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4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every Four cents per copy, An- day in the year. @ual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphio espatches must be addressed New Your Biznaw. ie) "LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Bubscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Wolume XXXIX = == ANUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING No. 185 | ———— | NIBLO’S GARDEN, | roadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—IVAN. | HOB; OX, THE Ji WEes, ats PM. | closes at 1u:45 P.M, | ir. Joseph Wheelock and’ Miss foue Burke. | THEATRE COMIQUE, lo 5M. Broadway.—SAVED FROM THE WRECK; OR, | VOMAN'S WILL, at SP. M.; closes at lOw P.M. ‘J. 2 Dive. THR SCOUTS OF roadway, corner of Thirtic Same ats HE PLAINS, at 2 P.M. closes at 4:0) P.M M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Buffalo Bill MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, a SEVEN DWAKFS, at § P. M.: ,closes at 10:45 M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN PFitty-nintn street and Seventh avenue.—THOMAS' CON- WERT, acs P.M; closes wt 10:30 P.M, COLOSSEUM, of Thirty-fifth ‘street_—LONDON BY 3 Closes ‘at 5 Breiry, corner P.M. Same at? P.M; IGHT, at i P.M ieloses at 1D P.M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, ye avenue and Twenty-sixth street.—GRAND AGEAN ay se CONGRESS OF NATIONS, at 1:3) P. New York, Saturday, a From our reports this morning the probabilitics | ware that the weather to-day will be generally clear. | Mand | | Jaly 4, sf svi Tuezz New Inpiax Commissioners were | Bppointed yesterday by the Secretary of the | Interior. Is it to be inferred from this that | the “peace policy’”’ is still to be carried out | in the manner already illustrated? From tae West Ixpres we have an inter- esting and encouraging news report. The | colonial interests are becoming decidedly and | beneficially progressive, particularly in the | @gricultural districts. Tue Presment StazTep ror Lonc Brancr last evening, but was unable to procced beyond Philadelphia, owing to some trivial | accident As will be seen by our correspond- | ence elsewhere, there is a large and fashion- | able audience awaiting him on his arrival | to-day. Concress, m Exewprina Savines Banzs | which refrain from speculative transactions, | | haps centuries since settled with bloody strug- | of every sort, in any class, or in all classes | The Fourth of July—Where Do We Stand? Our ninety-eighth anniversary finds in the world many who are sceptical as to the suc- cess of our great experiment in the sover- eignty of the law and government by the people, and it cannot be denied that the doubters are sustained in great part by many scandalous facts in our recent history. But until we have heard of a system of govern- ment that is not susceptible to abuses, and in which corruption and fraud of almost every species are not of natural growth, we shall not because of the presence of these relinquish our faith in the Republic. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1874. that remaining virtue in our system which Frotects us in the most extreme delineation of the offences of rogues in power as well as out. Absolute degradation of public life in half a dozen States does not leave it thoroughly sound in any one other State, as one rotten pippin will eventually contaminate the whole barrel ; and the reduced average of public morality thus brought about makes it possible to fill bigh station with such creatures as now mostly disgrace every place of dignity or | trust. But the anties of such men provoke | public indignation and a reaction in favor of i probity and honor that will prove our sufficient | remedy. Our republican institutions are having 4 Critics are very fond of comparing the worst condition of our government with the best | | condition of other governments. Even | | jockeys would not put the worst time of one | | horse against the best time of another and | pretend that this comparison was instructive | as to the quality of the animals; yet a process | altogether analogous is employed in politics to disparage our political system and give the world by contrast an appalling view of its | results. People who do this are not, perhaps, intentionally dishonest, only they are not strictly logical. They assume that it is fair | to compare the United States as it is to-day | with England or Germany or France as they | | are to-day; and this, it seems to us, is an | members was not very cordial { error. For instructive comparison between countries and governments we must take, not | party spoke against the motion, and when it | some day arbitrarily fixed for all by the calen- / came to a division sixty-one members voted | dar, but some period which may be widely | for Mr. Butt’s motion and four hundred and | different for each when they were respectively | fifty-eight against it. | in conditions in some degree similar. We | the more intolerant members have been oust compare revolutionary periods with revo- | averse to the discussion of the question lutionary periods, not with times of tran- | | quillity and order; and a country in a time of | desired to divide the House at once on the some great social or political transition must | | not be judged for its dissimilarity with the | ing English and Scotch majorities, effec- | condition of another country that has per- | gles the very problems that now disturb its neighbors. England is certainly in her heyday now, but | the story of her political and social existence is not exceeded in any history whatever for the savage fury of the passions displayed, for | the cool ferocity of rulers at one time and | their abject meanness at another, or for the contrasted servility and bloodthirstiness of her people; for fraud and wrong and corruption taken together. He would, indeed, be a | strange patriot who would care to purchase | for his country the advantages of good admin- istration now enjoyed in England at the haz- ard of dragging her through the succession of horrors chronicled in English history. Our worst scandals and our most fingrant abuses are altogether surpassed on a thousand pages of British story; yet England has triumph- antly come through her political sloughs of despond, and to-day enjoys a tranquillity less | effectively destroyed than that of any other | | country in the world, and an administration | of the various departments of government not | from taxation, contributed something to strengthen the financial health of the commu- | nity, and that too with much less debate than | was required to accomplish nothing on the | main question of finance. pure and very even in its pressure. | of Commons by the debate on Mr. Butt’s motion | night for the discussion of this important | would certainly not have severe trial, but they will come triumphantly through it; for the American people will not let two or three thousand worthless rascals in office destroy the freedom handed down from their fathers and defended successfully trom Home Rule in Parliament. The Irish separatist campaign was fairly opened on Thursday night in the British House | to inquire into the existing relations of the | two countries. As might have been expected, | the reception which the advocates of separa- tion met with from the English and Scotch Some few Irish members attached to Mr. Gladstone's A large section of atall. These unionist extremists would have question, and, by using the overwhelm- tually prevent the discontented Irish from discussing their grievances. Even the govern- ment showed on a former occasion a disposi- tion to prevent Mr. Butt’s motion from being | debated by appropriating the night originally ; set down for its consideration. The protests | of the Irish and some of the liberal English | tnd Scotch members had, however, the effect of inducing the government to set apart a question. In doing so the government dis- played sound judgment. The effect on pub- lic opinion in Ireland of a refasal to discuss a question that some sixty members of Parlia- ment were elected specially to advocate increased the love of the Irish people for the British con- nection, It may well be questioned also whether the English and Scotch members acted wisely in voting with significant una- nimity against Mr. Butt’s motion. Only the men actually elected on the home rule plat- form voted in favor of altering the present | Minister would lose no opportunity to remove the discontents which cause such deep dis- loyalty. Mr. Butt and his friends allege that the granting of an Irish Parliament to deal with purely Irish affairs would have the effect of rallying the immense majority, even of the most rebellious, to the side of loyalty. If this bo true it is certainly the interest of England, as much as of Ireland, that the experiment should be made. Ungenerous suspicions ought not to be allowed to bar the way to a sincere reconciliation among two peoples who have many interests in common. But it is evidently futile on the part of England to hope that loyalty will grow in Ireland while the present unsatisfactory relations of the countries continue. Steam Lames—Professor Peire mate of Their Importance. Professor Peirce, in a recent paper on ‘Steam Lanes,” made some suggestions which should not pass unnoticed. His points may be stated thus: — Firsi—That “steam lanes” should be estab- Esti- | lished, because collisions will be a hundred- fold more imminent in the next generation, when ocean travel will have multiplied very largely; in fact, there must be one hundred collisions then where we have one now. Second—It has been suggested that there should be a distinct “lane” for every month of the year, laid down with a scrupulous re- gard to maritime experience. Third—The meridian of greatest danger is fifty degrees west of Greenwich, on the banks of Newfoundland, with its dense fogs, fishing smacks and stranded icebergs. This is the vital point and may dispose of the whole question. Fourth—That the systems adopted by the German lines and the Cunard line are oppos- ing in their character, producing confusion and uncertainty. Fifth—That the Cunard lane now in force is | the best one. Sizth—That ‘steam lanes’’ might be com- pelled by a clause in marine insurance pol- icies. Lastly—That vessels should be compelled to observe a uniform speed—say ten knots an hour—during the continuance of a fog, if the lanes be established. ‘These positions are nearly all well taken, and, if they do not entirely cover the ground, are highly creditable to the acumen of the emi- nent scientist of Cambridge. His assumption that collisions must increase with the growth of traffic needs no support, for it is the his- tory of past disasters on the Atlantic! But the point which he clearly states and seem- ingly reprobates is the attempt to establish a | geparate “‘lane’’ for every month of the year. It will not take any professional knowledge to perceive that a multitude of trackways would, unsatisfactory relations of the two countries. | The vote was meant, no donbt,-to deter the | people of Ireland from continuing an agita- | tion which the unanimous vote of the English without great abuses, but on the whole yery | and Scotch members tells them can never suc- Her | ceed except by an appeal to force. As if to | sturdy people have overcome the greater or- | emphasize this waraing Mr. Disraeli expressed ganized evils incident to the political and | his belief that it would be better to face a | | social fabric, and it is not to be believed thata | civil war than accept even a qualified repeal | Tux Docs.—As a preliminary tothe celebra- | people of the same race, equally sturdy and of the Union. If the eloquent Minister meant , tion of the glorious Fourth, and, doubtless, inspired by the fervorof the occasion, Captain | Marriott despatched one hundred and fitty of | even more enthusiastic and resolute in their | pursuit of a grand ideal, will fail in the same effort because of some small dissimilarities in that it would be preferable to face one of those rash and silly uprisings which have been from | time to time precipitated by men whose com- | the unhappy canines yesterday, thus clearing | the political system under which they live; | mon sense was not equal to their patriotism, | out the lot and providing a fairfield for future | and, above all, it is not to be believed that | perhaps Mr. Disraeli is right. But if he means ' operations. Goop News From Inp1a.-—Reports from the famine districts are much more favorable than heretofore. The crops are in excellent condition and the number of persons em- ployed st the relief works has decreased to | two hundred and fifty thousand. Only four hundred thousand are now absolutely de- pendent upon the government. Tar Apporstment oF Muuisrer Jews, the Present representative of our government at St. Petersburgh, to be Postmaster General, is not an unworthy selection. But the talents which qualify a responsible di- plomat and those necessary in « patient and serviceable postmaster do not seem to be ex- actly of a like character. Tue Rottwacen Wit Case.—This impor- fant and long-contested case, involving prop- erty to the amount of eight hundred thousand dollars, was decided by the Surrogate yester- day, he declaring it his duty to state that the due execution of the will or codicil is not suffi- ciently proven. The result is of special in- terest as showing what constitutes undue in- fluence upon the mind of a testator. Tax Power oy Buastinc was demonstrated yesterday in New Jersey to an unwonted extent. Three thousand tons of rock were displaced for mining purposes by one hun- dred pounds of giant powder. Nature must | powadays give way to the terrible power of science. It would be well if such » dangerous element as giant powder were confined to its legitimate purpose, and not carclessly | thrown around our wharves and thorough. | fares. Count pe Caansonp’s Manuresto.—Count de Chambord has issued a manifesto to the French nation. Tt will be recognized by our readers as o sample Cham- | bord manifesto, containing nothing new gnd repeating what the Count has already proclaimed a hundred times. MacMahon is complimented as the present protector of France, but if France wishes to do right and %o come out al! right, she will reeall Chambord | and empower him to administer the affairs of | ® “French Christian monarchy.’’ So says the | Count de Chambord. We must wait, just like | the Count, for the reply of France. | More Arnrrrary Conpuct or Sparx. —The | Spaniards in their decline and demoral- | {zation appear to assume more and more an | arbitrary course both with foreigners and at bome. They seem to have an utter con- | tempt for the public opinion of the world. | This has been shown in a remarkable manner | In Cuba. Now we learn by a despatch from | Cadiz that the customs authorities there are | exacting extra tonnage dues on vessels clear- | ing for America; that is, forty cents a ton | on all vessels clearing for America, and one peseta on all sailing to European ports. This appears to be invidious and unfriendly. No | warning was given that these dues would be | Imposed, and they were imposed simply by a | ecree published in the (ficial Gazelle. Of | fourse our State Department, having such an fection for Spain, will take no notice of this | ecree. | certainly could outlive such a calamity, and these differences in political system can cause | such a failure, | It is substantially the same in the compari- son with Germany and France. If to the rob- beries practised in our municipalities, the | peculations of our carpet-baggers in the | confusions of reconstruction, the danger to | the whole country and the freedom of the | people involved in these confusions—if to all | these any enthusiastic admirer of monarchical I institutions would find ample parallels we commend him to the history of the times when Germany was made up of little States | that swarmed with official thieves of every | class, appointed to offices merely that they | might plunder the small treasuries they could | get their hands into. Every country in the world has passed / through just such crises as that in which our | own country is now struggling; and though | it the system our fathers founded had been | equal to all their hopes it should have been | superior to such mischance, yet immunity | from human fallibility was too much to hope | for, and they perhaps hoped for too much; but | we believe the excellence of the system they | established will be found in the fact that it | will carry us through our troubles with less | disaster than any other peoples have | always suffered from troubles of the same na- | tare. It is no small event for the social and indus- trial system of fifteen such States as our slave- holding States were to be absolutely broken | up, so that the old organization and order | are absolutely gone, and he who was a slave | before is now a legislator. How many gov- | ernments are there in the world that would stand up at all with half their subjected peo- ple thus turned topsy-turvy? No dynasty we believe that in any country of Western Europe such change would induce & ¢ata- clysm that would carry down the very fabric of government itself. But the war inflicted almost as great disasters on the North as on the South in its general destruction of respect for law and in its demoralization of the people financially. If through any institution estab- lished in a country sharp practices thrive the people fitted intellectually and morally to | succeed at sharp practices become the favored types of the commercial and financial world, | and honesty, probity and fair dealing of every sort become like so many additional weights with which competitors are handicapped and beaten. All this was produced in our Northern bus- iness world by the paper money, which helped us to save the country from one enemy, but gave it into the hands of another scarcely less dangerous. It is this social demoralization of the North and the politica as well as social destruction | of the South that are to blame for the lam- entable condition of the country. Free gov- ernment and popular institutions are not the causes. §o far is this from the truth that the same causes bave produced the same effects results seem more flagrant with us than they | | | under every government; and if the =| j ave seemed in other canntrias it ia begause of | class or creed, though efforts are made by the ; Moment lie in the ultra-Catholic party, but | maintaining the imperial connection while that it would be wiser to engage in civil war | with the Irish nation rather than grant their | reasonable demands, then he indulges in ‘theedless rhetoric’ calculated to inflame | rather than appease discontent. The solid | vote of Parliament undoubtedly means to be gall it shall be maintained." | Whether or not this summary dismissal of ; @ nation’s demand is wise time alone can | decide. The leaders of the movement will | certainly not abandon the agitation, because | what has happened was fully anticipated. | Every one acquainted with the history of | British legislation in Ireland knows that | ‘instalments of justice” have never been | granted so long as it was safe to refuse them. | ; The oppressive tithes were shot away by the | resistance of the armed peasants; Catholic | emancipation was granted to avoid civil war, | and the Church Establishment, we know, on | the authority of Mr. Gladstone himself, was | shaken down by what is known as the Fenian agitation. With these lessons before them | the home rulers are not likely to aban- | don their agitation because English and | Scotch members have voted against the | restoration of the Irish Parliament. It is evident that deep and bitter discontent is felt with the existing British connection. This discontent is not confined to men of any pro-English organs to represent wholly Oatholic The answer is that the most prominent leaders of the present movement are Protes- | tants or advanced liberals, who have little sympathy with ultramontanism. The over- throw of the Church Establishment in Ire- land has changed completely the relations of | the Irish Protestants to the government. | They are no longer a privileged class, and in | the future they will feel the evils of the | Union oven more strongly than their Catholic | countrymen. §o long as an English Minister | has to court the influence of the Catholic | clergy as @ counterpoise to the republican aspirations of the national party the claims of the Protestant element are likely to be passed | over, It is assumed that they are loyal, and the favors of the Ministers are showered, not on them, but on those allies who aid in keep- ing down the revolutionary tide. The danger | to the British connection does not at this | it oa to this rather in the hostility of those who have emancipated themselves from clerical rule. Home rule stops short of the programme of the revolutionary party. It aims at conferring on Ireland something of the same rights enjoyed by a State of the Union. If the change could be made without violence it might solve the vexed question of Irish dis- content. That this is an end worth striving for few who fully appreciate the position of England in Europe to-day will doubt. Under existing circumstances the vast majority of the Irish nation would not support the British Empire in the event of foreign complications, Indeed, a large section of the nation would probably seize the occasion of a foreign war | o'clock in the morning. | agents slong the route who send in their in fact, be but the system at present em- | ployed, and would realize no just conception of what true highways ought to be. Thero is nothing new in the statement that the meridian of fifty west from Greenwich is the most dangerous quarter, and while this is strictly trne we must beg leave to differ from the Professor when he undertakes to assume that only one fixed point is necessary for each “Jane,” and that point over the Banks of Newfoundland. The strongest | feature of the Professor's paper is that wherein he sdvocates the insertion of a | clause in marine insurance policies which would require shipowners to adhere to the fixed “lane.” Next to governmental enact- ment and international treaty this would cer- tainly be the most powerful agency that could | be employed. Tsar Brvsszis Concress.—The proposed | assemblage of humanitarians and politico- | Southern States, the inextricable political | warn the Irish people that ‘‘though the Union | economic philosophers in Brussels bodes no good to the Old World nations. England is suspicious that there exists some sort of in- trigue calculated to muffle, if not bind, her | hands should war become necessary, and that this movement is aimed especially at her naval power. She is determined to avoid the ways that are dark. Her representative in the Congress, should she send one, will watch all the others. Strange to say, if the infer- ences of the Earl of Denbigh are correct, the Czar of Russia is an active promoter, the ‘“father,’’ it is alleged, of the affair, and with the intent just stated. And this, too, after the royal marriage and the banquet in Guild- hall! But did not the Czar Nicholas visit England? And have we not read of Kars and the Crimea; of Balaklava, Inkerman and the | Redan ? Tue Sunpaxy Henatp anp Ovr Summer Rz- sorts.—-We have made arrangements to despatch a special train to Saratoga to-mor- row and every Sunday thereafter during the + summer season, carrying the Sunday Henarp. | The visitors at Saratoga, the Catskills, Lake George and other points on the line of the | Hudson River and Rensselaer and Saratoga | railroads will thus be enabled to receive the Sunday Hznarp as early as ten or eleven Newsdealers and orders by twelve o'clock on Saturday night | will receive their papers by this special | Herarp train. Tue Prosect or ImPRoviNe THE MississrPPt Rives, so that the great Father of Waters shall be open to vessels of the largest size, is of the same importance to the country as the prob- lem of an interoceanic canal. Tue Mux Riven Ingvest.—-After a long | delay and a presumably careful investigation the coroner's jury in the Mill River inquest has announced its verdict. A sad commen- tary upon the manner in which public duties ere performed in the State which claims the | highest intelligence and morality is found in the fact that it censures every one having a near or remote connection with the construc- tion of the reservoir, from the Legislature down to the contractor. No Inrivence1s Mors Ennosiine to a na- tion than the perpetuation of the services of her great men, her self-denying heroes and martyr statesmen, in the remembrance of after gencra- tions, to incite to deeds as brilliant and mo- tives as pure. The proposed cquestrian statue to General Thomas is an enterprise which awakens popular sympathy and recalls the deep and sincere sorrow caused by the death ofa noble soldicr. There can be no question that his is a name which should be preserved in tradition, as well as in marble, to remind us of the value of the liberty and the national JP wpfarl ogain the dag of revolt A wise | unity for which he fought | Mr. Havomeyer’s Defiance of Law. What will Governor Dix Do About It? The indignation expressed by all classes of citizens, irrespective of party, at the at- tempted reappointment of the two convicted Police Commissioners must convince Mayor Havemeyer that his action has been impolitic as well as disgraceful. It has driven out of sight the partisan animus that in the com- mencement inftuenced the prosecution of Messrs. COharlick nd Gardner, and has turned away from those persons the sympa- thy that im gome quarters was extended toward them. If they had submitted to the penalty prescribed by law for the offence of which they were found guilty, and if the Mayor had filled their forfeited offices with good men, opposed to Tammany Hall, there would have been a reaction against the poli- ticians who procured their indictment. As it is, the people regard their reappointment as @ public insult and as a defiance of the law. The citizens of New York now take the place of the Tammany leaders as the prosecutors of the convicted officers, and will demand not only that the so-called Police Commissioners shall be restrained from attempting the per- formance of an official act, but that the re- maining indictments against them shall be brought toa speedy trial, and that the Mayor shall be made to answer for his outrage upon the city and for the insult he has offered to the Governor of the State. It is uncertain at present what action may be taken to protect the people and test the legality of the Mayor's appointments, but there is little doubt that the convicted Com- missioners will be restrained on Monday from exercising any official authority until a legal decision os to their status has been reached. The question to be presented to the Courts will be a simple one, despite the attempts of the Mayor's legal advisers to complicate it with side issues. It is, whether an ofiicer found guilty of a misdemeanor in having violated a law he was sworn to faithfully ob- serve can, after his office has been officially declared vacant, be immediately reappointed to the same office? We are aware that the Mayor and his counsel claim that the resigna- tions of Messrs. Charlick and Gardner created the vacancies in their offices, but the claim seems too absurd to require attention. Tho Assistant Corporation Counsel in his remark- able ‘opinion says, “Inasmuch as Mr. Gardner and Mr. Charlick have placed their resignations in your hands, the question whether their conviction caused vacancies in the offices held by them has now but little practical importance.’’ It is a singular in- terpretation of law to hold that after a vacancy has been created, under the statutes, by a conviction in a court of an infamous crime, or of any offence involving a violation of an oath of office, the person convicted can resign the position he no longer holds and render the provision of law of ‘‘but little practical importance.” The Courts will probably hold that the resignations were of no practical importance, inasmuch as the men were out of office before they re- signed. Messrs. Charlick and Gardner sent the papers called their resignations to the Mayor after their conviction and punishment, | and the Mayor accepted them, or pretends to | have accepted them the same day they were | received. The official notification subse- | quently served upon him by the Governor of \ the State that the vacancies had been created by the conviction of the incumbents of a mis- demeanor involving a violation of their oath of office blotted out of official existence the | resignations and their acceptance. The reap- | pointments must therefore have been made to | the vacancies created under the provis- | | ions of the Revised Statutes, and, as we have | | said, the question will be whether the vacancy | declared by the Revised Statutes is or is not a | forfeiture of office by the party convicted. | There seems to be no doubt that the party committing the offence forfeits his office; that, in fact, he is deprived of office as a pun- ishment for his crime or misdemeanor. In that case itis absurd to suppose that he is eligible to reappointment, since that would | nullity the law. Probably not even the As- | sistant Corporation Counsel will argue that if | | Mr. Oharlick is legally incapacitated from fill- | | ing his own term as Police Commissioner he | may be legally appointed to fill another term in the same Commission. If the person forfeiting his office because of a conviction for misdemeanor can be legally reappointed, then the person forfeiting his office in consequence of conviction for an | infamous crime can also be legally reappoint- ed, for the penalty in the one case is identical with the penalty in the other. As the Gov- | ernor possesses the pardoning power, he might | under this interpretation of the law, pardon a public officer who had been found guilty of | forgery or burglary, and immediately re- | appoint the criminal to the office he filled be- | fore conviction. Would any person hold that | this is the intent and meaning of the law? But there is a legal doubt, say the Mayor's | counsel, whether the misdemeanor of which | the convicted Commissioners were found guilty | did really involve a violation of the oath of office. Let us concede that there can be a question as to whether a public officer who violates a law he is sworn to obey and enforce does or does not violate his oath of office, and what follows? The officer removed has his remedy in the Courts, or can refuse to give up his office and bring his right to hold it to a legal decision at once. It certainly does not seem to be the province of the Mayor, who in this case is the appointing power, to defy the law and to ignore the official notice of the Governor of the State that the con- | victed public officers have forfeited their offices. | Yet this is just what Mayor Havemeyer has | done, and the people look anxiously for the | next step to be taken by the Governor. Pub- , lic sentiment will approve the suspension of Mayor Havemeyer and his trial on charges wider than those arising out of his present | outrageous act. Some of our most prominent citizens should take care that the necessary | steps are promptly taken to enable Governor j Dix to move in the matter. i | — | Tur Fanapay.—The announcement of the | safety of the cablo steamer, whose loss off Pictou | was recently reported, will be read with satis- | faction by every one. Aside from humani- | tarian reasons the destruction of such a vessel | would bea great disaster to the interests of | ocean telegraphy gencrolly, and, ‘especially to The Brooklyn Sorrow. It seems to be the resolutionyof those who advise Mr. Beecher in the present painful and extraordinary affair that silence on his part is the highest wisdom. Silence means that every allegation made by Mr. Tilton is false; that the famous letter of contrition attributed to Mr. Beecher is a forgery or an effort of the imagination ; that no offence was committed against Mr. ‘Tilton which could not be forgiven, and which had not been forgiven. Silence means also that the tremendous and world-embracing influence of Mr. Beecher’s life and Christian work is so potent and has made such an impression upon the hearts of the people that no scandal, no accu- sation, no misrepresentation can destroy it, any more than the feeble rays of the polar sun can destroy the iceberg which sweeps out into the seas. Silence means an attitude of such invincibility on Mr. Beecher’s part that all the powers of earth and hell cannot overthrow it. With this view silence is wisdom; otherwise it is a crime, not only against the Christian world—which has a right to demand from the friends of Mr. Beecher a justification of the love and confidence with which they enfold him—but against the life and character of the illustrious and beloved clergyman himself. Is there any possibility that this si- lence may provoke Mr. Beecher’s exasperated antagonist—who, whatever his mistakes, has shown consummate ability in his management of the controversy, who is a cool, skilled, wary antagonist, knowing how much of his battle to fight at a time—into further averments, the consequences of which cannot be foreseen ? If such a possibility exists silence may not only be a crime, but a suicide. No Morz Mustc mx rae Pargs.—The Park Commissioners propose within a short time to give up music at the various city parks, as the appropriation allowed them will not suffice to carry on the operations of their department to the same extent as heretofore. Such a disgrace to the govern- ment of a great city as depriving the pub- lic of an innocent source of enjoyment during the summer months should not be allowed te take place. Wherever the responsibility reste there can be no excuse for so disregarding the wishes of the people as to take away from the parks one of their most attractive features, Retrenchment of expenses could, doubtless, take place in some less objectionable way. ‘When small towns can aftord to treat their citizens to an afternoon concert in some pub- lic place the metropolis cannot be expected to do less. Music in the parks is considered by all one of the most grateful features of the summer season here. A Suaoesrion is made in a contemporary that the Vice President of the United States should also be Governor of the District of Columbia. This would give the Vice Presi- dent some employment. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ——-+ Jobn Bates bequeathed $60,000 to the poor of Brighton. Miss Chapin has charge of a congregation at sam Francisco, Dr. Anthony Ruppaner went to Europe in the Pomerania. Peeler is the name of Kellogg's tax collector ta Grant Parish, La. Dr. Livingstone’s family will receive from Par- Mament $15,000. Judge Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, is residing at the Windsor Hotel. At thin season Bismarck says to them “‘Mene, mene, tekel u-Varzin.” General George W. McCook, of Ohio, is staying at the Hotel Brunswick. Tbe Duke of Edinburgh will corner-stone at Liverpool in September. General Custer is going for the Sioux with his custermary vim.—Boston Post. Sing Sing is crowded. It must be fine tn one of those cubby holes these nights. John Bull believes there’s more trouble 'Atchim for the Dutch tn the East Indies. Prince Frederick Charles’ three danghters are at the Hotel Warsaw at Wiesbaden. James Wilson and J. W. McDill are renominated from the Fifth and Eleventh districts, lowa. Johannes A. Solberg, Swedish Vice Consul at Bak timore, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. Ex-Governor William Bigier, of Pennsylvania, ar- rived last evening at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator Schurz is reported to be at rest on Nar- Tagansett Pier. Fishing, or ‘‘sleeping it off?’ Lovers of milk punch are invited to contemplate the description of the cow stable of the period. Secretaries Bristow and Fish departed from the Rational capital for their respective homes yester- day. Of 182 boys in a Connecticut school 181 are om- cially reported as liars. Old Connecticut is hard to beat. Marquis Simonetti, of Italy, who has just returned from a tour in South America, has apartments at the New York Hotel. Judge W. S, Lincoln, of Washington, formerty | member of Congress from this State, is at the Union Square Hotel. Captain E. Pitman, of the Bnitisn Navy, has ar- rived at the Brevoort House. He sails for England to-day in the steamship Oceanic. The President, accompanied by his wife, left Washington at five o’ciock yesterday, in order to “celebrate” the Fourth at Long Branch. Secretary Belknap leaves Washington to-day to spend several days at New London, Conn., where his family will remain during the summer, And now 1t is thought espectally creditable ina Cabinet officer to refuse a gift of a carriage and horses. Why, even poor old Andy Johnson did that. Dr. Charles de Piloty has been named director to the Academy ot Fine Arts at Munich—as successor to Kaulbach. The Augsburg Gazette applauds the choice. The Cincinnati Enquirer says that ‘Boss Shep- herd looks like a pugilist.” He probably feels like Little Bo Peep when she was compelled to “leave ‘em alone.” Four persons in the Jura—father, mother and two chilaren—were gathered under one umbrella during & recent thunderstorm, and were all struck by lightning. Ont West they have a cartoon of Beecher with @ big Aon his breast; but it was not the reverend gentieman who wore the scarlet letter. It was Hester Pryune, As Mr. Hugh Garaner will be @ private citizenf for some time to come {tt would be Interesting to know whether he believes that “brutes” are the best policemen, M. Berlioux sustained @t the Sorbonne lately, before the Facuity of Letters for the Degree, of Doctor, a thesis on Dootrina Ptolemai de Nuo ab injuria recentiorum vinatcata, Ritter Von Orges, of Vienna, tormeriy editor o the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung and a valued correspondent of the HERAI.D, was recenily killed in Vienna by a fall from a street car. How we have improved apon ‘hose dreadfui Pax ritan days when none was of sulicient mportance personally to have discdpline and the moral law) suspended and sot aside to save the feelings of de | lnquents! It occurred to us that the ‘promotion’ of Moram ‘to Washington meant that his place in London was wanted for some one else; and tt is now reported | shat this some one ts “young Fish." He ts better than one might suppose, i it ts che Fish woo was hs great work in which she igmt present Ds | gy gerlin. Moran has deen in London over sevens gaged. Yeon years—an Qotedilavian. ! NS

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