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

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ees JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—My N staunon's WIFE— “ON THE TRACK” NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston «8.—THE Drama or FRivz. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth av. ana 23d gt.— JASPER; OR, THE MYSTERY OR EDWIN Du00n, LINA EDWIN’ THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—K ELLY & Leon's MinsT REL. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Buve Beano. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.--NRGRO ECcRNTRI- ‘crries, BURLESQUES, &C. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tae Bat - yomiMe oF RUMPTY DowPrr. LET PAN. BOOTHS THEATRE, 284 st., between 5th —- LITTLE NELL AND THE MABCHIONESS. sca aene WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, oorner S0th st, —Perform- ‘ances aftersoon and evening—EAST LYNNE. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL H - Tur San FRANCISCO MINSTHELS, AU 56 Broadway. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 and Th av. —BRraxre Minerarca | Detreen 6th TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET OPERA HOUSE, corner Broadway.—NEWCOMB & ARLINGTON'S MINSTRELS, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Turoporz Tuomas’ SUMMER Nicurs’ Conogrts. GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.—Va- Riety ENTEETAINMENT, Maki, 4 BROOKLYN ACADEM Riv Van WINELE. SIC, Montague street— New York, Monday, September 4, 1871. TENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. nue shiners erceie-ee 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—The Hurricane in the West_Indies—Launch of a United States Revenue St22mer at Butrulo— The Knte Again—Heavy Failure in Columbus, Ind.—Marniages, Birth and Deaths—Adver- tisements. 4—Editorials : Leading Article, “National Finan- cial Management and National Banks Here eal to Kurope’—Amusement Aunounce- ents. 5—Eaitoriat (continued from Fourth Page)—Riot In Jretand—Spain: Triumphal Tour of King Amadeus Through the Spanisb Provinces— ‘The Situation in France—The New Bavarian Ministy—The Grand Duke Alexis Com- ing—Disaster in St. Domingo— Wlid Scenes in the Southwest—Music and the Vrama—Literary Chit-Chat—Personal Intelli- gence— Foreign Personal Gossip—Aquatic— achting _Notes—Fires—Miscellaneous ‘Tele- grapnic News—teneral Singers’ Unlon— Views of the Past—Business Notices. 6—The Condemned Communists: Sketches of the Sentenged Prisoners—The London Zimes on the Corban DiMiculty—Sir Statford Northcote on the Treaty of Washington—ireland: The French Visitors; Alarmiug Potato Blight— avernatorial Grab Game — ‘ttical and General—Fire in Willams! mperance Celebration: in Jersey City—A Tul-Tapper Cavght—One of tne Victims of the Mobile explosion. 9—A ivertisements. S—B ‘iigtous: Yesterday's Sermons in the Metropo- lis and Elsewhere; The Lessons of the Past Month; Choosing a Religion; Men Do Care for What the Papers Say. 9—Religious (Continued from Eighth Page)—About Boutwell; Tue Leaaing Republican Newspaper of the Suggests the Impeachment of Boutwell; How Our Bonded Dedt is Dupli- cated—-Dreadful Attempt to Murder—Another Probavie Murger—A_ Reckless Desperado Killed in Harrisonville, Mo.—A Card from Mrs. John McLeod Murphy—Financiai and Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—Ha- vana Markets—Boiler — Inspection—Bluetish Bait—Court Calendars for To-Day—The Yel- low Fever in Charleston—Trapeze Accident— The Smatlest Baby. 30—News irom Washington—Art Matters—The Old Story—Newark’s Sunday Siaugnver—The xvergreen Cemetery— Yellow Fever—The Bowlesby Butchery—The Unton Prayer Book— Hints t» the Heaith Board—Out of the Depths—Yesterday’s Stabbing Afrays—Tele- graphic News Items—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements. Tue Democratic State Committee is to meet in Albany on Wednesday. SgoreTary BELKNAP refuses to place the sanitary condition of the United States troops in New York city under the regulation of the Board of Health, as requested by Mayor Hall. He says the troops have excellent sanitary regulations of their own, and will take care of themselves without interfering with the duties ‘of our Health Board. Tere REMAINS no doubt now that the yel- ow fever is prevalent to an alarming extent oth in Savannah and Charleston. The news- apers there have been trying to hide the fact, ut it has exposed itself beyond any further nial by its virnlence, and great crowds of people able to get away are fleeing to healthier localities. Tue Destevorion of a large portion of the town of Puerto Plata, St. Domingo, by fire is reported to have occurred on the 2ist of Au- gust. The loss is estimated at eight hundred thousand dollars, which, in a community where nothing is rich but nature, is a great sum, and would indicate an immense destruction of *‘dobey” and cane houses. Tar Lovistana DELEGATION will interview the President at an early day during the present week. Collector Murpby, who, in his cottage opposite the Presidental villa, ander- takes to influence the Presidential views, is trying to arrange matters so as to unite all the Louisiana radicals ander the Grant banner ; but we suspect that,the cool clear-headedness of the President himself will serve that pur- pose best. ANoTHER Monster Demonstration in favor of the captive Fenians has taken place, and, as a necessary consequence, another riot, in or near Phoenix Park, in Dub- lin. According to our special cable re- port this meeting was far more formida- ble than the last one, for about one hundred thousand persons appear to have been present. «Formidable, however, as the demonstration may have been, the British government is not likely to yield to threats, and the defiant atti- tude of the crowd will, perhaps, only prolong the captivity of the Fenian prisoners. Kina Amapevs is decidedly becoming popular in Spain. The Heravp correspondent, who by the special invitation of the King accompanies the royal party on a tour through the Spanish provinces, gives in one of our special despatches a glowing account of the enthusiastic demonstrations with which His Majesty has been received by the people. King Amadeus evidently seeks to establish his throne on a far surer foundation than divine right—viz., on the affections of his people. Thus far he has done wisely and well, and we hope be will obtain that success which he deserves, His remarks to our correspofdent with regard to the United States must impress favorably the American people, whose friendship he is de- sirous of cultivating. NEW YORK National Financial Management and Na- tional Banke Here and ia Europe. The remarkable contrast between the con- duct of the Bank of France in coming to the aid of the government in the hour of need, or in a great crisis, and that of our so-called national banks when they might be serviceable to the nation, ought not to escape the notice of the American people. “We might, indeed, call attention to the great service which the Bank of England and other similar national institutions in Europe render the State in comparison with the uselessness of the private corporations here called national banks. As, however, there are some interesting facts relative to the conduct of the Bank of France in the crisis through which the French nation has just passed, we shall advert more particu- larly to that truly great national institution. People have wondered at the resources of France and the elasticity of French finances amidst the terrible disasters the nation has suffered since the war with Germany commenced. No other European nation, perhaps—ao, not even Eng- land—could have sustained such losses and such a cost within one year and come out of them with credit as little impaired and with similar available means to repair them. But it is not always the abundant resources of a country that enable it to do so well. The rich- est country may suffer very depressed credit if its finances are badly managed. For- tunately for France she had both great re- sources and able financial management. In raising means and sustaining the credit of the government and nation the Bank of France has been greatly instrumental. The patriotic conduct of that institution, if such a term may be used as applicable to it, as well as its wis- dom, might offer our national banks a lesson, if they were not so intent on their own interests exclusively and so regardless of the public welfare, In order to give a clearer idea of what the Bank of France has done, how it has aided the government and maintained its own and the nation’s credit, we will first glance at the situ- ation of the country. The direct cost of the war with Germany is estimated by M. Thiers at one thousand six hundred millions of dol- lara, a thousand millions of which is for the indemnity to Germany; and this vast cost, let it be remembered, accumulated in a war of only a few months. It came like an ava- lanche upon the resources and credit of France. But, in addition to this, there were the losses from the vast requisitions made by the in- vading army and the great damage done by battle, a great deal of which, or all, will have to be paid for, probably, by the French gov- ernment, Then there was the cost of the Communal insurrection and the losses by de- struction during that insurrection, which will amount, probably, to a hundred and fifty mil- lions of dollars more. The total cost of the war, of the claims that will have to be paid and of the repairs that must be made, will be little less than two thousand millions of dol- lars. It might have been supposed that the Bank of France, as well as other great corpo- rations, would have been overwhelmed by the enormous weight of the disasters, cost and debt so suddenly brought upon the nation, and that the notes and credit of the bank would have fallen very low. What are the facts? Specie payments were virtually suspended, or a forced currency of bank notes was adopted, ia August, 1870. Yet, with all the disasters that followed, these notes were never at a discount in Paris of more than one per cent, and that only for a few weeks. They have been at par ever since, thoagh there is no probability of resumption of specie pay- ments by the bank for some time to ‘come. The Bank of France came to the rescue of the government in the terrible crisis through which it was passing, and advanced over two hundred ‘and fifty millions of dollars. These were in notes, and, of course, the currency or circulating medium was inflated to that ex- tent. Still there was no depreciation—no gold premium over the value of bank notes, The population of the United States is about that of France, or a little more, while the natural resources are not less and the pros- pective resources incdlcalably greater. Yet a sudden addition to our paper currency of two hundred and fifty millions during a sus- pension of specie payments would at any time while the war was going on, or since peace has been restored, have sent up the gold premium to a high figure and have depreciated the currency accordingly. Why should it be so in the United States; this surprisingly rich country, and not in France? Why have the notes of the Bank of France remained at par, or only fallen to one per cent discount for a few weeks during the most fearful national crisis and while the circulation was suddenly inflated two hundred and fifty millions, and United States currency become much more depreciated when the circulation has been less increased ? Exhaustive as our war was It was much less 80 than that of France within a given time, and this country never showed such finaticial elasticity or endurance as France. Even now, in time of peace and when the revenue exceed: 8 expendi eg. hundred millions ® year, an increase RPT ball the amount the Bank of France issued without any perceptible depreciation of its notes, would send gold up to @ high figure and create a great disturbance in the money market. This apparent and extraordinary anomaly can only be explained by the superior financial system in France and the ignorance of those who have control of the national finances of this country. Our public men, both in Con- gress and in the Treasury Department, are mere children in financial matters. With all the wealth and prospects of this mighty re- public our credit and financial power are not greater than those of many comparatively poor and insignificant States. We are too much like the ignorant and reckless million- haire spendthrift whom shrewd money lenders fleece. Now let us compare the conduct of the Bank of France toward the French govern- ment, and in @ great national crisis, with that of our so-called national banke in their deal- ings with, and relations to, the United States government. The Bank of France came for- ward and promptly advanced two hundred and fifty millions of dollars, for which it is to receive but three per cent interest the first year and only one per cent interest thereafter, The United States wanted to fund ite six per HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. cent debt in securities bearing the lower rate of interest of five, four and a balf and four per cent. The national banks have shown no disposition to aid the government by taking these new securities, and only at the last hour, when driven to it, have they consented to take about a hundred millions of the five per cents, those bearing the highest rate of interest, out of fifteen hundred millions offered, Yet these national banks derive a far greater benefit from government than the Bank of France, the Bank of England, or any other national bank does. While the Bank of France lends the French government money at one per cent Interest, and is otherwise of great benefit to the State, and while the Bank of England pays the British government ‘a large amouat on the profits of its circulation, and does, without cost, most of the business of the British Treasury, our banks are given all the profit on a national circulation of three hundred and fifty millions, besides drawing interest to the amount of twenty millions a year on their security bonds, and in the end, as we see, are of no use to the govern- ment in its financial operations or when it requires assistance. If there were & war crisis or any other crisis to-morrow the national banks would be of no service to the government and nation. They are simply private corporations, though sustained and enriched by the government, which only study how much they can wring from the people and the Treasury. A national bank like that of France or of England might not be adapted to the institutions of this ‘country, but our present national banking institutions are both useless to the government and a vampire hanging upon the Treasury and industry of the people. The Communists Sentenced. The Court Martial which has been sitting for some weeks past in judgment on the Com- munists has at last concluded its labors. On Saturday evening at seven o'clock the Court, which had been deliberating with closed doors, pronounced the following verdicts:—Ferré and Luallier are sentenced to death; Urbain and Trinquet are to be imprisoned for life, with hard labor; Assi, Billioray, Champy, Regtre, Grousset, Verdure and Ferrat are to be deported and confined in a fortress; Clem- ent is tobe imprisoned for three months; Des- camps and Parent are acquitted. Considering the crimes of which the Commune was guilty— the cold-blooded massacres, the destruction of life and property of which it was directly and indirectly the cause—the sentences cannot be said tobe severe. The truth is, justice in this case is absurdly lenient. It is doubtful, in- deed, whether the government will be bold enough to carry out the capital sentences in these two solitary instances. It is always a hard task to execute the extreme penalty of the law in the case of political offenders. President Thiers may find it convenient to commute the two sentences just referred to, and we do not think that France or the world will blame him if he does. Enough blood has been shed. It will, unless we greatly mis- take, satisfy the public mind if the worst men of the Commune are put out of the way of doing further harm. A Very Exocitine Canvass seems to have been carried on in New Mexico. One would think that in that far away region, inhabited mainly by Mexicans, half-breeds and Digger Indians, the principles and theories of the republican and democratic parties were not of much interest; but the contrary seems to be the case. A demonstration took place between the rival parties some day last week at the little village of Le Mes- silla) and a collssion occurred, which resulted in a free fight. Pistol shooting con- tinued incessantly among the combatants on the plaza for an hour, seven men being killed, among them the republican candidate for Judge, and thirty others being wounded, seven or eight most probably fatally. It would be no exaggeration, says the report, to say that the plaza was drenched with blood, which, although very sad asa fact, is very sure evi- dence that the uncultivated populace of that Territory have a commendable regard for the sanctity of republican freedom and take a strong interest in elections. SovruErN Parers universally repudiate the circular on the recovery of the ‘Lost Cause,” attributed to a secret Southern association. They don’t propose to erect any new lunatic asylums down South about this time. France Meeting Her Osuications.—In the French National Assembly on Saturday M. Pouyer-Quertier, the Finance Minister, stated that the government had paid to Germany the third instalment of the war indemnity, amonnt- ing to half a milliard, or- five bundred millions, of francs. In spite of all her follies it is impossible not to feel for France in her present misfortunes. It is hard fora proud nation to submit to defeat. It is harder still to be reminded of the defeat by handing over in this wholesale manner the nation’s hard-earned gains. The one cheering fact is that France is nobly doing her duty. A nation which can 80 nobly stoop must yet rise to conquer. ~ Ne Tar Lyyonsure Republican calls Alex. H. Stephens a ‘‘crumbling political anomaly,” and Bob Toombs an ‘offensive political brawler.” The Repubdlican,is not very com- plimentary to these distifguished Southern compatriots. ay Tue Stpassourc Lisnary.—General Count Bismarck Boblen, nephew of Prinée Bismarck and Governor of Alsace, has appointed Colonel M. Richards Muckle, of Philadelphia, agent in the United States to obtain contributions of books towards the re-establishment of the famous Strasbourg Library, which was 80 nearly destroyed during the late siege of that city. This library was one of the most famous and ancient in Europe, and im is restoration the whole world of letters is interested, America, that owes so much to German science and German scholarsbip, can well afford to have her literature fully represented in the restored library, and American authors and publishers should feel a peculiar satis- faction in contributing to so noble a purpose. Tux Boston Travelicr advocates the hold- ing of the next Republican National Conven- tion in that city. This is not a bad idea, for it is to the city of Boston, and to a very small corner of it at that, the republican party is indebted fyr its pinky Bellows—W yatt—Morgan. The Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D. D., will be readily recognized as the pastor of All Souls’ Unitarian church in Fourth avenue and Twen- tieth street. The structure in which he offi. ciates is remarkable enough to attract the attention of passers by at any time. It is yet in an unfinished condition, and has a heavy mortgage resting upon it; but it was evi- dently designed to be, and, if ever completed, will be, one of the most ornamental public buildings in the city. Dr. Bellows isa man past the middle age of life, and in appearance resembles a Catholic priest more, perhaps, than any other Protestant minister in the city. As @ preacher and lecturer the Doctor is well known in this community, and his lectures on the “Evidences of Christianity,” delivered Iast winter, must be familiar to the hundreds who heard them as well as to the thousands who read the Hgratp and other daily papers. Dr. Bellows is thoroughly phi- lodophical in all his public ministrations, and in the lectures referred to he displayed un- common liberality toward what is called ortho- dox Christianity—so much 80, indeed, as to lead more positive and tenacious Unitarians to inquire whether or not he designed to leave their fold and seek other pastures. But he is still ‘one of them,” and intends to remain so. He, however, believes in, and adheres firmly to, the fundamental doctrines of Christianity accepted in common by all religious denomi- nations, and he is too wise and too liberal not to recognize in every man the good which he possesses, During the war of the rebellion Dr. Bellows organized and was the president of the Sanitary Commission, which did such good service to the government and to the soldiers in the field in supplying religious and physical comforts to our armies, and for which he and his associates deserve the lasting thanks of the people of the United States. The Rev. A. H. Wyatt, pastor of Washing- ton Square Methodist Episcopal church, is a young man and one of the most eloquent and studious ministers in the New York Confer- ence. He is a Methodist and a minister lite- rally by descent, his father and grandfather be- fore him having been members of the same Con- ference. His grandfather, the venerable Father Reynolds, is still living, hale and strong, at the ripe age of eighty years, and is the oldest member of the Conference, and, we believe, after the venerable Father Boehm, of New Jersey, is the oldest Methodist minister in the United States. Father Reynolds has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church sixty-seven years, and a minister of the same for more than half a century. Though so far advanced in life he retains very much of the fire and vigor of youth, and still addresses public audiences with great earnestness. The mantle of the patriarch has evidently already fallen on his grandson, who displays the same qualities in an eminent degree. Under his pastorate Washington square church has greatly prospered, and regrets are felt already that the custom of the Church will necessitate his removal therefrom next spring. Mr. Wyatt has no sympathy with ‘‘sensational” preaching, nor with that other kind of vindic- tive ministry which is ever finding fault and ever scolding the people for not being better and more godly than they are, which some preachers Iindulge.in. He believes the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, and the genial in- finences of a loving Gospel are sufficient, if properly presented and received, to convert and renew the most wicked heart, and, so be- lieving, he declares ‘‘the whole counsel of God,” and the conversions under his teaching are many and frequent. He is a constant attendant on all the social meetings of the church, and by his presence and his example lends interest to every such gathering. He never allows ease or pleasure to interfere with what he considers to be his duty as a minister of the Gospel. As a pastor and a Sunday school worker he is worthy of imitation. His style in the pulpit is expository, and his sub- jects are often illustrated by incidents of travel, reading and experience. He is a man of slight build, medium size, dark complexion and affectionate disposition, and, as may be supposed, wins and holds the affections of his congregations and of all who kaow him, The Rev. William F. Morgan, D. D., rector of St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church in Fifth avenue and Fifty-second street, is a man of medium size, stout build, and evidently about forty-five years of age. He Mas been rector of this church about fifteen years—long before the present edifice was erected. The old church building will be remembered as having stood for an age on the corner .of Broadway and Houston street; but the increased value of the property and the depreciated character of the neighborhood, as well as the scattered residences of the church members, convinced the vestry that the property must either be sold and a new gospel home erected or the church be disbanded altogether. Loth to give up the old familiar building, they at length parted with it ‘and a few years ago moved far enough up town, beyond the reach of commerce or ef gross vice, to be secure for many years to come. But the wisdom of the policy of thus yielding ground to the énemy without greater efforts at the reformation of the neighborhood may indeed be questioned. If the theory of the Protestant Episcopal Church is correct, that a parish includes not only the persons who go to a particular church, but the district in which they live, and the non-church-going residents there- of also, then the latter should not be given over a prey to the devil by any organization of Christians, and a fearful responsibility must rest upon them therefor. The new church edifice of St. Thomas’ is one of the quaintest in the city in its interior construction, and must be seen to be properly appreciated. Dr. Mor- gan, the rector, is well and favorably known in this community as an earnest and eloquent preacher. He is charged by some persons with ‘High Church” tendencies, and we be- lieve the chargé is partly true, though he is too practical a man himself to be carried far away from the simplicity of the truth as it is in Jesus. Some of his sermons and lectures, however, manifest a greater affection for ritualism than is deemed to be consistent with the simplicity of the Gospel. The Doctor is a faithfal pastor and Sunday school guardian, and in his pulpit discourses is in- clined to be philosophical and erudite. Senator Carpenter goes for Washburn (re- publican) for Governor of Wisconsin. He is not disposed tq vlay with edged tools The Trank Murder and and Coreners. ‘There is something in the process of tracing back a terrible crime to its author which pos- sesses an easily understood fascination for the public, Surface writers of the shallowest turn of cyuicism call this a morbid taste, but ifany of them will consult bis fractional miad he will find, in spite of his reflections, that he himself takes a strong and reasonable interest in the question. There are crimes which, while they exhibit special phases of individual badness of the worst type, are not such as to set the whole community astir with anxiety ; yet where a criminal act hinges on some social danger an alarm is at once sounded, though the offence be comparatively light per se. Seldom or never in the annals of moral obliquity has a case presented at once a social danger and actual hideousness so deep and startling as that of the malpractice murder which will be known in the shuddering history of sickening sins as the Rosenzweig case. On the evening of Saturday, the 26th ult., a trunk was left at the Hudson River Railroad depot. Through the fact—we had almost said accident—of a high temperature its ghastly contents made themselves known. The result was the find- ing of the woman's body, and from its appear- ance, although then in an advanced state of decomposition, it became at once clear through what means this daughter of les misérables had come to her pitiful doom. On the metest inquiry evidence of the deliverer of the trunk sprang up, and the detective police, with these important points declared, set about their work, ‘ Here it may be well to remark that wher the public is told of the detectives being on the track it is understood to mean the whole available resources of an organiza- tion watching every avenue with Argus the Detectives eyes and under as many forms as Proteus. Out of this grows the illusion of what penny-a-liners love to call a “trained” detective, without conveying any particular idea beyond that of a vague, super- human astuteness. When an event of the nature of this crime thrusts itself on the public gaze one is tempted to ask what this ‘‘train- ing” means; for a very poor opinion is speed- ily. formed of its worth, and the echo, ‘What, indeed?” is the only attainable reply. To hunt an oft-convicted thief or burglar, whose only possible haunts are a matter of police court record; to track a defaulting clerk, who starts invariably for England or Chicago, or arrest the rowdy of few friends and fewer retreats is about all their ‘‘training” amounts to. In a case of this kind those who have studied the subject look to a higher order of detection—that which is meant by complete organization and intelligent direc- tion, that overlooks nothing. This principle seems to have been weakly applied in the trunk affair; but the lamentable crudeness of the effort shows us plainly that, in the highest sense of the term, we have no detective sys- tem worth naming. The cause of death was undoubted, and those who practised the murderous empiri- cism were or should have been ‘‘well known to the police.” The cases of Wolff and Evans were of themselves sufficient evidence of the necessity of keeping a close eye upon the opera- tions of the scoundrels; yet, even after the corpse had told its mutes story, no steps were taken to inquire into what had transpired on the Saturday at the offices and houses of these human harpies. If “training” and organiza- tion mean anything practical they convey the sense of preparation for an emergency ; but this was taken up at first as an ordinary case, on the old detective rule-of-thumb pro- cess, which is working backwards at a zigzag from the crime to the author. Accordingly all the ‘‘trained” intelligence was set in search of the truckman who brought the fast- decayiig load. They did not find him; be found himself, so to speak, and the police were placed in possession of positive informa- tion of the starting place of the trunk, and the belief that it was the work of a mal- practice ‘‘doctor” was proved in the arrest of” Rosenzweig. This done, the police seem almost to have rested in his regard, and pro- ceeded tu look for the woman who took the ticket for Chicago and checked the box, the question of the identity of the body being left, Micawber fashion, for something to turn up, the mere precaution of photographing the remains being unaccountably neglected. The censure of the press on the police for not haying had the honse on Second avenue searched by ex- perts immediately and placed in the charge of the police, as well as putting all the inmates under surveillance or arrest, is eminently just. But their laxity did not stop here. Rosenzwei was identified as ‘‘Dr.” Ascher, of Analy cist yet his office there was left so much to itself that any one could have removed the medi- cines, books and documents from there three days after Rosenzweig’s arrest. The identifica- tion of the girl by the Paterson doctors induced another search of the premises on Second ave- nue, and the handkerchief, with the girl’s name on the corner, unexpectedly turned up. After this a Bohemian, in search of sensation, found the fragments of a letter in the grate, which are doubtless the piecemeal tell-tale of some previous deed of deviltry committed on the same spot. On the next day (Thursday), when it was known that Paterson, N. J., was the girl's home, before the detectives thought of moving in that direction, young Walter Conklin blew out his brains as if to signal them to the spot. To con- tinue this enumeration of palpable short- comings were easy—a complete list would take more space than we cap spare—and we must admit that if ever those who grumble at our “educated” police were in the right they have now just cause, Fortunately, however, the fates have willed that, althongh blunders have been committed, the evidence against the wretched creature Rosenzweig is almost legally conclusive. The woman who checked the trunk is still a mystery, and almost the only one in the case which a reasonable display of energy on the part of the police may not yet fathom. We are sure that it will require but the most ordi- nary ability to conclusively find among the Paterson admirers of the poor creature at the Morgue the one responsible for the girl's seek- ing Rosenzweig's aid, But a graver blunder than any in the police management of the affair is that for which the Coroner who held (he inquest is resngnaible. —* From the position In which the body was found in the. trunk it is certain that it was placed their immediately after, if not before, death. If the latter wera proven to be the case it would make the crime one of murder in the first degree, and yet no such evidence wis called as would throw any light on the matter, The truckman, who clearly identified Rosens- weig, spoke of a woman he had seen at the house, and the women living there were not confronted with this all-important witness. A fitting companion picture to this want of common perception of the needs of such an inquiry is that of the Paterson Coroner, who from the way he hurried the case through to the ridiculous verdict he inspired, simply presents, beside the awful comedy of the New York inquest, the imbe- cility of a tragic farce. Both inves- tigations call sternly to task the people who elect coroners without first asking whether they have any of the technical know- ledge, not to speak of special talent, necessary for the position. Notwithstanding these heavy drawbacks we do not despair of perfect justice being reached in the end. The links of evidence are sur- prisingly close, and with the capture of ‘the woman who was Rosenzweig’s agent— which, after all, is. not an impossibility—the criminals may all meet with their deserts. Elections ‘This Mouth, There will be four elections this month, namely :—In Wyoming Territory, to-morrow (September 5), for the choice of members of the Territorial Legislature. Female suffrage prevails in Wyoming. The Legislature elected in 1869 was democratic, but in 1870 the Terri- tory elected a republican Delegate to Con- gress. The women’s vote will, probably, keep the State on the republican track. The State election in California takes place on Wednesday, September 6 (not on the 5th, as generally reported), and the contest is very lively, The following are the principal candt- dates :— Governor—Newton Booth, H. Haight, democrat. Lieutenant Governor—Romualdo Pacheco, repub- lican; Edward J. Lewis, democrat. Secretary of State—Drury Maloue, republican; W. B. C. Brown, democrat, Congress—First District—S. 0. Houghton, repub- lican; Lawrence Archer, democrat. Second Dis- trict—Aaron A. eal ite republican: James W. Coffroth, democrat, Third District—John M. Cogh- lan, republican; George Pierce, democrat, The Legislature to be chosen will elect a United States Senator in place of Senator Cole, whose term expires in 1873. Several propositions to amend the State constitution are also to be voted upon, including a propo- sition to fund the State debt and prohibiting the Legislature from ‘making any appropria- tion of money for a longer period than two years. The funding act proposes to fund the entire State debt—$3,700,000—at seven per cent. California may be regarded as a very cloge State, but, in consequence of democratic dissensions, the republicans are hopeful of carrying the State. Grant had but 514 major- ity out of a total vote of 108,670. In 1869, for Judges of the Supreme Court, the State was carried by the democrats by a majority of nearly six thousand upon a very small vote—between sixty-seven thousand and sixty- eight thousand. No particular test or excite- ment has since brought out the voting popula- tion, but the present contest has been invested with so much interest that a pretty full vote is expected on Wednesday next. The election in Maine takes place this day * week (September 11). A Governor, State Senators, Representatives and county officers are to be chosen. This being an “‘off year” election no Congressmen are to be chosen, and apart from the election for Governor the canvass possesses but little interest outside the several local districts in the State. In 1870 Governor Chamberlain (republican) was elected by a majority over all of over six thou- sand. A Delegate to Congress and a Territorial Legislature are to be elected in New Mexioo on the llth instant. At the last Delegate elec- tion a republican was chosen by nearly two thousand majority. This closes the elections for the current month. In October we shall have the grand steeple chases in Ohio aud Pennsylvania, which will open the way for the Presidential entries in 1872 The Yesterday. Few of the parsons have yet got back to their work, not even the delightful weather of the last few days being able to entice them to their pulpits before the full time of their vaca- tion shall have expired. Among the small number who have returned is the Rev. Dr. Merrill Richardson, of the New England Con- gregational church, who opened his fall and winter campaign by assailing the alleged po- litical crimes of Our officials. He declared that the sins of prosperous wicked men shall find them out in the end. After saying his say on municipal and official corruption Dr. Richardson took up the social crimes of the day, with special reference to the case of Dr. Rosenzweig, and is described by our reporter as startlingly eloquent, though it ‘was too late in the day for the clergyman to say anything new upon the subject. Thus it will be seen that Dr. Richardson is not only among the first of the holiday preachers back to his pulpit, but he leads all of them in the sensation preaching which naturally follows the recreation season. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral the sermon was preached by the Very Rev. Dr. Starrs, and it was opportune in subject, if not in substance, the theme being the duty of parents in the education of their ehildren. Much of Dr. Starrs’ reasoning was not as valuable as it might have been on so opportune an occasion because of his hostility to our common school system, and his idea that the great roll of sui- cides, murderers and great criminals is always filled by those educated in the public schools. Both these positions are mistakes on the part of the eminent divine. The blessing of religious teaching it is for the Charch to sup- ply, and it cannot retard the efforts of the Christian teacher that reading, writing and arithmetic are taught by the State. Early re- ligious training and secular instruction are entirely different things, and in a republic which recognizes every sect as entitled to the republican; rm ‘protection of the laws they cannot readily be combined. The sermon of the Rev. Dr. J. A, M. Chap= man, pastor of St. John’s Methodist church, Brooklyn, was not sensational, notwithstanding it waa hia Grat digcourse after his vacations