The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1874, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yous Hepaw. RISA ab 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. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING arenes und. Hoveton streets. —THE Det ‘a: ouston i" PROUTMEMS OK, THE DEFORMED, ats PM closes ab 10:43 P.M. Mr, Joseph Wheelock and Miss lone Burke TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Fifty-eighth street, near Third avenue —Concert, Dram- EF Operatic Performance, a5. M., closes atl ® THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—JARTINE: OR, THE PRIDE OF THE FOURTEENTH, at 8 P.M.; closes wt 10:30 P.M. £. T. Stetson and Marion Sommers. WALLACE’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street —EAST LYNNE, at8 P. M.; closes at 1 ¥. M. Miss Cartotta Le Clercq. OLYMPIC THEATRE, roadway, hetween aston and Bleecker streets.— VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 7:45 P.M.; closes at | 10:45 P. M. WOOD's MUSEUM, corner of Thirtieth street. THE SKELETON 2 P.M. closes at4:30P.M. Same atsP. M; w P.M. Hernandez Foster. THEATRE. ses at 10:45 P.M. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THE SEA OF ICE, at 8 P. ML: Mrs. Uharlotte Thom, + TONY PAST Bowery.—VARIETY EN closes at 10:0 P.M. Mat HOUSE, MENT, at 8 P.M; BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, third street, near sixth avenue.—NEGRO MIN. Y, dc. ato P, M.; closes at 0 P.M ‘Twent STR CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Fifty-nintn street and Seventh avenue.—THOMAS’ CON- CERT, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. UOLOSSKUM, Broadway, corner of ihirty-tifth ‘street.-LONDON BY NIGHT, at 1 P.M; closes at 5 P.M. Sume at7 P.M; closes at 10 P. M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Madison avenue and Twenty-six FAGEART—CONGRESS OF NATIO at7 P.M. New York, Tacsday, June 23, 1874, it 1:30 P.M. and are that the weather to-day will be generally clear and warm. Wart Srnzer Yusreapsy.—Stocks were strong and active. Gold advanced from 111} to 111}, which was the closing price. Tue Tat of Police Commissioners Char- lick and Gardner, on the indictment found against them by the Grand Jury, commences to-day in the Oyer and Terminer, before Judge Brady. Ove Srzzzrs.—The dust in Broadway and Fifth avenue, and, indeed, in all our streets, is worse than ever we knew it to be. Where are the water carts? Whois to blame? Is the dust one of the results of our modern economy ? wiecpmantoe ve 2 Do Nor Want LexrxcTon TENDED T0 Hariem.—The property holders along this avenue have made application to set aside the report of the Commissioners for an extension. The matter is before Judge Davis. Mz. BercH proposes, as a humane measure, to persons wishing to get rid of their dogs, that they bring them to his office, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where they will be despatched and buried, we suppose, as decently as possible. Mr. Bergh’s offer will receive due attention and that the office on Fourth avenue will be | well patronized by the captors of unmuzzled dogs. PERNA TRS Oe? A Remarxaste Case—That before Jndge | Van Vorst yesterday to recover a hundred and | thirty thousand dollars in stocks snd bonds | left by mistake in a satchel in a street car by | Mr. James Lorimer Graham, and found by | accident some time after among the assets of | Mr. Symmes Gardner’s estate. It being clear that the property belonged to Mr. Grabam | the Judge gave judgment for the delivery of | it to him. Awertcan Science is THE Hoty Lanp.— From the Holy Land comes news, under date of Jerusalem, May 22, announcing satis- factory progress on the part of the members of the American Oriental Topographical corps. The expedition was at Jaffa, all well, after the performance ot their desert journey. | They were about to start north. This is as it | should be, the children ot the youngest of | the great free nations of the world returning the rays of the light of civilization to the sons street. —GRAND | AvENvE Ex- | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Close of Congress. first session of the Forty-third Congress has practically passed into history. For good or for evil its work is done. Its career is writ- ten elsewhere—its aims and achievements— what it did and what it aimed todo, No Con- gress ever came into life with higher hopes. No one ever was 80 successfal in disappointing these hopes. We find our compliments of a negative character. We thank its members not for what they have done, but for what they refrained from doing. They might have passed a currency bill over the President's veto. They might have endowed the Northern or the Southern Pacific railways with a new grant ot lands) They could have irretrievably dishonored the country in this Geneva busi- ness. They had it in their power to have confirmed the usurpation of the Brooks fac- tion in Arkansas. They could have increased the Pennsylvania branches of the tariff or voted a large subsidy to the Centennial. | government in its peculiar and extraordinary aggregation of power, and they were sorely tempted to pass a railway law in the interests of the grangers. They could have over- moiety laws, Not to have done these things | required the manifestation of extreme self- denial. This Congress may bé honored for the possession in an eminent degree of that most precious of Buddhist virtues. The circumstances attending the opening of Congress were of an unusual character. Its members represented that extraordinary mani- | festation of popular confidence in General | Giant which secured his election for the second | time. They represented the supreme triumph of the republican party; for never in the | wonderful career of that party, not even in | the excitement and abandon of the war, when | questions of loyalty to the Union entered into | its organization as powerful as when it de- feated Greeley. The meaning of that defeat was that the country had confidence in the | pecially on questions of finance and recon- struction, a confidence it did not vouchsafe | to Greeley, who was regarded as the fantastic | leader of an unscrupulous and desperate | party, the incongruous head of an impossible | | alliance. It was feared that the accession of | such an alliance to power would be to squan- | der all the results of the war and throw the | country into the eddies of bankruptcy by | some peculiar and unwise experiments in reconstruction and fund the debt. General Grant’s re-election really involved this pledge, and the success of this Congress must be determined by its success or failure in deal- | ing with these two measures. | The finances are where they were last De- cember, while reconstruction is in a more de- plorable condition. We have little doubt that when the members of this Congress were elected they were willing and anxious to deal with the finances. It was their duty and, no doubt, their pride; for if General Grant has manifested any ambition as President it has | been to consolidate the national debt and fund it ata lower rate of interest. Untor- | tunately for the good intentions | Congressmen and their desire to redeem pledges made by the republican party, the panic came. This was as unexpected as the deluge to the husbandmen in the valleys | of Ararat. We saw then that all the roseate | visions of prosperity with which eloquent administration orators had delighted the people were delusive. The financial policy which had purchased so many bonds and “reduced the debt,’’ and which had been | trumpeted as a heaven-born inspiration, was seen to be only a makeshift policy after all, | based upon a pawnbroker’s theory of trade. | All the false ideas of business prosperity which ) | found that we had been dealing with expe- truth. Demagogues took advantage of the dis- tress caused by the panic and forced upon us a new issue, one more dangerous in its results than any since slavery. This issue came to be known as ‘“‘inflation.’’ It was intended as & measure of relief. It was really intensi- tying the evil The wild idea suddenly pre- vailed, especially in the West, that the panic came from the want of money, and that money could be supplied by the indefinite increase of our paper currency. The fact that a Congress elected at the same time as General Grant, as the representative of stability and conserva- tism, should lend itself to this scheme of finan- cial dishonor and virtual repudiation, shows | how widely spread this idea became. It con- trolled Congress. It compelled the passage of a bill filled with dangerous heresies. It was only defeated by the Executive veto, but its spirit ruled Congress ond made the passage of any mature financial measure impossible. The President and the Legislature were at variance, and so nothing wasdone. We should have been pained at the idea of such a result when Congress IvrernationaL CommenciaL CourTEsy.— It will be seen from our news of this morning | that the National Board of Trade has re- quested the Produce Exchange of this city to appoint a delegate as a representative of the National Board to attend the meeting of the | Dominion Board of Trade, to be held in St. Jobn, N. B., on the 16th of July. This we cannot help regarding as a wise and well con- | sidered step; and a well selected delegate may do much to remove difficulties and to | smooth the way to the final success of the reciprocity arrangement. Tue Geneva Awanp.—The House has re- linquished the views of General Butler on the | distribution of the Geneva award, and ac: cepted the views of the Senate. Thus a class of insurers are not ruled out of the claim to in- demnity, as they would have been if the former view had prevailed; but the opposition to them is modified. They will be admitted as proper claimants, but must show that they have been losers, not as to any particular ship bat on the whole class of war insurances, If they insured twenty ships which were not lost, and insured one that was lost, they can be paid tor the loss on that one only if their gains on the others are insufficient to cover it. This pats Congress on strange ground as an inspector of insurance operations, but, as we could not count upon an honest distribution of the money, we ought to be thankful for a plan that covers Congressional ‘conveyance’ Of this sort with a vleasible vretenoe assembled, for our highest hopes were based upon its financial possibilities. As it is we | vember. | Journal des Débats a statement apparently | every phase of social and political life, was | | wisdom and resolution of General Grant, es- | of It is to'be hoped that j came with the war suddenly exploded. It was | | dients and not facts, with falsehood and not | rejoice for the good name of the country that | nothing was done. After the vote on inflation it seemed far better to bear the ills we had than fly to others we knew not of. If Congress failed finances it failed also in reconstruction. Per- in dealing with the | haps we should call this a sin of omission, | for there was really no policy before Congress | so far as reconstruction was concerned. But it certainly seems that for a legislature to look | in South Carolina and Louisiana, by the repu- | dination of solemn obligations in many States and sections, and the alarming tendency to a universal repudiation of all Southern securities, was to be guilty of a very grave sin of omis- sion. For whatever may be our hopes and convictions s0,far as the Southern States are | concerned, and however zealous we may be to | shield our national credit behind the national | honor and leave the credit of States and mu- | nicipalities to shift for itself, we cannot sepa- | rate ourselves in the eyes of mankind from the | bumblest State in the Confederacy. It should | | here we suggest the propriety of spreading it | become « serious question whether the Ameri- } can Republic should allow Louisiana and | South Carolina to have a voice in determining American credit abroad. If any function by equity belongs to the general government it seems to be the fanction of preserving the national credit, and Congress, in overlooking on silent and listless, unmoved by what we see | ally condoned these acts of threatened and accomplished repudiation. These are the main features of the work other questions—many of them of great im- portance, Their history will bo read in the sketch we elsewhere print. The tides of poli- tics are rashing so furiously in all directions, 80 many new elements are entering into the plans and calculations of the future, that when the second session assembles all the conditions of political action may be changed. The republicans are now dominant, but their dominion is menaced by internal confusion, misunderstanding and dismay. General Grant holds his power by a discipline based upon terrorism, and to-morrow it may explode, as power based on such conditions | so frequently explodes, Upon the great ques- tions of the succession, or whether there will | be a succession, nothing has been done. Con- gress has made no impression on political pub- They might have confirmed the Waskington | lic opinion. The majority which goes home | | to-day will scarcely meet as a majority in No- If the Western men are in earnest | about finances there must come'a rupture, and a division on this question would mean a revo- looked the Sanborn affair and confirmed the | ¥tion in all political conditions as marked and extraordinary as when Mr. Lincoln was chosen President in 1860 over Douglas, Breck- inridge and Bell. Spain and the Pretenders. The London Times reprints from the Paris based upon authority to the effect that the German Cabinet is now considering the advisa- bility of permitting Prince Frederick Charles, the famous leader of a German army, to accept the throne of Spain. According to this nar- rative Prince Bismarck has become ‘uneasy at the rivalry and not very friendly feelings which have long existed between the Prince Imperial and his cousin,’’ and has accordingly suggested to Frederick Charles that he could take the Spanish Crown and found an ‘Iberian empire,’’ with Portugal as a com- ponent part, Frederick Charles, according to the Times, is no ‘carpet and not ‘to be bundled out of Span” like with an hand, and he will revise the military power of | the nation and make the Spaniards proud of themselves and of their Emperor.’’ The | Journal des Débats, remembering Maximilian and Amadeus, would not object to seeing # Prussian Prince try his fortunes in Spain. i ; | “There is a proverb,” it adds, ‘that the air of finance. The especial duty of this Congress | yraria ig so subtle that it kills a man, was to consolidate the Union, to complete | although it does not put out a candle.” The German Prince is reminded that Napoleon, when sovereign of Europe, found the beginning of the end when he reached the Pillars of Her- cules. If Prussia, which imitates Napoleonic conquest, chooses to follow him in a destiny resembling that which came to him in Spain, France is not the country either to oppose or complain. The German newspapers deny this story, but we may take any liberty we please with official derials. It is not pleasant to those who love Spain to see her crown hawked from capital to capital by the gang of unprincipled adven- turers who, thanks to the cannon of Pavia, now control the destinies of Spain. As a@ measure of restoration the Serrano gov- | ernment has re-established the nobility and the orders of knighthood. abolished by the Republic, after having become so much of a scandal that no quiet person could journey through Spain without incurring the risk of being made ‘‘a knight of Charles IIL’’ Even apothecaries and coach- men have been mbboned and decked in a samp- tuous manner. Serrano, a duke, is anxious to finda king who will make him a prince, while Sagasta, who always wants money, would prefer a monarch like the Duke of Mont- pensier, who is one of the richest noblemen in Europe. But Montpensier belongs to o fam- ily which loves money too well to pay even for a crown, especially a crown that has the mercurial qualities of that of Spain. It does not surprise us to learn that he has refused Sefior Sagasta’s solicitations. If Prince Frederick Charles is brave enough nothing would be more satisfactory to Germany than his corona- tion as the successor of Charles V. What satisfies Germany will be most likely to satisfy Europe. In the meantime Serrano is ‘fighting the Carlists’’ and sending glowing despatches about his ‘‘victories” to the London news- papers. The meaning of these despatches is that Serrano wants money, and it is necessary to inspire the confidence of English capitalists in his government. What seems probable now is that the Republic will perish from inaction, that it will die the moment its death is necessary to the interests or the am- bition of Serrano. The power which dis- solved the Cortes last January at the point of the bayonet can stifle any Republic. The thoughtful, the enthusiastic, the noble men of Spain are silent or in exile or under control. When Serrano says he is waiting to ‘consult Spain on its destinies,” it means that he is looking out for the best bargain and waiting until that fertile and accomplished politician, Sagasta, has the machinery necessary to elect an obedient and congenial Cortes. This is, | indeed, a sad situation for the Republic which came into life a year ago with so much enthusiasm and promise. But the Spanish Republic is not dead. It only waits! Nations move slowly, especially a nation as old and conservative and as securely bound by tradi- tion as Spain. The wave recedes as often as it advances, but only to advance again. Now | we see the receding wave. When it comes again we sincerely trust it will not bring storms and crested billows and desolating floods. Tae Rectrrocrry Treaty wrrn Canapa, ac- cording to the latest news from Washington, will be passed over till the next session of Congress, The Senate is unwilling, we sup- pose, to remain longer at the Capital for the purpose of acting upon the treaty, and the President and Secretary of State seem not to be ine hurry. They think it best, perhaps, to give the press and people time to discuss the merits of such an important document; and before the public. We did not see the necessity of delay, and thought a treaty so conducive to the commercial intercourse of the United States and the Provinces should have been confirmed at once, but as it is to be passed over the details should be known and dis- the iuanerative duty of reconsteuction, virtu- | cussed by the peoule that closes to-day. There were a hundred | knight,” | Amadeus. On the contrary, he is | | “a stern disciplinarian, iron | These had been | The Republican Conflict in A Religious View of the Question. The fact that the Deputies of the Left Centre invite an alliance with the Right Centro in the hope of consolidating the Republic is | one of the hopeful signs of the present crisis. | This seems to us to be the true way to found | @ conservative republic, the only form of | government that is possible in France without | the assurance of a new revolution. If such o | republic can be founded upon some such | programme as the recognition of MacMahon's | powers, the organization of a Second Cham- | ber and an eventual appeal to the people, we | shall have some hopes of its stability. Fail- ing in this, we do not see how this crisis can result in anything but the Empire. While recognizing this possible and not improbable result, we have never changed our belief that the republic is the natural govern- ment of France in view of the distribution of property which has prevailed since the Revo- lution. This has produced a large body of landed proprietors, who favored the Empire from religious preferences, although they were republican in spirit. But this basis of re- ligioug preference for Napoleon has been rudely shaken. Events which enlist the most vehement ardor of the Church and dis- turb its repose to the profoundest depths are now transpiring in Bape and usdermining the old favor with which the Church has so | long looked upon royalty and imperialism. We, of course, refer to the violent warfare which the strengthened monarchy of Prussia is waging against the Catholic Church. The | deepest sympathies of the whole Catholic world are aroused by this persistent persecu- tion, which is teaching Catholicity a great lesson it has been too slow to learn. Imperi- alism in Germany, instead of being the ally of the Church, is its most deadly foe. What imperialism is doing there imperialism may | do everywhere, and the Catholics are begin- ning to discover that there is no safety or pro- tection for their religion in a form of govern- ment which holds the liberties of the people | at its mercy. It is only by curbing power and making it responsible that either the people or the Church have any secure guarantee of their rights. This important lesson will find an easier entrance into the minds of the French clergy and their flocks by their fresh and burning sense of what the country has suffered from Germany. Imperialism in every form is irresponsible power. It may sometimes favor the Church and protect the people to further its own selfish ends, but it is always justas ready to turn against and crush them the moment it can thereby strengthen or may think it can strengthen ita own lawless authority. No French Catho- lic doubts that the rights of the Charch will be respected under the republic as fully as they are in the United States. In the United States the Catholic Church receives no favors, but it securely enjoys its liberty and ite rights, and there is no other country in tho world where its growing strength is so satis- factory to those who love it and rejoice in its growth. When the French Catholics compare the violence done to the Church in imperial Germany with the liberty and prosperity it enjoys in republican America they have no reason to desire the restoration of imperial- ism in France. There is no country in the world in which this persecuting violence would make such a deep impression on the French mind as in hated, haughty Germany, | where imperialism has precipitated itself into a deadly conflict with the interests and the independence of the Church. fs In reverting to the career of the last of the dethroned Bonapartes the Catholics of Franco will find reason to blame him for the greatest calamity that has befallen their Church. By whose agency has the Holy Father been stripped of his temporal authority? If it is answered, by the King of Italy, who has trans- ferred his capital from Florence to Rome, another question immediately comes to all lips, How came there to be made a King of Italy? How did it happen that the small monarch who ruled the petty kingdom of Sar- dinia was elevated to the rank of King of Italy? It was the work of Napoleon III. The kingdom of Italy owes its birth to his machinations and military support. He it was who created the new Italian government which has made the Popes prisoner in the Vatican and reduced the head of the Church to the humiliating position against which he has neverceased to protest. If his own throne had stood Napoleon would have continued to support the Holy Fatherin order to makea merit of it with his Catholic subjects, degrading the Church into a football of his domestic pol- itics. By creating a strong Italian government, too powerful for the Pope to contend with, and then holding it at bay in its assaults upon the dignity and interests of the Church, he expected to be recognized by his Catholic sub- jects ds the sole prop of the rights of the Pope, and thus strengthen the Empire by causing it to be regarded as the only bulwark of Papal independence. A restoration of the Empire would not resuscitate its influence in Italy. The King of Italy is in secure possession of Rome, and Napoleon IV. would have no power to restrain him. Germany would be no longer an inactive spectator. Her quar- rel with the Church would impel her to side with Victor Emmanuel and support him in resisting French interference. So neither the Church nor the French Catholics have any- thing to hope from the restoration of impe- rialism in France. Such being the actual situation, every mo- tive has vanished which operated on the Cath- olic mind of France during the Second Em- pire in inducing it to support the imperial government, The Oatholics, neither of France nor of Europe, have anything to gain bya restoration of the Empire, and the agricul- taral population of the country, who should naturally be republicans, must cease to be Bonapartists. We believe that M. Thiers is entirely right in believing that the republic ia the only possible government for France, | | Tae Szventa Reorment Sratvx.—The cere- mony of unveiling the memorial statue of the Seventh regiment in the Park yesterday after- noon drew together one of the largest and most Governor Dix, in his speech, spoke eulogisti- cally of the services of the regiment at the out- set of the late rebellion. Speeches were also made by Colonel Vermilyea and Colonel Steb- bins. The ceremony was grand and impres- sive. The description of the proceedings, published in another column, will be found of brilliant crowds that ever visited the Park. | France— |The Alleged Municipal Corruptions and the Duty of the Mayor. Unless Mayor Havemeyer is extraordinarily obtuse, he must by this time understand that it will not profit him politically or in his per- sonal reputation to permit a continuance of the present disreputable management of the city government. The people have been patient under the experiment of hybrid ad- ministration, and have been slow to admit the utter failure of the reform movement and the dishonesty of its promoters, They have ex- tended a lenient judgment towards the Mayor himself, and have displayed singular good temper under the provocation of his ridicu- lous and reprehensible appointments to office. Indeod, they have rather relished as a joke the nonchalance with which he has cheated his associates of the reform ring and distrib- uted his patronage in a manner to suit him- self. But official buffoonery ceases to be amusing when it disgraces and injures the city, and unless there is a speedy and com- plete change in the mode of administering the city government the Mayor will find to his cost that the public patience is about ex- hausted. No person holds Mr. Havemeyer solely re- sponsible for the present scandalous condition of public affairs. The fault lies with all the political adventurers who sought to turn the popular movement of 1872 to their personal’ advantage ; with the republican Legislature which passed a city charter and charter amend- ments with the sole object of benefiting their own party and securing for it a hold upon the rich patronage of the municipal government ; with republican leaders who, after heaping the foulest abuse on the Mayor, bargained to place additional power in his hands in return for a few lucrative offices ; with the “reform” as- sociations which sought to fasten all their members on the public treasury; with the Mayor, who from the first used the city gov- ernment asa personal perquisite, and ran it in his own interest and not in the interest of the people; with the Aldermen, who have been too ready to use a trading Executive for their own selfish purposes. The reform movement which elected Mr. Havemeyer was a blistering lie from beginning to end. It was a corrupt trade and dicker between politicians who took advantage of the popular uprising against Tammany to seize upon public posi- tions they never could have otherwise ob- tained. Mr. Havemeyer was one of the huck- sters, and as such is equally responsible with his associates for the imposition practised upon the people. But he stands now ina position very different from the rest. He is at the head of the government, and is re- sponsible under the law for its honesty and efficiency. Two of the municipal depart- ments—those of Police and Charities and Correetion—are so. objectionably managed as to render one of them the subject of censure, and the other of indictment by grand juries. One of the Commis- sioners of Charities and Correction has been shown to have purchased dry goods for the city through a relative in violation of law and at fraudulent prices. Another has been purchasing thousands of dollars’ worth of flour of brands ranging on the market at $4 to $5 50 a barrel, tor which, it is alleged, the city has been charged as high as $7 to $8 abarrel. Enough meat has been paid for by the city for the same department to feed an army of ten thousand men on full army ra- tions daily fora year. Yet the Mayor, whose duty demands that he shall enforce honesty in every public department, takes no action against these Commissioners, and strives to screen them by a make-believe investigation. Why does he thus neglect his duty to the people? Is it because his son supplies the tea and his son-in-law the butter used in the tainted department? Mr. Havemeyer may rest assured that the people will begin to ask these questions, and toask them with a view to invoking the pro- tection the law affords them against an un- faithful Executive, unless he adopts a differ- ent course and evinces a disposition to do his duty as Mayor of the city. Messrs. Stern | and Laimbeer must be brought to account and forced to explain all that appears extraordi- nary in their official conduct. The Mayor may chuckle over his smart attempt to befog the issue as to the: faithfulness and compe- tency of the present management of the De- partment of Charities and Correction by getting up a comparison with former man- agements, but the trick will not be successful. The Mayor's Commissioners of Accounts, one pointed at the instance of Mr. Laimbeer, may make a whitewashing report of the con- dition of the department. But the people will insist upon a thorough investigation of all these alleged ‘‘irregularities,’’ and of the share the Comptroller has had in passing the illegal and exorbitant dry goods, flour and meat bills, despite his large force of ‘‘experts’’ and “‘examiners.”’ his own official safety. The Seizure of Newspaper Property at New Orleans. In the case of the New Orleans Bulletin property seizure by the police there does not appear to have been a direct attack upon the liberty of the press. There was no doubt un- | necessary harshness, arising probably from | the enmity of the local authorities to this out- spoken journal, but the seizure of the forms when being carried to the pressroom was not ostensibly for any political offence. In fact, it does not appear that the local authorities have such a power. claim upon the property by a private individ- nal, and the property was seized upon that | claim, or upon that pretext. Admitting that the pulice acted illegally and that there was at the bottom of the action batred and a design to obstruct the publicae tion of the Bulletin, we do not see the necessity for the startling exclamations of “An outrage on American liberty,” ‘‘Another midnight order’ and ‘The press to be bullied ; and suppressed.” While we condemn the ap- ; parent pretext for stopping a newspaper from going to press, and are aware that many high- handed and outrageous things are done in Louisiana, we cannot see that in this case the liberty of the press in the United States is in danger. This was simply the matter of o quarrel over property, in which, no doubt, the police overstepped their duty, end that probably from a spitefal motive, That is of whom was ap- | The sooner the Mayor | understands this fact the better will it be for | It was a question of a | q Al Brunswick, Rapid Transit—The Legactes of th Last Legislature. The people of New York were very badl treated by the last Legislature in the matte of rapid transit. The “men in Lincol green’’ who stood on the legislative highwa ready to stop every bill that appeared to “hay anything in it’’ with the time-honored demand “your money or your life!’’ set themselve resolutely against the measure demanded our citizens, which would have taken th rapid transit question out of the hands of th Legislature and placed it under the control a a commission composed of responsible, com: petent and honest New Yorkers. This would, of course, have deprived the Senators and Assemblymen of all interest in New York, steam railroads for the future and have cut off a fruitful source of supply. There were other practical, bond fide propositions at Albany for | the construction of rapid transit lines; but unfortunately, genuine projects cannot afford to pay large sts of Money for votes, and hence they find but little favor in the eyes of the official highwaymen at the State Capitol When itis really intended by the projectors that a railroad shall be built as an investment it will not'do to burden it with a debt amount- ing to about one-half its legitimate cost before the work of construction is commenced, yet @ road that is not willing to thus burden itself by the issue of paid-up stock to legislators and their friends cannot expect tosecure a charter. At the close of the last session, it is true, several bills authorizing new lines and extending and enlarging old charters were passed and poured into the Executive Cham- ber, but the best proof: that the Legislature had no intention that they should become laws or no belief that they would effectually and speedily supply the great want of the metropolis is to be found in the fact that the bills still lie on the Governor's table unsigned. Governor Dix is too sensible of the need of rapid transit through the city to delay his signature to any bill which hon- estly promises such a road as the people re- quire. i The meeting of the friends of the Green- wich Street Railroad Extension bill yesterday was designed to induce the Governor to. sign that particular bill. The Greenwich street road is the only approach to rapid transit we at present enjoy, and it is no doubt a con- venience so far as it goes. Whether the bill now before the Governor should or should not become a law is a question which Governor Dix may well be left to decide. His interest in the city, his familiarity with its wants and his sterling integrity, aro assurances that no improper bill will receive his approval. Nothing is more certain than the want of rapid transit road; but such a road should be capable of fully accommodating travel and should be controlled in the interests of the Doobie, Mad aut of any eet or soe ee ‘Tus Orvice or Assistant SECRETARY OF THB Treasury is one that has come to be regarded as of great importance, the immense business of that department since the war giving the second officer of the Treasury almost as much actual power as his chief. This will cause the new appointment to fill the vacancy occae sioned by Mr. Sawyer’s retirement to be scrutinized with great care. Mr. Lyman K. Bass, who has been nominated to the office, is @ young man and, like Secretary Bristow, a lawyer by profession. He is only thirty-six years old, and it is a comparatively short time since he left college. Until elected to the present Congress he never held any office except that of District Attorney.of Erie county, all his business life having been spent in the practice of his profession at Buffalo. He may bea man of ability, though he has not yet had much opportunity for its display; but it may well be doubted whether it was wise to commit the Treasury Department to the management of two lawyers. The mem- bers of the legal profession are more apt to be financial theorists than financiers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Canrobert will go to St. Petersburg in place of ) Le Flo. Seaver says that Jefferson was probably a Tox- ophoilte. ‘ In Maine Miss Fitz gave them to her motner— with a knife. Judge Charles Mason, of Utica, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Admiral David D. Porter left the city yesterday for Wasnington. Dr. Formento, of New Orleans, is in the city, om his way to Europe. Judge Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, has | apartments at the Astor House, Lawrence Barrett, the sctor, is among the recent arrivals at the New York Hotel. Poundmaster Marriott is not the man who wrote “Snarieyow ; or, The Dog Fiend.’ Lieutenant Colonel Dalzell, of the British Army, is staying at the Brevoort House. Ex-Congressman Thomas L. Jones, of Kentucky, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. Rev. Mr. Hovey says, that “sadness is not dys- peptic.” He imagines a vain thing, Congressman George W. Hendee, of Vermont, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Prince Godefroy de la Tour d'Auvergne and his uncle, the Archbishop of Bourges, are gone to Rome. Beecher says that we are all like Rhode Island greenings; that the worid is the better for our “slips,” Assistant Inspector General Absalom Baird, United States Army, has quarters at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. Lieutenant Oommander Frederick. Rolgers, United States Navy, is quartered at tue Metropoit- tan Hotel. Captain Samuel Brooks, of the steamship City of Richmond, yesterday arrived at the Grand Cen- trai Hotel. Generals John F. Rathbone and J. H. Wood, of Governor Dix’s staf, are residing at tho Hotel Colonel H. 8. McComb, who has recently been elected President of Delaware College, ts at the | Windsor Hotel. Max Fourchon and J. de la Boulintere, Secreta res of the French Legation in Washington, are at the Brevoort House. Miss Alice Gerry, daughter of Elbridge Gerry, of | Maine, was married in Paris June 10 to A, Melville Patterson, of Baitimore, One of the Western papers has jnst quoted » paragraph trom the Philadelphia Ledger. Perhaps that paper has a new editor, Sheboygan, Wis., boasts three damsels, enon of ‘whom declare that she boy-gan tt with Sartoris but wouldn't have him at last. Rev. Mr. McCosh says, the most destrable alm ts ‘qiving ‘or @ high end.” Several gentlemen wait ing to be hanged are not of the same opinion. Prince Pierre Bonaparte and his wife, who ts @ milliner in London, are under some legal restraint for failure to pay for articles whicn they bave al- ready sold. Hon, John T. Heard has been aominated demo- cratic candidate for Seoretary of State tn Missoart all there is of this alleged suppression of the | yy » convention of which he was the CLATIAR had | wana naa no members ot FS >.