The New York Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1874, Page 4

& — NEW YORK HEKALD, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. DAILY HERALD, published every Four cents per copy. THE day in the year. nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addr Herap. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. | ‘The Third Term and the South. The most interesting phase of the third term discussion is the importance attributed to it by certain leading journals and politicians in the South. Ever since the failure of General | | | | Grant's administration to deal with the ques- | tion of reconstruction we have had an earnest An- | sentiment in behalf of what is called imperial- ism, or a desire on the part of the white men in the Southern States to take shelter from the rule of negroes and Northern adventurers under the egis of a strong, central, resolute essed New York government. This government, it is thought, | General Grant would furnish should he be | elected by a coreb‘nation of Southern seces- sion democrats and office-holding republicans. The democrats affect to regard the Civil Letters and packages should be properly Rights bill as proposed, but not passed, as sealed. Bates reine | HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subseriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, | changing the political _— aes aa! the oadway, between Prince an ouston streets. — 5 itici ” A BURLING THE BELLE OF ACADIA, ats P.M; | COOTSe of politicians. e Petersburg ndew | closes at 10:43 PN, Mr. Joseph Whestock and Miss tone | and Appeal, one of the oldest and most orig- | Burke. WOOD'S MUSEUM, | PR er Thirueth t. Louis WS OPERA Ht ENTERTAINMEN Rowery.—VARIE' at 8PM; closes at 10:30 P.M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 8% wroadwey.—arisian Cancan Dance | RDEN, —THOMAS' CON. | Broadway, corn of thirty-fitth street.—LONDON BY anh am i Berne TET cons a See cameat he a | ® Delilah; “Ao tasm from the sxinbow and | closes at 10 P. Me as | court the thunderbolt.” | “aii ROMAN Hi ROM E, or | ‘The Atlanta Constitution shares this opinion, | ison avenue an A st —G N | s, | IONS, at 30 P.M. and | and reminds the South that the hands of | WITH New York, Monday, July 27, 1874, SUPPLEMENT. | THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, pa 18 EYRE S To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PUBLIC: — The New York Hegaup will run a special train between New York, Saratoga and Lake 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 | A. M., for the purpose of supplying the | Sunpay Heraxp along the line. Newsdealers | and others are i i G a * ers ure notified to send in their orders | 45. Ving who, to the Henaxp office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities @re that the weather to-day will be cloudy | with light rains. France 1s Wannep by a Spanish editor | against extending further aid to the Carlist | Governor Hebert for the third term. | the Civil Rights bill, with its horrors, and the | | pirants—are doing wonders in the way of . | with some eagerness. To take up Grant for | TREETS | the third term would be to set the seal of Vir- | | ginia’s approval upon his past, and we are’| | reminded that in spite of Grant, his party and | | his administration, Virginia effected her deliv- | erance from negro rule, and that to support | » at 8 P.M. | Grant now would be ‘‘to consolidate the negro | are certain to follow in their footsteps. So we | _| Grant are “equally imbued with the crimes | "| that have devastated the South through radi- | ————— | people and filled our land with unnumbered | | woes.’” | other Southern journals, one of them, the | and unhappy editor has been informed that a | negro woman on the | made a remark that “if our men will clean out the democrats we can take care of the | | will not promptly advance to the ‘color line ?’” | intemperate and foolish men, of which this | agitated editor is the type, which will not per- | not appeal to the darkest and saddest passions | the principal danger, This bill proposed to | wre a «| put upon the white man a great insult, and | * the representative statesmen of his party | scandal, when he said he admitted that he had LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | the spirit of opposition to it “spread like a | ¥Uld regard another election as the justifica- | acted like a fool, this lawyer chimed in with This is the manner in | 4 of any freaks, and the third term would fire on the prairie." which the Richmond Despatch explains the sudden affection of Southern statesmen like General Gordon, Governor Kemper and ex- | “These } two things,"’ says this journal, ‘‘combined— third tern, with its embarrassments to as- | inal of the Southern journals, assails the idea | won world-wide renown, the republican party and the President remanded these noble Com- monwealths to the mercy of shameless adven- turers, and became responsible morally for all regard to his charges against Henry Ward of their crimes. Beecher before the Committee of Investiga- Nor will anything be gained by again clect- | tion suggested by Mr. Beecher. This evi- ing General Grant an the friend of the South. | dence is in the nature of a cross-examination, | Such a result is possible, if the office-holders | and it is to be noted that it was conducted | mean it. But even if General Grant were to by a lawyer who employed every strategy count the extreme Southern vote he could not known to his profession to break down | redeem the hopes he would inspire. It would | the force of Mr. ‘Tilton’s proofs, At the very not be a healthy alliance. He could not be | outset this lawyer began those singularly | chosen, with all the power of his tremendous | offensive tactics so common with the legal army of followers, without such a control as profession of having the witness testify in the would make his administration helpless from | Jawyer's way instead of his own, And further the beginning. He would give usa personal | on in the case, while Mr. Tilton was under government, not one in any way political. examination upon the question whether his | The imagination which evolved Robeson, | letter toa “Complaining Friend” and other Akerman, Belknap, Delano and Richardson | writings did not assist in perpetuating the Mr. Tilton’s Cross-Examination. We print this morning, at great length, the cross-examination of Theodore Tilton in | ple. simply be the expression of the worst features of an administration which, with all of its efforts and achievements and meritorious aims, has sorely tried the patience of the | people. | The Need of Rapid Transit in New York—When Shall We Have Relief? | The people of New York are a patient peo- | They have for some years seen the Legis- | lature of the State waste session after session in playing with the best interests of the city, in trading upon its privileges and in cheating | it in the end out of all relief in the matter of | rapid transit. Yet year after year they go to | the polls at election time and vote to send | back to Albany the same set of legislators | party and rend the white organization into a | still go on and may go on for years to come, | thousand fragments;"’ “it would be to put | suffering all the inconvenience and injury | EU: | the locks of our Samson under the shears of | attendant upon a want of rapid transit and | | The cal Staté dynasties, that have bankrupted the | This sentiment finds expression in | Vicksburg Herald, approaching the discussion | in a hysterical frame of mind. This disturbed | streets of Vicksburg | white women.’' This remark is deemed im- | portant enough to be communicated to the | people in a leading editorial, and the editor | asks, ‘Is there a white man with red blood in after reading this atrocious threat of the murder of our wives and children, In other words there is an element of unwise, | mit any party divisions in the South that do | who have again and again betrayed them, or | fill their places with other ragamuffins who subject to the annoyance of horse car trans- portation or the extortion of hack owners. It would, under the best of circumstances, | take three or four years to complete a steam railroad through the city. In the meantime we can only hope to better our condition in the way of transit by a supp!y of light, quick | and cheap public conveyances such as one | finds in all the great capitals of Europe, and | especially in London. Why should we not | have the hansom cab in New York, just the same asin the English metropolis, and at as | moderate rates of fare? There is travel | enough in New York to make such a venture | pay a good profit, We should not at first need the immense army of cabs which at all hours of the day and night can be seen filing through the London streets; but we have business enough at once to keep in activity | two or three hundred of such vehicles, and the use of cabs soon renders them a necessity to a community and rapidly increases the demand. Hansoms in London are run at sixpence a mile, or twelve cents | of our money, the minimum fare, however, | for any distance within two miles being one | | scandal should be easily quieted. | scandal would have died if the letter to a | than this, he ought to be able to disprove it, the peculiarly brutal remark, ‘We all concede that, and do not need to call witnesses to prove it.” There is one word of two syllables in the English language by which to characterize a man who could make such an utterance in such a place. We care not to use this word, descriptive as it is; for a man coarse enough to assail a witness in this manner merits only silent contempt. We should not have referred to him at all but for the fact that this cross- examination is colored by his questions, and it is due to Mr. Tilton that these things should be understood by any one desiring to arrive at a fair judgment as to the value of the | testimony. And just here we wish to discuss this very point which Mr. Beecher's lawyer has raised | so offensively. What matters it whether Mr. Tilton’s writings perpetuated the scandal or | not? Everything revived it, and Tilton was | right when he said it had life init. It was like Banquo’s ghost and would not down. Christian character of the foremost preacher in the country was called in ques- tion, aud it was not to be expected that such a Indeed, the argument is altogether in the oppo- site direction, and Mr. Beecher only sharpens quick suspicion when he _ permits his | lawyer to show his animus so injudiciously. It is not the question to-day, as it never ought to have been the question, whether the “Complaining Friend” had not revived and perpetuated it. To desire that it should have | died without scrutiny is implication of Mr. Beecher’s guilt, because men are prone to be- lieve that the innocent fear no ac- cusations which can be made against them. | And Mr. Beecher’s guilt or innocence is the very question now at issue. He is charged with debauching. member of his flock. He ought to be able to meet that charge. More for his own letters and the letters of his alleged paramour are the strongest evidences of his guilt. It will not do to pass those let- ters by without explanation, or with an ex- | at rest. out the superiority of spiritual effort over | and a dire threat is made that Spain will | of the war. We might point to the fact that shilling, or twenty-five cents American. Our | planation so trivial as only to excite people would regard twenty-five cents a mile, | ridicule. Mr. Beecher’s —_ confessions with a minimum rate of halt a dollar for any | must be solemnly and __ satistactorily | adopt a cool attitude towards her neighbors if | theré are editors who claim to succeed Ritchie distance less than two miles, as reasonable | explained before it can be expected that his they don’t behave them: Ovr Retarions wits Spary, in regard to the unadjusted questions connected with the | and Daniel and Tyler and Rhett and Kendall | in educating the public opinion of the South, | don prices, and surely this margin would be | who do not blush to make the gossip of an | | idle negro wench, deep in her cups no doubt, ‘ enough. This would be just double the Lon- price of labor, and probably of feed, here. Virginius affair, still remain in a very unsatis- | the text for an appeal to white men to ‘advance | The great complaint of foreigners is of the factory state, the government at Madrid not | showing any disposition to bring matters to a | It is high time that the | final settlement. moderate and just claims of the United States should receive from the Spanish dons the | consideration they demand. Enouish Repusiicans oN THE CosT OF A Prrnce.—The Leopold by the British Parliament has ex- cited a good deal of opposition among the English republicans. It is natural that peo- ple who find it bard to procure enough to live even by hard work should object to parting with a portion of their earnings for the benefit ; . The English masses begin to | such scenes as have brought disgrace on re- | publican institutions and stained the soil of of a Prince. weigh the cost of royalty, and find it an ex- pensive and useless luxury. annuity granted to Prince | to the line.” Another editor who educates public opinion from the Charlottesville Chron- icle is in ‘a calmer frame of mind, but at the | same time he sees ‘imperialism looming up,’’ | and he would not be surprised to find many advocates for it, ‘especially in the down- } trodden and humiliated South.” For, says this writer, ‘if we cannot maintain the | supremacy of the white race in the South; if | we are to be kept forever in political serfdom, | under the grinding oppression of the ignorant | and corrupt class that now constitute the gov- erning power in most of the Southern States ; | if we are to witness the repeated occurrence of some of our sister States with fraternal blood; if we have nothing to hope for but confusion Tax Szason at Lona Brancu has been very | and strife and anarchy, our substance con- | difficulty of moving about rapidly and the | impositions of our hackmen. There is no reason why we should labor under this scan- | dal and inconvenience when a profitable busi- ness in cheap and quick conveyances awaits | any person with enterprise sufficient to start the venture. Who will give a supply of han- | som cabs at reasonable rates of fare ? The Approaching Season of Music. Nearly two months divide us from the formal opening of what promises to be a | musical season of unusual brilliancy and | variety, and were it not for the admirable con- | certs of Mr. Thomas at Central Park Garden New York would be indeed barren of all | music, save the dismal strains of the organ | grinder or the occasional toot of a street | band. It is too early yet to learn the details of the various programmes in contemplation for the next season, but their general charac- | much affected by the presence or absence of the | sumed by crushing taxation and our life blood | President of the United States ever since it was | sucked by political adventurers—then it is not raised to the dignity of a summer seat of gov- to be wondered at if reflecting men grow hope- | ernment. The appearance of the Chief Magis- | less and doubtful of the success of popular | trate on the avenue never fails to bring out a | government and imagine that their fortunes | large delegation of the stylish equipages that | would be improved and their safety better | lend such attraction to the Branch, Just now | secured under the protection of an imperial the absorbing feature is the presence of the | sceptre.’” Fifth Maryland regiment and their proposed | Here then we have all shades of opinion | visit to the revolutionary battle ficld of Mon- | from the South. Our first impressiou is one mouth on Tuesday next. of surprise that there should be any Southern —— | journalist who would have ‘the least confi- A Day 1s THe Frexcu Assempiy.—We | ence in Grant doing in his third term what print this morning a graphic description of @ | pe has not ever attempted to do during his | | of Nilsson, as it is now definitely announced ter is one of great expectations. Mr. Stra- kosch has not yet completed his arrangements | for Italian opera, and to the list of artists published in these columns some time ago two or three important additions remain to be made. We must be resigned to the loss | that she will not return for a year at least, | having signed engagements to sing in Russia and at the opening of the Grand Opera House, Paris. The proposed system of Mr. Strakosch, to pay attention towards securing general ex- cellence in every department of his troupe large enough to make up for the additional | | the date even within anything like a probable | that remains, then, is Mr. Beecher'’s letters, innocence will be accepted. It should have been the purpose of the counsel in Mr. Til- ton’s cross-examination to test the value of | his testimony and lay the ground for Mr. | Beecher’s defence. Instead we see the wit- | ness treated as if he was the criminal, and an | effort is made to impress the Committee of | Investigation with the idea that it is Mr. Beecher who has suffered because the scandal could not be hid forever, and whether true or false that Tilton and not Beecher ought to be | punished. The testimony elicited on the cross-exami- nation of Mr. Tilton, as will be seen by the mass of matter which we print this morning, is very voluminous. A careful analysis of all its features is fortunately unnecessary, for | in the main it firmly maintains the ground taken in Tilton’s written state- ment. It reveals, however, two ad- ditional phases which have great weight in the case. One of these is the strong animus manifested against Tilton by the presence’ of counsel and the extreme latitude of the in- quiry. The other is Tilton’s inability to fix period of the occurrence of the bedchamber scene and the scene in Mr. Beecher’s house. In this there is great inherent weak- ness, which destroys altogether the charges Mr. Tilton has made upon his _per- sonal knowledge. Without the dates or something very near to the dates it is not pos- sible to rely upon the testimony as proof. All partially explained by the letters of Mrs. Til- ton, and we now await the statement of the | inculpated clergyman as of the greatest im- day in the l'rench Assembly while the consti- tutional questi were under discussion. A parliamentary crisis at Versaille if possi- ble, more exciting than a ficld day in the House of Representatives at Washington, and | its picturesque aspects are even more striking | Our correspondent has painted one Scene frota the many recently witnessed at Versailles, and it will be found doubly interesting at a time when every movement in French politics cx cites little less attention in this country than | {o France. Tue Reicxy or Trrnozk ww Yorevin1e.— The unprotected state of Yorkville is a con- stant temptation to the dangerous classes to perpetrate robberies, which the police seem powerless to prevent. with the officers so much as with the Commis- sioners, because with the present force it is well nigh impossible for the captains to cover the wide territory given to their charge. The thieves and burglars of the city are well in- formed of all unprotected points, and hence <2 a ees . oe | But the finances are in a worse condition The fault does not lie | | two terms. The President seems to have been | alarmed at the attempts of Mr. Johnson to leave to time and devote himself to the finances and the annexation of territory. than when he became President, annexation | is dead, and reconstruction has become a long-standing ulceration, affecting the national life and bringing scandal and disease upon the country. The error the President made was in supposing that reconstruction could be postponed to any issue, no matter how im- portant ; that reconstruction could be severed from other questions—that it could be ig- nored, postponed or forgotten. his party made was in supposing that it would be better for the party success to have docile adventurers and carpet-baggers in the Senate, | who would support the administration, than to invite the return of such men as Hunter, Benjamin, Breckinridge and others who were The error | rather than depend solely on the precarious | | | attraction of a single artist, is one in which \ | settle reconstruction, and to have avoided it | | as a political morass. That subject he would the public should rejoice, and which deserves hearty encouragement. The liberality and enterprise shown during the past season in placing lyric works on the stage in a manner approaching the completeness of operatic rep- resentations in Europe have borne good fruit. The public will never agaia be con- tented with the slipshod, meagre perform- ances of other days, and the manager who at- tempts to foist such upon his patrons is sure to find his season anything but profitable, English opera, under the experienced direc- tion of Miss Kellogg, will be one of the most enjoyable and popular features of the coming season, She has organized a troupe compris- | | ing the best elements to be found in England and America, and the announcement of her | intention to produce Bulfe's posthumous work, ‘“The Talisman,” is but the forerunner | of other noveltie At the Lyceum Theatre portance in throwing light upon this trouble- | some question, When everybody has been heard perhaps it will be possible to arrive at something like a very fair judgment. “Councils of Honor.’ Among the steps in the progress of German unity and progress we note that regulations have just been issued in Berlin for the forma- tion of ‘Councils of Honor’’ among Prussian officers. Every officer who considers his honor attacked by a comrade is required to give in- formation to this tribunal, and no duel can | come off without its approval nor until the failure of any other solution. The President of the tribunal is to be present at the duel to see that it is properly conducted. Officers engaged in duels are not to be subject to crim- inal proceedings unless the occasion or issue | of the encounter is a violation of the rules of | honor, such as a serious unprovoked insult. “J will no more,”’ says the Emperor, according to the London Times, ‘‘tolerate in the army | Mr. Grau proposes to exhibit opéra bonffe in their operations are carried on with a boldness | which reminds one of the days when thieves took possession of the public roads and levied the genius and force of the rebellion. They did not see that for all purposes of reconstrue: tion it was far better to have Jefferson Davis | | Miss Emily Soldene as the chief attr French and English, with Mlle. Aimée and actions, Mr. De Vivo has secured in the person of Mlle. blockmail. It is not over a year ago that ruffians coipelled citizens travelling on the | horse cars in the upper part of the city to pay tribute, and unless some energetic steps are taken to repress the enterprising spirit of our thieves similar scenes will be again witnessed, As it is the inhabitants of Yorkville live in hourly dread of the brigands that infest that neglected portion of this city. Mr. Walling has an opportunity of eorning the eternal gratitude of these unfortunate people by taking such measures as will secure them the same immunity from robbery and violence enjoyed by their more favored fellow citizens in other Aiatriata. | of a negro in the seat in the Senate than the negro Revels; for, while there was a sentiment in the appearance of the haughty chief of the Confederacy, it was a barren, trivial sentiment. Revels as Senator did not even represent the race from which he came. Davis as Senator would have been a hostage for his followers, and he could e had no other motive than to redeem, as Sen- ator, the measureless calamities wkich he | caused as President of the Southern Con- of all that class of men who gave to history an arrav of heroes and statesmen who have Tima Di Murska an admirable representative for @ concert season, and the Hungarian prima donna will, it is to be hoped, meet with better fortune in that field than she did in opera here. In instrumental music we are promised a series of symphony concerts by the incomparable orchestra of Mr. Thomas, the regular performances of the Philharmonic Society, which has become thoroughly organ- ized and remodelled, and the usual quota of | piano recitals and military band soirees. federacy. In attempting to reconstruct the | There is an abundance of promise, as may be \ der has become so common in America that it South by the disfranchisement and oppression { seen, and the musical season of 1874~'75 will | has no power. No man was ever so severely not, we trust, be bebind any of its predeces- sors in the fulfilment of such vromise, an officer who wantonly attacks the honor of a comrade than an officer who does not know how to guard his own honor.” There is a feudal character in thig declaration of the old Emperor in keeping with his character. We have never seen how the honor of any man, soldier or citizen, is to be preserved by killing his an- tagonist or running the risk of killing him, We have sometimes felt that it would be well if our modern civilization could invent some method of arresting the torrents of slander that now and then sweep over the country. But the evil seems to have cured itself. Slan- and widely assailed as General Grant, for in- stance. and yet in the face of all he was elected President by an over- whelming majority. It would not have helped the General had he taken his pistols and insisted upon fighting his critics and calumniators. Nothing isso perfectan an- swer to slander as a blameless, patient life. This placid rule may not suit the harsh neces- sities of a Prussian army, but it will do very well for peaceful countries like America. The rmons Yesterday. The churches yesterday were well filled and the different preachers showed a disposition to wrestle vigorously in defence of the cause of morality and truth, Some reference to the great scandal which has occupied public at- tention during the past week was probably looked for and hed much to do in gathering the large congregations which attended the church services yesterday. In most cases the preachers avoided all reference to this un- pleasant topic and devoted themselves to ex- pounding the doctrines of salvation for the benefit of their flocks, Dr. Sabine, of the Episcopal Reformed Church, took for his text “Strength in Christ.’’ He argued that such as are ‘in Christ’’ cannot sin constantly and habitually. According to his view “A Chris- tian may become a fallen but not a lost child.’’ The fascinations of the world may allure him, the lusts of the flesh entice him; but he will be rescued. Divine adoption cannot be dis- turbed. Bishop Kavanaugh, the representative of the Southern Methodists, preached on the doctrine ot free will and foreknowledge. The Bishop’ took the view that there was no necessity for man’s fall, and that both Adam and Eve, as well as the angeis, stood long enough to demonstrate their power to stand. Adam and Eve in Eden had no need to pray. What they had they had by right, not by grace. Had we done our part as God did His we should have had no heritage of pain and sorrow. Dr. Deems preached in the Church of the Strangers and took as the subject of his discourse ‘‘The Blessed Dead.” Having pointed out the vanity of life, with its ceaseless struggles and ambitions, all ending in the grave, he contrasted its barrenness with the nobility of those toilers in the cause of | God who gointo the forest and convert it into a garden of the Lord. The laborer may fall in the midst of his work, but he is at once With many illustrations he pointed merely selfish struggles after wealth and posi- tion. Professor Barbour, of Maine, thought that Christians were the salt of the earth. He urged the cultivation of the Christian spirit, without which the temples would come to naught. The merely popular preacher was not the best for the Christian work. out to a dying world the path of salvation. Perhaps one of the most noteworthy events in the religious world yesterday was the visit of a small band of missionaries to one of the city slums known as ‘‘Atrica.’’ This visit to the heathens within the city limits does not appear to have created much impression, but, nevertheless, another effort to awaken some religious feeling in the breasts of the de- graded dwellers in Atrica will be made next | Sunday. The Rev. Eugene Cassidy gave those preachers who abandon their flocks in | order to seek summer recreation a severe re- proof. He pointed out that the Word of God was not made specially for the bracing days of autumn, the colds of winter, the genial tem- perature of spring or the wearing heat of summer. Hence it was absurd to take a vaca- tion in things appertaining to life eternal. International Copyright. The discussion of the international copy- right question, arising out of the treatment of Dr. J. G. Holland by a London publisher, has not yet ceased in England. It will be remem- bered that Dr. Holland, in order to secure to his own publishers the exclusive interest in his ‘Arthur Bonnicastle,’’ had the earlier chapters of the novel copyrighted in England | previous to their appearance in this country. | | The London publisher, by whom the book ! was pirated, omitted these chapters altogether, and supplied their place with an introduction | by another hand. That similar outrages are | not committed in this country is only owing to the fact that English authors seldom copy- right in the first instance in America, and so our publishers are at liberty to appropriate the whole work. To such an extent is this carried | that seven-cighths of the books published in the United States are English reprints, on which no copyright is paid. This is not only disgraceful to both countries, but it is unjust , to authors and of no real advantage to any- body except the publishers, who make money by the sale of pirated and inferior editions of popular works, To remedy this state of things, pending the removal of the grievance by means of an inter- | national copyright, which he regards as a dream of the future, a writer in the Alhenawum proposes that it become law that if an English | publisher advertises or announces a book by an author, a British subject, say for a month before the day of publication (giving title and other particulars so as to establish a proper identification of the book), that meanwhile, if, during the intervening month the author chooses to publish his book in America, so as to obtain by a prior publication the copyright | there, the English copyright shall, neverthe- less, remain intact, having been already legally | secured by the antecedent announcement of | | the English publisher. This is something like the tacit understand- ing between American publishers in their ‘in press” announcements of English books, and it would have some efficacy because sanc- tioned by an act of Parliament. But it would be after all only a blundering, roundabout un- | dignified way of securing to authors their just rights in their books. Nothing short of an international copyright will prove adequate. 1} And we do not think an international copyright | is so much a dream of the future as the | writer in the Aikenwum affects to believe, There might have been an international copy- | right between the United States and Great | Britain these many years if an earnest cffort had been made to obtain it. No real attempt has ever been made either in this country or in England to secure international copyright. The only way in which it can be dono effee- tively is by treaty, and the first step necessarily is authority from Congress and from the | British government for the appointment of commissioners to treat. An effort to obtain a commission, if made simultaneously in this country and in England, could hardly fail, and then the whole question would be thoroughly discussed. so that a fair adinatment would be- What | | was needed was the man who could point come comparatively easy. If the writers of books do not know how to put the machinery at work which will give them a treaty secur- ing to them every just right in their works they have only themselves to blame, and they need not complain because other people fait to do it for them. The Dramatic Outlook. Our theatres begin to exhibit signs of re- turning life, and already notes of preparation for the coming season are heard on every side. Boucicault is coming back with the long looked for American comedy, which is said to be the best of all his numerous plays, If we can trust report it has also the merit of being strikingly original. We are glad to hear this, for some of Mr. Boucicault’s best work was done before he fell on the French placer which he has so industriously exploited. Mr. Daly, too, is hard at work on something new, but, like the ‘greatest dramatist of the age,” he hides the title of his forthcoming work carefully from. the public and the critics, The time is, how- ever, rapidly approaching when, in common with lesser mortals, these great lights of the stage will be anxious for all the publicity they can obtain. Mr. Wallack begins his season by introducing Mr. J. L. Toole, the famous English comedian, who is expected to make a great impression on Ameri+ can audiences. There can be no ques- tion of Toole’s great abilities as a low comedian, but it remains to be seen whether an American audience will appreciate tun which is purely “cockney.” This actor will labor under the great disadvantage that many of the types of low English life which he best | succeeds in portraying have no counterpart at this side of the water, and will, therefore, lack interest for the American public. Still there is so much genuine fun and drollery in Toole that he may be able to overcome this difficulty, and make himself as great a favor~ ite in New York as he is in London. ‘‘Evange- line ; or, The Maid of Acadia,’’ is the title of a new entertainment to be produced to-night at Niblo’s. It is something | between a comic opera and a bur- lesque, and has the merit of being American in subject and new in style. What. ever its fate may be the management of this theatre deserves praise for the energy shown during the summer szason in producing nov- elty atter novelty to very poor houses. It ia to be hoped that a cool spell and some merit in the new entertainment may enable them ta reap a substantial reward There is danger that the Grand Opera House may disappear | from the list of our metropolitan theatres, | The Florences having refused to accept the risks of management, even on very favorable | terms, the irrepressible Gilmore is likely to | obtain the building for his projected Alham- | bra, if only he can raise the needed funds to | carry out his speculation. It is evident that the coming dramatic season will be as full of | interest as any of its predecessors, and it may | be that the long looked for American comedy | will at last make its appearance on the New | York stage. Tae Anpucrep Cump.—The whereabouts of the stolen boy, Charley Ross, has not yet | been discovered, notwithstanding the large | reward offered and the exertions of the Phila- | delphia police. The father of the child indig- | nantly denies any knowledge of or collusion | with the kidnappers, and naturally wishes for | the safe return of his boy, even should the scoundrels who stole him escape the just re- ward of their unnatural crime. Such a | heinous offence, however, ought not to be al- | lowed to pass unpunished, and the police | must show more activity in the search or else | they will leave a very unfavorable impression | of the state of the force in the Quaker City. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. | Secretary Bristow returned to Washington yes. terday. £x-Senator James M. Thayer, of Nebraska, is at | the Astor House. + | ‘Fhe Chicago Times wants somebody to toan Theodore a pistol, | Rev. Dr. Keene, of Milwaukee, 1s staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. State Senator F. W. Tobey, of Port Henry, N. Yop is residing at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Captain Theodore A. Dolge, United States Army, is quartered 4t the Fiith Avenue Hotel, Some of the papers want a baldheaded President next time, because we have not had one since Martin Van Burer, A provincial paper thinks Walling has an une commonly fine chance and is good enougn to hope he may improve it. What are “temperance excursionists ?" The Boston Post says Maine’s ex-Governor is Rerham- bulating with them. Mr. Olmsted, of Central Park fame, who has been engaged, under authorization of Congress, to lay out the Capitol grounds, has commenced the work. It was scarcely necessary to announce that | Mme. Schwartz has written another novel, since, | like Mrs, Southworth she writes about one @ | week, | | ‘The radical papers in the South no longer spea’ of blackberries. Out of respect to the majority 01 | Southern voters they are now called colored, | berries. ¢ Yes, its all Bausch that the defaulting conductor of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road is trying to get a position in the New York Custom House, On Saturday @ confidence man approached @ stranger, in Park row, addressing him as Mr, Wardell. “My name is not Wardell,” said the stranger. “Is it possible 1 am mistaken? Are you not Mr. Wardell of New Haven?” “I am not," answered the stranger, “I am Tom Collins,” Some of the merchants in Vicksburg threatened to discharge their negro porters if they voted the radical ticket, Whereupon it was agreed that the colored women should, with one accord, decline to wash for the white women or the white men, tm order that “dem ar’ waite folks might see how tt » is dey self” THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record wili show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison with the corresponding day of last $ Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuvs acy, HeKALD Building i— 18) Average tempe last year.. THE FENIAN PRISONERS IN ENGLAND. {From the Gork Examiner, Jury 16.) In opposing on Monday night Mr. O'Connor Power's motion for a return of the Fenian prison. ers who died or became insane or permanent disabled during the past ten years, the Home Sec- retury said the matter was fuly inquired tuto im ls], When the commission was appointed to tne | quire into the condition of the Fenian prisoners at that time confined in Engiand, and the Comins. sioners reported that there was not the nese foundation tor the charges made as to the excep. tionally severe treatment of these prisoners, Sul sequent inquiries in reierence to the Fentaa prisoners, both in England and in treiaud, bad convinced him that such charges were wholly without foundation. ‘The House rejected the motion by 08 votes to il.