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CORNER AMITY STREET, — berally advanced on Diamonds, Waveho Jew Siry and Peteo ee Property ot all descnip- H. GB ERMAN. ‘formerly ‘M. Rosenberg). BROADWAY.—OLD beahy caine yee stag ghey MOST ‘Watches, Jeweiry, Lace, 4c. Same Bout at cy Value ht and sol 913 reliable office. Money advance EDAD W Ar OVER HERALD BRANCH office, room b.—Parlor tor ladies. Branch adway. Money loaned on Diamo: re ny, e. ‘Same bout and sold. LINDO BROs, RTIFICIAL HUMAN EYES.—T. . J. Di DAV! IS, INe jnmas Eye, actne edged by the faculty te, Doe 7 wiedge cu @ only gorroct taitation of aatare, rtf the ‘world. teenth street, between Third and Fourth ieee MUSTOAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES ‘Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, supported by a first class English opera company, will commence a Season at Philadelphia in the Fall. Mile. Pauline Canissa, the operatic prima donna, Ww stopping at Newbary, Vt., for the Summer. She will appear in Ita.tan opera in the Fall. Wachtel is engaged for the season of 1874-75 for German and Italian opera in the United States un- fer the same management as before, Tamberlik will sail from Europe early in Septem- ber to fill the position of primo tenore assoluto in the Maretzek Italian Opera Company at the Grand Opera House. Salvini, who is said to be the greatest of living {talian actors, will also leave in September for tus city. He first appears at the Academy of Music. Mr. Louis Dachauer, who was one of the music committee at the Paris Exposition, has nearly com- pleted his grand symphonic poem, “Faust.” The famous conductor, Signor Angelo Mariani, @ied at Genoa last month. He was for some years the orchestral chief at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, and was preparing the opera “La Perle du Brésil,” by M. Félicien David, when attacked by his last iliness. He was conductor of the Teatro Communale in Bologna, where he conducted Herr ‘Wagner’s “Lohengrin” with great skill It was in grand opera--the Meyerbeer répertoire, the “Moise” of Rossini, &c.—that Mariani displayed the most remarkable ability. BEW PUBLIOATIONS RECEIVED. From A. 8. Barnes & Co.:—‘The Liberal Educa- tion of Women: The Demand and the Method, Current Thoughts in England and America.” Edited by James Orton, A.M. “Karnest Words on frue Success in Life, Addressed to Young Men and Women.” By Ray Palmer. “The Mouth of Gold. A Series of Dramatic Sketches Illustrating the Life and Times of Chrysostom.” By Edwin Johnson. “Latin Pronunciation. An Inquiry into the.Proper Bounds of the Latin Language During the Classical Period.” By Walter Blair, A. M. From D. Appleton & Co. :—“Foods.” (Volnme of {nternational Scientific Series.) By Edward Smith, M. D., LL.B, F.R.S. “Critiques and Addreases.”” By Thomas Hengy Huxley, LL. v., F. R. S, “The Argument at nna.’? From T. 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Patten, 4 FPLAGMAN'S PRIGHTFUL FATE NEWARK Jacob Jacobus, an old flagman, sixty-four years of age, in the employ of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, met a terrible fate at the High street crossing, Newark, Saturday forenoon, between ten and eleven o’clock. While looking pnt for one train he was struck in the back by an- fea and literally cut to pieces, so that hisremains to be gathered w le died almost instant! Deceased tas considerable of a town celebrit: Been had something to do with politics, besides ing a letter carrier for seventeen years, and a hewadealer. PRATRIOIDE PREVENTED IN NEWARK Saturday afternoon, in Newark, on a warrant issued by Justice Mills, George Keb, an Alsatian, was taken into custody and locked up in order that he could not carry out his threat to murder his brother Peter. It appears the brothers have been at swords’ points fora iong time. Last January George, as all Grew a knife on his brother, but ‘was prevented from shedding blood, Yesterday he declared to the officer who arrested him, so the officer pays, that he would surely take Peter's jife eS The pe actrees ee! thin ve Mesee % secured George, who at times very Passiosiete and ugly in disposition, IN NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1873.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. CHSARISM. The Third Term Proposed for General Grant. Views of the American Press on the Scheme to Overthrow the Liberties of the Republic. [From the Lockport (N. yy Union (democratic), duly 9. * * * The HERALD makes no mistake in direct- ing attention to the issue whicn must overtop ull others until it is finally and irrevocably settled. Mr. Grant’s usurpation in Louisiana equals, in de- fiance of law, any single act of Osar in his pro- gressive overthrow of the Roman Repubiie, To evade the fate of that Empire Mr. Grant must not be allowed to enter upon his third term. It may have been noticed by the observing that those re- Dublicana who last Fall denounced, in advance, any project looking to Mr. Grant's continuance In office beyond his present term are now reticent upon the subject, or venture the assertion that a third term is likely to become a necessity! “But to gay,” remarks the HERALD, that “thie is nota living issue is to say what 1s not true.” No paper bas equalled the HeRaLp in shrewdly pointing out vital questions in a political canvass. It is vain to talk of tari® or monopolies while this question is Pending. (From the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle (democratic), July 9.) THR COMING ISSUB, ‘The New Yorx HERALD of the 5th, in an editorial article written with great ability and force, reviews the past epochs of our country’s politics, ana forecasts the nature of the coming issue. While prolessedly triendly to General Grant; while giving him credit for saving the Republic in time of war and for gov- erning it wisely and honestly (God save the mark!) im time of peace; while implying that a second term of the Presidency was a just reward of dis- tinguished public services, the HERALD fears that the personal ambition of the President will make Cesarism—the assumption of continuous power— the issue which the people must determine in 1876, The writer thinks that the presenta- tion of such an issue will be a suicidal act, Grant, though the leader of his party— as completely its master as was ever Jef- ferson or Jackson—cannot hope for success a third time. “Great as General Grant has shown himeeif to be, and powerful as his party un- doubtedly is, the suggestion of a third term, seri- ously accepted on his part, would be virtually to leap from the Tarpeian Rock and leave a name in history to be rememberea with the names of Burr and Arnold.” The metaphor is a little mixed, per- haps, but the language is certainly strong and em- Phatic enough, * * * Every important act of the President’s since his second inaugural seems to indicate that he 1s preparing for athird term— that Cesarism is to be the issue; Ossarism, with all its tyranny and corruption, its viciousness and depravity, without the prosperity, the glory and the grandeur which made its despotism endurable. To this complexion must it come at last uniess the people remain true to themselves and true to the faith of their fathers, the founders of the Republic. But, while the Heraup has discovered the fact, it is mot the first to discover the truth. Sagacious statesmen fore- saw and depicted the evil more than a year ago. Charles Sumner, whose republicanism is as un- doubted as his talents, told Congress and tne country of Cxsarism from his seat in the Senate more than a twelvemonth since. Horace Greeley, the great journalist, the man able, honest and sincere, whose untiring exertions, whose perse- verance, unflagging industry and indomitable will made him the founder of the republican party and contributed in no small measure to its subsequent victories and long continued success, saw the danger and sounded a warning in the columns of the Tribune. Other republicans saw it and sought to save the party trom the suicidal nomination at Philadelphia. When they became convinced that further exertions within party lines would be useless, they renounced their allegiance. They determined to act for themselves, and the Cincinnati platform and the nomination of Horace Greeley was the first formal protest against the one-man power. The democracy, losing sight of lesser evils in the presence of great and immediate danger, coalesced with the reformers and fought with them, shoulder to shoulder, the battle of 72. But the strategy of the enemy caused the true grounds of quarrel to be ignored and forgotten. ‘The conflict was waged upon false issues, and the Cincinnati movement encountered a crushing de- feat. Now the campaign must be recemmenced, and though the last fight was lost and the enemy has the prestige of suceess, the prospects for vic- tory will be better than they ever were before. Oxsarism, which formerly lay in ambush, now rears high its brazen front, and there is no mistaking the character of the foe. Unless the masses have be- come accustomed to misgovernment—unless the democracy have lost their ancient courage and for- saken their ancient faith—victory must come to us in 76, (From the Springfield (Mass.; Journal (republican and anti-administration) , July 10.) THE THIRD TERM, AND WHY NOT? It is an interesting and suggestive—though, per- haps, not necessarily alarming—symptom of the abnormal pathological condition in which the body politic now finds itself, that, in the first half year ofan American President’s second term, so many politicians and political journals shoula be found discussing the chances of his securing a third. Thus, a Washington correspondent informs the Boston Post that a conlerence of office-holders was held last week at Long Branch to “arrange the preliminaries,” and that it is “not denied” the President knew of it. Further, that the prime movers count, first, upon the patronage; second, upon the influence of the moneyed interests—the railroads, national banks, protected manafactures and great capitalists, that supported General Grant so effectively last year; third, upon the inability of any other one candidate to rally around him & majority of the party; fourth, upon the inability of the opposition to concentrate and actin umison. Tne mention of the moneyed interests here recalls the somewhat famous argu- ment of the Boston Journal and other republican organs last year, that any change of administra- tion would be necessarily injurious, if not calamt- tous, to capital and business, since it would sub- stitute uncertainty for certainty. We said at the time that this argument, if solid, would holdas true in 1976 as in 1872 and in 1830 as in 1876; that it ‘was, logically and practically, an argument for the empire. We say 80 now. Thus, too, the New Yorx HERALD has treated its readers this week to several editorial articles, in the genuine aiarmist vein, on the ad- vent of ‘“Omsarism” im this free and happy country. The tone and drift of them can be sufficiently indicated by a brief extract:—‘Nothing i clearer than that the henchmen of General Grant, the men who have gained honor and wealth out of his adminia- tration, and who see in his renomination and re-election their own continuance in power, mean to insist upon his renomination. The arguments are all at hand:—We are doing so well; the busi- ness of the country needs 80 much tranquillity; the South is so restiess in the absence of a firm nand; General Grant has been so admirable, and so on, that we cannot run the risk of new experiments.” We might continue these citations, but tt is un- necessary. Here and there a reformed civil service organ scarcely takes the pain to conceal its expectation and hope. Even such a newspaper as* the New York 7imes contents itse)f with sneering at the alarm of “the democracy” over the pros- pect of General Grant’s renomination. Here and there, too, a Northern politician intimates, with more or less reserve, tit, in a conceivable contingency, General Grant may be the best man. Colonel Mosby has spoken out his mind with the frankness befitting a partisan fighter; and there is no doubt that he speaks for the entire claas of Southern Dajgettys who have seen the error of their ways and been converted to loyalty as tt is in General Grant. If, by any accident, the President should run again he would probably run better at the South than in any other section of the country, The predictions of the on that head are coming true with a rapidity that is rather startling. Weare not disposed, as our readers very well know, to exaggerate the importance of this third- term taik; much of itis doubtless die and mean- ingless, Neither politicians nor newspapers are to be held to a rigid accountability for every foolish word they may chance to let tall at a time when the Dog Star rages, and Congress is not in session and “sensations” are at apremium. Making all fair allowances, however, we have still # residium of earnestness, calculation, serious purpose. There are afew men and journals that regard General Grant's re-election in 1876 as both feasible and desirable. There are a great many men and journals that could be pretty certainly relied upon, in the event of hia getting tne “regular nomination,” to sup- port him, They would not And in the fact of his having already served two terms any solid objec tion to presenting him witha third. That is to say, the Washington precedent has lost, for the moment at least, much of its sanctity’ The war is largely responsible for this, a8 for a number of other things—good and bad, There may be a reaction by and by and a return to the old paths; Wwe hope and believe there will be. But at present there is not among us that vigilant jealousy of Tulers, that exaggerated but wholeseme dread of personal government, that watchiul care that tho democratic republic sustains no injury at the nands of powerful public servants, that used to charac- terize the American people. In the storm more than one cable has parted, more than one anchor has been Jost, The ship has drifted a long way from her old moorings, and there ia a lee shore in sight. We do not look to see her go to wreck upon this shore, however We still retain an abiding and Yeassuring faith in the Repubiic. We believe her to be in greater danger at this moment trom the dry rot of corruption than from “Cmsarism.” We see no reason to budge from the opinion heretofore ex- pressed in these columns, that General Grant can- not get @ renomination even if he 1s alter it, of which there is as yet no satisfactory proof. More- over, we do not believe the people are ready as yet for either the life-consulate or the empire. It 1s quite possible the spectacle of a President openly seeking @ third term might give precisely that shock to the national system which is needed to dispel the lethargy that now oppresses it, set the blood tingling through the veins and restore the suspended functions to a normal activity. (From the Providence Journal (administration— Senator Anthony's organ), July 10.) The New York HERALD has discovered that there is nothing in the constitution of the United States which prevents a pergon irom being elected three times to the ofice of President. It has discovered that President Grant was some few years since ad- mitted to be something of a soldier, and it knows that he has been for a second time chosen Chiet Executive of the nation. This is familiar learning, as the lawyers say, to everybody; and the same thing has transpired before in our history. But—not even in the old cofin-handbill days of General Jackson—did it seem go certain that a despotic Oxsarism was to take possession of our country as it seems to-day possible, if not Probable, to the HmRALD. “General Grant is a brave and sincere American,” it cries; “he has said and done nothing in the matter to justify any criticism on our part.” But the ‘contingency in- volving the liberties of the country is” that the People have the constitutional right to elect him President once more. There is no doubt about the fact. Astoitsevil as a matter of political calcu- lation there is, in the opinion of the HERALD, a direiul and portentous apathy on the part oi the people. It thinks that they are driving blindly on to a third election of Grant simply because this is a “contented, prosperous and happy country,” with. out a thought that by so doing they would plunge themselves and the nation into a gulf of despotism wherein, trodden down by “the man on horse- back,” would be slain our liberties and annihilated all our town meetings, and free suffrage, and pub- lic schools, and three months’ vacation for the min- isters, and everything pertaining to, and every, body in favor of, republican liberty. Itis a good while to the next Presidential election, and why the HERALD should have sprung this question upon us just now when it is dry, and warm and garden- ing 1s discouraging, and we are sadly in want of a Jovial day at the shore, we cannot understand. (From the Lynchburg Virginian (democratic) July 10.) * * * The Washington Chronicle, an adininis- tration organ, says :— This expression of opinion coming from the HERALD alone would be without significance, for it would surprise no one to see it contradicted in @ leader in a day or two, but taken in connection with expressions from other democratic papers scattered all over the country makes it clear that the leaders of that party anticipate General Grant’s renomination by the next Republican Na- tdonal Convention. It will be observed that the Chronicle does not disavow, either for the party or its chief, such a purpose as that attributed to both by “democratic papers scattered all over the country,” but leaves upon the public mind the unpleasant impression that General Grant is willing to disregard that usage which has made the law governing this subject, and that his party will use him as long as he is the most available candi- date. The omission is significant, and the inter- ences that “democratic papers” have deduced from the well known character of the man and his party—both of which are utterly regardless of all precedents—are just. If, therefore, Grant should seem to be, three years hence, the strongest man in the party, he will again be nominated for the high office he now holds, but does not fill. We may rest assured that he and his office holders will try to make that appear asa fact, and the prediction of Frank Blair is likely to be fulfilled, (From the New York Express (democratic), July 10.) The HERALD devotes another leader to the rapid strides we are making towards a consolidated des- potism under the “Omwsarism” of General Grant, and until these strides are reversed, the editor is certain, the liberties of the people are in danger. [The Hera. is right, but it is only opening its eyes now to perils which were clearly foreseen by others when the republican party made Grant sub stantially military aictator.) Asa first step to get- ting on the path of safety, the HegaLp calls upon President Grant to give public assurance that he will not be a candidate for a third term. The writer knows little of Grant or of such men as Grant, if he expects him to do anything like that. He and his party have “shipped for the voyage,” and the voyage, no matter how perilous it may be to popular liberty, must goon, on, on—till the end, [From the Baltimore Gazette (democratic), July 9.] * * * Besides the qualities we have ventured, in no unkindness, to attribute to our New York contemporary, there is the additional one mani- fested regularly as each political crisis presents it- self—ot a sort of instinct as to success. Rarely has the Henan failed to bet on the winning horse, and in order to do so nas had no serupie, in true gaming fashion, to sacrifice all personal considerations and give up everything for success. When, therefore, besides the sudden solemnity, we find the more un- expected manifestation of a disposition for once, for the sake of a great principle, to run the risk of defeat, it becomes more impressive. Now for our facts, to which considerate readers will, we are sure, thank us for cailing their attention. At the end, during last week, of a very well considered article on the political state of the country, the HERALD uses this remarkable lamguage, which strikingiy illustrates what, in the way of criticism, we have suggestea, and which we cannot abridg * * * (Quotation from the HeRALD.) Who is there that will deny that this is unaffectediy earnest in tone and strictly true in fact and logic ? une danger even the HeraLp does not seem wiil- ing to contemplate—the imminent danger that the same mastery which enables Grant to command a second renomination would almost certainly se- cure his re-election. The election and the defeat are stated alternatively, Our Judgment, and we speak it sadly, is that with the financial and other evi) infuences which the President and his use the Bu Mmyrmidons know 80 well how to chances would be largely in his favor. one thing can avert it, and this is, that apathy snould cease, and that such biasts of warning as we have cited, and which we trust will be repeated, shall arouse the sleeping people. The republican Party, in the way of the development of anything lke opposition to a third term candidate, is thor- oughly narcotized, Its bravest leaders are in dis- credit and almost exiled. How helpless it really is may be inferred from the incontestable fact that the only possible candidate within its reach who is talked of is the migratory adventurer who pre- sides over the House of Representatives; and his pretensions are just nothing. Of liberalism we hardly know how to speak. Like many other over- strained, immature growths, its vigor was impaired by precocity. We surrendered everything to it last Autumn, and in doing so overtaxed more ener- gies than one. Nothing, then, remains but the democracy of the land, and in view of the new danger which, as we have seen, appalls those who are not easily alarmed, we call on it to arouse and organize, (From the Washington Star (administration), July 9.) ‘The HERALD sees u growth of Cesarism in our politics that compels an issue with the people “which has not had its parallel in gravity since the foundation of the government.” The HkRALD does not associate General Grant with its com- ments upon the danger of Cmsarism, but says that he is surrounded by men like Mark Antony and Talleyrand, who speak to him as they spoke to Cwsar and Napoleon, Let us hope that the dan- ger from Cesarism, snuffed afar off by the HERALD, will not prove a reality. We imagine our practi- cal, common sense American people will make short work of the Omsar business should tt ever show itself in a shape for them to get a lick at it. As for General Grant, he tranquilly smokes his cigar and perhaps takes an occasional stomach-warmer to ward off the paralysis that seizes the unco-tem- perance folks like Henry Wilson, Colfax, Greeley and the rest; but we may be sure that he has ne more idea of being a Cesar than he has of flying. Andrew Johnson was a good deal more in the Cesar line, and his inglorious fizzle serves to show just what amount of success that kind of ism is likely to get in this country, [From the Troy Whig (administration), July 10.) The New York HeRaLD has been for a long time anxious about the political prospect for the next Presidential campaign. It fears, or pretends to fear, that General Grant will be a candidate for a third term. Our constitution permits a’ re- election for as many terms as the people are willing. A man may be re-elected and hold the office of President until death shall close his term. But there is an unwritten law, which is higher than the constitution, It is the example set by George Washington and followed by every President and accepted by the people. The party that shall undertake to run a candidate for a third term will be beaten and the candidate will be dis- graced. We do not think General Grant is required to say a word on the subject, He will go out of office at the end of his second term as quietly as any of his predecessors. He has never manifested any disposition to grasp or exercise power. He has been content simply to do his duty. The question ought not to be discussed as if a third nomination were possible. So far the discussion has been confined to the HeRALD. We have seen no response, and perhaps none is necessary, But we will ventare to remark that the politician who shall dare to propose a third term may as well re- tire at once to private life, {From the Buffalo Courier (dem.) July 11.) The New YORK HERALD has lately published sev- eral articles of more than usual merit and fore- thought on the present tendencies of public events in this country, and, dismissing all the side issues such as those of protection and free trade, suffrage to one class or the other, and even that yet greater question of centralization or State rights, says the real thought in the minds of most of our politi- cians is, “Shall we have a republican form of gov- ernment? Shall we nominate General Grant for @ third term?” * * * It is justly sald that his- tory repeats itself, but it is always with variations which partly obscure its teachings from our sight. The change from simple republicanism to Cwesar- ism in this country will not be marked by a coup d@état, such as that of Louis Napoleon, but many of the social and political elements around us are favorable to it, There is an absence of those Axed sentiments on many subjects which pervaded the commanity when the revolution was accomplished; the country has become accustomed to the spectacle of military subordination and rule, and many of our young men have formed their opinions during ita existence; enormous wealth and luxury have not only been obtained, but this has been done with a suddenness never before known. The prevalence of a widespread laxity in morai and political princtples, especially among our public men, is too plainly proved by the Crédit Mobilier and other extraordinary legis- | lation in Congress and big railroad and other iniquities in State legislation at Albany and else- | Where; property is becoming concentrated in fewer hands, and the opportunities of readily ac- quiring land and farm at a nominal price are almost totally lost tm the older States, and social distinctions, scarcely known in the earlier days of the Republic, are becoming the rule instead of the exception, while honest labor is less respected. ‘These things and others connected with them go far to make up the body of adifferent government and aid those who, for the sake of retaining their honors and emoluments, are desirous that Grant should be re-elected for @ third term and as much longer as they can carry elections, (From the Rochester Democrat (administration), July 12.) We think the people will hesitate long about | Offering any man—even one who has earned so much consideration at their hands as General Grant—e third term, and he will be even more scrupulous to accept than they to proffer. It is well that no law has yet been established on this matter. The austere example of Washington is something that it is more diMoult to disregard than even @ constitutional provision. The people make constitutions, and might do away with them j at will, but the severe majesty of that character, its cold, snowy purity of patriotism, cannot be for- gotten nor obliterated. We have little or no mis- trust of the intention of the people of this country to govern themselves, or of their ability to do it, and yet we think nothing but some dangerous crisis | should induee the nation to choose even its great- est man Chief Magistrate fora third term. Such an event will be followed by the election of some less worthy candidate a fourth time, and, worst of all, we shall have neither positive statute nor moral reprobation to prevent a man’s becoming what Macaulay calls “perpetual President.” After one has been elected half a dozen times both he and the people may begin to think a repetition of the formality of voting for him useiess. All such specu- lations must look far into the dim future for their realization; for a plainer, less ambitious President never held the office than he who now occupies it, There is not about his character & single mark of the grasping usurper. He bears himself simply as aman who has worthily performed a great work for the na- tion and is willing to rest on the laurels he has won, He has tasted the bitterness of early ob- scurity and the sweetness o1 late renown. He is evidently one of those men who are satisfied with saving their country and would rather rest after the task than begin a new struggle to take away its liberties, (From the Padueah Kentuckian (democratic), July 10.) The question arises, Can Grant be elected for a third term? We have heard radicals scout the idea of his even being a candidate, and say that if he was nominated he could not possibly be elected. We do not place implicit faith in such views. The power that proposes to ran Grant for a third term ig very great. There are, first, all the office-holders, and their name is legion, scattered all over the country. Second, the national banks and rattroad corporations. It is a recognized tact that in some way these banks and corporations have had power to control Congress and the President for years past. Onkes Ames knew how to do this thing; that was by placing the stock of the institutions where it would do the most good. Thirdly, there are the capitalists, It ig this claas who hold the cured them during the war for one-half their value, can well afford to pay out lItberally to keep the investment safe, Against this immense power, fully organized and ready for action, is the great body of the peo- ple. This sounds well, but the people are not organized; they have no paid leaders, and are Mable to be led astray by the influences which the strong coalition above referred to can bring to bear upon them. The people were mistaken as to their true interests in the last Presidential election, and why may they not be mistaken again? There is but one chance to deteat the re-election of Grant im 1876, The people under some name or organiza- tion mast unite and form a strong, powerful party that will stand as a unit against official corruption, imiguitious monopolies and money combinations, The democratic party offers the nucleus for such an organizasion, (From the Johnstown (Pa.) duly 11.) * * © Wreport be true the moneyed men,the politicians, the corporations, the iimmense monopolies have lately ordained this third nomina- tion at Long Branch. Their flat is the law of this land, The people must accept it nolens volens. In dtsoussing this contingency some of the journals raise the cry of immediate Cxsarism. We antici- pate notbing of the kind. Hundreds of thousands of young men, with muscles of iron and hearts of fire for thetr country, would in this generation fy to arms in defence of the Republic the moment the signal for the inauguration of Im- perialism were given. And if these in the open field should not be enough there would be a chosen few to dye the imperial robesin proper colors and with the proper dye, the heart’s blood of the usurper, be he entitled king, emperor or president, But General Grant would never at- tempt to overthrow the Republic, He has not the army, and the moment an attempt is made to create one the people will become alarmed. The chief danger, in thus departing from the usages of our foretathers, would be the effect upon the people in accustoming them to rulers for long periods, So soon asour people reconcile themselves to a third-term President they have taken a long stride towards reconciling themselves to a fourth-term President, What is incuicated habit tn this gene- ration becomes natural to the next. They see very little wrong in a fifth-term President, a sixth, 4c., which is the natural life ofa ruler of the requisite age. But long ere coming to this such easy though grand departures from usage would work just as easily though great departures from the constitu- tion, and if such a ruler were not by that time king or emperor in name he would be in fact. THE HERALD AND THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. Mountain Volce, pe Pad i bl [From the Raleigh (N. ©.) Biblical Recorder, July ®) * * * It must be confessed that the New York HERALD is the best newspaper in the world, the leading journals of Europe not excepted. It has more widespread influences at work, guthering news from all parts of the world; it spends more money and exhibits more energy and enterprise in this direction than any paper within our knowledge. The proof of this remark is seen in every Monday’s issue of the HgnaLp, One whole page and often much more is devoted to a synopsis of the sermons delivered in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. For so many pulpits to be rep- resented, and at such remote distances, of course, must require a large reportory corps, and the expenses involved in telegraphic despatches must be very great indeed. In addition to the re- ports of sermons, there is always at least a column of editortl which proposes to give a bird's-eye view of the topics discussed and the manner in which they were treated by different ministers the day before. It is true these editorials are not always remarkable for their pious and reverential spirit. Tne issue of Monday last begins its article on “Yesterday's Sermons” thus :— The sermons which we publish to-day are very much like the country physician’s bread pilis— there is no more chance that they will kill than that they will cure. They have very little Christ in them, but then they have very littie devil. Some idea of the expense incurred in this mat- ter of publishing so much about religion may be seen from the fact that the man who writes these editorials is paid, we have been told, $10,000 a year, of the country, so far from tabooing religious in- formation in its columns, covets it, and will gladly publish any well written article relating to re- ligion or religious institutions of learning, and itis the duty of our people to use as frequently and as readily as they can this tremendous agency for the Promotion of the interest they love as they do their own lives. THE HERALD AND ITS NEW ENTERPRISE. Bn {From the Lehighton (Pa.) News, July 12.) The new enterprise of the New York Hera. in having special trains run from New York to Bos- ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore is fully worthy of the greatness of that paper. This, taken with all its other enterprises, makes it the greatest news- paper in the world. POLITICAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS, Poa wren hans aes The usually dignified Boston Advertiser compares General Butler to a “washerwoman for soiled linen.” Perhaps the General does not think it worth his while muzzitn’ that paper. Willtam McClelland, of Pittsburg, 1s suggested in the Harrisburg Patriot as a Ot person for chairman of the next Pennsylvania Democratic State Cen- tral Committee, The St.Louis Democrat puts this rather pertinent pay’ given by Senator Pomeroy to Mr. York on that memorable night, in Topeka?” If not “cov- ered” into the Treasary tt is not improbable that it has been “coppered” in some of the fashion able saions in Washington. “Stephen A. Douglas,” says the St. Louis Demo+ crat, “used to take his $8 a day, and be satisfied; but John A. Logan thinks he is underpaid at $7,5 for six months’ service—or about $40 a day.” The Democrat snould remember that times are slightly altered since the days of Douglas. Then corn was the basis of values. Now paper is. the democratic candidate tor the Senate of Ken- tucky from the district composed of Fayette, Jes- samine and Woodford counties, Is this the same old eloquent ‘‘Ned’’ Marshall of many @ political campaign ? The Cincinnati Enquirer has suggested that if the farmers of Ubio want a candidate for Gover- nor, Judge Wiillam B, Caldwell, of Cincinnati, is the man. Many are called, but few are chosen. ‘The same paper says that the suggestion of Dodds as ® farmers’ candidate does not seem to take, Poor Doddsi It is proposed that the 30th July Convention (liberal republican) in Ohto be postponed until the 6th of August, the day of the Democratic Conven- tion. The Cincinnati Enquirer favors the idea, “Why not Pendleton for Governor ?”’ asks some of the correspondents of the Wayne county (Ohio) Democrat, Because, answers that paper, Peadie- ton don’t want to be a candidate. Congressman Robinson, of Olio, defends the back- pay steal. “Robbin’ some” must be a familiar sound to his ears, ‘The Milwaukee News (democrat) believes there will be no repeal of the back-pay act at the next session of Uongress for the following cogent rea- sons :—First, President Grant's salary cannot be reduced to the old figure; second, the back pay is in the pockets of the grabbers and cannot be re- covered; third, members of the next Congress are drawing monthly their increased pay, and will have enjovedand spent it when Congress meets and the repeal proposition will be made. The Boston Transcript asserts that a new statu- ette of General Butler is in preparation, the two sides of the face being quite dissimilar. One side amusingly represents “Prohibition,” the other “Anti-Prohibition.” The virtuous editor of the Worcester Spy—himself @ member of Oongreas for six years—says :—‘This talk of the cost of living at Washington, used as an argument for extravagant pay, ean empty pre- The point we wisn to make is that the journalism | question :—“‘What has become of the $5,000 of ‘back | Ed, C. Marshall, of Woodford county, is urged as | bonds of the. United States, and who, having se- | tense, considering that Congressmen do not live there haif the time, while the officials we have named, with much smaller salaries, live there cone stantly, and find no trouble in paying ail their ex- penses,”” People can live extravagantly in other places than Washington. “The American cholera,” says the Memphis dra- lanche, ‘made @ pass at ex-President Johnson, but he soon funded it, and will be able to make a few remarks in @ conversational way during next year’s canvass.’? The Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise says explanations from Congressmen Stewart and Kendall in regard to the back-pay bounty process are now in order, ‘They may not think it worth while to take the hint, The “universal demand for the repeal of the act,” says the St. Paul Pioneer, “is defeated by the money being handed over before any service is rendered, It is a shrewd trick to pocket the funds vefore the rising trumpet of public indignation forces the law to be abrogated. The people cam now see for themselves what manner of men they have get up for rulers,” Says the Portland (Me.) <Advertiser—The query, “What becomes of the back pay of members of Con- gress which is left inthe Treasury?’ has been answered by Secretary Richardson !n these words, “It remains a perpetual debt against the govern- ment unless the law is repealed.” “Reckless financiers, dishonest business men, political adventurers, the purse-proud and vain shoddyists,” shouts the Lawrence (Kansas) Standard, “throw up their caps and shout in praise of Grant. The masses of the people look on in sorrow. Grant was their hero—he came to then fresh from victorious battle flelds—but he has fatled to hold their esteem or preserve their re- gard. Enthusiasm nas given place to doubt, and the President to-day has lost the esteem of the good men of the country, The Salary bill is fatal ta its supporters.” “The farmers’ movement, as it ts called,” asserts the Chicago Advance (religious paper), “is not the offspring of demagogism; it is the result of con- viction that has been steadily growing, and has at ength become general, that the enormous power of railway and other monopolies is,in more ways than one, seriously threatening the public wel- fare.” “There ta nothing,” declares the Louisville Ledger (democratic), ‘that can so certainly assure @ continuation of radical rale as a timid, time- serving, namby-pamby course upon the part of democrats—seeking new affiliations, running of after new parties, inaugurating schemes of, and men for expeulency, at the sacrifice of the doc trinal truths of the party.” Cold com{fort, this, for the coalitionists. They now begin to talk of Lew Campbell ag the farmers’ candidate for Governor of Ohio. Rush R, Sloan declines being the democratic and liberal candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. He will, however, stump through the campaign with a rush, The following is a list of New York Congress- men who have returned their back pay:—Senator Reuben E, Fenton, liberal; Representatives Sam- uel S. Cox, democrat; Willlam A. Wheeler, repub- lican; Walter L. Sessions, republican; Eli Perry, democrat; William R. Roberts, democrat; Clinton L, Merriam, republican; Clarkson N. Potter. demo- crat—four democrats, three republicans and one liberal, ‘The following is a list of New York Congressmen who have not returned their back pay:—Senator Roscoe Conkling, republican; Representatives Dwight Townsend, democrat; Thomas Kinsella, democrat; Henry W. Slocum, democrat; Robert B, Roosevelt, democrat; Smith Ely, Jr., democrat; Fernando Wood, democrat; Charles St. John, re- publican; John H. Ketcham, republican; Joseph H. Tuthill, democrat; Joseph M. Warren, democrats John Rogers, democrat; John M. Carroll, demo- crat; E. H. Prindle, republican; Elis H. Roberta, republican; William F. Lansing, répubitcan; BR): Duell, republican; Jonn KE. Seeley, republican, William H. Lamport, republican; Milo Goodrich, liberal; Horace B. Smith, republican; Freeman Clarke, republican; Seth Wakeman, republican, and William Williams, democrat, Twelve repub Mcans, eleven democrats, one liberal. A pretty ciose shave so far as parties are concerned, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Mz. J. BH. BOWMAN, of Pittsburg, has prepared for speedy publication “A History of Petroleum and Its Development, with Biographical Sketches of Pioneer and Prominent Operators in the Oil Regions of Pennsylvania.” CBNTENNIAL LITERATURE begins to blossom out vigorously. Rev. William F. P, Noble will publish “Qentennial Blography: Men of Mark in the Great Republic, 1776-1876.” PHILARETS OCHASLES now occupies on thé Paris Moniteur the position formerly filled by Sainte-Beuve. THB Indépendance Belge states that a Japancsa Prince, Macao, may be found daily in the State printing oMce at The Hague, working at case. He is sent to Europe by the Japanese government tq learn the art of printing. Tue Bisnor or EXETER publicly stated recently that he considered the whole tendency of legisia- tion was toward secularism, and it was possible the day might come when the government would compe! them to adhere strictly to the teaching in their day schools of reading, writing and arithme- tic, without imparting any religious instruction at all. To ILLUSTRATE the much-vexed question of city administration, Appleton's Journal is publishing a series of articles by an knglishman named Pascoe, entitled ‘How London is Governed.” The writer terms the present complicated government of Lon- don “a chaos of municipal disorder.” Ir Has BEEN DiscoveRED recenty that the or- gan of rational language ltes in the third convolu- tion of the left anterior lobe of the brain. Tue Rev. W. R. ALGER, author of the ‘Doctrine of the Future Life,” and other books, has clore® his conrection with the Boston Music Hall Societ (once Theodore Parker’s) and will devote hi to literature. Rev. E. F, Bung, whose ‘Pater Mundi” is the third book with a fantastical Latin title he has put forth, deals largely in such rhetorical exaggera- tions as apostrophe and hyperbole. Witnesa this:— x Uy Law-H; oO paren Pp ete toler Fiuyselsend then supposing the universe to stand on its apex, instead of its base! THB LONDON JOURNAL Public Optnion has pud- lished @ series of discussions on “reform in ser- mons,” che burden of all which is the extreme dul+ ness, amounting almost to imbecility, of modern preaching in London, One writer insists that the real reason why the clergy are not good speakers, is that they have never been taught to speak, Another points out a droll remedy in an announce- ment that “Millard, 78 St. Paul’s churchyard, Lon- don, sella valaable manuscript sermons.” THs Lonpon Lapy whom Joaquin Miller is to marry is Miss Hardy, the novelist, and daughter of Sir Thomas D. Hardy, long employed in the office of the Master of the Rolls, and himself a learned his- torlographer. M. TECHENER, the French bookseller, who died last Month at an advanced age, Was a scholar and @ critic, ag well as a publisher. He edited the Bulletin du Bidliophile, established in 1834, and re- printed a great many curious old books, which would otherwise have been lost or forgotten. MR. FARJEON’S latest novel,,“London’s Heart,” deals in severe criticisms on the heartlessness towards the poor of railway companies, justices of the peace and (strange to say) clergymen. Wuen Rovsskav printed his “Discourse on the Inequality of Men,” which was an eloquent eulogy of primitive and savage life as contrasted with civilization, he sent a copy to Voltaire. The mock ing Philosopher of Ferney thas acknowledged it: Ihave received your new book against the hu. man race and thavk you for it, Never was oo cleverness used with the design of making us L i in reading your book, to downca aivours.” But as | have lost that for more than sixty years, wel ‘an Pelt the responsibuny, of resuming it. Nor can | embark in séarch of the savages of the maladies to which I am condemned render @ Bus surgeon necessary to me, because war is ng on im those regions ead becsuse the of our actions has made the savages ni as ourselves; so | content myself with peaceful a the solitude I have chosen your nati