The New York Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1872, Page 6

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We are told that orders have been issued to put sifch of our iron-clads asare fit for service in sea-going condition ; that work is to be done, if necessary, day and night, in our navy yards; that bills for the construction of new vessels and for the im- provement of our coast defences are to be pushed through Congress, and, in short, that | the administration has suddenly become sensi- ble of the fact that in case of a war crisis we arein a very indifferent condition either to act on the offensive or to oppose an invasion of our coast and the destruction of our seaboard cities. The whisper comes from Washington that ‘our relations with Spain are of such a character as to suggest preparations, not neces- sarily looking to war, but to the protection of the rights of citizens of the United States,”’ It is even thrown out as a hint, darkly and mysteriously, that our Minister at Madrid, who is on his way back to his post after a protracted leave of absence, carries with him in his pocket instructions of a belligerent cha- racter, and may find it necessary to present his letter of recall if the demands of his government should not be at once complied with; although an anchor is cast. to windward by the sugges. tion that a formal exchange of civil farewells and expressions of regret may take place be- tween the American representative and the Spanish Minister of Foreign Aftnirs, which, however, will be well understood at Washing- | ton to be ‘nothing less than diplomatic lying." The immediate cause of this foro- shadowed imbroglio is represented to be the | delay in the action of the United States and | Spanish Claims Commission and the case of Dr. Houard, in connection with other ques- tions which may “cause further irritation and give occasion for a more determined policy towards Spain.’’ We have already se into hot weather, | and it would present no very pleasant pros- pect if we were seriously in danger of getting | into hot water at the same time, Our citizens | will, however, bear in mind that these rumors | of war originate at Washington, and that we | are now within six months of a Presidential election. Seeretary Tish is by no means lack. ing in tact as a politician at home, if he dot ; | make a clumsy and blundering diplomat | > | abroad. He is aware that popular sen- r in Roum: | timent disapproves the policy he has of uss to Be Decorated | heretofore pursued in regard to our 5—Croton W : Alarming Impurities of the | relations with the Spanish government, and Poople’s An Analysis Ordered; 0 5 nal Benouroda of the City’s Reser- Drink—The Sultry ethodist General Conference—sher- | Stamboul: Continued Hospitality of uests—A Hh wu of Art—N Leading Article, “Our Relations n and England—The Misman: ment of Our Foreign Atfairs”—Amuse Announcements. al (Continued from Sixth Page) in Mexico—Cabie Telegre England and —Anot Murde —The ¥ Arms Fizzle ings in Congress—Howard Mission An: 1 fusic and the od — Another Plague Spot—Fire + Contlagration—Those Dishor Proceedings in the Courts. Jail Delivery—The Newark Jewelry Burel: The Sheddon Forgery Cuse—Floating graph Apparatus 9—Financial and Comme Stock Market Still ‘old Advancing; jovernment Securi- ence: Annual Mee ing of the Americ: Medical Association at Philadelphia—Sad Case of Malpractice fairs at the Brooklyn Navy Yard—Wife Butch- | » auf Head Money—Marriages 8, ew Party of “ilu. ria C, Woodiull ney and’ Frederick The Woodh at Apollo Hall; Vie States with Tennie the Alert—Obituary—+ Advertisements, 41—The prengng of the Harbor—Education of Crime—Highwaymen at Work—Charged with Receiving Stolen Goods—Advertiscments. 12—Advertisements. ‘I Will Stump thi ady Reformers on Tae Auricues or IMpeacnMenr AGarNst Jupax Bannarp have been filed and the As- sembly has appointed its managers to act be- fore the Senate which forms the High Court of Impeachment. Let us now have a speedy and fair trial, with an honest verdict, unbiassed | by political motives. Spantso Mrvistr1s short-lived existence. have notoriously a According to our spe- cial despatch from Madrid the Sagasta Cabinet | willsoon share the fate of its predecessors and be numbered among the things of the past. Marshal Serrano, fresh from the laurels | gained in the alleged suppression of the Car- list rising, is designated for the author and President of a new Ministry. Tae Barrimore Sun (independent) arouses from its accustomed political lethargy and wel- comes the democrats to their National Sanhe- dria, to be held in that city on the 9th of next July. Tux Repvpiican Cuanten passed the Senate yesterday by a strict party vote, and now goes | to the Governor for his signature or veto. The Senate Conference Committee made a struggle against the sectarian appropriation clause, but without effect, the Assembly stand- ing stubbornly by its position. As a conse- quence, the Senate yielded, with the result above stated. Ex-Govenxon Hawzry has nominated by a republican caucus for the posi. tion of United States Senator trom Connecti, cut. The republicans have a majority in the Legislature, and unless they belie party usages | Hawley will be elected to till the seat shortly to become vacant. Tur Czan's Aprrecurion or AMERICAN Kxypyess to Atexis.—Our St. Petersburg cor- | respondent tells us that so gratified is the Czar with the treatment of Prince Alexis during his | visit to the United States that he feels bound to make some acknowledgment of his appreci- ation of American hospitality. He is, ihere- fore, about to honor, if he has not done so already, a number of the many gentlemen who | have helped to make his son’s visit to this | country the pleasant one it has been. Decora- | ations are to be tendered to them. General Sheridan's name is particularly mentioned in this connection. We fancy that many of those who were most assiduous in their attentions to the gallant young Prince will, on reception of this news, become very anxious to know who will be the lucky ones. Tae Mitwavuer Wisconsin thinks that the “Greeley-Brown nomination is seriously disor- ganizing the democratic party.” It is nota | very hard matter to assist in disorganizing a party that has not hed a very compact organi- zation for the past twelve or fifteen years, ping Intelligence— | been squarely | that the original lack of judgment and subsequent want of firmness manifested by | | him in the conduct of the Alabama negotia- tions are condemned by a large majority otf the American people. It would be by no | means a bad stroke of policy if Secretary Fish | could manage to divert public attention from e | the unfortunate condition of the English diffi- culty by a war agitation, which would at the same time seem to make atonement for our frigid treatment of the Cuban question. But the people will be disposed to ask why should we go to war with Spain at this time? Ameri- | can sympathy has been with the Cubans from | | the commencement of their struggle for liberty, “| and our citizens would have rejoiced at an American policy that would have afforded hope | to the patriots of the suffering island. But | the administration thought fit to exercise un- usual vigilance in the enforcement of our | neutral obligations so far as the Cuban revolu- | | tionists were concerned, although the sense of | our national obligations was not so keen when the Spanish government desired to send ut from our ports a fleet of gunboats to be | used against the rebels. The flush of indigna- | tion burned on every American cheek when | the atrocities of the Spanish cutthroats became | known and it was found that American | citizens, as well as insurgent Cubans, | were made the victims of their ruffianism. But the administration discovered no cause for the intermeddling of the United States govern- ment, and was as bland and courteous as ever | in its intercourse with Spain. Many of our | people temporarily resident in Cuba sustained | losses through the rebellion, but their cases | were referred by mutual consent to a Joint Claims “Commission, and thus put in the way of an amicable settlement. What are our com- | plaints against the Spaniards now? Where | now can we find a casus belli against them? If | the Claims Commission is slow about its work the reason is to be satisfactorily found in the ; unavoidable difficulty of procuring proofs | while the island is in a state of insurrection. | Dr. Houard is only one of hundreds who have sufiered, and suffered probably unjustly, at | the hands of the brutalized Spanish regulars | and volunteers, and there is every probability | that, whether the question of his American | citizenship be doubtful or not, his release will | be accorded at the request of our government. There does not appear to be a single reason- able cause for plunging into a war with Spain | at the present time. We regard this Spanish rumor, then, as a political expedient to divert public attention from the Alabama Treaty difficulty and to save | Mr. Fish, and we presume that it originates in the office of the Secretary of State at Washing- ton. There is now but little doubt that the | Geneva Conference will be abandoned, and that the treaty under which the tribunal was | created will be destroyed. The failure of this | attempt to settle our differences with England will occasion disappointment. ‘The treaty is a valuable one, especially to England, | and our people naturally feel indignant at the blundering diplomacy by which its overthrow has been brought about. But at the same time they regurd it as immaterial whether our claims against the British government are | wiped once by the judgment j of the Geneva arbitratiors or whether | they shall be left for settlement in the | future. The*question of money has never en- | | tered into their minds in any thought they | have given to the subject, and they would rather forego than collect indirect damages if they were entitled to them by the decision of the conference. But the claim having been made and maintained by argument as a part of our case, in accordance, as we believe, with | | our strict rights, if not with good taste and sound judgment, we have refused and will cone tinue to refuse to withdraw it at the peremptory and at first discour- teous demand of England. There is an entire ‘misunderstanding among English- men of the sentiments of our citizens on this subject. We condemn the blundering diplo- macy of Secretary Fish in introducing a claim for money compensation for the indirect some out at damages inflicted upon the. nation through the acts or growing out of the acts of the Anglo-Confederate privateers, and England supposes that we are ready to aban- don our case, and that General Grant will be defeated unless he obeys the popular voice. On the contrary, while condemning Secretary Fish for his first blunder, the American people cen- sure him yet more severely for not standing firmly by our case, and its abandonment by General Grant would be fatal to his prospects of re-election, There is a mistinderstanding at Washington, also, of popular sentiment in regard to the treaty. The people demand the removal of Secretary Fish for his share in the destruction of the treaty, and the politicians imagine that the country deplores its failure. On the contrary, while condemning an in- competent Cabinet Minister, our citizens, with whom the treaty was never popular, are quite willing that the Alabama claims shall be left an open question, to be settled with England at some future and probably not far distant day. They are willing that the Treaty of Washington shall become waste paper to- morrow. In this sentiment they are in accord with President Grant. They admire the firm- ness with which he resists all attempts to in- duce a direct or indirect abandonment of our case as first presented to the conference, and they agree with him that the United States can afford to wait for a settlement of their claims against the British government. This false ery of war does not originate with the who are striving tosave Secretary Vish. It | will fail for the reason that its object is trans- parent. If we had any quarrel with the Spaniard it would be searcely becoming the strength and dignity, and it certainly would not be the policy, of the United States to press if at this time. Spain, distracted and crippled at home; ruled over by a for- eigner seated on a tottering throne; torn by factions; with insurrections breaking out in all diro s, and suppressed to-dey only to gain new lifo to-morrow; with Cuba in revo- lution—a revolution never to be ov uld not be ‘a focman worthy of our steel.’’ Yot, even a rupture with the Spaniards ud be undesirable, inasmuch as it would be ly to further embarrass our relations with gland, The experience of our rebellion not encourage us to hope that the British government would be any arrogant in its tone, or any less insolent in its demands, when it found us engaged in war with another nation. At present there is no prospect of a disturbance of the peace between the United States and England. The breach of treaty obligations will be on the part ot England if she should refuse to abide the judgment of the Geneva Tribunal; but we should not declare war against her on that account, being satisfied to tear up the Treaty of Washington and return to the position we occupied before the English government sued for and was conceded the Joint High Commission for a settlement of our international differences. England cer- tainly could not make her own bad faith and broken pledge a reason for declaring war against us; but who shall say what might be ‘come— | her next position if we should be engaged in a difficulty with another Power? Even this Spanish canard may encourage Mr. Gladstone to persevere in his apparent determination to break up the Geneva Conference, and thus may defeat the object of those who originated it. One thing is certain: we shall have no war either with Eng- and or Spain, .and the people of the United States do not want war. They are willing to wait until the time arrives when our government will adopt a warmer and more American policy towards Cuba, and they are entirely indifferent as to the fate of the Treaty of Washington. They do not object to post- pone a settlement of the Alabama claims; the debtor is solvent, the security is good, and principal and interest are certain to be paid at last. All they ask of President Grant is such a reformation of his Cabinet as will insure a more statesmanlike and a more American man- agement of our dealing with forcign nations in the future. This will be far more satisfae- tory to the people than any attempt to divert their attention from the blunders and failures of the past by raising a Washington warwhoop against poor, enfechled Spain. Tut Troy Press mentions the name of Clarkson N. Potter, member of Congress from the Tenth New York district (Westchester county, &c.), as a suitable one for the demo- cracy to sustain as their candidate for the Presidency. Suppose they try to make him Governor first. The Alabama Claims Negotiations. A London evening journal published a state- ment in its issue yesterduy to the effect that a rumor was then current in trustworthy circles in the city alleging that the negotiations between the United States and Great Britain relative to the question of indirect damages in the Alabama claims case were suddenly broken off during the forenoon. As the press which gave shape and form to the report is supposed to enjoy a sort of news inspiration from Down- ing street, its announcement may have hada foundation in fact somewhat more substantial than the writer chose to disclose at the moment. There may, indeed, have been something of reality in it; for we observe, in the same cable despatch, that Her Majesty's Ministers promised the Parliament during the evening that the Cabinet would state the con- dition of the Alabama negotiations to the Legislature next Monday, whether the papers were received or not. The concluding words of the despatch lead us to infer that the Crown has resolved to act on the subject, and that at an early moment. As Saturday is, at this season of the year particularly, a sort of dies non in English Parliamentary work, the Amer- ican people must wait patiently till Monday. Tur Curcaco Trine repeats what it has already stated, that “the election of Horace Greeley in no way depends upon any action which the Democratic Committee may take.’’ Perhaps the action of the Democratic National Convention may interfere somewhat with the little arrangements of the happy family that now seems to surround the venerable philoso- pher of Chappaqua. Gratz Brown dec! Jares that tars is no un- friendliness betweon himself and Schurz, and that Greeley ought to make a good President because he knows how to run a newspaper. Gratz is entitled to the congratulations of iournalista, President or his friends, but with those | Are Wo Threatened with a National Water Famine t The intelligence which reaches us from vari- ous parts of the world seems to invest this question with present a nd paramount impor- tance. In a recent article we commented on the exceptional and phenomenal cold of the past winter, and showed that it might, perhaps, be attributable to the periodic return of what eminent meteorologists have called ‘the-cold wave" through which our planet is supposed to pass once in every ten or fifteen years. The Astronomer Royal of Scotland, in common with other able and cautious physicists, pre- dicted last year such an event, and sought to explain it ‘on broad cosmical principles. Whether correct or not in their reasonings there can be no doubt now that the pre- diction was verified in fact. The diminution of our annual heat supply derived from marked by a diminution in the amount of water evaporated from the billows of the ocean and delivered to the winds to be transported over the great continental masses of the globe for their irrigation and refreshment, The rain- fall statistics and returns for the present year, so far as received, appear to bear out the natu- ral inference from the above facts, and give us timely warning to be prepared for great scarcity of water during the coming summer. We already know, by experience, that the rains of the season have fallen short of their usual abundance this spring in the United States, although the condensation of this past week has been considerable. The returns from Eng- land, carefully collated by Mr. Glaisher, give a general average of only twenty-two inches for the past year, while the proper mean rainfall of England is thirty inches. The deficiency of eight inches of the usual fall may be roughly estimated at over a million gallons of water for every square mile of British territory, and should be carefully noted. In the tropics, where the atmospheric machinery takes up the greatest amount of moisture from the sea for terrestrial distribution, we find similar results. From the returns of the Windward West Indies the official figures for last December show a deficiency greater than has been known in the twenty-four years preceding; and the average of the year 1871 was twenty-cight per cent, or more than one-fourth below that of the pre- ceding twenty-four years. For the month of January, 1872, the returns are still more dis- couraging, the average falling short of that for the same month of the twenty-five preceding years by thirty-five per cent, or more than one- third. Taking these facts in connection with the widespread and terrible ravages of the great Northwestern fires and forest conflagrations, which denuded so many districts of country last fall, and remembering the climatic dete- rioration usually observed to follow the clear- ing of the soil and felling of trees, we see good reason for calling the attention of the whole country to the most frugal husbanding of the precious water supply distilled from the clouds, It may not now be too late to warn agricul- turists to prepare for any emergency by the construction of ponds and reservoirs for the irrigation of the soil. But the warning is cer- tainly opportune and of vital importance in all the cities and towns of the land to economize the water, that in case of blighting droughts and epidemic di§ease the terrors of water famine may not have to be endured. The pro- posed action of Congress in providing fot or encouraging the planting and preservation of trees on the public lands is a step in the right direction. The danger now apprehended by this means, by the early sinking of artesian wells and other precautions, may be materially averted and lessened. Tue CommissionEr or THE Boanp or Pus- tic Worns must take immediate steps to se- cure the city from the horrors of a water fam- ine during the approaching summer months. Atarsine Increase IN Frres.—The records of the Fire Marshal's office and. our news columns exhibit an alarming increase in the | number of conflagrations which have lately taken place in this city, as compared with - other seasons. Scarcely day passes now without the services of the Fire Department being called into requisition. Business men cannot be too careful now, in the full tide of the spring and summer trade, lest the disci- pline and vigilance necessary in every large establishment should be relaxed in this regard. In the immense rush of business people are too apt to forget what a deadly foe lurks in their well-stocked houses and stores, ready to take advantage of the slightest carelessness or neglect. In the country dis- tricts the parched condition of the land is seen in the numerous forest fires that seem to have raged in every direction, with but a winter's intermission, since the destruction of Chicago and the woods of Wisconsin and nach ealohigan, “Wurre Hart Cuivss’’ (Greeley loy and Brown) are now the rage in Kentucky. It is not expected that any of the members will show the white feather. GeneraL SHERMAN’s Stay IN STAMBOUL was prolonged at the request of the Sultan. From the time the American travellers entcred the Golden Horn until their departure from the Turkish capital their visit was rendered as pleasing as the lavish hospitality of their im- perial host could make it. Nothing that could be done to entertain the republican visitors was neglected. On the land and on the water, in the town and in the country, it was ono continuous féle wherever they went. The im- pressions which Old Tecumseh and his young companions will bring away with them from the Kast will serve in days to come to cheer the camp fires or, dearer still, brighten the home circle with the recital of the incidents of these travels in the distant lands across the ‘seas. Bantmorr 18 AN Ustvcny “Pace for the democracy. It was there Cass was nominated, to be defeated by Zach Taylor, in 1848, and it was there the treachery and treason of the Charleston conspirators against the democratic party culminated in 1861. Wrat Avout ‘Oun Waren Surpiy tae Cons- ine Summer ?—With the thermometer ranging up among the nineties in the early pagt of May; with the parched countty districts in Ulster and other counties (contiguous to the fountainhead of the water supply for this great city) at the mercy of the fire fiend, we may well call upon the authorities to see to it in time that the metropolis be not scant of the element so conducive to health, comfort and cleanliness in the avvroaching midsummer. * solar radiation, it is easy to see, will be | ; | troops from Matamoros. General Cevallos, the SHEET. SuSE RS ERReeememeeeeeesereneee The Revolution in Mexico. The news from Mexico is incoherent and contradictory to a distressing degree. Accord- ing to our special despatch from Camargo the rovolutionists under Trevifio have left that place, and abandoned the whole line of the Rio Grande. heir retreat brings all Northern Mexico.back under the control of the Juarez government. The same despatch mentions a report, emanating from a revolu- tionary source, to the effect that a disastrous blow has fallen upon the army of General Rocha. Three of his battalions, it is stated, have revolted ond killed their chiefs. Another despatch tells an entirely different story of Rocha’s troops and their movements. Instead * of the reported disaster oa detachment of his army is credited with a victory over the revolutionists, while the main body was marching on Camar- go toeffect a junction with the government commander of the latter, has started in pursuit of General Trevifio, who, according to the same report, has given himself up to drink ever since the collapse of his force near Matamoros, In a conversation with the Hzraup cor- respondent at Camargo General Trevifio said that all the revolutionary forces were soon to be concentrated fora combined movement against the city of Mexico. This is too bold a plan to have taken birth in the brains of a man who is constantly in a state of intoxication, and, to judge from the account of our corre- spondent, the report of his despair and drunk- enness is probably a Juarista fabrication. General Porfirio Diaz, whose death has been so often announced and contradicted, is once more said to be in the land of the living and to be organizing for another campaign against Juarez. Tuere Is No Mistace Anour Ir—The ma- jority of our exchanges, democratic and other- wise, go for Greeley and Brown. Civil Rights and Amnesty in the Senate. It is difficult to understand upon what prin- ciples politicians base their actions. Certainly the struggle which has just terminated in the defeat of the amnesty measure by the Sen- ate reflects no credit on the great parties that divide the State. Both are loud in their pro- fessions of love of fair play and equal justice to all, and each puts itself forward as the champion of the oppressed. Yet when the crucial test is applied the gilding of preten- tious justness falls off and reveals the worthless brass beneath. The democrats and some re- publicans who are anxious to establish a repu- tation for liberality demand that those people in the South who are debarred from the full exercise of their rights as citizens on account of complicity in the rebellion should be re- stored to the exercise of those rights. There is in the hearts of millions of loyal men a de- sire that this amnesty should be extended, if only the objects of it will give proof by their respect for the rights of others that they accept the issue of the war. Advocates of the Southern cause constantly assure us that there is no longer any desire among their friends to limit the rights of any citizen. These professiogs are, howevér, just as regu- larly belied whenever an opportunity offers. On the other hand, the love professed by the radicals for the colored population when tested by practical results is foynd to be hol- low and delusive. And the best proof that it is so is furnished by the way in which they have treated Sumner'’s Civil Rights bill. It is useless in view of the facts occurring every day to deny that there is a strong neces- sity for such protection to the colored citizens as this bill affords. It is not enough that the law accords to this class of the citizens equal rights; it must go further, and see that the boon which it offers is not made illusive by the action of any party inthe State. No law will be able to compel one man to regard another as his equal, but it can and ought to force respect for the rights of every citizen. If the republican party were sincerely anxious for the settlement of this question they have had the power to pass Sumner'’s bill into law, but they have never made a hearty effort to do so. The more violent party men are content to see it remain in the background, to be used at the proper moment against their opponents, as it was used in Thursday’s debate in the Senate to kill amnesty. No doubt the tactics are very clever, but we look for something more than questionable smartness at the hands of our legislators. There is a weighty and important question of principle involved which we should like to see fought out onits merits. Either the dominant party believe that the colored race should be secured in the enjoyment of their fall rights or they do not. In the latter case they are infinitely less respectable than their opponents, who at least have the courage to boldly express their opinions. But the Southern people and their advocates have to make up their minds that, disagreeable as it may be to them, they wi have to respect the rights of the colored trace before they can reasonably assert their own. The defeat of two most important measures by the stupid obstinacy of men who refuse to accept the inevitable will be regarded with regret by all who desire to see the sec- tional differences which resulted from the war healed up. We admire thé constancy of Sumner in insisting that the Civil Rights bill shall not be ignored by the Senate, but regret that he should be compelled to interfere with another desirable measure to achieve his aim. He has done good service in exposing the hollowness of radical professions, but he ought to go one step further. It only requires a majority vote to pass the Civil Rights bill, and if the repub- licans are in earnest they can push it through in spite of their opponents. This would leave the field clear for the introduction of the Amnesty bill and probably secure the adoption of both measures. At this crisis neither party can afford to offend the colored citizens, upon the disposition of whose votes to a great extent must depend the future government of the country; and it was not a wise proceeding on the part of the democratic members to display such a marked hostility to a measure which aims only at securing citizens from insult in places of public resort. Unless the laws do this the citizenship which America has con- ferred on the colored population “js a mockery, a delusion and a snare.’ Tax Inpiaxapous Sentinel (democratic) hoists the names of Greeley for President and Brown for Vice, subject to the decision of the Indiana Democratic State Convention, to mest Jane 12, 1872. Germany and France—The Prospect of an Early Termination of the Ger- man Occupation, The London Times of yesterday morning, according to our cable news, made a strong and positive statement to the effect that the government of Germany is willing to negotiate with the government of France with the view of accelerating the evacuation of the French territory now oceupied by the German troops. This statement alone was necessary to secure success to the loan which President Thiers and his Finance Minister, with the consent of the Assembly, contemplate putting on the London and other markets, for the purpose of raising sufficient money to pay off at once all that re- mains of the war indemnity. Weare likely on to hear that the loan movement has been heartily gone into; and the presumption is ' that it will be a complete and immediate suc- cess. The French people themselves will raise a large portion of it. The French people, under the Presidency of M. Thiers and under the shadow of the repub- lic, are really doing well. Tho Committee on Capitulation is really doing good work. When blame is due, blame is given; and when praise is due, praise is ungrudgingly bestowed. And while the public mind of France is occupied with the doings of the Committee on Capitula- tion and the approaching courts-martial, a revolution is quietly progressing which prom- ises not only.to make the republic a permanent success, but to place Gambetta at its head. The recent exposures have seriously damaged the empire, and the peasantry of France, for- merly so much attached to the House of Bona- parte because of the prosperity which the em- pire brought them, are now, because of their growing prosperity under the republic, quite prepared, it is said, to send up when called upon a republican Assembly. M. Thiers no longer shuns and despises Gambetta; on the contrary, he has become reconciled to him, de- claring, what many regard as truth, that the ex-Dictator's “policy is as moderate as his language is inflated.” Gambetta has quite recently made a tour of the French provinces, and everywhere he has been received with en- thusiasm. Not only is he a favorite with the mob in the large cities and with the peasant farmers in the rural districts, but also with the middle class men who can give ‘dinners of six hundred covers.”’ It will not be at all wonderful if in a short space of time the name of Gambetta, like that of Napoleon, or baldi, or O'Connell in Ireland, be a name to conjure with. If France succeeds in raising sufficient money to wipe out with one bold stroke the entire war indemnity there will be an end of the Bordeaux ‘‘pact,’’ and it will be necessary to dissolve the Assembly and let France decide at the polling urns what is to be the future form of government. All present appearances are in favor of the continuance of the republic, and the age of M. Thiers, viewed in connection with the youth and energy and growing popularity of Gambetta, encourages us in the belief that the ex-Dictator may yet have the honor to preside over the destinies of France. We know no reason why this should not be so. Gambetta, although unable to save: France when the German hosts invaded her territory, taught France and the world that the humiliation which Germany inflicted upon her was the result of the gross mismanagement which prevailed under the empire. According to Gambetta Frenchmen have not deteriorated, but Frenchmen have been badly ruled. We shall not be sorry if Gambetta has yet the opportunity to give satisfactory proof of his theory. It is gratifying to all good Americans to know that there is strong presumptive proof that the French republic is likely to endure. Tne Bavrmore Gazette (democratic) is waking up to the fact that there is still a demo- cratic party, and that the National Convention of the same is to be held in its own blessed Monumental City. July the 9th is likely to he a very hot day in Baltimore. Spars anp France.—It appears that with the collapse of the Carlist movement in Spain large numbers of the Carlists have succeeded in crossing the frontier and finding safety in France. The Spanish government is angry, and it is said that there is a determination to question the Versailles government in the premises. It is not unnatural that the Spanish government should feel sore; but, all things considered, the Spanish government has no real ground of complaint. President Thiers has done all that could be reasonably done by any government influenced by an honest de- sire to act fairly by its neighbor. It is not easy to guard a whole frontier so large as that which separates France from Spain. The gov- ernment of Amadeus will do well not to com- plain too much. “Twix Rexics.’’—The Boston Advertiser (ad- ministration) compares the Cincinnati Conven- tion to the Cleveland Convention in 1864, which nominated Fremont against Lincoln—a pro- ceeding that ended in a fiasco. Perhaps the “ater twin’’ may have better Inck. The Heated Term—Its Probable Influ- ence on the Streets, the Water Supply and Public Health. After a prolonged and remarkably inclement season, which, in addition to a fair allowance of rain, snow, frost and other pleasant fea- tures of winter, had also the morit of possess- ing more than feminine fickleness, the most intense summer heat has come upon us with- outa note of warning, and the thermometer has suddenly jumped into the nineties. The last few days seem to have taken New Yorkers by surprise. Even sunstrokes may now be looked for, as not been known at this season for many years in this city. The indications are that we shall have a summer of unwonted heat, and that those who remain in the city may expect a taste of more than tropical fierceness during the dog days. Even the wel- come little shower that came as a messenger of relief yesterday afternoon—an avant courrier of cheerful visitants and celestial watering carts— can produce but a temporary change, and will give the sun an opportunity to come out with redoubled power and fierceness. We may, then, look out for a summer yhich will give a practical realization of the toffid zone, With this conviction in view prevautions of various kinds should be seriously considered’ by all. Individual or pexsonal measures in regard to cleanliness, diet, the avoidance of hurtful stimulants and a constant watch against the evil effects of tropical heat ought to engage the attention of every citizen. In the absorbing whirlpool of business our people are too ant to forget the moat ordinary laws of such heat has - git