The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1874, Page 6

‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price 612. All business or news letters and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New York Hxmaw. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ' Yetters and packages should be prop- erly sealed. ‘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. Volame XXXIX.. sereee-MOe 182 AMUSEMENTS THIS ‘AFTERNOON AND EVENING THEATRE ougen. No. 514 Broadway.—V ARIETY EN EREAINMENT, ats P.M. ; closes at 40:30 P.M. Matinee at2 P. a ee meres aeet iL, at 8 P. M.; ‘Broad Thirteen! et — al closes: ach Wy M, oe raed Wallack, Miss Jeffreys Lewis. sMdatinee at 1:30 P. MRS, CONWAY'S Se Brora ben Brooklyn.— ae te WiLtow Ct COPSE: at at? bs Me Louis Ley Pa} aes “Mr. C. Couldock. 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M. corner of Thirty fitth street.—LONDON IN M.; closes at5 P.M. Same at7¥. M.; closes Broadway, 1874, at 1 avldP. M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, jadison avenue and Twenty-sixth ‘street.—GRAND Paogant-coNciuss OF NATIONS, at 130 P. M. and TRIPLE SHEET. 1874. New York, pomp ad 2, ‘From our reports this morning the probabliities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, with possibiy light rain. Tue Mapnm GovernMENT is sanguine that Bilbao will be relieved by Marshal Serrano’s army within a week. All the indications of the moment encourage the belief that the end of the Carlist war is near at hand. If Bilbao is not soon relieved there will be trouble all over Spain. Tae Inpun Question was discussed in Congress yesterday, Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, ridiculing the idea of making a treaty with the tribes now on the warpath. He was in favor of turning the Indian over to the War Department. Mr. Shanks argued in behalf of what is called the Christianizing policy. ‘Without closing the debate the House ad- Journed. Faoxze m Asm Mrivor.—Famine, it eppears from our news of this morn- ing, prevails to an alarming extent fn Asia Minor. In the town of Angora elone—the ancient Ancyra—it is said that one hundred deaths daily occur from starvation. ‘The winter of 1874 will long be remembered. It has been a sad year for the poor the wide ‘world over. Tee Artantic Sreamsuip CoMPANIES, a8 will be seen from this morning’s news, can- not agree as to charges for freight and steer- ‘ge passengers. For some time past they have been mutually bound by regulations in regard to charges in those two directions. At 8 conference held on Thursday views were ex- changed, and the result is that the compact, whatever it was, is dissolved. The public has no reason to regret the dissolution. The company that can serve the public best ought to enjoy the largest public patronage. We have now a fair chance to get cheap trips to and from Europe. Exte.—Mr. McHenry celebrates his arrival in New York by giving us a narrative of his own side of the Erie question, with many points of an autotiographical character. The romantic account of the appointment of Mr. ‘Watson to be President of Erie reads like an incident in the life of Monte Cristo. We trust to hear the end of this Erie misunder- standing very soon. It is not only # misun- derstanding but a scandal that a road like this, so necessary to the industry and the development of the country, should be a wretched fancy stock on Wall street. Let us know the truth about Erie. Mr, McHenry has given us his contribution, When the English accountants come we shall have their story. In time we may come to know it all. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. Insurrection im Arkansae—-Will the General Government Protect the Governor t It is evident there is an insurrection in Arkansas, and it is well known that the Gov- ernor of that State has called upon the Presi- dent to assist him in suppressing it. There is consequently now before the general gov- ernment a case of the kind provided for in the fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution. ‘Domestic violence” has as- sumed already the character of an open con- flict between the persons called out by the Governor to support his authority and the persons leagued in interest as insurgents against that authority. Blood has been shed in a preliminary skirmish, and this fact will fire the passions of parties. The drum beat will rattle throughout the State and a general conflict is imminent. With such facts before them the people will watch with natural curiosity to see if the government still pro- poses to keep a company of troops between the lines of the hostile parties, and is still unable to get from its law officers or Cabinet @ satisfactory opinion as to its duty and ita obligation to perform it Reports from Washington are that the Attorney General will give his opinion on Tuesday next, which is at least an indication that the subject has regarded with entire indifference. In the caso | of Louisiana the administration was not tor- tunate in its conclusions, and its steps taken in consequence were greatly mistaken steps, and upon calm inquiry were found to involve the defence and protection of a fraud. All that, of course, provoked sharp criti- cism, and was altogether a thorn in the President's side. He has not forgotten it. On the contrary, his course in the present case indicates a painfully distinct remem- brance of it, and the hesitation, the delay, the procrastination that have encouraged the present disturbance seem to express an especially formed purpose to do nothing “‘pre- cipitately.” Is this only a puerile kind of spite at the remembrance of former mishaps, or does it mean that Brooks’ advocates at Washington are over-persuasive? All the dust raised in this struggle to secure the control of a State government obscures, of course, the clear relation of the parties, but the relation is none the less clear when the subject is closely examined. If two men start up and claim to be respectively Governors of the same State and to have received the majority of the votes, and the country at large knows nothing whatever of either man, who is honest or dishonest, nor even by what parties they were respectively supported for the post they claim, the people are, of course, in a thoroughly mystified condition as to the rights of the case; but this very circumstance is the best assurance of their impartiality, ond their minds are ina condition to form correct opinions when the facts are laid before them. Since, therefore, the publication in Wednesday's Hznaxp of the statements of Brooks and Baxter, there has been little doubt with those who have examined the subject as to the absolute right of Baxter to recognition as Governor of Arkansas. Brooks’ claim rests, as we have shown, upon grounds the admission of which is inconsistent with the support of any authority in any State. If Brooks is right everybody else in the United States is wrong, and society may at any moment be thrown back to the primitive con- dition from which it has grown. We sup- pose that our constitutions have some value, that the law which fixes the frame of State government and locates the various political powers is not merely an empty form, but the basis of the whole political fabric; but the grounds upon which Mr. Brooks places his claim to be Governor of Arkansas deny all this; and for this reason alone, even if there were no other, his claim seems to outlaw itself. Politically, os well as morally, it would seem impossible for a man to claim any benefit of a law—to claim its defence or protection without recognizing its validity; yet, this is what Mr! Brooks does, He claims the benefit of that principle in our American politics in virtue of which the man who gets the larger number of votes for an office receives the office by the defined operation of the regular political machinery. Yet he denies the validity of the laws upon which the very existence and operation of the machinery stand. Brooks claims to have received the larger number of votes, and theretore to be entitled to the office of Governor ; and it is evident that if it could be made to appear to the proper authorities that he had received the office. But, without any knowledge of our own as to the truth of his declarations in re- gard to his vote, we would ask how he is to establish this simple fact. Who is to count this vote? Counting the votes, as this community has found, is a very important part of the machinery of free government, and the law in every State defines who shall per- form this fanction, and, of course, no other than the designated person or body has any relation with it. In the State of kansas the constitution imposes the duty of counting the vote for Governor upon the President of the State Senate. More than a year ago that functionary counted the vote referred to, and he unfortunately | differed as to the result from the view taken by Mr. Brooks. He declared that Mr. Baxter 4nad the larger number of votes, and Mr. Bax- ter was consequently put in the office. No other authority in the State has any right in regard to the counting of the vote than the | authority indicated, and the declaration that Brooks had the larger vote, as made by Brooks | himself, seems opén to the objection that he is | not the person whose count the State authori- ties are authorized to receive. If, however, a | candidate or his party believe that a wrong ‘has been done in counting a vote they have | a remedy. ‘The result is not absolutely | in the hands of the Lieutenant Gov- | ernor. A corrupt man in that position has the power to declare, in the form of an announcement of a vote, who shall be the Governor of a/| State. The election may be contested, and then the case comes before the State Leg- islature, and that body also has already acted on this case, and decided against Mr. Brooks, Indeed, that active gentleman had exhausted every remedy open by the laws of the State before appealing to his present plan, and the decision was always against him. It may all have been as corrupt as he alleges it was. attracted attention at the capital and is not majority of the votes he should have the | Ar- | ‘We express no opinion on that. But there is no authority to reverse the decision. As to the appeal to Washington, it need only be said that the right or justice of Brooks’ claim to have received the larger number of votes cannot be entered into there while Arkansas is called a sovereign State. No attorney general or other national official has a right to revise the count of votes in an Arkansas election, as this has been certified by the Arkansas authorities; wherefore the speculation that the Attorney General will de- cide in favor of Brooks strikes us as wild absurdity. There is no authority competent to nullify the action of the Arkansas authori- ties in this case except that of revolution and war. It maybe that the cage justifies these, but Mr. Brooks does not claim this. He claims a right under the law, and not in de- fiance of the law. There is judicial ermine in this case also. Brooks has his judges, as Kellogg had his. In the minds of the American people generally there is a deep respect for the very name of the judiciary, and it throws a halo around any cause to say that the judgment of a court has been given in its favor. People do not discriminate as to the court, and they adhere to this admirable respect for the representative of justice even against painful experience. ‘They are slow to believe that judges are only human creatures, and often are exceedingly poor specimens of the species. In the case of Durell we can see what a judge is prepared to do in reconstruction cases; but in this Ar- kansas business the justice is even worse. For in the first case the judge had absolutely no jurisdiction. He was not, as to this case, any more a judge than any other man isa judge. His opinion was just as good and entitled to exactly the same authority as the opinion of any other one of Mr. Brooks’ adherents, and, as already declared by Mr. Brooks, his judgment ‘executes itself;’’ for he even gave no writ to put this claimant in pos- session, and the pretence of the defeated candi- date to have a judicial authority for his insur- rection is as empty as every other pretence in the case. P. §8.—The supreme law in reference to Arkansas is thus written in the constitu- tion:—‘‘The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and, on application of the Legislature or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.” The Freedman’s Bank in Washington. We print elsewhere an interesting and im- portant letter addressed to us by Mr. Frederick Douglasa, the President of the Freedman’s Bank in Washington. The very high charac- ter of Mr. Douglass, who may be called him- self the representative freedman of America, is the best guarantee of the accuracy and caro of his statements. Mr. Douglass describes the bank as an institution ‘especially established to encourage and assist the freedmen to save and increase their hard-earned money, and thus to help them in the race to knowledge and civilization."’ During the time of its ex- istence, about ten years, it has handled about twenty-five millions of dollars deposited by freedmen, and now comes before the public, according to the estimate of Mr. Douglass, with two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars in excess of lisbilities: The assets, he thinks, have only to’ be let alone and to be tolerably well managed to enable it to pay all liabilities and some interest to the depositors. Mr. Douglass further explains that his con- nection with the bank is of a very recent date, and that he accepted the position with the honest purpose of forwarding ‘the beneficent objects’’ of the founders, and ‘to watch and guard the hard earnings of my people.” We can well believe Mr. Douglass when he gives us this assurance, and we trust his best hopes may be realized. We can think of nothing more painful as a moral and political, os well as a financial, event than the failure of the Freedman’s Savings Bank. Founded in a spirit of the largest humanity and philanthropy, intended to teach one of the most helpless and oppressed of races habits of thrift, and representing in its accumulations the hard-earned savings of a people, there could be no greater calamity, in a moral point of view, than this failure. Mr. Douglass has, therefore, a position of peculiar responsibility. He must rescue the bank from the embarrass- ments which surround it. He must restore the confidence of his people, not merely in its honesty of management, but in the business skill and tact of those who control its affairs. We do not presume togive him any special advice upon the subject, but it would seem that he can do nothing better than toavoidall financial relations with the gentlemen who now manage affairs in the Territorial government of Washington. He must not permit his bank | to become an appendage of the Board of Public Works. That may be a most estima- ble and honored and solvent body, and its se- curities the best in the world; but they are not exactly the kind of securities in which a far-seeing man, intrusted with the peculiar responsibilities of Mr. Douglass, would invest the savings of the freedmen of Washington. Decrzasz or THE Pusiic Dest.—Accord- ing to the brief monthly statement of the public debt from Washington it appears that the reduction during April amounts to $2,900,000. This shows that the national finances are recovering from the shock of the late panic. Where, then, is the necessity for increased taxation? To carry out the Presi- dent's idea of increasing the taxes in order to accumulate gold in the Treasury, with a view to prepare for specie payments, would open the door for more extravagance, and but little of the additional money raised would be ap- propriated to that object. Congress and the departments would soon tap the Treasury through fresh schemes and appropriations and unnecessary expenditures. Nor does the administration need a large surplus revenue to maintain its popularity. The surest way to reach specie payments is by economy, by re- moving the burdens of the people, and by thus promoting indus ere Aw ©nvsvat Tart took place in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday before Judge Brady. A young man of irreproachable char- acter was arraigned for uttering ten forged bonds of the city of Corry, but he triumph- antly proved his innocence and was promptly acquitted by the jury. A melodramatic in- terest was added to the trial by his kissing his wife and her fainting in his arms at this happy consummation. Twe Journals and Two Cities. Two each representing the people for whom they are published, ere the newest and best criterions for judging and comparing important cities. If we take, for instance, a quintuple sheet of the Henaup and of the London Times, equal each of them to five ordinary folio journals, and contrast them in their most marked features; we shall see in them a reflex of the condition of the cities in a degree as marked and distinctive as the two papers, When we remember that a single copy of either journal is as large as an ordinary sized book we can appreciate not only the formidable task of undertaking to compare and contrast them, but the reasons why they should be such excellent criterions for comparing and contrasting the cities where they are published. More than this, the Henatp reflects from day to day not only the condition of the people of New York and the United States, but even their wants and tastes, and the Times performs a similar ser- vice for the people of London and Great Britain. All this gives to the comparison we are about to make the greatest significance and importance. On Sunday, the 19th of April, the Hzzarp appeared in quintuple size—that is to say, with 120 columns of matter, 80 columns of which were advertising. A few days afterwards we received a copy of the London Times of the previous Monday, containing the same quantity of matter, but with only 73 columns of advertising. |A cor- tect idea of the difference in detail in the business of the two establishments may be gained from the facts that on those days the number of the Hzratn’s advertise- ments reached the immense aggregate of 3,061, while the Times had only 1,846 advertisements. In many respects the business of the two papers is strikingly similar, as in the mar- riages and deaths, which number 70 on that day in the Hzraxp, while in the Times, with the announcement of births, which are not customary in this country, added, they reach 83, Again, in other points there is an equalty striking dissimilarity. An instance of this is in the theatrical advertising of the two papers. Each journal has 20 places of amusement in its guide to the theatres, but the Herarp has 7 columns of theatrical advertisements to barely 3 columns in the Times. What is even more marked is the quality of the advertise- ments themselves. In the Hzgaup they have all the interest and value of a newspaper, while in the Times they are as dull and in- sipid as it is possible to make them. A point which indicates a radical difference in the ideas of commercial etiquette in the two cities is found in the dry goods and auc- tion advertisements. A London merchant would no sooner think of advertising his stock in the .Times’ than would a highbred lawyer in the United States stoop to what he considers the professional degradation of soliciting clients. Nor would an English gentleman patronize an advertising merchant. Consequently, while the Hzraup has seven columns of dry goods advertising, there is not a line of this class of business in the Times. On the other hand, while Americans are poor hands at attending auctions and buying the old clothes and second hand wares of other people, the English seem.to have a great taste for this kind of thing. Here, too, the two papers show the dissimilarity of the two coun- tries. While we have barely four columns of auction advertisements, and these only of sales of rare books and works of art and articles of virtu and rich furniture, the Times surpasses us by nearly two full pages. But New York shows the nomadic habits or necessities of a large part of its population in the fact that the Henaxp has seven columns of advertising for board and boarders, while this business in the Times is insignificant. Again, while the English journals say that in America every kitchen girl calls herself a lady, we have column after column of advertising in which plain, unvarnished cooks, chamber- maids, dressmakers ond seamstresses, house- keepers, laundresses and nurses announce their willingness to ‘‘assist,”” while the Times has less than two columns of this unaffected business, but in its stead a liberal quantity of the generous desires of ‘‘a French lady’’ with all kinds of diplomas, or of ‘‘a clergyman’s daughter,” or ‘an experienced and aecom- plished lady” as governess where ‘she would be considered as one of the family.” We read in the Times of more than one young lady who is ‘desirous of obtaining a situation in a res- taurant,”’ though there are young girls in England who announce that they are willing to serve as barmaids. In another respect we differ from the Times, for while that journal has many advertisements of advowsons and livings offered for sale, our clergy confine themselves in the Hzraup to special notices of religious services and of works of charity and religion. These things show some very inter- esting phases of the similarity and’ dissimi- larity of the two journals and the two cities, and it is to be remarked that even the “personal column” in the Hzraup, so much misunderstood by prurient minded people, has its counterpart in the Times, and that in both papers it serves the same useful purpose - of communicating with lorig absent friends and other persons whom there is no other method of reaching. The aggregate result of the comparison shows that New York com- pares favorably in every way with London, and the news departments of the two journals give an immense advantage to the American over the English metropolis. Nothing more clearly shows the differences between these two cities than the “reading matter” in the two journals which represent them. New York is broad, comprehensive, cosmopolitan; London is narrow, insular and English. These qualities are reflected in their representative journals. The Hxraup gives the news of the world; the Zimes is largely devoted to England and her singularly unin- teresting colonies. The Henatp’s method is sharp, incisive, direct; the Times is slow, methodical and dignified. On the days of which we are speaking the Hzratp gave a page {o European affairs, devoting one column to London gossip; the Times, on the other hand, while Fiji had a column and a half, had not a line from America except the report of the New York markets. The Hunanp had more Continental news than the Times, and while the Times wos mainly devoted to home mat- ters, with the advantage of seven columns in its favor, owing to the more pressing business necessities of the Hznatp, we were able to’ print more metropolitan and American news, . owing to our superior system of condensation. Japanese Progress im Civilisation. Civilization in Japan is getting up or get- ting down to the level of the Western nations, Aside from the interesting news from that distant country which we print this morn- ing, there many things to be said of the condit of a people so lately born to modern ideas. They have become like other nations almost in an hour. Even the decay of the Empire and the necessity of saving the State are becoming subjects of as great anxiety among the Japanese as with other civilized people. A farmer of the Niigata ken, for instance, wants to reanimate in his country the virtues of honesty and sim- plicity. He fears that, notwithstanding the Saga insurrection was suppressed in a single morning, unity has not been restored to the minds of the people of the Empire. The samurai of the various ken, he says, would hail with delight any troubles to the govern- ment, and persistently uphold the policy of a war with Corea. British interests, it is to be feared, are working in the same direction, and we find in the English journals in Japan pleas for the Corean war and justifications of the popular discontent, which are evidently meant to be unfriendly in spirit towards the Emperor and his Ministers. But these influ- ences, we think, can have no real effect ia weakening the authority of the Empire or in arresting Japanese progress in civilization. Out of troubles of this kind in every nation we obtain an insight into its actual condition which could not be obtained in any other way. The recent disturbances in Japan brought out an appeal to the nobles which is in its way both arevelation and a prophecy. The nobility, we are told in this appeal, is the highest class in a nation; but this truism is followed by the confession that in Japan the nobles eat the bread of idleness and are of no service to their country. ‘They rank above the samurai and the common people,’’ say the six old Japanese nobles who sign this docu- ment, ‘but in learning and capacity they stand below them.’’ Emulating the example of England, where “the nobles are a large body of accomplished men skilled in legisla- tion, who meet together in an assembly called Parliament and attend to the business of framing laws,” and who are at the same timo ‘the support of the whole country and a pro- tection to the throne,” these men would not only have their class ‘keep alive the ancient manly virtues and become the models for the samurai and the common people,” but “be the safeguard of the sovereign, descended in an unbroken line of descent through ten thou- sand generations from divine ancestors, and aid in the civilization of the people by laying the first foundation of a Parliament.” All this sounds very well, and there is in it a most excellent spirit of progress; but when the time comes for establishing a deliberative assembly in Japan its most suitable: members will scarcely be found among the nobles. Even in England the Commons have always been the directing power in legislation, and the Lords, accomplished as they are in the business of framing laws, are to-day only the semblance of a legislative body. In Japan, as in England, the samurai or middle classes will constitute the real Parliament, though it may be wise in the one country as in the other to give the nobles a share in the law-making power of the Empire. Japan at the present time has two difficul- ties to encounter—the importunities of for- eigners for still further concessions and the prejudices of the people against those already made. The significant expression in the reply of the Mikado to the address of the foreign representatives on New Year's Day, to the effect. that Japan would accept such inter- course with foreign Powers as was consistent with her dignity as a nation, indicates a grow- ing impatience with outside pressure. This manifestation of impatience has no great sig- nificance, however; for Japanese progress has been too fast rather than too slow, and it may have been the result of foreign jealousies and intrigues rather than of deep-seated discontent on the part of the people, The English and Americans at Yokohama confessedly have no great love for each other, and they are con- stantly pouring countercharges into the ears of the authorities—the Englishmen, on the one hand, seeking to impress the Japanese with the idea that the Americans desire to establish a republic in Japan, and the Ameri- cans, on the other, intimating a purpose on the part of the English to make the people of the Empire the subjects of the Queen. It is a foolish and almost wicked jealousy, and may do more to retard Japanese progress than any opposition likely to come from the samurai and the people. The only thing necessary to Japanese progress in civilization is to let it alone. Ex-Preswent Jounson Woutp Go To THE Sznare if, as he says, he could do so ‘under proper and fitting circumstances.” That is, we suppose, if he can be elected. He would not be a candidate for the lower House of Congress, and wishes the people to express their desire on the Senatorial question at the polls. Not a bad idea this, and it accords with his views generally of popular govern- ment. But the Legislature, after all, might not follow the wish of the people in choosing a United States Senator. However, the move- ment is a good political one for Mr. Johnson and may improve his chances. With all his crotchets he would prove a most useful man in the Senate, for no one doubts his honesty, and he would keep a watchful eye on lobby jobs and Treasury plunderers. Ex-Sexator Norton's Rervey.—The Tam- many prodigal has at length returned from his rambles, but there are not likely to be many fat sheep killed to celebrate the event. Most of his old friends would, no doubt, be better pleased had the ‘“‘Thunderer’’ kept away from his favorite hunting ground, as there is a sus- picion in many minds that Mike intends to make himself useful in rooting out some re- spectable thieves who have managed to float in the general wreck of the old Tweed ship. Norton furnished bail yesterday in the Dis- trict Attorney's office in the sum of six thou- Bg ‘ A Wei Deszavep Tzertwonat—The sil- presen Mr. John Roach and the ps wneb at Delmonico’s for his hi building in this country, having built not jeer than spvented’ fine iron steamships, and, aa Judge Brady said in his remarks at the ‘banquet, it is to be hoped Mr. Roach will live to see the ocean again dotted with American- built vessels. Steam Lanes in Congress. Senator Conkling reported yesterday from the Committee on Commerce the bill to pro- vide for the establishment of an international commission of the maritime Powers to lay down ocean courses for steam vessels and otherwise provide for the increased safety of sea travel. This action is to be warmly com- mended. Though neither Congress ‘nor Par- lament, by the ordinary methods of legisla- tion, can provide for steam lanes on the high seas, the maritime Powers can provide for them by an agreement having the force of atreaty. If other nations, especially Great Britain and Germany, can be induced to meet this movement by reciprocal action a great achievement will have beep accomplished. Almost from day to day the Hxnaxp has in- sisted upon this necessity, enforcing it by illustration and argument, and we are pleased to see a Senator so able as Mr. Conkling show ® disposition to become its champion in Con- gress, Whether the work of marking out the safest and best courses for steamships shall receive the sanction of the other maritime nations will depend mainly upon the powers of the American commissioners: to treat with them for the end in view. We cannot doubt that this will be the case and that the proposi- tion will be received with favor by the govern- ments and people who equally with us are interested in making the sea as secure as the land. Perhaps some effort may, be necessary in the preliminary work of forming an inter- national commission, but a commission have ing been appointed by the other Powers, ag well as by the United States, the rest will be comparatively easy. Already the English journals, stimulated by the Hzraxp, aro ade vocating the establishment of steam lanes, and the matter must not be allowed to drop until they are fixed. i Tae Rosswn Inpusrewn Exarrrion.—We have received from Mr. Waldemar Bodisco, the Russian Consul General at this port the circular which we print this morning, giving © full information in regard to the coming ex- hibition of textile plants and of the machinery for their utilization. This exhibition is to be held on the 13th of June, and all the world is invited to take part in it, American manufac- turers of cotton gins, apparatus for breaking flax, and similar machinery of all kinds, can- not fail to see the utility of having their patents tested in Russia, and we cannot doubt, notwithstanding the time is short in which to prepare for the event, that the United States will be fitly represented. Our manufacturers have received medals from all the expositions that have been held at the great capitals of Europe, and now that Russia wishes to hold an industrial exhibition, though for a special class of plants and machinery, we expect that some of them will bring home gold medals from St. Petersburg also. Russia expects to profit by increased knowledge through this exhibition, and if other countries, especially this country, are fitly represented, they will profit in an almost equal degree. It is a work well worth encouragement and participation. Money Cxear mm Watt Srreet.—Loans for carrying gold cost yesterday from two to three and a half per cent per annum, and for busi- ness three to four per cent, though in some few cases the charge reached five per cent. Prime commercial paper was selling at five to seven. This is the time for capitalists and business men to promote industry and com- merce, and to afford assistance in the country, where it is needed, instead of fostering stock gambling. Tae Watrz Execution.—Waltz, the mur. derer who was executed at Hudson yesterday, was a criminal of no common kind. He was a man who killed others simply for the sake of killing, and, though he knew he was standing on the verge of eternity, he repeated the offence for which he was doomed only the day before his death—committed his last crime, the attempt to murder his mother, under the very shadow of the gallows. Of the three murders of which he was guilty none had an adequate or even a conceivable motive. It is not astonishing that under such circumstances . the culprit should die with the stoicism of a heathen philosopher. He wasa man without any sense of humanity or morality, s mon- ster to whom killing seemed a pleasant pas- time, Though his brain was heavier than Webster's he could not bave been of sound mind, so completely was he wanting in the moral sense ; but his execution was justifiable upon this ground, if upon no other, that it was unsafe that he should be allowed to live. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Juage Dwight Foster, of Boston, is staying a& the Windsor Hotel. Judge George W. Paschal, of Texas, is stopping at the Hoffman House. Dantel Dougherty, of Philadelphia, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, ar- arrived yesterday at the Astor House. General Sir Arthur Cotton, R, E., has delivered @ lecture in London on the tamine in india. Assemblyman D. 8. Lynde, of St. Lawrence county, N. Y., nas arrived at Barnum’s Hotel. Yi Ex-Congressman Stephen Sanford, of Amster- dam, XN, Y., ts residing at the Gilsey House. Adolphe Nones, French Vice Consul at Porto Rico, is among the recent arrivals at the Windsor y ocmanielieil George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, arrived at the Fifth Avenae Hotel yesterday from n. Fea arrwer george B.. Day, of Yale College, and Professor 0. M. Mead, of Andover Seminary, have apartments at the Clarendon Hotel. Some people are curious to know whether Beecher’s forthcoming tecture on ‘‘The Wastes and Burdens of Life” refers to female apparel. Gerard Rohifs, chief of the German exploring expedition to the Libyan Desert, has returned to Alexandria with the members of nis party. Nevada papers recall the time when Senator Stewart was a waiter in @ restaurant, and yet the Senator does not recall the circumstance. A. Valentine was arrested in New Havena few days ago for vagrancy, He had been lying about the steps of the Poss office since February 14. ‘The newest female star in the religious firma. ment is Mra. Mary C, Lathrop of tne Methodist Episcopal Vhurch, who preaches in Baltimore, The Paris Figaro says that M. Thiers is ‘as su- peratitious as a Roman or an old woman.” When ever be used to visit the Elysée, the rooks weto driven out of their trees, they being considered as carrying evil with them. Mr. H. Osterverg, editor of the German-Amert can Economist, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, has arrived here in the steamship Scotia, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The object of his visit to this country is to examine the affairs of the lead- ing ratiroad companies in the interest of German bondholders,