The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1874, Page 4

4 a NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT, NEW YORK HERALD)“ “iss, cusres, secont + tome mation for Governor? BROADWAY AND ASN STREET. A recent article in the Brooklyn Eugle, 5 Saat which wore an airas if written after a con- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | *ultation with Judge Church's friends, stated PROPRIETOR | at some length the reasons why that geutle- Paes man will not permit the use of his name as 4 Rejected communications will not be re- | candidate for the democratic nomination. | Whatever force those reasons might have if gummed. “a this were an ordinary canvass, they ought no e We. 208 to be allowed the weight of a feather when so a —=- | much is at stake. If the democratic party is ANUSENEVTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | beaten in New York this year it is past pray- | ing for. Can the democrats elect the pext | | President without the vote of New York? oP But how can they expect to carry New York P.M; closes at 1:0 PM. Mr. Marry’ Clidturd. | in 1876 if they lose the State in 1874? ‘To | adopt a military phrase, New York is the key ee WOOD'S MUSEUM way, corner Jhirdeth stree—WEALTH AND Reentry: 2 Oh close 3h MO ROP ED IN, ats METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 886 browdwry. Parisian Cancan Dancers, at 8 P.M. is " Anes ata — — re | of the position. It is, indeed, supposable | NIBLO'S GARDEN, hat perac i Broadway, detween Prince and tiouston streets — | CnOugh thatthe dem yy may succeed in FAUSTUS, atSP. M.: closes at 1045 P.M Wheelvck aud Miss lone surke. Mr Joseph | this State and yet fail to elect the President ; | but that it can carry the Presidency with New | | York voting for the republican candidate is | too absurd an idea for any rational creature to entertain. It is, perhaps, barely possible that, after losing New York in 1874 the democrats might reguin it in 1876; but such a change of | fortune would be improbable, and as it could Broadway, corner of fhirty-ti treet.-LONDON py | ROt be known until after the election, even if it | aeT, Att fe Mos closes at ot M- same at7 M5 | should occur, the democratic party would not | | be encouraged and inspired during the can- vass by the moral certainty that it had a se- cure hold on this great State, which has as many electoral votes as all New England. One | of the most important elements of political | TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE Concert and Operatic Periormance, at8 0. M. TONY PASTOR'S OPREA MOUSE, Bowery.—WARIBT1 SNIKKIAINMENT, at 8 PLM; closes at 10:90 P.M. CPNTRAL RK GARDE. Mfty-ninth street und Seventh avenue, — CGAT, at P.M; closes at 10:20 P.M, COLOSSE HOMAS’ CON. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Madison avenue and Twenty sixth street.—GRAND PAGEAST—OONGRESS OF NATIONS, at U30 P. Mo and a7 PM | WITH SUPPLEMENT. = a == ——=== | suecess is confidence ; New York, Friday, July %4, 1874. | party will have no solid ground of confidence = = == =—=== | if it loses New York this year. THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. | Judge. Church is a man of too much politi- | but the democratic | persian | eal sagacity not to recognize the truth of this | statement of the situation. Of course his modesty will not permit him to say, nor searcely to think, that the whole fortune of the democratic party is staked upon his per- sonal action, and his sense of the proprietics | To NewsDEALERS AND THE Punric:— The New York Hunarv will run a special train between New York, Saratoga and Luke George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- ing the season at half-past three o’clock A. M., and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock ot his high judicial position imposes on him | A M., the purpose ot supplying the an additional restraint. It is a sort of moral | Scspay Hrnanp along the line. Newsdealers | necessity for him to talk in the nolo episcopari | and others are notified to send in their orders | yein, even to his intimate friends, and they | to the Hesaxp office as early as possible. are exceedingly maladroit in trying to inter- | view him on the subject. They should have respect enough for the delicacy of his position to forbear pestering him with interrogatories, for From our reports this morning the probabilities care that the weather to-day will be clear. Watt Srreer Yestenpay.—Stocks were | and sense enough to see that the effect of their | unsettled and closed weak. Gold closed at | indiscreet interviewing is to tempt him to | 1095. commit himself against being a candidate. Tax Ex Ramway ‘teovste.—The At- | Why should they annoy him with ques- torney General has decided, in his opinion | tions and soundings which place him in published elsewhere, that the complaints | a2 indelicate dilemma between his against the Erie company must go before dignity and his judgment? No sort of regard | the courts for sett! | should be paid to the expressions of reluctance Tuar Is aN Excxu Sceerstion which ee roe ae cape ROS footsh av | is made by a Warren county gentleman in the | serviceable friends who are indelicate enough Henarp this morning, and if generally acted | to approach him on this subject. The can- | upon would afford much pleasure to hundreds | Me pg glia caesh vega “taal aie of poor girls who seldom get a breath of fresh fuvpring it Hei ee thavane democnunena air, It deserves the attention of the society < A whose kind offices are invoked by our corre- GUS Co SEN 1 Oe a aoe pany, ~ = ‘8 not strong enough to take any risks. With- spondent, and may be so acted upon as to be- i * 4 amellisieens chaniabacae | out consulting him at all, or paying any re- 3 ee | gard to his personal reluctance, the Demo- | Tax Trovsues ix Vickspvra seem to be | cratic State Convention should nominate hjm | more political than serions. The correspond- | py acclamation, and put upon him alone the | ence between Colonel French and Lieutenant responsibility of declining and deteating the Governor Davis, which we print this morning, hopes of the party. | Judge Church would respond to a similar de- | pect him to'descend to a personal canvass for | against Governor Dix, and if the party should } | gain possession of the government in 1876 it | | would be either with him as its leader or as | | Church has no faith in the future of the dem- is singularly undignified, but it is not likely to hurt anybody, especially as the difficulty seems to be that a negro company of the State militia has refused to surrender its arms to the State. One company of negroes will not make much political capital for cither party. Tax Powice Commissioners yesterday ap- pointed Inspector Walling Superintendent of Police in place of the venerable Matsell, pro- appointment appears to comply with the prin- | ciple of Civil Service reform. Mr. Walling is | an experienced officer, having been patrolman, captain, inspector and detective, and his | record is good. He is a thorough discipli- marian and a man of unassailed character. | We may hope that the selection will prove ad- | vantageous to the force. Tue Frast Extry.—The Hollidaysburg (Pa.) | Register fires the first gun in the campaign for | the Presidency by nominating James G. | Blaine, who, it informs us, is “‘a Pennsyl- | vanian,"’ and on “the great and vital ques- | tion of protection to American industry is | sound to the core, and in favor of American | labor against the pauper labor of Europe.” | The surest way to destroy a candidate for the Presidency is to nominate him prematur: The horse who enters first for the race is rarely entered to win. The fact that a repub- | lican newspaper has been found with courage enough to name a candidate other than Grant is a suggestive indication of an awakening and mutinous spirit in the party. We are confident Judge Church would not decline a nomination which came to him in | this spontaneous way. He is a man of strong party predilections and great public spirit, | with magnanimity enough to make personal | sacrifices if the honest judgment of the party should decide that they are necessary. To be sure he would be compelled to resign at | once his position on the Bench, the new | moted to the Presidency of the Board. The | judiciary article of the State constitution | Leonard a vacating the office of a judge when he con- | sents to be a candidate for any other than a judicial office. position as head of the Court of Ap- peals and await the result of the elec- tion, If defeated as candidate for the Governorship he private citizen, losing both offices by running for the least important. But defeated for the Governorship he could not be, though he would descend from an office which has for him virtually a life tenure to a two years’ office with about half the salary. But there are | counterbulancing advantages, or, at least, counterbalancing chances, which are worth his consideration. By saving New York to the de- mocracy he would have done more than it is in the power of any other man to do to put the party on the road to success in the Presiden- tial election. nomination would be among the least. A man who triumphs over so strong, respected Dix gives a demonstration of his popularity such as no other democratic statesman bas He could not retain his | would be o mere | His own title to the democratic | personal wishes. Mr. Wright was nominated by the Democratic National Convention of that year for the Vice Presidency, but promptly | and peremptorily declined from a sense of | been beaten in the Convention by Polk. But, although he refused to run for a better office than that of Senator, which he then held, he yielded to an appeal to save the party by run- ning for the less important office of Governor of New York. Everybody felt that the success of the party was staked upon carrying New ¥ork, and although Mr, Wright’s name would | have been as efficient as a candidate for the Vice Presidency as for the Governorship he preferred to vindicate his disinterestedness and attest his spirit of sacrifice for the good of the party by accepting a nomination for the lower local office. We have no doubt that mand involving personal sacrifices if the party should as unanimously unite in making it, But it is asking entirely too much to ex- the nomination. If the Democratic State Convention should nominate Judge Church by acclamation he cannot refuse. For him to decline under such circumstances would be equivalent to publishing doubts of the success of the | democratic party. For if the party is to | succeed his present sacrifice would be over- | balanced by his future prospects. No demo- cratic statesman would outrauk him in public estimation after he had carried this State | holding a claim to the highest subordinate | place in the new administration. These | splendid personal possibilities can fail to be attractive only on the hypothesis that Judge | fidelity to his friend, Van Buren, who had | city. The fame of the Royal Irish Constabu- lary Band, of Dublin, has spread far and wide, and certainly in New York there is no organ- ization of a military type that deserves the in- spiring aid and encouragement of music as | much as the guardians of the peace. Every | target company or excursion party has its band, while at the numerous parades of the police force there is not even a drum to teach them to keep step or to inspire them with pride for their organization. Besides, the baton might be better used in leading musi- cians through the mazes of an overture or the dashing measures of a march than in crack- ing the skulls of inoffensive citizens. The Philadelphia Kidnapping Case. The Mayor of Philadelphia has at last offered a reward for the arrest of the miscreants who abducted the child Charley Ross, at Ger- mantown. Fully twonty days had elapsed before it seemed necessary to the authorities to take any action. In the meantime, though the kidnappers were in daily communication with the parents of the child through the General Post Office, the police have been with- out a clew to the perpetrators of the offence. A man was arrested on general princi- ples, but it in no way appears that he is | one of the criminals. Besides this nothing whatever has been done, and, judging from | the past, it is not likely that anything will be done, at least by Philadelphia detectives. If we put aside all the pathetic aspects of this case, and look at it simply as an offence against the law and against humanity, the perpetrators of which must be discovered and punished, we are still sorely puzzled at the circumstances which surround it. A child was stolen in the open day and without disguise. The criminals at once opened negotiations with the child’s father for a rangom to be paid under circum- If a statesman of his cool | | ocratio party. judgment and practised sagacity should come | to this conclusion and show that he dared not trust himself on board the democratic ship the country would be very apt to adopt his | opinion. Mrs. Tilton’s Statement. The statement of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton, which we print this morning, is not proof—it is simply a general denial, written out at too great length for the terrible theme of which it | is one exposition. Wherein it is a revelation of domestic infelicity it is a lesson hardly | worth the learning. The picture of a husband making out his wife the creature of a guilty love and the wife impeaching the husband's | honor and truthfulness is not an instructive | one nor one to be looked upon with delight. And that terrible allusion to Catherine Gaunt, | dwelt upon and explained in this statement— | it comes up again with its confession of an absorbing love, of which Mr. Beecher was the object. ‘Had Mr. Tilton read the pure char- acter of Catherine,” says the wife, ‘‘he would | have seen that I lifted myself beside it—as | near as any human may affect an ideal. But | it was her character and not the incidents of | fiction surrounding it to which I referred.’’ Unfortunately for Mrs. Tilton’s logic, the | character of Catherine Gaunt is in the inci- dents of fiction surrounding it. It was a con- | terrible confession, from the consequences of which neither she nor Mr. Beecher can @s- cape. It is not a good thing for a Christian | pastor to inspire ‘‘an absorbing love’ in the | breast of one of his parishioners, the wife of a member of his flock. If these two were to | be judged by Mrs. Tilton’s statement the ver- | dict would be the same as the judgment pro- nounced against her ideal ‘The sin was said Father Francis, ‘but the fault was yours.’’ Mrs. Tilton’s statement | adds nothing new to the case, and, beyond | the general denial, exculpates nobody. It is | not a pleasant contribution to literature any more than was her husband’s; but it was, perhaps, a fatal necessity that it should be written, to perfect one of the most remarkable scandals ever known. Germany and the Carlists. The shooting of a German newspaper cor- respondent by the soldiers of Don Carlos has | excited much indignation in Germany. The | North German Gazette, which is credited with mirroring the official mind, says ‘Germany | will find means to teach the Carlists that the murder of Germans will not be allowed to go | unpunished.” This is very explicit, and we have no doubt that it is meant in sober earnestness. It is fortunate for the German | people that they possess a government which, whatever its faults at home may be, will suffer | and widely known a candidate as Governor ; 2° Outrage on its citizens by a foreign people to go unpunished. We scarcely think that even Bismarck will go the length of sending Tue Mayor's Devence 1s NOT YET BEADY, SAYS | gither the ability or the opportunity to fur- | *2 expedition to the mountains of Biscay to Mr. Havemeyer, and he appears quite indif- ferent as to whether it may be sent to the nish, Carrying New York as candidate for Governor he would more certainly carry it as | punish the Carlists, but a hint to Marshal MacMahon that it would be advisable to Governor to-day or a month hence. From the | a candidate for the Presidency, and New York prevent munitions of war and recruits from time when he is reported to have thrown on is too important a State to be put in any jeop- | crossing the frontier might not be without its the table the Governor's notice of the vacan- cies occasioned by the removal ot Gardner and Charlick with an expression in regard to the Chief Magistrate of the State more forci- ble than polite, the Mayor has seemed resolved to treat the whole affair with contempt. He has important business to occupy his time, and cannot afford to waste the day in replying to charges against his official conduct. The Governor must wait. But probably the Goy- ernor may think that the grave charges under investigation deserve more prompt attention on the part of the accused. We shall see. Tae Rvussun Diamonp Apventurr.—We publish in another column a full account of the curious adventure which brought into unenviable notoriety a Russian Grand Duke and « fair Amerigan, who appears to have | had a somewhat eventful history. It sppears | from the letter of our Paris correspondent that the story of the stolen diamonds was invented | to fornish an excuse for putting an end to an undesirable marriage contemplated by the Grand Duke. It was perhaps only natural | that the imperial family of Russia should | ardy. In personal qualifications he is fully the peer of any democrat named in connec- | tion with the Presidency. His financial views are os sound as they are decided, and since the Indiana democ- | racy, in a convention over which Governor Hendricks presided, has indorsed the Pendle- | ton heresy of greenback repudiation, the dem ceratic party needs a Presidential candidate | whose financial opinions require no exculpa tory explanations. Judge Church is precisely sucha man, Educated in the political school ot Silas Wright, and one of his most devoted disciples, Mr. Church is financially sound to | the core and healthy in every fibre. He was an original and consistent ‘barnburner,”’ strenuously fighting the “old hunker” wing of the democracy of this State, as well as the whigs, in the interest of economy, of debt- paying and of maintaining public faith and honor unsnllied. If he enables the democracy to carry the State this fall the party will have to seek long and look far to find so strong and available a candidate for the Presidency. But whoever may be the candidate the claims of effect. The savagery which the Carlist leaders have encouraged among their followers is the | more reprehensible in view of the uniform | leniency shown by the national troops | to Curlist prisoners, Indeed, the for- | bearance of the government troops has approached very closely to weakness. It is exceedingly creditable to them that under strong provocation they have refrained from Tetaliations that would be excused, if not justified, by the barbarous conduct of the Carlists. When one considers that all their suffering and bloodshed is caused by the ambition of a foolish young man to wear a crown, we must regret | the human folly which renders such contests | possible. If the pretender were even a man | of great promise, one who might raise Spain from the degradation in which she is sunk, there might be some excuse for the bloody work. But the fact is that this pretender to a crown, this disturber of the public peace, is a man without talent or wisdom, who has to lean on the judgment and counsel of other men. Yet he proclaims that he comes to object to the introduction among them of an | Judge Church could not be overlooked in | 5®¥@ Spain, when in truth he has not wit adventuress whose record was not so white | organizing a democratic administration. If | enough to gnide himself. or the sake of as snow. Most people with a little re- | any other democrat should be clected Presi. | Such ® man thousands of better and more spect for themselves would object to such | dent Judge Church wonld doubtless be offered | useful men are slain and the nation is exposed an alliance. If the infatuation of the Prince | any position in the Cabinet he might choose | to the danger of foreign intervention. should continue in his exile it is possible (hat the may find means of escape and rejoin his inamorata in gay Paris. It would, certainly, be curious to see an imperial prince imitating the Grande Monarque and delivering his nano into the keeping of a lady whom strait- laced people would not care much to receive into their homes to select; but the Treasury Department wouid be his appropriate place if the people should uot put him at the head of the government. If Judge Church should be nominated by tho | Democratic State Convention without his con- sent he could bardly fail to follow the example A Merropourran Poxtscr, fession which she made in that letter, and a | stances which savored of romance. They pro- fessed no fear of the police, and evidently felt none. The agonized parent at once sought to raise the money, and, though embarrassed in business, he at last succeeded. The kidnap- pers haye told him how it might be paid and | But the ransom, so far, has not been given, | and it would be something akin to a crime that it should be given. It would be a ter- rible thing if child stealing could be made a method of blackmail in this country. This case in itself is a terrible case, so terrible that it is next to impossible. Of all crimes it is the one most difficult to conceal even for a day. Acchildis a hard thing to hide. hide a child with the expectation of receiving @ ransom in a country like this looks like madness. Yet all this has happened in Phila- delphia under the very eyes of the police, treats the matter with the vacancy of imbecility. The great fact of the case is its apparent impossibility. This is the only real clew to the perpetrators of the offence. If there was an adequate motive anywhere else for the crime we would look elsewhere for its per- petrators than to some supposititious kidnap- pers. It is these kidnappers who are the un- known quantity in the case. They have entered upon a strange career of crime, to say the least of them, and they must be men with | a sincere and simple faith in the stupidity of detectives, or they would never Rave entered | upon it. The mere crime of kidnapping is ; not upcommon. It has occurred in other countries, and it has even occurred in this | country. The motive, which has sometimes | been in mere wantonness and in others in the | spirit of revenge, is generally the same as in | this Philadelphia case—extortion, But under any circumstances the crime should not have | been a mystery for twenty days. By whomever | committed the criminals ought to be known and in the hands of justice. At the outset an efficient police administration could have | caused their arrest in twenty-four hours. They appeared and disappeared so often that not only the men by whom the child was | stolen, but even the vehicle in which the little one was carried off are described in Mayor | Stokley’s proclamation. Unless it was the reward the police were waiting for the kid- nappers could not have successfully hidden the child so long, according to that doctrine of impossibility which is always coming to the surface in this case. The boy must be kept within a very short distance of the place been kept so long only argues the imbecility success of the kidnappers. If the required ransom is extorted from Mr, Ross by the iailure of the Philadelphia detec- tives to discover the child and the perpetrators of this fearful crime the stigma will rest upon the city for many, many years. It is a re- proach to a civilized community that such an offence should go unpunished because its per- petrators could not be found. We may accept the possibility of the crime, but we cannot believe in the possibility of their escape. As we gnid in the beginning, the highest duty to humanity requires the discovery and punish- ment of such heartless and fiendish monsters, No penalty, not even the death penalty, would be too severe for sucha crime. If the laws do not provide for its adequate punishment they must be made to provide for it. The penalty must be as textible ag the offence, No household must be agonized by sufferings such as those brought home to this Philadel- phia household. And there is no need that it ever shall be brought home to any other household in the land. Kidnapping is not a tempting crime, for in a civilized community reward. It is too late in the history of the world for child steslers to arrange romantic bridge scenes or frowsy brigands to play the Fra Diavolo of real life. Can we believe such villany possible and at the same time believe in civilization and the efficient protection of society? This is a practical question for the Philadelphia police, and we shall expect them to answer it by dispelling the mystery which to punishment the sinned so grievously against socioty and hu- manity. The German Emperor Vurver anv Inon. | has informed the Minister of Public Worship Baxp.—-An excel- | that it is his wish that the new ecclesiastical Jent suggestion was made in a communication | laws shall be administered with lenity and which appeared in our columns yesterday in | forbearance. But unsparing rigor is to be reference to tue establishment of a first class | military band to be attached to the police , ‘There is no reason why | force of this city. applied wherever serious resistance is offered to the authority of the State. This means that the hand of Germany in dealing with the of his old friend Silas Wright, who accepted | our boys in blue should not have their band | Roman Church will be a band of ion in a \ the game position in 1844, greatly against hig | a4 well aa any of the militia regiments in the | glove of volyck he recvive his child back again to his arms. | To | and despite of a force of detectives which | where he was stolen. That he should have | of the Philadelphia police, and justifies the | its punishment is much more certain than its | hangs over this kidnapping case and bringing | miscreants who have | The report of the Commissioners of Ac- counts on the condition of the Department of Charities and Correction and of the man- ner in which the business of the department is managed, has not yet made its appearance. The examination by the Commissioners was ordered several weeks since by a resolution of the Board of Aldermen, and while we can understand that if properly performed it will be a labor of time, there does not appear to be any good reason for so long a delay. The Commissioners of Accounts are appointed by the Mayor alone, and, under the provisions of the charter, can be removed at his pleasure. One of them is said to have secured his posi- tion through the influence of one of the present Commissioners of Charities and Cor- rection. We are not willing to believe and do not intend to imply that for these reasons the report that will be made will seek to cover up the delinquencies of the department as shamelessly as they have been cloaked by Mayor Havemeyer, but we regard these facts as a good reason why the report called for by the Board of Aldermen should be published as promptly as possible. There are some “irregularities” in the department so notori- ous that they cannot be concealed in the most friendly investigation, and when the Com- missioners of Accounts shall have made their report it will be time enough to judge of its fairness. In the whitewashing statement made by the Mayor and indorsed by two amitble citizens allusion is made to a “report” by the Commissioners of Accounts justifying | the management of the Charities and Cor- rection Department and certifying its honesty. Upon application the Mayor has refused to allow this alleged report to be seen or made public, and inquiry in other quarters leads to the belief that the Mayor's assertion was untrue and that no such re- port has ever been made. It certainly | could not have been the report de- manded by the Board of Aldermen, for that | must be made to the Board and not to the | Mayor. What was it, then? Mr. Havemeyer and his indorsers have used it asa justifica- tion of the dry goods purchases made by the Department of Charities and Correction ; as acertificate that cheaper goods have been pur- chased by the present Commissioners than by any of their predecessors ; that greater econ- omy has been exercised the last year than in previous years. If no such report has been made by the Commissioners of Accounts what | are the people to think of the gentlemen who | have pronounced it satisfactory and who have | accepted it as a complete answer to the | charges of irregular practices leading to cor- | ruption contained in the presentment of the Grand Jury ? The Commissioners of Accounts cannot too } soon make their reply to the instructions of | the Board of Aldermen, for they have had | ample time to investigate the affairs and man- | agement of the Charities and Correction De- ‘ partment, and it is imperative that some | reliable information in regard thereto should | | be supplied. A large sum of moncy is at the | disposal of the department, and it is im- | portant to know whether it is likely to be | honestly expended, especially as the closing of some of the institutions of charity is threat- | ened. Besides, the department labors under suspicions which if not satisfactorily re- moved must cause an inquiry by the Grand Jury. If the Mayor has not been guilty of a | Commissioners‘ of Accounts have already furnished him with proof of the honesty and legality of Commissioner Stern’s dry goods purchases, we consider that he does wrong to refuse to publish the statement. For this reason we insist upon an im- | mediate report from the Commissioners of Accounts of the result of the investigation ordered by the Board of Aldermen, A Dear Prince. It must be decidedly pleasant to live under monarchical governments. So many oppor- tunities offer to be generous to people one would never suspect of needing assistance. | The British Parliament providing for Princo Leopold is a case in poimt, Mr. Disraeli | asked that the modest annual sum of $75,000, in gold, should be set aside for the mainte- | nance of this prince boy, and the proposition Gladstone. — It without — dissent. occasion to prais { was seconded by Mr, was voted = almost The Premier took | ments.” No doubt with the | modest allowance granted to him by Parlia- ment he will be able to live respectamy with- out any extraordinary exercise of his talents, to vote princely incomes to the children of the Queen, who is herselt worth millions, but we wonder what the hundreds of thousands of homeless and wretched people who dwell in | the byways ot English cities think of this munificence. What allowance, we wonder, | would the Parliament grant toa prince who had rendered some service to the State, if it could be so generous to a schoolboy? The gzeat soldicr who saved the Union and the as President of the United States $50,000 an- nually. Yet there are men who pretend tq sneer at republican institutions, meee Portugal as an Iberian empire or republic do not seem to please the Portuguese. In the time of Philip, who was a great king as well as a great bigot, such a nniov existed. But it fell | away, and although the thoughtful men of | Spain and Portugal see that the prospcrity of the peninsula would be largely* augmented by land would be against it. In Portugal, especially, this influence is paramount. What England wants is division, not union, on the | Continent. For this reason she opposes the deration of Portugal with Spain, and of Bel- gium with France. Wo could understand how a federal republic in Spain could lead to an Ierian republic. But federalism in Spain, | thanks, we fear, to the weakness of Castelar | and his party, must be postponed for a gener- ation, Tun Vacux or 4 Goop Name,—The Phila- delphia Press alludes to two circumstances in the controversy between Mr. Beecher and Mr, Tilton. — First, the moderation and passionatg judgment of the journals, and, The Department of Charities and Correction—Where Is the Promised Report! | misrepresentation when he implies that the | the boy’s “‘intellecfawl and scientific attain- | aid of the | It is very generous of the British Parliament | liberties of humanity receives for his services | AN Inentax ExteTi-—'Tho aspirations of | the Spanish for a union between Spain and | the Iberian union, all the influence of Eng- | dis | — —_——— second, the “remarkable wanimity, whoreves there is an expression of opinion, with which that opinion leans in favor of Henry Ward Beecher.” The Press, too, justly re marks upon this, that if a great name anda “great reputation, built up by a life of good works, are to be struck down in a night time by the ex parte statement of any man, then a good name and a good reputation are not what we have been taught to believe and to hope them to be.’” The French Assembly. The defeat of Casimir Perier's bill in the Assembly shows clearly that the monarchical factions are resolved to stave off as long as possible the definite establishment of the Re- public, They naturally enough feel that if this form of government be planted, even im mild form, under the protection of the Sep- tennate and the army, that it is likely to last much longer than will suit their purpose. In | this they are, no doubt, right. Were the ro- publicans wise enough to organize under the shield of MacMahon by the time that old soldier's term of office should have expired they would be masters of the situation. The mistake they make is in desiring to go too fast. It is the same fault repeated which has ever rendered the Republic in France an impossi- bility. Shutting their eyes persistently to the actual state of France, to the close division of parties, they have, like their opponents, preferred to play a game of political seo saw rather than accept less than their ideal standard of republicanism. In the same way as the monarchists want their impossible King by divine right and | will not permit the mere millions who give brain and muscle to France to exercise any influence on the destinies of the nation, The decision of the majority in the Assembly will tion dangerous to its. continued existence as a legislature began on the announcement of the vote by a motion for its dissolution. And al- though defeated this motion was very signifi- cant. It was made by one of the moderate republicans, and three hundred and foriy members voted in its favor. The government majority was only thirty, and was made up from all the elements opposed to the definite establishment of the Republic. If persisted in this new agitation for dissolution may force the Assembly to appeal to the country. So long as the monarchists can avoid this they will do so even at the risk of ruling France im | open defiance of the popular will, but | any moment may precipitate a crisia | which would render it impossible for the present Assembly to continue legal'y te exercise the powers of a national legislature. It is noticeable that the government was obliged to bring its whole influence to bear on the conservative elements in the Assembly in order to defeat the motion. The narrows ness of the division must be anything but | reassuring to either the government of MacMahon or to the monarchical parties. The Marshal has evidently made up his mind to exercise the power vested in him by the As- sembly. He likes the dictatorship and hag no intention of allowing either the repub- licans or the monarchists to oust him from | his post, and he tells the Assembly so with | the bluntness of an old soldier. As the pres- ent divided legislature suits his purpose | better than would a more homogeneous As- sembly he will encourage the conservative | members to maintain themselves in power se long as they can secure the smallest majority. | This is evidently the Marshal's pohoy. It | may be questioned, however, whether it is the one best calculated to secure the peace and prosperity of France. An Isrernationan MonomMENT 0 THE Memory or Apranam Lrncoun.--The Lin- coln memorial tower about to be erected in London, apart from being a grand tribute in honor of a pure, self-sacrificing patriot and earnest friend of humanity, one who struck off the fetters of thousands and removed from his country the stigma of slavery, is a significant proof of the hidden bond of sympathy and esteem that exists be- | tween England and America. Such an occa- sion calls forth the noblest feelings of both countries and shows the truth of the old | adage that blood is thicker than water. The | proposed tower will be worthy of the great man to be commemorated, and will be the | first monument ever erected to a foreign rules upon English soil. The Treaty of Washing. ton could scarcely have a more emphatic in- dorsement than this tower that, to use the words of an English writer, ‘will lift its head to tell posterity the honorable truth that whem slavery was struck down England, with a few exceptions, and free America were one."” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, E, L. Davenport, the tragedian is, at Canton, Pa Rev, John Kuven, of New Zealand, is regisiored at the Sturtevant House. The Tichborne will suit hag been stricken from the list in the Court of Probate, State Senator Samuel 8. Lowery, of Utica, ts staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel, The Rev. Philip Brooks, of Boston, has beem preaching in Westminster Abbey. Captain Philip C. Johoson, United States Navy, | is quartered at the Westminster Hotel. | State Senator William Johnson, of Seneca Falls, | N. Y., is residing at the Metropolitan Hotel. | J. Bancroit Davis, recently appointed Minister to Germany, will sail tor Europe on the steamer | Frisia July 30, Mr. Raymond Pearson, Umted States Consul at Verviers and Liege, Beigium, yesterday arrived at | the Breyoort House. * | Colonel Garrick Mallery, of the Signa! Servioe, ‘ United States Army, is among the recent arrivals at the St, Nicholas Hotel, It is always refreshing to read in an English journal that the Duke and Ducness of Teck were among the 10,000 people gathered anywhere, Lord Rosevery recently purchased an estate near Epsom, the deed stipulating that the grave of the celebrated racehorse Amato shali not be disturbed, Mr. 8. H. Wales, late President of the Depart. ment of Public Parks at New York, in company with lis daughter, after spending two weeks tn Paris, has now left for Switzeriand, ‘They are going to have a “ladies’ and gentie men’s clap” in London. It has been decided chat ladies who are given to cigarettes must take their whiff in the gentlemen's smoking room. Mr. J. A. Froude, the historian, has consented to become a patron of the second great Welsh Fisteddfod of the year, which will be hetd at Cor- wen in @ few weeks, Froude is now residing at Crogen Hall, near the town, ‘The President, accompanied by General Babcock and Sceretary Robeson, arrived at the Fifth Aves nue Hotel late on Wednesday night trom Paterson, N. J. The President left yesterday morning for ais summer residence at Long Branch, The Chicago Post announces on authority “aa wholly without Joundation” the paragraph an- nouncing the coming marriage Mrs, Abby Sag@ Richardson to a Chicago gentieman, which vas Leen Howling turpUch tue pavers for ome buMe., | | | not, however, be acquiesced in, and an agita- C