The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD Sak hah BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. a er JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX.. ‘SEUM, et—THE SCOUTS OF at 2 P. M.- closes at 4:30 P.M. Same at 8 salvo P.M. Buifaie Bill 2ONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, EN DWARFS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—1V AN- HO®; O4, THE Jb Wi>s, ats P.M. ; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. JosepB Wheelock and Miss lone Burke. THEATRE CoOMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—SAVED FROM THE WRECK; 01 FOMAN'S WILL, ‘at 8 P. M.; cloves at 10:30 P.M. "J. tile. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. Fifty-nintn street and Seventh avenue.—THOMAS’ CON- CBRT, at8 P.M. ; closes ULOLOSSEU Broadway, corner ot Th rty-tfif NIGHT, at 1 2. M.; closes at 5 P. closes at 10 P.M. HIPPODROME, | Madison wenty-sixth street. GRAND PAGBANT—CONGRS9S OF NATIONS, at 1:3) P.M. and TRIPLE SHEET. | New York, Thursday, July 2, 1874. From our reports this mo rnung the probabilities ave that the weather to-day wil be partly cloudy, awilh local rains. Mr. Bancrort, on his departure from Ber- is leaded with compliments and with a size portrait of the Eraperor. Don Axronso, says the cable, was wounded $n tho arm in a recent engagement. The eable omits tosay whatarm. We trust it was the loft, so as to leave Don Alfonso still able ‘vo use his sword and run the risk of getting nvounded again. Goveayorn Drx is now spoken of by the ocrats with high favor. Would it be sin- gular if his prompt and straightforward action in the matter of the convicted Police Commissioners should make him the demo- ‘cratic nominee for Governor in November? \ Orvicern Joun Suaw, of the Twentieth pre- cinct, was yesterday held in two thousand five hundred dollars bail for trial on the charge of having robbed James McKenna «. two thousand dollars. Cases of this kind ure just now of too frequent occurrence. “c Is Reporrep THat THE CaRLIsTs massa- ered ail the wounded who fell into their at the battle of Muro, An accidental | id to have furnished a pretext for the | butchery. Well, probably Spaniards will be | Spaniards, whether called Carlists or volun- | teers, A Dismissep Parent Ovrice Cueng in | ‘Washington named Brain became insane on | learning of his removal. He fixed a bayonet | on the head of a broomstick, arrayed himself in the lightest possible summer clothing and von loose through the offices. His brain was | - vidently affected. Mayor Havemrren’s Puan for the Police Commissioners’ case was to have appointed | Gardner in place of Charlick and Charlick in place of Gardner. Then Charlick was to | have resigned and his place was to be given | to Mr. Sidney De Kay. But the latter gen- tleman is understood to have refused the plum, and the Goveruor's letter has stopped | the “little game.”’ | a 8 aaa | Taz Wxore ‘“Rerorm’ Pack is howling | because the determined stand taken by Mr. | Vance and Mr. Wheeler in the Board of Ap- | portionment has secured a saving to the tax- | payers by enforcing economy on the city de- | partments. The explanation for the howl is | by the Governor. But it would have been | Knickerbockers, after the fashion of the | The profound opinions of learned lawyers ~ | forfeiture not a forfeiture, take a somewhat a The Convicted Police Commissioners end Governor Dix—Enforcement of the Penalty of the Law. In accordance with the requirements of the law Governor Dix yesterday addressed to Mayor Havemeyer an official notification of the vacancies existing in the Police Commis- sion through the conviction of ex-Commission- ers Charlick and Gardner of a misdemeanor, involving a violation of their oath of office. The brief, pointed and business-like letter of the Governor will of course put a stop to all the wise opinions and predictions with which the people have been surfeited ever since the jury brought in their just verdict against the indicted officials, ‘Oliver Charlick and Hugh Gardner,” writes Governor Dix, ‘‘Com- missioners of the Police Department of the city of New York, having been convicted, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the city and county of New York, of a misdemeanor involving a violaticn of their oath of office respectively, and notic: of such conviction | having been this day received by me, now, in title 6, chapter 5 of part 1 of the Revised Statutes, Ido hereby give you notice of the vacancies created by such conviction, in order that the same may be filled according to law.”’ This concise statement brings us back in an instant from flights of fancy and lands us safely upon the solid ground of fact. who have been arguing that a man who breaks the law he is sworn to obey and to faithfully carry out does not violate his oath of office, that a misdemeanor is not a misde- meanor, a conviction not a conviction and a | farcical appearance in the light of the Gov- ernor’s recital of the law. We shall probably | hear no more of Mr. Gardner's determination | to call the Police Board together and act as its President if a necessity for a meeting accordance with the requirements of article 6, | therefore, as clearly incurred the penalty im- posed by the charter as the penalty imposed by the Revised Statutes, and are excluded from holding any office whatever under the city government. The quibbles of the lawyers and politicians will be os ineffective in changing this factas they have been in the attempt to prove that men who violate a law they are sworn to obey do not break their oath of office. We have already expressed the hope that the successful prosecution of this case may lead to the indictment and conviction of other public officers who have grossly and wilfully violated the law. The disgraceful spectacle vigilant and active in causing the ordinances of the city and laws of the State to be exe- cuted and enforced’ not only overlooking violations of law on the part of: his subordi- nates in the city government, but seeking by trickery and subterfuge to cheat the public and cover ap the most outrageous cases of official malfeasance. For the eredit and honor of the city, as well as for the protection of the taxpayers, this scandal should be brought to a close. The acts of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction have been in ao number of instances clearly in violation of law. Leaving out of sight for the moment the fraudulent character of some of the bills rendered by that depart- ment for supplies purchased for the city; the dry goods, raised from thirty to forty per cent | above their honest market price; the flour charged to the city at an advance of two or three dollars a barrel above its regular quota- tion; the enormous amount of bread, meat, &c., alleged to be consumed by the inmates of the institutions for charity and correction; the horse purchases, coal, milk, feed and other articles, almost all of which are of question- able character; the plain fact that sup- plies have been purchased in sums should arise, or of the use that is to be made [of Mr. Charlick’s wealth to ‘make a big prohibited by the law, without bids and contract, is undoenied and undeniable. 9 Vixens b : te is now presented of a Mayor sworn ‘‘to be | mare Virginie 5 2pnt, beeen and | term discussion has passed beyond the fight” in order to ‘maintain a principle’ and | The Mayor, faving these facts in his | hold on to the Police Commission. Neither | Ps8ession, fails in the duties he is sworn to shall we bo likely to be longer kept in expec- | ee when eee bedi them tation ofa new surprise from Mayor Have- | ®™ remove’ the ‘unfaithful ‘officers. He | meyer—at least, so far as relates to the pre- adds to the offence of which he is guilty when | dicted attempt to put back the two unfaithful be imposes a fraudulent investigation on the | officials into the offices from which the law rans lag aay he a eae is ae | has removed them. The famous ‘‘resigna- | ®2¢ concealing the legal ac subor- | tions’ by Messrs. Charlick and Gardner oie | dinates, for by this act he becomes & particeps | positions they did not hold will perhaps | °"inis in the original violation of law. The be now returned to them by the Mayor as | Promptness with which Governor Dix has superfluous documents. We may, no doubt, | performed his share in the unpleasant duties expect a continuance of the wailings and rail- | Ll Sal i bee te Jt 4 ings of the disappointed “reform” politicians, | : : : | whose representatives have met with such an | People in an attempt to get rid of other faith- | unfortunate reverse; but these the people will | less_ officers, and to save the city from the be willing to endure, satisfied with the fact that | eer by which br Tae Lr a. | the letter of Governor Dix has cleared away | +2° Commissioners arities an orrec- the mist in which the Police leis mail tion should be the next brought to account, case has been enveloped and rendered it cer- | and it will be singular if the investigation of | It was the first step in a conspiracy to cheat | tain that the penalty imposed by the law will | be enforced. | While no reasonable doubt can have existed | as to the action of the Governor the people | will thank him for the promptness with which | that action has been taken. His notification to the Mayor was issued the same day he re- ceived the official certification of the convic- tion. In this Governor Dix has answered | public expectation and has happily checked | and rebuked a too evident disposition to | evade the law. He has, indeed, read the | Mayor a lesson which that official will do well | to study with care. The pretended resigna- tion of the convicted Commissioners was the result of a caucus and of an understanding between the guilty officials and the Mayor. | the law. If the action of the Governor had ! been delayed Messrs. Charlick and Gardner | would, in all probability, have been renomi- nated, and would have attempted to hold on to the offices they have forfeited. To be sure, such conspiracy could not in the end have | been successful; tor if the act of the Mayor | would not have amounted to a contempt of | court it must at least have subjected him to indictment, and would probably have occa- | sioned bis suspension and ultimate removal their case doos not involve other public offi- | cers and cast down the whole fabric of incom- petency and dishonesty known as the ‘‘reform” city government. The Comet Coggia. As the wonderful phenomenon discovered | by the Marseilles astronomers is now rapidly | approaching the earth we shall soon have the privilege of ascertaining the dimensions of the fiery tail, We shall soon be able to solve the problem of how near this heavenly visitor will come to us, whose kind | was the terror of the ancients and an object of special attention to those prophetic spirits who saw in the flashing tail and the almost incalculable speed of traversing space | all that was terrible for mankind and | all that was wrathful in the Creator. We may by careful calculation within the next | few days ascertain if this little terrestrial ball | of ours is to pass through the trailing append- age and give us a foretaste of the penalty that | is in store for sinful men. “His- | tory repeats itself,’’ we are often reminded, and why should we not | have a repetition of astronomical as well as political history. Imagine, tor instance, our venerable Mayor from the land of the to be found in the fact that the Comptroller's | Calculated to more thoroughly demoralize the | Emperor Charles V., calling together the mu- reduced appropriation will cut off the per- | Police Department, and would have been a | nicipal wisdom of our reformed city at the quisites of Bohemians who do the Finance | ™0St hazardous experiment, so far as the pub- | City Hall and relating with almost breath- Department service fora consideration. | lic safety is concerned. The present Com- | less anxiety and tearful eye that he recognized | missioners, Mr. Disbecker and General Dur- | the appearance of the comet as a warn- Wuat Wovrp tHe Wort vo for rumors if | yee, would not, it is believed, have recogmzed ing that he should lay down the sceptre Spain should be blotted from the map of na- | the authority of their convicted associates, | Which he has wielded for the past few cen- tions? Among the latest are one that Mar- | and would probably have refused to allow | turies. Imagine how the master intellects shal Concha was killed at the instance of | Serrano because he was an Alfonsist, and | them to pertorm an official act. The force, composed largely of the appointees of the late of finance and fancy architecture would reel | when the embraces of the Mayor reminded another that his death was to aid the efforts | President and Treasurer, would have been | them that henceforth the comet would connect of Germany against the restoration of o | dynasty attached to the Pope. These ramors come by cable, andas cable despatches are expensive we suppose, as we pay our money, | we are at liberty to take our choice, | Tue Sreamer Farapay.—A short despatch | from Halifax announces the sad intelligence | that the cable steamer Faraday recently came in contact with an iceberg off that place and is @ total wreck. No details are given, and the injury to the vessel may be exaggerated. The Faraday had contributed largely to the success of ocean telegraphy, and her loss at this time, when the enterprise being con- ducted through her was about approaching a prosperous conclusion, will be severely felt. | Sm Honprep Wewt-Fep Treasury Bopres now lie in Washington minus six hundred off- | cial heads. The work of decapitation in the department continued yesterday, and the trem- bling employés sat in terror all day, as the executioner called off the list of the con- demned, after the fashion of the French Revo- lution. Seventy-five victims perished yester- day, mostly males, and yet the official guillo- tine is said to be unsatisfied, and the terrible blade is expected to be sharpened to-night for to-morrow’s grim and sanguinary work. Other public departments are suffering, but not so heavily as the Treasury. Hypropnosra.—All that story of Dr. Ham- | soond, Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Cross and Mr. Tason's brindle bull terrier reads wonderfully ike a chapter in ‘Rabelais.’ No doubt Me- Oormick was bitten by the dog Prince and is dead, and the dog is now alive and well; but hat then? Was McCormick bitten by any rdog? He said that he had been bitten by a poodle dog ina butcher shop, which dog had subsequently been taken to the pound. He may have known, With all deference to jour Pantagruelian investigators we venture to jLelieve that if a man has been bitten by two dogs it will be sufficient for his case if ouly fone bas tue hydrophobia, - , « | would have ended. All this evil the Governor | very likely to take sides in such a quarrel, | and it is difficult to tell where the trouble | has happily averted. There does not now re- main a single pretence under the cover of which Messrs. Charlick and Gardner can re- tain or regain any position in the Police Board. They have been convicted, says the Governor, of a violation of their oath of office, and their conviction removed them ipso facto the instant the verdict of guilty was rendered. The law which declares they shall forfeit their offices for the offence they have committed prohibits their reappointment, for then there would be no forfeiture at all. The Mayor, the appointing power, is officially in- formed of the existence of the vacancies in | order that he may proceed to fill them | | “according to law.” It would be a danger- | | Ous experiment—hazardous to his own official | | life—it he should attempt to fill them in defi- | | ance and in violation of law. | Another feature of the ease is brought into | prominence by the Governor's letter. The | Commissioners were doubly removed from office, first, by the provision of the Revised Statutes and next by the provision of the | present city charter, and that under the latter they are disqualified from Treeeiving or hold- ing any office under the city government. The charter, in section 95, declares that ‘any officer of the city government, or | person employed in its service, who shall | wilfully violate or evade any of the provisions | ofthisact * * * shall be deemed guilty | of a misdemeanor, and in addition to the pen- alties imposed by law, and on conviction, shall forfeit his office and be excluded forever after from receiving or holding any cffice under the city government.’’ No person will deny that one of the most important provisions of the charter is to require the faithful per- formance of his duties and the observance of | his oath of office by an officer of the city gov- | ernm nb. The convicted Commissioners have. the past and the present by notches in its tail, and that the occupation of the first Dutch emigrant to Manhattan Island had gone forever. Asa grand finale to the career of our municipal ancient he might found a college wherein should be collected the events of the forty centuries of his existence, which he might dedicate to the most mighty and potent Coggia to appease offended maj- esty. And then he might build half a dozen churches, each with a bell tower, so that, Marguerite-like, he might ascend to the long- tailed monster amid the mournful clang- ing of bells. Again, we can imagine the humane Bergh suddenly arriving at the conclusion that it is simply this confounded comet that is driving our most confiding canine friends mad,.and behold him as he stands at Marriott's pound, with a Snarleyow under each arm, repaating the ‘God bless you’’ of the sixth century as an exorcism against the devil in the dogs. We might draw other comparisons for the considera- tion of those who will probably watch | Henaxp has insisted that the convicted Police | the monster this evening, whose bolides might send down death and destruction, but we place before our readers elsewhere this morn- ing some astronomical statements that will in all probability prove quite as interesting. Tue Amentcan PuGrimace.—The American pilgrims who visited Rome separated just previous to the date of the special correspond- ence from the Eternal City which we pub- lish this morning. The caravan was dissolved | and each individual member of it returned to the busy outer world fortified, no doubt, in the faith, and moved by a@ still more ele vated sense of good fecling toward universal humanity. It eould scarcely be otherwise. | They had visited the spots which were sancti- fied by the blood of the first Christians, lis- ' tened to the homities of Damasns and Gregory the Great, which were read for their especial benefit; were féted by cardinals, blessed hy the Pove and thanked by a relative | as much book-learning on such subjects as NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. of Lafayette. And as all were in good health and with plenty of cash can we wonder that another pilgrimage is spoken of? The Third Term Idea and the Presi- dent's Opportunity. We print elsewhere a letter from Governor Kemper, of Virginia, in which he favors the nomination of General Grant for a third term. ‘The Governor's letter is an extraordinary con- tribution to the current literature on the sub- ject. He does not believe in a third term for its own sake; but there are other things which he believes in to a lesser degree. He wants “to save society and decent existence;” to ‘This declaration of the Governor is another among the many indications that the third chrysalis state; that it is full blown with life and on the wing, and that the time has come for President Grant to give the country an expression of his own opinions on the subject. It would naturally be supposed that an illus- trious soldier, who relinquished the permanent position of General-in-Chief of the Army to accept that of Chief Magistrate cares more for honor and distinction than for the emoluments of office. For so young a man as General Grant it was a pecuniary sacrifice to surrender the great military position which he might have held for life and accept the temporary office of President for four or eight years, with its burden of vexatious cares and its exposure to unscrupulous criticism, and then descend to tae rank of a mere citizen. It is fair to presume that nothing short of the hope of acquiring new distinction in civil office by rendering eminént service to his country could have induced him to embark on the stormy s2a of politics and commit his reputation to the license of evil tongues. We award him the credit of this honorable and laudable ambition, because it is difficult to explain his willingness to accept the Presi- dency on any other hypothesis. The part he acted in the war was not that of a mere routine commander, and it cannot satisfy his ambition to bea mere routine President. Unless he can distinguish his administration, as he dis- tinguished his command of the army, by great and memorable achievements, it was a mistake in every point of view to quit the army for the highest civil office. We would fain hope that his destiny as a statesman may, even yet, run parallel to his brilliant career as a soldier. As he came in, in the last years of the war, to take supreme command and crush the rebellion, after many failures by other generals and the extinction of many reputations, let us try to believe that he will, at a corresponding era in our civil diffi- culties, succeed after so many others have failed, and fight his way through the financial Wilderness and crown his ccreer by a civil Appomattox. The path behind him is strewed with financial wrecks as the history of the war before he came East was with military failures. The Boutwells, Richardsons, Mor- tons and Shermans of finance have their parallel in the Popes, Hookers, Hal- lecks and McClellans who demonstrated | the necessity of placing the army in new | hands. McClellan and Halleck were reputed , to be far more scientific soldiers, and doubt- less would have given more learned instruc- tion to the classes at West Point on the theory of war, as we have more deeply read scholars and acuter reasoners on scientific finance than President Grant. But they have all lamentably failed, and we need a vigorous successor who will go straight to the mark, as the circuitous strategy of reaching Richmond by wayof the peninsula was supplanted by fighting the way through on a direct line. In the war nothing was accomplished by refined, elaborate strategy, but when this had ignominiously failed success came at last by General Grant's vigorous hard fighting, not nearly so wasteful of life as the strategy of his predecessors and far less trying to public patience. Grant's merely scientific reputation as a soldier was not much superior to his scientific qualifica- tions as a political economist. But he has was ever possessed by his intrepid military predecessor, Andrew Jackson. Yet General Jackson established a new monetary policy which gained the confidence of the country. There is nothing in the present problems be- yond the rea-4 of ordinary good sense. For aught we can see President Grant is as com- petent to judge of them as men who have made such subjects a special study. In the first place, he is incapable of setting any value on the ingenious cobwebs which have been spun around the question by ingenious theo- rists. It is fortunate that mere subtleties can make no impression on his mind. In the next place, he has a secure guide in the practice of commercial nations. Congress is not in session. But in all finan- cial matters so much depends upon adminis- tration, upon the management of the Treas- ury, that the President can, even in the recess, and as a matter of executive will, force upon the country a policy of inflation or contrac- tion. The only thing that can materially obstruct the success of the President in crystallizing this policy of contraction and enforcing it upon the country is the grave apprehension of the ining for a third term— is strengthened by the He can secure pub! public motives, without any taint of selfish personal aspiration. The inflationists will deem it a sufficient answer to his soundest propositions if they can say that he is merely intriguing for still another election, and has adopted his financial policy as a means of killing off his rivals. This is already more than whispered, and if it comes to be generally believed, then farewell, a long farewell, to the President's capacity for eminent usefulness. With such a belief in the public mind his opponents will flout his policy, impugn his motives, and pre- vent his receiving any hearty support. The irrepressible repugnance of the country to | any scheming for a third term. will outweigh | everything that can be said in favor of his rec- ommendations. There should be such an answer to Governor Kemper’s pronunciamento that there would be an end to these specula- tions and political anxieties. It is a duty | which he owes to the country to clear his mo- tives of suspicion by an authentic contradic- tion of the suspicions and imputations which Mr. Tilton and His “Thunderbolt.” There is one point that Mr. Tilton should not overlook now of all times—the necessity of accuracy in his conversations with the gen- tlemen of the prass, We observe the report of an ‘interview’ between himself and Brooklyn journalist, in which there are two statements. The first is that the Hznaup sent ® reporter to his house who held ‘‘a disagree- able and most insulting interview with his eldest daughter,” and that next day the inter- view was followed by ‘‘a brutal editorial refer- ence in the Hzmarp’’ to his wifo—‘‘a delicate lady, whom no friend nor foe either of Mr. Beecher or himself’ has a right to ‘drag into this controversy.’ To this we reapond that the Henaxp has never sought an ‘‘inter- view'’ with Mr. Tilton’s wife or his daughter, or any member of his family, nor printed a word of such a character—recognizing the fact, which Mr. Tilton should have remem- bered, that no one had a right to drag ladies into any ‘‘controversy.” In the second place, what Mr. Tilton regards as a “brutal editorial reference” to his wife is the following: — He says he has been accused of slandering Mr. Beecher, and that he owes it to his character to Prove the accusation faise. It is noteasy to ex- Press in temperate language the seutiments which Such an excuse ts calcuiated to excite. What can be said of & man who sets @ higher value on hia own reputation for truth than upon that of his wile for chastity? We cannot understand the sense of honor which thinks {t a greater stain to have given way to rash and mistaken jealousy than to live with @ wile who has been unfaithful. ‘the more fully the public comes to believe that Mr. Tilton’s jealousy was uniounded the more effectually would the reputation of his wile have been protected ynst suspicions which cannot touch her without ut the sume time wounding him and bringing disgrace upon his culldren. Suppos- ing the accusation true, there was a time when he might with honor have exposed and abandoned her, but that time passed when he consented to an act Ol forgiveness. If he should hereaiter say that his letter was not meant to brand her, the public will regard it as a Weak and cowardly subteriuge. It is true that no specitic charges are made in the letter against her or Mr, Beecher. But Mr. Tilton knew periectly how the letter would ve under- stood, Fuple rumor has long been definite enough On this painval subject, and Mr. Tilton was aware that hls letter would be interpreted in accordance with the notorious siory, unless he siated a differ- ent ground of complaint. These are opinions, temperately expressed, that come within the just lines of comment. The subject was painful and delicate, and has never been welcome to us. We would gladly have never printed a word on the subject. But Mr. Tilton summoned the world to hear him, and the story which he called upon us to be- lieve was that he had been dishonored. Either his story meant this or it meant nothing, and any mystery as to the meaning is an affecta- tion. The man whom he charged with this offence is one of the first men of this genera- tion in eloquence, genius, power and the example of a Christian life. To drag this man down Mr. Tilton himself printed to the world that he had suffered from his bands an out- rage which was so terrible that he could not characterize it, but the nature of which was plainly understood by all the world. This he did, too, after he had signed what was called * covenant’ expressing ‘‘good will and friendly spirit’ towards the man whom he believed to have wronged him, and which read in these words: — {, Theodore Tilton, do, of my free will and triendly spirit toward Henry U. Bowen aud Henry Ward Beecher, hereby covenant aud azree that 1 will never again repeat, by word of mouth or other- wise, any of the allegations or imputations or innu- eudoes conta'ned in uny letter lereunto annexed, | or any other injurious Impatatious or allegations suggested by or growing out of these; and that I | ‘Will never again vring up or hint at any cause of difference or ground 0! complaint heretoiore ex- isting be’ ween the said Henry C. Bowen and my- self or the said Heary Ward Beecher. If we were disposed to comment analytically upon this painful and loathsome affair we might allude to the other circumstance that Mr. Tilton’s own fine business sense of news- paper advantage and enterprise was so thoroughly undisturbed by the agonies which rent his soul that he could print an extraor- dinary edition of his journal and cover Broad- way with placards to the effect that a‘‘thunder- bolt had fallen,” and that any one desiring that thunderbolt could buy it at the news stands. Mr. Tilton’s hand threw this thunder- bolt. It fell upon his own fireside. There is only one feeling toward Mr. Tilton, 80 far as we can read the public mind—a feel- ing of profound pity and sorrow. No one bears him anger, for his case is such that anger has not courage to speak. Mr. Car- penter, in the letter which we print elsewhere, and which is marked by a chivalrous and tender friendship toward Mr. Tilton, ox- presses the public feeling. He tells us that Mr. Tilton has known measureless sorrows. “Wendell Phillips,” according to Mr. Car- penter, ‘‘said of him not long since that four years ago no young man had so brilliant a future as Theodore Tilton,”’ ‘and to-day he stands amid the ashes of his hopes.” We cer- tainly have no word of unkindness, and scarcely of criticism, to address to a man whose own associates and comrades regard as living only in the ashes of his life. But it is too late for him to complain of the criticisms of the press—criticisms that seem to us to ] have been unusually considerate, generous and reserved. He should have thought of this signed his ‘‘thunderbolt.’’ Constrrotion-Maxina IN France.—The sub-committee of the Committee of Thirty of the French Assembly has reported a project of constitution. The plan recommends the creation of a second Chamber of Logislature and the affirmation of the personal septennate of MacMahon, but leaves a void as to what form of government is to succeed that of the soldier-Prosident. This omission has, it is in- ferred, been designed with the view that the monarchy may have a chance of restoration. The truth is that the French Republic, as it is, is brought more plainly before the eyes of the people, but the definitive republic is as far off and closely enveloped in the haze. of politics as before. Everything is left to hazard, the monarchy with the rest. A Western Rauxoap Law.—The Iowa Legislature, following the example of the neighboring State of Wiscousin, has taken measures against the railroad monopoly, which may be called an entering wedge such as the grangers will delight in. Fixing pas- senger rates on the railroads throughout the State at a reasonable figure, and thereby striking an effective blow at the inordinate freight and fare tariffs under which the farmers of the West have so long labored, and which tend to paralyze industry and the prosperity of the country, shows significantly that the railroad kings-may be deposed in their at- tempt to override popular interests by sturdy and healthful action on the part of the representatives of the people. ‘Other States will rejoice at such a bold beginning, and even New Yorkers may find in,ita gleam after he signed his ‘‘covenant’’ and before he | $$ $$ Mr. Hale Declines. Woe remarked the other day that Mr. Eugene Hale, of Maine, was a very fortunate young man, but it seems that he can also be a very foolish one. In accepting the office of Post- master General, that he might be able to re- sign it in the dramatic manner he chose to adopt at the Cabinet meeting yesterday, he was disrespectful both to the President and the country. Such trifling was never before witnessed in the Executive chamber. Mr. Hale knewa week ago as well as he knows to-day how much his health has suffered by his labors during the session of Congress, and it was a solemn duty that he owed to the country to determine in advance of his ac- ceptance of the place offered him whether he would be able to perform the work of the department. It was not a sacrifice that was demanded of him ; but while it is true that a Cabinet office under General Grant offers few temptations to a politician, and that a seat in Congress is more desirable than to be Post- master General, we can see no reasonable explanation of Mr. Hale’s conduct. Webster and Marcy and Buchanan and many other eminent men held very different views regard- ing the dignity and importance of a Cabinet appointment; but Mr. Hale is not to be blamed for not sharing in their opinions, When statesmen ceased to be Cabinet officers Cabinet offices fell in public estimation, Mr. Hale is not so sickly a youth as not to know all this, and, while he had a perfect right to decline the position, he had no right to coquet with it as he has done. If it was a ruse to strengthen him with his constituents in the coming election his conduct was all the more reprehensible. View it as we may, we can see no excuse or palliation for his he- havior. His actions wero simply a cute Yan- kee trick played upon the President and tho country, and the only adequate punishment for his offence will be in his sighing in vain for a Cabinet position after the good people of Maine have tired of his services in Congress. Political speculations will naturally spring out of this flippant conduct of Mr. Hale. As the friend of Blaine it will probably be as- sumed that his acceptance involved possible disloyalty to his old chief or his new master. Little importance is to be attached to any such chatter. Hale is not able, even as Postmaster General, to make or unmake Presidents. Nobody knows this better than Speaker Blaine. Hale was to the Speaker only a capable and ambitious boy, whom he took pleasure in pushing ahead in the Congressional arena, The boy was to be a useful boy as a matter of course; but neither Blaine nor Grant could expect him to control the next national re- publican convention. It is as well for Blaine, perhaps, that Hale should not be in the Cabinet, but the act of declination is probably only a display of the flippancy and smartness | of the young man upon whom the President unfortunately conferred a very important appointment only to be treated with disrespect in return. Tae Commissioners or Cuarirres anp Com RECTION state that, as their appropriation has been cut down by the Board of Apportion- ment, they must discontinue some of the charitable institutions in order to economize, They can do better than this. They can dis- continue their dry goods purchases at forty per cent above the value of the goods and their flour purchases at prices largely above the market; they can give up some of their unnecessary steamboats and sell a large num- ber of their horses, especially those used for pleasure riding. They can save by this sort of economy more money than has been de- ducted from their outrageously exorbitant estimate. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ole Bull is in Rome, but not promulgated. Rev. W. P. Pearce, of London, is staying at the Windsor Hotel. Senator Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ex-Governor Jacob D, Cox, of Ohio, is sojourning at the Windsor Hotel. Colonel W. B. Beck, United States Army, is quar tered at the Everett House. Ex-Oongressman William Williams, of Buffalo, is stopping at the Filth Avenue Hotel. General Joseph Hooker, United States Army, yesterday arrived at the Astor House, Captain Rynd and Captain Poole, of the British Army, have quarters at the Everett House, General N. P. Chipman, Congressional delegate for the district of Columbia, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Admiral Polo, late Spanish Minister at Wash- ington, satied for Europe yesterday in the steam- ship Russia, President T. B. Blackstone, of the Cnicago and Alton Ratiroad Company, has apartments at the ‘Winasor Hotel. Senator Powell Clayton anc ex-Chief Justice John McClare, of Arkansas, arrived from Wash- ington yesterday at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Five hundred Krupp cannon—four and six- pounders—were shipped secretly at Hamburg im January and landed at Alexandria, Egypt, in Feb- ruary. Robert Grant Watson, British Chargé d'Affaires at Washington, and W. Oswald Chariton, Third Secretary of the British Legation, are at the Weat- Moreiand Hotel. At the palace of Babelsberg there was a great dinner on Jane 3. William and all the imperial family made themselves agreeable to the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, Hon. R. G. Watson, Her Britisn Majesty's Charg@ d’Affaires, and Hon. W. 0. Chariton, Third Secre- tary of the British Legation in Washington, have apartments at the Westmoreland. Hotel. J. H. Magee, pastor of an Alrican congregation at Cincinnati is in moral collision with his sueep. He fs charged with calling “several of the most ancient deacons ‘nasty old grayneaded devils,’ ” One day some people trom, Leeds called on Dis- roell at Manchester. He made them a little speech and, In the way of badinage, said he would “visit Lecds in fifteen years.” Tho time ts up and he has to go. Now does the weary laborer, unable to endure the close heat of his apartment, snatch the-feariul joy of deep sleep on top of the house, unmindful that the early policeman will look for him on the pavement at daylight, Correspondeng von und fur Deutschiand says that at the suggestion of the Prussian government there will be shoatly, at Dresden, & coavucatien of superior railway officials to organize 9 direct train {row Berlin to Rome, with only two stops, one at Montch and one at Verona, The Qgnisko, & Polish journal, apropos to the re-~ port that in, some parts of Poland they are collect~ ‘ng money to help the Caritsts, deem that scarcely @ judicious use of money while there are in Poland ‘thousands of children who canaot be sent to school for want of decent clothing. General Bertrand recently gave to the Prince Imperial at Chiseihurst a watch which formerly belonged to the First Napoleon and which he gave vo an ancestor of Bertrand, Napoleon's words on giving the watch are engraved tnside the case, They are as follows:—"This ts the one,” said Hie Majesty, “which 1 wore at Rivoli, Ladrew it from already impair and threaten to destroy his influence of hope in the future, when ¢ailroad m:- nopoly may be broken. my pocket al two in the morning and said to Jou bert. ‘Come, attack, Dav has not vet vroken.!"