The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heracp. Letters and packages shoula be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. No. 164 Volume XXXVII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street — Aurtour 47, See nt WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtleth st— Ove Covonep Burren. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Swaur AncEts—Yan- axe Dueutist. aS THEATRE COMIQUE, 5l4 Broadway.—Cntcaco Br- rors Ta Fine, DURING THE Fine AND AFTER THX FIRE. Twenty-third st., corner oo BRYANT’S OPERA HOU: 6th av.—ENGuisn Orera—M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae Bauurt Panto- ime or Humery Dumpty. Matinee at 2. ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty third street, corner Sixth avenue,—Exocu Arpex. Matinee at 13g. lath st. and Broadway.— ANTS. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. ——_—__— ‘Pace. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—American Jockey Club: Fourth Day off the ht Meeting; A Glorious Day's Sport— Third Day of the Beacon Park Spring Meet- ing—Trotting at White Plains—EKastern Dutchess Association—The National Curling Club—Drowned at Weehawken—Of? to Cuba: Three Filibustering Pace on Their Way; | Will Spain Want to Fight Now ?—The Sus- ected Filivuster—Young Men's Christian onvention—Bids for City Stock. 4—The Killing of Calvert: A Lad of Sixteen Slays | a Keeper of the House of Refuge While Being | Brutally Beaten by Him; A Modern Chamber of Tortures—Interesting Proceedings in the | New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Hero of New Orleans Overhauied, S—Financial and Commercial: A Flurry in the | Gold Market; The Price Declines a Half Per Cent; Sensational Rumors and Reports—The | Suggestions of a Light Export of Specte To- | Day ; Governments “Orff; Stocks Steady and | Strong; Money Unchanged; Sterling Easier— | National Guard of pea ee National Game—The Reformed Church—A | Singular Sneak-Thief Robbery—College of the | City of New York—Saved by a Thumb, 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The iy Schemes and the Work of the Late Session of ‘Congress in Reference to the Presidential | Contest”—Amusement Announcements. J—The Alabama Claims: The Question tn London and Washington—The Anglo-American Boat . Race—The Virginius—Troubles in Hayti—Ca- ble Telegrams from England and Germany— News from Washington—Misce'laneous Tele- graph—Business Notices, 8—The Work of Congress: Bills Passed During the Second Session of the Forty-second Con- | Gomi The Moe bread ee Village ba na on Their Muscle—A Case of Hydro- phobia. 9—Crisis of the Strike: A Disastrous Termination Feared—A Battery Concert —The Home for the Aged—A Westchester Homicide—Libbie Gar- | rabrant—The West Street Tragedy—An In- human Wretch—The Murder o! Mr. Brown— | The Marion Street Stabbing Affray—The | Tenth Avenue Roughs—Marriages and | Deaths—Advertisements, 40—Politics in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Delaware and Ohio—The German Republicans—The Maggiori Shooting Atfray—West Point—The American Press on the Late James Gordon Bennett—The Ohio Tornado—Great F’ood in New Hampshire— { European Markets—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, M—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Amentcan Terrrrorat Revations To Can- apa.—The British government announced by gazette in London yesterday the appointment of an officer commissioned to survey the ter- ritorial boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, and to run it through the lakes, the forests and by the Rocky Mountains from the initial to a point of termination. This is really a very | important work. The gentleman who has | been detailed for its execution bears a name distinguished in the service of his country— so much so, indeed, that we are at a loss to fix his personality. He ranks as captain, and belongs, most probably, to the Royal Engi- neers. We have no doubt that he will do his | duty conscientiously according to his structions; but we recommend, nevertheless, that the American government co-operate with | him ina friendly manner, and through men | of scientific education, lest he should make any mistakes on the wrong side and against | our national patrimony. in- Tue Battor Brix. ry rar House or Lorps.— | At midnight on Monday evening the House of Lords, after a protracted debate, came to a vote on the Ballot bill. The bill was passed toa second reading by a vote of eighty-six against fifty-six. It ought to be remembered that the bill has already passed through the | House of Commons. The fact is that the bal- lot, which was at one time a grand party cry in | The Party Schemes and the Work of the Late Session of Congress in Reference to tho Presidential Contest. In another part of this paper we publish a list of the acts passed and appropriations made at the late session of Congress. It will be seen from this recapitulation that though it was a session remarkable for its never ending but still beginning windy speeches and profitless partisan debates, it was still a session with an eye to business, Leaving the reader to digest the acts passed at his leisure, we propose a brief consideration of this late session in reference to its Presidential designs, experiments and results, administration and anti-administration. Tn all cases and on all sides in Congress the debates, the projects and measures of leg- islation immediately preceding a Presidential contest are closely, nay, exclusively consid- ered in reference to their Presidential bear- ings. Never was this rule more conspicuously made manifest than in the daily proceedings in both houses of the long session which has just terminated. It was apparent from the beginning that while the paramount object of the administration republicans, the responsi- ble majority of the two houses, was a budget of legislative measures which would commend the administration and the party in power to the approval of the people for another Presi- dential term, the leading objects of the demo- crats, and particularly of the anti-Grant repub- lican reformers, were to uncover and expose to the people all the mistakes and weak points of the administration, to create a general agita- tion upon them, to defeat all legislative meas- ures calculated to serve the Presidential pur- poses of the dominant party, and in every- thing and in every possible way to weaken General Grant as a candidate for the Presiden- tial succession. ‘These facts, we say, were apparent from the opening to the close of this late long session of Congress, as the animating purposes of the administration party and the opposition ele- ments in both houses. And still another important fact is established in this view of the late session, and it is this, that a Senatorial junta on each side, from December last down to the late closing adjournment, assumed the direction of the party programme or plan of operations. Mr. Chandler, ot Michigan (Grant republican), has emphatically declared from his place in the Senate thatin November last, at a New York hotel, there was a conference between certain anti-Grant republicans and certain leading democrats, including two or three Senators, at which an arrange- ment was made . whereby a vigorous war upon the administration was to be opened and conducted by the anti-Grant republicans, the democrats meanwhile to keep quiet. All this is positively affirmed by Sen- ator Chandler as within his personal knowl- edge, even to the names of the parties con- cerned in said November conference. For our present purpose it will suffice that during the late session the anti-Grant republicans did open and prosecute a vigorous war upon the administration ; that the democrats did not interfere in the battle, and that in the develop- ment of the plan of the anti-Grant republicans investigating committees were demanded and conceded one after another, clearly showing— at least on the part of Messrs. Sumner, Schurz, and other disaffected republicans—a deliberate design to compass, if possible, the overthrow of the administration through the exposure of its alleged misdemeanors, crimes and manifold corruptions. So far, however, as this was the scheme of the opposition elements for the defeat of Gen- eral Grant, it may be pronounced, from the results of these aforesaid investigating com- from the outset, in the interests of the domi- nant party, assumed the direction of its legis- lative programme of the late session, and notably upon the tariff and the Ku Klux and Congressional Election laws. We are happy also to announce that this Senatorial junta, in | assuming too much, was properly rebuked by the non-concurrence and indignant protests of the House of Representatives; and if General of the House, especially against the proposed amendments of the Senate on the Ku Klux and Congressional Election laws, he ought to rights, has very properly, in several instances, secured a legislative reward for submission to the judgment much better than we had expected in behalf of the administration and the republican party. What is the legislative record of the late session? It is a tax and tariff bill which promises a reduction of our internal and exter- nal taxations to the extent of fifty-three mil- lions of dollars. The bill, however, is not free from artful dodges and unjust discrimina- tions ; but as a compromise between ultra pro- tectionists, ultra free traders and all varieties of revenue reformers, ‘et us (like honest Sancho) be thankful, bid God bless the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth.” In the next place, on that notorious Wisconsin | Railway land stealing bill the issue was joined between the reformers of all parties and the form victory, which means that there isan end at last to these remorseless railroad land grants. We wish we could say the same of the steamship subsidy system ; but, nevertheless, we have secured from this session a fair and England, has ceased of late years to command any very general interest. It is a kind of foregone conglusion that the ballot must pass into law. 'r. Gladstone, who was long op- posed to it, has become a convert, and has lent it a lukewarm support. Butit was matter of common talk during its passage through the lower House that the debates on the ballot were, of all others, the dullest, the most unin- teresting and the least cared for. It is not by any means certain that the Lords will pass the bill toa third reading, Itis just as likely as | not that they will throw it out. It is certain, | however, that if the bill is voted down in the upper House the Commons will send it up to them again next session. There is a reason- able presumption that, as the bill has so often been approved by the Commons, and as it is certain to come up again and again, the Lords | may agree to make the experiment. ‘The Bal- lot bill passed into law, England will be one tage nearer the republican goal satisfactory apportionment among the several States of the representatives in the popular branch of Congress on the basis of the census of 1870, and a law establishing a rule in the matter of population in the admission of new States. And then we have for the South a con- | cession which, practically, is almosta universal | amnesty, though it would have been much | better had it been made an absolute blotting out of all rebel offences. But the enlarged freedom of elections from military and federal supervision, agreed upon and passed into a law in the closing hours of the session, is one of its best acts, for which General Grant is largely indebted to the democrats, inasmuch as they exacted it, and as the adoption of the opposite policy of military intervention pro- | posed by the Senate would have operated seri- ously to the prejudice of the administration as @ military despotism. This, then, is the budget of legislation upon which the administration republicans of Con- mittees, a complete failure. There was next an | administration junta in the Senate, which, | Grant is not thankful for these interventions | be. The House, jealous of its constitutional | put a wholesome check upon the assumptions | of the Senate, and through its good sense has | land grabbers, and the result was and is a re- | the war against this erroneous policy of encouraging American commerce will be fought through to the end. Next | gress will go before the country in this Presi- dential contest. They will say to the people that we have shown, through the investiga- tions ordered by its enemies, that the crimes and corruptions charged against the adminis- tration do not exist ; that we have reduced the public taxes, tariff and internal revenue as far as consistent with the demands of the public debt and its redemption; that we have re- duced the public expenditures and have given the benefits of amnesty to all but a few of the most intractable of Southern rebels, and that General Grant himself has introduced into the administration a system of civil service reform which promises the best results. Nor do we think that this argument in support of the administration and of the responsible majority in Congress can so far be overthrown as ma- terially to damage General Grant in the dis- cussions of this Presidential campaign or in the November election. We conclude, then, that through the saving discretion and wise resistance of the House of Representatives against the legislative pro- gramme of the Senate, the legislative acts of this late session of Congress will operate rather to the advantage than the prejudice of General Grant and the adminjstration party in all the coming elections; that the Congres- sional opposition schemes for the defeat of Grant by bringing his administration under the ban of public opinion, as inefficient, care- less, ignorant, blundering and corrupt, have failed, and that the opposition elements will have to cast about for something else than the developments and doings of the late session of Congress if they would make even a vigorous campaign against General Grant's re-election. The personal accounts of Mr. Sumner, Mr. Schurz and others against Grant will go for nothing in this Presidential canvass. Tho great question upon which it will be deter- mined is this: Will the general interests of the country be safer under the administration of General Grant for the next four years than in the hands of a new party, or of the old democratic party on a new departure ? This is the real issue before the country, and it cannot be denied that General Grant came out of the crucible of the late session of Con- gress as well prepared to meet this issue as before his trial by these investigating com- mittees. Nothing has been disclosed by them and nothing has been done by Congress to weaken him. With the adjournment of the session and the dispersion of the members throughout the country he will lose nothing, but will be apt to gain ground from the new impulse which will be given to the Presidential canvass in his support. In this view of the subject no man can tell what shape the oppo- sition lines of battle will finally assume; but we dare say that by the day of the meeting of the Democratic National Convention the mem- bers of that body will be convinced that it is only through a cordial union of all the oppo- sition forces that the campaign against Grant, with any hope for the Presidency or for Con- gress, can be conducted. The Last Dish of Treaty Hodge- Podge—The New Proposition of the British Government. Lord Granville has addressed another note to Minister Schenck on the subject of the Washington Treaty and the cases. before the Geneva Tribunal, in which he sets forth, in substance, that inasmuch as the American government refuses to enter into any further agreement with England until she shall have signed the supplemental article as amended by the Senate, and declines to concur in an application for eight months, it has been resolved by the the part of England alone. British agent is instructed to repair to Geneva on the 15th of the present month, and to sub- mit to the arbitrators a request for an exten- sion of time as specified, on the plea that th difficulties between the two governments have not yet been solved, although it is hoped that they will eventn- ally be removed. The agent is further directed to explain that, inasmuch as the con- tracting parties are not yet in accord as to the subject matter of the reference to arbitration, their argument, as required by the fifth article in the arbitration at the present time; and further, that should the adjournment be | ordered, in accordance with what England be- | lieves to be the authority and power of the | Court, Her Majesty’s government reserve all their rights as heretofore to retire from the ar- | bitration whenever they may think proper to do so. This singular course must be accepted as another proof of England's determination to | browbeat our government into the concession of all her demands, or to place her own con- struction on the treaty and act in such manner as she may decide, without reference to the | party. When the British counter case was sub- mitted to the Geneva Tribunal it was accompanied by a reservation entirely unau- thorized and in conflict with the spirit, if not with the letter, of the treaty. The position then assumed by Her Majesty's government was unjustifiable in any equitable procced- ings. They appeared as one of ties before a tribunal of arbitration pre- | at any moment they should claim the right to | throw up their case, withdraw from the trial and break up the Court. Emboldened by the a still more unwarrantable violation of their obligations, The fifth article of the Treaty of Washington provides that on the 15th of June the arguments shall be placed in possession of the Geneva Court, and neither of the contracting parties has any right to disregard this provision. Yet England in- structs her agent to inform the tribunal that she declines at this time to submit her argument or to take any other step in the proposed arbitration, and imperiously demands an adjournment of the Court for eight months, at the same time volunteering her opinion as to the power of the Court to concede such an adjournment. Under these circumstances the duty of our government is plain. The American people are weary of this trifling with the nation’s honor and self-respect, and will demand that our agents be instructed to resist this latest attemvt at a violation of the treaty and to an adjournment of the Geneva Court for | British Cabinet to make such application on | To that end the | Her Majesty's government decline to put in | of the treaty, or to take any other step | opinions or rights of the other contracting | the par- | viously agreed upon, and gave notice that | failure of the American government to resist | this singular proceeding, they now attempt | withdraw our case from before the arbitrators should it be persisted in. It was dangerous for the administration to entertain the humiliating terms dictated to us by Lord Granville as the supplementary article to the treaty. It would be fatal now, after having conceded in substance all that England in- sisted upon, to submit to any further encroach- ments or wrong onthe part of the British government. The idea of consenting to an additional article providing for the postpone- ment of the time for filling the agreements beyond the day fixed by the fifth article of the treaty could not be entertained by our government without loss of honor, even if the Senate wero still in session, and the time be- fore the assembling of the tribunal, now so near at hand, permitted. When the President, acting on the advice of the Senate, consented to the substance of Lord Granville’s supple- mental rule he exhausted the concessions to be made by the United States, and the subsequent hypercritical objections of the British govern- ment take the appearance of bad faith. But the proposition made by England for an additional article postponing the day of sub- mitting the arguments, and the power dele- gated to Mr. Thornton to execute such an article on the part of Her Majesty, prove that the British government, in their own opinion, have no original authority to delay the presentation of their argument beyond the 15th of June, the day named in the original treaty. It is clear, therefore, that Eng- land has, by her own act, precluded her- self from demanding an adjournment of the Court of Arbitration of her sole action, and that, should she refuse to submit her argu- ment on Saturday next and persist in the position taken in her note to Minister Schenck, she will stand self-convicted of a violation of the treaty, and will consequently release the American government from any and all of its conditions. This is the end the American people desire, and this is the end that ought to have been reached long ago. The English Press on the tional Boat Race. The self-glorification of the English press on the easy victory gained by the English oarsmen over the Atalantas is amusing in its exaggeration. We can understand that all Englishmen are proud of the power and en- durance displayed by the representatives of their nation in the contest, but we can see no ground for the swagger in which the press has indulged. If at any time there had been reason to believe that the Atalantas could have won, the revulsion of feeling caused by the severe defeat they sustained might have afforded some justification for the tone adopted by the English press towards the defeated crew and against American oarsmen in general. It is with the latter phase of Eng- lish opinion that we have principally to deal. Whatever may have been the opinion in England we have never had any expecta- tions that victory would be won by the Ameri- can crew. It was too clear from the outset that they would be overmatched. In fact, the wisdom of their going was questioned from the beginning by every one competent to form an opinion on the subject. So general was this feeling that it found decided expression in the metropolitan press. But as the men were plucky and desired to measure themselves with the best English crew, they left our shores with a general expression of good will. But they could not in any sense claim to appear as the champions of American oarsmen. Although we may not, as the English papers allege, have acquired ‘‘the true style of rowing,’’ we could very easily get together a crew who could beat the men who appeared as American champions. The London Times says that English oarsmen have nothing to learn from Americans; but the Times is not quite correct. Hitherto the Ameri- can oarsmen have always rowed at disadvantage. They have in all cases shown a pluck and en- terprise that the English oarsmen have yet to learn; for, not content with the advantage they derive from their greater experience and more careful training, the English have hitherto shown a spider-like caution in their contests with our younger oarsmen. When- ever they have met our men the conditions have always been in their favor, and they have rowed over a difficult course, with which they are perfectly familiar. In view of these incon- | trovertible facts it is somewhat strange to find the Telegraph, which is supposed to represent young progressive England, looking upon the result of the race as ‘‘an illustration of national | energy." We are rather of opinion that | the defeated party represents the energy, while the victors have simply given | proof of a solid staying power, | which has never been denied to our beef- eating cousins across the water. This we are ready to concede, because it is their due; but if their pretensions go beyond this then we must take issue with them. If our somewhat | heavy contemporaries had confined themselves | to the national self-glorification which is the undoubted privilege of every true-born Briton we should have been simply amused ; but the | want of magnanimity displayed by Standard in speaking of the race as ‘a Tmterna- hollow affair,’’ and of the American crew as | “not good enough to row an ordinary coun- | try regatta,’ is in such bad taste that we can- | not afford to laugh at it. The age of buffoons | has ceased, and such brutality of comment on strangers smarting under defeat could only be | expected from some privileged character wearing the cap and bells. However, there is some excuse, for the modern snob is the nat- | ural successor of the motley. For the Atalantas we have no excuse. They courted defeat in a manner not to be justified, and could have entertained no real hope of winning unless they were altogether ignorant of the men whom they challenged to a trial of strength. Under ordinary circumstances it would be unwise for a club numbering at most forty effective members to invite a contest with one having the pick of four hundred tried men. But when we come to examine the way in which the two clubs are recruited the hope- lessness of the contest will be at once plain. Although the English oarsmen are nominally | amateurs they are practically professionals. That is to say, they are men who, for the most part, do nothing else “professionally.” Itis true they do not live by their oar, because, for the most part, they are wealthy; but they belong to the class of gentlemen of leisure, happily almost unknown among us, who have no other aim in life than to cultivate their muscle. Our young men can- not afford to pass the best years of their life in a boat honse or yawning im a club, and we | guide the | must therefore look forward to meeting the bet- ter trained oarsmen of England at disadvan- tage. Another cause for the apparent superi- ority of British muscle is to be found in the centralizing influence of London on the class of men who chiefly make up boating clubs, and which brings local American organizations into contests with the picked men of the whole British nation. These things have not been sufficiently considered by our oarsmen, who are too often led to miscalculate the difficulties by measuring them by their own enthusiasm and energy rather than by the strong logic of facts. But boats cannot be impelled by en- thusiasm ; it is a matter of skill and strength; and victories can only be gained by the tough sinew of well-trained men. Had the Atalantas taken these things into consideration they would not have been guilty of the mistake of going to England to be beaten while they could have been satisfactorily beaten in New York. Without wishing to lessen the laurels of the London crew, we state this fact for the benefit of the Atalantas. We think that before an American club undertakes to appear in an international race, as the repre- sentative of America, it ought to have acquired @ superiority at home, to which the Atalanta has certainly no claim. As the English oarsmen in their own waters have twice defeated Americans, we should like to see them abandon their sp‘der tactics, come to our shores, and try if they can repent their victories in American waters. Hitherto they have had all the advantages on their side. It is, therefore, reasonable that we should look to renewing the struggle under more favorable conditions. Until they give this proof of en- ergy and enterprise we hold, in spite of the self-laudation of the English press, that they will have something to learn from Americans. The Killing in the House of Refuge— Pope Jones anid His Inquisition— “Reform It Altogether.” It will be found thit when the Heranp described Pop? Jones, of Rindall’s Island, in all the bizarrerie of his assumption as_ spiritual over his flock of juvenile delin- quents, that the colors were not nearly so dark as the original warranted. The matter of religion which he manipulated so oddly and so coolly will wear a mild look beside the chap- ter of horrors which is spread out in the secu- lar management of the concern. If Jones was Pope he was resolved to be Grand Inquisitor too, and he must have studied closely the deeds of Mendoza, Torquemada and Ximenes in order to show the young human goats under his charge how the Pope of Randall's Island could treat the heretic members among them. All this is being developed at the trial of Justus Dunn, who stabbed Keeper Calvert in the knee in a revolt against the Inquisition of Pope Jones, as Toulouse did with its inquisitors in 1245 A.D. Even with so small a Popedom as Randall's Island his- tory will repeat itself. It is fortunate for humanity that this case of Justus Dunn came before a judge like Gun- ning 8. Bedford, who promptly overruled the objections of the counsel for the people to the course of examination, and resolved to give the widest latitude to both sides in order that the whole trnth might be reached. So the story of Pope Jones, as told by his own lips and published in another column, will read very strangely under the date at the head of the page; for the reader, after perusing the evidence, might think it was an extract from the ‘‘Directorium Inquisitorum'’ of Nicholas Eymeric, and written in the four- teenth century instead of the nineteenth. There can be little doubt that the grand in- quisitors of the darker days were men who | saw nothing but merit and godliness in their conduct, and Pope Jones on the stand, rolling his cold eyes and snivelling towards | heaven over the saving virtues of ‘‘the whip- ping-closet,”’ the corrective beauties of thumb- hanging, blending it with dissertations on prayer books and “broad Christian truths’ would make a capital companion picture to the author we have alluded to laying down the law of the holy office. ‘It is impossible,” says Pope Jones, with the air of a savant, ‘‘to strike a boy upon the skin, or, perhaps, over the clothing, without making a mark.” This piece of information, however, is rather incomplete unless we have some information as to the force of the stroke and what it was laid on with. Yet it is terrible to reflect that all this enormity would not have come to light had not a young boy killed a keeper who was in the habit of savagely maltreating him, un- der the assumed superintendence of Pope Jones. What manner of being this Calvert was may be darkly drawn from the | evidence of Dennis O'Connell, another of Pope | Jones’ young delinquent charges. O'Connell | had been lashed by an officer of the prison, and | this keeper (Calvert) came sidling up and asked the lad, ‘How do you like your candy?” Can there be reformation where such an | appeal to the worst passions of humanity comes in the nature of a cowardly taunt from | one whose duty it should be to lead the erring | boys forward to a better life? But these | points, bad as they are, do not tell the whole of the sickening story. When Calvert was | dead and the boy Dunn lodged in the Tombs, itis in evidence that Pope Jones promised liberty from his popedom to Thomas Byrnes, another erring boy, as soon as he had given evidence in the case. And yet the oily smile | of Pope Jones was there to make his bland | laudations of himself still the blander. The case of the boy Justus Dunn is in the hands of an intelligent jury, who will be | | charged by a fearless judge, when all has been | | said on both sides that can be, and the verdict, we believe, under these auspices, will be a just one. But the interest for the community lies altogether outside of the distressing case which is only a grave symptom of the disease that is furnishing moral pests for society by | the hundred. There is and can be no reform attained under a system such as flourishes under Pope Jones. A man of his nature, training and egotism can no more trans- form these wild young goats of Gotham into lambs than could Dr. Darwin their animal analogues. The responsible gentlemen of the Board of Managers owe it to themselves and the public that Pope Jones should be sent to air his theology and his thumb-hanging elsewhere. These boys should not be let out, 80 to speak, to grasping contractors, who reap the profits of fear out of every stroke of the lash onaboy's bare back. Where any religious feel- | | ment, ing remains it should be carefully cultured in- stead of being trodden down to the dead level of machine piéaching, such as Carlyle’s cast-iron’ Parsons could deliver. The policy of kind- ness, tempered with firmness, is what is wanted, and a careful separation of classes of boys in their different degrees of badness or goodness. We could say more that would go to form better, more humane and beneficial mode of dealing with boy criminals; but we call on the authorities of the House of Refuge to go to work at once, and to remember that these young boys have within them the mak- ings of good or bad men, and that it lies largely in the hands of those who govern them which shall predominate in their moral na- ture when once they leave the Refuge and are thrown upon society. Present Tarms anp THe Army Brux.— The French Army bill, in its original shape, is likely to become law. President Theirs has fought the fight manfully and well. The bill provides that the term of military service shall be five years. General Trochu introduced an amendment reducing the term of service to three years. On Monday afternoon President Theirs made a vigorous speech in defence of the original measure, and emphatically stated that he declined all further responsibility for the army if the amendment was carried. When the vote was taken it was found that fitty-nine only were in favor of the amendment, and that four hundred and ninety-five voted in favor of the original motion. It is another and a great victory for President Theirs. Clearly, for the present at least, he is master of the situation. It is another and a great victory for the republic, for the longer Presi- dent Theirs can remain with dignity at the head of affairs the greater is the chance that the republic will be solidly and permanently established. THE HERALD AND DR. LIVINGSTONE, [From the New York Tribune, June 10.] A telegram from Bombay announces the arrival of a steamer from Zanzibar bringing definite intel- ligence from Dr. Livingstone. The serene old gen- tleman is at Unyanyembe, evidently caring more for geographical study than for the anxiety of Europe on account. Mr. Stanley has met him, received letters from him, and was at latest advices on his way back to the coast with hia precious freight of news. Again we extend to the HERALD our cordial congratulations upon this achievement— one of the most brilliant in the annals of journalism. [From the Philadelphia Post, June 10.) Additional confirmation of the discovery of Dr. Livingstone has been received from Zanzibar. The HERALD is justified in this event, as it was in Its celebrated despatch from London respecting the meteoric shower, {From the Baltimore American, June 10.) The intelligence received a few days since re- Specting the safety of Dr. Livingstone found but few believers, and was pupones to have originated in the fertile brain of a New York newspaper corre- spondent. It now appears, however, that the great explorer has been found and that a package oe oe from him has been forwarded to Eng- land. AMUSEMENTS. English Opera. The public continue to manifest an unabated in terest in the performances at Bryant's Opera House Every night, in spite of the close weather, which begins to make theatre-going somewhat uncom- fortable, audiences quite respectable in numbers are gathered to listen to English opera as inter- preted by artists who have enjoyed for a long time @ considerable share of public favor. This, no doubt, accounts for a good deal of the enthusiasm which displays itself from time to time, and often on occasions when severer criticism would not see much either to admire or applaud. good nature probably comes ___ with genial summer time, and, in truth, it is too hot for criticism. On Monday night Verdi’s ‘“Trova- tore” was presented. The appointments and scenic effects were unusually good, but the music is some- what too exacting to be rendered with perfect satisfaction by the company. Mrs. Seguin’s Azu- cena was, however, marked by much dramatic power, and her singing in the part such as to merit the eppianee which was not ungenerously be- stowed. Miss Howson’s singing in the rdle of Leonora exhibited careful study. Her vocalization was unusually pure, and there is no doubt that, with time and hard work, this lady will take a dis- tinguished position on our lyric stage. Brookhouse | Bowler appeared as Manrico, and Henri Drayton as the Count di Luna. The Bowery Theatre—The “Swamp An- gels.” The Old Bowery, as the Bowery Theatre ts famil- iarly called, was literally packed last night. Every seat in the house had its occupant, the attraction being Mr. Charles Foster's new drama of the “Swamp Angels; or, The Outlaws of North Caro- lina.” The author has woven a story of his own, into which he has introduced scenes and incidents from the letters of the HERALD correspondent who was sent to spend some time with the Lowery gang in the swamps of North Carolina. The play opens in the cabin of old Pop Strong, where some funny by-play takes place over a lottery ticket, The now famous Rhody Lowery (Mrs. Jones) is in- troduced in the scene, giving ald and comfort to a Boston Yankee notion man (Mr. Marston). The murder of old Pop Strong follows, the vengeance of the Lowery boys is awakened, and they swear to avenge the murder. Old Allen Lowery (Mr. Foster, the author) counsels moderation, and in his remarks shows that he is a strong adherent of the “let us alone” principle. Rhody gets on the track of the murderer, denounces him, and Henry Berry takes the revenge he threatened. In the second act we have the jail at Wilmington and the Lowerys in Rea They manage to make their escape and get back to the swamps, more deter- mined than ever to carry ont their policy of bloody revenge. The second scene in the act is the railway station at Scuffletown. Here, again, old Allen Lowery puts in an anes ters and is met by Harris (Mr. Manley) and another flerce looking fellow, who are going to inflict bodily injury on him. Just as they are “going for” the old man the HERALD cor- respondent (Mr. Marden) comes from the depot, strikes out right and left in trugsBowery style, and lays the two assailants of old Lowery sprawling on the ground. Of course this makes the correspond- ent a hero in old Lowery’s estimation. The correspondent on learning the relationship of the old man to the gang explains his mission, and the two in company proceed to Henry Berry Lowery’s house. They surprise the gang in the midst of a jollification. Here the correspondent has a narrow chance for his life. He escapes, how- ever, and becomes very friendly subsequently with Rhody, who acts as his good angel henceforth all through the piece. The numerous escapes, moving accidents and perilous situations in which the un- fortunate correspondent is at times placed from this point are gathered from the letters published in the HERALD and from the prolific brain of the author. Before the piece is ended the correspond- ent discovered, by the aid of the author, that Rhody Lowery is his sister. Henry Berry Lowery is killed shortly after, and Rey is brought on to New York by. her new found brother, where the happy pair, again by the aid of the author, are con- gratulated by the attachés of the HERALD establish- Mr, Foster has written many plays, a great number of which have been very successful, but from the reception “The Swam| gels’? received last. night it is safe to say that his latest pro- duction will rank among his greatest successes. The appearance of Mr. Marden as the HERALD cor- respondent last night was the occasion of an out- burst seldom equalled in the Old Bowery. Mr. Mars- ton, as the Yankee notion drummer, was as funny ® Bostonian as can well be imagined. Mr. Winter was a most ferocious Henry Berry Lowery, and Pike, Percy, Murray and Barry were as unsavory- looking rascals as if they were bred in the swamps. Harris, as played by Mr. Mauley, gave a good pic- ture, both in make-up and action, of a Southern rough. and George France's Counsellor Barneygat was eye with an unction which would have done credit to a Tombs shyster. The Rhody of Mrs. Jones, the Sal Slapple of Miss Hackett and the Alice Compton of Miss Booth were very good, but, are hardly types of the denizens of the region of Scutletown. The piece will have a run, if last night’s performance is to be regarded as any indi- cation of its success. Dramatic Notes. Tast night witnessed the 1,001st performance of Humpty Dumpty. He made his farewell bow to the New York public. On Monday the summer season commences at the Olympic, Johnny Allen putting in an appearance as Schneider. He will be supported by Little Mac and Alice Harrison. Sam Sharpley’s Minstrels announce a matinée on Thursday for the special benefit of the ladies. “Uncle Tom's Cabin” was performed at the Arcade Theatre last night under the Lene tte of Mr. John Jack. “Kast Lynn” will be performed on Saturday next, with Miss Annie Firmin 98 lia bel and Miyg, Vine,