The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1872, Page 6

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JAMES GORDON BENNETT, —Tux Rogues or New Broadway and Thirteenth “HOUSR, No. 201 Bowery.— Administration—The Howard Cese and the Politicians. The special cable despatch from Madrid published in the Hurarp to-day intimates that @ delay has occurred in the release of Dr. Houard, the alleged Cuban insurgent, by the Spanish government, and that such delay has resulted from a diplomatic formality. The Spanish Minister for Foreign and Colonial Affairs, Sefior Martos, is said to require that the American Minister at the Spanish Court shall request the pardon of the prisoner, and this request our representative in Madrid refuses to make, taking the position that his government assumes Dr. Houard to be guilt- less of any offence against the laws of Spain, and hence to be illegally and unjustly deprived of his liberty. Sharp notes and telegrams, says our special cable despatch, have passed between Madrid and Washington, giving the impression that a crisis is at hand, and that gteat danger threatens of a breach of the cordial relations hitherto existing between our Washington authorities and the government of King Amadeus, It is an evil of our secret diplomatic system that the American people are not now in full possession of the exact position our govern- ment has taken in regard to the Houard affair, and that they are left to judge of its tenability from the unofficial reports that have from time to time reached us from Washington and from the Spanish capital. If it had appeared from these statements and from all the evidence that has found its way to publicity that Dr. Houard was in good faith a citizen of the American republic, en- titled to the protection of a flag powerful INDAY, tended to or the prisoner would not have been convicted ; that Consul General Torbert, at Havana, “endeavored to procure a mitigation of the sentence,’’ and that subsequently to the trial and conviction of the accused, one Manual Capote, upon whose testimony Houard had been found guilty, had fled to the United States, and when safely here had made @ written declaration that his evidence was false from beginning to end. From this it would appear that Houard was convicted on evidence before the Court, although subse- quently supposed to have been falsely given, and the statement of Secretary Fish that the prisoner was “regularly tried and found guilty by a duly constituted tribunal in the island of Cuba” seems to be correct, Under these circumstances the present posi- tion of the American Minister at Madrid ap- pears to be unhappily chosen and altogether untenable. If Dr. Houard has been regularly tried and found guilty by a duly constituted ‘fidelity to the honor and oredit of the American government, warn him that he cannot too speedily follow this advice. A Fearfal Bill of Mortality—New York end London—A Heavy Balance Against Us. 4 The official report of the death list of this city for the last week is 1,669, the heaviest bill of mortality for one week ever known on Man- hattan Island. We have never had anything approaching it before. For the week ending July 18, 1868, there were 1,142 deaths reported, and for the week ending July 23, 1870, the death report was 1,048, and these are the only years preceding this of 1872 for which we have a death record in any week exceeding over one thousand. For the week ending Jnly 6, 1872, the deaths are 1,500 For the week ending June 29. oe 168 Increage in one week.. 801 This awful increase is due to tho late unusu- ally severe and protracted term of continuous heat—a term of some two weeks duration, the deadly effects of which increased and widened as the heat went on, until for the dreadful woek, ending yesterday, we have this startling death roll of 1,569. The deaths reported from sunstrokes form only an item in the list re- sulting from these exhausting and destructive heats. Many invalids, sufferers from various diseases, and many persons of enfeebled con- stitutions, many weak from the infirmities of age, and very many children in the feebleness of infancy, who otherwise would doubt- less have survived, were exhausted and died from the additional pres- sure of this late, long siege of East Indian July weather. We have had nothing to com- Panjandrum. The grand Panjandrum at the Hub has come to an end, The many thousands who visited Boston to enjoy the monster concert have dispersed. The European bands who took part in the affair are, with one exception, on their way home, It may, we suppose, be taken for granted that Boston is not dissatis- fied with the results of Gilmore's grand con- ception. How far Gilmore is satisfied we know not. On Friday night the British Grenadier Guards’ Band publicly bade fare- well to America in the Academy of Music, and those who were present on that occasion and shared the enthusiasm of the evening will not soon forget Dan Godfrey and his gifted associates. Never, perhaps, was the “Star Spangled Banney’’ and ‘God Save the Queen!” so gloriously rendered. Most certainly never before, not even at Boston, did one and the same audience so heartily appreciate and so warmly approve both performances. Yes- terday the Grenadiers sailed for Old England, with the full conviction that they were carry- ing with them the best wishes of their American cousins. The German Imperial Band arrived in this city yesterday. Last night they floated their musical fellow countrymen back to Fatherland on the “billows of sweet sound.’’ Jones’ Wood, often gay and brilliant, was never more gay or moro brilliant than it was yesterday evening. This evening, in the presence and to the delight of assembled thousands, the entertainment will be repeated. The French Band arrives in this city to-day, and, although arrangements are not altogether completed, it is known that they will be re- ceived by the Garde. Lafayette. The Irish 3 ‘The Topics an@ Gossip of the Reli- gious Press. * the Golden Age plunges into the heated of politics with as much alacrity and pets satisfaction as if it wore dashing into the oool- ing surf at Long Branch. It warmly criticises . n public honesty between the legitimate State governments of the North and the illegitimate carpet-bag State governments of the South, and declares that the adminis- tration of the latter, beginning in usurpation, and ending in rapine, ‘‘constitutes one of the blackest blots on modern civilization.” And again—‘‘If the Southern people are to get ne better idea of the North than is reflected to them from the hideous spectacle presented by these swindling and thieving carpet-bag Gov- ernors and Legislatures, with their rings and rings.within rings, they will never cease to hate us. Every vote for Grant is a vote to sustain these villains and their villany, Every vote for Grecley is a blow for their destruc- tion.” This is rather queer kind of talk, com- ing from one who did so much toward estab- lishing these very carpet-bag institutions of the South as the editor of the Golden Age. The Christian Union avers that ‘General Grant is still so little known to the masses that all sorts of accounts can be freely circulated concerning his personality. People,” it adds, “who judge him from a distance by outward peculiarities alone do not get beyond his cigar.” Would it not be rather difficult to get beyond General Grant’s cigar almost at any time, unless he happens to be asleep; and who ever caught Grant napping? The Union thinks that if the General would only wear a white hat, or “swing around the circle,’” HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Caste—Lippy crue eo d the rights and libertios of all tribunal, as Secretary Fish declares, he can yer ha this writes Lace anh 200 Band has not yet been heard from, but on an | OF make himself personally prominent ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Tun Srnavss | Who stand legitimately within its shadow, and | only be released by a pardon, and a refusal to i antieenialde Yong y 8 | early day they are looked for, and, although | in some way, it would simplify the Concent. ArLANTIC GARDEN, 80 Bo ‘BY THE PRUSSIAN Banv. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Gauvex Instrumentan Concunr. TERRACE GARDEN, tath ton ave.—Summxx Evening Concer’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science any ART. + De SABE MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Ant anv \ Pacer. Advertisements, R—Advertisements, 3—Perils of the Deep: What Voyageurs to Europe Dread—Ma! tice Murders; Horrible Developments in West- chester County—The Tiger Head: Opening of the Americus Club House at Greenwich—Inva- » sion and Evacuation: Departure of the Brit- rrival of the Prus- slans—The Strikes: Feeling of the Men in the Notes—Thorough- —The Fourth of July ‘elegrams—Local Mat- May Reasonably Expect ani ish Grenadier Band and Different Trade: cl brod Horses at Parade—Miscellaueot ters. 4—The Presidency: The Democratic Nominating Convention; Foreshadowings of the Temper and Action of the Delegates; Private Boxes for the Liberals; Ramblings Among the Dele- gations and Gleanings of News; Greeley in High Favor; Minitany Concert between 3d and Lexing- 78, INTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Reminiscences of that he had been arrested without warrant and convicted without evidence, every voice in the United States would have joined in a demand, for his unconditional liberation. In this .case, however, it would be clear to the American people that our government should have long since taken the position they are now represented to have as- sumed, and have insisted upon Dr. Houard’s release in the same decisive manner in which the German squadron at Port au Prince re- cently collected the amount due to German subjects tor the losses and damages they had suffered from the illegal acts of the mlli- tary forces of the Haytien government, But the information that has reached us in regard to Dr. Houard is, at best, of a contradictory character. We have had the statement of the unfortunate prisoner him- self, who, in an interview with a Henatp cgr- respondent, has avowed his innocence of any offence against the laws of Spain, maintained his claim to the protection of the United States government, and alleged the arbitrary and irregular character of his trial and the injustice of his imprisonment. But while sympathizing with the captive, and naturally prejudiced against the ruffianly Spanish au- thorities in Cuba, we are compelled to remem- request one is an act of ungracious bom- bast on our part and of cruel injustice to the suffering prisoner. It is impos- sible to avoid the conviction that our peremptory and unconditional demand for Dr. Houard’s release, if it has really been made, is the trick of a ward politician, designed for effect in the Presidential campaign, but cer- tain to fail in its objoct. It is neither just, dignified nor statesmanlike to make such a demand of the Spanish government after the ground has been cut from under our feet by our own Secretary of State. It takes the appearance of an unworthy attempt to act the part of a bully with a weak opponent in the hope of making political capital with the unthinking portion of the people. It may be that this Spanish movement is designed to cover up the humilia- tion of our defeat by England in the Geneva controversy; but, if so, the policy is only the more discreditable. Spain is distracted and enfeebled. The throne once poworful enough to make Europe tremble is filled by a foreign King, who is looked upon by all factions as a living rebuke to the Spanish nation. “ The whole country is torn by political convulsions and civil insur- rection at home, while Cuba struggles unceas- ingly for the independence she cannot fail in compare with it hereafter. And yet we have cause to to be thankful that, with the coming of this dreadful manifestation of the deadly power of the sun, the material source of light and life to our planet, our city was not suffer- ing from any epidemic, and that our streets, compared with their filthy condition a few months ago, had, to a considerable extent, been made tolerably clean. But still we have much to do in street cleaning ; in the purification of our tenement houses and shanties; in the drainage of sunken lots and their pools of stagnant and festering water, and in the overhauling of the filthy piers, docks and lots filled with garbage all round the island. Compare the weekly death reports of New York with those of Lon- don, and the average for the year (any year) is heavily against us. Why so? This is a question of vital importance to us all, and it cannot be truly answered without admitting that the heavy balance from week to week of the death list against us, compared with that of London, is due mainly to the balance of filth of all descriptions and neglect on our side. Look at this London report for the week ending June 20, the nearest at hand, alongside this weekly New York report for July 6 :— London (population 3,250,000), weekly Hex dyer ia the Panjandrum missed their services, New Yorkers on the 12th of July have the prospect of hearing “St. Patrick's Day in the Morning”’ played as they never heard it played before, The Irish Band while here is, we understand, to be under Rullmann’s care. Strauss, too, who is a host in himself, is here; and altogether New York is little likely to want for good mu- sic for some days, it may be weeks, to come. Some say the Jubilee has been a failure. Fail- ure or no failure, whether it does or does not pay Gilmore, the Boston Panjandrum has done good, It has given our people a specimen of first class musical rendering. It has whetted the musical appetite of the American people. It has harmonized the various races who com- pose the population of the republic. It has also done much to put this people in harmony with all the peoples on the other side of the Atlantic. After all, ‘‘music hath charms;’’ and whether it can ‘‘soothe the savage breast’’ or not, it does certainly sweeten civilization. Ministerial Exodus. Never before has such an exodus of Ameri- can clergymen been, chronicled as during the present summer. Since the middle of June, according to the Hxratp record, there have sailed or are booked to sail for Europe be- opinions of some classes now puzzled into abject credulity of manifold slanders by the mere lack of tangible data. ‘But,’’ it con- tinues, ‘beyond being a modest and quiet gen- tleman, he does his duty and claims a right to his own private life, while all the caricaturists, from Senator Sumner down, draw pictures of him according to their own malicious wit.” If we are not mistaken General Grant gener- ally wears about as shockingly bad a hat as Philosopher Greeley; therefore he is entitled to all the popularity that a bad hat—white or drab, itdoes not make much difference which-— can afford him. But bad hats, like bad habits, do not always tend to glorify or sanc- tify a man. As to “swinging around the circle,”’ it seems to us that General Grant ac- complished that feat in company with one Andy Johnson, and received the greater part of the ovations on the trip. Therefore be is all right on the “swinging around the circle score.” And as to making himself prominent, he or his adminis- tration has had several splendid opportunities to do so—at one time in regard to a rigid ad- herence to the American view of the Alabama question ; at another in relation to the bar- barities practised by Cuban authorities upon American citizens ; at another when the vindi- cation of American rights in regard to the the Last Great Democratic Conve: : | ber that every occupant of a cell in the Tombs report, June 20. rs tween thirty and forty ministers of different % sketelt of ite) Delegates hy ‘Statens the or in'a Sine se would be equally positive | the end to secure. In what light will the world aaerae Oee tacit saya mortality re- | denominations, and during the present mouth | Canadian fisheries, when American vessels Records: Collapse of tht in the assertion of his innocence and of the | View the conduct of an administration which | “But take our weekly average of deaths for | the number will be largely increased. The | Were seized, condemned and sold without due Unterrifted Arriving 4 persecution of which he had been the victim. yields to the arrogance of a powerful people like - Baptists lead off with the largest number of | Process of law, claimed his attention; and at York € ligious Pro ligious Cor the Jesui cussion; The Question for § ch; St. Au n; Death and the Re United States ‘To Do; Nellie—The Great Railroad De) Baltimore Washington—The Boston Jubile: iy 1; pvers in Eternal Punishment ; Changes yments Among tle Ministers, Singular Position of the American Minister—Miss Nellie and Lieutenant Grant: President Thiers’ Recep- tion of the United States Officer; The Aged Statesman in Brilliant Compliment to Miss Fire in Constantinople— Cable Telegrams from France and England— Great Confagration: The New York Central tat West Albany on Fire—The Jonvention: Additional Arrivals and Changes in The Programme—News from Notices. R—iokes: Continuation of Testimony for the Ve have been assured, no later ago than June 9, that our Minister at Madrid, immediately after his return to his post of duty from the Erie campaign, had made a formal and peremp- tory application for the release of Dr. Houard, and had accompanied his demand with a dec- laration that the President of the United States would take decisive action in the premises in on our part we waived the question of the claims of Dr. Houard to American citizenship, placing our application for an am- nesty upon the ground of friendly intercession on his behalf, and that the Spanish govern- ment had conceded his release out of considera- tion for the United States. Now we have the report published to-day that the Doctor is still a prisoner in consequence of the position taken the English to-day, and to-morrow blusters in an unjust cause before a weak and unequal opponent? What respect can our own citizens have for an administration that so far under- rates their sense and their ‘self-respect as to believe that they will accept the swaggering of a bravo for honorable courage, or justify an injustice towards a nation that is power- not an honest man can be found from Maino to California who would approve of the ap- parent trick of the American representative at the Court of Madrid to make cheap political capital out of the Spaniards in a case in which, according to the statements of our own Secre- tary of State, we are only entitled to solicit the liberation of a prisoner and not to demand his release. the year of say five hundred, and the balance is still heavily against us. But it may be said that many of these who die in New York are Europeans, whose constitutions are not equal to the severe droughts, heats and frosts of the American climate; that the general dryness of our atmosphere is for years ex- hausting to the European, and particularly to persons coming from the soft, moist climates all other parts of the world, and to the disso- lute and reckless lives they lead here. Yet these classes are much more numerous in Lon- don than they are in New York, and their dis- solute habits and the dens in which they sleep are at least as bad as the worst we can produce. Nevertheless, the weekly balance in the com- parative bills of mortality is still against us. clerical pilgrims; the Catholics, who, until lately, rarely gave their pastors vacations, are this year stepping on the heels of the Baptists, and the Episcopalians follow hard after them. The Methodists and Presbyterians find their enjoyment largely at home, and hence very few of them have sought rest and recreation in European travel; and the Congregationalists book was written, thousands of years ago. Some few of the congregations have been libe- ral enough to pay their pastors’ expenses, but the majority of ministers go out at their own expense, In the first instance this liberality shows a proper appreciation of ministerial talent and faithful services, and in the second it demonstrates that the clergymen of America are not quite so poorly paid as is some- many other times, especially when the crushed South appealed for justice and mercy, and received in lieu thereof a more rigid enforcement of military authority. Truly General Grant has had many grand opportunities to make himself prominent, in- deed, to ‘‘cover himself with glory,” since the war; but perhaps he thinks he obtained glory enough during that trying period to last him ent man they represent, and a deep, ambitious schemer, determined to overthrow the liberties of his country and subject us to a military despotism.”’ An effort of the latter kind would probably bring General Grant or any other man who should attempt it into a degree of “prominency’’ which even the editor of the Union would not regard with satisfaction. The Observer discusses the ‘Sincerity ot Leading Article, “The case of non-compliance on the part of the | less to resist? The Spanish government | o¢ freland and Great Britain, or from the | have sent one—perhaps two pastors—to | enough dt & ereiat fe wit Set ans oe Phen none Spanish authorities. Subsequently, on June | has but few friends in the United pleasant mountain regions od Geetane: and | Visit the Old World, that they may his life-time. The Christian Union concludes ar og anemns nts parte pee! 23, our Madrid advices brought the intelligence States. All over the Union an angry feeling | i¢ may be said, too, that a considerable item | See for themselves the places and that the stories of General Grant's enemies re- ‘11. foward Stil Held tn Prison, and the Ques: | that the case of the prisoner had been officially | ¢xists against the cruel oppressorsof the strug- | in our death list is due to the paupers, out- | Virtually the scenes described or men- | fute Piet pa bpeib ogy -anarg ere id Wat ie toa Gauee saci ta i | arranged between the two governments; that | Gling Cubans. But we venture to say that | jaws and vagrants drifting into this city from | tioned in the Bible as they existed when that | that he show e |, ignorant, indiffer- } ree, Another Mysterious Lady. There by the American Minister at Madrid, who ree | As asoldicr General Grant must condemn | Perhaps, then, London has the advantage | times reported, else they would not be ae ee bared fg tras cn re work | Exclided —Interesting Proceedings in | fuses to request a pardon at the hands of the | and regret the contemptible policy of the ward | over us in natural healthiness of situation. | able to take vacation trip to Europe. | Cnhted ans c a ri og a on Judge McCunn—The Heate Spanish authorities, and persists in demanding | politicians by whom he is, unhappily, sur-| No, on the contrary, the advantage is | A very much greater number of ministers Scepticism, Laaasrarsegadeeoa ta assrasi cal tooo ’ flay ‘vdniirat? eicimy 6 eofe--Street | 22 unconditional release. rounded. As a statesman lie ought at| ours, for the situation of New York, on an | Will spend their summer at home, preaching written by the Duke of Somerset. The : Cleaning—Newark’s ‘Bloody Excursion"— | We have said that the statements in regard | least to be able to see its weakness. |-elevated island, with a broad and deep tidal | to their people on the Sabbath and returning work is prepared in the interosts of ear { Onicers’ CluboNor yt he Peale acai | to Dr. Houard’s case are contradictory. This | The people of the United States will | river on each side, and with the broad sea just | te their country or seaside homes during the ticiam, and has been favorably criticised q . Pr ot | i 5 i i iy * r ii 7 i by the Westminster Review. The Observer is SeaMinanctal a0 Compass 1 ie pete rhens “ty : is true of the little that has reached us on the | be slow to believe that the leader of the Union | below us, is one of the healthiest situations in | Week. It is to be hoped that a corresponding | YY us highs ol faterent for. the Week Just Closed; The | Subject officially, as well as of the unofficial | armies who granted such noble terms to the | the world. No city on the carth is more highly | 8004 to pastors and people may result from | Bot so favorably disposed towards it, but \ eer icpenaies Feo catty 5 §14000-000; | stories that have found their way into print. | crushed and suffering troops of the dead con- | favored by nature for purposes of health and | this summer's exodus of clericals. admits that “there are men to-day among us, pa and the Market Heavy in Anticipation | On March 9 a despatch was forwarded by | federacy, would willingly act a cowardly part | cleanliness. Our excossive bills of mortality, po Seana occupying a somewhat conspicuous position, eae Ca ot ponds eeacks Dull and | Secretary Fish to the Chargé d’ Affaires at | towards a nation unequal to ourselves. But then, to cut short the argument, are mainly The Killing of Fisk. whose talent, genius, learning, or aca Erle; ‘the Week's Imports of Foreign Goods | Madrid in the absence of the American | Grant, as a President, has not a Sheridan at | due to the neglect and carelessness of our city | ‘The defence in the great murder ease on | else they may claim by way of eminence, rooklyn’ Affaits—Suicide by Cutting His | Minister, in which the subject was directed to | his back. Magnificent soldier as he is, he is | authorities and our citizens in reference to the | trial before Judge Ingraham developed still sommned up ey the fact that they are admitted doesn Seventy inttaen a Mecoumane ers of the | be'brought to the attention of the Spanish | surrounded by men undeserving of his confi- | sanitary provisions, precautions and improve. | further yesterday their theory that the meeting pape da AGU TA eueueace cole iE kaairis ore, ieee ae Glen pittohe snes Within government. In that despatch Secretary Fish dence, and certain to make his civil adminis- ments necessary to maintain the health of our between Stokes and Fisk was unpremeditated. | gcopticism in the world appears to us one which jutant General Townsend—Personal recognized the citizenship of Dr. Houard, and | tration as great a failure as his military ad- | city with its increasing population. And the | A Witness was brought forward who was pre- | sceptics can Sereh tieir on wootMnG Uf Ee Tees « Mgenoe—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- | held that the action of the Spanish authorities | ministration was a success. Such political | moral of all this is that we must improve the | Pared to testify that the prisoner while talking | sons why Booptios will not avow themselves, and 1—Tombs Police Court—Brooklyn Property Own- | in Cuba in trying him by a court martial, and | devices as his advisers counsel are the resorts of | health of our city, as we can improve it, or | t0 him saw a Indy in one of the windows of peer | pniispous ie. soapuoum, We. woe ie : ‘an ita ee their refusal to furnish a record of the proceed- | the managers of primary elections and district prepare to seo, toa greater extent than ever, | the hotel and that Stokes wanted him to come | folded to us & chapter in bn a nature which se —=—_—_———-— | ings of the court and of the testimony adduced | conveutions. When applied to our relations | other cities and towns built up at our expense, | 8¢TOss while he spoke to her. This was, how- ae ae nalvelievers: “Among them, undoubtediy, Coxsraxtrsopre Crry has been ‘against him, was a clear infraction of the | with foreign nations they degrade us abroad ~ - ever, ruled out temporarily by the Court, time Sere hal et te Shett high actin Or RR eo from its latest dangers in presence of the Fire seventh article of the Treaty of 1795, made | and injure our commerce athome. Their effect Deatu or Jupcr McCunn.—Judge McCunn, | being taken for its consideration, Another honesty they will repudiate all connection with King. ‘The conflagration in the suburb Scutari | between Spain and the United States. | is to lower our self-esteem and to | of the Superior Court, whose impeachment by | point was made by a witness who testified that ee iy the Bl Mth Fea ae abiighte of was subdued some time yesterday morning, | Our Chargé d’Affaires was therefore | depreciate our credit. So far from helping the | the Senate, at Albany and subsequent removal | Fisk's couchman wondered, in effect, that Fisk | leisure.” : Fe: after destroying « few houses more than the | directed to remonstrate against the | administration in the pending canvass they | has excited no small share of public attention, | did not draw upon his aggressor, as he was The Hoange list gives us @ chegyet. on “Sen- \___ total reported in the Hxratpy news despatch, | proceedings of the Cuban court martial | are the great danger in its path, and unless | died at an early hour yesterday morning at | ‘fixed’’—i. ¢, prepared with arms—for on sationalism in Sunday Schools,’ deprecates f published in New York about the same time. as a violation of the provisions of | swept away speedily and entirely they may be | his residence, in this city. Over-excitement | encounter. Another witness, » hackman, who the introduction of books of the stamp of j ‘ PVRS | that treaty and to ask the immediate release | disastrous to its chances of success. ‘The op- | and consequent prostration, the natural con- | raised Fisk up after his being shot, averred | Oliver Optic’s, or others that are scarcely less Tax Ermxswc or Ixpevexvyxr Jounnat- | of the prisoner. But three days afterwards | postion is active and intelligent and will not | sequences of the unenviable state of mind to | that the latter said:—“He way too quick for | inappropriate, into Sanday school libraries, ? tm.—It is astonishing to witness the spread | Secretary Fish appears to have gained new | fail to take advantage of such mis. | which recent events in his public career would | me!" It will evidently also be an endeavor | and states that in some cases religious fiction of independent journalism about these days, | light on the subject, for on March 12he ad-| takes as those which have marked | tend to reduce him, are alleged as the | of the defence to establish that Stokes could | forms the staple of the library, and the flood of The epidemic is not confined, either, to any | dressed a communication to the Vice President | the whole conduct of our foreign | causes of his death. He struggled long and | not have thrown the pistol into the place | it which is poured broadcast over the land is _.. Particular locality, but extends alike North | of the United States, in which he reviews Dr. | relations. The people of the United | bravely against the terrible reaction of mind | where it was found. ‘These points of the | originated and patronized by the demand j and South, East and West—wherever the | Houard’s case in a manner by no means favor- | States do not wish for war, andthe small poli- | and body, but was obliged at last to succumb. | meeting being accidental, Fisk being | from Sunday schools. What + pity it is that decayed matter of party politics or the shrivel- | tible to the prisoner. The Secretary shows that | ticians who suppose the war cry to be popular | The result of his impeachment was too | armed and drawing a pistol on Stokes, | the pure and charming productions of “Oliver } led condition of the party press pro- | the long residence of Dr. Houard in Cuba, and | utterly misunderstand the American character, | much for man holding such a re-| the latter being under some mental Optic’’—productions that are so pleasing and Auces symptoms of immediate or prospective | his enjoyment of certain privileges to which | If insulted or wronged our citizens are ready | sponsible office in the greatest State in the | disturbance at the time of the deed, and the beneficial to the youthful mind—should come dissolution. The old democratic organs are | are attached the right to become a Spanish sub- | enough to fight, but they desire peace, They | Union, and the fact that his principal asso- | course of medical and surgical treatment | under the ban of —our__straitlaced. Pretty much in this stage at this time, while | ject, in some degree justified the Spanish | regretted the false position into which we were | ciates at the bar were his most strenuous ac- adopted toward Fisk really causing his death, | Presbyterian ¢ ontemporury ! Unprejudiced the sore-headed republican papers are ready to | authorities in regarding Dr. Houard as subject | thrown by the errors and follies of the | cusers proved too heavy a burden fora man | appear now to cover tho somewhat brond | people must hold that anything that tends to élip from party traces and a thont for | to their jurisdiction, while, onthe other hand, | diplomats in the Alabama case, but | of sensitive nature and social habits. This ground on which the defence hope to clear the awaken an interest in religion in the the coming man, ~ whoever | he says, nothing whatever had been brought | they did not contemplate war with | year has been an eventful one in the history of | prisoner, or reduce the grade of the offence if | tender mind of youth is in‘ the line of doing be. The Grecleyphobia has * attacked | forward in the Doctor's behalf to illustrate | England as a consequence of the English | the judiciary of New York, and the death of | found guilty. It will be recollected that with good work; it is planting, as it were, seeds of the former class of papers, | or prove his assertion at any time of | withdrawal from the arbitmtion at Geneva, | Judge McCunn is not the least prominent | the above points as mitigators Stokes’ counsel | that may in time take root, grow, blossom and which take to the independent journal dodge | American citizenship until the misfortune of They would still less approve of war with a | feature in that record. The effect in the city of | admit the shooting. Yesterday was the four- | bear fruit in the glorious vineyard of the { ‘a8@ cover for any charges of a want of party | his arrest and imprisonment occurred, Secre- | weaker nation, with whom we could afford to | the news of his death was something beyond | teenth day of the trial, and, with almost the Lord. 3 fasity that may _be preferred hereafter. The | tary Fish, in this remarkable letter, which we | be generous and conciliating. In this case of | that of the excitement which usually attends | whole theory of the defence yet to be sustained The Independent regards the abolishment of : _ Greeley republican papers go for the white- | publish elsewhere in connection with our spe- | Dr. Howard they can find no cause | the demise of a prominent public man, Com- | by evidence, another week must at least be | the Freedmon's Bureau as “a great work ated philosopher because they have been | cial cable despatch from Madrid, goes on to | for a military excitement, and they pray | ing so soon after his impeachment and re- | consumed before the case is given to the twelve | ended,” and says that when the emancipated out in the cold in the distribution of | review the evidence »gainst Dr. Houard, and | to be protected from another wenrying | moval, and in the face of tho fact that on | blanks. The Court has exercised the power | blacks shall have earned for themselves social Patronage, and know they have nothing | declares that it was of a character that would | flood of diplomatic correspondence. General | Friday his friends who visited him declared | of raling out testimony considerably, and it is | equality and honor they will gratefully are lose by a change. After the Baltimore Con- | have convicted a party accused of the same | Grant should rebuke the superserviceable zeal | that he was in his usual gdod health, the un- | only to be hoped that where this is done, | member that “while England, in emancipat- n, however, we expect a food many of | offence during our war. The Secretary adds:— | of those who have thus mistakenly endeavored expected news produced a profound impres- | althongh tending to shorten a wearying trial, | Ing her West India slaves, gave a hundred independent journals will show their | “The strong point which prevents the inter- | to force an issue with poor, decrepit Spain, | sion. The public mind was, to say the least | that it will only be after the most eareful refer- | millions to their owners and to the egross color, and the epidemic of independent | vention of this government in bebalf of Dr. | and should shake from him the incompetent | of it, shocked to hear of the untimely end of | ence has been made to its actual bearing on | nothing but seven years apprenticeship, Journalism cease to rage with its present vi- | Houard from becoming efficacious for his re- | advisers by whom he is surrounded. ‘Those | a man whose name bas occupied its attention | the alleged crime of the man at the bar, whose | America paid the price of emancipation in Falenpe, lease is the fact that he bag beon regularly | who wish him well and who beliaye jn hig | for so many years, life may depend gn the issue, [ btoaa and then uid fifteen qillious from the ny