The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD Ria { ES BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —-+ | - i JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HEN very day in the year, Price $12 ‘Al business or news letters and telegraphic be addressed New Yors | Four cet scription | despatches must —— and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re tarned. Earate shan LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York, | | | | | Volume XXXFX, NIBLO’S GARDEN, we Broadway, between Prince and Houston, streets ~DAVY oR Pf, ats P. M.; closes at 0 P.M. Mr. Prank | é.—French Opera oT at 3 Pet woop orner Thi NIMBLE JIM, at | at 4:90 4 \. THE SEWING L, ut 2 P.M. ; closes at 1 P.M F —HUMPTY D At NTERTAIN- MENT, Begins at7 : Closes at 1035 P.M Mr. Ge L, Fox: TH COMIQUE, No, 5i¢ Broadway. — ‘TY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 | Mj closes at 10:30 P.M. | BOOTHS THEATRE, | Sixth avenue and Twenty i street.—HENRY VIIL, at TBP. SM. closes at 1x45 P Mme. Fanny Janauschek. | BROOK Washington street, Bro: are. MM Mrs. J.B. Boo EATRE, LiNk, at 8P. M.; closes | THEATRE, th stree.—HETR-AT-LAW, at Mr, John Gilvert, Miss Jeffreys OLYMPIC THEATRE, cadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets— DEVILLE SY ENTERTAINMENT, at | WALLA Broadway and Thirte: Sv. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Lewis, ANIA THEATRE, : Irving place.—PERICHOLE, at Fourteenth stree' SPM: closes at 11 BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, | opposite City Hall, srookivn.—DUNALD MCKAY, at 8 P. M. closes at Lt Y, M. Oliver Doud Byron. BOWER Bowery.—OVER THE PL TAINMENT, Begins at METROPOLIVAN THEATRE, No, 85 Broadway.—VAk NIERTAINMENT, at 7-48P. M.; closes at 10: TONY PAsTO No. 201 Bowery. —VARI@ M. ; closes at 11 P.M. BRYA Twenty third » STRELSY, &c., at 5 P. 3 OPERA HOUSE, RTAINMENT, at 8P. Charity matinee at 2 2, M. OPERA HOUSE, aveuue.—NEGRO MIN. | at lor. M, Fourteenth stre get of Henri Wiew Maurel and Capoul. me KE =2 ! i] 3 Ra < “eo tS 2 M. th street.—PARIS BY Broadw hirty-fi ‘M.; closes at 5 P. M.; same at7 P. MOO atl BL: closes atl0 P.M. ew York, Thursday, March 12, 1874. IPLE SHEET. From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day wilt be cold, clear and | windy. | Tae Women on THE Boston Scnoon Boarp | are to have more trouble. The City Solicitor | has set aside the decision of the Supreme Court upon a technicality. He is a’persistent | feilow, this Solicitor, and worthy of the repue tation of the junior member of the firm of | Quirk, Gammon & Snap. | erszy is reported | anding the vigorous g law in that State | n the neighborhood 'y towns is of frequent occurrence, and vigorous police measures ought to be in- | stituted in the dangerous localities. | AsxotnEr Murpzr in } this morning. Notwiths enforcement of the hang! murder on the highw: of the Ji Tae Orsrer Bay Mysrzx o far the tes- | timony against Thomas W. Jones, accused of murdering his half hrother, Samuel J. Jones, is far from conclusive. The only justification for acensations of this kind is evidence which points with great force to the criminal, for the work of an amateur detective which raises only suspicion is in itself criminal. Neorxcr at Siva S: reports that there wa Warden and pby: ce in both the @ Sing in the neglige’ jan at leaving the boy Hopkins, shot by the guard, | in a dying condition without medical atten- tion, Was it because the boy was a convict that he was thus neglected? No coroner's jury can acquit, in the eyes of the public, officers who leave dying men to die when | charged with their care Brps oF s Fratuen.—It is eminently proper that Cortina, the Mexican cattle thief, should protect Hamilton, the Jersey City bond forger. Tiis consorting of the two rogues is only another illustration of the old adage ; but we cannot blame the Mexican for his hospitality tothe American rascal, for our government has allowed/this brigand and outlaw to commit so many offences against the citizens of Texas that he is justified in thinking the United States incapable of punishing a Mexican bandit. Coxcua at Last.—The Havanese revered Cuptain General Concha so much that they named a cigar after him and called a prison by his name. Yor years they have been de- manding his reappointment. Their wishes Gre to be respected at last, and Captain Gen- eral Jovellar will be succeeded by the veteran oi auother generation. Concha’s second eireer in Cuba begins late in the history of the | struggle for independence, and it may be found | to mark in its close the extinguishment of | Spanish dominion in the Antilles. | Jaxye’s Avtoniocraruy.—The cross-exam- ination of Mr. Jayne was continued yesterday before the Commities of Ways and Means, but beyond an issue of tact between the wit- ness and Mr. William E. Dodge nothing of | importance was elicited. Jayne gave his norrative the autobiographical ‘orm, and Mr. Dodge adopted the deseriptive style of nar tion, but in rebuttal the former was invoca- thee. The committee would not bo ens | lightened by volumes of such testimony ae | Summer's life upon which we love to dwell, | | for bere we see ite fulness and splendox, its | aeoordiug to our means, Mx. Wood obtained, | houn. | rial Assembly. —It seems from our | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Charles Sumner. Many men have lived and many are still alive whose death would make a greater sen- | sation than the death of Charles Sumner. He was not a popular’ man. He did notlead a | party. He was not identified with any special policy. He was nota great writer or a great orator ora great statesman. He did not pos- sess the insouciance of Clay, the mighty in- | tellect of Webster, the subtle avalysis of Cal- | He was not as skilled in polities as Seward, or us resolute » leader as Chase. Yet somehow his death fails upon the coun- | try with a sense of persona! bereavement | such as it has felt for the death of no man | since Lincoln. It is not a death that should surprise us, for if any event has | beer expected for the last three years it is that Charles Sumner would die, For threo years he bas been very ill, and it has been a marvel to his friends and to those who have known the conditions of his body that he has endured so long. There was a solemnity, a stern beauty { about his death in keeping with his charac- | ter. He died virtually in the Senate Cham- | ber. The day before his death Massachu- | setts, which he loved with the fervent passion of a son, had publicly withdrawn the censure passed upon him for certain opinions expressed in reference to the war. He died also from the effects of the cruel out- rage inflicted upon him by a frenzied South Carolinian, and, not unlike Lincoln, was in a certain sense # martyr to Liberty. He was the oldest Senator in point of continuous service; for, although Mr. | Cameron and Mr. Hamlin were members of the body before his election, their services have not been continuous. His Senatorial service was of a chivalrous, almost a roman- | tic, character. He entered the Senste accompanied by Chase and Hale, slone, despised, contemned, abused, to fight the battle ot freedom. Alone he fought it; for while Chase and Hale were as sincere in their anti-slavery convictions, with him it was an earnest, burning passion, growing into intense anger. We are not far removed from that time, but even now it is hard to comprehend it. The Southern statesmen had commanded the Republic for many years. | Their policy had been to develop a class of trained rulers, accustomed to authority, to whom public life was a profession. Sus- tained by the wealth that came from slavery, assured of long terms of service, eager for the mastery, and disdaining compromise or con- cession, despising mere scholarship or com- merce or skill in trade, regarding labor asa misfortune, perhaps, but certainly a degrada. | tion, willing enough to fight for their opinions, and rather preferring combat to any other form of argument, with .a certain rude, stately, highbred courtesy not unpleasant to the ignorant mind, the Southern statesmen | saw in this small obscure group of fanatics the first who ever sincerely challenged their | dominion. They had before encountered Northern statesmen, gifted men, too, like Choate and Webster, and Everett and Bu- chanan, but they bad come to serve and not to disobey. No public man from the North had ever entered the Senate Chamber without swearing allegiance to the royal power of slavery, without, we fear, being too willing to take the oath, or any oath, however dishon- orable, to “‘preserve peace.’’ And the South | meant that there should be no peace unless slavery was respected as a sacred institution above the Union and the constitution, as the very corner stone of the Repmblic. So the relation was ways humiliating, and the Northern people were despised as shopkeepers and ‘mud sills’ and the’ dregs of society. Sumner held a different tone from that of any Senator who had preceded him. He came as Castelar into the Cortes of Spain—as Gambetta into the Impe- In Continental political speech he was an “‘rreconcilable ;’’ he would have no compromise, would war upon slavery as a crime, a perfidy, a dishonor to the Union. He uever concealed this purpose | or moderated it. There is the fervor of the He- brew prophets of old in the declarations of his | early speeches :—‘‘By the supreme law which commands me to do no injustice; by the | comprehensive Christian law of brotherhood ; | by the constitution which I have sworn to | support, Iam bound to disobey this act! | Never in any capacity can I render voluntary | aid in its execution! Pains and penalties I | will endure; but this great wrong I will not | do! Better suffer injustice than do it! Better | be the victim than the instrument of wrong!" These words were spoken at the outeet | of Sumner’s career, but they give us the | temper of his life. In every controversy, | and many came to him during his twenty- | three years of duty, he took the same tone. ‘When the Kansas-Nebraska question arose he carried into the debates an acerbity, a scornful anger and plainness of speech which sound strange in these calmer times. It is difficult | to imagine the scholarly and accomplished Sumner speaking of another Senator as a skunk. Yet this was the term he applied to | | no lessa man than Stephen A. Douglas. Ah, | those were sad, earnest, angry, heart-burning | days, fitly preluding the terrible hours of combat and fury that were so soon tocome! | Tt was this debate that led to the atro- | cious assault of Preston §. Brooks, which made Sumner’s further life a torture and finally caused his death. It is well to | remember that this anger, and more especially | the extraordinary severity of speech which | exasperated Brooks, did not originate with | Sumner. The violence of the Southern Sena- | | tors, of Toombs, Davis, Wigfall, Butler and the others, is inconceivable now. Sumner | | fought with the weapons of the controversy. | Nor did he disdain ihe manner of the strife, for, like Burke, rhetoric was only pleasing to | | him when it gave force to his speech. It was the spirit of Cromwell, of Jonathan Edwards, | warring upon a crime; and, reading his speeches now, we are struck with their spirit of prophecy. ‘You have made all future com- promises impossible.’’ ‘There will really be a North, and the slave power will be broken.” “The great Northern hammer will descend to smite the wrong.’’ “I penetrate that ‘All Hail Hereafter’ when slavery must disup- pear.’ ‘I discern the flag of my country as | the flag of freedom, undoubted, pure and the good people up town, and roflect credit on irresistible."’ These were indeed prophecies! Hebrew in | during | that outrage public sympathy or offend public | wide, unbending sincerity, He resembles uo }man so much as Burke, not only in his character but in his career. Like Burke, ; Summer possessed the widest range of knowl- edge. Like him, he made a furious, implac- able war upon tyranny and crime. But like | him, also, he was only really great in opposi- tion. When power came to Burke it simply | fretted him, and when the French Revolution | broke forth his imagination carried | away his judgment. Sumner's course the war, and since the war, | in uneasily forcing emancipation upon Lincoln, in his furious championship of impeachment, in his sudden, unnecessary, and, it always seemed to us, wayward quarrel with President Grant, suggest the relations of Burke towards the French Revolution. Critics of oratory have pointed out the exaggeration of metaphor, the florid style, the overburdened rhetoric of Burke’s later speeches. We fancy the same criticism can be made upon the later speeches of Sumner. His orations on the Ala- | bama indemnity, on St. Domingo, and upon the demerits of General Grant do not compare with his earlier efforts, especially in the great debates on slavery. They were unreasonable, petulant, with unnecessary anger in their tone, in many respects unjust, and their effect was in no instance wise. England was vexed without cause and our negotiations paralyzed | for a time, while the nation answered the | attacks on General Grant by re-electing him | President by an overwhelming majority. Although the country had ceased to follow | Sumner it continued to respect and love him. His very failings seemed to be the stern, uv- timely expressions of virtue, The re-election of | Grant narrowed his influence to the Senate. It is only the other day that the Henarp spoke of him as a leader of the last generation and a monument in this. As such even his friends | rust have regarded him, for when they assem- bled to nominate a President in Cincinnati his | name was not even mentioned. So his leader- ship was over, even to those who would have gloried in following him. What remained, and what will be mourned to-day, not only in America but in other lands, was that sincerity and honesty and courage which he possessed beyond any man of his time. It was the spirit of Samuel Adams that lived again, and Sum- ner goes down to the grave followed by the affection and sorrow of a nation who honored him for his Roman integrity, forhis Puritan firmness to truth and duty, for the courage with which he suffered for his faith, and who will remember him and point him out to their children as one of the most virtuous men of his age. An Opportunity for Mr. Bergh. As the public is aware, we were among the earliest advocates of the organization here of | a society for the prevention of cruelty to | animals, and the operations of that society | within ite legitimate sphere have always had our sympathy and assistance. But we have observed that the philanthropic impulses of its enthusiastic, but we believe well mean- ing president, have frequently led the society away from its proper line and into the pursuit of objects that it should not properly touch. We have criticised that tendency always with two distinct pots in view. The first of these is, that as a law to compel people to regulate their actions toward animals is very apt to assume the appearance of a meddling | interference with private concerns it should be administered judiciously and only in cir cumstances where its application is distinct and certain, and never whero' its authority | is vague and questionable; the second | is, that a society of limited authority and ex- tent, with a scarcely limitable field for its legitimate effort, cannot venture away to fight social windmills without neglecting its proper duties. People will naturally imagine that if Mr. Bergh has time to go into hog slaughter- ing establishments to dictate how butchers shall conduct their business, and energy and fands to encounter lawsuits in such an enter- prise, all the more obvious cruelties to ani- mals must be already provided against, and, in short, that there is no more evident and unquestioned evil to be opposed. But it strikes us that Mr. Bergh as a reformer has before him in this city perhaps the greatest opportanity that could come too man of his impulses and in his position, The pavements of our great thoroughfares are simply con- trivances planned for the torture of horses. Yesterday, in the cold snap and the blow, all their malign quality was brought out, and one could scarcely go a mile without seeing half a dozen horses down or struggling to recover themselves in that desperate con- flict of hoof and pavement in which their whole systems are put on an indescribable strain. Here is a public, organized cruelty that possessed the very quality that brings cruelties to animals properly within Mr. Bergh’s sphere—that is to say, it is a cruelty that hurts the people, through their sym- pathies, almost as much as it hurts the horses ; and when people make laws to prevent cruelty they mean them mainly to reach the cruelties morality. We understand, of course, that Mr. Bergh’s society has no authority over the pavement ; but that gentleman's position as | the defender of animals generally would give | him, as the special protector of the horse in this case, a position of great moral weight, and one from which he conld agitate for an improved pavement with great effect, In such | an endeavor we believe he would have the co- | operation of the whole press and of every owner of horses in the city as well as of tho general public. Poverty and Cuarrry.—Our columns this morning show that the poor, the suffering poor, are still in the midst of us and in large numbers. Yesterday the usual crowds flocked around the soup houses. Pretenders, as on previous days, were shut out, but the neces- sitous were all cared for. It cannot but be source of gratification to all who wish to re- member the precepts of the Master, and who are willing and anxious to follow them, that contributions on a large seale are daily pour- ing in. Within the last two days the Twenty- second ward has done itself honor. Two thousand eight hundred and eighty-four loaves of bread, eighty-four pounds of meat and | other gifts of a similar kiud speak well for the patient and persevering labors of Captain Killilea, Sach examples are worthy of imita- | ' impulses of a personal will, The Kiection im New Hampshire. All the indications from New Hampshire are that the ‘average fonr thousand’’ majority of the republican party in that little State is melted away. Last year Governor Strew’s majority over Weston was 2,007; in 1872 his majority over Weston was 2,167, and in the present canvass Weston is ahead, so far as the figures are received, while the only towns not heard from are those that last year gave their majority for Weston. If these towns only re- peat their former vote, therefore, the demo- cratic candidate will receive the larger number of votes ; but the appearances are that these towns will sympathize with the other towns all over the State, and show an increased demo- cratic or a smaller republican vote, in which case Weston may get a majority of all the votes cast. Unless a candidate receives a ma- jority of the whole vote cast there is no election, and the choice of the Governor goes to the Legislature. Although the democrat leads his competitor, it seems he fails to get a large enough vote for election—in which event the constitution of the Legislature will be the important topic for the citizens of the Granite State. But the actual choice of the Governor is of less importance to the country at large than the significant fact of the sudden dis- appearance of the regular republican ma- jority; for the indication of the popular vote is the same even though it fall a little short of election, or even if the republican candidate should get so small a majority as is still | possible for him. Whether a democrat be elected by a hundred votes or fail by a hun- dred votes, the republicans have lost that confidence on the part of the people that has given them for many years an average ma- jority of over four thousand in a smal) State. And the loss is apparently not due to apathy, for the vote seems likely to sum up a pretty full one. In 1872 the whole vote was 75,335, and in 1873, 67,818; but the present vote will apparently reach at least 72,000 to 73,000. Thus the defection is not because the snow storm kept the farmers away from the polls, but because they have moderately changed their minds and voted the other ticket. It looks very much as if the quiet farmers were disposed to do a little ‘‘nnloading” on their own account. Properly, the movement to ‘unload,’’ as it was proposed by General Grant, was a movement to be effected by the republican leaders. It was their duty, as the President hinted, to relieve their party of the “dead weights” and “monstrosities,” and if the people could see the least disposition on their part to do it they might be satisfied to wait and hope. But as no such disposition is apparent, as the people can see no other prospect in the future than that they must continue to bear the weight of corruptions and false issues and jobs, then there seems to them no other course open but to do for them- selves what the politicians are loath to under- take, and give the whole burden a dreadful dump into the waters of oblivion. But there is a notable difference between ‘unloading’* as the people are liable to effect it and the “unloading” we might expect from the politicians. If the politicians had had the sagacity to see what was very clear to the President, that their only hope of retaining the people’s favor was to do the peo- ple’s will, they might have relieved their party of the odium that threatens to fall upon it by unmistakably cutting away all the objection- able measures to the support and maintenance of which they were committed, in their own interests; and by such a course, by the exhibi- tion of a disposition to meet, and not to defy popular opinion, they might have retained the confidence of the country. It was for them to reform and amend their party, and so to keep it in relation with the will of the people. But when party leaders fail in this duty the people seldom fail in theirs, and they assert their su- premacy in a way that generally leaves little doubt of their meaning. There is but one way in which the people can make their power felt in amending a party, and that is by going over to the other side; and that is the tend- ency now, as New Hampshire shows, for there was no inducement on the other side. It is not attraction that has changed the vote, but repulsion. The leaders of the party are loath to drop their ‘(dead weights,” and the people intimate that unless it is done they will drop the party. Exactly how many votes were lost to the republicans in New Hampshire by the various causes of dissatisfaction respectively it would be idle to consider ; but when we contemplate the number of these we can readily believe that they might explain even a greater change than has taken place. Hard times always maké a certain capital against a party in power; and this has done a great deal, and in this case very justly, because the government is definitely reponsible for it all, since its imbecile administration of the finances was the main factor in making the panic. New Hampshire also believes in freedom and in self-government, and cannot have contemplated with satisfaction the events in Louisiana, sus- tained as they were by the President and by his strongest supporters in the Sen- ate. We doubt, also, whether the farm- ers liked very much the humiliating issue of our late misunderstanding with Spain, for they are a patriotic people and cannot have taken particular pleasure in seeing the American eagle dragged through a knothole. . Neither do we believe they ad- ire thi sibility of inflation of the cur. | Bence aah aaah 6a | if such as indulge in it were certain that they rency as a party measure; and we are very sure that the enormous corruptions that | are shown to exist everywhere have alarmed them, and that Simmonsism is too much for their propriety. The cry of outraged Boston has been heard up in the hills, and the sym- pathy excited has been felt at the polls. No district in New England certainly—and we | hope none in the whole country—will ever | consent to the assumption that there is any room in this country for a personal govern- | ment; and it is painfully clear that every step taken by the administration in the ordinary or extraordinary discharge of its duties jas- | attention it demands, sumes the standpoint of a personal rule, and | accepts no other control but the whims or This alone is a burden too heavy tor any party—this is the | greatest ‘monstrosity’ —and this was perhaps | the ounce that New Hampshire has retused to carry. Tae Kixe Tr1ui.—The jury in tho case of their plainness, and they show us the spirit tion, and such labors are worthy of reward. | King, on trial for the murder of O'Neil, not that won Getiysburg. This is the part of | While the suffering lasts and the poor are | having agreed upon a verdict at a late hour really with us let us be generous and kind | yesterday evening, was looked up for the | action was justifiable, | dinary kind, The Transit of Cooper, At irregular intervals there appears on our horizon a luminary that sheds a soft and genial light over Gotham. This kindly star in our firmament is known as Peter Cooper. Though not so bright a body as Venus, the study of his motions is almost as interesting as that of the lovely eve star. His goings and comings are not subjects for mathematical calculations; so that his transits possess the great charm of being unforeseen, They come to us in the nature of surprises. When dry, practical ques- tions are trymg other men’s patience, the genial face of Cooper rises above our horizon and with oracular wisdom solves the difficult problems for his puzzled fellow citizens. Many heads have been racked trying to discover a system of rapid transit that would meet the requirements of the city and its in- creasing population. Mere practical people suggested railway tracks, solidly built, so as to last for ages. Mr. Cooper suddenly ap- pears with a drum and a wire to pull us out of the mire of perplexity. A big drum and an endless rope, dragging cars at any conceivable rate of speed overiron rails laid on pillars, and passing from the City Hall to Harlem—such is the proposition presented for public con- sideration. It is beautiful in its simplicity and bears evident traces of its paternity. No gas, sparks or smoke and intolerable noise will be inflicted on the passengers. Neither the gas pipes nor the horses will be dis- turbed, and not even donkeys need be alarmed. The whole machinery is to be ran by the drum-wheel, but there will be no “‘ring”’ in the wheel, though wire pulling is to be carried on toan enormous extent. Mr. Cooper will fight out rapid transit on this wire line and drum if it takes all the session. Tae Wsxe anv Sprerr Trapens.—In an- other place in the Henaxp of this morning will be found a report of the meeting held yesterday by ‘the wine and spirit traders. ‘The avowed object of the meeting was to re- ceive the joint report of the Legislative and Executive committees and do other necessary business. The bill now before Congress, hav- ing for its object the establishing of a federal liquor commission, has, as will be seen from the report, the approval of the Council. The great question seems to be as to the tax which ought to be imposed upon still wines imported into the country. The report of Mr. Fields shows that the government draws a large reve- nue from the duty on imported wines—a duty which, in present circumstances, cannot well be dispensed with. Any heavier tax on wines would, in our judgment, be a mistake. Cheap and good wines will be found to be the most effective cure of drunkenness. Cheap wine has done good in England. It cannot fail to do good here. In our judgment any heavy increase on imported wines will be found to be the cause of much evil. We ought to be careful of the revenue; but we ought also to take care how we raise it, Good wine is better than bad whiskey. Cuzap TRANSPORTATION IN New York is as much needed as out of it, in order to lessen the cost of shipping or’ transferring produce and merchandise. It costs os much some- times to handle and transfer a ton of produce after it arrives at this city as to carry it hun- dreds of miles by railroad. We want, it is true, cheaper transportation from and to the interior, and particularly with the great pro- ductive West, so that the farmers may find their best and readiest market in this commer cial metropolis, and may not be tempted to seek other outlets; but there is a heavy tax on produce after it gets here, in the cost of mov- ing it, which ought to be reduced. Facilities for transferring produce and merchandise at amall cost are wanted, such as railroads con- necting with the wharves, warehouses and grain elevators. While not neglecting the question of cheap transportation outside of the city the reform should commence in it. Our merchants ought to give their earnest attention to this matter. Ganmmetra Accusep.—In the French Assem- bly on Tuesday M. de Kératry presented a petitian charging M. Gambetta with sacrificing the national defence to political designs. The Right, it is said, have resolved to demand the immediate consideration of the petition. Kérn- try isasmall man as compared with Gambetta. A friend of the Empire while the Empire was of any use to him, a ‘revolutionist on the 4th of September, one of Gambetta’s generals, Pretect of Toulouse under M. Thiers, a sup- posed Orleanist, now an undisguised impe- rialist, this man Keératry is of small account. Still his action shows how the wind is blow- ing. He is looking torward to the day which is to celebrate the majority of the Prince Im- perial, and, no doubt, he hopes to win, France may yet welcome the Empire; but France can never afford to despise Gambetta, Trim- mers like Kératry are not the men who doa nation real service or effect lasting good. Rewzasz on Bar oy Orricen Leany.— Four gentlemen have been found willing to go bail in the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the appearance of Officer Leahy, who shot poor McNamara. The bail is large; but it is to be regretted that homicide is a bailable offence. People who are over-ready in the use of dangerous weapons ought to be kept closely in the hands of the authorities until the law had decided whether or not their It might make shoot- ing and stabbing a less popular amusement would have at least to stay in prison until a tender-hearted jury could be found to absolve them. We urge this reform on the attention of the lawmakers. Of course we do not wish to press too hardly on that worthy class who moke man-killing an amusement, but we would like to reduce the sport to due limits, lest it should become altogether vulgar.’ Tuz Boarp or Epvucarion are engaged in the discussion of a very important question, which, it is to be hoped, will receive all the Ino the Eighth ward the children attending the public schools, it seems, &re exposed to moral dangers of no or- evil repute that infest this word exercise a baleful influence over the tender minds of the pupils attending the schools, who are obliged to witness and hear what would be caiculated to bring a blush to the cheek of any respecta- ble person. It this investigation prove not en- tirely fruitless we may look for an earnest appeal to the authorities from the Board for Protection for the little ones against this wiaut Comment must wait for the verdict, | crowning diagrace to our city, The inmates of the houses of | Theatrieal and Operatic Performaneer for Charity. Tn no city ean a combined benefit perform- ance, suchas is proposed by Mr. Wallack, be organized with more éclat than here, and we have no doubt this great charity performance will make an epoch in the annuls of our stage. Organized by two public-spirited and excep: tionally capable managers, and including ax array of talent such as is never seen in or dinary circumstances on a single stage in any country, the performance itself will be pe culiarly brilliant; but the brilliancy that the occasion will have in virtue of the way the stage will be furnished, will perhaps cede to that it will have in virtue of the more than ex. ceptional audience that will be present. Boxes, loges, stalls, parquet and balcony will glow with a splendor rarely witnessed any- where, for it will be lése majeste with regard to the sovereigns of fashion not to be there Nearly every artist whose name is known to this public for distinction in the pleasant paths of the comic muse will be in the bills— some of them names that excite remembrances of the days when it was deemed a heresy to believe that a theatre on the west side could flourish above Chambers street, and othen that recall the later glories of our stage In this latter connection, perhaps, the pleas. antest treat to the public will be the opportu nity to welcome once more, though only for a night, Mrs. Jennings, who, as Madeline Henriques, acquired a few years since laurels so eminently creditable to her talents. Mra Jennings’ appearance will add to the brilk iancy of the occasion that peculiar personal pleasure always experienced by the publie whenever the opportunity comes to expresa once again its admiration for a great favorite. And now that the theatrical managers have taken measures to do something for the poor, and that so many artists of the first order are ready to give their services, shall we not wheat from the operatic world in a similar way? Any operatic manager who has any propo- sitions to make on this topic has the floor. As for Mme. Nilsson, Lucca and Di Murska, they, of course, only await to see the occasion in order to proffer their services. It would be an improper imputation to doubt this fora mo ment. All these artists, so generously received by our public, and who have found this country a veritable El Dorado, will be but too happy, we are sure, at the opportunity to give their ser vices fora grand charity performance. And we are, perhaps, not wrong in supposing that for such an occasion all the stockholders of the Academy would relinquish their rights, and leave their choice seats to public competition, Who will take the first step and organize such a performance? Enoitanp.—The latest rumor is that Mr. Gladstone's retirement from the leadership of the liberal party will be temporary. He promises to resume it in 1875, and now sug- gests the Marquis of Hartington as his tem- porary successor. This confirms our other advices. A rumor that a section of the party will follow Mr. Lowe or Sir William Harcourt is not credible. There is no point on which these gentlemen would differ from the Mar+ quis, and they are both so unpopular that their leadership would lead toa mutiny. We suppose the suggestion is in the spirit of pleasantry. Ayarna Pxcronis.—As the telegraph tells us that Senator Sumner died from angina peo- toris there is a general curiosity to know the natare and character of this unfamiliar mal- ady. It is a formof neuralgia affecting the heart. Its name is simply descriptive of ita one formidable manifestation—a terribly acuta pain in the breast ; but generally it occurs in that particular part of the breast over the heart. Itisa symptom rather than a disease essentially; often a symptom of disease in some distant organ, and in those ‘“‘subject te it’ it is very apt to be excited by intellectual exertions. No doubt in Senator Sumner’s case it was dependent on the disease of the spine from which he has been suffering for some years. It seems to have destroyed his life by the exhaustion necessarily consequend upon excessively severe and persistent pain. Carr ror tHE Grain Recrtvers.—-The principal business transacted by the Board of Managers of the Grain Receivers yesterday was to order a new bookcase fcr some forty volumes of the proceedings of Congress pre sented by Congressman W. R. Roberts. We fear the grain receivers got only o gift of chaff that time. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ELSES Ex-Mayor W. G. Fargo, of Baffaic, is at the Astor House. Judge J. 8. McCalmont, of Pennsylvania, is stop ping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Protessor C. 8. Peirce, of Harvard College, hat arrived at the Brevoort House. The Marquis de Chambrun, of Washington, hag apartments at the St. Denis Hotel. Died, at Portage, Wis., Yellow Thunder, chief o the Wiunebago Indiana, aged 110 years. General Robert E. Lee's name lives after nim Over 300 young Virginians bear his name, Geueral Joun 8, Marmaduke will probably be the Granger candidate for Governor of Missouri. A, B. Mullett, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, iv at the Astor House. Captain C. P, Patterson, of tie United States Coast Survey, is registered at the Everets House, Congressman James 8, Smart, of Cambridge, N.Y., yesterday arrived at the Grand Centra’ Hotel. Lieutenant Commander John W. Philip, Cuited States Navy, i# quartered at the Sturtevan! House. Mr. Jenkins, our Consul at Glasgow, Scotland, arrived here yesterday on the steamship Call fornia, Captain Peter C, Hatns, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, has quarters at the Metropol tan Hotel. L. P. Max Fourchon, of the French Legation a Washington, 1s among the recent arrivals at the New York Hotel. Doré, the great artist, 1s short, thick and dark, | which accounts for his heavy shading, so an artistic contemporary rays, Anna Dickinson recently became insane from religious excitement and nearly killed somebody, She resides at Worcester, Mass., ana is not “tne” anna Commodore G, R. Brady, United States Navy, and Colonel J. G. Benton, United States Army, were passenyers lor Savannah ou tue steamer Hunteviile, that salled yesterday. " The Hon. Mr, Robert Lowe, Home Secretary in the Gladstone Ministry, departed jor a moumeut from the severity of bis classical mind, and made a joke ut the last Cabinet dinner be and his cok leagues attended. It was somewhat solemn, but yet remarkable, coming fron Mr, Lowe, He ap. | Pealed to Premier Gladstone so ve allowed, in the absence Of any bishop or chapiain, to say grace, | And taking the speechless amazement of his clie! | for assent, he siowly sald, “ | for to-morrow we div"!