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4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘NEW YORK HERALD eleanor BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ACRE I JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, the United States. shows that they have the same railway ques. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. has a small area and very dense population, Railway Property ta England and A recent article in the Saturday Review | tions in England that agitate the public mind in the United States; questions precisely the | same in nature, though differing widely in circumstances and local coloring. England | and its comparatively short roads with great | abundance of local traffic are more favorable railroad travel. in the management of American railroads; | proceed in a spirit of fairness and justice. | We must beware of a blind, impulsive, over- | heated zeal, which would be too certain to | muddle what it attempted to mend. All the AU business or news letters and telegraphic | tg railway profits than our long lines, running real rights of the railroads must be respected; despatches must be addressed New Yor« | in many cases through sparsely settled re- Hepat. gions. Another point of difference lies in Bei ie communications will not be re- the fact that England bas a comparatively can homogeneous population, snd the railway arn | controversy has not become a sectional ques- Letters and packages should be properly | tion as it has in this country. The railroad sealed. | agitation would have been postponed for —_-_—__. | f is side of tl ic if th LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | many years on this side of the Atlantic if the | agricultural West had not set the controversy HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | in motion. The problem in this country, be- Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | sides being larger in extent and stirring popu- | lar passions to a greater depth, is made more | difficult and unmayageable by the division of be | legislative powers under our political system. No. 194 | In Great Britain there is but one Legislature | possessing authority to grant railread char- ters; in this country we have thirty-cight— | Congress and thirty-seven State Legislatures. | We lack what England possesses, a lawmaking received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | —— NIBLO'S GARDEN Broadway, between rine re ee : Roe a eee ens Poa,” Mi Jaceph | authority competent to deal with every branch | of the subject in 1ts whole extent without rais- My | ing doubtful questions of jurisdiction and pute ean eloles evoking clashing powers. English railway ats P.M. ; closes | legislation can proceed on a uniform plan, with TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, | s ny Bowery —VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P.M; | no other impediments than the inherent diffi closes at 10:30 P.M. LI THEATRE, TIVO Fighth street, near second ayenue.—VARIETY ENTER- TAINMENT, ats P.M. | States the legislative authority is so split up and divided and may act on such jarring prin- ciples that the wisest among us cannot see CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, a “Fitty-ninth street and Seven'h ayenue.—THOMAS’ CON- | his way clear to a satistactory solution. ORT, ats P. M.; closes at 10.40 P.M The occasion of the article in the Saturday Review to which we have referred was the aes : | diminished earnings of the English railways Broadway, corner of th th Street.-LONDON BY | during the last six months and the small tatooas ee aL iain: ware cri expected to be declared on the Ist | of July. This falling off of receipis is ac- counted for by the prevailing depression of business, and most of our American roads are doubtless suffering from the same.cause. But the transient vicissitudes of railway | traffic raise no question worth discussing. It | is in the ordinary course of things that rail- roads prosper or suffer with the communities they serve; but if this were all public jour- | nals would have no other duty than simply to To NewspRaLEns 4ND THE PuBLIc:— | record the facts. But the Saturday Review pusses The New Yous Henatp will runa special | from this feature of the situation to a perti- strain between New York, Saratoga and Lake | nent general discussion of the effects ot Par- George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- | jiamentary legislation on the security of rail- ng the season at half-past three o'clock A.M., | way property. It is only in this view that an nd arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock | instructive parallel is suggested between Eng- A.M, for the purpose of supplying the | jicsh and American railroads. It appears that in Sunpay Henatp along the line. Newsdealers 1873, some nine or ten months ago, Parliament and others are notified to send in their orders | passed an act somewhat similar to the recent to the Heraxp office as early as possible. | legislation in some of our States—that is, an From our reports this morning the probabilities | 8¢t for regulating railway charges. That act ere that the weather to-day will be cloudy, rainy of Parliament has proved to bo a dead letter; and cool. but another has been proposed this year which Tar W: cea a TS eae would be more likely to be enforced, and the eighteen hundred and forty-two children happy at a cost of less than thirty-eight cents for each child. Was there ever more | practical benevolence than this? Mr. Wil- liams’ work is a work of true philanthropy, and he ought to receive the assistance of all | the kind-hearted people in the city capable of | th aiding him. TERRACE DEN THEATRE, Concert and Dramatic lerformance, at3 P.M. PrODROME, Madison avenue an sixth street.—GRAND PAGEANT—OONGRESS OF NATIONS, at 1:30 P.M. and at? a New York, Monday, ITH SUPPLEMENT. | July 13, 1874, THE HERALD FOR THE SUNMER RESORTS. | | both of the useless act which was passed and the proposed act which is in contempla_ tion. The ground of opposition to such legis- lation is that it destroys the rights of prop- erty. Without closely following the reasoning of e Saturday Review, we will repeat its sub- ©Tae Frenp or tae Sovrs.’”’"—The Chi- | cago Tribune also notes the point that all ac- | counts from the South indicate that the Presi- | dent at this time is looked upon in that sec- tion as the future friend of the white people | all their mismanagement and extortions, have in their struggle with the colored race for | been, on the whole, a great advantage to the political supremacy, though precious little | country and the most powerful means of its evidence has he given as yet of any special | rapid growth and development. Most of our interest in their ¥ehoof. roads have been built with the aid of foreign | capital, and whatever powers over their charters may have been regeryed by the the subject must be surveyed on ali sides be- fore a safe judgment can be reached, and all arguments are entitled toa fair hearing. It Tae Prosrzate State.-What a sad story of political licentiousness is told in this | =~ 7- —-- — 2 extract from the Charleston News and Courier | oe Creer a a Interest are of Friday:—‘‘In only nineteen of the thirty- (ee Ne e people who, thas) invested ae A ) their money be treated with an honest regard two coanties in South Carolina one hundred | for their reasonable expectations. In exemin- and forty-six square miles of land have been | . | ing the charters of roads whose bonds they § a t} Ke - oe ee Sp a a dlgt ) | were indaced to purchase they were entitled praia end shirty-seven ips Sie miles of land | to believe that those charters would stand as we been forfeited to the State at tax sales BR during the current year.” the permanent measure of their rights. if they had supposed it possible that the Legis- latures which authorized the building of the roads would exercise a discretionary power to reduce ordinary charges they would no} | have risked their monéy. It is, therefore, a | serious question, which addresses itself to the | moral sense of the country, whether it is con- not doing well, but all other crops show good | sistent with honesty and good faith to disap- promise. News from Wisconsin and Illinois | point the expectations of confiding people, leads to the belief that the grain crops will be who supposed there would be no material better than they have been for ten years. The | abridgment of the rights conferred by the tobacco crop seems to be backward, | charters. An honorable State government | will not attempt to release itself from the rules of equity and justice ; and inasmuch as an extreme exercise of the reserved power over ; : | railroad charters would operate as a confisca- found in another page from our boating cor- | tion of the property of innocent stockholders, respondent. It describes graphically the i work on which the different crews are en- | sa a ait erent Rta ‘ | with scrupulous caution and reserve. t : gaged, and allows the curious in such matters | But descending from the high ground of to speculate on the value of the English or | A ; if * the American stroke, and as to whether Dart- ae Eee =e y ae - ee aoe mouth is acting wisely in rowing forty-cight er ai Ra eis atl a raed Aeteatie strokes to the minute. In order to enable be gta solildtive'actiod pen Moat k d rs ‘* carefu \y our readers to more fully understand the de weighed. Itis forthe general interest that scription of the course and the distribution oa : of the crews we publish a map in which the pai pha Ai res Lpdetely ieatgrr in ipowios of the different crews are marked, as iad "hie Saute aaa vague yen 3 the course to be rowed over on Thurs- authority to regulate and reduce steamboat «day. : charges between this city and Albany, or be- A New Meruop oo Rest.—The discussion , tween this cit d Newport, it is not probable Tax Crops.—We have better news about the peach crop in Delaware. In Ohio and Indiana the wheat harvest will be better than the average. In Indiana corn is slow, and there are tears about fruit. The good news from the South continues. In Texas corn is Tae Sanatoca Recatrs.—Every one in- terested in the coming intercollegiate struggle at Saratoga will read with pleasure the letter er on cremation has excited the gonius of a Ger- | that any neW steamboats would be built to run man philosopher, named Steinbeir, sto, | on these lines, A gompany could feel no 4 : ban ame | EDR E Sem oi nh according to @ German Rewspaper, propigues | ines that thé Saiue of its property Would to cover the body of the deceased with Roman | bot be destroyed by a compulsory reduction of | or Portland cement, which hardens into a | ritap, We cannot deny that if the charges were solid mass and renders the escape of noxions unreas¢nably ent down the public would be gases impossible, According to this plan the | badly servvd, since owners would not consent, ‘corpse would be placed ina sarcophagus of | and could not i gompelled, to do business at already hardened cement, the cavity in which | » logs. Boats migii# * run at half the pres- it reposed would be filled up with the same | ent rates, but they world no longer be the material, and both would harden together into | safe, stanch, magnificent well-appointed # thick slab of a substance resembling stone. | steamers which render sunWor travel @ Thus the deceased buried in this manner | luxury; but instead of these we shonld have would rest within instead of under his tomb- | plain, mean vessels, with cheap ,“acbinery, stone, and grave and monument be comprised | low speed and endless accidents. ny che same in the same block of imitation granite. This | reasoning is applied to railroads by thos. * Yho new method of rendering ashes to ashes and | take the opposite side of this argument, W."We dust to dust possesses several architectural | the present equipments lasted the public wouk and economical advantages over cremation | have good accommodations, because there and other expedients, A man may have his | would be smaller loss in running the cars than ancestors converted into pillars and garden | in letting them lie idle. But cars, engines statues and thus really live surrounded by | and tracks rapidly wear out, and they would the stony shades of his forefathers, | be kept in use after they ceased to be safe; | culty of the subject, whereas in the United | Saturday Review protests against the principle | +| stance with American applications, because | will not be disputed that our railroads, with | | the community must not grudge them fair profits and reasonable dividends, and especial care should be taken not to give a wider scope to the jugglery by which railroad gamblers are enriched at the expense both of the stock- holders and the community. This last is the monster evil, the source of so many ill-gotten fortunes, and it may be fairly questioned whether the making this kind of property de- pendent on shifting legislative caprice would | not enhance the worst abuses of the system. | A hostile Legislature, tor example, passes an act reducing charges; the stock falls, the gambling bears exerting themselves to carry it down to the lowest point. They then make | up a great corruption fund to bribe a succeed- | ing Legislature to repeal the law, and they make | colossal fortunes by the subsequent rise of the | stock. Itis all-important to guard against this danger in prosecuting necessary reforms. We can better insure these necessary reforms by carefully discussing the whole situation. | The Sermons Yesterday. | The sweltering weather that prevailed yes- | terday forenoon tended toward lessening the | attendance at the churches, although the elo- | quence of the preachers seemed to be unim- | paired and many of the sermons were as full of interest and attractiveness as ever. Dr. Deems, at the Church of the Strangers, ad-' vised his congregation to speak well of God, | as the Deity cannot endure to be slandered, | but loves Himself and loves us, and, there- fore, takes pleasure in ‘our praise. It is a pleasure to both parties, Dr. Porteous spoke | in the hall of the Young Men's Christian As- | sociation on the nearness of God to the | human family in the present age. Being near us, He will supply us with everything for our | spiritual good. In Brooklyn Dr. Fulton en- | deavored to show to his hearers the mistake | of a positive faith as revealed in the life of Horace Greeley. This eminent man, accord- | ing to the preacher, fancied a God, invented | a law and abandoned for it the revelations of | Divine truth. For this faith the Word of God | Was set aside. His rejection of the punitive | portion of the Bible led him to terrible mis- | takes. We think that Dr. Filton might be | more profitably employed than in endeavoring | to asperse the memory of a great and good { man, who he acknowledges is a glorious ex- ‘ample of honesty of life and speech. It is | rather late in the day to speak of the value of | ® positive faith as shown in the life of Horace | Greeley. Another Brooklyn pastor, Dr. Wild, | warns his flock against the temptations of the | University regatta at Saratoga; and Father O’Brien, of the Church of St. Charles Bor- | romeo, gives more sensible advice in telling | his hearers to lead good lives and show ex- amples of practical holiness to the world. At | Long Branch Rev. Mr. Tomkins gave some \ timely hints on the same subject, urging the | congregation.to become world’s missionaries. | Such sermons are calculated to effect much | good, and are preferable to a score of sensa- tional rhapsodies, MacMahon and His Critios. The old soldier placed by the Assembly at the head of the French government has evi- | dently no intention to be made the toy of warring factions. He has been given power and means to hold it, In an ad- dress to the army he hinted this very clearly. | Since the Figaro has discovered that ; MacMahon will not allow himself to be made the tool of the selfish and designing faction that desires to bring back the “divine | right’ pretender and his ridiculous flag it has become very sarcastic on the Marshal. | The attacks of the Figaro have, however, | been somewhat summarily stopped by the suspension of that paper, and as the pro- | prietor more than once demanded the sup-. | pression of rival journals he cannot well com- | plain, nor can he expect sympathy. In ; any case he will not receive much. The action of the government in suspending the Figaro ; Yould seem fo point to a change of policy | favorable to the definite establishment of the | Republic. It tells France, also, very clearly | that MacMahon means to make his govern- ment respected by all parties in the State. | It only requires the dissolution of the Assembly and an understanding with the republican | leaders to secure the definite establishment of the Republic with a fair chance of perma- | nence. | Tue Troy Whig, discussing the probable | appointment of an American cardinal by the | Pope, an indication of which was published | in the Heranp yesterday, fears that it would | be ‘a dangerous experiment. ‘We will not say,” adds this judicious writer, ‘that no | citizen of this Republic has aright to accept a title from a foreign government, but we will | say that titles of nobility are inconsistent | with our republican simplicity. A cardinal is a prince, and the title is suited only to | -monarctsioal countries. If the Pope will | come to America, will abolish the College of Cardinals and call a council of bishops to | provide some other mode of electing the head | of the Church on earth, he will go a long way toward promoting the union of Christians.” | | Lo this we answer that the title of cardinal is | Do more unsuited to the institutions of | America than that of archbishop. There is no authority in the title and no rank, except of an ecclesiastical character, | council and providing a new way of electing a head of the Church, the question is so new | and radical that it must have careful reflec- tion. Our only point now is that if cardinals are at all needed in the Church we should have the office in America. | Tuesday and Wednesday have had a marked | effect upon the Western crops that were suf- | fering from the drought. The copious fall of those days extended over all the corn-growing 1 | districts of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and ' Jowa. And the Chicago Tribune reports there ig" 20 longer a doubt about the corn, oats and pok and when at last they had to be replaced it were buying corn for future would be on so mean and cheap a scale that speed, safety and comfort would alike desert Unquestionably there aro monstrous abuses | but, in our attempts to rectify them, we must just as we | | see in England. As to the Pope calling @ | | Tae Rain aND THE Cxors. The rains of toes of the West turning out well. The Trine vertarks that the rain has had the effect. of overturning the speculators, who delivery upon the assumption that the drought would continue and the crop be light ora failure. No orders have been received on that account since the storm of Tuesday night. It may now be con- sidered that the corn has been saved and that the early anticipations of a large crop will be realized. When it is considered that the rain- fall was as much needed for potatoes, oats and grass as it was for corn, the commercial value of the change of weather and the differ- ence in profits to the farmers of half a dozen Northwestern States can be estimated only by millions of dollars, Never was rain more needed, and never was the blessing more gratefully received. The cable brings news from England of beneficial rains there, which have largely bettered the crop prospect. The Republican Party and the Third Term. We have always felt that ‘the principal danger of the third term idea came trom the indifference of the republican leaders, They are so much afraid of the power of the admin- istration that they look with paralyzed eyes and silent speech upon a discussion more momentous than any political question that has arisen since the foundation of the govern- ment. We called attention the other day to the exprossions of Hon. E. H. Roberts, of Utica, a leading republican member of Con- gress, on the subject, and now we hear what even a Senator as conspicuous as H. B. Anthony, of Rhode Island, has to say. Writ- ing in the Providence Journal he says that from what he knows of the manifestations of General Grant's character he has no belief whatever that he ‘‘aspires to a third Presiden- tial term, or that the idea has ever been in his mind, save when mentioned to him by some sycophant who thought thus to please him, but who is pretty likely to have disgusted him by such a style of flattery.’’ This is a vague expression of opinion, and, as the Senator has evidently no information on the subject, he | proceeds to arguo the point in a timid, gentle fashion, ‘The precedent,’’ he says, ‘‘which has been established on this subject, and which has been observed from the beginning, he respects as much as do the people of the country, and with them it is scarcely less obligatory than a provision of the constitution itself. That precedent will not be disregarded either by them or by him, and we deem all suggestions to the contrary as the idlest sort of political gossip. No party would nominate any President for a third term unless the cir- cumstances of the country were such as to make the step absolutely imperative, and even then it would be a very perilous proceed- ing, so strongly are the minds of the people set against it, At the present time there is no reason whatever for doing it, even if it were ever so much sought for by the President, instead of not being sought at all. Tho pre- cedents of nearly ninety years have established two terms as all for which any President can be elected, and there is no danger that these precedents will be set aside.” Now all of this means nothing. In striking contrast to the Senator's hopeful, uncertain logic, and the coy, diplo- matic indifference of Hon. E. H. Roberts | and other New York republican leaders, | who have no opinions to express on the question of the third term for General Grant, we note the manly protest of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. tion will be equivalent to defeat. ance of the popular thought would itself pre- sage disaster. It would be a losing game from | the beginning. Ina republic it is impossible | to war against the public will, and that will | has in no manner been more distinctly indi- | cated than in its conviction, delibétately | formed and trequently and unhesitatingly ex- pressed, that the incumbency of the Presi- dential chair shall be limited to eight years." This is a just expression of opinion, and we honor the Democrat and Chronicle for its promptitude in taking ground. If this third | term question takes serious shape it will be | the fault of the leaders of the party and the | representative journals. If those who are charged with the discipline and purposes 9 the oom wore To intitate the Demoorat za | Chronicle and emphatically oppose the move- ment it would fade away. “It isthe duty of the republican press,’’ says the editor, ‘now to state its views, without reserve and without | equivocation. Ninety-nine one-hundredths of that press are with us in the position we have taken, They should speak out and lay this ghost of Oxsarism which haunts the imagina- | tion of so many men.”* i The Locust west—Is The locust plague which has fallen on the fair fields of the Northwest appears to defy all | remedial measures. Unless some means is devised for arresting the eastward march of these swarms of crop-devouring insects the | consequences may be most serious. The nostrums suggested by agricultural authorities and claimed to be safeguards | | against the grasshopper and locust, have | | proved either too expensive or too dan- | | gerous for common use. Paris green is no | doubt unwholesome to the grasshopper, but its | arsenical ingredients are deadly to the farmer | and deteriorating to the soil he spreads it over. Experiment has shown that such | poisonous substances cannot be safely used | ! unless in diluted form and in small quantities. | The expensiveness of all chemicals, even those | which are harmless, sends the farmer to | some simple and mechanical means of con- tending with the evil. It is questionable whether the invasions of | grasshoppers can ever be prevented in some | portions of the West. These insects are bred in the North- there a Preventive? Plague | { | in myriad numbers on the Rocky Mountain | slopes and protected by the snow covering | of tho soil until the genial weather of spring | arrives and they can go forth on their depre- dations. In their breeding places they can- not be reached. But when a_ colony has moved eastward and deposited its | eggs in the soil they may be attacked. It is said that in over the layer of soil upon the eggs to crush them. This expedient, especially if repeated, may be effectual. But the great aim of the agriculturist ought to be to expose the soil and subsoil to the freezing temperatures of winter and spring. Were it possible to re- move the snow, so that the intense cold should penetrate the earth, the deadly effect on all *No | party,’ says the editor, ‘‘can succeed at the | polls with a third term candidate. Nomina- | Such defi- | | ruptions and its gross violations of law. The | of the Virginius crew. It is worthy of note the Southwest the | spring crop of grasshoppers has sometimes | been cut off by deep ploughing and turning | | insect Life lying dormant there would be very { ton magnates to insist on reparation for the marked. It is not necessary in the North. west that this should be done in midwinter, for the March and April winds are frigorific enough. It appears likely, therefore, that the farmers who can turn up their fields while the cold weather lasts would have the best prospect of escaping the ruinous presence of locusts. It is strange that, with all our boast of the progress of agricultural science and ento-~ mology, the rural public is all in the dark and knows not how to contend with the insect foe. The evil of this locust invasion is so great and go alarming that every effort should be made to devise a remedy. What can our Agricultural Department suggest? outrage done our flag and the murder of our citizens, The Twelfth of July. The anniversary of the battle of Aughrimy was celebrated yesterday in a quiet way by the Orange lodges in this city and in Jersey. Un- fortunately, the day has acquired a sad noto- riety in this city. The celebration, from whatever point of view we regard it, is foolish and unnecessary, and we cannot but hope that the leaders of the Orange Society may see the advisability of wholly discontinuing it, at least in this country. Here the old enmities engendered by acts of oppression and revenge ought to be allowed to die. This country is free to all, and those who love the orange may The Charities and Correction Com- | Worship it to their hearts’ content, but they missioners and the District At- | Must keep the peace. It is, perhaps, a little torney. unhandsome to keep up the memory of a bat- tle which was won, not by Orange Irishmen, but by Dutch and English troops, some two hundred years ago, It would be mnch wiser for both sections of Irishmen to avoid these Politico-religious displays. They effect no good for any one, they only render the men who take part in them ridiculous and bring their common country into contempt. It Trish Orangemen have nothing else to be proud of than the successes gained . by for- eign troops over their own countrymen they can scarcely expect people of other nationali- ties either to sympathize with or respect them. We are glad that the leadors of this Orange organization have resolved to render the cele- bration of the victory of Augbrim as little offensive as possible, and we hope their oppo- nents will show equal good sense in refrain- ing from all interference with the ‘loyal’ celebrationists. The surest way to put dowm this foolish parading is to take no notice of it Whatever inrportance it ever had was given to it by the senseless opposition of the rival fac- tion, The presentment of the Grand Jury in the case of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction charged those officials with gross irregularities in the purchase of supplies for the department, calculated to lead to corrup- tion. The evidence on which this present- ment was based has been published in the Heraxp, and, although referring only to the purchases of dry goods, developed enough ‘to demand an immediate investigation by the Mayor and the removal of the Commissioners. Mr. Bowen, a member of the Charities and Correction Board, testified to the manner in which, in violation of the law and the regula- tions of the department, the purchasing of dry goods had been placed in the hands of Mr. Myer Stern, one of his associates; to the pro- test the witness had made against any pur- chases by a single Commissioner ; to his dis- covery that the goods purchased were charged to the city largely above their market value, and to his eventual refusal to certify to any more of such bills. The late purchasing agent of the department proved that the dry goods were purchased by Commissioner Stern through a relative, who bought them at their market, value, added from thirty to forty per cent to their legitimate cost and transferred them to the city, recsiving the amount of his exorbitant bills from the Comptroller. A former clerk in the Finance Department gavo evidence that he had. called the attention of that department to the irregular character of the bills and the exorbitant prices charged; that he had thereupon been transferred to another bureau, and that after his transfer the objectionable bills had been paid by Comp- troller Green. The persons who had sold the dry goods to Commissioner Stern’s relative testified that the purchaser had represented that he was buying them for the California trade and had paid for them the regular prices—about thirty-five per cent less than the city had been made to pay. If this was not a case calling for the Mayor's action, and it he did not violate his oath of office by neglecting to investigate the charges, and to remove the Commissioners if they were substantiated, then there can be no meaning in the law which requires the Mayor to keep himself informed of the doings of the several departments and to be vigilant and active in causing the ordinances of the city and the laws of the State to be executed and enforced. Yet the Mayor has done noth- ing in the matter, except to hoid one or two meetings at the office of the arraigned Com- missioners, at which he sought to befog the charges against them by getting up a non- sensical comparison between the expenditures of the department under the old and the present Board. The Commissioners of Ac- counts have been ordered by the Board of Aldermen to investigate the affairs of the tainted department, but these Commissioners | Return of John Mitchel to Ireland. ‘The well known leader of the ‘‘Young Ire- land party’’ in the revolutionary agitation of 48, Mr. John Mitchel, sails for Ireland to- morrow. It will be remembered that this gen- tleman was tried in Dublin, and sentenced to penal servitude, on the charge of treason- felony. After some yéars passed in the penal colonies of Bermuda and Van Diemen’s Land, he escaped to the United States. It is his in- tention to enter the British Parliament as a home ruler. One of the most prominent men of the party will retire in order to secure his immediate election. As Mr. Mitchel is, in the eyes of the British law, a convict whose term of punishment is unexpired, his reap- pearance on the political scene may create some difficulty. In view of the length of time which has elapsed, and the amnesty granted tothe other participators in the ‘48 movement, it is not likely that any attempt will be made to interfere with his freedom of action. The influence wielded in Ireland by “the exile” is greater than that which any other home rule leader can lay claim to, and he will, therefore, be a formidable addition to the party. Mr. Mitchel is a brilliant and sarcastic writer. His influence in the home rule party will not failto make itself felt. He has the confidenco: of the people aa a man who can neither be frightened nor bought. Communistic Baxquet.—The escaped mem. bers of the Communistic family assembled in London to celebrate the escape of their frienda from New Caledonia and welcome them once more to brotherly arms. Citizen Rochefort, however, was rather coy and refused to be embraced, on the plea that demonstra. tions of this nature were much more are the appointees of the Mayor, and he can | likely to damage than to serve the turn them out of office of his own will ata | cause of republicanism in France. The moment's notice. It is no wonder that they | enthusiasm of the exiles was not have as yet made no sign that they are doing the work required of them, and as they have no power except to look over books, bills and vouchers, it is easy to see that they can white- wash the department if they ever do report. Besides, one of these Commissioners of Ac- counts is said to owe his appointment to the | friendly exertions of a Commissioner of Chagites gut Courgtion, ands peteon yl no doubt, take care that the repoft shall not do much harm. y Now the recorded evidence of fraud in the dry goods purchases is trifling as compared with the proofs of extravagance and corrup- tion in the purchase of other supplies. Enormous quantities of flour have been pur- chased by another of the Commissioners at | prices ranging from $6 25 to $9 40a barrel, when the bread in ordinary use in the institu- tions is made of two grades of flour, the price of which ranges from $4 to $7 50 per barrel. The quantity of flour alleged to be consumed, oratall events paid for by the city, would feed an army of twelve to fifteen thousand men a day on full rations; yet the whole population is not claimed to average over nine thousand, and does not, in fact, probably | average over seven thousand. As we cannot get an investigation by the Mayor or a report from the Commissioners of Accounts it is about time for the Grand Jury to take hold of this abused department and ferret out its cor- to be suppressed, and as they could rot have the brilliant illumination of the Lanterne they were obliged to content themselves with a lesser light, Paschal Grousset, as a substitute. ‘The banquet was very nearly terminating in a general row, through one of the patriots ‘‘imi- tating the coarseness of Cambronne at Water- loo ;”” but, finally, quiet was restored, and efvas venting iets Wonder siectirg ave oor regeneration of man the tired orators went home ‘‘to sleep, perchance to dream’’ of the realization of their Communistic theories. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General Thomas L. Rosser, ot Minnesota, ig atay- ing at tne Unton Square Hotel. 3 Chief Justice Waite is rusticating at Put-in Bay. He needn’t watt for a tide on that shore. Sir Francis Hincks, formerly Minister of Finance of Canada, is residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Bluford Wiison, Solicitor of the Treasury, ar- rived from Washington yesterday at the Fittn Avenue Hotel. Mr. Fish, it is expected, will return to Washing- ton on the 15th inst. His clerks will not then be in a stew, but in a fry. Ex-Governor F. R, Lubbock, of Texas, arrived from Europe in the steamship Celtic yesterday, and is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Dame Harriet Fellows, of West Cowes, Isle of Wight, recently deceased, bequeathed to the Brit- ish Museum her “collection of watches,’" “parties and Politics in Russia” are extensively discussed in the German journals, The Easterm question does not become Deutsch genug, The Epoca, of Madrid, beiieves that the pre- tended demand of the United States in the Virginius affair is simply the shadow of an English ghost. An eye for an eye is the law we ought to adopt with this (Americun) people, without considering what may be done in the future.—The Spanish organ in New York. Sir Charleg Lyell has been presented with the freedom of the Turners’ Company in London, from | which it may be inferred that he was short of free- | dom and theirs is a superior articie. | Mary Ann Dognerty was brought ap in London | onacharge of attempting to kill herself, She re- fused to plead “not guilty,” as her counsel advised, because “that would be saying what was not true.’” The Czar went to Jugenheim from Ems on the 19th uit. He was accompanied to the railroad sta- tion by Emperor Wiliam and numerous Curgastes, A reporter telegraphs that they were the heaitni- est looking patients he ever saw. ‘The Crown Prince of Germany has been regaled and (éved by the citizens of Bremen in company with Prince Albrecht and Generals von Blumenthal and Von Trescow. It was @ great day for the Burgemeister, Gildemeister and other meisters, ‘The press at Madrid at present reminds us of the remarkable phrase in the “Marriage of Figaro.’ So long as it does not write of the government, nor of the Church, nor of the King, nor persons of high position, nor of the success or failure of the hour, the press may treat on everything. witnesses to prove purchases in violation of law, the exorbitant price extorted from the city and the fraudulent alteration of bills so as to cover up the wilfully illegal acts of the | Commissioners can be readily procured. Will | the District Attorney do his duty in the matter by bringing them before the Grand | Jury? It certainly will be prudent for him to do so, remembering the Governor's words when he removed a Kings county District At- torney from office. England and the Virginius. We publish in another column oxtracts from the correspondence between the British and Spanish governments in reference to the execution of British subjects who formed part that the British government denies absolutely the right ot the authorities to inflict the death penalty on men who were non-com- batants, The plea that the Virginins was a pirate is scouted, and the right of Spain to make blockade running @ piratical offence is firmly denied. This view, in keeping with common. sense and | ;, peasiey inayred his life for £1,000 sterling, humanity, contrasts strangely with the mean | and went to New Zealand. Thence he continued and cowardly interpretations of the law of | his travels to “that bourne,” &c. His heirs ap- uations furnished by complying judges to the | beth the poi gape company for the money; American Secretary. We can scarcely hope twigs de See a ast herbed HO rigue. Cee that the dignified action of the British govern- 8 Now Zealand ; but the Court of Exchequer bag com- ment in this matter will induce the Waghings | pelled them 0 came Out WItY (oir Casly