The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY UW, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. i NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ‘Votume XXXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Tax Wire's Sus- PICION—JACK AND THE BRAN STALE, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Pour, Afternoon and evening, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleccker streets—Cicarxtre. Matinee at 2 WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street Muni. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Sth st., between Le: fugton and Sd avs —Din Wim Min—Vxumincurns, &c. “¢ CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Svmmen Nicuts’ Con- CERT. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 128 West Four- teenth st.—Crruian any Loan Couiections or Art. uid NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Br a Berunce ann Aur. " ald DR. KANMN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Scixnce axp Axt. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, July 11, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE MISSION OF THE PRESS IN OUR POLI- TICS! THE MEANING OF THE NEW DE- PARTURE! THE SPIRIT OF CASARISM PERVADING OUR PUBLIC LIFE”—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—SIxtH Pags. PERSIAN “KING OF KINGS” MUCH IM- PRESSED WITH THE BEAUTY OF PARIS! ONE OF HIS MINISTERS AND BARON REUTER DEEPLY IMPRESSED WITH THE MUTABILITY OF ALL THINGS HUMAN! THE FORMER TO LOSE HIS HEAD, THE LATTER HIS CONCESSION! BRITISH FI- NANCIAL INTRIGUES—SEVENTH Pacs. TWAIN'S AND THE SHAH’S PERILS BY LAND AND SEA! EXCITING SCENES IN A LON- DON FOG AND IN THE CHANNEL! THE ONEROUS DUTIES HANGING OVER THE DEVOTED HEAD OF THE HERALD SPECIAL COMMISSIONER! ATTENDING A CONCERT! TRE GREAT NAVAL REVIEW—TuiEp Pas. ‘THE LORD GORDON ARREST! ARBITRARY AND ARROGANT ACTION OF THE BRITISH OF- FICIALS! THE IMPRISONED AMERICANS HARSHLY TREATED! ACTION BY THE UNITED STATES—S8VENTH Paces. KAUFMANN’S MARCH ON KHIVA! HERALD SPECIAL REPORT OF THE MUSCOVITE CAMPAIGN! A MOST INTERESTING HIS- TORY—SEVENTH PaGE. ‘TURKHY SENDING WAR SHIPS TO ACHEEN! THE INTERESTS OF TURKISH SUBJECTS TO BE LOOKED AFTER—SEvENTH PAGE. GERMANY ASSAILED BY CHOLERA OF A SERI- OUS TYPE! FATAL CASES IN BRESLAU AND LAUTERBURG—SkvEnTH Pace. THE WRECK OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON— IMPORTANT CABLE AND GENERAL NEWS—SrventH Pace. SAFE LANDING OF A VALUABLE CARGO ON OUBAN SOIL! THE VIRGINIUS AND THE BOLIVAR EXPEDITION—TantH Pace. A STEAMSHIP CHASE! THE VIRGINIUS RUNS AWAY FROM AMERICAN AND SPANISH WAR SHIPS AND ARRIVES SAFELY IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA—SEVENTH PaGE, DISGUSTED HIDALGODOM! THE PURCHASED PRESS OF CUBA HAVING ITS FLINGS AT THE AMERICAN PRESS COLOSSUS! THE FIGHTING IN CUBA AND THE HERALD'S SPECIAL REPORTS—EIGHTH Pas. TWO MILES UP IN A BALLOON! SUENES AND SENSATIONS AT AN EXTREME ALTITUDE! A HERALD CORRESPUNDENT ASCENDS ‘WITH PROFESSOR KING! SURPASSING WONDERS ABOVE THE CLOUDS—THIRD Paas. THE NORTH POLAR RESCUE PARTIES! THE TIGRESS BEING RAPIDLY PREPARED— FOURTH Pace. THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE SPRINGFIELD REGATTA! PRACTISING FOR THE FINAL STRUGGLE! THE COURSE, BOATS AND MEN! THE BENNETT PRIZE! CHAMPION- SHIP RACES—Focrtu PaGE. LONG BRANCH RACES! KING AMADEUS, HUB- BARD AND COFFEE’S LIGHTNING COLT a THE WINNERS IN THREE EXCELLENT CONTESTS—THE PLEASURES OF “THE BRANCH”—Fovuntu Pac. ‘OFFAL DANGERS! THE NEW YORK RENDER- ING COMPANY FAILS TO FULFIL ITS CONTRACT! WHAT MAY RESULT—Firra PAG. THE COST OF STREET CLEANING! WHAT WAS. ATTEMPTED 8Y THE COMMISSIONERS— SHERIFF BRENNAN AFTER MR. GREEN! LEGAL BUSINESS IN THE VARIOUS UCOURTS—ELEVENTH PaGE. @HARLES GOODRICH’S PRESUMED MURDERER REMAINS IN THE HANDS OF THE BROOK- LYN OFFICIALS! IS 1T “KATE STODDARD ?”” NO PERSON ALLOWED TO VISIT HER— EicutTn PacRr. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS! SHIP- PING THE PRECIUUS METALS TO EUROPE— Nintu Pace, Tar Two Suurans: or Tuntey AnD AcuzEN.—A cable despatch from London announces that a Turkish fleet of eight ships- of-war is, at sea for Sumatra, commissioned to watch over the imperial Ottoman interests on the island. This news is not only interest- ing, but quite important. Eight vessels of war ordered to watch over the interests of the Turks at some few pepper ports! But, then, the interests of Turkey in that direction are of a mery ancient date, and the Dutch assaults against Acheen have tended to revive in Con- stantinople the memory of gallant deeds which were accomplished for the Crescent and the Church of the true believers in the year 1215 and since. The history of the Turkish interests in Acheen is given in the columns of the Hzrarp. It would be a curious fact in the current progress of the day if Holland should tend to stir up a question of the East, with Turkey and some few of her ancient powerful allies ranged on the same side against the King. Tue Unton Pactric Rariroan, it is reported from Washington, may be put into the hands of a receiver in consequence of the hostility of leading stockholders to the action of the gov- ernment. These stockholders do not like the suits instituted to recover the large sum of money due to the government, and hence their hostility. The Attorney General is consider- ing the propriety of seizing their property in the way referred to, and we think he could not do better and ought not to delay action in the The Mission of the Press in Our Pol- itics=-The Meaning of the New De- parture—The Spirit of Ceosarism Per- vading Our Public Life. Some of our contemporaries are asking, “What does the Hxnaup mean by its new departure? What does it propose to gain by the crusade upon the administration and the republican party? What grievance does it represent? What hope does it cherish? What aim will it attain?’ It is not always wise to step aside from a discussion as earnest and grave as that now interesting the best minds in both parties to answer questions of a per- sonal nature, But sometimes personal ques- tions are of the most general character, and in responding to the inquiries of our contem- Poraries some views in relation to the press and politics may not be unworthy of our attention. We live in a privileged era. This is no longer the age of tradition. The spirit of scepticism and inquiry discovers daily new truths, long hidden under superstition and ignorance, even as the adventurous men of science, in searching the ruins of Greece and Rome and Babylon, discover historical records throwing light on the earlier world, and legends in marble and metal that make easy the pages of Plutarch and Tacitus, and now and then works as exquisite as the Venus of Milo. Ideas pervade the world. The cable, in its silent life under the seas, binds the Continents together with a ligament as strong and as sensitive and as necessary to modern so- ciety as the spinal column which supports our body or the great arteries that carry life in their current. A generation ago Cincinnati and New Orleans were as far off as Paris, and Paris is as near to us as Boston and Philadel- phia. The emotions that movo the Assembly in Versailles to-day are shared by New York to-morrow. When the Prince of Wales was hovering over the grave at Sandringham pray- ers were offered for him on the same day by the Parsees in India and English clergymen on the Pacific. The world has drawn closer together. We are as much concerned in French questions as in what transpires in Washington ; and we have an interest in the cheers which follow Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Disraeli from a crowded House of Commons, An American journal sent its minister to pene- trate Africa, and because of what he saw and did an English Cabinet sent Sir Bartle Frere todo necessary work. Thus we see that nations and great Powers act together, and that in the works of mercy and civilization men are brothers, whatever their nationality, and do the brotherly part. The true newspaper has its office—in this economy an office that grows in strength with every year. It is the express image of the time. It is the mirror of the world—each day’s history mapped and written and printed for the morrow. The citizen may sit over his breakfast, and, like Goldsmith’s traveller, survey mankind from China to Peru. The time has gone when a true journalist can be the politician’s lackey or dance in antecham- bers, just as men like Dr. Johnson no longer wait on the stairs for the pleasure of Lord Chesterfield. What is it to us who reigns to-day or to-morrow—whether we have the Sweeny Ring or the Murphy Ring—whether Grant or Seymour is in Washington—whether one party or the other is in power? The Henaxp, we trust, is still in its morning time, and yet the Hxnaxp has already seen the rise and fall of eleven administrations and of countless politicians who were famed and powerful in their day. Grant’s administra- tion is no more to us than Jackson’s or Lincoln’s, It will pass away and others will come, and to the others we shall perform our office. We have never assailed Grant’s administration. We believe that the Chief Magistrate of the country, no matter who elects him, is entitled to a certain respect, akin to that shown by Englishmen to their Queen. We are loyal to our flag and our Union, but we are always courteous to the President. He is the nation’s Chief Magis- trate, and the honor we expect from other nations we must encourage by paying it our selves. Again, we prefer to regard the Presidency as the heritage of every American. It was said in the time of Napoleon that every private soldier carried a marshal’s baton in his knapsack, It may be said in ours that every American carries the Presidency in his ballot. Therefore, as no true svldier would dishonor his uniform, so should no citizen dishonor his ballot. The evil of our politics is the spirit of defamation, and as our ingenious historian, Mr. Parton, means to give us a lecture on the subject, he must not forget that slander never won or lost a canvass. If it had any power General Grant would have been thrown into that Dante's hell where the spir- its of the condemned live on in restless ecstasy. The American sense of humor, the craving for the grotesque and extraordinary, is satisfied with an exciting political campaign, in which Grant is represented as a coward and Greeley as a slave dealer. We enjoy it as we enjoy the pranks of the negro minstrels or Mr. Nast’s caricatures or anything absurd and unnatural; but to suppose that votes are ever thus affected is to lose sight of that common sense which is the dominant element in the American char- acter. The evil is that in nourishing this ap- petite for the grotesque we invite an ill name abroad and encourage a belief that we are in- sincere and have no influence as a profession. If we are told every day that all men are good who are democrats and all bad who are repub- licans, that virtue animates one party while vice controls the other, we pay no heed to what is said. We know there is good as well as evil in all parties, and that whatever there may be of virtue or vice in political combina- tions may be easily divided. The meaning of the Henry's new depart- ure, as it is called, is simply this :—We do not choose to wait until some insincere, scheming politicians assemble and form what they call platforms and ask us to take one side or another. We donot choose to accept issues crudely fashioned and hastily thrown upon us. We do not care to be a party to that spirit of deception which would lead the people after unessential questions like free trade, protection, woman's suffrage, prohibi- tion—questions that are gradually and surely ripening from day to day, under the influence matter. The taxpaycrs have been fleeced too | of education and inquiry, while issues of the much by the Pacific Railroad, and that | utmost gravity are coming upon us unawares. gigantic concern ought to be compelled to There are our finances to be strengthened, and pay back o portion. at least. of the money ad- until we do that free trade discussion is as idle waneed to it, ~~ as the hooting of owls to the mid night winds. There are the Southern States to be reconstructed ; not reconquered and robbed, but reconstructed with gen- erosity, manliness and wise statesmanship. Before we experiment on new plans of suffrage let us see what suffrage is doing in the South and make sure that in saving the Union we have not added to our States a new Poland ora new Ireland. Above all, more menacing and burdened with graver dangers, is this spirit of Coesarism which pervades our politics and threatens to destroy the Republic itself in the nomination of Grant foro third term. This is the dominant issue. Shall we have Cwsarism or republicanism? Grant is the master of the situation, He can nominate himself if he chooses. There is no power in his party to break his control of it, Whether he does or not, the issue remains. If he ro- tires from the canvass then we owe to his magnanimity relief from a great danger. While we should honor him for doing so, a8 he would be honored in all time, we should feel that that constitution is imperfect which leaves the people’s liberties at the mercy of any man’s magnanimity. What we want isa nobler, purer public spirit. Cxsarism does not rest with Grant alone. Perhaps of all the men in his party he is freest from it. But in the giddy height on which fortune has placed him one knows not what dreams may come, especially if one sleeps under the incense of 8 court of flatterers. Welsd Omsarism in the Crédit Mobilier—Cosarism in its worst form ; and although that arose before tho time of General Grant, in the evil days of Andrew Johnson, the men who were involved in it— Garfield, Dawes, Wilson, Bingham, Kelley, Patterson—were the mainstays of the Presi- dent’s administration. Chief among them was the unfortunate Colfax—a man who left tho Vico Presidency under a cloud as great and as deserved as that which enveloped Aaron Burr when he retired from the same office. Men of this class made Cesarism pos- sible in Rome, and they have lowered our pub- lic tone. When we see the President cover- ing Mr. Colfax with his endorsement and sending another of the unholy combination as Minister to a foreign Court, what can we say? What can we think? How art thou fallen, O Columbia, trom the days of Jefferson and Adams, when men like these rule the State and command the respect and affection of the honest, simple, straightforward soldier, Grant! This, then, is ournew departure! We have nothing to gain except as the country may prosper. We have no hope except that virtue will once more be regarded as an attribute of statesmanship. We are engaged in no crusade upon the republican party, except so far as it may be led by the worshippers of Cesarism like sheep into the shambles. We certainly have no grievance; none with Grant nor with any member of his administration. We might resent some of the comments in which Mr. Fish indulges upon the press, and now and then upon the Heap, and remind him that Disraeli and Gladstone and Palmerston and Thiers did not disdain the power which impresses him so unfavorably. But we have no feeling towards Mr. Fish but kindness. He is an eminently respectable, conservative, narrow-minded, irritable statesman, who hag given the administration character without strength, and who will long be remembered for his honesty and zeal. And so with the other members of the Cabinet. They aro nothing to us butas men who labor in the vineyard as best they may, only to pass away when the sun goes down and be followed by new laborers to-morrow. So long as they work well and avoid the constable we do not see that they concern us in any way whatever. The question whether we are to have Cwsarism or republicanism does concern us, as it does our children. In that contest we are enlisted, and we shall serve to the end of the war. The Freedmen’s Bureau Frauds. The Secretary of War, having discovered that considerable sums of money, (some seven hundred thousand dollars, Dame Rumor says,) have been taken from the Treasury, through officers employed in the Freedmen’s Bureau, by means of forged receipts and vouchers for bounties due colored soldiers and by means of receipts and vouchers fraudulently procured, recently inquired of the Attorney General how the guilty parties, military and civil, could be prosecuted, in view of the protection of the government, and how far the Commis- sioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau is responsible for these losses to the Treasury. The Attor- ney General has, in reply, given an elaborate opinion on the subject, from which it appears that the chief disbursing officer is civilly and criminally responsible for misconduct; that military delinquents should be tried by court martial; that claim agents and others who have secured these moneys fraudulently from the Treasury may be civilly and criminally prosecuted within the statute of limitations, and that with regard to General Howard's re- sponsibility in the matter of these frauds it 1s a question of no practical importance. We infer from these proceedings that the Secretary of War intends to ‘push things” in reference to these frauds to the extent of the law, and we trust that in his prosecutions of the alleged guilty parties, civilly and crimi- nally, he will do so. From the facts so far disclosed it appears that the affairs of the Freedmen’s Bureau were very loosely man- aged, and that General Howard has had to bear the odium of the numerous sharpers, offi- cials and claim agents by whom the Bureau was fleeced of large sums of money without his knowledge; and this conspiracy of sharp- ers should by all means be pushed to the limits of the law, and made, as far as possi- ble, to disgorge their ill-gotten pluader. The good name of General Grant's administration is involved in this business, and the President should see to it that it be probed to the bot- tom. Tae Taran or Caprain Jack ann His Fete tow Murperens has been commenced. Cap- tain Jack, Schonchin, Boston Charley, Black Jim, Slotuck and Barncho are charged, first, with ‘murder in violation of the laws of war,’’ in the killing of General Canby and Dr. Thomas; second, with ‘assault with intent to kill A. B. Meacham and L. B. Dyar.’’ The Indian witnesses so far examined make a clear case against the accused parties, and Jack and his treacherous confederates will doubtless, by halter, be despatched to their happy hunting grounds, The Lost River murderers, another batch of the savage Modocs, are to be sent to Oregon, to be tried there for gertain mur ders committed in that State several years ago, and for which the local authorities have demanded the guilty prisoners in the hands of General Davis. They will unquestionably be hanged. The remaining Modocs—warriors, squaws and pappooses—will probably be sent to some distant reservation and held there under guard, Practically the results of the late Modoc war will be the extinction of the tribe ; and such is the history of the red man from the beginning, and such is the ending of all our experiments to tame him or to save him. Another Triumph for American Jour- nelism—Mr. MacGahan’s Despatches from Central Asia, Again we congratulate our readers on the full and graphic despatches of Mr. Mac- Gahan, the Heraxp correspondent in Central Asia. The last letters which we published from our courageous correspondent were dated at Fort No. 1, but from a telegram from the Hzrarp London Bureau we were able to fix his subsequent advance as far south as Fort Perofisky, on the Sir Daria River. To- day the cable tells us from London that Mr. MacGahan has gained the military station of Sheikh-Arik, on the River Oxus, We rejoice at this intelligence, and we would consider it one of the greatest triumphs of journalism in itself, even if the Hzraup correspondent were not able to send us from the dreary deserts of Cen- tral Asia the remarkable despatch which wa publish this morning. Few journalists, few of the most tried travellers, we may add, ore aware of the perils which surround the man who ventures into those far-off regions of the earth. Vambéry alone has penetrated to Khiva and the other Khanates of Central Asia, and returned to furnish the world with an account of his travels and with essays on the manners and customs of the people. Yet we have to-day the simple Hzgaup correspondent ordered away from London with instruc- tions to follow the Russian expedition, report tho military operations and enter the doomed capital, not only writing brilliant letters, which have attracted the admiration of the American and Euro- pean press, but bya line of faithful couriers sending his despatches to remote towns by the Ural Mountains, thence wiring them to London and thence to this city. We wish to emphasize the fact that few can appreciate either the difficulties of the undertaking or the magnificence of the success. Trans-Cau- casia is a land which has been a barbaric wilderness the to Russians. Her subjects have been defiantly held as slaves during many years, and several expeditions to conquer it have been driven back by the terrible se- verity of the climate. Tho English race, that is daunted by no mountain peaks, ‘eternal snows,” ‘everlasting deserts,’’ far-reaching valleys, have planted their banners just below the Hindoo Koosh, and yet Khiva has been to them as a Hades. Do we, thon, say too much when we point to the successful march of Mr. Mac- Gahan as a great journalistic victory? Do we indulge in vain boasting when we recall the fact that it was he alone of all newspaper cor- respondents who, without writ or permission of any kind, boldly pushed on to the Oxus, and is to-day the author of ‘our despatch’ from Central Asia? It is not Mr. MacGahan solely that we wish to honor, neither is it the enterprise of the Heratp; but we wish to place before every young journalist this noble example of devotion to duty, and to a duty which has neither narrow scope nor selfish ambition. While we regret that this important tele- gram was delayed at Orenburg because of the inability of the operators to trans- late it, we are yet furnished with the very latest information from the scene of operations. General Kaufmann, it appears, crossed the Oxus on June 1 and im- mediately marched on Khiva with ten pieces of artillery, two mitrailleuses, fifteen hundred infantry and six hundred cavalry. Water now. became scarce and camels had to replenish their skins before approsching the fertile oasis of the Khanate; and it is here that the reader may appreciate the hardships of Cen- tral Asian warfare. The Russians the meanwhile had plenty to do. They re- pulsed an attack by the Khivans, al- though they had already become reduced to terrible want. General Kaufmann, how- ever, pushed forward, reaching Oock-Ookak, on the Oxus, after a running fight during the last twenty miles of the march. Water was then at hand. The troops were refreshed; they charged, and their spoil was eleven boats. On the 28th of May, it seems, the Russian force arrived at Sheikh Arik, the point from which Mr. MacGahan forwards his despatch. Then ensued a fierce bombardment, and the Khivan guns were finally silenced. Mr. MacGahan arrived just in time to witness this bloody encounter, as he did on the 4th of April, 1871, arrive be- neath the guns of Mont Valérien, just in time to see Bergeret and his 30,000 Communists cut to pieces by the gunners of the queen of fortresses. Though he lost two horses hard by the Oxus, it did not prevent him from observ- ing the last and decisive hours of the battle. Then came humiliation to the Khivans, They begged for terms; they offered submission, and sweetened their overtures with apricots, mulberries and other fruits of the oasis, and all this while 60,000 tired, famished and thirsty Russians were do manding entrance to the capital. Mr. MacGahan closes his despatch by foreshadow- ing what has already happened—the fall of Khiva. Can any campaign be more brilliant than this—the campaign of Kaufmann and Mac- Gahan—a twin enterprise of civilization and journalism? Yet, bad it not been for the Hxnatp correspondent, with his ready pen and swift courier, his physical and moral endurance, the records of these operations would have been stowed away in some dusty pigeon hole at St. Peters- burg to perplex the spectacles of the twenty- first century. If we call particular attention to this success of the Henaxp, it is to illus- trate what haglong been taught as a precept by this journal—that a true newspaper is a daily history of the world, Tue Cnorera, ina virulent form, appears to have broken out recently in various places in Germany, and it will probably extend dur- ing the Summer from the heart to the extremi- ties of the Continent, though not with anything like the general sweep of ite vrevious visita- tions. Itseems this season in Europe, as in the United States, to be pursuing what we may call a guerilla campaign, as distinguished from regular warfare, breaking out here and there when least expected, and skipping many places where they have been preparing to meet it. And this policy of preparing to meet it is the only way of safety, though we regret to say that from the prosent condition of many of our streets, slums, &., as reported by the Henaup inspectors, our authorities are not prepared as they should be to fight this dreaded pestilence, Weare thankful that it still delays its coming, and, while we still fear that it will come, we hope that yet once more it may steer clear of Manhattan Island. The Shah of Porsia as a Child at a Fair. ‘When the Shah has finally returned to his dominions, great speculation will arise as to what he will do next, He will resemble a patient afflicted with some unknown disease, who, having been treated heroically by all the doctors, is left to his own resources in the end. Our special despatches from Paris and Mr. Mark Twain’s letter from London convey to us that the Shah has been enjoying himself very much. He paid a pretty com- pliment to Paris on her radiant beauty, which was doubtless well deserved. He said the city looked like a bride in her wedding dress. Paris is a city after his own heart. It was in its weeds not long ago and now it looks like a bride. In view of the fact that, on his return to Teheran, it 1s probable he will chop off the heads of the threo wives he sent home in such a barry, this admiration of a brief period wherein ‘to mourn his loss’’ is touching. Our special despatch informs us that the Hon. Sadree Zem, his foreign Secretary, is also likely to lose his head physical as well as his head official. This mode of dealing with peccant foreign secretaries must have its alluring fea- tures. If we were only allowed to operate in this trenchant manner upon a few Secretaries of State nearer home how many vexations the world would be saved! It would bean in- structive sight indeed to see our own Hamilton Fish Shah’d after this fashion. The Shah, we are told, does not take the various national manifestations of eternul friendship au sérieux. Of course the unique object in Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London and Paris was to ‘‘impress’’ the Shah—to smother him, as it were, under the glitter, blare and bang of the several capitals. He does not appear to have understood what was expected of him, for he accepted the gracious attentions in the sense in which they were offered. For taking the diplomats at their word and paying them off in their own coin, he is called simple as a child ata fair. Perhaps he is, Children at fairs become all agog with delight, and carry homeward all the gilt gingerbread they can stuff inside and out. The great Baron Reuter scheme comes up apropos of this simplicity. There are very few things that the Shah did not concede to the Baron, and this was simple indeed. Now the uncertainty of human life, particu- larly in the official world of Persia, comes in as a factor in the calculations of those who have examined the chances of profit in this concession business. The childlike Shah has a habit, it appears, of putting official heads literally into the basket, and the friends of the Baron have, accordingly, in the poor man’s own interest, begun to “bear” his stock. The childlike Shah, as a further evidence of his infantile innocence, decided that before any negotiation was entered into he should have a little pin-money, in the shape of a loan—a cool million—put down. This, interest or principal, it is confidently expected he will not pay to the anxious Baron. Another half million has disappeared out of the Baron’s pocket, half of which, it is al- leged, were direct bribes and the remain- der given as a guarantee of the con- tract. We think Mr. Tweed and his friends, as well as the Crédit Mobilier and back pay Congressmen, might have improved their method if they had spent a year or two with the Shah and his Court, Small wonder that the Baron is anxious to sell out, and lit- tle need we marvel that buyers are not plenti- ful. The Baron evidently hears a premoni- tory voice that some fine morning, in that “bower of roses by Bendemeer’s stream,” or “mid the nutgroves of Samarcand,’’ he may observe his enemy, Mizza Hassan Aly Khan, waving a scymitar over his head as he utters the philosophic fiat of the Shah—‘Reuter die!” ‘We commend Mr. Twain’s description of how he reviewed the Shah and the British Navy at Portsmouth to our readers. It has a deep moral which will well reward the con- scientious investigator of things which are accomplished with a totally different object in view. The Play of the Future. In oa age whon we are busy not only at disentombing the past, but in projecting and anticipating the future, it is interesting to consider the conditions that will govern the prospective drama. he play of the future will perhaps vary as decidedly from the trage- dies and comedies of Shakspeare as these do from the efforts of Aschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. The one character drama is grow- ing upon the public, and in this respect almost every new and greatly successful dramatic endeaver shows something of a “Rip Van Winkle’ tendency. Ambitious actors and actresses stretch out their arms yearn- ingly to whatever playwright gives them reason to expect that he can fit to thema pert. From Mr. Booth to Mr. Boniface the profession is ready to embrace the man who shall write a play vital enough to run for several years, and having all its interests grouped around # single engrossing character. There is money waiting to be made by the successful aspirant. Not a week passes with- out applications being vainly made by sock and buskin to paste and scissors, not # month without entreaties almost as futile being presented before brains and literary facility. The coming dramatist is evidently to be one who shall take the measure of an actor's temperament and create characters to order. He shall possess an aptitude for wind- ing himself through the tangle of individuality and manufacturing réles as Worth manutac- tures dresses. Hence star acting will illus- trate, not so much the assumption of identi- ties with which the star may be supposed to have little natural sympathy, as the poculiari- ties of the actor's temperament under pic- turesaue conditions. Literatura offere freauent Instances of poets of a single poem. In thes cases the strong expression of selfhood secured. the immortality, and the verses are not so much an intellectual success as a tempera< mental magic. A similar result may be found upon the stage. Every frequenter of the thea- tre can remember solitary triumphs achieved by notorious ‘“‘sticks’—triumphs secured solely by the closeness with which the condi- tions of the réle matched the conditions of per- sonal character. Tho emotions of the actor flowed into the part as into » monld, and tho result was a wonderfully faithful and there- fore forceful impression. It were curious to speculate upon the influ ence which the extension of this principle would have upon acting in general. The playwright of the future, instead of studying human nature, would study an individual man, and that man the actor for whom he in- tended to build aréle, and, his observation being more limited, let us hope would be more intimate and precise. In the case of an actress who desired to be fitted with a round of parts it is easy to imagine the dramatic measurer of her intellectual gauge and emotional quality lost in the meshes of woman's weakness and bewildered in the labyrinth of feminine ca- price. ‘The actress, no longer ranging through the arcana of histrionic literature and franti- cally questioning which creature she might best mould to her dispositions, will discover, with satisfaction, that she is being paychologi-" cally studied by one whose interest it is to understand her well and furnish her with as many dramas as her character presents sides. If by this means a valuable inspiration cam be given to American dramatic authors at least one important result will have been at- tained. The French Indemnity—Another Pay- ment. A second instalment, amounting to two hundred and fifty millions of francs of the war indemnity, was paid over to the German Treasury on the 5th instant. Of the entire war indemnity five hundred million franca remain to be paid. This last sum must, in accordance with the terms of the treaty, be paid by the 5th of September next. It isa large sum ; but we have no doubt that France will be found equal to the requirements of the situation. Her resources are wonderful. After the 5th of September, supposing the war indemnity to be paid, the invader will have left her soil and France will be free, All the smouldering fires will then burst forth into a blaze ; the tug of war will have come; and it remains to be seen who will win and what kind of government the French people will choose. They have shown so much patience, wisdom and self-control in theis season of adversity that we feel justified in hoping that the final decision will not be un worthy of a great people with a great and glorious history. Tue Farmers’ Grances anp Tuer New Dectaration or INDEPENDENCE.—Among the novel features in the Fourth of July celebra- tions in the West by the farmers’ granges was the reading of a new Declaration of Indepen- dence, setting forth their grievances and declar- ing their entire independence of old party trammels, monopolies of all kinds, particu- larly the railroad extortionists, and proclaim- ing their determination to stand by each other until the reforms they demand are realized. This is a very good way of propagating their sentiments, but to ignore Thomas Jefferson’a immortal ‘Declaration’ altogether on such occasions is not entirely proper. Why cannot the farmers of the West ‘‘dovetail’’ their new declaration of rights and individual sover- eignty into the grand old instrument that severed the colonies of America from the Crown of Great Britain? The principles em- bodied in that document are as undying as the everlasting hills, and their re-enunciation should form a part in the programme of every patriotic celebration of the anniversary of American independence. ‘ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Jeff Davis is wanted to visit Long Branch during the races. Commander Fitzgerald, of the British Navy, yes- terday arrived at the Everett House. Secretary Belknap will arrive in Washington from Long Branch to-morrow morning. W. ©, Chandler, late Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department, is travelling in Ireland, Tom Scott yesterday salled for Europe fron Philadelphia on the new steamship Pennsylvania. Rear Admiral Alden, late commandant of the European squadron; Commander Swan and Lieu- tenant Hooker, of the United States Navy, are at the Astor House. The Prince of Monaco’s arrival in Paris is the cause of much discussion there. By many he is considered a rouge, nor do they like him on that account. ‘Under which king, Bezonian?” Rouge- et-Noir. Sir Arthur Guinness has withdrawn the prosecu- tion of Sir John Gray for libellous remarks in the Dublin Freeman's Journal, of which, though © “stout” in his purpose, he could not prove SirJonm to be the proprietor. The dismissal of the Shah's wives, who were not permitted to see the ballet at Moscow, has occa- sioned the rumor in Paris that they solace them- selves with a natural compromise:—"Quand la Shah est absent, les houris dansent.” Mr. Henry Jacobs, having been worsted in a suit in the Court of Exchequer, London, threatened to shoot one of the Barons, Sir Charles Pollock, and now he has gone to jail until he can find a fiend who will bet with the Court against the executiom of the threat, M. Andibert, Manager of the Lyons (France) Railway Company, died poor, though his prede- cessors had all become rich. The directors of the company have voted an annuity of 10,000 francs to Mme. Audibert and a dowry of 50,000 francs to each: of her daughters, Governor William Pinckney Whyte ts the favorite of the democracy in Maryland (and they are in a@ large majority) for United States Senator, in place of Senator Hamilton, whose term expires in 1875. As the Legislature of Maryland meets biennially, the election of United States Senater will take place this year. Mr. Carroll, of Kentucky, being seriously ill, he sent for couple of ministers, While the latter were administering spiritual consolation Mrs, Car- roll remarked, with much vehemence, that “it waq all a pack of foolery; that all the Carrolis that had died had gone to’—we will not mention the locality—“and she saw no use in dividing the family.” Hinted—That Henry L. Pierce, Mayor of #oston, . Will be the republican candidate for Congress from the Third Massachusetts district in place of the late William Whiting. It is stated that the latter de- clined all compensation for his services to the gov- ernment during the war, both during his residenca at Washington and his foreign touron the most delicate secret mission. Commissioner Smith, of the Indian Bureau, will leave Washington soon for a tour in the West, spe. cially to visit the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, for which tribe he waa tormerly agent. He will also visit other tribes on the Missouri Rivor. From Minnesota he goes to the Indian country for con ference with Governor Davis in relation to Satanta, and Bie Tree in August, :