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

4 NEW YORK TTERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Prestdentin! Questlea—The Prospect—The Approaching Elections—What ef New York ? Eargeran—"D6 you think it policy to elect Grant again General SHERMAN—“Of course Ido. Why pot? Ho knows the ro} now—he has become acquainted with the dut jaainted with thousands of pub- le men, and ten thousand \-for-nothing White House bummers who would do Seg 3 but harass ai new President . the first year, He has just got here he can fell a good mon at sight. Humbug men beta pl get the best credentials; every Congress- AMUSEMENTS THI " man ee cee recommendation at sight, and many EATRE, Bowery. —Tasoves By Day- Prana ve @ new President. ‘These pal party BOWERY TH ‘ands are pow fips w m played ‘out, and Gra’ LAGHT—VALENTINE AND OR508. is enabled to h true men. ya LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—Tar | eae und aoquatstance ig the stock in trade of a BERGER FAMILY OF BELL Rinurns. “Who will win in 729" MPIC THEATRE, Broad —SCUNIEDER—NEW “There 13 no question in my mind,” said the Gen- songs ats Dances, ag eral, enthusiastically, “Pil bet om Grant against sae the feld—two to one,” WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway aad Ith street. “Who will'ran egamst him?” Busia pees “Phere won't anybody run; but, not being 4 poll- woe i can’t guess for a moment who will be noml- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVI..... NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broatway.—Aczoss THE CoNTt- ‘NENT. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broagway, corner 20th st, —Perform- antaraharsoou and crealngtof0T OF THE MOUNTAIN. TONY ig ee OPERA spouse, No. 201 Bowery.— S1onTLEss Burpe—DUTORMAN IN TURKRY. CENTRAL PARK SAeORP, —Turopore THOMAS’ ScMMEB NieuTe’ Conor DB. Kan — 13 ONS SEAT ORIGAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadws y. ‘i are the latest views of General Sher- man on the Presidential question. They are furnished by a writer to the Oommercial Ad- vertiser, who “‘knew the General in Memphis in the war time,” and who was Incly enough to catch him on the wing the other day at Sara- toga Springs. Hn passant, we are glad to = SS hear that the General has not been killing as Plivz iacrowe exsocenl tanta ia are _. | many “Injuns” oat Weet as we had supposed ; ‘ONTENTS 9 f; for, referring to the army, he says ‘‘the papers Tian Seeeee hasta idl more Injuns than we do,” and that “if we by te de killed half as many Injuns as the Hina. does w6d be short of Injuns.” But it is on the main qnestion, the next Presidency, that General Sherman's views are most to the point and the purpose. Some time ago, when the erratic philosopher of the Z’rombone was elected President of the Anti-Murphy Republican Central Committee of this city, he made a speech in favor of General Grant for 1872, and mainly upon the ground that, with all bis strong practical common te. ‘SFigencial and Commercial Reports—Domestic larkets—Havana Markets—#rookiyn Affairs— The Beauties of Hovoken—Collins’ Craft—The ‘ors of New Orieans—Court Calendars for To -—Adver tisements. 4—Biitoriais: Leading article, “Latest from Gene- ral Sherman—'he Prospect—The Approach- p~ > ace mata of New York?’'—Amuse- ome si 8 russion in Franes- ‘Telegrams from Spain, rT a Port and Turkey—The Corea: | Father Detalls of the Frorress of Commodore Rodgers’ Famous Expedition—Nevws front BO hae gd Excursions—Views of the Past—Busin fotices, Fo og on Eament sense, General Grant, from his experience in Pastors ‘and PT ae vices 1a Be Deput | all the ins and outs of the Presidential office, and in Newark, N. J.—New York Cit} would be much better qualified to fill it in ¥ mh See a bon eee 1872 than he was in 1868, General Sherman ofthe Wri bor of ale ot Aveta, Dy bsrip eer ge weenie ars. are ae is in earnest, expresses opinion, What a aoe, ‘Soames Soap We A nails epi co volume of matter is there in bis simple words BaVitorGernancel in Rome. the People Sabi. | UPON this point! ‘He (General Grant) knows lant and the City wo ee rece a ha aoe the ropes now—he has become acquainted Inteltigence—Adver. | With the dutles—acquainted with thousands of public men and ten thousand good-for-nothing White House bummers, who would do nothing but harass a new President the first year. He has got where he can tell a good man at sight.” These are the views of an honest sol- dier, the right hand man of General Grant in the war, from Shiloh to Appomattox Court House, and Sherman clinches his opinion in the emphatic Western style by the declaration, ‘Tl bet on Graat against the fietd—two to one.” It appears, too, that since his wide circuit of travefand observations from New Orleans, through Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, to the ‘Comanche Reservation,” end thence northwardly to Missouri, and thence east- wardly to Saratoga, General Sherman has become convinced that the Ku Klux bill is ‘‘a good bill;” that ‘dt has already stopped a good many outrages,” and that in the simple “fact that the President has power to send troops into any State to quell disturbances in itself is enough to frighten the disturbers of the public peace.” He thinks, morcover, that what Mr. John Quincy Adams says of this Ku Klux bill, as a bill of despotism, is “all stuff’ and ‘humbug ;” for that the bill “Ig simply a law making it possible to arrest and disperse tnlawful gangs of rascals, black or white, in any of the Southern States, to imprison them and try to punish them;” that “Grant don’t have any negro or German or Trish policy ;” that ‘‘his policy is to protect all citizens, remain at peace, economize and try and pay the debt.” Such are General Sherman's ideas about Goneral Grant, his administration, his claims acd his prospects for another term; and, ina few words, he covers all the ground of Senator Sherman's exhaustive opening campaign speech in Obio. We thought, from the very decisive tone of General Sherman's letter to the Hmratp from the Comanche Reservation, declining to be a candidate of any party, on any terms, for the Presidency, that there was something still bebind. Now we have it. The General is not only entirely satisfied with his present life estate as head of * United States armies in the field, but he is éntirely satisfied with General Grant's administration and de- sires his re-election, and is ready te bet on it—two to one—against all comers, Oonse- quently that little New Orleans speech of General Sherman, which we had interpreted as a fine opening through the woods for the | bewildered demooracy, is extinguished; for Sherman, even on this question, is still the right hand man of Grant, It ls apparent, too, on evéry hand, that these opivions of General Sherman widely prevail among all races and ranks of the people and in all sections of the country, What, then, can we do for the democratic party? In the present condition of things we are sorely per- | plexed upon this point. Within a period of thirty odd years the New Yoru Heritp has been largely instramental in getting the party out of a good many ecrapes, local and national, and we have helped it to numerous victories, including Polk in 1844 and Pietce in 1852, in their Presidential battles, and Seymour in his battle for Governor in 1862. But ‘since that failure of Seymour to stand by the platform, his war platform of 1862, upon which we got him on the right track for the Presidency— | since that defection of Seymour, we say, we have found it almost impossible to do any- thing with the blundering democratic Bour- bons sticking to their dead issues of the age before the flood. We had almost despaired of convincing the short-sighted leadera of the democracy that there has been a deluge, and that it bas great. ly changed the face of the political world in both hemispheres, when, lo and bebold! we had the announcement of the ‘new depar- tute” of (he lamented Vallandigham, and its fad DeatheShipping Warnine To an Inisn Acrraror—‘‘Meany, Meany, Tekel, Upharsin.” Tae Cauirorsia Democrats have become united, whereupon the democratic organs exclaim, in view of the coming spoile— Bareka ! Tae Roonrster Democrat, referring to the silence of the Maryland democracy in the matter of the new departure, says ‘Mum's the word.” Not Mumm’s imperial, certainly ; for ‘old Maryland rye” is the word there, Tre Atsany Journal remarks that the republicans of this State cannot be blind to the present opportunity, for, so far as State matters are concerned, they never had s0 | good a case before the people as now; and, it might have added, they are “not likely to take anything out of their reach.” Meantime the Tammany tigers remain quietly watching the course of events preparatory to a grand | pring from their jangle upon the enemy, Tae Ko Kxvx Isvestiaation lags, b2cau se some of the democratic witnesses, supposed to be genuine specimens of the Ka Klux species, have felled to appear. Ifthe gencral tenor of the obarges against the organization, as it appears from some of the evidence, is true, we commend the prudence of these witnesses. Some of them are quoted as chiefs of the Ku Klux bands in their several States, and as in- dictments are pending against most of them we do not wonder at their diffidence and back- wardness about coming forward. Tae PROCLAMATION OF THE CoUNT DE Caamporp.—A few days since we published the proclamation of the Count de Chambord, We have now at hand journals, both French and English, containing criticisms on this re- markable prodaction. The English papers particulerly regard the manifesto of ‘Henry V.” as ill-timed, a confession of defeat, and an ill-advised act, The French papers are more severe. The results of the late elections have evidently had little effect on the noble Count, and we cannot help expressing the belief that while Chambord has learaed some- thing he has forgotten a grent deal. Exousu Army ReroRM AND THE ‘‘BATTLE or Dorxixe.”—From the prompt and decided action of Mr. Gladstone in abolishing the pur- chase of commission system ia the British army, we infer that the goverament has, like the public of England, taken alarm from the publication of “The Battle of Dorking” in | Blackacood's Magazine, This severe ovér- hauling of the British mililary syetem and ex- posure of its defects is producing the effect the | author desired. We whall see, doubtless, other reforms, calculated to place the sea girt island in a better position for defence. Eng- | land is slow to learn or change, but when con- vinood of the necessity of refurm, and that there is danger in resisting reform, she yields. By the time the imaginary ‘‘Battle of Dorking” | should take place Great Britain may have | popularized her army—may have made the | mass of ber citizens a national guard—and may be ready for the conflict. Tax New Spann Canixet—Tue Kixe's Spggzou.—The ministerial c in Spain is at an end. King Amadeus has at least suc- ceeded in forming a new Cabinet, the mem- bers of which are nearly all well known, popular men belonging to the Progressist party, or the party in favor of con- stitational monarchy. On the occasion of the resignation of the Ministry the King of Spain made a speech, which, in spite of our republican sympathies, com- mands our respect. ‘The Cabinet,” he said, “eserves my confidence; but my conf- | general acceptance by the Northern democ- donce is subordinate to that of Parliament, I | racy, and {ts indignant rejection by Jeff Davis profess » blind belief in the sacredness of | and his fahthGot Southern heachmen of the duty.’ Under circumstances of great solem- | ‘lost cause,” There is. some reason to fear, nity I once said thet I should not impose my- | however, that this ‘‘new departure,” post- self on the noble Spanish nation. 1 now say | poned to the eleventh hour, comes too late, that I shall never fail to discharge my duties | It is not harmonizing the perplexed according to the constitution and parliamentary | democracy, North of South, aod laws and customs, Since I mean to fulfil my | from present Indications, as a forward movement, it can hardly be counted a demo- cratic success, Quite as much adrift on the wild sea waves of doubt and conjecture are the rank and file of the party in reference to their Presidential candidate, We have re- tigations I expect everybody to do likewise.” A man who can so speak ought to win, This, at least, we feel bound to say: if Amadeus do not succeed, he oan, at least, afford to cotire with dignity, ~ Latest frem Geveral Shorman on the | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY; JULY; 24, 1871 commended and urged upon them the ticket of Chase and Hancock, and a strong Cabinet ticket to boot; but each little faction appears to have its own idol, and it is evident that the Chief Justice is not among them and has co reliable democratic worshippers. We must, therefore, await the resulis and the developments of the approaching Septem- ber, October and November State elections. On the broad fundamental American principles of equal rights, recent events in this city and in New Jersey have brought ont Governor Hoffman and Governor Randolph Into bold re- lief; but still, in reference to the Presidential succession, we must await the voice of the peo- ple in these coming elections. We may say, too, concerning these elections, that these re- cent events have awakened a more general interest in regard to the probable result in New York in November than in’ reference to the result in any other State, and for the reason that, since the 12th of July the resolt in New York is beginning to be considered as at least doubtful, looking to the maintenance of the democratic power at Albany. Three weeks ago, from the personal feuds and factious divisions in the republican camp, between Senators Fenton and Conkling and Collector Murphy and Mr, Greeley and others too numerous to mention touching the division of the Custom House spoils and the sops to certain ‘*‘arf-and-‘arf” republicans from Tam- many Hall, there wasa fair prospect for at least fifty thousand democratic majority {n the State vote of November. But since the 1ith: and 12th of July this glorious prospect, like a castle in the clouds, has vantshed into thin air. The Irish democratic element of the city has to some extent become demoralized, and the democratic Protestant elements of the rural districts are becoming inquisitive, At the same time the republicans are beginnlag to reconcile their differences, and in the confer- ence of the New York party leaders with General Grant, which is to be held this week at Long Branch, even the doubting Greeley may be persuaded that he was right when he declared General Grant would be a better candidate for the White House in 1872 than he was in 1868, New York, then, from these late riotous events fn this city and their political bearings, has become at least debatable ground for No- vember, and it is probable that the intervening elections of September and October will in- crease the doubts of Tammany Hall. At all events we must now hear from the people be- fore we can define the Presidential prospect for the democracy, and we look for some startling results in these approaching fall elections, : Give Corsica te the Pope! Such is the proposition of the clerical organ, Le Monde, to the French government. Tho Pope is so reluctant to part with temporal power that even the sovereignty over so dis- tant aad comparatively insignificant an island as Corsica might be acceptable to him. The island is of no great value to France, and just now very unpopular with the majority of the French on account of its Bonapartist sympa- thies. When the National Assembly, then at Bordeaux, formally pronounced the déchéance of Napoleon one speaker actually proposed that France should repudiate her connections with Corsica and turn the island adrift be- cause it was the birthplace of the Bonapartes. Corsica is still chafing under the humiliation of having lost the pre-eminence it enjoyed under the empire, and would, probably, not object to an arrangement which would make it a sort of separate kingdom under the rule of the chief of the Catholic Church, The rumor about the Pope's going or being willing to g@to Corsica has turned up so frequently that itis by no means improbable that the subject has already been broached to the Thiers government. Le Monde has always been looked upon xe the correct exponent of the views of the Vatican. The proposition is certainly fisttering to French vanity, and per- haps authorized by the Pope or his councillors. It may be intended as a feeler to test the senti- ments of the French government before com- mencing formal negotiations on the subject. General McQuade en Gioverner Fleffman’s Action Relative to the Riot. Facts relative to the late riot in this olfy and the action of the authorities begin to come out. The letter of General McQuade, of Gor- ernor Hoffman's staff, which we published yesterday, shows that the open and insidious attacks of the partisan press on the Governor are unjust. The Governor has been accused of political trickery and of acting in concert with the Tammany ring, out of regard to the Irish voters, until he was forced by the pressure of public opinion to overrule the order of the Mayor forbidding the Orange procession. Gen- eral McQuade, who came to the city from New- port with the Governor, and knew all his movements, states that the Governor did not know on Monday that Mayor Hall intended to suppress the Orange procession, that the Governor was in the city a short time only in passing to Albany, and that he (General McQuade) telegraphed to the Governor at Albany at three o'clock Mondax afternoon, after having seen Mayor Hall, that he thought ‘‘evorything was right.” General McQuade had previously expressed the opinion to the Governor that he was confident there would be no serious disturbance; still the Governor requested him to learn whet be could about the matter and telegraph to Albany. No doubt the telegram, therefore, that “everything was right” was satisfactory to the Governor, This, let it be remembered, was Monday evening. The next morning, when Governor Hoffman saw or learned about Mayor Hall's order forbidding the Orange pro- cession, and that evérything was not right, he came immediately to the cily, and, overruling the action of the Mayor, authorized the Orange procession and made preparations to protect it, This is the whole matter ina nutshell, ‘The partisan press ought to be silent now, ff it has not the magnanimity to do justice to Gov- ernor Hoffman for his patriotic conrse and de- fence of equal ri rights, Victor EMMANUEL IN Rome, —King Vic- tor Emmanuel entered Rome on the 2d of Joly, From that day the seven-hilled city may date its elevation to the capital of mod- ernized and united Italy, The letter from the Hararp correspondent in Rome descrip. tive of the fétes which signalized the recep- tion of the King in the new capital is espe- cially interesting, ‘The Sermons Yesterday. The great point about the religious dis- courses yesterday was that there was only one rlot sermon, and that solitary one dis- played a calmness of temper and a thoughtful- ness of tone which we cannot too highly commend. It was preached by a rising pillar of the Congregational Church—the Rev. Henry Powers. Mr. Powers seems to agreein every particular with the Heranp; indeed, he sensibly held us up by name before the eyes of his congregation as the model inde- pendent newspaper. We need scarcely add, therefore, that his discourse as a whole was sound and wholesome mental food, eveu though a pulpit in our judgment—at any rate on the Sabbath—is scarcely the best place from which to proclaim political truths. Mr. Powers, like a good logician, draws 9 dis- tinction between the riot itself and the principles involved in it. He thinks that the Orangemen had a right to parade, and'so, ofcourse, they have; but Mr, Powers says further that wa all have many rights which, as sensible men, we do not care to exer- cise, Civil and. religious liberty are in this country too well established to need the noisy and factitious support of drums and scarfs and bad music, however necessary those things may be in Great Britain to sus- tain the wauing enthusiasm for freedom. Mr, Powers concluded by a deserved rebuke to such among our respectable masses as are too lazy to go to the primaries and the polls and do their duty to society. Every citizen, he thinks, is conscientiously bound to vote and to take an active interest in public affairs. To all which we say a hearty amen, Among the other sermons the absence of our usual sensational spiritual guides is pain- fally apparent, But it is, after all, a great blessing that we havo this sammer breathing spell, . While the great lights are with us we are, of course, obliged to give them free ad- mission to our religious columns ; and we are indeed sometimes misled, we confess it, to give them even more than their proper share of at- tention, It is really a treat, therefore, for us to be able to spread before our readers, as wo 2o to-day. #0 many columns of solid, substauiial, wholesome practioal Christianity. It 1s strange though that these same unpretending, quiet, work-a- day teachers, so largely stay in town while their more popular brethren are flounder- ing in the waves at Long Branch or making themselves ill with intemperate indulgence in the waters of Saratoga or Sharon. The same thing, however, holds good in the world of theatrical art, It is almost only the stars who go on expeditions into the provinces, Father Merritt's sermon on almsgiving is a great deal better timed than might be sup- posed. Every one thinks of the poor in win- ter; but men get hungry and need medicine, and, more than all, they need the greatest and best charity of all—the kind word and the plea- sant, encouraging smile of a Samaritan visi- tor—as much in midsummer as at Christmas. Dr. Heacock, a Buffalo divine, also preached a practical Gospel sermon, the abstract of which we have read with pleasure. We are sure that our people de- light to hear the simple, winning story of the unspeakable love of Christ, such ‘as this dis- course gives, far better than anything else, although our great pulpit lights do not seem to believe it. Rev. Mr. Pullman, on ‘‘Heaven,” is worth perusal, though some of his ideas seem drawn from a divine who is not an Univer- salist—Emanuel Swedenborg. The concep- tion thet bliss chiefly consists in the extinction of evil, and not in place of abode, is a good one. Our other reports are all worthy of study, but we have only space to notice that by Mrs. Burleigh on the “Ministry of Evil.” Evil in this world isa thing which we are gallant enough to believe is," directly or indirectly, mainly the work of men. Mrs, Burleigh, however, true to her theories of human equality, seems to place the sexes in this respect upon an equal footing, and, perhaps, she is right. We hold, however, in the matter of women preachers the well known doctrine of St. Paul. But if all women could talk as much good sense as Mre. Burleigh we might be induced to buy a pew in the church of a lady divine, A man, however, would have to be very, very free from prejudice, to eccept the sacrament at the hands of a female minister, When we carry this thing of lady preachers to its logical results, therefore, iis absurdity, becomes plain. Bat we do not wish to discourage Mra, Celia, She might do very many worse things than exhort sinners to repentance, President Thiers on the Pesiiion of the Holy Father. Io the French Assembly on Saturday there was an interesting debate upon the Papal question. The petition of the bishops re- questing the government to intetpose in favor of the restoration of the Papal temporalities came up for discussion. President Thiers, as was most becoming in the circumstances, was the chief speaker. The burden of the Presi- dent's speech was that, while he would do nothing to compromise the policy of the coun- try, be would do his Dest to secure the Pope's independence. ‘This certainly was not saying much, especially as it was accompanied by a distinét avowal that France would not go to war, her policy being one of peace and reorganization, The in- teresting feature of the debate in the Assem- bly was that M. Gambetts, who followed M. Thiers, approved the sentiments of the President, and supported the motion for the order of theday, It does not appear that the combined strength of Thiers and Gambetta was sufficient to give the petition the go-by. The motion for the order of the day was lost, and the petition of the bishops was referred to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, For the sake of France herself, as wellas for the sake of the Holy Father, who ought to be encouraged to accept the sit- uation, we regret the Introduction of this troublesome quention Into the Assembly, This is the frat indication we have had of the mon- arohicel and pro-Papel sympathies of the Ag- sembly. It is not likely to be the last, and it may yet bring fresh misfortames upon the Frenoh republic and the French people, Tax Great Ticunorxs Triat.—We priat on another page of the Heratp this morning the complete text of the answer of the claim- ant in this extraordinary cage. The answer was read on the 7th alt., the day on which the (case was ndjourged over for # future hearing. We took occasion few days ago to say something on the throes of nature. This year, so remarkable for illystrations of violent al- ternations of heat and cold, drought and rain, sunshine and storm and earthquake, may truly be reckoned as the annus mtrabilis of meteor- ology. Our columns, bearing continual evi- dence of sirange vicissitudes and convulsions, establish a striking similarity between the present year in America and the year 1867 in Europe, which caused so much comment there. Dating the severe frost which prevailed in England from the Ist to the 2ist of January, 1867, the barometric pressures from the Eag- lish Channel to Iceland exhibit the fact thai at this time the air wave over Iceland was abnor- mally large and high; and as the air must flow from the region of high pressure to that of low pressure it is plain that Great Britain was then in the stream of » powerful polar current of atmosphere descending from Ice- land over Western Europe, In February of the same year, the high Icelandic pressure having exhausted itself, the barometer rose high in Great Britain, the wind became south- west and south, the thermomeiric column rose, showiog that the British Islands were now swept by an equatorial air current. The cool weather which we have lately en- joyed, as well as the severe spell of last winter we did not enjoy, indicated unquestion- ably that the eastern and central parts of the United States were in astteam of polar air descending upon us from the northern area of British America, If the government Signal Service could have a meteorological station in the valley of the Mackenzie er Saskatchewan rivers, the recent barometric readings would, veyond doubt, have been very high, and would have given premonitions of the sudden changes of temperature. ’ The importance of investigating the relation of barometric pressure to the temperature—a relation which often steadily controls the weather for a fortnight or more at a time— is greatly enhanced when we consider the intimate relation between the march of temperature and the life and death rates. The mortality, it is found, in- creases with the severity: and change- ableness of climate, as in England, where the death rate exceeds that of Scotland by eight per cent, the climate of the latter belng more equable and insular, although more northerly. The great cold spells, it is clearly proven, oscasion a greater increase of the death rate than the cholera or any epidemic pestilence stalking over the land, just because they are more penetrating and diffusive, With an ex- tended field for oug daily w weer telegrams the moteorologisis of the Signal Service might notify us of approaching extremes both of heat and cold, so disastrous to the weak, and thus enable physictans to take timely measures to secure their patients from danger. Our weather bureau, it is true, is charged only and exclusively with the duty of ascertaining great disturbances, or, as tho law defiaing its sole responsibility says, ‘“‘the approach and force of storms.” But this intelligence will follow as a matter of course and incidentally, and will be of incalculable use. As we pointed out not long since, the anomalous rise of temperature last year at the earth’s extremities, by dissolv- ing and setting adrift immense ice masses, has had much to do with disturbing our atmos- pheric balance. An official letter, dated Stykkisholm, Iceland, August 19, 1870, bial es "i In ¢ places the heat has been, tt ts reported, well mah intolerable, especially in the valievs, where it ee risen to alxty-eight or seventy degrees. The effect of this long contmued heat is apparent on our tnow-oovered, mountains and glaciers, where the ice and snow have melted away toa great ex- tent, and some of the large sane have become very small and insignificant. is is Bi . and no now living person can Tetieniber anything like it, Such facts furnish {important clues, even though they be gossamer-like, to thé great agitations in nature, to which our attention has lately been so rudely called. But is it not probable that such shocks as the New England earthquake are due as much to vio- lent atmospheric convulsions and the rolling of immense aerial waves over the shel of our planet? For at the time of the occurrence of the Boston shake (20th instant) the govern- ment weather- reports clearly show there wns a low pressure just in front of the very high pressure and cold polar stream of air descend- ing on the United States from the northwest of British America, % This suggestion would accord with the striking facts now known of the mysterious spots on the sun, which are accompanied by. magnetic storms and auroras, These solar spots are well known to recur periodically, at intervals of a trifle more than five ond « half years; in 1861 they were peculiarly abundant, and recurred in 1865 and 1866, and are due this year, It is true they have defied all efforts of our savants to explain their origin or nature; but it is believed by some that the effects of ihe strange phe- nomenon are noticeable. And Sir John Herschel, so noted for his cautious shrewd- ness and sagacity, suggested that these effects are manifested ‘in an Increased emission of heat from the sun, in au increased generation of vapor from the ocean, but especially Ina more cloudy state of the atmosphere and in an increased tendency to atmospheric disturbance and barometric fluctuation.” We believe that this clue followed up will elucidate the subject which now 89 much en- grosses the public mind since our recent earthquakes. This will be a new field of research for the government meterologists, They might then give us forewarnings of carthquakes as well as of storms. Tax for the concluding five months of 1870 has been settled summarily by an order from Secretary Boutwell io Commissioner Pleason- ton to collect a tax on dividends, coupons, in- terest moneys and incomes for that period. The Solicitor of the Treasury has decided that the tax may be collected despite the defect or oversight in the law, and exception is made only in orses where such conpons and divi- dends haye been paid under the first decision of Commissioner -Pleasoftan, the motive to auch excoption being the fnabillty of the revenue collectors to take retraction, owing to the dispersal of the moneys to parties who cannot be traced without great trouble and exponse, although the exception is declared to he based on the assumption that Commissioner Pleasonton, as an officer of the government, has bound the government by his decision, The main fact stands, however, that Secretary Boutweil has been at groat palag to impose the Cee ne ee en UE EEIEEIEEE eee a tax for & perfod of time omftied ta the Taw, amr arbitrary proceeding which will not tend ta heighten bis Popularity. Beecker On the Riot. Nobody, we presume, will for a momenk! doubt the Rey. Henry Ward Beecher'’s love of liberty and of fair play, though we have heard many express doubts regarding his: Obristianity. His is certainly a strange make-up of character, and the metapbysician: or theologian who should andertake to analyze: Mr. Beecher or to judge him by his words would set himself about the hardest task he ever undertook. Mr. Beecher follows no known type or copy, and has ‘“‘neither aon nor, nephew” who will inherit his talents and whoms’ we might study in the years to come, Hence we are left to seek for a solution of the man in himeelf ; but in this attempt we are beset witlt! difficulties on every side, since all the regular: standards of criticism are get aside by him,’ and a peculiarly ‘‘Beechery” mode of dealing with religious and political facts is adopted ty this reverend gentleman. For instauce, in the last issue of bis owm paper, the Christian Union, an editorial from! his pen appeared, which we republished in the Herarp on Friday, and in which he takes strange ground regarding the duty of Orauge- men to parade the strasts of Now York fn years to come. In 1869 he would have dis- - couraged such parades; but in 1870 and 1871 he was and is heartily in favor of thein marching, becanse by an accident they had become the embodiment of a great principle dear to every American—namely, the question of the freedom of the streets to all processions. And to test this principle to the bitter end the Orangemen, he thinks, should parade next year without a banner less or one inscription rubbed out, and they should continue this display from year to’ year until nobody thinks of molesting them. They may then quietly stay at home. How like the Apostle Paul is this apostle of Plymouth church! Said that aturdy old saint, who never quailed before the face of any man, “If meat make m brotheg, to offend I will eat none while is oon standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.” Says the Plymouth apostle, “If the Orange banners and processions make my brother to offend I will repeat them year after year until he shall learn not to be offended.” Paul would give up his most cherished rights to avoid offending a brother. Beecher would hold on to such right because it gives offence. Our readers can draw their own inferences. But what interest can Americans have in the squabbles and feuds of foreigners? And. why should Old World anniversaries, in which we bave very little more interest than “the man in the moon,” be brought here to tested and perpetuated among eG i hitdoy- ance? We have anniversaries and holidays enongh of our own, and we can at any time in- crease the number of both if we’ please. Neither William nor James has been .of any benefit to us—for our forefathers have been as grossly persecuted by the followers of one as of the other—and neither America nor Ameri- cans are in the least indebted to England or to Ireland for the civil and religious freedom, which we now enjoy. The ‘‘Pilgrims” and their descendants in. New England were as zealons persecutors of those who opposed. them as were the Protestants or Catholics of, Great Britain or freland before them. So that’ Wwe owe them nothing on any account, and should be spared the humiliation every year, of striking down one hundred or one thousand persons for the assertion of # principle such as is represented by either party to this contro~ versy, And Mr. Beecher, as a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ, and tosome extent an ad- mirer of the noble apostle to the Gentiles, should have advised the prohibition of all foreign parades and shows in our, midat in the future, instead of urging thent on, to the injury and disgrace of this metropolis andof the country, And in the name of the great law-abiding, liberty-lov- fog, but religious constituency which the HeraLp represents throughout the land, we protest against the Christian pulpit encourag- ing riot and bloodshed in any such way. Notin the interest of Orangemen or Ribbonmen do we thus raise our voice or pen, but in the in- terest of that religion which is based on love :and forbearance and which thinketh no evil: and suffereth long and is kind, even to the ylelding up of admlited righta for the general good. In the interest of peace and good will to men we protest against any such braggado- cio Gospel as that preached by Mr, Beecher ia his Christian Union last week. Immigration and the Character of It. Immigration to the port of New York for the months of April, May and June of this year, is nearly equal to'what it was last year, Tha total for these three months, exclusive of the return of passengers, and, therefore, a positive increase to our population, was 101,015. This waa independent, too, of arrivals at other ports. Considering the war in Europe, and other causes operating for the time to check immigration from some of the countries of Europe, it is evident that the desire to emigrate to this land of freedom and plenty 1s as strong asever, [tis gratifying to see, also, that we are receiving an excellent, and, perhaps, to some extent, a better, class of immigrants. Out of the 101,016 there werg 17,845 English, 4,613 Scotoh, 80,814 Germans, 6,727 Swedes, At one time the largest immigration was fron Ireland. That from Germany now exceeds it.. The Irish immigrants for the three months were 26,149. From Sweden, Norway, Den- mark and Switzerland there werg 9,461—en excellent clasa of immigrants. The immigra- tion from Italy is unusually large, being, for the time mentioned, 8,671. ‘Thus we goon building up this great cosmopolitan and repre- sentative republic, The education these’ people receive in freedom here will continae to react upon Europe, and will teaoh their brothers, sisters, fathers and friends to appre-. ciate republican institutions. ‘Tax Carcaco Post thinks that when the New York ruffians vote the ropiblican ticket the devil will- hold the keys of St. Peter, If St, Peter held the keys of the Tombs the com- munity would not care what became of the rowdies so long as they were locked up, M. Drvisxne, the President of the Paria Court of Appeals, who was sald to have played the very undignified »6le of go-between in Napoleon's love affair with Marguerite Bellan- ger, has been exqngrated by hie compeers,