The New York Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heznaxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXVIII, No, 201 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. gBOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dxawa or Ligurwina on. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtteth st.— Enin-a-Cuorra, Afternoon and evening. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —Mimt. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Sumwer Nigars’ Con- ERTS. WARLEM MUSIC HALL, Harlem.—Vantery Eyter- PAINMENT. M OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad. NEW YORK MUSE! way.—Sotmnce and Ax DE RAHM'S MUSEUM, No. 638 Brondway,—Sciencr RT. New York, Sunday, July 20, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Elerald. ‘THE ENTR'ACTE IN OUR REFORMED CITY CIRCUS! THK MAYOR, THE ‘COMBINA- TION’ LOCK AND THE PARTISAN PRESS” — LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC—SrxTH PAGE, BPANIARDS SLAUGHTERING EACH OTHER! THE BOURBON FORCES DEFEATED, AFTER A FURIOUS AND BLOODY EIGHTEEN HOURS’ BATTLE, IN BARCELONA! SALME- RON HEADS A NEW MINISTRY! A BOMB EXPLOVED AT THE DOORS OF COKTES— SEVENTH Pack. CHOLERA IN VIENNA! EXTREME VIRU- LENCE OF THE DISEASE! FORTY-TWO DEATHS IN SIXTY-TWO CASES! THE EPI- DEMIO ATTACKS FORTY-TWO PERSONS IN A HOTEL—SEventa Paar. EUROPE’S PERSIAN LION EN ROUTE FOR THE MOUNTAIN REPUBLIC—IMPORTANT GEN- ERAL NEWS—SEVENTH PagE. GRANT AND CAISAR! CONTINUED COMMENTS OF AMERICAN JOURNALS ON THE DAN- GERS TO FREEDOM THAT WILL ENSUE FROM A THIRD TERM TO GENERAL GRANT—TuiRp Pace. DUSKY TRAGEDY ON THE PHILADELPHIA STAGE! THE BARD OF AVON AS INTER- PRETED AT A DARKY THEATRE! POMP AND DINAH ARRAYED IN ALL THEIR GLORY AS ROMEO AND JULIET—Tsnta Pace. PHILADELPHIA’S FILTH EXPOSED BY THE HERALD! THE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF THE QUAKER CITY PRESS—SEVENTH PaGE. THE BROOKLYN TRUST COMPANY TROUBLES! THE DEATH AND DISHONOR OF THE PRESIDENT! THE COMPANY SUSPENDS! HALF A MILLION GONE—Tuirp Pages. RELIGIOUS NEWS! THE PREACHING OF THE WURD TO-DAY IN THE CITY CHURCHES! CORRESPONDENTS’ VIEWS! CLERICAL ITEMS—JEHOVAH’S MERCIES TO ISRAEL— YOUNG LADIES RENOUNCING THE FRI- VOLITIES OF LIFE—FourTH PaGE. ENGINEERING FOR PLENTY OF CROTON! THE IMMENSE STORAGE RESERVOIR FOR EMERGENT SUPPLY! 6,000,000,000 GAL- LONS OF PURE WATER—FirtH Page. COMING TURF STRUGGLES AT SARATOGA— THE LONG BRANCH RACES POSTPONED— THE NATIONAL GAME—TuIkpD PaGE. EXTENSIVE FORGERIES! CHICAGO, PITTS: BURG, PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK TRADESMEN VICTIMIZED—TENTH PAGE. INFECTING THE UPTOWN ATMOSPHERE! TONS OF DECAYING ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATTER PILED UP IN THE HARLEM MARSHES! A MOST INTOLERABLE NUI- SANCE—Firti PaGn. THE WORK OF CLEANSING THE FILTHY MAR- KETS STAYED FOR LACK OF FUNDS AND BY AN OLD INJUNCTION OF JUDGE BAR- NARD! THE CORPORATION COUNSEL AP- PEALED TO—FirtTH Page. A LIVELY DAY AMONG THE FINANCIERS! AN ERIE “CORNER! GOLD STRONG! MONEY EASY—THE FEDERAL . OFFICES—CITY ITEMS—Eicatn Pace, ITALIAN OPERA IN GOTHAM—LEGAL SUMMA- RIES—THE KILLANG OF PETER WILSON— HOBOKEN’S OUTRAGEOUS POLICE—FirTa Pace. THE AnotHen New Canmer at Maprm is an- nounced. Should it last a week it may be worth looking into; but pending this uncer- tainty any lengthened notice of it would bea waste of time to writer, printer and reader. “Waat’s ix A Name?'’—On the strength of his caytture of Captain Jack some of the In- Giana p#pers are beginning to talk of General Jeff C, Davis as an available military chieftain fer the democmts to nominate for the Presi- dengy. The idea appears to be that many old line democrats who may have still a lingering weakness on State rights for Jeff Davis will be apt to fall into line on Jeff C. Davis, and the idea is utterly absurd. Ir rer health anthorities continue the same vigorous, uncompromising war on death- breeding nuisances which they have just begun they will earn the thanks of the community. The Angean stables could searcely surpass in offensiveness the delect- able establishment of the New York Render- ing Company up town, or the no less filthy fangi around Washington Market. The offal sheds of the bone boilers between Thirty- ninth and Forticth streets are to be purified Circus=The Mayor, the “Combina- tion” Leck and the rtisan Press. We have had some experience of municipal reform, and as every one is grumbling at the quality served up of late there is some chance that everybody is wrong. It took two reform Legislatures to give New York ono reform charter, and we are unable to say how long it will take the reform charter to give us a re- formed city government. The Bismarcks and Von Moltkes of reform at Albany swept every thing before them last session that they wanted to sweep. They refrained magnanimously from being too sweeping, and wore satisfied with a nominal surrender of several fortresses of city pap, leaving the old commanders in charge, as Alexander, the Czar, has left the Khan of Khiva. The Russian Empire gains some two million roubles by its piece of busi- ness in this line, and some curious people are agitated to know whether our Khans of the departments paid an indemnity last Spring to the Cossacks of the Empire State. They re- fermed the Board of Health, but a glance around the streets will make the most credu- lous mortal doubt that the broom of reform has brushed away an atom of the mud and filth that still smell to heaven from our streets in memory of the good old days of Tammany corruption, Dean Swift once said that the bishops appointed by the English King to Ire- land were good people enough, but that the footpads on Hounslow Heath systematically stole their patents and lawn and came over to the Emerald Isle in the bishops’ clothes. Surely this or something very like it has hap- pened to our reform commissioners, for the new appointees have developed qualities of head and heart strangely at variance with the sugar-plum sweetness of the reform article in the prospectus. It isa popular idea that the road to Erebus is paved with good intentions, but the streets of New York are paved, swept and disinfected with good ‘resolutions.’ To show how passable the streets are, the resolves begin with a preamble running over the filthy places of the city. The matter is left there, however, and the chariot wheel of Time sinks in putrescent mud to the hub the same as ever. The Board of Health, under the new ‘‘deal,’’ was expected to form a firm plank for retorm in the future. Like the wooden pavement of Murray street, it disap- pears under the sloughs of the uncleaned city for a week ata time. It comes to the surface occasionally and floats about aimlessly as the remains of a shanty in the inundated open lots near the Park. The track of reform in this particular is as visible as the trail of a grocer’s wagon through the viscous puddles of ungraded Worth street. We have just nowa state of truce in our city battle for the spoils. The key to the position has been lost apparently in the Mayor's Office, and so most people have come to regard the situation as a ‘deadlock.’ Others prefer to call it a ‘‘combination’’ lock. Ifso the Mayor has forgotten the magic word, “divide,” or chivalrously refuses to utter it. The dilemma of the stubborn old gentleman who was elected by the republicans last Novem: ber would be comical if it were not one de- manding a display of our finest feelings; the charter caused him such disappointment. Like the witches in ‘Macbeth,” that instru- ment held a promise to the ear which was very surprisingly broken to the hope. It was arranged that he was to nominate officials and the fifteen Aldermen to confirm or reject ; but the Bagstocks of the Board of Aldermen were sly—devilish sly. They discovered that it was possible neither to confirm nor reject. Those who have read Lord Lytton’s last novel will recall that Decimus Roach, author of the ‘Approach to the Angels,’’ slid away from the doctrine of celibacy into the state of matrimony as a glorious martyr, and ‘not for his personal satisfaction.”” From grounds taken similarly high up in the esthetic regions of refined humanitarianism, a bare majority of the City Fathers resolved that it was not good for the dear old Knickerbocker Mayor to give New York its reformed Police Justices in such small doses as two ata time. His pills might be good enough, but they could not endorse them to the faculty and the public on such small samples. Ten or none was their ulti- matum. Two or none was the gray-headed veteran’s response. There are pictures in history more celebrated for their pathos than the one now before us; but Medea, with her two babies, was nota more affecting sight than Mayor Havemeyer, with his two little Police Justices by the hand, as he stood before the eight obdurate Aldermen, asking that they might not be kept out of the little cribs he had designed for them. Hagar praying for two little Ishmaels instead of one in the parched desert of Beersheba could scarcely have drawn more tears from good Sunday school children than the Mayor praying for his little ones amid the German Aldermen parched under the new lager law. The feelings of Lucius Junius Brutus as he put his two sons to death have been the admiration of many 8 stoically righteous class of Freshmen, who have felt that they could sacrifice their teachers, parents and guardians under similar conditions. But who shall tell the depths of devotion to principle and public trust into which the eight Aldermen were plunged in order to resist the prayers of so good a man asthe Mayor about his two little Police Jus- tices? At length the Mayor yielded. They had asked him for ten and he gave them eight others in addition to the two little ones, but they did not recognize the features of the ten litle ones as those of their friends. These facts, we are assured, did not influence the good Aldermen at all, But they remained obdurate. To be gave no reason for their comduct, but by fire, and the obnoxious market booths to be pulled down. Now, these are commend. able resolutions of our sanitary guardians ; but it is all-important to know whether they will be carried into effect. Such plague spots should not have been tolerated so long; but early action om the part of the Board of Health will go far to compensate for previous shortcomings. Let these resolutions be made Practical and not mere sound, “full of fury, and signifying ucthing” The health of the city imperatively demands the removal of ail certainly the tone-twiling snd tet-rendering establishments so4 ‘he fonl-«melling marker on Vesey street claims the fret attention We want action and nt mere words, and will watch with vigilant intercet the rewult of rhe Jast meeting of the Vicerd of Howie | we know that the impulses of honest | natures are frequently understandable though | inexplicable. The struggle between duty and | sympathy was a stubborn one. It could not last in this hot weather, and so the Aldermen sorrowfnlly resolved to go away until j September. The old Police Justices are happy, for they are the only people that profit by all this agomized feeling on both sides. The Aldermen have gone to hide their sortows by the roar of Niagara, 1 the sad sea waves at Long Branch, or beneath the flutter- ng lesves of the forest, or amid the stormy sermge of the mountains—anywhere, in where iced drinks are plentiful and police not in nomination, But the Mayor! He tarus him around for sympathy, lool Slaaphercusly up the river, and, shak- “~9 ue aged fet ot Albany, murmurs; — fact. juaticns are ‘Thou aaet sent sweet springs to all the pleasant streams. In the end Thou hast made them bitter with the sea. The partisan journals all snap at him. The republican papers that cried for his election, as Endymion did for the moon, declare that he is a delusion and a snare, as the mytholog- cal youth would have done if he found pale Cynthia to be a piece of green cheese on closer inspection. Tne democratic journals savagely denounce him as a man who ‘forsook his own party, joined a set of nondescripts and then set up for himself. The liberal pa- pers choke with rage at the thought of his audacity in doing things they asked him to do, but doing them in a way to disappoint his friends, as well as his enemies. The com- mon grievance held by the partisan press against him is that he has.not put the “right men’ into place ; but whether these journals have a satisfactory idea of what ‘right men’’ are is very doubtful. On examination it gen- erally comes to mean ‘our pet lambs, Mr. Mayor.’’ There are more parties rushing can- didates for each place than there were crews at the Springfield regatta. The Mayor's difli- culty is that no matter how many pull in the races, nobody can win without the consent of the Aldermen. The Aldermen, on the other hand, can reject; but it is nseless to reject while the Mayor is too obstinate to nomi- nate to their liking. There is not even the melancholy chance of his favorite being beaten, as ‘om Bowling was the other day at Monmouth Park, for the judges have declared the race off unless there are ten entries, Wo pity the Mayor, we sorrow for the Aldermen, we bemoan the partisan press whose columns are quivering under the efforts of the blinded Samson, who is savage at grinding in a Philis- tine mill where there is no grist. The Philis- tines are savage too. This is reform. We can walk round the Tombs and count murderers’ heads by the dozen, and feel a rapturous delight in reflecting that the rowdy is safe and the peaceful citizen in danger ; for is not ‘hanging played out?’’ Jack Rey- nolds lived ahead of his time; he lost the race of life by a neck, as it were ; for, had he survived to these reform times, he would have seen that a Legislature can practically annul the death penalty. Murder has been reformed, not the murderers. We can take a glance at a reform financial officer, who carries on the business of the Empire City with all the cheese-paring, light-weight giving and petty trickiness of a tenth rate grocer in a poverty- stricken neighborhood. It was Tammany's plan to be ruinously prodigal; reform says through her sad Andrew that she is a skin- flint, ‘The reek and filth of the streets, the pestilence lairs, the low dance houses, the policy shops, are all evidences of reform. The high priests of the new political religion are fighting like village dogs—plenty of bark and not strength enough in the jaw for a solid bite. Must we not pray that this is not all we shall see of reform? A muzzled Mayor, a Board of Aldermen combined for spoils, a wrangling press abusing each other, calling names to the Mayor and denouncing his foes. What a potpourri for our voters to contem- plate, what a hopeful picture of the selfish- ness, cant and hypocrisy that lie like quick- sands beneath the surface of the thing called reform as we know it just now ! Carried with His Diamonds The Shah—Why He Him His Ministry, and His Treasury. Western philosophers and political econ- omists have been puzzled to account for the seemingly reckless extravagance and foolish. ness of the Shah in carrying with him on his European tour a retinue, including his Minis- try, of fifty or sixty persons; all his diamonds, and some twenty-five millions of dollars--all the ready cash of his treasury. But if the re- port be true that he is about to bid a sad fare- well to Paris and return at once to Teheran, in consequence of an insurrection which has broken out in his dominions, the reasons why he carries his Cabinet, his jewelry and the available funds of his treasury along with him may be readily conjectured. His people have been decimated by the most terrible famine, of two yeard’ duration, of which we have any authentic details—the most terrible and destructive famine of ancient or modern times. Ground to the dust before by the arbitrary taxes and unscrupulous extor- tions of his provincial subordinates, the suf- ferings of his people since have doubtless been rather aggravated than diminished. In the single season for the profitable cultivation of the soil which has followed their exhausting famine the poor producing Persians have had enough todo to maintain their struggle for existence ; but the roaming hordes of desert barbarians, which constitute one-fifth of the Shah's unreliable subjects, may have been emboldened by his absence to organize a con- spiracy for the seizure of Teheran and the treasures of the kingdom—treasures which, great as they are for a country 80 poor a8 Persia, those desert robbers may have magni- fied ten times beyond their actual value. The Shah, before leaving his dominions, no doubt, was informed of the dangers to which he would leave them exposed—for the absolute despot has his spies and informers at all points—and hence, as a measure of wise pre- caution, he took with him on His grand excur- sion his Ministry, his precious jewels and his available cash on hand. The Russian army in its conquest of Khiva, it appears, released and sent home some ten thousand Persians who had been held by the sure they | Khan as slaves, These poor wretches, we presume, in search of subsistence, were driven from Persia by the pressure of their late famine, as were thousands of others over all the Persian borders. Many of these people are now returning, only to find that their country has not yet rallied from its exhaustion, and, pushed again to the extremities of starva- tion, they may have joined in some desperate revolt. While thus, however, accounting for the apparent extravagance and splendor of the Shah on his European tour, the question again recurs, why, in the beggared and chaotic condition in which Persia is represented to be at this time, instead of wasting his money on this pleasure expedition, why did not the Shah remain at home to look after and pro- vide for his people? We answer, that, as within the limits of his dominions there were not the ways and means of relief which the emergency demanded, he undertook this European journey to secure them. In Persia—a country which, in its natural features and peculiarities, very much resem- bles our interior Great Basin of Utah and Nevada—railroads are wanted; and the Shah. having made this discovery, has entered into a prodigious contract for the building of a system of railroads in Persia and for many other modern improvements, bearing upon agriculture, mining, manufactures and trade. With these improvements the Persians, in the event of another famine, for example, will have the facilities for securing immediate and general assistance from abroad. ‘They could get no such extensive relief in their late ordeal of general starvation, because their only means of transportation were their camels, horses and mules; and these, from the pres- sure of the famine, had been destroyed. If the Shah, therefore, has ventured to run the hazards of a rebellion during his absence on this European tour, and if he has mortgaged his kingdom to the Jews, it is because he has been seized with the spirit of European progress, and has found in the railway and other Western improvements in material things the instruments which, if rightly em- ployed, will secure, not only the preservation, but the prosperity of his people. The Approaching Season of Italian Opera at the Academy. After many years of strange vicissitudes and stormy fortunes, now emblazoned with all the colors of fashion and prestige and again floundering hopelessly in the Slough of De- spend, Italian opera seems to have at last gained a permanent footing in this city. Two years ago it was raised from its lowly condition by the genius of Mlle. Nilsson and made once more a magnet of attraction for all that is refined, fashionable and intellectual in society. She now returns to us again, and we are promised a choice operatic bouquet, culled from the leading houses in Europe. Indeed, the engagements for the Fall season are so numerous that it will be problematical whether materials for a first class company will be left to console the Czar, the Khedive or the Parisians for the Winter. With the sole exception of Adelina Patti all that the operatic world can boast of in talent and fame is included in the list of engage- ments for the New York season. In a letter from Paris, which we publish to-day, may be found the circle of artists that will adorn the boards of the Academy of Music in October. A hearty welcome and a reception more en- thusiastic, if not so brilliant as that which greeted the Persian monarch on the shores of England, will be accorded tg the Swedish nightingale, the memory of whose sweet voice and poetic beauty in acting remains as fresh in the minds ot our opera-goers as on the night she made her début at the Academy. Report speaks of her having gained considerably in vocal power. and having made several notable additions to her well known répertoire. But naught can add to the beauty of those matchless impersona- tions which so often held the audience of the Irving place opera house spell-bound—the Ary Scheffer-like portrait of Gretchen; the passionate love of the Dame aux Camelias, with its delicacy of color; the sad histury of the Bride of Lammermoor in which insanity becomes poetry, and the child-like devotion of Mignon. The Strakosch Brothers could not offer the American publica more welcome boon than bringing back to them once more the fairest flower in the operatic garden, Christine Nilsson. The company engaged to support this favorite artist presents many new names and two who won popularity here before. Mlles. Torriani and Maresi will sing all the soprano réles outside of the Nilsson répertoire, and Miss Oary will resume the posi- tion which she once so worthily filled— that of prima donna contralto. One of the tenors, Capoul, is already favorably known here, and Campanini’s name comes to us from Europe laden with honors. A third tenor, named Bonfratelli, brings with him the endorsement of La Scala. The bari- tones, Maurel and Del Puente, have been weighed in the balance of London criticism and have not been found wanting. But one of the most important features of this company will be the conductor, Signor Muzio, a musician who gained enviable distinction years ago in operatic campaigns in this country. He has been selected by Verdi him- self a8 a competent and experienced director to superintend the production of the last and greatest of that maestro’s works, ‘‘Aida.’’ This opera, brought out first by the Khedive, at Uairo, at an almost incredible expense, has been secured by the Strakosch Brothers for an early representation in this country. Wagner's ‘Lohengrin’ is also announced as a feature of the coming season. The production of two such works will, indeed, bea sensation in operatic circles here. ‘‘Aida’’ is the fruit of the riper powers of the great Italian composer, and even seasoning With the customary grain of salt the extravagant encomiums passed upon it in Egypt and_ Italy, it must be a very remarkable Work and one in which every musician will take a warm interest. From a fleeting glance at Wagner's opera, caught during its production in German here, enough was ascertained to pronounce it the best of that wayward composer's works. There is more solidity, regularity and beauty of form in it than in any other specimen of the school of the future. As these two operas are on the Meyerbeer pattern of scenic effects and spectacular splendor we may expect an entire change from the time-honored and dust- begrimed scenes of the Academy stage. Such is the dish, fit to be set before a king, which the Strakosch Brothers have prepared for the New York epicures in the Fall. It is gratifying to learn that since the revival of Italian opera two years ago the taste and inchnations of the public in this direction have encouraged operatic managers to compete with the veterans of the European houses in securing for New York the best talent. No city could be less favorable to the importation of imitation metal instead of the pure, refined gold of art than ours. Managers have found it to their cost how difficult, if not impossible, it is for them to palm off on our public, especially in music, aught that is not claimed and endorsed by art. This has been demon- strated over and over again in Italian opera, and had some of our impresarii been gifted with a modicum of prudence and foresight they would have avoided the narrow, tortuous course so plentifully strewn with the wrecks of operatic barks. This new enterprise of which we have spoken bears with it an omen of success in the transcendant ability of the prima donna, the reported strength of the company and the interest af ed to the new works of Verdi and Wagner. The is little to be apprehended by an operatic man- ager newadavs lest be venture too far in AY, JULY 20, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. securing the best, at any cost, for the Academy Review of the Religious Yress= of Music. The public will do their part will- ingly and unstintedly, and will carry to a triumphant close an opera season in-which genius, art and skilful management are com- bined. The Mills Defalcatien, Scarcely had the words of praise which celebrated the career of Ethelbert S. Mills been uttered over his grave when the bright story of bis usefulness, his enterprise, his charities, his probity and his enlightened love of art was supplemented by the dark tale of his crime. The whole seems @ horrible mockery of every- thing that is good, and no man will envy him the seeming success of his life in recalling the disgrace which covers him in death. It is the old, old story of & man who fell because he was too much trusted. No one doubted the in- tegrity of Ethelbert 8. Mills. He was one of the few men who were honest in a dishonest age ; but the treacherous wave swept him from life into death, and at the same time washed away all the green memo- ries which might have adorned his grave. Death calls for a settlement of the affairs of every man even in this world, and, unfortunately, death found Ethelbert S. Mills a defaulter. As President of the Brooklyn Trust Company he had appropriated its funds to his own use. Unfortunate speculations by which he lost large sums and the payment of extortionate interest made him poor, and, like the burglar, he turned to other men’s savings to repay his own losses. He was enabled to do this because the trustees of his company had too much faith in him to do their own duty. These worthy gentlemen, among the most prominent in Brooklyn, did not even know that he had negotiated two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of the repudiated bonds igsued by Governor Bullock, of Georgia, at seventy-five per cent of their face value. Neither did they know that he hdd negotiated a large amount of almost worthless railroad bonds. Under these circumstances it was scarcely to be expected that they should know he had overdrawn his account and, per- haps, ruined the company. After his death the investigation into his affairs was con- sidered a mere matter of form, and its results were ® surprise—as great a surprise to the trustees and the stockholders as to the deposi- tors and the public. All this has its lesson ; but reprehensible as was the crime of the de- ceased defaulter, it was not more reprehen- sible than the neglect of their duty by the trustees of the company. When they penned their resolutions of testimony to the virtues of their former President they condemned themselves, for they almost simultaneously discovered that he had robbed the company it was their duty to protect, We care not to moralize on this remarkable transaction, and we can only deplore that public confidence in our moneyed institutions should be shaken because such outrageous abuses of public con- fidence as this are revealed. Wall Street. Unusual activity has prevailed on our American Bourse during the past week. A Summer speculation has occurred, and, under its influence, large transactions have been made, What is known as “the Vanderbilt line of stocks,’’ comprising New York Central, Lake Shore and Western Union Telegraph, seem to have led the upward movement, and the work of the week closed with strong and healthy indications for the immediate future. Northwest common stock, by reason of its transfer from the hands of mere speculators to the real friends of the road, has assumed a new phase on the market, and entered upon a new career. There has been a manifestation of corresponding strength, together with spec- ulative sympatby, throughout the entire list. Hence large orders have come from the water- ing places and holders of stock elsewhere to buy or sell according to the fluctuations daily reported. The brokers are happy; business is lively, and a good feeling exists all around. Yesterday there was a movement made in “Erie.” It was attended with all the premonitory symptoms of a ‘‘corner.” How it will result is a question that belongs to the future. The manipulation is understood to be under the control of three or four German bankers, who for the nonce have abandoned their business of selling exchange in order to turn an ‘‘honest’’ penny in speculation. With- out going into the merits of the question at this time, we need only say itis a sorry spec- tacle to see parties of whom America buys her “promises to pay’’ abroad dabbling in a stock that has been the ruin of the best financiers of the country, and making it doubtful, even while these lines are being written, whether the foreign exchange they have sold to their customers is worth ten cents on the dollar or not. If a man is a butcher, let him stay so as long as he hangs out his sign. If he is the president of a bank or a German banker, let him likewise keep within the purview of his legitimate business, and so retain the confi- dence of the public, When he steps outside of this circle our people have become too familiar with the ups and downs of a Wall street ‘corner’ to take stock in any firm not known to be legiti- mate speculators, no matter what may be their credit, who stake their reputation and exist- ence on the tumultuous gambling of an hour. It is a serious reflection on those German bankers, who are daily quoted as authority for the value of exchange, ‘that they have entered a field wherein they will be brought face to face with ruin, and perhaps drag into a vortex hundreds and thousands who have regarded them as among the safest and most conserva- tive elements of the financial world. A na- tional bank that would use its capital for such ® purpose would lose its credit. Cashiers in- numerable have tried their hand and failed, and some are in the State Prison, and it would not be astonishing if two or three of these self-same bankers, in their effort to make a little revolution of their own on sixty thou- sand shares of Erie, should eventually be brought to grief, and heard ot only among the obituary notices of the street. A Queen Question ror Our Sanrrany Bo- ngav.—Can the Washington Market nuisance be abated? While waiting for an official re- ply we should prefer a definite answer to these other questions :—Is this nuisance to be abated? and if not, why not? Cuoxena at Vienna is again reported, and it seems to be of a peculiarly fatal and malig- nant type. If it proves to be epidemic it must seriously in/erfere with the success of the Exposition. “Cosarism” from a Quasi-Religious Standpoint—Thoughts on ( ther Toptes. Although the regular religious preas does not seem to have become awakened as yet ta the necessity of discussing a subject that ia now agitating the secular press all over the country—we mean ‘“Omsarism,’’ or the pro- posed third Presidential term for General Grant—yet we notice among our quasi clerical brethren a disposition to take the matter in hand and deal with it upon first principles. The reason why what we call the “regular religious press’’ have not seized this oppor- tunity to display their love of republican in- stitutions may probably be ascribed to the fact that so large a number of our pious people, preachers and editors, are now in the country or gone across the water for recreation during the Summer season. So large has been the number who may be classed in the latter category that it has been asserted the Lower Bay has been whitened by the white neckties thrown overboard by the reverend gentlemen in black who have recently left our shores for foreign climes. The Independent is disposed to treat the sub- ject of “Cmsarism’’ in 9 light and trifling manner. After declaring the great question of the hour to be, in the opinion of one of its city contemporaries, “whether Cssarism or republicanism shall dominate in our political future," the Independent proceeds to say: — General Grant, though not without his errors, is strong with the people, because he embodies in his administration the great principles whioh the majority of them approve. ey have faith in his ability and faith in his integrity, and for this reason they elected him for a secoud term, Should he live they can, if they choose, elect him for a third term or select some other one for the presidential office. As President he is entitied to.gil the honors aud all the personal and oficial inffence belong- ing to his high position; yet he can do nothing without the people, and successfully oy against their will, Should he be nominated elected for a third term—a question which there is no use in now discussing—the fact would simply prove, ng his supremacy, but that of the people in select the man of their choice. The Independent sees nothing very alarming in this kind of Cmsarism; it is, it avers, simply republicanism under another name. Why not bluntly proclaim it what really it is, or may become—simply imperialism in disguise? Perhaps the editor of the Inde- pendent is preparing himself for the rile of one of the ‘consecrated lictors’’ under the coming American Ceasar. Hence his coolness and indifference ona subject that demands the earnest and prayerfal consideration of every pious and quasi pious well-wisher of his country. The Golden Age elaborates on ‘‘Modern Ger- man Philosophy,” and then, under the head of ‘European Travel,’’ touches upon some of the foibles of American women while making a tour abroad: — Our women, says the editor, do spend a great deal too much on dress and other fanciful gew- gaws with which the French know so well how to tempt a toilette-loving woman. In the first place, everything seems 80 cheap to a shopper, for the enormous duties imposed by our customs raise the prices of Jaces, silks, cashmeres and other expen. sive articles of dress to an almost unapproachable price for any but the wives of millionnaires, and when the wife of & man not over-burdened with this world’s goods iinds that she can secure @ lace shawl or @ cashmere or a velvet or silk dreas for what seems to her about half its value, she would not be a daughter of Eve, if she did not find it dificult to resist the temptation, and she often spen’s more than she ought to do in this merely because “it is such a bargain.” But evon this first yielding to over-indulgence in extrava- gant dressing in a short time cures itself. Referring to the College Regatta, the Chris- tian Union (Henry Ward Beecher) quaintly re- marks that ‘‘ever since Noah’s successful though unpopular experiment, the science of boating has grown in popular favor,’’ and the writer proceeds to say: — It is, we believe, twenty-two years since the first college match was rowed in America. Since then ithas annually grown 1n importance, till the two competing crews have increased to eleven, anda rowing association of American colleges regulates the conditions of the race. While the first matches were (rowned upon by the college faculties as use- less, foolish and uncollegiate, those grave bodies have go far changed their opinion as this year to have actively forwarded preparations for the re- gattain several instances, this best of testi- mony in their favor the collegiate boat races are fairly entitled. . The editor of the Union sets his face against the prevailing practice of betting among the students at these contests, but he adds: — If we wholly disapproved of these coliege re- gatas, a3 we disapprove only their separable evils, ho fact remains that they have alres become an established and beloved institution. To direct the force that one cannot resist is as sound @ prin- ciple in the morai as in the natural world. And we shall show ourselves wise parents if we enter 80 ena: into the pleasures and ambitions of our boys that they will ve proud and giad to make those pleasures and ambitions such as we, with our wider vision of consequences, can heartily share. The Freeman's Journal devotes - its editorial space this week to an elaborate criticism upon a work on moral theology issued at the press of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda at Rome—“The Doctrine of St. Alphonsus Lignori, Doctor of the Universal Church.’’ The Tablet treats of “‘A Truly Liberal Gov. ernment;”’ also upon the object of the Prot- estant charitable institutions in this city, and again upon the topic of “Kidnapping Made Easy,” all purely Catholic in their tone and sentiment. The Catholic Review, in an article on ‘The Decline of Methodism,”’ attributes said decline to the lack of funds—a cause that might lead to the decline of almost any religion that re lied at all upon outside surroundings to bolster it up. ‘The Christian Intelligencer deacants upon the responsibility of book publishers. ‘The lication of a bad book,”’ says the editor, “is a moral enormity. If a powder mill explodes or a railway train is wrecked life and property are lost by a single catastrophe; but the book lives and passes from hand to hand and from generation to generation, noiselessly and per- petually doing mischief: Is its publisher any less responsible than the author for its influ- ence ?’’ Some of our piously inclined book publishers might, with good resulta, reflect upon this matter between acts at their Church services this morning. The Liberal Christian gives a treatise on “Masculine and Feminine,’ in which it is asserted that— There are men who are not masculine enough to crave matrimony, without being feminine enough tobe independent of it. ‘They repel the opposite sex. There are women who, without being masculine, lack feminineness, and’ so do not attract the other sex. But the true virgins of both sexes are those who have both a an and woman “tn their souls—who think like man and feel like woman, or think like woman and feel like man— and mari is a superfuity if not an offence to them; not for want of tenderness or passion, but because of abundance of both. The Jewish Times declares that the agita- tion in favor of temperance and Sunday laws go hand-in-hand with the restless under-hand workings of those who favor Ohurch and priest rule, instead of the free will of the peo- ple. The temperance and Sunday enforce. ment men, and the agitators for Ohristianizing the constitution, are of the same class. These questions are the FF nore capital they trade on, and it is not ing to see the fever spread from New England to the West and even New York. Our Hebrow contemporary concludes pad on pow re and Lge! laws enerva' le and enslave, creat loom iness wr hice and dissipation abroad.”’ . 4,