The New York Herald Newspaper, June 24, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD |“""™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— DELMONIOO'S, Matinee at Lig. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur Drama oF East LYNNE. Matinee at 2 BOOTH'S THEATRE, 984 st, between Sth and 6th avs.-- ‘THE MAN 0’ AIRLIE. ‘Matinee at 13g. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 20th st.—Perform- ances every afternoon and evening—THukE BLIND MIOK. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Tue Lone Strike, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Pavi CLIFFORD; on Tue Lost Harn, Matinee at 2. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot &th ay. ana 23d at.— BoneMiaN GinL—TuE Take HUNCHBACKS. Matinee, . No. 720 Broadway.—Lost NSTREL, &C. LINA EDWIN’s THEAT: IN LonpoN—W ANDEKING BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—OVER THE FaLts— ‘THE GoLpEN Famer, £0, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S FARK THEATSE, Brooklyn, — SounmpEz. his CENTRAL PARK GARD! Sumaxe Nicuts’ CONCERTS. N.—Tagopor: Tomas’ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Ferxou Sry—Dice TURPIN AND TOM KING, Matinee. TERRACE GARDEN, Fifty-eighth street, between Lexing ton and Third avs.—GRAND GaLa Conoxnr, DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— 8« E AND ART, © 24, 1871. ork, Saturday, Ji CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pacs. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, ‘ 3—advertisements. 4—Eaitoriais: Leading Article, “Repub'ic or Cos- sack—The Confilct Brewing in Europe’— Personal Intelligence—Amusement Announce- ments, 5—The Franco-German Imbroglio—The Anglo- German _Diiculty— France—Mexico—Miscel- laneous Telegrams—Yachting: Onicial Report of the Annual Kegatta of the New York Yacht Club; The Ocean Race To-Day—Amuse- ments—Business Notices. G—The Indian Council—An Indian Tragedy—Pro- babie Homicide in Westchester—Rear Admiral Rogers and the Press—The jonal Game— The Courts—The Lanahan Trial: The Metho- dist Muddle in the Courts—Long Branch— Test the Girders—Stabbed with a Parasol Handle—The Homicide im Mulberry Street— Running Notes: Polit'cal and General—Naval Orders—Woodcock—General Robert E. Lee. ‘7—Financial and Commercial Reports—Omicial Pro- ceedings of the Board of Assistant Aldermen— Brooklyn Affairs—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements. $—Beacon Park : Close of the Spring Trotting Meet- ing—News from Washiugton—Popular Educa. uon—Local News—Shipping Intellizence—Ad- vertisements, Later Apvices from St. Domingo report a severe batile, on the 4th inst., between the forces of President Baez and the insurgent Cabral, in which the latter were defeated with heavy loss. Cabral, finding it necessary to retreat, blew up his powder magazine, and the explosion destroyed nearly the whole of the town of San Juan. Our SproraL CorrEsPoNDENT in the City’ of Mexico reports that the government of the republic has disapproved the arbitrary im- prisonment of the Governor and Prefect of Morelia, and that both these officials have been released. A proposal had been made for calling an extra session of Congress, and & supporter of President Juarez had been elected Governor of Sonora. Beyond these items there was little new transpiring in the republic. Tae Income Tax.—Possessors of large incomes will scarcely be expected to receive with complacency the decision by Judge Strong, rendered in the United States Cir- cuit Court, at Philadelphia, yesterday, sus- taining the constitutionality of the act. A large number of similar cases are before the lower courts, and parties interested have determined, if adverse decisions are rendered in them, to appeal to the United States Supreme Court fer final action. Prince ARTHUR, who has lately arrived at “his ~years of discretion,” says our cable re- port, is to be made Duke of Ulster, and to re- side as the representative of royalty in Ire- land. Ever-bountiful Parliament, as a matter of course, will be called upon to stand some- thing handsome to purchase a royal seat in Ireland for the Prince and give him where- withal to pay for the trappings in order that he may keep up a right royal style, as the like of him in old Ireland would be expected to do. In THe House oF Commons a member, who must have been infected with a touch of Com- munism, actually had the audacity to propose that the unoccupied royal palaces, St. James and Hampton Court and others, should be sold and the proceeds applied to the reduction of the public debt. Sacrilege, ifever there was! The proposition, as might have been expected, was dismissed with scorn, whigs and tories vying with one another ‘in their devotion to the crown.” Strange that the proposition should have been made at all; which brings to our mind the prophecy of Napoleon I., with a slight variation, that in a hundred years Europe will be Communist or Cossack. AuzAD oF WatrerR Scorr—Brigham Young’s “Lady of the Lake.” Sir Walter's “Lady of the Lake” was a myth; but the Piophet Brigham's is a substantial creation, & pretty little steamboat, built in New York, and shipped yesterday West by rail en route for the great Plains, the Rocky Mountains and Great Salt Lake, her final destination, And yet, with this little steamboat of the Mormon prophet, Scott’s ‘Lady of the Lake” will go and become the presiding genius of Great Salt Lake, We wish her a safe journey aud many a happy moonlight festival on that wild and romantic island sea. Tax Race ror Taw WALLAcK Cur To-Day.— The regatta for the cup presented by Lester Wallack will take place to-day. It will be an ocean race, froma point off Sandy Hook to and around a stakeboat off Long Branch and return, and, if there is a strong breeze, it must Prove a very interesting and exciting affair. The prize is offered to schooners only, and we may depend upon seeing the best of them entered for the race. The people at Long Branch will have a fine view of the fleet as it reaches the turning point, and we have no doubt that crowds will line the beach to watch the progress made by the marine beauties. The following schooners will take part in the regatta:—Madeleine, Wanderer, Columbia, Dauntless, Tidal Wave, Rambler, Sappho, Palmer, Tarolinta, Eva, Alarm aad Idler, Blagt wing er Cossack”—The Brewing in Europe. Europe rests on a volcano of political, social and moral forces. No sooner has vent been given to these by a great war, or some revolutionary movement, and the outlet is closed up with a promise of peace, than rumblings are heard again portending more disasters. Scarcely had the terrible war between Germany and France closed, and the more frightful civil war in Paris been sup- pressed, than we hear of possible fresh com- plications between some of the great Powers and indications of a coming conflict between governments and the people. Our special telegraphic despatch from Berlin, published to-day in another part of the paper, informs us that serious complications have arisen be- tween Germany and England, and that sharp despatches were passing between Bismarck and Lord Granville. The cause does not appear to be definitely known yet. At the same time we learn that the German government has made an imperative demand upon France for the first instalment of the war indemnity, which was to be paid, accord- ing to agreement, thirty days after the restora- tion of the authority of the French govern- ment. Then there are the active and secret movements of the International societies and the counter movements of the Eyropean gov- ernments, as well as the difficulties in Italy and in other parts of the Old World. In what- ever direction we look there appear to be serions conflicts brewing. With regard to England and Germany, we do not see clearly on what principle or for what immediate and specific object war should be brought abont. Still there are portentous rumors in the air. The people and press on both sides of the German Ocean are speaking of the possibility of war between the two nations. If the old adage, that ‘“‘where there is smoke there must be fire,” holds good, these war speculations may have some foundatiop, and events may soon show what thatis. ‘whe ‘Battle of Dorking” or some- thing like it may take place even before 1875. It has been said that Germany wants the small island of Heligoland, which lies off the mouths of the rivers Elbe and Weser, which is an Eng- lish possession, and which, from its position and the character of the population, should belong to Germany. Bat we hardly think this alone would be made a cause of war. Eng- land, probably, would not refuse to part with the island by sale or for some reasonable equi- valent if approached in a proper manner by the German government. Then, Bismarck is too able a statesman, we think, to ask for the cession of Heligoland in any other way, if even he covets it, unless he has some ulterior object and wishes to make that a pretext for war. It is possible this astute man may coun- tenance rumors of a possibility of war by way of putting a pressure on England for the pur- pose of getting the island or for some other ob- ject not yet developed. He knows the spirit of the British too well to attempt to bully them for such a purpose, unless he wants a quarrel for some other object. It is curious to notice in connection with this question the semi-serious tone and speculations of the British press, which are somewhat in the style of the ‘‘Bat- tle of Dorking” article. The London Court Journal has an article, ‘Moltke’s Coming,” in a vein rather more serious than humorous, and seems to intimate that the great General may want to find out what are the military resources of England, just as the German officers learned all about France before the war. Then it is said the entente cordiale between Russia and the German empire means no good to England. But here, again, we cannot see the object these Powers can have in provoking England to war, unleks, indeed, they have the ambition to reconstruct the map of both Europe and Asia. If these colossal empires should be united for such an object they would, no doubt, be all-powerful. If they chose to take advantage of the present state of things—of the prostration of France, the unprepared condition and desire of peace of England, of the difficulties of Italy and of the weakness of Austria—they might reconstruct the map of Europe and Asia. Russia might thus crush the Ottoman empire, seize Constantinople, and push her conquests into Central Asia and to India. The Germans might, under such an understanding or compact, be given the Ger- man-speaking portions of Russia on the Baltic and seize the remaining German part of Aus- tria, including Vienna. This would consoli- date all the Germans in one empire—would make an empire of fifty to sixty millions of people, and extending from the Adriatic to the Baltic and from the German Ocean to the borders of Hungary. Russia at the same time would find her compensation in the union of the Slavonic race and in the accomplishment of her long cherished designs in Turkey and other parts of the East. True, this would be a gigantic undertaking, but it is, to say the least, within the bounds of possibility. Never were the times more favorable. Never had Germany and Russia two more able or am- bitious statesmen at the helm of affairs than Bismarck and Gortchakoff. They are quite capable of conceiving such a stupendous work and have the ability to carry it out. Has Bis- marck taken the iuitiative in such a move- ment by provoking England and by putting the screws to France in demanding, contfary to his former conduct and promises, the immediate payment of the war indemnity ? It is far from being impossible that his course may have this meaning. The meeting of the Emperors of Russia and Germany just at this time may be significant as to the mighty events that are pending. The tender regard manifested by the imperial government of Germany for the Pope, and the efforts made by it to win over the German Catholics, seem to strengthen the idea that Bismarck may have the far-reaching design of uniting all the Germans under one government; and, of course, he could not do this without the con- sent or aid of Russia, nor unless the ambition of Russia should be satisfied by compensating aggrandizement, Such a combination of these Powers is, then, within the bounds of possi- bility, and that may be the cause of the move- ments to which we have referred. But there may be, probably, another motive not less powerful to lead these two mighty autocratic and military empires to arouse the ambition of the people and to reconstruct the map of the Old World. The taternational Conflict societies of Europe are menacing. They threaten to involve the Continent in revolution. The monarchies may be in danger. There are great numbers of these Internationals, both in Germany and in Russia, particularly in Poland. To divert these from their purpose, to keep them occupied by fizht- ing, and to hold them down under the heel of powerful armies, a gigantic war, embracing the objects mentioned, would prove most effec- tive. Besides, the German and Russian auto- crats and aristosracies have not only the powerful motive of maintaining their privi- leges against the democratic movements of the time, but they can appeal to all conservative people on higher ground. The Internationals are threatening the very framework of civilized society—the rights of property and of personal liberty. The vast surging masses of the working people feel their oppression—that oppression which has coms down from the Dark Ages and is interwoven in all the rami- fications of European society—and they are struggling, like the Laocoon, to work out of their misery; but they are ignorant, and are governed more by brutal passions than reason. They even attack religion, that blessed Chris- tianity which is eminently the religion of the poor and which has done more than anything else to civilize the world. They will not have God, because, unfortunately, the priests have been too ready to aid their oppressors and to keep them in ignorance. The inter- nationals, through their dangerous and im- practicable theories and their violence, are rallying all the conservative people, and even those who are progressive, to support the present order of things—monarchy, aris- tocracy, vast standing armies and other evils of past ages. Instead of taking the United States—this great republic—as a model, they adopt the destructive socialist and com- munist theories of Blanqui, Proudhon and the Jacobins of 1790. In view of these movements or possible movements on the part of the working classes on one hand, and the monarcbists, military autocrats, the Church hierarchy and privileged classes on the other, we think a terrible con- flict is coming. To avert this or stave it off governments may resort te outside wars. This, possibly, may be one of the objects Bismarck has in view, as we have said before. And here the question arises, Will this lead to purely military or Cossack governments over Continental Europe? Is Europe to be Cos- sack or republican? The issue may coms soon. Ifthe people should be too impatient, and, in their ignorance, precipitate a conflict, one of two things, provably, would be the immediate result—sither a reign of disorder would be inaugurated or they would be crushed under the heels of the soldiery.“ If the governments were wise they would instruct the masses and lead them on, step by step, to freedom, religion and a better condi- tion. From present indications Europe has to pass through a terrible ordeal. Still, as the mass of mankind become more enlightened, and they see better the example we have set of maintaining republican freedom with order, they may in time reach the same end. The Papacy and the German Empire— Bismarck and Antonelli. For some time past it has been known that the Catholics of Germany have not been sufficiently submissive to the leadership of Prince Bismarck. Some two days ago we learned that Bismarck had written to Anto- nelli a letter complaining of the course of conduct pursued by the German Catholics. At the time there were some who were dis- posed to doubt the correctness of the report. It is now, however, no longer doubtful that the German Catholics are annoying Bismarck and that Bismarck has been in communication with Antonelli; for, as will be seen from our telegraphic columns to-day, the Prince has just written to certain members of the Ger- man Reichstag, informing them that he has it from Cardinal Antonelli that the Pope disapproves of their conduct. It is rather funny to see Bismarck courting the Pope. But it is very wise. In spite of the downfall of the Temporal Power the Holy Father has power in the world, and Bismarck knows that in crowning the edifice which he has so laboriously reared the influence of the Pope is not to be regarded as valueless. On the other hand, the Pope knows, and s0 too does Antonelli, that in the final settlement of the temporalities Bismarck and Emperor William and the whole strength of the restored Ger- man empire may be useful. es Mr. Ramszy aND Justice BarNnarp.—In the Supreme Court, General Term, an im- portant decision was given yesterday touch- ingone phase of the long-contested Ramsey suit against the Erie Railway Company. The point decided was the appeal from the order of Judge Brady, growing out of the refusal of the plaintiff to have the case tried before Judge Barnard, on the ground. that he was prejudiced—the appeal being dismissed. All three judges—Chief Justice Ingraham and Justices Cardozo and Barnard—presented writ- ten opinions in the case, the substance of which will be found in our legal columns, While the Chief Justice confines himself to the strictly legal points, his associates trace to their legitimate sequence the results of suitors in the courts being allowed to refuse their causes to be tried before judges to whom they happen to take a dislike. They contend further that it is the duty of the judiciary to stick by one another, and that any deviation from this brings the judicial tribunal into dis- grace and contempt. Law essNgss IN Frortpa.—So long as bands of armed and disguised men at the South attempt to rescue prisoners from the custody of federal officers so long will public opinion in other portions of the Union discredit the assertions of interested State officials, con- servative editors and political conventions that order reigns supreme in the late rebel States, and that the laws are impartially enforced and everywhere respected. Several officers of the United States detective service recently arrested a gang of counterfeiters in Georgia and Florida, and took them, together with their counterfeiting apparatus, bogus coin, &c., to Fernandina, Fla., where they were examined before the United States Commis- sioner and held for trial. The night of their committal to prison a large mob of disguised men attempted to rescue the prisoners from the authorities, and their design was only frus- trated by a ruse on the part of the officers, which, we think, the Admiral NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1871 Rear Admiral Rodgers and the Press of the United States. Rear Admiral Rodgers, commanding the United States naval forces in Asiatic waters, has seen fit to determine that the people of the United States shall receive no information regarding the operations of the Corean expe- dition through the press of their country. When the fleet was assembled at Nagasaki and about ready for departure for Corea the representative of the HgRap made applica- tion for permission to accompany the expedi- tion, which was refused, on the ground that no member of the press could go, for the rea- son that the Coreans might, through the papers of the United States, receive informa- tion of the movements of his squadron, To this refusal the Heraup's representative re- plied, and on behalf not only of the Heratp but of the whole press protested against the decision of the Admiral, based as it was upon such frivolous grounds. For the information of the press in general and the public we deem it best to publish the correspondence, in shows to poor advantage. His reasons are no reasons; they are mere quibbles, paltry excuses, and it would have sounded better if he had simply denied the request without atempting to assign any cause for the denial. The consequences of this refusal are already evident. We have the announcement merely that an engagement has occurred between our squadron and the Corean batteries, without any particulars of the action, whereas had a representative or representatives of the press been with the fleet we would have had details. The friends and relatives of those on board have now to wait in fear and anxiety lest some of those dear to them have been killed or wounded. They are kept ina state of suspense by the ungailor-like conduct of Admiral Rodgers, and they will be obliged to wait for official de- spatches before any positive information is received regarding the casualties that may have occurred. Rear Admiral Rodgers has made a great mistake by reason of his refusal. The people of this country, who are interested in knowing what the forces of their country are doing both at home and abroad, will not be favor- ably disposed toward him when they learn that he has refused them the information they desire—when they know that he declines to allow the press the news it is entitled to have. They will be disgasted with him in the first place, and laugh at him for the reason he assigns. They will not be charitably dis- posed toward him, and, should he not be suc- cessful in carrying out the instructions of his government, there will be but few to make excuses for his shortcomings. He misunder- stands the temper of his countrymen; he ap- parently does not think for a moment how un- popular he is destined to become by his conduct to the press, and through the press to the people, especially so when it is known that he has given permission to accompany the expedition to those who had no claim upon our government or its officials. Our correspondent, in language polite, but forcible and to the point, puts the matter before the Admiral in its proper light and presents an argument that is unanswerable; but stubborn- ness probably prevailed with the Commander- in-Chief, and he continued firm in his decision. Consequently we shall be compelled to remain in the dark respecting what the Corean ex- pedition is doing or has done until such time as the official despatches of the Admiral are made public by the Navy Depart- ment. We shall have to submit to delay and put up with the red tape report, meagre as it will be in detail, and arranged as it will be by the officials to suit their own ideas and to give their own side of the story. Well, we may be satisfied with this arrangement for a time, but if operations in the Corea are to be continued we are of the opinion that a greater power than that of the Admiral will be brought to bear in order that the people of this country shall have the latest and fullest information from the seat of war. It will be well to examine the reason for refusal, as given in the letter of the Admiral. He says :—‘‘It is not unlikely that the present trip may prove a preliminary one, and there- fore it may be of the first importance to keep our action and further purposes from the Coreans, If anything is published either here ‘or in the Atlantic States the purport of it will be likely to find its way back to the Coreans through the Chinese, who get access to the contents of our newspapers.” Can anything be imagined more absurd and ridiculous? The commander of the British forces in Abyssinia might with equal justice have re- fused permission for a correspondent to accompany his command for fear of information reaching King Theodore through English or American newspapers circulated and read in Algiers. The following is what Admiral Rodgers fears:—A fight oc- curs between our people and the Coreans; the news is sent to the United States and pub- lished in the papers ; the latter by due course of mail reach Shanghae ; the description of the Corean batile is translated into Chinese, it is read by the mandarins, and special messengers are at once despatched to Corea with news of what occurred there probably six months be- fore. This is what the far-seeing commander of our naval forces thought might be the case should a newspaper correspondent be per- mitted to join the expedition, and fearing that he might prejudice his future operations he declined giving the preas of the United States any facilities. Pradence in a naval comman- der is a great virtue, we will allow, but if the prudence of Admiral Rodgers in this particu- lar instance does not make him a subject of ridicule we are much mistaken. If he is as prudent in all his operations with the Coreans as in his treatment of the press he will prob- ably come out of the affair with a whole skin, but without much additional reputation for dash and gallantry, and without having accom- plished anything worthy of notice by the papers of the country. It would be well for the press of the United States to perfect some arrangement at head- quarters, whereby the receipt of news of im- portant events’ transpiring abroad—particu- larly wherein our naval forces are engaged— shall not be restricted by the action of such prudent men as Rear Admiral Rodgers. No information that the HgRratp’s correspondent could have sent regarding the movements of our Asiatic fleet would have given aid, com- fort or intelligence to the enemy; and it should not be entirely in the power of a naval commander-in-chief to say that the whole country shall be prevented from receiving other information than he, in his wisdom and prudence, sees fit to forward to the Navy De- partment. The press should profit by the experience had in this case, and have it so ar- ranged that its representatives abroad shall be afforded every facility by United States officials to obtain and forward all news that it is important should receive early publica- tion, No possible harm can arise there- from. No correspondent will write and no paper will publish that which can benefit an enemy and thereby injure our own cause. The government should so in- struct its representatives in foreign countries, and thus give the press the opportunity and advantages it is entitled to, and at the same time it should be careful never to select for the command of an important squadron like that in Asiatic waters a man so very careful and prudent as Rear Admiral John Rodgers. Bet- ter to have one with dash and daring, one willing to assume responsibility, and at the same time desirous of letting the country know not what he intends to do, but what he has done, We have no doubt that the entire press of the country will echo this opinion. Bronze and Marble—Irving, Sbalfspeare, Walter Scott and General Daniel Dela- van. In Prospect Park, Brooklyn, will be unveiled this day, with ceremonies appro- priate to the occasion, a colossal bust, in bronze, of Washington Irving, the work of the sculptor McDonald and a present to the Park from Mr. Demas Barnes. Of course, among the ceremonies of this inauguration or dedication or consecration or celebration, as it may be called, will be an address from Brooklyn's popular orator, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, on the delightful theme of the charming genius of Sunnyside. Sunny it is, while at the same time the very name of Irving invests with the charms of romance the great achievements of our ancient Knicker- bockers, and gives the witchery of moonlight in Fairyland to Sleepy Hollow and all the woods and glens and mountains round about. The Lincoln statue and this bust of Irving are a good beginning for our neighbors of Brooklyn in the ornamentation of their beauti- fal park. In this work in this park they have a field for recreation and wholesome instruction, especially of the rising generation, far beyond all present conceptions of philan- thropists and reformers. Let this idea, thea, be followed up of illustrating in our public pleasure grounds the good works, the virtues and the qualities which adorn society by tasteful monuments in honor of the dead whose names are recorded among the bene- factors of mankind. A week hence we are to have in our Central Park the unveiling of a statue of Shakspeare, whose glory belongs to us and to all the world; and next a bronze bust of Sir Walter Scott, who may be ranked in the same general class of cosmopolitans as Shakspeare and Humboldt. One of these days we hope there will be in our Central Park a temple of exquisite taste and beauty, adorned outside with sculptures and inside with paintings connected with the history of New York, city and State, pioneers, soldiers, statesmen, jurists, men of letters, &c., from Hendrick Hudson down. Indeed, we think old Hendrick, in colossal proportions, ought to be placed on the top of a lofty column near the lower end of Staten Island, at the Nar- rows, with one hand pointing up the beanti- ful river which bears his name, and the other beckoning in the coming ships from all quar- ters of the globe. Can’t the Staten Islanders contrive to get him up on the top of a light- house, the grandest in the United States? On Wednesday next, at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, of Tarrytown, they are to have the unveiling of a monument to the memory of General Daniel Delavan, one of New York’s distinguished soldiers, and one of nine brothers who served in the war of that great Revolution ‘‘which made us a nation.” This monument, the work of Casoni and ‘other sculptors, from all that we hear of it, is ex- ceedingly rich and imposing. It consists, first, of an elaborately ornamented pedes- tal, surrounded by historical and allegorical figures, and next, of a lofty central column, crowned with the statue of the General to whose memory it is raised. In short, in this work the Delavan family have erected ® monument worthy of their deceased an- cestors and of themselves, and of the State and the country. This is the right spirit, and we are glad to see it enlarging in all the land. Surely the forty millions of our people, with their great and glorious country, may aspire to make it not only the richest and most powerful in the world, but also first in litera- ture, sclence and the fine arts. We have a great career of peace opening before us, and works of taste, art and beauty are among the triumphs of peace. Tne PapaL GuaRanters—A New Paase oF THE QuESTION.—It begins to be rumored that, after all, the Italian government may not march into Rome on the Ist of July. It is said that the King hesitates to take the final step. The Pope shows no signs of yielding. The Papal guarantees do not satisfy him, liberal as we must continue to regard them. It is now hinted that the settlement of the Italo-Roman question may yet lead to an International European Convention. The ground which is taken by some of the frionds of the Pope is that the guarantees of the Italian Parliament are no guarantees at all. They are the guarantees only of the present Parliament of Italy. What this present Italian Parliament has done another Italian Parlia- ment might undo. This is the view of An- tonelli, To make the guarantees satisfactory what is wanted is the pledge not of Italy alone, but the pledge of all the Great Powers of Europe. Less than this the Pope is not likely toaccept, But will Italy so humiliate herself? Tue Rook IstAnp Panto evidently means to be remembered. A bundle of injunctions is the latest development of the quarrel be- tween the victims and the pool, To-morrow the creditors are to hold a meeting to endeavor to straighten ont the confusion into which affairs have drifted. The stock market was getting into smooth water again, but fresh storm knocked it on its beamends lagt aight. The Crops and the Harvest. The wheat crop in the Western section is so far advanced as to be quite out of the dan- gers to which the younger growth is more or less subject. Complaints have arisen in some few localities, but their limited extent has failed almost to attract attention. There is no question that the wheat crop of the West will be equal to if not greater this year than ever before known. All other cereals are in a like promising condition, and the yield will be correspondingly large. In Virginia, Ken- tucky and Tennessee, where large quantities of wheat are raised, the harvest bas already commenced and will be nearly over by the 4th of July. The usual annual growl has reached us from those sections, but as it is chronic for the farmers in certain districts in the States mentioned to grumble about short crops in order to bear the market, not much attention is given to their complaints, It is rather early to speculate to any great extent about the corn crop. At present it promises well in all parts of the country, but extreme dry spells of weather or unusually wet seasons, which are liable to occur between now and September, have such blasting effecta upon it that it cannot at any time be calcu- lated upon as sure until after the ears have almost'reached their proportions. ; There is no doubt that potatoos in the West are in great danger, A migratory bug, which seems to have travelled from the neigh- borhood of the Pacific slope, has attacked the plant and in some sections completely annihi- lated it. The farmers dread its approach, and fre trying to discover something that will arrest its progress. The cotton crop will not be as large as last year, but there seems as yet to be very little foundation for the anticipations that are coming up from the South of a comparative failure. The planters look for large prices, and the only way for them to achieve a realiza- tion of their hopes is to make current their cry of a short crop. There is no doubt that the farming interests of the country have not been neglected this year by a benign Providence. The Bottom Dropping Out of the “Jarv ssles.”? The newspapers have been publishing ac» counts of the sudden caving in of portions of the territory of our little neighbor across the Hudson. These phenomena have occurred’ on the line of one of the canals in the State. If they had happened on the line of some of the Western railroads—Rock Island, for ex- ample—perhaps they would have occasioned! little surprise. It is about time the bottom dropped out of some of these fancy railroad concerns and honest men thereby saved from the whirlpool of pecuniary destruction. The Camden and Amboy monopoly, having been engulfed by that moze jnsatiate railroad dragon, the Peihaylvan ia Central, may afford some clue to the caving in of the bot. tom of the New Jersey monopoly tub. Be that as it may, what with earthquakes and subterranean caverns, spout-holes and peach worms, the miserable state of her public high- ways and the wretched condition of official affairs there generally, New Jersey is certainly getting in a very bad way. Some second Daniel ought to come to judgment over there, for we know not what a day may bring forth. Decision on Dr. Lai Ys Application for a Ma mus. The dense and deepening fog of doubt se long overshadowing the Methodist Book Con- cern begins to lift a little. Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court, before whom Dr. Lanahagq made application for a mandamus to examine its books of account, rendered a decision yes- terday adversely to the application. He handles the Doctor without gloves. He seta him forth as evincing strongly reprehensible litigious proclivities and in marked hostility ta the interests of the Concern. After showing that the Doctor has no possible legal ground for asking a mandamus, the motives that induced the application, and his unwar~ rantable attempt to fish up evidence in sup- port of his charges of corruption, made, ag alleged, without proof, he clinches the matters by quoting Scripture—a very unusual thing,! by the way, for this Judge to do, but most pertinent in its application to this case—as, showing that a house divided against itself cannot possibly stand. The effectual quietug put on the Doctor by the scathingly writtem opinion of Judge Barnard accompanying tha decision, an abstract of which will be found’ elsewhere, will be likely to cause the Doctor to hide his diminished head and keep out of the courts in fature. Tae Kextvoxy Demooracy repudiate the new departure. They are strong enough om their old departure, and they stick to it. Wilt they come over in 1872? Doubtful. In facty Ohio democratic missionaries are badly wanted in Kentucky. Personal Intelligence. United States Senator Powell Clayton, of Arkatte as, is domiciled at the St. Nicholas. Bishop Wilmer, of New Orleans, is sojourning at the Coleman House. Ross R. Winans, the Baltimore millionnaire, ta at the Gilsey House, Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister, is at the Clarendon Hotel. His family is to depart for Eng- land to-day, but, although having received leave of absence from his post, is compelled to remain after them to await the result of the late “onpieasant- ness’ with the Coreans. General N. B. Forrest, of Tennessee, is at the St, Mioholas. He is soon to proceed to Washington, having been summoned thither to give testimony before the Congressional committee now investl+ gating the Ka Klux outrages, Horace Fairbanks, of Vermont, {s stopping at the Gilsey House. General L. B. Friese, of Providence, is quartered at she Hoffman House. © Mr. P. Gow, member of the Canadian Parliament, is staying at the Astor House. Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, is domiciled at the Fifth Avenue, Ex-Governor Fletcher, of Missourl, 1s at the Fiftty avenue, Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, has aparte ments at the Firth Avenue, Styleman Le Strange, an attaché of the Britiwh Legation, Is domictied at the Clarendon Hotel. Governors John W. Geary, of Pennsylvania, ana John W. Stewart, of Vermont, are sojourning at the St. Nicholas, Inspector General Sackett, of the United States army, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue, General M. V. Mokiahon, of Texas, is abiding as the Grand Central. Madame Anna Bishop Schultze, the well-known cantatrice, will sail for Engiand to-day in the steam- ship France, to return here at the end of Augast ta fuldi ber professional engagomeu.