The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD) BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subseriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. Volume XXXIX..... AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, aa saat THEATRE COMTOU No. 54 Broadway.—SaVED THE WRECK; OR, 6, 1874.-WITH SUPP LEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY tion—WiLl the President Speak? We hold it to be the plain duty of President bodings and misgivings of the country respect- ing hissupposed intention to be again a can- didate for his present high office. When the Governor of an important State, who is on friendly terms with the President and has | been favored with a confidential interview at | the White House, comes before the public to defend himself against the imputation of favoring a third term, and his defence is a virtual admission of the truth of the charge, set the question at rest. There are methods Latest Phase of the Third Term Ques- | Grant to put an end to the anxious fore- | it is time for General Grant to interpose and | electioneering purposes. But the enormous growth of Executive patronage since the war tivity of dependent and devoted office-holders, | a majority of the delegates to every political | convention whose action he wishes to control. | The reason why the public mind is so dis- | turbed by the third term question is its knowledge that President Grant can as easily secure a majority of the delegates to the repub- | liean convention of 1876 as he did in 1872, and | that it practically rests in his own choice | whether he will have another nomination or not, Once nominated, it becomes simply a question whether the republican party is stronger than its adversary. If the Executive enables the President to elect, through the ac- | enough by which he can do so without any | patronage has become strong enough to en- | violation of official dtcorum. Among others, | able a President to re-elect himself, against | | he might, without any breach of propriety, | the precedents and public feeling, which stand WOMAN'S WILL, at 6 P.M; closes at low PMO". 2 Lite. address a letter to Governor Kemper, inforra- ing him that his discussion proceeds on a mistaken basis, inasmuch as the present occu- USEUM, th streeL—DARING DICK, SWAMP ANGELS, ats P: Woop's Broadway, corner of Thirti 412 Pa. closes at 42307, M. M.; closes at l0sw P.M. WAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, | MRS. CON . poe SEVEN DWARFS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | didate. He might strengthen his dis- im —— le i belief in EL xen | claimer and secure undoubting be Proamepers betereeny Prince end Ho ton streste. IU A its sincerity by a cogent statement of 10k: Ok, oWE 8, ats P. M.; closes at lu: P.M. ; Air. Joseph Wheelock a! one Burke. the reasons why the faith of the BOWERY TRE, | country in the permanence of our in- Bowery.—VARIEiY ENTERIAINMENT; opens at 8P_ | stitutions ought not to be disturbed Mj chosés at 10:3) P.M re | by so alarming an experiment. It would be a | becoming and reassuring thing for the Presi- | dent to say, repeating and endorsing the lan- | guage of Jefferson, ‘I should unwillingly be | the person who should furnish the first ex- | ample of prolongation beyond the second | term of office.” As Governor Kemper is the | first official person who has publicly dis- | cussed this question he has furnished a good nd | oceasion for such a contradiction by President TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 PL M.; closes at 10:30 P. ARDEN, -nintn s and Seventh ayenue.—THOMAS’ CON. Fit; CERT, ats P.M. ; closes at OL Broadway, corner of Th rty-tift NiGHT, at 1 PM; closes at 5 P.M. closes at 10 P.M. ROMAN HIP avente and Tw NT—CONGRE2S OF treet.—LONDON BY Same at7 P. M.; WITH SUPPLEMENT. | New York, Monday, Jaly 6, 1874. From our reports this morning te probabilities ave that the weather to-day wil be clear. | Tue Comer was again visible last night, thus affording another opportunity to obsery- g a sight of the erratic visitor. We bel. it has not yet been remarked that the present year was chosen for the excursion of the comet because it is an off year in poli- ties. Otherwise it could have expected to attract little attention, at n this country. Parties wm France are negotiating with each other for concentration in view of the serious character of the political situation. Apparently the legitimists are about to make ® real effort to place the Count de Chambord on the throne, but MacMahon is too good a republican or imperialist to stand idly by till it is effected, | Bisxor Cusmays has been canonically de- posed from the minisiry of the Protestant Episcopal Church and from his office of Assistant Bishop of Kentucky. How absurd all this seems when we remember that apos- tolical succession is admitted in his case and that he had already leit the Protestant Epis- copal Church to found a Protestant Episcopal Church of his own. Wasi N has been having one of those old-fashioned storms in which dust is the most active agent that it used to have in the days before it obtamed a delezate in Congress, a Governor and a Board of Public Works ‘The storm was perhaps the result of the | change from the new order of things, though | we presume it is not to be attributed to the | fact that there is a Blow on the Commission. Tae Sexwoxs Yesrenpay attracted but ite divines, with one or two exceptions, were not in their pulpits, and partly from the fact that even good Christians seem to think that the Lord is willing to grant them leave of ab- sence during the summer. Unfortunately this indisposition to go to church during the warm season indicates that the devil has no time for a vacation. Tue Howanp Counr Manmiat, from the finding which we print this morning, reached the conclusion that General Howard is not guilty; but the President, though he ap- proved it, was apparently of the opinion that the charges are true. In other words, the Christian soldier has been whitewashed gladly by the Court of Inquiry, bat ve: by General Grant. ihe review of the Judge Advocate General is a scathing rebuke of the’ whole transaction. It is seldom that we find army officers acting so much like politicians, es Bost Race at Saratoga bas nbject of immediate importance, : in relation to it has just now a We print this morning sting letters in regard to the com- ing contest. Gradually our intercollegiate races are attracting as much attention & this side of the water as the contests of the uni- ilar interest, some intere Grant as will extinguish this controversy and relieve the widespread public apprehensions. The Governor of a State whom the President correcting the misconceptions of that func- tionary would be fit and timely. General Grant should think some other method of quieting the public mind more | istent with his official position the coun- | try will be too glad of the substan ce to cavil on the form. As the occasion for a distinct denial on the part of the President seemed clear after the | publication of Governor Kemper’s letter, it co. must to all seem well nigh imperative, in view | best acts. of the utterances of Senator Gordon, of | Georgia, which we give in another column. | Senator Gordon, upon his return home, was | interviewed by an Atlanta journalist, and this | topic was somewhat largely dealt with. Gordon spoke of himself as ‘‘very intimate’ | with the President—‘‘almost as much so as | influence. any one’’—and he declared it as his conviction that the President was ‘exceedingly anxious to run again.’’ White House. glimpse of what it would perhaps not be in- | decessors and the settled judgment of the | same duties as heretofore, But if | | | may not re-elect himself for life. pant of the Executive Mansion will not, under | 1 ( | any circumstances, consent to be again a can- | precedents of the government against him, | cpposed to a third term, there ceases to be | any security that a President, once in office, If Grant | cannot be successfully opposed, with all the | it will be vain to resist hiva in any future clec- tion after these precedents and the strong | body of public sentiment by which they are | supported shall have been broken down. If he is elected a third time he will become the | | master of our liberties. He owes it to the country to put an end to this disquieting ap- | | prehension which is so largely shared by our | citizens. If President Grant is not nursing the kind of ambition of which the country suspects him his credit and usefulness require that | he should speedily set this question at rest. Public confidence in his measures and the moral might of his administration are ca stroyed until he convinces his fellow citizens | motives. Every wise as well as every unwise | thing he does or proposes will be attributed \ the charter a conviction for a misdemeanor | invited to his house for a confidential inter- | to sordid, self-seeking ambition unless he | in having violated one of its provisions would | view is not beneath his notice, and a letter | puts a stop to the speculations which fill and | have brought the offender within the operation | Tt was part of poison the political atmosphere. understood during the latter the late session that if the Rights bill passed he would veto it, and many of its friends supposed that he was courting the political favor of the South with a view to its support fora third term. A President whose motives are thus distrusted unsettles and demoralizes the public judg- ment and cannot expect fair play even for his The usefulness of government functionaries depends upon public confidence in their character and disinterestcdness, and so long as it is supposed that General Grant is or forbears to do will be subject to injurious misconstruction, which will fatally impair his If he is wise and seeks the good of the country he will disabuse the public mind of the prevailing idea that he is medi- This sounds almost like a | tating step which the example of Washing- | officers ; feeler of public opinion directly trom the | ton, the strongly expressed opinion of Jeffer- | “The several departments shall continue to | Furthermore, Gordon gives a | son, the uniform precedents set by all his pre- | possess the same powers and periorm the accurate to call a programme. Grant, he | country condemn as fraught with the gravest | herein otherwise provided.”’ But in chapter says, does not care to make his third run asa | peril. Why should he keep the country in a | 755, Laws of 1873, supplemental to the char- party candidate, but as a people's candidate. | state of painful suspense and apprehension, | ter, we find the duties devolved upon the ‘application whatever to the cases of those that he is not acting from selfish, interested | Civil | scheming fora third term everything he does | Fortunately we all know what in such cases when a few decisive, authoritative words | the “people's candidates’’ are. If a man can- | would restore confidence and secure @ candid, | not get a regular nomination of either party | independent judgment of all his future public | ‘whe Convicted Police Commissioners— | Their Incligibility Under the Char- | ter. We have alleged that the convicted Police Commissioners, Charlick and Gardner, have | forteited the offices they held and are ineligible \ for reappointment under the city charter as wellas under the provisions of the Revised | Statutes, This has been denied by the pro- found legal advisers of the Mayor, on the plea that the Commissioners were convicted under the statute of a violation of the Election law of 1872, not involving a violation or evasion of the provisions of the charter. The Assistant Corporation Counsel says:—‘‘Mr. Gardner and Mr. Charlick were not indicted for any offence prohibited by the charter, nor have the provisions of the charter in relation to the conviction of officers of the city gov- ernment, for violation of its provisions, any gentlemen,” It is very desirable that the Corporation Counsel and bis assistants should understand what are the offences ‘prohibited by the charter,” for tho Mayor is supposed to get his law from them, andit may be under their advica that he does not regard it as his duty to ‘keep himself informed of the doings of the severallf department ” or ‘to be vigi- lant and active in causing the ordinances of the city and the laws of the State to be exe- cuted and enforced.’’ Let us see whether the Assistant and Acting Corporation Counsel is correct when he says that the two con- victed Police Commissioners, in violating the provisions of the Election law of 1872, devolv- ing upon them certain obligations and duties that they failed to observe and obey, did not commit an “offence prohibited by the charter."" It will probably be conceded that if the | Election law of 1872 had been embodied in | of section 95 of the charter, which makes it a | misdemeanor to ‘‘wilfully violate or evade any of the provisions of this act’’ and disqualifies | | the guilty party ‘forever after from receiving | or holding any office under the city govern- ; ment.” But if the provisions of the Election | law of 1872, although not copied verbatim | into the charter, are explicitly devolved upon | the Police Commissioners by the charter, then a violation of any of those provisions | must clearly be a violation of the charter | | itself, All we find in the original charter of | 1873 in relation to the Election law or the duties of the Police Commissioners under it is embraced in section 104, which | says:—“‘All the provisions of law now in force in regard to the duration, manner of conducting elections, and canvass, | | estimate and disposition of votes at general | | elections shall apply to each election of city ” and in section 118, which says :— except as Police Commissioners by the Election law of 1872 made their duties under the charter. Section 6 of this supplemental act provides, deal better bestir themselves to attract sober and well-to-do Englishmen, who have money to spend.” The Herald’s Influence Upon Travel and Recent Historical Events. In all ages books of travel have held a high place in literature. Herodotus, the father of history, was a great traveller, and had he lived in our day he would have been a distinguished journalist. Xenophon was as great as a war correspondent as he was active and skilful in conducting the retreat of the ten thousand. Julius Cesar proved by his “Commentaries” that he was as efficientat the front as would be required by the most exacting newspaper. These | are perhaps the best examples in the ancient apparatus now used, to provent disasters ariae ing from mistakes of the signalmen. By the “slotting system’’ the connections of a signal are such that the arm of the lever may be raised to show ‘danger’ bya signalman in either of two neighboring cabins, while the indication ‘clear’ can be displayed only by joint action of the signalmen in both cabins. Every notification which allows the locomo- tive driver to go ahead is thus checked and doubly certified. This simple and common sense contrivance, conjoined with repeaters to tell the signalman how the index is work- ing, and the concatenation of neighboring stations for mutual correction of signals would evidently avert many of the terrible acci- dents, especially those which befall lightning world of men possessing the true journalistic instinct. Had there been newspapers in their | day their letters would have first appeared in the newspapers or elso the correspondents would have anticipated them, both in the daily | journals and in book narratives. Now- | adays soldiers seldom write the stories | express trains, running by hundreds of minor depots without stop. ‘The preservation of intervals between trains is another aspect of the subject which a quite recent accident on one of the great through lines of the Middle States shows has been too little studied by our railway managers. The of their campaigns i because the army | yuo of allowing ten minute or more intervals correspondent does it so much bet- has been well tried in this country and Eu- ter. Indced, there is no overestimating the rope; but the result is conclusive against every scheme of time intervals. No matter what the time allowed may be, in case of a train breaking down failures will occur in the disabled train sending back promptly to warn the on-coming train. The only reliable method of intervalling is by telegraph, work- ing either by band or automatically, so as to inform the engineer, say every two miles (as is done on some of the English railroads) whether he can advance safely. By this ar- rangement special loops of the telegraph wires are provided, and the instant a train is dis- abled the brakeman severs the wire influence of the modern newspaper upon the literature of travel and events. This is well illustrated by three books, which have just appeared from the press in England and this country, by three -correspondents of the Heraup. These are the works of Mr. Stanley on the campaigns of the English in Abyssinia and Ashantee, Mr. MacGahan’s ‘‘Campaign- ing on the Oxus” and Mr. O' Kelly’s ‘‘Mambie Land.'' Three more interesting or valuable books have not been published this season, and each of them represents a different quar- ter of the globe. What Mr. MacGahan says in his pretace, “I travelled through a strange the country under strange circumstances,” is true of both the others. King Theodorus and King Koffee gave Mr. Stanley themes that were unique in interest, and their efforts at resisting the English will long continue among the episodes of his- tory. Mr. O’Kelly penetrated what for a number ofyears had been a terra incognita, and in revealing the condition of the Cuban insurgents gave the world a story of one of those determined struggles for in- dependence which form the most brilliant pages in the history of civilization, These narratives are necessarily an account, to some extent, of the personal adventures of each of the correspondents, for the missions upon which the Heratp sent them required in- trepid courage as wellas acute observation and graphic descriptive powers. And each of them has supplemented his journalistic labors with a book, which is even a more striking testimonial to the greatness of modern jour- nalism than to his literary ability. These books are typical of recent progress, Herodo- tus and Xenophon and Cesar being turned from the traveller and warrior into journalists and war correspondents; the news necessities of the hour affording the opportunities for works that will last long enough to celebrate the necessities which brought them into existence. Let us glance for a moment at the work ac- The and thus notifies signalman at either end of the section that the track is blocked. On all great lines, where trains follow each other at short intervals, because the traffic is heavy, the profits must be large enough to justify the expense of con- structing such telegraphic apparatus. In carrying out such a system in times of fog it is, of course, necessary for the signalmen to stand near the telegraph stations and give the engine drivers detonating warnings and | intimations. Difficult as this must be in England, where fogs so often prevail, it is quite feasible in the United States, requiring only a somewhat larger number of trained employés. Captain Tyler has done a great service to his profession and to the world in thus pre- senting the programme of simplicity in heu of that of multiplicity and confusion. In his elaborate paper he shows that the three- fold pledge of safety lies in the observance of signals by the engine driver, in the working of points and signals by signal- men and in the secured communication of signalmen with one another. The ventilation of the subject will do good by exciting investigation and securing im- provements in his plans, even if they ara defective. The elements of human frailty and mechanical failure must ever develop them- selves in railway management, but they may be reduced to a minimum. The authorilies complished by these young writers. English resolved to make war upon the King of Abyssinia, and Mr. Stanley was di- can secure this by training their responsible employés, by providing them abundantly | other. | in office to play this game in very respectable eluctantly | he has himself put up by a committee of his personal adherents with loud declarations that the people demand this candidate and no General Grant has adherents enough style, and he should not by his silence give strength to the opinion that he will profit by | such a course. Washington, who first set the wise prece- dent of declining a third election, thought | small congregations, partly because the favor- his decision of sufficient importance to be | communicated to the people of the United | No President | | States in a public address. | ever cherished higher and stricter notions, | either of his personal dignity or the | | dignity of his office, | but his views of than Washington; propriety were not | 80 fastidious as to require him to wait until a | third election or a third nomination was | offered him before publicly declining it. The | occasion of his celebrated Farewell Address | | was his determination to retire from office at the close of his second term. He published | | it at an early period, before any steps had been taken for the next election. His illus- | trious example would shield and vindicate General Grant from the unseemliness of de- clining an honor of which there has been no responsible proffer. Washington rightly judged that the people were entitled to know the intentions of the highest officer of their | government. The first paragraph of the Farewell Address is in these words :—‘The | period fora new election of a citizen to ad- minister the executive government of the United States being not far distant and the time actually arrived when your thoughts — mnst be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important | trust it appears to me proper, especially as it | acts? | Hayden's Expedition. After-a long and painful struggle with Con- gress Dr. Hayden obtained an appropriation sufficient te permit him to continue those ex- | exercised by the Board, Commissioners, &c., plorations with which his name has been | tion accordingly is to set out ina few days, and again the Far West will be the scene of active geographical and geological effort. Yet the work of Hayden and his colaborers is not merely scientific, not merely a set of alti- tudes, thermal tables and hard measurements, conveying to the mind nothing but the tape line and the square. These expeditions have an important vealing unknown oases in the desert, in find- ing rich and fertile valleys and great pictu- resque and natural wonders. But a few years have elapsed since that wonderful region of the Yellowstone, converted by the foresight of Dr. Hayden into the National Park, was first discovered. Writers have feebly pic- tured the lofty geysers, spouting hundreds of feet into the air; and the angler has | been told that he could catch trout from | the basin of the Yellowstone while stand- | ing on the edge of o mud volcano, and, without removing the fish from his line, | thus draw it out cooked for his repast. These | are mere incidents of travel in that Colossus of natural wonders where chasms are 80 | profound that a man below is no larger than a prairie dog to the eye of him who looks down from the brink, and where | the swift, broad river at the base of the | canyon becomes as a tiny rivulet. The | | identified during so many years. His expedi- | influence in the develop- ment of the Western Territories, in re- “The Board of Police, Commissioners of | Police, &c,, of the Police Department of the \ city of New York shall possess and exercise | all the powers and perform all the | duties heretofore possessed, performed and | of the Metropolitan Police, district police force and the Police Department of the city | of New York; and all the provisions of law | which related to such Boards, Commissioners, &c., within the city of New York, so faras | they are not respectively inconsistent with | the provisions of the act hereby amended, or | this act, are hereby devolved upon the Board | of Police, Commissioners of Police, &c., of | | the Police Department of the city of New York.” The convicted Commissioners have been found guilty of violating a law all the duties | of which were thus explicitly made their du- | ties under the charter. How can they be held | to have escaped the penalty imposed by the charter for precisely that offence ? Tae Prectovs Merats.—In an article re- cently published by one of the San Fran- | cisco journals valuable statistics as to the products of the gold and silver mines were given. From this report we learn that the total yield in the last twenty-five years in the whole United States has been | fornia alone contributed $1,094,919,098, nearly | all of which is gold. Nevada is credited with | having yielded over $221,000,000, in silver | and gold, while Utab, though reputed to abound in mineral wealth, has thus far only produced some $25,000,000, for her mines | have but recently attracted the attention of | | count of the Abyssinian war. | ney into Central Asia with the Russian forces, rected to represent the Heranp throughout the struggle. So thoroughly was. this service performed that we had full accounts of every- thing that happened in Dr. Johnson’s ‘‘Happy Valley,’’ from the landing of the English till the fall of Magdala. But the influence of journalism upon the important events of the century was not yet sufficiently recognized to call for tl reproduction of Mr. Stanley’s ac- The strides of the Henaup were so rapid, however, that when he was intrusted with a second mission—the discovery of Livingstone—a book became a necessity, and after his third expedition—that with Sir Garnet Wolseley—there was a literary demand for the story of Magdala as well as | of Ashantee. Mr. MacGahan made the jour- and was the only correspondent present at the fall of Khiva, All this the readers of the Heraup well know, for they had the pleasure of perusing his letters detailing his | with the apparatus for discbarging their | duties and by maintaining a discipline among them which, while it permits no looseness, does not overtax their energies. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The comet lo¢ks Ike a planet with the Shah's | plume in his hat, | Senator 8. B. Conover, of Florida, is staying at | the St. Nicholas Hotel. Dr. Pichler, of St, Petersburg Library notortety, | died of apoplexy, June 3. In Chicago a female sexton reserves the gtaves for the young men. % | Captain T. S. Fillebrown, United States Navy, ts | quartered at the Astor House. Mgr. Dupanioup, Bishop of Orleans, bad coa- gestion of the brain, but is better. | Mrs. Abraham Lincoln landed at Cherbourg from New York June 22, and went to Parts. | General W. W. Belknap, Secretary of War, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The correspondence betwaen B. Hilt and A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, 1s to be continued, ‘The Crown Prince and Princess of Germany, family and suite will stay six weeks at Sandown. | cumstances, and his descriptions of the man- | aay | contributions ever made to the American | | could dip it in the hot waters at his feet and | $1,583,644,934, and to this immense sum Cali- | press, It is well known that Mr. O'Kelly adventures and the progress of the Russian army as they came to us full of interest and | fresh with inteliigence. He indeed travelled | through a strange country under strange cir- io 1872 Paris had 3,182 lunatics. Now the num- ber in asylums ts 6,523. Increase attribatable te politics, The Geographical Society of Rome is discussing a pian of instruction lor Miani’s two Central Alri- ners, customs and feclings of the almost un- enero News of Williams’ picnics is regarded as of more known people among whom his journalistic | consequence in many streets in the city than the | duties sent him are among the highest | most reliable information of the comet, Mgr. Guibert, Cardinal Arcubishop of Paris, has | returned from Rome with a gift from the Pope of Raphael's Transfiguration, made in mosaic, Tne London Church Herald says that John Banyan was “a sectarian of some natural ability and no small literary power and poftularity.”’ French printers recently made M. Cremieux re- gara certain proceedings ia the Assembly with “an impossible countenance” for “impassible.” Picnic Williams is not the one referred to as ‘the immortal” of that name, but he will live long in the memories of the little Arabs whom he takes took his life in his hand when he undertook | to bring us news of the Cuban insurrection, | +But he proved himself a brave man and an | able correspondent, and we find the press of the country speaking in kindly terms of the | value of the information his book contains. These three books represent only three of the | capitalists, who now work them ina proper moro striking feats of tho Heranp, and i i or] i} " | versity crews in England, but the future of | manner. Colorado seems to beat Utah, hav- | thoy are only part of the work of a single year, | may conduce toa more distinct expression of | question, then, is, How much of this kind of | out to their first day's delight in the country. the American college clubs, to a great extent, depends upon the results of the racing of the the public voice, that I should now apprize | | you of the resolution I have formed to decline scenery remains unseen and unexplored? To | ing produced gome $30,000,000, while the , But at the saine time they represent the vast 10, FSGS EP sep ieee, S67: SPrYOOe | ee | answer this we take it to be the object of united yield of Washington Territory snd | foid ot journalistic enterprise and show what | Duke de Kochefoucaaid’s resignation of the post tion of Ambassador at London, that “he wiil no present year. This adds a special importance | being considered among the number of those to the Saratoga race. | out of whom a choice is to be made.” If it the Hayden expedition and of the other Oregon was but little over $25,000,000. Since vast power the press has become, both in the parties who go out to ramble among the wil- i ; longer compromise the republic ubroad, and he the excitement caused by the discovery of gold | gathering of news and the writing of history. may ruin the monarchy at home.” Mr. Branscombe, recently United States Consul Hypropuosta Curep.—In another column ‘we publish a highly interesting case of pain- ful importence at the present moment. There, circumstantially related, is a case of a young woman, tweaty-two years of age, who, having been bitten by a mad dog two weeks previously, was taken ill on the 19th day of September. A physician was called who found her in all the convulsions of hydropho- | bia. Five days thereafter she was conva- levcent, the treatment having been that she was deprived of seventy-two ounces of her Dlood by “the cold and early use of the Jancet. won dt Plymouth church Jesterday was the feature among the pulpit Mr. Bercurn’s § discourses, not because it was much more | striking or original than any of the others, | but because it was not the sermon which everybody expected him to preach. It was the religion of joy that he preached, when it was believed that he would have something to say of his own griefs. ‘There was not one word in the discourse about the grave charges which affect his standing as a Christian min- | fester, This may haye been wise, but most people will doubt its wisdom. The Christian minister ought to be above suspicion, and one little sentence, “Not guilty,” from Mr. Beecher’s lips yesterday morning would have been better than all his fine words about the religion of joy was consistent with Washington’s dignity | to make such an announcement previous to | the opening of the canvass it cannot be de- | Togatory to Geneyal Grant. ‘The similar declaration by Jefferson was equally public and still further im advanc? of thé election, The justification, im both cases, consisted in the fi { the possibility of another re-elec- tion wasa mooted topic in political circles, and both Washingion and Jefferson thought it due to the country that it should have early notice of their determination, No subsequent President has made a similar announcement for the suflicient reason that, until now, there has been no subsequent President whose re- election, after a second term, was ever dis- | cussed or even thought of as possible, Bat a third election of President Grant faving be- come the leading political topic of the time he may as fitly speak out on the subject as either Washington or Jefferson. for breaking silence in his urgent, because the question is so much nore disquieting. General Grant's supposed wish to run again has filled the public mind with grave apprehensions which it is his duty to re- move, In Washington’s time and Jefferson's time the inflaence of a President on the elections wes vory trifling. caucuses and political conventions had not The patronage of the govern- | ment was small and it was never exerted for then arisen, derness of peaks about the snowy range of the Rocky Mountains or to dive into the danger- ous canyons of the Colorado. We ghould all remember that a great deal of | careful and thatikless work has been done by | these devoted men, in flidir zeal for accuracy Wy | The reason se is even more | Our present system of | an‘ ambition to labor in suck s manner that their work might receive the coutmendation of the learned societies, and while’ they have been thus conscientious they have not failed to add wealth to the Union and to place be- fore mankind natural attractions unknown in other lauds. We believe that the results of this year’s exploration will not be inferior to those of previous years, in which the title of | the American to the name of ‘The coming traveller’’ has certainly been proudly earned. Tue Accrpent by the falling of a man and his wife over the Fourth avenue improve ment, which will probably prove fatal to one if not both of the victims, is the result of sheer neglect on the part of those con- structing the work. The Heratp long ago called attention to the dangerous condition of the excavations and predicted accidents like the one now reported. No verdict for dam- ages can recompense « loss of this kind, and if our city government was composed of something better than weak-minded Have- | Meyers and Charlicss, intent on perpetuating their own power, the lives of the people would not be exposed to so many risks, has died out, and mining is systematically carried on, the production has steadily in- creased, In 1873 the actual yield of the Pa- cific Slope was $80,287,436, whereas for the year 1872 it was only $70,236,914, which shows a gain of about fourteen per cent. Tho increase is mostly in silver, and meets, there- fore, the dnusually great demand which has lately been made for this metal. Englaad | secures the bulk of the production. Exotisn Cartan Fiowime Into tax Soura.— | Since several of the Soutiern States have ex- | empted capital invested in the development of | their internal resources from taxation North- | een and foreign capital has begun to find profit- able investment there. Many companies have been formed to develop the rice fields of South Carolina, the forests of Florida and Georgia and to manufacture the raw cotton adjacent to the plantations. The English co- | operative associations, we learn from our ex- changes, are looking southward for fields of profitable investment, and one company of | English co-operative rice planters, with a cap- ital of two million dollars, will soon begin ope- rations near Charleston. The Augusta Constitu- ! tionalist, commenting upon these facts, very per- tinently remarks; —‘‘Some anxiety was recently expressed to get an itinoraut newspaper excur- sion party to come here and be wade much of. In all the history of literature there is nothing | more marked than the fact that the news necessities and news facilities of one news- paper in one year should have called out three such books as these. Simplicity and Safety in Railroad Management, As the number of railways go rapidly in- creases it is eucouraging to find pew and well matured plans devised for the prevention of ac- cidents. At the present time, when the railroads are crowded with passenger traffic and every- body who can leave home is projectinga tour or journey on the rail, it is opportune to call attention to an invaluable paper recently read in England by Captain Tyler, the Chief In- spector of Railways. ‘This expericnced and practical engineer, in | the paper referred to, seeks to secure sim- plicity in the signal systems of the great trunk lines as the sine qua non of all safety, speed and economy in their management. The few and eminently simple features of his plan, designed to displace the cumbrous confusion that now prevails, even where railroading has attained its greatest perfection, deserve to be widely published and pondered by those on whose skill thousands of lives depend for safety. One of the most important proposals, Cap- | tain Tyler argues, is the combination of the ‘The parties who were so eager to capture and entertain those festive quill-drivers had a groat “slotting system’’ with the locking and other at Manchester, England, received, ‘on leaving, testimonial from the merchants recognizing his good offices ‘in mitigating the burden of the pro | tective duties.”—Mitigate 1s an excellent name for it. General Beauregard is reported as having re- | ceived and accepted an offer from the Argentine Republic to become its chief engineer—at a salary of $20,000 a year—to direct the construction of defensive works. Take care. He waa one of our chief engineers. The Phuadelphia cremation hoax was iast seen travelling, as a truth, io the columns of @ Bue | charest paper—La Roumante, The Roumaniag | editor moralized on the promptitude with whic Americans put in practice what others discussed as theories and possibilities. The Duchess of Magenta, while getting out of her carriage at the church door at Versailles, feil, but was nothurt. AD ex-Minister rushed to assist her, when the Dachess, who bad regained her feet lan an instant, said:—“You see, M. le Duc, 1 cam | get up when I fall sooner than ministers can.’ {What ts the condition of the femaie foot im | Chicago? The Detroit Free Press wonders what the Chicago women Will do with these useful members, since it is decided that on Western railroads peo | ye cannot ovcupy two places, We have no respect for a community that fails in that essentia: poins, the woman's foot, In Athens the Court of Appeals recognized the justice of the demand of the Turkish government for the treasures found by Schliemann at Troy, ag in accordance with the concession; but as Schiie. mann is a citize [ the United States there was@ diplomatic protest from our representative, and beiore this Was settled the treasures were spirited | away. Therefore tuey Wik nol just yet go lo Come | SLaUtINODIG,