The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1874, Page 6

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Newsdealers and others are notified p send in their orders | to the Hznaxp office as early as possible, From our reports this morning the probabilities | ere that the weather lo~day will be partly cloudy, with local rains. | Wart Srezer Yesterpay.—The stock market was extremely dull, with lower figures. Sales, 65,000 shares. Gold was steady, | 1104 to 1104. Tux Box Frenp.—The story of young Jesse Pomeroy, published im another column, will be found a record of singular atrocity, evi- dently resulting from inherent tendency. “Cosma Events Cast Taer Saapows | Berone.’’—A Southern newspaper announces | | peal At this interesting point out came the | | must, therefore, accept that interpretation of | should be disputed, he will call upon the | assumption of irresponsible power. | with its vacillations and small piques; but he France—Probable Dissolution of Assembly. In the midst of the provisional in France one point is definite: MacMahon is in power and will remain there. It is impossible to misunderstand his intimation to this effect, made to the Assembly in his recent message; | and even less susceptible of misconstruction | is the general order by which he formally placed his seven years tenure of office under the protection of the army. In this course there was a touch of contempt for the Assem- bly and scorn of its opinions and doings that need go only a very little further to lead to the expulsion of all these babblers of political | theory and party hate. Discussion was keen the in the Assembly over the law that put Mac. | | Mahon in power. Not only the Assembly, but jl France, was deeply interested in the topic, and sides were evergetically taken on the issue | whether the Assembly conld displace Mac- Mahon from power during the term named in | the law, or whether they could organize any | | system of government ignoring his position. | In its usual vociferous spirit the Assembly | was declaring to itself, over and over again, that | it could vote MacMahon out of power just as | it had voted Thiers out of power, and that there was no authority to make a law which | and as likely to provoke a border war. esty it may come out politically vigorous and morally sound. The Red Cload in the Indian Policy. Our. special correspondence from the theatre of the Indian troubles in the Department of the Platte gives an interesting account of the disposition and movement of troops and of the stirring events that have recently taken place on the frontier lines of Nebraska and Wyoming. The people of Nebraska do not seem to be well satisfied with the movement of General Custer into the Black Hills coun try, as they regard it as in violation of the treaty made with the Sioux some years ago The people naturally look with dismay upon the prospect of an Indian war, with all its cruelties and horrors, and may be allowed to take a somewhat selfish view West—Our | of the operations of the troops without incurring censure. Nevertheless, the spirit that has animated the military movements and policy in the West has been by no means of an aggressive character, and no doubt there are good and sufficient reasons for General Custer’s explorations. There is reason in the remark of an old settler, that as Congress ap- the Assembly had not equal authority to re- Marshal's order, which informed the army | know the laws. They must obey orders, the laws that their commander may put upon them; and MacMahon, as President and Com- mander, bas officially given the army his in- | terpretation; and, if his view-of the law | anuy to sustain him, and the army will do it, | MuacMahon’s order is essentially a coup d'état, There is no violence, of course, be- cause none is necessary. No one is shot in’ the streets, because no one assumes an attitude of resistance. But the declaration thus non- | chalantly wade to the Assembly and to the country over the head of the army covers the It is an | adroit stroke, too. It pretends to call the at- | tention of the army to a law of the Assembly and to bespeak respect for that august body and its decrees, while in reality it is 9 protest | against the exercise on the part of the Assem- bly of # mooted power to limit the authority they had already given. It is a call upon the army for support against any law of the As- sembly opposed to the law made by the same body in November last, and it thus, while ostensibly accepting authority from the As- sembly, proposes to hold authority in defiance of the delegates who are supposed to represent the country. Between the position assumed by the man who, as Commander-in-Chiet, informs thearmy that he counts upon it to support him agaist any law of the Assembly, and the position of the man who takes security against such a law by dissolving the Assembly, the difference is one of circumstances and not of essential character. MacMabon is in harmony with the mind of the nation when he assumes a positive attitude toward the Assembly and hectors it a little, for the country is disgusted might starile ‘the country very unpleasantly if he marched up a regiment and locked the pears so eager to cut down the strength of the army the peace policy should be suffered to prevail, and tho suggestion should teach us | street | what the law really meant, as the Marshal | the wisdom of properly strengthening our understood it. Soldiers have no occasion to | #tmy if the peace policy is, either by our | and | own act or the acts of the savages, to be | disturbed, There can be no doubt that the situation is critical and that a war of greater or less mag- nitude is not unlikely to burst upon the set- tlers at any moment. The account of the operations of the expedition from Camp Brown, under command of Lieutenant Young, of the Fourth infantry, given in our corre- spondent’s letter, shows that no great reliance can be placed on the Indians who act as the allies of our troops, and it is incumbent on the government to see that the re- inforcements so much needed are sup- plied to our border forts as speedily as possible. The reports from every quarter show that we cannot long rely on peace, and the best method of averting a general border war is to show a power sufficient to crush out the savages on the first outbreak, wherever it may occur. The Peace Commissioners may plead for the “ambitious young men,” who, “stung by the tardiness of redress’’ for real or fancied wrongs committed by the ‘white buffalo hunters or whiskey sellers,”” start out on the warpath, burning, scalping and mur- dering, without regard to age or sex; but the people who read of the horrors committed by the savages believe that the extermination of the hostile tribes will be the best mercy to all. Men and rifles are the surest safeguards against an Indian war, but if it must come it should not end until a tolerably certain se- curity has been exacted by the bullet and the bayonet against its repetition. The Metropolis of the World. A few weeks since M. de Lesseps, the French Director of the Suez Canal, threat- ened to close it unless there was some ad- vance in the tolls. This act was prevented by the Khedive, but the consternation occasioned by the threat has led to a great deal of discus- sion as to the routes between England and in a hopeful spirit the arrival of ‘‘an ex-mem- | doors. And it is only worth while to startle ber of Congress from Mississippi at the Albany | the country in a case of necessity. It is better Penitentiary” ‘under a sentence of one thou- | to have the nation on one’s side in the diver sand dollars’ fine and two years’ imprisonment | gence of views, It would, therefore, be su- for embezzlement.” This Congressman was | preme folly for the Marshal to go further just not wise. He should have interested himself now. Not only is the Assembly harmless to in the Crédit Mobilier and written a lecture on | him where it is since the army accepts his Odd Fellowship. | Trearnicat Licenses may be properly en- | forced as a means of adding to the revenues of the city, but when the proceeds are devoted to | the reformation of juvenile delinquents by some private, irresponsible society, it is very proper that high-minded representatives of the dra- matic profession should like to know the rea- son why. Mr. Wallack has taken the initiative in this matter, and has succeeded in procuring an injunction against the collection of the license by the society in question. The refor- mation of thieves, young or old, is a very laud- able object, but it is hardly fair to compel the noble protession of Thespis to supply the fands for that purpose. Taz Sroren Carmp.—Some new develop- ments in this remarkable case will be found in our Philadelpbia correspondence, published | elsewhere, including o description of the manner in which the thieves pro- pose to receive the large reward they demand for the restoration of the child | and at the same time avoid detection. | The plan is a shrewd one, and as yet the au- thorities have been unable to meet it. To | yield to the demands of these thiscreants | would, however, be offering a premium for | child stealing, and it is to be hoped some counter plan will be hit upon whereby they can be brought to justice and the child restored to its distracted parents. Tar Arutetes at Sanatooa.—The foot races ‘were run and won yesterday at Saratoga with great zeal and éclat, and the encouraging en- | thusiasm of a brilliant audience. There was a pleasing absence of tho bickering and ungentlemanly trickery which marred the regatta on Saturday, and everything | conduced to the fullest enjoyment of | enough voices to vote the dissolution of the | order with good will, and he is therefore se- cure of the iuture; but the Assembly, left alone, may yet lock the doors upon itself and so save him a disagreeable labor. Should the Assembly merely go on as it is going every hour will increase its unpopularity. Should it continue its puerile votes tor one Ministry and against another—votes that seem to have behind them no political views or party prin- ciples, but the mere piques and perversities of children—it may end in making the steady, patient, simple-minded Marshal seem to tower above it like a sort of political Teneriffe ; but should the party strife reach the point that it now seems to threaten—should the opposition of the Right to Casimir- Perier’s bill succeed in gaining a | yote for the postponement of the report of the committee that has it in charge—disso- lution will apparently be precipitated without | staining the Marshal's hands ; for it will then | be obvious to many of tho moderate Lett that | the Right would rather have despotism than | an organized government not of their own | making, and this perception will combine | Chamber, for which the most resolute mem- bers are now ready. Dissolution is the imminent fact, whether it | shall come thus by the act of the Assembly or | whether MacMahon shall one of these days seem to be urged forward by popular indigna- | tion to the painful duty of sending the Depu- ties home; and however it may come it is for the country the most desirable event that is now on the cards. With this Assembly there is no hope of permanent organized tranquil- lity for the country, as is shown by the futile | endeavors of its three years and ‘more of ex- | istence. With MacMahon there will be tran- quillity, prosperity and security; order will | be maintained, and the laws, fairly adminis- her Indian possessions. The Londen Globe shows that the route through America presents many advantages even over that of the Suez Canal, and that, while India may be more readily reached by the canal, so far as Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan are concerned, the cheapest and swiftest route is through New York and San Francisco. The Planter’s Gazette publishes statistics showing the advantage possessed by the American highway over the road through Suez. ‘Yokohama,”’ says the Gazette, ‘‘can be reached via San Francisco in 34 days, at a cost of $360, against 56 days and $515 by the Suez Canal; Shanghai in 42 days, for $410, against 53 days and $515; Hong Kong in 40 days, for $410, against 48 days and $465; Auckland in 44 days, for $410, against 62 days and $510; Sydney in 47 days, for $410, against 57 days and $440; and Melbourne in 48 days, for $435, against 56 days and $440.” The opening of the American route has, more- over, afforded increased facilities to those enthusiastic travellers who find » peculiar pleasure in accomplishing immense distances, Any one desiring to voyage round the world can do so at acost of about $1,000 within three months, provided he does not yield to the temptation of dallying in New York to seo our Central Park and our collection of vener- able statesmen, or of visiting Washington to see General Butler, or of lingering around Chicago in the hopes of another fire. Tho distance trom England to these Pacific coun- tries, which is little more than 24,000 miles, is divided as follows:—From London to Liver- pool, 200 miles; thence to New York, 3,000 | miles; from that port to San Francisco, by railway, 3,294 miles, and 4,764 miles more to Yokohama, where the half-way house is reached, From Yokohama to Shanghai the distance is 1,200 miles; thence to Hong Kong, 870 miles; and from that port to Calcutta, 3,500 miles. Crossing the peninsula of Hin- dostan, 1,400 miles have to be accomplished before Bombay is reached, whence a journey of 5,875 miles carries the traveller back to London. Among the attractions of this proposed the sport and the proper advancement Of | tered, will be supreme. Will there be inthe | American route the English journals em- athletic science. Meanwhile the controversy | personal goverument of MacMahon any | phasize the fact of the journey from New regarding the collision of the Yale and Har- | vard shells continues, with the bitter feeling | unabated on either side, The Columbia crew, | whose victory has no flaw in it, are expected | home to-day, and preparations have been | made to give them a gallant and distinguished | reception, worthy their honorable achieve- ment. A Guoomy Sics.—The Mobile Register says that the reason emigrants to Alabama buy | land in Northern Alabama in preference to | the middle counties of the State, nothwith- | standing their cheapness, is becausé “North Alabama is white and Middle Alabama is lack." This is one of the worst features of the present temper of the Southern people, ‘We shall have no hopes of a harmonious re- construction in Alabama or any other South- ern State which does not recognize the fact that there is room enough in these United States for as many white and black men as Providence crews, and protection for them | under the laws in the enjoyment of ‘“‘life, liberty and the pursuit of bappiness."’ greater danger to liberty and to the ultimate | establishment of free government than there is under the Assembly? We do not believe there will. For we must remember that | though the Assembly does not organize the | ideal government of any one of its parties it is none the less incessant in its ictsivouls| toward that end; and the failure to organize any government hitherto has been due to the defeat of these various intrigues, But the vigilance that has hitherto enabled the several parties combined to defeat the intrigue of each party in turn may fail some day, and the gov- ernment that should thus come into power as | the result of » parliamentary intrigue, while it | would have in its favor all the prestige of an apparently constitutional origin, might be as great an enemy to liberty and the national | welfare as the ex-Empress governing in the name of her son, From seven years of gov- | ernment like that the country might only re- | cover by such another purgation as the recent | | war; but from seven years of MacMahon ad- | \ winistering tho laws with straightforward hon- | ee ane Aen eNO ae Kenner Ss NGunYe nWnAaSeSnie ESE St York to San Francisco, occupying seven days, is performed in Pullman cars, and that almost the whole road lies in a temperate climate. ‘There is still another tact which these state- ments go far to strengthen. Geographically Now York is destined to become the central city, the metropolis of the globe, It is the only great commercial capital which is not exposed to the perils of invasion or civil war; where business is sheltered; where moneyed men may handle their investments with- out any fear of the Commune or of social rev- olutions. A century from to-day and the mer- chants of the civilized world will meet on Broadway to make their exchanges, and all the tides of business will ebb and flow through the business arteries of the fresh and mighty metropolis, With such o future, to which all the signs point, is it not a shame that our rulers do not see what is reqnired to make the me- tropolis worthy of her destiny ?—that our peo- ple do not appreciate it, and, rising in their pride and strength, drive from power thieves like Tweed aud dotards like Hayemeyer? NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, oN The Ring Suits—What Has Become of Them? While the debt of the city during Comp- | troller Green's term of office has increased by the sum of forty million dollars and the taxa- tion has increased six million dollars, it may be worth while to inquire what progress is making towards the recovery of the money fraudulently abstracted from the County Treasury by Tweed and his confederates. This debt, if it may be called a debt, or this claim, amounts to a sum large enough to offset the increased taxation. When the frauds of Tweed & Co. wero discovered in the ‘autumn or 1871 Judge Edwards Pierre- pont, at the head of a delegation of people whose political motive was apparent enough, went to Albany and publicly interviewed the | Governor (Hoffman) on the subject. The object of this movement was to make a noise that would injure the democratic party. The Governor was asked to direct the Attorney General to institute a suit for the recovery of the money in the name of the State. The Corporation Counsel (Mr. O'Gorman) was at that time preparing to bring suits on behalf of the county to recover the county’s own money. But, affecting a dis- trust of all local officials, the Pierrepont dele- gation aimed at a method of proceeding which would embarrass the: democrats and help to throw the State into the hands of the republicans by the notoriety and scandal that would attend such a proceeding. It is not to be supposed that so good a lawyer as Judge Pierrepont believed that an action in the name of the State would be the proper remedy; but | he is an astute politician, and he saw what use | could be made of a weapon that had been fur- | nished to his hand by the democratic “ring” | | of old Tammany. He obtained what he went for in the shape of a letter from the Attorney General to Mr. Charles O’Conor, authorizing the latter | to institute, in the name of the Attorney General's office, any suit or proceeding which he might think proper. The Attorney Gen- eral was then Marshall B. Champlain, a dem- ocrat and a candidate fora renomination and re-election. He thought it for his political interest to fall in with Judge Pierrepont’s plan. Mr. O’Conor’s famous action in the name of the people of the State, which has lately come to grief in the Court of Appeals, was then commenced. ‘The Corporation Coun- sel had previously commenced actions in the name of the Supervisors of the county of New York, under the advice of associate counsel, who gave him a written opinion that the money belonged to the countyand that the State could not sue for it. The imputations that were cast upon Mr. O’Gorman’s motives are now of tio more consequence to the public “than last year’s clouds," as honest Sancho | Panza used to say. The result has proved | that O'Gorman and his professional advisers | were entirely right; and while he remained i in office the actions that were under his charge were prosecuted as rapidly and suc- cessfully as they could be with the obstruc- tion of the State suit standing in the way. They could not be carried to the final stage of atrial upon the merits, because the defend. | ants interposed as a demurrer the pendency of the State action to recover the same money on the same facts. But his acticns were sus- tained by Judge Barrett at Special Term, and | afterwards by the General Term, both Courts | holding that the State had no title to the money on which it could sue. In the mean- time the State action was prosecuted through various stages until it reached the Court of Appeals, where it was twice argued, and more than a month ago that Court decided that the | State had no interest in the claim on which it could sustain -an action, and that the claim belonged to the county of New York, which was fully capable of suing for it. Mr. O'Gorman resigned the office of CorporatiomCounsel more than a year ago, and Mr. G. Delafield Smith became his successor. The public is without any informa- tion as to what is doing, or is to be done, in the prosecution of the county actions. When the late Corporation Counsel resigned these actions were in a condition to be brought to trial on the merits as soon as the Court of Appeals should have put the State action out of the way. That bubble is now burst, and it is time that the public knew what steps are | taking for the recovery of the money by the municipal body to which it belongs. There has been in all probability a great shrinkage in Tweed and Connolly's property since these actions were commenced. If the State actitn, commenced on a fancifal and wrong theory, | had not stood in the way, the county actions | might long since have passed into judgments which could have been collected. What the prospect is now we should be glad to learn if anybody can tell us? A New Opening for Office-Seekers, Dog catching may not be quite up to the standard of the ambition of the averago office- seeker around the City Hall, but in these hard times he must remember tho homely adage that “‘half a loaf is better than nv bread.’ Besides, the office just created by our amnsing authorities, the successful candidates for | which were solemnly sworn in yesterday by | our funny Mayor, gives abundant exercise for | the ingenuity of the aspiring politicians, The wheedling talents necessary to approach a coy canine, now rendered doubly distrustful of all mankind, may afterwards be used to advantage in securing the votes of thrice-sold Alder- manic or Assembly district, and the cruelty and indifference to previous protestations shown when the game is bagged and the price demanded can be shown to advantage when a vote on a railroad bill is reached in Albany or asalary grab is in progress in Washington. Official dog catching should not, therefore, be despised by those who wish to earn a pre- carious livelihood by the tricks that are vain and ways that aro dark of politics, Each passed candidate, however, should be far- nished with a brass collar setting forth the nature of his business and the district in which he is expected to operate, Eyouisn Crvmization.—A recent debate in the English Parliament develops the fact that on July the 4th the amusement loving people of a town named Hanley were entertained by acombat between a dwarf and @ bulldog. The | Home Secretary admitted there had been such , an inhuman and unnatural spectacle, but | | promised to have the subject investigated. Mr. Bergh would fiud “new sphere of usefule ness in Bogland. The Park Department Appropriations, The letter addressed by Messrs. Vance and Wheeler to the President of the Park Depart- ment sets forth clearly the duty of the Board of Apportionment and of the several depart- ments of the city government in relation to the estimate of the annual expenses of con- ducting the public business of the city and the appropriation of money therefor. The charter requires that each department shall make a provisional estimate of all its ex- penses for the year before the fiscal year com- mences, and that such estimate shall specify in detail the salary of each of the officers, clerks, employés and subordinates. The Board of Apportionment are authorized to pass upon these estimates, making such alterations as they may deem fit, and, after action by the Board of Aldermen, to finally fix and deter- mine the appropriations, It seems clear from this that the appropriations to be finally fixed by the Board of Apportionment, and the amount of which is to be raised by taxation, are intended by the law to include all the salaries of officers, clerks and ordinary employés of the several municipal depart- ments. In the case of the Department of Parks this decision is likely to cause some embarrassment, because a system has pre- vailed by which only a small proportion of the salaries of the officers and employés has heretofore been paid out of the annual amount raised by taxation for the expenses of the de- partment, and the larger sharo has been paid out of the moneys raised for construction ac- count and charged to the permanent debt of the city. But although the change from an illegal to a legal practice may be temporarily inconvenient there is no doubt that it should | have been made. The principle involved is one of much importance. It does seem desir- able that the annual expense of conducting | the business of the city government should be | understood by the taxpayers each year, and should be met by the year’s taxation, If | we are to be. allowed to put the salaries of city officials into the perma- nent debt of the city we can have no oppor- tunity of knowing what our expenses really are, and shall be very certain to bankrupt ourselves in the end. It is bad enough to | “bridge over’ our stocks and bonds as they fall due, but this would be a trifling evil as compared with the ruinous and reckless policy of putting the salaries of our public officials into permanent debt bonds, and paying seven per cent interest on them for a series of years. There can be no desire to cripple the Park Department so far as any necessary expendi- ture or any desirable work is concerned, and there is no doubt that the Board of Apportion- ment will act as generously in the matter of the issue of bonds for that department as the interests of the city will warrant. The current year is now more than half over, and in the next year's estimates the require- ments of the charter can be taken into consideration, and the amount appro- priated to the department regulated accordingly. ‘The best plan to be pursued at present seems to be to conform to the law and make the best headway possible with the morey at command of the Department. There cannot be any work now in course of prose- cution on the parks that will be seriously in- jured by a brief postponement, and with such postponement the services of architects and engineers can be very well dispensed with, at least for the present. The President of the Department, although an enthusiast in the prosecution of all works of adornment and improvement, will no doubt approve of a strict construction of the law. ‘To be sure, he has a legal opinion from the Assistant Corpo- ration Council to the effect that he can con- tinue to pay salaries out of the money raised | for another purpose by bonds which go into the city debt; but probably that opinion would not have been written had it been de- layed another day. Like the famous opinions ot Jack Bunsby, it is overruled by events, however consoling it may have been at the moment of its delivery. A Political Prophecy. Among the political books that bid fuir to attract attention in Europe we note the an- | nouncement of a volume of essays by M. Louis Blanc, commenting upon historical events in Europe during forty years. M. Louis Blanco is something of an enthusiast in politics, and has always weakened his useful- ness by the defence of fantastic and impossi- blo ideas in regard to socialism ; but he iso man of eminent character for purity, enthu- siasm of character and devotion to princi- ples. In his book there isan essay on the German war, written just before hostilities were declared, which contains this remarkable passage :—‘‘No doubt it would be better for us that a prince supplied by Prussia should not sit on the throne of Spain. But to draw the sword in such an affair when we allowed it to remain in the scabbard at the sight of Prussia conquering Germany is simply ridicu- lous. Spain could not necessarily become Prussian from the day she hada Prussian monarch. Look at the various thrones of Europe, and it will be seen that there are tew which are not occupied by foreign sovereigns. There is, therefore, exaggeration in all this alarm. Attempts are being made to magnify the peril in order to heighten our anger, and to heighten our anger so as to make use of the Chassepét. The Empiré calls war to its aid ; auch is the truth. Its failing prestige has made war a necessity."’ It required more than ordinary courage and foresight to say this at the time it was said. M, Louis Blanc | was not only antagonizing the truculent Bona- parte idea of war and conquest, and the natu- ral impulse of the French people to fight somebody, especially Prussia; but he was in opposition toa tradition that has become a part of French history—that no prince not in sympathy with France should reign in Spain, It requires more than ordinary courage for a Frenchman to make war upon one of the tra- ditions of his country's history, M. Louis Blanc showed this courage, and it would have been well for the dynasty of Napoleon if he had been as brave. VENERABLE Statexmun..—-New York is not alone in the enjoyment of venerable states- men, True, we have our Havemeyer, our Weed and our Dix, who show in extreme old age the fire, the energy and the ambition of | younger men—all the activity of political kids, But in Tennessee there is a war between | Henry 8. Foote and ex-Presideut Johnson, | two statesmen who go back to our earliest | political formations, when Quincy Adams was =. me " seen 4 President and Tefforsoi” ras sage or Monti cello and Harry Clay was ‘Mill Boy of thet Slashes.” “Both gentlemen," says a contem~ Porary, “are in the ficld for the Senstorial) succession, and the campaign has become am exciting one. Mr. Johnson is known as # long talker, but for finished oratory an fine rhetoric the ex-Governor and ex-Senator of. Mississippi and Tennessee surpasses him." Cremation Again, The discussion of cremation has passed: into the pulpit in England. The Bishop of London recently delivered a sermon in Westminster Abbey on the subject, in which he denounced the theory of crema- tion in indignant terms. He could not, he said, “conceive anything more barbarous and unnatural, and one of the very first fruits of its adoption would be to undermine the faith. of mankind in the doctrine of the resurrection of the body, and so bring about a most disas~ trous social revolution, the end of which it was not easy to foretell.” This is an ingen-’ ious criticism, and it should meet the attention of thinkers like Mr. Frothingham, who have advanced contrary ideas. The complete answer to the Bishop's objection would seem to be that cremation is simply & speedy method of accomplishing the Scriptural redult of “ashes to ashes” and “dust to dust’? The London Globe thinks the views of the right reverend prelate represont those of the larger number of English people, and espe- cially of those belonging to the Established Church. The theory that cremation would destroy the doctrine of resurrection and vio- late tho conscience of those who believed in a future bodily state was sustained by the argue ment that Christianity alone abolished the | ancient Roman system of cremation ; that the system so universally in vogue in the oid Roman world was of late introduction among the Italians, being first adopted about the time of the great Sylla, during the ferocious ivil wars of that period, when it seems to have been feared that the rival factions might exhume the bones of their dead enemies for purposes of outrage and insult, This is an important historical fact, and worthy or the consideration of the advocates of this new and peculiar custom. Geserat Burien’s Carp, published elso- where, will be found to meet pretty effectually a statement ‘going the rounds’’ relative te the money and valuables of the colored troops, killed while under the General's command on the James River. The statement attributed to General Hooker was too much even for General Butler's pachydermatousness, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. « “Uld Wash"? has gone to Vichy. Yale pays the penalty of bad temper. All the American pilgrims nave leit Rome, Albert Bierstadt, the artist, if ab the Brevoort House. Admiral J. R. Tucker, of the Peruvian Navy, is quartered at the New York Hotel. General Benjamin F, Butier a.rived [rom Boston yesterday at the Filth Avenue Hotel. M. Bartholdi, French Minister at Washington, has apartmente at the Brevoort House. Sedor Don Luts Polo de Bernavé, of the Spanish Legation, ts at the Westmoreland Hotel, Ex-Congressman Herrick, of Maine, s*til lies ta & critical condition at his residence in Aliord. Captain Gore Jones, naval attaché of the Brits Legation, 1s residing at the Clarendon Hotel. Fourteen officers of the German general stad are still engaged on the official history of the war, Lieutenant Commander F. E. Chadwick, United States Navy, has arrived at the Hoffman House, The bad black man, King Coffee, is cutting up capers, and England will probably stop his pay. Blanche of Orleans has gone to Cantarets for “nervous pains in the legs;’’ and a princess, toe. Ten thousand portraits of tie Prince Imperial | were seized in Paria at tae Northern Raliway station. One thousand feet ot green boards were on tne car when R. Currier put his foot under the whee The car ts safe, No information has been received at the Execn- tive Mansion in Wasuington as to when the Prest- dent will return. Mrs. Bedell, of Eimore, advertises that hereafter her husband must “cut his own feed or starve.” She won't pay his debts. Chambord has written a “beauttfal” letter to the proprietor of the paper which was suspended tor publishing his manifesto, Count Lichtervelde, of the Belgian Legation at Washington, arrived trom Long Brancn yesteiisy at the Brevoort House. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived at the Astor House irom Wasnington about noon yester- | day and leit in the evening for Boston, A reverend gentleman at Woodtord explains that nis intentions were strictly honorabie when he spoke of that “dam reservoir” at Mill River, Halévy was unpunctual, on the principle that to be punctual merely compels.one to wait ior others, | and he preierred that others should wait tor him. An effort was made lately in the Grant Concert Room at Brighton to raise money for “the claim- ant.” One of bis children carried around the hat, William Cluff, of Spital square, London, left $17,500 to the ~Freemason's Charity Boys’ School, to establish “an annual good boy's prize” of $509. Wiliams, of Worcester, income $20,000 @ year, had to pay $15,000 to get off from marrying Mist Webster, of London. He was a lucky boy to have the money. Bliss, oi Indian Till, Cal., found there was a hole in his dam and jumped in and piugged it with bw own 220 pounds of humanity until the water was drawn off by the gateways. M, Durieux, physician, aged forty-seven years, residing at Auteuil, Paris, died recently in hydro- phobic convulsions, His disease was attributed to a bite received three years before. Who will be astonished to hear that the Demo- erat, published at Vaucluse, France, has discon. tinued for want of patronage? Fancy the profa- nation of politics at such a place. kEx-Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch artived at Fort Wayne, Ind., irom London, on Saturday last, to spend a Jew weeks at his old home. Hels the guest of his two sons, who reside there. An adventurous speculator carried cargoes of women out of France to get them good homes in Algeria, He landed them outside the French ja- risdiction, In Atrica, and sold tuem at good prices, ‘Thus to his Theo Beecher said. “Leven wish that | were dead.” Said Theo to his Beecher, ‘Trash | Jonly want a little cash.” Lady Amberley, shortly before her death, “spoke of the great scopo cremation would give for the | love of survivors to show itself in exquisitely gemmed urns.” But alas Jor poverty and earthen- ware! Moltke arrived in his plain clothes at @ hotel where he was not known, and they put him on the third floor. Frantic efforts were made to repair the fault when the truth became known, but the old iellow held his position. Concha received in the heat of the battle a wound 1n the face and dismounted to have the bleeding stopped. He had put his hand on the saddie and lifted his foot into the stirrup to remount when he received his fatal wound, the bali piercing him through and through. He spoke only once after- wards, saying, “Killed in @ guerilla war.” ‘The Irish have annexed Wales—and the member for Cardi? who opposed the home rule motion will find out how numerous they are in bia district. ‘The Irish are excellent hands at being numerous, and U they would invade England in their might and settie themseives at propery chosen pointa, they could control ali the elections in tle Boxe generation, j