The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1874, Page 6

——e-. ey. 12, Tcicen or news letters and telegraphic "Hm. YORK HERALD AY AND ANN STREET. 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, 1 PROPRIETOR. DAILY HERALD, published every day in the Four cents per copy. Annual subscription @éepatches must be addressed New York : Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly a ne 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 XXXIX. 100 | THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING GARD ¢ and [Houston streets —DAVY loses at 10:50", M. Mr. Frank | NIB! way, between Pri KET, at 8 P.M. ; ‘a. A M THEATRE, Fourteenth street, uear Sixth avenue,—Grand Parisian | Folly, at 5 P. M.; closes at i P. M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth stree.—(DLEWILD, at2P. | M.; closes ut 4:30P.M. ESCAPED FROM SING SING, | at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M, | DALY'S FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Inflation in the House—The Progress of Dishonor. From the course of proceedings in the House of Representatives yesterday it seems reasonabty certain that the House will to-day take up and pass the Senate bill for the infla- tion of the currency. As will be seen by our | reports, the inflationists have a compact ma- jority in hand, their strength having been shown in the proposition to postpone the con- sideration of the House bill from the Commit- tee on Banking and Ourrency. This majority is worthy attentive study on the part of all who wish to understand the driit of popular thought and the centres of popular ignorance or of popular indifference to the general welfare. It is a faithful reflec- tion of the vote in the Sengte in its sectional character, as well as with regard to the prac- tical obliteration on an absorbing question of all the old party lines. Here we see plainly before us the issue of the future. No demon- stration could make more positive and distinct the line on the respective sides of which the people are to be arrayed in new parties. Dem- oerats, republicans, liberals--all these as points of difference are forgotten or merged in inflationists. Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama—the whole list, in short, of the Southern States and the Western States—are in the House, as they were in the Senate, the strongholds of the cheat, sustained by some scattering votes of dupes or tricksters in the East. Nineteen Southern Senators, it will be re- membered, are recorded in the vote in favor of inflation, and we have intimated that as Twenty-eighth street and Broadway. CHARITY. at 8 P. 3 a this vote strikes at the credit and honor of the the new difference of inflationists or anti- | to the volume of the currency will be op im- mediate though temporary | benefit to many sections of the agricultural districts, and of this temporery advantage the South is in a position to reap the full benefit. All the good that inflation may possibly do is clear and immediately apparent to all, “while the vast evils that must necessarily flow from it are only apparent to those capable of applying to the future the recorded experience of the past, and these evils are therefore beyond the vision of the people, and equally beyond the compre- | hension of the oracles of the coun- try grocery, from whom the popular opinion derives instruction on subjects beyond tke people’s knowledge. Southern opinion is, therefore, controlled by the same | circumstances that affect Western opinion; | but, unlike this, it does not feel itself under the little restraint of regard for the national pledges, for to the Southern people the national pledges are simply the pledges of a party to which they are opposed, and of an enemy who has ruthlessly ground the South under his heel. By what conceivable principle in human nature could they be sup- posed to care for that enemy’s honor? They want money, 4nd they want Congress to vote any measure that they are told will give them money immediately. -That this measure will be a source of ultimate ruin they do not believe, if the warning is even heard, while United States is perhaps an additional point in its favor. But the most significant fact is the adiesion of the republican party of the West to the Southern policy; the acceptance by them ot that it will be an injury to the credit of the | M.; closes at 10:3) P.M. Miss Ada Dyas, Miss Fanny “ wis. Davenport, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Le | the lead of a North Carolina democrat, and | the virtual thrusting aside of all the proposals | of republican committees; the smothering | fre sii. | United States and the national government | THEATRE COMIQUE, | these nineteen voices might possibly indicate | claims credit for the achievement of the “prime object’ of reform, which was to pre- vent an increase of the public debt, while we are called upon to pay three million dollars more for interest on the debt this year than we paid in 1871, and while our taxable prop- erty is assessed $3 40 per cent to pay the enormous amount of thirty-nine million dol- | lars for a year's taxation. Now the people are disposed to regard with disfavor and sus- picion any deception, artifice or concealment in financial matters. They believe, too, that we can have honesty and capacity united both in a financial officer and in an executive, and, while they are opposed to any special tinkering legislation, they look with hope to the time when we shall have a city govern- ment distinguished for enterprise and capacity as well as for integrity. Germany and the Katser. Our intelligent and accurate correspondent in Frankfort-on-the-Main sends us a most interesting letter in reference to the recent celebration of the seventy-seventh birthday of the Emperor of Germany. There is a senti- mental phase about the character of this ven- erable and remarkable man which deeply in- terests us. Old age is always beautiful, just as the sun has no radiance to compare with | its setting hues. Here is an old man, the descendant of Frederick the Great, who was born when Napoleon was a young general fighting his way to fame, who served against Napoleon more than sixty years ago, riding | into Paris in the train of the conquering army of Waterloo, and more than half a cen- tury later leading his own forces in a vic- torious campaign against the Third Emperor. A representative of extreme royalism, divine right and the severest traditions of rank and power, it has fallen to him to direct his people No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 | : 2 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 | a little of the Confederate leaven, turning TE. MANTA THEATRE, oy ater | up, as such things will, in a most un- ent treet, new vi ce. — at sP. iT ere ee 6 place a jee place. It has besage answered that BOOTH’S THEATRE, this isan unjust view—first, because many of Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street.—ZIP, at745P.M.; | the Southern Senators are carpet-baggers, gnd e | ee eae | do not represent the South, while those who WALLACK'S THEATRE, 2 " Broadway and Thirteench strect.—THE VETERAN, at8 are really representative of the Southern P. M.. closes at IP. M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss | ns Jefireys Lewis. | crats even—have voted for inflation ‘in the most profound ignorance and misapprehen- | sion’ of the effect of their votes. This an- swer seems to us insufficient, not to say lame, * and to be the result of some anxiety lest, if | Southern and Qonfederate opinion be found on the wrong side in the present formation of | new party lines, the democrats may not come in | for all the advantages of a republican collapse. ACADEMY OF MU: Fourteenth street ‘and Irving pla DINORAK, at 5 P. M.; closes at [1 P.M. alian Opera— Ima di Mursia. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, Washington street, near Fulton strect, brooklyn.— THE FAIRY CIRCLE, at §P. M.; closes ati P.M.” Mr. and Mrs, Barney Williams. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bieecker streets.— VAUDEVILLE and NOVELTY £NTERTAINMENT, at TBP. M. ; closes at 10:45 P GRAND OPERA HOUSE, hth avenue and Twenty-third strect.—EILEEN OGE, atSP. M.;closesatll P.M. Mr. and ars. !lorence. | the attempt to explain the Southern vote, it indicates a short-sighted and mistaken policy. | Democracy will still be a dead name in the country if its organs feel called upon to BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, oppose Wasbington / place.—HUMPTY DUMPTY AT HOME, &c., at 8 P. M.; closes at Ll P. M. GL. Fox. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, »: | States—who are Southern men, and demo- | | If such be, as it seems, the thought behind | opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—A WOMAN'S WRONGS, ate P.M. ’. P.M. ; closes at ll 2. ts, FS. Chanfrau. ie defend Southern conduct right or wrong. If ignominiously of the bill of that tried repub- lican—the most capable financier in the for the crude, | naked, revolutionary inflation programme of Mr. Merrimon, a Southerner and an opponent of the party in power. | simply the going over of the republican party | to that party which it has always declared to be the enemy of the country, and going over on & point where the welfare of the country is was slaughtered by the people at the polls for going over in a way no worse, what shall be done to all these party leaders in Congress who merely repeat his offence? Are these men renegades? Are they betraying their constituents? Or does the country mean repudiation? Spain—Serrano and the War in the North. It has all along been our opinion that Ser- This is | most perilously at stake. If Horace Greeley | rano underestimated the power of the Carlists _ OWERY THEATRE, | | in the North. This opinion we have again Be R. democracy is to rear its head with any Sowery.—NIP, and VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. Be. | gius at 8. M.' closes at 1. M. | effect just now it must not be from | and again stated.’ Our news of this morning | METROPOLITAN THEATRE, a platform of old issues. It must | fully justifics all we have said. One account | No. 585 Broadway.—VARIETY ENGERTAINMENT, at | stand on the platform already indi- | pas it that at a council of war held in | 5 closes at 10:30 P.M. Benefit of Miss Jeanie in the completion of that nationality which | thoughtful men, who love Germany, believe to | be only the first step towards a federal repub- | lic extending from the Baltic to the Danube. Our correspondent alludes to the Emperor's earnest speech about the Army bill, his reso- | lution to sustain the army at its present strength, no matter what the Parliament may | do, and makes a felicitous comparison be- tween His Majesty and Goethe. ‘More light!” cried thé poet, as he died, ‘‘More men!”’ cries the Emperor, as in the course of naiure he is about to pass from the scene. The old monarch seems resolute upon’ sus- taining his army. He has told Europe, through his Lieutenant, Moitke, that Germany will have to keep her forces ‘ready to march” | for fifty years to preserve Alsace and Lorraine. We think this a terrible price to pay for con- | quest, for it means four hundréd thousand | troops in Germany, the same number in | France, nearly three hundred thousand in Austria, more than two hundred thousand in Italy and nearly eight hundred thousand in Russia. In other words, to enablethe Emperor | to hold two provinces, which are French in | feeling, hope, interest and passion, against 7:45 P.M. Hughes. STADT THEATRE, Bowery.—German Opera, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. Benetit of Louise Lichtinay. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P, 'M. ; cloves at If P. M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, ‘Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue. 87 Y, &e., ats P. M. ; closes at 10 P.M. NEGRO MIN- pec | COLOSSEUM, | Broadway, corner of Thirty-fitth street.—PARIS BY MOONLIGHT, at 1 P. M.; closes at SP. M. Same at7P. | M. ; closes at lu P. IPLE SHEET. x 1 | T From our reports are that the weather to-day will be rainy, clear- | ing possibly in the evening. cated in New Hampshire and Connecticut— a platform of opposition to republicanism and of rescue, for the people from all the abominations involved in republican rule, | whatever may be the politics individually of some persons who have helped to give effect to that rule. If it pretends any cther possi- bility it will force the people to choose sim- | ply between what they know to be bad and what they may reasonably fear will be worse. There are, we believe, ten Southern Sen- ators who are natives of Northern States, and the larger number of these are mere political adventurers, who plunged into Southern politics when they saw that the jugglery of | reconstruction would afford prizes for men utterly unembarrassed with pride or principles. | They went into that arena as thimbleriggers | go to the races—resolved to use their wits and Mayor Havemever sent to the Board of | accommodate themselves to circumstances— | Aldermen yesterday a veto of the proposition | and as the politics of reconstruction only re- | to allow citizens to vote at the next election | quired a sufficiently loud declaration of loyalty on the question of rapid transit asa public | and very supple knees in the presence of party work. ‘The Mayor prefers the slow coaches of | magnates—the circumstances were such as half century ago to the steam cars of the | they were fully equal to, and they throve ac- present day. | cordingly. But not all the Southern Senators Tar Escape or Rocuzrort axp His | f Northern birth are of this class, for Mr. Farexvs is no longer doubted by the French Goldthwaite, of Alabama, who is a native of | Massachusetts, is, of course, not a carpet-bag- government. Of the escape we were, on this | side of the Atlantic, full; I . | ‘ i ve | és ‘ 99 . idhing Mente drat aahs | evidently honorably identified with the State | the Legislature, showing cause why, in his | Red tape is not so blinding here as in Europe The French government, of all the govern- ments on the face of the earth, ought not to be so slow in the face of facts. Tue Unton Leacvz Cuvp at a regular monthly meeting held last night, as will be learned from our news columns, dencunced the action of Congress in regard to inflation. Sound and solid republicans and the best | these men, whose political convictions we | friends of the party are deserting. Will this | | open the eyes of the President? When true the political sharpers who have made | ger, but aman whose life and interests are he represents. At least eleven of the Southern Senators who voted for in- | flation are Southern men by birth | and identified in fortune and interest with | the Southern people, and several of these were | | elected to the Senate as democrats. Ys there | any significance in the fact that on an occa- | sion of momentous importance to the country might respect, are found side by side with | Madrid Serrano’s plans bearing upon the reduction of the Carlist power have been | pronounced impracticable. According to another account Serrano is about to return | to Madrid and General Concha is to take his | place in command of the Army of the | North. Serrano, it is said, will call a@ convention on his return to the capital | city. | not. If true, the failure of Serrano must be | admitted. His return to the capital means distrust and fear of fresh insurrection., Ser- rano ought to have known better before he went North. If the Carlists are as strong as this news implies Serrano, with all his fine schemes for the establishment of the Republic, | and the restoration of Isabella’s son out of the ruins thereof, has gone up in a balloon. After all 1t may be found out that young Spain is much stronger than old Serrano. A of the Queen-mother can hardly be supposed | to be in sympathy with young Spain of 1874. | But the condition of Spain is so chaotic and | 80 incomprehensible that time must be al- | lowed to decide the difii Mayor on un Elective troller. Mayor Havemeyer has addressed a letter to | The Comp- | judgment, the bill uow before that body to make the office of Comptroller elective by the people, instead of leaving the power of appoint- ment in the hands of the Mayor, should not become a law. The opinion of the Mayor | may be regarded as disinterested, since he is not at all likely to enjoy the privilege of ap- ‘pointing another Comptroller. The proposed change is simply one of those acts ot charter tinkering of which we have already had too liberal a supply. The law of last year left the How far these reports are true we know | man who in 1843 fonght against the interests | and tried friends take to the small boats is | the South their prey, and with regard | Comptroller where he is, and made his suc- | | guider,” their will and in defiance of the public opinion | of civilization, five Zuropean nations are com- pelled to keep more than two millions ot men | under arms and to pay annuelly for their subsistence three hundred millions of dollars. | We believe in united Germany, and have | welcomed every step taken by the Em- | peror to consolidate the union; but it really | seems that this is a fearful burden to be im- posed upon Europe. Apart from this there is much that is beau- tiful in the character of this stern, upright, resolute, kindly, narrow-minded old King. Men have sneered at him as a mere puppet in | the hands of Bismarck. To this he has re- | | | | | | gance. plied by raising Bismarck to the rank of prince, by covering him with wealth and digg | | nity, thus showing to the world that princely quality of sustaining a Minister of genius ' against all enemies. No one sees more plainly | than the Emperor that the purposes of these | critics was to injure Germany by exciting his jealousy and leading him to dismiss from his | councils the foremost statesman of Europe. | | This fidelity of the Emperor to Bismarck is | one of the tinest traits in his character. Hoe had but to say the word and the great Chan- | cellor would have vanished from view and be- | come an crdinary diplomatist or politician, | But he felt that as King he was above jeal- | ousies, and that as long as Bismarck served | Germany and his royal house he did not care | who received the credit from a chattering, gos- | | siping world. This and other qualities have endeared the Emperor to Germany, and, as | will be seen in our correspondent’s letter, his | | | birthday was the occasion for unusual festiv- | | ities. The poets exhausted even the German | vocabulary to find adjectives of homage and | admiration, and we see tuneful Germans hail- | | ing him as the “hero scion,” ‘the ‘battle | “Germany's safeguard” and ‘the highest lord ot war.” To have won this affec- | it not time to say that the ship is im danger ? A Sentovs Accrpenr at Hasriton, NEaR Guascow, Scortann.—We print this morn- ing a cable despatch giving aa account of a sad and gerious accident which occurred in the town of Hamilton, some ten miles distant from the city of Glasgow and well known to all who are familiar with the banks of the Clyde. A steam boiler burst and a large portion of the same, | having been carried several hundred feet, fell | upon a schoolhouse, crashing through the roof and killing three children and injuring | to whom we might suppose the Southern men | to be in instinctive opposition ? imperceptible . coercion have so differences been overcome as one might suppose would divide not only the democrat from the republican but the Southern man from the carpet-baggor and the legitimate rep- resentative of a community from the political adventurer who has beey foisted upon a peo- ple in an immoral and outrageous traffic in the rights that were denied to communities alargenumber. There, as here, bad inspec- tion or ignorance prevails. Pity that the in- nocent should suffer! Benpern’s Arrust.—The public will learn -with profound satisfaction that the head of the Bender family of murderers has at last been arrested. The story of assassinations oe by this gang recalls the history of atrocities of Trauppmann and Sawney Bean. Accident furnished a clew to their guilt, and with their accomplices they fled from the scene of their crime; but the law has already hunted down some of the guilty parties, and the capture of the head of the gang gives us hope that his confederates will not long escape the pursuit of justice. Itis of the greatest moment to punish promptly and with the utmost rigor crimes of the character of those which are charged against the Ben- ders. The temptations to commit acts of violence and robbery in sparsely settled coun- tries have ever proved too strong for a brutal- ized and dishonest class of the community, and it is, therefore, most necessazy to impress the lesson on the evil disposed that, however wild and savage the country may be, law will certainly reach and punish those who take the lives of their fellow beings. party leaders out of Congress at stipulated | prices? It seems to us that this associa- tion arises from the fact that both classes of Senators are equally devoid of convictions or guiding principles, and drift with Southern opinion as they find it. Honest Southern men who have come to the Senate as democrats are naturally at as great a loss to | perceive the application of any of their old | principles to the conditions before them as a dancing master mjght be in the presence of a | cadaver; and ti® carpet-baggers, as they were without principles at the be- ginning of their careers, baye not | troubled themselves with snch Iumber on the | way and are thoroughly indifferent, now that | they are in their places, to the pledges or | fortunes of the republican party, but are | simply resolved to ingratiate themselves in all conceivable: ways with the people among whom they regard their fortunes as cast. It is sufficiently obvious why Southern opinion should be for inflation. In its present condition the South regards with favor any measure that seems to promise present advan- tage without regard to ultimate consequences, and ‘cheap money” has in it this promise. .Mhere is little doubt, indeed. that an addition What is the | secret of such an association? By what | many | by party votes in Congress only that they | might be sold to the same communities by | | cessor appointive in the seme manner with other heads of departments. The bill of this year proposes to undo that work and to hold an election for Comptroller j next fall. This is quite sufficient rea- | son why it should be rejected. Mr, Green’s | term of ofiice expires in 1875, and the people | may prefer'to leave things as they are until | then, rather than to be subjected to these | incessant changes and experiments, At the ‘ same time, inasmuch as the charter makes the ; Mayor a sort of check upon the Comptroller, in the double signature of warrants, and as collusion between a corrupt Mayor and his | two financial appointees—the Comptroller and | Chamberlain—would leave the city without | any protection against robbery, many persons | believe that the Comptroller should be ren- dered entirely independent of the Mayor, and liable to removal only in the same manner as | the executive. | No doubt the thieves who have been driven | from the treasury by the overthrow of the Tammany ‘Ring’ have no affection for either Comptroller Green or Mayor Havemeyer. At the same time there are honest men and good citizens in New York who regard Mr. Gre&m's tinancial mansgement as bad, and who are even disposed to look upon Mayor Hevemeyer as an executive failure. Both these gentlemen were active participants in the reform movement of 1871, and the people appreciate their services. But that is no reason why they should now practise the very deceptions in relation to our financial affairs for which the Tammany officials were so noto- rious, In January last the Mayor and Comp- troller put forth a deceptive exhibit of the public debt—an exhibit the untrathfulness of which is established by the trial balance sheet of the Finance Department up to the last day of December. In his present letter the Mayor tionate loyalty from a great people is the highest honor that can be gained by any king, | and the venerable monarch must be infinitely cheered and comforted by it as he looks upon the dark valley into which he must soon de- scend, even as Barbarossa and Frederick, with all their triumphs and glory, descended before him. s The Flood in the Lower Mi Yesterday’s Storm. The ‘ather, of Waters’’ in its lower course is now rapidly rising and booming along at high flood. For several days. the periodic March rise has rendered the river stage at New Orleans critical, and the weather pre- dictions for Tuesday last, announcing rains for all the lower Mississippi basin, onght to have amply forewarned the citizens of Lou- isiana, There are now strong indications that the Cumberland, the Ohio and -all the lower Mississippi will be speedily in flood. In some of the States bordering these water courses there have been excessive and torrential rains—in some instances exceeding three inches of fall. The memorable floods of 1858 and 1859 were due to rains in the Ohio Valley, preceding the usual June rise in the Missouri and its turbid tributaries. In each of these tremendous deluges it was demonstrated that the great river is not dependent for its overwhelming inundations to the melting mountain snows. In the last-named flood, that of 1859, the Missouri, the upper Mississippi and upper Ohio were not full; but the lower Ohio rose over thirty feet on the falls at Louisville, with fearful ravages of the current after it passed Cairo. There were thirty odd crevasses, and for two months and ten days the swelling tide continued. Tho river did not subside till the last of May ; but notwithstanding this fact many planters were 'ssippi— enabled to produce good crops even in the inundated regions of: the St. Francis, the Tensas, the Yazoo and Red and White rivers. We may, therefore, augur not unfavorably for the agricultural interests from the present flood, and if the present rise is not much pro- longed it may be of no serious detriment, while the rains that have caused it will be of the utmost value to the crops. The storm of yesterday has conie from the far Southwest, and has been attended with wide and heavy rains. As it passes over the Atlantic sea- board it may inundate our rivers, and doubt- less needs to be cautiously watched to-day by all our marine traders and shippers, An Opportunity. This would seem to be a good time for our ambitious politicians to learn French. The Minister to China has resigned; and Mr. Seward, the present Consul, has been ap- pointed to succeed him. Mr. Bancroft has inti- mated his purpose of ‘retiring, and thus there will be a vacancy in Berlin. Mr. Jay is set- ting his house in order in New York, and may be soon expected home. Mr. Cushing will not be apt, especially at his time of life, to re- main long in Spain. Mr. Boker will soon re- turn from Turkey, and there is no assurance that General Schenck will go back to Eng- land. So that there are a half dozen mis- sions practically vacant. One advantage in this is that if the President really means to change his Cabinet he can find its members good places. Hamilton Fish would make a baronial Minister in London. Robeson would give Bismarck such dinners that the ‘Biood- and-Iron” Prince would see new guarantees for the peace of Europe. Belknap would find more pleasure in the picture galleries of Madrid and in studying Andalusian beauty up and down the Prado than in batiling about his Army bills; while Mr. Richardson would have financial opportunities in Turkey more inter- esting than the Sanborn contracts or the Jayno seizures. Ifthe President is really in search | of a Cabinet Providence has given him an op- portunity to provide his present ‘‘advisers’’ with cosey retreats. Let him send the Cabinet abroad as ‘ambassadors extraordinary.” What Does It Meant? Tho Mayor yesterday transmitted to the Board of Aldermen a report of the warrants drawn on the city treasury during the year 1873. Alderman McCafferty stated that the report as presented was merely a balance sheet, and on his motion the Commissioners of Accounts were directed to make a detailed statement to the Board. What docs this mean? The Commissioners of Accounts are required to make a statement in detail. Have they neglected this duty, or has the Mayor suppressed a portion of their report? What object is there in covering up the details of this statement? We understand that some seventy-five million dollars were drawn from the treasury on warrants in 1873, and the detailed report should show to what accounts the warrants are chargeable, thus affording the taxpayers the opportunity to discover exactly where there has been official extrava- a week, until an alteration of tae figures had been secured. Now let us, know whether another report has been ‘subjected to change or curtailment after its transmission to the Mayor and on its way to the Common Council, Sumyzr on Inruation.—The Davenport Gazette prints the following somewhat cele- | brated sentiment of the late lamented and illustrious Sumner: — The possibility of a new issne of inconverti). paper! regard with amazement and anxiety, ana, in my judgment, such an issue would be a deiri- ment gud a shame, In commenting upon this declaration the Gazelle denies that these words were ever used, and says it cannot find them in any of Sumnez’s speeches. To which we answer that they came to the editor of the Heraup, in Sumuer's own handwriting, in response to a request from us that he would give us his | views on the Financial bill then pending in the Senate. They were written a day or two be- | fore his death. Bninerwe Tuem to THE Front.—The Alder- men yesterday adopted resolutions denounc- ing the Legislative lobbying resorted to by the hends of the city departments for their per- | | sonel and political benefit, through paid agents at Albany, and calling upon the Legislature to | reject and upon the Governor to veto any laws | thus lobbied or that have not received the ap- | proval of the Common Council—the direct The report of the debt statement | made by the Commissioners of Accounts to | yas opposed to the New England idea ;”” for, the Mayer was held in the Executive oftice for | ¢ surveys in the Far West then we could see no reason why a reasonable assistance should not be furnished to finish the labors of the Pales- tine Exploration Socioty. Beust—-The Men Who Write Letters, Heretofore, in diplomatic life in Europe, Frenchmen have generally been the victims. They have written too much, Benedetti made an ugly record for himself in trying to steal Belgiam, and Bismarck preserved and exhibited it to an astonished Europe. De Grammont wrote lettera which required several years of industry to twist’ into French patriotism, and Bazaine committed himself to a peripatetic adventurer named Regnier, who aspired to heal the wounds of the butchered empire. La Marmora then came forward and made Bismarck, that crusty Mephistopheles of imperial scoffers, wince and boil over with rage in the very midst of his parliamentary servitors. Revelation after revelation ‘has followed, and nearly all the secrets which made the era of Prim, Napoleon II. and Cavour notable for the frequent use of the phrase, ,‘‘balance of power,” have come to the surface. Yesterday the catlike Von Boust, who hoisted himself from the Court of Saxony to that of Vienna, was introduced in turn, In Jaly, 1870, when France was rudely shaking her fist at the whole Teutonic race, Beust, who had his own sweet revenge in mind, wrote to his diplomatic man, Metternich—‘‘We con- sider the cause of France our own.” Of course he did; but then Russia, who covets Austria’s Sclaves, was not willing, and so Beust could do nothing but tell France to flatter ltaly and yield up Rome. ‘Probably Beust told Bismarck also that ‘the cause of Germany is our own ;’’ but this has not yet come to light. So that Beust and Austria gain with France by the disclosure as it stands, while the Fatherland will look with no tender feelings on the cisleithan States. shall wait patiently for Bismarck to produce a long-buried despatch from somebody which will settle the matter, as usual, to his entire satisfaction. A Suggestive Atgument. The Charleston News aad Courier has tho following frank averments on the question of inflation: — For once the West and the South worked to- gether and won a complete victory. This lesson Should not ve forgotten. The interests of the West aud South are one and the same, and by @ coall- tion between the two sections New England can be routed in her chosen field. In many respects the war between the States was a war jor an idea, The Southern idea of government and of tederal policy was Obp CHE to tie New Envland idea, Tne producer and the consumer, the agriculturist and the manulacturer, the Iree trader and the protec- tionist, the debtor and the creditor, were arrayed against cach other; aud the Souti has the power, by uniting with the West, to obtain i the national Legisiature what she could pgs win by force of arins, New Engiand notions” wave had their day. ‘The time of the South and West has come, ‘This is the most intelligent explanation we have yet seen of the real alliance between the West and the South on the question of infla- tion. Nothing is truer than that ‘the South- ern idea df government and of federal policy while New Engiand may be selfish in many phases of her policy, in one respect we can safely follow her. We mean the course which, as in Massachusetts, kept the honor of the State pure during the temptations of war and inflation und legal tenders. At the same time nothing is more painful than this invocation of the spirit of sectionalism and disunion. We should think the last State to summon that dreadful memory would be South Caro- lina. Tae Laror Question 1s Encuanp.—In the debate on the Queen’s speech Mr. Disraeli, as head of the government, announced that a commission had been appointed by Her Majesty to consider the whole labor question and the relations between master and servant, This commission contained names as eminent as those of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Thomas Hughes, and it wag nominated by the Prime Minister as an earnest of his desire to conscientiously ex- amine this most delicate and embarrassing subject. fidence in the Prime Minister or his commis- | sion, and at a recent meeting of their central representatives of the people of the city. The | Aldermen also reminded the heads of depart- | ° Hngland, the .ohe cium, ithe eee | in England e@ 01 cla ments that, while the charter entitles them to take part in the debates in the Common Coun- cil, they have not hitherto availed themselves of the privilege, and the Clerk was directed at future meetings to call the names of the heads of departments and make a note of the pres- ence or absence of each. But will the action of the Aldermen have the effect of putting a stop to the departmental lobbying at Albany? Smrcemc to Tuer Tzxr.—The Massa- chusetts Legislature keeps up the farce of voting for United States Senator with the same obstinacy, by sticking to the several candidates. It is a game of see-saw without end. ‘T'wo or three votes are changed occa- sionally, by way of variety, but with no ex- pectation of any definite result. Measures, and not men, has been a good motto of statesmen and patriots, but in Massachusetts they only think of men ond mere partisanship. The Hoar and Dawes men, all of the same political party, are so bitterly opposed that they will not yield an inch, and the democrats, who support Curtis, hold on like grim~ death, hoping for a break in favor of their man. A compromise must come at last, even if the balloting continues till the dog days. Why, then, not agree upon a compromise candidate atonce? However, the world will not come to an end if no Senator should be chosen, and the Massachusetts Legislature may prolong the farce if it chooses, Paesttnz Expronation.—While there is @ great deal in Palestine exploration which appeals to the sympathies of the Chris- tian world we cannot commend exclusive Congressional legislation in its favor. There are extensive regions of the United States yet to be explored ; hydrographic fields in both oceans washing our shores to be sounded ; vast surveys to be completed, and the regulat geographical boundaries of the Continent to be defined. While these works committee a resolution was unanimously passed denouncing -the scheme as ‘a mere excuse for delay,’ ‘a surprise, an intrigue and airaci.’’ his committee avers that it represents ‘* than one million of working- men,” and its action may be taken as an in- dication that the new government has not yet conciliated one of the most powerful classes which the strength and glory of Great Britain largely rest. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Professor VU. ©. Marsh, of Yale College, is at the Hoffman House. Dewitt C, Littlejonn, of Oswego, N. Y., ts staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Commander Joun W. Philip, United States Navy, is at the Sturtevant House. Ex-Governor Rodn.an M. Price, of New Jersey, ta registered at Barnum’s Hotel. Captam Hamilton Perry, of the steamship Adrt- atic, 18 at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Archdeacon Woods, of British Columbia, has apartments at the Brevoort House. Protessor James Orten, of Vassar College, is among the recent arrivals at the St. Denis Hotel. Dr. Damel Read is now in the fiftieth year of hia service as Président of the Missouri State Univer- gee ‘Tsnetami, until lately Minister from Japan to Italy, 1s going home to become Minister of Pub- Itc Works. ‘The Shah of Persia intends to make a pligrimage to Mecca in fulfilment of a vow made during his | European tour. Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Wisconsin, is said to be the wealthiest man in the West, he repudiates the idea of inflation, s . Projessor M. C. Vincent and Rev. Thomas Miluer, of London, England, arrived yesterday tn tho steamship City oi Paris, and are now at the St, Nicholas Hotel. M. Kutkoff, editor of the Moscow (Russia)’ Ga gette, is likely to be made a prince, so that he will be put on the social plane of his wile, who is by birthright the Princess Schalikow. The Cologne Gazette makes this statement. Assistant Secretary Sawycr and A, B, Mallett, Supervising Architect of the ‘Treasury bepartment who have been in Boston for several days on bust ness connected with the new Post office there, started last night en route to this city and Wash- ington. Roman Von Rampony, an Austrian officer and & student at the University of Innsbruck, was re- cently challenged by several members of an atheistic club, He refused to fight, being a good Catholic, and consequentiy nas been dismissed irom the Austrian services Wo. But the trade unions have no con-°