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. r" 6 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1874.—-TRIPLE SHEET, ae a BALENE DY Pct ALES SEER SRE EA I OW Oaths of Office and Their Victation. | of Congress; but that having been merely) Chambord to France—“Barkis Is NEW ¥ ORK HERALD The hinge on which the whole case of Gard- sentenced to forfeit their offices, but ned Witlin’.” | i : . ne | elared incapable of holding any other office, French publie men, in th ini f th BROADWAY AND A? TREET. ner and Charlick turns is the question whether | Te z . egy gh “ Pp en, in the opinion 0! 8 siti Ca wt SS m they violuted their oaths of office. Governor | President Grant had forthwith appointe ie them | outside world, constantly lay themselves open JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Dix assumes that they did, and if his opinion | to each other's places—Durell to Arkansas | to the charge of inconsistency. Even 0 ex- OROPRIETOR, pes All business or news letters and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New York Henan. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. ‘ LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. and Advertisements will be Subscriptions received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS TO-moRROW. | Serer ; THEAT! No. 54 Broadway.—SaV WOMAN'S WILL, at 5 PB. aL Little. MIQUE, OM THE WRECK; OR, closes atl: POM. J. 2 MUSEUM, stree? —DARING DICK, WAMP ANGELS, at 5 P! Broadway, corner of 1 at ¢ 143 that the Governor's action rests upon solid legal grounds. The sophistry of Mayor Have- fuse the public mind as to the nature of offi- two classes—‘assertory” oaths and ‘“‘promis- sory” oaths—which are so dissimilar in their character that the penalties visited upon the violation of one class have no application to the other. The chicanery employed in defence | of the convicted Police Commissioners con- sists in confounding this clear legal distine- tion, The oaths administered to witnesses in a court of justice are included in the first | class; oaths of office belong to the other; the question of their respective violation is determined by different rules. ks A person who violates bis oath by false | testimony in a court commits the crime of | perjury, tor which he can be tried and pun- | ished; but a person who violates an oath of office is never indicted for perjury. This dif- is correct not only was their pretended resig- | nation null, but their reappointment by Mayor | ¥' Havemeyer is a monstrous violation of law. | A candid examination of the subject will show meyer's apologists lies in their attempt tocon- | cial oaths. Oaths are divided by jurists into | land the Arkansas jndge to New Orleans— | hat would the country have said to so in- famous a trick? Besides an outburst of scorn for its mora! obliquity it would have been | | said that the President himself deserved im- | | peachment on legal grounds for attempting to exorcise the pardoning power in cases where the constitution has forbidden it, that instru- ment declaring that reprieves and pardons | | shall not extend to cases of impeachment. | ‘The Mayor has no more right to grant par- | | dons in any case than the President has in cases of impeachment, and as he cannot do it | directly he cannot cheat the law and do it | indirectly. He has virtually usurped the pardoning ‘power, which belongs to Governor Dix, and we cannot doubt that he will be ' made to repent of his folly. Glorious Fourth and Its Cele- | bration. | The usual amount of patriotism and powder appears to have been expended on yesterday's celebration in this city, and, according to the telegraphic despatches, our neighbors seem to have kept up the observance of the day with commendable spirit. It is the privilege of the The alted a personage as the Count de Chambord, | it seems, is not altogether tree from this grave taint. It is only a few months since the loyal supporters of the Bourbon pretender | offered to procure him a crown if only he would consent to wear it under the tricolor. The Count has all hig lifetime been in pur- suit of the bauble that was proffered him, yet when his faithful henchmen came to lay it at his feet he spurned it haughtily, because it was sought to deprive him of the cherished white flag, which was supposed to be emblematic of his knightly purity and honor. This proof of attach- ,;ment to principle quite astonished both the Count’s friends and his enemies, It was startling to find a French politician so | consistent, and while the world laughed at the modern Quixote, who put away a crown for the sake of a stripe or two of color, more or less, in the national flag, quite an unnec- essary amount of praise was showered on the Count for his supposed consistency. Of course there were found unbelievers who | asserted that the Count only made the fuss about the flag when he discovered that his | “holding ont,” as Mr. Kennard will show in his discourses to-day. These are among the principal topics to be treated to-day by our local pastors and preachers. Another War Cloud. A Londen correspondent calls attention to a difficulty “the serious character of which it would be quite impossible to overstate,” “which has arisen between the French and German governments. It seems that the French mili- tary authorities have recently resolved upon fortifying the eastern frontier, now wholly un- protected, without a single fortress between Paris on the one hand and Metz and Stras- burg on the other capable of detaining an in- vading army twenty-four hours. It was decided that new fortifications should be constructed at Verdun, that a first class fortress should be constructed at Langres, and that what is called the trowée de Belfort should be made impass- able by a system of permanent works, Upon | learning of this resolution, the correspondent says upon good authority that the German government informed France that these | forts could not be built. te) Bde be true,’ says the correspondent, “it | is an interference in the internal con- cerns of France which is equally indefensible | andimpolitic. These fortifications are purely \ defensive works. Their construction cannot be considered as conveying even the most | <o-sctiee tieadabiaat tions of privacy the better. In New York Mr. Freeman Clarke declines a renomination. His health is uncertain, and Washington will not tempt him, If this tendency on the part of tha veterans to retire from the ranks con- tinnes we shall have a raw House in the Forty-fourth Congress. What is the cause of this sudden: aversion to public life? The Pith of the Religious Press. ‘The religious press evidently does not take much stock in the Golden Age seven column story about the Beecher-Tilton scandal, ‘for only one loca) journal notices it at all this week, and that one, the Independent, briefly im its news columns, and for which it makes an apology, on the ground that Dr. Bacon’s ar- ticles in its columns drew forth Mr. Tilton’s statement. But none of the city papers touch it editorially, except the Baptist Weekly. The Chicago Standard treats the case as if it be- lioved that Mr. Beecher hes sinned, but neither human nor divine justice requires imister who thus falls is to become sarily an outeast and a branded man for the rest of his days.” . It thinks there is ‘too much method” in Mr. Tilton’s hallucination, | if it be such, and in Mr. Beecher's brief note, to credit it wholly to insanity. -‘An innocent man, or one not conscious of a deep wrong on | his own part, never,’’ says the Standard, “writes in such terms of utter humiliation and pach A ha T | henchmen did not have the required majority S$ BROOKLYN THEATRE. 5 P. closes at 10:46 | MRS. CONWA THE SEVEN DWAR PM Broadway, betw HOF: OK VHE Mr. Joseph Wheelock am BOWE Bowery,—VARIETY TONY PASTOR'S OPERA ARTETY ERTAIN ME, we. M. Bowery. closes at Ui CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Fifty-nintn street and Sev nue. —LLOMAS’ CON. | CERT, at 3 P.M. ; closes at Lu M VOLOS: M, Broadway, corner of Thirty-ifth LONDON RY NIGHT, at 1 FP. M.; cloves at 5 P.M. Same at7 P.M; closes wt 10 P.M, ROMAN HIPPODROME, Maison avenue and’ “8 eet. —GRAND | ¢ ixth str EANT—CONGRESS OF NATIONS, at L:30 P.M. and P.M. TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Sunday, July 5, 1874, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be rainy early in de day and afierwards clear and cool. | Our Genwan Lerrers, on the Church and State question and the drama, will be found ef much interest to-day. Tae Sewzvre or THE Heraup in Paris con- taining M. Rochefort’s manifesto is sugges- tively and instructively discussed in our Paris correspondence. Tr Is Srarep that the necessary papers to test the legality of the reappointment of the convicted Police Commissioners were pre- pared last night, and will be acted on to-mor- row morning. It is also stated that a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen is to be called for Tuesday for the purpose of prepar- ing charges against Mayor Havemeyer, to be Presented to the Governor of the State. tween the two classes of oaths. In trials for punishing imperfections or lapses of memory or statements which are not deceptive in in- tention as well as false in fact. But it is absurd to transfer this principle to the viola- tion of official oaths, which stand on an entirely different footing. required to be taken by public officers than the forfeiture of their offices. They may be degradation from office. has been abused. Such being the state of the penalty, there is a corresponding difference in the rule for de- termining crime. Perjury is established by proving that the things sworn to were false at the time of testifying. Only one-half the charge of violating an oath of office. suffices to prove that the official action was contrary to law, without any offer of proof to show that the violated law was known to the offending officers. The reason why this is un- necessary is that an officer who swears that he | will faithfully administer a law thereby binds | himself to studyand understand its pro- | visions. To gain a proper acquaintance with | his duties is an essential part of the obligation | he undertakes by his oath. The well known principle of criminal jurisprudence, that “ignorance of the law is no excuse,’’ applies | with peculiar force and propriety to public \ officers. It would be hard, indeed, when Sumner’s Lire.—A New England news- paper announces upon authority that H. W. Longfellow, the poet, is about to write the life of Sumner. Mr. Longfellow is at the head of American literature; no American, certainly, holds so high and honorable a place. His relations with Sumner were those of pe- culiar intimacy, and he would bring to his work not only the highest culture, but a lov- ing tenderness of criticism which would make Tue German Jovgnais inform us that Pro- fessor Greist, an eminent German writer, is ebout to leave for America for the purpose of making researches in the State archives for a history of the American constitution. We are also informed that the Professor will be the guest of President Grant during his stay. If this is true the Professor had better post- pone his visit until the President returns from Long Branch. The archives of our seaside capital are, we fear, not rich in material effecting the constitution. Tae Intettect or Women.—The Dean of | Chester recently made a speech in which he quoted the opinion of the examiner of Latin at the collegiate schools to the effect that, com- paring the girls with the boys who had been studying during the same time, he would give 8 verdict decidedly in favor of the girls. The tendency of modern inquiry is to show con- clusively that the long accepted theory that sex affects the mind, and that men are inhe- rently more intellectual than women, is erro- neous. When we give women the same op- portunities in modern society that we give | men, in the way of industry and education, | what is calied the woman question will settle itself. Josticz in THE Sovrn.—The New Orleans | Bulletin complains of the conduct of Judge ordinary members of the community, who have no access to the statutes, are not dis- charged from penalties by their ignorance if the officers who are furnished at the public expense with copies of the Jaws they are called to administer could plead ignorance in bar of punishment, especially in a case like the present, where the law is so perfectly plain that a man needs only to be awake to under- stand it correctly on the first reading. ‘‘A mistake,” says Blackstone, ‘in point of law, which every person of discretion not only may, but is bound and presumed to know, is in criminal cases no sort of defence.”’ Having thus proved that ignorance of the law is no excuse, it clearly follows that the only proof required for convicting the Police Commissioners of violating their oaths is proof that they have violated the law which they had sworn to administer. Of course, proof in the loose, popular sense is not sufficient; it form and pronounced valid by some compe- case. Messrs. Gardner and Charlick have been regularly tried by a court of criminal jurisdiction, convicted by a jury and sen- tenced by a judge for violating a plain pro- vision of law. This is conclusive legal proof of all that needs to be proved in showing that public officers have violated their oaths. What is the purpose of an official oath? It is g security required by the authority that imposes it that the officer will fulfil his law he thereby violates his oath and forfeits his office, and no plea of ignorance or honest intentions can exempt him from the conse- quences. His oath bound him to know the law; to use proper care and diligence in learning the duties of his office was one of the most important things he swore to do. It is ‘Woods and Governor Kellogg sitting in a back room playing ‘‘set back enchre'’ while the jury in the Grant parish trials were out trying | of justice, is consistent with a faithful observ- | to agree on a verdict. ‘The lives of eight | ance ot the oath of office. If it be not criminal / men,” says the critical Bulletin, ‘‘were being balanced between life and death at that very time in the neighboring jury room as the Judge watched for ace and right bower to turn up.’’ Furthermcre, according to the | Bulletin, “this is a fit commentary on the | condition of the people of Louisiana, and no argument could be more effective.” Weagree with the Bulletin. Certainly no argument could be more effective. No More or Tuis.—A Western journal nominates Chief Justice Waite for the Presi- dency. Let there be an end of this. Mr. Waite was made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court because he was a better republican than | Cushing and not quite so much of a partisan | a3 Williams; he represented clever, unspotted | wmediocrity, and had lived so even and gentle @ life that even a bad tempered Senate could not reject him. This is no reason why he should be nominated for the Presidency. absurd to say that a criminal breach of the law, proved and punished as such by a court why does the law punish it? But in what can its criminality consist if the convicted Com- missioners did nothing contrary to what the | law required in imposing the oath? What | ®% gravely as England; and if it can by any security does the oath afford if officers may do , ™eans be drawn into a precedent that o | things worthy of conviction and punishment | Spanish butcher like Burriel can take by a criminal court without infringing it? It | is an odd notion indeed that the Police Com- | missioners were faithfully keeping their oaths while committing a misdemeanor which the law forbids and punishes, Being out of office fora violation of their | oaths they can be legally restored only by the | joint action of Governor Dix and Mayor | Havemeyer, and not by the Mayor alone. The possibility of their restoration depends | upon an exercise of the pardoning power, which is vested in the Governor and not | shared by the Mayor. The forteiture of their | offices is a legal penalty of violating their oaths, | and as the Mayor does not possess the pardon- | ing power he cannot shield them from legal More than all, the fact that « public man accepts this supreme and almost sacred office | should make him abandon all Presidential | hopes and aspirations. The ambition of Mr, Chase, when he was Chief Justice, injured his by any such ridiculous subterfuge as shifting but more than, under the cireumstances, should administration and in time brought him to an | untimely grave. Let Mr. Waite’s friends | place of the other. beware of this temptation, It can only injure him and detract from the dignity of the office. punisoment. If Governor Dix should pardon them Mayor Havemeyer could reappoint them, but not otherwise. The Mayor cannot circumvent the law and pardon misdemeanors ach of these convicted officers into the former , As a parallel case, sup- | pose that two United States judges had been | impeached and deposed during the late session ference in penal consequences is sufficient of party ont of office to take advantage of the itself to demonstrate a wide distinction be- | perjury the law excuses honest error, never } There is no other | penalty for violating the promissory oaths example was, no doubt, followed by their punished for other crimes or misdemeanors committed in their official capacity, but for the perjury or quasi-perjury involved in a disregard of their official oaths they cannot | y.combles the powder crackers, fizzing and be punished as a separate offence except by The legal sanction of the oath is not the ordinary penalty for perjury, but removability from the trust which | yore like the rockets, which shoot upwards | false and that the witness knew them to be | of this proceeding is necessary for supporting | It | must be legal proof; it must be given in due | tent legal authority having jurisdiction of the | duties according to law. When be breaks the | | poor, ignorant depositors are selling their | national anniversary Yo arraign the party in | office for all sorts of wicked designs against | the independence we celebrate, and to set | forth in langnage elaborately frescoed with adjectives the necessity of restoring the opposition to place and power if we would | preserve the government founded by our | fathers. Of course, the Tammany democracy | availed themselves of this privilege, and their brethren in other localities, On the other. hand, the party in power generally assumes | the right to glorify the anniversary, as if it | were especially their anniversary, and as if all | its glories were their glories. The gpposition popping, scattering their fire indiscrimi- | nately and making a great noise while doing but little damage. The ‘ins'' are | into the air and spread ont their splendors | with a brilliant magnificence calculated’ to | make the spectator forget the stick that soon | falls to the earth, We presume the adminis- tration celebrators made rockets of them- selves yesterday, as usual. Our columns unfortunately show a greater | number of casualties than we are ordinarily compelled to record, There were shootings | and burnings, some fatal, and fires of more or | less consequence. These things are the penal- | ties of our exuberant patriotism. They are to | be expected when pistols and fireworks are toys | for twenty-four hours in the hands of children, | and men who are more reckless than children, and when we allow ourselves and our families @ license from which we should shrink on any | other day in the year. Of conrse it is all right and proves the intensity of our | Americanism, even if the most enthn- | siastic celebration of the day comes beyond | | question from Germans and Irishmen. Nevertheless, but few persons grieved when | the rainstorm of last evening partially put a | stop to the patriotic bombardment in the | streets or will fail to enjoy the calm of to- | night and to feel grateful that the “glorious | Fourth” will not come again until next year. Spain and the United States. The Nationa! Republican has a mysterious article, evidently speaking by authority, in | reference to the relations between Spain and | | the United States especially arising out of | the Virginius case. ‘Mr. Cushing's efforts,” | says the Republican, “shave been so flagrantly misstated and misrepresented that it is proper to explain in this connection the position | which he reallv occupies. By the terms of | the protocol all questions arising from the difficulty after the surrender of the Vir- | ginias, including reciprocal reclamations, |are to be the subject of consideration | and arrangement’ between the two gov- ernments, and in the event of no agree- ment being reached they are to be the sub- | ject of arbitration. The negotiations of Mr. Cushing, it is well known, have been | made under this provision of the protocol, | and can consequently end in nothing but | arbitration. At the same time it is possi- | ble, although there is no anthentic infor- | mation to sustain the assertion, that our | government may be induced, in view of | the change of government at Madrid and | | the activity of the British government in pressing its demands for reclamation, to in- sist more vigorously than it has for several months past that some definite conclusion shall be reached, and that Spain shall no | longer be allowed to delay results by. means of | her characteristic temporizing policy.” This confirms the views we recently expressed on this subject. We are glad to see that the gov- | ernment has shown its resolution that “Spain | shall no longer be allowed to delay results by | means of her characteristic temporizing policy.”” Nothing could injure the prestige of this government in Spain or in any of the | Spanish possessions more than any weakness | to allow England to enforce demands upon Spain that we do notalso enforce. We suffered | Americans on the high seas and shoot them without trial then we have no power to pro- tect our flag. Tue Frezpman’s Savincs Bank.—No event more unfortunate has recently occurred than the suspension of the Freedman’s Savings | Bark. We had hoped from the earnest assur- ances of Frederick Douglass, in his letter to | the Henawp, that the bank was only in tem- porary embarrassment, that the assets far exceeded the liabilities, and that in a little time, with care and patience and prudence, all would be well. Now we learn that the | business has suspended, that many of the | pass bookg for a large discount, and that the Bank Examiner thinks the assets will pay ninety-three cents on a dollar to depositors. ‘This will be a loss of seven per cent on the principal alone—not as much as we feared, be incurred. The whole business is very | lifetime | after his preordained time. on the part of Mr. Fish. We cannot afford | | to make him King of France despite the wishes of the French. However that may be we leave to the historian to decide; but it is evident from the last manifesto of this aspir- | ant to a throne that be bas changed his royal mind, and is ready to pocket his white flag and his opinions—for the fee of a crown. Some person will be shocked by this in con- sequence, and we may expect that charges of inconsistency will be levelled at the Count. None but shallow observers, however, are likely to fall into this error. When the Count might have had the crown he has spent his trying to obtain he refused it on some ridiculous pretence. Now that he can- not have the bauble he weeps like a naughty boy and is ready to promise enything to secure what a few months ago he spurned | with the lofty pride which suits so well a King. Poor Count, fated to be misunder- stood! - Like Quixote he, by some mischance or oversight of fate, was born some centuries He tries to be a | knight, ‘without fear and without reproach,” and only succeeds in making himself the laughing stock of the world. Had his genius leaned towards war he would cerlainly have furbished up some of the old armor which his ancestors wore to make them look like sol- diers, and made the tour of Europe, succor- ing distressed damsels and figuring in the police reports. Fortunately his mind received another bent, and the only weapon he uses is—appropriately enough—a quill plucked from some royal goose. This weapon he uses consistently enough to hurt himself. His aim in life is to show what wretched stuff goes to make up a king, and, true to this destiny, whatever he does is tinged with the gro- tesque. So far as we understand his procla- mation there are two points that he does not concede—the tricolor flag and universal suffrage. In one of these is involved the glory of France, in the other its manhood. There can be no permanent government that ignores them, not even with the Count de Chambord | at its head. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The patriotism born of the National Anni- versary has swelled the breasts of a few of our city pastors, and to-day they will relieve themselves of a little of the exuberant joy that they feel im view of the ninety-eighth anniversary of our independence. But as there are two kinds of liberty, the real and the counterfeit, Dr. J. B. Wakeley will talk about ‘Real Liberty’’ this morning, and in his evening’s discourse will show what is the nation’s exaltation and what its reproach. Dr. J. M. Ludlow will sharpen the spurs of the American eagle for the ‘‘National Danger’ that he sees impending and of which he will speak this morning. And Rev. J. M. Buckley, of Summerfield church, Brooklyn, who has just declined the greatness of a doctorate of divinity, which a college, in its simplicity, thrust upon him (on the principle that as “good wine needs no bush,” neither does a good theologian need doctoring), will speak to-day of the ‘‘Elements of Danger and Perma- nence in Our Country.” And Rev. Mr. Ken- drick, of Williamsburg, will swell himselt this evening over the ‘‘National Fourth of July.” Dr. Samson, of Harlem, may bring his contem- plation of ‘Christ's Law of Freedjom’’ within it is doubtful if he will do it. He will, how- ever, take up the subject of ‘‘Recreation,” and show how Christ took his vacations in the coun- try, preaching the Gospel wherever he went. The recent disaster in Syracuse is too fresh in the minds of our readers to need any par- ticular reference at this time. The bare fact itsclf that Rev. George T. Dowling, the pastor of the bereaved flock and shattered church, that disaster this evening in Laight street church, will draw the people to that place to hear the tale themselves. Mr. Hepworth, who to-morrow will start towards the North Pole on a vacation, will to- day, before he goes, take a trip mentally towards the plains of ancient Babylon, and, looking in on the King’s palace, will tell us what he saw at the feast of Belshazzar. Re- turning Lome in the evening, he will take a glance at, the kingdoms that have passed and are passing away, and will demonstrate thore- from that there are but one King and kingdom eternal—Christ and Hiskingdom. Mr. Parry, of Philadelphia, will show how we, too, may become eterual by taking Christ as our life. This ‘the thief on the cross’’ did and was saved. Theologians evidently think that when Christ began His ministry He took texts as they do snd preached sermons—not as they do. ‘The Saviour's First Next” will be Dr. Fulton's text this morning. That text was one that John the Baptist laid down when his head was given to the damsel—it was ‘Repent and believe.” This was the beginning and the ending of Christ's preaching, and is the substance of every faithful minister's teach- ing. And whas this religion has done for Dr. Francis Mason, of India, it can do for any painful, and, although we do not have much confidence in investigations, we shouid like to see this corvoration thoroughly scrutinized, working man, as Dr. Fulton will demonstrate this evening, ‘Success or failure in lite’ de- pends upon endurance and perseverance. or . distant hint of a menace against Germany; | their necessity in a military point of view is acknowledged even by Prussian military writers."’ It has often been said, and not without rea- son, that the Germans would: never permit France to complete her military organization. “But,’’ as this correspondent well observes, “the construction of three large fortresses to cover Paris, along a frontier hne some-- thing over one hundred and fifty miles in length, is a purely defensive measure; and if it be really true that Prussia has set her face against it then a renewal of the war is at the mercy of the least incident. It is not possible that the French government can acquiesce in the pretension of Prussia to prohibit their attempt to protect an open line | of frontier, and surely public opinion in Europe will protest against so brutal an abuse of power. There is no clause in the Treaty of Frankfort to prohibit the construction of frontier fortresses by France, and it may be hoped that if this pre- posterous pretension is persevered in the great Powers will interfere for the protection of France. Ifthe Prussians had dismantled Metz and Strasburg there might be a show of reason in their objecting to the fortification of the French frontier; but, considering the large extension they have given to the works at Strasburg.and Metz, under existing cir- cumstances this injunction is an intolerable abuse of force.” For a country ‘resolved upon peace,” as the Kaiser informs us every few days that Ger- many is, there are more warlike indications and uneasy manifestations of suspicion and | fear than we have seen in any nation since the | time of Napoleon L Disraeli on Coming Events. During his long enforced retirement the em- inent leader of the British conservatives has evidently been casting the horoscope of Eu- rope. He comes back to the more practical world armed with the mysterious knowledge | of the future, and, prophet like, he sounds at once a note of alarm. According to Mr. | Disraeli ‘Europe is nearer the great crisis’’ than any one imagines. What is the meaning of these mystic words spoken by the British Premier? Has the child of Zion been reading writing on a wall? The race from which the Premier springs has been ever noted for pow- | the range of the patriotism of the day, though | | ers ot prophecy, and this cirenmstance natu- | the Southern Cross standing up against the rally adds to our desire to be taken more fully into Mr. Disracli’s confidence. Where dces the danger menace,“ and what is its nature? We have no skill in read- | ing anything on walls save bill posters, and they seldom repay the trouble. We are, therefore, anxious that the far-seeing gentle- man now at the head of the British govern- ment may come to our rescue. Is war threat- ening in the East? Has the sign of the Great Bear been seen to incline towards India, or is ‘remorse as those used by Mr. Beecher in his etter.” It would be glad, therefore, if the silence could be broken in some way and the secret be let out. It might prove to be not quite so black and bad as it'is now imagined. The Baptist Weekly thinks the hypocrisy of Tilton’s ‘‘regrot’’ and ‘reluctance’ in pub- lishing the story is too manifest to deceive any one. ‘But, it adds,” “if at the worst it should appear that a noble and great souled man has been on some oceasion betrayed into conduct which plunged him into self-reproach and grief—feelings to which smaller natures are strangers—we shall feel that the fact can- not eclipse the record which he has mado for himself in this past twenty-five years as a mighty champion in every good cause.” The Weekly thinks that when all comes to be known Mr. Tilton will have abundant cause to regret his course. The Independent continues to make Professor Swing’s trial the anvil on which it hammers and beats out Calvinism to a thinness that even Calvin himself might see the light, through. It shows the contradiction in the teachings of the Presbyterian seminaries and the pulpits of that Church with its creeds and catechisms, and hence concludes that lying is means of grace with some people. The Jewish Messenger deals with Judaism as a practical religion, and therefore contends that itis absurd to suppose that a Jew who lives in utter disregard and wilful violation of the commandments of God can on his dying bed utter Israel's watchword, Shemang, and go straight to heaven. It contends that there must be the life of faith if there would be the death of the righteous and their inheritance. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mark Twain 1s at the St. Nicholas Rotel. Brussels has just opened 9 Jardin Mabille. St. Louis has no first class theatre, This is nuts for Chicago. Chief Justice Waite arrivea at Toledo, Onto, yesterday. | Isit Tarquin and Lucretia or Joseph and Lotli- | phar'’s wife? “Our policy is peace,” said Serrano in Madrid at the exhibition, Glover will return to the Gold Coast as ‘‘chtef administrator.” Assemblyman F. A. Alberger, of Buffalo, ts regis- tered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Japtain Clarke, of the British Army, ts quat- tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Grant had “a Jewell in his head,” like another feliow celebrated for holding on, Senator Thomas M. Norwood, of Georgia, has apartments at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Thomas H. Ruger, Commandant of Wesy Point, is residing at the Hoffman House. Congressman George M, Adams, of Kentucky, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Captain W. H. Thompson. of the steamship Britannic, 1s stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘The Caldwell (Ohio) Republican says they want @ good tanner there. They can have Grant if they walt. ‘The boys had so much fun at the Encopnia at Oxford, England, that the newspapers cali it “@ riot.” North German star? Perhaps it is Belgium that is in danger, though so long as Earl | Russell lives to shield that plucky little king- | dom we do not fear for its safety. Or the | French Republic may totter towards its grave. © But we are lost in speculation and must wait | until the British Premier enlightens us. Let | that great man speak at once; a whole legion of Hznap correspondents wait upon his breath ready to scatter to the four points of | ths earth to note the advances of the coming | storms. There now is a grand opportunity to make the newspaper world his debtor for life. | Ayorner Canasmry.—This has beon thus far a year of sorrows. In the East inundations | and storms on the angry coast, in New York poverty that menaced us with starvation, in | the Southwest freshets and floods. Now we and who himself narrowly eseaped death at | hear from the extreme Northwest of what is | the time of the accident, will tell the story of called the grasshopper plague. The Chicago Tribune says that the grasshoppers have laid waste a section of country sixty miles wide and extending indefinitely from the southern border in the direction of the Northern Pacific | Railroad. At the present rate of progress the destroyers will run over the border some time before the close of the season. Despatches re- ceived in St. Paul represent that there are four thousand people in the devastated region with- out food and in danger of starvation. Legis- lative aid is asked, and we shall probably have an appeal to the charity of our citizens, an ap- peal which will be gladly considered. The news of this gmevous calamity merely con- firms the predictions that were made last year in these columns as to the probable reappear- ance of the grasshopper in Iowa and Minne- sota and the great suffering likely to ensue. Dnrorpine Ovt.—Pending the canvass for Congress that will soon be upou us we note an unusual number of old members withdraw- ing from the field. In Massachusetts Mr. Da retires, after many years of efficient service, stained only by his connection with the Crédit Mobilier. Mr. G. F. Hoar will also seck private life, as well as E, R, Hoar. We shall miss the latter gentleman from the floor, as he is a man of unusual merit and character. Mr. G. F. Hoar’s unfortunate despatch about tho Boston weigher showed that he was simply a pinchbeck statesman after all—a politician thinly silvered with cant—and the soouer he resumes the avoca- | ganized thieves who call Leading liberals in the English Parliament are called “the imaginary leaders of an imaginary party.” Assistant Attorney General ©. S, Fairchild ar rived from Albany last evening at the Hotmen House. Janin‘s funeral was attended by a detachment of infantry, for he was a Knight of the Legion o Honor, ‘The police in Paris have discovered & band of or- themselves “Green Cravats.”” Nearly every one in Paris went to Jania’s faneral except Thiers and the Orleans princes, but the latter sent their cards. The son of the ex-Queen of Spain, the Prince | Alfonso, will leave Vienna and continue his studies in the Jesuit college at Louvain, Belgium. Bismarck 1s reported to have said, “As the French are going on we have nothing todo. Tney are doing enough. [shall go to Kissingen.” Rev. Mr. Hepworth to-morrow leaves New York fora tmp to Newfoundiand, which comparatively unknown land he purposes to investigate on foot. By a decree of June 7, 1874, the President of the French Republic gives a gold medal to Captain John Ross, of the American ship Hamilton, of Boston, for ald rendered to the French ship Eugénie at sea, J, A. Macgahan, our correspondent to Khiva, has received from the Russian government tle cross of the Russian miiltary Order of St. Stantae 1aus, with the swords crossed, and inscribed with the words, “For Bravery.” And now one more evidence of French decay. The very cannon the Germans captured won't make good bells. Four attempts to make these trophies into a bell for the town of Cologne have failed. All the notes are fuise, Concha decimated two companies of artillery just before his death. They were insubordinate. | He had them all paraded and tried by court mur- tial in the open air. They were found guilty and every tenth man was sentenced to six years’ hard labor. In England they sing now about the Home Secretary— ne a a jolly good fellow, For ever the rads may think, or he’s Shortened the hours of work ‘And lengthened the hours of drink. Gambetta, says the Nouveltiste of Rouen, t# not | entitied to a seat in the French Assembly, because he is not a citizen possessing political rights, Hw father was a Genoese, and though he wus himself born tn France ne did not declare on reaching his majority, a8 the law requires, his choice of country. High times in Roiterdam new. All the hotel proprietors have received photographs of Roches fort from the police, with orders not to entertain him if he comes, and all the policemen also have received similar photographs, with orders to arrest the man that looks like them, | Excessively critical comparisons of faces in the | streets and hotels with the furtively handled pho tograph, and comical contretemps of all sarta.