The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1872, Page 6

Se EE NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. BS All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Herarp. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas Bautet Panto- same or Homery Dumpty. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Enxocn ARpRN. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, lth st. and Broadway.— Forruxto aNd His Girtep Sexvanrs. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Tux Long Strix, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Articie 47. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Ovr CoLonen Bretuken. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tae Bottie—Cani- FORNIA; On, Toe HeaTHeN Cnryii, Broadway. —Cnrcaco Br- THEATRE COMIQUE, p Arren Tax 'iRk, Pork Tax Fine, Dunine Th BRYANT'S OPERA ‘wonty-third st, corner Na. 6th av. ish OFe ITA MRS. F. B. BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Tae Naiap Que SAM SITA, Sam Suanrces CONWA’ REL WALL, 585 Broadway.— Matinee at 2. MINSTE CHICKERING HALL, No, 11 East Fourteenth street.— Sorex Musica, TRAL PARK GARDEN.—Ganpen Insrravuentat Con NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrmncx anv Ant. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. I—Advertisements, R—Advertisente 3—Philadelph: rst Day of the Great Republican Conventi Unanimity and Enthusiasm; Brilliant Scene in the Academy of M to Order by Governor Committees Tules and Ph ion; The Nominatio ari and Tax Bill a ete List of Import Duties; ‘Ten Per Cent Ri pI s and Tobac ‘ mp Tas Remitted and Retained; uce ion of the Revenue Collection Distriets— ae Death of James Gordon Bennett—Another >i Passe 4 Hamp- ina—Juvenile Ovenders in Russell” — glish Opera ather ment Announcements. Sahel %=The Washington Treaty—Cable Despatches from Ireland and Italy—The Steamship Bal- | ie War in Mea wa from | 3 Deliriuin: ellancous | Indian Visitors—Busine | f Proceedings in the ) Brooklyn Courts—Westehester Court Mat- ew York City News—Grand Lodge of | ons—Contagious Diseases—Brooklyn | 's—Anniversary of Packard's Busi- | —A Dry Goods Jobber Wanted— dings in the Boards of Aldermen and | | Scheming in the | $ the Highost to Meet the | ‘Treasury Sale; The Bank of England Discount Rate and the Probabilities of a Further Re- | duction; Fi ess of Government Bonds; | The able to Buy the Amount Ad- | r; Advance in Railway Mortgages; rn State Bonds Lowe: a | me | ; Decline in Erie an | Hourd of Education- Brewers’ Cong! i—Po- | lice Matters—A Mystery Explained don | Disorderly Honses—Marriages and Deaths— | Advertisements. | WePhiiadelphia (Continued from Third Page)— | Louisiana Democracy: ‘The Struggle for a Coalition with the Republicans—Shipping In- | tellizence—Advertisements, Advertisements. 1eAdvertisement: An Important Invention. A new and highly important application has | recently been made of electricity for the pur- | pose of measuring temperatures. The appa- | ratus designed for it is the work of Mr. Siemens, F. R. S. By means of it the in. ventor was enabled to tell, in the testing cabin of acable ship, the increasing temperature of | the interior of the mass cable in the hold, and to prove that it was in danger of destruction through spontaneous generation of heat. But this is only one of many uses to which it can | be put. It has been already used in the most NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1872.—TRIPLE The Washington Treaty in the House of Lords—The Speech of Earl Russell. In the Hegarp of yesterday we printed, somewhat in exlenso, the principal speeches delivered in the House of Lords on the occasion of the debate which took place on Tuesday evening on the Washington Treaty. Our readers have had time to digest the speeches and arrive at their own conclusions. Of course, we have arrived at ours; and we have no hesitation in saying that the debate in the British House of Lords has begotten a feel- ing which is general all over the Union—a feeling which amounts to this—that the Wash- ington ‘Treaty should be abandoned, and abandoned at once. At last the snobbish spirit of the British aristocracy has found expression, and, as our course has been made clear, our action should be decisive. Woe have but little cause of complaint with the Gladstone Ministry. From first to last it seems to have been the desire of Mr. Glad- stone, Lord Granville and the others to make an end of the Anglo-American trouble. It was a most desirable thing to accomplish; it was a gigantic work to undertake; and the carrying out satisfactorily the princi- ples of the Washington Treaty, and the se- curing thereby of the amicable relations of the two great English-speaking peoples, would have secured for the Gladstone administration undying fame. We dare not say, however, that Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville, with their associates in power, have absolutely done the thing which was right. The opposition has | been strong; it has also been vigilant and determined, and it is not wonderful that men now in power, and above all things anxious to retain that power, should be fearful of making aslip. The love of place and power has damaged and made crooked a policy originally noble and well intentioned. ‘The tories, however, led by Mr. Disraeli, have been less offensive than certain disappointed whigs. Mr. Horsman in the House of Commons and Earl Russell in the House of Lords, both of them liberals, but both of them disappointed politicians, have in this par- | ticular matter more annoyed the British | government than the entire ranks of toryism. In comparison with Earl Russell Lord Stan- ley and Lord Salisbury have been mild, and in comparison with Mr. Horsman and Mr. Bou- - | verro Mr. Disraeli has been lenient. Sore- | headism finds a place in England quite as much as in America, and it will not be at all wonderful if the soreheads make necessary the abandonment of the Washington Treaty and accomplish the ruin of the Gladstone Ministry. In these things, however, we are but little interested. Whether the British people wish ordo not wish Mr. Gladstone to rule over them is no affair of ours. Mr. Disraeli, at the | head of affairs in Great Britain, might be as useful to us as Mr. Gladstone. Aside alto- gether from the character and disposition of political parties we must look facts in the face; and, looking facts in the face, we have ance, in this international question, the debate | which took place in the House of Lords on the night of Tuesday lest and the fecling, appar- ently national, which that debate elicited. We had not forgotten the remarks maide by | Earl Russell on a former occasion, when he | | spoke of us as a nation of pickpockets and swindlers.’ That was bad enough, certainly, and sufficient to justify President Grant to put down his foot and say—‘Enough; pick- pockets and gentlemen cannot do business together."’ The offence committed by Earl Russell on that occasion, bad as it was, was. slight in comparison with the offence which he committed on Tuesday last, when he said— “The nation must show, as it has before, that it is jealous of the honor of the British Crown. It must treat the United States as it treated them in the Trent case.’’ The Trent case! The Trent case! Was ever insolence so magnificent? Was ever insolence so offen- sive? A slap in the face Earl Russell in- tended. A slap in the face Earl Russell most certainly gave. We know Lord John Russell. | We know his antecedents. It is the misfor- | tune of Earl Russell that he cannot forget that | his father wis Duke of Bedford; that | he himself was author of the first English Reform bill; that he has been Prime Minister of Great Britain; that he was at one time Foreign Secretary; that for thirty years | he was one of the recognized leaders of the delicate operations of the blast furnace, and also for meteorological observations at very elevate] poin It will, no doubt, also prove admirably adapted to the difficult thermometric observations in thé deep sea, and it is, there- fore, to be welcomed as a valuable ally of sci- ence, meteorologist that the invention of the ba- rometer has led to the discovery of a new world | of knowledge, and this remark is eminently | true of any instrument which will enable | physicists to explore the deep sea and detect | its various thermal and boreal currents, and | also to test the temperature of the atmosphere | at considerable elevations. Of the upper sur- fuce of the serial ocean we know less than of | the profoundest stratam of the aqueous ocean, | and until these mysteries are solved we cannot | arrive at the physieal mechanism of these two | grand constituents of our globe. England is | now fitting ont a vessel to convey a party of | scientists on a four years’ er explorations and surveys, and no doubt the | modern instrumental for such surveys will prove of as great value in studying | ocean physics as the spectrosc has proved | in the study of solar phenome | All the difficulties heretofore experienced with deep sea thermometers seem to be over- come in the new instrument contrived by Mr. Rae EAN Som ‘Tne Nationa Inpustrran Exumrrion or Inetanp was formally opened in Dublin yes- terday by His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburg. The ceremonial was of a very im- posing character and performed in the pres- ence of an immense concourse of spectators. ‘The undertaking promises to be a great suc- cess, as will be seen by the reports which we append to our cabie news telegram from Dablin. ‘Tae Travian Provie are suffering from the effects of a disastrous visitation caused by a sudden inundation of the water of the River Po. ‘The desolation is widespread and the suffering extreme. Forty thousand persons have been made houseless. This condition of affairs will tend to impress the mind of Christendom still more forcibly with the idea that the Italians are being specially chastised from on High just now for some offence, It has been said by a distinguished | contrivances whig party, and that in the most powerful lib- | eral administration which Great Britain has the poorer. The Trent affair, so offensively brought up by our English cousins, reminds us of our humiliation and of England's un- kindness. Our opportunity will come; it must come; and until it comes we can afford to wait. No more such imperious demands as those which compelled us to deliver up Mason and Slidell can ever be made to us—at least no such demands will ever be complied with. If the British government will not peacefully and heartily grant us compensation for the wrongs we endured at her hands we know where compensation is to be found, and we know quite as well how to obtain it. The New Dominion is not far off, and, in spite of its high-sounding name, we have but to stretch forth our hands to make the New Dominion our own. The non-fulfilment of the treaty is, in many respects, most desirable; and now that the opportunity for honorably breaking off negotiations is almost forced upon us Presi- dent Grant cannot doa wiser thing, cannot better consult his own interests or the interests of the American people, than to notify the British government that, as the Washington Treaty promises to give satisfaction neither to Great Britain nor to the United States, he has decided to break off all further negotiations and to regard the treaty as a dead letter. This is the course we feel compelled to advise, and itis the only course which, so far as we can now see, is compatible with the dignity of the nation. We have done our best to conciliate and we have failed. Let us now retire. When England grows wiser and chooses to resume negotiations in a more friendly spirit we shall not be unwilling in a similar spirit to listen to her proposals. Meanwhile the treaty should be abandoned. The Philadelphia Convention—The Or. ganization—The Grant—The ‘To-Day. The proceedings in the organization of the Philadelphia Oonvention yesterday are mainly | interesting as developing the overwhelming enthusiasm which prevails in that body for General Grant. The speech of Morton Mc- Michael, on taking the chair as the temporary | President, seems to have fired the assemblage as by a sort of spontancous combustion. It was a speech admirably adapted to the occa- sion. His hits at the party of the Cincinnati Jonvention and at the democratic party were | particularly successful in bringing down the house. He described, amid great applause, “the malcontents who recently met at Cincin- nati’ as “without a constituency,’”’ and “the | democrats, who are soon to meet at Bualti- more,”’ as a party ‘without a principle ;"’ that “tho former, having no motive in common but. personal disappointment, attempted a fusion of repelling elements, which has resulted in explosion,” referring, no doubt, to the bolting | free-traders ; and that the democrats, ‘de- graded from the high estate they once occu- pied, propose an abandonment of their identity, which means death,’’ while the republican party, based upon principles, “is founded as the rock, as broad and general as the casing air.” But it appears that when Mr. MeMichael said of General Grant that at this moment ‘‘he enjoys gore of the confidence gf his countrymen, and # believed by them to be honester, truer and a better man than any of | his detractors,”’ there was the greatest cheer- ing and throwing up of hats and handker- chiefs. In the same enthusiastic spirit were received the hearty endorsements of General Grant by General Logan and the venerable Gerrit | Smith. It is thus evident that when the Con- vention proceeds to the choice of its Presiden- dential ticket to-day General Grant will be re- | nominated by acclamation. ‘There was, how- ever, a dissenting voice in the tabernacle; , but | it has been withdrawn. Governor Pierpdint, of West Virginia, in a parting speech to the delegation from that State, said he had come to this Convention with the hope that thére was still an opening for an acceptable Presidential candidate; but as it was now evident that this hoping was against hope, that this was a meet- | ing to obey the demands of an arrogant power, he would withdraw and give his support to Horace Greeley. Whata strange infatuation was that of Governor Pierpoint which carried | him to Philadelphia with the hope of securing a more acceptable candidate from this Conven- vention than General Grant! And what an extraordinary idea is that of “obeying the de- | mands of an arrogant power’’ in the renomina- tion of the modest and unpretending man of Enthusiasm for Work to Be Finished ever known he has not been deemed worthy of | ¢14 White House! a place. old fogy in England. | lish statesmen who has refused to learn and | benefit by experience. It has ever been his | belief that the Reform bill of 1832 was a per- fact. fect work and that all further reform was rev: lutionary. ‘‘Finality John’’ was once a familiar name. The world moves on, but oc- togenarian John remains what he was forty | years ago, his sole occupation being to mourn over the degenerate times which he has lived to see, For this man’s opinion, for this man’s abuse, we care nothing; but to the cheers which, according to the report, followed his offensive and insolent allusion to the Trent affair we cannot afford to be indifferent. It was a most indecent allusion, and the cheers which it called forth reflect anything but the British Parliament. We can afford to overlook Lord John, but we cannot overlook or lightly esteem the fact that the sentiments | expr by His Lordship are largely shared the aristocracy of England. As we have said already, if the debate of Tuesday last should prove the ruin of the Gladstone Minis- try it will be no affair of ours; but we can no longer refuse to admit that the eyes of our | Than Earl Russell there is no such | He is one of the Eng- | It is enough, however, that the renomination | of Grant, with the first manifestations of the meeting on the subject, was impressed upon | the mind of Governor Pierpoint as a fixed The only doubt is upon the Vice Presi- | dency. For this distinction there is a sharp contest between the present incumbent, Schuy- ler Colfax, and Henry Wilson, Senator from Massachusetts, with the odds apparently in favor of Wilson. He is a man of great general | popularity. He is a prime favorite with the Southern blacks; the workingmen of New York, in a late mass meeting at Cooper Insti- tute, proclaimed their intention to sup- port that party for the Presidency which will nominate Henry Wilson for the Vice Presi- dency; and, moreover, whatever mischief Mr. | Sumner may have done, or may otherwise do, so of submarine | Credit on the members of the upper house of | 5, attempt to do, in Massachusetts and New | England against Grant, will be neutralized by Wilson’s nomination for the Vice Presidency on the administration ticket. From yester- day's developments in the Convention we think it highly probable that these suggested advantages of Wilson will give him the victory over Colfax. But as within a few hours all | doubts will be settled upon this point by the action of the Convention we dismiss for the government should be opened, and that action | present any further speculations or remarks on our part should be worthy of ourselves and equal to the occasion, What should our government now do? The question is not difficult to answer. Let Secre- | | we can do in the direction of making an ami- | cable settlement of all outstanding difficulties | possible. Let President Grant reveal some of | his old pluck and put down his foot as he was wont to do in days of old. Why should we ' court England and keep coaxing her to settle | this question? What have we to gain by the | carrying out of the Washington Treaty which | we cannot gain by a dignified and patient policy of delay? If England can wait, surely gain to England, cannot fail to be a gain to us. England can do us no harm. The settlement of this treaty will not make us one penny the richer: its failure will not make us one Denny | upon the subject. | tary Fish declare at once that we have done all | | we can wait, Delay, which can hardly be a | The Strects and the New Street Clean- ing Bureau. Arrangements are not yet completed for the | commencement of operations under the new law which gives the control of the street clean- | ing business to the Police Commissioners. | | What will be done with the present contract is not yet decided; but it appears certain that at | an early day the new bureau, under Police | Captain Thorne, will take the work in hand. | Now, we have repeatedly complained of the | manner in which work was done, or rather | left undone, under the old system; and, while we wish to give every encouragement to the new brooms, we shall keep a vigilant watch for negligence or shortcomings. With a department having no sinecures and su- pervieed in its variow divisions bv active and intelligent men, the work should be carried on with comfort and safety to the city’s health. The summer solstice should find New York city perfectly clean and with a system, if not perfect inevery detail, at least thoroughly efficient and labor- ing towards perfection. There should, there- fore, be no delay in at once urging forward the cleansing of our neglected thoroughfares. It seemed during the hot summer months of last year as though nothing but a merciful Provi- dence stood between us and a fearful epidemic. We'do not wish to have that experience re- peated this year. The unsightly piles of gar- bage left to poison the atmosphere under the disintegrating influence of a summer sun must afford no temptation to the horrible diseases which ask just such breeding places. The heaps of builders’ refuse, which are left all the year round to make the streets impassable with mud when it rains and to choke our parched throats with calcareous dust when an occasional delicious breeze comes to temper the heat of the day, should no longer be tolerated. A strong measure of hopefulness will be derived from the fact that orders will be issued to the patrolmen to arrest all persons throwing ashes and house refuse in the streets. This will form a capital supplement to an efficient broom and shovel brigade. The extreme usefulness of this power will be better learned from the fact that tho poor themselves contribute greatly to the filth of the poorer and more crowded localities. Shiftlessness and slovenliness induce them to empty their ash barrels and garbage into the streets, heedless and often ignorant of the malarious reckoning they are rolling up against their very lives. American Jockey Club—Second Day of the Spring Meeting. Five races will come off to-day at Jerome Park should the sun shine in the morning and no rain interfere. ‘The first event will be the Ladies’ Stakes, a race very similar to the Eng- lish Oaks, as it is exclusively for three-year-old fillies. There will be seven starters for this race, comprising Mr. Belmont’s chestnut fillies Polonta and Victoria, Brush & Parks’ brown filly Experience Oaks, Clark & Grinstead’s gray filly Nema, Chamberlain’s brown filly Venetia, J. Hunt Reynolds’ chestnut filly Elsie, and D, J. Crouse’s chestnut filly by Planet. Experience Oaks was .the favorite at the American Jockey Club room on Tuesday night, the others selling for about equal amounts in the pools. Experience Oaks ran six times as a two-year-old, and won twice. She has grown into a finely proportioned race nag, and ought to run fast and stay the dis- tance. Some of the others were also well tried in their two-year-old form. Mr. Bel- mont’s Victoria ran four times very credit- ably, although beaten in each race. Nema ran once last year, winning the Flash Stakes at the Saratoga July meeting, beating Victoria, Malita and Mollie McIntyre. Reynold’s Elsie ran twice asa two-year, but was beaten in each race, and she has run this year at Lex- ington, showing fine form and fair speed. All the fillies that will start are well thought of, anda capital race may be anticipated. The distance is a mile and five-eighths. The second race is the Jockey Club Handi- cap, which will have six or seven starters. These will be Colonel McDanicl’s Tubman, or Abdel Koree (probably both), T. H. Doswell’s Wine Sap, W. W. Glenn’s Quintard, Carrol & Coar’s Ortolan, Jo Donahue’s Alroy and Blandy’s Tom Boston. McDaniel’s entries are great favorites and may win, but they have a | strong field against them. The third race is called the Claiming Stakes. as the winner can be claimed for fifteen hun- dred dollars. This race will have eight starters, and it is considered a very doubtful affair by many, although Messrs. Hunter & Traver's Alarm sold in the pools for three times as much as any of the other horses. He won a very good race last Saturday at three-quarters of a mile, and he ought to be able to go half a mile further. If he can keep up the pace that car- ried him to victory on his last appearance he will win to-day. The fourth race is another ‘‘claiming’’ race, which is another name for a selling race, with allowances for the price that is put upon the horses. There will be six starters, maybe seven, as Doswell makes two entries. The ‘distance is a mile and three-quarters. The entries are Midday and Wine Sap, Doctor, Gayo, O’Donnell’s Asteroid colt, Frank Swift and Flora Mclvor. It will be difficult to name the winner before the race is over; but we think that Midday’s chances are the best of the lot. The fifth race is a gentlemen’s steeple-chase, which has three entries, comprising Jim Tis- dale, MacIntosh and Mary Hennessey. Mr. Lawrence will ride Jim Tisdale, Mr. Beresford MacIntosh, and Mr. Clason Mary Hennessey. Jim Tisdale is the favorite and will be very likely to win. The disappointment caused by the inclement weather yesterday will doubtless add fresh zest to the enjoyment of to-day's races, and the beautiful drives and grassy knolls of Westchester will be arrayed in their brightest colors. The Street Car Cushion Question and the Board of Health. So deeply has the mania of reform taken possession of men’s minds that even the slow and conservative class of beings who go to make up a Board of Health have been stirred up into something like activity. Unfortu- nately their new-found energy took a direction not likely to increase the pleasure or con- venience of travel in our city; and though we | are ready to give them credit for the very best intentions, our afterthoughts are calculated to interfere with that unruffled and equit- able temper so necessary to the jour- nalist. We have woes enough to com- plain of without any addition being made to the number. We find the | road of life hard enough to travel even when we are supplied with cushions to break the violence of the jolts and jars to which we are hourly exposed. Henceforth we must look for no relief, and the rumbling of car wheels will become associated with thoughts akin to those which the wheel and rack sug- | gested to the traveller in the Middle Ages. As | we are called on to suffer in the cause of | general health we suppose we must submit with the best grace possible, but as |a last effort we would suggest the propriety of the Board of Health in some way modifying their decree so that we may be able to go home in peace without any fear of preliminary torture. We are strongly in favor of cleanliness. and SHEET. would be willing to make very great sacrifices tosee such regulations adopted as would secure its enforcement; but we want the necessary and the agreeable to bé combined so that the latter shall enter as much as possible into the arrangement, Many months ago we advocated measures to secure propriety on the street cars; but we fear that in converting the Board of Health we have made them too violent and too radical. Resolving to make a sweeping change they issued a decree abolishing car cushions, but taking no means to insure a proper substitute which would secure ease as well as cleanliness. It is really too bad that reforms of this nature should be carried out at the expense of our comfort, and some provision ought to be made which would compel the companies to adopt ‘a pleasanter kind of seat than the hard board system furnishes. The Commissioners ought not to indulge in jokes on sucha large scale as to set all New York riding on rails. This is a kind of punishment which might now and then be inflicted on delinquent politicians with advantage, but asa health measure ap- plied toa whole population it is rather radi- cal. It appears to us that a compromise could be effected likely to give general satisfaction by the adoption of cane seats and rests, They would effectively meet the argument about the danger of infection, and would be cool and agreeable. If the Health Commissioners are really acting for the benefit of the people let some provision of this kind be inserted in the regulations; otherwise they will compel the citizens in self-defence to travel around with private cushions; and as it is evident the Commissioners of Health are not inter- ested in upholstery there is no good reason why they should inflict this inconvenience on their fellow citizens, The Report of the Senate Investigat- ing Committee on the Custom House Scandals. The report of the Senate Committee of In- vestigation will probably fail to please the violent partisans on either side in the vexed question of Custom House fraud. From the first the biassed character of the evidence made it difficult to form anything like a just judgment on the merits of the case. The charges that were made by those op- posed to the present Custom House officials for the most part were not new. They hed already been made against party in turn There can be no doubt that many abuses which require correction exist and have existed for many years. These have been constantly made the basis of charges like those the In- vestigating Committee have disposed of; for politicians out of office have always been the loudest in denouncing abuses which they are willing enough to profit by when opportunity offers, It may be well that it is so, as the public are considerably enlightened by the disputes. After an evidently careful examination into all the charges made against the administration of Murphy, Leet & Co., the majority report that there is no sufficient justification for the serious accusations brought against these gentlemen. It is not claimed that no abuses exist ; on the contrary, a recommendation, which is well worthy of attention, has been put forward, aiming at the radical improvement of the system. ‘This is the only effective and states- manlike way of dealing with the difficulty. It will serve no good purpose to tinker with the Custom House abuses; for as fast as they are patched up in one part they will break through in another. The evils from which the commercial interests of New York suffer are inherent in the present system, and can only be effectively dealt with by uprooting it. We would wish to see this question approached by our legislators with- out reference to the exigencies of party. The report of the Investigating Committee, in order to inspire complete confidence, should be followed by action in the direction recom- mended ; otherwise it will not fail to be cried down asa mere whitewashing operation. It is desirable that the friends of the administra- tion should not lay themselves open to sus- picion of connivance with fraud, and they can best prove their concurrence in the finding of the committee by carrying out the recom- mendations of reform made in the report. The abolition of the moieties system, which at present acts as a premium on corruption and neglect of duty, will meet the approbation of the public. It is, at best, a bungling way of defeating fraudulent entry, and tends more to demoralize the officials than to deter dis- honest merchants. It ought, therefore, to be done away with as soon as possible. The best guarantee for the proper performance of duty on the part of Custom House officers in future would be furnished by appointing men prop- erly qualified, and making them understand that as long as they discharge efficiently their duties they will be allowed to retain their posi- tions. We are rapidly tending toward a re- form of this nature in the civil service, and would like very much to see the thin end of the wedge driven into the chinks of the New York Custom House. The Strikers and Their First Check. The eight-hour movement which has at- tained such unexpected and sweeping success up to the present seems in some instances to have been brought to a standstill in its im- pingement against that class of capital which has a copious reserve of money behind it and a dull season before it. This is scarcely other- wise than could be expected. In the first rush, which captured the building trades for the movement, the toilers hada foe in straitened circumstances, to whom inaction in the face of time-contracts would bring enormous losses, As the movement spread it was seon that the force of the first great coup de main had forced a capitulation from numerous trades, all more or less bound up in a_ busy season, and whose bosses were not individually strong enough monetarily to resist the demands of labor. With these strongholds captured there yet remained others, the most formidable of all, because they represent the great aggregations of capital which, in the slipshod phrase of the day, are called monopo- lies. With any of these, where the so-called monopoly is merely a powerful manufacturing corporation, used to meeting the exigencies of the market, the toilers have a long and tedious struggle before them. Many of them, indeed, represent instances where a whole interest is combined to direct and control the market down to a well-gauged limit to the production, 0 ag to keep un nricaa and maka nenfite anra every | the true definition of monopolies; for some of them, with a sheaf of patent rights in their safes, can forbid a single additional shop to be opened without their high permission, and then only at a ruinous royalty. Such may be said to be sewing machine manu facture, and the difficulty of the work- ingmen to force a surrender will be appreciated. Although the _ pianoforte manufacturers, through bitter professional rivalries, are not in the same condition to resist, many of them are individually strong enough to hold out for a length of time, and believe that they can starve or tire the work- men into coming back at what prices they offer. The eight-hour movement, it will thus be seen, has met its first check, and there is no doubt that it will require all the nerve, cool- ness, patience and resources of the toilers to combat tho difficulty if they hope to succeed. One fiery idiot has already rushed into print, proclaiming his readiness to set factories ablaze rather than fail—a pronouncement which should induce his flying ejection from every workingmen's meeting he attempts to enter. Tho readiness with which such Jacobin jacka- napes undegtake to speak for the men they mis- represent should warn all peaceably disposed citizens against them. The demonstration mado at Steinway’s piano factory yesterday morning is one to be reprehended. The strikers must remember, in spite of the irrita- tion caused, that the men who accepted the rates of the piano man have law and the right of the citizen on their side, even if in the minds of the strikers their course is regarded as cowardly. The moral force of the labor movement is its only legitimate force, and unless the unions and organizations graft this fact upon their minds the sympathy extended to them by the independent press and the public will be speedily withdrawn. Before this first stone wall which meets them they must never forget that they are on trial before the com- munity, which will condemn a tyranny of labor as readily, perhaps more readily, than a tyranny of capital. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge Levi Woodbury, of Massachusetts, is at the New York Hotel. Ex-Congressman Thomas H. Canfield, of Vermont, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Mayor J. C. Haines, of Chicago, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain Frank Stanwood, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Hoffman House. General E, W. Stone, of Boston, is stopping at the Astor House. Colonel E. J. Loomis, Sergeant-at-Arms of the State Senate, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Adjutant General James Cunningham, of Massa chusetts, is among yesterday's arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General H. 8. Lansing, of Buffalo, has arrived at the Hoffman House. Congressman W. C. Smith, of Vermont, is sojourn- ing at the Brevoort House. Colonel D. E. Huger, of Mobile, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General A. L. Pearson, of Pittsburg, and Judge Charles J. Folger, of Auburn, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Bishop Littlejohn, of Brooklyn, yesterday sailed for Europe. He will remain abroad but a short time, the main object of his visit being to accom- pany home his family, who have been making an extensive tour of the Old World. The ability of Professor A. Sayre, of this city, and his services toward the advancement of the medi- cal sciences, are held in high repute by the King of Sweden and Norway. That ruler has just conferred. upon the Professor an appointment to knighthood in the Royal Order of the Wasa. Chief Justice Shea, of the Marine Court, is a pas- senger by the steamer Nevada, that sailed for Europe yesterday, He goes torecover the strength he has sacrificed by severe toil during the winter and spring in a court room lacking almost every- thing inducing comfort. He is accompanied by his family. Crowds of friends, among whom were his associates on the bench, Judges Gross, Spaulding and Joachimsen, bade farewell to the Chief Justice at the steamer, and when she started their bon voyage and wishes for the return of Justice Shea in health followed her. Admiral Melancton Smith, who was on Saturday last relieved by @dmiral Rowan from the charge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has gone to his new post of Governor of the Naval Asylum at vhiladelphia. Admiral Smith, while in command at Brooklyn, did his manifold duties in an apt manner, ana no better illustration of that fact can be pointed out than the conduct of the reception of the Grand Duke Alexis. THE ENGLISH OPERA. In defiance of the unfavorable weather quite & large audience assembled last night at the little theatre in Twenty-third street to listen to Wallace's charming opera, “Maritana.” We might argue from the large attendance that English, or, more correctly, Irish, opera, has a much larger class of admirers than might be judged from the infre- quency of the presentation of the works of such composers as Balfe and Wallace. It is a pity that the influence of fashion is stronger than the attraction of merit; but then people are naturally desirous of witnessing or listening to what they don’t understand, imagining that they are thereby improved. The delightful quality of the music of Balfe and Wallace ought to obtain for it more recognition than is given to it. Full of mel- ody, and with the tinge of melancholy so character- istic of all Irish music, it appeals to the sympathies of the masses with more force and directness than the more florid and pretentious compositions of Italy or the grander and more imposing music of Germany. ‘his was visible in the enthusiasm which was awakened in the audience last night. Miss Emma Howson in the role of Maritana quite justified the good opinion which was formed of her in the “Bohemian Girl.” Mrs. Zelda Seguin as Laza- rillo displayed finished vocalization and. received several times the well-merited applause of the audience, The Don Owsar de Bazan of Mr. Brookhouse Bowler was a great improvement on his first night’s performance, and left little to be desired, Mr. Henri Drayton sang, in the réle of Don José, ina manner to give entire satisfaction, and, as is usuaily the case, this artist exhibited much dramatic power in the rendering of his rdle, The other characters were filled with fair ability, and, altogether, the entertainment was calculated to give pleasure. On kriday and Saturday nights “Fra Diavolo” will be presented. Saturday matinée will be devoted to the ‘Bohemian Girl.’ Se ea Wak DEPARTMENT, } OFFICE OF THR CAIRF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasninaron, D. C., June 6—1 A. M. . Probabilities, Falling barometer, southeasterly winds veering to southwesterly, cloudy and threatening weather and areas of rain prevail on Thursday north of the Ohio wa'ley and extend eastward over the northern portion of the Middle States; clearing and partially cloudy weather over the East and Middle Atlantic States; clear weather continue very generally over the South Atlantic and Guif States with light winds, Dangerous winds are not anticipated, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's Pharmacy, HeraLp Building :— 1871. 1872, 1871, 1872, 67 BP. +90 BT 55 OOP. M. 8G 65 OOP. 73 Bb 12M. 8 67 2 2 «(ST Average rature yesterday. oss OOM Average temperature for corresponding date Waat VERT. 0... cece econ: seecseaeeererereeaerss TE - add regular, ‘These approach more nearly to