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he ‘and were able to conduct pact body of small wits. Their best joke was p resolution to hold a State convention at Al- pany on the 9th of September. Tse Prourmrmontsts’ Nomration of ex- Governor Clark is a nice little farce that is hand- somely supplemented by Mr. Clark's acceptance pfthe nomination. It is very funny to see the pimless efforts of the advocates of temperance reform, though their sincerity may well be doubted when they turn from their proper work to make exhibitions of this kind. Governor Clark’s acceptance of this useless nomination can have no other purpose than to prevent a very respectable old gentleman from being entirely forgotten. aside AssIsTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.— Mr. Sawyer’s vacant office seems hard to fill; | ut we have arumor this morning that the place is to be given to Mr. George B. Mc- | Cartee, at present Superintendent of the Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing. The posi- tion is properly one of mere routine, and the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ought to be an officer practically acquainted with all the workings of the department. In this aspect of the case, which should be a control- ling consideration with Secretary Bristow, the appointment of Mr. McCartee would probably be as good a selection as cnn be made. Tae Steamer Epgar A. Srvart is to be released to the owner on furnishing bonds for her estimated value pending the trial of the libel case. The United States District Court at Baltimore has decided that this famous alleged filibusiering vessel belongs to F. W. Fishwick, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, he having acquired the title from Zimri Butcher, of New York. The libel case will not be tried till September. It appears so far that there was {little or no ground for a Should it turn out that the arrest and detention of the Edgar Stuart was a spiteful proceeding of the Span- ish agents without any foundation for it, who is to pay the damage to the owner? Tar War De the position it has long held in regard to the ARTMENT will not recede from powers of the General of the Army. This is to be regretted, because, after all, the only thing really demanded by Gencral Sherman is that he shall not be ignored in conducting the business of the war establishment. In his letter to General Sherman Secretary Belknap seems partially to concede this, when he says that no important changes shall be made in the movement of troops without the consent of the Department ; but that it is in reality no concession at all is apparent from the dec- laratign that the previous practice of the War Dilice is to be adhered to. If, Secretary ceases to ignore the General by no longer giving instructions to subordinate offi however, the cers without Sherman's knowledge, ot least the point of honor will be saved to the dis tinguished soldier, who now only nominally commands the army. Heretofore the Secre tary of War has performed all the functions n-Chief, and if he chose he ig neral of the Army altogether, If his letter means anything it means that here- Sherman will issue the orders ct to the approval of the of Genera red the ifter General for th department urmy suk But we are tary Belknap’s letter means this much, or, in- decd, that it means anythipg. their business with all the secrecy of a com- | not sure that Seere- | n UI, pathy to Spain, secure in of the wild, imacces Discay and Navarre, his fol- prring a turbulent, nomadic, adven- | enterprise, to the more settled forms of gov- ernment, and accepting with more than ultramontane fidelity the authority of the | Catholic Church, Don Carlos has really continued armed operations in the North—for effect in Rome ang London, H trade which still existed, and other present peers ey aos A ie arate dlseye - —~ | Viewed 23 war there was never a w war than that which ‘animates his campaign. Not a Spaniard | by birth, not even a descendant of a | Spaniard, without a drop of Spanish blood in | his veins, never even in Spain until he crossed | the Pyrenees a few months since with his priests and his troopers, Don Carlos is only anadventurer who succeeds in producing a perpetual civil war in the hope that he may seize the crown. jon and causeless more | moyed it were | joncha, who repre- | gear elements that have | whose success will post- e Republic without destroying nnd who, in checking the just hecessary revolution which came when Hadeus ran away from the throne, have only made possible another, which, generated by centuries of misgovernment, superstition and crime, may be darker and more terrible than that revolution in France which began with the Bastile, and, because of the Serraros and | Sagastas of the day, only ended in the Reign rous life, with opportunities for plunder and | of Terror and the baptism of the Loire. Summer Travet to Evrorg.—In the early part of this spring il seemed as if the summer exodus to Europe was to be small beyond any comparison with previous years. The panic which had just preceded, the dulness of x facts justified the fear The warm summer days have revived the passion for the ocean | | voyage, and the reduced fures have periitted | across the Atlantic has marvellously grown in | Ignoring the spirit and the | duties of the age, going back to the time of | Louis XI, and assuming the long-forgotten and despised legend of Divine Right, this | many are able to indulge the desire shows | many of our people to decide between the trip to Europe and a sojourn at Long Branch, Saratoga and other such places. The trip favor, and the crowds which are leaving on Tuesday and Wednesday and Saturday give abundant proof that our people have acquired in some way a strong desire to visit the famous scenes of the Old World. That s0 | that the suffering by the panic was not so | prince has claimed the privilege of occupying some of the fairest prov- | inces of Spain, to lay in waste, ravage | | and destroy, to sacrifice life, industry and wealth, to keep the country in an endless turmoil—ignorant peasants cutting the throats and burning the houses of other peasants, merely that he shall ascend a throne which his ancestors usurped and be the absolute master of Spain. T! is all that we see in the moral aspect of Carlism. It is the eleventh century fighting for recognition in the nine- teenth, absolutism against liberty, the inqui- sition against the free press. All the support the cause has received has been from the Papacy, which is in rather a desperate mood at present and disposed to welcome any ally, and the legitimists of all countries, who will never feel that peace has returned to Europe until the french Revolution has been atoned, and unti] serfdom reigns in Russia, the an- cient régime in France and the old German Diet in Prussia. So we dismiss the Carlist war as another phase of a local, angry strife which has lasted for more than forty years and which would break out in armed opposition to the necessary conservatism of any government, even if Don | Carlos v truth ther re on the throne. Yetin logic and Carlists and the republicans. Everything else is an intrigue, and because it is an intrigue we see the active men in Spain, like Serrano and Si who are intriguers, opposing the Corlists and the republicans. If kings reign by the grace God, if we are to really have the eleventh century back again with the feudal legends which are still rife in Biscay and underlie the devotion of the Basques to the Carlist cause, then this sombre, gloomy young man should be King of Spain. Between his cause and the Republic is that , debatable land which Spanish state men occupy with their ambitions and the of wid plots. There is scaréely « fixed institution that is not corrupt, atid no country in Europe has so many fixed institution For centuries the Spaniard has been the most loyal subject in Eurcpe—loyal © prince, church and country, with unquestioning valor and fanaticism. Cons quently there has grown up in Spain a | ing, murdering and thieving raids. | government. re but two parties in Spain, the | | tablishment | last few years it will be well for France. | continued prosperity is impossible. | shot down the opposing lawyer ina most o church, an army, an aristocracy and a court | more deeply rooted than in any other Euro- pean nation. In no country have we seen such loyalty as the Spaniard has given to the person and the prerogatives of the monarch. | The Church ia’Sbain has ruled with absolate sever: as some are disposed to regard it. Ovx Inpran Proreces are uneasy, and, true to their traditional policy, think that the sea- son is propitious for their accustomed scalp- The bounty of the government has enabled the noble red man to get safely over the last win. ter, when so many hundred families in New York were brought to the verge of starvation without costing Uncle Sam even a thought. Now the dusky cutthroats begin to assert their rights, and the telegraph assures us that a general uneasiness exists among the tribes on the frontier. Occasional reports are given of raids on defenceless settlers by the pets of the The only remedy against such annual atrocities is to give our boys in blue on the frontier plenary powers, and to keep a strong force always at General Sheridan's dis- posal. The arguments in favor of civilizing the Indians, when caught red-handed in the act of murder, are about as logical as those of Mr. Bergh in favor of rabid dogs and amnesty to all animals. another column a letter of remarkable inter- est on the political and social condition of France. The state of parties is cleverly stated, There seems some reason to hope that the divisions between the monarchical parties will result in the permanent of the Republic. If this the ultimate result of and antagonisms of the The Republic means peace, and peace prosperity. The Empire pretended to mean peace, but it was only a hollow trace. No government which does not rest on the affections of the people can give those social and political guarantees at home and abroad without which If the French people have learned this lesson their 3 of the past few years have er in vain. = =, Aw Assasstn tx Court.—During the proceed- ings in the Yonkers Court House, growing out of a family feud, one of the parties to the snit es should be the conflicts bitter experienc! not been alto; we ardly manner. The would-be murderer fired twice on his victim, and, satisfied that he had dospatched his enemy, coolly surrendered him- self to the authorities. Considerable excite- ment exists in the quiet town of Yonkers, where the wounded lawyer is well known and universally estecmed | raising a ery for local self-government? SDAY, JULY 1, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, | + | Local Self-Government as a Party The framers of the platform adopted by recent Democratic State Conventions have ene | ©vineed no great sagacity in presenting local self-government as a leading political issue. The democratic party can succeed only by enlisting voters who have hitherto acted with the Tepublicans, and there is no evidence that Publicans are dissatisfied with their party lor its failure to recognize local rights. ‘There Srievance which local self-government would remedy, and Americans are too practical a People to change their politics on a mere the- es abstraction. The things which most hata Ais reform are admitted by demo- eos bet within the proper ‘scope of federal Aaa The great question of the cur- og Tkele ample, has not assumed, and is Yto assume the form of a contest eg gs, regulation and federal regula- Stididad democrats in Congress have not Se fora restoration of the old system thi tes a8 they must logically have ~ o°Y attaghed any great importance to [Principle of toc However it With a few individual demo- country at large is not Somplain of Congress for un- to Tegulate the currency, but only Meompetency in a business which Jed to be within the scope of its al regulation. the islatures Would manage the currency 4 Gre is_no good reason to sup- the Legislatures of the Western and States would show more wisdom on Congress, and if Congress should re- turrency to local control the probable pnee would be a great crop of ‘wild. ks in the West and South. Itis ho grievance to be saved from such a local self-government. The democratie ould be disastrously beaten if it should g local control of the currency as its issue. What the country demands on ject is not that the power of Congress iled, but that it be more wisely ex- Aswarm of ‘‘wild-cat’’ banks in the established by local authority, would recated by sound public opinion. t, then, is the sphere within which the Bdracy demand a reinvigoration of local ? Not in tariff legislation, most ly; for nobody disputes that the rates of dpties on imports should be adjusted by @ongress and not by the States. | When the democracy put forward local | here not a third of it. self-government us a leadiug political issue they are bound to show a list of practical | St present no deeply felt specific public | Nobody believes that thirty-seven | the next Presidential election pro- | Young New York on the Harlem. All cities should have ample playgrounds, where tired and flagging energies could be renewed at will and boy and man be made fit anew for their work. Among a people like ours, overflowing with nervous energy, this holds especially good. The early closing movement on Saturday afternoon is 9 step in the right direction. But if we want to | become robust and retain our vigor to a ripe old age we ought to have more holidays than now. All New York should turn out, not as | part do now, at three, but at twelve o'clock, 4 on Saturdays, and then there would be time | for a good game of ball or cricket, a credita- | ble walk or a long row, or whatever else one preferred, to take his mind from the long | strain of the whole week's labor and excite- | ment. All work and no play was long ago | found @ poor rule, and masters as well as | servants would soon find that better work and \ quite as much of it would be done under the new plan. Central and Jerome parks, the | ball grounds, the bay and the road, all offer their attractions to whoever will come and partake, and we are glad to note that many | more are coming than formerly. But there is | still abundant room, and we hope to soon see it improved. Perhaps nowhere can young New York be | better seem of an afternoon than on the | Harlem River, Take o Peck slip boat or a train or horse car up at any time after three, and you will fiud a busy, act- ‘ive scene that it will be hard to leave. Boat houses all along the bank ; boats every- where; punts, wherries. and single scull shells ; pair oars, fours, barges, gigs and ject than their Senators and Represen- | Whitehalls ; sloops and steamers flitting here ! j and there ; old men rowing, their daughters, too; racing crews and ‘“duffers” who hardly know which end of the oar to: take hold of. | And bank clerks and shopmen aye at last get- | ting backs and legs worth having. Swim- ming also is fast growing popular, and the rower mnust have a care, else, before he is aware, he will ran down a head just above | water far out from shore. The large enclos- | ure on the Westchester side will also bear ex- | amination, for here are the grounds of the New York Athletic Club, and often one may see good racing. strikes in hard by, and the gay turnouts and | fast teams add to the life of the scene. Macomb’s Dam and the High Bridge are | rapidly becoming as well known as Hammer- | smith or Barnes above Putney, on the Thames, {and in many ways the Harlem course | excels that of the English river. There | the tide rises and falls eighteen fect, The banks of the Thames between Putney Bridge and the Ship Tavern, at Mortlake, are low and often far Broad Seventh avenue | S$. \whole year? By this means many lives would be saved, . The Virginius Case, The sction of the British government in demandimg reparation for the slaughter of some of its subjects at Santiago de Cuba has forced the Washington government to insist on the payment of some indemnity to the families of the murdered Americans. It is little flattering to American national pride that the reparation which is due to us should have to be demanded by a foreign government. The Virginius, at the time of her illegal cap- ture, was under the American flag, and the subjects of Great Britain who were sailing under it were a8 much entitled to protection as our own citizens. But the milk and water diplomacy which is just now in favor at Washington does not suit the temper of the British government. The aafety of tne British citizen is above all other con- siderations in the eyes of British Min- isters, and as the United States failed to secure the full and prompt reparation which Great Britain would have demanded and insisted on receiving the British authori- ties have taken the interests of their citizens into their own hands. Under these circum- stances our government has been compelled to renew those applications for redress which were so contenfptuously disregarded on @ former occasion, If the authorities at Madrid were certain that a refusal to comply with our just demands for repara- tion would be followed by a recognition of Cuban belligerency the applications, prayers and humble petitions of our representatives would receive more respectful attention. The conduct of the Virginius case brought American diplomacy especially into con- tempt, and if something can be done even now to make Spain understand that we dao not mean to submii, without protest, to out- rages on our flag it will improve our standing in the eyes of foreign nations. Mr. Fish ap- pears to have contemplated insisting on the payment of an indemnity to the families of the men shot to death at Santiago; but until the demand of the British government had been vigorously made at Madrid no steps appear to have been taken to force the Madrid govern- ment to take actionin the matter. Now, how- ever; that the State Departmant has been roused to a sense of its duty we hope the question of indemnity will be urged on the Spanish gov- ernment in 9 manner that will convince it of the danger of overstraining the exemplary patience our government has exhibited under great provocations. Ir Is Rumonep TuatT Mayor HavemeYer in. tends to reappoint the two Police Commis- sioners who pretended to resign the offices evils, or at least some one existing practical | from attractive, those of the Harlem | from which they had been removed by the evil, which the application of their principle | are in places really beautiful. That | gction of the law consequent upon their con- would redress. The only thiug of much con- | course is a public highway, lighters | yiction for misdemcanor. We hope that if sequence to which they can point is the im- | position of negro suffrage upon the South. | But they dare not go before the country with | the repeal of negro suffrage as » party issue. It would be political suicide to array the party | ayainst the Fifteenth amendment, and since | they acquiesce in the permanence of negro sulfrage what can they expect to gain by The South itself would prefer military rule by federal authority to such self-government as i xists in the States where there is a large and river craft forever passing and re- passing. The Harlem is given up almost entirely to aquatic sports, large vessels sel- dom intérfering. In the matter of picnic- ing in a sensible and economical way we are far behind our friends across the water. Many pretty spots up the Hurlem would make charm- ing camping ground for a sunny afternoon, and the father could hardly do his family a bet- ter turn than, with well laden basket, to take them there. The river is safe and well shel- tered, and often extremely gay. When the Mayor has entertained any such intention he will be restrained from carrying it out by yespect for his own good name. The re- appointment to office of the convicted Com. missioners would be an outrage on the good sense of the community. It is the duty of the chiet magistrate to show an example of respect for the law. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. pee. Raskin has refused some-hing else, Gordon was at Gondokoro April 15. negro vote. They have local self-government | rapid transit can be made from down town it 4 Taek ictal Cote in South Carolina, and it is their worst afflic- | will not be at all odd if, instead of one bank jaa Young, o! Fiortda, is at the man tion. There has been a recent experiment of | of this pretty stream being dotted with con- Cambridge University higher examinations have local self-government in the District of Co- | lunbia, aud the scandalous result is too fresh \ in the public recollection to make the country } very much in love with the principle. There is local self-government in Philadelphia, which | is ruled by as corrupt a ring as that which has been recently overthrown in Washington, | Mayor Havemeyer and his convicted Police Commissioners do not shed a _ yery | attractive lustre on local self-government in New York. We need honest government ; we | need wise legislation; but honesty and wis- | dom are alike wanting at the national capital, in the State Legislatures and in the muni- j cipal governments. Until the local govern- | ments are shown to be purer and better than | the federal the country will not be persuaded to seck relief by jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire. Until the party which mukes local self-government one of its chief issues can lay its finger on some practical grievance which the application of that principle would remedy it can gain no republican recruits by presenting so empty and barren an issue. The only practical thing which the demo- cratic party can ask Congress to do in the interest of local self-government is to repeal | overthrown and some form of venient boathouses, they will line its banks everywhere, and, indeed, commodious sheds, with numerous craft constantly to let, would hardly tail, even now, to be remunerative. Nor if General Newtons plan of making the harbor navigable is soon carried out can it interfere much with this hearty outdoor lite, and New York may well be glad that she has at her back door so pretty and inviting a river as the quiet, gentle Harlem. Cuba—A Sign of Progress. The reactionists in Cuba seem to be grad- ually bending before the inevitable march of events. For the first time the Spanish flag divested of the cmblem of royalty was yester- day hoisted over the palace of the Captain General. It may appear a very small matter whether or not a certain piece of bunting carries @ crown, but with the Spanish people small points of etiquette have more significance than with us. As long as there seemed a chance that the Republic could be monarchy erected in its stead so long the Spaniards in Cuba stubbornly held on to the flag with the crown, even when it had ceased to be the flag of the nation. If they have now consented to commenced. Archduke Rodolphe will spend some time at Miramar this summer. Dio Lewis ts out again. He maintains that when it rains the weather is wet. It 1s dreadfully hinted from Berlin that Banoroft has lately worked on his history. Chancellor Jonn V. L. Pruyn arrived from Albany yesterday at the Brevoort House. General George B. Wright, of Columbus, Ohio, ts stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), of Hartford, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. J. D, Lang, of the Indian Peage Commission, has arrived at the Hotel Brunswick. Congressman John R, Lytch, of Mississippl, te registered at the Westmoreland Hotel. Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, is quartered at the Westminster Hotel. Naval Constructor Isaiah Hanscom, United States Navy, has quarters at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Colouel Joseph H. Potter, United States Army, is sojourning at the Hoffman House. Colonel E. Bliss and Captain E. Neave, of the British Army, have apartments at the Grana Cen- tral Hotel. Kate Blanchard, the actress, who formerly rode as Mazeppa, now “rules the roast” as cook in @ Chicago hotel. Colonel Thomas A. Scott, President of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company, is residing at the Windsor Hotel. Phylloxera was cured in the Camargue by the deposit of sand around the roots of the plant, by the federal Election law. But as that law the hoisting Y of the purely republican the action of the River Ruone. only applies to the large cities the mass of banner it is because they recognize | arrer all, and as a final result up to thts time of the people care little about it, and voters who that the restoration of any form of | that votting business between Grant and Butler, have hitherto acted with the republican party monarchy has become almost impos- | which is the worst bottled party % will not dissolve old ties for what they would ible in Spain. We are pleased to notice André Cherbuliez, of Geneva, died on the 12th. He was of what ts called in that town the “Cher- deem so slight a reason. If the federal Elec- | tis power of appreciating events, because it * . buliez dynasty’'—a tamily of publishers. tion law were really regarded as an important | {Yes promise that, sooner or later, they will The phrase “Not sor Joe” appears to be invent @ grievance the States could easily redress it by separating the election of local officers | from that of members of Congress. States have an unquestioned right to fix any day they please for the election of their local | officers and thereby prevent federal intrusion in the choice of State and municipal fune- tionaries. Congress has an unquestionable right, conferred on it by the constitution, to regulate the election of its own members, and if the exercise of this right interferes with the freedom of local elections the States have a | perfect remedy in ther own hands by simply assigning a different day for the choice of | their own officers. The fact that no State has avatied itself of this easy, obvious remedy is a pretty cofitlusive proof that the people | attach but slight importance to the federal Election law. And party can point out no other practical grievance for which the principle of local self-government would be a remedy the common sense of the as the democratic The | 3 in their ability to suppress the insurrection, | sce how foolish it is to continue to hold Cuba avoinst the wishes of the Cuban people. Six re of war must have modified their belief aud ought to bave convinced them that the only possible issue to the present struggle in- | s the entire separation of the island from Spain. The struggle may be continued until Cuba becomes a second St. Domingo, but it is lt to see what benefit can accrue to Spain from a war a Voutrance. On the contrary, the recognition of the independence of Cuba would secure the property of the Spaniards at present on the island and would give Spain a hundred millions of dollars to fill her depleted Can we hope that the ‘good Spaniards’ will recognize these facts before it is too late? vo dit treasi Tux Doas,—The absorbing question of the hour is how to avoid hydrophobia. of the roaming eurs that amuse themselves by tasting tle citizens’ legs. by Potiphar’s wife. It occurs several times in the collection of her letters secured by Bayard Taylor. “Tortured Tilton drags the skeleton from the closet to rattle its rotten bones at the door of Ply- mouth church.” This ts the way they see it at St. | Louis, No one | seems to be perfectly free from apprehension | There is a general | kochefort intended to resume the publication of La Lanterne at Rotterdam July 1, as appears by his despateh trom New York to the Republican Union at Paris. The Berlin National Zeitung doubts the report that Emperor William in hts fondness for Curagao wisties to “gobble up” the island of that name in the Dutch West Indies. Bismarck proposed to William to make the Ger- ; man “Archeological Correspondence Society” at Rome an imperial institution, and William, by re- script of June 18, has assented. Ballerini, a Jesuit priest, was recently sentenced at Milan to three months’ imprisonment and finea 2,001, He satirized Victor Emmanuel in @ romauce entiticd “Julio; or, The Hunter of the Alps."” Belinymer was iying on the hurricane deck with handcutfs on—going up Red River—when a little girl ‘eli overboard, Bellhymer jumped in and rea cued her notwithstanding his handcuffs. He was probably brought up in them. Cham, in Charivari, represents universal suf. country will not go with them in making this ¢ : A | hom dissecting i J ce esire to be f the tion, frage asagiant on the table wi a prominent issue in the ensuing elections. | desire to be rid of the canine population, and | Deputies arv preparing to cut up, but the giant in- The really strong grouad of the opposition is | even Mr. Bergh feels called upon to declare | Getnitely postpones the ceremony by forcible dem the monstrous corruption and abuses which | that he simply wishes curs to be killed with onstravions of lingering vitality. have crept into the government in the exer- | decency. In the meantime the dogs are | pr. Gould, who went to the Argentine ago cise of its ordinary powers. | taking thoir revenge, and while the bipeds are | a8 a national astronomer, “saw rel tude oo discussing the best way of getting rid of their ; amazing haps Py nih an “oni estas Bocwniret, Osirk aio), st Pee re canines are actively engaged | young eyed. oberabim.? What a troupe for @ country come glowing accounts of the ad- | biting whenever they get a fair opportunity. | promenade concert! vanced state of cereals, fruits and roots of all | In view of the insufiiciency of the | enemies th John Hangon, a blacksmith, “purchased the kinds, Even Louisiana, that has suffered so | arrangements to remove vagabond dogs to | SNORE” OF 8 a Oe Ore Lae Masbate veverely from flood and famine, as wili be seen | the happy hunting ground might it not be | teen of pe on wages for the laboring men, from @ reference to our news columns to-day, | well to establish such ordinances a6 would | queer things they do with their spare change expeots to harvest a larger rice and sugar crop | effectually root out the vagabond canine tribe | when they haven't been much wed io having apy than was gathered last year- by keeping its provisions in torce during the | to spare y