The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1872, Page 6

97 NEW YORK HERALD BROAPWAY AND ANW STREET. —_—_—+— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. BOWERY ‘SuxrraRp On OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, and Eighth eeAD Parone. Matinee at 135. SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- (eet Nad Fourteenth streets.—AGnes. Matinee at 1}3. LYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleocker sta. Guanpe Duouxssx. Matinee at2, GERMANIA THEATRE, Fi nth street, near Third ev.—Liee Varertanp Kaxnat Rumi Skin. 0, MY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Matince at eo Orem Teor irone. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Magioat Representations. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— ‘A Gausixn’s Cummx, Afternoon and Evening. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Eurine Crrr— ArRau-na-Brogue., Matince at 2. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Diamonps. Matinee at 154. { WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—PYGMALION AND GALATKA, { BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth ‘avenue, —Annan-Na-Pocux, Matinee at 2 MRA ¥. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Diamonps. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— ur MANNKRING. ’ BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE. Twenty-third st.. corner 6th av.—Nzcuo Minstegtsy, Kocentaioiry, &c, Matinee, 72 BROADWAY, EMERSON’S MINSTRELS.—Granp Ermiortan Eccuntnicrrmes. Matinee at 2. WHITE'S ATHENZUM, 585 Broadway.—Necro Min- ETRELSY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Gnanp Vaniery Entertatnuent, &0. Matince at 2}. 7 ' BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, St. James Theatre, eorner of 28th at. and Broadway.—Ermiorian MINSTRELSY. { RAILEY'S GREAT CIROUS AND MENAGERIE, foot of Houston strect, East River. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth streot.—Matinee at 2, (Rusinsrein Concent. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 634 and 64th streets. \_ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— (Bormxce anp Art, "TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘Lo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. ePuESioa ito mean “THE LATEST SPANISH QUTRAGE IN CUBA! THE DUTY OF THE AMERICAN GOVERN- MENT:" LEADING EDITORIAL—SIxTHo Pagg. @N AMERICAN CITIZEN ARRESTED BY THE POLICE OF HAVANA, CUBA! NO CAUSE ASSIGNED—SEVENTH PaGE. FFROUDE’S RESUME OF IRISH HISTORY! AN ‘ ERA OF BLOODSHED AND ANARCHY— THIRD PagE. RoE NEW AND OLD WORLDS WEDDED! LAUNCH OF THE GLAMORGAN, OF THE NEW YORK AND CARDIFF STEAMSIIIP LINE: AN- OTHER OCEAN CABLE—Firru PaGs. . New YURK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. The Latest Spanish Outrage in Cuba— ‘The Duty of the American Govern- ment. We learn from the special correspondent of the Hznarp at Havana that an American gentleman—Mr. A. Henderson—has been arrested and by order of the Spanish guthorities, So far as is known there is no reason for Mr. Henderson's arrest except the suspicion of Spanish officials and alleged communication with suspécted sym- pathizers with the Ouban insurrection. Neither of these causes is sufficient for the detention of an American citizen travelling for his own and his wife’s health in Cuba, and the frivolous pretence that Mr, Hender- aon is a Cuban by birth only adds to the gravity of the insult which Spain again offors tothe United States. It is the Houard case over again, only that it is even more flagrant in what will probably prove to be the fact— namely, that Mr. Henderson is an American citizen, who was never before on Spanish or Ouban soil. In this case we must not have a repetition of the feeble policy of our State Department in the Houard case, but vigorous and unmistakable action must characterize Mr. Figh’s course from tho outset. Spain must be taught that American citizens cannot be arrested and imprisoned with impunity, and that the strong arm of the United States is sufficient to punish outrages of this kind. Perhaps war will be necessary to teach tho Spaniards tho respect which is duo to other nations, and Spain must understand that the meaning of a war with the United States is the loss of her dominion in the West Indies. If the wrong toward Henderson is persisted in it will bo the last outrage of the kind which. Spain will commit in Cuba, for it will so intensify the indignation of the American people as to compel a policy of retaliation and conquest. We have no disposition to be unjust or even severe towards a friendly nation in our com- ments upon this unfortunate affair ; but it must be conceded that we have borne patiently with the Spanish government in a long series of offences against the sentimonts of our citizens. If the administration at Washington had studied the popular feeling it would long since have given to the Cubans all the ad- vantages to be derived from the recognition of their rights as belligerents. We have been in- dulgent towards Spain abroad, perhaps for the very reason of the acknowledged weakness of Spain at home, and it is certain that wo have submitted to more from that tottering Power than we should have been willing to bear from a less embarrassed government. From first to last the Cuban war has done violence to our most dearly cherished princi- ples and has been a scandal to civiliza- tion. It seems preposterous that we should suffer such a struggle to go on in close proximity to our own territory year after year with apparent indif- ference; that we should stand forth as the aiders and abettors of the oppressors, rather than as sympathizers with the oppressed. Yet such has been the fact, and the most exacting supporter of the Spanish government must concede that our action in all matters relating to the Cuban insurrection has verged closely upon subserviency to the views and policy of WHE SAN JUAN BOUNDARY—INTERESTING OA- : BLE TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE—SEVENTH Page. 'THE ANARCHY IN ARKANSAS! OFFICIAL RE PORT ON THE INCITING CAUSES AND- MEASURES FOR SUPPRESSION—SEVENTH Pace. QEEDS OF THE GRAIN TRADE! THE PRESENT ROUTES UNEQUAL TO THE DEMAND: FLANKING THE CANUCKS: THE ERIE ii CANAL ROUTE—ErcuTH Pacs. RAZIL'S SEMI-CENTENARY OF NATIONALITY: UNVEILING A STATUE—THE ERIE CANAL— MARINE NEWS—TEnrH Pace. HALF MILLION FIND! THE CHARGES “AGAINST TOM FIELDS—MAYOR HALL’S RUMORED INDICTMENT—JEWISH FESTI- , VAL OF SUCCOTH—FirTH PacE. BERMAN GRANT MASS MEETING—THE TAM- MANY CONVENTION—HAVEMEYER DE- CLINES THE REFORM CANDIDACY— TWEED'S TROUBLES—Tuirp Pas, HROOM CIIMZENSHIP! CHARGES OF NATU- RALIZATION FRAUDS IN LANCASTER, PA. : ARREST OF REPUBLICANS—Tuiep Page. por NAVY! THE IMPROVEMENTS AND PRO- POSED CHANGES AT THE PRINCIPAL YARDS—LITERARY 4 Pace. AN EXPOSE OF THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS r STEAMBOAT FIRE AND DIAMOND ROB- BERY: BILLY FORRESTER AGAIN—FirTa Paar. HE STRIFE OF WHITES AND BLACKS IN ARKANSAS!—THE OANOE CLUB RE- GATTA—RAPID STEAMBOAT RUN—FirTa . PaGE. jon ‘0HANGE! REMARKABLE RISE IN PACIFIC MAIL! THE LEADING POINTS IN THE DAY'S BUSINESS—REPORT ON THE COT- TON CROP—CHARITABLE DONATIONS— Nunta Pace. URA FAIR'S MOTHER, MALTREATED BY JUSTICE, ATTEMPTS SUICIDE—EVIDENCE IN THE PATENBURG RIOT INQUIRY— > Fourrn Pace. AULINE LUCCA AS ZERLINA—OPERA BOUFFE— NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—SkvENTH PAGE. WANADIAN RECIPROCITY ADVOCATED IN THE NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE—THE TROT- §° PENG AT PROSPECT PARK—A HORSE EPI- DEMicC—Fovrrn Paces. JMEETING oF FISH CULTURISTs: wnat 1s PRUPOSED—THE S!EEPING-CAN CONTRO. Me) ora SING SING FIRE--Eiciva AGE. PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS—ELEVENTH PaGh. CHIT-CHAT—Fourtit - Se Rovnper Parmer was gazetted Lord Whancellor of England, by command of Queen in London, yesterday. The Right lonorable gentleman is thus elevated to the hest judicial position under the Crown of reat Britain, ranking nearest to the Sovereign » We anticipated this honor for him our pages immediately after the conclusion jot the Geneva arbitration. ‘Goop ron tae Country.—These October Yains. They are replenishing our wells, ings, brooks, rivers, reservoirs and lakes, the far East‘to the far West, with good lies of water, to say nothing of the vitality are giving to the soil. Last October, the Rocky Mountains along the great kes to the Atlantic coast, the country was up by 4 general drought, and the West, Dakota to Chicago, suffered more or jess from ‘those disastrous October fires, This year, from these widespread “latter rains," West has suffered little or nothing from forest or city fires; and s0, in every view, it may be truly said these autumnal Spain. Even in the Howard case our State Department became the advocate of the Span- ish side of the controversy, and maintained the plea of justification set up by the Cuban authorities in response to our protest against the imprisonment of that individual. The argument of Secretary Fish would have pre- cluded any demand for the release of Houard, and he would have been pining in a Spanish dungeon to-day but for the voluntary action of the Spanish government, which shrewdly discovered in his pardon a cheap method of acknowledging the many friendly services of our State Department. We now desire both Secretary Fish and the Spanish authorities to understand that there must be no delay in the release of Mr. Hen- derson, provided he has done nothing to render him clearly amenable to the laws of the country in which he is a temporary resi- dent. It has been evident that the Spaniards in Cuba have sought eagerly for causes of offence against American citizens, in an ap- parent anxiety to revenge themselves upon our people for their admitted sympathy with the Cuban revolutionists. It is time that this should cease. We have no wish to offend Spain, but the singularly friendly disposition of our government towards that Power must not be misinterpreted by the Spanish author- ities. We are on the eve of a Presidential election and of the inauguration of a new administration; for whatever may be the result of the November contest, it is certain that our national policy must undergo ao radical change. The ar NAH | gemang, a treatment of @ Cuban question different from that which hag prevailed up to the present time, and if General Grant's term of office should be extended it will be incumbent upon him to take a firm stand in regard to the affairs of that unhappy island. In his last annual Message to Congress he ex- pressed regret that the disturbed condition of so close 8 neighbor continued as a source of pngie and annoyance to the citizens of the Uni States, and declared that the exist- ence of thé” protracted strtiggle, withoat apparent prospect of mn carly ter. mination, could not fail to be an object of concern to a people whd, while vefraining from interference in the affairs of othe? Powers, naturally desire to see- every coun‘ty in the undisturbed enjoyment of peace, liberty 20d the blessings of free institutions, The situati.°B Of affairs alluded to by the Presi» dent nearly ty¢lve months ago is to-day un: changed, and sizuple oxprossions of regret would now be out.of pace. In the interest of Spain, as well as of huruanity, the cruel’ war to them, the last Spanish trooper and bloodthirsty volunteer shall be driven into the sea. Apart from the question of sympathy and of humanity, itis the right of the struggling people to demand. this much from the Repub- lic, and General Grant cannot well refuse to recognize that right. should be in one way or another brought td @ close, At least it should be relieved as much as possible of its horrors, and this can. not be done more effectually than by our recog: nition of the belligerent rights of the ruyolu- tionists. They are clearly entitled to ¢his recognition by the length of time they h:we continued to stand out in opposition to Spas ish rule, and unless it isto be now accorded it may be withheld until There is no injustice to Spain in this ‘proposition. If the. Spanish government would ect aside considerations of empty pride end rid itself . of ite rebellious colony, it would be stronger and happier at home at the present moment. To- day we hear of the sappression of the latest revolt against the authority of the foreign Ocoupant of the Spanish throne; but to-mor- row we may look for intelligence of other outbreaks within reach of Madrid, Attempted regicide, Carlist risings, sepublican risings, conspiracies and are things of every- day occurrence the Spanish borders; and yet we. find» troops needed at home poured into the unhappy island of Cuba to butcher the people’ struggling only for lib- erty and free government. Is this a fitting spectacle for the present century? Is it true friendship to Spain to suffer such a state of affairs to continue? The time has come for action. The excitement of our Presidential campaign will soon be over, and we must now take a stand becoming a great and powerful nation. We mean no offence to Spain, but we must protect the interests of our citizens and save ourselves from dangerous and threatening complications. The case of Mr. Henderson must be the last of its kind. Americans must no longer be insulted and outraged through the petty jealousy of a proud and suspicious Power. Spain must be made to understand that our foreign policy has undergone a change, and that, while we are willing to re- main on friendly terms with tho Spanish and all other governments, we propose to main- tain our own dignity and credit as a nation, The Cuban barbarism is a dis- grace to humanity—an especial scandal to the neighboring Republic. By the prompt recognition of the belligerent rights of the struggling Cubans we shall give assurance to the world that we intend the war on the island shall be brought to a speedy close, and we shall then see whether the Span- ish government will be guided in its future conduct by passion or prudence—whether it will voluntarily part with an unwilling colony it cannot hold or court destruction by defying the sentiment of the American people. The Erie Canal and the Trade. The question of abolishing the Erie Canal has practically received the coup de grace from its chief advocate in the letter we publish elsewhere. Unable to contradict the state- ments advanced in defence of the State canal our correspondent is obliged to take rfuge in vague predictions of the benefits that might accrue to the trade of New York should his favorite scheme be adopted. In no case has he attempted to answer the objections put forward by his oppononts. The one good which he can promise us of bringing the Western produce to New York a few days earlier than can be done by the water com- munication would certainly not counter- balance the many injuries the closing of the canal would inflict on the numerous interests involved in the canal commerce. It is not even pretended that the change would cheapen the rate of carriage, and yet this is ons of the most pressing ne- cessities of the hour. New York requires cheap freight rates with the West, and un- less every facility for conveying produce to this port can be made available our Western trade must inevitably pass into the hands of rivals. Hitherto we have been in- debted for the lowering of freight rates to the canal competition, and we know that as soon as the water communication is closed the rail- way monopolists will levy blackmail on the commerce which must pass over their lines. This fact alone would mako us hesitate to place ourselves at the mercy of railway cor- porations. Their history repeats itself too often for the public to be easily gulled by interested professions of anxiety for the gone- ral welfare. Wero the canal dried up and the bed converted into a railway track a few years would see it a part of the railway com- bination of the State. Then we would be completely in the power of the monopo- lists. From its very nature a railway cannot be subject to competition. It may have rival interests as a corporation with some other railway, but in the end cor- porations generally find out that it is more profitable to fleece the public than to diminish their profits by too close competition. The canal, on the contrary, being open to all comers, any enterprising man can undertake to carry freight at rates which he thinks will pay him, and this is the essential element of free competition. As a result we have the lowest rates in keeping with a fair profit, and the railways are obliged to charge only a reason- able mileage. Once remove the canal check, and the yailwsy monopolists will eantrol the Saumeee of the: beakeye Tile Soa be anything but a desirable change. What we want on the canal is increase of speed, and that want science will supply within a few years, In the meantime we shall insist that the only free road for trade is maintained for the benefit of the people in spite of the specious projects of the monopolists. Western Our Postan Reations wit France.—It has long been felt by the ple of this coun- try that our postal relations with France were unsatisfactory, it was 6nd of thé tauits of the Empire that it did not make the postal relations or France and the United States as Thiers, i Cuotcr.’’—According to the administra- ion party journals, if Mr. Greeley is elected President we.shall have the Southern game of secession overragain ; while, according to the opposition: party journals, tho re-election of General Graat will. be th signal appeal to arma i son lereoreat | he executed some commissions, and Bradford is comfortable and convcnient as were the postal relations between Great Britain and the United States. It redounds to the credit of M. Thiers that he has seen this jittle difficulty and tried to remove it out of the way For some time past negotiations have been go.hg om between the government at Washington a ud the gov- ernment at Versailles with a view °° effect & hew postal treaty arrangement. We a. ~° Gey to know that the negotiations have so fa.” oo ‘ a satisfactory result, The now postai trea, ” which contemplates the reduction of the rates ro sey “4 sence is under the considera- ion of ‘reuch Minister of Finance, and, aseording to our latest news, a favorable 1 Poe fs confidently expected. if the postal ty is satisfactorily concluded it will be a triumph for the French Republic, and it: will redound to the lasting honor of President eee ‘You Pay Your Monsey any You Tange ‘Pho Return of the Artists. Like tho awallows the students of art yearly | if only his good fortune continues. Scott | ton and other wing their way to lands unknown to the dull | at West Point, Sights overegain tho battle of | of this work-a-day world, but, unlike the birds, they | the Wilderness, but this tinte on cativas. ‘The | thio return to us at tho first admonition of the} picture represents the charge of the Green | the amount ail tiny be tine ‘a Saks Ge marquis yet" | doubt, however, that the larye exports of é¢ot- during the last mouths will go a great way fo bring dows We regret to ace that ‘our forel , ied coming Winter. Ohildson of imagination, | Mountain boys, and has been executed for the | in foreign vessels continues to augment over they carry with them etemal sunshine, and | State of Vermont, Ohurch is still engaged | that carried in American vessels, In 1871 while the snowflakes are-eovering the city ways | building bis house and studio om the Hudson, | sixty-nine per cent was carried in foreign bot- with a chill winding-sheet the walls of the | and’ 8, RB. Gifford, following his example, | tomeand in 1872 seventy-one per cont, ‘These studios glow with Summer skies and Autumn | is erecting & wigwam on the same delightful are important facts that call for the’ serious foliage. At this moment tho’ art mests of the | river, The De Haas brothers have returneil from | attention of Congress and our merchants. city are being rapidly reoccupied, amd only a | the Isle of Shoale, and both are at work on im- | How are wo to increaseyour exports? few ouirés students of nature refuse to quit the | portant marine:subjects. Among the seulptors' | are we to prevent the caltrying trade pleasamt woodlands at the warning blasts of there is not-vety much movément. Calverly:| more and more to foreigners? These are Winter. But by and by the whole flock will | is away in the country, and Rogers’ group of , be collected, and we shall have the pleasuze of “The Watchfires: of the Revolution” can visiting in imagination the charming nooks | scarcely be said to be completed. It is: tho where the lovers of the picturesque delight to | most ambitious of Mr. Rogers’ works, butnot! pass the sultry Summer time. There shall be | his happiest. In his instinct Mr. Rogers is shady retreats where sighing maidens love to | rather a painter than'a sculptor, and his talent tread, and bold, rocky ateeps only less peril- | shows best in small work. Thompson con- ous to bold batchelors—in fact, the spots | tinues his appointed task of commemorating where this persecuted class of citizens take the heroes who preserved the Republic and refuge and find security from the arrows of | making for posterity flattering likenesses of their fair persecutors. Or, again, wo shall | the distinguished mem of the day. Within a have the various moods of the sea so photo- | few weeks the art world: will have resumed its graphed that the illusion will almost make us } usual appearance of order and industry, and believe we hear the mournful sough of tho | the few truanta who atill wonder about the waves and sniff the odor of the salt water. These pleasures - are, however, in the fu- country will have been gathered into the fold. We purpose superintending and chronicling ture, as the artists absolutely refused to return | the labors in the microcosm of art and placing to the city until tho last moment. One cause | before the public such details of the artists of their tardiness, no doubt, may be traced to | and their work as will be likely to prove gen- the resolution of the academicians not to hold | erally interesting. & Winter exhihition, so that the artists will no | mya, uinerty of the Pross in England. longer be forced to leave their Summer haunts until their good pleasure leads them back or the chill winds force them from the fields. This will not, however, be without its compen- sations, Few of the educated art patrons will regret the abandonment of the Winter exhi- bition, which was, in truth, a disgrace to our city. The good artists for the most part refused to send their works, and im order to cover the walls mediocrity was freely admitted, with what a depressing result it is needless to say. We have a right to be thankful to the academicians for such a Proof of common sense. As we pointed out more than a year ago, it was the only line of policy to adopt in view of the difficulty of obtaining works of merit immediately after the return of the artists to their serious labor. It is a measure that will give real satisfaction, and one of its chief results will be to raise the character of the Spring exhibition and make it worthy of the position which New York is rapidly assuming as a generous and intelligent patron of art. It is gratifying to notice that the sketches brought home by the artists for the most part give evidence of close study of nature and afford the best proof of the growing desire to do conscientious work. We have more than once complained that American painters did not bestow that careful labor on their pictures which we had a right to look for. It is, therefore, with sincere pleasure that we note the improve- ment which is being operated in this respect. The older artists are by no means the least attentive students. Men already famous, recog- nizing that in art, even for the most skilful, there is always something to learn, have been studying as closely as if preparing for their first essay. Among those James Hart deserves special mention. Encouraged by the success which attended his introduction of cattle as a prominent feature of his pictures, he has devoted the Summer season to sketch- ing domestic animals in their pastures. The first work that will be shown to the pub- lic is a sheep study, to which interest will be lent by connecting it with the story of “Little Bo-Peep.”” In a different line J. H. Beard displays his intimate acquaintance with ani- mal life and his perfgct sympathy with puppyhood. No one knows the habit of this important class of the canine community better than Mr. Beard. Edward Moran has buried himself in his studio castle on the shores of Staten Island, and we know him no more except by his works. These are ever a new delight, Ho is gradually educating the public eye to the beauty that lies everywhere about us and which strikes every foreigner, but was not generally recognized here until the child of genius with his magic brush touched the scene. The purchasers of paint- ings are beginning to learn that in New York harbor they have sights as picturesque and as full of charm as any that can be seen on the canals of Venice or on Dutch lagoons. But the healthiest sign of all is that their recog- nition is practical and they buy Moran’s pictures—a wonderful example of a man being a prophet in his own country. Winslow Homer is preparing some of his vigorous American pictures—works that, in spite of their defective color, are full of gonu- ine art feeling, and have & value that will {n- crease with time. We know no works so thoroughly and distinctively American as those, and whatever faults they may have are more than counterbalanced by the fresh and truth- ful delineation of contemporaneous life they furnish. They will hand down to posterity pictures of Americans of the nineteenth cen- tury, possessing an individuality, and marked by the strong idiosyncracies of our people, not to be found elsewhere in the whole range of art. J. G. Brown, who portrays the softer and more cosmopolitan phases of the national character, has been away in the White Mountains study- ing backgrounds to be filled in with those charming sketches of infant life in which he is so happy. S. J. Guy, careful, conscientious and technical to the last degree, has quit his English writers and English statesmen have 80 persistently assured the outer world that their country is peculiarly the home of free- dom that most people accept the statement with unquestioning faith, Of course there is in the partially informed mind some vague notion that this happy, enviable state of per- fect freedom is only enjoyed in ita purity within the boundaries of Albion proper. In- deed, no one would expect that the priceless boon of freedom of discussion and political action should be extended across the channel which divides the Green Island from the white cliffs. Liberty would only be thrown away on the wild, poetic Celts, who, according to Mr. Disraeli'’s notion, live in constant converse with the melancholy ocean. This habit of listening to what the wild waves say having engendered quite an unreasonable dislike in the Irish mind to freedom- loving Albion, Englishmen are obliged to somewhat circumscribe the liberty of the po- etic, emotional and somewhat violent Celts. This departure from the doctrines of freedom, we are gravely assured, is entirely in the in- terest of the Irish themselves, who, being » primitive and ingenuous race, are likely to be humbugged into disloyalty, and even rebel- lion, by designing demagogues, unless the staid and solemn English are prepared to check any emotional demonstration by the application of the bayonet. Only a short time since, in their anxiety for the proper instruc- tion of the Irish people, the authorities ae '’ two Dublin papers; but as this attack on the liberty of the press happened in Treland it naturally attracted no attention. Late advices from England, however, inform us that the Postmaster General has issued an order prohibiting the registration of Mr. Brad- laugh’s paper for transmission abroad through the mails. This is on unwarrantable attack on the liberty of the press, and we see no reason why the Eng- lish government should not take one step more, and suppress all papers that are hostile toit. If the Postmaster can violate the law with impunity, then the right to freedom of discussion is atanend. It may be tolerated, but it has ceased to bea right. Such liberty as this the French press enjoyed under the reign of Napoleon when his power was at the highest; but the toleration of a Prime Minister is but a poor exchange for the grand right of which Englishmen were once so proud. While other nations are advancing in the road of progress, can it be possible that England alone is retrograding and sinking back into that slough of tyranny from which France is emerging? Certainly it is not a favorable sign when a so-called liberal and progressive government can set aside rights that have been regarded as the most sacred. What protection is there for Magna Charta, the Declaration of Rights or any other bulwark of the famed constitution of England if power to write and publish what they please be taken from the people? The English people allowed, without protest, their government to enact tyrannical laws, modelled after those of the French Empise, te crush freedom of opinion in Ireland, and it would now seem as if poetical vengeance were about to fall on them by the precedent being used against themselves. We are convinced that the English govern- ment would not have swept away so old and respectable a superstition as the complete liberty of the press unless there existed some cause more important than appears on the surface. Can it be possible that, in spite of toady professions of loyalty from the middle and upper classes, the spirit of republicanism is making dangerous strides among the masses of the English population? This would ap- pear to be so, as the only reasonable solution of the action of the Postmaster General is that the government was forced to choose between two evils. But whatever may have been the motive, the attempt to interfere with the liberty of the press must be regarded as dangerous to freedom, reactionary and especially damaging to the good repute of England as the boasted home of liberty and accustomed haunts and is said to be busy paint- ing for one of our millionnsires. Constant Mayer, with his talent for making pictures out of portraits, and imparting sentiment and refinement to all b= \ouches, is hard at work in hig ae pe he yast army of landscape painters, disor- Ganized and. defeated by '* approach of Winter, are tumbs."% into their stu ee in the ot “ost disorder, For tu,” St pact cy have not y. tsettled down, while tra." like\, T. 8. Smith, Ca, earand McEntee havo not eat in an appen. “4c. William Hart, Louis ¢, Tiffany, David Jclnison,~Goorgo Smillie, Bro. Le Clear has just arrived from Europe, whére still basking in the «niles of English royalty,- ut | amounted to $434,743, three millions of « ending the 90th of la. ‘eur, How hay it bea, free speech. j Statistics of Our Commerce. The Bureau of Statisties in its monthly xe port, which is about to be isgued, aha" ‘the commerce of the conn ened vanes _npuy Increasing 5 y to be constantly and but it shows also that our quections that demand immelinte\popeldens- Emitgratfon swtnadlers~Amother \Case. ‘The insufficiency of, the proteetion afforded Police regulations is made:painfally R the number of complaints made by the vie- tims. Itis more than probable that the case that come to light are only. a small percentage of the pilferings that’ are cartied: om nnder the: law. The public never hear of the smalk losses and extortions Which a large: part of fiding mortal. falls into the hands of the sharpers and is. thoroughly fleeced are we reminded: of the villany which is in constant operation. Of course’ the sufferers ate in almost every case somewhat to blame, and to people blessed with a little common sense it must be difficult to compre- hend what kind of mental organization the man must bo endowed with who, meetings stranger in the street, takes him into his conft- dence, and even entrusts him with the keeping. of his whole worldly wealth. Incredible as: such faith in the honesty of the generat run of* mankind may appear to tho sceptical, such: believers there are. The latest example of: these “‘peculiar people’’ is furnished by a son of Fatherland, who allowed two strangers:to wheedle him out of a thousand dollars. The trick by which this was accomplished is the old confidence game, in which one of those disreputable ‘‘exchange”’ shops plays an important part. If there were no sham banks the swindlers would find it more diffi- cult to execute their schemes, The blame must, therefore, in great part rest on the police authorities, to whom these disreputable dens must be known, and yet who take no steps to suppress them as a public nuisance. We are fast reaching that point when some stringent regulations will have to be enforced against our criminal population, as the idea that we are to leave people at liberty to rob so long as they can escape detection is ridiculous. ‘When s man commits a felony he loses all right to be: considered as a reputable citizen, and all he can afterwards justly claim is toleration so long as he lives honestly. With regard to men who are known to live by plundering and who. have no visible. mode of gaining an honest livelihood, no sentimental- ism about the liberty of the citizen: ought ta be suffered to stand in the way of giving security and order to the honest part of the community. Those who voluntarily leave the ranks of honesty should be taught that they cannot prey on society and then shelter them. selves from the consequences of their mis- deeds under the protection of the law which they persistently violate. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. D. N.. Latrobe, a respected citizen of Carbondale, Pa., died last week. Robert H. Pruyn, of Albany, is domiciled at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Secretary Fish arrived in Washington from this city yesterday morning. Ex-Governor Claflin, of Massachusetts, was in Chicago on Wednesday last. ‘They had a cotton fair at St. Louis the other day, and only two men were killed. Judge E. P. Hudgins, of Richmond, Va., is stop- ping at the Grand Central Hotel. Professor Agassiz was in Ogden, Utah Territory, on the 9th inst., homeward bound, United States Senator John A. Logan, of Illinois, has recovered from his recent iliness, Ex-Governor Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jer- sey, is in town at the New York Hotel. John Jay Knox, of the Treasury Dpeartment at Washington, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General J. 8. Negley, member of Congress from Pittsburg, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge J. R. Race, of Decatur, Ill., has run into town, and is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Hon. Henry Wilson has been visiting his old friend General William Schouler, who is.danger- ously ill, at West Roxbury, Mass. General Butler, in a card to the Boston, Traveller, denies that he ever sald to any one that things ook bad (for Grant) in the West. The National Executive Committee of the Union League of America will meet at the Astor House, New York, on Tuesday next, at noon. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, has written a letter in which he says that ne never was interviewed by @ newspaper man and never intends to be. Brigham Young admonishes his Latter Day Saints that if they do not come forwatd with their tithes they will insure for themselves future misery. ‘The Providence Journal thinks that whoever at- tempts to haze down Conyers, the colored cadet at Annapolis, should be shot out of the Naval Academy. Mayor Medill, of Chicago, has proclaimed against, Spiritualistic exhibitions and liquor selling on Sun-. days, He says liquor dealers must goto church and Spiritual.sts must pay leense. ‘Mrs. Richard Stanley, now living In West Vin ginia, has had 14 children, 39 grandchiidren and,223. great and great-great grandchildren—total prog- eny, 336—with returns from the back towns notyet all in. Dante} K. Olney, an Influential citizen of Greene county, New York, died in Catskill on the 14th inst., , aged sixty-five. He was alawyer of distinction, ? once District Attorney and a candidate for the Su-, preme Bench. Mr. Muhlenberg, the United States Revenue Cod lector in Lancaster, Pa., who has been-arrested on acharge of attempting to bribe an election judge to stuf the ballot boxes, is 9 brgtheriniaw of Sim§a Cameron, It may cost the New York Central Radtroad Com- pany $2,000 because & conducter put of & passen- gor for the non-payment of twenty cents fare, after sald passenger had bought a ticket to go and imports have greatly exceeded in value the €X- | - tun vetween certain pointe, ports, and this excess of is augmenting. for {or the same period were in value $423, 829,619 but for wril 30, 1872, the amount imports over exports For example-—the imports ths ending April 30, 1871, the ten mon! $88, while the exports on period ending | peace poeta sn in imports was | Blacksmith, at April is an enosmous a met? Thero is no | rule of Germany, that egret to learn from & contemporary mane y entertained for the recovery” of § man injured on a railroad. To entertain “fears for the recovery” of a human being 1s certainly a. very novel way of affording consolation to his friends. 3 | Rev, J. B. Niles, the scoretary of the American 4 Society, and Elihu Burritt, the “Learned 1” Jeave Boston for Europe in @ short yurpose of making arrangements for voort, Whittypdge and Van Elten have co exports $409,471,501, | time for the Pi | Peace Congress to Rugtand back to the city’ aden down \yvith the most de a. psp or ecee the excess of im- perce “ges le lightful and choied jittle bits Of wood and| Forth +t exports, including foreign exports, | colony from Alsace 18 about being established water studies, by and by to grow into impor. | ports ove. ‘0 $03,005,871. In the former ten | near Kansas City, atl rey & e tant pictures. Bierstadt is away in Caltfornfn, | amounted, xeess was only $19,250,710. Of Seat thar or the puctowy of completing arrange and is doing so remarkably well on the Pacific | months the e. included in the cxports, A mente for bringing out the colonists, ‘The inhavie slope that he has no intention to come East | course specie is against us of a wats ants of Alsace and nigger og beh mon' . until the placer is completely worked out.:| balance of trade ‘ollags for the seems from bp Bulb Pres to the imecriat