The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR BROADWAY shellac LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be yeceived and forwardéd on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX.......... seeeees No. 167 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | NIBLO'S GARDEN, between F e and Houston streets.—THE | (OM; OR, LOST AND WOD, ats P.M. closes. M. Mr. Joseph Wheelock aud Miss Jone Burke. Broadway enryrio ARDEN THEATRE, Third avenue.—Concert, Dram- formance, at 5 P. M.; closes at lL Fifty-eighth street, nd Operatic Pe TH 514 Broadway.— uM EP. » at 8P. M.; closes ud Marion Sommers. Stetson BOOTHS THE Twenty-third street and Sixt CIVILE, at 8 P.M; closes at 1 enue.—LA MORTE Signor Salvin WALLA Broadway and Thirtce closes at il PM. 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Sew York, Tuesday, June 16, 1874. | From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with | Yoca! rains. vrerDay. —Stocks were more Watt Street Y) Gold opened at 1103 and | | active, but lower. closed at 110}. tions of the day. These were the only quota- Tux Cartisr Cavse must either be very | desperate or Don Carlos must be very strong, when eighteen officers can be shot at one time | for mutiny. To us the report indicates | despair; although the most charitable view to | be taken is that it is not true. i Tae Buaziran Casxe, it will be seen from this morning's news, is likely to be completed by the 21st of the present month. The final | Splice is being made near Madeira. We | cannot have too many cables between the Old World and the New. ‘Tae Faxnve rw Ivpra has attained gigantic Proportions, the British government under- taking the onerous task of feeding three and a kaif millions of destitute people. Very | gloomy results are anticipated in the face of | this appalling calamity, as in the stricken dis- trict there can be no crop for six months to come. The government is doing its duty bravely and making amends for the early history of English domination in India. It is | en example that commends itself to the con- sideration of our own government in view of the suferers in Louisiana from the inunda- tions of the Mississippi River. Arrer THE Liquor DraLers anD NEGLIGENT | Ponice.—Mayor Stokley, of Philadelphia, tramped through the streets of his city on Sunday to instruct himself as to the notorious | and ulmost universal violation of the Sunday jaw for closing the liquor saloons. He found the groyshops everywhere in full blast. He | taid, properly enough, the police were to blame, and particularly the licutenants, and that hereafter he should hold each lieutenant ible for the violation of the law in his There are other places besides Phil- adelphia where the law is virtually a dead letterand where the authorities might be more ant, ‘Lux Boarp or APPORTIONMENT met yester- 2y, but in the absence of the Mayor no busi- | Qess was transacted. A resolution was offered by Mr. Vance, who was in the chair, | Teqwriug that forty-eight hours’ notice of meetings of the Board shall be given to allthe | rs, Such notice to state the business for | which the meeting is convened, and whenever | bouis ure required to be issued to contain the | Tequisition of the department requiring the bonds, the objects for which they are to be issued sud a reference to the law by which they are authorized. The resolution, which | was Jaid over in the absence of Mr. Have- | meyer, should be unanimously adopted. Its | Object is to protect the taxpayers and to pre- vent that hasty and inconsiderate action which | has already increased the public indebtedness | in « very questionable manner. | Tae Encuisa Pustic Worsum Brw.—A bill is now before the British Parliament having for its object the restraining of the | Titualists, or, as they are called, High Church party. As ageneral rule, and for the most obvious reasons, the ritualists are tories of the deepest dye. They believe in divine right, in landlord supremacy and such like. On almost ail points they are in sympathy with the great conservative party. On one point, however, they are not in harmony. They reveal aumistakable tendencies towards Rome. Mr. Gladstone, the recognized and indis- peusable head of the liberal party, is & prominent rituniiet. Mr. Gladstone is | now ia the funniest position in which | apy yreat English statesman ever found | hisoselt, With the entire strength of the great liberal party at his back he is resisting a | measure which is essentially English, and which, if rightly understood, must command the sympathy of the democracy of the British Buwpire. It is not wonderful that Mr. Glad- stouc’s nawe is now mentioned in connection with Oxford University. .How Mr. Gladstone is to get ont of this dilemma, or what is to be the final resting place of this remarkable man, politically and religiously, it is extremely dig cult ¢ven to guess. | the republicans much comfort, we still believe | not republican in form and spirit. We put | other form of government meant war. The | vasions to conquerand extendand save dynas- * | ness more clearly than since Sedan. We do | not think the Republic of Gambetta or Thiers | | especially exalted forms of free government, | boulevards, and Bazaine, who was condemned | | administered. When Napoleon was living in | petency, a republican government that came, | struck tke only heroic blow that was struck | | tor France during the war. | country was prostrate.and bleeding and ap- | system, but only such a man could do it. | cede to Napoleon III. as an exponent of Na- | cible enemy. Wherever a menace or an adven- | | qualities which gave glory to the founder of | L NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1834.—TRIPLE SHEET, Republicanism in France. election of a delegate, she has spoken in favor of | ‘The situation in France grows more and the Republic. We believe there has been two | more interesting. All students of political | OF three exceptions. One was the election of a | Killed civil service reform I2ads us to some Civil Service Reform. The fact that the House yesterday actually | growths, and especially of the progress of free | Bonapartist in the Department of the Niévre. | reflections upon the purpose and philosophy | governments towards stability and peace, will This was the first sign of life the party had | of this much-landed scheme. | watch with the deepest attention the efforts of | shown, and in an instant the country was in | country of abundant schools, where in- | the French to fashion a government that will | flames. Every agency that could be used was | struction is so general, little is to be In this unite order and liberty, that will combine | summoned to disturb the peace, throw France | gained by preparatory examimitions. The peace and prosperity with perfect freedom. | into anarchy, dissolve the Assembly, and ac- | disease of our civil service is not intel- For ourselves, Wishing all happiness and honor | ©™plish un electoral coup d'état, The country | Jectual, but moral. The incumbe.nts seldom to France, because of her friendship to America in the days when we needed aid, and because of what she has done for enlightenment and liberty, we feel the profoundest interest in the | success of the Republic, Although that suc- cess is not hopetul, and the work has been attended with discouragements and disap- pointing outbreaks like the Commune, an out- break quite as disgraceful and almostas brutal | as the draft riots in New York, and although | the recent sigus in France are not apt to give that there can be no stable government that is aside as unworthy even of serious considera- tion the sentiment which the American mind, in its moments of excessive political vanity, is so apt to fondle, that ‘‘the French people are | unfit for self-government.'’ France has | never shown so much progress and real | national strength as under the Republics. The Republic has always meant peace, while every | republican wars were made in self-defence, to protect the territory from kings and princes who came as enemies of freedom. The mon- archical and imperial wars were mainly in- | ties. Never has republicanism shown its fit- but they are forms that have been honestly | the pampered luxury of Cassel as a war pris- oner, when his marshals were squandering the armies of France by treachery and incom- as Bismarck said, from ‘‘the pavement,’ | When the parently dead, another republican government | lifted her, bound up her wounds, rescued | her soil from the conqueror and showed the | world her marvellous resources. From that time to the present there has been peace. Why is it now that we see discord and agita- tion? \ The reason is a plain one, and it cannot be | too carefully studied by republicans all over the world. The antagonist of the Republic is | Napoleonism. We can understand how the | first Bonaparte could make Napoleonism a Since his time what have we seen? Begin- | ning with the eighteenth of Bramaire—em- bracing the invasion of Spain and Russia, the murder of Duc d’Enghien, and the needless catastrophe of Waterloo— what was the career of the transcendant genius who then ruled France, but a splendid, Jove-like, imperial tyranny, which had no purpose that was not selfishness, which | never hesitated to use every power to gain its purpose? To make kings of the dreaming Louis, the foolish Joseph, the gaudy Murat | and the worthless Jerome, Napoleonism | squandered the blood of hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen on fifty bat- tle fields, and surrendered to the alliance of kings all that Napoleon’s genius, which was great, and the genius of revolutionary France, which was greater, had gained. This was the fault of the magnificent genius whose glory astonished the world, and to which the world has always pardoned so much. It was the eagle—and since then we have had the vulture and the crow. Can we find more fitting emblems for the Third Empire? Oon- poleonism all that his eulogists claim, and what is his system but another phase of subtle, successful, gaudy and, in the end, ruinous tyranny? He reigned twenty years. During that time he was master of France, the richest country in some respects in the world. He was so weak that he permitted a wanton war, and when war came it was | found that, notwithstanding the millions France had lavished on the army, there was no army. The millions had gone no one knows whither, and France was at the mercy of a justly angered and invin- | ture with a weak power could serve his pur- | pose Napoleon was strong. He could fight Russia with the aid of England and Austria, assisted by Italy, but when it came toan actual war with an armed enemy he was de- feated. We look in vain through the career of | this ruler for any of those fascinating, and, | in the eyes of the world, redeeming | his dynasty. He was a gigantic meddlerand bully. When we had our rebellion he showed his hatred of liberty by sending an army to suppress the Mexican Republic and put an | Austrian prince on the throne. History | already shows that he was on the point of an armed intervention in behalf of the South. All he did for united Italy was tarnished by | his course towards Nice and Savoy, and his | protection of the temporal power. His first act | as ruler of France was to swear to support the | Republic; his second was the coup d'état. He began his career by breaking his oath, and naturally enough took to street massacre, Then came the Empire, of which it may be said that it massacred French citizens on the | boulevards, built a great number of new | streets in Paris surrendered two provinces ] at Sedan, and paid Germany a crushing in- demnity. t It may be said that France condoned all of these acts, just as it may be said that the | United States condoned the horrors of slavery. | ‘This we grant simply for the argument. But | we should as soon welcome slavery back to | this country as Napoleonism back to France. | There were splendid qualities in either system, and they were alike in this—that they were | forms of governmental tyranny. There was | nothing in the Empire as gracious and fasci- nating as the fine old plantation life that per- | ished at Appomattox. But its fascination and its graces were not atonements for its sin. So with Napoleonism in whatever form we meet it. Look at this crisis, study it care- | although they saw as all the world saw that | honor should devolve. } present Pope, who yields to no one in his zeal | | Methodist Church. | fully im its budding and blossoming, and what | do wesee? Sitaply the coup d’éat in another | form. Ever since M. Thiers’ presidency, when- ever Stance bea hed occasion to.speak in the | bill was at rest. Content and order reigned. they were winning victory after victory, and | the Assembly no longer represented France, | and that the government was a moral usurpa- | tion. They would have been justified in | making war upon this moral usurpation, but with matchless self-denial and forti- | | tude that cannot be too highly honored they Jackson, who first introduced the spoils have patiently abided their time, confident | that when France did speak, it would be to | proclaim definitely and forever the Republic. | But Napoleonism having won a single victory its leaders mean to force a coup d'état. | It is possible the Bonapartists may win. We | can see how imperialism can return to France. | But it is not for us to welcome it or to repine at | the spectacle of a country so noble, so rich, | so endowed with splendid qualities, with so much civilization and enterprise and thought, | a country which has done so much for free- | dom and progress in every way, passing again | under the dominion of a beardless Bonaparte, | whose traditions come from the Napoleons | of the eighteenth of Brumaire and the | second of December, whose counsellors | would be Rouher, who never failed to be the lackey of the Empire, and | Fleury, who propelled the massacres on the | to death for having surrendered with- out cause the finest fortress and the best armies in France. All this may come, and it | may come, too, with much parnde and cir- | cumstance. Assuredly there would be the fire- works and rhetoric of Napoleonism in profu- sion, and men and women in France would | sing hosannas as men and women in America | sang hosannas toslavery, and would sing them | to-morrow could slavery only return. For | ourselves our hopes are with the Republic; | and not only for France, but for the other nations. We may have restorations, but they will be postponements. We may have revolu- tions, but they will be aspirations. In spite of disappointment and failure the Repub- | lic will come, and with it peace, civilization | and that true freedom which as yet the em- perors and kings have failed to give mankind. | Tue American Carpinau.—Tue Enquirer, | of Cincinnati, agrees with the St. Louis | Republican that, ‘‘as the United States must | be considered as among the great Powers | of the world, and its Catholic people nu- merous, wealthy and intelligent, the honor of the Cardinal’s hat, it is thought, | will no longer be withheld.’ The Repub- | lican adds that ‘“‘the two prelates most notably conspicuous in learning and piety | and in influence at the Vatican are Arch- | bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, and Archbishop | Perche, of New Orleans.”” We have no pref- | erences as to the mere man upon whom this | All we contend for ia | | the principle that if the dignity of cardinal is | of any value to the Catholic Church surely a | branch so faithful and true as the American | Church should be selected forthe honor. The | tor the prerogatives of the Holy See, not long since elevated & young priest to the office of cardinal because he was the cousin of the Emperor Napoleon. How much better to con- fer the dignity upon some one of our learned and venerable prelates whose piety and vir- tues adorn the Church. It would be well for our pilgrims to bring these views to the atten- tion of His Holiness, now that they have access to him, and see if they cannot return with the coveted and merited distinction. | As Epvucarep on Unepucatep Muvustry is a lively theme just now among the doctors of the Methodist Church. Yesterday it was dis- cussed ata gathering of the preachers at No, 805 Broadway. Our readers can see the re- | port in another part of the paper and take | i} | i | whichever horn of the dilemma they choose. For our part we think preachers ot the Gospel cannot be too well educated. At the same | time there is some truth in the argument that a@ prolonged and dry education in mere verbiage and hair-splitting technicalities may | tend to eliminate that vigorous spirit of the Gospel which did so much to build up the | E:cut Hovrs.—We are glad the proposal of Mr. Dunnell to repeal the Eight Hour law in the House yesterday was defeated. There is no doubt a good deal of sentiment on this question of eight hours for labor. There are very few industrious men, whether they labor at masonry or literature, who do not work more than eight hours a day from sheer love of work. But this should be o matter of option, as it always will be. So far as the law is concerned and so far as labor has any rela- tions to capital the Eight Hour law is wise. One effect will be that all questions of hours will fade away, and laboring men will be paid for the work they actually do and not for the time employed in doing it. This we should be glad to see as a step towards the inde- pendence of the workingman. We Acree with Mr. Conkling that in our careless way of passing bills for the relief of people who “suffered during the war’ we shall soon have Jefferson Davis and those who acted with him asking compensation for cotton used in the defence of Vicksburg. There was a bill before the Senate yesterday to relieve a certain Mr. Anderson, of Ken- tucky, by paying him for cotton used in | Nashville. We have no doubt there sre many | cases of extreme hardship in the South which | should receive relief and to which it would be wise and mercitul to extend aid, but we can- not do so by this haphazard legislation. Let there be a comprehensive law based upon a | wise system governing all these cases, aud the matter can pass into the jurisdiction of the courts. A Drrrrerence.—According to Mr, Gar- field’s statement in the House yesterday one of the bills appropriated nine millions less this year than it did last year. This is a good sign, especially if the nine millions do not | come to us again in the shape of a deficiency | intelligence may readily qualify themselves | rooted only by a method which goes deeper. | only for cause after a fair trial. The conse- |be no more conclusive fail by incapacity, but too often .by unscru- | There were industry, comfort, repose. The | pulous partisanship and personal dishonesty. | republicans were docile and patient although | No examination can be a test of faithfulness and integrity, and as this most assential branch of qualifications admits of no other proof at the outset than the certified reputa- tion of the applicant, it might be as well to depend on the same source of information 1'or the less important school attainments in\ which so few are found to fail. President | system which has so utterly corrupted our public life, made the commonness of intellectual capacity for such duties the cor- ner stone of his argument. In detending the system of ‘‘rotation in office,'’ as it was then called by its advocates, he said in his first message to Congress, ‘The duties of all public offices are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and simple that men of for their performance, and I cannot but be- lieve that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to be gained by their experience.” It seldom happens that any of the thousands of clerks, male or female, in the public departments fail to master their duties in a few days. Of the scores of thousands of petty postmasters scattered all over the country, appointed on mere recommendation, nobody can recollect aninstance of mental incompetence. There are frequent cases of dishonesty or embezzle- ment, but none, or next to none, of inability to discharge their duties. The functions of subordindte federal officers are not more diffi- cult than those of supervisors and town clerks, which are well enough performed, although the incumbents are never required to pass an examination. It would be thought ridiculous to agitate for this kind of test in State, county and town officers. The unfortunate ‘‘spoils system’’ can be up- The fit thing to be done is to render the civil officers of the federal government as in- dependent of Executive caprice as _ its military and naval officers, The army, so faras the regular officers are concerned, has always been a model of upright adminis- tration. But how long would it retain this high and enviable reputation if the army | officers, like the civil officers, were subject to removal on the election of every new Pres- ident? The army officers can be removed quence is that they never electioneer and sel- dom yote. General Grant never cast but one vote in his life, and that was after he had dis- solved his first connection with the army. If the civil officers were made equally in- dependent they would be just as indifferent to | party politics. If the civil officers were liable to serve, as the army officers are, under suc- cessive administrations elected by different parties, and recognized their duty to render | faithful service under all, they would no | longer be the zealous electioneering instru- | more important, the vast hordes of office- seekers who want their places would be equally quiescent. The most active, corrupt and controlling element of our present politics | would abandon the field, because it would have nothing to gain by the success or to lose by the defeat of any party. Previous to General Jackson's time no need Y was ever felt of what we call civil service re- | to display themselves in this city. form, and nothing would have been regarded as more needless and whimsical than the literary examinations which callow reformers hold forth as the sovereign specific for official malversation. No civil service was éver purer and more efficient than ours was before the corrupting rule was established that ‘‘to the victors belong the spoils.” There could proof cf the failure of the examination remedy than the fewness of the removals during the first forty years of the government. All appointments were made without ap- plying any literary test, and yet the removals averaged less than two a year. Nobody will accuse our earlier Presidents of keeping incompetent or unfit men in office, and the fact that they found so few occasions tor exercising the power of removal proves the possibility of a sound civil service without preliminary examinations. Washington re- moved but nine officers during the eight years of his Presidency ; John Adams 1m four years removed ten; Jefferson, forty-two in eight years; Madison, only five in eight years; Monroe, nine in eight years; John Quincy Adams, only two in four years—in all barely | seventy-seven removals from civil offices dur- ing the first ten Presidential terms, including a period of forty years. If we could re-establish this system which prevailed under our early Presidents of making no removals, except for dishonesty or in- capacity, all the new appointments could be made after cautious inquiry and deliberation. Instead of filling a hundred thousand places in the first months of a new administration the President would have to make appoint- ments only in case of vacancies arising by death, resignation or removal for cause. This. is the only kind of civil servive reform which can rescue our institutions from their greatest peril. A Cuance ror THE Sotprers.—The House yesterday adopted the proposition of Mr. Hoskins to give preference to discharged soldiers and sailors aud their dependent relatives for employment in the departments, likewise an amendment by Mr. Kellogg re- | quiring the heads of executive departments to prescribe rules and regulations to test \ | new term | the Is Their Appointment Legalt The Corporation Counsel has officially in- structed the newly appointed Commissioners to complete the new Court House building that, while they are entitled to enter and oc- cupy the building so far as may be necessary for the proper discharge of their official | duties, they have no authority or control over its general custody and care and no power over the employés. The custody and patron- age of the building vests in the Department ot Public Works, now that the city and county governments are practically consolidated. Of course Comptroller Green, who endeavored to obstruct the operation of the Consolidation act by instructing the janitors, serub women und others to recognize no authority save that of the Court House Commissioners, knew the effect of the law without the aid of the Corporation Counsel’s opinion, for he refused to recognize in the old Commission the very powers he has cl\imed for their suecessors. He raised the troiible only out of unfriendliness towards the Public Works Department and would have endeavored to defeat the Consolidation act if he hac. known at the time of its passage that its effevt would be to increase the patronage of that department. But the question now arises, Are the ap- pointments of Court House Commissioners by the Mayor properly made, and are such offices legally in existence? This raises some nice points of law, for the constita- tionality of the several laws relating to this Commission is doubtful. If the original law creating such commissioners and the law amending the original act will stand the test of the courts the {nrther question arises as to the power of the Mayor to appoint without the confirmation of the Board of Aldermen, The Jaw of 1873, chapter 759, ‘to provide for the completion of county buildings, declares in the first section, ‘‘The terms of office of each and every commissioner heretofore appointed for the erection of buildings for county pur- poses in the city and county of New York shall be and are hereby declared to be terminated.” The law then proceeds to provide that new commissioners shall be nominated by the Mayor of New York, and appointed by and with the consent of the Board of Aldermen. The law of last session regulating the appoint- ing power authorized the Mayor to appoint without the consent of the Aldermen in case of vacancy only, and not when a of office was commenced. Independent of the point whether the Mayor and Aldermen, city authorities, could constitutionally be empowered to appoint county officers, the law of 1874 clearly ‘‘termi- nated’’ the terms of office of all commissioners for the erection of county buildings, and hence a new term must commence with the new appointments, and no ‘‘vacancy,’’ such as contemplated by the latter law, existed in the new Court House Commission. As the Board of Aldermen have already provided for the completion of the Court House by invitation of bids for the work it is to be hoped that the new Commis- sioners, whose appointments are thus of questionable legality, and whose salaries will only be so much money abstracted un- necessarily from the impoverished city treas- ury, will resign their positions. If they per- sist in holding on to their sinecures an in- | ments of the President in power, and, what is | junction should be issued restraining them | | from incurring any expense for which the city | can be held liable, and forbidding the pay- ment of their salaries by the Comptroller. The Sunday Record of Crime. Itisa humiliating and disheartening fact that the Sabbath Day seems to be the particular | period of the week for the worst passions of men Scarcely a | Sunday passes without a murder or some out- rage of a kindred nature. A raffle held on Saturday night for the benevolent purpose of assisting a distressed cartman resulted the an iron bar were used with fatal effect. ‘The victim in this case was, unfortunately, a ! order have brought him to the hospital, and, | likely, the grave. | is one which has become painfully frequent in | some of our tenement houses. It is a brutal case of wife beating, brought on, of course, by drankenness. The same fruitful source Brooklyn on Sunday morning. ance crusade of some kind or strict police ticularly on Saturday night and Sunday. When liquor dealers are permitted to serve out to drunken customers their vile poison | without a care for the consequences it is time fora stringent excise law to be put in force, as far as sudh dens areconcerned. Weshould then be spared the disgrace and shame of a regular list of murders and outrages for every Sunday morning. from a cable despatch published to-day that there was some mistake as to the reported action of thé Federal Council of State of Germany voting on the act for the civil registration of births, deaths and mar- riages. It is denied, in a semi-official tele- Council voted to extend the new Prussian law to all the States of the Empire. On the con- trary, it is said the Council really rejected the bill on the ground that its provisions are not in harmony with the legislation of the differ- ent States. Thus, with all the tendency to imperial consolidation in Germany, there ment. Yet the Federal Council wants har- mony, and has consequently invited Prince Bismarck, as Chancellor, to prepare a new bill applicable to the whole Empire. No statesman knows better, probably, when the time is ripe to enforce his indomitable will and when it is prudent to reach an object by cautious steps. He will, doubtless, keep in the qualifications of candidates for office, Our discharged soldiers and sailors ‘may have a better chance of appointment. Tsar Two Mitions ror THE CHOcTAW AND Curckasaw Inpians is still a matter of con- tention in Congress. Mr. Hale proposed to strike out the appropriation trom the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, and in this he was | supported by Mr. Garfield. Finally, the House concluded to postpone the subject and voter it to the Secretary of the Interior for a L.seport | view the unification and strengthening of the | Empire, but he is too wise to fight windmills | or endanger the domestic peace of Germany. | (mnie entencp enamine Erontern Mownrus’ Imprisonment FOR | Buryrne Brrcxs.--The German doctor, Uhbling, | who has been under the charge some time of | attempting to defraud the Merchants’ Life In- | surance Company by representing that Louise | Germs was dead and buried, when, in tact, | the said Lonise was alive aud kicking, and the eofiu which Ubling said contained her remains next morning ina row, in which a pistol and | | peacemaker, whose efforts in the cause of | Another crime on the list | of crime led to two serious stabbing affairs in | A. tem per- of their horses. Per | pide. regulations are needed in the metropolis, par- | gram from Berlin.to London, that the Federal | still remains a powerful State rights senti- | | The New Court House Comissioners= | of the crime charged against him and sen- tenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment. It was a cunning acheme of Dr. Ubling to get money, but the silent tomb spoke on this oc casion and the bricks testified against the would-be defrauder, China and Japan. The news from Japan and China is unu- sually interesting. Its features are both serious and comical at the same time. The Formosa expedition, for example, which the Japanese government organized some time ago for a descent on Formosa, and then coun. termanded its orders, resolved to go at all events. The despatch from San Francisco containing the news, brought by the Great Republic steamship from Japan, says the troops declared positively they would go to Formosa, The government had really to yield to the will of the soldiers so far as to send them to Amoy, intending, however, that they should remain there till the Chinese government could be sounded on the subject. But, like our filibusters, these Asiatics were spoiling for a fight, and actually went to For. mosa on their own responsibility. It appears, however, that they met with opposition from the Formosans. The result remains to be seen. There is a speck of trouble also at Corea. Eighteen Japanese were be» headed by the Coreans simply because they were Japanese. ‘This shows a bitter feeling of hostility against the Japanese. The Coreans were building forts and drilling troops for defence against Japan. There had been an attack on the house of the British Legation at Jeddo, with a view to arrest some one con. nected with the Legation who was charged with an offence against Japanese law. At Shanghai, China, a Chinese mob had attacked the French quarters, which happened to be too near a joss house to suit the devout Ce- @itials. The French were making a road to X their quarters, which went near the joss house. Five thousand Chinese, it is reported, were epgaged in the assault. The. riot was quelled finally by the French police, assisted by the English. There is, evidently, » good deal of fermentation among the Mongolians arising Out of prejudices of race and religion and about the Corean and Formosa business, “The Virginius. One of the conditions of the Virginius set- tlement with Spain was that Spain should pay an indemnity to the sailors seized and to the relatives of those killed unless she could show within a given period to the satisfaction of our State Department that the Virginius was not an American ship in such sense as entitled her to the protection of our laws, Has Spain sate isfied our State Department on this head, and has the whole subject been permitted to drop by the facile gentlemen who sustain the inter- ests of our people so very gently when they are opposed to Spanish interests? Will some one in Washington stir it up and let us know how the case stands? England’s attitude will give interest to ours. If we have abandoned this case it is because we have admitted, in Spanish showing, that the Virginius was not an American ship; but England, at this mo- ment, is pressing her case against Spain, base ing it on the irrefragable evidence thoroughly satisfactory to her that the Virginius was an American ship. She was, says John Bull, an American ship as against any other nation, Though the United States might criticise her papers, Spain must have respected them if she had regarded international laws. Therefore, as she was an American, Spain had no control over persons on her, and Spain must pay. It is queer to find England maintaining the | rights ot our ships when our State Department has abandoned them, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Governor C. J. Jenkins, of Georgia, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General James H. Ledite, of Chicago, is staying at the Hotel Brunswick. Garfield is advocated in Ohlo because he has @ “national reputation.” Now tnat the Cryptogam is betore the footlights Vasquez, of California, galls for his poet, ‘The Right Hon. Montague Bernard has resigned the Chair of International Law at Oxford. Nathaniel Wilson, of Washington, is among the recent arrivais at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Richard Cuss was badly put down when @ 500 | Pound weight fell on him at St. Louis recently. Deery, of Arkansas, tried to give King White @ mortal wound, but King White gave it to his Deery. ‘Texas women, it is reported, ride on voth sides Other people only ride on the out- Ex-State Senator Isaac V. Baker, Jr., of Com- stocks, N, Y., 18 registered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Congressman Morton C. Hunter, of Indiana, at rived irom Washington yesterday at the Grand Central Hotel. The Marquis de Clermont Tonnerre, Secretary of the French Legation, has apartments at the Brevoort House. Judge Theodoric R. Westbrook, of the New York Supreme Court tor the Third Judictal district, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute have ar- a | rived at Cardiff Castle, from Southampton, where Tux Untrication or Germany.—It appears | they ianded from the yacht Ladybird, “For a young woman to begin to pick lint of @ | young man's coat collar” is sald to be the fret symptom that the young man Js in peril. Mr. Joseph Rankin Stepbing, Past Grand Master of England in Freemasonry and Deputy Past Grand Master of Hampshire and Isle of Wight, has died at Southampton. Sefior Borges, Brazilian Minister at Washington, is at the Albemarie Hotel. He will sail for Europe to-morrow in the steamship Cuba, having obtained leave of absence trom his government. Lamison, of Ohio, told his constituents whe didn't like the salary grab to “go to hell’? but in. | stead of that they nearly all stayed in Ohio, and now they don’t mention Lamison strongly for re election. Agier, one of the murderers of Count de I’Espée, Preiect of the Lotre, in the outbreak at St, Etienne, which followed the establishment of the Commune, has been recognized in Parts, arrested, and punished with simple transportation. Rey. Joseph Delany, of the Missionary Order of Fathers of Mercy, has retarned to the Home, om Broadway, Brookisn, £. D., having just closed @ mission of three months’ duration throughout the arch-diocese of New Orleans, terminating the spiritual exerci in the Crescent City, Pound parties are becoming fashionable in this city, We did not know what a pound party wae until last evening, and we are not quite certain that we do yet. We are told, though, that persoua who attended the party were expected to briug @ pound oj something—anything.—Exchange. Rurat ignorance! Even the street dogs of tals city kuow what a pound party Is, TRIBUTE TO COLORED CONGRESSMEN. BacrmMore, June 15, 1874, A reception of the colored mempers of Congres? by the Union Republican Ciub (colored) took Place at Kethel church to-night. Addresses were Made by Represensatives Raine: oat of South Ci x a cM outh Caroling! Lyneh, of Missiealp ‘a on Pinciback, of Louisiama, in ad te bauquet aiverwards ats ball, oaly had bricks in it, was yesterday convicted | Duugias iustivute,