The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET. BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. , THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the terar. Four cents per copy. Aunual subscription (price $12. Rejected communications will not be re ‘turned. Letters and packages should be prop- rly sealed. (LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. ®ubdscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. SS <= Wolame XXXIX sseNO. 150 —— — Sa a |AXUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING —_— METROPOLITAN THEATRE, jo. $85 Broadway.—VARI:TY ENTERTAINMENT, at 145 P.M. closes at 10 tinee at2 P, M. uM, reet.—MARKED FOR i roadway, corner of Thirtieth bp Same at SP. M.; LIF, at 2 P.M: closes at 4:30 !. M. loses at 10:30 P.M. Louis 5. U. France. DALY'S FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ‘Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.—OLIVER TWIST, PM. Miss Fanny Davenport, z, SPM. closes at 10 30 ou Heron, Mr, Lows Jau Matinee ati 220 P. NIBLO'S THEATRE, roadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—THE | Ey OF THE Lake, at $M. Closes at lu 45 P.M, Mr Joseph Wheelvek iind Miss lone Burke, Matinee at | PM LYCEUM THEATRE, treet LE PLANO, DE 3 closes wt 10:30 P: TERR, Pifty-eighih stree ues.—Operaue and Drama enedt of Julius Bernste: THEATRE, ird and Lexington ave- ertainment, at 8 P.M. THEAT No. 5M Broadway.—ON T EN}, ato P.M; closes at i030 P.M. Matinee at 250 P.M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, | Broadway Thirteenth street.—MONEY, at 8 PM.; Closes at ILP. M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Jeffrey Lewis. Maunee ai M.—WOODCOCK's LITTLE GAME, and TUL NERVOUS MAN, onymr’ Broadway, between Hous VAUDEVILLE and NOVE. 745 P.M; closes at 10:45 P. THEATRE, THEATRE, third street. —KING BOOTH ixth avenue, corner of Twenty OAN,at® P.M; closes st 10:43 P.M. Mr. Joun MeCul- ough. Masinee at 1:3) P.M. NEW PARK TH . BROOKLYN Iton street, oppos te ty Hail—CHRIS AND £NA, ats P.M. Baker and Faron, wenty-third TRELSY, &c. hear Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MIN- street, ate P. M.; closes at We. M. Mutunee at 2 ACADEMY 0) Wourteenth street and Irving Cushman’s Reading, for benefit at Arms," at3 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. iss Charlotte The Sheltering TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT ARMORY, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue —CONCERT by Gulmore's Band, at'y P.M. ; cloves at Li 330 P.M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, ‘¥Fity-ninth street and Sixth avenue.—fHOMAS’ CON- CERT, at's P.M. ; closes at 10:0 P. Me ‘street.—LONDON BY . Same at closes at 5 P.M. closes at 10 P. Bame at7 ROMAN HIPPODROME, jadison avenue and Twenty-sixth ‘stree.—GRAND AGEANT—CONGRESS OF NALIONS, at 130 P.M. and TRIPLE SHEET. “New York, Saturday, May 30, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabili- ties are that the weather to-day will be generally Wars Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was exceptionally inactive and weak. Gold opened and closed at 112}. Tr 1s a remarkable circumstance that Con- gress yesterday did not order anybody to be investigated. Mempruis sends us an exultant telegram that she has received her first shipment of new wheat, and that Mississippi is the first with the harvest. Tux Dust of Alexander Hamilton, a dis- tinguished officer in the army of the Revolu- tion, 8 member of Washington's staff and afterwards holding high rank, lies in Trinity echurchyard. Let those who celebrate Decora- tion Day not forget his illustrious memory. Newrounpianp Hearp From.—All the pro- visions of the Treaty. of Washington are now in full force, the Legislature of Newfoundland having assented to the sections relating to the fisheries, and the President having made bis proclamation to that effect. We shall, there- fore, have free fish from Newfoundland as weil ‘as from the other parts of British America, for all of which we ought to be sufficiently grateful. Ovr Poorms who lett for Rome recently have arrived in Paris, and have been blessed by the Cardinal Archbishop. They will leave on Monday for Rome, anxious to see the Pope before the fever season sets in. We trust they will find His Holiness in good health, and that they will impress upon him the wisdom of elevating some of our learned prelates to the dignity of cardinal, and thus signally reward the fidelity of the Catholic Church in America. Censung or THE Exrvarep Ratmnoap.— ‘The Coroner's investigation into the accident by the failing of a platform belonging to the Elevated Railroad, which resulted in the death of Mr. Losee, has ended in the censure of the railroad company; but it occurs to us that the police or some other department of our complicated municipal government is also to blame in not having compelled the com- pany to remove the useless and dangerous structure long ago. nlored, beau- 4iful despatch from Washington, giving us some “figures” showing why Colorado should | be admitted to the Union. There are ever so many wiles of railways and telegraphs in the ‘Territory, not to mention “live stock’ and “dairy products.’’ Nothing is said about the antelope and rabbits and prairie dogs. Ag there are very few men in Colorado—not og many as in some of our wards in New York— and as a State should represent something, it seoms odd that a census of the antelope and prairie dogs is not taken and a demand made for their representation. Such a demand ‘would be intelligible, and wouid at least com- mend itself to the Society for the Prevention of Oruelty to Animals. Tr 1s said that in the Chickasaw and Choe- taw nations freedmen are still held as slaves. If this is true Congress should at once remedy the evil, BERTHE, and LE | | Our Army—The Lessons of Experience. The vote in the House of Representatives yesterday upon Mr. Coburn’s Army bill is not without significance. Under the pressure of what we might call the panic of reform the House, by a sufficient but not marked ma- | leave us an unarmed nation. The debate was | of a languid character, and seemed to indicate that our eloquent Representatives begin to feel the effects of summer. We fail to sce any reason for the measure except those emotions of economy which seem to have seized upon Congress as a panic, and which would be of more benefit to the country if they controlled Congress in the matter of land grants and in- creased pay. We respect that sentiment of jealousy which men of Anglo-Saxon lineage have always felt towards a standing army. We should regard any legislation which kept the army as a display, a means of promotion or favoritism or corruption, as criminal. But there has never been such a tendency in America. We have always been more inclined to cramp the army than to increase it. Even during the war, when we wero elated over | some temporary victory, our politicians raised the cry that the army should be reduced. The country was very earnest then and not disposed to paralyze Mr. Lincoln tu gratify a few demagogues. We are quite confident | that when the measure which now goes to the | Senate from the House is maturely considered the same sentiment will prevail, and the coun- try will demand trom Congress a useful army—one that will serve its present uses and be the foundation for still greater service should it unhappily ever become necessary. | In the annual report of General Sherman, made at the beginning of the present session of Congress, he stated that although the num- | ber of regular soldiers fell short of the author- | ized thirty thousand by only about five hun- | dred, yet the number of effective men fit | for active military service was less than twenty thousand. Soldiers in the hospitals, or em- ployed in other than strictly military duties, | accounted for the difference between the nomi- nal and the real strength of the urmy. Gen- | eral Sherman is of opinion that the army is | too small, and that Congress ought to raise the legal limit to a point high enough to keep the effective force constantly at thirty thousand | instead of less than two-thirds of that number. | The Hzratp approves of that wise recom- | mendation by a perfectly competent judge, and believes that economy would be more judiciously practised in almost any other branch of the public service than in the re- duction of our small army. The reasons against the reduction of the army advocated by a portion of the press are so cogent | that, when stated, they cannot fail to convince | a majority of fair minds. Immediately after the close of our last war | With Great Britain the regular army was reduced by Congress to ten thousand. The population of the country was at that time about eight millions; it is now about forty millions, To make our army as large in pro- portion now as it was then it would have | to be raised to fifty thousand, and the ne- | cessity for soldiers is greater in proportion at | present than itwasin1815. We had not then, as we have now, five or six turbulent States, | suffering from intolerable misgovernment. Our | Indian tribes in the West were then separated from the settled portions of the country by a single line of frontier, requiring comparatively | few military posts. When the war with Great | Britain closed it left no elements ef domestic | disturbance in our own country, as our great | civil war has done. We are pointed to the fact that some eight thousand regular soldiers wore thought suffi- | cient just previous to the late war, and are asked | to show why any greater number is needed in | the present circumstances of the country. The answer is easy enough. In the first place, it | was chiefly owing to the smallness of the regu- | lar army in 1860 that the rebellion was able to | make any headway. If our army had not been | so absurdly and pitifully small we should ; have kept all the Southern forts and arsenals, which were so promptly and ‘easily seized by the rebels, and Mr. | Seward’s sanguine prophecy of a mere | sixty days’ campaign for suppressing the | insurrection would have been fulfilled. Had | the army been large enough to properly gar- | rison all the Southern forts which were so easily taken possession of by the reb.ls before and immediately after Mr. Lincoln’s inaugu- | ration, we should have kept every Southern | harbor and city from Wilmington all the way around to New Orleans, and the Confederates could have made no effectual resistance, in- | Stead of being able to prolong the contest for } four years at an appalling cost of life, treasure | and patience. There could have been no | blockade running, no exportation of cotton, ' no importation of arms, no rebel rams, no Alabama cruisers, no destruction of American shipping, and the rebellion, instead of swell- ing to the formidable dimensions of the great- est civil war in the history of the world, would have been a mere insurrection that a few months would have sufficed to suppress. The ascendancy of Southern counsels in the fed- eral government for a long period prior to the war kept our regular army so small that when | the South was ready to secede it had only to ! march into the federal forts without resistance. | If we had maintained an adequate regular | army the country would have been spared the | expense of a stupendous civil war. } General Scott, the most experienced soldier the country has produced in this century, | had o prompt and painful perception of our military weakness when the rebel- lion began to loom up in the Southern | horizon. In the memorial which he presented | to President Buchanan on October 29, 1860, a | few days before the Presidential election, he | said:—“From a knowledge of our Southern population it is my solemn conviction that there is some danger of an early act of rash- ness preliminary to secession—viz., the seizure | of some or all of the following posts: —Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi, below New Orleans, both without garrisons; Fort Morgan, below Mobile, without a gar- | rison; Forts Pickens and McKee, Pensa- cola Harbor, with an insufficient garrison for one; Fort Pulaski, below Savannah, without @ garrison; Forts Moultrie and Sumter, Charleston Harbor, the former with an in- sufficient garrison and tho latter without any, and Fort Monroe, Hampton Roads, without a sufficient garrison."’ It ig preposterous to re- fer to the regular army of 1860 asa standard of sufficiency. The terrible evils and con- | jority, passed a bill which, if made a law, will | | fence of Savannah, had been taken ; NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, were the direct consequence of the Southern influence in Congress which kept the army 80 small as to make the secessionista masters of every important military stronghold in the South. The result of this insidious pretence of economy is described by Pollard, the rebel historian of the war, who tells us that before a gan had yet been fired on either side ‘Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckney had been captured by South Carolina troops; Fort Pulaski, the de- the ar- senal at Mount Vernon, Ala., with twenty thousand stand of arms, had been seized by the Alabama troops ; Fort Morgan, in Mobile Bay, bad been taken; Forts Jackson, St. Philip and Pike, near New Orleans, had been captured by the Louisiana troops; the New Orleans Mint and Custom House had been taken; the Little Rock arsenal had been seized by the Arkansas troops, &c, All of these events had been accomplished without bloodshed.” Considering what all this cost | the country we trust we may hear no more of the great wisdom and economy of the scale of military expense in 1860. No patriot would wish the national forts to be again so stripped of garrisons, so defence- jess; so exposed to unresisted capture. In 1860 we had next to no soldiers for the garrisons and an inadequate number for the frontiers. The requirements of the frontier service have greatly increased since that time. We have constructed a thousand miles of rail- road through the Western wilderness which requires constant protection against the In- dians. Our hardy pioneers have dotted the whole vast region through which the Rocky Mountain range extends with settlements which also require protection. We have established new and numerous military posts in Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Wash- ington, Nevada, Arizona and our new acquisi- tion of Alaska, and competent military officers annually complain to Congress that the com- panies of soldiers stationed at those posts are too small and skeleton-like for efficiency. There is room enough for the practice of gen- uine economy in the civil service, but there could not be a more wretched and in the end expensive economy than a reduction of the regular army. Decoration Day. Decoration Day is a holiday unlike any known either to ancient or modern times. The Greeks could not have adopted it; for with them their mythology was a part of all their public observances, and their heroes became gods. The Romans would have dis- dained it, tor the patrician never would haye accorded such remarkable honors to the memory of plebeians. Such an observance was out of the question under the feudal system and under the monarchies which suc- ceeded feudality. Nowhere except in o republic, where all power is based upon the will of the people, and where liberty is as much a sentiment as nationality among the States of Europe, is it possible there could be such a holiday as ours of the 30th of May. Even with us it has a very different meaning from anything that preceded it. The Fourth of July is the anni- versary of American independence. The 22d of February is the birthday of the noble chieftain whose sword made the Dec- laration of 1776 a marked event in history. But the 30th of May celebrates no great battle. No important proclamation, like that ot emancipation, was dated on that day. It is not the birthday of any living chief or dead hero of the war for the Union. Had it been set apart because of any such event it would have been narrowed in its purposes and dwarfed in its significance. It is because it was fixed by arbitrary selection and the sug- gestiveness of the season as the day for strew- ing the graves of the dead with flowers that it became not only an annual memorial service, but the most marvellous boliday in history. The significance of Decoration Day is as yet imperfectly understood even by ourselves, Its ceremonies afid observances are both patriotic and poetic, but, strangely enough, religion is not blended with sentiment. If it was neces- sary to analyze its forms we should find them more nearly pagan than Christian.. But it is not pagan except as it is an ideal deification of liberty in the sacrifices long ago made by its votaries. For year or two after Decora- tion Day was established by the Grand Army of the Republic it was the mere memorial of those sacrifices, The hearts of mothers and sisters bled anew at the recollection of their personal losses, and with them strewing the graves of the dead soldiers with flowers was the work of affection. Their griets were still fresh in their minds, and at first it was im- possible that any political significance which Decoration Day might have should be narrow and sectional. As the bitterness of recollection was softened by time the animosities of the war died out of every heart. However mistakén were our enemies in battle we were again to remember that they were our brothers, Sentiment took a new form and poesy chanted of the blue and the gray. While we cherished the memory of our own dead and decked their graves with the flowers of May we had a tear and a bouquet ot regret for the rebel dead—now our dead also. Decoration Day was no longer the memorial of civil life, and our flowers ceased to be the em- blems of personal sacrifices and desolated hearts. A change had been wrought in the mneaning of these simple observances, and they now proclaim to all the world that God lives in history and that it was His will liberty should be glorified through fire and blood, It was thus the 30th of May became the anniversary of freedom—the grand outburst, year by year, of the sentiment which has in- spired its votaries for centuries. It is a day of remembrances and rejoicings rather than of tears, Like All Souls’ Day in France it will become universal in its observance, and, be- sides celebrating the idealization of the aspi- fations of republicanism, its flowers will ever freshen the memories of those who died that those aspirations in the fulness of fruition might become perpetual inheritance. The graves of all who perished in our ware will thus be sacred through all generations, and every heart will make Decoration Day the All Souls’ Day of those who died in battie. Our Junres are evidently in a relenting humor. Yesterday Jobn Given, who was tried for murdering a policeman, was found guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree. Given was satisfied with the verdict, for our reporter pictures him as ‘‘warmly thanking his coun- vulsions the country bas since gone through | gel’’ for his conviction. . Our Bodies—Need the English Have Better) The ancient Greeks, noticing that the body usually ceased growing by twenty and dovel- oping by twenty-five, are aaid to have given much time between seventeen and twenty-one to careful physical culture. For a martial people, constantly called to test their strength and endurance, this culture was almost an es- sential; and yet its benefits are so great that no nation can long do without it, The Ger- mans get it by their military drill; the Eng- lish, from @ passion born and bred in them tor outdoor sports; and now we, as a people, are at last beginning to bestir ourselves to a similar end. Like the Germans, we do not put our recruit in a stiff collar, pronged, per- haps, in front, and force him to shorten his atep, get the slouch out of it and walk erect in spite of himself. Nor do we know much about tennis, fox hunting or hare and hounds, and very little of cricket, while we are too busy to find more than a day or two ina ycar for hunting and fishing. The masculine game of billiards, to be sure, we have long liked, and wo freely pay our money for a chance to indulge in it, with its pure air and company and vigorous and ennobling exercise. At hanging to a horse car strap, too, we are gradually getting skilful. But, from the word now coming in from our colleges, we are glad to note the great in- terest gathering in a kind of work which, if not overdone, will confer solid and lasting benefit, and that on the class which, above all others among us, most needs it, and will also tend to save us from the slur which is flung at us almost daily, and too truly, that, physically, we are dying out. Among our well grown boys and young men the popular forms of exercise are, mainly, two—baseball playing and rowing. Lither, pursued judiciously, brings great good, and yet both effect but a partial and one-sided de- velopment. The former calls into play the legs and one arm, the fingers of the other hand, to be sure, getting a fine chance of having swollen joints, but the other arm has really nothing todo. Rowing develops the back and legs, the arms hardly any and the chest none at all. Look not at the college oarsman, who, seeing how small, rowing leaves many of his muscles, develops them by other work (though often he does not), but at him who rows because it pays, or he thinks it does—who cares nothing for its result on his person, and who simply rows to win—the professional. Of the famous four brothers, the champions of the world, not one has a well developed chest, most bave indifferent looking arms and not one walks nearly erect. Among the English professionals who came here in such numbers in 1871, but who have stayed at home so well since, there were many surprisingly small arms, and row- ing men know that large arms are very likely to injure a' man’s style by making him pull his body up to his oar at the end of his stroke, instead of the oar up to his body. Let our youth, then, give as much time as they will to either or both of these pastimes, and from them alone he will never attain regular and complete physical development. Suppose, now, that such a system of bodily culture were established at one of our princi- pal seats of learning and so well kept up that every student, no matter what his degree of weakness on entering, unless seriously de- formed, came out, in four years, vigorous, symmetrical and enduring, a fair gymnast, a good boxer, a stout swimmer, strong of arm, erect in carriage, swift and sure of foot, having every organ in his trunk in good order, because the casing of that trunk was developed as God meant it should be; know- ing how he got these good things, just what work will give them to another, and trained, too, to impart that knowledge. Scatter such men broadcast over this land, and in every corner of it there would soon be rising fami- lies of whom, if the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., repeated what he said but the other day in the pulpit—namely, “We are a race of shadows; * * * we are hatchet faced, sunken cheeked, pallid of complexion, wear- ing ® perpetually fatigued look, exciting everybody's sympathy when they see I id I do not think it false witness when I declare that the Americans, as such, are dying out’’—then the reverend gentleman would lie. And ig it impossible to so train men? Ask them up at West Point. They have not done it all, but they have effected enough to know that the rest is as easy, at least, as Euclid or the ‘Shorter Catechism.” We ask no extreme work ; nothing incurring danger ; nothing nearly so hazardous as the last two or three minutes’ rowing of every faithful man of the fifty-four who, ona Thursday afternoon not many weeks from now, will do what lies in him, and a little more if he can, to push his bont’s nose in first over the finish line off Moon’s, and make the name of his alma mater fairest, and, for the year, first among American colleges. Every one of these rowers, be he trained never go well, will be tugging and straining furiously long after he ought to stop. But to bring sturdy, lasting health, that will take a man cheerily through life, even to his round four score, and fit him for taking his share, and a generous one, too, of confining, sedentary life, for the demands of the sick-room, the army, and any other form of privation, toil or pain which may fall to his lot, there is no need of ranning any such risk. Rational, gradaal, harmonious bodily development, not elective, bat required of every student, and kept steadily up throughout the course, will not only place the college which first adopts and enforces it high among the benefactors of our land, but will make it the pioneer of » work which must soon become general, and of which, when it does become 60, it will be wondered, as it was of the Atlantic cable, why we had not had this sooner. Conaress will not be in session to-day on account of the holiday, A New Question has arisen in Congress. Mr. Albright learns that when any Chinese inhabitants of California wish to return home they must obtain permits from certain Chi- nese companies. He proposed an inquiry into the matter in the House yesterday, but some member, whose name is not given, objected. If Mr. Albright’s story is true it is an outrage which should at once be remedied by Congress. Mr, Ssenman’s Moity bill has many foatutes of value, and should be vassed. The Resignation of Park Commis sioner Wales. In resigning his position as one of the Commissioners of Public Parks, Mr. Salem H. Wales makes the following remarks in regard to the management of that department :—‘In my opinion the Department of Parks could be managed with more efficiency if Comptroller Green would not insist upon the retention or appointment of his personal friends—not always the best—in and to various offices of the department ; and could some of his in- efficient friends be dismissed without provok- ing his hostility it would result in some good to the service. It would also redound to the credit of this industrious official if, while paying strict attention to his own dutics, which are arduoun enough to tax all his time and capacity, he would not only cease to in- termeddle with tho affairs of other municipal departments, and stop the practice of covertly undermining the official character and ca- pacity of those who are, equally with him- self, responsible to publio judgment. If this disquieting element could be withdrawn from the Department of Parks, and if Commission- ers could be permitted to exercise an inde- pendent discretion in the selection of their auxiliaries, then I could most heartily con- gratulate my successor upon the pleasure he would find in his relations with a commission whose President knows how to unite effi- ciency with courtesy and regard for the rights and feelings of others.’’ Mr. Green’s unauthorized and suspicious interference with departments of the city gov- ernment with which he should have no con- cern has long been notorious, and has mainly conduced to the present unsatisfactory condi- tion of our municipal affairs. Instead of standing in an attitude of entire indepen- dence and impartiality as between the several departments, simply guarding the interests of the taxpayers and protecting the treasury against fraud, he has attempted to bring every other city office under subjection to his own, and where his usurpation of authority has been resisted he has visited his anger upon the offending official at the expense of the public interest. The Park Department has suffered from his friendship, as the Public Works has suffered from his enmity, Mr. Wales speaks from his experience as Presi- dent of the Park Commission when he says that personal friends of the Comptroller are retained in the public service, although unfit for the positions they occupy, and that any attempt to get rid of them is certain to pro- voke the bitter hostility of the Finance De- partment. The people well know what this hostility means. Appropriations withheld, works embarrassed and obstructed, bills un- paid and forced into litigation, as well as covert attacks on the official capacity and in- tegrity of the offending parties, are (he inev- itable penalties to be paid by any municipal department that refuses to subject itself to the arbitrary dictation and selfish interests of the Comptroller. It 1s about time that this should cease. The public parks are the pride of the city, and they should not be sacrificed to personal greed or ambition. What there has been to condemn in their recent management can readily be traced to the malign influence of which Mr. Wales complains. Money has been squandered on architectural designs and ex- periments, on unnecessary engineering, on uncalled-for and out-of-the-way roads, tunnels and bridges, and on other absurdities, in- vented for the sole purpose of furnishing profit and employment to Mv. Green’s ‘‘per- sonal triends.” All that is now required to make the Central Park what it ought to be—a place of popular resort and enjoyment—is a combined drive, bridle path and promenade, where all New York could flock to see and be seen, as in Rotten Row in Hyde Park, and the promenade and drive in the Bois de Boulogne. This improvement can be secured by a tew weeks’ labor, without any large expenditures for landscape architects, super- vising architects, assistant architects, consult- ing architects, engineers and the like. The Mayor's appointment of a Commissioner to fill the present vacancy will decide whether we are to have reform and independence in the management of the public parks, or whether the evils of which Mr. Wales complains are to continue. Colonel Stebbins, as President of the department, may be relied upon to act in the interests of the city and not of any indi- viduals; but he must be strengthened by an associate in the Commission who will bring character, capacity and independence to the discharge of his duties. The city government is already sufficiently embarrassed, and the Mayor will incur a heavy responsibility if he should fail to exercise judgment and inde- pendence in his selection of Mr, Wales’ successor. Arrest or CounTeRreiTEeRs.—Thirteen coun- terfeiters aud dealers in counterfeit money were arrested at Cincinnati yesterday. Nearly all of them are experts at the business and some of them have a remark- able history as dealers in the ‘‘quecr.’’ Our news despatch this morning gives full ac- counts of all of them, and the sketches of most of them are as interesting as the bio- graphies in the Dictionary of Congress. There is John Mills, who is the proud son-in- law of the shrewdest female counterteiter in the country, and he loves his mother-in. law so well that he has already been in the Penitentiary for obeying her injunctions too readily. And John Mo- Neilan is a very remarkable man, indeed, for he can actually forge General Spinner’s signature. Though this does not complete the list of great men arrested, some of them seem to be mere vulgar scoundrels, who have failed in attaining greatness. We suppose it was the vulgar fellows who were arrested at the Italian lodging house, and that only the great men took part in the carousal at Jennie Twitch- eli's. It is to be hoped the counterfeiters will soon be lodged in the Ohio Penitentiary, Tue Sanpwicn Istanps,—We should think from our advices from the Sandwich Islands that politics there are in a volcanic condition. ‘There is a Know Nothing party, anxious to re- move all foreigners from office, The new King is about to make o tour of his little dominions, and the question of annexation to America has assumed a formidable shape. On the annexation subject our South Sea friends may feel easy. We have as much territory now a8 we want, at least until we bave admit- ted the antelopes and prairie dogs of the Rocky Mountains, and do not crave any | Naboth's vineyard in the Pacific. . Henri Rochefort. The extraordinary interest which Rochefort has excited in the world, and the fact that within ten months he fell from the position of & Minister of France to be a chained and im- prisoned convict, give his name and opinions ® romantic interest that justify us in printing the narratives which appear else where. Here we have his whole story, from his departure in New Caledonia until his arrival in the State of New York; how he fell into slavery, and his redemption thence—his convict life, his purposes, hopes, dreams and ambitions. It is as interesting as any chapter in Monte Cristo, and those who believe in destiny—in that divinity which somehow always shapes our ends—will see in the wonderful adventures of this audacious journalist assurance of important duties in the future. We have never esteemed Mr. Rochefort a very wise man ; but no one can fail to admire his courage, his genius and the intrepid fight he made against the Empire when he had every motive to serve Napoleon to find com~- fort and wealth in the service, There was a splendid self-denial in what the young jour- nalist did, condemn as we may and must the tone of many of his assaults upon the Emperor and the Empress.” But he was an earnest man, doing a work that seemed hopeless. We can well imagine that when David, the son of Jesse, set out to fight the giant, he thought more of the stones he was to throw than of courtesy and tenderness to his enemy. Rochefort meant to destroy, and to him, more than any man in France, we owe the public opinion which finally flooded the Empire and swept away its foundations, Rochefort to us, however, is only a man of genius in misfortune and exile—a journalist of universal fame and a politician—who, how- ever, rash and indiscreet, bas never been charged with personal dishonor. As such New York will greet him. The Virginius. Some curiosity has been felt at the apathy of the British government in reference to the Virginius case. It will be remembered that among the unhappy victims at Santiago de Cuba were several British subjects. They were humble people, mainly, we believe, negro servants from the West Indies, Had they been of high birth and connected with noble families, like the unfortunate men who were captured by the brigands in Greece, there might have been some emotion in Parliament and peremptory demands for justice and indemnity. It seems, how- ever, that the British government has begun to press Spain for a settlement. Parliament is in session, and, as Mr. Disraeli is supposed to represent a Ministry of vigor and active concern in foreign politics, it would not do to have ugly questions asked as to why the murder of peaceful English sub- jects in Cuba had not been atoned. At all events a despatch has been addressed to Spain saying that England had been patient thus tar, not caring to embarrass a government already as much burdened with Carlist wars and Communist outbreaks as Spain, but that the time has come tor explanation, apology and indemnity. It will be noted that among the demands is one for indemnity to the families of the murdered. The question arises, What have we done in that respect? We have far more of a grievance with Spain than England, for there were many of the poor fellows shot at San- tiago who were innocent of any crime against the sovereignty of Spain. Is there to be no atonement for their blood? The Virginius has been -restored, it is true, and the sur- vivors released. But how about the dead and those living who depended upon the dead? It may be that Mr. Fish has in- structed Mr. Cushing to make a demand sim- ilar to that of Lord Derby—namely, that com- pensation be paid to the families of those who were murdered at Santiago. We shall be glad to know that the demand has been made, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. papal sickly Rey. Dr. H. Carmody, of New Haven, is at the Everett House. Senator John S. Hager, of California, has arrived at the Hofman House. Captain £.L, Mathews, ot the Britisn army, ts at the St. Nicholas Hotel. . General D. P. Upnam, of Arkansas, is registered at the St. Nicholas Horel. Congressintn P. M. B, Young, of Georgia, is re- siding at the Hotel Branswick, Captain McMickan, of the steamship Calabria has quarters at the Windsor Hotel, Ex-Congressman Alexander H. Rice, of Boston, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General S, K. Dawson, United States Army, ts quartered at the Grand Central Hotel. ‘The King of Siam has had a dinner service of silver made in London at a cost of £10,000, Aristarcht Bey, the Turkish Minister, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Albemarle Hovel. . The Tichborne claimant has lost four stone t= weight since his imprisonment, and he now weighs but eighteen stone, . Among the candidates for admission to West Point is one named Sauermilch, from Pennsylvan- nia, He hae studied the milky whey with great success, Count Von Hatzfeldt hag arrived in Madrid as Ambassador from Germany, Baron Canits, his pre- decessur, goes to Holiand tn the service of Em- peror Wilnelm, Mr. M. Hall Stanton, of Philadelphia, who ts prominently mentioned as a canaidate for Lieu tenant Governor of Pennsylvania, arrived last evening at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Ashad with a watch key marked “L. G.” in hig stomach, was recently tagen from the Hudson and served up at Rochester. The key has been recog- nized by Seth Green as his property. Bishop Lee, of Delaware, Protessor Ezra Abbot, of Cambridge, Mass., and Professor C. M. Mead, of Andover Seminary, members of the commission engaged in the revision of the Bible, are ac the Everett House. Congressman William R, Roberts ts confined to hia country residence at Huntington, LL, oy @ very severe attack of sciatica, It is doubt/ul if he will be able to resume his place in the House of Representatives during the remainder of the session. Postmaster Thomas L. James, who has deen very iii lately, has recovered 80 (ar as to ve at his office several hours during the day, He 1s, however, still weak. The Postmaster General has granted him ieave of absence sor six weeks to go to Europe, but Mr. James has not decided to avatt himself of the privilege. TBS CODE OF HONOR, New On.eans, La, May 20, 1874 A duel was fought on sietairie Ridge to-day be- | tween two creoles named A, Guillotte and Pegerus. The weapons were pistols, distance ten paces, ire | @t will and auvance, Guillowe Hred at the word of command, shooting Pereros thronen the aida. Pear the beart,