The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, «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. Volume XXXIX AMUSENENTS ‘Tans AFTERNOON AND EVENING yeet, and. Sixth avenue, Testimonial whird street tx! avenne.—Testimonia! (Boacdt to Mr. Charles Bytuuge, at 130 PM; closes at My? Qiivint in OTHELLO, a8 P. My closes at it a. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth stree.—FATE, at 8 P. M.; closes atil P.M. Miss Carlotta Le Clercq, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.— ENTKRIAINMENT, at 7:9 P. M.; closes at ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, way, corner treet. WRESTLING woe rrii4 LIFE AT PHE MINL: P. M.; closes at 4:30 P.M. Same at 5 P. M.; closes at M. >, J, Huntley. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and yltotiston streets. —THE LADY OF THE LAKE, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Mr. Joseph Wheelock abd Miss fone Burke. 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New York, Friday, June 12, 1874, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be rainy, clearing towards evening. Wart Srreer Yesterpay.—Gold was firm, the extremes being 110} and 1113, with clos- ing prices at 111. Stocks were dull, with a downward tendency. West Port Acapemy.—The historic ad- dress of Professor Davies to the Alumni at West Point yesterday, printed elsewhere to-day, will be of singular interest at the present time. Tue Mayor seems doomed to be disap- pointed in his hope of creating three offices for his old or new cronies, by the creation of vacancies in the Commission of Armories. Governor Dix has not yet approved the re- moval of the present commissioners, Tue Riot m Inpu.—The riots which oc- curred in tke districts near Darjeeling were, according to the London Times, directed against the exporters of food. The govern- ment troops have put down the insurgents, and the public is assured that no further trouble will occur. It is well that matters have not taken @ more serious shape. It is undeniable, however, that the famine has be- gotten among the natives a feeling of dissatis- faction with the government. The riot, trifling as it may have been, revealed the sentiment. Tue Boarp or ALDERMEN rejected the res- olution of the Assistant Aldermen for a joint investigation of the affairs of the Department of Charities and Correction. regretted, since the investigating committee would have had the power to send for persons and papers. It is of less consequence, how- ever, since the gross violations of law, estab- lished against the department by documentary evidence, cannot fail to become the subject of investigation by a Grand Jury if the District Attorney does his duty. Tue Doc Czvsape has opened with a de- gree of enthusiam and earnestness that looks bad for the wellbeing and equanimity of canines in New York during the summer. The lethal Pound was thrown open yesterday for the reception of unmuzzled dogs, and the inoentive of a half dollar reward for each four- footed offender served to stimulate small boys and out-of-work gentlemen to devote their en- ergies to the capture of this department of Mr. Bergh’s protégés. An Aldermanic ukase and fifty cents reward outweigh the ponderous argu- ments of physicians who speak learnedly about of the hydrophobia and the tears and en- treaties Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. An Avpaciovs Roszzry.—To jndge from the daring and unscrupulousness of the modern Dick Torpins and Jack Sheppards infesting the thoroughfares of this city, Broadway has become a sort of Hounslow Heath for pedes- trians who may happen to possess valuables calculated to attract the cupidity of such harpies. The latest victim is a Swedish sea captain, who, on his way to dispose of a num- ber of diamonds he had accumulated after | several voyages, was drugged and robbed in open daylight on Monday last near Broad. way. The detectives and other guardians of the peace of course profess entire ignotance of the individuality of the thieves. To look | for redress from our police department now- adays scems to be an idle task. Tae Amzxican Prucrms w Rose.—Our pious fellow citizens, who started some time ago for the shrines of Europe on a mission of | devotion, have been received with distinction in the Eternal City, and have been specially | complimented by the Sovereign Pontiff. Cardinal Borromeo decorated them with | medals commemorative of their pilgrimage, | and His Holiness gave them as a cicerone his most eminent archwologist and author. The long-mooted qnestion of an American cardinal now bids fair to assume a practical shape. | ‘The Pope can hardly resist the arguments and entreaties of such n distinguished delegation of his children from the great Republic, where she Catholic Church is so numerically strong end inducatial, xth avenue, NEGRO MIN. | This is to be | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, Political Drifting in France. The situation in France begins to assume those dazzling, shooting lines that may pre- sage thunder and lightning and storms. The debates in Versailles recall the tennis court. M. Gambetta, whom everybody has been ad- miring for his cool intrepidity, has at last lost | his temper and taken to calling names. The Bonapartists, who seem to have become unac- | countably sensitive, are resolved in some way to prevent this Gambetta freedom of speech, and especially being called ‘‘rascals,’"’ which the cable informs us to be M. Gam- betta’s exact word. As there can be no storm without that bird of storms, M. Cassagnac, we see him on full wing. His language is so violent im ‘discussing _ public affairs’ that the republicans have re- solved to resent it. For this purpose they have deputed M. Clemenceau to fight him. The significance of this selection will be seen when we remember that M. Clemenceau was Mayor of Montmartre during the siege; that he was appointed to be Profect of Lyons when Gambetta’s power fell; that he was a member of this Assembly, and only resigned whon the Paris delegation withdrew. Clemenceau is generally understood to be the principal lieu- tenant of Gambetta, and as not long since he wounded a Bonapartist officer in a duel he seems fitted to encounter the redoubtable Cas- sagnac. As if these tokens were not menacing | enough, we have the stormy petrel Rochefort flying over the sea, burning with all the hatred of defeat and exile, impatient to relight the Lanterne on the borders of Switzerland. Versailles is “gloomy” and Paris is ‘‘elec- tric;’’ and what do these omens mean? The contest between Clemenceau and Cassagnac typifies the character of the struggle between political parties in France, Cassagnac may be called the champion, as his enemies call | him the bully of the Empire. Through good and bad report, even in the disheartening days which followed Sedan, he never failed in his allegiance to the star of Napoleon. For this | cause he has always see sr with his sword | and his pen. Clemenceau is a representative radical republican, who went to the very verge of the Commune only to see its madness and retreat in time Their controversy shows that the struggle has finally become a struggle between the Empire and the Republic. All the elements of the monarchy have faded away and we no longer see those attractive phenomena of lilies and white banners, and the heavy, amiable, pur- poseless face of Henry, the “‘God-bestowed” Count of Chambord, which have held so large @ place in France tor three years. The Bour- bons have faded into a sullen waiting upon Providence and fighting everything that indi- cates the consolidation of agovernment. The Orleans people have lost whatever hopes they may have had of a crown by their avarice. ‘These monarchists represented simply an im- possible restoration, the sixteenth century engrafted upon the nineteenth; divine right attempted in an age of reason, siudy and speech, of a penny press and universal suffrage. However “the faithful’ | may sympathize with the antipathies of the Pope towards these new influences, we cannot but see, as itno doubt sadly occurs to His Hoiiness, that there is no way of avoiding them. People will read, and no effective means has yet been found to prevent their voting. For if the suffrage does not appear in the silent forms of the ballot it will be seen in uprisings, in the Jacquerie of the rural districts, in the Commune riots of Paris and Marseilles. The Empire and the Republic unite on one idea. They claim to respect the wishes of France. The Empire will ask France to de- clare by o plebiscitum, whether she is willing to have chains put upon her hands and feet, there to remain until another Sedan and Waterloo. The Republic proposes to bring France and her government so closely together that the government will represent the varying wishes of France. One is a legend and the other a principle, and in dealing with a people like the French, so ner- vous and passionate and easily moved, such a curious compound of passion and logic, we are never sure whether the legend is not more powerful than the principle. This is more especially true when we remember that the legend is Napoleon and the principle finds its source in Robespierre. Napoleonism is one of the most attractive forms of a government, just as the Republic is among the least attractive. denial. The first has all the coruscating | elements ot wor!dly success and achievement— activity, energy, glory—with the picturesque history of the greatest man of modern times as its gospel. Napoleonism means the glories of the First Emperor, the wealth and material prosperity of the second ; it means good har- vests, féies, highways and bridges; a new Paris, dustry, display, financial gain; an | Emperor in the Louvre and the eagles of France once more looking to conquest. It is hard to cherish victory and remember Sedan ; but nothing is more readily forgotten than a defeat, especially by a people as self-conscious and vain as the French. They will forgive Sedan as readily as they forgave Waterloo, When we add to this the remembrance that France was never so powerful or apparently so prosperous as during the Empire we can understand the influence Napoleon the Fourth exercises upon the large middle classes of France. There is certainly nothing attrac- tive about a republic, as matters now go on, in the European world. The other nations will | have no hearty relations with it. Thus we find the Czar of Russia taking special pains to avoid the capital, which would have been his heart’s delight, and travelling through the damp low countries to escape republican France. How proudly he would have be- | come the guest of Napoleon, and what a day that wonld have been for Paris! The only monarch who’ has visited France under the Republic has been the Shah, and he is not exactly the ruler calculated to itm- press the French mind. Then the women do not like the Republic. There are no fates, no balls, no great days at Courtin whieh they aan show their witcheries and graces, Burther more, the women are generally devowt iw France, and they know how the Kepriilie die tresses the soul of the Holy Father Bor eigners, too, are better satisfied with an Kren peror than any other form of gervernenent Jt means a presentation at Court porhiel: foreign mind—the American tnind toe expe (1 Whee, cially—is something without whieh the fer eign nations have few charms There | are balls at the valaces and dainty One isa, pageant, the other a self- | srirebine His cob aay mideos. So far as pub- lic opinion goes, not only over Europe, but in other parts of the world, the Republic has a bad name. People are apt to regard republi- canism as men of the world regard invitations toreform and enter an established church. No one doubts the virtue of the suggestions, for religion is necessary in every society; but there are so many pleasant sins available for the day that regeneration will do well enough France and rejoice in her prosperity, and would be glad to see her a republic, we think it better to come after our time, ‘‘when the people are fit fora republic,’’ and when liberty means something more than an unrestricted guillotine. Thus all the signs indicate that France is drifting toward the Empire. We are far from losing our faith in the Republic, The time is rapidly coming when even a people as im- pressible as the French will see that true greatness, and that abundant, generous pros- perity, which never abandons true greatness, will come with a modest, economical, brave government—speaking for the people and aiming to perform all of its functions with simplicity and truth. In the speech re- cently made by M. Gambetta over tho grave of s noble republican he spoke with hopefulness and enthusiasm of tho prospect. He saw the aurora of repub- licanism in the skies, and he looked for such an awakening of patriotism in France that all classes, the learned, the witty, the rich, the aristocratic, would unite to welcome it as the government that could alone give the nation peace. We wish we could share M. Gambetta’s enthusiasm. We are not quite sure that he shares it himself, as we read the accounts of his severe speeches in the Assembly, and the efforts of Bonapartist ruffians to aid their cause by as- sailing him. Everything points to a revolution or toa revolutionary agitation, The imperial- istsand the monarchists, the supporters of the Church and the upper classes seem resolved to have no peace that does not mean their own ele- vation to power. Nothing could be more selfish and unpetriotic than such a course; but do we not all know that in governments, even as spotless in their republicanism as our own, personal ambition and the desire for gain and place will always overrule other considera- tions? If MacMahon chooses he can save the Republic. He may make himself the Wash- ington of France, but he has shown no dispo- sition as yet to be anything more than its Monk. A Little Republic in the Western Ocean. Some interesting intelligence in relation to the westerly group of the islands of the Magel- lan Archipelago which Commodores Perry and Rodgers desired to secure to the United States, is supplied by our Washington correspondence in to-day’s Hzratp, from documents forwarded to the Navy Department by Commander George E. Belknap. We obtain from this re- port a glimpse of the political history of these Bonin Islands, which has in it a spice of ro- mance, although bearing a striking resem- blance to the history of more imposing Powers, It appears that the patriarch of the islands, who had lived on the largest of the group, Peel Island, for forty-four years, died in April at the age of eighty. He was ® native of Massachusetts and must have ‘been a remarkeble man, since he not only es- tablished a miniature ‘Republic of Bonin,” with a simple form of government, bringing order out of chaos, and became the first ruler, under the title of Governor, but, after holding office five years, actually declined a second term. This may certainly have been attribu- table to the fact that the government was not one of much wealth or patronage, and that there was nothing, even for a ‘“‘reformer,"’ to make perquisites out of for himself or his rela- tives, unless, indeed, it may have been in the shape of turtles. But the refusal of a re-elec- tion by Governor Savory seems to have been unfortunate for the people, since no other person on the island was fit for the place, and so ‘the restraints and usages of government soon fell into disuse.” Another American, Captain Pease, seems, however, to have recently fallen upon the islands, like a Committee of Seventy, and to have indulged in a variety of lawless acts in the name of “reform.” The deed which Commodore Perry secured of PortLloyd—a fine harbor of Poel Island—as a United States naval station, was deposited by him in the hands of the friendly patriarch Savory, and was by the ex-Governor conveyed in trust to his sons, to be delivered to the United States should it ever be demanded. Port Lloyd will be a very desirable naval sta- tion, and no doubt the annexation of the whole group of islands will one day take place. Mean- while our government appears to have realized the advantage of having a friend at court, The Turkish Question Again. If the Berlin despatch to the Londaga Times about the action of Germany Servia and Rou- mania regarding the Turkish question can be relied on, the old complications between the European Powers and Turkey will probably be revived. It is said that an agreement has been made between Germany, Servis and Roumania to mutually protect their interests and position against the designs of Turkey. The report comes at the same time that serious differences have arisen, threaten- ing grave consequences, between the Khedive of Egyptand the Sublime Porte, If these reports be true the Ottoman government is likely to be between two dangerous fires, and possibly there may be an understanding to make a combined and coercive movement Looming Up upon the Sublime Porte. But what of Austria? Have the Roumanians and Servians overleaped the Austrian Empire, their immediate neighbor, to make an alliance with the great German Power? Per- haps the reported movement is understood and acquiesced in by Austria. If not there may be danger in it to her as well as to Turkey. While Germany is separated both trom Turkey | and Roumania and Servia by the Austrian Veupire, Austria is the near neighbor of these Yastern States, and must be more deeply in- terested in their fate. Then Russia could not be ignored in any movement affecting the #tatus of Turkey, Roumania and Servia. In fact, any question affecting them would be considered more Russian than German, “hould the report referred to be true there is, provebly, an understanding among the great Continental Powers of Europe to revive the ‘Turkish question, with a view to restore Cbris- | tien governments over parts of Europe now | under Oltoman rule to-morrow. While most of us wish well to, Vanishing Views of Finance Legisia- | whe Revised Estimates for the City Gov- tion. Opinions are divided as to the passage by both houses of the Currency bill reported by the Committee of Conference, Should it pass it can hardly fail to encountera veto; and it is for the republican members to decide whether their party can afford to go into the approaching elections so heavily handicapped as it would be by a break with the President, If they push the controversy, the party will be cleft asunder by a geographical line. The question cannot be ignored by the twenty or thirty republican State savers that will assemble between the close of the session and the middle of September. These conventions will either pass the customary resolutions in- dorsing the President or resolutions virtually condemning him by approving the action of the inflation members of Congress. In the Eastern and the Pacific States the President would be strongly indorsed; in many of the Western States he would be condemned.’ Be- tween these sections of a divided political army the enemy, if keen enough, would insert a wedge which, if well driven, would result in hopeless and final split, The inflation mem- bors need to feel an undoubting assurance of the support of their constituents to hazard so fatal a comsequence. It is better for the interests of the repub- lican party that Congress should treat the cur- rency as an adjourned question. In # ques- tion between expansion on one side and con- traction on the other the easiest compromise is to leave the currency as it stands and await a further development of public opinion. No law passed at this session has any chance of permanence, even if the President should approve it. The public mind is too unsettled for stable legislation. A new Congress is to be elected this year, and until it is seen whether its majority support or oppose the views of the President thero will be no trust- worthy data for estimating the real drift of public opinion. The President is an agent or servant of the people ; this Congress, elected at the same time, is also an agent of the people. When agents so widely differ it is reasonable to forbear action and refer the sub- ject to their common Lay a for new in- | structions, Let the people decide. Even it the bill of the Conference Committee should pass and be approved, the banks would have no confidence to act under it. In the unsetiled state of public opinion they could have no assurance that it would not be repealed by the next Con- gress. The wisest of them would prefer to wait and watch the elections this year before taking any active steps under the new law. Ifa majority of pronounced anti-inflationists should be returned to the new Congress the banks would expect an early repeal of any law passed at this session and would regulate their business accordingly. It is therefore for the interest of the country as well as of the republican party that this important question be adjourned until the people shall have pro- nounced their verdict in the elections of this year. We have no doubt that a majority of the people will support the anti-inflation policy of the President. Be this as it may, the question | has been precipitated upon the country since the present Congress was elected, and the peo- ple must be heard before it can be finally dis- posed of. Had it not been for the panic of last autumn this Congress would not have occupied itself with new legislation on the currency, The outcry of an alarmed commu- nity for more money in that crisis turned the heads of many Congressmen. It is quite true that there was a great dearth of money at that juncture. But it was because business men with engagements to meet dis- trusted the banks and withdrew their deposits to keep them in their own safes. This created a real and painful dearth of money, for the reason that the usual system of de- posit and payment by checks was partially arrested. The dearth of currency then ex- perienced was not imaginary, but real. The currency was short by the curtailment of checks, in times of settled confidence its most important part, That difficulty is long past, and we have at present not only an abundance uta redundancy of money for the transac- tion of legitimate business, Yet the inflation members of Congress are acting and reasoning as ifthe system of payment by checks wore permanently abolished because it was par- tially and temporarily suspended during the panic. It is better that legislation on the currency should be postponed until this transient delusion is dispelled. The experience of the coming antumn in moving the crops will have a rectifying effect on Western public opinion. It will be found that there is ample money in the country for that purpose. As there is no longer any dis- trust of the banks, checks and inland bills of exchange will perform their accustomed part as a substitute for money. We have all the bsnk note currency we had previous to the patic, and the greenbacks have been in- creased from three hundred and forty-four million dollars to three hundred and eighty-two million dollars. Let us wait and see whether the expansion fever will not be cured by the business of the coming autumn. Besides the restoration of bank checks to their usual office as a substitute for money the available currency will be in- creased by the release of all that part of it which was absorbed in such wild enterprises as the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose insol- yvency was the main cause of the panic. Noth- ing valuable can come of the dregs of legisla- tion at the elose of this useless session. Let the people be heard through the new Congres- sional elections. Let Congross and the country be instructed by the experience of the business community in moving this year’s crops. The prospect will be far better for wise legislation at the next ses- sion. President Grant's veto and his memoran- dum have been of great service, but they have only the negative merit of maintaining things as they are and preventing a change from bad to worse. The time will come for positive measures. With a new Secretary of the Treasury, who is understood to be quite free from inflation nonsense, and who has six months before him to study this question before the next scssion, let us hope that a wise Execntive plan may be offered in December. Thus far the President has given us only a finan- cial Antietam and a Gettysburg—victories which drive back the invading enemy. It remains for him to pursue and overwhelm tho enemy in his own territary. ernment—The Duty of the Board of Apportionment. The revised estimates of the several depart- ments of the city government will not satisfy. those taxpayers who have expected to find the economy preached by some of our officials put into practice. The expense of governing New York is necessarily heavy, but if the depart- ments were managed as a prudent man would manage his own business it would not be much more than half its present amount. After all the promises held out at the time of the passage of the law authorizing the reopen- ing of the year’s estimate, the only depart- ments that have voluntarily made any marked reduction from their former figures are those of Public Works, which shows a decrease of $41,000; of Charities and Correction, which cuts off $118,000, and the Board of Education, which saves $150,000. Some of those depart- ments in which economy appears desira- ble and practicable have increased their demands. The Commissioners of Pub- lic Parks ask $110,000 more than they re- ceived in the last estimate, increasing from $665,000 to $775,000, while the Comptroller, whose annual expenses are nearly $100,000 more than those of his predecessor, Mr. Connolly, creeps in with an addition of be- tween three and four thousand dollars to his already extravagant salary list. It will be the duty of the Board of Appor- tionment to closely scrutinize these revised estimates, and to reduce them wherever re- duction can be made without injury to tho public interests. The people do not require parsimony, nor would they approve any sav- ing of expenditure at the cost of necessary public works; but they do demand economy at a time when the public debt is so rapidly increasing and when the rate of annual taxa- tion, while paying off only a pitiful fraction of the debt, reaches about three per cent of the valuation. Mr. Vance, the Prosident of the Board of Aldermen, who is a member of the Board of Apportionment, has announced his firm determination to reduce the estimate wherever room for saving can be found, and to that end to examine the details of cach department carefully and closely. Mr. Wheeler, the President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments, can be relied upon to second Mr. Vance’s efforts, and hence we may expect to see some material change in the present figures. These members of the Board will no doubt find ample scope for economy in the Park Department. The total appropria- tion asked for by that department is just one- half as much as the cost of the whole of tho public works, including the Croton Bureau, the paving and repair of streets, and the lighting of the whole City. There are forty miles of aqueduct to be repaired and maintained; fourteen or fifteen miles of boulevard, roads and avenues; twen- ty-one miles of wooden pavement, two hundred and twenty-five miles of stone pavement, five miles of concrete pavement ; three hundred and seventy-one miles of Croton pipes, two hundred and ninety miles of sew- ers, six miles of drains, fifteen miles of cul- verts and three thousand nine hundred re- ceiving basins to be repaired, cleaned and kept in order; over twenty thousand street lamps to be lighted, and all public buildings to be constructed and repaired at a total ex- pense of a little over $1,590,000, including salaries and labor, while the care and main- tenance of the parks, including $50,000 for the roads of the two new wards, cosis $775,500. To this is to be added the large construction account, out of which, by some singular interpretation of law, the greater part of the salaries of the employés of the parks is paid. Messrs. Vance and Wheeler will also do well to require a detailed statement from the Comptroller of the expenses of his badly managed department. Mr. Green, after ad- dressing a stump speech on economy to tho other departments of the government, de- manding from them the names and salaries of all their employés, neglected to place before the Board of Apportionment any revised esti- mate for his own department, simply submit- ting his figures in gross. When taken to task by Mr. Vance for the omission he refer- red the Board to his old estimate, simply stating that he had made no reduction. But if the Board should be disposed to accept the old estimate as a ‘‘revised’’ one they will find that Mr. Green now asks an increased sum for salaries, and that an amount of twenty thou- sand dollars is stated to be for ‘examiners and experts," without giving any names or sal- aries, This is not only irregular, but in con- flict with the requirements of the law, and the Board of Apportionment should insist upon a list of these amateur detectives and the amounts paid for their services. We submit these suggestions to the Board, and would also remind them that early action on the re- vised estimates is desirable. Home Rote Trromen at an Inn Exzc- t1on.—The declaration of the poll for mem- bers to represent the county of Mayo in the English Parliament took place on the 29th of May in Castlebar. Mr. G. E. Browne, who succeeded to the seat of the late Mr. George Henry Moore four years ago, received 1,330 and Mr. O'Connor Power 1,319 votes. This gentleman is a home ruler, an ad- vanced Irish liberal among the most. ad- vanced of his order. He is young and rising rapidly in public life, Mr. Power’s return on this occasion is the more remarkable and sig- nificant from the fact that the influence of the Catholic clergy, hitherto all-powerful at a Mayo election, was exerted against him, and that that influence should be first broken in Mayo, one of the most Catholic counties in Ireland. Tae Lasos Srates.—These unfortunate | strikes, it will be seen, still continue. Pity it is that the workmen do not see that they are injuring their own cause. Violence such as that which was witnessed in East Seventh street on Wednesday evening, @: such as that reported from Ohio as having been committed on the Short Line Railroad, can have but one effect, that of prejudicing the public mind against the workingmen. ‘That they do well in standing up for their rights we have always admitted; but when they resort to violence they must be taught that the public has also rights which are entitled to respect. Tae Missryco Eant of Yarborongh has thrown the English public into an unwonted ; state of excitement, and placards and adver- | tisoments are out inauiring after him. It is | | not often that a live earl suddenly disappears from society, and it is natural that aristocratio circles should be stirred to their innermost depths when such a circumstance takes place. Any one hearing of the whereabouts of a truant peer can now earn distinction and money by returning him to his afflicted brethren in the House of Lords. No questions asked. A Beautifal Investigation of Germ-Theory of Disease. The germ-theory of disease has recently re. ceived a most interesting and demonstrative contribution from an eminent Germae scien- tist. The communication of his experimental investigations and the conclusion he has reached are singularly and strongly confirmed by Helmholtz, on the Continent, and Tyn- dall, in England. The researches which are so decisive were made by Professor Binz, of Bonn, with powerful microscopic apparatus, and extend over a period of several years. Being a victim to a distressing malady—hay fever, so prevalent in May and June in this country—the Bonn investigator suspected, from the seasonal prevalence of tho disease, that it was traceable to the vegetable organ- isms. Having armed himself with the power. fal immersion lens of a Hartnack microscope, he subjected the nasal secretions to analysis. In examining the secretions he uni- formly found organism wholly absent, ex- cept when suffering with the disease in the spring. When lad on the warm stage of the microscope these organic or, parasitical bodies were distinctly sean in motion, vibrating backwards and forwards in life, and, after several days, had evidently increased in size. They adhere tenaciously to the lower cavities of the nose, and can be discharged only by violent sneezing. But the most beautiful part of the research was in the discovery of the remedy for their presence in the human system. On preparing a neutral solution of sulphate of quinine, free from adulteration by cinchonia, and applying this to the nostrils with a pipette or simple nose douche, the desired effect was immediately secured. The poisonous action of quinine on infusoria was perfectly brought out, the symptoms of irritation completely disap- peared and the lens revealed the entire ab- sence of animaloulm in the subsequent secre- tions. The results agreo with/those arrived at in 1870 by Dr. Frickhifer, of Sehwalbach, and Professor Busch, of Bonn, both of whom, with Helmholtz, the great physiologist, have successfully applied quinine for the cure ef this parasitical malady. These highly interesting and beautiful in- quiries in medical science, besides establishing the great value of quinine and providing a remedy for a disease which is extremely dis- tressing, will give an impetus to an investiga- tion which is one of the most promising im modern therapeutics. A distinguished leader of medical thought in New York, in a publio address, recently said, if there was ‘‘one di- rection in which progress is now so marked as to constitute a dominant feature of the present state of medicine, and to embrace a new med- ical idea, it is the origin and propagation of disease by independent organic germs.” Ne late physiological investigation has been se promisingly pushed, and none has offered so many lines of solution for the mysterious epi- demics which, from time immemorial, have afflicted man and beast. The atmosphere is loaded with matter which, however invisible to the naked eye, needs only to be sifted in a strong beam of artificial light to reveal countless particles, each of which may afford a nidus for poisonous infusoria. With greater perfection in optica! apparatus this fact will doubtless yet be made more startlingly apparent. But, whatever science can unmask, however alarming it may be, the progress of all remedial and curative procosses can only be advanced by such unstinted analysis. Eminent physicians and original investiga- tors, as M. Pasteur, of the French Academy of Sciences, Professor Lister, of Edinburgh, and others, in their lomg continued and ex- haustive experiments, reached conclusions harmonious with those of Helmholtz and Tyn- dall. While it will always be true that doo- tors will differ this difference does not impair the enormous practical utility of such re searches. The sanitary and medical issues they involve are so manifold and momentous that it would bea grand step in the right di- rection if a number of eminent microscopists and physicists, well provided with means, could combine their skill for a final solution of the precise problem on which so much de- pends, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. +. Rey. T. H. Eddy, of Chicago, is stopping at the Everett House, Professor O, C. Marsh, of Yale College, is at ¢he Hoffman House. Sir W. Martin, of New Zealand, is registered at the Astor House. Professor T. Dwight, of Yale College, has arrived at the Albemarle Hotel. Ex-Governor S. H. Elbert, of Colorado, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor S, H. Elbert, of Colorado, is so- jJourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congressman William Williams, of Buffalo, ts residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rear Admiral James Alden, United States Navy, has apartments at the Hotel Brunswick. General John B. Frisbie, of Californta, 1s among the recent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Sir Edwin Landseer’s house tn St. John’s Wood road, London, was’sold recently tor about $32,000, M. Henry Houssaye has just been awarded the Thiers prize by the French Academy for bis ‘‘His- toiré d’Alcibiade.”” Mr. Von Westenberg, Minister of the Nether- lands at Washington, arrived in the city lat ever- ing and isat the Hotel Brunswick, The Marquise de la Tour-Manbourg, formerty Lady of the Palace under the Empire, has paid brief visit to her Imperial mistress Eugénte, Prince Bismarck was visited recently by the Kaiser and tne Prince Imperial. The royal visitors remained nearly an hour with the great Cham cellor. The Crown Prince and Princess of Germany ané the | suite have residences higgd at Sandown, Isie oF Wight. They wili remain there during July and August, The Duke and Duchess of Westminster enter- tained the Prince of Wales at their London real- dence on the 26th ait. Most of the principal peo- ple of London socie'y Were present at the banquet. BARBAROUS OUTRAGE IN KENTUCKY. Lovisviuie, June 11, 187% In Harrison county, Kentucky, last Friday ®@ Mob of masked men took Robert Becket from the house of tis employer, riddied mis body wite bullets, soaked Mis clothes with coai ol! and set fire to them, thus barning the dead vody. Hecket was charged with the murder of 4 man hamed Elis about a year ago, but was out on bal, Great indignation i8 repurted in the compunity 2 Okwinst this InumMaL guirage.