a pioneer. We shall hear in a day or two, doubtless, of the arrival of the Great Eastera at Brest and of the complete arrangements for paying out the cable from that point to the United States. We are glad the enterprising company which has undertaken this work are going on with it in spite of the opposition of the old cable monopolists and their allies on this side, and notwithstanding the stupid, uncalled for and inoperative opinion of Attorney General Hoar. All we have to say is, lay your cable, gentleman, and we assure you that the people of the United States will respond with a hearty God speed. Put it under the Atlantic and land it at the point you have designed in the United States, make it an accomplished fact, and our word for it you will meet with no serious or long obstruction. This country will not allow either the grasping monopolists or such pettifogging lawyers as Mr. Hoar to hinder its operation. The people are too much impressed with the value and importance of such an enterprise and rivalry in transatlantic telegraphy to suffer the company to be defeated. Our government must not be made the tool of the dog-in-the-manger schemes of a few monopolists to the manifest detriment of the public good. Should injunctions or anf legal hair splittings be resorted to for the pur- pose of stopping the operation of the French cable means will be found to set these aside, and Congress, as soon as it meets, will be com- pelied to take liberal action in the matter, should any action be necessary. We want this cable and as many more cables as the business between the two continents will jus- tify, so as to cheapen the rate of charges, facilitate communication and promote com- merce. Sranton’s Hary-Way Sysres.—Another suit against Stanton for false imprisonment during the war is on the carpet. On the old plan of government a man in Stanton’s place during the war would have put the agent of the Southern government {in court, presented two or three witnesses against him, and the agent would have left court on his way to the gallows. That would have been the last of the case, and there would have been no suit for damages when the war was over. Que point in favor of the old and simple system was that governments which acted on it had less trou- ble from spies and traitors living inside the line. Baron Haussmann, Prefect of the Seine and grand street improver of Paris, has resigned his office. Could he be induced to come to New York? Who Cay Biame Him?—Two white men went deliberately to beat a negro and he shot one of them, and in this extreme assertion of his manhood and his rights the nigger follows closely the example we set—only he ought to improve his aim and shoot the man who actu- ally commits the outrage, not some one else, for that would materially simplify the case before the coroner. Great Men and the Press=The New Era. We live in an age which well deserves to be called new. It is the age of steamboats, of railroads, of electric telegraphs, of Pacific rail- roads and Suez canals, It is more; it is, ina pre-eminent degree, the age of the newspaper. One of the characteristic features of the age is the position which the newspaper occupies as the channel for the thoughts and ideas of great men. Time was when a great statesman, bur- dened with great thoughts which concerned the welfare of many men, perhaps many nations, had no _ choice but to write a book, which few read, or deliver a speech, to which few listened, or keep his thoughts to himself. Now the man with great ideas has a far simpler and much more effec- tive way of giving expression to his thoughts. He has but to call to his ald an intelligent newspaper correspondent, have a quiot chat for an hour or two, conduct the conversation with some little purpose, submit to an occa- sional question, and in a space of time, more or less brief as circumstances necessitate, his thoughts, free from all verbiage, clearly and crisply put, are In the possession of millions, The columns of the Hxnratp present many such examples. As one of our latest we point to the report in the Heratp of yesterday of a conversation which one of our correspondents recently held with Count Bismarck. It is not our business at present to dwell on the details of the conversation, but to point to the new means which statesmen have discovered for influencing the world. The new agency, to which some time since Pendleton somewhat reluctantly submitted, of which Ben Butler fully knows and appreciates the value, the im- portance of which Count Bismarck now con- fesses, and the introduction of which is mainly due to the enterprise of the Heracp, must, more and mote, come Into use; and the change will be an advantage to statesmen and the world generally. It will make an end of long- winded speeches, of which thinking men are becomiug more and more impatient. Tue Free CoLteck any tHe Boarp or Epucation.—When the new Board of Educa- tion succeeded the old Board many persons were amused, alarmed and disgusted at the speech of one of the representatives of the so- called Citizens’ Association, advocating the sweeping away of all higher education, At last the blow is about to fall. At a meeting of the Board to be held to-day the same repre- sentatives of the Citizens’ Association will at- tempt to remove the classics from the course of studies at the Free College. These studies are at present optional, and no student pur- sues them without the expressed wish of his parents. We have never advocated an over- dose of the classics, but we maintain that every poor man should have at least the chance of obtaining for his sons the American patent of nobility—the college degree. As arguments for the claesics we may briefly allude to their influence in correcting prejudices by bringing the mind in contact with customs, religion and civilization entirely opposed to our own; their great importance in developing the memory, reason, judgment and some other faculties to a degree which no other branch of study can, and their general effect in producing what we call mental culture, Our Foreign Corrospendence—A Singio Day's Laenc. Our foreign correspondence alone occupied in yesterday's Heraup eleven or twelve col- umns, It comprised, in addition to our tele- graphic despatches from Havana, London, Paris, Madrid and Berlin, long and extremely interesting letters from Havana, Panama, Rio Janeiro, London, Dublin, Paris, Madrid, Cadis, Berlin, Calcutta and Hong Kong. Everybody has read these letters, and it would therefore be superfluous to recapitulate their contents. But we must say that they offer a striking con- tradiction to the prophecy of certain wiseacrea who dreamed the correspondent's occupation gone in consequence of the rapid transmiasion of news by the electric telegraph. The tele- graph has greatly modified, but by no means superseded, the system of correspondence which hag so long been a conspicuous feature of the Herarp. Whatever improvements may hereafter be made in telegraphy—and very serious {mmediate improvements are im- peratively demanded on the part of certain telegraph operators, who betray their incapa- city to send any messages which are not as contradictory and confused as they are meagre and unintelligible—it is patent that we cannot yet dispense with the valuable service rendered hy written letters. Such letters complement our telegrams. The latter are but skeletons, which the former clothe with flesh and blood and life. No mere telegram could give so vivid and complete a picture of the condition of things in Havana, in Panama, in Rio Ja- neiro, as our letters from those places. None could make so full and startling a revelation of the real state of the British navy—setting forth so clearly the secrets of the strength of the United States and the weakness of Eng- land—as our London letter. Our Dublin let- ter reports at lengtiSwhat is thought and said of the Irish Church bill throughout Ireland, and treats of the bishops’ leases, the Sligo riots, the land question and educational statis- tics. Our Paris letter presents a mass of curious and suggestive additional particulars relative to the late French elections. Our two letters from Cadiz, especially the one recounting an interview of our correspondent with Sal- vochea, and our letter from Madrid, expose the wheels within wheels of the strange revolu- tion which is now agitating Spain. Our three letters from Berlin, particularly that which relates the interview of the writer with Bis- marck, acquaint us with the condition of Prussia and with the policy of the Prussian government, We have elsewhere had occasion to remark upon the peculiar pamping process to which Hrratp correspondents have at last habituated public men of mark and influence. The results of this process form a striking feature of both our home and our foreign correspondence. The men to whom the process is successfully ap- plied are brought by means of it into more di- rect and effective communication with the public than by any other instrumentality. To conclude, our letter from Hong Kong brings the latest news from our Chinese neigh- bors, and our letter from Calcutta might of itself form a volume on India. No telegraphic cable has yet connected our Pacific coast with Asia, so that we must continue for a while to depend on the mail for such voluminous de- spatches from Hong Kong and Calcutta. Nor have the prices for telegraphic despatchea yet reached so low a figure that our European correspondents can profitably indulge in the luxury of transmitiing their letters by the Atlantic cable. We are sure that our readers will be contented, for the present, to receive the speediest telegrams and the best letters, which the foreign correspondents of the Heracp regularly supply. War 1s tHe TroustE?—The rabid radical of the press is very bitter on the keen and genial Mayor of this great city. Why? Did Oakey ever beat Horace in any little game that he particularly had his heart on, as Seward did? Here is the Mayor defending the interests of the city against a sharp game in the case of the Twenty-third Street Rail- road, and it is insinuated that he is only the creature of the ring and has a corrupt reason for what he does. INcREDIBLE.—There is a jubilee in Boston, yet the Boston papers report the codfish mar- ket as “dull.” What do all the people eat, then? What makes a jubilee down there? Revisine tae Tarte Laws,—By our Wash- ington letter in another column it will be seem what a pretty little excursion certain of the people’s representatives have arranged for themselves, at the people's expense. They have a roving commission to inquire into the state of the tariff laws. This entitles them to visit all the cities of the country and hear what people have to say about the laws and see how the laws apply, and, of course, no one would desire that Congressmen should suffer in the public interest by stopping at second class hotels. As there are some per- sons in Europe whose opinions on the tariff may be worth having, one member crosses the Atlantic. All the rest are just now “revising the tariff laws” in the Rocky Mountains on their wag to California. Truly, these are self- sacrificing men, who are not content to stop working when Congress adjourns, but carry their devotion to the nation through the whole year. RETRENCHMENT IN THE PuBLIO Orrices at Wasninaton,—It is intimated that General Rawlins, the Secretary of War, in his order for the dismissal of a large batch of clerks in the War Department, was acting under the in- fluence of the Grand Army of the Republic, and with a view to put others in the place of the dismissed clerks, We hope this is not the case. We hope General Rawlins will not be made the tool of these bitter and proscriptive military partisans, We hope he is acting for the public good and really intends to make a sweeping ro- trenchment fa his department, As to the cry of these dismissed clerks about being thrown out of employment and their sufferings, that is all out of the question. Let them go to work at something else. There is plenty of employment in this country, The government was not instituted to support an army of paupers, At least half the clerks in the various departments in Washington are un- necessary and could be dispensed with and a vast saving made in the expenditures, We hope all the other secretaries will reduce their olerical force to the lowest number, This is the proper way (p hagln rafxenchment,