The New York Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1870, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, turned. Volume XXXV....cccseseee AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, D'S MUSEUM AWN! NAGERI J ear Peunete see Maunes aaitee jin late pany NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tux Dama or Mos- QUITO, BOWERY THEA’ jowery.. ‘wion—Tus MoRDRZED freeaane BOOTH'S THEATRE, ¥8d st,, ae 4 Winow unt Teobeeas cuggunaeeemnat WALLACK'S TI ‘ul “ oy il HEATRE, Broadway and 13th streot, — THEATRE, Broaaway.—-New VeRsion oF FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FROU- Frou. ae MANY, Fo AINMENT. FRENCH THEATRE, DE Bazan. GRAND OPU:RA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 2d Tus 1 WELVe TemPrarions. tregt.—GRAND VARIETY and 6th av.—Don C#eaR MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PAKK THEATRE, Brookiya.— fur Davenrsx oF THE Reatuunr. nanos THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Brondway.—C: ae pry “ag way.—COMI0 VOOAL+ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bo at Vooatieu, NEGRO MINSTRELBY, 4c. perernr. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Ta r siebaranve MinbeRELe Matinee et toe Mth BAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL! al Cob la My 3, 585 Broa !way.—Eruto- Pall & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Frow *HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—-Hooiny’s I. BTRBLS—BiNis TUS PevLax, Rg pipbaiics NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 = ENOK AND ART. sapiens TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, May 5s 1870, = eee CONTZNTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pas. 1—Advertisements, 2Advertisements. B—The Arcade Swindle: The Jeremy DiddlerSpecu lation on the Tapls Before Governor Hoffman; Three Hundred and fifty Millions’ Worth of Property Represented to Oppose It; Irresistible Arguments Against the Scheme; Speeches by Messrs. E. 8. Jaffray, A. T. Stewart, Judge Hilton, Judge Momer A. Nelson, Judge Porter and Others—Public Education: Meeting ofthe Board of Commissioner:—Mysterious Death in a Hotel—A Cowardly Campbell— Large Bequests by a Jersey Benefactor. 4@=—The McFarland tial: Free Love Finds an Adyo- cate at Last in Mra. Sinclair; A New Way of Kissing the Bible; The Question of Narcotics Being Disposed of, the Court Takes Up that of “Gin and Milk; Beginning of the Ena-—The New Regime: Address by the Citizens’ Associa- tion on the Text of the Recent Changes in Our City Government—Bills Signed by the Gov. ernor—The Bloomingdale Murder—Board of Health. G—Europcan Revolutionizm: Congress of the Na- tionalists and Radicals In Loncon—The Long Island Suicide; Verdict of the Coroner's Jury—Financial and Commercial Reporis—Ma- rine Trausiers—Marriages and Deaths, | 6—Editoriais: Leading Article on Our City Govern. ment, the New Commissions—Personal Intel- ligence—Amusement Announcements. 'Y—Telographic News from ail Parts of the The French Regicide Plot, Riots, and and Industrial Agitations; Woman's Sufirage Votel by tho British Parliament; American Interests in Spain, Germany end Denmark— Inauguration of Governor Engiish, of Connec- ticut—City Politics—An Alderman on His Muscle—Jersey City Regenerated—Amuse- ments. 8—Proceedings in the New York City and Brooklyn Courts—Working for Promotion—Jersey Ciiy— Fire Department—Aadvertisements, 9—Advertisements. 10—Washington: Judge Pierrepont Tenders His Resignation; the Polygamy Bill Overhauld in the Senate; the Southern Pacific Railroad— ‘The Bohemian Shame: Conclusion of the Trial of te Rev. Charles B. Smyth—A Negro Cant- bal—Obituary—Head Out Of-—Shipping Intelli- gence—Adveitisements, 11—Adveruscmenta, 12—Advertisements. OF THE HERALD, PROGRESS During the week the average daily mass of advertisements in this journal of all descrip- tions was about forty-three columns, or some- thing over seven compact pages in small type— @ greater aversge than that of any preceding week since ihe issue of our first number. Ina corresponding ratio our daily circula- tion has been and continues to be steadily and rapidly increasing. In its advertisements and circulation, the Heratp having been for many years a recog- nized reflex and index of the prosperity and expansion of this great commercial and finan- cial metropolis and of its fluctuations in business affairs, we may submit our enlarging prosperity of this season as a fair indication of @ general revival of business here and through- out the country. From present appearances, looking at the growth of the city itself, and of its surround- ing suburban cities and villages on Long Island, Staten Island, and in New Jersey, Westchester and Connectiout, and at tho Increasing demands of our advertisers and subsoribers within this radius, and from all parts of the Union, the Continent and the civil- ized world, we expect soon to be required to issue a daily quadruple Hearty, and to meet ademand which we are prepared to meet, rising from one hundred and fifty thousand to two hundred thousand copies every day in the year. _ Asorsze Foor anv His Monry.—A cable despatch informs us that an evening paper called the Sun, published in London, has been purchased by the Marquis of Bute, The Sun hitherto, we are told, has been a liberal political journal, It is now to be issued daily asa Catholic organ. It is, we fear, one more illustration of the old truth thet ‘‘a fool and his money are soon paried.” Party organs have long since ceased to pay even in London, Party Catholic organs, published daily, have no chance. The youthful Marquis might do better with his money. But he believes he is in good hands, We cannot say he {s not, for he is certainly in better hands than those into which fell his unforjunate dousia Hastings, Rejected communications will not be re- «No. 125 8 Beaaan's Peri- Our City Goverament—The Now Commis lous, If faith be due to promises, such as thoy have come to us from Albany, aad if reliance oan be placed upon tho programme for which the democratic leaders succeeded in obtaining @ legislative sanction, an executive spproval, and bringing to a decided success throughout, we cannot fail to enjoy in the future @ most excellent city government, But the enact- ment of a good law and the honest and vigorous administration of that law are different things. The fact stands uncontradicted, to the disgrace of the country, that for ten years or more New York has been the worst and most wick- edly governed city in the world. We say to the disgrace of the country; and we may add to the detriment of our national character and insti- tutions, because foreign nations have become accustomed to regard New York as the type of the whole republic, Looking at it as the centre of commercial wealth, power and en- terprise, they naturally identify the good or evil of its government as reflections of the government of the entire country. We cannot blame tue people of Europe for entertaining this poor opinion of us, when they read of the disregard of law, justice aud morality which prevails here—the looseness which pervades our minor law courts, the peculations which taint many of our public offices, and the fear- ful taxation which presses upon all classes of our cliizens. Now, however, we look through @ pleasant vista towards the hope that lies beyond. We have got an excellent new form of government. That it was perfected in Albany only proves the familiar saying that some good can come out of Nazareth, At all events we have got the elephant, and it now remains to be seen what is to become of him, As a wise scheme the skilful brains that planned the Charter did not include in the new form of local govern- ment the abolition of all the existing commis- sions, but simply so changed the personnel, and defined the duties of each, as to conform tothe new order of things consequent upon a great political revolution. Most of these com- missions are already organized, and are in a preliminary stage of work. The people look to them anxiously for the development of the new system. The office-seekera are the most anxious of all; but, although they are legion, they are not tho people. There is ample guarantee, we think, in the character of the men whom the Mayor has appointed, as well as in the amplitude of the powers which the law confers upon all these commissions, for such an admirable management of our local affairs as we have not known for years past. Allthe commissions should so combine their duties as to tend to the general improvement and beautifying of the city. Such method, discipline and taste, for example, as contribute ‘to make the Central Park a garden spot upon the Continent might be applied, in conjunc- tion with due regard to utility, to render the entire labors of these commissions uniform in this respect. With the same attention it might be accomplished, and thus we would have a combined action for the one leading object—the improvement and adornment ofthe city in every department. The Commission of Public Parks is not likely to suffer under its new head, Mr. Sweeay. There is much to be done for the down town parks, and we are glad to chserve that the Commissioners have taken a step in the right direction by providing music for the people on alternate evenings at each park. This will give the morale of the down town people a lift in the direction of art and intelligent enjoyment much needed. The Fire Department, under the manage- ment of Speaker Hitchman, will probably undergo many favorable changes. A man like Mr. Hitchman, who has proved himself so able an executive officer ia tho Speaker's chair, will surely bring much ability to his new position. The Commission of Charities and Correction has an arduous duty to perform. The poor we have always with us, and we have the erving also. Both classes come under the charge of the gentlemen compris- ing this commission. That justice, tempered with mercy, will be administered to the unfor- tunates who may come under the care of the Board of Charities and Correction is beyond doubt, judging from the calibre of the gentle- men who compose it—among them, tho genial, good-hearted, little democratic hero, Alex- ander rear. The Board of Public Works sweeps the city. With the exception of the docks and piers and public parks it swallows up nearly everything. Mr. ‘weed, the President, has had large experience in the Sireet Department, and, indeed, for that matter, in almost every depart- ment in the city; therefore he assumes his sceptre with a Jove-like confidence and majesty. Upon all these gentlemen rests the responsibility to fuithfully carry out that delicate and skilful -agglomeration of depart- ments and bureaus which constitute our future city government. But the highest responsi- bility rests upon Mayor Hall, who appointed them. We trust that they will all be able to give a good account of their stewardship. After the turmoil attending the election of the third Tuesday of this month for Aldermen, Judges and other officials is over, the new system of local government will be in working order, The curtain will have risen upon the drama, and we only hope that, when it falls, a large and approving: audience of 9 million of people will have reason to express their satis- faction at the performance. PspEsTRIAN PERILS ON THE S '.—Have foot passengers any rights which drivers are bound to respect? is a question which might very rationally come up at the next meeting of the Police Debating Club. ‘‘That man of lone- liuess and mystery” who sits supreme and unepproachable upon the box of the omnibus, the express wagon and the festive butcher cart seems to have decided it in the negative, once for all. Let a timid girl, a halting cripple or a feeble old man be seen straggling across the street, and Jehu ‘goes for” the hapless wretch with a vim that would excite the envy of the Enniskillen dragoons, ‘This thing would be ludicrous were it not sd seriously fraught with deadly peril to thousands who raust continually cross and recross our streets. The only way to stop the evil is to arrest and | punish the reckless driver who esteems the safety of a Luman befag less than a moment's detention in his headlong career. Mistakes will sometimes occur, but in most cases where injury is inflicted the band that controls the horses is at fault, Our streets are not race NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1870.—TRIPLH courses even for mail wagons, and pedestrians who do not maliclously obstruct havo the right of way. Roundsmon, make a note of it. Judge Barverd’s Charge~Neo Prize Fight- img, Chauco Moediey er Geutlemanly Assaults to be Permitted. Judge Barnard’s charge to the Grand Jury is worthy the serious attention of all pug- Dacious people, His Honor means to do what- ever can be fairly done to preserve the peace in this town, and even to prevent the organi- zation here of expeditions to disturb the public peace elsewhere. It is known to his Honor and to the people that there are a great many men on the east and west and other sides of the city who find it difficult to restrain their noble tempers within the narrow limits that the law allows, and who, therefore, indulge the relaxation of an occasional smashing to smithereens of each other's ‘nobs” and “Knowledge boxes,” and “potato traps” and “snuff establishments,” and other parts too numerous to mention. Now this is contrary to the statutes direcfy made for the protec- tion of every man’s countenance. Af the same time, therefore, that a burly rascal in the ring breaks a nose he also breaks the law, which is of more importance than any man’s nose; and it-has been observed that when these fellows have once broken the law, hav- ing their hands in, as it were, they do not stop to count their steps thereafter. Feeling that, for the hour, they are living and moving in open defiance of the law and its officers they logically enough cease to respect everything that the law should guard, especially the principle of property. Thus the expeditions that go from the city to enjoy a bully’s festi- val of pounding and bruising become in the country parts simply organized gangs of plunderers and raiders, If Judge Barnard will marshal all the powers of the law to stamp out this city institution he will deserve the public gratitude. But there is another publtc trouble that he also proposes to act against. He intends to put a stop to assaults on the part of ‘men who claim to have some social standing.” We are glad to see that his Honor does not mean to let gentlemen, so called, indulge a pounding instinct any more than the bullies. There are some signs that he will have his hands full with this latter part of his chapter. Gentlemen were never before known to be in such a ferment of passion as appears to move them now. It would seem as if there were some violent epidemic of pug- nacity abroad; for every discnssion of every topic is disposed to run to hard words and threaten dreadful personal consequences. Severalgentlemen are on the very verge of having their noses pulled, if we may believe the papers; for strangely enough this epi- demic rages most among the generally mild mannered men addicted to journalism. The ponderous protectionist and the very quiet Times began it with a brawl over free love ; the Sua and the Standard are following the example with recrimination that has avery raffianly air on one side-and is quite dull on the other, and now the mélée is ex- tended by a downright row between the Com- mereiat Advertiscr and the Independent. The pious child, Tilton, has declared that he will compel the editor of the Commercial to hum- bly apologize, and the editor of the Commér- cial says in reply:—*‘ We inform the editor of the Zndepenaent that, as we have kicked noth- ing mean for a long time, he will be very likely to be introduced to our calfskin the first time we chance to mcet him. It is the only way to treat such fellows. We shan’t hurt him, but merely kick this Uriah Heep of the press.” Ofi all these cases the honorable Judge no doubt keeps an attentive eye; and weare sure that justice will be done by him unless the heavens fall, in which case it will not be neces- sary. Should his Honor witness the applica- tion of the boot above referred to, he of course will not interfere, as that would spoil a good case. He will permit the kicking to be well and handsomely done, and then give Tilton three months, for he clearly will be the party to blame, since the other cannot do the kicking without he is present and cannot humanly help it if he is. t Tur Rares oF WHARFA: The Legislature a fow days previous to its adjournment passed a bill which had been pending from the com- mencement of the session, authorizing an increase of the rates of wharfage in this city and Brooklyn. The same bill had been beforo every Legislature for the past eight years ; but the influenee of a few shipping merchants, who were actuated by a short-sighted policy, was sufficient to keep it back. It has now, how- ever, reached the Governor's hands, and we have been frequontly asked whether he will permit it to become a law. Ia Mr. Hoffman’s annual message to the Common Council on the 6th of January, 1868, he said:— The present of .whariage and dockage, as established by t ate Legisiature, are sq low that a lessee cannot afford to pay a rental nearly equal to the interest on the estimuted value of the wharf property. Ifthe views of Governor Hoffman coincide with those of Mayor Hoffman we cannot well see how he can withhold his signature from the bill. INAUGURATION OF THE GOVERNOR OF CoN- Neoricur.—Yesterday the fnauguration of James E, English, recently elected by the democrats Governor of Connecticut, took place at New [aven, with unusual pomp and display. In the afiernoon the Governor sent in his message to the Legislature, in which, while recommending acquiescence to the fifteenth amendment, he soundly rates the republicans for their usurpations, de- nounces the manner in which the recon- struction policy has been carried out, and declares that if Connecticut possessed the constitutional power to resist encroachments upon her rights he would not hesitate torecom- mend its exercise by the State. The Governor, in fact, is particularly belligerent in his mes- gage, while confessing the impossibility of fighting the radicals witb more carnal weapons than votes. The concluding parts of the mes- sage are devoted to State affairs, which are represented as prosperous in every respect, Boston had Senator Revels, the freed black man and United States Senator, to speak to it last night, and he took occasion to thank Boston for what he was and what she had done, Probably Boston never before was flattered in o manner so eminently befitting Boston’s appreciation of herself, Congress Yesterday. The Senate yesterday took up the concur- rent resolution to adjourn on the Fourth of July, and discussed it in a spirit indicative of & desire to remain in session much longer, but it went over on the expiration of the morning hour without being acted upon. The valuable time yet to be wasted in discussing this point may possibly suffice, if the Senate is 80 disposed, to transact all the really impor- tant business of Congress, The country does not want so long a session. It wants prompt legislation on the taxation and tariff questions, and an early adjournment. The calendar of private bills was completed yesterday, and an attempt was made to take up the Franking bill as a special order, but it failed, and a bill to sell the Osage Indian Reservation was taken up in its stead. The House has apparently setiled on two topics that bid fair to keep it busy until July— Jenckes’ Civil Service bill and the Tariff. The timid Peters, of Maine, who is still nervous at the ghastly prospect of bloody-handed rebels holding loyal offices, appears to be the princi- pal opponent of Mr. Jeackes’.bill, There are, however, several abler members opposing the bill, and it is quite likely that its tendency to withdraw patronage from honorable Congress- men will develop a great deal of opposition not heretofore expected. The Tariff bill dis- cussion has progressed safely beyond iron and is now on steel. Woman’s Rights in England. The British Parliament solemnly endorsed the woman's rights movement last night. The bill which accords the electoral suffrage to women was debated in the House of Commons, and passed toa second reading, after a very animated discussion, by a vote of 124 against 91, The fact constitutes a really important event in the current history of English polities, Tho members of the House of Lords are certainly too gallant to refuse to endorse the action of their co-legislators in the Commons in this instance. The ladies of England will have a very “good time” of it about élection day in future. They will con- stitute a “‘balance of power” party, and will, consequently, be caressed by the aristocrats, and most probably carried round in Hyde Park and other public places on the shoulders of the democracy. They will certainly vote on the side of free speech, unless they should belie all their former professions, when they become politicians. Queen Victoria, as will be seen by our cable telegram from London, will be the only lady who will remain dis- franchised in England, although her income qualification amounts to eighty thousand pounds sterling a year. Chances for the Fandiag Bill. According to our Washington news the fate of the Funding bill, or of any funding bill, depends upon the national bank influence in Congress. This is just what we have been saying all along. We think the bill now before Congress is a crude, complicated and imprac- ticable measure, and we siill maintain that a simple resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convert the debt bearing six pet cent interest into securities of longer date ata lower rate of interest, if he can do ao, is all that is necessary, A. clause, however, compelling the national banks to take the re- duced new per cents as security for their cir- culation would be just and proper. This appears to be the only way in which these privileged institutions can be made to pay something for the great advantages they have obtained from the government, But we have no idea this can be carried. The national banks are too powerful in Congress for any measure to pass that touches their privileges and enormous profits, The Funding bill is a great job, and if the clause with regard to the national banks be stricken out, by way of com- promise, the best thing will be to abandon the measure altogether. Ifanybody will take long four or five per cents for short six per cents at par let Mr. Boutwell be authorized to make the conversion, This is all that is necessary at pres France and the Plebiscite. As the 8th of May approaches the excitement in France becomes more and more intense. The government does all it can—and it can do much—to make the election sure, Every precaution is being taken by the government to bring the people to the ballot box with an affirmative vote. When we remember that every officer in the army, that every prefect of every department, that every mayor of every city and every townsbip and eyery village in France is bound to do as he is bid it is not possible to doubt that the Emperor must come off vic- torious. At the same time we cannot close our eyes to the fact that the opposition in ail its sections is doing its best to defeat him. Counter proclamations have been issued. In these the most is made of Mexico, of Sadowa, of eighteen years of misrule, of a debt in- creased by some ten hundred “million dol- lars, and of a yearly taxation of some four hundred millions. The oppositionists ask France whether, with these facts before her, she will ‘renew the plenary powers of the Em- peror.” With all these facts paraded before France the Emperor counts on some six million votes out of eight millions. We shall be sur- prised if his majority does not prove much larger than those figures imply. There have been some street disturbances, but, considering all things, they have been insignificant. Very Muon toe Same.—Jobn Russell Young, of the new Standard, having opened fire on Dana, of the Sun, we are disposed to regard this irrepressible conflict very much as the old backwoods heroine of Ten- nessee regarded the fight between her husband and the bear. ‘She didn’t care which whipped, but it looked to her as if both sides would be the worse for wear and tear before they got through.” A Goop Prace ror Sampo—New Jersey, under the fifteenth amendment, Sambo is supposed to hold now in Jersey the political balance of power, and accordingly he is in high feather over there with both parties, No wonder, then, the women’s rights women are so urgently demanding ‘‘equal rights” in the ballot; and why not? That’s the question. Let them keep up the fire, Stcxs oF A Break.—The republicans at Washington are preparing for a cancus to regulate the party on the tariff question, which ig published in our columns to-day con- veys to our readers Old World matter of the very highest import. Its contents are of direct interest to the democracy of America, possess executive, Our special writer announces that the peoples of Europe have resolved on the gredual subversion of the throned and the healthy realization of a universal and con- federated republic, He supplies facts end dates, and submits the arguments which are used by the representatives of the struggling masses in justification of the approaching movement, its intent and consequences. The European nationalists have been’ assembled in & Universalist Reform Congress in London, The information which we publish ‘is a special outline of the proceedings of ita members. The obtainment of this intelligence is of itself one of the highest compliments which has ever yot been pald to the free and independent press of America; one of the most touching tributes which has been yet tendered by the struggling peoples to the well-known kindly sympathfes of the free sons of the American Continent; one of the most direct pledges of their abso- lute confidence in the justice-loving and manly bearing of the educated millions who enjoy the blessings of free thought, free speech, free schools, and freedom of conscience and wor- ship under our national flag. Our special correspondent was admitted to the meeting of the European revolutionists in congress in London; his pen chosen, as it were, as the exponent of the democratic indictmont against royalty, and our steam presses relied on as the meams of submitiing the united international plea to that vast transatlantic cosmopolitan jury which is made up of our readers. We have afforded to Bismarck, to Premier Mena- brea and to Count Beust opportunities of explaining and defending their differoat systems of rule, with their plans of ameliorated govern- ments under the crowns. To-day we hearken unto the peoples who assert that they can manage their affairs without the crowns. This radical revolutionary Congress in London must not be confounded with the tumultuous aggregations of the French “reds,” as now heard from in Paris. It was @ calm, deliberative assemblage. The members were fully cognizant of the plaints of their follow men, and equally convinced of the many diffi- culties which surround atfempts for their complete redress. France did not enjoy any particular lead or prominence in the council. Russia, Poland, Ireland, Rome and Italy appear, indeed, to have ranked before her, looking almost as if the order of precedence had been arranged according to a plan in which the duration of national wrong and the gloom of present political prospects had been duly considered and conceded. The languages spoken were French, English and German—the tongues which have so far brought the greatest amount of enlightenment to the world. Having perused our special letter thereader will see that England is, after all, now, as she ever has becn, the réal solid substantial centre of popular reform—reform with rea- son—reform adapted to the time and circum- stances. England received and sheltered the monk Augustine, and this completed a religious revolution. Her barons, representing the peo- ple, at Runneymede delivered the first blow against the “divine right of kings,” leaving it to Oliver Cromwell to repeat or complete it, Watt Tyler initiated the system of national financial reform, with an equitable impost of |_ taxes, which Gladstone and Lowe are just now perfecting after Cobden. Sir Francis Burdett prefaced the British constitutional democracy which explains itself to-day at the hustings, in Parliament, in Hyde Park and the columns of the Heratp. Calvin, Knox, Wesley and the rest, freed the altars of Europe. ‘‘Memory” Woodfall was the first independent newspaper reporter in the old lands, ‘Junius” pointed out the economies, the moralities and rights of the nation, and Peel and Wellington completed the work by assuring a stubborn royalism that conscience was free and the genuine catho- licity of the Reformation universal. Thus has Great Britain ever acknowledged progress and respected the ‘accomplished facts” of humanity. Thus does she to-day pre- pare herself to accept the consequences of tho propagandism of the great ideq,of democracy— a confederation of republics—and thus, as will be seen from our special London letter, does she array and vest herself for a solemn attend- ance at the font in which the Old World nations will be regenerated by the baptism which was in the beginning and will endure in eternity, Tur ArcapE Rattway Bitt Berork tus Governor.—A delegation of prominent citi- zens waited on the Governor at Albany yester- day and argued for and against the signiag of the bill for an Arcade railway under Broadway passed lately by the Legislature, Messrs. A. 7, Stewart, Chapman, Detmold and Ogden and Judge Hilton made strong arguments against the culmination of the outrage, and were fol- lowed by Judge Nelson, Mr. Charles Crary and others on the other side. The Governor has not yet decided upon his course in the matter, and we again urge him to keep our main tho- roughfare intact. Broadway, as it were, now tes at hia disposal, and it rests with him to keep it in its present condition as the most beautiful business thoroughfare in the Union, or to cut away ita strength, its beanty and its wealth at one flourish of his pen. The responsi- bility is great, but his course is so plain that he ought not even to hesitate in vetoing the Dill and killing the job at once. AMERICAN SyMPATHY FoR Eaypr.—Quite a number of military officers, distinguished ia the Confederate service, have recently left this city for Egypt to help the Pacha Ismail in his pending troubles with the Sultan of Turkey. ‘Arms and ammunition have also been for- warded, and it is rumored that a steamship loaded with matériel of war is on the eve of departure. The new fighting American Consul General in Egypt, Colonel Butler—nephew of the redoubtable General Benjamin F.—will be in his element when he reaches his coming field of labor and finds himself surrounded by congenial chivalric spirits, This will exhibit the spectacle of Americans helping Russia from an unexpected standpoint, traordinary mixture of gin and milk, of which he drank or sipped a quantity ; and one of his guests, In like manner, called for and disposed: of a pitcher-of gin and milk, as something new under the sun, It further appears that in these proceedings the preacher not only vio~ lated the fourth commandment, as tecorded in the second book of Moses, but likewise the Sunday liquor law of the State, and “that although the company was seated in a private room, no blessing was asked, at least audibly or apparently, on the repast.” Furthermore, the accused cansed his son to assist one of said reporters iu ‘deciphering or writing out” the notes of the sérmon preached on said day by the accused. These facts were established against the minister before the presbytery sitting on the subject, Moderator Finley in the chair. But Mr. Harper, of the Investigating Commiltee, submitted the following extenuating circam- stances :—First, that the accused did not ask either of his guosts to take any intoxicating drink, Second, that the accused was laboring at the time under a considerable degree of physical exhaustion. Third, that the quantity of gin used by him was not large. Fourth, that the accused did not exhibit any symptoms of intoxication on the occasion, Next, in balancing the account, the committee having reported against the gin, in connection with the time, place and circumstances, although the facts had been greatly exaggerated in the specifications against the accused, submitted in conclusion the recommendation of a rebuke to the accused for his censurable conduct, and an admonition with an engagement on his part “‘to walk by the grace of God more cir- cumspectly in the future.” The report was adopted, and the rebuked Brother Smyth is doubtless satisfied that his punishment is not greater than his offence. So much for the Church. Now for the press. According to the testimony of the HeraLp reporter, whose fidelity to the facts is estab- lished, the account of that Sunday lunch, as published in the opéra bouffe journal, was a false report, and, according to the evidence of the reporter directly concerned, it was not his report, but a materially different report. In other words it was a report doctored, regard- less of the consequences, to make a sensation. Against this unscrupulous Bohemianism we, in behalf of the Heratp reporters and all other faithful reporters of the public press, must here enter our protest. The Rev. Mr. Smyth, from a kindly disposition to serve the two reporters concerned, in reference to that 10th of April sermon, invited ‘them, however unwisely, to lunch with him, and they and he were be- trayed in a little affair of hospitality by another party, and hence all this fuss about a Sunday drink of gin and milk. Why, even tho pro- fessional robbers of the Arabian desert regard the rites of hospitality as a treaty of peace, which they are bound in honor not to violate. If they eat or drink with the traveller they are bound not only never to betray him, but when necessary to protect him within their lines of jurisdiction; and when these rules are violated by the press the press is brought into disgrace, Tue Lanor Crasses IN MAssACHUSETTS.— Ben Butler has written a letter to Wendell Phillips, giving his views on the labor ques- tion, Butler is a shrewd politician and- never loses an opportunity to expound such of his views as look well in print, He strongly favors in this letter the shortening of the hours of labor and the lightening of the laboring man’s burdens. He says:—‘We know that Massachusetts ideas, Massachusetts statistics, the education of Massachusetts people quite considerably impress the legisla- tion of the whole country.” In that case we are of the opinion that the laboring laws of Massachusetts especially, being in some re- speets most infamous, should be immediately revised, Sr. TaHomas—Tue Reason WuY.—The President of the Danish Council of Ministers has informed the Folkthing (or Houso of Com- mons) that he has received despatches from Washington explaining the delay in the rati- fication of the St. Thomas treaty. The reason of the delay may be briefly stated, Seven millions at Washington is regarded as vastly too guch for an island which any day in the year may be turned inside out and upside down by a succession of tropical earthquakes. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. General 3. B, Buckner, of Kentucky; Major A. H. Bruyn, of Kingston; J. 5. Harvey and Oolonel J. G. Berret, of Washington; John P. Thompson, of St. Louis; ex-Congreasman J. M. Marton, of New York; Colonel F. W. Latham, of Texas; General J. 8. Mar- maduke, of St. Louis; W. 0. Buchan and James Lonergen, of Mexico, are at the New York Hotel. Captain George M. Lawman, T. A. Biddle and Bayard Taylor, of Pennsylvania; Captain EB. 8. Gooawin, of Boston, and H. 0. McLean, of Wash- ington, are at the Astor House. Judge Theodore Milier, of Hudson; J. C. Peters, of Liverpool; Captain James Rogers, of Tennessee; General J. W. Beozell, of Philadelphia, and General John T. Croxton, of Kentucky, are at the St, Nichola Hotel. Oolonel F. R. Hubbard, of Norwich; Colonel J. Hare, of Chicago; Captain Lewis, of Paris, France; Juage J, Hardenburg, of Kingston; Colonel H. H. Neal and Colonel O, Neeiham, of Boston, and Judge J. A. Lee, of Rhode Island, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General S. P. Heintzelman, of Inglewood, and Major C. H. Dunkirk, of Boston, are at the St. Charles: Hote! HL. Lathrop, of Sacramento, and W, Green, of San Franctsco, are at the St. Den:s Rotel. Edward Dickson, of Sweden, and T. R. Hyde, of Rhode Islana, ave at the Evorett House, Captain La Grue, of Toronto; A. Lander and J. Miller, of England, and W. G. Sattenstall, of Massa~ chuse.ts, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel A. J. Smith, of Syracuse; 8. H. Hammond, of Albany; Sir W. Cole, of England; Colanel Frank W. Jones‘and Judge Herrick, of Colorada, are at tha Hoffman House. fy ¥. A. Brewer, of Springfield; A.Taylor, of Stamford, and 0. 8. Ohaffee, of Mansfeid, Conn, are at the Coleman House. Colonel Charles James, of San Francisco; W. My ‘\ Ledwith, and W. L. Coan, of Florina; A, A. Taft, Jt, of Providence, and H. B, Hayes, of Boston, are ak the Grand Hotel