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

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. QLONDON 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 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | DALY'S FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broxdway.—CHARITY, and | MARRIED LIFE, at 8P, M.; closes &t 10:30 P.M.’ Miss ‘Ada Dyas, Miss Fanny Davenport, Mr. Harkins Mr. George Clark. NIBLO'S THEATRE, Brondway, between Prince and Houston streets ~THE LADY OF THK LAKE, at 81. M.; cioses at lu do P.M. Mr. Joseph Wheelock and Miss lone Burke, THEATRE CO. VE, No. 514 Broadway.—ON HAND, VARIETY ENTER- TAINMENT, at 8 P, M. ; closes at 10:90 P. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—FATE, at 8 P. M.; | closes at LL P.M, Miss Carlotta Le Clercq. | OLYMPIC THEATRE, Rm between Houston and Bleecker streets. — VAUDAVILLE and NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT, at 345 P.M. ; closes at 10:45 P.M. WoOD's MUSEUM, Brpedway, corner of Thirheth street.—CHRIS AND | LNA, at "2 P. M.: closes at 4:30 P, M. Same at 8P. M.; closes at 102% P.M. Baker and Farron. NEW PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, Fulton street, opposite the City Hall.—Transatlantic Novelty Company, at 6 P. M.; closes at 10 :30 P. M. BRYANT OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MIN- STRELSY, dc., at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Fifty-ninth street and Sixth avenue.—!HOMAS' CON- CERT, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. COLOSSEUM, roadway, corner of Thirty-fifth 'street.—LONDON BY IGHT, at 0A. M. Same at 1 P. M.; closes at 5 P.M. Bi nN M. ; closes at 10 P. M. Same at7 P. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Madison avenue and Twenty-sixth ‘street-—GRAND PAGEANT—CONGRESS OF NATIONS, at 1:30 P. M. and | i New York, Tuesdsy, June 2, wera. | From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be generaliy clear. Watt. Sreeer Yesrexpay.—Gold opened at | 112}, declined toe 112 and closed at 112}. Stocks were weak and lower. Tue Happiest News we have had for a long | time is the announcement that heavy rains | have fallen in India. This will save thousands | of lives. Ovn “Prgms” are having a pleasant time in Paris. It is evidently more agreeable to do these works of penance in an age of first class railway cars and hotels than it was in the olden times. Fisa ow Casces.—It is reported from Wash- | ington, ‘‘on good authority,"’ that Secretary Fish will interfere to prevent the landing on | our Atlantic coast of the new telegraph cable. | In whose interest? Sous foolish wild person in London has | But here we are accustomed to say tried to kill the Prince of Saxe-Weimar, one of the Queen’s German relatives. The Prince has led a quiet civil life in England, drawing this pay with due regularity and doing duty as a Court ornament. We cannot imagine why any one should attempt his life. Morocco is about the last place in the | world where an insurrection is to be looked | for. The inhabitants of Fez are said to be in arms because of the imposition of what is | called the gate tax. It was expected that the Sultan would yield to the demands of the peo- ple and that bloodshed would in consequence be avoided. Tue Proposep Recresocrry Txezaty for the | trade between the British North American colonies and the United States has been con- ducted very quietly, but progress has been | made in the negotiations notwithstanding. | It is believed in Washington that the provis- | from what we know of them, but from what Rochefort. It is difficult to comprehend Henri Roche- fort without understanding France. The re- ception of his letter to the Hemanp shows how various are the opinions entertained of him in America. The Brooklyn Hagle, in an elaborate and able article reviewing it, com- pares the author to Wendell Phillips, and gives him a position in France akin to that of Mr. Phillips in America. The Brooklyn Union, on the other hand, regards him as a mere ‘‘disturber of the public peace,” a “fiery revolutionist,"" who will go to Geneva to “fraternize with General Cluseret”’ ; and the Commune exiles in Switzer- | land. It is not surprising perbaps that there should be opinions so diametrically opposite in dealing with a man as well known as M. Rochefort. For, although for some years one of the famous nen of the world, we are apt to make an estimate of foreigners, especially of Frenchmen and Germans, not other people say of them. M. Rochefort does not occupy the position of Mr. Phillips. The American allied himself to the extreme radical party of the country on the question of slavery; but, unlike his French proto- type, on all other questions he has been among the most conservative of citizens. Mr. Phillips never led a party that could be called more than a fragment. Rochefort, at one time, was the leader of a large, aggres- sive party, and he has never ceased to have an | influence over it. While it isa mistake to regard M. Roche- fort as one of those pure, unbending dev- otees to an idea, who follow it through good | report and bad report to victory, in spite of pub- lic opinion, disregarding the threats and bland- | ishments of power, zealous in defeat and disap- pointment, apostles of a new gospel, it is like- wise a mistake to compare him to men of the type of Marat, who love blood with the tiger instinct and only see liberty in anarchy and chaos. M. Rochefort is a creation of the Empire. His literary character was marked during the Empire. He might have shown | complaisance towards Napoleon like Saint | Beuve and Gautier, and yet he would have been a very celebrated man. For no Frenchman since the time of Voltaire has shown the | peculiar gifts of Rochefort, the purity | of style, the exquisite irony and mockery | which marked many of the numbers of the | Lanterne and of his earlier writings, and which were shown in a remarkable degree in the letter to the Heranp. Roche- | fort as a literary man would have had a high | rank; but his real power came when he allied | literature to politics. Gambetta became fam- ous in a day by saymg aloud about Napoleon what the radical mind of France was think- ing. Rochefort won renown in a morning by | writing the same thing. He was like Camille Desmonlins, and it was his mission to make | the Empire and the whole Bonaparte system | detested. How he did it the world knows, for the world will not soon forget the extraordi- nary ability, severity and license of his | work. Nothing more severe was said about Napoleon than some of our jour- nals have said about General Grant. | what we please. In France you could only praise the Emperor or preserve silence. | Rochefort was the first to break this legend, | and the power which he summoned into life | became a terror to him. Suddenly he found himself at the head of a great party, cabinet | minister and member of the Assembly. Sim- ply a literary man, with odd political con- victions, he was called upon to be a states- man. From the time this duty fell to him he became anxious, timid, reluctant, dreading | the responsibilities and cares of power—a | gypsy suddenly called to a life of discipline, | sacrifice and compromise; so that his | | Marshal MacMahon's character which we should prefer to those of M. Thiers; and if he | would only sever his relations with the | mouarchists and the supporters of reaction and accept a republic as loyally as Washing- ton did, we should prefer him to M. Thiers or | to any leader now in French politics. The | fault of M. Thiers was that he was always a | Politician too old to forget the tricks and | schemes of an Orleans Minister. Conse- quently one shifty experiment succeeded | another, and his Republic went along ina hand-to-mouth fashion, like a spendthrift | living beyond his fortune and in constant | battle with his creditors. It never com- | manded that esteem which should belong to ® republic. Large sections of Frenchmen, j embracing the best people in France, , were ostracised. Such acts as the exe- | eution of Rossel and the banishment of Prince Napoleon showed his weakness, M. Thiers had all the faults of the politician, with none | of the serene virtues of a resolute ruler. In our own country we have never been as well gov- erned as by military presidents. Washington and Jackson bad an influence which not even | Jefferson or Adams could gain. The country felt that it could depend upon the sturdy honor of the soldier, his common sense, his freedom from ambition, his conscientious de- yotion to duty. It believed, that no matter what emergency would arise, the goldier would deal fairly with the country. Of course we have the examples of Napoleon and Cromwell to show what the soldier may do under the impulse of anger or ambition, We have six soldiers have held the Presidency and many more have been candidates for the office. We have certainly seen no reason to entertain a similar fear of MacMahon. While, therefore, we do not underrate the importance of this brilliant manifesto of M. Rochefort, and while we comprehend his immense power in the past, the pos- sibilities of even greater power in the future, and see in him one of the most conspicuous men of his time, our hopes and sympathies are with a conservative republic, with such @ republic as Marshal MacMahon could found if he would only imitate the illustrious example of Washington, and throw his sword into the scale in favor of a republic. It would be conservative. But conservatism means life; radicalism too often means violence and death. It would not be the republic which M. Roche- fort would respect, but it would command the confidence of the world. For one generation, at least, France could well afford to learn republicanism under the tutelage of this grim and simple old _ soldier. The { next generation would be strong enough to test some of those experiments which M. Rochefort and his friends are impatient to practise now. In America we had Washing- ton, the conservative, before Jefferson, the radical. Seven years of MacMahon, the con- servative, will make possible the peaceful ac- cession of a statesman as radical as Jefferson, radical enough to gratify even M. Rochefort | and his followers. Where Is the Antarctic Continent? ‘We publish in another column a highly in- teresting letter from a young officer on board he British discovery ship Challenger, for two | years past on a voyage around the world, ad- | dressed to one of our best known explorers, who has handed it to us with a full apprecia- tion of its value. It has long been a disputed question whether the Arctic Ocean was an open sea, and whether at the South Pole there was land. The late Lieutenant Maury had an ingenious theory that op- posite to land we would always find water, and hence if there was an ocean about the North Pole there must be a continent at the South Pole. This theory has seemed to writings became conservative and formal. He tolerated the Commune, hoped much from | | it, but never supported it. What influence he had with tie leaders was exerted in favor of mercy and moderation. His course so dis- | pleased the Commune that he finally ran | away from Paris to avoid arrest. But he was have been confirmed by many discoveries of land in the Southern hemisphere, and among others of a stretch of coast line which has long borne the name of the ‘Wilkes Antarctic Continent,” which Wilkes claimed to have seen in January, 1840. Its existence has often been called in question. The letter which we ions of the treaty will be submitted soon to | arrested by the government. The Bonapart- | publish from Lieutenant Hynes, of the Chal- the Senate with a view to ascertain the opin- | ions of that body before the instrument is | formally signed. The treaty, it is said, will be a comprehensive and liberal one, and will amount almost to a commercial union between | | passed by the Senate, has been agreed to by | the House. The United States government | is not liable, directly or indirectly, for any | expenses attending the exhibition; but the Centennial celebration receives by this bill a national endorsement. A wember from Penn- eylvonia (Mr. Randall) remarked that in vot- ing forthe amended bill he did not intend to dobar himself from asking others to advocate &@n appropriation for the Centennial, and he | believed the whole of the Pennsylvania dele- gation was of his way of thinking. It is evi- dent, therefore, that the members from that State do not give up hope of getting some Sppropriation from the federal government. Tux Srrvation 2 Paance.—The important news we priut this morning, to the effect that ists remembered the Lanterne, and they sent him to New Caledonia, We make this statement in justice to M. | Rochefort, and in order that our readers may | fully understand the meaning of his manifesto. | solved with the As the Brooklyn Eagle weil says, ‘Rochefort | isa man with aclear, distinct, defined pur- pose, and faith in that purpose,” and that “it is a mistake to sneer at the importance | attached to him as it was to sneer at the | importance of the early fanaticism of our own abolitionists, Garrison and John Brown.”’ | Having said this, it remains for us to say represents is not the party which can find | its exact relations to France, but it seems clear that he does not show us the | true road to republicanism. We cannot comprehend a genuine republican party formed | upon the sentiments he expresses, There is a | bitterness of tone, a savage, implacable hatred, | which forebode vengeance as severe as that | visited upon Archbishop Darboy should he | lenger, to Dr. Hayes, shows that no such land exists; that Wilkes saw, in fact, nothing but ice fields and icebergs. Thus we see one problem after another greater accuracy and perfection of scientific appliances; but it is not often that a whole continent is so suddenly bowled down, as if it were never had any such fear in America, although | but one of a set of ninepins, on the general | plan of progressive science. Notwithstand- ing, however, that the Challenger has in point of fact sailed over the land of Wilkes, yet we must believe that land does exist in the vicin- | further that the party which M. Rochefort | ity of the South Pole; for otherwise, while whatever ice might be formed upon the sea, | sympathy in America, This may, perhaps, | icebergs could not be created, inasmuch as | arise from our inability to comprehend | land is necessary, the iceberg being a frag- ment of the glacier, which is always of moun- tain origin, and, according to the best accounts, icebergs are more numerous and larger in the Antarctic than in the Arctic Seas. The truth is we know too little about either of these dreary regions of the earth. In the interests of commerce neither of the poles are likely ever to prove of greater value than for the the Right and Left Centres in the Assembly | 9nd his friends regain power. This is cer- | capture of whales, sea elephants and seals ; Propose to unite and support the government | on the basis of an acceptance of the Republic, | only confirms the theory we bave always ex- pressed, that MacMahon can only save himself by an honest and definitive acceptance of the | Republic. Let him do this and he will become the Washington of France. His government will be conservative, but republicanism in France cannot be too conservative. The proclamation of the Republic would be an act of rare political wisdom on the part of | MacMahon and 4 great blessing to France. | Tux Poetic Dent, according to the state- | ment just published, was reduced during the last month $4,456,895, This is uot equal to the monthly reduction previous to the panic, but it is gratifying to know there is a decrease of the debt, and that the Treasury Depart- ment is in @ position to use spare funds for that purpose. The Treasury has recovered from the shock, as we hope the country bas, in a great measure. Deducting the coin cer- tificates ($33,179,500) there was a balance of coin in the Treasury of $48,779,479 and a currency balance of $11,177,703. The out- standing legal tenders remained at $82,000,000. The gold sales for the month of Jane are to be $5,000,000, in four instal- ments—oamely, on the 4th, J1th, 16th and ev of the woth. tainly not the way to builda republic. “Dost thou well to be angry?’’ it is asked in the Scriptures, and the response is “I do well.’’ | But it is not well in any leader or, any party to expect o republic based upon “liberty, equality and fraternity’ | when its leaders feel towards their fellow citi- zens as M. Rochefort feels towards De Cissey and Gallifet and Vinoy. If France is ever to | be the France which all who love liberty | would like to see there must be room in it for all Frenchmen—for Bourbons and Bonapar- tists ay well as for republicans. The painful fact to the American mind in the declarations of this radical leader is the absence of any sentiment of fraternity or citizenship. M. Rochefort may say that it is hard to show “fraternity” to the commander of the troops | who shot Millitre; but we must remember what was done was in the fever of conflict, and men who claim to teach «liberty, equaliy and fraternity’ should show their belief in them by kindness and forgiveness to their ene- | miet, by remembering that France is large enongh for all Frenchmen. but to science they are of infinite importance, and in the new awakening of geographical exploration they cannot much longer be a simple ‘‘myth to the ignorant and wonder to the wise.” Let the Challenger go on in well doing, and we wish a like good future to our own scientific expedition in the Tusca- tora, which, under command of Commander Beiknap, United States Navy, has done such splendid work in the Pacific. Purety Vouwntary.—Mr. Banfield, recently Solicitor to the Treasury, has resigned, and seems to be particularly uneasy lest it shall not be well understood that this act was “purely voluntary’’ on his part. He was not opinion, although his relation to the Sanborn disclosures might naturally give rise to the ing a lucrative post. He did not even receive a little hint from persons in authority that his place was wanted. He was neither kicked out nor requested to leave. | If we had our preference in the government | of France it would, notwithstanding many | faults and blemishes, be the Presidency | ot M. Thiers. We think M. Thiers the | nataral head of a conservative republic, But | at the same time there are aualities in | he meang this as an imputation on his su- | | crowded out by any moral pressure, of public ; notion that that was the real cause of his leav- | His going was | | “purely voluntary.” He should now make | one more explanation and let us know whether | i i periors, who should have requested him to | resign, but failed to do so, or whether it is in- tended as taking to himself especial credit for a sense of official propricty. | lastly, why the liberal republican Thomas E. | euifering, burthened people ol the Soutu, Hi NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1874.—11urLH SHEET, The New Park Commissioner—What the Appointment Means. The venerable and vivacious Mr. Havemeyer is a man of surprises, He astonishes the community by his appointments to office, and sets all the politicians at their wits’ ends to diseover a motive for his apparently eccen- tric acta. We have already furnished a clew to the policy of his administration, which, singularly enough, no person seems to have found before we put people on the track. It is | that Mr. Havemeyer is running the municipal government in the interests of Mr. Have- meyer, and not in the interests of the Tam- many Hall ring, of the Custom House ring, of the city or of any other outside party. Viewed in the light of this explanation, much that was mysterious before in the conduct of the Mayor becomes intelligible. We can see why Charlick was made a Commissioner and the tottering Matsell » Superintendent of Po- lice ; why Stern and his family connections were imposed upon the Department of Chari- ties and Correction; why Hatch was ap- pointed a Fire Commissioner; why Whitte- more was made Acting Chamberlain; why the sunflower Disbecker was transplanted from a bleak, cheerless cellar of the City Hall to the well dressed and fertile meadow of Mulberry street headquarters; and, Stewart is made the successor of Mr. Wales in the Department of Public Parks. All these remarkable selections have a common object— a third term for the veteran Havemeyer, with all its gratifying consequences, including the reappointment of Comptroller Green, the con- tinued proscription of the indefatigable but unappreciated reformer, John Foley, and the burial of poor old Mr. Matsell with full police honors. Mr. Stewart has been appointed to the vacant Park Commissionership on the pledge that Mr. Havemeyer shall receive from that industrious little family party known by the name of liberal republicans a renomination for Mayor in the next election. With this entry for the race it is hoped that the Finance Department, the Police, the Fire Department, the Charities and Correction and other official aids acting as crutches for the nominee may carry him safely over the track. The artful old “sport” at the head of the municipal gov- ernment has observed that horses entered as “aged,” although compelled to carry extra weight, are frequently victorious over three and four year olds, and he flatters himself that he can pass the winning post ahead. We have no doubt that, with the assistance of Mr. Stewart’s organization, he would secure seven hundred votes, but this isa point which can only be decided at the close of the polls next Novem- ber. So far as the interests of the Park Department are concerned, we wish that Mr. Havemeyer had made a different sclection ; that he had appointed as Mr. Wales’ successor such a citizen as Leonard W. Jerome, whose name would have been a guarantee that the future management of the parks would have been such as the people desire. But this was scarcely to be expected, and perhaps we ought, under the circumstances, to be grateful that the Mayor’s selection has not been any worse. If Colonel Stebbins should consent to remain ® member of the Park CVommission we may yet hope for a reform in the department. At all events, the people of New York may con- gratulate themselves that the end of our present municipal government is near at hand, and that, despite the nomination of Mr. Stewart, we are not likely to have a repetition of Mr, Havemeyer in the executive chamber of the City Hail. The Czar and the Peace of Europe. The Emperor Alexander of Russia has re- turned to his capital, and, of course, the St. Petersburg press is talking loudly of the good work which he has done on his Western tour. The tour has been a very quiet one. If we could only believe that monarchs and great diplomatists could do anything like ordinary people, we might see in this little trip to and from the British capital nothing but a friendly visit to Her Britannic Majesty and her fam- ily, of which his only daughter has so recently become a member. It is far from improba- ble, however, that international politics dur- ing his tour largely occupied the Emperor's thoughts and engaged not a little of his time. He can do much to conserve the péace of Europe, but the preservation of the peace of Europe does not depend on him alone. There are others who must be consulted in the mat- ter, and who for good or for evil are quite as powerful as the Czar. It would not be diffi- cult to point out some signs of the times which are portentous of coming evil. France and Spain both hesitate and refuse to decide as to the respective merits of the Republic and the Monarchy. There is fresh talk about | German designs on Luxembourg. The East- ern question reposes; but it may be burst upon the world ina most dangerous form at any moment. It is well that the Ozar is in favor of peace; for although he could not pre- venta European war now any more than he could have prevented the late war between France and Germany, his word islaw to many millions of people and a mighty power in the councils of Europe, Grant anp THE SovTHern Democracy.— Commenting upon the reputed declaration of Judge Pierpont, that President Grant will not | only be re-elected, but get the support of the Southern democrats, the Lynchburg Virgin- ian, @ conservative organ, says: — He may return to his first Jove and determine, like Andrew Jonnson, to be a new Moses ior the | do all Unis, and unite in pimseli the s equi an available candidate even jor a third ter. has doue much to alienate the South irom him | and to subvert the confidence o: this people in his good intentions. But they migat ve content wo accept and use the conquéror vi the rebeilivn? to chastise the brazen-iaced party that ts the chief cause Of ail that they Wave Suffered since Lhe war. A Stontricant Pourrican Coanrrion m Kansas.—We learn from the Kansas City (Mo.) Times that the democrats, grangers, liberal republicans, and all other elements opposed to the republican party, have united on a common platform for the next campaign, which occurs in November. Kansas has been republican for twelve years, but this combina- tion is likely to revolutionize it, and end the era of corruption that has won for the State the title of the “rotten Commonwealth.” It | ig probable that similar coalitions will be made in many of the other Western States that will prove disastrous to the dorhinant | party and largely affect the complexion of | test. ‘This last combination is esvevially | | bia Union, in an article showing that capital | significant in that it shows that fhe grangers cannot be counted upon by the republican party in the electiqns occurring this fal. A convention of all anti-republicans has been called to meet at Lansing, Michigan, August 6, for a similar purpose, and with the more direct view of defeating Senator Chandler's re-election by the next Legislature. The Secretaryship of the Treasury. The President, as we anticipated yesterday, has nominated Mr. Bristow to be Secretary of the Treasury, Upon the celebrated principle laid down by the President at the outset of his administration, that he would as soon permit any interference in the choice of a wife as in the selection of a constitutional adviser, we should, in courtesy to the President, have lit- tle to say as to the fitness of Mr. Bristow. We will venture the expression, however, that he is a man of repute, as politicians go, with char- acter for integrity and business capacity, and thus far, although holding an important Wash- ington office, has borne a stainless name. We certainly trust, for the honor of the country and the success of the administration, that Mr. Bristow will be a competent Secre- tary. But he has no hold upon the country, His name gives no strength to the Cabinet, political or otherwise, and his appointment will be re- garded as another effort of the imagination which evolved Akerman out of the Dismal Swamp to be Attorney General, and discovered in a modest, amiable, retired East India mer- chant of Philadelphia the qualities for the control of the navy. We accept Mr. Bristow on trust, with kind- ness and welcome, meaning to give him all our aid in achieving success and hoping he may do well, He has a great chance if he be | one of those men who know opportunity and how to direct it. There is no duty more thank- less to a statesman than to take office at the fag end of an administration. For if the party in power goes out he goes with it, bearing all the odium and unpopularity that should be- long to his predecessors. Thus Judge Black, who was: made Secretary of State at the last moment by Mr. Buchanan, has been com- pelled to bear the burden of all Mr. Bu- chanan’s sins. A good Secretary of the Treasury can do more than any other officer to strengthen an sdministration, and especially | at this time, when everything depends upon | the financ’al questions. The tendency in many portions of the country, especially in the West, to divide the republican party on inflation and resumption, imposes upon the head of the Treasury a delicate responsibility. Our first grievance with Mr. Richardson, the outgoing Secretary, was that during the whole financial discussion in Congress, when it was of the utmos! consequence to know the policy of the administration, or whether it really bad a policy, he was silent and helpless, So far from knowing what the administration wished on the currency question, there was utter darkness, and the first light came in the shape of the veto. It may not be without interest to note that with the appointment of Mr. Bristow we havea call for a meeting of the Republican National Committee at Washington for purposes of con- sultation. Itis nota usual proceeding fora committee of this nature to meet during the existence of @ friendly administration. We are not instructed as to the motives inspiring | this call, but they are certainly subjects for speculation. There can only be two purposes for a ‘‘con- sultation” now. Either the republican party is in such @ comatose condition that these gen- tlemen come as physicians to find out the hidden cause of trouble and purge it from the body, or they may feel that it is wise to takea general inventory of effscts, of the leases, tenements, lands, messuages of the concern, i rtgages that be { bon ohare ae aay ‘betepee ts, ond ‘ Oscanyan Esfenal, it is said, ts returning to New see how solvent it is and what arrangements may be made for a continuance of business. It is just possible that these cunning men, skilled in all political affiirs, and resolute also, have made up their minds to put an end to the pres- ent crisis. It has been plain enough to many others than the National Committee that the republican party is in a dormant condition. It does not know what to do with General Grant nor how todo withouthim. Here is the one question which is in all men’s minds, but which no one has dared to ask the President— namely, Does he mean to run for a third term? John M. Francis, the editor of the Troy Times, claims to have actually asked the question, and he reports that the subject is “distasteful to the President.” Mr. Francis is a credible witness, and has been our Minister to Greece, where he no doubt became skilled in dealing with oracles, But we are mistaken if the committee does not require more explicit in- formation than he vouchsafes, Or it may just be possible that the commit- tec is not satisfied with what may be called | the Prosident's gift of evolution—the evolving | of shadows into the Cabinet like Akerman and | Borie and Bristow. Its members may have come to the conclusion that it is quite as im- portant toa party as it is toa President to have representative statesmen in the Cabinet, that a Secretary of the Treasury is something more than an aide-de-camp of the President, and a cabinet not quite a military staff. Tho earnestness with which the President has re- sisted these ideas is quite in harmony with his stubbornness of character. We can well under- stand how the members of the committee would concern themselves about this and ; other burning questions. We shall look for | the meeting with much interest. It may choose to discipline the President, which will do him no harm, if any good. It may feel | that a new departure is necessary to prevent a disgraceful defeat, or it may be, after all, a sol- emn conference of disappointed and anfortu- nate partners in business, preparatory to a gen- eral declaration of bankruptcy. A Compnrnxnstve Sucaxrstion.—The Colum- invested in cotton wills realizes over twenty- two per cent, suggests that the fifty thousand grangers in the State contribute one dollar a month and intrust the erection and manage- ment of mills to a board of directors, and thus | erect a sufficient number to manufacture the _ entire product of the State. Tae Union very sensibly remarks: — We cinnot afford to sell raw cotton for O‘teen cents and uy it back spun an! wove tor seventy- five ceuis aad one gol and, We must cease hiring Massachuset lode i@land to a) ail our spinning and weaving, and do it at home wad keep that money jp south Carolina. Such a policy will certainly largely redound | political parties in the next Presidential con- | to the wealth of the cotton producing States; but the great difficultv is that the veovle $$$ cannot, unaided by Northern or foreign capi- tal, raise the money with which to establish the mills, There are fewer more profitable doors for investments open than are to be found on the banks of the Mobile, Tombigbee, Mississippi, Chattahoochee, Savannah, Con- garee and Cape Fear rivers that flow through the heart of ‘‘cotton land.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Mayor W. G. Fargo, of Buffalo, is at the Aster House. Assistant Secretary of State William Hunter ts now tn Italy. Andy Johnson will speak at Pembroke, Md., on the 4th of Joly. Congressman J. M. Wilson, of Indiana, will not seek re-election. Mrs. General George H. Thomas has apartments at the Brevoort House. Rear Admiral W. R. Taylor, United States Navy, is at the Windsor Hotel. Colonel John McEnery has returned to New Orieans from Washington. General J. G. Foster, Cnited States Army, is reg- istered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. General Joseph R. Anderson, of Richmond, Va, is staying at the New York Hotel. Mgr. Mermiiod, the expeiled Archbishop ef Geneva, Switzerland, is now in Belgium. William H. Witte is tne editor of the Common- wealth, a new democratic weekly in Philadelphia. The “Mirabeau of orators’ and the “Murat of cavalries” is what @ Wisconsin paper calls General Kilpatrick. General James Watson Webb and family are im Geneva, They will return to this country on the 22d of August. General J, HM. Lediie and George M. Pullman, of Uhicago, are among the recent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Thakore of Bhownuggur, India, a youth of seventeen, lately es;oused four young ladies of royal blood at one time. Captain George Meade, United States Army, som of the late Major General Meade, yesterday ar- rived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. ‘The Marqais de Clermont-Tonnerre, Secretary of the French Legatiou, arrived from Washingtom yesterday at the Brevoort House, Mr. Henry Ruggles, our Consul at Barcelona for several years past, has resigned, and will retarn bome with his family in July or August. The Duchess of Edinburgh 1s to be presented with @ magnificent sapphire, valued a6 10,000 rupees, which was lately found in Ceyion. Prolessor C. i, F, Peters, of Hamtiton College, is at the Hoffman House. He is to be one of the | party about to start to witness the approaching transit of Venus. C.J. Brydges, late of the Canada Grand Trunk railway, has been commissioned by the Dominion to investigate the manag-meut of all the railways in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Vice President Henry Wilson, who was the guest of General Kilby Smith, at Torresdale, Pa., last week, is now at home in Massachusetts. He im tends soon to make a trip to the Norchwest, Colonel Manuel Freyre, Peruvian Minister at Washington, who bas been travelling in Europe for several months past on a leave of absence, ar- rived here in the steamship Republic on Saturday. The King of Siam is reported to have ongaze@ an American gentleman, Mr. Alabaster. to trans- late the Indian Civil Procedure Code into Siamese, Previous to its being introduced as the law ef Siam. Zack Chandler's return to the Senate is to be hotly contested it 18 said. His term expires with this Congress, A convention of all the clements in opposition to him and the republican party has been called for August 6. New Caledonia, the prison place of the Com- munists, has @ remarkable item of true ctviliza- tion in the person of a monopolist named Egiineon, &@ tradesman, who, it is said, is equally as ready to supply a church or @ factory as a busuel of apples to the people of Nouméa, President Grant 1s expected to arrive at the Fifth Avenue Hotel this morning from Washing- ton, he having accepted an invitation to lay the corner stono of the Museum of Natural History im this city to-day. The President will be accom- panied by General UV. E. Babcock and Secretary Fish. Oscanyan Effendi. Consul Genera! of Turkey in this city, recently arrived in Paris from Constanti- nople. He will soon return to this city. His visi¢ to Cons‘antinople was to procure the monetary recognition of his services as Consul General, which he was promised, and which his services to the Turkish governmen: during seven years well deserve. Having been foiled by the noneyed bad faith and general laxity of the Turkish authorivies York in disgust, and with che intention of giving up the worthless Consulship. NEW YORK EDITORS RETURNING, Purcape.ruta, June 1, 1874, The New York editorial excursion party have arrived here on their return from their trip through the Southern States and are at the Con- tanental, ARMY INCELLIGENGE, WasttNneron, June 1, 1874, Major John P. Brua, paymaster, and Captains Samuel K. Schwenk, Eighth cavairy, and B. T. Rittenhouse, Fifth artillery, have been ordered te be ready 1or examination belore the Retiring Board at New York when summoned. Capiain Wiilis Nelson, Twenty-first infantry, and First Lieutenant Jonu Tyler, First infantry, have been placed upon the list of retired oiicers whose disabilities result from ong and taithial service and irom exposure and wounds received in itne 01 duty. WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Wasuinaton, June 1, 1876, Passed Assistant Surgeon W. L. Ruth is ordered to duty with the Coast Survey; Passed Assistant Paymaster R, 8. McConnell, to duty at New Or leans; Chief Engineer George D. Emmons, to tué navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H, Assistant Engh neer H. N. Stephenson 18 detached from special duty at the Morgan [ron Works and ordered to Swatara, Projessor William Harkness 1s de! from the Naval Observatory and ordered to thé Swatara in connection with the transit of Venus Captain George H. Preble is ordered to the com mand o/ the Philadelphia Navy Yard and the naval Station at League Island, relieving Commodore J; R, M. Mullaney, who is detached therefroin an peas to we command of the North Atlante station. THE PHILADELPHIA NAVY YARD, The New Comm: t Assumes his De tles— Description of the Ceremonies= Sketch of the Incumbent. PHILADELPHIA, June 1, 1874, At three o’clock this afternoon an tmportam change waa made at the Navy Yard of this city, the tormer commandant, Commodore Madisos Mailaney, being succeeded by Captain Georxe Preble, The ceremonies of the occasion were ex ceedingiy simple. At the hour tndicated above the new commandant entered the Navy Yard, re by a salute from the receiving ship, and Soon te firing of the last gun Commodore Rater fefacaeeitene i Sout enn an | Mn iC COAI UE, aici: San NEW pein tain Prebie, is a native of Maine, entered the ore 1D 1866, participated in the Mexican war upos Alvarado 1p 1846, served in the Kast ludis squad Ton and tn 1858 Was commissioned a lteutenant He parucipated bravely in our civil strie, tak part in 18é4 in the batrie of Boney Hil, 5. C., also three actions at Devereaux Neck, S. U., during th same year, Since then te has received important ‘ enarges at Boston anu other cities, His predeces sor, Commodore Mullauey leaves New York, Jume 6, to take charge of the Nortn Atiantic squadron, 8AD DBOWNING AOCIDENT, Lovisvitie, Ky., June 1, 1874 Lewils Trausol! ana three boys, named Wille Harden, Charlie Pitt and Rovert Lioyd, ail of New Albany, While out in a skid? on Saturday evening were drawn under a cual varge and aii drown THE SCHUYLEILL REGATTA. Puitaperraia, June 1, 1874 At a meeting of the schuylkill Navy Board ta Night it was stated thac tue entries for the Opes regatta to be neid on vhe 17th and 18th instant would close Wednesday evening. ‘Tha COMMILLe® On Prizes also made tein enor ts