The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1873, Page 4

——>e 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. What We May Learn from the Old World=The War Against Coesarism in France and Spain—Have We a Republican Form of Government? The nations of the world are so closely bound together that what affects one will in many ways affect another. It is impossible to ‘All business or news leiters and telegraphic have social and commercial relations with despatches must be addressed Naw Youre Hxnar. countries like France and Germany and Spain and not im some way be controlled by the political emotions and agitations which sweep Letters and packages should be properly | over them. ‘The war against Church influence sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. in Germany is a problem that has not been without a parallel in our own local history, and many gloomy-minded prophets still think that there will be even graver religious com- THE DAILY HERALD, pubtished every day tn the | plications in the future. 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HAVE WE A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT ?’'— LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC—FountH Pages. MURDERED, ROBBED AND FLUNG INTO THE HUDSON! MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A NEWLY ARRIVED GERMAN MER- CANTILE AGENT FROM HOBOKEN ON THE FOURTH! THE BODY FOUND, HORRIBLY MANGLED—Firtu Pace. DEATH-DEALING NITRO-GLYCERINE! A TE! RIFIC EXPLOSION, WITH PROBABLE LO: OF LIFE 1N PENNSYLVANIA—Firtu Pack. PROPOSED VISIT OF THE TURKISH SULTAN THE KHEDIVE—GENERAL NEWS—Firtm PAGE. NASSR-ED-DIN IN FRANCE! ADDRESSES OF WELCOME AND THE SHAH’S REPLY! ITALY TO BE HONORED WITH A VISIT! THE PERSIAN RULER’S FAMILY DESCENT AND TALISMANS—Firru Pace. ADDITIONAL EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS EXPERI- ENCED IN ITALY YESTERDAY—Firtn Pas. FIGHTING THE INDIANS! MORE WARRIORS LOOKING FOR PALE-FACE SCALPS— WHEREABOUTS UF THE MODOOS—Firru Pace. THE VISION CARRIES OFF THE $500 PRIZE IN 4 RACE WITH THE META! A DECIDEDLY FINE OONTEST! ACUIDENT TO THE META—Firru Pace. : TELEGRAPHIY COMMUNICATION RE-ESTAB- LISHED BETWEEN CUBA AND PORTO RICO! DESERTION OF LABORERS UPON THE TROCHA—FirtH PaGE, OUR EVANESCENT CHRISTICOLISTS! YESTER- DAY’S SERMONS! THE NATIONAL BIRTH- DAY, HYPOORISY OF SOCIETY, SIMPLE RELIGION, SORROW AND GRIEF, AND CHRIST'S SECOND COMING EXPATIATED UPON—SixTH PaGs. KILLING HUMAN BEINGS FOR THE RATIFICA- TION OF AFRICAN TREATIES—A NEW YORK POLICEMAN NEARLY MURDERED BY ROUGHS—COURT NEWS—Ssvento Pace. . CONDITION OF THE MONEY MARKETS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE! THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE FRENCH GOVERN- MENTAL LOAN! FRANCE’S FINANCIAL EMBARASSMENTS ! THE GOLD CLIQUES! PRICES OF STOCKS—Srventn Pace. CONSTITUTION MAKING IN THE CIDER STATE— THE HUDSON COUNTY (N. J.) GRAND BOULEVARD—GOSSIP FROM AND AR RIVALS AT THE SUMMER RESORTS—REAL ESTATE SALES THIS WEEK—SevENTH Page. Tue Heaura or tHe Porz.—His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth was so well on Saturday that he was able to walk without assistance in the gardens of the Vatican. It is not at all impossible that the old man may live long enough to give his enemies much trouble. After the wild ramors to which we have be- come accustomed it is gratifying to know that the health of His Holiness is not such as to justify any immediate anxiety. —+——_ Tae Government or Spars anp THE Can- usts.—The Spanish government, if report speaks truth, begins to show some signs of life. The Carlist insurrection is to be put down with a strong hand. A proclamation, we are told, is about to be issued calling upon all the Carlists throughout the Republic to lay down their arms and submit to the govern- ment. Five days are to be allowed them. Failing the surrender within the specified time cordons will be drawn around the insur- rectionary districts.and a decisive campaign commenced, All this is well enough if the government can do it It: is the opinion of some people that the Caflists are just as likely to march upon Madrid and compel the gov- érnment to surrender. We shall see. If the government puts forth its strength a few days should be sufficient to show which is the stronger—-the government or the Carlista, have we learned in the North? What havo we that has not come from the South? Two mighty names, the shadow of whose genius rests upon the world like an aurora— Shakspeare and Goethe—come from the North; but it is the North as moulded and tinted by centuries of Southern taste and light. When we see what we see in Spain and France and Italy, it is well to pause and apply to our own conditions of national life the problems there secking solution. We may in the future have to undergo even more exhausting struggles unless we build wisely now. It is so much easier to build than to rebuild. The Spaniards and Frenchmen of to-day are in the throes of social and political agony to undo what was vainly done by their fathers. No similar problems oppress us, for with us every problem is solved by the pro- digious wealth and richness of our soil—tho vast sections of unimproved land awaiting the emigrant, the readiness with which wealth is gained. But there was a time when land was free to the people of the Mediterranean, when money was earned easily, when society had no vexing, heartrending problems; and, so far as richness of soil is concerned, we have never surpassed France in our harvests nor Spain in the variety of our mineral wealth, And what these Mediterranean countries see may in time come home to us. What is the question in Spain and France? As we understand it, simply this: How best can Spaniards and Frenchmen rule their native lands, securing to all life, liberty and ie pursuit of happiness? How best can there be a genuine republican form of govern- ment? What is the question in the United States? No more nor less than this: Shall we havea republican form of government? Wo dismiss from Gonsideration afi sentimental and fantastic questions of politics, It is not whether we shall have protection or free trade, suffrage to one class or another, centraliza- tion or State rights. These questions will determine themselves. But shall we have a republican form of government? The thought in the minds of most of our politicians is, Shall we nominate. General Grant for a third time? It is true the thought has not found general, expression. It is spoken, if at all, with bated breath and whispering humbleness. An occasional worshipper of power announces in a trucnlent manner that we have found anew Washing- ton and we must-keep him. Some of tho enemie® of General Grant insist in a:mocking way that he shall be at once nominated. But there is no general expression on the subject. The want of this expression is a grave indica- |. tion, Suppose Mr. Johuson, or General Pierce, or Mt. Buchanan had, either of them, been mentioned as a candidate for three terms, how promptly we should have been told the liberties of the country were in danger ! Now we hear'no sound. Nothing is clearer than that the henchmen of General Grant, the men who have gained honor and wealth out of his administration, and who see in his renomination and re-election their own con- tinnance in power, mean to insist upon his renomination. The arguments are all at hand: we are doing so well, the business of the country needs so much tranquillity, the South is so restless in the absence of a firm hand, General Grant has been so admirable, and so on, that we cannot run the risk of new experiments, f This is so much more probable because, as we have shown before, the political situa- tion is in the hands of General Grant. He is as completely master as was ever Jefferson, Jack- son or Lincoln. Never was a President so submissively obeyed. Never was a party so dominant. Every department of the govern- ment, nearly every large State, the army, the navy, the bench —evéen this great State and still greater metropolis, which stood ali the assaults of Lincoln when in the fulness and glory of triumphant war—all, all are in the hands of his followers. And not one of these men has ventured to speak what he would have spoken a few years ago about the question of a third term. We are told it is not a living question, that the time for its discussion has ‘hot come, that it would be a reflection upon General Grant to suppose him in any way ambitious of a renomination. But to say this is not a living issue is to say what is not true, Rome had no more living — issue than when, on the Lmnpercal, Mark Antony offered the kingly crown fo Julius Cmsar. And the mem who are in authority under General Grant até mony of them as eager to do him honor as were the shouting Romans who surrounded Omar in his tri- umphs. And as we believe that great events are not the works of mere men, but of social and political conditions which dasing mon ofttimes seize, eo do we see around us many ‘The strength of the Carlists in the North is | of the elements favorable to Cesarism. Lux- revealed by the fact that railway traffic is still ury, sudden wealth, the spirit of speculation, interruptéd, the foreign mails being sent by | the loose moral tone which superinduced: pen ip war ships. NEW | YORK. HERALD,” MONDAY, JULY 7, 1873. frauds and the extraordinary legislation in the last Congress; the rending asunder by the civil war of old conservative ties, the mililary spirit, the craving for show and noise—all these signs, apparent everywhere, are pre- cisely what was seen in Rome when Augustus OCmsar, under the deceptive name of Impe- rator, overthrew the Republic. This question, what we may call Casarism, that threatens to come tous in America, is now being settled in France and Spain— sadly, we fear, and with disaster and deep wounding of the national pride. We have seen what Franco has done—how she swung from the sway of Thiers to MacMabon—and scareely a ripple on the political surface. Could we have done as much? Could our form of government have made as sudden a change without wrenching the whole system, and, perhaps giving ita fatal wound? Sup- pose Mr, Johnson had been as popular a man as M. Thiers, with all the powers of the gov- ernment at his command, could we have avoided any fate he chose for us? Mr, John- son was our most unpopular President. He vetoed more acts of Congress than the other Presidents allcombined. Hoe was opposed by both” “houses of _ Congress, and had no following in either party. And yet his impeachment was impossible. Suppose Mr. Johnson to have been as strong as M. Thiers in France, or Presi- dent Grant now, he could, we fear, have dealt our Republic as severe a blow as the Cmsars dealt the Republic of Rome. The evil lies in our constitution. Perfect as we regard that instrument, we cannot do what Spain has done—what France is doing. Spain dismissed her King, France her President, and the forms of the constitution were unimpaired. To dismiss our President would be a revolu- tion. And, while no one cares to dismiss him, we see ourselves driftimg upon the rock of Cosarism—amoothly, pleasantly, silently, swiftly drifting upon a danger even greater than what menaced Spain or France. We mean the third term idea, which to our mind affects our Republic as gravely as the Republic of Rome wes affected when Julius Cxsar was offered the crown by subservient Senators. Nor will the question be solved by any action of General Grant. We neither speak for the President nor criticise him. Personally he does not enter into this discussion, He might say to-morrow that he would, under no circumstances, accept a renomination, just as he once said he did not believe in second terms. That would postpone, not eradicate the Sager No system is sound, nor are any people really free who depend upon the patriotism of one man for freedom. We re- member that the crown was. thrice offered on the Lupercal, and that, although thrice re- fused, each time it was with less and less re- luctance. -And we can name twenty Mark Antonys in our city who would carry tho crown of a third nomination to General Grant with pride and swiftness. _We must meet Cesarism now, not by postponing this ques- tion out of deference to the feelings of Gencral Grant, but by meeting it, discussing it and searching public opinion. If our public men have no views on the sub- ject, or aro silent and noncommittal, we must educate them also. Having | done this we come to the next step—the pro- ulgation of an amendment to the constitu- ion making the Presidential office more menable to the popular will, What the exact terms of such ah smendment should be must be considered gravely. As for General Grant, as we have before remarked, he has a perilous stake. If he should be renominated and win he will be remembered with those. daring, am- bitious men, like Casar and Napoleon, who preferred their own gain to the national lib- erties. If he should be renominated and lose he willbe remembered in our history with Arnold and Burr, as men who permitted am- bition to woo them to dishonor and shame. Beyond this, the people must gravely consider whether they are really free when contin- | gencies like this can be seriously discussed— whether with all our wealth and power we are ‘as free as France and Spain. The Extension of the Signal Service to the West Indies, The public will be glad to leatfn that the long-projected extension of the Weather Bu- reau to the West Indies is about to be prac- tically realized. It is in the waters of the West Indian Archipelago’ that are annually formed those terrible tornadces which desolate our Gulf and Atlantic seaboard and have always been the terror of navigation. The Signal Office, stretching out its lines of me- teorologic seutinels, as is now proposed, will oceupy stations at Huvana, Santiago de Cuba, Kingston (Jamaica), Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Antigua, Guadeloupe and St. Vincent, in the Windward Islands, and thence by the lateral cable from §t. Vincent to Barbados it will plant its extreme outpost at this latter island. Barbados lies in the best possible position to furnish the carliest premonitions of the hurri- cane which is on its way to ravage the sea- coasts of the United States. At most of the West Indian islands the terrible roar of these revolving storms can be heard often while yet the gale is a whole day distant. But at Bar- bados, although this island was the scene of the historic storm of 1780—known as “The Great Hurricane’’—it is so near the cradle of the cyclones that they have seldom acquired violence enough to be andible as they approach its southeastern shore. While in the Carib- bean Sea these fearful meteors havean enormous speed of rotation, but the speed of translation which they attain is happ‘ly but very small, never more than twenty miles an hour and seldom half as much as that, There is, there- fore, generally 9 period of geveral days inter. vening betwee the passage of the tyclone over the Windward Islands and its arrival on the Gulf or the South Atlantic coast, in which the Signal Office can give ample warning, both by mail and telegraph, to. the endangered re- gions. Besides the great geographic advane furnished, and is already sending postal reports of its observations. ‘The cables are at work, and all that remains to be done is to secure a fair rate from the agents of the International Ocean Company for the transmission of the messages: This company, regulated by the Western Union Company, we learn, now demands full com- mercial rates from the Signal Office, while the ‘West Indian and Panama Company have agreed to carry the weather telegrams from Aspinwall to Jamaica at one-third the com- mercial rates. If this latter, an English com- pany, can afford to be so just and reasonable in. its charges, we can see no reason why the former corporation should not be willing to serve its own nationality upon terms equally fair. It is to be earnestly hoped that the Western Union Company will interpose no further ob- stacles in the way of the immediate consum- mation of this Signal Service extension to the West Indies. Ina few weeks the hurricane season gets in, to last till November, and the cause of humanity, to say nothing of other vital economic issues in which the whole country is deeply interested, demands thero shall be no let or hindrance to the benign efforts of science to mitigate the horrors. of the storm and the shipwreck. A Great State Park in the Adiron- dacks—A Sesutitul Idea and an Urgent Necessity. Among the most meritorious acts of our late Legislature is the act in pursuance of which a “State Park Commission”. of seven gentlemen was appointed to inquire into and report upon the expediency of securing, setting apart and preserving certain wild lands in our northern counties of Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, St. Lawrence and Lewis, asa grand public State Park.. This commit- tee, consisting of ex-Governor. Horatio Sey- mour, Patrick H. Agan, William B. Taylor, George Raynor, William A. Wheeler, Ver- planck Colvin and Franklin B. Hough, in their report (the meterial, portions of which we published yesterday) are of opinion that the protection ofa great. portion of those forests (the forests of the great Adirondack group of mountains) from wanton destruction ‘is absolutely and immediately required.” The committee do not favor the creation of an expensive and exclusive Park for mere pur- poses of recreation. They recommend it simply for the preservation of the timber as a measure of political economy. They submit that this forest region of the Adirondacks is perhaps the bah Temarkable watershed of the eastern half of North America, and that the preservation of its timber is of the highest importance to the material interests of the State; that those vast woods havea powerful influence upon the general climate of the State—upon tho rainfall, winds and tempera- ture—moderating storms and equalizing throughout the year the moisture discharged from the atmosphere; that_ the clearing away of those Adirondack woods will inevitably endanger the whole line of the Hudson River to its mouth from the sudden melting of the Adirondack snows and the consequent destruc- tive Spring inundations, and that while those invaluable forests remain the deep Winter snows of those mountains will be protected from the direct rays of the sun in Spring, and will thus continué to be slowly and gradually melted away. Such are the leading reasons advanced by the committee in favor of this proposed State Park. Through a period of many years, in our frequent appeals for the preservation of our forests, the readers of tho New Yore Heratp have become familiar with the line of tage of these stations as to position, their observations are much more yaluable and the’ indications more wnerring than those tele- ytaphed from the Continental stations. So regwilar and precise is the diurnal variation of the barometer in the tropics that Hum- boldt says.he could often fell the time of day to within a few ininutes by the oscillations of the mercury. Wher ® cycle of any kind, therefore, approaches the barometer givés the most indubitable evidence, and the ther in- strumental indications axe not less emphatic, The Signal Office, we understand, has all its’ Tommany Hall, Qrvdit Mobilies, revenue | Woat Indian stationg mannodjand thoroughly argument pursued by Governor Seymour and his colleagues upon this important subject. We have shown from time to time that vast timberless regions are subject to the fiercest extremes of hent and cold and of droughts and inundations where they are not utterly rainless; we have shown from historical records how countries, which had been rich and fruitful while covered toa great extent with woods, became dry and sterile from the Gestruction of ‘their timber. In support of these instructive and important facts to our “destructive people we may here remind them that if our States and Territories of the great West are peculiarly subject to tornadoes, water spouts, deluging rains and toall the violent alternations known in the climates of the temperate zone, it is because the great ‘West is ‘mostly a region of timberless prairies, over which the elements have free play and have nothing to arrest them in their wild caprices; and that, on the other hand, if our Atlantic slope, from the Alloghanies to the sea, is comparatively exompt from these de- structive visitations of droughts ond hurri- canes and deluging floods, it is because of its forests, which serve at once to produce o gentler and more general diffusion of our rain- fall, and to retain it to feed the soil and to maintain a continuous supply to our living wells, springs, lakes and streams, The report states that cight hundred and thirty-four thousand four hundred and eighty acres, or one thousand three hundred and three square miles, of this forest region are upon the Hudson River side of the water shed, and that this would be the approximate area required for the Park in view of the protection of the sources of the Hudson River. Itisa beautiful idea, and the project is particu- larly attractive because of its surpassing practical importance. The inquiry naturally follows, Why should not every State and every Territory have its State or Territorial Park? The grand and wonderful National Park of the Yellowstone is destined to be, and within a faw years, to Summer travellers the grentest attraction on the face of the globe. It will bring millions of dollars into the country wherd now millions are taken away. But above all ‘other considerations is that of Governor Seymour and his committeo, that the protection of a great portion of the Adiron- dack forests from wanton destruction, as a theasure of wise precaution and political econ- omy, ‘is absolutely and immediately re- quired.” ‘The Upening of the Y: to Navigation, The successful exploration of the Yellow- stone River, lately announced by General Sberidan, will probably open up one of the most beautiful and wonderful regions of the Continent to the tourist and the emigrant. The military expedition which ascended the Yel- lowstone from Fort Buford, on the Missouri, ascertained the navigability of this gtoat trib- ‘stone River wtary of the latter stream eighty miles above | the mouth of Powder River in the present | sociation, Ho had waved altogether sixteen human year, when the Spring waters were lower than | !!ves. at any period in the past three years. The Yellowstone is the principal affluent of the Upper Missouri, and its volume, as Gen- eral Warren estimated it, isas large as what is considered the main stream. The country drained by it and the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin Forks, according to Lieutenant Mul- lan’s report, is one of the most delightful and desirable west of the Mississippi—gently forest-fringed, the soil ii rich and the climate, mild and invigorating, furnishes all the other elements for happy homes. The inclination of the Continent and the watersheds are so gradual that Fremont, even in ascending to the South Pass—higher than the Simplon or St, Gothard over the Alps—had to use the ut- most care to detect the culminating point or the dividing crest. . The Yellowstone has its source in the mountain lake of that name, lying between the Big Horn and Upper Missouri branches, and is characterized by many islands and by bold, sweeping curves, frequently infringing on the hill sides. Between Olarke’s Fork and the month of the Big Horn it is a rapid river, flowing some three or) four miles per,hour, and is from five hundred to six hundred yards wide. After‘passing the Big Horn and thence to Powder River it resembles the turbid Mis- sour! nd expands into a volume nine bun- dred yards wide. It is unobstructed by diffi- cult rapids, and contains numerous densely wooded and heavily timbered islands, and the sand bars could easily be “removed, at very little expense. Cap. tain Reynolds’ party, who explored it some years ago, represent its floods as neither suddew nor excessive. They followed it up several hundred miles, and expressed the opinion that it could be navigated all the way to the point where it issues: from the moun- tains, by boats drawing three feet of water, from the middle of May to the 1st of August, and pronounced it better for steamboat navi- gation than the Missouri. . The total 1 the Yellowstone is about five hundred fifty miles, and, if our present information is tolerably correct, about three hundred and fifty miles of the river will be opened to the busy steamboat of the Western waters. Tho Northern Pacific Railroad (which traverses the natural channel of the Yellowstone), with its southern connections to Cheyenne and Yank- ton, will greatly assist in populating and de- veloping the Yellowstone basin and the many adjoining river valloys and bringing their untold mineral wealth and the wonders of their yoleanic phenomena within reach of the settlor and the tourist. The completion of these highways to the great National Yellow- stone Park and Lake, lying amid the most fas- cinating and stupendous scenery of the world, and in s climate the most favored, will attract thousands of visitors from every part of the globe. PERSONAL, INTELLIGENCE Ex-Governor Kent, of Maine, 1s bent on 4 trip to Europe. Judge B. H. Whitney, of Indiana,-ts at the Grand Central Hotel. Sudge 1, B, Qtis, of Chicago, is staying at the St. “| Nicholas Hotel. oR Bishop John Sharpe, of Salt Lake, ts stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, is again down with a paralytic shock, Secretary Richardson left Long Branch tor Wash- ington yesterday evening. General Benjamin F, Butler, of Massachusetts, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman Lyman K. Bass, of Buffalo, yester- day arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Dr. Cnarles T. Jackson, the eminent chemist and physician of Boston, is alarmingly ill. George Haws, the well-known musician and pianoforte manufacturer, of Boston, is dead. Francis H, Jackson, @ well-known citizen of Bos- ton, died while taking a bath on the 5th instant. A. M. Oakes, of New Haven, on a visit to Beston,. died suddenly on the 4th Of hemorrhage of the lungs. Dr. N. Edson Sheldon, a well-known physician of Northern New York, died at Glen’s Falls on the 4th. Three members elect to the Forty-third Congress are dead—James Brooks, Willlam Whiting and J. G. Wilson, of Oregon. The Boston Transcript wants to know if the Pi-Utes are a secret Greek letter society and if any one is to deliver a poem and an oration before it at this time of the year. » Lieutenant Commander Henry 0. White, of the United States Navy, is among the late arrivals at the Union Square Hotei. Secretary Robeson and wife sailed on the United States steamer Tallapoosa trom Nowport yester- day morning for the Eastward. John B, Eastburn, an old and well-known printer of Boston and one of the earliest and most steadiast friends of Daniel Webster, died last week. 4 The Chicago Times calls the Shah of Persia the “Boss Monarch.” He may be ‘monarch of all he surveys,” but Baron Reuter seems to be the “boss surveyor’’ of his kingdom. A Baptist clergyman out West undertook to bap- tize his wife at an unseasonaple hour. He kept her head under water too long, and now he has to be hung up to dry in consequence, A young lady just married tn Chautanqaa county is chronicied as @ remarkable elocutionist. Anex- change hopes she will not talk her husband to death in her ambition to jnstify the fact. The Albany Journal affirms that the Shah of Persia is not the sovereign of his country. The “Kiog of Kings” is only an advertising agent of Baron R-uter, the great railroad monarch. ‘How old “Daddy Rice” would nejoice were he alive in these days! They have just discovered a veritable “Virginia Mummy’—the title of his fa- vorite extravaganZa—in the Old Dominion. “The Yankees have got the Modocs,” said a Southern tradesman to an old lady of ante-bellum tendencies when asked “What's the news f” “They have, have they? Ihope tt will kill every one of ‘em,"’ was the rejoinder. The editor of the Minneapolis Tridune says the “St. Louis Democrat is the best paper to steal from in the whole country,”’ and candidly confesses that “that accounts for the excellence of the miscella- neous matter in the Tribune,” The Fincastie (Va,) Herald is responsible for this bit of personal gossip:—“Lord Melbourne and family, of England, with a retinue of twenty-six persons, have located in the county of Alleghany, having purchased some valuable property, con- sisting of the old Callaghan stand, 100 acres of land and ‘White Hall,’ paying therefor $9,260 in cash.” A horse thief named Howard, lately hanged by a vigilance committee in Missourl, was ascertained to have been & member of that committee, The regulations of the committee demand in such cases that the oifender shall be dragged to the place of execution by the tail of a horse—an act of cruelty that was literally carried out in the cage of Howard, Mr. Jonn Hussey sailed for Europe on Saturday inthe steamer France. He has received several medals for rescuing persons from drowwiag—one, & gold one, from the merchants of South street; anotier from the Society tor the Prevention of Oraelty to Animals; also 4 very complimentary set The St. Louis Demoorat, in its issue of the 4th, says the editors, reporters,clerks and printers of that establishment will auly celebrate.the day by. patriotically attending to their busitiess and ting out @ paper for the Sth. The of ting the publication of a morning ‘newspaper the day alter a holiday ts a bad one, and is being gene- rally discontinued. It is kept up principally by those papers that make money by suspension, the yearly advertising blanket aheets, for example. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Dugine THe YuaR included in the latest report of the National Ten Society (New York) thirty-six new publications have been issued, making the total number published by tle society 303. Over nineteen million pages of tract and newspaper bave been printed. Two t ‘AND Frery Pouwne has been trans- mitted outof the Royal Bounty Fund, by command of Her Majesty, on the recommendation. of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, for the benefit of Mra, Maguire, in recognition of her husband's literary merits in writing the life of the late’Father Mat- thew. Mr. JULIAN HAWTHORN®’s “Bressant” has been received with great favor by nearly all the Londom press. The Spectator that, while there is nothing in tt to us of any of our greater novelists, it has real and ‘dinary Pictorial power. \ * t Mr. Henuert SPENCER'S “Principles of Pay- chology,” just issued, contains his: former work of the same name, published twenty-eight years ago, embedded in ‘abouc an equal amount of new, matter. “ a GRNEBAL LEW WALLAOZ says, of bis the conquest of Mexico, to be issued inthe Falt by the Osgoods, that he wrote the most of it \-wenty-five years ago. Thon the General has sar- passed the Horatian rule of modesty. S. 8. Weits will shortly publish the work on whioh Dr. R. T, Trall has been engaged for severat years, on “Digestion and Dyspepsia.” Tae Newport Mercury lately passed its 115th an- niversary.” It was established in 1758 by Benjamin Franklin. © THE THIRD VOLUME of the, “Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston,’ by the late Lord Dalling, will appear in the Autumn, and a fourth volume is in preparation, the materials for which will be furnished by the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper- Temple. “ ‘Tue Commrrree appointed by the Bar Association of this city to examine the New York system of law reporting has made an interesting report. There are no less than 348 volumes of reports of cases in this unhappy State, and of these 348 a large part, owing to ‘multiplication of reports. of the same case” and “reckless reporting,” are very worthless. We agree with the committee that the multiplication of this swarm of law reports is an evil which “has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.” J A Frew of “free trade booksellers” advertise io London journal. What is ‘free trade ?”” Ir Is ANNOUNCED that we are to have another volume of ‘Monographs’ from Lord Houghton, this time to be called “Monographs, Political and Literary.” Mn. P, G. HamERton’s Portfoviois an art monthly, now in its fourth year, which is a treasure to lovers of fine etchings and keen criticism, POLITICAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. ee Referring to General Butler's mon-committal eech at Framingham on prohibition, the Boston: Renaae affirms that “it was a case of misplaced confidence on the part of the prohibitioniats. They haye found in him bad investment, as another —_ Sime kat atin de nanan tmen maliting a USUFAEION Of vuciz tug a CaLtYLUE tsvo posevoowien reformatory movement depending exclusively on individual judgment and force of character.” An exchange saya Senator Boutwell scouts the idea that he was in Washington to promote the in- terests of General Butler. Probably it was only meant as 4 scout. Congressman Dawes will not leave public life to enter into busizess, flattering as the inducementa are, Mr. Dawes is a i;pe Of mo-e than the average Massachusetts public mat ’ The Cincinnati Times (republic) s3ys “Allen- countyiam is defunct. The hefty Brinkerlof (liberal. Tepublican) pumped on tt, and that was enough." ' Patrick Henry once called Governor Giles, of Virginia, a “‘bob-tailed politician.” Giles demanded anexplanation. Henry responied :— Ido not recollect having called you.a “bob-tatled liticlan” at any time, but think it probable & we. Not recoliecting the time or occas! on, I can- not say what I did mean, but if you will tell me what you think I meant, I wili say whether you are correct or not, Giles subsided. pf A Virginia paper says :—‘Wise has been endorsed by Underwood. If this does not disgust him, we confess we know not what will, unless, perbaps, a letter from Brownlow will have that effect,”” Speaking of the Patrons of Husbandry, the Ma con (Ga.) Telegraph says:— We are friends of the order, and wish them well‘ in their laudable attempt te restore independence and thrift to the agricultural class of the commu- nity. To this end we again repeat the wish that they may obtain accessions of strength from our intel nt statesmen, who, trom their experience and ability, are well qualified to lead in any of the projected teforms. It is precisely those ‘intelligent and experienced statesmen” that the farmers have most to fear im, laboring for their proposed reforms, i The Farmers’ Club of Milo, Bureau county, Illinois, has passed a resolution declaring their “inflexible opposition to any political system under which monopolies can be created and protected, whether by protective tarif, governmen: subsi- dies, the granting of exclusive privileges to rail- road or other corporations, or any legislation what- ever, either State or national, which may tend to the benefit or emolument of any class of citizens at the expeuse of any or all others,’” The Martinsburg (West Va.) Statesman proposes Charles J. Faulkner, formerly United States Senator, from Virginia, Minister to England, and during the war Confederate Minister to France, as the far- mers’ candidate for President in 1876, The Louis- ville Ledger rather likes the idea. Representative Bugene Bale ts reported to be a candidate for Unived States Senator from Maine, in place of Hamlin, against such formidable com- petitors as Hamiin himself, ex-Governor Pernam and Speaker Blaine, unless, as a Westcrn paper suggests, the latter thinks tuere is some safer route to the White House. “Scrateh.a Russian and you will find a Cossack.” Scratch @ professional politician, who is offering himself to the farmers as a political Moses ta achieve for them their deliverance, remarks the Chicago Times, “and fou will find an officehoider or a fellow who, in some way, has got government for his partner in business.” Referring to the passage of General George W. Jones, of lowa, over to republicanism, the Chicago Times says, “‘Itis not wonderful. The General must have office or die. The only chance for him then is tn the radical party. Democracy repudiated him years ago,” Congressional pay, under the back pay bounty jumping act, is being distributed, aituough Con. gress does not meet until next December. The Chicago Tribune wants to know about tne pay of dead Congressmen elect. Three have died since March 4, and their pay accounts may be easily computed to date of death, as follows :— James Brooks, of New York, died April 30. 1,145 wm. bya 3 of Massachusettes, died Jun 2,400 Joseph G. Wilson, of Oregon, died July 2. 2,480 Have the disbursing oMcers of Congress already Invested $6,025 of the people’s money in dead Con- gtessmen elect? ’ ‘The back pay bounty jamping steal is~denounced by nearly every paper, of whatever shade of poll- os, in the Northwest, notwithstanding the appeals of Senator Carpenter and Ben Butler in defence of the aot The Springfleld Repubdtioan (antl-Butler) saya General Butier “is neither a reformer nor re, steady, radical man any way. He is beaten about by every wind and tide of impulse, ambition and passion, He is a disorganizer, a boomerang, a baggage smasher in polities and government. [t isa law of his members; he can’t help himself; he J of resolutions from the Life Saving Benevolent As- . was made such.” vel On —E