The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET, Republican Party. Our Washington correspondence furnishes this morning the text of the important parts JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | °F the address of the Republican Congres- PROPRIETOR. sional Committee. The circumstance that Be this committee should feel bound to issue THE DAILY HERALD, published every | such an address shows that the leaders of the i ents per copy. An- | Party are influenced by more than ordinary ae oak vers ve ae anxieties, The condition of the South, the (ual subscription price #1 . | Unsatisfactory disposition of the currency ‘All business or uews letters and telegraphic —__+—__—_ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, question, the uprising of the granger despatches must be addressed New York | movement in the West, the fear that izpaw. the West and South may unite Rejected communications will not be re- in 8 campaign against the North | and East upon financial issues, the growing turned. impatience of the country with the statesman- | ship which finds expression in the third term aspirations, the appointment of Shepherd and | | Williams, and the truckling of the State De- | | partment on the Virginius and Alabama ques- | | tions, all lead to the conclusion that the re- | | publican party, as represented in Congress, | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms with the republican party. The South will perpetrate as shortsighted a blunder as it did in secession if it favors the third term folly, and this is evidently the feeling of the com- mittee. If any fact strengthened this theory it would be the circumstance that in the Con- gressional address there is no mention of the President. So, for the first time in the admin- istration of Grant, do we find the party arrayed against him, or, more correctly, perhaps, in the attitude of ignoring him. Where are all those pleasing, if sometimes tawdry, compliments with which our political writers were wont to embel- lish the President? What has become of Senator Howe's rhetorical cunning? Is it possible that any President, no matter how strong and acquiescent in the beginning, must in the course of six years become the neglected Cinderella of politics? 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We sup- there can be no doubt that a considerable class of Southern citizens, im- pressed by the abuses and fearing the future horrors of negro rule, would welcome a third election of President Grant if they could see init a promise of deliverance. The events of the last fourteen years have done much to shake the confidence of the South in republi- can institutions. The military government which immediately succeeded the war was not so baneful and ruinous as the negro suprem- | acy afterwards established by the reeonstruc- tion acts. Many Southerners would willingly exchange their present rotten State govern- | ments for the military subjection which only | offended their pride without robbing their pockets and destroying the value of their property. And when they carry their political | recollections one step further back they find | little to strengthen their belief in the safety of | republican institutions. They went volun- tarily into secession by the free political ac- tion of the Southern whites, committing a { | stupendous blunder, of which the whole blame rests upon their misguided voting population, then consisting wholly of white citizens. It was neither federal constraint nor negro suffrage, but their own free activity that precipitated them into the colossal blunder of rebellion. Free white | suffrage in that calamitous step and free mixed suffrage since have proved equally disastrous to Southern prosperity. The in- termediate military rule was practically better than either, and it is not surprising that many Southern citizens are losing their former repugnance to imperial federalism. Whether they will support Grant for a third term depends on a calculation of chances. If they thought he could be elected under a virtual pledge to rescue them from negro ascendancy at 109} a 109}. Stocks were unsettled and | they would welcome his third election as a but little dealt in. Money casy. \*choice of evils. Governor Kemper bas virtu- Tre Angaysas Trovstz.—From a letter | ally said this even in respect to Virginia, published in another column it will be seen | Where the negroes are a minority, and Sena- that the Brooksites have by no means aban- | tor Gordon, of Georgia, looks upon such a doned the struggle for mastery. It is hoped, | Tesult without any of the passionate repug- | however, that the action of the Congressional | 2aDCe which a secession general might be committee will smooth matters over. Baxter's | expected to exhibit, success is considered assured. | In one narrow. aspect this tendency of | * cee een Southern sentiment is not so very absurd. If | Ma. Oaxey Hart, as counsel for ex-Police | Grant could be not merely’ nominated but | Commissioners Charlick and Gardner, made | ¢jected for a third time he could undoubtedly a motion in Court yesterday before Judge | enable the South to emancipate itself from Sutherland asking the Court to instruct the | negro supremacy. Of course the fifteenth | Grand Jury to refrain from finding new in- | amendment cannot be overthrown, and it will dictments against his clients until those al- | never be seriously attempted. It is one of ready found should be disposed of at the Oc- | the things which, once done, can never tober ceasions. The motion’ was refused. | be undone. But it is no obstacle to Tay spun Trovsnes.—The military au- changing the basis of suffrage on any | thorities have taken all necessary precautions other principle than ‘‘race, color or pre- to guard against any hostile raids on the part | vious condition of servitude.” It neither for- of unfriendly Indians. General Pope thinks | bids a property qualification nor an educa- that there is now no serious danger to be ap- | tional qualification for voters so long as it prehended {rom the operations of the savages, | applies alike to both races, although either aa the distribution of the troops will allow | kind of qualification would exclude a majority them to meet all emergencies. | of the negroes from the ballot box. With a Tae = President actively exerting his influence in oS 2 Haig goes | favor of such a change it could be carried in some unexplained reason the resolution con- nearly every Southern State. The whole body demning our youthful Mayor for his erratic | 6° seaeral office-holders would work for it in appointments, which was threatened in the | all sorts of open and all sorts of underhand | Board ‘ | eee aoe Rast ne | ways if they understood it to be the desire of eee ee neon 0 siatae, ae the President. B bestowing a large propor- understood to condone the Gardner and Char- | “7° *7° y it me at a } lick business on account of the Mayor's youth | 2 °f Postmasterships and other oilices on | Sa bik: : th rule of suffrage would and inexperience. | such negroes as the spel pate = t oe one cog errs | not exclude he could enlist the pride and self- | Tae Pusuic Srrvatioy ix Perv remains | importance of a large class of the colored | without any very material change, as will be | yoters in tavor of a rule which would honora- | | meantime, this republican address in no way solves it, | ‘Is the President stronger than the party, or | is the party stronger than the President ?”” Another Flood in Massachusetts. Another disaster by the breaking away of a reservoir dam has occurred in Hampshire county, Massachusetts. This disaster is sim- | ilar in kind and’in cause to the Mill River flood, though it was, fortunately, less destruc- tive and less terrible in its consequences. Had the flood occurred in a narrow valley like that of Mill River the results would have been equally disastrous. As it was a great deal of valuable property was destroyed. Houses, shops, dams and bridges were carried away by the flood for a distance of many miles. The cause of this new calamity was an unsafe dam on Middlefield Brook, a branch of the Westfield River. The dam seems to have been | a mere embankment, which gave way even be- | fore it was completed, and we are once more told the old story, “since its completion it was regarded as safe.’’ The assumptions | upon which Massachusetts mill owners regard their dams as safe would not satisfy any other class of men. It has been demonstrated that the Mill River reservoir was unsafe from the beginning, and that the property owners who trusted to it could have known of its unsafe condition if they had taken the trouble to inquire into it. The same thing seems to have been true of the Middlefield dam, so that the conduct of its owners -in taking no measures to ascertain whether it was safe and to take measures to secure it, after the terrible warning at Mill River, is even more criminal. After that ter- rible calamity no satisfactory excuse can be made for a similar disaster. The owners of this reservoir knew their duty, but they failed to perform it, and they and their neighbors suffer great loss in consequence. But the re- sponsibility was not entirely theirs. The Massachusetts Legislature should have pro- vided long ago for the inspection of all works of this kind in the State, and immediate | measures should have been taken to make all | of them secure. Had this been done, as it | might have been, we should not now be called upon to record the devastations of this second | flood in Hampshire county or to preach anew | the lesson of the Mill River disaster. The Kidnapping Case. The case of the abduction of a child in Philadelphia, which was reported in the Heraup yesterday, is a singularly bold and | terrible outrage. A little child was picked up on the street and carried off for the purpose of extorting a large sum of money from the parents. There was no one to witness the act except another child, and there is no clew whatever to the perpetrators of the offence or the whereabouts of the child. Yet, in the the villains have been co- vertly negotiating with the stolen baby’s father, demanding a ransom of twenty thousand dollars for the child’s return, and even threatening the death of the infant in case the money is not paid. It seems impossible that such acrime can be committed in the open day in the suburbs of a city like Philadelphia, and the result of the startling revelation has been to bring fear into every household where there are children to be protected. No man’s hearthstone is safe if villains can invade it in this way and rob it of its most precious jewels. In all the annals of crime there is no offence more heartless in its perpetration and more heartrending in its consequences. Burglary or murder even is not so heinous. This makes it the imperative duty of the police to discover the perpetrators of this fearful crime. seen by our special correspondence from Lima. The Cabinet and the Church are still suspicious of each other and anxious for a fair | opportunity of testing their relative strength. National considerations prevail, however, and it is not unlikely that a peaceful reunion will be effected on the neutral ground of the profit- able impulse which has been given to the | financial affairs of the Republic. “ Tae Hapras Corpus Do practised by the Tombs law: check in the refusal of Judge Lawrence to dis- charge o man named Bagth, who had p L brought from the Penitentiary on T writ of habeas corpus and kept in the Tombs until his term of imprisonment had expired. This trick is constantly practised, but yesterday it was not successful, and Booth will probably | have to finish his term in the Penitentiary. Green Stitt Horps Hann to the money bags. He rather objects to the improvement With crab-like instinets the worthy coadjutor of our worship- and, in the fuss made by the model re- formers, the charge on the city remains just | as heavy as under the Tammany Ring, while | of the upper part of the city. ful Mayor would go backward ; spite of all the improvements in the upper end of the | island may be said to be stopped. We should’) like to see Mr. Green trya little true economy, and make the experiment on his friends. Tar Sanatoca Recarra.—Tho college ath- | to take care of themselves if ‘es into trim for the coming struggle on the Saratoga letes are working hard to get them Lake before the assembled beauty and tashion of the land. No effort is spared on the part | election. of committees to organize the proceedings so | have but a handful of electoral votes, and | could turn the seale in Grant’s favor only on | reason to believe those efforts will be crowned | the supposition of his keeping the confidence | wounded during the excursion to Iona Island, that there shall be no hitch, and we have with success, The weather prospects, too, are very good, as the stormy spell of last week | suredly could not do with any such pro- | gives place to warm sunny days. Should the | gramme as has been indicated. The weaker | tions there are, fortunately, no casualties to weather prove favorable there will be a re- | States of the South do not want him unless | chronicle. It is to be regretted that celebra- | bly distinguish them from the mass of citizens of their own color and from the ‘mean whites,’’ whom they held in contempt in the days of slavery. A President thoroughly in earnest in this business could easily, by his patronage and influence, control negro votes enough to carry a property qualification or an educational qualification in most of the South- | ern States. And it is in this view that a third so frequently | term would be accepted by many Southerners | Even air and exercise will be denied the little ers has received a | if they thought they could rely on the candi- | | date to act in their interest. | Bus this seductive vigw will not bear g mgs Letty <<a aap aed PA 1 ee a Big jaent’s ¢xamination. A pledge of this kind, either open or implied, could not be kept from the public knowledge, and exposure would explode the whole project. The Northern republicans would turn in a body against Grant as soon as they understood that he was in league with the Southern whites to ciream- vent the fifteenth amendment. They would repudiate him asa deserter and a renegade and wage as fierce a war on him as they did | against Andrew Johnson. The Southern vote | could contribute little toward his election, ex- | cept as reinforcing a powerful body of North- ern supporters. Seven or eight of the South- | ern States are strong enongh to protect them- selves against negro misrule without external | wid. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ten- nessee, Missouri and Texas are able the | white citizens are tolerably united, and these States will pretty certainly support the democratic candidate in the next Presidential The remaining Southern States of the Northern republicans, which he as- markably brilliant assemblage on the lake | he can relieve tiem from negro oppression, 0 anda pledge to do thie would destroy him | should be nesgisted in, aboret Unless the police force of Philadelphia are willing to shield the criminals it seems im- | possible that the offenders should long go | unpunished. The punishment of these men | is among the highest duties humanity can | require, for it involves the security of every | household in the land. This single act of | blackmailing brigandage in Philadelphia makes every mother who has heard the story | feel insecure in the possession of her children. | ones in every city if this heartless abduction | is yf speedily punished, and every parent | Boh speedily panes re aces Py Ps send cannot ith 1 fect a personal interost in | the discovery of the criminals. | Tue Brrrisu Partiament had an interest- | ing and important session yesterday. The | Premier intimated that the Legislature will | adjourn the 6th of August. This | is quite pleasant. Mr. Disraeli then inveighed against the Public Worship | Regulation bill, and again stood forth | \as the champion of religious liberty by | ‘the utterance of a hearty denunciation of | | Gladstone's policy and project. He thus supplied qnite a spicy kind of food for the use | of the politicians during the recess, on | Tur Onanck Crvennation.—The trouble- some Orange anniversary passed off quietly | yesterday. The brotherhood wisely refrained from interrupting the city traffic by a parade, | | contenting themselves with a picnic to Iona | Island. No disposition was shown by any of the opposing factions to interfere with the members of the Orange order. The celebra- tion passed off quietly in all the cities of the Union. At Philadelphia one of the marshals was wounded by a shot fired by a man, who was immediately arrested. Another man was | owing to the reckless use of firearms by the | members of the order. With these excep- France—Organization of the Personal Power. : Startled Deputies in the French Assembly suddenly want a great deal of information as to the interpretation of the law of the 20th of November, 1873. This is the law which con- ferred the executive authority upon Marshal MacMahon for a period of seven years; and the Deputies now want to know if the Presi- dent understands that he is “responsible” to the Assembly during that term of office or otherwise, and also if he understands that the law by which the Assembly thus gave him power is irrevocable. In other words, will the President “‘hold on’ to the place he occupies, even though the Assembly should repeal the law which placed him in authority? These are queries that give interest to the news from Frante. If some hundreds of gentlemen who thought they were profitably deliberating on the structure of a constitutional republic must now recognize that they have by accident created a sovereign who is out of their reach, and whom neither the law nor any other power can displace for at least seven years, it is evident that the broad political or historic interest with which the world contemplates the present crisis in French history will be spiced with the piquancy of a discovery not without a comic element, MacMahon’s answer is sufficiently distinct. He means to “hold on.” He has declared this fact with downright plainness on several occasions, He is reported to have said toa Deputy of the Left, “I wilt not cede to any one a single day of the seven years. I will not hear of a Stadtholderate or of a Lieuten- ancy General. ‘The Assembly may do as it likes. It may remain as it is, make a con- stitution or dissolve, As far as 1 am con- cerned, Ihave no change to make. I remain where Iam.”’ These words were published in a Paris paper, and it has not been prose- cuted for them, as it would have been if they were false. ‘Chey may be accepted therefore as putting forth clearly the Marshal’s view of his position. If, therefore, the Assembly should supplement the law of November last with one declaring him Stadtholder for two years, or Lieutenant General until the choice of a sovereign, or should pass any law otherwise modifying or limiting his tenure of office, he wiil look upon these laws as nullities; for the Assembly, though it was sufficiently sovereign to give him his place, has exhausted its power in the act and is worthy of no further notice. He is clear enough also in his message of July 8. By that document he tells the Assembly that it has “rendered his power irrevocable fora fixed term,” and has by that fact ‘‘enchained its sovereignty;” has entered into an ‘‘en- gagement’’ which it cannot “tear up.” In so many words, there were two sides to the bargain by which he became ‘‘President,”’ and though the Assembly may mean to recede he will oppose such recession, and to that end will “employ the means with which he is armed by the laws.” Heis not to be fooled with by any whimsical lawmakers who put a man in to-day and tumble him out to-morrow. There is no doubt but the army is referred to as the means which the law gives him to ‘defend his power.’’ By the general order of June 28 this is evident. He says to the sol- diers that the executive authority was given him for seven years, to preserve ‘‘for that period” public order and peace; that this part of the mission belongs also to the army, and that “we will fulfil it together to the end, everywhere maintaining the authority of the law and the respect due to it’’—especially the respect due to the law of November 20, 1873. In November last the demand of Marshal MacMahon was that ‘the Assembly should invest the executive power with the necessary | characteristics of duration and strength.” He | demanded this, as he said, ‘not from motives of ambition, but in the interests of the country.’’ Nearly all important parties were agreed upon naming a definite term for his tenure, but they differed as to the term and as to the qualifications of this important step. M. Rémusat sagaciously said in those days that as the tenure of executive power was necessarily part of a constitutional scheme no vote should be taken on it separately, but that it should be made part of the so-called consti- | tutional bills and all voted together. He re- quested the opinion of the President on that | point, and Marshal MacMahon said ‘‘the discussion of those bills belonged solely to the Assembly, to which he should always submit, or retire from power if he thought he could not continue .to be the instru- ment of its sovereign decisions.” Let | the reader compare the difference in | tone between that declaration made before power was given and the one previously quoted in which ‘‘the sovereign decisions” of the Assembly are disposed of with the non- chalant privilege extended to that body to ‘do as it likes,” since its doings; can have no pos- | sible relation to the executive. power. By his message of November 17 the Marshal set forth his objections to the law proposed by the Committee of Fifteen, which had been charged with the duty of proposing a plan for to ae ecutive, He oh- jected to fe r Of tele start nnd character could be subjected from the outset to reservations and suspensory conditions.”’ In short, he called for an unlimited authority, declaring his readiness to accept limitations subsequently or to yield his power if in these limitations he should find himself irreconcil- ably at issue with the Assembly. With his | declarations to this effect before them, four | hundred and ninety-nine Deputies voted to | make him President for seven years, despite | the energetic protest of the republicans that | they were creating @ personal power around } aman who had not in his favor either the genius of the author of the Eighteenth Bru- maire nor the historical halo of legitimacy. | Once more, therefore, it is tolerably evident France has found ‘a saviour,’ for whom she has just as much need as she had for the saviour of the 2d of December, neither more | nor less, No reason is yet apparent for mis- trusting the declarations that MacMahon makes of sincerity and honest purpose, unless, indeed, people will choose to find a reason in the superfluity of such declarations them- selves ; but the position of the country would inspire more confidence if the Executive were not so early found at issue with the Assembly | on the interpretation of the law he stands upon, and if he were less precipitate in his | declaration of an intention to assume military tions which keep alive so much ill-feeling possession of his office if he cannot otherwise retain it. | principles of justice and equity. eens inaninettensaraeme Our Duty Towards the South. The President seems to have had what the Scriptures call the ‘‘sense of quickening” in reference to South Carolina. We could not believe that the manifold infamies heaped upon that State as “government’’ could alto- gether be overlooked. Woe. find now that Judge Mackey has had an interview with the President, a report of which is printed in a Sonth Carolina newspaper. In the conversa- tion as here reported Senator Robertson, hav- ing referred to the course Judge Mackey has lately pursued in bringing criminals to justice, General Grant turned sharply to the latter and asked, ‘‘Why don’t you convict Moses?’’ The Judge replied that he had not had an op- portunity of having the robber Governor brought to justice. The President then re- marked that he had heard that a judge had maintained that Moses could not be tried be- fore impeachment, and denounced this propo- sition that a President or a Governor is above the law as monstrous. He seemed much an- noyed with the condition of affairs in South Carolina, aud reproached Judge Mackey, for the reason that ‘‘every republican’ is respon- sible for the villany existing there. He em- phatically declared that there must be a true reform this fall, or the republican party would at once repudiate the so-called republicans of South Carolina. He also denounced the cou- duct of Moses in calling out the militia to defy a process of the Court, and inquired as to what posse the Court could raise to enforce its war- rants. He was informed that there were enough honest men of sufficient courage to be found to “irrest any miscreant. President Grant then affirmed that the federal troops in South Carolina were ‘‘not there to enforce the collection ot exorbitant taxes,” and that he wished this to be understood. We are glad to see that the President shows interest enough in a State so sorely harassed as South Carolina: as to express even the moderate opinions here reported. We observe a tendency in the minds of Southern men like Lamar and Southern journals like the Rich- mond Despatch to encourage this disposition on the part of the President by suggestions that they will support him for a third term as a refuge against the criminal ambition of the colored men and their unscrupulous allies. At the same time the Southern people will have toshow unusual magnanimity before they can support Grant. The President and his party are alone to blame not only for what we see inthe Carolinas, but for what is seen in Louisiana, Alabama and other States. To his military genius we owe the suppression of the rebellion. From his political genius, sus- tained as he has been by the country as no President has been sustained since Washing- ton, we have hoped for the reconstruction of the South. Instead of reconstruction we have chaos. If President-Grant can enable us to revive and rehabilitate the Southern States he will add another to the many honors he has achieved as soldier and as Chief Magistrate. American Sentenced Cuba. Mr. Dockray, the American who surren- dered himself to the Spanish authorities at Puerto Principe on his return from the in- surgent lines, has been sentenced to death. He will not, however, be executed unless the sentence should be approved by the Captain General. So far as is known Mr. Dockray took no active part in the insurrection, and merely visited the insurgent camp in a spirit of adventure or from motives of curiosity. His stay among the insurgents was very short, as the mode of life in vogue among the Mam- bis has few attractions for the mere curiosity hunter. We have hopes that the Captain General will commute the severe sentence ot the court martial to some lighter punishment. At most Mr. Dockray has only been guilty of indiscretion, and it would be a barbarous act to punish him with death. Too much blood has already been shed in Cuba by the support- ers of Spanish authority. It would be well for the credit of Spain that a new order of things should be established. If Mr. Dock- ray has been guilty of some breach of munici- pal law he can be adequately punished by fine and imprisonment, without having recourse to the barbarous vengeance of the death penalty. The present relations of America and Spain are sufficiently unfriendly, and the shedding of additional American blood would be likely to exercise a very unfavorable effect on public opinion in this country. It is to be hoped that the Captain General will see the advantages to be gained by an exercise of leniency toward Mr. Dockray. His execution can only satisfy the craving for blood of a contemptible faction in the Spanish party, but, on the other hand, it would excite the horror of the civilized world. Spain cannot | just now afford to call up projudices and hatreds against her rule. She has need of all the forbearance that may be extended to her | by foreign nations. Return or Joan Mrrcnen to Ineraxn.— John Mitchel, the well-known Irish patriot, sails for Ireland to-day. He returns to his native land with the intention of entering ogee more thy poittical arena, He will co- operate with the home rulers, but will advo- cate a complete separation from England. He will place himself at the head of the advanced party, who do not believe that home rule will ever be granted except as the alternative of a civil war. Mr. Mitchel is certain to exercise | great influence on the councils of the national | party. He feels convinced that the British government will not arrest him for his con- | nection with the '48 movement. An to Death in Tue Wisconsty Rartroip Wan has evi- dently roused the Western grangers to a high pitch of excitement. It appears, however, from a letter which we publish to-day, that the grangers do not intend to confiscate the rail- roads, but only to have them managed on If they sue- | ceed in this they will have proved them- selves real benefactors of the people ; but we fear very much they will not effect any alarm- ing improvement. | Loyatic Murperens.—Two noted feroale | criminals were yesterday arraigned in the | Kings County Court, and evidence taken in | relation to their sanity. Mrs. Dwyer, ms! killed her children in a fit of madness, was declared to be insane and committed to a lunatic asylum. ‘The case of Kate Stoddard, who shot Charles Goodrich, has not yet been decided; but strong evidence tending to show unsoundness of mind was offerade ee Attempt to Assassinate Bismarck. The Great North German Chancellor has been the object of one of those foolish and criminal attempts which the experience of every man who has been bold enough to grapple with questions which excite the pas- sions of large numbers of men must have prepared him for. The telegraph had scarcely announeed the departure of the great Prussian Minister for Kissingen to recruit his health when the wires brought the news of an attempt to assassinate him. He had scarcely arrived at Kissingen when a ball from the pistol of the would-be murderer grazed his wrist, inflicting a very slight wound. The assassin was immediately arrested. Up to the present no motive is assigned for his crime. He is probably a religious enthu- siast anxious to remove the persecutor from the path of the Church. The immediate result, however, will be to strengthen the in- fluence of this remarkable man and to dis- credit his enemies with the people. ‘This attempt on the life of Bismarck shows how profoundly the sweeping changes in the polit- ical and religious constitution of Germany, due to the successful wars directed by the warlike Prussian Minister, haye moved the German mind. United Germany is still far from an accomplisned fact, and had Provi- dence not turned agide the assassin’s bullet the unfinished structure might have crumbled almost as fast as it was created. But it was not to be. The star of Sedan is still in the ascendant; but the life of the great statesman will be embittered by the thought that native enemies desire to spill his blood. Henceforth his life will be darkened, as was Cromwell's, by the dread of the lurking assassin, for those who armed one murderer's hand will not hesi- tate to seok out new fanatics. Tue Resources or Cups, in the way of raising revenue for the Spaniards, remain almost unimpaired, if we are to judge from the Treasury hopes which are ex- pressed by the island government, The newly imposed taxes on capital and income will, it is thought, have almost wiped out a debt of one hundred and five millions by the month of June, 1876. The industrial interests are acquiescent—thankful, it is said. A very seri- ous charge is insinuated against the commer, cial integrity and honor of some Americar importers who enter produce at Havana. Cuiupren’s Prontcs.—A number of chan itable ladies are about to organize an excun sion to the seaside for the benefit of the girk and women connected with the Tenth Stred Free Training Industrial School, The move ment is above all praise, and we hope it will receive generous support from the public. Tae Worw’s Texxescores.—In another column will be found an interesting account of the different telescopes in use in various parts: of the world. If some clever person would invent a glass which would enable the people to judge a politician’s character wher he looms up in the field of politics as well as those wonderful instruments enable us t learn the character and movements of the heavenly bodies it would be of inestimable advantage to the citizens of this happy He public. \ Tratzan Stave Oxrupren.—We publish n another column an interesting interview wih an Italian gentleman who has been instm- mental in suppressing the infamous traffic n Italian children carried on by the padrovi. - We also give the text of the act passed by Congress to suppress this new slave trade. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Will Parton write Havemeyer’s biography ? Butler 1s just the man for St. Petersburg. General John M. Corse, of Chicago, ts at ty Gilsey House. For a man who has retired from puolic life Colfax is tolerably noisy. If Blaine 18 President the United States will be annexed to Maine. Congressmun Hugh J. Jewett, of Ohio, is sojourn: ing at the Windsor Hotel. In Great Britain the average marriage takes place at the age of twenty-five. Colonel John McNutt, United States Army, (a staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General F. D. Callender, United States Army, haa quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfleid Republican, 13 registered at the Brevoort House. State Senator W. B, Woodin, of Auburn, N, ¥., has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel, Dublin papers deny the report that the Marquis of Bute was to be separated from his wife. Ex-Governor TheoJjore F, Randolph, of New Jersey, is stopping at the New York Hotel. Congressman James S. Negley, of Pittsburg, is residing temporarily at the St, Nicholas Hotel. And now Schurz is to have $20,000 as an editor. He would be cheap at a great deal less money, Sefior de Zugasti, of the Spanish Legation at Washington, has apartments at the Westmoreland Hotel. Mr. Lucius Robinson, of the Erie Railway Com- pany, is among the recent arrivals at the Hofman House, General Peter V. Nagner, of the Ordnance Depart- ment, United States Army, {8 quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. “3 Mr. William E, Chandler, of New Hampshire, for- merly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, {9 et the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Vice Presidgnt Henry Wilson arrived at the Astor Hougé yésterday morning, and left last evening by the Fall River boat for Boston. Mr. Carroll Marshall, of the city of Dublin, sued for damages on account o1 @ caricature and was awarded one farthing, Chanée for a new picture of Carroll looking at the farthing. It ts something unaccountable how these sober and sedate old fellows, a8 soon as their families have gone totie country to spend the heated term, commence to wear their Sunday clothes every day, and to argue that four hours’ sleep is all that the human frame requires to be heaithy.— Detroit Pree Press. The King of Saxony, in proposing the health of | the German Emperor at Bremen, said :—‘The frst | giass has been emptied to the victorious leader tn dificult days, the trae symbol, the true represent- ative of united, strong, but peaceful Germany, [ ask yon to drink tis second to the health of our glorious Emperor.” The Catholic Congress at Venice was opened on the 12th of June under the temporary presidency ot the Patriarch of Venice. The Duke of Satvatt was elected permanent President. The Pope (@ said to haye been greatly interested in the dite cussion of itberal Catholicism by Reggio, 4 forme Deputy to the Itaiian Pariiament, Mr. White, Catholic curate of the town of Ennis, Ireland, spoke irom te altar against the Baliy~ coolie races. Mr. Green, Chairman of the Raco Committee, requested the Dean to guarantee him against a repetition of vhis and the Dean declined, So Green has retired, and there's bailyloo in Bale lycoolie because there are to be no more races, Robert Scott and Mr. Galloway, of the London Meteorological Soclety, have been investigating mine explosions, They find that filty-eight per cent are due to changes of atmospherical pressure indicated by the barometer; seventeen per cent to great heat of the weather, and that the ro- mainder have no apparent connection with ated. pherte conditions, | ‘