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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day m the | vear. Pour cents per copy. Auuua! subscription price $12, Rejected communications will not be re | turned. Letters and packages should be prop- | erly sealed. nite 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 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING a RE eS eee The Moiety and Customs Debate. The first thought that occurs to us in read- ing the elaborate speech of General Butler, which we print elsewhere this morning, is a regret that failing health should have pre- vented our hearing him in the recent debate on the moiety question, With all the faults of General Butler, he is so conspicuous and, in some aspects, so necessary a part of our political system, that we can scarcely imagine what we should do without him. He is a lively, antagonistic, disputatious, critical, anger-provoking element, and we light upon his name in the debates with something ot the feeling with which we welcome a favorite comedian as he glides from behind the scenes. We know that we shall be enter- tained at all events. Current dis- cussions of affairs, political warfares, stump speeches and caricatures would be tame withont our Butler; and we can fancy the shuddering and anxiety with which NEW YORK HERAL when the law is obeyed as construed by the Secretary of the Treasury. This criticism seems tous to reach the gravamen of the charge against this old and famous house. | Mr. Foster in his angry and, we regret to | true point. We cannot assume the commis- | criticism upon Phelps, Dodge & Co. would | have is weakened by the tone of the | allusions made by the General to the | Personal babits and professions of Mr. Dodge. The fact that he is a member | of a Christian church and conspicuous in his | relations to good institutions is not a perti- nent subject of debate, and leaves upon the | mind the impression that the speaker was | governed by his anger and his prejudice and not by his reason. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts, in the acrid and un- think, not very effective speech, made the | | sion of petty, unusual, extraordinary | | crimes on the part of a house as |eminent as this. Whatever effect the | standing topic of invective for years, would | mirable force, that if the revenues as now col- | regard the prospect of any event that would | remove him beyond the reach of editorial | what was due to the government the whole | country editors, who had mado Butler a | seemly debate which followed, said, with ad- | | lected did not yield more than one-third of | BOOTH’S THEATRE, ‘Twenty third street and Sixth avenue —DAVID GAR- BICK, at§ VM; closes at 1 P.M. comment, The General has conquered his | illaess, and although the battle has been OLYMPIC THEATRE. ym und Bleecker streets. — Ae Ee cleees at | comes to the front armed and offensive, and makes a speech which, we think, so far as our | mercantile community is concerned, will 2B! | make a vast and painful sensation. It is neither a pleasant topic nor a pleasant | speech. To us this business of customs and WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirties, street. JACK HARKAWAY AMONG M.: closes at 4.30. M. same at P.M, Hernandez Foster, NIBLO'S GARDEN, fought and lost so far as he is concerned, he | | barbaric system of spies, detectives, informers and emissaries wasa blunder. This is cer- | tainly sound. The evil, granting it to be as startling as General Butler avers, can only be | corrected by a revision of customs laws, so that every tariff shall not be a temptation | to crime. There never was a revenue system, and under our laws and institutions the crea- | tion of such a system would be impossible | D, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEKT, The Labor Question in England. We publish in another part of to-day's issue | an interesting letter from our correspondent at Bury St. Edmunds, Snffolk, on the labor strike in the eastern counties of England. The combined movement of agricultural laborers in-any part of England to increase their wages and to improve their condition is a new thing under the sun, and it is more remarkable in those comparatively isolated and landlord ridden counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cam- | bridge and Lincoln. In the middle and manufacturing counties, where the better | informed working classes, as mechanics and manufacturing laborers, might ex- ercise an influence over the farm work- men, and where the milroad, telegraph and press reach them, it would not have been surprising to see combined efforts of even the agricultural class. But this movement in the east of England, where there is little contact with the rest of the world, and where the people have been hardly better than serfs trom the time of the Norman conquest to this day, is truly astonishing. It shows, in the first place, that the people, being goaded to desperation and having a glimmer- ing of the light of this nineteenth century, are ready to assert their right to live and not to starve amid the wealth of the richest coun- try in Europe. However the movement may terminate, at present it is undoubtedly an in- cipient revolution that must eventually change the social and political character of England. Uneducated as the mass of these agricul- | rage, and on the given day havoc began. There | ber ‘“honest,"” when he was not « lobbyist will wonder what he would have said had a Senator brought up .® measure and asked him to approve it to oblige an ‘‘old friend,” who was out in the lobby at the time. The Grand Jury on Dogs. In response to the charge of Recorder Hackett the Grand Jury finds “that there is an absolute neceasity for such an ordinance” as that of the Common Council tor the de- struction of dogs, and also “heartily approves of the object intended to be accomplished thereby.’’ But it believes that the present execution of the law is improper and injuri- ous to public morals; recommends the aboli- tion of the reward now offered and the em- ployment of men by the city as dog killers or catchers. If this should revive the old city institution of the dog cart and the dog killers | We doubt if the people will consider that their sensibilities are less likely to be offended. In the good old days, when there was a Dicky Riker in the land, and almost down to the post pliocene period, when Mr. Havemeyer was first Mayor, the city authorities used to formally announce the time when the dog star would came forth an extra large cart of the common dirt cart pattern, driven bya ‘culled gem- man’’—for in those days culled gemmen had all the unpleasant places—and behind it gen- erally came two other culled gemmen of ath- letic proportions, armed with clubs of four to five feet in length, loaded with lead, and woe Broadway, betwoen Mrince and Houston stre ERYETOwi or OR, LOST AND WON, at8P. at loads Joseph Wheelock and Miss Lot Matines af 1:3) P.M. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Fifty-eighth street, near | bir avenue.—Concert, Dram- Operatic Performance, 4t8 P.M. moieties, taxations and tariffs, has always been unpleasant. Somehow, ever since the war, we have been burdened with it, until the whole discussion, its literature and its history, have become as a miasma. We had frauds in | whiskey which never came to any result ; atic anc ; closes at ll PM. THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 514 Broad way.—NECK AND NECK, at3 P.M; at 10:3) P.M. E:T. Stetson and Marion Sommeis. auee at 2’. M. | WALLACE’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth streeL—FAIE, at 8 P. M.; glopegsas bt P.M. Missy Curiotta Le Clercq. Matinee TONY PASTO Bowery. —VARIETY KE closes at 10:30 P.M. M. )PERA HOUSE, TAINMENT, at 8 P.M; atzP. OPERA HOUSE, pixth avenue.—NEGRO MIN- 4 closes atl P.M. Matinee at BRYA ‘Twenty-third strect, ni BERELSY, dc, at be BS CENTRAL PARK GARDEN CERT, at 5 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P. COLOSSEUM, h Broadway, corner of ‘th rty-titth ‘street.—LONDON BY NIGHT, at’ P. M.; closes at 6 P.M. Same at7 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Madison avenue and ‘iwenty-sixth street.—CRAND P Pe Toe OF NATIONS, at 1:30 P.M. and ac7 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. 187: New York, Saturday, Jume 20, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be generally clear. Watt Srezer Yesterpay.—Gold opened ‘and closed at 111}, the lowest price being 111. Stocks were generally lower and feverish. Tae Buu to provide for the improvement of Tompkins square has been signed by the Governor and is now a law. It is to be hoped | that a suitable parade ground will now be promptly provided for the National Guard. Goop Tres Comina.—Some of the Alabama and Georgia journals speak cheerfully of the cotton crop and tell us that if it will only fulfil | its present promise ‘‘there will be flush times | in the fall, the farmers not having been able to run into debt.’’ Succrstive.—The St. Louis Republican calls | attention to the fact that the President has but | one element of strength, his specie payment measure, and that although he has not had that more than two months, it is the weapon with which he is knocking his party to pieces | and building himself a new party. Taz Pore’s Appress to the cardinals is a reiteration of the old complaints against the | extinguishment of the temporal power with a | renewal of the refusal to pardon the enemies | of the Church. The wisdom of this course, so far as the temporalities are concerned, is | questionable ; but the matter really calls for no adjustment, since, like all questions of the kind, it will finally adjust itself beyond all hope of Papal rule in Rome. Spantso Navat Promorioys.—It is such a | fare thing for the officers of the Spanish navy | to receive promotion for services in actual | battle that those engaged in the defence of | Manzanillo against the Cuban insurgents must | regard their good fortune as an episode in the | history of the insurrection. These promo- tions were well made, however, as the Spanish navy has about as much chance to put down | the rebellion in Cuba as the Spanish army. Suapows.—We have counted largely in our | political calculations upon a continuance of | that spirit of love that existed two years ago between the leaders of the democracy and the liberal republicans. But we infer from the tone of the World towards the Springfield Republican that some heart burning exists. Is | there any possible way of tendering our good offices? How can we have a campaign with- out harmony between the leaders ? Ax “organ” tuned to the pitch of “God Save the Queen” claims honor and credit for the republican Congress because “‘its first act | was to repeal the salary grab in obedience to the demands of public sentiment and its own sense of right.” But the republican Congress first passed the mean salary grab law against the demands of public sentiment and its own | sénse of right, and only repealed it when the strength of popular indignation made itself felt. To claim credit for this sort of virtue is like extolling the honesty of the thief who | hands over the stolen watch as soon as he feels the grasp of a policeman’s hand on his Tse Yetrow Fever Anovt—Qvanantine Viera SCE Necessary.— We learn by a telegram from Lis?on that the news had arrived by the | hip 1.0mm Rio Janeiro that yellow fever | was raging wh'l great violence at Bahia. We have a good daw of commercial intercourse | with Brazil and Sout) America generally, and ‘our Quarantine officim'? cannot be too careful | to prevent the intr@dn ‘tion of this terrible | \ | jpintn street and Seventh avenue. THOMAS’ CON. | | merchant and every officeholder was, of frauds in tobacco which were whispered to be prodigious, but no one has ever heard that they were investigated ; frauds in champagne, | in silk ribbons, in spices and tea. One ring seemed to succeed another, like governments ‘in the revolutionary republics of Central and South America. We went to sleep under one | ring and in the morning we found that another | could find out.” reigned in its stead. The moral sense of the community became blunted. We were rapidly whirling into that position in which every necessity, regarded as a thief, and smuggling, which had been recorded in the books as a | crime, was really among the high and fine | arte of business. It was, of course, a severe blow to our confidence in the laws, and in the respect of citizens for the law, to find the tax on whiskey two dollars a gallon and the sell- ing price only seventy-five cents or a dollar. That, as the foolish lord says in the comedy, was one of those things ‘‘which no fellow When, in addition to this anomaly, we saw & class arising around us— whiskey princes and shoddy aristocrats— flaunting an unwholesome, pernicious and meretricious splendor as the result of sudden wealth, the public mind came to recognize the existence of a power—silent, greedy and insatiable—greater than the law, eager for wealth as the vampire for blood; living in unchecked and irresponsible defiance of the law ; masters of a system of crime superior to detection; supreme in Congress, in the Cabi- net, in the Executive Chamber—nay, even in the sacred presence of holy justice—and wield- ing an influence which at one time, during the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, was paramount to the Senate and to the indignant ; and resolute public opinion of the country. We believed in this power as a reality, but at | the same time regarded it as an expression, or more exactly, perhaps, an exhalation, of the war, that would die away under the pure and wholesome influences of peace. i General Butler comes before us as the enemy of this cherished hope. If his speech means anything, it is that the whole importing business system of New York is dishonest ; that the principles underlying all business connected with foreign trade are corrupt ; that smuggling is as much a science now as when | tariff laws are based upon this theory they | that could, for instance, collect a tax of two | tural laborers of the east of England are, | will fail. We think that the General may els and velvets could be collected so as to honestly aid the government; but it must be wisely arranged. There are, no doubt, many faults in the laws and in the manner of their | administration; but we do not see how they | are to be amended by an aggravation of their | worst features. It would certainly be such | an aggravation to enlarge or strongthen or in the system which General Butler deems | so necessary for the collection of the duties. | We trust this debate will show us a way to correct the evil practices, not only in law ad- ministration, but in law making, that have so long stained our revenue service, dishon- ored the good name of the countrg, degraded what should be a most honorable and useful calling, introduced suspicion and defamation and falsehood into our business life, and de- prived the country of its just and sorely needed revenues. Naporgonism.—Nothing is more unworthy of the true American spirit than the sympathy with Napoleonism which every now and then takes possession of some of us. What is Na- poleonism but a form of violent, fierce, selfish tyranny? What one thing has resulted from it that in after ages, men will care to re- member? A few gilded names—only names now—and no more. Austerlitz, Jena, Wag- ram—and what else? And these, what are | | these now more than the echoes of a tavern | | brawl? What country is freer, what people | | are happier, what department of science, art ; | or human achievement is further advanced because of this system or of any man who has | illustrated it? What special virtue does it | show to the American mind? Was it the in- ; vasion of Mexico or the threatened invasion of | the United States in the interest of the Con- | federacy ? } “Crvm Szrvicze” 1x Massacnuserrs,—The | Springfield Republican makes some admirable comments upon the astounding despatch from | Representative G. F. Hoar in reference to a | weigher in the Boston Custom House, which | was printed yesterday. “There is,” said the | Republican, “no more civil service reform in | retaining an unnecessary or incompetent | clerk because he is a Hoar man, or Pierce | man, or a Williams man, than in retaining an- | , ence of the old Saxons, | dollars a gallon upon whiskey. When our | they have the sturdy common sense and | ' dogged courage of their Saxon ancestors. The | people of the counties we refer to are the be correct in his estimate that the tariff | upon silks, worsted stuffs, laces, satins, jew- | most purely Saxon of all England. They are of the race and stock of Shakespeare, Milton, Ba- con and Cromwell, and not of the De Courcys and other Norman families of the aristocracy. Though they have been kept in darkness, dis- franchised and bound to the soil and their narrow localities like serfs for centuries, there is still the latent brain and love of independ- It only required the | quickening influence of this enlightened age any way seek to perpetuate | Buckle saw in it the only means of protecting | other clerk of that description because he is a English trade from stifling revenue laws ; that | Butler man. To allow Messrs. Hoar, Pierce evading the tariff is as legitimate an operation | and Williams to ‘run’ the Custom House is as to draw a bill of exchange; that | just as scandalous as to allow their Gloucester | against it. the startling announcement to the House and the country,” says the General, ‘that the | | United States does not receive two-thirds of | her revenue upon all articles on which ad va- lorem duties are imposed in whole or in part, | so that to-day no more than sixty-seven per cent of our revenues are collected,” owing to traud. In other words, according to the Gen- eral’s calculations, “it we could collect our revenues, according to the present rate of tax- ation, we could pay off yearly more than one hundred millions of the national debt.” ‘This very startling, very wonderful and almost in- eredible statement’’ the General claims to fortify with proof. In worsted stuffs he esti- | mates a loss trom undervaluation of over three millions a year, on linens a loss of forty-three per cent, on linens, damask and diaper twenty- six per cent, while in carpets irom Kidder- | minster, Halifax and other towns the loss “is | enormous.”’ ‘The needle trade is carried on on a similar basis’ of dishonesty and false- hood. Wherever there is ad valorem duty he finds this fraud. Where the duty is speciti as in cotton goods, it does not exist. These, we say, are startling facts. From these considerations the General proceeds to | an analysis of the case of Phelps, Dodge & Co., npon which we have ouly to make the observa- | tion that we prefer to respect the established good name of an old and respected business house than to accept any wanton accusations For if this house is not entitled to all the consideration due to a good name, then no house in our business world is worthy. Nor does it seem fair nor pertinent to the graver part of the argument to attribute the efforts of a large firm to have the tariff laws construed favorably to its inter- ests as a crime. If a Secretary of the Treas- ury makes a construction of a law that will save an importer many thousands of dollars a year, the importer would be different from his race if he did not accept it. For the law plague into this country. This is the time, just as we are entering the p, %ttest season of | comes to us all as the officers of the law choose the year, for our municipal auth, Tities also to | to administer it. In dealing with Phelps, ye ot have the city thoroughly cleam pe eth sede te this Dae is nece, ry to | magnitude, or, indeed, with any business in- make ‘New York the healthiest cit zn the | terest, no matter how great or small, it is prea o fait Jo assume the existonce of fraud Only | Dodge & Oo., or with any house of similar | ;the government is the common enemy | colleague to run it; and there isa good deal |of all trade, and in making war | of ‘Butlerism,’ both at Washington and in upon the government every expedient | Massachusetts, outside of the Butler party.” is fair, that of the revenue really This is the trae view. Mr. Hoar’s conduct in |due to the government not more | appealing to the President to sustain a par- than one-third is actually collected. ‘I make | tisan in office merely because he was a par- tisan, and without considering any question of fitness, is an utter violation of every prin- | ciple of civil service and a severe comment upon the honesty of the professions which Mr. Hoar and his friends made when they were | opposing the confirmation of Simmons. As | we before remarked, if men like Simmons | make civil service reform a scandal, men like | Mr. Hoar make it impossible. | re | Porxts To Stzzn By.—Now that the repub- | licans in the West seem disposed to go off into strange and dangerous latitudes on the question of finance, it is well to look back at | the charter of principles adopted at the | National Convention which assembled at Chicago in 1868, and take careful note of what was then solemnly proclaimed. For to show their true character. The poor wretches who have to live and support a fam- ily upon two dollars a week, or even less, have been taught at last to compare their situation with that of the luxurious farmers and the landlords who roll in wealth. Suffer they may and suffer they will in the unequal struggle in which they are engaged, but the stubborn fact of their deplorable poverty and pauperism in the midst of wealth cannot be eradicated. The end must be an amelioration of their condi- tion by the consent of the so-called upper classes or a bloody revolution. We wish that these honest, hard working and sturdy Anglo-Saxon agricultural laborers of the eastern counties of England could come to this country of freedom, cheap lands and well paid labor. No better class of immigrants could come, and we should wel- come them as the best. Itis of that stock mainly that the foundation of the North American colonies and this Republic was laid. But how can they come? They have move from their villages and the soil they till as the serfs of Russia were. If our enter- prising landowners, capitalists and railroad companies would organize the means to bring them here, with a system of emigration from the agricultural districts of England, both this country and these poor people would be benefited. At all events, the agri- cultural laborers of England have the sym- pathy ot the American people in this move- ment to improve their condition. “Our Old Friend.” " Our Washington friend, The Lobbyist, comes in many shapes, and works in subile and mysterious ways. We are never surprised at a new transformation. We have seen The Lobbyist in the last few months as an intelli- gent contraband, a protector of American in- dustry, an owner of sewing machines, a re- a clergyman, a giver of good dinners, a friend of liberty, a distinguished foreigner, a gambler, a@ pretty woman, a Christian statesman, an orphan who lost both parents in the war, a deserving officer, with and without legs, an enterprising correspondent and in twenty other | Shapes, each shape more amusing than the preceding. But he never came in an aspect so plaintive and interesting as on Wednesday last, when Senator Pratt, of Indiana, intro- duced him to the Senate as ‘‘our old friend.” It seems that Senator Pratt had in his desk a very little job intended to save the Northern Pacific Railway Company a few hundred thou- sand dollars in the cost of surveys. Congress, it appears, gave the lands to the Company in the first place. Not satisfied with the gift the lands. So it engaged Benjamin F. Wade, Congress and lobby the little matter through. There was unusual art shown in the manage- ment of the affair. Senator Pratt arose and | said that at the instance of ‘‘our old friend,” who had been a Senator and a presiding officer of the Senate, he would call up his bill, There was no resisting the appeal. There was “our old friend,” no less a person than Ben- jamin F. Wade, standing in the lobby, like instance :— We denounce all forms of repudiation as a national crime, and national honor requires the payment of the pubiic indebtedness in the utmost good faith to all creditors at home and abroad, not | only according to the letter, but the spicit, of the | laws auder which it Was contracted. ‘the nationa! debt, contracted us it has been for the preservation of the Unton for ail time Lo come, | suould be extended over a jair period for redemp- tion, and it is the duty of Congress to reduce the Tate of interest whenever it can honestly ve done, That the best policy to diminish our burden of debt is to 80 Improve our credit that capitalists | wiii seek to ioan us money at lower rates of inter- | est than we now pay, and must continue to pay a8 long 48 repudiation, partial or votal, open or covert, is tureatened or suspected. ‘These are good points. They seem to guide General Grant in his admirable policy on finance, and they are good enough for us all to steer by if we mean to reach the haven of solvency and credit. Taene Were Tuinry-tanex Cases on Thursday’s calendars in which the city is de- | Court; eight in Part 3, Supreme Court; one in Special Term, Supreme Court ; two in Cham- bers, Supreme Court; vine in Part 1, Com- mon Pleas; seven in Part 2, G@ymmon Pleas, | and two in Part 2, Superior Court. Thus snit after suit clogs the calendars, while able law- | yers not paid for the opinion assert that Mr. | Green is not Comptroller de jure; that the Charter bills of 1873 are unconstitutional, and { tendant—namely, four in Part 2, Supreme | a mendicant, with his hat in his hand, and in the hat his especial little bill, and there was | his Senatorial sponsor, urging the years of Mr: Wade, his Senatorial services, his honors | in the Senate, his claims on old associa- | tions and frendships, as a reason why a bill, | involving a large amount of money, should be passed. And it was passed. This is very beautiful. It shows that the Senate has heart. Belisarins begged for an obolus, and Lear entreated for bread and shel- ter. They were refused. Wade only asked for bis little bill, asked it as an “old friend,” and a generous Senate consented. Here is a fine opportunity for Christian statesmen out ot office; for the Senate, not, we are assured, without # cautions thonght as to what Sena- tors may be brought to in the future, seems disposed to deal benignantly with an “old friend."’ If our citizens have any unappre- ciated measure that drags before Congress let them address Mr. Wade, or Mr. Nye, or Mr. Pomeroy, or any one of the twenty ‘old friends” who shift and glide about the scenes no means. They are about as powerless to | formed inebriate, a reconstructed Southerner, | road did not wish to pay for the survey of the | who had for many years been a Senator, to visit | | to the dog that was out of doors at that partic- ular juncture. For hima trip to the pound would have been a picnic. His owner had | small chance to redeem him. Down on his | head came the loaded end of one of those clubs, and he dropped. Then the culled gem- men picked him up, one by the fore feet ard one by the hind feet, and sent him through | the air, and he fell with a strange sound on top of the dull, quiet load already accumu- lated. In our mind’s eye, Horatio, we can see at this moment a well remembered play- mate making that terrible journey through the air. But it was always so simple a ceremony. Sometimes before the loaded staff came on the dog's head some other loaded staff came on to | Sambo's. Often there were savage fights be- tween the city boys and the dog killers, and often also the dog killers, who were fellows of resolution, did not kill their dog the first time and followed him the whole length of a street. These were dog day scenes in the old times, Our opinion is in full agreement with that of the Grand Jury on the necessity of keeping down the pest of dogs and on the necessity of doing it more mercifully and decently than it is now done. But we hope the city, if the suggestion made is acted on, will not restore the primitive dog killers, Anotner Murper.—The shooting of Mor- timer Sullivan by a fellow-workman is a sad illustration of the disregard of human life which exists among certain classes of the | community. The evil is directly traceable to the want of uniform severity in the applica- tion of the law. Under the present system it | | is merely a lottery whether the man who com- mits a cowardly murder shall be thanked by | the jury or sentenced toa death penalty, which, in all probability, will never be carried out. Law with us is administered too much according to our moods to have that restrain- ing effect on the dangerous classes which well balanced justice never fails to exercise. It is not necessary to be cruel in order to effectively | repress crime, but without a strict and un- | swerving application of the law to. all offenders it is impossible ever to establish in the minds of violent men that wholesome cer- | tainty that punishment will follow crime | which exercises so powerful a restraint on the passions of the ignorant and vicious, Tae Ruove Isuanp SznaTonsurp hangs in the Legislature much the same as the election ot United States Senator did in Massachusetts | a short time ago. Burnside continues ahead of his rivals; but it seems he cannot get | over forty-four votes, and fifty-four are neces- | sary. Day after day the result is about the | same, a few votes being changed only for the different candidates. The New England > politicians know the value of a seat in the | Senate and make a stubborn fight for it. Rhode Island is almost as large as one of our counties, and yet its Senators have as much | | power as those of the great State of New ' York. So important is the position regarded | that Governors of States are willing to resign | to accept it. From present appearances some | | | new man will have to be brought forward | | upon whom the rival parties of the Rhode | \ Island Assembly can unite. Aw Usansweraste Port.—The Cincinnati | Gazelle says with great force and truth that | | “everybody knows that ifthe President should | allow it to be supposed he would accept a | third term the whole army of office-holders | would feel compelled to work and would | work for his nomination and would make the | Convention.’ This being the case, and no one knowing it to be true more clearly than | | the President, why does he not, in imitation | of his memorandum to Senator Jones, make | such a publication on the subject that the | most loyal office-holders would no longer be | in doubt? Prorpte all the world: over who respect | | order and comity of feeling will rejoice that | | the French government proposes to limit the | | enthusiasm of M. de Cassagnac, the Bona- | | partist editor of Paris. M. de Cassagnac has | been summoned before the courts to answer | | the charge of ‘inciting citizens to hatred of | each other,’’ and we presume he will be se- | verely handled. The mistake of this journalist is in supposing that violence ever serves a cause, although the mistake may come from | the fact that Bonapartism is only another ; name for violence. One Bonapartist leader | has been sent to prison for six months for | striking Gambetta in the face, and now M. de | Cassagnac seems on the road to join his ally. | After all, MacMahon’s government, weak as it is, is certainly a government of crder. In Forecasting tHE Powrricat Situation, as it will be developed in the Presidential | struggle of 1876, we are confronted by a few | facts which may as well be stated now. The of their former splendor. Something might be | republican party has lost much of its prestige said of the indecency of a man who has been | because it has permitted the public offices to as eminent as Mr. Wade carrying his honors | be honeycombed with corruption, and has that the consolidation scheme of 1874 is | equally in conflict with the State constitu. | torte his jewels to a pawnbroker’s shop, and selling | great and important measures of finance fha to the lobby, like » bankrupt merchant with | shown itself incapable of dealing with the ons a price, Many, also, who remem | taxation, ‘The democracy, on the other hand, “bold,” “pinff’ Ben Wade | has displayed almost equal ineapacity, and im the canvass of 1876 it is likely to present os feeble a platform as that of 1872. The plank in the Cincinnati-Baltimore platform, remit- ting the tariff question to the Congress dis- tricts, destroyed one of the live issues left te the democratic party, and now it seems the Western inflationists are bent upon the de- struction of the only remaining one—that in favor of hard money and specie payments. It is a discouraging prespect to find both parties without either principles or brains. “Concession and Compromise.” The Racine (Wis.) Journal responds to the suggestions of the Henatp, that New Mexice and Colorado should have a few thow sands of actual living people resident within their limits before they are ad- mitted to the Union, and not merely prairie dogs, antelopes and Indians, by saying that the admission of these sparsely settled Territories as States was ‘‘an act of concessiom and compromise on the part of the framers ef the constitution,” and that ‘the star of the West is taking its westward way,’’ and that “there is no use in warring against the im- evitable."" We admit that the star of the West is doing a great many curious things, and we have great respect for the inevitable. But because it was prudent, as a political measure, to give Rhode Island and Delaware in the beginning as much political power im the Senate as Virginia and New York we do not see the necessity of conferring the same power upon the Rocky Mountains and the barren reaches of New Mexico. If this prin- ciple of miscellaneous suffrage is to come inte our government as ‘‘a concession and a com- promise’ Alaska should be admitted. Her fur seals have as much right to admission as the coyotes and antelopes, and there is cer- tainly land enough in that Territory to make a half dozen States. The true plan is to base representation upon population—to admif States when they have inhabitants. We de not object to increasing our family of States, but we would like to have them come as real States and not as geographical expressions. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Yarborough turned up in Jersey—with a bad headache. Peter Cooper called on Havemeyer. Their chas was of the glu-cose order. Juage Israel S. Spencer, of Syracase, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Major V. Sanchez, of the Spanish Army, is reaid- ng at the New York Hotel. General Basil W. Duke, of Kentucky, is regis- tered at the Windsor Hotel. Viscount de Saint Maurice, of Paris, has apart- ments at the New York Hotel. Secretary of State Henry C. Kelsey, of New Jer- sey, 18 at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel Orlando B. Willcox, United States Army, is quartered at the Everett House. Major Walter McFarland, United States Army, has quarters at the Glenham Hotel. Mr. Jay, American Minister to Austria, arrived in this city from Washington lst evening. State Senator Henry ©. Connelly, of Kingstom, N. Y., has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Joseph Jefferson, the comedian, arrived in this city last evening, and is at the Hoffman House. Assistant Adjutant General J. B. Stonehouse ar- rived from Albany last evening at the Hotel Bruns- wick. General von Schwetnitz, German Ambassador at Vienna, left Washington last evening for Niagara and Canada. Cyrus Field has gone to Iceland to see the millen- nium and find oat whether it is what it has beem cracked up to be. Judge 0. P. Temple, of Tennessee, a member of the Board of Visi.ors to West Point, is sojourning at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. H. F. Keenan has retired from the manage- ' ment of the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, and will pass a year in Europe before resuming his proies- | sion, Dr. Dio Lewis, of Boston, has discovered that when it 1s high tide there is generally a great deal of water'in the river. He intends to agitate the subject. Butler evidently stil! believes in detonation. He | believes he can carry Congress as he tried to carry Fort Fisher—by making a great notse in the neighvorhood. Coal-colored barbers in the Sonth refuse to shave their ginger cake colored customers. Under the Civil Rights law they will be prosecuted for making “discrimination on account of color.’” A Terre Hautentot walked in his sleep straight | into the room ofa damsel possessed of more er less beauty. She knocked bim down with a lamp, which is now regarded as a sure cure for somnam- bulism. Wait Whitman's poem on “The Universal” ww published. He 1s now writing one on the integral calculus, AS this is a subject with which he is but slightly acquainted, it presents a fine deld for ous imagination. Baron Werther, recently at Munich, has beem appommted German Ambassador at Constantinople. He is uot of the same family as the Werther whom Charlotte saw “carried by her on a shutter whea she wen! on cutting bread and butter.”’ General Grant nas accepted an invitation to at- tend the ceremony of the opening of the St. Louis Bridge, which occurs on the Fourth of July. He has also accepted an invitation to be present at Rhinebeck ou the Fourth. Has he got a doube- ganger like the haunted Dutcnman ARMY INTELLIGENCE, Confirmation of Promotions—A Generad Court Martial, WASHINGTON, June 19, 1874. The Senate, in executive session, to-day, com- firmed the following nominations :— Major Absaiom Buird to be Assistant Inspector Generali of the army; Captain Robertson, Second artillery, to be Major; First Lieutenant Breckia- ridge to be Captain and Second Lieutenant Craw- ford to be First Lieutenant. . Inspector General D. B. Sacket is ordered ow inspection duty in the Department of the Platte. A general court martial is appointed to meet at West Point, N. Y., on the 22d of June, 1874, or as soon thereafter, as practicabie, for the trial of such prisoners as may be brought before it. The following is the detail of the court:—Captain Thomas H. Handburg, Corps of Engineers; First Lieutenant Samuel M. Mills, Fifth artillery; First sutenant William F. Reynolds, Jr. First Artil- ery; First Lieutenant FY ward £. Wood, Eight cavalry; Second Lieutenant Frank Heath, Third rtiliery; Second Lieutenant William P. Duvall, fitth artiliery; Second Lieutenant Heary L. Harris, First artillery, and Second Lieutenant Wallace Mott, nti fantry, Judge Advocate, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Nominations for Promotion Confirmed by the senate—Assignments to Duty. WASHINTON, June 19, 1814. The Senate has confirmed the following nomina- tions:— C. R. B. Rodgers, to be Rear Admiral; Captaim Caldwell, to be Commodore; Commander Philip 0, Johnson, to be Captain; Lieutenant Commander Silas Casey, to be Commmander; Master William Cy Strong, to be Lieutenant; Ensign Holman, to be Master. Master Wiliam F. Buikley has been ordered to the Powhatan on the Ist of July next. Captatm George D. Henderson has been ordered to the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H. Lieutenant J. J. Yates has been detached from the Canonicus aud or- dered to return home and report arrival. Lieutenant Thomas Perry has been detached from the Manhattan and ofdered to return home and report arrival. Master J. P. Wallis has been detacued from the Powhatan and granted turee months’ leave of absence. Assistant Surgeom George li. Forney has been det from the De- Spatah and ordesedta the