The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the wear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price 91%. All business or news letters and telegraphic deepatches must be addressed New Youx Haeaayp, Letters and packages should be prop- erly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re turned. 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. | NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, m Prince and tH: streets. THE LADY OF THE CAKE. nt 8 P. M,; closes at 10% P.M, Miz, Joseph Wheelock abd Miss fone Burke. vutton net, opraite the Cy Halt OLE PAVILLON t, the - ROUGE, at SPM: closes at 10:30 P.M. Mise Minnie | THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 614 Broadway.—THE BOY DELKCTIVE, at 3P. M.; closes at 10:4 i’. M. Miss Alice Harrison. WALLACK’S THEATR) Broadway and Thirteenth street —FATB, at 8 P.M; closes at ll P.M. Mtiss Carlotta Le Clercq. 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We | are naturally much interested in the proceed- ings of this Congress, for no country seems | to be free from the path of this destroyer. Tae Boarp or Assistant ALDERMEN on mo- | tion of Mr. Clancy have adopted a resolution | directing the joint committee of the Alder- | manic Boards already in existence to investi- gate the Department of Charities and Correc- tion. This is a proper resolution, as it enables the committee to administer an oath to wit- nesses and to send for persons and papers. The Commissioners of Accounts now engaged | in an examination of the department do not | possess that power, and enough has been | shown to prove that a searching investigation | is needed. The joint committee should call | the Commissioners of Accounts to their aid. | Tae Pauestrvz Expioration Exprprrion.— It has been known for some time that a society bearing this name existed in this country, and that, acting in conjunction with @ sister society in England, it has for its ob- | ject the preparation of an accurate map of the Holy Land. The English society, which has taken the west side of the Jordan, has sur- veyed seven thousand miles of the country. It.is proposed by the American society to survey at least eight thousand miles on the east side of the Jordan. Such a joint survey would give uss mapof the Holy Land such ee has never yet existed. An accurate map of the Holy Land is much needed. Thirty thousand dollars a year for three years are needed by the American society to give effect to their plans. This money should be forth- coming at once. It will be o discredit to the churches in the United States if the expedition fails for the want of money. NEW YORK SERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1874,—TRIPLE Tt The Colorado Question and the State | evident inconsistency has its parallel inthe | How the City Government May Be Rights Controversy. The decisive vote on the Colorado question in the House yesterday shows that the friends of the rotten borough States have more strength than has been generally supposed. This whole movement sheds a singular side light upon the inconsistency of our political parties. It proves how little thonght they bestow upon the wider bearings and remote consequences of the measures they advocate or oppose, and, what is more curious, how httle real impor- tance they attach to their own professed prin- ciples. We quite agree with those who resist the premature admission of Territories into the Union as States. Such early applications for State privileges are against the interest of the small communities immediately concerned and grossiy unfair to the populous States; whose influence in the Senate is cancelled by the equal representation of small Atates in that branch of Congress, Our New’ York county of Westchester has a much larger population than either New Mexico or Colo- rado,.and yet two other counties are joined with it to make the one Congressional district represented by Mr. Potter. What would be thought of a proposition to give the county of Westchester two United States Senators? It is not for the interest of these Territories to be erected into States, becanse it would heavily increase their local taxes, without any corresponding benefit’ So long as they remain in the Territorial condition the salaries of their executive and judicial officers and the pay and contingent expenses of their legislatures are defrayed out of the National Treasury. Nobody can expect any real advan- tage from their admission as States, save the aspiring local demagogues who covet election to the federal Senate. On the usual narrow party grounds the stake is too insignificant to be worth playing for. The new Senators would, no doubt, be republican; but the republican party has already such @ heavy preponderance in the Senate that an addition of two or four to tho number could be of no practical consequence. Yet, if the applying Territories are admitted it will be merely for the sake of this needless addition to the republican majority, and the admission is strenuously opposed by the democratic members of Congress because it would bring a slight increase of strength to their opponents. Neither party seems to have | the dimmest perception that it is abandoning its cherished fundamental principles in the ground it is taking on this eaubject. The democratic party, as the strenuous champion of State sovereignty and State righta, and the | republican party, as the impugner of State sovereignty and the advocate of central author- ity, are standing respectively on the ground of their opponents in this controversy—a re- markable exhibition of political inconsistency and a striking proof of the skin-deep shallow- ness of theoretical convictions on both sides. If the fervid declamation of democratic ora- tors and journalists respecting the supreme importance of State rights, local independence | and exemption from federal control is any- thing but an empty party cry the democrats ought to greet with warm and welcoming con- Wau Srazet Yesterpay.—Gold opened at | gratulationneney od eae munity from its subjection to. the central au- thority. If State rights and exemption from national dependence and interference are the incalculable blessings which the democratio orators and writers assert them to be they are bound to rejoice in every new exemption of a local community from odious federal control. What would they say if one of the smallest | States, Nevada, for example, which has about the same population as Colorado, or Oregon, which bas a smaller population than New Mexico, were to have its Governor and judges appointed by the President, its legislative acts subject to repeal by Congress and its right of representation in the Senate annulled? How they would make the welkin ring with cries of federal oppression and violated local rights! But Nevada or Oregon would be no worse off in the case supposed than Colorado and New Mexico are at present. They can- not, indeed, be remanded to the Territorial condition ; but the obstacle is a mere techni- cal one, founded on the provisions of a writ- ten instrament, and not on broad principles of nataral right and justice. Considered meroly as men, the citizens of Nevada are no better than an equal number of citizens of Colorado, and there is no good fteason why one of these communities might not be as happy and prosperous without State rights as the other. If local self-government be the invaluable and indefeasible right which the democratic party maintains that it is, how can the democratic Congressmen reconcile it to their | principles and their consciences to withhold | this indispensable right from the people of New Mexico and Colorado, who groan under the intolerable oppression of absolute federal authority and enjoy no political privilege of which Congress may not deprive them at ita pleasure ? The small population of these Territories— agound argument intrinsically—is an argu- ment which does not very well become demo- cratic mouths. It is of the easence of the democratic theory that the smallness of a State | cannot impair ite federal equality as a mem~ | ber of the Union. The theory is, and has | been trom the beginning, that the Senate is a | counterpoise to the preponderance of mere | numbers in the House; that inasmuch ss a | minority of the States have a majority of the | population the only effectual protection for | the small States lies in their control of one | | branch of Congress, which enables them to Apernations ov a Great Iwrxiiect.—Mr. | prevent the passage of any law infringing Swinton, upon whose antics as a Communist State rights, According to the theory, the wo commented lightly, was actually hurled | control of the Senate by the small States is the | by our touch clear away into the cloud region, | only secure barrier against centralization; for at which remote and difficult height we are if the large States, which elect a majority of invited to contemplate him anew. Here is | the House of Representatives, had a similar his latest question: —‘May Iask you to tell | advantage in the Senate, a mere majority of me how you know what Iam, and when and | the population would control the government, why I became what you say lam? and how | and little communities, like Delaware and I can get proof that Iam what I am said to | Florida, would hold their local rights at the be? and which of the several things you mercy of the central power. Every addition | think me to be I really am? and what either | to the number of the very small States— of the things you think Lamis?and howIcan the States which are so weak in such evidense as would be satisfac. | population that their only protection tory to Aristotle or Kant that the thing you | lies in their ability to combine and defeat think I am is actually the thing you think it hostile legislation in the Senate—strengthens to be?’’ Goodness gracious! Is this what the security of those State rights and that ‘Communism brings aman to? Is this the local independence which the democratic result of petroleum and equal rights on the party inscribes on all its banners as the cardi- Drain? It, after this inquiry, the author of “If | nal doctrine of sound American politics. That the Red Slayer Thinks He Slays,"’ supposes he | party virtually abjures its fundamental tenet jas written the least comprehensible thing in | when it objects to the multiplication of small the English language, how dreadfully shallow | States, sine the small States have a peculiar Pp rool ho swims inJ | interest in resisting federal acgrossions, This zeal of those who, for the paltry advantage of a few additional Sena- tors they do not need, virtually renounoe their own theory that State sovereignty and State rights are the bane of the Republic. Sound political judges, who have reflected maturely on the nature of our institations, will attach little importance to either of these con- flicting theories, which are eo evidently held without any depth of well inded convic- tion. The idea of an opposition between the large and the small States of the Union is one of those respectable but hollow traditions which have descended to us from an early period. It is well known to all who have studied the history of the constitution that the chief con- test in the Convention which framed it was between the large and the small States. After a long and obstinate struggle the dispyte was compromised by giving to the large States the advantage they would derive from a repre- sentation, in proportion to population, in the House, and to the small States the. advantage of equal representation in the Senate. Madi- gon, as the debates show, was clear-sighted enough to perceive that no opposition of in- terest would actually arise between the large and small States as such, and that our great and convulsing controversies were more likely to be sectional, in the sense of arraying large areas of country against each other. His sagacity has been fully vindicated by our po- litical history. There has never been a con- troversy in which the large States were ar- rayed on one side and the small States on the other. Bhode Island has acted with the large New England States; Delaware and Florida with the large Southern States. If in the recent currency dispute some of the small Western States have not gone with their section, 1¢ is because they were mining States and had a differont set of interests from the strictly agricul- tural States. Neither in this controversy nor in any other have the small States been | found fighting together on one side against the large States on the other, which is a pretty conclusive proof that State rights have never been felt by the smaller States to be in any great danger. In good truth, we have | abundant examples in the positions of the | gmallness of the peril which besets the | people from the exercise of federal authority. No democratic politician ever maintained that any of our Territories was oppressed, al- though the central authority has always done with them whatever it pleased. Congress, for its own convenience, has always preferred to give them local Legislatures, and we can- recollect no instance in which it has ever interfered to annul local legislation in the Territories, although its power to do so is unquestioned. So long as the great body of the American people are sincerely attached to republican institutions the people of the Territories and the States will alike be per- mitted to manage. thoir local affairs, and the only sure protection of both lies in the perpetuity of free sentiments in the minds of the majority of the people. | Is the Third Empire Imminent? The cable informs us that the situation in Versailles is gloomy. The movement for a | dissolution’ of the Assembly continues, ‘based. upon the resolution of the extreme republicans to force that measure, a resolution they have never abandoned since Victor Hugo, Rochefort, Clemenceau and Delescluze resigned rather than serve in au Assembly that to their minds did not represent France. The fact that this movement for dissolution ia sustained by M. Thiers and a large number of the Left Centre shows its importance. . Nothing to the French or English mind would seem more natural than that the Assembly should dissolve, and, | appealing to France, take the true sense of the country as to the form of government de- sirable. But what is natural to our eyes is full of danger to the Frenchman. Dissolution means a leap in the dark, and no one can tell where it will lead. In the meantime, as a striking comment | upon this news, we print a singularly sugges- tive letter addressed to us bya ‘French Re- | publican’’ disoussing the question, ‘‘Is a Third | Empire Imminent?’ The arguments which our correspondent presents lead to the con- clusion already expressed in our columns that the real contest .in France is between the re- publicans and the Bonaparticts, with all the advantages in favor of the latter party. Mac- Mahon can save the Republic by imitating the example of Washington and proclaiming a Conservative Republic. But such a step on | his part seems to be improbable. In the meantime France drifts towards an empire. | Wisdom might even yet save the Republic, but we have seen no evidence of it as yet. Yacutmo.—June yachting promises com- paratively little in the way of thorough sport, though perhaps to the world of lovers of the water and of holiday-making generally it is acarcely less agreeable on that account. Indeed, it may almost be regarded as the characteristic of the marine turnout for June that it has more pleasure than purpose in it; it is a dress perade rather than any part of an active campaign. With us this is so, and it is the same with the yachting world in England. Cowes blooms, as our yachting capitals also do, | with the less practical admirers of pretty ships—ladies and gentlemen who turn out in | nautical array to indulge their enthusiasm | over the beauty and spirit of the show of fine craft on the still blue water or moving placidly in the lazy breeze of leafy June. But | the later summer comes on, important with the | great events, and some of these we shall con- sider presently. Tar Lanor Tnovnies m Enavann.—Our cor- respondence from Newmarket, England, the | centre’ of the present agricultural troubles, narrates an interesting circumstance con- | nected with an exposure of the placard printed | throughout the troubled counties announcing that there were many thousands of American | laborers anxious to return to England and work for about three dollarsa week. The scene | when our correspondent arrived and read the report in the Henan exposing the falsehood of the publication reminds us of some of the stirring scenes in the novels of George Ehot. There was a person named Woods, “from Ohio,” about whom our readers have heard, | boasting that he could bring twenty thousand laborers from America. Mr. Woods seems to have been overwhelmed by the Hxraip ex- | posure, and his usefulness as an agitator came | suddenly to an and, Retormed. ‘The necessity of a reform in our city gov- ernment is just as urgent now as it was three years ago. Then, bold and reckless robbers were plundering the City Treasury and striving to direct attention from their crimes by a vig- orous prosecution of works of public improve- ment. Now, incapable, selfish and intriguing men are in charge of our municipal affairs, all progress is checked, debt and taxation are in- creasing, and several of the “‘reform’’ depart- ments are under suspicion of corruptions as flagrant, if not quite so wholesale, as those which made the old Tammany régimes so no- torious. The evil of the present moment can be traced to the excitement attendant upon the first popular outcry for reform. People were resolved to have a change—to banish the last remnant of an unfaithfal administration from power, without regard to the innocence or criminality of individuals. In this temper they were not prepared to inquire too curi- ously into the character of the “reform” of- fered to them, and they chose Mr. Havemeyer Mayor of the city because he was supported by those who had been the recognized op- ponents of the former administration. The first year’s experience of the present govern- ment has convinced the people that in chang- ing rulers they simply ohanged “ rings." The “‘reform"’ they secured was simply a corrupt bargain between political leaders and cunning office-seekers. The republicans were power- less in the city alone, and so they gave lucra- tive positions to democrats and the Com- mittee of Seventy on the consideration that after election the patronage of the city should be turned over to the republican party. Laws were passed without any regard to the public interests, for the purpose of aiding the con- summation of the bargain; bat Mr. Have- meyer cheated in the game, and the result is the present incongruous, incompetent, dis- honest and scandalous city government. The safety of the people now is in the election of a reputable and competent Mayor next November, the nominee of an established party. Trades and bargains be- tween minority organizations and greedy office-seekers are never made in the public interests. Popular sentiment seems to de- mand the election of William Butler Duncan | or John K. Hackett, either of whom would ; make an admirable executive, and both of whom are gentlemen of high standing in society, of established capacity and integrity and of untiring energy. They are in the prime of life, and their presence in the City Hall would reinvigorate the whole govern- ment. The democracy would give to either of | these candidates their united support, and the influence of such names and the credit of such nominations would restore all its lost prestige to the Tammany organization, With one of these two names at the head of the democratic ticket next fall the result would be assured and the people would be certain to seoure a genuine reférm in their city govern- ment at last. Prossia’s Conrnon or THE CaTHOLIC Cxurcu.—The operation of the new German law for the expulsion of recusant ecclesiastics from the country wilt have the effect of ren- dering most of the Roman Catholic sees in | the Empire vacant. The diocesan chapters refuse to eloct new bishops during the life- time of the exiled prelates. The government of the State has been consequently compelled to take measures for filling the vacant sees. ‘This has been done by the promulgation of the law, which we publish in the Hzgatp to- day, under which the parochial populations are empowered to meet and elect their own pastors without reference to the approval or William have made a bold effort to return to the congregational simplicity of the apostolic times; but it is quite evident, although their intentions may be most excellent, that a good deal remains to be accomplished. Prussia has, however, delivered her final blow against the power of the Papacy. Dommton Distzvust.—It the Toronto Mailcan be relied upon the Mackenzie government does not sleep upon a bed of roses. ‘‘Radical fear, deceit, incapacity and maladministration have come down with a heavy foot upon public en- terprise and progress. British Columbia is dissatisfied, Manitoba is uneasy, while in the maritime Provinces there is the feeling that Mr. Brown is ready to sacrifice their dearest interests at Washington to make some reputa- tion for practical statesmanship for himself. It is the law of nature, however. Ex nihilo as constitute the Dominion Cabinet nothing need be expected except what is petty, sup- pressive of national energy and damaging to into an unhappy era.” There was a time when Canada cast longing eyes toward admis- sion to the American Union, buf the confed- eration of the colonies north and east of us temporarily delayed that event. Perhaps the present generation may. yet live to hear the young Dominion knocking at the door of the United States. Toe Cuimpxk oy COMMERCE AND THE Morery Bruu.—At o special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, with the object of taking steps to urge the passage of the Moiety bill, a number of our prominent merchants were present and passed resolutions to be submitted to Congress. The gentlemen assembled also concluded that, in view of the short time Congress will be in session and the danger of the Moiety bill being passed over, a delegation should proceed at once to Washing- ton. A number immediately volunteered to go and use their influence in order to induce the Senate to pass the House bill. The danger of the bill being defeated or passed over lies, it seems, in an amendment appended for regulating the salaries of Custom House officials, which might lead to a good deal of discussion as well as preliminary investiga- tion, It would be best, probably, to pass the Moiety bill without any such amendment, and leave the salary question till the next session of Congress. This would satisfy the merchants, relieve them of an intolerable evil find consume little time of the Senate. Prison Ruroru.—The want of accommoda- tion in the prisons of this State has induced the passing of a law which will set at liberty, long before the term of their sentence has expired, hundreds of prisoners. Motives of veto of the Vatican. Bismarck and Emperor | nihil fi. From such a collection of nobodies | trade. The country has, un ortunately, drifted | SHEET, in the same oell, Under these con- ditions it ig next to impossible to maintain that strict and severe discipline on which the corrective value of houses of detention so much depends. If crime is so rampant in the Empire State that criminals are actually crowding each other out it might be advisable to erect other prisons or turn some of our useless forts into penitentiaries. The best way to check crime is not to admit that the machinery of the law is unequal to its proper punishment. The more noumerons the criminal class grows the more severely should it be dealt with. A New Master in Finance. Now that we are in an earnest discus- sion of the finances, not without hopes, also, that out of the chaos and mismanagement which of late have marked our financial administration we may have a definite, intel- ligent policy, any new opinions on the subject will be weloome, Our aim should be not to discuss this question with partisanship, but to atrive to attain policy that will bring the country to solvency and give the United States her true financial position. Any con- tribution to the debate, therefore, possesses unusual value, ‘ 5 Mr. Wendell Phillips is a man apt to have his own mind on all subjects, Recently he wrote 9 letter about the finances, the substance of which is printed in a Western journal. His plan is to abolish the National Bank circulation and issue greenbacks. These greenbacks hq would make reccivable for customs, He would have the gen- eral government lend greenbacks at 3.65 per cent per annum to any citizen who would pledge national bonds or improved land. For bonds thus pledged the govern- ment would lend the owner four-fifths of their value in greenbacks, for the land one-half its value, such value to be the average of what said land had been appraised at for taxation daring the last ten years. These greenbacks should also be legal tender for all debts due the government as well as for all due private parties. He would provide that any such borrower who found that he did not have tur- ther use for the greenbacks could restora them and have his bonds and lands released. Any one desiring to surrender greenbacks could do so, receiving in their stead a national bond bearing 3.65 per cent interest, payable in greenbacks, the principal payable in gold twenty or thirty years later. In advocacy of this proposition Mr. Phillips thinks that one billion two hundred million dol- lars would not be more than the country requires as the volume of circulation. Hoe cites France as an example of what a finished country needs in the way of money, and reasons from this that America should: have twice as much, be- cause we are in ‘ process of development” and require money.’ He “looks forward toa currency double our present,’ and’ “scorns the delusion of ever returning to a specie basis." “I repudiate,’’ he udds, ‘all resemblances to ‘assignats’ and Law's schemes in this, that the government shall act as bankers, and, taking first ample individual security in land, bonds or gold, loan its credit. 1 consider those who insist on banking on gold alone as twins to those who should propose laws to forbid any locomotion except by ox carts. | population and quadrupled business demand increased banking facilities based upon broader foundations than gold. New times demand new measures.” Any proposition from Mr. Phillips is certain to be honest and very apt to be original. Our | objection to this plan isa radical one, It is impossible to build a house on air, and just as impossible to build credit or a ourrency.on promises to pay. A promise to pay has a two- told value—the value attributed to it by the person who makes the promise and the value entertained by the person who receives it If Spanish bonds, for instance, could be pur- chased at a Spanish estimaie of their value they would be the highest on the stock list. They certainly represent Oastilian promises to pay—made in good faith, and which would be redeemed if any one would find the money. Custom and law and necessity have made gold the basis of currency, and we cannot change it without making war upon civilization. Woe | may rank the faith ot the government as good as gold, and issue currency representing it ; but what will be the result? Foreign money | markets will have their own views, and we shall find ourselves in London and Frankfort ranking with Turkey {and Brazil. We issue bonds that | represent promises to pay, and then issue cur- | rency representing the bonds, and ask the | world to take the currency at par. This is | like building nothing on nothing and calling | the foundation granite. We enter into a na- tional pawnbroking business, lending money | on land at the tax collector’s appraised value. There would be one advantage in this, that | owners of real estate, who return its value | ata low figure to avoid taxation, would in- crease the appraisement to borrow money, and we should have a large revenue from taxation on property. But we see no other advantage. The plan would be cumbersome and impracti- cable, and would open the road toa system of corruption and favoritism unlike anything we have ever known. Mr. Phillips makes the surprising mistake that two and two, make more than four. The many financial plans that have been sub- mitted to Congress have been based upon the | theory that the constitution somehow gives | Congress the right to enact that it should be five or seven or eleven, Unfortunately it is one of those laws which are:above Congress or the Supreme Court. We can only have acur- rency a8 valuable as gold when gold underlies it, and when the world knows that it can be changed at once into gold. Once establish that fact, and we can have as much currency as France, or ten times as much if needed. The way to establish it is to practise economy in administration, to contract our currency, to fund our loans at lower interest, and to pro- tect the national credit by more stringent laws in reference to the repudiation of sacred debts by States and municipalities and large corpo- rations. Ir Wut Br Sen from our lotters published this morning from Princeton and Philadel- phia that the college and other men are busily preparing for the summer regatta, We wel- come these signs of enterprise and emulation as among’ the best evidences of manly scholar- ship. It will not impair the trae knowledge policy and humanity have led to this result, tor go crowded aro the prisoners that two and of Horace to know how to pull the stroke oar, and a fine hour of morning practice will ena- Problems in geometry. The soundest educa tion is based on health, and let us encourage our young men in all exercises that promote dt. Weather Probioms. Yesterday was sweltering enough to satisfy the most insatiate cremationist. The average City Rather was in a white heat, and muni- cipal burdens never before appeared so heavy to him. Fans and open windows were eagerly sought after around the City Hall and the Conscript Fathers of goodly Gotham apostro- phised the glaring sun and moiten sky im unmeasured terms; but they were heedleas of the wrathful looks of the wire-muzzled canines that passed them or the groans of the grief, stricken Bergh, in whose eyes such muzzles must be an abomination andashame. Oo- casionally an unmuzzled dog sneaked across the busy Broadway, apparently dreading the swoop of an aldermanic myrmidon, and again 8 wofal howl came from a wire-muzzled bull dog, the property of some Manhattan Sikes, ready under any other circymstances to form an intimate acquaintance with the leg of & passer-by. Yesterday was the opening of the muzzling season—a black day in the canine calendar. i Sinos the edict went forth that metropolitan dogs were to be muzzled there have beem many theories advanced on the subject of hydrophobia. Doctors say that the canine spirit is most disturbed when the ground is covered with snow, and that the faithful Tray becomes dangerous in proportion as the thermometer goes down. Tradition tells us to beware of the dog when the mercury is in the nineties. Now, what are we to - do? Shall we give the dog or the Alderman the benefit of the doubt? Mr. Bergh pronounces in favor of the dog, but we think that the City Father should have the first choice. Arguments in favor of and against the pres- ence of rabies among the dogs in summer are as plentiful as those advanced on the tire- some subject of Alabama claims and conse- quential damages, and in view of such pon- derous testimony on both sides is it nof as well that poor humanity should get the field in preference to the dogs? At the. same time a moral muzzle on the average Alderman would be of service occassionally, and perhaps the samo preventive against harm might do good in higher quarters. Crvm, Rrouts.—The significant vote on the motion of Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives yester- day, to take up the Civil Rights bill, passed by the Senate, indicates the defeat of that measure this session of Congress. The motion was to suspénd the rules, te take up the bill and to refer it to the Judiciary Committee. The yeas were 196 and nays 86. Two-thirds were necessary for a suspension of the rules, and twelve votes were | lacking of that. There was not a full House, it is true, but it seems evident that the House is not disposed to pass this sweeping radical and distarbing measure. The Senate is weld pleased, probably, that its bill has mot with | obstacles in the House, for.we have little doubt that some of the Senators who voted for it for the sake of party consistency would | rather not have it become a law. The ‘bill is full of mischief, and would tend to create social and political trouble and disorganize- tion in the South, where harmony, peace and restoration age so much needed now. Five republican, members from Tennessee, five from North ‘Carolina and three from Ohie voted against Mr. Butler's motion, Let us hope this will be the end of the mischievous bill, not only for the present session, but for- ever. Tam Honors to Charles Sumner continue, George William Curtis will deliver an address in Boston to-day commemorating the life and | character of the illustrions and lamented statesman. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Generat b. E, Marvin, of Albany, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. r Benson J. Lossing is among the recent arrivais ; at the Coleman House. Colonel W. H. Jenifer, of the Egyptian Army, ts residing at the New York Hotel, General John L. Swift, of Massachusetts, is | registered at the Windsor Hotel, . Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, is staying at the Westminster Hotel. Atlanta received its classical dilettante name from the practical J. Edgar Thompson. Mr. KE, Jucovs, United states Ovnsul at Monte- video, has apartments at the Astor House. Chiof Engincer Ovaries H. Loring, United States | Navy, is stupping at the Union Square Hotel, Mr. 0, M. Allen, United States Consul at Ber muda, has arrived at the Grand Cencral Hotel. Commanders J. N, Miller and L, A, Kimberley, United States Navy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain B, F. Rittenhouse and Surgeon A. BR Hasson, United States Army, are quartered at the Everett House. Captain O. W. Al! and Lieutenants Cockourm | and Waite, of the British Army, yesterday arrived at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. “Haul, Horrox, hail!’ is to be written in West | minster Abbey in remembrance of the man whé Orat caught Venus at her transit, “Pill rollers” they cali ‘heir doctors at Detroit. | No one can afford to pay doctors to rofl pitis here. Perhaps the Detroit doctors are cheaper or the | people richer, Mr. Coifax will smile at Elizabeth this month, Baker, of Pennsylvania, did not leave his eo counts in a nice Stave, News from California rep resents him in good heaita, One hundred and ten years was the age of the | oldest aunty they have lately had in South Care | lima, They used to have one further South whe | cooked for the hands tnat dug the Chattanooonis | River. There isa mare fifty years old in Arkansas, and they call her che oldest im the country except one New York mayor, who was “4mported by Hendrtos Hudson in his Daten cramer, 8nd who still teeds at tne pubite crib.” Seven princes of the blood royal of England have been created peers of Ireland. Including these seven twelve have been created peers with Irish titles, The new creation of the Dukedom of Con- naught is the only instance in which the chtet titie of an English prince has been an Irish one, We take pleasure in republishing the empnatic con Fadiction of the zpress to the rumor whtek we'found current and kept moving, that mr. Nor. val, recently of the Times, had bought the Express, Doubtless, it was all an unconscious trivute of the rumor makers to the Arpress, which is such a good paper tnat they thought any journalist out of occu pation would inevitably buy it if it was for sale, ‘The Graphio prints a portrait of Heary Wikom, Esq., who has evidently taken several draughts, | and perbapseven # bath io the fountain of youth, ‘The oldest inhabitant remembers him as man in the prime of life at least, and now that oldest in- habitant grows decrepit and totters into the vale of tears, and ap comes this elastic chevalier, | younger and {resher than ever. At this rate we ; fully believe he will survive to continue and com- | clude tae “History of His Life and Times,” and Loven thraa nriannara ara sometimes confined ‘ble the dullest student to comprehend his | overyvody else's times. in torte valued,