The New York Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1874, Page 6

ee t 6 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE Iv, NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, pudlished every day in the | year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New Yorx | Hanaw. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be prop- erly sealed. 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 KXXUE..... 0... cece ceee ee NOs 170 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING foe eee WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—VATE, at 8 P. M.; closes ar il P.M. Miss Carlotta Le Clercq. BOOTH'’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—SAMPSON, at 8 ¥. M.; closes at 1 P. M. Sette OLYMPIC THEATRE, roadway, between tiouston and Bleecker streets.— | ABIBIY ENTERIAINMENT, at 7:49 P. 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M.; closes at 5 P.M. Same at7 P. M.; | loses at lu P. M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, fadigon avenue and ‘wenty-sixth ‘street.—GRAND AGEANT—CONGHEES OF NATIONS, at 1:3, P. M. and ‘TRIPLE SHEET. | New York, Friday, June 19, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be clear and ‘acarmer. Wart Sreeer, Wteady and active. jelosed at 111. Tse Preparations to lay the new Atlantic | Cable are wili nigh completed. What is eeded, however, is a postal cable to compéte | ‘ith the monopolies, and secure cheap rates | Wor the benefit of the public. RocuErortT was not only molbed in Ireland ‘but he has been warned by the Belgian police that he must not visit Brussels. An English | newspaper says he will reside in Rotterdam, but another report is that he will go to Geneva. Tue Lierat RePusricans.—Well informed people have for some time believed that the liberal republican party was dead and had found rest by some process of interment or cremation. But it seems that there is a small ond faithful remnant still Jeft, and that it met | the other day at Buffalo. Among those pres- ent were General Cochrane and Mr. Manierre, of New York. ‘There was a free interchange | of views,” and it was resolved unanimously to | recommend an independent and distinct State | Convention, as wellas independent Congres- sioval nominations. This State Convention will be held at Syracuse in August. Yesterpay.—Stocks were Gold opened at 111} and Tue Napotzon Breacu.—Prince Jerome Na- paleon having announced that he will run as | a Bonapartist candidate for the Assembly, Cassagnac, who is the organ of the Bona- | partes in Paris, announces that he will op- | The Recent Republican Conventions. | condemned President Grant nor indorsad him. | fydrophonia and the Dog Question. In pursuance of the same harmonious policy | The Heratp reported yesterday the proceed- ings and platforms of three republican State Conventions held on Wednesday, two in the West and one in the East. All three of the States which held these party Conventions are agricultural, Vermont being even more 60, in proportion to its population, than either Indiana or Dlinois. They differ, however, in this, that a large part of the farms in Indiana and IlKinois are encumbered with mortgages, while in Vermont the farmers are compara- tively free from debt. A debtor interest natu- rally takes a different view of the great ques- tion of the currency from a community that owes little and contains as large a proportion of citizens to whom money is due as of those who are under contract to pay it. It is not as agriculturists, but as debtors, that a portion of the West desires an inflation of the cur- rency. The assembling of these Conventions was looked forward to with lively public interest. The country was curious to see how the veto and memorandum of President Grant would be received by the republicans and whether his policy was likely to divide the party in the ensuing elections, As throwing light on this point there are no two States in the Union where the organized action of the party seemed fraught with so much significance as Indiana and Illinois, the homes respectively of Senators Morton and Logan, the foremost champions of inflation. We were as certain that Vermont would warmly indorse the Presi- dent before its Convention met as we are now when it has acted. It is a State in which |.there is not the faintest gleam of hope for the democrats, and in which, in spite of the action of Congress, the republicans will easily hold their own by standing on the policy of the President and the course of their own Senators and Representatives. But in Illinois and In- diana the republicans do not occupy such secure ground. Indiana has a democratic Governor, elected less than two years ago. farmers. In both of these States the republi- the great question of the day. In neither of pols. Nothing could be more critical and ticklish than the political situation in Indiana and Illinois, and a republican split in either would have portended a general over- throw and dissolution of the republican party. So far as we can judge from the platform, this danger has been escaped. The Indiana and Illinois democrats will gain nothing by the difference which has arisen between the gress. While inflation has been cautiously indorsed by the Convention of one of these States and virtually renounced by the other it has been done without any offensive con- demnation of opposing views. It is pretty certain that the republicans have made up their minds to pull together, and to avoid the weakening effect of a quarrel with General Grant. They are careful to speak in subdued language, and to make their views of the cur- rency a mere matter of local preference, and not assert them as a part of the national party creed. We will separately examine the party action in Indiana and Lilinois, pheus of inflation, had his own way and | moulded the Convention to his wishes. He is one of the most astute and dexterous of politicians, and in his own State his ascendancy in the party is more complete and absolute than is possessed by any other republican leader in any State of the Union. The Indiana platform is his; for if he did not draft that part of it which re- lates to the currency it was, no doubt, sub- | mitted to him and had his sanction before it was presented to the Convention. It proves conclusively that he dare not come into close quarters with the President on this question. The most significant of its resolutions in- dorses the President and indorses Morton in the same breath. To be sure the President is only indorsed for ‘integrity and honor,” leaving it to be mferred that his financial policy is mistaken, though honestly enter- tained; but, on the other hand, Morton is in- dorsed with even more exquisite caution. A studied discrimination is made between the views of the republican party and the local pose him in every way. We presume, then, that Prince Jerome has not been pardoned for | his want of zeal to the Prince Imperial. Con- | sidering however, that he is the heir to the | Prince Imperial, and if anything happened | to the lad he would be Napoleon V. in the | eyes of the faithful, it is interesting to watch | the acerbity of Cassagnac and the loyal fol- lowers of Chiselhurst. A Mas or Logica Ipzas.—We have great respect for the Hon. B. G. Harris, of Mary- land, who proposes to run for Congress on the theory that ‘this is a white man’s govern- ment,” and declares ‘that if elected his first | act will be to move that all seats in Congress | occupied by colored men be declared vacant.”’ | Mr. Harris is one of those bold men whom we | always know where to find. He would be a | curiosity in Congress, like Whalley, the mem- | ber of Parliament, who believes Mr. Gladstone | to be a Jesuif and Arthur Orton to be Roger | Tichborne. Whalley once went to jail for his opinions, and when he rises in the House | members call upon him to sing @ song until | he sits down, A man of this type would be a comfort to a tedious and bored Congress. | And such a man Mr. Harris will be should he | succeed in his canva: Puznty or Gowp in Enoianp.—The bul- lion in the Bank of England increased during the last week nine hundred and twenty-nine | thousand pounds, and now the reserve is forty-eight and one-eighth per cent of the hebilities—an increase of three and one-eighth per cent for the week. The bank directors, as | vention and try to influence its proceedings. | a consequence of this increase and enormous | amount of bullion, have reduced the rate of discount and fixed the minimum at two anda | half per cent. This shows 4 very favorable | pondition of British trade. They know how | to prevent a great outflow of specie in Eng- land, and, therefore, can maintain a specie basis, and also to cheapen money and assist business when gold accumulates, Our would be financiers talk of a specie basis without specie and when they cannot prevent it leav- fing the country. England would have to sus- pend specie payments, as every other country has to suspend, when a continued unfavorable Kalvuce of trade drains gold away. sentiments of Indiana, and Morton is praised | only for supporting the latter. His colleague | is joined with him; and the actual language of the platform is, ‘And the republicans of Indiana view with especial pride and hearty approval the course of Senators Morton and Pratt, and the fidelity and ability with which they have represented the sentiments of the people of this State,’ which is a virtual relinguishment of any claim that Morton has represented the views of the republican party at large in advocating inflation. Itisa contession by himself and his friends that, on this subject, he has only been a representative of local opinion. It isa renunciation of any claim to political recognition and reward out- side of his own State. He is too able and shrewd a man not to perceive that he can found no hopes of the Presidency on his efforts for inflation, since the President has declared his views with so much decision and emphasis. In this Indiana platform Morton has ‘let himself down easy’ with his own constituents, but has made it evident enough that he declines a fight with President Grant. The harmony of the republican party in In- diana will not be disturbed by their differing views. In Illinois Logan has no such control of the party as Morton possesses in Indiana. In- stead of quietly arranging matters beforehand, as Morton did, and resting secure of the re- sult, he disclosed his doubts and anxiety by posting away to Springfield to attend the Con- He had reason enough for his fears, for the Chicago Board of Trade and the ablest part of the press of Illinois have strongly reprobated bis course. Moreover, the friends of General Grant in Illinois | were not held in check, as they were in Indi- ana, by a powerful local party leader. Logan had reason to tear that his own party, in his | own State, might snub or condemn him, and 60 he abandoned his duties in the Senate and went home to parry the blow. But he was muzzled until the Conveution had completed its business, and then allowed to come betore it and make an inflation speech. ‘The linois Convention adopted a platiorm which neither President and the republican majority in Con- | In Indiana Senator Morton, the great cory- | it neither indorsed nor condemned Logan by name. The plattorm, as first reported, was tion it declared it would be unwise to cancel backs, and in its fourth it favored a gradual retirement of the legal tenders in proportion as | the bank note circulation should be increased. After a sharp and heated discussion this last declaration was stricken out, and the republi- can party of Illinois stands committed to the inconsistency of maintaining the currency as it is, and ‘a return to specie payment at the earliest practicable day"—which is not inflation, to be | sure, but is inconsistent with any coftrac- tion. But it 1s a complete demonstration that to array itself in opposition to the President. The action of these two important Western Conventions must be regarded with great com- placency by General Grant. It proves that | the inflationists dare not censure him even in the States represented by Morton and Logan. | Morton controlled his Convention, and he has the merit of virtually acknowledging his de- feat by making his support of inflation an act of fidelity to his local constituents. But poor Logan, who is not astute and skilful enough to make a graceful retreat while seeming to maintain his ground, stands before the coun- try as an object of pity and derision. He goes to Illinois to influence the Convention and has @ gag put in his mouth until its proceedings | are ended. The Convention does not indorse | him nor even allude to him in its platform. | But under such circumstance silence is con- demnation. Logan has dwindled to a politi- cal cipher in his own State, where his pres- ence was regarded as an intrusion, and his noisy championship of inflation is virtually | condemned by the republican platform. | It ig evident now that the policy of Presi- r dent Grant has triumphed. He is strongly The politics of Dlinoig 2ave been thrown into _ Supported in the East, and the Weat dare not | confusion by the disturbing movement of the OPPpose him. Morton, like a skilful general, | keeps up a show of opposition to cover his re- can Senators and Representatives in Congress | treat, and Logan is deserted by his troops | have been in opposition to the President on | when he attempts to rally them for battle. Congress will soon adjourn, and the inflation \ them can the party bear further losses or alien- | "FMy is so demoralized that there is no likeli- | ation without danger of inevitable defeat at the | hood that it will ever come into the field | again. The fact that the supporters of Mor- |! ton only praise him for fidelity to his | | local constituents, and that the republican | convention of Illinois does not deign to men- | | tion Logan at all and demands nothing be- | yond maintaining the currency as it is, favoring a resumption of specie payment as | Soon as itis practicable, proves.that the in- | flation mania is ended, and that future con- tests on the currency will be confined to the degree of rapidity with which the country | shall return toa sound currency. The vigor | and decision of President Grant haye borne earlier fruit than could have been expected. Mr. Havemeyer’s Court House Com- missioners and the People’s Money. The appointment of Court House Commis- sioners by Mayor Havemeyer is of very doubtful legality at the best. There is a question first as to the constitutionality of the | law under which the present Commissioners | have been appointed, aud next as to the power of the Mayor to appoint them under any circumstances without the confirmation of the Board of Aldermen. On the latter point, at least, no reasonable doubt can exist. The law of last session expressly terminated the terms of office of all commissioners of county buildings, and thus created a new term for such officers. It also designated how the new officers should be appointed—namely, by the Mayor, subject to the confirmation of the Al- dermen. The law, which partially amends the charter mode of appointment, provides that the confirming power of the Aldermen shall be dispensed with in the case of vacancies | only, and not when a new term of office is | commenced. As we have said, the law re- moving all commissioners of county buildings did not merely legislate them out of office, but it declared their terms of office to be ter- minated, andthe argument that a vecancy existed because while the incumbents were removed the offices were continued is aosurd. The law provides that Police Commission- | er’s office shall expire in six years. 4t the | close of his term the office continues; bat no | one will claim that a ‘‘vacancy”’ exists in the | legal sense of the word, since the next ap- pointment commenves a new term of office. | The same reasoning applies exactly to the Court House Commissioners, as a “term of office’ can be fixed by legislative enactment alone. But apart from this the communicition addressed to the Court House Commissioners by Messrs. Vance and Wheeler, membzrs of | the Board of Apportionment, which we pub- lish elsewhere, shows that the appointment of such Commissioners by the Mayor at this time, whether legal or illegal, was against the public interest, and a piece of official folly and extravagance. The new Court House bas | been a constant source of evil since its con- | mencement to the present time. It was cor- ceived in corruption and has been the man instrument of the frauds which have beer perpetrated on the taxpayers. An expensiv suit for money advanced to the old commis sion is now pending against the city ands mandamus has been issued commanding its settlement. No moncy is available for the completion of the building, and none con be raised except by concurrent vete of the Board of Apportionment. Under my | circumstances the unexpended balance of the whole amount authorized by law to be raised would be insufficient to complete the work. Messrs. Vance and Wheeler, therefore, noify | the new Commissioners that they have no authority to incur any expense whatever mtil @ concurrent vote of the Board of Apporton- | ment has placed in their hands the means to enable them to proceed with the work, and | this vote will never be given until the mem- | bers of the Board are furnished with an esti- | mate in detail of the work to be done apd of | the manner in which it is contemplated to do it. The stand taken by Messrs. Vance and | Wheeler will be warmly approved by the people. We have had enough of one Court House Ring without submitting to another, | eomposed of Havemeyer, Green and a force of consulting architects. { | Tue Loxvon Daily News compares Na poleonism in France to couch grass, and says | it “has not strack deep into the soil, but has taken possession of the superficial stratum,” an inconsistent medley. In its second resolu- | any portion of the $382,000,000 of green- | the republican party of LUlinois does not mean | jmestness, and yesterday several very important \matters were determined. The District of Another example is before the public of those startling and semi-mysterious deaths | that provoke a constantly recurring discussion on hydrophobia. Mr. Francis Butler, long known to this community as a fancier of the canine species, and an authority in canine maladies, was bitten a few days since by a dog sent to him for treatment, was taken ill | soon after and in forty-eight hours from the | attack died of a disease which is called hydro- | phobia by an intelligent practitioner who was called to the bedside, ® disease, therefore, | Substantially similar to the one that has been | described by this name in medical books | from time immemorial. Is this, as some the- | orists, who reason cogently, would have us | believe, a mere case of post hoc propter hoo, | or was there a real relation physically of cnuse and effect between the bite and the death? | They who disbelieve in rabies as a communi- cable disease, or who, at least, air their dia- lectics in this particular scepticism, will argue | that, though Mr. Butler was bitten on Thurs- day and died on Tuesday, there is no other connection in the facts than the relation of dates ora relation constructed by his imagi- nation ; and a more stolid school of think- ers, who hold by some of the ancient notions, will argue that Butler died from the bite of that dog in the same way that he might have died from the bite of a cobra di capello ora rattlesnake. Who is right? And in the disagreement of the learned who shall decide for the people? Have all our dogs in | their veins the possibility ot a disease which may any day make them more terrible in the household than so many Bengal tigers ; or is | it merely that generations of men without number have agreed to give them a bad name? It is a fact somewhat curious in its relation | to this subject that Butler himself, though a | believer in rabies as a canine disease, was per- suaded that the majority of human deaths attributed to this cause were really caused by fright. His letter to the editor of the Hzratp, printed by us in a former year when the sub- | ject was somewhat agitated, is now reprinted | in another column. Taken with the writer's death asa commentary it is a very melan- choly chapter of supposititious wisdom. But ler, it will be seen, treats hydrophobia very lightly, and the readiest inference from his letter is that he never saw gen- vine rabies; that his so called rabies was distemper in an aggravated form. Indeed, his declaration of his success in curing the malady is in a great degree against him. Any disease in a dog that is cured is in all probability not rabies, Butler had seen men die of fright from the bites of dogs that he was sure were not mad, and he ! had seen those of firmer nerve remain unaf- fected by the virus of dogs that he supposed were undoubtedly rabid. All this is very instructive, and indeed most especially so in view of the tragic tact just at a time when the public are urged to take up this same light vein and scoff at the fears and the fancies of those who believe there is poison in the bite of adog. But practically one might say, What does it matter whether there is poison or not? If the public mind and even the mind of an expert can be in such a state with regard to the dog that the bite of a | dog is fatal, does it mend the matter to say that it is only fright? If fright is fatal can virus be worse, and is it not as necessary to protect the public from the liability to such a tright as to protect them from any confessedly physical evil? But we are in the number of those who do not believe it was fright. But- ler in his years of experience had been bitten too often to be frightened to death by a bite in his old age. We believe that the saliva of the diseased dog entering at the puncture made by the tooth and absorbed into the circula- tion was the poison that destroyed his life, and we see no more difficulty in believing this than in believing that any animal or vegetable poison may thus be introduced un- der a punctured skin, and thus produce its peculiar physiological or pathological effect. It seems to us mere moonshine for people to argue, as people have done quite recently, that there is no hydrophobia in dogs, and, there- fore, none in man, and that the world has de- luded itself on the subject for thousands of years. It is a fact clear by all experience that dogs are afflicted with a malady which they sometimes communicate by their bites to hu- man creatures and which is fatal to both. It is no answer to say that Tom, Dick or Harry were bitten by a mad dog and were none the worse for it, for the fact that they did not die is itself an-evidence that that particular dog had some other disease and not the graver one discussed. Against this malady which dogs communi- cate to man, and which is fatal, it is neces- sary to. protect the public, and all sentiment and philanthropy that opposes: this necessity is mock sentiment and false philanthropy— mere morbid drivel. It is better to kill all the dogs in the town than to have one man die from hydrophobia, and every philanthropist would admit this if he were to be the man. Dogs should be muzzled or not permitted to go at large; and as resistance has been suc- cessfully made to the muzzle the alternative has been adopted of not permitting them to go at large—that is, of making them ont- laws—of putting a price on the head.of every. dog found uncared for in the streets. There is only one thing that can be said in favor of the way this has been carried out, which is that it is likely to be effective. Itis demoralizing, barbarous, and makes a constantly painful spectacle in the strects, and we wish some better plan might be devised of carrying out the good principle which is at the bottom of it. Dogs should be taxed, and the owner who paida tax could keep his dog at home and muzzle him there if he liked, and. every dog for whom no one could be found to pay a tax should be destroyed. Cannot so simple a plan. be decently and humanely enforced? Coseness 13 Wonxrne with considerable ear. | Polumbia bill was passed by the Senate, and jow goes tothe President. The Moicty bill | yas also passed by beth houses. The report the conference committee on the Finance Lill was unanimous, and was agreed to by the | House. The House also disposed of the Legis- | tive, Executive and Judicial Appropriation | 4iL All this looks like business, and if tho lisagreeable Civil Rights bill, which now rlocks the way in the House, can be killed vith a single blow, the calendar will be cleared | 1874.—TKIPLE SHEET, “The Ghost of Cresarism”—Drifts of Discussion. Fora thoroughly dead topic, a topic that never really had any life, that was stamped out, destroyed and utterly banished from the memory of man by loyal postmasters in charge of administration organs and caricaturists in search of a theme, this third term discussion shows extreme vitality. After all, was it not a “Heratp sensation”—this, we think, was the phrase, a summer growth of the journal- istic mind, generated by the warm weather and the poverty of the newspaper harvest, that lived an absurdly brief life and withered? We certainly have read as much in many able and devoted journals, But here it comes again and again, from the North and the South, the East and the West. There never was & more persistent and irrepressible phan- tom since Banquo, with the gashes on his brow, broke up a royal banquet in most ad- mired disorder. Here, for instance, is the Buffalo Hx- press, @ coy journal in many ways, which comes like a fawn with the timid suggestion that ‘there is absolutely no data on which to base a reasonable conjecture as to whether the President would accept the nomiuation for a third term if it were offered to him."’ This ig an idea that occurred to ourselves recently, and we ventured to suggest that Mr. Senator Jones, who found how to induce the President to express an opinion on finance, would be the fittest person to obtain some ‘data on which to base a reasonable conjecture’’ as to what the President might do in reference to a subject as interesting as the third term. The New London Evening Tele- gram thinks the next contest will be | between paper and specie, and that ‘‘the | natural standird bearer of the specie party’’ must be the President. The Springfield Repub- lican, which has a solemn way of considering most themes, seeg in the fact of the Presi- dent's readiness to be re-elected a second time “@ sufficiently startling and scandalous’ cir- cumstance. The Republican alludes to the fact | that Andrew Jackson ‘respected precedents ! which the peop!e held sacred,” and intimates that it would not be wise for the President to How Civil Service Reform Is Killed. When Massachusetts was secthing with the Simmons business we ventured to say that the contest was really not for any man or any principle, but to see which particular poli- tician would possess the Custom House patronage of Boston. Among those who were in a state of incandescent virtue about Sim- mons was Representative G. F. Hoar, of Mas- sachusetts, He wished a pure civil service ; honest men in office; business men, not poli- ticians. He was afraid Simmons would not be an especial purifier, and so opposed him, Simmons, as Collector, had occasion to re- move a subordinate named Moulton. We do not know why Moulton was removed, but we presume it was because Simmons had no use for him. It seems that Moulton was a frag- ment of the especial patronage of this virtu- ous, this high-minded, this self-denying, this patriotic Hoar. So Hoar went to the President, the source of all comfort, and the result of that interview was this despatch: — “Telegraph Moulton instantly that President Grant's order is peremptory that he be re- stored as weigher. Let him accept no inferior position, This despatch may be shown to Simmons or anybody. E. F. Hoar.’ We presume Moulton was restored. We have rarely read anything more scanda- lous than this despatch, reflecting as it does most seriously upon the President and Mr. Hoar. If Mr. Simmons is fit to be Collector he is fitto nominate his assistants. If he is unfit or if he removed Moulton improperly than the President should have removed him. Moulton returns to office not to serve the Col- lector, who is his responsible head, but a mere politician like Mr. Hout. The position of Mr, Hoar is only that of a mere office-hegging, patronage-distributing politician, Al) his fine phrases about civil service fade away, and he shows himself to be as greedy and persist- ent and artful as any politician in Congress. We can understand how a man like Sim- mons would make civil service difficult. But men like G. F. Hoar, with their Moultons, make it impossible. The Ladies’ Regatta, bruise himself -‘‘upon a public opinion armed with ballots.’” The St. Louis Republi- can, a careful journal, by no means given to | dead topics, or to discussing phantoms, sees | that “the country has been forced, as a choice | of evils, to accept many things it was opposed to during the last twelve years, and the pro- cess may be still unended,’’and that ‘thirteen years ot republican rule have so completely detached the American mind from its ancient moorings’ and upset old traditions that the country will accept any “‘stable idea,” even a third term, ‘‘as a refuge from its susponse.’’ Mr. Watterson, of the Courier-Journal, who recently startled the Southwest by embracing | the dead form of the Cwsarism ghost, does not seem to have discovered that it is a ghost, but that it really isa living, moving body. He thinks the democrats ‘‘have actually fallen | into the trap of derision set by the republicans to gain time,”’ or that they are coquetting with “General Grant to make him their nominee,’’ we suppose. If the democrats would only arouse they would save the country ‘from the obvious dangers of the third term;’’ | but uncommitted as they are on this question “there is no knowing but they may finally float to General Grant, and just in time to get | him beaten as Greeley was beaten.” ‘This dénouement,’’ says Mr. Watterson, who evi- dently discusses the question from a meta- physical point of view, ‘would certainly finish the democratic party and give the republicans a renewed lease of power.” We turn to Washington with that respect and confidence which we always feel in power, and listen to the Repubhcan as the inspired oracle. The other day ‘the organ notes were clear and unmistakable; but somehow the music has become hazy and unintelligiblo, like Wagner’s “music of the future.’’ In the first place, the organ did not declare for General Grant for a third term, although everybody supposes that it did. Here, however, is what it did de- clare :—‘‘The safety of the Republic, of re- publican institutions, honor and honesty are the controlling and paramount ideas in the minds of the overwhelming majority of the people to-day, and we may be certain that they will be the controlling ideas two years hence. Tradition or no tradition, the people, we are confident, will see to it that they are not in any way endangered in 1876. Prece- dents are sometimes safe, and sometimes they are not.” There’ is a mystic quality about this enunciation that does not appear at the first blush, somewhat resembling an oracular statement we recently quoted from the New York organ, and which we translate to mean: — “We are going for what's what when the time comes, and for who's who likewise. We do not just now know what is what or who is who, but, on the whole, we should & little rather it was General Grant.” z It is pleasant to watch the ebbing: and the flowing of these tides of discussion. The only observation that seems pertinent just now is that for a dead theme, for.a.topic that | never had any life, and at the best was only o | HepaLp snmmer sensation, this third term idea | occupies a large space in the public mind. In the meantime, in the solemn and wise words of our, Washington inspiration, ‘precedents are sometimes safe and sometimes they are not,” Gameetta.—We have never deemed Gam- | betta a wise man, but we are glad to see that years seem. to bring him wisdom. As the | leader of the dominant fraction of the repub- | lican party in France the developments of his character are of unusual interest. The Lon- | don. Times, referring to his recent speech in | the Assembly, says that he seemed to have completely ‘emancipated himself from the | traditions of old days,’’ and ‘spoke like an experienced, self-controlled debater,’’ making a speech “‘such as no one need be ashamed | of, and such as is not often heard at Ver- sailles.” Furthermore, adds tho ‘Times, | “his moderation of tone and sentiment | was remarkable, aud gives hopes that he may yet shine os a member of | that conservative republican government | which we are taught to believe is one day to establish liberty, order and pros- perity im France." This is an extraordinary recognition from the conservative Times. | Recognizing, as wo have always done, the | power of Gambetta, and believing that there | can be no true republic thatis not based upon | conservatism, this wise and prudent demon- stration leads us to hope that he and his | Blecting his own fame, It is a pleasant fancy on the part of the gentlemen of the New York Yacht Club to have a ‘ladies’ day” in aquatic sport. Although it cannot exactly resemble such an occasion as the ladies’ day at Ascot it will be none the less surely a piquant and interest- ing occasion for yachtsmen themselves and for their lady friends, whose eyes are supposed to: rain good influences on their lives. Perhaps the fun will be sumewhat on one side, All ladies do not come up well to the ordeal of the flowing sea that most suits the yachts- man’s idea of what is splendid in his sport; but it will be ao fair test of femi- nine pluck and nerve, and those even | who endure it least satisfactorily to themselves will not be permanently the worse for it. All our ladies who have observed the robust spirit in which English women go yachting with their husbands, brothers and cousins, and the readiness with which they array themselves in tarpaulin hats that are not very pretty and in jackets of blue flannel, with marine decora- tions—which sort of costumes wil! look mach more natty on our handsoms women—all these will resolve not to be outdone, and will go determined to give Neptune a fair trial, and perhaps the old blue jacket will be too gallant to use them uvhandsomely. Let us hope for the best; but the ladies’ lady friends must not come down to see bow they look when they return, as Becky Sharp used to go down to the pier at Boutogne to feist her eyes on the seasick mortals coming over the Eng- jish Channel. Tae Recrprocrrr Treaty.—This treaty, which has so long been under consideration, it will be seen from our news of this morning, has, after being approved by the British and Canadian governments on the one hand and by the Executive of the United States on | the other, been sent to the Senate for ratifica- tion. So far the negotiations have com- manded the approval of all thinking men. This matter demands immediate attention, and it will be well if the treaty is approved by the Senate and immediately passed into law. Tnis Reciprocity Treaty is one of the grandest of all the outcomings of the famous Treaty of Washington. Such international arrangements encourage the hope that a higher arbiter than the sword may yet eontrol the nations. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ex-Congressman Joseph M. Warren, of Troy. te at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, r Governo: Har'ranft, of Pennsylvania, left Witkes- barre yesterday ior Harrisourg. Captain Hains, of the steamship Abyssinia, te stopping at the New York Hotel, Comptroller Nelson K. Hopkins has arrived from. Albauy at the Fifta Avenue Hotel. Mr, Bowles, of the Springfield Repudlican, will try.the milk cure on his dairy Jarin. Ex-Congressman Isaac N, Arnold, of Chicago,. ie registered at ‘he St. Nicholas Hotel, Ex-Governor Thomas E. Bramlette and family, of Kentucky, arrived last evening at the Windsor Hotel. &x-State Senator Charles Staniord, of Schenec- tady, 18 among the recent arrivais at the Metropok itan Hotel. =| Mr. Stephen Preston, the Haytien Minister, ar- rived at the Union Square Hotel yesterday from Washington, Senator Conkling left Washington for his home last night, and will not return during the present session of Vongress. ‘The Count de Lichtervelde, Secretary of the Bet gian Legatton at Washington, has spartments, at the Brevoort Houses B. F. Butler, the-Washington Chrontole says, will not go to Fiji—not, we suppose, if he finds. the season's lobby fee gee. , General ©, $. Hamtlton, of Wisconsin, a memoer of the Board of Visitors to West Point, 1s residing. at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. Professor Francis Wayland, of New Haven, Prest-’ dent of the Board of Visitors to West Point, is: staying at the Glisey House. Captain Victor Law, of the British Army, and Lieutevant F. ©. Law, of the British Navy, are quartered at the Windsor Hotel, Major General Leiroy, ©. B., Governor of the Bermudas and Commander-in-Chiel of the British forces there, arrived in the city last evening and took up his residence at the Windsor Hotel. The Chevalier Alphonse de Stuers, Unargé d’Af faires of the Netheriands at Washington, arrived here tn the steamship Abyssinia, on Wednesday, and 1g at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He leaves the city (his morning for Washingtom Foruey, of the Philadelpnia Press, has had & town nawed alter him on the Texas Pacific Batle road. Gcorge W. Childs, of the Philadeiphia Ledger, must see Scott about that. Childs is oe- He 18 so busy putting op painted windows tn Westminster Abbey to dead poets and putting new sod on the graves of others, friends are learning that wisdom without sefore adjournment, which liberty can never live in Franco, 1 that he has quite forgotten the souroa of glory that lies in the game of anew towns