The New York Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1874, Page 4

4. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1874—-W1TH SUPPLHUMENT. | Portionme: AND ANN STREET. | Retrenchment and Reform. | ‘The action of Mayor Havemeyer and Comp- , troller Green in the Board of Apportionment | Yesterday deserves severe reprehension. If it could be regarded only ag au undiguitied ex- hibition of anger against their associates in the Board it might be passed over with the simple regret that the two leading positions ' in the city government are so unworthily filled. NEW YORK HER A lL D The Proceedings im the Board of Ap- | extra duties devolving on the Secretary of the | | A Conspiracy to Defeat | Board of Apportionment. The secret of the | oe attempt to oust Mr. Wheeler is to bé found in | the fear of the Comptroller that the economy | statements of Mr. BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. commenced this year will be more effectually carried out in the next year's estimates, und the power of the Secretarysbip is desired by Mr. daction of our annual expenses. nate, therefore, that the firmness of the pres- ent tary defeated the nice little plot THE DAILY HERALD, published every An- the year. T cents per copy. ) price $12. day in pual st All busin’ news letters and telegraphic But, unfortunately, it indicates a determina- ata d between the Mayor and the Comp- despatches must be addressed New Youx | tion on the purt of the Mayor and Comptroller | bgp ace anaes ie ca enters, to embarrass the public business and to do all | | 1 H¢ Teductions made this year are the ¢ ; im their power to nullify those desirable re- t7!Dé wedge of reform, and the people so Letters and packages should be properly | ¥ i understand it. No serious embarrassment forms and retrenchments secured through the ‘i sealed. ~ é , y can be experienced by the Park Department firmness of the President of the Board of th ies ee th Rejected communications will not be re- , Aldermen and the President of the Depart- tor a as six months, eee. i turned. ment of Taxes and Assessments. The pre- work on the REBREOGE | epprovemsnts, (ee alterations, buildings and embellishe arranged attempt of the two former members LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK ofthe Board tovdrive Mr” Wheeler from the | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Secretaryship by personal abuse, or to wrest Subscriptions and Advertisements will be the position from him by a trick, cannot be received and forwarded on the same terms | regarded merely as an attack suggested by ; jealousy or malice. It takes the more serious | " : ; as in New York. aspect of a conspiracy to place the minutes | The Department of Finance can or ought to and docnments of the Board in the Comp- | 8 along well enough with $338,000 tor sal- { troller’s hands for some ulterior object. Nor | *6, market cleaning and contingencies, are we permitted to doubt what that object is. which cost about sixty thousand dollars less The proceedings of the Board of Apportion- under the worst year of the Tammany rule. ment prior to the last six weeks had been | ‘The Department of Charities and Correction conducted in manner inconsistent with the °#2 Save more man the reduction in its appro- plain intent of the law. The charter provides | priation, if the Commissioners so desire, by that the four members ot that Board shall ata | >¥Ying supplies at honest market prices and stated time “meet, and, by the affirmative by reforming other abuses that prevail in the department. Besides, the estimate for the year is now finally closed, and the Mayor and Comp- troller, as well as all the heads of depart- ments should be temporarily suspended. The mere maintenance and other necessary work of the department will not be likely to | suffer on an appropriation of $595,000 under Volume XXXIX. + 206 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING waa WOOD'S MUSEUM, tau ap roadway, corner Thirtie eet. WEA Ay CRIME, 222P M. closes at 4:2) PM ROPD IN, ata P.M, ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Harry Clifford. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 385 breadwsy.—Parisian Cancan Dancers, at 8 P.M Matinee. 7 vote of all the members, make a provisional estimate of the amounts required to pay the expenses of conducting the public business of | the city and county of New York in each de- partment and branch thereof and the Board | Attempts to embarrass the government and to of Education for the then next ensuing year.” invite litigation wiil be seriously condemned In order to facilitate this work the several bY the taxpayers. With a tax levy cf streets.— Broadway. Mr. Joseph PAUSTUS, at heelock aud TERRACE Concert and Operat RA HOUSE, TON AINMENT, at 8 P.M; Bowery.—VAi closes at 1u;80 ¥ PASTOR'S Y ENT economy enforced by the action of Messrs. Vance and Wheeler as out of place. The detail the objects thereof” and “including a *buSe heaped upon those members of the statement of each of the salaries of their Board of Apportionment by the Comptroller officers, clerks, employés and subordinates.” and the Mayor will neither change the record ‘The Board is required to “consider such de- | 2°F prevent a yet more comprehensive reform partmental estimates and other statements in | ™ the estimates of next year. The city will making the provisional estimates and in ap- 800% be happily rid of Mr. Havemeyer, under proving the salaries of the officers, clerks and ®2Y circumstances, and hence there is a good other persons before named.” In every prospect that we shall have next year a truly special law that has been passed to authorize economical budget and a reduction of taxa- ee cate Tomas’ con Firty-ninth street ant Seventh ayenue.— » CON- CERT at P. M.. closes at 10:30 P.M. co“ Broadway, corner of {hir’ NIGHT, atl P. M.; closes at closes at 10 P.M. papi: ROMAN gerber tede ef ee json avenue and Twenty-sixth ‘street. 2 eee SO NG: 38 OF NATIONS, at 1:30 P. M. and | at7 P.M. WITH SUPPLEMENT. to “send to the Board of Apportionment’ their departmental estimates, ‘‘specifying in ™M, street.—LONDON BY PM. same at7 P.M. New York, Saturday, Jaly 25, 1874. | er tion, without crippling any necessary public | the reopening of the estimates made final, so far as the provisions of the charter are con- cerned, the Board of Apportionment has in like manner been required ‘‘by the concurrent “ vote of all the members’ to ‘reconsider, revise train between New York, Saratoga and Lake | 414 redetermine’” such estimates. §o ir the George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- | issue of stock and bonds, the Board is required ing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., | 4, inquire and decide whether the provisions | and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M, for the purpose of supplying the izing the issue. | Passed at the recent session of Congress) in Suxpay Heratp along the line. Newsdealers | : 3 | which the rank of “Ambassador is especially and others are notified to send in their orders It is thus clear that the law intends to hold | recognized in our diplomacy, and fears that to the Henatp office as early as possible. THE “HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. works, Under these encouraging circum- stances it isto be hoped that the two mem- bers of the Board of Apportionment who have stood by the people will continue to keep their tempers and maintain their position. To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PUBLIC: — The New York Herarp will run a special | Diplomatic Rank. of law have been complied with before author. | 3 fi | every action of the Board, and that it is in | iy so doing, violate the spirit of the govern- From our reports this morning the probabilities | violation of the spirit, if not of the letter, of | ment, Ambassadors are only sent from the are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. | the law, to suffer any one member to person of one sovereign to another, and are | assume the authority cf making the | entitled to almost royal honors and priv- sen to head off the movement for a re- | It is fortu- | the prudent management of Colonel Stebbins. | ments, would do well to accept the situation. | departments of the government are required $34,833,391 the people will not regard the | ; A contemporary calls attention to a law | every member of the Board responsible for | the President means to create this rank, and, | estimates and submitting them to the Wau Sezzer Yes: . Stocks were dull | "ALL tT YESTERDAY. c , ileges when so received. We do not send them, sncieery) siasing stand Gel ae 109;- approval of his associates, or of deciding | because in our government the person of the ‘Tux Spaxish Any has, it is said, gained a upon the issue of bonds and simply present- | President is never considered as deserving or very important victory over the Carlists. This ing @ resolution for such issue and demand- hestowing unusual honors. will aid Earl Russell’s plea for a recognition | inga vote of the Board. Yet up to within the take to suppose that the rank of Ambassador of the Madrid Republic. | last two months exactly this course has been | now figures for the first time in our regular Cap rar Gexzpat Concua is determined to | Pursued. The Comptroller has demanded and | diplomacy. The constitution expressly says promote the circulation in Cuba of the Treas- | received from the several departments the de- | the President shall appoint “Ambanea- ary bills, ve million dollars, authorized by partmental estimates required tobe sent to | dors and other public Ministers and Con- thedesies of Sque'S, 1874. | the Board of Apportionment. From these he | gulg;" that he shall “receive Ambassadors Ssdiainair ae wie has made such a budget as he desired, cutting gna other public Ministers,"’ so that to-mor- Ispian Atrocrrtes increase in frequency | down the appropriations of departments that | row he could accredit Mr. Kremer as our and horror. The despatches which are pub- | enjoy his enmity and making extravagant ap- | Ambassador to the King of Denmark if he so lished this morning indicate the wide extent | propriations to departments that are burdened | yi.hea, of the hostile movement and the inveterate | with his friendship. When a reopening of | The whole matter of diplomatic rank needs barbarity and recklessness of the savages, | the estimates has been authorized by law he | consideration and revision. Our distinctions ‘This is the logical result of the policy of nurs- | has in like manner required the revised de- of rank between Envoys and Ministers Resi- ing a viper in one’s bosom and giving it | partmental estimates to be submitted to him | dent are unnecessary and do not belong to the the vitality which will make its sting most instead of to the Board, and has made the re- penius of our institutions. A Minister to teartul. Bats apportionment in his own office, only pre- | Belgium is entitled to as much rank as a Min- Tue Nosze Savacr Extixct,.—The senti- | euting his own budget to the Board for ap- | ister to France, and it is not right that we mentalized “nobility” of the Indians must | Proval. When bonds were to be issued he has | should send diplomatists abroad who are not Jong ago have been crushed out of the race in | 4¢cided whether the law has been com plied | regarded as of any more importance than a the grim and heroic wars which they waged | With, and has gone before the Board armed | Consul General. The true way would be to against the early settlers. Magnanimity and | with resolutions for the issue of mill- | have only one rank in onr diplomacy and call clemency are not appreciated by the wrecks of ions of dollars and demanded the qjj of our Ministers Ambassadors. It need that once noble type of untutored man, and Plind vote of his associates thereon. He | not cost any more. Two-thirds of the mis- to-day the “peace policy” is apparently as DAS undertaken, indeed, to constitute | sions are useless anyhow; but since we sus- | foolish as the casting of pearls before swine. | himself the Board of Apportionment, and the | tain the expensive luxury of a diplomatic Cocatits Comat ANH as bas beast ened Mayor of the city has been used by him to | establishment let us clothe the members with Pome cia : : | warrant and uphold the usurpation. The re- | 9) the honors the constitution permits. Ragement in our hemisphere, is already sult hae been that up to the present year the | ~ chargeable with more unpleasant things than geht has been increased and the taxes im-| THE Boy Munpener of Massachusetts has are our pious neighbors in Brooklyn. Storms, posed in accordance with the will of the Comp- | been adding so extensively to his list of crimes hurricanes, immoderate hailstones, Jersey | trovjer alone. He has refused explanations, in his confessions that it may be charitably lightning and bad crops are reported on the | and his whole policy has been one of conceal- supposed that he is insane. Such a criminal Wrong side of the comet's balance sheet. | nent and deception. This is the reason why | record for a New England lad at such an Well, the celestial visitor has gone, and now | the public improvements have been paralyzed; we can breathe easier. | why some departments have been extrava- Pouce Court Cuerks are sometimes re- | gantly supplied; why there has been no econ- OF, rather, insanity. markable for the use of strange terms in omy where economy could be judiciously | ae making out a complaint; but one of those practised; why the people have been kept in gentlemen in a police court, whose commit- | ignorance of their true financial condition; why ment was brought up at a higher tribunal, the debt is now one hundred and thirty-six perplexed the Judge yesterday by the use millions, exclusive of twenty millions of float- of the expression “habit intox.” No such | ing debt, and why the year's taxation is over expreasion being found in Coke or Blackstone | thirty-four millions. the prisoner was discharged. Police clerks | The illegal and dangerous practice of trans- in commitments should use plain English | ferring the powers and duties of the Board of unabbreviated. Apportionment to the Comptroller has been | : i Sodoans. brought toa close this year by the action of | een at WM oee) NavoWealine speed two of the:méintees of the Board: Me. Vatios | ftom the Commissioners of Accounts does the and Mr. Wheeler, who responded to the gen- | Mayor allude to in his futile attempt to screen eral demand for a reduction of the expenses | Mr. Meyer ating ie te of his iisaal of conducting the city government, and in- | dry goods purchases @ Mayor refuses to sisted upon cutting down the appropriations eo i dak i wherever economy could in their judgment Whar ent War oe ‘tae sees be properly enforced. Their efforts have suc- ot eat A vag ee ar na THE gps n, | published in the City Record? Did they make any report at all, or is the Mayor's statement a—mistake ? ~ Tue Coxmis RECTION are receiving all sorts of stupid ad- vice about the best method of ‘‘economizing.” But their friends do not tell them to stop pur- chasing supplies in an illegal manner and at prices from thirty to forty per cent higher | than the market value. By the way, where is the report of the affuirs of the department ordered some weeks ago by the Board of Exouaxp Askep to Recoonize THE Mapai Goyrrnment.—Earl Russell appears to be ex- ceedingly anxions that Great Britain should recognize the government of the Spanish Re- public, or, at the least, exert her influence with the other Powers of Europe, so as to induce the act of a joint recognition. How is this? Has Lord John, in his old age, returned to his - < 8 first love of democratic reform, or is he, in his , °¢¢ted, and the people indorse their action later character of a biblical polemist, merely | Bat the Comptroller, with the Mayor in his jealous, or afraid, of France and the Pope? | pocket, has ever since their triumph been en- Senge Tne ee TO ap ————————— | deavoring to block the further progress of the | Ta Seprexnate.—One French newspaper Tax Monicrpan Avrionities of NewMAR- | reform and to lead back the Board to the old | says that the monarchists in France, in cre- xxt, England, have asked that the grand stand | method of transacting its business. ‘The effort | ating the Septeunate, have simply chained an building of the Jockey Club on the famous | made yesterday to drive Mr. Wheeler out of iron ball to their leg for seven years, The race course be handed over to them, to be | the secretaryship had that object in view. | Germans, however, seem tobe pleased with used as a hospital for patients afflicted with ‘The pretence of Mr. Green and the Mayor is | the pecaliar tone of firmness and resolution smallpox. The disease is very prevalent in that itis necessary for the Comptroller to have | marking Marshal MacMahon’s addresses, The the town. But the grand stand! And tor ¢he minutes of the Board in his possession. | official Gazette notes that the attitude of Mac- small pox! Do the miseries and ills of the Why should he require them any more than | Mahon will be an end of intrigue; that the world always triumph over its joys and pleas- | any other member of the Board, when the | Septennate can only fall betore force, and that Ure? And with such remarkable parallels. | duties and responsibilities of all the members | no parties in France are now prepared to fight. are the same, unless it be that he wishes to | The opinion is also expressed that the Sep- resume his usurpation of the functions of the tennate will not affect the foreign relations Board? ‘‘Ah, but,’’ says the Comptroller, “I | of France. Inthe meantime, now that Mac- bave to issue the bonds ordered by the Board, Mahon cannot be overthrown, the enemies of and should have the resolutions in my hands to refer to.”’ The resolutions come originally want the support of the Southern chivalry, from the Comptroller's office, and copies _ of the elections should be to clect an Assembly and it is made to appear that the President is | are, or can be, placed at his disposal. | obedient to Gambetta, and it would be a situ- the especial champion of the white man | Besides, the Comptroller's appropriations | ation unusual even in France for a President against the carpet-bagger and the negro adven- | for clerk hire having been reduced, it would | like MacMahon to be ruled by an Assembly turer, The wavs of politicians are Dectliar. | be untair to require him to undertake the | that took the orders of Gambetta, Gant axp THE OoLonED Propie.—The Kansas Trilune recalls the circumstance that | when the republicans desired to elect Grant they exaggerated his fondness for the colored people, contrasting it with the perfidy of Greeley. Now, however, Grant and his party the Assembly. It would be odd if the result Butit is a mis- | | early age is too monstrous for belief on any | other theory than juvenile morbid depravity, | + allow the report to be seen, and refers to the | his government will make a demonstration on | Further Light. The preliminary stage of the Brooklyn con- troversy closes with the publication of the Beecher, Mr. and Mrs. Tilton, statement from Mr. Moulton. It is uyder- stood that that gentleman will make none unless under pressure of 2 legal process. [His position is so peculiar and exceptional, he has been so much the friend and counseller | of both parties, that he cannot speak without a violation of confidence, It will cer- tainly be a satisfaction to find some gentleman in this controversy who feels that he is bound by considerations of this na- | ture. The investigation by the church com- mittee will soon close. It will not be much more than a simple expression of the opinion of a halt dozen gentlemen. The real investi- | gation seems destined to go to the courts. | One plan is that Mr. Tilton will bring a suit | for divorce and a suit for damages against | Mr. Beecher. But this is uncertain, It is | more probable, as our reporters indicate, that the legal process will be a criminal indictment against Mr. Tilton for libel and slander. | Our judgment is that the controversy has | Bow assumed such a shape that an indictment | of this kind is unavoidable. Mr. Tilton has | charged upon Mr. Beecher a revolting crime. | Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton have denied this | crime. They should be asked to make this denial under oath before a grand jury, and Mr. Tilton should be at once called into court , to answerthe charge. Public justice and pub- | lie morals demand this as due alike to both | parties. If Mr. Tilton has slandered Mr. Beecher, if he has brought all this misery and shame upon the Christian world from malice, envy or revenge, as is charged against | him, then his place is on Blackwell’s Island along with Tweed. For if there is any lite or protection or wholesome quality in our law, i District Attorney and Grand Jury of Kings county in the immediate indictment of Mr. | Tilton. If what he has said is true, then the | truth will be known and shame will fall. If | it is untrue, then he should suffer the utmost | penalty of the law. | The time has passed for concealment, sub- terfuge or explanation—nay even for secret investigations by irresponsible church com- mittees. | letter of Mr. Tiltou to Dr. Bacon compromise or peace has been impossibls. Mr. Beecher could never rest under that letter. That was | came from Mr. Tilton, who, by the way, a force and a pitiless energy that render the stories of his ‘‘insanity” the extreme of ab- surdity. His war upon Mr. Beecher may be | regarded as a species of vivisection, and in the interest of humanity it should cease. The torture which Mr. Tilton has inflicted upon ; his enemy, so strongly shown in the letters of the unfortunate clergyman, should come to an end, Better that Henry Ward Beecher should be with the dead, and find that peace | which his soul craved in his touching letters, | than that he should live under the misery which | Mr. Tilton has never ceased to force upon him | since the Ist of January, 1871. Whatever the ) end is let us have the end, more particularly as Mr. Tilton in a remarkable interview, re- printed elsewhere from the Brwoklyn Argus, intimates that he ‘‘could draw a sword with two edges.” In other words, as he further shows, he will, if provoked, rake up the | scandals that have been floating about Brook- ‘lyn, and introduce the names of ladies not | yet named im the case, ladies who now hold | good positions in society, as the alleged victims of sin and shame. | Upon this there is one plain word to be | said. Mr. Tilton has told us that this was to bea day of battle and of death, He may make war upon his own family, upon Mr. Beecher and his family, and, whatever we may | say, there is probably no method of inter- | ference. Butif this controversy is to be made | | the means of carrying misery into other | families; it Mr. Tilton is to brandish his “‘two- | edged sword’’ over the households of those who have not wronged him, who are | a course so extraordinary that he becomes an outlaw and the common enemy of society—a | course that can no more be permitted than we | would permit a band of Sioux with their | scalping knives to range around Brooklyn. | Much is due to vindication and the assurance of one’s good name, and much may be pai doed to a man in anger, in the heat of stri’ | and at bay before his enemy. But society course which Mr. Tilton assures us he stands ready to pursue. Ontver Cromweit.—Mr. Smalley writes to the Tribune that there is firrally to be a statue to Oliver Cromwell. ‘The greatest of Eng- lishmen,” he says, ‘‘or, at any rate, of English rulers, has not hitherto been much honored by monuments of any kind in the country he once delivered from the tyranny of fops and | priests. Nothing is so rare to find, in public or private, asa statue or bust, or even en- | graved likeness, of the Protector. I know one man who has @ room full, including every ob- tainable picture, bust or other memento of Cromwell; but I can now remember only one | other house in which he is to be seen in any counterfeit presentment whatever.” We should like to see a statue to Cromwell in the United States. He was as much an American as an Englishman, and was a type of the men England. The land of the Puritans should honor the illustrious captain of the Puritan cause, Tue Frexcu Assembiy is, by its own | action, tending towards a prolonged proroga- | tion, which may perhaps herald its final dis {| solution. The Ministry is maturing the | General Electoral bill, as will be seen by our | cable report from Paris, The question of a | prorogation to the 5th of January, 1875, will | be taken up for discussion next Thursday. | The proceedings will be quite important. | MacMahon appears to be calm, and anxious to compliment, if not reward, the friends of ita behalf. | ‘Tux Kupnarrrixo Consrmacy.—We print else- kidnapping case in Philadelphia. It is diffi- cultto learn the truth in such a maze of stories, rumors and contradictions, and we shall again reour to more veduliarities presented by our Some of the newspapers demand a | | now is the time to show it. There was mever | a clearer duty than what now lies before the | Ever since the publication ot the | | the real challenge to war—a challenge that | | has acted in this matter with a coolness, | | not in this controversy, he enters upon | also has claims, and the time has come when | it must be protected against the extraordinary , and the time which found expression in New | | his government for their public exertions in | where another chapter on the extraordinary | | correspondent this morning. It is hard to be- | lieve that such a crime as the carrying away of childven for ransom will ever be tolerated in America. If it should really be found that we have ruffians disposed to introduce it, and the fact cam be brought home to them, the pumshment must be exemplary, prompt and terrible, Tn England, when a sudden ten- dency to garroting beeame prevalent, Parlia- mnent met the new crime by a new law and added flogging to the penalties that had be- fore existed. This is a suggestion worthy of remembrance should any of these kidnappers be “brought to justice.” Abuse of Public Men. That magnificent scene in ‘Henry V.,’’ the | night before the battle of Agincourt, when the King, walking unknown trom tent to tent, is met by the reproaches of his soldiers, has the universal Shakespearian moral. When in the bitter sense of ingratitude the gallant Harry our souls, our debts, our careful wives, our children and our sins lay on the King!" he uitered the experience of all history. Nature gives nothing, so Emerson says, but always sells even her blessings, as the old Popes did indulgences, and men pays high*price for greatness. Columbus felt this when be asked coffin. Barneveld, who had organized a great | Protestant league against Catholicism, was | persecuted and slain by his own countrymen asa Spanish spy. Such hard penalties as these | | | | j are oftener escaped than suffered ; but to be | great is, at least, to be envied, donbted and | abused. This fact in human nature furnishes a consoling philosophy. It must be cheering to Marshal MacMahon, for instance, to read French whenever anything went wrong to abuse the chiof of the State.” That explains satisfactorily, to himself at least, his embar- | russments to-day. | demned by his countrymen, and finds the proverb thrown at his head, “Vox populi, vow people cried, ‘Crucify him, crucify him. into private life, or are about to retire, because of their dealings with the Crédit Mobilier or the back pay job, comfort themselves in this manner, and no doubt the ex-chief of Tam- many considers his sojourn on Blackwell's Island another example of the ingratitude of | republics. The American certainly does take a pleasure ‘in abusing public men, and the Frenchman , can hardly excel him in this. this out when he ran for President ; even the ; race he had helped to make free rejoiced in | the opportunity to be ungrateful. General | Grant suffers in the same way, and we know | he thinks himself the worst abused man in the | history of his country, because he said so in his second inaugural address. What must he think now! The democrats used to call him a ‘“‘nepot,”’ and now the republicans call him a Cesar. All of our public men are just now subjected to an exceptional ordeal of censure, We do not remember one eminent man whom the people and the press would rather praise than blame. The dead alone | are forlunate in their biographers. Men praise | such men as Gideon Welles because a delicate sentiment of honor leads them to respect the sanctities of the tomb. Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep, The living, on the contrary, get all the hard words they can bear—from the Congressman who is accused of a mean and malicious excess of public virtue to the other, no less conspic- this is the tendency of comment in these warm summer days, when people at the seashore and the mountains are naturally inclined to be good natured, what will it be in the fall, when decided? paign, but our advice to politicians is to be moderate in their language. from dining with him the next day is an excellent rule. To violate it is not only to make an enemy, which is bad, but probably to lose a good dinner, which is worse. The New Race in Africa, After all it turns out that the Pygmies are not a fabled race, as we were taught in our school books, but a veritable though anoma- lous branch of the human family. The an- | cients were so fond of intermixing the stern facts of history with the outflow of a lively imagination that we have heretofore regarded their assertions about dwarfs and miniature horses as smacking too much of mythic tra- | dition, or in expressive modern speech as a little too thin, We followed | implicit faith through the whole domain of that the chains with which Spain had paid | | him for an empire should be placed in his | When a great man is con- | Dei,”’ it must console him to quote, ‘And the | to chain of historic development. 3 i: | too large for monkeys and too small for men. All the eminent Congressmen who retired | Greeley found | Aristotle with | | | country inhabited by his people. as i | nine tribes of these human atoms who are so that “it has been the invariable custom of the | ee found in the oral literature of all the Westers and Eastern tribes with whom our pioneen have come in contact. Now, however, tht question is set at rest, notin the usual way, by causing the fuble to evaporate uuder the hot sun of investigation, but by establishing the truth. fulness of the report. Georg Schweinturth, while snugly ensconced under a canopy in the stern of his boat, overiueard his guides chat ting about the Pygmies and insisting tha they had themselves seen them, or singh specimens of them, at the courts of the petty kings in the back country, where they suc. ayed the réle of jesters and buf: curiosity was excited and he determined to see with his own eyes. Those of his followers who had been engaged in the various Ninm-Niam expeditions talked with Oriental rhetoric about the cannibal kings and insisted that in the retinue of every one of them a larger or smaller number of these Toons, 2 aC i | microscopic men were included. exclaimed, ‘Upon the King! let us our lives, | When our traveller took up his residence at the court of the Monbutto king he expressed his doubt, and in a few hours one of them was captured and brought into his presence. Herodotus was right after all, and the stock of Aristotle rose rapidly to par. The school books were all wrong, for there, perched upon Mohhmmed’s shoulder, was an odd looking, pot-bellied, bow-legged little human anomaly, who looked as frightened as though he expected to be taken down at one mouthful. His fears were calmed by a few beads and other trinkets, and he gave as his name the euphonious word, Adimokoo. He said he belonged to a race called the Akka, and found it difficult, even with the most frantic gestures, to express the extent of There are small that a good sized and athletic crane is | a formidable foe. Schweinfurth does not believe that these dwaris are the degenerate result of a larger race, but regards them as an embodied eccen- tricity of the human family. They live along the Equatorial belt, and forma curious link in They are Exactly where they belong is a puzzle of science. Even Darwin is distracted and finds | no place for them in that theory of evolution | uous, who has been abused so much that he | takes any ordinary curse as a compliment. If | the complexion of the next Congress is to be | It is likely to be a very hot cam. | anything of o man that would prevent you | der. | metaphysics, making his simple ipse dixit the | verdict beyond which there was no appeal. But when he gave us a deta‘led account of the singular race living along the sourees of the Nile, so small of stature that the traveller must needs have a microscope to discover them withal, we felt sorry for the old gentleman who had been imposed upon by some literary adventurer. Onrubbing up our classical lore we find that the opinion that such a race ex- only among those who took their daily con- | stitutional in the sacred enclosure of the | Lyceum, but throughout the best society, | The only quarrel among philosophers was | the locality in which these little folks | lived. Ctesias contended that they fought | their tiny battles in India, while Eustathius | insisted, curiously enough, that they were all | Englishmen, This latter statement was not intended as an insult to our cousins over the | water, and ought not to be made a casus beili | against those honest minded but singularly unappreciative heathens who had never seen a genuine John Bull. Herodotus, who was very shrewd in the collation of tacts, took special pains to describe this undergrown existence, part of his history, preferring to ignore it rather than to admit the other horn of the dilemma—viz., that his gullibility was equal to that of some more modern writers, who would not miss a startling statement because it happened to be untrue, Moreover, the earlier travellers and ex- | plorers of the African Continent have all de- tailed to us some mythical account of full | grown men and women only four feet and | | seven inches high, The tradition is to be race and stakes his literary reputation on their j We have always skipped over this | isted was very prevalent in earlier times, not | which starts with the toadstool and ends with Socrates without having deviated once from the straight line of a gradual and progressive evolution, Exactly what to do with them it is not easy to say, but perhaps the better way for the present is to let them alone. Forrian Sunsecrs Serruma iw Sours Canotina.—The colonization of South Caro- lina by the foreign element continues, as we learn from the State papers, and during the past year the Palmetto State Immigration Agency has settled several hundred families. On Friday last another colony of forty English, Scotch and Germans arrived in the State. The colonists are chiefly mechanics and agricultural hands, and enter the State with sufficient means to begin life. Other large parties are being collected in England und Scotland to follow these, and from pres- ent appearances these people will in time take the place of colored labor. Mopean Crvtrizatiox.—Don Carlos deigns toacquaint the Spanish nation with the fact that if it permits him to become its master he will tolerate religion and do many other | beneficent things. Don Carlos is not a Spaniard, has no drop of Spanish blood in his veins and has never been in Spain south of the securely sheltered Biscayan hills. Yet, because of certain legends and traditions and the successful wars of other generations, he claims to ravage Spain with an army, to retard her prosperity, and bring upon the people innumerable woes. More than all, he calls the government a rebellion, which he will stifle with cannon. There is no remnant of barbarism so painful and bloody as this serious effort of a man like Don Carlos to force him- self upon the throne of Spain, and todo it Never to say | by acts of war, confiscation, rapine and mur- Wo see no difference between Carlism in Navarre and Cormmunism as we saw it ia Paris. Both are crimes against civilization. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Jones, of Nevada, was born in Wales. ‘Tom Collins has started a paper at Mount Ver. non, ind. Dr. R. J. Gatling, of Hartford, is at the Metropolt: tan Hotel. Judge E. C, Kattell, of Binghamton, 1s staying | at the Astor House, Secretary Belknap left Washington last evening for New London, Conn. The oldest of living authors—Mrs, Hester Authors, of Pennsylvania, aged 112, State Senator John Ganson, of Buffalo, ta ree siding at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Attorney General Williams is at Long Branch, whence he will return to Washington on Mouday. Thirty-three new summer resorts opened this season. That's because tew people were going to the old ones, The weather must bé very warm in Richmond, Here 1s the Enquirer's latest joke:—“The last Put on Beecher was terrivie.’” Fifteen buckshot, well placed years ago, a Vir- ginia lad thinks would have settled it, Rear Admiral William Reynolds, United States Navy, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Giisey House. Mr. E. B. Phillips, President of the Michigan Southern Railroad Company, 1s sojourning at the Windsor Hotel, President Chapen, of the Boston and Albany Ratiroud, and Mr. Bowles, of the Springfield Re publican, sail for Europe on the Batavia trom Boge | ton to-day, to be gone two months, Mr. Mahlon Chance, United States Consul at Nassau, (8 among the recent arrivals at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Probasco, Cincinnati’s muntficent citize has reaped the fruit of his deeds atlast. A base ball club has been named for him, And now they are talking of asking Miss Anthony to testify, We wish they would let Susan B, “0, Lucifer, son of the morning.” The Marquis de Chambrun, who hag been @ resi. Geut of Washington for a number of years past, will sail for Europe to-day in the steamsnip Ville de Paris. A Connecticut paper thinks that “the bills of Groton, sloping down to the bank of the Thames, would jurnish splendid accommodations for watene ing @ boat race on the river." Farewell to Mr. Sartoris when he took Nell:= Be allers kind and never say “shall,” And do what you can tew please her, For she's @ hum-bred "Mert al, And the cho-t-1d of our num-bred Cesar, ‘Tilton says “nest liding;” Beecher saya sympa. thy and pasioral advice; but Mouitou, who was the mediator, knows Which of these it waa that made mediation neceasary, Let ts think, How! What was that other story about “a literary lauy ¢ What is nieantin Tilton’s statement by the ob+ servation that “it ls purposely restricted to relae tiond Of Mr, Beecher With Mra Tiltom oul f”” & &