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

€ NEW YORK HERALD! The Third Term Question. This question divides itself into two parts— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. First, whether President Grant desires and — can secure a third nomination by the repub- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, to a constitutional provision. We insert this pertinent extract from the note:—‘There is @n important fact bearing upon this question which should be stated in conneetioa with it. Some Advice to President Scott. Thomas A. Scott, of Pennsylvania, has been elected President of the Pennsylvania Central Railway Company. The cheerful Wall street JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the | year. Four cents per copy. Agnua) subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx | Henan. 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, - . | purely fancifal and visionary. | tended that Grant could not possibly think of | running for a third term, and that even if he | nothing need be said at present, when half | the newspapers of the country are discussing | which concedes that it rests in| the choice of the President himself | whether he will be again the candidate lican party; and, secondly, whether his nom- ination and election would be dangerous to our free institutions. When, last year, the Hzratp sounded a note of alarm, and dis- cussed af some length both branches of the question, an incredulous portion of the public press attempted to belittle the subject by alleging that the apprehended danger was | be a third It was con- did, and was elected, his success would be no just occasion of alarm. It will not be difficult to show that our contemporaries were in error on both these heads, As to the first, the question of a renomination in a tone | of the party which has twice elected him. | President Washington established the prac- tice of declining a third election, and every one of his successors, either from a sense | of its propriety or from apprehensions of | the force of public opinion, has followed the example; so that it has become as much a partof the constitution that no citizen can | reporters tell us that ‘great confidence is felt in Mr. Scott’s management,” and | that “he is now, by all odds, the | most powerfal railroad man in the world.” When we come to inquire into the reasons for this resonant compliment we learn that in addition to his new dignity ‘the is already elected President as if it were | President of the Pennsylvania Company, the | expressed in instrument.” De Tocque- | agency by which the Pennsylvania Railroad ville’s able chapter on this subject is well | jeases several Western roads; President also worth republication at length, and unless | of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis General Grant drops his suspected intention | Railroad; of the Texas Pacific and the Atlan- we shall take occasion to lay it before our | tic and Pacific;” ‘a controlling direetor of readers; but it may suffice tor the present to | the Southern Railway Security Company, call attention to the fact that the most saga- | which has the management of a great network cious and philosophical foreign commentator | of railroads in the South,” ‘and a director in on American institutions bas stated reasons | a large number of other roads” The Penn- of great cogency and force against even one | sylvania Central goes from New York to the re-election of a President. | West like one of the old Roman roads of the De Tocqueville's opinion on this subject is | Empire. We take the deepest interest in the corroborated by the publicly declared views of | gentlemen who are intrusted with its affairs, the two most eminent and remarkable states- | We have no doubt Mr. Scott will make an OLYMPIC THEATRE, way, between Houston and Bleecxer streets — POMEIY BRTRRTAINMENT, at 70 P M.; closes at | WS P.M. Matinee at 2P. M WOOD'S MUSEUM, which attaches to that office since the war, may | Broadway. corner of Thirtieth street—CHRIS AND LENA, at 2 P.M; closes at 4:30 Same at 8 P.M; closes at 10:30 P’ M. Baker and Farron. DEN, \d Houston streets. THE M.; closes wt 10:45 P.M. Ione Burke. Matinee at his influence for that purpose. So convinced have many of our leading contemporaries be- come that the idea of a third election is not LADY OF-THE LAKE, a Mz. Joseph Wheelock and Miss 2PM. waiton drece, appaaiee the Clty” Hall Tragattantle Novelty Company. ats P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mat- A am ea | w journal which has long been in pronounced hostility to Grant and was an ardent promoter of the Cincinnati Convention m 1872, has recently attempted to show that a third elec- tion would not be an event to make any great a een oe eee | fuss about, inasmuch as it could happen only LYCEUM THEATRE, | by the votes of the American people who ; et, near Sixth avenue.—LA PRINCESS Ferrie ee Mv cues at 0 PM. Alle. kva | Would retain their freedom to vote against him | THBATRE COMIQUK, Qlo. 5l4 Broadway.—ON HAND, and VARIETY ENTER- TAINMENT, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:0 P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M WaLLACK’S THEATR: Broadway and Thirteenth stree.—FATE, at 8 P. M.; closes at it P. 2PM. —— ——-— | for a fourth term if they should not continue | NY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, eee as ge ; Bowery JACK, HARKAWAY AMONG THE BRI- j to like him. Nothing could be more idle than GANDS, ab 6P. M.; choses at 10 20 P.M. for a leading anti-Grant journal to promulgate | \ this reassuring view, if there be no) | danger of his re-election. It would be all-suf- | eels ficient to say that he cannot possibly be re- CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, , | elected if there was any good warrant for | ace Parag cloves Astin end oy | holding that opinion. "The fact that such an | opinion is now felt to be untenable is a full | vindication of the forecasting sagacity of the | = | Hemarp in rousing public attention to this | Thirty-dith ‘street.-LONDON BY | danger last year. It only remains, therefore, sr ghia nines werdiad wae | to vindicate the soundness of the Henap’s | judgment in thinking that such an event would | be fraught with extreme peril to our institu- | tions. | We do not ask the country to pay implicit | T R I P ip E S H E E T, | deference to our unsupported opinions. We | = are aware of the grudging reluctance with 1874. | which credit is given, either toa public man or = = @ public journal for more than one kind of From our reports this morning the probabilities excellence. Whena journal has acquired the | are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy | Heraup’s reputation for procuring news su- | and warm. | perficial minds are apt to imagine that this | Wart Srrezt Yesterpay.—Stocks yesterday} | is incompatible with a cool, clear judgment of were dull and fluctuating. Gold opened anl the dritt of political tendencies, and when it) closed at 111}, the best price being 111g. _| €*Presses an opinion which is both true and — ee | startling it is attributed to a desire to make a Tue Werarser in England does not indi- | sensation, and exact inquiry is seldom made | cate a good harvest. | imto its soundness. What the Hxraxp said | | last year as to the stupendous peril of | electing a President for a third term was, in substance, the opinion of the greatest | and most trusted statesmen who have | Tue Hovse or Representittves has passed | acted leading parts ig our government, | resolution directing that all articles sentto and of the most philosophic foreign observ- BRYANT’S OPERA HOU ‘Twenty-third street, pear Sixth avenu STRE! SY, dc. at 8 P.M.; closes at 10 P, EGRO MIN- . Matinee at wi ¢: ROBINSON HAL! Ly (txteenth street, near Broadway.—Butlock's Royal Ma- zionettes, at 8 P. M. P.M. P ROMAN HIPPODROME, jadison avenue and Twenty-sixth street.—GRAND ‘AGEANT—CONGHESS OF NATIONS, at 1:3) P. M. and New York, Saturday, June 6, Tre Facr that Jefferson Davis is coming home seems to be important enough to be made the text of a despatch from London. terials for“ his great work. We refer | son, then President by the votes of the triumphant democracy. Both of these dis- | tinguished political leaders thought that the dent. We will first quote the views of An- drew Jackson. In his first annual Message to Congress that great democratic statesman and | the constitution giving the election of the | President to the direct choice of the people. | He added:—‘In connection with such an | amendment it would seem advisable to limit | the service of the Chief Magistrate toa single | term, of either four or six years.” Henry Clay, | the great and equally idolized whig leader, recommended in a speech he made in 1840 an amendment to the constitution embodying | “@ provision to render a person ineligible to | the office of President of the United States | after a service of one term.” | De Tocqueville cannot be regarded as a | mere theoretical speculator on our insti- tutions when his judgment is thus cor- | roborated by the formally declared opinions | of the two most illustrious and experienced American statesmen of that period. But if one re-election of a President is contrary {o sound policy, what ought to be said of two or an indefinite number? It is notorious that a President during his first term spends his time m intriguing for a second, whereas if he were limited to a single term he would have no motive but to promote the good of the country. If it be once conceded that a Presi- dent may be perpetually re-elected, without any limitation, every second term becomes as bad es a first, and every administration is debased into an electioneering intrigue for the succession. When the Southern States seceded it was for their obvious interest to court public approbation by such approved changes as general experience sanctioned. They, accordingly, extended the Presidential term to seven years, and forbade a re-election. | There can be no reasonable doubt that that was a wise provision, introduced with a view to reconcile doubtful supporters to seces- sion by connecting it with a real and unde- | | Scott, that he The truth seems to be recognized now that a | men who made a figure in our public life at | acceptable President. A man who has risen | President who wields the colossal patronage | the time he visited this country to gather ma- | from the village school and a wayside freight office to be “the most powerful railroad man easily secure a majority of the delegates to the | to Henry Clay, the acknowledged leader | in the world” must have many qualities de- National Convention, if he chooses to exert | of the whig party, and Andrew Jack- | manding our respect. His new station, how- ever, will be so highly perfumed with that incense of praise which always follows new presidents, no matter the extent or variety of chimerical, that one of the ablest and federal constitution ought to be so amended | their functions, that it may not be unwelcome | shrewdest of them, the Cincinnati Commercial, | 8 to preclude even one re-election of a Presi- | for us to give him a word or two of advice. The first thing that appears to us is that Mr. Scott has too much todo. Napoleon Bona- | parte, sometime French Emperor, had con- popular idol recommended an amendment to | spicuous success in handling the French Em- pire. He was as gifteda man as Mr. Scott, even if all that is told of Mr. Scott is true, and was regarded by complimentary journalists just as Mr. Scott is regarded now by the same class as “the most powerful man in the world.”” His troubles began when he permitted his ambition to carry him beyond the French Empire, to aim at becoming “a controlling director” in | German and Russian affairs, and in the man- agement of a “great network” of kingdoms and principalities. Complimentary journalists say now of Napoleon Bonaparte what we trust they will never have cause tosay of Mr. was too sanguine, too daring, too reckless, that he forgot that human endurance had a limit, and that when man was made by the Almighty the Supreme intention was that he should be of the universe and not its master. Compli- mentary journalists have a way of following success with incense and failure with moral reflection, only the incense is apt to come too early and the moral reflection too late. Mr. Scott can be the efficient President of one railway company; but we are afraid he must neglect three or four at least when he assumes the control of five or six. To us it seems that the Southern Security Company, if it really | means to manage “a great network of rail- | roads in the South,” is a tremendous, and, | | no doubt, praiseworthy undertaking for one man. If this company or any one man in it can in twenty years succeed in reconstructing the railway system of the South he will be- | come a public benefactor. But he cannot do | this and at the same time direct the Pennsyl- | vania Central. Our advice to Mr. Scott is to | retire from one or the other. Then this matter of Pacific railways is some- | thing! Jay Cooke was a great man in his the United States for exhibition at the Cen- | ers who have closely studied our institutions. ; niable improvement. It must be apparent to | day, quite as conspicuous as Mr. Scott, and tennial Exhibition in Philadelphia shall be | The arguments we presented when we intro- | admitted free of duty. This is only a proper | duced this subject ought to have been con- inducement to foreign manufacturers who | vincing; but for the sake of those who regard | care to risk land and sea travel to take part | high authority as of greater weight than sound | in the display. | reasons we will show that our opinions are | Gee _, | such as all judges of recognized competence | Tae ConGRess oF EUROPEAN Powers which | have felt themselves compelled to adopt after | is to meet at Brussels, July 15, will consider | mature reflection on this subject. Lest our the subject of international law during a time | citations should seem tedious we will sclect of war. There is no question of greater im- | oniv names of the first distinction and repro- | portance, and if it can be satisfactorily set- duce only fragments of their emphatic lan- tled the Great Powers will save the expense | gmage. and annoyance of joint high commissions, and | We begin with Jefferson, » man of genius | be able to shake hands instead of doubling up | 44 political sagacity, if we have ever had one | their fists at each other. | in our public affairs. He was the first of our Ovz Proms have reached the pleasant | great statesmen who ever expressed himself | Pyrenean town of Lourdes and have made | With decision on this question. In 1807, their devotions at the beautiful grotto by the | When Jefferson’s second term was approach- side of the mountain stream rendered memo- | ing its honored close, the legislatures of | rable by the prayers and visions of the Sister | several States made formal addresses to him | readers who attend to even the few authorities | which our space has allowed us to cite that | the Heraxp, in its warning protest against the advent of Omsarism, was only repeating the | mature, settled convictions of the greatest statesmen and most philosophic writers who have deliberately examined this subject. Tue Preswent has taken the somewhat ex- traordinary step of communicating his views to the country on financial questions in the shape of a memorandum addressed to Senator Jones, of Nevada. The constitution provides that all expressions of opinion of this charac- ter on the part of the Executive shall be communicated to Congress in the form of a message. We presume there will be some temper shown by the inflationists in ref- erence to what may be regarded as an infringement of the rights of Congress. The country, however, will not be over- Bernadotte. A sacred banner, woven by | requesting him to stand fora third election. American hands, was suspended in the lofty | To all those addresses he replied in a tone of nave amid the other silken and laced trophies | grateful, appreciative courtesy, and in all the | of devotion. From thence the company went | Feplies, though differing in other respects, he to Marseilles, proposing to go to Rome by sea, | inserted, in precisely the same words, this | iS AAT pesca | deliberate and carefully prepared passage :— Ir Was proposed in the Senate yesterday to «If some termination to the services of the | send a copy of the Agricultural Report to | Chief Magistrate be not fixed by the constitu- | “each organized grange of the Patrons of | tion, or supplied by practice, his office, nomi- | Husbandry.” The Senate rejected the motion, nally for years, will in fact become for life ; | feeling, wisely, that it would be as absurd to | and history shows how easily that degencrates | recognize these fantastic organizations as it | into an inheritance. Believing that a/ would have been to recognize the old Know | representative government, responsible at Nothing dark lantern clubs. } short periods of election, is ‘Toe Western Crusapers seem to have | Which produces the greatest sum of happiness drawn the green curtain down. While on the | to mankind, I feel it a duty to dono act | stage they attracted a great deal of attention | to the general subject of temperance, and un- doubtedly accomplished some good. The trouble with such an eccentric movement, however, is that the ladies can pray on the | sidewalk in pleasant weather only, while the | which shall essentially impair that principle, | and {should unwillingly be the person who, | illustrious predecessor, should furnish the | first example of prolongation beyond the sec- | ond term of office.” The country ac- | disregarding the sound precedent set by an | } critical, especially as the President has as much right to express his views ag any other citizen, and the country may take them for what they are worth. It has beena subject of complaint, too, that the adminis- tration has never had a policy on financial questions, and that Congress has been com- pelled to legislate in the dark. So, on the whole, this is a wise, frank, manly step on the part of the President. His views are, in the main, sound, and, if adopted, will serve the best interests of the country. They form a striking contrast to the wild delusions of his predecessor on the same subject, and should be read with attention and profit by the Rocky Mountain statesmen and others who believe that the way to resume specio payments is to buy a few printing presses and issue reams of new ‘‘currency.”’ We Part elsewhere a full translation of | Feflections which as yet have no end. rumsellers can deal in logwood all the year | round. Tue Memogiat presented to the House of | Representatives by Mr. O'Neill, of Pennsyl- | vania, in favor of arate of postage of one | cent a pound on newspapers and two centsa | pound on other periodicals seems to be based upon a sound principle—the principle that in the postal service revenue comes from cheap, | and not dear, postage. Tax Fant Exxzcrioys asp THE CUcRRENcr | Quzsrion.—There are seventeen State conven- tions announced to meet between June 10 and August 26, and the Chicago Tribune, referring to this fact, declares that the financial ques- | tion must be considered by each one. It ar- gues that, Congress having failed to settle the | question, ‘“‘the conventions must take cogni- | vance of it. Itis the question on which the | elections in the fall should be made to turn. Candidates should pledge themselves to one side or the other on this all-important prob- ' lem. The candidate for election or re-elec- tion to Congress who is non-committal on the Currency bill and the President’s veto, or on the course he will advocate himself, whether as Senator or Representative, when the question Comes up again, should be branded as a cow- a a ‘C- | the speech of M. Rochefort at the Academy of | cepted Jefferson's well weighed views on this, | Music last evening. This will be an appro- as it has on almost every other subject, and | priate pendant to the now celebrated mani- | complimentary journalists incensed him as he | went up, and improved his fall with moral | If | we are not badly informed Jay Cooke assumed the management of one Pacific | railway, and it threw him. Yet here Mr. | Scott is in charge of two, not to speak | of “the great network’’ of Southern rail- | ways and the Presidency of the Pennsylvania Central. Does ue really expect to build these railways, and if so where is he to find the money? In Congress, perhaps, or in foreign markets. Well, we can think of no more dismal errand just now than a pilgrimage to Washington to lobby for a subsidy, unless, perhaps, it is a journey to London to induce Englishmen to invest the money they have saved out of Emma Mine and other ‘‘unparal- leled opportunities” in Pacific railways. And when we consider that this duty devolves upon one who is already President of a mighty railway, not to speak of the “great network,’’ we cannot but have our | fears. We have nothing against Pacific rail- ways. To be sure, we do not acceptall the | “statistics’’ as to land values and the income | from the buffalo and antelope trade, nor have we a perfect faith in Sioux and Arapahoes as the basis of a steady passenger traffic, and we cannot overcome the prejudice that pop- ulation of some kind is necessary to sustain a railway—we mean o population of men, | not coyotes and prairie dogs ; but at the same | time we should like to have a railway across every parallel of latitude so long as we do not have to advance the money. Mr. Scott may | have a noble ambition to build these roads. Let him indulge it! But our advice to him would be either to give his mind to one thing | or the other—to the Pennsylvahia Central or | the Pacific. He cannot manage both any more than Napoleon Bonaparte, ‘the most | powerful man in the world,’’ could manage France and Spain. | We trast our Greedmoor friends will have good the Pennsylvania Central the most efficient and useful railway in the United States, and content himself in the doing of that work alone, and he will have fame enough for one man to enjoy, and the feeling, when evening falls upon him, that his labors have been full of fruit and comfort, and not ending, as the labors of so many great men from Napoleon Bonaparte down have ended, in bankruptcy, disappointment and despair. Our Summer “Opening Day.” The trusty chronicler of weather news gives token of @ goodly day for the races. From our reports in another column the display at Jerome Park will surpass any meeting ever before known on the American turf. We call the opening at the Park our American Derby from the tendency to compare every event in America with a corresponding circumstance abroad. We select our adjectives in a spirit of emulation, for the Jerome opening is an event more attractive in itself than any foreign festival of the same character. Necessarily, a meeting of this kind must be peculiarly Amer- ican in spirit The great races in England and on the Continent are interna- tional. French horses have won the Derby and English horses have won the Grand Prix. There is scarcely a meeting at Longchamps or on the Epsom Downs which does not fly the colors of English and French turfmen. Our Derby is almost absolutely a contest be- tween American horses. It is interesting to note, also, as an illustration of what we have succeeded in doing with our turf, that the American horse has become as distinctive an animal for speed, endurance and the highest qualities of blood as the famous steeds of Europe, and there is every reason to hope that with the present spirit of progress and the extraordinary interest taken by our people in the improvement of the horse, we may have animals surpassing in the highest qualities even those of Andalusia and Arabia. The meeting at Jerome Park is an interest- ing event in another sense. It is the opening of that season of outdoor life the development of which is becoming so marked. a feature of our American character. During the win- ter we hibernate. Our social life is not unlike the seclusion of those birds and beasts who hide from the cold and snow. We en- crust ourselves in society and lie hidden and baked away under the protection of the opera and banquets, the close ballroom and the crowded lecture hall We shrink from the winter, which Northern nations welcome, and find our comforts under the gaslights and before the blazing fire. But with spring our whole life opens, and we become like the birds and beasts who seek the green fields and streams, the mountain air and the sweet sunshine as soon asthe days begin to lengthen. Who is it that says we area sad, tired, solemn, heavy-eyed people, with no laughter or merriment or boyishness in our nature? Here is our Derby Day, to which so many of our men and women have been look- ing forward with anticipation, which will pre- sent, if all auguries do not fail us, as brillianta spectacle in the way of fashion, dress, variety, beauty and splendor, as ever the Academy on the gala nights when Nilsson sank in tenderness and love on the bosom of her devoted but exacting Lohengrin. Almost before the applauding echoes die away from the Westchester hills we shall have our beautiful bay burdened with snowy- winged crafts, as airy and gentle as woman- hood itself, and impatient for the sea, After this regatta we shall have the college regattas—about which our young men are so excited that they find no poetry in Horace and no comfort in the exact sciences. The base ball clubs are polishing their bats and planning their willowy campaigns, which will scarcely end until, like Napoleon’s army in Russia, they are defeated by the elements ; and all over the country we have evidences of the opening summer life. Here, for instance, is the meeting of the National Rifle Association at Creedmoor. We | have some of the best shots in the world in | America, especially in the new open countries, / where the pioneer’ s family consists of his rifle, | his axe and his horse, and a good gun has the first place in manly affections. If some way could be found to bring these expert gentlemen together we should have better scores than were ever seen at Wimbledon. We have never ranked our Rocky Mountain statesmen as | authorities on finance and inflation, but when it comes to the rifle, at long range or short | range, they could give our resumptionists | points and beat them in the game. In Eng- land and on the Continent these rifle meetings have become national institutions, and, as the | skies are generally burdened with warlike | omens, the utmost interest is taken in the suc- cess of the various meetings. We may be | thankfal that no such purpose inspires us; Senator Conkling that the principle is wron, and that if it is justified by any precedent the sooner that precedent is disregarded the better for economy and public justice. Waar Is tae Marren wv Kansas? —Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, has gone home to stand his trial for bribery. Upon his arrival at Topeka he discovers that the very men who have been pressing the charge of bribery against him, the high-toned Senator York, who defeated him, among the number, “have consented, and even urged, that the case be not proceeded with.” “About one-third of the State Senators, and four hundred promi- nent men throughout the State, have joined in a protest asking the same thing.” The Judge, we are told, has taken the letters and petitions into consideration and will soom decide. This is an extraordinary story. If Senator Pomeroy is guilty let him suffer. What right has the Judge to listen to appeals and entreaties from ‘‘the prominent men’ in the State? The truth, we suspect to be, is that the men who have been assailing Pomeroy are as bad as he is said to be, and that they fear his anger if he is pressed too hard. But it shows a low tone in Kansas to find a judge open to the influences now surrounding Judge Morton. Goop News gxom THE Sovrs.—We have better news from the South as to the crops, It now seems to be conceded that the disasters to sugar, rice and cotton will be less serious than was at first anticipated. We learn that in many of the large cotton districts the water has subsided so as to permit the work of replanting to commence ; and,as the Rich- mond Enquirer intorms us, if the new plant can be got in by June 15 the prospect for a good crop will be encouraging, as ‘‘the rich alluvial deposit will strengthen and hasten the growth of the cane and cotton plant.’” ‘Rice,’ we are further told, “will not be greatly injured if the large volume of water is speedily removed from it. Precisely such & condition of things prevailed in 1858 and 1859, and the cotton crop of those years was without precedent in extent of yield and firmness of texture.” Tae British Paruiament aro talking and thinking more about religion than they hava done for years. Not that they are practising its precepts; far from it. That would be a dangerous experiment to try, and would prob- ably produce a revolution in twenty-four hours. There is no harm, however, in talk- ing about the kind of religion which other people ought to enjoy. The Archbishop of Canterbury has fairly sat down on the ritualists, and is anxious to get a majority of the officials to do the same, in which case they will be. flattened out as effectually as though one of the pillars of St, Paul's had fallen on them. The Duke of Richmond is very anxious about the Church of Scotland. He cannot be happy until its disestablishment is complete. He talks about it continually, and even condescends to doa bit of lobbying in that direction now and then. The Arch- bishop of York is troubled about the scandal connected with livings, and well he may be. He hopes the time will come when parishes will be able to choose their own ministers ; but there is a large moneyed interest to fight, and money is worth as much in England as it is anywhere else. On the whole it is a great relief to hear the members of Parliament talking about other people’s religious affairs, even if they have none of their own to attend to. Wate Ta Comaisstonens or ACCOUNTS are engaged in an investigation of the Department of Charities and Correction it will be well for them to inquire into the manner in which the “census” is kept. How many persons are entered twice as part of the population? How long are names kept on the books after those who bear them have left the institution? How many prisoners, paupers, invalids and children are at the present moment in the institution under charge of the Commissioners? These points are important and should be thor- oughly investigated. Some Sxrewp Cuemtst has discovered that gold, not in very large proportion, we are sorry to say, forms one of the ingredients of salt water. Who knows but we may be able to extract coin enough from the East River to pay the public debt withal? That would cer- tainly prove to be an ‘‘extract” worth having. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, 92S TET EE CY Judge Josiah G, Abbott, of Boston, is at the Bre- voort House. Bishop Hendricken, of Providence, is residing at the Grand Centra! Hotel. Assemblyman Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, N. Y., i3 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Congressman T. M. Pomeroy, of Auburn, N. Y., 18 registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. that, so far as we can read our skies, there will be no rifle shooting in angry, bloody war for our generation. But it is well to know how to shoot, and as we never can be sure about to- morrow, it is wise not only to have our pow- der dry but to know how to use it. So that shooting during their meeting, and that when the ‘Trish team” comes to dispute honors with our Yankee marksmen its members will carry nothing back but remembrances of courtesy and good feeling. The Jerome opening is really the Commence- no State Legislature and no body of citizens | ever afterwards suggested even to the most admired and popular President, a wish that he should be re-elected after a second term. Since 1807 the views of that great and gifted | | statesman on this point have been accepted | with as implicit = deference as if they | were a part of the constitution. In- | deed, very eminent and able public | man, a distinguished member of the whig | or anti-Jefferson party, regarded the usage | festo addressed to the Hrratp a few days since, and which has attracted so much atten- tion. The lecture sustains M. Rochefort’s reputation as a literary man of re- markable merit. Its whole tone, however, is repugnant to republicanism, as we under- stand it, and nothing could be more disas- trous to France than the triumph of its | author and his friends. M. Rochefort is still | @ young man, who has made a noted name | and has done a great deal of harm. Our best thus settled by Jefferson as equivalent in | wish for him is that he may learn modera- | moral force and binding obligation to @ con- | tion, wisdom and patience, and especially the i stitutional inhibition. We refer to John ©. | truth that France is large enough for all | Spencer, the eminent New York lawyer and | Prenchmen, and not simply for those who | statesman, who was solicited by the pub-! wear the bonnet rouge. lishers of the American reprint of the — Finally, Mr. Scott would do well to avoid a | ment Day of our summer life. The tides premature candidacy for the Presidency of the | of humanity that sweep along our thread- | United States. It was an axiom of the la- | ing boulevards from Manhattan to West- | mented Horace Greeley that in a tree country | chester will see a picture that will not be | any man could be a candidate for the Presi- | equalled on the road to Longchamps or the dency, and, if not overcome by scruples of | Derby—the panorama “of happy, ‘nestling modesty, be sure of at least one vote. Far be | homes, embowered in greenery and natural it from us to deny this privilege to Mr. Scott, | beauty; the sweeping fields and sloping | but at the same time if a true man takes care | hills, skirted by river and Sound, rich in the of a railway as important as this that now falls | evidences of wealth and culture and material to Mr. Scott he can well afford to lay aside all | prosperity; richer in the old associations going | Presidential aspirations. We have not always ; back to the times of Jay and Hamilton and been free from the impression that a nomina- | Washington—where else can they be seen but tion of a railway magnate to the Presidency | in this noble Harlem valley? There will be | indicates au expression of rural editorial | moral reflections also ag to what Manhattan | gratitude for a free ticket or a yearly adver- | might be, had our rulers courage and wisdom, English translation of De Tocqueville's cele- A Goupen Rowe. —The editor of the Journal, | | brated “Democracy in America” to edit that | of Bucyrus, Ohio, lays down a golden rule | | Great sig work and supply correc- | to the editorial profession when he says, } tive notes. one of its chapters De Tocque- | ‘Editors should rise above asking any priv- | | ville takes decided and admirably reasoned | ileges whatever. There was no other business | tisement. It would be well to make these | and, instead of governing us to please one courtesies to the press the recompense for | ring and another, had given us rapid transit | silence on all such subjects. Bands of music | and a generous highway system, and regarded and outpourings of the people and banquets | Westchester, not as an abandoned Western are to be avoided. This is to impose a great | prairie, but as a suburb of the metropolis and | Ground against the re-election of American | | Presidents permitted by the foderal constitu- | tion. Mr. Spencer, in a long note appended | to that chapter, treated the settled usage of ord, « trickster and a vettifogger.” never re-electing a President beyond his sec- | ond term as invested with a sacredness caual | which was permitted to send its productions i through the mail, and he conld see no reason why any editor should condescend to accept it.”’ Editors are like other men in this battle of life, and have no righta but what they can | honor, atter all, to be ‘‘the most important | we cannot imagine how it can fora moment | railroad Let him make | purchase or earn. restraint upon a city as eloquent and hospi- table as Philadelphia, with its tendency to | celebrate every human achievement in terrapin and song. But Mr. Scott must be equal to the highest responsibilities. It is only a barren | man in the wasla'! | Senatorial honors the full salary and allow- deserving metropolitan care. Tue Prorosrtion to pay contestant for ances of a Senator seems to be so absurd that be entertained. We entirely agree with Major Walter McFarland, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, is quartered at the Glenham Hotel. Chief Engineer William W. W. Wood, United States Navy, has arrived at the Union Square Hotel. George W. Childs and Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, have apartments at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. Mr. Sauermiich passed his examination at the Academy with great success. He was just the cheese on all the bard points. The last little girl who has “roped” ber way to glory !s a daughter of Dennis Maloney, of Rondout, who jumped 233 times and then died. Ohtef Justice Sanford E. Church and Clerk E. 0. Perrin, of the Court of Appeals, arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel last evening trom Albany. Dimitraki Aristarcht Bey, the Turkish Minister who was Istely injured by the explosion of an tn- fernal machine, is yet in a very precarious state. Assistant Attorney General C. A. Hill arrived from Washingcon yesterday at the Brevoort Honse. He sails for Europe to-day in the steam- ship Parthia, Eliza Stanbrough, @ married woman, of Nabie- ton, Ind, has just become the mother of a baby with two perfect heads, the extra one growing out from the apine. Leach, of North Carotina, has been in the pubiia service in Congress and elsewhere a quarter of a century, and now he says he is poor and must take up some honest occupation. ‘An Ohio editor was compelled to pay a cent for calling @man & scalawag. This is because hard names “butter no parsnips.” They would be worth more money If they did. Mr. Sawyer, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, has left that department. His departnre, like that of Solicitor Banfleld, was “purely voluntary ;” that ig to say. he was metaphorically kicked out. Mr. J. D. Cameron, son of the Pennsylvania Senator, arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday from West Point, where be has been discharging his duties as member of the Board of Visitors. ‘ Mrs, Bread, of Sullivan county, Ilmots, has vers. fied the Scriptural injunction, “Cast your bread upon the waters,” Xo, She cast her buy’nand (Bread) into 9 millspond, but he came bac. uns2v- nad snd crnsty.