The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES G@RDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ———_—— THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, -— All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Youk Henap. Rejected communications will not be re- | by Havemeyer’s selection. turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. oO LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. No. 189 Volume XXXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING Wwoop's MU aaa ws L—DARING DICK, presiway, ANGELS, ats P. M., closes at MRS..CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. THE SEVEN DWARFS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1:45 P ARDEN, between P and Houston streets. —IVAN- 1TH JEW at SP. M.; closes at LU: P.M. ph Wheelock Miss Ione burke. TONY PAS’ '8 OPERA HOUSE, Bowery. —VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:30 P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Fighth street, near Secoud avenue.—VARIETY ENTER- TAINMBNT, ats P.M. RAL PARK GARDEN, Ox Fifty-nintn street and Seventh avenue.—THOMAS CON- | CERT, at 3 P. M.; closes at 10:50 P. M. TERRACE GARDEN. Concert and Operatic Perfurmance. LA GRANDE DUCUESSE. 6 P.M COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thorty-fifth street—LONDON BY NIGHT. at 1B. ML; closes at 5 P.M. Sat P.M; closes at lo P.M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Madison PAGEANT—CONGRESS OF NATIONS, at 1:8) P. M. aud IPLE SHEET. New York, avadaasday) July 8, 1874, ee af ess From our reports this morning ihe probabilities are that the weather to-day will be overcast, with occasional rams. Want Srnezr Yzsrerpay.—Gold 110}, closing at 1093. Stocks generally firm. TR Mr. Wrix1aMs’ Picnics for the poor are the leading summer charity. Procress or CrvmizatTron.—An American rifle factory is to be established in the City of Mexico. No Sicut can be seen anywhere more bean- tiful than the happy faces of the children who are 50 fortunate as to participate in one of Mr. Williams’ picnics. Mayor Havemeyver is the friend of the un- fortunate. Mr. John R. Voorhis, though often a candidate, never succeeded in obtain- | ing office till Havemeyer appointed him a member of the Excise Board. And yester- day the Mayor promoted his old friend from the Ninth ward to a Police Commissionership that bad somehow become vacant. A Sreamnoat Excursion for the poor chil- dren of the city accomplishes two great ob- jecta, either one of which entitles Mr. Wil- liams to the gratitude of the whole community. Physically, it is better than physic ; morally, it isa vast aid in repressing the tendency to crime. These considerations alone ought to inspire every one with the necessity of con- tributing something toward an object so praiseworthy. avenue and Twenty-sixth street.—GRAND | NEW YORK HH#RALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Mayor Havemeyer’s Astounding Som- erset=—The Power and Duty of the Governor. Mayor Havemeyer has added another as- tounding feature to the complications spring- ing out of the conviction of the two Police Commissioners, Charlick and Gardner. When he appointed them to succeed each other he was guilty of an act that few men would have had the courage to commit; but it now seems that he has accepted their resignations a second time and filled the vacancies by the appointment of George W. Matsell, at present Superintendent of Police, and John R. Voor- | appointments is such as would have been | fit to be made even if the Mayor had pro- | ceeded regularly upon receiving notice from the Governor of the existence of the vacancies. The same objections which applied to Mr. Matsell’s appointment as Police Superintend- ent are to be urged with even greater force to | his appointment as Police Commissioner. He | is simply unfit for the office, as every | citizen of New York is well aware. Nor | should Mr. Voorhis have been selected | for the other vacancy, becauso of the | want of that experience in public affairs | which the office imperatively demands at this time. But we need scarcely stop to discuss fitness or unfitness, because the circumstances | surrounding their appointment are just now | | of paramount importance. It may even be a | question whether their appointment is legal. If it was made to fill the vacancies occasioned | by the second resignations of Charlick and Gardner it is clearly illegal Though the Mayor is retreating from the false | position he assumed at the time he | got the Police Commissionership off | {his mind, his retreat began too late. His offence was complete when he reappointed the evicted Commissioners. Mr. Gardner, at least, acted under the authority conferred by that wrongful appointment, for which the | Mayor must take his part of the responsibility. Besides, this latest act of the Mayor only adds | to the difficulties of the situation as it affects himself. Did he reappoint Gardner and Char- | lick to fill the vacancies occasioned by their | resignations or those created by their | | conviction? In either case their ap- pointment was void, and it was equally impossible for them to resign the second time as the first. And so the Mayor's offence is not cured by the sudden and as- | tounding somerset of yesterday. Indeed, | he has only emphasized his offence by adding | to it these new complications, and more than | | ever proved his unfitness for the office he now | holds. Matters have gone too far to be stopped | | by a backdown that is at once cowardly and | ludicrous, and it is not likely that public | opinion will be appeased by the new found | policy of the Mayor. To make this position at all tenable it must be assumed that Matsell | and Voorhis have been appointed to fill the original vacancies; but as this does not cure the Mayor’s offence against the law in his previous action, that question remains to be decided precisely as if Matsell and | Voorhis had not been appointed atall. Any | other position would be as untenable and absurd as that of the Mayor. The charges of | official misconduct still remain, and, we pre- | sume, the Governor, who yesterday signified his willingness to hear the complaints of the committee of citizens, now in Albany for the | purpose of laying these charges before him, | will adhere to his determination, giving such { weight to the new phase of the question as its importance may demand. Two documents in the form of petitions | are to be laid before the Governor—one by Mr. Wingate, as the counsel of Oswald Otten- dorfer, John Kelly and William H. Wickham, and the other by Mr. Henry L. Clinton, on be- | half of other citizens. In the former paper the history of the investigation into the cor- | ruptions of the Street Cleaning Bureau is set | forth, as well as the facts relating to the viola- tions of the Election law, which led to the indictment and conviction of the Commis- | jee sioners of Police. his, who is President of the Excise Board | aeainee ol nero | wilful violation of law should be known to be | period not exceeding thirty days.”” Tre Repsxins are beginning to show , signs of uneasiness, and already a number of | murders are reported. The Cheyennes, Co- | manches and Kiowas are said to be engaged in | The ground is taken that the facts developed in the inquiry by the legislative committee of last winter and in depredating. The settlers along the Kansas borders are in danger, and unless troops are sent to their protection the savages will add to their list of victims. Here is a chance for the War Department to show some vigor, and, we hope the opportunity of giving those troublesome Indians a lesson will not be allowed to pass. Tue Prcxtc Sxason is of very short dura- | tion compared with the long, cold and cruel winter months, when there is little outdoor enjoyment of any kind for the children of the | poor. It would be hard, indeed, if the fresh air and all the enjoyments of summer should be denied these little waifs. Fortunately the foresight and humanity of Mr. Williams have already offered the poor children of the city many pleasures, and it is only necessary to second his efforts by generous contributions | to his worthy project to assure happiness and health to thousands, Tuer Innepresstete Conria, the bandit of the Rio Grande border, again emerges from his seclusion, where he has, unlike Cincin- | natus, been engaged in superintending the stealing of cattle, and once more assumes the government of heroic Matamoros. Canales, his life-long enemy, who holds the guberna- torial chair of Tamaulipas, remains at Vic- toria, the chief patron of the monte tables of | that inland city. He objects to Cortina, but that will hardly prevent a renewed activity on the part of the raiders from Mexico upon the ranches of Western Texas, protected as they will be by their old leader from his vantage ground of Mayor of Matamoros. Moscuz asp Boxz.—Trinity is the only college that has not a member of its regatta crow under six feet in height. colleges run from five feet six and o half up. Trinity beats Dartmouth two inches on the aggregate height of her six men. Prince- ton has not a single six-footer in either crew and Williams has only one. They are there~ fore nota tall party, and the legend as to the superior height of the American skeleton | seems not to be maintained. Yale, Columbia and Trinity each have a man of one hundred and eighty pounds. In the seventies seems heavy, and they ran down to one hundred and thirty-seven, Inflated chests aro at their largest at forty-two, and for the larger num- ber below forty. Altogether the turnout is physically not imposing. All the other | | the more recent examination before the Su- | preme Court were of public notoriety, must have been known to the Mayor and made it his duty under his official oath to institute an investigation and remove the officials impli- cated if the charges against them should | have been substantiated; that the Mayor | | not only neglected this duty, but sub- sequently, when the charges against the Police Commissioners were officially laid | before him by the Board of Aldermen, accompanied by a request for their removal, | refused or neglected to take action thereon. The indictment, conviction and reappoint- | ment of Messrs. Charlick and Gardner are then recounted, and the action of Mr. Have- | meyer is denounced as inconsistent with his | | duties as Mayor, a gross violation of his offi- | cial oath, an outrage without precedent in the | history of the State, threatening to the peace and good order of the city, calculated to | bring the administration of justice into con- tempt, and demanding his immediate removal | | by the Governor. Mr. Clinton's memorial is | | more concise. It is confined to the single | point of the reappointment of the convicted Commissioners by the Mayor in defiance of | Commission, cansed by the conviction of Charlick and Gardner, had been received by the Mayor from the Governor, the duty de- yolved upon the former to appoint two suit- able and fit persons other than Gardner and Charlick Police Commissioners to fill such | vacancies ; but that the Mayor, in gross and | outrageous violation of his official duty, and | | in defiance of law and public decency, imme- | | diately reappointed the convicted men to the | | offices of which the law had deprived them. The petition prays that for this official mis- conduct the Mayor*may be removed by the | The removal of a Mayor of New York by the Governor of the State must necessarily be an event of grave importance in our political history. The power of removal is very prop- erly vested in the Governor for the protection of the people ; but it is a power which should be exercised with caution ond only in extreme | cases, The pevple are jealous of self-govern- ment, although they really get but little of its | substance under onr present political system, | and the citizens of New York would require to | be well satisfied that the removal of # Mayor lected by them was necessary to the public | interests before they would approve the act At the same time every public officer is sworn to perform the duties required of him by the law, and no fear of popular disapproval can induce an honest official to violate his oath of office. The power and the duty of the Governor of the State in such a case as that now brought to the attention of Gov- ernor Dix are clearly defined. By the’ consti- tution, he is required to ‘take care that the laws shall be faithfnlly executed.” This is a broad and comprehensive duty. It really gives the Governor power over all subordinate officers; for although special Jaws provide how this or that officer may be removed for cause, there is no doubt that if a glaring and | perpetrated by any public officer and the proper authorities should refuse or neglect to interfere and punish the offender, it would be the duty of the Governor to step in and ‘take care” that the law was ‘faithfully executed.” Our system does not contemplate the halting (of justice at any point. If the head of a | bureau in the city of New York commits an offence against the law the head of the depart- ment who neglects to remove him commits an offence in his turn, for which he is respon- sible to the Mayor. The Mayor, by refusing to | remove the head of a department thus offend- their | ing, violates his official duty and becomes | responsible to the Governor. The Governor, in his turn, is answerable to the Legislature of the State. The charter under which | we now live provides that “the Mayor may be removed from office by the Governor of the State in the same manner as sheriffs, except that the Governor may direct the in- | quiry provided by law to be conducted by the | Attorney General, and after charges have been received by the Governor he may, pending the investigation, suspend the Mayor for o The Re- vised Statutes, Part 1, sections 44 to 49, pro- | vide in what manner a sheriff may be re- moved. The Governor may remove a sheriff | at any time within the term for which he shall | have been elected, giving to such officer o copy of the charge against him, and an op- | portunity to be heard in his defence before | any removal shall be made. The officer accused is to receive at least eight days’ notice of the time and place when the examination of witnesses will be proceeded with before some judge of the county courts. Both par- ties have the power of subpona. The testi- mony of the witnesses is to be reduced to writing, certified to by the judge and trans- mitted to the Governor. In the event of charges against the Mayor the Attorney General may be designated to conduct the | investigation in place of the District Attor- ney. The only question for the Governor to decide is whether the charges presented to | him are such as to warrant an investigation. His subsequent action depends, of course, upon the testimony that may be taken before the judge. We have said that the power thus vested in the Governor to remove the Mayor is one which should be cautiously exercised. In this particular case, however, the whole commu- nity, with the exception of a few office-holders, demand the suspension and removal of the Mayor. The singular action of yesterday will only intensify that demand. The offence he has committed against decency, against lew, against the city over which he rules, is proved by his own act, and it requires mo testimony to establish his guilt. He has grossly and wilfally set at defiance the law, ignored the official notice served on him by the Governor, placed on the Police Commission two men expelled from office by the law as a penalty | for a misdemeanor involving o violation of their official oaths, and finally endeavored to cure the first wrong by the appointment of two of his old cronies to fill vacancies created by Charlick’s and Gardner’s second resig- nation. But there ora other charges of as grave a character to be brought | against him, to which we trust the Aldermen will turn their attention. His coercion of the Commissioners of Accounts | into a falsification of the debt statement for December last is an offence that should forfeit him his office. His neglect to properly inves- tigate the illegal and fraudulent purchases of supplies by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction is a similar offence. His whole official course has been a scandal to the city, and the people will rejoice to be rid of him even at this late date, ‘Tae Sioux Inpians or THe Brack Hiri are bristling up for war, and General Custer is preparing tomeet them. According to our | correspondence from St. Paul and Dakota Territory there are evidently two sides to this question of difficulty with the Indians. While we are convinced that only severe measures will keep many of the Indians peaceable, and adinit that these people cannot stand in the way of progress and civilization, there is, after all, some consideration. due to treaties made with them. It appears that the Black Hill country, a country rich in soil, timber and game—was assigned by treaty with the government at Washington to the Sioux | Indians, and that in the most solemn and explicit manner. Would it not be well to act justly with these poor savages before acting severely ? Aw Oprsion at Last.—All this time we the law. It sets forth that after the notice of | have been waiting for Jones, of Nevada, We the existence of two vacancies in the Police | knew he would come. Silence was impos- sible to this soaring statesman from Table Mountain and Rooster Gulch. We knew that we should have a memorandum in time, and | it comes from Nevada, The Territorial Enter- | prise, an excollent Nevada newspaper, by the way, and with inspirations from the Rocky Mountain Daniel Webster, who now sits in | the seat of the lamented but unforgotten Nye, informs us:— A great ceal of unnecessary ink and a great deal | | of unecessary anger are being expenued nowa- | Governor. | days in the proof that General Grant proposes to | run jor a third term, which is to be followed by @ | torsiip ior hife and the iounding of royalty im | ¢ Un ted States. We said above unnecessary mk and anger, because we happen to know posi- uvely that Grant has no such inteations, It is a long way to go for an official state- | ment; but when we remember that it comes from Nevada Jones, who shares with Congress | the constitutional privilege of receiving com- | munications from the President on public af- fairs, our readers will know its value. Iv Any Citizen wants to enjoy a double share of happiness at a trifling expense for 80 much pleasure he can obtain it by contribut- ing liberally to Mr. Williains’ picnica for the poor and then going to the dock to gee the | children embark. The Ratlroad Controversy consin. ‘The pending litigation respecting the rights of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company involves principles of such far- reaching consequences that it may be said, without exaggeration, that the value ofall rail- road property and railroad securities in the United States depends upon the nature of the final decision in this remarkable case. It is already in a court of the United States, and will ultimately find its way into the Supreme Court, the tribunal of last resort, whose de- cision will define the limits of State authority over the railway corporations which are links in the great chain of interstate communica- tion. We print this morning the decision of the United States Circuit Court, de- livered at Madison, Wis, July 4, denying a motion for an injunction to re- strain the enforcement of an act of the last Legislature of Wisconsin reducing passenger fare from four cents to three cents a mile. This Circuit Court was clothed with the dig- nity and authority it could derive from the presence of all the judges entitled to sit, some of them attending, as they stated, at great personal inconvenience, from their sense of the deep importance of the question. When this great case comes before the Su- preme Court at Washington for final adjudica- tion it will attract more attention and excite in Wis | & profounder interest than any suit which has been argued before that tribunal in our time. The most interesting part of the judicial proceedings at Madison on the 4th was not the decision denying the injunction, but the colloquy between the Bench and counsel which followed its delivery, in which Justice Davis bore the leading part, speaking as a friendly adviser of the parties, and not in his judicial capacity. The two judges who sat with Justice Davis shared his anxiety to hasten its: progress to the Supreme Court, where alone a binding decision can be had. Readers of the colloquy which followed the decision at Madison will be impressed with the sagacious good sense of, Justice Davis in counselling the parties to this great suit to forbear vexatious proceedings and promptly do whatever is necessary to expedite the trans- fer of the case to the only tribunal which can put the controversy at rest. It is really of little consequence what the intermediate courts may decide. The defeated party will inevitably appeal, and the law cannot be de- cided nor the parties understand their rights until the court of last resort shall have pro- nounced its judgment, This important legal controversy represents the great popular movement which has tor the last year or two been the engrossing popu- lar topic in the West. The complaints against railroad monopoly and extortion have, unfortunately, too much foundation ; but the justice of these complaints, as we understand the question, is not involved in the validity of the Wisconsin law, which the present suit is brought to resist. So far as this suit is con- cerned it is a question whether the State gov- ernment can apply aremedy. Should it be decided by the Supreme Court that the Wisconsin law for regulating railroad charges is unconstitutional the question will reappear in another shape. It will then have to be decided whether Congress, in the exer- cise of its power to regulate commerce between the States, may not abate the extortions and restrain the exorbitance of these rapacious corporations. If the States cannot apply a remedy the federal government may. If the Wisconsin law is set aside by the Supreme Court a fresh impulse will be given to the agitation which is directed to securing a com- prehensive federal law for protecting the com- merce of the Union, of which railroads have become the main channels, against the grasp- ing, oppressive avarice of soulless corpora- tions, The pending litigation should there- fore be regarded'as bearing only on the ques- tion whether redress of this abuse falls within the scope of State authority or of federal authority. If the Wisconsin law is adjudged void relief will be sought from Congress. The weak side of the Wisconsin case, as now presented, lies in the fact that it affects important interests outside that State. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad is a line which lies partly in the State of Wisconsin and partly in the State of Llinois. It was formed by a consolidation of shorter separate railways by permission of the Legislatures of both States. The value of the property de- pends upon the unity of the organization and the continuity of the line under the same management, and its franchises are in the na- ture of a contract, The federal constitution forbids the States to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts, and it is contended in behalf of the road that when it receives from the State o charter authorizing it in explicit terms to establish its own rates of fare the State could not after- wards withdraw this concession without a plain violation of contract, which the federal constitution forbids. It was maintained by counsel for the road that the State merely granted the right of way; that the full value of the property thus taken was paid to its private owners; that the State did not provide a dollar of the money with which the road was built ; that it is the exclusive property of its stockholders and can no more be converted to public use without just compensation than the land it occupies could have been when held by its original owners. It is contended by counsel that if the rate of fare may be reduced by the State to three cents o mile it may be reduced to one cent, or ® sum which would not pay running ex- penses, and thus completely destroy the prop. erty of the stockholders, in contravention of the principle that private property cannot be taken for public use without compensation. And as the Wisconsin law equally impairs the value of the part of the road which lies in Illinois, that circumstance is deemed an aggravation of its injustice. On the other hand, it is alleged in defence of the law that the constitution of Wisconsin explicitly reserves to the Legislature the au- thority to alter or repeal every railroad charter which it grants; that the stock was purchased subject to this condition; that there is, there- fore, no violation of contract, since the stock- holders knew, or were inexcusable for not knowing, the risks to which their property was exposed, It would be presumptuous in us to expross an opinion on this grave and difficult legal question, which Justice Davis and his two associates hesitate to deal with, any further than is barely nocessary to speed ib on its way to final argument and decision in the Supreme Court of the United States. It will be exhaustively argued by the first lawyers of the country before that high tribunal, and when its decision has once been pronounced, the limits of State power over railroads will be clearly understood. Speaking by Inference. Not long since the Hon. John M. Francis, recently our Minister to Greece, and known to stand high in the confidence of the President, made an official declaration that President Grant did not mean to run for a third term ; that he actually grew impatient when the sub- ject was mentioned to him and had a distaste for the theme. Mr. Francis is an ingenuous, careful man, skilled in diplomacy, and any averment he makes is entitled to respect and attention, On the other hand we have Sena- tor Gordon, of Georgia, who knows the Presi- dent well, and who declares that he does mean to run again. ‘he home oracles and Long Brauch echoes are silent, if we may ex- cept the Washington organ, which gives us harmonious tones of concurrence, Between Mr. Francis and General Gordon we are per- plexed. But now comes Ellis H. Roberts, fresh from Washington, with full enjoyment of the confidence of the President and Senator Conkling, and the opinion he expresses is as concise and oracular as a manifesto, of the Count de Chambord. First he tells us that “General Grant has in no way intimated to any person that he desires or would accept o renowination for third term as President."* Second, we are told that ‘‘no representative journal or individual in the republican party has advocated such nomination or given as- surance of support to it if made.’’ And third, “‘predictions of a canvass fora third term come trom the opponents of General Grant and from those who have waged bitter war against the acts with which his name is indissolubly connected.”’ These are ingenious propositions, and justify the reputation which Mr. Roberts has gained as one of the few Representatives in Congress not afraid of Ben Butler. But when we come to analyze them we are pained and anxious to find that a statesman who stands so close to the President and Mr. Conkling should know 60 little about a subject which now excites the attention of the nation, We do not say that ‘General Grant has intimated to any per- son’’ his desires upon the third term. But Mr. Roberts will remember that he had no de- sires to intimate upon the first term until the patience of the party was exhausted; that for a long time it was an even chance whether he would be a republican or democratic candi- date, and that in the eyes of Mr. Greeley he was ‘a sashed and girded sphinx,’’ who would not and did not speak until his time came. Asto the point that ‘no representative | journal or individual in the republican party” has taken ground in favor of such a nomina- tion, we have to answer that many representa- tive men, like General Butler, Senator Brown- low, Senator Spencer, Judge Pierrepont and others have declared their preference for a third term. The Washington organ, the Republican, which certainly repre- sents the President, has done the same thing. More than all, no representative newspaper in the party and no representative statesman has ventured to say a word against it, Even Mr. Roberts, who has strong opin- ions which he knows how to express, speaks as tenderly on the subject as a school maiden when she rofers her first proposal to her father. “Tradition,” says this cautious states- man, ‘tradition grows up in a nation and pervades every part of its institutions, Tho return of the President to the rank of citizen at the close of his second term, at farthest, is a fundamental principle. It was not put into words at the beginning, but was enacted in the example of our first President, and has never been violated in our history. It is a safeguard against every abuse of executive power.'' This means that Mr. Roberts, if not now in favor of o third term, would support Grant if nominated, and would in the national Convention withdraw Mr. Conkling’s name “tor the sake of harmony,” and move to “make the nomination of Ulysses 8. Grant unanimons,’’ in an eloquent, feeling address. If the third term idea is to be beaten men | like Mr. Roberts must not speak in proverbs and parables, but with bold, clear and manly voice, that such a nomination would be a blow at republican institutions more terrible than would have been tho success of the rebel- lion, ‘ The Situation in France, The rejection of the monarchical proposi- tions presented to the Finch Assembly puta an end to all chance of a2 immediate restora- tion of the monarchy. By the significant majority of one hundred Yoices the Assembly has pronounced against p proposition which even those who supportedit must have known was opposed to the will of the French nation. Both France and the Assem- bly must be congratuated on the re- sult of this vote (It shows that the charge so oflen broughi against the Assem- bly of want of patriotisn is not as well founded as superficial obervers of French politics would persuade w. Quite a large number of the members oj the Right Centre must have sacrificed their paty politics to the well-being of the nation, even at the risk of witnessing the establishment o! the Republic. The defeat of Mr. Larochefouguld’s propo- sition was secured by a coalitionof the Centre and Left, though some clever jarliamentary manoeuvring was tried, with the object of breaking up their good 4nderstanding. So far the republicans seem to have been the chief gainers in thes¢ parliamentary struggles, for while the mongrchists have re- ceived a check that in all) probability will prove fatal to their cause the Bonapartists have not escaped scot freq It is ramored that the Judge charged with he investigation of the Central Bonapartist (Committee has recommended the prosecutid of M. Rouher, the chief of the impellist faction. Should this rumor prove tounded the cause of imperialism would b@n serious dan- ger, as the party deprived f M. Rouher would want the direction and ¢scipline which at present render it formidal Although the government has succeeded p passing the Municipal Election law its pogion is hourly becoming more untenable. coalition of the moderate and extreme Leftfith some lo- gitimists has been formed .agaitt the Minis- try, who will probably be §ced to give in their resignations. "It is fven possible that gome sectiona of the robiats will SLANE BN ——. support the Left in the demand for the dissola- tion of the Assembly even if they do not take the initiative in the matter. Already notiod of a motion to dissolve is threatened by ML Raoul Duval, one of the monarchists, and at the motion, if made, would certainly receive the support of tho Left, it is within the possi- bilities that an oppeal may be made te the country. In view of the excited state of parties and the close balance in the Assembly this certainly the wisest and most patriotic course, and the only one by which the danger of a civil war can be avoided. The efforts of the monarchical parties to force a king on an un- willing people have been a disgrace to the party which holds itself up as a model of virtue and the defender of order. During the past few years the monarchists of France have shown to the world the spectacle, of a party whose watchword was ‘moral order’ plunging recklessly into demagogism and exhibiting a complete disregard for decency” and law in their efforts to secure the throne of France for one or other of the Bourbon pre- tenders, If the people of’ Franco really dee sire the restoration of any form of monarchy the dissolution of the Assembly will give them full opportunity to express their wishes at the polls. The whole government machinery is in the hands of the royalists and Bonapartists, as the republican officials have been carefully removed under the governments of Thiers and MacMahon. But, notwithstanding this great disadvantage, the republican leaders feel certain of securing an overwhelm. ing majority in the new Assembly should the elections be legally conducted. Probably both the Bonapartists and monarchists know | this, and it may be that some unlooked for effort will be made to stave off for another while the definite establishment of the Repub- lic. But, however long delayed, the conser- vative Republic will come at last, because it is the only form of government upon which France can permanently found her liberty and prosperity. Freecivc Emrcrants.—It appears that a regular system of swindling immigrants com- ing to this country has been established by a gang of thieves, who operate on the other side of the Atlantic or during the passage. These worthless people escape the merited pun- ishment of their crimes because the law as it exists at present cannot reach them. It points clearly the necessity for an interna- tional treaty that would enable the authori- ties to deal summarily with criminals of this class. It is disgraceful that a loophole showld be left for them. We have special interest in the protection of intending emigrants, aud the Washington government ought to take such steps as would render the practice of swindling over confiding people coming to our shores a game too dangerous to bo played with profit. Tus Mirrrary Sprarr mr Ganaps.—A tele- gram from Ottawa, Canada, states that be- tween fourteen and fifteen thousand men have just passed throngh camp exercises at the various military camps, and that as many will assemble and drill in the fall. Our colonial neighbors are following the example of the old country in organizing and exercising the mili- tia and volunteers; not, we presume, that there is any apprehension of being called te fight, but simply for the glory of the thing and the show, just as our boys like to exhibit their figures and uniforms whenever they have @ good chance. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Turkey 1s likely to be gobbled ap by earth- quakes. Governor Dix will not returo to the capital an- til the 20th inst, Marquis de San Marzano, of Italy, has apartments at the Everett House. Captain J. W. Reilly, of West Point, hae quarters at the Hoffman House, Yarborough is tn the hands of Gall, the great mogul of the London doctors. State Senator Samuel 8. Lowery, of Utica, has arrived at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Speaker Dewitt 0. Littlejohn, of Oswego, ts | staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Commodore J. M. Frailey, United States Navy, is registered at the Sturtevant House. Empress Eugénie is reported to have gone to Lourdes, April 15, treognsta, of course. Commander Edward Terry, United States Navy, 1s quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. State Senator Henry C. Connelly, of Kingston, N, Y., is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Solicitor Bluford Wilson, of the Treasury De- partment, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Agentieman from London says the opponents of Havemeyer will have ’im ‘igher-than the comet if they improve their opportuntty. The Savannan Afurning News says:—“In Henry county, recently, @ colored Theodore Tilton shot | and killed & colored Henry Ward Beecher.” Senators John W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, ana Henry Cooper, of Tennessee, arrived in this city yesterday from Washington and are at the New York Hotel. Viscount Gondrecourt, son of the General, be cause papa had stopped his cash, went of to Geneva The pistol that he put in his mouth alse went off to his entire satisfaction. Princess Louise, eldest daughter of the King of Belgium, will not be seventeen till Februrry 10, 1875, and will not marry before that day. All the Prince Pauls may therefore stay at home a while, Recently a citizen of the French Republic de manded of the law the restoration of his wife, who had run away with an officer, The judge com manded the officer to restore the wife withim fifteen days. The French Revue Politique et Liti¢raire maine tains that Jean Cousin, who sailed from Dieppe, stumbled against the Continent of America om @ Western voyage, and reported his discovery at Dieppe in 1489—several years, thereiore, earlier than Columus, ‘This is the way tney put it at Cambriage:— Froude informs the Scottish youth That parsons have no care for truth; Witte Canon Kingsley loadly cries ‘That history is a pack of lies. ‘What cause for judgment 80 malign? A brief reflection solves the mystery; For Fronde thinks Kingsley @ divine, And Kingsley goes to Froude for history Alas for Prince Pierre of the Bonaparte dynasty+ He owns of possesses two pictures by Kaphaet, vaiued at $25,000, and his wife isa milliner. But his wife has fatied to pay the other milliner whom she bought out in Bond street, Loudon, and now this other horrid, plebeian miiliner has “attached those Raphaels os security for her money. There 4s Nothing more thoroughly republican in ite want of respect for impecunious princes and that sort of flummery than your true British miiliner. One of the policemen we read about walked in the wood of Vincennes, near Paris. Under a tree he saw the fragments of letters, and, putting some ‘Vogether, Made out severai letters apparentiy ud~ dressed to the same person, all of which seemed to indicate that this person had had money sens to him throngh the post, but had never received it, An Inquiry as to whether any person employed in the Post OMce Department had made a trip to Vincennes that day'resulted tn an important ail _| cavery of the theft of letters,