The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1874.—-TRIPLE SHEET, France and the Republic, The situation in France bas a shifting un- certain splendor which never fades. ‘To-day the political heavens are suffused with gaudy republican tints, dashed with glaring memo- ries of the Commune. Yesterday the ori- flamme of Navarre marshalled the faithful hosts of the house of Bourbon, like the sacred sign in the skies which inspired the courage and faith of Constantine. To-morrow, from horizon to horizon we may have all the in- tensity of Napoleon's incomparable and ree | splendent glory. Never w ; midsummer night | in its most electric condition so uncertain. NEW YORK HERALD} aceiaiieaie gees ASM: STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. puwhlished every An- THE DAILY HERALD, day in the year. Four cents per copy. nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yous Hiersxp. | From calm, radiant, glowing tints, we have Rejected communications will not be re- | terrible thunder and lightning _ flashes. | Somehow, for a long time, ever since the ae | Bastile fell, we have had these meteorological | Letters and packages should be properly | conditions of politics in France. We might sealed. | think that now the world would weary of | phenomena so perplexing--that do not end, | but simply change hourly, one transmuta tion after another, only interesting us to-da | because of the fea nd hopes of the morrow. | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | 4 few days since we bad that sudden gust | WN » between Gambetta and Rouher, and its | visable ig attendant consequences, as the poor | ee | Bonapartist Count must think as he | See Oe: ltooks ont of the gloomy window of | Nips the Conciergerie and bemoans the fate AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | 145 failen upon France, when he, a gon- x tleman, must be locked up like a common thief for having assaulted a radical seamp like Gambetta, Then we had the Bonapartist thunderclap, which came from the Depart- ment of the Neévre and was so startling | that faithful, impetuous Count Fleury actually | adorned his person in a soldier's uniform, and | Broatt way, corner of at2P. Mc My JONWAY'S BROOKLYN THBAT a Te ae 0 published himself at Chiselhurst, to the scandal of real soldiers, evidently feeling that the time was at band when he might be called upon to lead another BOWER Lowery.—VARIETY EN My coup d'état, that the Count de If anybody has supposed Chambord is really dead, or too deeply engrossed with his confessor opens at BP. closes at 10:3) P, M. INY PASTO HOUSE, mae a8 PSY at Frohsdorf to think of his ancestry and his ‘ » coy, | throne, be little understands the kingly Sine HOMAS' CON: | oirit that lingers in the manly breast of that rather lame and somewhat stout old gentle- prong ray f aloxpo®’ YY | man, the limping descendant of Saint Lonis. closes 4 We have another proclamation from the royal hand, and we feel, like Cassio, that it is a much more exquisite song than the other. | Henry is ready to take France to his paternal | bosom if only France will come. But nobody seems over-anxious to come to that capacious embrace except General Changarnier, who must now be a hundred years of age, and has | forgotten everything but Louis XVI. and the Reign of Terror. f So the skies change! This instant a flood of ligbt, in a moment utter darkness and ominous, rolling signs that we cannot exactly read, but which have a menacing import when A. Coltaca En en ee oe we think of the Commune days. To be sure, agar a | we have all had high hopes of Marshal Mac- Taack.—The President of Bowdoin College, | yranon, All the world, from the Pope to peda ne a ta ck eo { Cee ae bes eo a ae old | ) Ss % § se standard between science and philosophy and | Casa if hevaa uae? ail eae: religion, and criticised the theories of positiv- | except the single party be happened to ists and the false assumptions of scientists. | please, would cry upon him, we can faney Beepticism has run wild upon the mere|i,, omfort the present position must theories of scientists, mu Lb to the injury of | bring the Marshal, and how much better to hayes ee, ea cgi sa me tee have all parties in France anxious and gervice can be rendered to the cause of | , ri . s . morality, religion and civilization than for | lei cunminai rea ae Ran ory oa iit i 1 , f | for applying a home illustration to a problem to harmonize, r | as grave as that now before usin France we An Exrnasonprvany Divorce Casz.—It is | would compare MacMahon’s position to that of our time-honored Mayor, who broods treet. GRAND son avenue r scien D at U0 P.M. and AGEANT—OUNGE New York, Teaesday, July 7, 1874. From our reports this morning (he probabil are that the weather to-day will be generally clear. Tux Coy or THE Curprex.—No humane person can be silent to the cry of the children tor fresh alr and the green fields. eommon enongh for wives to apply to the courts end get divorces in cases of cruel | over our municipal destinies and selects his treatment by their husbands, but rarely is an | politics and principles as a churchman does application made by a husband for divorce on | his calendar—his Gardner days and his Char- | the ground of cruel treatment by a wife. Snch | lick days, and days when his soul @ case came up, however, before Jndge West- | needs consolation—and he will have brook in the Supreme Courtyesterday. Jules | no comforter but Dispecker, commonly D. Meyer, the complainant, charged his wife, | called Disbecker. The companion in arms of Ellen D. Meyer, with cruel ond inhuman | old Von Twiller smokes his pipe and looks treatment, and so satistied was the Judge with | out upon the scene with about the same in- the truth and gravity of the complaint that he | difference with which, in the early days of the granted the divorce, though, as he said, with | Dutch settlement, he would look at a party great hesitation and reluctantly. There is, | of housewives quarrelling and gossiping in a then, after all, law for the man as well as for | market place. Unless Governor Dix shows the woman when the case } some of the “shoot him on the spot’’ Poor German. and spirit and lifts the old patriarch out | of the seat he has disgraced by a process passage to this country, of a fellow passenger | MOTE effective than refined we shall probably named Schleineken, who, on pretence of get- have him for one or two more terms. And 60, ting these poor people profitable situations in | bless the combined parties in France succced the United States, got from them one | in dislocating the Marshalate from the Repub- Hundred and thirty-five dollars. Their | lic, we shall have the grim and honest old suspicions being aroused they applied on, soldier as firmly fastened upon France as our landing to the Commissioners of Emigra- | YeD« rable Mayor upon New York. Further- tion, Schleineken was arrested, and taken | more, the Marshal shows the true Havemeyer efore Commissioner White; but he having no | spirit, the spirit which leads us to believe in jurisdiction sent the case to the Swiss Consul, | the Darwinian theory of our species and to justly remarking, however, that the swindler | trace our stubborn Mayor back to the identical ought to be sent to the State Prison for five | pig which could only be taken to Cork by re- years. Aman who would swindle such poor | ceiving the impression that it wos going to honest people is capable of almost any crime, | Kinsale. For although the Marshal is a silent end ought to be anished, ; man—even like our own Washington dispen- Tar opkta ram ca custinon| sation of Providence, with those sphinx-like ) Comat ren dp oubliafidal in i 3s Eres qualities which only Nevada Jones and Boss aus, will Deak t ath, cecoentl ies mF . pai pherd can understand—there is a ey qr frankness in all that he has said. He is what the reasons bert ve aaa ‘he facts which je ig and he means to remain so, The tes ten Sa Ghia othe: aE i Assembly has given him certain powers and s ent offer of the 5 f Ttalian—or Piedmontese, as he calls it—gov- it Pigs fates But a ae bie hs ey ernment for a reconciliation of the differences 5. ee Mra eassade te hota i ERE which exist between the lay Power and the prea ‘pense oe eae ys 4 France st 3. ell, we do . forward a strong case, the several positions good many resi lee in the last four and the logic of which may be accepted as the | years—we ‘do not know how many, but let us ecclesiastical finale of the great argument / gay @ hundred thousand to make our state- wal was ceciahe ode aaa we | ment approximate to the truti—and cach had e excommunica’ Napoleo: irst, an Esacrants Swinpiep. Swiss emigrants fell into the hands, on the in its rumors of a coup d'état. Qld Papa Thiers | Second of December. | MacMahon may or may not do. He will hold | be tamely wrested from him. But he is too | | resolution of the followers of the Count de We have hada | was taken prisoner to Savona, in 1809, Every Crrizzn who looks with the delight xf @ lad freed trom school and the gentle | was on the point of driving out the Assembly, dukes and all, with his umbrella upon many occasions, but when tho pressure came he trail the plumes of Magenta in the bloody gutters of the Second of December. For a coup d'état is only a success of the day. Its failure is for all time. Nothing was more successful in the eyes’ of the world than the third Empire down to the eve of Sedan. What glories sur- | rounded it—what achievements and hopes end | destinies! English alliances and victories over Russia and Austria;.the union of Italy | and the annexation of Nice and Savoy; one enterprise in Mexico and another in China; 4 Napoleon the arbiter of Europe, and anxious to plant a Latin empire upon the ruins of a Saxon Republic—was there ever such a record? But the world, which | saw these victories and combinations | looking to victory, felt that there was always, | over all, the miasma of the coup d'état. Banquo was ever present at the imperial feast. Blood would have blood, and the logic of hbis- tory required that Sedan should complete the We do not know what his power like a soldier, and not permit it to good a soldier to welcome street massacres, and he must‘see that even the Empire of a | Napoleon cannot be cemented by civil war. If MacMahon fails to govern with his present Ministry or one that will represent conservative tendencies he will, we are confi- dent, leave the Elysée with his sword as calmly as M. Thiers walked out with his umbrella. The present crisis comes from the Chambord to vote against the present Cabinet. The legitimists seem to have been actuated by two purposes—to obtain all the offices possible from the Marshal and to do all that could be done to paralyze and destroy his government. To them France, country, order, security, liberty, peace, all are subordinate to the idea that the crown be- longs to God and Henry of Bourbon. M. Thiers kept them at peace by giving the leaders offices, and, when they were especially turbulent, by shooting a Communist, as a tribute to ‘‘moral order’ and the ‘‘safety of so- ciety." But they overthrew him as soon as he turned his face toward a republic. Marshal MacMahon has made every concession to legitimacy except surrender; but the party | will not permit him to take any step that does not lead to Frohsdorf. The Bona- partists wish the Empire or chaos, and they will vote for chaos in the hope that the Em- pire will come, even as the world came, out of night. The republicans clamor for dissolu- tion of government and Assembly, confident that France would proclaim the Republic if left to its destinies; so that the new crisis may result in an alliance that will overthrow the Ministry. If this Cabinet falls what will come? Mac- Mahon has exhausted parliamentary resources, 80 far as the Assembly is concerned, and we see nothing before him but dissolution. We have enough confidence in the conservatism of the republican party in France, as now man- aged, to feel that dissolution will only bea step towards a Republic—a Republic rich in experience and effort—that will live and carry the destiny of France to a useful splendor that allel. Atmospheric Excesses and the Comet. Hurricanes and hailstorms are the order of | the day, and of course the comet is respon- even its extraordinary history will uot pare | The Mayor’s Insult to the Governor of the State and to the City of New York. Very few persons, if any, doubt that the reappointment of the convicted Police Com- missioners, Gardner and Charlick, by Mayor Havemeyer is in violation of the law as well as a direct insult to the city of New York, to the court before whieh the indictment was tried, and to the Governor of the State. | ts - f Even the lawyers who have advised the | the Mayor, in addition to his culpable and, we Mayor that a quibble mighf be started sufli- cient to cover the outrage with some specious | show of legality admit that the convicted | men have been stripped of the offices they disgraced by the verdict of the jury, and have né legal right to attempt an official | act, All that appears to have been hoped by the Mayor when he sought to replace in the hands of these unfaithful officers the trusts they had abused was that, as what is every- | body's business is nobody's business, the re- appointments would be permitted to stand for the simple reason that no steps would be taken to overthrow them. He trusted to his | own influence with the Police Commis- sioners still in office, or with one of | them, to secure a meeting of the Board at which a quorum would attend and a reorganization be effected, and he sought to use the withholding of the pay of the force, | through the co-operation of Comptroller Green, to compel such a result. At present it | seems as if the plot would fail. The question, of the legality of the reappointments will no doubt be brought before the courts at an early day and in a shape that will insure a prompt decision, and the two Police Commissioners appear in no hurry to recognize or in any manner to act with their convicted associates. | The law of the case is, in fact, so plain that | no person of reputation or holding an official position would care to stand committed on the side of the Mayor. A grand jury found sev- eral indictments against Charlick and Gard- ner for alleged wilful. violations of the Elec- tion law, which, as Commissioners of Police, it was their sworn duty to enforce and obey. One of these indictments was tried before Judge Brady in the Court of Oyer and Ter- miner. The jury found the accused | persons guilty of the offence charged | in the indictment. The Judge passed n sentence on the convicted men, | imposing upon each of them a fine of two | hundred and fifty dollars in lieu of imprison- ment. The record of the conviction was for- | warded to Governor Dix, who thereupon is- | sued to the Mayor of the city, the appointing \ power, as required by the law, an official! noti- fication of the conviction and of the vacancies | created thereby. The Mayor immediately re- appointed the convicted men to the positions | of which they had been stripped by the law, thus ignoring their indictment, their trial, , their conviction and the notice served upon him by the Governor of the State, which re- quired him to fill the vacancies ‘‘in accordance with law.”’ Can there be any doubt of the illegality of such anact? The law says that on convic- tion fora misdemeanor involving a violation | ‘of their oath of office these men shall forteit the offices they hold. They are found guilty of — wilfully violating a law they were WOT to and After the fecor Havemeyer, in defiance of the law, puts them sible. On the Fourth of July many worthy citizens of this Republic who spend their | holidays and Sundays in the upper part of the | State of New Jersey were persuaded that the | comet had come in collision with this little | planet of ours—had carromed on us, as it were, | and gone off to pocket itself in the illimitable | nowhere that bounds the universe. For some | minutes people in their homes or at clambakes heard a startling noise like the rushing of one hundred and two railway trains on on up grade, and the experienced thought of torna- does and whirligigs of that sort, while others thought of the comet switching around a sharp turn and likely to “split our planet with its playful tail, as boats are sometimes by a wanton whale.’’ Presently down came the ice. Rigorous scientific classification and nomenclature require the designation of hail- stones for what might more properly be called frozen snowballs of the largest size. Abouta hundred thousand tons of ice in this form were distributed over the surtace of Bergen | county, and nearly everything is flat up there except the price of glass. Some days | ago the city of Lyons, in France, was visited by a storm of the same character. On the Fourth also the national capital was | visited by o wind storm of extraordinary se- | verity. Many more vagaries dependent upon | | the effects of temperature on atmospheric cir- | culation will be heard of doubtless within a few days, and if this is the trouble we have to apprehend from the disturbed equilibrium consequent upon the coming into our solar system of a fellow like the comet we shall get | off easily. Indeed, we may conclude there- upon that the solar system is well balanced | and in good working order. As this comet is, perhaps, only a bursted planet that, having | been caved in on one side and 60 lost its bal- ance, has fallen out of its orbit and is con- | suming itself on an eccentric run, we ought | to be civil and speak kindly of it; for, as things go on with earthquakes and storms, there is no knowing when we may be & bursted planet ourselves. No Cuarrry is more beautiful than the children’s excursions planned by Mr. Wil- liams, the philanthropist, and carried out by | | that gentleman with so much patience, tact | and benevolence, Sri ANotuzn Ramnoap Accrpent.—Our back again into the officcs of which the law has deprived them. In s0 doing he not only defies the law, but violates the* provision of the charter which, beyond dovbt, disqualifies the convicted men of ever again holding any office under the city government. To believe | that such a lawless act could be suffered to re- main undisturbed would be to give up all hope of the enforcement of law and the pres- | ervation of order in the city. But, aside | from this legal aspect of the case, the action of the Mayor is a crime against public de- eency and morality which should excite the indignation of all respectable citizens. Only yesterday the demoralizing and disgrace- ful spectacle was presented at the headquarters of the police force of a convicted Commis- sioner, already found guilty of a wilful viola- tion of law by one jury and with other in- dictments hanging over his head, presid- ing over the trials of patrolmen charged with offences against the police law and the regulations of the department. The mere statement of this fact is sufficient to illustrate the dangerous and scandalous | character of the Mayor's action. It is calcn- lated to strike at the very root of the subordi- | nation so necessary in such a body. A patrol- man is fined a week’s pay by 8 man whom he | knows to have been convicted in a criminal | court of a misdemeanor involving a violation of his oath of office and to be under other indictments. Is it reasonable to believe that he will not go about among his associates grumbling at the punishment he has received, and railing at his Judge as himself, a convicted maz, in illegal possession of an office of which he has been stripped by the law? Can we | suppose that, with the two existing Commis. | sioners very properly arrayed against their unfaithful associates, the force will not take sides. and become even more broken and demoralized than they have hitherto been? | Can any one argue that harmony in the Police Board, efficiency in the force and fidelity in | the observance of the laws will be promoted by the presence of Charlick and Gardner in the Commussion? Can the Mayor point out one single benefit to the city, one single advan- tage or one additional security to the people to | be secured by his attempt to force back his | creatures into the offices from which they have been ignominiously ejected? The sole plea in justification urged by the | | meyer to an account for his illegal and out- faithfnlly observe, ~ tes | eal Sf thet? edfifetiox is officialfy brought to his knowledge Mayor | | public, but it will hardly come in this genera- reports this morning of the accident on the | imbecile yet mischievous. Mayor is that there thraldom of study to the mountain and the | tucked his umbrella nnder his arm seashore, and his summer romp and ramble, | and returned to Paris a private citizen. should remember the thousands of poor, pallid | Marshal MacMahon showed, in the pitiless, suffering ones who remain athome, There | indiscriminate severity with which he sup- cannot be true enjoyment when we reflect | pressed the Commune, that he knows what to upon the misery left behind us enclosed within | the waters around this island. Mr. Williams, the philanthropist, whose humane heart con- ceived the idea of children’s excursions, and do with an army within the walls of Paris. But ‘we have always found that soldiers like MacMahon and Wellington and Grant appre- ciate war too well to desire ever to hear a gun under whose gentle and earnest efforts go | fired in anger. It is only when we come to many thousands of our poorest waifs | sam soldiers like Napoleon LIL, veterans of have been enabled to go out for a the Champs Elysées and the Bois de day to the green fields, is busy organizing and | Boulogne, or to African heroes superintending another series. There is no | St. Armand, accustomed to more beautiful and wholesome charity. Let | Arabs like wolves and deer, that we every citizen feel before he goes to enjoy his | have men capable of the calm ferocity of own summer that he must do sometbing | massacre on the boulevards, Power is dear towards allowing the suffering children of the | to Marshal MacMahon, as it always is to men poor to have a small share of his comforts | of proud nature and earnest purposes, but we and pleasures, \ question if. for even the Septennate, be would like | bunt | | Shore Line Railroad, at Stony Creek, Conn., will inspire mingled feelings of sorrow at the death of Superintendent Wilcox and the mu- tilation of some sixty to seventy other persons, and of gratification that no more were killed and that the injury was not greater to the | wounded. It was, really, a providential escape for a vast number. Five passenger | cars, full of people, were thrown from the track while running over abridge, The cause of the accident, it is said, was a mis- | placed switch. Sometimes it is one thing and | sometimes another which in these too fre- quent disasters kill and mutilate people, and, perhaps, ® misplaced switch is the more | general cause, Railroad companics and em- | ployés are too neglectful of their dnty to the | public. Looking at the frightful results, the | penalty for such negligence or carelessness | Ought to be most severe, was “an animus behind the prosecution attributable to some other cause than a desire to protect the interests of the people from official wrongdoing.” If this is to be re- garded as a sufficient reason for holding cul- prits guiltless or for ignoring the penalty the but few convictions and fewer punishments, The cut-purse who is ‘peached” upon by a disappointed “pall” “animus behind the prosecution.” Tweed's prison door would be opened to-morrow, for | no person knows better than Mr. Havemeyer that the “animus behind the prosecution’ was ‘attributable to some other cause than a desire to protect the interests of the people,” although it led to such good results as those now witnessed on Blackwell's Island. But the Mayor should remember that what | ever animus” prompted the prosecntion of law imposes on their crimes there would be | would escape on the | | Garaner and Charlick, they were found guilty by a jury, after a full and fair trial, of a shame- ful offence against the most important law under which we live—the law designed to protect the purity of the ballot box. This is all he has a right to be guided by, and he cannot claim ‘to set aside the law because he is dissatisfied with the men prominent in bring- | ing the offenders to justice. As we have said, believe, criminal disregard and defiance of the verdict of a jury and the sentence of a court, has offered an insult to the Governor of tho State and to the city of New York which | demands his removal from office. Let the people mark those time-serving, bargaining | and cowardly Aldermen who seem disposed to | shrink from the duty of bringing Mr. Have- rageous conduct, The Spanish Problem. If it is true that General Zabala ‘aneans to | fight the insurgents and intends to sink all | political sympathies and opinions in tho strug- gle,"” we have at last founda Spaniard who can be a soldier anda patriot. We have not found many of them in the Isabella dynasty, and our confidence in Zabala can scarcely be described as overweening. The fact that Serrano has sent Moriones back toa northern command indicates a disposition to be on the best terms with the radicals, and not to permit an army intended to overthrow Don Carlos to be con- verted into an army for the enthronement of Don Alfonso—a programme that the late not very much lamented soldier, Concha, would have been very apt to have accepted. In the meantime the Carlists are reaping the first fruits of victory by investing Bilbao, and -the Pope is said to be sending telegraphic bless- ings to the ‘national army.’ We presume this means the Serrano people, as a subse- quent despatch announces that he had not responded to the congratulations of the Car- lists. Not the least of the Papal embarrass- ments is to know just what flag to bless in Spain. Serrano is certainly a good Catholic, not quite as ostentatious as Don Carlos, but ina state of ecclesiastical efficiency. Moreover, he is master of the revenues of a nation, and the Pope has enough respect for temporal Pow- ers not to throw away his influence over areal nation for a sentiment like Carlism. It is admitted that the attempt to make a conserva- tive republican party by the union of Oastelar and Martos has failed. This is an alliance that necessarily would fail. Martos is an eloquent, insincere, dexterous trimmer, with | unusual power of statement, who served ; Amadeus until the monarchy was in the last reel that preceded the fall, and hastened to join the new Republic, which very soon had no | use for him. Martos represents nothing, nog even his party; for his party never followed him. The mere suggestion that he would unite with Mr. Castelar shows the position into which that pre-eminent orator has fallen. A year ago and he was leader of the movement which had overturned Martos and his party. He was a republican among the republicans—the hope and idol of the extreme | republican party in Europe—its one resplen- dent, unequalled, incomparable orator. | Power made him a conservative, and since his fall from power before the cannon of the ysurper Pavia we have never heard of him ex- cept as coquetting with the monarchists, the friends of the monarchy and the creatures of reaction. 5 Events in Spain seem to point towards at form of a monarchy under the reign of some nominee of Serrano—the son of Isabella, most probably. The bandit and beggar clements— by which we mean the standing army—the Established Church and the aristocracy proved too strong for the Republic, as banditism and beggary bave been the curse of Spain for generations. We do not despair of the Re- tion. Mido os Maa eee Tne American Cardinal. His Holiness the Pope, in addressing a ecm- pany of the devout pilgrims who recently sur- rounded the Papal throne with gifts, said that in America he was really Pope; that in other countries in Europe he was not; for here he could publish what documents and bulls he pleased—a privi- lege he did not enjoy in other lands. This tribute to the freedom and humanity of American institutions is gratifying. But we cannot cease to regret that a country | that gives the Papal office a liberty it pos- sesses in no other lands should be overlooked in distributing the highest offices of the Church. Recently His Holiness made several new cardinals, but not one was created out of the long list of venerable prelates who serve the Church in the United States. With- out questioning the judgment of infallibility, we cannot help thinking that if cardinals are needed in the Church we should have a fair share in the United States. We saw the present Pope appoint a young priest to this high office merely because he was a cousin of | the Emperor Napoleon. Certainly America has as much claim upon the Pope as the Bona- parte family. Tho danger is that there will be discontent in the councils of the Church, and the repetition of a belicf that was used with so much force by Luther in the Reforma- | tion, that the Church was controlled by an Italian ring. His Holiness presides over a Church that is not Italian or Spanish or French, but cosmopolitan, and the awarding of its highest offices to Italians mainly will | certainly dishearten prelates of other countries | who are no less zealous in the service of the | Church. Woe are afraid our pilgrims did not | impress these arguments upon the Pope, or | | they would have returned with that supreme distinction of a cardinal’s hat, to which America is certainly entitled. PHmapELPHIA’ AND THE GENERAL GOVERN- | arewt.—We have had an anxious feeling about | Philadelphia as a city worthy of encourage- \ ment and aid, but which somehow had been hardly used by the government. We were led to think so by the sorrowful comments and re- | | monstrances of the Philadelphia press on the | occasion of the defeat of the Centennial bill We felt that perhaps our sister city had been { used hardly and that generosity might have ‘been after all the highest form of economy. | But it seems from an address of William D. Kelley, who is now entreating an election to | | Congross, that we all this time have been mis- taken, “Philadelphia,” says Mr. Kelley, “owes the Forty-third Congress thanks. Since the foundation of the government and during times of peace no such amount of monev baa been appropriated to this city. In (his financial year abont four millions of dollars will be expended ‘in and around Phila~ delphia. Congress will yet do her duty by the Centennial.’ We congratulate our neigh- bor, and we were on the point of saying our suburb on her success, and, at the same time, think from what Mr. Kelley says that Congress has quite done its duty. The Emperor of Russia at Ems. We print this morning a pleasant letter re« counting the visit of the Czar of Russia to Ems, together with an interview with that distin« guished sovereign. It iso pleasant picture our correspondent draws of the Emperor striding about the famous watering place with the ease and simplicity of a mere landed pro- prietor taking his summer recreation. Though American readers have little respect for the divinity which it was once supposed doth hedge a king, yet a great emperor in common | clothes cannot fail to be of interest to most of them. But whether it is the clothes or the king to which this interest is due among @ na- tion of sovereigns is not an easy matter to de- termine. Be this as it may, the universal Yankee nation will sleep better these summer nights for knowing that the Emperor of Rus- sia dresses like a gentleman and believes that there is no present danger to the peace of Europe. The relations of Italy and Germany, the attitude of the Ottoman Empire and the new Eastern question, consequent upon Rus- sian movements in Central Asia, were sub- jects of the conversation. These movements, the Czar says, were undertaken simply in the interest of civilization, and for that reason he thinks no war can result from them. This is a neat way of putting it, bat it is scarcely logical, and the conflicting interests ot England aud’ Russia may overturn the Emperor's fine theory almost any day. All this, however, only adds to the interest of a letter that is singularly graphic in ite descrip- tion of the Czar and his methods of life at Ems. Tur First Pronic of the season for the des- titute children of the city—the initiation of a series of entertaining excursions for the little ones, originated and managed by Mr. G. F. Williams, the philanthropist—took place yosterday, and, as will be sven by our account published elsewhere, proved an entire success, bringing happiness to a large number of the city’s waifs, to whom life in the main affords little enjoyment, No more happy thought could be conceived than this of gathering from the by places of this great metropolis, from the tenement houses, the cellars and the streets, these little ones, born in poverty, only accustomed ta the walls of brick and granite and the hard, inhospitable pavements, and initiating them into the pure air of the country, with its green fields, its ranning ‘brooks and ita thousand varied objects of interest. The large number of 1,970 children took part in the excursion, and Mr. Williams, determined that his idea should be’ carried to a success ful termination, was everywhere present, seeing that everything was provided which could contribute to the joyful- ness of the occasion. He has announced his determination to have these picnics twice a week, and it needs no word of ours to induce our citizens to contribute liberally to an enter- prise the reward for which will be found in the words, ‘Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these ye did it unto me,” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ——- Carvalho has gone to dip at Dieppe, Janin once speculated in a coke mine, ‘The comet drags at each remove a lengthening tail. Now the returned Congressman gocs Sloss-ing around. The largest turnout these nights ts that of the posse comet-atis. Major Stuart, of the British Army, has quarters at the Astor Houss, Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Wisconsin, isat the Homan House, f Major J, R. McGinness, of West Point, ts residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rev. J. H. Wilson and Kev. J. OQ, Burns, of Edin- burgh, are at Barnum’s Hotel. Congressman George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, ig registered at the Windsor Hotel. General A. S. Diven, of Elmira, is among the re cent arrivais at the Hoffman House. Congressman James 8. Negley, of Pittsburg, yes- terday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Picnic Williams ts his name, and giving an indie criminate outing to little fellows is his game. Rear Admiral Gustavus H. Scott, United States Navy, is quartered at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Captain John Mirehouse, of the steamship City of Montreal, 1s staying at the New York Hotel. Hon, Eawards Pierrepont has left town for Denver, Col., and will be absent for five weeks. One of Janin’s critics says that his feutileton was “an empty fleld planted with exclamation points.” ~ Henry M. Stanley, the discoverer of Livingstone, has returned from Europe and is now staying af the Winslow Hotel. General Sherman has rented a pew In St. John’s (Catholic) church, corner of Sixteenth and Chest | nut streets, St. Louts. Logan thrashed around ina Fourth of July ora tion “like a stump-tailed bull in the long grass fighting his own fies.” i Two great doubts—Wili Grant declare himself on the third term’ Will Beecher declare him- self on Tilton’s terms? General A. G. Lawrence, of Rhode Island, for- merly United States Mintster to Costa Rica, has apartments at the Brevoort House. Francis Parkman, the historian, and his two daughters: also Mrs. Henry Bergh, of New York, are at the St. Louis Hotel, in Quebec. Toronto people seem to fancy that the notion of the Hon. George Brown being made @ baronet for the rectprocity treaty {s “preposterous.” “Look not every man on his own things, bat every man also on the things of others—Philip- pians {., 4—Wwas part of Beecher's text on Sunday, Charivari has @ cartoon of the ceremony ot marriage between the Right Centre and Left Centre, but the bride and bridegroom both say No. Victor Hugo appeared at Janin’s funeral, but would not follow to the cemetery, because the funeral was religious, This {8 as intolerant as the other side, Rochefort's Lanterne appeared for the first time at Geneva on June 26 and sold immensely. It was ahoax; but they thought tt just as witty, and per- haps it was. Senator Powell Clayton and ex-Chief Justice John McClure, of Arkansas, arrived in the city from Long Branct last evening ana are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Seguin’s Café, in the Avenue St, Ouen, ts fre. quented only by workingmen, Suddenly from fifteen to thirty gentlemen took to meeting there regularly. They were a Bonapartist club, bat the proprietor knew nothing of his visitors. Never- theless the police have closed the calé, Carnac, in Morbihan, France, which is now pre vate property, will be expropriated and made part ofthe national domain by decree of the govern- ment, “Depredations” of the owners of the prop- erty which threaten to destroy the monamentat character Of the Drutd atones necessitate the steD,