The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1871, Page 6

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SUMMER Niours’ DR, KATIN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — SCENE AND ART. LIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, Juiy 12, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Pace, 3 5 ae I—Advertisements. 2— Adve : Proclamation by Governor Sapermtendent Kelso’s Oruer Re- Parade to be Permitted and the Men to be Protected: the Military and Police in Readiness to Pri ve Order, 4—Pubiic Upinion on the Parade of the Orangemen: An Ariny of Letter Writers Aroused to £} Wolary War are—Opiatons of the Press: W the Morning and Evening Papers of Yesterday Say About the Order ot Superintendent K 5—Opinions of the Press (Continued from Fourth ¢ and the Vramia—Worship tn the 3 rvice at the Round Pp Saratoga Race: e Tenth Avenue Cars— Old Hero of Algeria: Geverai Changarn’ the New VoRa HERALD—Haussmann's Last— Views of the 8: 6—Eantoriais Article, “Peace and Order Must | d—A Second Surrender im- possibic ew York City News—Amusement Announcements. 7—The Situation m France—Collision at Sea— News trom Italy, Spain, Engiand and Cuba— neous Telezrams—Colicge Commence- Shipping Inteligence—Business No- + Inspection of the Long ey Coasts by a Government witerature: Criticisms of New Matiers— Yachting Noies—General Sherman—The Buckhout Trial—Bowdoin Col- lege Commencement—Heaith of Mrs, Vallan- digham. 9—The Four Parties in France: The Legitimists, the Orleanists, the Bonapartists and the Republicans —The Rock Island Ratlroad—Rua- ning Notes, Political and Geveral—Tomos Police Cour!—Rights of Married Men in New Hampshire—Donation to Amherst Coliege— Row Among the Saa Francisco Celestials— Financia! and Commercial Reports—Domesuc Markets—Deatns, 20—To-Day uction (Continued trom Third Page)— News trom Washington--Local Matters—Ad- vertisements. 24—LProceedings in the Courts—The boston Post Ontice Muddle—summer Kesorts—Father Hy3- cinive on the Temporal Power—The Washing- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY. JULY 12, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Orange Parade—Proclamation of Gov- ernor Hoffman—Kevecation of the Order ef the Superintendent of Police. Governor Hoffman came to the city last night, and at a late hour issued a pro- clamation, which we publish this morn- ing, revoking the order of the Superin- tendent of Police, and guaranteeing the protection of the civil and military authori- ties to the Orangemen if they choose to parade to-day. The proclamation was the result of an earnest deliberation between the Governor and other officials, and in its gene- eral bearing shows the raling quality of the City Recorder of 1863. It is indeed a noble recapture of the lost city prestige— a perfect Winchester victory over the mob. law and anarchy that threatened to pillage our camps. The proclamation states that any and all bodies of men desiring to assemble and mirch in peaceable procession in this city to-day will be protected to the full- est extent possible by the military and police author ties, The Governor himself will make his headquarters at Police Headquarters dur- ing the day as Commander in Chief of the Army of the State, ready to grant military protection to all who request, it and prepared with all the powers of his august office to enforce peace and secure pro- tection to all peaceable citizens. ‘I give notice,” says he, ‘‘that all the powers at my command, civil and military, will be used to put down at all hazards every attempt at dis- turbance.” These words have the ring of the true mettle inthem. They redeem the city from the dis- graceful stain that the surrender to the moh had cast upon it. They remind peace-loving citizens of the Re- corder who punished rioters in 1863, and they are quite likely to remind the would- be rioters of to-day of how their prototypes of that time were used and how unshrinkingly our they were quelled. We may now be assured of peace to-day. The public sentiment so strongly and indig- nantly expressed through the city newspa- pers has secured an honorable peace instead of the mere incrustation of a peace that the surrender promised. The city is again in the hands of the friends of law and order, and in exceedingly strong and willing hands at that, The militia is ready, under arms; the police is fully instructed; the appliances of the police electric telegraph, bring the whole city’s breadth within reach of the arm Police Headgnarters, and all are at the Governor's bidding, Everything promises a serene and one ruling at ton ‘Treaty—American Deputation to the Emperor of Russta—Maseacre of British Selors—Foreign Miscelianeous Items—The Indians—New Hampstire Legisiature—Wite Murder in Pennsyivania—Adyerlisements. 12—Advertsements. Law ANp OrpEr wust be preserved to-day. Tar Darien CanaL Sorveys are almost complete, and Commander Selfridge reports them an assured success. He and his party are preparing to return home. Two Wrongs never make a right, and two ck-dow.s won't mike one back-up. O aNncr Brossoms are worn at marriage feativals, Wat do our “‘Biossoms” say to the proclamation of Superintendent Kelso forbid- ding the banns of the Orange and the Ribbon to be celebrated to-day? The two bands are spiling to come together. Who can predict the issue? Tne Buoknour MURDER TRIAL was com- menced for the third time yesterday at White Piains, The case has been brought regularly before the Court of Oyer and Terminer there at every term for two years, until it is as familiar as household words to every citizen of the county, and yet the bewildered Clerk of the Conrt has succeeded in finding a jury that bas never heard anything abont it. IN Arrraye- vio—How many backs went up at our authori- ties’ back down? Exsewuere we publish a proclamation from the headquarters of the Fenian Brotherhood discounten: z the efforts of unworthy Irish- men to disgrace the land of thei as the land of their adoption. 8 right spirit, and no doubt will have a good effect upon Orange and Green alike. ‘Re- member,” the proclamation says, ‘‘the most important clause of the Fenian pledge, ‘I will do my utmost to promote feelings of love, har- mony and kindly forbearance among all Irish- men. Tre Town or Onanor, N. J., was the resi- dence of General McClellan. tue Democracy OF ARKANSAS have ac- cepted the new departure, negro suffrage and all. This isthe most encouraging sign yet seen ir the political skies. When the Arkan- gas democracy—the bowie-knife, draw-poker, blood-drinking democrats of old chivairy an- fecedents—accept negro suffrage the spirit of reform must be coursing through the demo- cratic party like alcohol through the pores of en old toper. “When rae Cats Are AWay THE Mice Wit Piay” the mischief with all the good Orange county cheeses in the city larder. Wau. Sree D THE ORANGE Prooks- g10N.—The excitement in Wall sireet was almost confined to the operators and dealers who frequen. the brokers’ offices, with whom the feeling was quite general that the authori- ties should nét have denied the processionisis the privilege of turning out. Except during a brief spell in the forenoon, when the more pervous thought it best to be out of the market, the Stock Exchange was comparatively pbleg- matic, apparently in keeping with (he philoso- phy of stock operations, which holds that when is thing is “‘discounted” too much it don't come off, On this principle the brokers were rather Darmonious in believing that a riot was too Wenerally auticipated to actually happen peaceful day, and if the Orangemen choose to parade there seems to be no reasonable doubt that they will parade undisturbed. But they have achieved, in the events occur- ring during these past two days and ending with the Governor's triumph which they will run the risk of foregoing if at all. It is understood that they have decided not to parade, and if they hold to this decision a double victory will perch upon their banners. They have shown by their ready submission to the inconsiderate order of the Superintendent of Police that they respect and obey the lawful authorities of the land, even when the orders of the authorities are oppressive and of doubtful legality. They have shown, therefore, that they have a truer regard for the good name of the city in which they live than their foes seem to bave, and that, al- though they are denounced as alien enemies of the republic, they are more considerate of the peace and quiet of that republic than the rasb and blatant people who denounce them. Now let them complete their victory by declin- ing to appear in procession to-day. Let them voluntarily renounce the idea of cele- brating anniversary that be so fraught with harsh memories to the Irish population, and thus put the capsheaf upon the good record which they have made all through this business. Let them forget the Battle of the Boyne and blend the orange and the green hereafter, not as it was blended among the opposing hosts at Aughrim, but as it was blended at the last St. Patrick’s Day procession in this proclamation, a they march an seems to city—as a token of renewed harmony and unity among the sons of Erin. Arrains IN Spain.—Between dissatisfied Ministers and turbulent legislators King Amadeus is having a decidedly unpleasant reign. In his Cabinet, as in the Cortes, there are dissensions among the mem- bers, Every day, almost, brings us fresh news of the difficulties which beset the young King. Sefior Moret, the Minister of Finance, has, after several attempts, finally with. drawn from the Cabinet. Serrano, too, finds his position irksome and is anxious to resign, Thus it will be seen that the government of the nation it- self is becoming weakened in its own family councils, It is but a few days since we were informed by telezraph that the whole Cabinet threatened to resign; but that difficulty was bridged over for a time. Moret’s resignation at this time opens the way to fresh troubles. Spanish finances at all times require delicate handling, and continual changes of financial Ministers are not calculated to create confi- dence in the minds of the people, which show that the position of Amadeus is becoming daily more and more critical. citizens than the ‘‘Ribbon” women, Take a + pleasant dav on Broadwav. or Fifth avenue, or the Bowery for example, and see how gayly the ribbons, decking the loveliest women in all creation, flourish in the promenades, and no proclamation to interfere with the proces- sion, The Orasge Paraides Elsewhere To-Day. New York is not the United States, and con- sequently the Orangemen in other cities and other States will have their annual parade as usual, although but for the prompt action of Governor Hoffman a like privilege would have been denied the Orangemen in our own city. The effect of the feeling here and the oppressive course of our city authori- ties will doubtless be felt in every large city in the United States, where the officials, in- stead of prohibiting the parade, will do the better thing and see that it is protected and that peace is preserved. Governor Randolph, of New Jersey, has already taken the initiative in the matter, and, as he is a democratic Governor—and Jersey is democratic at the core, although just now in the hands of the republicans—and as the State is really a near and dear suburb of New York, more likely than any other State to sympathize with any commotion here, it is interesting to hear what he has to say about Orange processions, Like that sturdy warrior, Old Wouter Van Twiller, who buckled on his armor before he allowed his trumpeter to blow, Governor Randolph essumes command in person of the military and naval forces of New Jersey (in- cluding the Steveas Battery), and being ready to enforce peace, issues his proclamation. Here is the chief point of what he says, and Tammany may well weep that it had not re- flected as soberly as Governor Randolph before it issued its own proclamation :— Both the letter and spirit of the constitution of our State of New Jersey, as well as the long-established custom of our people, permit and protect all peace- ful gatherings of the muabitants Of this State, irre- speciive of reiizious or political creeds; make it the lawiul right of any body of peacelul citizens to assembie together, and that right cannot be abridged or interiered with by any unauthorized body of men of any nationality, creed or religion, Whatever the real or suppused provocation may seem to be. And then he sends the following discourag- ing sentiment into the ranks of those of our peacebreakers who may have concluded to take that riotous holiday in New Jersey which the unexpected surrender of Tammany has denied them here, in these terms: — And 1 do hereby warn all persons from other States who seek by acts of provocation to intericre Wi'h the peaceiul assembling of the inhabitants of this State, tat such offence against the peace and good order of the Commonweaith will pe rigorously punished by our authorities, No matter | how we regard Spain, there are indications | As Terripie as THE “RmBONMEN’ May | Be there never was a more peaceable class of | Orance County Butter won't melt in ihe mouth. The Marderers and Murderess—What They Should Do When Free. Now that the murderer Foster has hada stay of proceedings granted in his case, and the Supreme Court of California will not hear the case of Mrs, Fair on appeal until Octo- ber, with a probability that it wlil be fur- ther postponed until January, it is fair to pre- sume that Botts and the others who are either condemned or waiting trial will be equally lucky when their day of execution is appointed. It would not be very surprising, as the world goes now, if they should all be granted a free and unconditional pardon. Mrs. Fair's chance is, of course, the best, as polifi- cal influence is at work in her favor. Should it turn out to be so street car killing will become more than ever popular, and mistresses mordering their lovers will be held a pleasant pastime. A woman may ruin a man, body and soul, and then because he desires to get clear of her toils she may, with perfect impunity, shoot him down, with- out fear of more than o fair and impartial trial, in which she will be condemned and sen- tenced, but the death penalty will be avoided by the interference of the superior Court, and pardon will then follow, of course. When all these worthies are free they should hold a convention—have a picnic ona small scale. Deadman’s Island would be a good place for it. There they coald tell their experience, relate how this or that influence was brought to bear in their favor, and establish rules for the better government of those who, like them- selves, bave been engaged in the pleasant little recreation of summarily and with cause disposing of human life. They could arrange how to perfect the art of killing and how to get clear of being punished therefor. They could reduce murder to a science and the law to a farce, and they could pave the way to making a perfect hell upon earth by having the fiends by whom we are surrounded ren- dered secure from punishment for the crimes they may have committed, except where they are poor devils withont money and without influential friends, Oxanae, in New Jersey, is looking up. ANOTHER PRrocLAMATION.—Why don't the city authorities issue a proclamation forbid- ding the introduction of Orange county milk into the city? Itis estimated that some four hundred wagons from Orange county come in every morning ‘‘before the break of day,” and allowing an average of six cans toeach wagon, who knows but that the grand total of twenty- four hundred cans may be filled with nitro-gly- cerine, gunpowder, torpedoes, hand grenades or some other terrible compounds and missiles instead of the harmless lacteal fluid? Let us have a proclamation against Orange county milk. Ifit accomplishes nothing else it will swell the swill milk trade of Long Island. It May Do to see that no Orangemen ap- peared in a procession announced for to-day. But what will be done with the poor orange women? They will take their stands, as usual, we believe, and keep them, at all hazards. Tar Frexon Nationat, Guarp.—A bill for dissolving the batialions of the National Guard throughout France is going to be introduced into the National Assembly. The course pur- sued by the Guards in Paris under the terrible reign of the Commune no doubt suggests this idea. The war with Germany proved that the whole military system of France was rotten to the core. Now is the time to correct the abuse which crept into the army during the THe Oranak Carte at many of our street | corners are daugerous to the peace of our | city and the limbs of our citizens, especially when orange pee! is allowed to accumalate on the sidewalks, Let us have a proclamation against the orange carts and an increase of police force to keep the sidewalks clear of the | peel. the More Rural Democracy. What effect Superintendent Kelso’s order, No. 57, forbidding the Orange parade right have had upon our democratic cousins in the country yet remains to be seen, We cannot definitely determine how far Tammany is up- held or condemned by the rural democrats, who live far away from the influence of the foreign vote and are undismayed in their mountain strongholds by the threats of city mobs, until our newspaper exchanges begin to come in, It seems more than probable that a great outcry of scorn and contempt will be hurled upon the representatives of our city government, even from the newspapers most friendly to the party. The New York Tam- many branch of the democratic party has never won the actual affection of the de- mocracy of the interior, It has been considered the parvenue of the party by the old first-family aristocracy of the South and the Hancock-Adams family nabobs of the East, and it has been looked upon as a selfish, city bred, bondholding off- shoot by the broad-shouldered, big-idead partisans of the West. Withal, however, it holds the money, understands the diplomacy and manages the voters, and so the democracy allover the country bend to Tammany. But they bear no willing or meek yoke, and the Orange surrender will be quite sure to call forth a fierce attempt at the bursting of bonds. We must await our country exchanges before we can definitely ascertain the full extent of this democratic uphe val. The surrender is the more unfortunate for the Tammany democracy, because it settles nothing definitely. The same question of an Orange parade must come up again next year and the year after and every year, and will have to be met again, and each succeeding year the question will become more important and pressing, until this surrender of right to the threats of the mob will not be acceptable as a settlement of it. The spirit of concession has ere now ruined the democratic party. Concessions to the lawless border ruffians in Kansas brought it into disrepute, and eventually split it into the Douglas and Breckinridge factions in 1860; concession to the spirit of rank treason cast upon it an ineffaccable blot in 1861; concessions to the fighing mobs of the Southern Confederacy marked its career through the war and shut the gates of the White House against it for eight years, and it may prove that its conces- sion to the mob spirit of the Hibernians to- day will close the gates against it for four years longer. Such weak, tampering conces- sions never secure lasting peace. Like bloody instructions, they return to plague their inventor. Like a renewed note, they come back at a future day with a heavier sum total and more clamorous for settlement. A strong hand, a determined will, an undaunted nerve on the part of Tam- many at the present crisis would have secured not only the peace of the city to-day more cer- tainly than the surrender secured it, but would have secured to Tammany itself the warmer admiration of its friends and the stronger respect of its enemies, and probably that goal of all its hopes—anccess in 1872. Gambetta and the Freach Republicans. Among the men who are gradually coming to the surface in France Leon Gambetta stands in the foremost ranks. As among the men of the 4th of September he held a commanding position, so also among the leaders of republi- can France in the immediate future will his influence be felt. His restless energy during the infant days of the republic, when France was struggling with the giant power of Germany, called into existence armies which, though not successful, were nevertheless brave, hardy and determined. The generals chosen to command those republican armies—Paladines, Chanzy and Faidherbe—were commanders whose abilities, more than once since then, have been acknowledged by the German generals to whom they were opposed in battle’s stern ar- ray. The whole course of Gambetta, from his escape from Paris in a balloon until the day of his humiliation in Bordeaux, when deprived ofthe power which he exercised with such determined courage, exhibited an unbending and resolute purpose to win victory for France even with the odds, large as they were, against her. It was argued by many that Gambetta would not yield to the power which was called into existance after the fall of Paris. But in this they were mistaken; he quietly withdrew, forsook politics for the time being and bided his time. Unlike the course pursued by Felix Pyatt, Henri Rochefort, Gustave Flourens, Victor Mugo and men of that stamp, Gambetta quietly withdrew from the National Assembly and rested in retirement. The Commune rose and fell, order was restored in Paris and quiet once again prevailed thronghout the country, Then, and not until then, did Gambetta come forth from his retirement and place his name be- fore the people for their suffrages, and he was rewarded with their confidence and a seat in the National Assembly, The past career of this man suggests that he will not long remain in- active, and that among the republicans of France he will become a leader. With un- doubted patriotism, extraordinary energy, ability, determination and courage the repub- licans will find in the restless, dashing and determined Gambetta a worker whose belief in the ability of France to maintain the repub- lic is the foundation upon which he builds his confidence on the future prosperity of the nation. ‘Tae Frexnou GOVERNMENT is going to investi- gate the conduct of General Palikeo, the last War Minister of the empire, in order to find out the precise share of responsibility he had in the disaster of Sedan, The secret corre- spondence between the chief actors of the im- perial coterie, which was found after the flight of the Empress, has revealed so much that the inquiry will scarcely bring to light any new facts, Count Benedetti is also to be called to a reckoning for his foolish transac- tions. The Count will perhaps be present in the spirit at these investigations ; but he will certainly abstain from putting in an appear- | © ance in the flesh, Tne Poor O1p Women who sell oranges should be made a summary example of. Who knows but they are British emissaries in dis- guise, or Fenian conspirators, or agents of the ferocious female Communists of Paris? Come, give usa proclamation against the poor old orange women, The Tammany Surrender—its Effect Upon The Throes of Nature. Scientific observers have long held the theory that at certain periods of time the earth’s physical order is seriously convulsed. The present and past years, 1870 and 1871, seem to form such a period. On both hemi- spheres events of scarcely centennial occur- rence have recently excited attention and alarm, The logs of sea-going vessels record numerous startling phenomena in mid-ocean. The most violent and memorable cyclones have been chronicled in our columns, reported by the masters of vessels, And the daily and admirable bulletins of our Signal Service have brought us numerous and exact accounts of many storms and tornadoes on land. The earthquake has added its terrors to the story, and in many places where from time imme- morial there had been no sign or wonder in heaven above or on the earth beneath to dis- turb the serenity of the popular mind there have been, in the period we allude to, por- tents in the skies and shakings and sinkings of the very crust of the earth on which man erects his costliest edifices and the monuments which he expects to be ‘more lasting than brass.” It is not our purpose to follow the example of the false prophet of London, who, in the middle of the eighteenth century, taking as a pretext the then recent and unprecedented shocks of the continent and of England by earthquake, proclaimed an impending doom and the wreck of all things. We rather think, with Humboldt, that the vulgar suggestion of universal disaster and the breaking up of the cosmical machinery at every strange turn in nature is the mark of a charlatan in science, But these mysterious convulsions of nature need to be studied for the sake of science and popular information. The last two years have been strangely marked meteorologically. It was in our winter of 1869 (the midsummer of the southern hemisphere) that the British Hydrographic Office found it necessary to issue a special circular to all vessels in the Australian trade, warning them of unusual and immense icebergs that had drifted out of the Antarctic Ocean right athwart their home- ward path. One of these monster ice islands was in the shape of the letter J, sixty miles long and forty miles wide, and presenting its open part to the homeward-bound sailor. Such an ice mass had not been seen since Wilkes’ Antarctic voyage. The phenomenon of 1869 indicated an immense precipitation of dislodged Antarctic ice into the equatorial ocean, This may, doubtless, be regarded as one and a mighty element of atmospheric and oceanic disturbance. The extraordinary heat which was necessary to unloose so much ice from the South Pole in December, 1869, seemed to have prevailed in the North Polar regions when the sun crossed the Equator in the spring of last year; for the scientific reporter of the Scottish Meteorologi- cal Society, stationed at Stykkisholm, Iceland, stated officially that the sammer of 1870 was, perhaps, the most remarkable on Icelandic record for its high thermometric range. And it is not improbable that the unusually early and large drifts of ice and icebergs from the Greenland coast last year deceived the saga- cious commander of the ill-fated steamer City of Boston and caused her yet unexplained destruction. his ice from the Aretic Ocean has been a second agent of disturbance. The unusual arrival of Spitzbergen ice off the coast of Iceland in 1869 caused a great hurri- cane, ‘‘the severest,” according to the reporter, “that has appeared at Stykkisholm in the memory of man.” And, just as this local hurricane was caused by a single icsberg, the agitations of the atmosphere all over the Northern Atlantic last year were, perhaps, caused by the whole body of descending ice, projected from both poles towards the Equator. The original cause of these extreme temperatures at the poles is one of those mysteries yet conccaled behind the ice barriers of the two yet unex- plored frigid zones. But it is easy to see that the atmospheric ocean has been agitated and convulsed beyond measure, and that it has hardly recovered from the shock—a fact wit- nessed by such tornadoes and marine cyclones as are almost daily heralded. We have spoken chiefly of the meteorologi- cal disturbances within this period of wonders, because, we believe, the other phenomena of the sinking and quaking of the earth’s crust have generally had an atmospheric origin. It is beyond dispute that the sea of sudter- ranean fire which everywhere underlies the surface of the earth has its tides, its ebbings and flowings and periodic convulsions as truly as does the atmospheric ocean ; and the recent disturbances in South America may be due to this source. During the present cen- tury the whole coast of Chile has been sub- ject to marked and sudden changes of level. In 1837, after the desiruction of Valdivia by an earthquake, the sea bottom was found to be raised in some places more than eight feet. At Valparaiso, in 1822, for a consider- able distance along the coasts of the continent the ancient bed of the Pacific was laid bare, and the coast of Chile was permanently up- heaved. What a gigantic force, which, to uplift this coast, had to move the majestic chain of the Andes, and among the rest the colosshl mass of Aconcagua, twenty-four thousand feet in height! This appalling display of energy, which makes the crust of the earth undulate as easily asa surface of rotten ice, is not, however, neces- sary to explain such things as our last autumn’s earthquake, and the recent falling in of the Morris and Essex Canal bed and that of the Wyoming Canal. It is probable that the metropolitan earthquake was simply due to the progress over this region of a large atmos- pheric wave with a high barometer. The weight of the atmosphere in this latitude is ordinarily about fifteen pounds to the square inch, or about three hundred thousand tons to the square mile. If the barometer rise only an inch or more the pressure must become terrific, and we can imagine the earth quiver- ing and groaning under such a change as the ship quivers from the blow of a heavy sea. As regards the falling in of the Wyoming anal, on the morning of the 4th instant, the change of barometric pressure in twenty-four hours in this region i# shown by the Signal Service weather report to have been 3h of an inch in the mercurial column, aad hence the change of pressure must have been more than three thonsand tons over every Square mile. To superimpose such an addi- tional atmosnheric qasa over anv area of country and then set it in motion must eabject that locality to a violent shock, and where there are excavations of the soil no wonder the surface stratum gives way. It is crushed as a frail railroad bridge would be if a dozen locomotives should all at once dash over it. There is some comfort in the thought that these commotions in our latitude are occa- sioned by atmospheric variations, and are not premonitions from volcanic fires raging under foot. M. Thiers and the Pope. We have had most contradictory news from Europe regarding the Pope. The one day we are told that the Holy Father has written M. Thiers that he has decided to remain in Rome. The next day we are told that the Holy Father writes to M. Thiers that he wishes to come to France. The same day brings contradictory telegrams, the one that President Thiers in- vites the Pope to come to France, and the other that he dissuades him from coming. It is not easy to make out the exact situation. It does seem, however, as if there had been some correspondence of an important charac- ter between the Pope and the French Presi- dent. It would also appear as if there was 8 disposition on the part of the Holy Father to prefer French to Italian hospitality, even at the risk of leaving Rome. The HERaLp has always been opposed to the Pope's leaving Rome. True, we have invited him to New York, and offered him a home on Washington Heights; but this we have always done on the supposition that he could not make up his mind to accept the new situa- tion and remain in the ancient city, which has been hallowed by the holy lives and pious doings of his many and august predecessors. It has always been our opinion that the temporali- ties were an excrescence—originally a fatal gift, no matter whether the first donor was Constantine or Pepin or Charlemagne, or whether all the three are to be held re- sponsible—and that as the Vicar of Christ was a power in the world long before the Pope of Rome was a temporal prince, so he might be a power long after the temporalities had ceased to be a worthless appendage to his high, holy and sacred office. While tendering him our American hospitality we have never failed to add that, without the temporalities, he might remain in Rome, and that in leaving the ancient city he would commit a capital blunder. If it be true that he desires to leave Rome and to accept French hospitality and that President Thiers has dissnaded him, we have no choice, but commend the sagacity of M. Thiers and express sorrow for the state of mind of the Holy Father. Why should he wish to go to France? Surely the Pontificate has had enough of experience of Freach hospital- ity to make it distrust it in all the future, In the fourteenth century the Vicars of Christ reigned over the Christian world at Avignon. For the time France was more powerful than the empire; and under the strong hand of Philip the Fair and his successor the Papacy anticipated somewhat of the painful and shameful yoke which it was destined to en- dure under Napoleon the First. The Avignon period is remembered to-day by the Papacy with shame and sorrow as the ‘‘seventy years captivity.” It had never before sunk so low, “Away from that awful and imperial Rome, wherewith the might and majesty of the Pope- dom were iadissolubly bonnd up, the Roman Pontiff grew sligat and small in the sight of Christendom. The Papal claims sounded ridiculous from the lips of the Avignon cap- tive; the Papal thunderbolts fell weak and harmless from the hand of the vassal of France.” The experieace of the fourteenth century was repeated in the early years of the nineteenth. Pius the Seventh went to France at the command rather than at the re- quest of the First Napoleon; and after he had assisted at the coronation of the new Charlemagne he found himself dereft of all his ancient possessions and reduced to the rank of a salaried subject of the French empire. The second humiliation of the Papacy by France was not only greater than the first, but the greatest which it has experienced until this day. As we have said again and again, the Italian government have acted in a magnanimous spirit in providing for the wants of the Holy Father. In Rome he is what he can be no- where else—the spiritual chief of Catholic Christendom. By leaving Rome he will do more damage to the cause which he has so much at heart than was done first at Solferino, then at Sadowa, and, last of all, at Sedan. The Papacy has survived those stunning blows. The abandonment of Rome by the Pope would be its deathstroke, Our advice to the Holy Father still is, remain in Rome while you can. We rejoice that President Thiers is, so far, giving sensible advice. Tne Hor Crop 1x Enaranp it is feared will be a failure. According to our cable despatch all accounts concur in predicting a small yield. High-priced beer is tantamount to calamity to the British mind. The English- man of the lower order must have his beer and his grumble ; but if bereft of the sedative stimulant his grumble would be apt to lose balance, shift for itself and seek vent in such dangerous pastimes as reform agitations, riots and revolutions. NEW YORK CITY. ‘The fotlowing record will show the changes tn the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in éom- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicaied by the thermometer at Hudnut's Phar- macy, HERALD Building, corner of Ann strect:— : 1870. it 1870, 1871. ‘The body of an unknown man was found floating 29, and anotner opposite prer No. 8 North Sivde ‘yesterday. Both were removed to the Morgue. James O'Neil, of No, 236 West Thirty-second street, accidentally fell from the third story window of his residence and sustained sertous injuries. Joseph MoKenny, aged forty years, was found dead yesterday morning in Kirkpatrick's jewelry store, 305 Broadway, where he was employed as # private watchman, is Charles Willams, aged three years, of No, 419 Third avenue, while crossing the avenue, was ran over by car 163 of the Third Avenue Ratlroad‘ and was dangerously injured. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, Last evening Charlies Clark, aged seven years, ot 638 Kieventh avenne, while playing on the pier at the foot of Forty-cighth street, North River, fell Into the water and was drowned. The body was not re- goverca,