The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, day in the year, Four cents per copy. An- tual subscription price $12. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK published every | New YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The New Turn im the Political Kalei- doscope—The Misfortunes of Reform. And now there is another turn in the kalei- doscope of municipal politics. Suddenly the picture is different. All the combination of the pretty bits of painted glass that made up the picture of reform js dislocated. In the new picture the immaculate men of reform are themselves presented as culprits. Scarcely has the public had a fair opportunity to rejoice sufficiently over the moral revolution that consigned the autocrat of Tammany corrup- tions to the retirement of the Penitentiary, HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Bubseriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX... .-No. 178 N AND EVENING cor streets.— Yo M.; closes at | Wer. M wor y's MUSEDM, k SKELETON Same at 3 P. HEATRE, at Wad P.M. M.; closes TWO sb at ltd PM Matinee at 1:5 Bowery.—V 4 closes at Lys rANT'S OPERA HOUSA, mour, at 5 P.M. oEN, —tHOMAS’ CON- COLOSS: ay, corner of ih rty att P. M.; closes a! 10%. M. ROMAN HIP t—LONDON BY ame at? P.M; ROME, Madison avenue and Twenty Street. —GRAND PAGEANT—CONGHB5S OF NATIONS, at L:gu P.M. and acT P.M. WITH New York, sUPPLEMENT. Saterday, Jane at 1874. From our ur reporis this morning 7 the pan ties are thatthe weather to-day will be partly cloudy, with local rains. | Tse Arconavta anD Burrato Racz.—The four-oared race between the Argonauta four, of Bergen Point, and the Buffalo four was rowed yesterday on the Kill Von Kull, result- ing in victory for the Argies—a full account of which will be found elsewhere. Cxrerpmoon.—The spirited contests in marks- manship which have been going on for some time at this well-known resort must neces- sarily have a beneficial influence on the effi- | ciency of our National Gnardsmen. There | were two interesting matches yesterday, and | the average results show quite a flattering | exhibit of proficiency in what should be one of the soldier's principal aims. Tae Present’ s TRaNsrt into the moun- | | benefit of the people upon the games of the tains of Virginia has proven, in one respect, significant politically and historically. He is the one man of those many who led the soldiers of the North against the warriors of the Soutn who showed himself al to the desperate grapple with rebellion that was necessary to finally crush out and terminate | the war. | TNaTion.-. In our columns to-day will be tound further com- , ments from our exchanges on the President's nomination of Mr. Shepherd as one of the District Commission. They will well repay perusal, showing as they do the drift of pub- | lic sentiment. The warning of the Cincinnati Gazette is especially significant, as it has been | one of the President's most earnest and influ- ential supporters in the past. Taz New Cursency Act Gorne Ivto Oprra- ‘t1on.—Treasurer Spinner has issued a circu- lar respecting deposits of United States notes | in national banks, in accordance with the | Currency bill just passed by Congress, and | the Comptroller of the Currency will soon | issue an order calling in the outstanding cir- culation of suspended banks. This, he thinks, will give from four to five millions more cir- culation to the South and West and will meet the immediate wants of these sections of the | country. Tue Kenor-Bricener Case brings promi- nently before the public an evil the existence of which is a scandal to our boasted civiliza- | tion. We cannot be too grateful for the ser- vices of our medical men—services often ren- dered without reward. It is unfortunate for the medical profession that such cases as that to which we reter should be possible in a civilized community. Onur leading medical men ought to be able to adopt such measures as would render impossible the recurrence of such a scandal as that connected with the T@ne of Dr. Brickner. OVERHAULING THE Secret Senvice.—It is said the new Solicitor General is going to overliaul the secret service connected with the Treasury Department. As some evidence of | this the chiet of that service has been relieved of duty. This we may regard as the result of the moiety revelations and discussion. What- ever may be said of the necessity of protect- | ing the revenue by some sort of secret agency | there is no doubt the secret service system of late has led to great abuses and most tyrannical | proceedings. The Solicitor General has be- gun right, and we hope he will act justly with | our merchants and protect the revenue from | frauds at the same ti same time. Tux Stovx sx INDIANS Arnai> op Gzxznat | Cusrzn.—According to a telegram from St. | the city; to appoint friends and relatives to | Paul, Minn., the Sioux Indians, of Dakota, | who lately became troublesome and showed a | law; to ‘interpret’ the statutes regulating | disposition to make war, appear to be in no | burry to face General Custer's Seventh savalry. The General was ready to send his | expedition to the Black Hills to fight the Indi- ans, but as the redskins appear tb be cowed: he has postponed the departure. Custer is they dread him, There is nothing like vigor | Were “technically guilty,'’ Far be it from us to say that either | , chinery of elections. | no better, and scattered his numerous henchmen as fugi- tives from justice; scarcely have we fairly conceived the whole effect of the introduction | of virtue and purity and high purpose in municipal politics, when, behold! we find that the standard bearers of the campaign to be waged on these principles are laid low by the verdict of a jury that disqualifies them from further usefulness in saving this devoted | community. It is true that the respective positions of the | culprits of the reform party and the culprits of the Tammany party are not the same. Mr. Gardner says that his colleague and himself which is a nice phrase. of these honorable gentlemen could ever be guilty otherwise than ‘‘technically;"’ but, then, even the technicalities of the law have some- times awkward results. If these gentlemen | are ‘technically’ guilty of having disregarded their oaths of office in full consciousness of the immunities with which a virtuous purpose covers men possessed of power which they do their utmost to make irresponsible, then their | offence is a misdemeanor, and they might have been imprisoned as well as fined. Tweed also was found guilty of a misdemeanor, and he also had disregarded his oath of office. | Unfortunately for the Police Commissioners, the laws seem to look upon the offence of cor- ruption in office, with regard to the public money, as not greatly more heinous than cor- ruption in office with regard to the ma- They cover the public purse with the protection that punishes people who plunder it, and they cover the right of the people to be safe from official interference at the polls with protection of precisely the same sort. And who is wise enough to say what may happen with these gentlemen, these ‘thonorable men,’’ and | products ofa great reform, rudely tumbled | out of office? It unfortunately makes a great | difference in our public processes whether a | man on trial is in or out of office; whether | hosts of people, with favors to beg, are waiting to cateh his cye, or whether there are none so poor to do him reverence. If such investiga- tions as that had last winter on the street | cleaning speculations should be revived with the gentlemen under the odium of a sentence, the result might scarcely be covered with the phrase, ‘‘technically guilty.’’ In like manner acts of very questionable legality in the pur- chase of supplies and the bestowal of con- tracts, which might have been regarded as | “technical” irregularities on the part of Police Commissioners in office, may assume a far more serious character after the official life of such Commissioners has been brought to a disastrous close. By events like this the light is let in for the political sharpers, and the sham, the fraud | and mockery of the pretences they put forth | in the name of honesty and reform are ex- hibited. In Tammany overthrown by shriek- ers for reform, who merely want to secure for themselves the plunder they clamor over, and | in the so-called reformers tripped up by the machinations of still other politicians, whose | etexts are the same, and whose motives are there is for the people the same lesson. There is equally little hope for honesty and the interest of the public which- ever side is momentarily uppermost and who- ever happens to prevail. Law is used to secure eviction from office, and then the party that seizes power simply continues the offences of those over whose misdoings they had railed. The tin whistle of reform is vigorously blown, and before the echoes of the notes die away it is discovered that P Little Johnny Horner, who plays the tune, is slily engaged in an attempt to pull oa bigger plum out of the political pie, while all the nimble patriots, who dance to the tune, are endeavoring to skip into lucrative offices. In the end the people find that they have only exchanged one ring for another or for one of those curious com- plications of rings which can be twisted into } all manner of shapes, divided, subdivided and joined together again in o manner marvellous to behold. Old Tammany disap- pears, dissolved into thin air, but in its place spring up the Custom House ring, the liberal republican ring, the Havemeyer ring, the Green ring, the general family connection and brother-in-law ring, and ali the other rings that together make up the hybrid concern known as the reform municipal government. The only difference is that while the old Tam- | many ring, standing solidly together to the | exclusion of all outsiders, robbed the people with the boldness of brigands, independent rings of reformers, by whatever title they may be designated, are all engaged in acts of petty larceny on their own account. In the end the people may find themselves more out of pocket by the aggregate opera- | tions of the smaller rascals than by the grand | | consolidated raid of the ‘‘boss’’ of public | plunderers. It is singular how similar are the ways of our political rulers, whether convicted sin- ners or professed saints, differing only in the boldness with which they are pursued. When the great Americus luminary shone over the city government it was his habit to buy up legislatures for the purpose of securing such laws as would enable him to prosecute sug- | cessfully the policy he desired to pursue in office ; to give out contracts in violation of elections in such @ manner as to insure such results as he desired, independent of the votes that might be cast by the electors, until the end of a criminal conviction was reached. As | esigned to secure for the reformers ali the rich and military promptness to make these | patronage of the municipal government, and | people behave themselves. There is some | when this was accomplished the appointment reason to believe this show of force and readi- | of friends and relatives, the prodigal bestowal ness to fight on the part of the military will | of contracts ‘sad preserve peace on sons-in-law, sons henchmen followed. and at last the little | wo have a criminal violation of the Election laws, a conviction of the offenders in a court of justice and a chance for the reform of re- | form. When the old Tammany speculators | were in difficulty the cry raised by their | friends was similar to that now heard from | the friends of the new lights of reform—their offences were ‘technical,’ and public sym- pathy was claimed in their behalf. Tho Tammany Sachem might have taken a few dol- lars ina loose kind of a manner out of the city treasury, but it had been for the benetit | of his party, and the money had been used for | political purposes. The Police Commissioners may have violated the law, but they did so with a good intention. To be sure the money | was traced in the one case into the pockets of | the robbers, and the political advantage to be | | gained by the violation of the Election law was to inure to the benefit of the perpetrators of the offence. But that matters nothing. Their ‘intentions’ were all right and their guilt is only ‘‘technical.” The people who | have an interest in the matter may by and by commence to inquire why honest offi ials | should not show the purity of their | motives and their devotion to the | public interests by a strict adherence | to the provisions of laws designed to protect | those interests. When they do it will not be long before they overthrow ‘‘reform,"’ as they overthrew Tammany, and try another set of rulers. Whether the result will be any more propitious than that which has followed the replacement of the old Tammany Ring by the combined rings of political reformers is a | | question that time alone can determine. Meanwhile we may look for a general | scrambling and scratching among the poli- ticians for the vacant Police Commissioner- ships, for we presume that the attempt to prove that a conviction for violation of law is not a conviction for violation of the oath of office, that a misdemeanor which comes within one portion of the revised statutes | is not such a misdemeanor as comes within another portion, and that an | act declared to be criminal by the verdict of a jury is not o criminal act | after all, will end in failure. Tammany will | strive to secure the prize and the republicans will make a determined effort to do the same. What course the Mayor may pursue is uncer- tain, for his ways are a puzzle alike to men of | sense and men of honor. But whatever the eccentric old gentleman who at present con- trols the municipal government may do, the change in the Police Commission must have | an effect on the situation and necessitate new schemes and fresh deals among the active politicians of the city. |The Vacant Police Commissioner- ships—Will the Law Be Obeyed? The friends of Police Commissioners Char- lick and Gardner affect to believe that the conviction of those officers of a misdemeanor | in having violated a law they were sworn to faithfully observe does not entail the forfei | of their offices. It iseven rumored that Mr. | Gardner appeared at Headquarters yesterday and essayed to perform some official duties, | There was no meeting of the Police Board, | however, and it is not probable that the pres- | ent Commissioners—Mr. Disbecker and Gen- | eral Duryeo—will be willing to risk indict- | | ment for misdemeanor (ileciaelyed by acting | | | | existence of their late associates. There can | be little doubt that the conviction entails ipso | Sacto a forfciture of office, and that the places ot the Commissioners are already vacant. We believe the provisions of the charter to be con- clusive on that point, independent of the | plain language of the common law. The charter makes any violation of its provisions | | a misdemeanor, and declares that upon con- viction the office held by the person so con- victed shall be forfeited. One of the provisions of the charter requires every municipal officer to perform such duties as are required of him | under any law not inconsistent with the char- ter, and a violation of such duties is thus made a violation of the charter. But the language of the Revised Statutes is ex- plicit, and there can be no doubt that the | Police Commissioners in their relation to the | Election law hold an office that comes within its scope. Section 40, of article 4, chapter 5, part 1, volume 1 of the Revised Statutes, fifth edition, provides that ‘‘Every office shall become vacant on the happening of either of the fol- lowing events before the expiration of the | term of such office. * * * 5. His convic- tion * * * of any offence involving a vio- lation of his oath of office.”’ Section 41 provides, ‘‘Whenever any officer shall be convicted of * * * an offence involving a violation of his oath of office | * * * the Court before which such convic- | tion shall be had * * * shall immediately give notice thereof to the Governor, stating the cause of such conviction.’” Section 42 provides that ‘The Governor | shall immediately give notice of the vacancy | created by such conviction * * * to the body or officer in whom the appointment to the office is vested.” | The duty of the Governor is mandatory. He cannot go behind the certificate of convic- tion which has been forwarded to him by the Court. Whatever special pleas may be raised as to the law under which the conviction was secured, oras to the position of the Police Commissioners when acting as Commissioners under the Election law, or as to the scope of their oath of office, it is clear that any attempt of the convicted Commissioners to hold on to office or to do a single official act will be a bold attempt to defy the law and a most dan- | gerous precedent in a city like New York, in a very laudable endeavor to secure to the people of the Republic a measure of internal peace based on the foundation of counstitu- | tional reform. The special letter from Caraccas which we publish in the Heratp to- | day details the progress of the movement under the administrative direction of President | Guzman Blanco. The matter of the treat- ment of the Church appears to present o difficulty in the way, the subject having assumed the same aspect of perplexity and | | embarrassing to many of the Old World gov- ernments, Mepicat Mavpractice is a crime deserving swift and severe punishment on the part of this offence will, it is to be hoped, be a warn- | ing to others to avoid such a horrible crime | to be rescued, we hold | and inhuman. | thropy whether a showman has a right thus with or in any manner recognizing the official | | this cruel sport. Tue Government oF Venezuena is engaged | soon as the new light of reform was substi- | doubt, or positive contradiction, which is so | | tuted for the Americus luminary, the first busi- the right man to deal with the Indians, and | ness in order was the passage of « charter | | the law, and the verdict found against o | physician in one of the courts yesterday for | Bergh'’s Humanity, Although we have been compelled to with- hold our sympathy from the worthy President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in his efforts to defend the right of dogs to bite promiscuously, we have always been desirous to turn his philanthropy to practical account for the benefit of suffering humanity. While so many human beings are suffering we have no tears to shed for dead dogs, though we admire the many noble in- stincts of ‘the friend of man.’’ Still we pre- | fer the man to his friend, and if only we could | induce the worthy gentleman who presides over the fates of the lower animals to turn his eyes towards rational beings we feel that we should have accomplished much for the cause of mercy and humanity. Without wishing to detract from the merit of a vagabond cur, we do estimate a thousand-fold more highly the meanest biped that crawls through the slums of this great city, even though the human ani- | mal may be weighted down with sin and de- graded even to the lowest depths. we desire to palliate cruelty, however exer- cised, but that while a human being remains it to be false humanity to the brnte. It would seem also the sufferings of the dog have monopolized the attention of Mr. Bergh and his attendant angels. On the wrongs of other animals the recording spirit drops a tear, and they are allowed to sink into oblivion. the horse received some attention ; but, judg- | ing from the indifference shown to this noblest quadruped of late days, there must have arisen some cause of coolness between | Equus and Bergh. Now the "bus horse may sweat and groan under his heavy burden, and Bergh utters not in sympathy a single sigh. Merchants and speculators can now reach home in time for dinner thought of rueful countenance or hard-visaged virtue, and the Hippodrome invites the public to witness steeple chases, where gentle woman and noble horses risk life and limb for the amusement of the giddy crowd. Still is Bergh silent. Here, then, we have double cause to plead ; the horse, if not the woman, has a claim | | on philanthropy. On many occasions lately horse and rider have been thrown mangled into the arena, and neither law nor philan- thropy has protested against such cruel sport. Hurdle racing under the most favorable conditions is full of dan- ger. It is the favorite sport of men in the prime of life, full of vigor and daring. It demands courage, skill and powerful horses, and, above all, it demands a fair field with plenty of room. Even under these conditions | it is decidedly a risky pastime, full of peril to limb and life. But when pursued in a miser- able circus with worn-out hunters, tired out | by over work, by weak women not over skilled in the exercise and within a narrow | space that leaves no hope of escape for the unfortunate who falls, from the trampling | hoofs of succeeding horses, it becomes brutal It is a fair question for philan- to play with the lives of human beings for his selfish profit. It may be that mere men and women have no right to protection from the law; but greater mercy has been extended to the brute. In the name of the injured horse, if not of the maimed and crushed woman, Mr. Bergh can interfere and put an end to It will be urged that the managers of the Hippodrome have expended large sums in providing entertainment for the public, and that a few broken necks, be they necks of horses or of women, should not be allowed to interfere with vested rights. But in the inferests of humanity this plea must be set aside. If the managers desire to amuse the public let them ride the hurdle races themselves—to this we have no objection. Should they unfortunately break their necks the deterrent effect the accident would exercise on other enterprising indi- viduals might in some sort console the public. But, in the meantime, we hope that the phil- anthropic Bergh will turn his eyes from the “dog star’’ towards the Hippodrome and give poor humanity the benefit of his benevolence. Incprovep Postau Factiitres with FRance.— Tho Post Office Department was officially in- formed yesterday by ths French Minister that the postal convention between France and the United States had been ratified by the National Assembly. The Minister wanted the conven- tion to go into operation the Ist of July, but this cannot be, as the Ist of August is the date fixed. The charge for letters of one- third of an ounce from France to the United States will be ten cents, which is a consider- able reduction, and nine cents for half an ounce from the United States to France. Five cents additional will be charged on unpaid newspapers is to be separately arranged, ac- cording to the locality from which they may be sent. In this postal arrangement our gov- ernment has shown its liberality in order to induce the French government to make a convention and for the purpose of facilitating intercourse between t the two countries, Tue Ice Moxoroty. —Ice consumers in this city are beginning already to raise the cry of robbery and monopoly on the part of the companies that supply them with the needed cooling element during the dog days. The ice companies come for- ward with abundant specious arguments in favor of the advance in prices which has taken place. the conflict goes on. There is no doubt that ice companies, like coal dealers, have an ir- resistible tendency towards extortionate rates, ond they lay hold of every excuse they can to attain their object. But if their customers were to consult hygienic principles, rather than a pernicious habit in the one particular branch of ice consumption—excessive indul- gence in ice water—a very large proportion of their expenses would be removed. Many of engendered by this evil practice of drinking ice water constantly, irrespective of the heated condition of the system. Moderation in its use would tend to remove, not only the complaints about monopoly, but what is | more important, disease and death from what are now characterized os summer com- plaints. Tur Usrorrusate Brooks, whose guber- natorial aspirations in Arkansas were recently annihilated by a pronunciamento from Wash- ington, refuses to die easily. He has a sub- | cammittes now ready to start for that dalect- Not that | waste our sympathies on | that | At one time | untroubled by | letters. The postage on samples, books and | Thus the question stands and | the most dangerous summer complaints are | able State to take part in a proposed investi- gation into the causes of the late unpleasant- “ness. More Hydrophobia. Another fatal case of this frightful malady is reported, and it is a peculiarly instructive one. It presents the symptoms of the disease in a way that will clear up somewhat, even for the general reader, the relation of its pa- thology to the great prominent feature that has given its name to the disease. Hydrophobia is generally called a spasmodic disease, and it has been called a diseass without a lesion. “Diseases without lesions” are of course merely diseases in which science has not yet been able to locate the lesion, All the indi- cations in hydrophobia are that the seat of the disease is the throat, and that the morbid process is an irregular action of the nerves of this part, which results in a spasmodic | closure of the passage. Inflamed and gene- | rally disordered, the parched membrane of the throat excites in the victim an acute sensation | of thirst, and he isas eager to drink as one | | in the desert. He sees water, and the very sight of it provokes the nerves to involuntary | action; just as when a hungry man sees a | tempting dish we say “his mouth waters.’’ Tnvoluntarily the muscles of the throat perform the action that they would perform if the man were swallowing water. The nerves thus called upon in their disordered state act | spasmodically, and the man suffers a momen- | tary suffocation. At the beginning of the disease the spasm is slight; but as it goes on | and the process is repeated it becomes severer, | and the very sound of water poured out will | | excite the spasm, because this also excites tho now uncontrollable action of the throat. | | Here, then, begins what is called the water | madness. The man becomes conscious that there isa relation between the presence of the | | water and this horrible power that seems to seize and close up his throat—the uncon- trollable power of his own muscles. Every time his parching throat and terrible thirst | tempt him to turn his eyes toward a cup of | water the spasmodic action is renewed and he | is relieved a little if he sees no water. Hence | he fears and avoids water, simply as it is the thing that provokes a seizure that threatens instant death. Some men of exceptionally strong will are able in the carly stages of the | disease to drink, and this has given rise to | the notion that the hydrophobic symptom was | itself only an imagination of the observers; but it is a reality, and the above account of | its rationale seems to agree with the progress of this last very marked case. i | | | Bawxrvuptcy .at Havana.—The tide of bankruptcy is rapidly rising in Cuba, and as usual the ‘good Spaniards’ are ap- | pealing to the Captain General to take measures to stop the advancing flood. Gold at 292 makes life at Havana decidedly uncom- fortable, especially as there is a good prospect that before long it may reach 1,000. Under these circumstances the “‘good Spaniards” de- mand the imposition of a five per cent tax on | all real estate for a term of two years. Within | that time they are sanguine enough to believe | that the rebellion will come to an end; but | in this they are very likely to be disappointed, | unless, indeed, the war be brought to an end | by the recognition of Cuban independence. If the Spanish inhabitants of Cuba and the | government of Spain were wise enough to | consult their real interests and cast aside their | over-sensitive pride they would perceive the | | advantage of making terms with an insurrec- | | tion they cannot crush and accepting a solid compensation for the abandonment of an illu- | | sory dominion which can bring no benefit either to Spain or her people. | | | Tae Posito Sirvation 1n France remains hopeful for the cause of the conservative democracy and the Republic. The members of the Assembly Committee of Thirty are not influenced by any feeling of excitement or | haste in their consideration of the question of extending MacMahon’s term of power. On | the contrary, they appear desirous to treat it with all the attention which its importance demands. Monarchism, as a general princi- | ple, is losing its hold on the mind of the As- sembly, and Bonapartism has been handed over to the especial care of the Paris police. Tae Brazmiun Casre.—Queen Victoria and Emperor Dom Pedro have exchanged | congratulatory messages. This enterprise in | the direction of annihilating distance fills the mind with hope regarding the future. It gives fair promise of an era which shall know no war. Let us hope that our bright pros- pects will all become reality. Tue Synacusz Disasren.—The testimony given yesterday in the Coroner's inquest in regard to the cause of this frightful calamity bears heavily against the architect. Hero is an opportunity to teach building contractors to pay some regard to human life which the | jury in the case should not neglect. Tae Svez Canau Transir.—This subject is engaging a good deal of attention tn Eng- land. It is intimately connected with the | cognate matters of the route to India and the in- | fluence of British diplomacy in Egypt. France | is likely to recede from the position which Napoleon and Eugénie assumed in this direc- tion, and Mr. Bull is, consequently, about to | rearrange a coalition which will not be bene- | ficial to the interests of the French Republic | in the Orient. Axornern Horrmie Murver occurred last | evening in one of the huge caravansaries known as tenement houses, where the children | of poverty and toil are huddled together in a | manner as deleterious to morals as to health, | and where too often the miseries of their situa- | | tion are enhanced by the vilo potations taken | to gain a temporary relief. It presents fea- tures familiar enough—a husband returning from his labors to find his wife in a state of | maudlin drunkenness, with other wives, her neighbors, followed by recriminations, vio- lence and murder, Epvcation 1n tar Sovrn.—One of the best evidences of reconstruction in Virginia is found in the prosperity of her colleges. The | Washington and Lee University has had its commencement proceedings at Lexington, | Va., and from the report elsewhere printed it seems to have been an occasion of unusual interest. Degrees were conferred in various branches, and we note as an indication of the ; esteem in which the university is held that among the graduates are young men from every part of the country, from New York and Ohio, as well as from South Carolina and ‘Toxam | additional profit. The important question of the rights of pilots is one in which every citizen of New York is deeply interested. In tact, the posses sion of daring and skilful men, thoroughly acquainted with the navigation of our harbor, is necessary to our commercial supremacy. No one at all acquainted with the shbject will think we exaggerate when we declare the pilots to be one of the most useful and efficient bodies of public servants that we possess. Every attack made on them, every attempt made to diminish their efficiency is a blow aimed at the prosperity and commercial im- portance of our city. It is quite true that a small section of shipowners are desirous of doing away with compulsory pilotage. These men, to save the fees, would risk the loss of their ships and endanger the property and the lives of the passengers intrusted to their keep- | ing in order to secure a few hundred dollars This, at least, is the plea put forward; but as, unfortunately, gambling in sea risks is quite as unscrupulously fol- lowed by avaricious men as gambling in stocks, it is quite possible that other and less | worthy motives even may be the motive power in many minds. However, our duty is to look to the interest of the community, and it demands that the navigation of the harbor shall be rendered as safe as possible, and this can only be done by encouraging bold and skilful men to follow the arduous profession of pilots. Any attempt that may be made to legislate so useful a class of public servants out of the means of earning honestly their bread shall always meet with our most strenuous opposi- tion. We defend the pilots from principle, not from favor, because we consider them | useful public servants. We have received the following letter from their counsel, which we take great pleasure in publishing, because it proves that our efforts in their behalf have been appreciated: — New York, June 25, 1874. To THE EDITOR oF THE HERALD:— As counsel for the pilots in the suits recentl¢ won in the Court of Common Pleas, permit me to thank you for the able and Yours, in their behalf in your issue of to-day. Gavia: SLUNT. A Lire Insurance Hvssup.—The Oali- fornia Legislature during its last session passed a bill which has caused universal dis- satisfaction and commotion in life insurance circles throughout the United States, as far as that State is concerned. The cause of com- plaint is in obliging all outside companies, doing business in California, to appoint each a resident agent of the State, whose actions shall be binding on the companies. The latter have consequently withdrawn their business, on the sensible grounds that no company could incur the risk of committing its business interests into the hands of a single man, over whom, according to the law in question, it can exercise no control. Tue Coyriict BrerweeN CHURCH AND Srarz mv Grnmany is maintained with great animation by the leaders of the opposing forces, from Berlin to Fulda and thence to Munich and other centres of government and political caucus. The churchmen are very decisive in their expression, and the lay power is exceedingly incisive in its action, The present status caunot be maintained for any very lengthened period. PERSON, AL IN INTELLIGENCE, Gounod goes to’ Trouvilte. Anna Dickinson has not written a tragedy. Because his name is Eugene wiil they call aim priuce ? Murat Halstead is registered at the Brevooré House, Magne won’t budge from his opposition to the budget. Senator Carl Schurz, of Missouri, 13 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ketchum was canght at embezzlement and wilt be kept elsewhere. Senator John 8. flager, of California, is residing at the Hoffman House. Congressinan John A. Kasson, of Lowa, ts stay- ing at the Glenham Hotel. Congressman R. H. Duell, of Cortland, N. Y., ia stopping at the Astor House. The room that Cochrane and the liberals slept in at Buffalo was not a ballroom. Governor Pope Heunessy, of the Bahamas, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Hamiiton Russell, of the British Arm, s quartered at the Brevoort House. Chief Engineer J. W. King, United States Navy, has quarters at the Windsor Hotei. Buflalo Bill will presently give the city publio glimpses of frontier lite—on the stage. In Algeria a train was stopped by the locusta, Here this ofien happens to our citizens, Senator George Brown, of Canada, ts among the recent arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman Lyman K, Bass, of Buffalo, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Speaker James G. #latne and General B. F. Butler were in the city for a short time yesteraay, on their way East. Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, of the United States Supreme Court, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas lotel. Governor Charles R. Ingersoll and Judges San- ford and Beardsley, of Connecticut, are at the Windsor Hotel. The Chevalier Alphonse de Stuers, Chargé d'Af- faires of the Netherlands at Washington, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressmen Charlies Foster, Of Ohio, and Lorenzo Crounse, of Nebraska, nave apartments at the st. Nicholas Hotel, J. W. Webb says that man who nas the claim us | against the Brazilian government is ‘‘a scurvy [ele | low.’” So they evidently ‘fell out.” Dr. Charles F. Macdonald, General Superintend- ent of the Post OMce Money Order Bureau in Washington, is stopping at the Gilsey House. Ifa man is certain of the truth and the gulity person ts a parson, he will find it is a great satis- faction never to go hear him preach any more. Dawes does not care to go to the next Congress, but it would be wise in his constituents to prepare | to meet the storm that will rage by keeping tn Dawes. On att that the President and Mrs, Grant will re- turn to Washington jrom Kanawha in ten days and then visit Salt Lake City. They have been invited to visit Canada. There are compensations in life, and to hear that two police commissioners are perpetually disquait- fled from holding office is one of them. Let ua have more of this. In Washington they believe that the District Shepherd willyet flourish his little crook, Dennison and Biow, it is thouglit, will decline, and Shepher® Will be, thereopon, again nominated. / Madame Pauline Lucca arrived at the Metro- politan Hotel yesterday from Cleveland, where she has been taking part in the Saengerfest. She wilt | sail for Europe to-day in the steamship Mosel. Sir Edward Thornton, K.C.B,, Her British Majesty's Minister Extraordinary and Pienipoten- tiary, sails this afternoon by the Inman steamship City of Richmond for Europe, to be absent three months. The Worcester (Mass.) Gazette states, on “anim- Peachable authority,” thas Hon. George F. H has determined not to run for Congress oF other office next fall, it is known that Mr. Hoar strongly desired two years ago to return to the practice of bis profession, bat was overruled by him fends, A