The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1874, Page 4

4 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON 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 Yonrs Herawp. 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. Volume XXXIX....... jOON AND EVENING AMUSEHENTS THIS AFTER) Bi bet NIELS eit t.-IVAN road’ ' tween l’rince am jouston streets.—IVAN- HOw, OR THETEWES ate P. Mes clowes at Iba FA, Mz, Joseph Wheelock and Mise Tone Burke. Matinee ai WoOOD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street.—DARING DICK, at? P.M; closes at4:30 P.M. oWAMP ANGELS, at8 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P.M; cloges at 10:40 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Bighth street, near second avenue.—VARIETY ENTER- TAINMENT, ats P.M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Firty-ninth street and Seventh ayenue.—THOMAS' CON. OBAT, at P. M.; closes at 10:30? M. COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirty-tiith street.—LONDON BY NIGHT, at 1 P.M; closes at 5 P.M. Same at7.P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. PpODROME, | y-sixth ‘street. —GRAND | ATIONS, at 1.0 P. M. and MENT. | July Ul, 1874 New York, Saturday, From our reports this morning the probabilities | @re that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy | and warm, with local rains. Tae Horrogs or Hrproprosia are graphi- cally told in another column in the case of a young boy bitten by the terror of the metrop- olis, a mad dog. From Cupa comes a strange and somewhat astounding rumor to the effect that General Concha is in negotiation with chiefs of the free Cuba movement for the surrender of the arms and cause of the patriots to the Spaniards. Can it be true? Creepmoor Contests. —This popular resort of American marksmen will be the scene of an | interesting contest this month between the Amateur Rifle Club snd the Irish champion team. It will be a trial of skill between the | best shots of America and tried men from the Emerald Isle. Trorrinc Conresrs have taken quite a hold | of the metropolitan public. Even the hippo- | dromic tactics of unscrupulous persons fail to | bring this noble sport into disreputa The account of the races at Deerfoot Park, given im another column, will be found to contain many interesting points on this subject Fre at Wrenawsen.—Lightning struck one of the great oil tanks at Weehawken last evening, and the result was an illumination such as the sacred shore which has been em- balmed in Knickerbocker tradition never be- fore saw. An immense quantity of petro- leum, probably about ten million gallons, was consumed. Scuvruzr Conrax would seem to be ina beatific state of mind. Ina recent Fourth of July oration he declared that in politics now- adays men are elevated to a position only to have mud thrown at them ; but he believed that there is still left the assurance that right ‘will prevail and be done them at the open grave. This is a beautiful sentiment. Sunstzoxes.—In view of the extremely ‘warm weather of yesterday, and the resultant effects as reported, the article published in another column on sunstroke, and the proper medical treatment therefor, will be read with interest. We regret to observe that the aggre- gate of sufferers yesterday was large, five per- sons having been struck down by the fierce heat of the sun. | A New Panry.—It seems there are not only | democrats and republicans, but there is also & party called ‘The Party of the People.” They have discovered this in the Board of | Police Commissioners. All the Commission- ers belong to this party. ‘The voice is the | voiee of Jacob, but the hand is the hand of | Esau,'’ especially when there is a clab in it. NEW YORK HERALD! France—The Possible Issue of the | always been in a sort of constitutional drift. | acting within the limits of a constitution | any point in the ‘permanent’ law embar- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY I, 1874——WITH SUPPLEMENT. Crisis. France has reached a point which all the lessons of history teach us to regard as criti- cal and as pre-eminently dangerous to lib- erty. Out of a provisional political condition in which the limitation of function on the Part of the various powers of the State was either vague or unrecognized, in which there was a virtual truce between the demand for a larger freedom and the necessity for the pres- ent denial of such freedom, a parliamentary crisis has suddenly evoked the spectre of a per- sonal power compelled to assert its authority against the parties whose mutual opposition promised much for liberal government but threatened much to all the good interests of society by their continued atrife and by their continued failure to create machinery for giving effect to the recognized principle of popular sovereignty. Marshal MacMahon has informed the As- | sembly that he accepted his position as the | head of the executive for seven years, and intends to hold it for that period by the assist- ance, if necessary, of the power in his hands, and that meantime he intends also to exercise whatever authority may seem naturally to flow from recognized executive functions, unless the Assembly shall more accurately designate the powers and duties of his office. Here, then, is positive ground taken and which to the members the Assembly Committee of Thirty. It will be seen by our specification of certain clauses of his proposition that MacMahon is engaged in the very delicate work of endeavoring to retain the chief power of the State in his own hands and of according at the same moment some- thing to the people and the Assembly. Just here, however, is the critical point. Is it only a proper assertion of authority that is to be apprehended, or has the country to contemplate a new piece of Cromwellism or | Napoleonism in the act of the man who expels the Assembly and assumes to govern in its place? No one in France seems to appre- hend the possibility of a dishonest course on the part of the old Marshal. He stands in the glory of a good name. People have faith that he will not violate an oath to defend and protect the country and become its ruin under the delusive inspiration of a personal or family ambition. He is nota vulgar adven- turer. He never tried to secure a crown with @ tame eagle and a piece of raw meat. He is not an accident of political complications, who, a magnate in office to-day, would be nobody if out of office to-morrow. Even to count commercially one may say that it is better worth while to be the honest Duke of Magenta, a famous old soldier, scarred in his country’s wars and beloved and respected by all, than to be scorned in life and death as 4 of we may believe will be held, amd MacMahon’s incumbency may be regarded as the first real step toward the organization of a political machinery. Hitherto all that has been done by this Assembly in the political organization of the government has been like the play of children in the dry sand on the seashore, where in every mimic edifice the weight of the | last handful of sand carried down with it all that had been carefully built up before. In cases where constituent assemblies or constitutional conventions frame systems un- der which legislative bodies act the point is clear that the Legislature must simply exer- cise the functions assigned to it and cannot repeal the laws made by the body of higher authority, which was also clothed with spe- cific powers. But the present French Assem- bly assumes to be at once a constitutional convention and an ordinary legislature, and its exercise of the double function has been a peculiar detriment to the country. It was convoked to make peace, and it inferred that this also implied the duty of establishing a aystem in which the government should be administered when the peace it made should relieve the country of military rule, and so it assumed constituent powers. In virtue of the powers thus assumed it has given its sanction to several acts that looked to the permanent organization of the government, and scarcely has the ink been dry in the record of its pro- ceedings before, under some contradictory impulse, it has repealed these acts. It has thus It has presented the spectacle of'a legislature which it had the power to repeal, and which it constantly did repeal whenever it found that tassed the impulse of the moment. Conse- quently through all the years since the As- sembly met in the theatre at Bordeaux it has gone on in uncertainty and conflict, with nota step taken toward the formation of any insti- tution that might guaranteethe country from | the uncertainties of the future. There is no doubt, also, that when the As- sembly voted to put MacMahon in power for seven years the larger number looked upon | this alsoas merely an act of the Assembly which the Assembly had the power to re- peal; for they naturally enough argued that the power which gave an authority could limit or modify as to the period for which it was given, or revoke it altogether, and the execu- tive office was thus, in the minds of the larger number of men in the Assembly, still looked upon as one of the points around which the intrigue and complication of the party strife might gather. MacMahon’s brusque an- nouncement of his view of the case will startle these gentlemen, and will involve on their part some new views on the necessity of immediately limiting, by definition, the power they have created and which they sud- denly discover they cannot otherwise control. In this way the effect of the message will be advantageous. But how will the country like the discovery that it isin the hands of an executive sup- ported by the whole military power and pre pared to use that power, and unlimited save by its own views of its duties, and which at a moment’s notice may turn the key in the door of the Chamber at Versailles and send to their | homes the few hundreds of respectable Depu- ties who regard themselves as the sacred de- positories of the national sovereignty? We believe the country willlike it very well. Ms. Brxcurr.—The publication in another | column of Mr. Beecher's letter asking Plym- | outh church, through some of its most worthy | and distinguished members, to investigate the | charges made against him by Mr. Tilton will | gratify every friend of truth and morality in | the community. Mr. Beecher courts the fullest inquiry into his life and conduct as a | Christian pastor, and the result, we are con- fident, will be a source of pride and thankful- ness to the millions who have honored and trusted him for so many years. | Aas !—The Boston Traveller now advises us that ‘the clerk who was carried for about four years on the pay-roll of the House Postmaster without doing any work” was the private | secretary of General Garfield, who took this means of paying him out of the national Treasury for personal services. We hope General Garfield can disprove this grave accusation, and especially the additional aver- ment that he threatened to secure the removal of the present Postmaster ‘if he disturbed the arrangement.” Tre Heratp Sunpay Express To Sara- roaa.—With a view of keeping our readers at the various watering places slong the valley of the Hudson and elsewhere informed of the | current events of the day our lightning train will leave the Grand Central depot at half-past three o’clock to-morrow morning. Through it the sojourners at the Catskills, West Point, Albany, Troy, Saratoga, Lake George and the various places on the route will be furnished with the Hznaxp at their breakfast tables the same as though they were in New York. Tho train will be continued during the season for the convenience of those secluded in the varigus resorts mentioned. | formation on this | France profoundly feels the need of just such a régime as she is confident she would enjoy under the firm, sure hand of the old soldier, and equally feels the necessity of putting an end to the strife of small factions in the As- sembly. As the parliamentary conflict now stands it has definitely the character of a struggle of all the fragmentary oppositions, not only against one another, but against the national sovereignty; against the restoration of the country to a normal condition; against public tranquillity and against the general | prosperity that flows from that spirit of com- | mercial venture and enterprise which is ut- | terly paralyzed by the uncertainties of a po- litical chaor, With such ills on one side and only an extreme assertion of authority to be apprehended on the other a commercial peo- ple will welcome the ‘organization of au- | thority. | The question of the exact meaning and purport of MacMahon’s claim of ao fixed | | term of power, as set forth in his message, | was brought before the Assembly yesterday in the shape of a formal resolution demanding an explanation from the government. Gen- eral Cissey replied, and promised that in- important point will be given by the Ministry within a few days, when the measures of constitu- tional reform will be submitted to the Legis- lature. The Bonapartists are kept under close watch in the meantime, and the threatened prosecution of MM. Rouher, Peury, Duke de Padoue and other prominent adherents of the exiled dynasty is likely to be used effi- ciently against the royalists and in support of | the conservative Republic. The Minister of | | the Interior has presented the views of the government on the subjects of a national | constitution and constitutional réaime | | the night of July 22. king who rose to a throne by perjury and theft. Periheltoned Comet—Its Possible Interplanctary Influence. The arrival of the comet at its perihelion on the 8th inst. gives a new tarn to its history, which will be steadfastly watched by its many ardent admirers. The great meteor is now about one-third nearer the sun than we are, or aboutsixty millions of miles from the fiery orb. The effect of this approach to the sun is neces- sarily great in the analysis of the cometic mat- ter by solar heat and the vaporization of the meteor. In this relation our article published elsewhere to-day will have a general interest. The only explanation that has been given for the apparent contraction of comets as they are perihelioned is that they are partly evaporated by the heat and the cosmical cloud is converted into invisible cometary mist. The whole mass of Halley’s comet, in 1835-6, was thus converted into invisible gas, and afterwards, on cooling, was con- densed so as to become again apparent. The change which the great comets undergo from their near advance toward the sun is one of the most interesting points of investigation in. terrestrial physics; for from what we know of the powerful agency of aqueous vapor on our planet we may not unphilosophically conclude that the cometary vapor, expanding over millions of miles in space, plays for the time being an important part in the distribution of solar heat through the solar system, Every one has observed on an intensely hot midsummer day what a boon a small fleecy cloud flying overhead is to the pedestrian in screening him from the rays above. If condensed sucha cloud would probably not furnish water enough to moisten a handkerchief, but the vaporous particles are potential in arresting the down-pouring flood of solar radiation. We know that the water of the tropi- cal ocean, when converted into invisible vapor, occupies between sixteen and seveiiteen hundred times its original volume. This is, however, only under an equatorial tem- perature of from eighty-five degrees to ninety- five degrees Fahrenheit—a very low tempera- ture, comparatively. But in the vaporization of comets when at the perihelion a tempera- ture ranging from five thousand to twenty- five thousand times that of an equatorial sun, is brought to bear upon the cometary matier. The inconceivable attenuation and expan- sion due to such thermometric extremes can be faintly indicated only by immense com- etary clouds, stretching over many millions of miles in interplanetary space and serving to divert or retard or stop the tides of solar heat. It would, therefore, not appear re- markable should accurate research hereafter prove that comets have an important influ- ence on the climate and weather of the season. Such has been the world’s belief for ages, and though modern science, with its iconoclastic tendencies to sweep away all that is old, may reject the thought maturer re- sults may confirm it. Should the perihelioned comet of 1874 exert this influence, as some think it has done already, the effect will be most marked, per- haps, in reducing the July thermometric mean. The comet of Coggia will, now that it hag made its closest approach to the sun, rapidly pay its respects to us. According to the reliable computation of Astronomer Hind the great meteor will be nearest the earth on It will then be less than one-third of our distance from the sun, or within thirty millions of miles of our globe. The Sovrmzan Views.—The Richmond Enquirer does not welcome the third term as in any way o relief to the South. Virginia, it assures us, cannot be captared by, Grant, even with the aid of the gallant Gordon. ‘Our grand old Lee,” says the editor, “‘could not lead us to Grant upon any conditions, were he still in the flesh,’’ for Virginians know Grant, and ‘‘to their sorrow.” As for sustaining him, the editor is confident that the white people of the South will never do so, The Richmond Dispatch, on the other hand, is not decided as to General Grant, but is “open to conviction.’’ ‘‘We are,” says this discontented educator of public opinion, ‘theartily sick of the scurvy politicians who have shown with what facility they can ac commodate their principles, and even their facts, to their personal interesta and ambition. We hate them, and would welcome the one honest man who would grasp them as would an iron hand a hundred hornets, and so dis- | pose of them. When leaders become ready to sacrifice the rights and interests of communi- ties and the welfare of the nation to their miserable petty ambitions and schemes we | are ready to hail with delight the one man whose arbitrary rule may come in to deliver the land from their base treachery.” It would be curious to know which of these journalists more correctly represents the sentiments of Virginia. Tae Question may some time arise as to whether it is necessary to the success of a moral show that every few days a performer should be dangerously wounded or killed out right, Am Extraordinary Summer in Europe. From the other side of the Atlantic there is increasing intelligence of the most abnormal weather, which will be likely to mar the pleas- ure of American tourists and to affect sgri- cultural interests seriously, When, within a week or two of the summer solstice, damag- ing frosts afftict a country, as they have this year afflicted Great Britain, the prospects of the husbandman must be greatly jeopardized. An English contemporary states that the tem- perature for the week ending June 20, as re- corded at the Royal Observatory (Greenwich), fell 5.5 below the mean for the last fifty years. The Tweed, itis said, has not been so low since 1826, when cofn was so short in the stalk it was pulled by hand. The droughts have been so extensive that the hay harvest has been very short and the cattle have suf- fered distressingly, while the unseasonable dryness has been relieved only by destructive hail storms. The alarming feature of the season is a deficiency of the temperature requisite for grain ripening, and this appears to extend beyond the British Isles, In the north of Italy the frequency of tremendous hail storms is anomalous, and indicates an extremely low thermometer, which is anything but aus- picious for health or harvest, Some of the old Italian churches and other magnificent public edifices have suffered severely in these tempests, and we have reports of the streets of Milan being covered with wounded and dead birds, finding no escape from the icy elements. Indeed, it would seem that the whole northern hemisphere, including our own Continent, has so far, notwithstanding occa- sional outbursts of excessive heat, experienced an extraordinary thermal depression during the summer. Cen not our scientific men determine whether this anomaly is in any de- gree traceable to the cosmical influence of the comet? Whether this can be done or not the facts stated are significant of those conditions which determine the harvest calculations of the present year in Europe. Anxiovs Asovr tHE Westznn Trapr.— The Boston merchants and people generally have been a good deal exercised of late about | the trade of the West. Several meetings have been held of late, at which the Mayor and other prominent gentlemen were present. The newspapers, too, keep hammering at the sub- ject. At a recent meeting, where, as is re- ported, ‘great enthusiasm was manifested,” a committee was appointed to concert meas- ures and secure an organization for the pur- pose of improving the trade between Boston and the West, and for ‘building up the busi- ness of Boston.’’ These gentlemen are look- ing to the railroads chiefly to accomplish their object, All this is fair enough. The Boston people are to be commended for their spirit of rivalry and for looking after their own inter- ests, but they cannot overcome insuperable natural and geographical disadvantages. We would advise them not to sink their capital in a hopeless struggle, but to bring it to New York, which is and must be the centre of trade and activity. “Unper wich Kine?”—Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, member of Congress from the Utica district, does not respond to the appeal of the Henatp as to the nomination of the President fora third term. The diplomatic finish of his explanation will excite admiration. He says, in the Utica Herald: — The New YoRK Hegatp, which perhaps origi- nated, and at all events has made tie most of the third ‘term discussion, in referring to @ recent article in these columns, says :— “dt the third term idea 1s to be beaten men like Mr. Roberts must not speak in proverbs and arables, but with bold, ciear and manty voice, ‘hat such a nomination would be @ blow at repub- lican institutions more terrible than would have been the success of the rebeliion.”” Our namesake insists that a nomination for a President for a third term 1s probable. We regard it a@s contingency too remote to be considered. dhe American people will not coquet with the suggestion. Should it ever take form, they will treat it with prompt decision. In the meantime we see no reason for any More bold proclamation than any other curious but impracticable proposi- tion. Nor after the citattons of our namesake do we find any evidence that any republican journal or leader has advocated a third term tor the Presi- dent. We do not wrong General Grant by toler- ating the belief that he listens for a moment to the revolutionary scheme. If men like Mr. Roberts, who hold high place in the republican party and look for- ward, justly, to higher honors, insist upon dealing with the third term question in this guarded, coy, diplomatic fashion, nothing can prevent the President's renomination, and nothing, we are profoundly confident, the overwhelming defeat of the party and its can- didate. If republicans like Mr. Roberts were wise they would see this. Canuist Barparrtizs.—General Dorregaray has, it appears, issued » manifesto to the civ- ilized world, in which he denouuces the re- publicans and at the same time attempts to justify the execution of republican soldiers by the followers of Don Carlos. In view of the fact that remarkable leniency has been shown from the beginning by the republi- cans to those Carlist rebels this manifesto dis- plays a spirit of savagery not wholly out of keeping with the known tendencies of the partisans of divine right. The aim of the leaders in murdering prisoners is clear enough. They desire a war @ outrance, be- cause the recent defeats have lessened their authority with their followers, A war with- out quarter would cut off all retreat from the rank and file, who would be compelled, by fear of reprisals, to adhere to their chiefs. This is evidently the meaning of this last outburst of brutality on the part of the men who come to save society and religion from the dreadful republicans. Such tactics, how- ever, can only bring the Carlist cause imto disrepute, without in any way increasing the Bourbon pretender’s chances of success. A Diseasz-Brzzpine Nusiance still exists on the west side of the city, up town, from the old slaughter house establishments, notwith- standing the long and earnest protests of the people and the press. The smell is very of- fensive and calculated to spread disease at this season of the year. Sometimes, when the wind blows from the west, it reaches across the city. The Sanitary Superintendent of the city reports, it is true, that the slaughtering houses now are generally in good condition, yet the nuisance remains. It is thought the remains of the old neglected slaughter system are imbedded in the mud along the shore of the river and that the evil arises from these, Whatever may be the cause it ought to be re- moved promptly. The health of the city, to | say nothing of the unpleasantness of the vile odor, is of too much importance to neglect this matter or to leave the difficulty unsolved. ‘ Phe nuisance shonid be removed at any cost and without delay, Massachusetts im Congress. The Utica Herald makes some pertinent re- marks in reference to the changes probable in the next delegation from Massachusetts to Con- gress. According to the Herald, if Massachu- setts had been able to keep her delegations unchanged in the two houses she would long have preserved her control. But Sumner is dead, Wilson is Vice President, and, now that @ majority of the present members in the Honse will not return, ‘the sceptre is depart- ing from her.’ ‘No matter,’’ says the editor, “who are the successors, her power in the two houses is crippled for the next Congress, and probably for years to come, perhaps forever.’’ Furthermore, Massachusetts has no fresh ideas to contribute to legislation. ‘Other States crowd to the front. New York and Califofnia represent the commerce of the two oceans. New England has 90 far established her manufactures as to see rivals and not allies imthe communities where new furnaces and new factories are arising. Agriculture has its chief seat beside the Mis- sissippi and its tributaries, but the harvests of New York are richer in the aggregate than those of any other State. The change in her Congressional delegation will bring fresh men to accept the new situation. They will not feel the strangeness of finding Massachuselts no longerin the fore-front. Her voice will con- tinue potent, but no longer controlling. The great Middle States and thdse of the Missis- stppi Valley have interests in common, and in them are the impetus of growth and the con- sciousness of enduring sway. Our debt to Massachusetts is vast, in the generation just closing as well asin ourearliest years. Ob- viously the time is beginning for other States to lead in council and to give character to our statates and to their application.”’ The dominance of Massachusetts began when the Southern States seceded. For a long time legislation was under the influence of Virginia and the Carolinas, and that small but resolute body of able, reckless and gifted men who succeeded Calhoun. All the im- portant committees—those which shape legis- lation and control the business of the country—were in the hands of Davis and Hunter, Mason, Benjamin and Slidell, and their colleagues. Seward and Sumner, Wilson and Chase sat in a despised minority. Seces- sion removed as in a flash the whole Southern delegation. In an instant New England came to the front, and as her representatives had been many years in public life they had the fitness for assuming control of the business of the country. This came more from their ex- perience and acumen than from any special predominance of New England interests in the Union. Since 1861 the country has been Tuled in the interest of New England; for, in addition to the representatives from her own States, a great many Western members and Senators, not to speak of the carpet-baggers, who now represent the despair and misery of the South, are of New England birth and types of New England ideas. As a general thing we do not complain of the manner in which these shrewd men have done their work. Their policy has been narrow and sel- fish at times, opposed to annexation, mani- fest destiny and other ideas that are tradi- tional since the time of Jefferson; but it has been an exact, conservative policy, willing to fight and spend money for the Union when it was in danger, anxious since the close of the war to redeem onr finances and put the government credit upon a sound footing. We owe to New England influence that we are not now dritting about on a sen of inoonvertible currency, re- pudiation and inflation, and but for Massa- chusetts, as represented by Mr. Sumner, we should most likely hava St. Domingo on our hands, with a Caster expedition against Cabral or Baez, to ‘‘suppress insarrection.”” But as the editor of the Herald, speaking from the amplest experience, and with great | justice says, other States crowd to the front. Agriculture must be heard, and egriculture reigns in the valley of the Mississippi. Commerce demands audience, and commerce finds her sent in Ohicago, San Francisco and New York. Cotton rapidly resumes its royal sway, no less royal because its subjects are free blacks who will work, rather than slaveholding whites who did not labor themselves nor induce the best labor from their slaves. Pennsylvania, Virginia and Missouri have mining interests of in- credible magnitude, which grow more and moreinto the wealth and industry of the | country. The ideas of future legislation must be governed by the wants and hopes of these interests, and not by the political theories of New England. Empire moves westward. The next gener- ation of legislators will be governed by the West. So far as New York is concerned, her interests are so national, her prosperity is so largely dependent upon cotton and corn, upon iron and coal and gold, that whoever reigns must in some respects be her vassal. Exacration To Mippiz Groroi.—The At- lanta papers record a large immigration flow- ing into the interior of the State. Many of them are English and Northern people, who are amply supplied with funds to purchase land and engage in manufacturing industries, while a large proportion, the Atlanta Herald reports, are white residents of Louisiana and South Carolina, who have emigrated to escape negro rule in those States, to higher latitudes, where the negro population is in subordina- tion. There is, in consequence, a remarkable decrease in coast property, and the Herald in- stances the Hill plantation on tho Waccamaw River, South Carolina, now offered for twelve hundred dollars, that two years ago com- manded as high as twelve thousand dollars. Land on another rice plantation is offered at seventy-five cents per acre, which, previous to negro rule in the State, was held at from seventy-five to one hundred dollars per acre. Axapama Poxrrics.—The canvass in this State has already become very exciting, and the election is likely to decide whether the whites or the carpet-baggers are to rule tho State in the future. The whites, under the lead of General Houston for Governor, are or- ganizing all over the State against the blacks and the few whites who lead them, and they propose to go to the polls on the simple ques- tion of whether they will or will not tolerate the civil rights proposition and equality for the negro, The conservative organs report the entire white population, with a few carpet- bag exceptions, united, and express confidence of winning a substantial victory on the 3d of November. The issue is a most unfortunate one, and we cannot but feel that wisdom would have avoided it, Timidity in Public Life. The Springfield Republican makes a kindly and in the main » just analysis of the char- acter and influence of Mr. Dawes, who now retires from public life after a long service. “With all of Mr. Dawes’ faults and short- comings,” says the editor, ‘the does not leave his equal as a public servant behind him in the body which heis quitting after eighteen years of continuous service. Run over the list of the best men in the House—Garfield, whom the Nation coddles and invents excuses for, with a tenderness quite foreign to ite stern nature; the Hoars, the others. There is not a man of them who can match records with him either in respect to useful public service or political courage. Not a man of them has worked so hard or accomplished so much; nota man of them has spoken out so boldly or taken such risks in the performance of public duty. If he is naturally ‘timid,’ if risks are not at all in his line, so much the more honor to him.” Timidity in public life is a weakness that too often as- sumes the proportions of o crime. Our public men have no right to assume the dig- nities and rewards of office and to ignore its duties. Mr. Dawes himself, in one conspic- uous and lamentable instance, illustrated how weakness could be made a crime, When the Crédit Mobilier infamy was in full tide in the House Mr. Dawes, by one of those speeches which he knew so well how to make when they served a political purpose, could have driven it back forever. He did not make the speech, He condoned and approved this fraud. And it was shown that at the very time he was engaged in pecuniary transactions with the leader of this fraud. Weare willing, in kindness to Mr. Dawes, who now goes from public life after many years of faithful ser- vice, to call this “timidity.” But it was morally a crime. Srzam Srrzzr Cans.—There is, it appears, some chance that the problem of applying steam as a motor to the street cars is in a fair way of being solved. A street engine has been constructed which possesses the qualities of lightness, strength and manageableness which are requisite in a machine moving through crowded thoroughfares. Many Southern and Western cities have applicd steam to their street cars, but New York still lags behind, although the need for rapid and cheap trans- portation is felt more directly here than in any other city. As a matter of interest to themselves, if not for the convenience of the public, the railway companies ought to en- deavor to solve this problem for New York. Tue Prrrssure Despatch says that it is quite probable that the intimations that have been conveyed to Rome as to the feeling of Ameri- can Catholics on the question of an American cardinal ‘‘will receive an early and favorable answer.” This is good news. When we read the announcement that the Popo re- garded America as a country in which he was more of a Pope than in Europe we felt sure that he would not continue to overlook the claims of the faithful prelates and officers of our American Church in the distribution of its supreme honors. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Solicitor E. C, Banfield is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Poor Havemeyer! Like Numa, who was also called Pompilius, He has been ill brought up; besides, is billous, Mayor D. M. Halbert, of Binghamton, is stopping ‘at the St. Nicholas Hotel. ‘The printers alter Burns so as to make “an honest man the nobbiest work of God.” Mr. H. R, Linderman, Director of the United States Mint, is registered at the Everett House, London complains that heavy vans are now built 80 that when the wheels are against the curb stone the upper works invade the sidewalk and Gamage the pedestrian on bis own ground. Rev. Dr. Topp, of Toronto, ts sojourning at Bar- Dum’s Hotel, Mr. Colfax has observed that public life merely makes men targets for mnd throwers. He didn’t give any new views of Crédit Mobilier, Sir James Dongias, K, 0. B., of Britian Columbia, has apartments at the Winasor Hotel, Assistant Treasurer Hillhouss is in Washington to renew bis bond under reappointment. Recently the House of Commons adjourned very late at night till “to-morrow,” and an O'Gorman said, looking at the clock, “Mr. Speaker, I don’t know whether it is to-morrow or yesterday, but £ want to know at what hour the House will meet.” General Frankiin Townsend, formerly of Gov- ernor Hoffman’s staff, is quartered at the Windsor Hotel. The General Assembly of tne Catholic Association at Mayence has declared modern civilization in- compatible with the Church. It now remains ta be seen which the world will give up. Mr. James Warrack, British Vice Consul at Chicago, is among the recent arrivals at the St. Denis Hotel. Abraham Bey, of Constantinople, has loaned the Turkish government £300,000 at tweive per cent, Sefior Dalla Costa, Minister of Venezucia at Washington, is residing at the Brevoort House. Dreadiul.—At Katliwar they report that the Rant of Parbanaar is oppressing the people, The conciérge’s dog in Paris bit Daunard, ang he threatenea to kill it, Malefilatre, the con- clérge, thereupon denounced him to the police as a communist. He was tried Jor his life, but escaped with a bad fright. Senator Thomes M. Norwood and ex-Senator Joshua Hill, of Georgia, are at the Windsor Hotel. On Jane 18 the Queen of the Belgians drove out in Brussels in an open phaeton, handling the reina herself, and the Princess Louise came behind doing likewise; and the venturesome gossips of that town say that the gentleman who rode with the Queen is the future {ather-in-law of the Prin- cess, while the one who rode with the Princess is the fuvure son-in-law of the Queen. Admiral Davia D, Porter and family arrived at the Hoffman House yesterday irom Washington. | They will leave to-day for New London, Conn., where they are to reside during the remainder of the summer. Queen Victoria proposes to erect in St. George's chapel, Windsor Castie, a magnificent monument to the Duke of Kent, her father. Room has been made by sending the Duke of Beaufort and nis monument home to the family estate in Glonces- tershire; as a King of the Belgians 19 still in the way he 4s to be put up 1m tne organ lott, A party of excursionists, comprising memvers of the New Hampshire Press Association, arrived at the St. Nichoias Hotel last evening ‘rom Albany, They will remain in the city until Sunday evening, and then depart for home. Engagements are published tn the German papers and sometimes the breaking off of engage- ments, but seldom anything like the following, which appeared in June in the Colugne Gazette and the Dresdener Journal: — With respect to the announcement by which I, at the end of last November, gave notice 0! being en- aged to the Dowager Baroness Zoe von Zotzevue, f am now obliged to state that this relationship has, at her desire and to my great regret, been broken of, because she did not find in my a te ment that gravity which she had a right to e COUNT LUCKNE, ‘This is in connection with that duei, The comet is ashamed of itself. You never see te but it has its head down. —Commercial advertiser. On the contrary, (t prances through the heavens to great spirits and carries (tg tail igh,