The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1870, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF WO-DAYS Pace. ‘1—4dvertisements. 2—Advertisementa. orape War: The Prngstan Advance and Skirmish- on French Soil; Defeat of French Cavuiry, Rallroads Damaged and a Viaduct Blown Up; @ French Fleet Manzed at Cherbourg; Secret Treaty between France and Prussia; Belgtum, Holland, Austria and England Alarmed; French Demonstrations tn Ireiand. siden} Grant at Long Branch—Base Ball iotes—Racing at Prospect Park Fair Grounds-— justo in the Parks—Brooklyn City News—Ju- venile Orackamen—Suspected Doniestic ‘Trage- dy—The Thirty-Mfth Street Murder—The Sun- aay Arrests—Police Trials--New York’s Postal Importance—A Fan-Fantasy--News from Chi- Da—Robbery in Hoboken—The City _ Rall- fyoads—Board of Assistant Aldermen—Singu- Jar Poisoning Occurrence—‘‘Tufty,”' the Fourth Ward “Prig'—European Mail News—Personal Inteiligence—Look Out for Him—A Prison Ou- riostty. G—Uiab and the Nation: Expositions by a Mormon Elder; Congress and the Cullom Bill—Preven- tion of Cruelty to Anlmais—The New Jersey Court of Pardobs—Miasummer Retreats: The vosey Places in the baie. of New York— Chess Matiers—-The Jersey City Murder: ‘I'rial of Dennis McGrotty for the Murder of Robert fartman—Obsequies of the Chevalier de oosey—A Passport for Europe. @—Mattorials: Leading Articlo on the War and the Division of Europe—Amusement Anuounce- ments. ‘¥—Tolegraphio News from A!l Parts of the World: Austria Against Infatitbiity; The French Agi- ALD. The War and the Division of Europe. | limited playgrounds, cannot afford. Physical Prussia ‘‘wants too much” it seems, and | education is no Jess important for them than that is the real cause of tho war, It is not a | the intellectual training which our common question of the Prassian manceavre in Madrid | schools so liberally afford. Selfish and short- nor of Bonedetti’s dignity that has set France | sighted parents, who look on the schoolroom and Prussia face to face on the Rhine, but | ooly as a convenient Botany Bay, to which simply the old and respectable discussion of | they may send their children to be ‘‘out of tho the division of Europe. the actual commencement of hostilities. teed” by the Times. France to gain Luxemburg. By the third Na- poleon assents to the addition to Prussia of the South German Provinces, and by the fourth Prussia is to help France to take up Belgium whonever France may deem that absorption necessary for her well being. It is a pity that a date is not given or thai we are not helped to a hint at the time and the circumstances on which the Emperor submitted tbig treaty. If it was in 1866 tho world bas knowledge of many facts not inconsistent with that programme; but if it is pretended that this has beon presented to Prussia as a French statement of the condi- tions consistent with the prosecution of peace in the present differences, it is calculaicd to give a new character to the contest, and also to assure us that the Emperor of the French is confident of a stronger game than he seems to the mass of men to have before him. Here, then, we have again—and in a shape a little more definite than any in which it has before appearcd—the proposition that France should have all the counties west of the Rhine as a condition of her assent to the aggrandizoment of Prussia by the absorption of all the States of Germany except Austria proper. Was this treaty the draft of the com- pact of Biarritz? Substantially it is the same. But this proposed division of Europe is older yet, and has still another point. It takes in So it appears by tho documents that the Lonton néwepapers aro producing in the ‘‘wait” that now precedes One of these is a conversation with Napoleon; another, produced by the London imes, | At the bezianing of tho next term both teach- assumes to be a treaty submitted by France to Prussia, the authenticity of which ia “‘guaran- By the first article of this st—Performances every afternoon and evening | treaty the Emperor Napoleon “recognizes tho late acquisitions of Prussia from Ausiria.” By the second tho Prussian King is to assist way,” may possibly wish that the vacation was not solong. They forget, however, not only the blessings which the summer vacation con- fers on thelr childrea, but those which the pa- tient, overworked teachers may derive from It. ers and children will return with fresh vigor to their respective duties in the schoolhouse. Evading Quarantine—Danger to the City. Our readers may remember the manifesto of Solomon Grundy, a so-called Health Officer who flourishes somewhere on the Jersey coast as a sort of vis-2-vis to the governorof Coney Island, and who is not unlike that great official in his pomposity, though he seems likely to be rather more mischievous. Solomon, by his pronun- ciamento, defiance, or whatever else it may be, addressed to the Health Oficer of the Port of New York, called attention to the fact that vessels were entering this port on the alithority of the certificates of this fustian official and without in any way submitting themselves to the quarauting laws of this State. Such a fact could not be accepted on the credit of such a person, and we have therefore !nquired into the j subject. We find that within a short time past at least six vessels from infected ports, after having anchored at the quarantine anchorage, have left it without the authority of the Health Officer, Dr. Carnochan, and gone to Perth Amboy, where they have had their cargoes re- moved wholly or in part, and whence in some cases the ships have been brought directly to the wharves of this city and of Brooklyn. Tho barks Contest, Signal and Elizabeth, and the brigs Dauntless, Typhoon and Calson Steson, have thus violated the laws. At Perth Amboy no attempt is made to carry out any quaran- tine rezulation, and the ships are unloaded by stevedores that come directly to the city when their work is done. Every one of theso ships had yellow fever on board. The Contest had five men in hospital at Rio with the fever, and also the question of the East. There are three main terms in the division of Europe held by the three, great Continental Powers that do most in that way. That Russia should have Constantinople was the first term; the second was that Prussia should have such prepon- derance in Europe that the possible opposition one of her crew died with it on the voyage hither. It was the same with all. Every one either lost men at Rio or on the voyage with yellow fever. % We find, therefore, that we are at this port practically without quarantine. Yellow fever ae an arene Ae tae tees of Austria to Russian advance might be of no is raging with such viralence in Rio and other jog. ee Rilned (Pg pega aor avail, through the crippled condition of Aus- tropical ports that not a vessel sailing thence The President aud © Congress. A retrospect of the last session of Congress reveals the somewhat curious fact that while there was no apparent’ conflict of opinion between Congress and the Executive, there was at the same time very little harmony of action between these two branches of the gov- ernment, and that while President Grant has retained, if not increased, his popularity, Congress has decidedly lost ground in public favor, It is not surprising that this should be so. There were many important matters in regard to which it was expected that proper action would be -taken by Congress; but weeks and months wore by, and finally the session closed and the expectations of the people were disappointed. Prominent among these subjects was the restoration of Ameri- can commerce, to which the President called attention in his annual message, in a special supplementary message, and finally in an ear- nest remonstrance against adjournment until the necessary legislation was had on_ the subject. But all in vain. Congress either had not the will or had not the ability to grap- ple with the question and to resolve upon the only practical method of restoring to Ameri- can ships their share of the carrying trade of the world. There may be some excuse for the principle of protection where the market is under the exclusive control of the government, and peo- plo resorting to that system for the purpose of developing home industry; but where no such exclusiveness can exist, as on the ocean, which is free to all, there the principle of pro- tection is the stupidest absurdity, and can only result in utter failure. Tow could an American shipping merchant, whose ship cost him from twenty-five to forty per cent more than the samo vessel would cost an Englishman, a Frenchman or a German, and whose sailing expenses were also much heavier, ex- pect to- maintain competition with such odds against him? He could not do it, and consequently there is no longer any American foreign commerce. The re- medy was plain. Keep up, if such be the po- licy, the protective system at home; but when you have to compete with free trade on the ocean, do it under free trade principles. Let the American merchant buy his ships where he can get them cheapest and best. Let every- thing used on board his ships be free from tax and duty. And at the same time, to keep ap shipbuilding at home, let all materials used in the trade be also free from tax and duty of all kinds. By these means, and by these such robust and healthy fellows as those com- posing the basa ball fraternity, Cool off, boys, until the weather coo!s down. The Valuc of Amertean Securities. The capitalists of Europe evideatly under- stand the value of American securities, The Bank of Frankfort has loaned the Prussian government five millions of thalers on a de- posit of American stock as security. What better security can there be than United States stocks? We have proved to the world that despite a terrible domestic war, sprung upon us without preparation, with everything to buy in the way of war material, and nothing to buy it with except the faith and confidence of the people; with a vast army to raisa and hardly a nucleus to build it upon except the courage and devotion of the masses; with a vast indebtedness upon our shoulders after this gigantic war was over, we have been able to reduce the public debt to a compara- tive trifle, and are reducing it every day. We have shown that many of our most important industries have been restored; that enterprise, instead of being retarded, is advanced. We have spanned the Continent from ocean to ocean by what might almost be called a seven days’ excursion train. In everything but our commerce on the seas the war has given a stimulus to our material interests, and that one interest lias suffered only from the action of an imbecile and selfish Congress. Tn fact, the credit of the United States to- day is more stable than that of any nation in Europe. There is no country in the world so Prosperous as ours, no country that has given evidence of such vast materials to become more prosperousevery day. We have nothing to do with the complications of European Powers. Our pulse beats quicker, it is true, at the sound of the war trumpet across the ocean, but we are not diverted from our steady course of developing all our resources, hidden and unhidden, of relieving ourselves from public burdens gs fast as we can, and reducing taxation by fair and equitable legislation. A country that can do this may afford to indulge in its small party quarrels, or can let politi- cians fret their brief hour upon the stage. It then, can tolerate Ben Butler and laugh at Sam Cox's pleasantries, and even endure the dreary sophomorisms of Sumner, and nobody can blame us. But the question is, why should not a country which_has accomplished all that we have done in war and in finance stand high in the Wall streets of all Europe? The answer {s found in the value which American securities The War tn Europe. published to-day, report the progress of the war beween France and Prussia. There hat been gome sharp border skirmishing; u¢ battle of any magrJtude. Prussia maintainé her pluck, Prussian ‘skirmishing parties have done damage on French ‘goil. King William's troops have killed a few ef Napoleon's men, destroyed some miles of \Freich railroad, and blown up a viaduct. Such oper- tions entail fosses on the owe side and encourage the other. France is intactive naval preparation and still enthusiastic. \ France is, however, not impetuous, She \is either measuring her antagonist carefully, \or, can not it be said, weighing the% risk of a great engagement. There aro ,ru- mors, cabinet intrigue, ministerial shuidlmy> but no grand action in the field. In the mean-~ time the European peoples are becoming’ fevered, trade suffers, commerce is diverted te new channels, finance is deranged and all be- causo Napoleon don’t like a kingly nomination for Spain. This situation will not endure long. A Wonderfal Smallpox Story. From Omaha there comes a very frightful story of the way some Western men reaped @ smallpox harwest, Of course the first wrong was done by the Indians, as the first wrong is in all stories from that region. Somebody died of smallpox on one of the Missouri river boats. He was buried near the shore, while the boat waited tn the river, and some Indians, who had watched the burial, scarcely waited for the boat to get away before they dug tho dead man up and appropriated his clothes. They of course did not know the cause of his death. Thusende the first chapter in the story. The second opens with the outbreak of the disease among the Indians, and details its fearful ravages, showing the penalty they paid for that desecration of a wayside grave. Again the white man comes upon the scene. Hundreds of dead Indians are scattered every- where. On every one is the robe he wore dnring life, and in each robe the white man sees a piece of merchandise; and through the activity of the kind of white men that flourish can have its little row in Congress now and | 1, the Indian country we have all the infected robes gathereg up and sent to market, always without the least regard to the spread of the pestilence. Nay, we see the perceptive faculty of the white man taking hold of the case, and as iu the first place he profited by an accidental occurrence, now he contrives this harvest. One of the alone, could our foreign commerce have been speculators, we are tofd, made a compost of ister Motley’s Removal; Southern Indians Anxious for Peace—Young Men’s Christian Association—More Ri nisin In Newark—The Ocean Yacht Race he Excitement Un- abated at Sandy Hook—Business Nuticea. S—New York City News—Westchester Boulevards— Beartiess Vandalism—Financla! and Commer- clal Reports—Rowdyism in Willlausburg—A tria, But what price should France have for but carries tho disease, and all these infected assenting not only to the dismemberment of ships may enterthe port of New York, come Turkey, against which she had once gone to straight to our wharves, unload their infected war, but for assenting also to the greataggran- | Crgoes in our warchouses and sentter their dizement of her neighbor and to the centraliza- | Sailors with trunks of infected clothing in all hold in the markets of Europe at this crisis. | smallpox poison, taken from the bodies of the TRIES Nene eee: dead, saturated a shirt with it and dropped Reform tp Jabanien Elsewhere. this shirt where it would fall into the hands Out in Japan they have a reformer with | of Indians of the Pigeon tribes, and thus suc- bowels of the Scriptural sort—‘‘bowels of | ceeded in spreading the spotted death among regained. The President knew this, as the people knew it, and he three times brought the matter to the attention of Congress. But, dis- tracted by a variety of other subjects, by tax and tariff bills, by land grant jobs, by dis- Nutsance Abated—The Federal Ofices—Adorn the Walls of Hospitals with Pictures—A Boy Killed by a Fall—Hudson County WW. J.) Court of Quarier Sessions—Old World ltems—Mat- riages and Deaths, O—Advertisements, 10—The War (continued from Third Page)—The In- tense Heat: The Range of Mercury Yesterday and Its Disastrous Results—Real’s Last Plea: The Condemned Murcercr Appeals for Cie- mency on the Meritsof His Case—Shipping * Intelligence—Advertisements, 41—Red River: Political AMairs at Fort Garry; The Miltary Attitude Unchanged; An Indian Scare—A Ghost Story—Religion in the East: Papal Infallibility and the Uriental Ohurches— ~ Toxas: Progress of the State; Its Produc- tlons—Railroad Accident—Keal Estate Traus- fers—Advertisements. 1Q—Advertisements. Wat Dons Ir Mean ?—General U. 8. Grant, President of the United States, and General R. LE. Lee, President of a college in Virginia, are both at Long Branch enjoying as they may the cool Atlantic breezes. We hope this meeting has none of the significance that usually attaches to the meetings of great men beyond the Atlantic. Itis certain that their last meeting had a wonderful siguificance for the country ; but then there are no apple trees at Long Branch. Minister WasuBurseE informs our govern- ment that France will respect American property in Prussian bottoms during the pend- Yng war. This is according to the treaty of ‘Paris, but we must bear in mind that Aineri- tion of Germany, against which she had strug- gled with all the arts of diplomaty and war for centuries? She should have such an acces- sion of territory and population as would enable her to look with complacency on the growth of her neighbor, and a natural frontier that it would be dangerous for an enemy to pass—that is to say, she should have the Rhenish provinces of Germany, the duchy of Luxemburg and the kingdom of Belgium. This speculative division of Europe dates as far back at least as 1860, and originated in Paris, and the parts of it that more directly concern Prussia and France were certainly considered in the conference between Napo- leon and Bismarck at Biarritz. In 1866 Prus- sia secured much of her part, but not all. France then assented to the dismemberment of Austria, Unless France saw a special gain in that inactivity it was a blunder; for it was better for her that Austria and Prussia should divide the force of Germany belween them. Moreover, with ali Germany under one crown she was less likely ever to conquer the Rhenish provinces. It {s not permissible, thorefore, to believe that she had not an understanding then with regard to the Rhine frontler, but the game fell short somewhere? Did the question of Holland arise then? It is not unlikely, and the ambition of Prussia to become a naval ean property is still bound to suffer the incon- veniences and delays that will be experienced in case a Prussian transport carrying it is Power gives probability to this idea. Hol- land was the “too much” that Prussia de- captured. This will cause loss and annoyance even if the property is not confiscated, which would have been avoided had Congress allowed Prussian vessels to sail under American colors. manded before she could assent to give the Rhine to France. Ia this view, then, the pre- sent war is simply the smouldering fire of four years breaking out again, and Europe is not to take the shape that it may keep for Tox Latest Murpgr presents a new phase | centuries without the voice of France to the question of capital punishment. John | being heard to very bloody purpose Glass, being ordered out of his boarding | in the dispute. If France has to fight for her house by Ienry Wachter, the proprietor, | part of the bargain she is of course not under stabs bim fatally in the groin and then makes | any obligation to respect the acquisitions a determined but unsuccessful attempt to | of Prussia, and therefore Austria is not alto- drown himself. He was captured and will | gother out of the caso, and may yet see her probably go through the form of a long trial, | way clear to a reopening of the issue once ‘and in the end be hanged. But what fear | settled at Sadowa. Neither is France under Dught he to have of hanging who seems | any obligation to assent to what Russia may soxious to kill bimself, when others, who | do; but itisnotimpossible that Russia, observ- crave a repri go to the gallows finally | ing how each of these Powers takes up ils happy? ad own case, may adopt an equally unceremoni- Tae Question WoeTuER THE Neano shall | 058 style of giving employment to the large force that Turkey now has concentrated on the ‘be admitted to the advantages of life insurance 4s agitating the insurance companies. Why northern slope of tho Balkan. All the indica- should he not? Is he nota fifteenth amend- tions are that it wiil be a hot summer for some- ‘ment, clothed with all political rights? Ifthe | body in Europe. ‘negro can insure his house, or his furniture, or buy a ticket in the lottery and ride ina Vacation ~of Our Public Schools. Tho Summer the boarding houses of West, Water and Cherry streets. In what éondition is the city in view of the possibility of an epidemic of ‘yellow fever breaking out? In the worst condition it is possible for acity to be, ‘We are in the midst of a season of unusually oppressive heat, and the influence of this heat renders the people doubly susceptible to every cause of disease. Indeed, the element of great heat, which is a condition of the activity and wide dissemination of the yellow fever polson, was never more favorable in any tropical eity than it is here now, and if the fever should break out it would decimate the population. How comes it, then, in view of the possibility of such evil, that we aro without the protec- tion of quarantine regulations at this port, despite.all the money the State: has spent in organizing a quarantine establishment, and despite the many and siringent laws made for the enforcement of quarantine? It is through a piece of effrontery that would be laughable if it did not cover so grave a public danger. The vessels enter at the quarantine anchorage, thence they steal over to Perth Amboy, where there is a kind of bogas quar- antine and health officer. At Perth Amboy the ships discharge their cargoes, and thence they steal up at night by way of the Kills and come to the wharves here, and the owners or consignees, we understand, pretend that the certificate issued to them at Perth Amboy exempts them from quarantine ex- amination in the port of New York. How doesit? Would a certificate issued at Rio be- fore they start exempt them from quarantine here? We fancy not. would be of just as much authority as the Perth Amboy certificate. What is there in common between the ports of Perth Amboy and New York that should make the quaran- tine certificate of one good in the other. The fact is this certificate issued in Jersey is of no more validity before our quarantine law than the ruse of a Barnegat pirate. And the owners of these ships know this. They know that they stand, without any defence or exouse, ag men who have assisted and encouraged a defiance of the quarantine laws that might at any moment start a destructive epidemic of yellow fever in this city and Brooklyn, Our own view is that the Health Officer should before this have seized every one of these ships, and that they should have been fined to an extent that would amount to confisoation; for they are simply flagrant law-breakers. It is well, no doubt, for the Health Officer to fhove ‘with somé gronnd under him, but Yet such a certificate compassion”—whose stomach [s turned at the very thought of the national ripping up—the Happy Despatch, or Hari Kari—by which the two-sworded fellows of that country get out of all difficulty. The reformer, quite as despe- rate in his determination to do some- thing unusual as Wendell Phillips “ him- self might_be, has proposed the aboli- tion of tho great national. institution of the Happy Despatch, or, at least, of that modifica- tion of it called ‘‘Seppukn.” — “‘Seppuku” is when 9 man does not walt for the order of a court to let himself out, but does the act rash- ly on his personal responsibility. The reformer believes thatif the mau is guilty of any act to justify this course he cheats justice, which is not patriotic; and if he is not guilty he de- prives the State of a good and brave citizen with a sense of shame that is the foundation of all virtue, and that thus to rob the State is as unpatriotic as to cheat justice. Thus, upon grounds of the most rational patriotism, ho calls upon the Japanese Congress to act on the institution of Seppuku, and re- form it altogether—by abolition. Be- hold! however, the wise old Japanese, conservative as rusty weathercocks, will not turn with the new wind. They stick to their fine old institution of bowel ripping as tena- gracoful election contests and by the thousand and one trifling matters that occupied every day of the session, Congress found but little time to give to this most important ques-ion; and when it did find time to consider it, the opposition of the protectionists defeated any measure that could have brought relief. On this question, therefore, President Grant stands fully exonerated, and it is on Congress that all the responsibility rests. On other questions besides this there was an absence of accord manifested between tho President and Congress, Notwithstanding tho urgent desire of the President to have done with the reconstruction tinkering of Georgia, it was only in the closing days of the session that a bill for that purpose passed both houses; and even that was intentionally left open to opposite constructions, so that it can hardly bo deemed a finality. The action of Congress, too, in regard to Cuba, St. Domingo, the tariff, the {come tax and other matters has not tended to enhance its reputa- tion or make it popular with the people. Woe have seen, too, how leading republicans in both houses set themselves up against the Executive. There was Mr. Dawes, of Massa- chusetts, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations in the House, who made them also and in reaping a richer harvest of robes than ever. There is something of the rev- elry of a drunken imagination {o all this story ; but who shall say that there are not plenty of men, white, black, yellow or any other color— quite equal to such depravity? But this thing is reported as having begun about a year ago, and as the whole American people are not yet dead or down with smallpox it may not be true. Pertaps there are buffalo bears, not to mix animals absurdly. Perhaps somebody in Omaha has sold buffalo robes “short” ona large scale, and wants to dopreas the price in the market. Who Shall Pay for Street Pavements? This is a very important question for tax- payers. If they are to be charged with the expense of keeping in perpetual repair every foot of pavement in front of their houses, from month to month and year to year, after they have paid the original assessment for laying it down, where is this demand for pavement tax going to end? We find in the law reports of the Supreme Court that a motion was made before Judge Brady, on behalf of William H. McCormack and others, who seek to have vacated the assessment levied against them for the Nicolson paving of property in Sixth ave- clously as the South did to its niggers. Did | nue, between Forty-second and Forty-ninth @ famous onslaught upon the President and his administration on the score of extravagance in public expenditures; but he subsequently not their fathers rip open their bowels in all | streets. In support of the motion it was past time? and since life is still so full of urged that by the terms of the franchise the troubles that puzzle the heart and brain be- | Tailroad company were bound to keep eight reconsidered his position, virtually retracted his charges and gave a certificate of economy to.the administration. Then there were Sena- tors Sumner and Wilson, of the same State, yond all possible endurance, why should they alone bo deprived of the resort to another part of the economy. One of these fine old feet of the avenue on either side of the track in good order, which had not been done; and that the work had-not been performed in accordance with the order of the Common who remonstrated against the removal of Mr. Motley as Minister to London, and Senator Fenton, of this State, who made a similarly fruitless outery over the New York Custom House changes. But all these manifestations of opposition were powerless, and only served to strengthen President Grant and to exhibit the woakness of those who would set them- selves up against him. The upshot of the whole thing is, that the republican party has, chiefly through the un- popularity of Congress, weakened eo consid- erably throaghout the country that some of its most observant leaders expect a large acces- sion to the democratio ranks in the next Con- gress; while, on the other hand, President Grant, unaffected by the wilting out of the republican party, stands before the people with @ popularity undiminished, but rather in- creased, by the events of tho last eight months. Let him enjoy his relaxation at Long Branch, buoyed up by the reflection that types of the conservative statesman regards this particular use of the human bowels as one | Council. of the “‘pillars of the constitution.” What The practice-has been, and the law doubt- would Andy Johnson have sald to this if tho | fully held, that after a street has once been constitution had still been in his keoping ? | paved at the expense of those owning lots in Altogether we are rejoiced to see that the | front of It and the pavement gets out of re- Japanese are not likely to give way to tho | pair, so that anew pavement fs necessary to bo foolish progressive spirit of this age, or to | made, the property holders are again called heed the imported philanthropy of the Western | upon to bear the expense of ronewing the nations. In fact, we are not quite snre but ft | pavement, Sometimes'they are called upon would be better for us to adopt this usage | to pay the expense of renewing very good old from them rather than for them to abolish it | pavement with some experimental or new In deference to our example. How splendid | pavement. Equity, common sense and justice would be among us the results’ of | dictate that the property holders should never an institution that gives formal opera- | be called upon to pay more than once for a tion and offect to the sense of shame | pavement. There is reason when a street is and chagrin that comes with defeat, more or | opened and laid out that the owners of pre- less ridiculous, and with the conviction that | perty should pay the preliminary expenses of wehave donewrong! There would havo been | grading, ewering, curbing and paving. All no necessity for an amaesty proclamation, for | these necessarily improve the property and all the Confederate heroes would have | are of positive value to the owners. But seppukued on the day of Johnson’s surrender. | after the improvements have been made the palace car, why can be not insure his life? Generally a negro is a ‘‘good life ;” that is, he probably will live long enough to pay in premiums the amount of his insurance. Sambo The children of our public schools are now | certainly he will be delinquent if he permits enjoying their seven weeks’ vacation. There thisimpudent defiance to the laws that he is are some old fogies who begrudge them go | charged to administer. So we think will be Jong a vacation, They would fatn have the | the Brooklyn and New York Board of Health What trouble this would have saved in the South, ‘and how it would have facilitated the operations of Ben Butler in reconstruction! The only drawback to this view is that there although his party may have fallen in public estimation the psoplo recognize the fact that he has done his whole duty and honor him improved street is handed over to the service of the whole city. The owners of property do very little towards wearing out the street. It is the public generally who reap the benefit of is a pretty tough fellow to kill, except you plow him up with nitro-glycerine, or bura him out with benzine, so that we think the life insurance companies would be perfectly safe in insuring him, and, in fact, should be glad to get him for o customer. children spend at least two or three hours datly at their school tasks, even during these worse than tropical heats. But they forget the advantage of ‘‘unbending the bow.” Nor do they remember the fact that, after all, chil- dren themselves are their own best educators. The discipline and the routine exercises of the school are well enough, and we would by no means andervalue the influences of mature in- struction over the rising generation. But no Ooropzer May BE Too Late—but better late than never—to call Congress together in order to look after our sbipping interests. Reports from Washington indicate that the President may resolve upon such a course. It is quite probable, however, that General Grant bimself desires a much earlier time for that purpose. The progress of tho war in Europe will regulate the necessity for an early call ofan extra session. According to present ‘appearances the President would be justified in following the advice of Horace—festina | Happily they will have opportunities of mak- tente—hasten slowly. If France and Prussia do not come to the scratch soon we need not be in a hurry, But the advice of the Presi- dent to Congress was wise and statesmaolike. Our commercial interests must be protected | rating exerciso which their ill-ventilated | least U schoolbouses, with their mental tasks and their | Kluxes. Sn this war. thoughtful observer will deny that the influ- ence of teachersand even that of parents is not to be compared with that of their own contemporaries over children at school and young men at college. During these seven weeks of vacation the children of our public schools will continue to meet each other. ing cheap summer excursions to the Central Park, down the bay and up the Hudson, and in these excursions they will enjoy the rest, the pure exhilarating air, the healthful invigo- if they do not take at once the most vigorous measures on this topic, either in acting alone or in supporting the Health Officer. Low Tink in Watt Srreet.—The pro- longed inactivity of the two armies of the Rhine and the absence of sensational news from the seat of war have brought Wall street toa complete standstill, Yesterday the ex- treme heat incregsed the lethargy of ‘‘bulls” and “bears,” and the respective speculative animals were indifferent to each other's pre- sence or movoments. The sessions of the gold and stook boards were never so purely formal. Cororgep CurvaLry.—Yesterday Moses Bently, a colored messenger of the Georgia House of Representatives, quarrelled with a colored member named Clatborned. Bently promptly settled the discussion in the most ap- proved style by shooting and killing his antagonist. This is one ‘colored outrage” at which cannot be attributed to the Ku accordingly. Bast Batt Mapness.—With the mercury at one hundred and twenty-five or thereabouts in the sun, how young men can find amuse- ment in the game of base ball it is hard to say. What fun there can be in batting and fielding and running one’s self out of breath and work- ing intoexcessive sweats isa puzzle. No hod- carrier works as hard as the pitcher of a base ball club during any kind of an exciting game; yet there is not a poor hod-carrier in the city the pavement and do the wear and tear, and certainly should be at the expense of renewing it by general taxation. This ground does not seem to have been taken upon the argument on the motion referred to, but it is safe to pre- Greeley, also, would have gone out on the | dict that the judge who decides that, after a impeachment fizzle if he had lasted till that | street is once paved at the expense of the date, fof he might have gone on the Niagara | property owners, it must be repaired at the ex- Peace Conference, Indeed, the only puzzle | pense of the general body of taxpayers will with regard to him is as to which one of his | find his decision affirmed by tho Court of Ap= many wonderful torgiversations would have | peals and by the whole body of citizons, would have been no Ben Butler to take advan- tage of it, for that fine mettled hero would have done seppukn after Big Bethel or Ber- muda Hundred, or Fort Fisher, or, at all events, after the great impeachment fizzle. that would not prefer to rest In peace in some friendly shade, if he could afford it, than ply his vocation at two dollarsa day. Your genu- ine base-baller will turn out the hottest day in the year to play a game, and playing a game means hard work. This kind of amusemont under @ glaring‘sun, with people in the streets of our cities dropping from excessive heat, in | take the offices. many cases proving fatal, is something hard to . understand. Some people may oall it fun, [i madness wo think a more appropriate been too much for his self-esteem; but we incline to the notion that he would have shirked the issue always on some mean little self-abnegating plea of unfitness. Altogether, term for it. A little caution in such weather as thia, however. would not be amiss, even by | tos, we think Hari Kari would be a fine institution | Britain here, only we all feel our failures 60 keenly that itis diffloult to say who would be left to Presipent Grant is still at Long Branch. He is taking a rest not only physically but mentally, for he refuses even to talk poll- » War Movements iN Catna.—A telegram from China, dated the 17th instant, forwarded by Bombay and London, states that Great and France are about to make an allied armed naval demonstration at Tientsin. They ere to demand redress for the late outrages on foreigners, Shanghae is deeply agitated. Foreigners are volunteering for the Christian armies. War, it is said, is inevit- able. If this be ao the movement may change the situation in Evrope materially. Prussia has walaable Interesta in the East. Aries of cable telegrams from Europe, 9f~ -