The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1871, Page 4

: | 7 | ) | Hl rt ei i a ae ; : 4 NEW YORK HERALD pean AY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Vetlame XXXVI. AINUSEME ROWERY THEATRE, Koprnt Macaing, PIPTA AVENUG THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street. DELMONICO'S, OLYMPIC Kast LYNNE, Broadway,—Tar Drama OF THEATRE BOOTH'S THEATRE, i st, between Sth ant Sth avs-- ‘Tue May oO AURLIE, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Brondway, comer 3c) st. —Perform- ances every afternoon’ and even!n;—THuxk BLIND MIOK, WALLACK’S THe LONG Syn iway and Uth street. — NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broatway.—Paut CLurrozD; oR Tar LooY He pormer ot $th ay, ana Wd st— ORS. « GRAND oP Tax Taner He MRS, #, f, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Sounipen, Brooklyn. — CENTRAL ‘Taomas’ DR, KAGIN'S. ANATOMICAL ‘MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — SU PPL EMENT Fi mihans wae 93, Scutner anv Aw, WITH 8 New ‘Yorks 1871. jo—Department of Dock tings of the Board of Ai 4 OMcials Must Not Get Drun: Marringes aud Deaths—Adveriisements, Leading Article, “Pobtical Movo- of the Day- ‘al Grant and the caus—Pke Democracy aud Ther New Amuseuent Announcement:, he Ocean Derby of the ASplendid Day and a Holtday Thousands on the ior tae Coumodore's Cups, Yhalienge and Subscripiton ailing Mistake by the ‘Tidal at; ‘The Sloop Coming Wins pion Cup—The Winners of the haces Not Finally Determimed—Tae ub Regatta—Exploston nm of Ars. Vallundig- ngton—Third. Day of the ns Meeting at Beacon Park, National Game—ea ‘Trade Pi An ham—Rast G—News trom aad Acchde ut—Singular bration. Commencement Exercises ntons of Schools and i ople of the Po: —the —Phe New Capitol—Crushed to Ware Case—Falal Accident in courts. annued from Eighth Page)}—New ns—Lovg Branch and Cape 1 YOUng'’s New Boat on the East ow Excape irom Death—News aud Venezuela— —Attempted Sut A Cuuzeas-Raile Hobo} 9=—Tire Courts (( York chy it heh inning —N Bate J—A Dangerous Fourth rouble in Salem, Masz. il to Remain in Com- yale at Calais; Another ¢ Commune Arte ted—Revival Alliance—Miscelinneous Tele- stigence — Advertise- Rock Istanp was the rock upon which the brokers split. Venezceta is a cheerful countiy. It is always in revolution, There is no chance for the peop'e there to become gloomy or diseon- tented or daagerous through long inaction or tedious peace. ATOR JOU AN has opened the re- f ign in Osio with a speech as discouraging to the democracy as the late letter of General Sherman from the Comanche reservation. Barz, or St. Domingo, is reported to be making great mililary preparations to put down Cabrel’s rebellion. Having Jost his last chance of selling his country Baez bas come to the conclus on, probably, to defend it. Livery Times at Great SaLt LAKE.—A special Henan despatch from Great Salt Lake City announces a grand scheme on the part of a “ring” of California and Nevada capilalists to get the political control of Utah Territory and a dead set upon the President, against which he will do well to be guarded. Tae Hurrtoane mw InpiA, says our cable despatch from London, has inflicted a sad blow on the planters of nutmeg and mace in the Banda Isinods, in the Malay Archipelago. ‘Their crops, to the value of five hundred thou- sand pounds, have been laid waste, at one fell swoop, neutralizing the fruits of years of in- dustry, M. Lovis Brae, in his interview with our special correspondent, admits that the repub- licans are the weakest, numerically, of the three parties; but he trusts M. Thiers, and believes that the establishment of the republic would be the least objectionable arrarzement in the premises. M. Lonis Blanc shares with us the fear that the real danger to the republic lies in the French army. If the review takes place at Longchamps on Sunday first we shall know the feeling of the French army. Tur Bovrnons os tHe Movge.—The Count de Paris, it is said, will leave England to-day for Paris, Subsequently, it is added, he will, in company of his two uacles, Aumale and Joinville, pay a visiito the Count de Cham- bord at Frohsdorff. Either the Count de Paris or the Count de Chambord must face this storm. One or the other in Paris, or both, and the ex-Emperor somewhere on French soil, repeating the véle of his uncle after Lis retura from Elba, and we shall have once again some lively days in France. Tre Cai A Demooracy.—The Demo- cratic Convention in California has nominated Governor Haight for re-election, and has adopted » model new departure platform, ac- cepting the issues of the war and the constitu- tion as it is, but entirely rejecting John Chinaman. How can they propose such para- doxical principles? The fourteehth amend- ment provides for tie almond-eyed and yellow- visa zed John as fully as for the woolly-headed and black-skinned Sambo, and for the usually correct and precise democracy of California to accept one and reject the other is not only painfully invidious aud in outrageous bad taste, but it is unconstitutional, The Call- foraia new departure cannot be complete uatil it accepts the heathen Chines. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1871.—WITH SOPPLEMENT, Political Movements of the Day—General Grant and the Repablicuns—The Dewmo- eracy and Their New Departure, State afier State, as the republicans enter the field for the coming fall elections, hoists the standard of General Grant’s admin- istration. The party iu Ohio, through its State Convention, has just declared its hearty endorsement of the administration of General Grant as “‘faithfal, honest and economical, as shown by the reduction of over one hundred million dollars in taxes, and the payment of two hundred and thirty million dollars of the national debi.” Furthermore, this Ohio Con- vention declares that ‘the administration has been. equally successfal in its foreign policy, and has achieved imperishable honor in the settlement of our differences with Great Bri- tain upon terms creditable to both countries,” and thet the action of President Grant under the Civil Serviceact is likewise entitled to hearty endorsement. Thus, clearly, then, is indicated the drift of the wind in Ohio in favor of another term for General Grant. Aad the republicans of Iowa, also, come to the froat under the same standard and with the same music, On the same day with the Ohio Convention the Towa men in their State Convention declare “That we cordially approve and earnestly endorse the eminently wise, patriotic and economical administration of President Grant, and heartily commend it to the favorable consideration of the country ;” and “that we heartily congratulate the coun- {ry on the settlement of our vexed and dangerous controversies with Great Britain, and especially upon the jast and Caristian spirit and manner in which those controversies have been settled.” This will do for the Towa republicans ; but to show more emphati- cally their admiration of General Grant and his policy they say ‘‘that we are in favor of extending the blessings of civil and religious liberty to the human race everywhere, and therefore, whenever it shall be made manifest that the people of St. Domingo desire annexa- tion to the United States, for the purpose of enjoying the benefits which such relation would afford them, we shall favor the earnest and intelligent consideration of the question by the treaty-making power of the government.” In other words, the Iowa republicans stick to General Grant even on St. Domingo. General Grant, we repeat, is master of the situation. The masses of the republican party everywheré are for him, and only a few self- conceited, disappointed and soreheaded spoils and plunder politicians of the party camp are against him. Conspicnons, and ridiculously conspicuous, among these soreheaded marplots is ibe venerable vegetarian, Horace Greeley. And what is the trouble with this slipshod philosopher? It is Murphy—Oollector Mur- phy. Some months ago, on being chosen president of the Anti-Murphy Republican Cen- tral Committee of this city, Mr. Greeley, ina speech on the occasion, advocated harmony and brotherly love, and was moved to the ex- pression of the opinion that General Grant, from his experience in the White House, would be much better qualified for the discharge of the duties thereof in 1872 than he was in 1863, From this opinion it was generally supposed that our subsoil philosopher had “flopped over” to General Grant; but it was only a flank movement upon Murphy. But Murphy, like Mordecai, still remained sitting in the king’s gate, and the Custom House still re- mained closed to Mr. Fenton and his clique, including the Greeley city Central Committee. Accordingly, with the failure of this movement against Murphy, Mr. Greeley was and is satis- fied that one term is enough for General Grant. In 1864, on account of that unpardonable Niagara Falls joke played upon our diple- matic philosopher by ‘Honest Old Abe,” and because President Lincoln, like General Grant, was too much in the habit of going his own way, there was an active radical movement made to cut him off with one term by cutting him out of the party’s nomination. The mutineers, including Mr. Greeley, fixed upon Chief Justice Chase as their man, and the Chief Justice himself was very active in the movement. The scheme finally dwindled down to a little mutual admiration convention which set up the ticket of Fremont and Coch- rane; but with Lincoln’s enthusiastic renomi- nation by the regular republican convention Fremont and Cochrane, like Captain Scott's wise old coon, came down, and Mr. Greeley had no alternative but again to hurrah for Lincoln. So it will be in reference to General Grant in 1872, unless the continuance of Mr. Murphy in the Custom House may carry over our dis- gusted strawberry-shortcake man on a ‘‘new departure” to the well-fed, fat and happy Indians of Tammany Hall. In the present condition of things, having settled up his ac- counts and “‘passed receipts” with the repub- lican party, and in the absence of any opening in “the Wigwam,” we would advise our per- plexed philosopher ‘‘io go out West and culti- vate a farm;” for we are sure that his experi- ment in home industry within a year or two would bring him a contented mind, wilh a fair crop of emall potatoes, In any event, he is now like a stray sheep in a strange pasture in beating about the bush to cut out Murphy hy reducing General Grant to one term. The idea is very absurd, and the candidate named and agitated by the opéra Loufe press as the statesman to supersede Grant is the best joke of the season. The republicans everywhere—excepting the New York Fenton-Greeley clique—are con- solitating their forces under the banner of General Grant and on the solid platform of his administration. The democrats, on the other band, are anything but a unit on their “new departure.” Down in Georgia, follow- ing close upon the late never-surrender speeches of Mr. Jefferson Davis, we havo Mr. Alexander H, Stephens, late Vice President of the ‘so-called Confederate States,” entering the field of journalism on the old Southera rights plaiform of 1861, He has assumed the editorial cbarge of the Atlanta (Ga.) Daily un; and in his opening bow to the public he says:—‘‘The Sun, under my general con- trol of its political courso, will continue to stand upon the principles of the platform of the democratic party of the Union, as an- nounced in their last general Convention at New York, in 1868"—that is to say, Mr. Stephens adheres to the resolution in that platform denouncing the whole reconstruction system adopted by Congress as “‘unconstitu- tional, revolutionary, null and void.” He holds to the sovereignty of the States, and that the rebel States, having failed by war to keep out of the Union, returned to the Union constitutionally as they were before the war. Of course Mr. Stephens bas his Southern fol- lowers, and we may safely assume that he and they are resolved upon a vigorous battle against this new Northern democratic depar- ture, and that the effect will be a division of the democrats South, from a third party move- ment, very much in that section to the advan- tage of General Grant, Nor is there anything approaching demo- cratic harmony in the North on this ‘‘new de- parture,”. We quoted the other day some of the denunciations of this movement from several bolting ‘‘old line” journals in Pennsyl- vania, and from a corresponding committee of Chester county. We have before us to-day a list of seventeen bolting democratic journals in Ohio, including tho Cincinnati Inguirer, the Columbus Crisis aad the Lancaster Hagle. The new movement comes too late for 1872. The dissonsions and the divisions already created by it North and South indicate a de- moralization too extensive to be remedied even by the Presidential Democratic Conven- tion on this platform. If the party North has gone too far to recede the party South has gone so far that to a great extent it will se- cede. Even in a general acceptance of the new amendments to the constitution the demo- cratic organization weakens itself in endorsing the reconstruction policy of the republicans, after fighting itas for life and death at every step from 1865 to 1871. The New York de- mocracy are all right, because with the procla- mation of the fifteenth amendment they, like men of sense, gave up the fight on the nigger and politically recognized “Uncle Tom” as a “man and a brother.” Ontside of New York, however, this advance movement from the old party landmarks is developing only discords and dissensions in the party camp, From present appearances the coming fall elections will show no gains to the democracy from their “new departure,” and will show, too, that General Grant is booked for another termi. Tho Yankee tn Peru. When the Yankee goes to the tropics hot- blooded revolutionists become railroad super- intendents, and the Ilama’s back is relieved by the locomotive of the opulent weight to which It has for centuries been accustomed. The interior and the seaboard know each other for the first time since the Creation, and the man of the south learns the meaning of the word enterprise. To eat fruit and sleep, or eat fruit and fight, according ag the political horizon was fair or foul, has hitherto been the business of the southern genus homo. With little necessity for food or clothing, there is little motive for exertion, and all observation teaches that without work the man steadily deteriorates. Upon the northera rocks the Yankee intellect was sharpened; in the keen, cold air his brain grew clear; digging in the unkind soil he found the mother wit that is his characteristic, Little by little, through genera- tions of effort and self-denial, was crystallized the character that has stamped its seal upon half tho Continent and is now making its impression upon the mobile nature of the tropics. If work is a curse, laziness is evidently a ‘greater curse, and indo- leat self-indulgence becomes, sooner or later, a tool in the hands that have been trained by persistent exertion. One of the richest portions of the interior of South America bas just been put in communi- cation with the coast by the completion of a railroad from Arequipa to Mollendo, the con- tractor of which was formerly a New Yorker.” This railroad means a great deal for Pern. Quick transit insures development. The mag- nificent resources of the valleys at the base of the Andes, the most fertile region in the world, will be challenged by the thunder of the locomotive; easy supply will increase de- mand, and demand will, in its turn, increase supply. Ambition will be aroused, Motive will grow,-and endeavor will strengthen cha- racter. With better men there will be better government, and with the consequent peace and security science and the arts will have their due support and their natural influence. So much for a locomotive, and so much for the organizing Northern brain. May this union of the valleys and the sea be fruitful of good for both North and South! Spain 18 Gorna To Horp on To CuBA, said the Minister for Colonial Affairs in the Spanish Cortes, yesterday. This announce- ment would sound rather important and bel- licose were it not for the fact that Spanish Ministers before have made similar declara- tions while lending a willing ear to proposi- tions for the sale of the island. The fact is that Spanish (official) honor is lofty in words, but willing enough by a convenient stretch to adapt itself to all emergencies. Spain would have been right glad to part with Cuba for so many millions of hard cash. Seeing now that the people of the United States will not annex St. Domingo, although they can have it for the asking, the Spanish Minister for Colonial Affairs has no hesitation to say that Spain will noi sell Cuba, Had it not been for the friendly neutrality of the United States Spain would have found it far more difficult, if not impossible, to stifle the insur- rection, The fact is that the people of tho United States prefer to wait. In the fulness of time Cuba will fall into their possession without any other returo than the benefit of their civilization. Bicamy has become a potent eloment in politics, Ex-Congressman Bowen's crime bas called for a new departure among the South Carolina republicans, and the efforts to have him pardoned threatened to split up the party in that State. His friends want him free again, wo that he can be re-elected to Congress, and his enemies favor his detention as the aurest bar to his politics! success, If bigamy and other crimes, when punished, assume 80 much importance in politics, we have a right to expect that railroad jobbing, land grab- bing and bribery and corruption be made equally potent by meting out to them similar penalties, GENERAL Somunct, as Minister to England, it is given ont, will present his credentials to Queen Victoria to-day, and the occasion will doubtless be marked by a flattering reception, in view of the great treaty of the Joint High Commission and in view of General Schenck’s participation ia the good work, The New York Yacht Club Regatta. It is a certain matter that we cannot have all we desire in this world. Yachtsmen even are sometimes doomed to disappointment, as was the case yesterday. There is on regatta days sometimes too much wind and some- times too little, The lafter was the case yesterday; and the breeze that will answer for some of the smaller craft is not enough for the heavier schooners. This was also the case yesterday; so that it is very evident that all of our yachtsmen were not satisfied with the way in which they were served by Old Boreas. The day was a fine one, how- ever, and the world never looked upon a more beautiful fleet of yaclits than that which got underweigh from the anchorage off Staten Island to contest for the many prizes offered. A moderate breezo was blowing from the southward and eastward, with an overcast sky that appeared to promise more wind before nightfall, he appearance of the yachts moored in line, with everything set but the jibs, ready to be off when the signal gan fired, was very fine, and the numerous steamers and tiny craft of every description, londed with living freight, bore substantial evidence of how popular yachting and yacht races have become in the United States, Tho start, although delayed some time after the hour appointed, was a good one, and the con- testants got off well together; buf it was soon observed that unless there should be more wind as the day wore on the lighter vessels would have the advantage over those of greater tonnage and deeper draught of water. The sight continued to increase in interest as the lower bay was reached, and it could only have been excelled by the addition of more wind. For some reason, yet to be explained, there was an error committed by several of the yachts in passing the buoy at the Southwest Spit. This error will doubtless have an important bearing upon deciding which won the race. Out to the Lightship, and on tho run home, al- though to lookers-on the regatta wis faultless, it was evident that the vessels known to posgess great speed were not doing as well as was expected. A cap full more of wind would have made a great difference in the relative positions of many of them. As the Narrows were reached the yachis Tidal Wave and Columbia were first and second, and as the stakeboat was reached, first by the former and in a few minutes after by the Iatier, the screaming of whistles, the firing of guns, the hurrahs and clapping of hands were deafening. The balance of the fleet was some distance astern, and arrived in the order mentioned in the detailed account of the regatta, Although the race had its draw- backs, as we have stated, still it was a very pleasant affair, and one tat must give great satisfaction to those fond of looking at or tuking part therein. Some, of course, are disappointed ; this is very natural; but others are pleased. Soms will win’a prize or prizes; others will have to wait until next season and try their luck again. Take it altogether, we think it a success for yachting. It might have been better, but it might have been far worse; and we are of the opinion that but few, if any, have a right to complain at their failure to accomplish all they expected. There are many more chances yet this season for those that did not come in first yesterday, and it may be with them “better luck next time.” Tne RaMPAGEOUS POLICEMAN GILLESPIE, who for amusement during his off hours tried to murder two young men with whom he was drinking aud very nearly succeeded in mur- dering policeman Leroy, who came to arrest him, was arraigned before Recorder Hackett yesterday, and at the urgent advice of his counsel pleaded guilty, offering in extenuation the plea that he had been on duty twenty-four hours without rest or nourishment, and, having taken a little stimulus, became unconscious, or, in legal phraseology, temporarily insane. There ought to be little mercy shown this man. Charged with the especial duty of preserving the peace and protecting the lives and property of citizens, he most outrageously disturbed the one and assailed the other. It was mere chance that Leroy was not killed, and Gilles- pie’s shrewdness in throwing himself by the side of the insensible body of his victim, with the idea that he might thereby give an exagge- rated idea of his own injuries, and thus offer some extenuation for his wanton deviltry, is pretty sure evidence that he was not so insane, even temporarily, as he tries now to make out. GERMANY, AUSTRIA AND Rossta Resoivep To MAINTAIN THE Pgrack OF Evrope.—Ac- cording to the London Morning Post, the Con- tinental Powers in possession of the secret of the International, of which the Paris Com- munal was a branch, and of the character of which it also was a revelation, have agreed to act in a united capacity to preserve the peace of Europe. Russia and Germany and Aus- tria, it is said, are of one mind on the subject. It is well. Internationalism is Vandalism. The men of the International and the Com- «mune differ from the Goths and Vandals of the past only in being more cruel and more destructive. We cannot afford to have our noble republican institutions misrepresented by these vagabonds. If the great Powers of Europe allow themselves to be trampled upon the fault will be their own. A Narrow Escape from another West Pittston disaster was had by forty miners in the Empire mine, at Wilkesbarre, yesterday. The slope of the mine caved in and enclosed these men in the chambers below, where for some time they were compelled to inhale the foul air. They were all rescued, however, how the despaich docs not say, and it is thonght they will all fully recover. Did this mine have an exira means of egress, or is the West Pittston horror to be repeated again and again before these much-needed reforms are enforced in all these mines ? ITALY AND THE INTERNATIONAL.—The Min- ister of the Interior, it appears, has ordered the dissolution of all chapters of the Interna- tional Society throughout Italy; but whether this order will be quietly obeyed or stoutly re- sisted it remains to be seen. Mazzini has sowed plentifully in Italy the seeds of zevolu- tion, and their growth may not be arrested by a ministerial order, TWELVE Hovaks built upon a Rock Island have tumbled. There must have been some. thing sandy in the foundation, De. Lanahan’s Trial. The Methodist Book Concern trouble seems to be as long-lived and interminable as the Erie railroad litigations, It has now been before the country in one shape or another since 1869, and when from timo to time its death and burial! have been announced and people were beginning to forget that such a case ever existed it comes forth from the dust again, the same spirit, but clothed in a differ- ent attire. {ts latest phase is that upon which the Book Committee are soon to render a verdict, based upon the trial of charges of in- competence, disrezard of the authority of the Book Committee and of the General Confer- ence, legal prosecution of the Concern and injury to its credit, preferred by the senior agent, Dr. Carlton, against his associate. The case has been before the committee and the bishops for more than a week and has been ably conducted by counsel on both sides. Tho testimony on the specific charges is now all in, and both sides have summed up the same, and it becomes, therefore, logitimate property for editorial comment. The evidence, for many reasons and in many particulars, is most strange and remarkable, and an amount of contradictory testimony has been given which can be accounted for only on the assumption that the memory of Methodist ministers and laymen is terribly deficient. Of course we cannot for a moment admit that. in 80 grave a case as this Christian mea would willingly falsify; and yet, if we accept the aver- ment of a member of the committee, Methodist preachers may not only lie and steal but com- mit other crimes for which they can atone only with their lives, But setting aside all such imputations of moral depravity, let us see what the iestimony reveals. Four distinct lines of defence appear to have been adopted by Dr. Lanahan's counsel, They started out with a general de- nial of the charges preferred, but, finding this ine untenable, they set up a justification for their acts—a ‘‘stern necessity "—which they sought to prove by a pile of official church papers, which, as wo conceive, were very properly ruled out by the committee as wholly irrelevant. From this line they then not only suggested, but rather broadly as- serted, the incompetence of the tribunal to try the case; and, being overruled in this also, a diversion was sought by trying to create a disagreement between the committee and the concurrent authority upon the finai result, the bishops. As near as we can catch the spirit of the case, not only in this issue but in former Issues, Dr. Lauahan has deemed the creation of a public opinion favorable to his side of the case of far more importance than any positive testimony which he could lay before the committee to subsiantiate his charges. And in this particular he has suc- ceeded admirably. | For of all the daily papers in the city the Heratp is the only one, we believe, which has not hastened to condemn the Book Concern without a hear- ing, nor to accept as axioms the unsupported asseriions of one man against the equally responsible statements of a score or more in as high standing in the Church and the com- munity. It is not nocessary to charge the press with partiality to account for its repub- lication so frequently of Dr. Lanahan’s charges of fraud and mismanagemeat against the Concern, That gentleman, from the be- ginning, both personally and by his friends, sought the aid of the press, and the charac- ter of the man and of his information was sufficient at any time to secure him a ready and favorable hearing. The other party adopted no such tactics, and hence they have rested for months under an imputation which they could not refute withont converting a business disagreemen’ into a persoual quarrel. The printed document presented by Dr. Lanahan as his answer to the charges pre- ferred against him presents only such facts as would without a positive denial accom- panying them give the general public an impression of the utter roitenness of the Concern. For instance :—The average monthly balances on the books of the Concern are shown to be several thousand dollars greater for a given period of years than the corresponding balances ou the books of the bank where the deposits were made. ‘The explanation given by Dr. Carlton and his cashier and the bank officials is very simple and thoroughly businesslike, It is that the surplus funds of the Concern were loaned out oa short calla at four, five and six per cent interest, and the securities held by the agents were credited by them as cash on hand, while the bank of course credited the Concera with only so much cash as it actually held. And yet Dr. Lanahan testified most positively that he never asked any one in the Concern for an explanation of those differences, but published them on his own or his accountant’s responsi- bility. And this is but a fair sample of the entire batch of figures affecting the character and integrity of the senior agent. And as to those affecting Mr, Goodenough’s character, which, from the larger proportion of Dr. Lanahan’s anawer, Mr. Goodenough has asked for the privilege of explaining to the committee personally those apparent discrep- ancies, And it is scarcely fair to assume that Mr. Goodenough would enter the civil courts to defend his character was he not conscious of his own integrity and moral uprighiness while in the employ of the Concern. But the testimony intended for the commit- tee rested mainly upon Dr. Cariton’s refusal of the books of the Concern for examination by his associate. One such refusal was proved by the witnesses for the prosecution and for the defence. But Dr, Carlton defended his refusal on the authority of the Book Committee's pre- vious resolutions and because Dr. Langhan’s accountant had given himself and Mr. Grant to understand that be had concluded his investi- gations and was about to report to Dr. Lanahan, And such roport in de- tail was made January 9, 1871, whereas the demand which was refused was made ia February last, during the session of the com- mittee, Three witnesses—namely, Dr. Carl- ton, Mr, Grant, the bookkeeper, and Mr. Don- ham, the cashier—testified to these facts, against the testimony of Mr. Gonge, Dr. Lana- han'’s accountant, and Judge Reynolds, his counsel, Dr. Lanahan himself acknowledged that he had never personally applied for the books, although he told the Supreme Court that he had been restrained from examining them. In this condition of the case it was sought by the defence to impeach the voracity Se tla acs oll of the wiinesges for the prosecution by show= ing that Dr. Carlton had aided, yeara ago, to organize an oil compeny in the Concern, and, by inference, used its funds therefor, and that the cashier, Mr. Denham, was thé brother-in- law of Mra. Carlton, and therefore was inte- rested in withholding the trath; and, lastly, that the salary of Mr. Grant, the bookkeeper, had been increased in 1870-by Dr. Carlton, and made retrospective for the pravious year asa reward for his opposition to Dr. Lanahan. In this last position counsel failed altogether, be- cause the manner and the amount of increase of salary was made upon the recommendation of the committee itself, and the retrospective principle had been frequently applied to the salaries of the agents and bishops, and of course had no force for the defence in Mr. Grant's case. It was not claimed nor ad- mitted to be a crime for the cashier to be se nearly related by marriage to his employer— and in most cases it is rather a benefit than an injury—and nothing could be made of that fact for the defence. But it certainly did not look well for Dr. Carlton to be engaged 1n oil speculations, and to carry them on inthe Book Concern while he held the responsible relation of agent to the Concern. But as there was only inferential proof on this point it may or may not be trae. He did admit that he holds an office in the city government of Elizabeth, N.J., and isa director in a bank and’ in an insurance company also, The duties involved in holding those offices may not in the least interfere with the supreme duty which Dr. Carlton owes to the Book Concern, and if they do not he has, as we conceive, as good a right to hold them as any other citizen, But we contend that if they do interfere he has no right to retain them one day unless he resigns his agency in the Concern, The Doctor was shrewd enough, about the beginning of the war, to purchase some real estate in Elizabeth, which afterward, when the rage for building lots in the vicinity of New York arose, he sold fora good round sum, and thereby put money in bis purse, and on this fact it was sought to hang a suspicion that he had used the funds of the Concern for his own benefit; but there was no proof offered on the point, and we all know how easy it was to make a foriuae by real estate operations a few years ago, when, here in our own midst, houses and lots ran up from one hundred to three hundred per cent in value; so that thero is no very great stretch of imagination needed to understand how a shrewd business man like Dr. Carlton, who for fifteen years has added to the capital stock and profits of the Concern an annual average of seventy-three thousand dollars, should also be able to add a few thousand to his own personal income during the same period. The ‘stern necessity” which, the defence elaimed, drove Dr. Lanahan to the civil courts for redress, can tardly be said, therefore, te have existed under the circumstances, espe- cially seeing that Dr. Laushan was never re- fused an application for a personal examina- tion of the books; nor had he ever notified Dr. Carlton of his purpose to apply thas to the courts from a time previous to the committee’s session in October, 1870, until the order te show cause in the mandamus proceedings waa served upon him a few weeks ago. Duty or affection toward the Concern, it seems to us, should have suzgested a different course. The verdict of the committee will not be known, probably, for several days, if not weeks, and they will, we doubt not, for their own and the Charch’s satisfaction, provide also for a tho- rough investigation of the business) manage- ment of the Concern during Dr. Carlton's agency. Bik Tag Watt Sirzer Exorrement.—The Rock Island panic of Wednesday left a relic of its demoralization in a further disturbance of the Wall street markets yesterday; but toward the close of business last evening a calmer and more cheerful feeling set in; encouraging the belief that the storm has now blown over. The failures foot up just an even dozen, As usual in such matters, there will be endless employment for the lawyers in settling up.the various claims and counter-claims arising out of the disastrous speculation in Rock Island. Already the safe and the assets of one of the defaulting firms bave been seized under an ia- junction from the courts, and doubtless the litigation will keep up the memory of the panée for years to come, Tue Ku Kivx Bru appears to be soma thing of a mystery to all the law officers, civil officers and army officers charged with its exe- cntion. It does not work, somehow or another, and no one seems sufficiently in- terested in its efficiency t find out its surest mode of operation. Considering the trouble and vexation that law gave Congress and the administration, and the welcome electioneer- ing capital that it offers both partics, we really think somebody ought to he executed or exiled or attainted or punished in some -way under it, Tae TrimpreniaceErs themselves were sold in their Rock Island job. It was not the biter bit exactly, but It was the broker broken, Personal Intelligence. Prince Agawan Toda, of Japan, is at the B& Nicholas, James R. Partridge, United States Minister te Brazil, is sojourning at the Albemarle Hotel. Ex-Mayor Herdie, of Williamsport. Pa., is domt- cUled at the Fifth Avenue, F. P. Drain, United’ States Vonsul at Havana, ts residing at the New York Hotel, Baron Von Betimann, of Germany, 18 staying at tne Clarendon Hotel, « United States Senator John P, Stockton, of New Jersey, 18 staying at the Gilsey House. General Wilnain T, Collins, of Washington, ts quartered at the Homan House, W. A. Brooks, of London, 1s at the Grand Centrat. Ex-Senator Alexander McDonald, of Arkansas, t# domiciled at the St, Nicholas, Judge Woodbury, of Boston, 1a at the Now York Hotel. Com. F. M. Ramsey, of the United States Navy, Is quartered at the Astor House, J, Pkney Whyte, of New. Orleans, 1s staying at the Gilsey House, Coloael J. D. Cameron, of Harrisburg, is sojourm- Ing at the Fifth Avenue. Jona KE. Owens 15 Inquiring after Uls “Darl of apple sass” ay the St. Nicholas, com der A. J, N. Quackenbush, of the United States Navy, 18 quartered at the Astor Howse, Lotta (Charlotte Crabtree) ts at the Grand Centrat. Harry Romals, Bratish Consul at Baitimore, at the St. Nicholas, “Henry Skinner, of Koglana, ts ecjonening at the Grand Central, Judge J. F. Crogoy, of Toxaa, ts stopping at the Hofman House