The New York Herald Newspaper, July 4, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD GROAPWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Velume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNDIN AND EVENING, GLOBE THEATRE, BsorneRs—Tur AvENoER. Matinee at 2. FIFTR AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— DELNONIOO'S, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Proadway,—UNDER TWO FLAGS; 08, Teopven Downs, Matinee at 2 BOOTH'S THEATRE, 284 st, between Sth and 6 ave.—- Tue MAN 0 AIDLIE. Matines at Lis. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Tax FRENOU SyyY—STAuS AND STHIPEB, Matinee ai 2)¢. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th etreet.— Tus Long Srnixx, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur Drama or Tor COLLEEN Bawn. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 20th st,—Perform- ances afternoon and evening—TaRoUGH BY DAYLIGHT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur Boston PARTY—TUB FLYING DUTCHMAN, &C. Matanee at ERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Gnzar PAN- MOOLEY'S ‘TOMINE Ta BRYANTS W OPERA HOOSE, 234 at., betvsen 6th ang 7th ays.—LiTcuRN AND FRrroiten, &C. Matinee at % CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—TuEopore Tuomas’ SuMMEZ Nicurs’ Concrars. TERRACE GARDEN, b&th atreet, between Lexington and ‘3d ava.—Acternoon and Avening—JULIEN'’s CONCERTS. DR, KAIIN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SCIRNCE AND Aur. New York, Tuesday, July 4, 1871. COXTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. PaGE, foarte 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Financial and Commerctal Reports—Sentence of 4 Man and Woman for Committing Murder in Kansas—Deed 0: a Maniac Mother—Proceed- ings of the City Government—Marnages and Deaths— Advertisements. 4—Editorials: Leading Articles, “The ‘New Depar- ture’ ana the Southern Democracy—Another Lewter trou John Quincy Adams”—The Fourth—Amusements—Obituary—Vice Presi- dent Coliax—Long Branch saces—Amuse- ment Announcements. 5—The Situation in France—The Cape May Re- gatta—News from Washington—Mircellaneous ‘Telegrams — Views of the Past—The Utah ‘Troubles — Business Notices. G—The Utah Troubles: The History of the Military Dificuity—Arrival of European Mormons— Thiers on French Finance—West Point: Re. ports of the Board of Visitors to the Military Academy—Long Branch: Alabama Matters, Bowen’s Pardon and New York Politics— Ecuador and Colombia—A Lady Shot Under Peculiar Circumstances—A Spiritualist in Trouble—Connor’s Carouse—Picuic at Boule- var! Grove. ‘7—The Religious War In hudson: Exciting Scenes at the Church on Sunday—Cbsequies of a Dis- tisgmished Catholle Priest—The Decrease of Crime—Opentaz of the July ‘Term of the Gen- eral Sessivns—Proceedings in the Courts—The Tombs Police Court—The Ozab Shooting Afair—The Newark Tragedy—Jersey’s Light- ning Fiashes—The Centra! Park on Sunday— Brooklyn Burnmgs—Brooklyn Taxes and As- sessments—Mr, Bergh apd the Mayor—Bur- giary in South Street—The Horrors of Ulster Connty—The Visit of the Grand Duke, 6—The second Reiga of Terror: A Story of the Mar- tyred Priests—Popular Education—Obituary— Fires Yester ew York City News—Citv Assessments ide from Grief—A Hotel ‘Thief Arreated—New Charch for Brooklyn— Local Intelligence— Shipping Intelligeuce—Ad- vertisements, Tue DeraLoations oF LAwRENcE, the Pen- sion Agent, amount to fifty thousand dollars. He confesses to having invested injudiciously with government money in stock speculation; buat as he is in Texas now he probably intends to make it good by stock raisiog. Vice Presrpent Corrax will retire whether or no. His friends cannot drive him into public life again. He ingists upon going back to the bosom of his family and private life as soon as his term is ont. ‘Your candidate I cannot be,” says be, in the words of Horatio Seymour, and he might have added, *‘bnt if you drag me out, of course I must come.” Taz New Cass can be greatly improved upon, Seats for four are not needed in them. Thataumber is too much weight for one horse and too crowding upon the passengers them- selves. Besides, for the use of four persons, the old, much-abused hack is preferable. The cabs are wanted for two persons, or, at most, three. The seats ought to face the driver, so that the passenger may ride forward instead of sideways, and there should be room for the third passenger alongside the driver. The vehicles should be open top and the horses should be fast-going nags. We notice some of these new cabs creeping along at a snail's pace, while the passengers inside, with their arme about each other's necks to save space, perspire with the close crowding and vainly try to get a view of the streets in all directions as they go. The New Orleans cab is the model upon which these vehicles should be shaped. Tor Prior AND Prinogss Impreiat oF Germany En Rovre to EnGianp.—By a cable despatch, which we print this morning, we learn that the Prince and Princess Impe- ‘Vial of Germany have left Berlin for England on a visit to Queen Victoria. There is some- thing pretty in this visit, paid, as it is, so soon after the war, to the Queen. The Princess has, no doubt, while this war has lasted, had frequent occasion to think of her mother, and the mother, we may rest assured, has not been forgetful of her danghter. The Princess Vic- toria has won favor in Germany, just as her mother has done in England. Hersis a kindly, generous nature, as this war has proved. The reception of the Priace and Princess in Eng- gland will no doubt be hearty and enthusi- astic. Success is always worshipped. How different their condition on British soil to that of Napoleon and Engénie! But the tables may yet be turned Wuat a Numper or Hapry historical coin- cidences the universal Peace Treaty of Wash- ington bas given birth to! First, the British Commissioners arrived here on that greatest birthday anniversary thut America cele- brates—the 22d of Febroary—the treaty was completed and signed on the 24th of May, the birthday anniversary most acceptable to Englishmen—that of Queen Victoria— the ratifications were exchanged in London on the 17th of June—the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the opening fight of the American Revolution, and a fight fo which both sides gained equal glory, for while the British unmistakably whipped us, we gained all the glory; and, lastly, the treaty is to be proclaimed as the accepted law of the Jand and of the two nations to-day—the glo- rious Fourth of July. Did any greater con- glomeration of auspicious circumstances ever cluster about so great e masterpiece of states- maosbip? Does not every date certify to the wise provisions of the treaty for maiataining peace and good will among all English-speaking pagaieat {28 Broadway.—Tu® CoRstoan* 2 ‘The “New Woeparture” and the Southern Demecracy—Ancther Letter frem John Quincy Adams. The letter which we published yesterday from John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, to the editor of the Augusta (Ark.) Bulletin on the political situation and the new departure is highly charged with the ‘‘spirit of '76.” Our Arkansas contemporary had written a letter to Mr. Adams, “expressing, among other things, the apprehension that, with Grant's vast patronage most unscrapulously used, he would not yield the Presidential chair even if defeated before the people in 1872 (General Blair's old idea), and that our republic, like its predecessors of old, is so rapidly drifting into the channels of corruption that the people in despair may look to one military leader as the only means of saving them from the utter rain threatened by another ;” and in reply to this letter Mr. Adams, as a democratic fellow cltizen, pleads substantially that on the ‘‘new departure” the Southern States may escape from the pressure of'a military despotism, and that the blessings of constitutional government may be restored to the whole conatry. First, in endeavoring to place himself in the situation of a suffering democrat in the ‘“‘sub- ject States,” Mr. Adams says, ‘I do try to take it home to myself, and I do not doubt that in similar cirenmstances I should to-day be an ‘anrepentant rebel,’ sore, angry, beaten and defiant, With me it would doubtless have been as it has been with you, that the tender mercies of roconstruction had been barder to bear than all the horrors of invasive war. { should have been galled by misgovernment, robbed by imported knavery of the pittance which the war had spared, exasperated by. wilful and persistent misrepresentation and cruelly condemned to hopeless impotence for the imputed guilt of cowardly crimes I abhorred.” All this he can clearly under- stand; and, furthermore, he says, in the posi- tion of a Southern democrat, ‘‘I should have been coademned, too, to hold my personal liberty at the nod of a mercenary carpet-bag- ger or tho whim of a military satrap. I fear that Ishould have been an ‘irreconcilable;’ I think I should be sulky ; but I know I should be silly if I yielded to the feeling.” This is the essential point in the case. Admitting all the wrongs of which Southern ‘unrepentant rebels” complain, and fully sympathizing with these “‘irreconcilables,” Mr. Adama, in effect, admonishes them of the folly of repining over the ‘ost cause” and of the silliness of sulkily waiting and trusting that some day ‘‘some- thing may turn up” to revive and give the victory to a Southern confederacy. On this question Mr, Adams wishes it, no doubt, to be clearly and universally under- stood that Mr. Jefferson Davis is all wrong; that his high hopes of the final success of the “Jost cause” are vain delusions; for, says the sagacious young statesman of Quincy, ‘‘ithe war has confirmed, beyond the shadow of a turning, the destiny which decreed that there shall be but one confederated people of the North American Union, No. Rebellious I might be, but not weak enough to await the resurrection of secession.” What, then, would hedo? He is an ultea red-hot demo- crat against the party in power. He says ‘‘the whole interaul policy of the present adminis- tration” means, not peace and sectional har- mony, ‘‘but war ;” that ‘reconstruction meant war ;” that ‘the Ku Kinx bill declared war,” and that ‘this Union is now held together by force.” What, then, is the remedy which Mr. Adams proposes to the Southern democracy? He simply proposes the ‘‘new departu re”— the acceptance of the constitution as it is— thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments, and all therein contained, from negro emancipation to negro suffrage. And he is of the opinion, on this new departure, that ‘‘it matters not what man may be chosen to lead us, so long as his heart is large enough to hold the whole country, his soul brave enough to embrace a Confederate as a brother, and his platform wide enough for every American citizen to stand upon.” Of course, ‘to compass this end something of sacrifice is required of us all; much of self control is demanded of the South ;" but still if the attempt suggested is made, ‘‘and honestly and in earnest, it cannot fail.” Such are the salient points and snch is the conclusion of this second chapter of good advice iu 1871 from this wise young Massachusetts states- man and democratic politician, Mr. John Quincy Adams. What astonishing changes we have from this whirligig, this revolutionary lottery wheel of American politics! From 1824 down to 1840 John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts (grandfather of the present John Quincy), was fought and denounced by the old Jacksonian democracy as the living embodiment of the old federal party, its alien and sedition laws and all its despotic abomina- tions,; but in 1871, the John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts (a chip of the old block), appears as the foremost and ablest champion of the democracy against: the party in power, although on the slavery and the negro ques- tions the achievements of this party cover the whole programme of the first John Quincy Adams. He died in Congress fighting for the abolition of slavery—a forlorn hope against what appeared at that day, under the absolute power of the Southern cotton kings, a fixed institution for generations to come. In the present party attitude, then, of the living John Quincy Adams we have a striking illustration of the stupendous political revolu- tion wrought in the United States within the last thirty—yea the last ten, years—and of its remarkable effects apon our party platforms and lending politicians. But what is the prospect from this good advice of Mr. Adams to the Southern democracy? We hope they will fol- low it; but the signs of the times down South are discouraging. Jeff Davis has done a vast amount of mischief in rekindling the smoulder- ing embers of his exploded confederacy; the Southern Marat of the rebellion, the fierce and fiery Toombs, has been seconding the efforts of Davis to some purpose against what they call the frauds and outrages of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments; and the late Vice President of the ‘so-called Confederate States,” Mr. Stephens, has become the editor of « Georgia newspaper for the express pur- pose of holding the democratic party to its Tammany declaration of 1868, that all the re- construction doings of Congress, constitutional amendments included, are ‘‘unconstitational, revolutionary, null and void.” Against such opposing forces from the old re-enters what oan Mc. Adame do for his new tion of Rome by the Italians with favor. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 4. 1871. depagture in the South? Very little with 9 |Our Summer feserta—-Why the Guests brief letter every month or two, but very van Of. much from an active missionary tour through Nowhere in the world are the denizens of the Southern States. His presence and his | cities fonder of sojourning in the country in convincing speeches in the South in bebalf of | the summer than in the United States. This democratic harmony in the “acceptance of the | is one of those traits of our people which situation as it is” would have a great effect | show their good senso and intelligence, as even upon the old fire-eaters. Wecannot con- | well as their love of pleasure. But how is it cur with Mr, Adams that if the democrats are | fostered by those most interested in doing 60? united upon their platform one man or one | Although we mean to answer this question as ticket will do as well as another for the party | fully as the limits of an article will allow, none in 1872. We hold that this battle will be | need expect us to point out any place or per- fought mainly upon the tickets in the field, and | son for elther censure or approbation, At the secondarily upon the platforms, as on the | same time there are few summer resorts in great question, reconstruction, the platforms | America to which our remarks will not be found will, republican and democratic, be substan- | more or less applicable in one form or other. tially the same. A powerful ticket, therefore, That keeping such places has become an is the great essential for the democracy, and | extensive business all who read the newspa- the ticket of Chase and Hancock will meet | pers are aware; and there is no reason why this demand, for it will be avery powerful | it should not be honorable as well as profits- ticket. Let the democrats adopt it, and cause | ble. Far be !t from us to deny that there are it to be understood that, in the event of its | landlords of summer resorts as honest and as election, Mr. John Quincy Adams will be the | incapable of imposing on those who deal with Secretary of State of the new administration, | them asany other business men, in town or coun- and much additional strength will be given in | try. But the difficulty is that there are too few of the campaign to the democratic cause. Let the | this class, For one who is satisfied with a democracy put on their Presidential ticket a | legitimate profit at least half a dozen have no good strong popular Cabinet out and out, | higher motive than to exact as much as possi- headed by Mr. Adams, and they will find it | ble from their guests. Indeed, the extent to immensely to their advantage. which extortion is carried in every conceiva- We shall touch upon this proposition again. | ble form would seem not merely incredible, but We think it a good idea, Meantime we com- | utterly fabulous, were it not that thousands mend to the Southern democrats the sound | indignantly bear witness to it from actual ex- and seasonable advice of Mr. Adams, perience. Before giving any particulars in illustration of this, for the benefit of the uninitiated, we may remark in passing that it is because the grab system is carried, in numerous instances, beyond the bounds of endurance that so large a number of our citizens have ceased to visit those places; preferring toremain in the city, if they have no country residences of their own, rather than subject themselves for months or weeks, or even days, to what they have been compelled to regard as little better than organized swindling. ; All remember the time when. those having any pretensions to respectability—not to men- tion fashion—used to be ashamed to be seen in their comfortable houses in the city after the middle of June. It was no mere sarcasm on this class that many of them were said to pre- tend, by closing their front windows, to be in the country, while they hid themselves away in their back rooms. Now the same class think it much more respectable to invite their friends to their city residences than to visit three-fourths of our summer resorts. It is of the latter they are ashamed to-day, although they set as high a value as ever on every ad- vantage to be derived from rustication in the sultry season. They do not admire the groves or the forests, the hills or the valleys, the brooks or the rivalets a whit leas than they did seven or ten years ago. Nay, they sigh for alf as much as ever; they are also as willing as ever to spend their money; but they are less willing to be at once cheated and kept under “regulations” like naughty schoolboys. Our readers know that we are not of the cynical order. It has never been our habit to pretend to expect perfection from any class; we are much more disposed to look at the bright than at the dark side of human nature; and had it been otherwise we would long since have denounced at least a portion of the “tricks upon travellers” played at some of our summer resorts. Even now we have no in- tention of any violence; and if our remarks be heeded only in proportion as they are true and just—free from any exaggeration—they will ultimately, if not immediatcly, serve the country landlords at least as much as their guests, But let us not do injustice to the country folks, for it is not they who do one-tenth of the mischief in this case. In all our large cities there is a pretty numerous class always ready to go to the country in time to prepare the way for those who only go in search of recreation and health. The former are sure to be early enough in the field to take the latter in, and they are quite as intent on doing so, metaphorically as literally. Some who expect to better their condition by taking charge of summer resorts are honest, respect- able men, who havegained a well-earned repu- tation as clerks or superintendents at our metropolitan hotels. But these are “‘angels’ visits” in more than one sense, and to such our criticisms have no application except as contrasts to those of the opposite class. In general the keepers of country resorts are persons who either occupy subordinate positions at our fourth or fifth rate city hotels during the winter, keep third or fourth rate city boarding houses during the same period, or do nothing but walk about and amuse themselves in anticipation of the fine harvest they shall have in summer. Not unfrequently the same party known as plain Mrs. Sausage in the city turns up in the country as Tom Smith & Co., proprietors, &c. It is almost needless to say that the “‘resort” in charge of this firm has a long catalogue of attractions, and yet Smith is no fonder of calling his brass gold, his mole hills mountains, or his carrion veal prime beef, than almost any of his numerous rivals. The King of Italy at Rome. The arrival of Victor Emmanuel at Rome and the transfer of the Italian government to the Eternal City are events which cannot be passed over in silence. It is the deliberate judgment of mankind that the ancient capital of the world ought to be the capital of modern Italy. The people of Rome and the people who were Victor Emmanuel’s subjects pre- viously to the occupation of the States of the Church are one in lineage, in interests and in destiny. Neither waited for this consumma- tion more earnestly than the other, and both were enthusiastic in desiring it. The recep- tion which was yesterday accorded to the King proves this, and assures a long reign for the Italian Kings in the city of the Cmsars. And in all this we can see nothing hostile to the Church. The Pope is a dignitary whom no earthly power could rob of his glory. The thunders of the Vatican are still as potent as in the days before the occupation, The mu- nicipal control of Rome—the regulation of the police and the command of the little Papal ariny—added nothing to the real dominion of the occupant of the chair of St. Peter. The whole Catholic world recognizes this even now, and will come to recognize it more fully when all the good results springing out of this change shall have had time to develop them- selves, . The Pope has not looked upon the occupa- He regarded it as an invasion of the privileges of the Papal chair and an insult to the Church, but he wisely determined to remain in the Vatican and to continue to exercise in St. Peter's his august office of the chief bishop of the Christian world. In time, shoald his life be spared, as it is the hope and prayer of all men that it may be, he will see in these politi- cal changes less of evil and more of good than he at first thought to find in them. At all events they cannot be reversed. The alacrity with which the foreign Ambassadors at the Court of Florence transferred their offices to Rome shows that there is to be no interven- tion. The occupation 13 fully accomplished. Rome is the political capital of Italy quite as mucb as it is the spiritual capital of the world. In many respects all that has taken place was desirable; but, apart from this, the transfer from Florence is an accomplished event, and as such we recognize it. Tae Glorious The Fourth! Fourth!” The “‘day we celebrate” will be the toast upon thousands and thousands of American lips ere this dsy’s sun sinks in the west. It will be a day of unusual rejoicing among all Americans and all others who favor the perpetuation of free republican institu- tions. We have already published the pro- gramme for the celebration in this city and vicinity, and if the weather proves fine, of which there is every indication at the present writing, the ninety-fifth anniversary of our nation’s birthday will be celebrated with unusual splendor and heartfelt rejoicings. In the midst of all their hilarity and joy this day we would remind our citizens that there are many among them who cannot afford to indulge in the general festivities. Let, then, the rich to-day, in the midst of their magnifi- cent entertainments and lively excursions to the watering places and more peaceful country resorts, bestow a thought upon the poor, and, by contributing to relieve their wants and necessities, add a new and most pleasurable sensation to the pleasures of the hour. In the meantime let all enjoy themselves as best and asrationally as they can, so that when the fea- tivities are over they can congratulate them- selves that the ‘‘day we celebrated” was one of nomixed enjoyment. Tax Newark Tragepy.—The murder of “Pet” Halsted at Newark is one of those ter- rible crimes which so often of late years spring from the social vices of our great cities. There has not been » murder reported in this city for mouths that had not connected with it in some way the name of a woman, and this Newark tragedy is not an exception to the New York rule. Were it not for the respect and sympathy due to the living we might point to this case as a fearful warning to men who forget their social duties and enforce the lesson by reciting its stern teachings. But the tragedy is so terrible in itself and so ter- rible in all its sarroundiugs that only the most hardened sinners can fail to learn something from it. “The Fourt! receives of the live and let live policy is in the shape of a bill for a whole week two or three days after his arrival. Not understanding this, he is informed that he was to have arrived earlier, and it was his own fault if he failed to do so. The rooms were there a week ago as well as now, and it was not fair that they should be kept idle for nothing! In most instances the pleasure-seeker submits rather than listen to too mnch loud, virtuous talk, although he scarcely fares better afterwards, even in the matter of talk, than the one who refuses to be imposed upon, or says that if forced to pay what he does not owe it will be his last payment there. What cares ‘‘mine host” for this? At least, so he says, and in no very polite language, and his countenance is still more offensive than bis tongue. But he is generous after all. All of a sudden he bacomes as polite and friendly as possible. He says it was all a mistake and everything will be right and pleasant in fature. The next difficulty is about extra dinners already paid for twice, or, perhaps, three times. One is reminded that no gentleman would object, even if there was a slight mis- take; and a similar argument is ready for the contentious individual who thinks it enough to Tne Dirrergxors Penpina Between Bout- well and Pleasonton in relation to the right to issue beer stamps bid fair to embarrass the beer business. No brewer can sell beer unless the keg is stamped, and no stamps can be issued until the matter is settled. The price of beer may be increased in consequence, and although a scarcity of that article may be considered about well enough by the native American, the idea is not a pleasant one for Gemmana to contemolate. the third time rather than get up a “muss.” At some “‘rosorts” the highest price paid for rooms and board is but a bagatelle to the ora- Generally the first illustration the guest ‘ pay the expressman’s fee twice, but will pay it prietor. It is only those who drink at least a certain quantity that are respectable and worthy of attention, If they gamble all night and swear as long as they are able, all the better; but they will be excused from the gambling and swearing if they will only have the proper number of bottles in their bill. Still they must be careful not to be ‘mean.” That is, if by mistake they are charged for the best champagne instead of the worst claret they must not grumble, even though such ‘‘mis- takes” areofdaily occurrence, As for those who will have neither one “brand” nor the other they are intolerable, and the sooner they leave the better. This may serve to explain how it is that nota few order bottles which they could not be induced to drink; while paying ostensibly for the ‘‘villanous compound” what they really want to purchase is freedom from annoyance. It may well seem incredible that any one keeping a summer resort at which he charges fabulous prices for rooms and beard, neither of which would be endured in the city, would treat his guests rudely and offensively because they will not drink in and out of season and sicken, if not intoxicate themselves, in order to put money into his pocket. Nevertheless the fact is but too true, and if any doubt it they need not go a day’s journey from New York in order to be fully satisfied on that point. Those fond of gunning or fishing are doubtless sufficiently informed already as to the modus operandi of this class, although, being a long- suffering race and used to “roughing it,” probably most of them forget that there,is any- thing very wrong in having even defective liquors forced down their throats at so much a bottle. But, alas! for those who have horses at many of our summer resorts. If the poor sni- mala themselves could speak they might well say, ‘‘Wo worth the day.” It does not re- quire any extensive knowledge of human na- ture to understand that those who would cheat a man to his face, even while he is pro- testing against the trick, would not scruple much to cheat the “‘dumbbrute.” Where a lady is threatened with expulsion for intimating in the most deficate manner that the steak is too much like leather for her teeth and too much like a bolus for her stomach, the horse should be thankfal if he gets bad hay instead of the good oats for which his master pays the high- est figure. Probably none but those who have derived their knowledge from experience would believe that there are ‘‘resorts” claimed to be first class at which the owner's coach- man or groom will not be allowed to feed his own horses lest he might’give them too mach. But such is the fact in manyinstances. Some- times the owners have to get up an indignation meeting in order to save their horses from starvation. Many other plans of extortion practised at summer resorts are but too-familiar to hun- dreds of our readers. But are not those we have glanced at quite sufficient to account for the altered views and wishes of our citizens in regard to those places? It by no means fol- lows, however, that because bad, suicidal plans have been pursued in the past such will be continued in the future; and nothing will afford the HeraLp more pleasure than to pro- claim the improvement as soon as it takes place. The French Elections. France has again spoken for the republic. The supplementary elections, which took place on Sunday last, indicate the sentiments of the French people. Out of one hundred and fourteen vacancies the republicans have succeeded in electing eighty or ninety mem- bers to fill the vacant places in the National Assembly. A more thorough vote of confi- dence or a more genuine expression in favor of the republican government it would be difficult to imagine. Nothing short of the unanimous verdict of the people could be more significant than the announcement which the cable despatches of yesterday made of the determination of the will of the French people to remain true to the republic. Thiers’ hands are now strengthened, for the people have spoken in approval of the form of government of which he is the executive head. Not only in the elections have they shown their confidence in the republic, but in the manner in which they have taken up the new loan have-they indicated their firm belief in repub- licanism and the ability of the people of France to rule France. Now that the republic is truly endorsed by the people there is no excuse for the French leaders to hesitate in their course. Gambetta has secured a place in the Assembly, and he has announced his determination to support the government of Thiers. General Faidherbe, one of the bravest and most thorough soldiers of France, has also been elected by the republicans. Other prominent republicans have been elected to fill the vacant chairs. The French people have spoken; let the government act, and by wise, thoughtful and vigorous legislation prove that the confidence of the French people is not misplaced. Humbag Reformers. Every now and then there springs up, like mushrooms in a night, a crop of municipal reformers, who assail the authorities with might and main until they are obliged to desist from sheer exhaustion, or from other causes, which it is not at all difficult to explain. These humbug reformers are organized bands of uneasy people who have been left ont in the cold in the matter of some fat contract or other—that of the city printing and adver- tising being not among the least of the causes that arouses their holy indignation. Now these humbugs are to be no more credited for their virtue and incorruptibility than the free- booters who prey upon the commerce of the world. Their organizations are jobs that are put up to be bought up, instances of which are too fresh in the memories of our citizens to be repeated here. In other words, they are like the adventurers of small means who create opposition lines of steamboats, telegraphs or railroads for the purpose of extorting money from the large and regularly established companies. It is with the intention of having their silence purchased by what they call the ‘‘ring” that all this parade of alleged extravagance, over-taxation and fraud is made. Instead of reducing taxation, if their views were adopted, the burden would more likely be increased than diminished, for there would be so many more hungry mouths to feed at the expense of our taxpayers. We are in favor of anv movement calculated pee ee ae a citizens, But we must protest against Operations of these humbug reformers, they are not prompted by a sincere desire promote the public benefit, Worth Street was recently opened front Broadway to Chatham square, and thas served & much needed purpose, not only of making a short cut thoroughfare between our two most crowded channels of business, but of letting light into a dark and dangerous recess of the city. We notice, however, that near Chat- ham square it isas yet unpaved and ungraded, and for purposes of travel is worse than an or- dinary dirt road. It can be made useful if it is graded and paved ; otherwise it offers no re— llef to Broadway. THE FOURTH. The Gala Day of the Nation—How It Will be Observed in the City and Neighborhood. Indications of the approach of “Independence Day” were not wanting yesterday. Business was Partially suspended in the city, and almost every- body, towards the close of the day, wore a holiday’ look, At night the sky was illuminated by the dis- charge of fireworks and the ears of pedestrians: were shocked by the explosion of guns. Even the ferryboat passengers were subjected to these shocks as the boats ferried thelr way across the river by passengers discharging freworks. At half-past six this morning the military wit make their annual display and will pass in review before Mayor Hall at the Worth monument. ‘The parade of the division will be snoceeded by breakfast at ten o'clock, given oy General Shaler. ‘The colored troops will be reviewed by Mayor Hail and General Tweed, TRINITY BELLS. At half-past seven A. M. the following chimes wit be rung on Trinity beils by Mr. James E. Ayliffe:— L Ringing the changes on eight bells. 2. Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, B Yankee Doodle. 4. Scotch airs roe the opera of “Guy Mannering." 7, Hun a & The Boula Soger Bo; 1 ae rors open and en Regiment.” ira from opera “Child of i, The Land oF Promise. 12. Viva America. 18, Eclipse Polka. 14. See, the Conquering Hero Comes. 16. Yankee Doodle. At four o’clock speeches will be delivered by Hoa. Fernando Wood, Thomas C. Fields, H. B. Perkins and other eminent citizens. 1 celebratom will close ateleven o'clock P.M. with fireworks and iliuminations. THE EXCURSIONS. These are numerous—aud to almost every point of attraction in the city, 1ts suburbs and the water~ ing places on the coast there are facilities of access by rail and steamboat—particulars of which will be found in our advertising columns, TAMMANY SOCIETY. ‘The exercises of the above society wMl commetice at ten o'clock in the morning, and will be princi- pally masi¢ aod orations. THE GOULEVARD CLUB. The apniversary of American Independence will be celebrated at the club grounds of the above club. on che banks of the fudson and 103d street. oration will be delivered at three P, M. by General J. R. O’Beirne. AMUSEMENTS. WaLtack’s—“THE LONG STRIKE."—This excel- lent play, notwithstanding its long ran, continaes to meet with cordial and remunerative audiences. In fact, the house 18 filled every evening with audi. ences wonderfully fashionable for the beginning of July, when all Wallack’s audiences are sapposed to be at the seaside. The play itself needs no review. It 1s unquestionably Boucicault’s best, and the char- acter of Moneypenny 1s the happiest that be has ever attempted to depict. Mr. Stoddard in tts sonation was twice callcd before the curtain evening, but we think that profuse applause has somewhat impaired bis usual painstaking rendition of the part. He allows himself to strain after effect when there is no need to strain. Effect is displayed in every word of his part, and he needs only te render it faithfully. The otner chatacters are rea- dered with the usual excellent acting that is to be found at Wallack’s always, even in the summer season. Woop's Mussvm.—Mr. James M. Ward opencd as this house ast evening in @ new play called “Through by Daylight.” Tne piece is of the highly sensational ordcr and one of the best of its kind we have seen. Mrs. Charlotte Staniey played Madge finely. She marked the different changes in the life of the poor unfortunate with admirable skill, an@ almost immediately enlisted the audience in her favor. We are very glad to see Mr. George Davenport back on the metropolitan boards. He i# agoud actor and should never leave them, Misa Jennie Carroll was saived exactly In the part of the tender, loving heroine. Mr. Evans is an old face, too, at this house, and a welcome one. Where did Miss Jennie Satterlee come from? If there Is any more such material as that in the background the sooner it is brought forward the better. A little more re- pose and experience will make Miss Satterlee one of New York's desirable actresses. The plece was well mounted and managed, and 1s, no doubt, desuned for a long run. The street car ts one of the most realistic efforts we have ever seen achieved in these melodramas, Mr. Ward deserves every credit, not only for the acting of his part, but also for giving te the city—when there 1s such @dearth of eujoyment— a thoroughly interesting play. OBITUARY. General William Maynadier. General William Maynadier, of the Ordnance De- partment, United States Army, died at his residence at Washington yesterday morning, aged sixty-five years. General Maynadier was born in and entered the Military Academy from the District of Columbia in 1823, graduating third in @ class of thirty-eight. He was appointed second lieutenant in the Firat artillery July 1, 1827, serving for a num- ber of years in the Artilery School for Practice, a& Fortwess Monroe. He was an aid on the staf of General Scott in the Black Hawk expedition of 1832, and he served on the staff of Major General Macomb when the latter was General-in-Chiet of the Army. In 1834 he was prompted to be first lieutenant, aad was made @ captain of ordnance in 1838, since which ume he did excellent service in the Ordnance Bureau at Washington. In 1561 he was promoted te be major and lieutenant colonel, and was colonel in 1863, the rank of brevet brigadier Paton beingaccorded to him March 13, 1895, tor faithfar and meritorious services during the rebellion. He served a8 Executive Assistant in the Ordnance Bureau at Washington from April, 1861, to Septem- ber, 1863, and from the latter date till August, 1864, he was Inspector of Armories, Arsenais and Ord- nance Depots, visiting and examining nearly all the ordnance establishments in the country. It 6 ® matter of some interest, now that General Mayna- dier is dead, that in @ report of one of the investigating committees of the House of Repre- sentatives he was charged in 1862 with disloyalty, | being & ty to the effort, in Decemver, John B. Floyd, then Secretary of War, to transfer cannon to the South under pretence of arming forti- fications at Galveston and Ship Island, and privy te the sale by Floyd of 100,000 or more muskets to A. A. Helknap and 20,000 to other parties, He replied te both these charges in rong und conclusive letter, completely estaolishing his innocence. VICE PRESIDENT COLFAX. Retirement from Public Lifeo—His Health. Cawago, July 3, 1871. A special from Indianapolis says:—‘A letter ae been received from Vice President Colfax, in whick he dentes the statement that he has reconsidered his determination to retire from public life, He says, e to his republican friends fea thar seopeuenane confidence, and while ex- t private lie of his health he says:—‘l am feeling TO sar erall ae strong in, and am really enjoying rest and relaxation at home, which I have not hat oN rien iy ie Ntbemnie acca RAyon oeeabs PO THE LONG BRAN(H RACES, Lona Brancn, July 3, 1871. ‘There was an immense crowd at the pool room of the West End Hotel to-night, all anxious to lay their money on the horses to run to-morrow. The steeple- chase will have seven starters, comprising Oyster- , Julius, General Tweed, Dufty, R. B. Conn Tammany sud Vesovius, McDaniel’s entries ol for twice as much as all the others. ‘The mile dash had fifteen entries, and sold as fol- lows:—Susan Ann, bet Felicity, $5; Orlotan, $20; Judge Durell, $30; Nellie James, $10; Belle Meace, $10; aldebaran, 5; Romance, $5, and the other rby McDantel’s entry sold for ; Grizer’s, $115; Sandford’s, $00; Crouse’a, ‘and’ Weldon’s, $10, ‘Thase were, gold @n each race.