The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND 4NN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HEI Four ce LD, published every An- day in the yar. nts per copy 10 $12, nual subscription price $12. ess or news letters and telegraphic All busin despatches must be addressed New York Hepa. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 2 LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STRE iptions Advertisements will and be e terms xd and forwarded on the sa in New York. Volume XXXIK.... cece eee eee ee NOs 809 ANUSENEVTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING The Governors Responsibiiity—What Will He Do with Mayor Havemeye {t is stated that Mayor Havemeyer's reply to the charges of official misconduct made against him by the Board of Aldermen and ‘ two bodies of citizens bas at last boen for- | warded to Governor Dix. The length of tune consumed in the preparation of the defence indicates the gravity of the charges and the difficulty experienced in answering them. The act for which the Mayor is now arraigned .is not denied. After two persons holding the office of Police Commissioners of | the city of New York had been convicted in the Court of Oyer and ‘lerminer of a misde- | meanor involving a violation of their oath of | | office, and after the Governor of the state, in accordance with the requirements of the } | statute, had notified the Mayor of the vacan- cies ereated in the Police Commission in con- sequence of such conviction, Mayor Have ueyer reappointed the convicted nev. ‘This act is attempted to be justified on the ground | that althongh found guilty of a misdemeanor and sentenced to pay a fine of two | hundred and fifty dollars = euch — in | lien of suffering imprisonment, Measrs. | Garduer aod Charlick were not ineligible NIBLO’S GARDEN, tor reappointment, and, further, oo Broadway, petween Prince and Houston street. — ¥ : AVANGELINE, THE BELLE OF ACADIAN. tiie tone | 1? ples that their prosecution was CW) BM, Mr. J eelock ani Miss to ; "re Siaihde ares secured by Tammany democrats for wWoob’s MOSEUM political purposes. It is rumored .that Broadway, cont * pesp Wit this forms the groundwork of the defence Nt ate P.M. “ “ ° W YORK. Beit: i Olouen as 008. Lewis thus tardily forwarded tothe Governor, and as A 1 and Miss Sophie Miles. ‘ ° - - it accords with all that Mr. Havemeyer has 0 s ys OPERA HOUSE. < 3 +4 oe ONES tr aisaust at 3 P.M. Said snd written on the subject we accept the catego rumor as correct, As to the first branch ot METROPOLITAN THEATRE a tas i $45 tsroadws ee Peeeinn Gancat Ouncers, at 3.x, | the plea, if the position taken by the Mayor CENTRAL PARK GARDEN Ficty-ointh street and Sev 2, — THOMAS CON CERT, atS 0 Mo: closes at 10002. M, Away, corner. of thir Nici, ai f P. M.; closes at 5 P.M. closes a0 P.M few ae ROMAN HiPPODROME, avenne and. Twenty-sixth ‘street. —GIAND Madi y V N\TECONGRESS OF NATIONS, at LB. MO aud TRIPLE SHEET. 1874. New York, Tuesday, Jaly 28, THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, Boe ‘Yo NewsDEALERS aND THE PUBLIC: — The New York Henatp will run a special train between New York, Saratoga and Lake George, leaving New York every Sanday dur- iag 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 Herarp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hxsanp office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the proba @re that the weather to-day will be partly clowly with light rains. ‘s Wace Srreer Yxsterpay.—Stocks were extremely dull, the total sales being only twenty-four thousand shares, but closed steady, Gold was heavy and declined to 109}. | Tae Spantsh Wan i Spam is assuming a character of fierce retaliation. The repnbli- esng ow threaten the royalist prisoners. Tar (CermMan GovEENMENr continues to enforce the law rigoronsly against clergymen who refuse to obey the rules set forth in the | Ecclesiastical Regulation bill, Another bishop has been brought under the ban. very troublesome towards the end. ‘Tax Brossets Concress, or international council on the subject of the rights of gov- ernmenis and peoples during war, assembled in session in the Belgian capital yesterday. An organization was perfected. Full particu- lars relative to the council, as set forth by the fimperor of Russia and his advisers, its incep- tion and intent, will be found elsewhere. Horse SreauinG From tHe Ivpians.— The government has captured s notorious horse thief, called ‘Hurricane Bill," in Kansas, and he is now in the hands of the civil authorities, We are persuaded that a ere exemplification on the person of this misereant of capital panishment, under mil- itary law, would save humanity on the frontier many scalps and the army much gan- powder and lead. se Tax Ixpus TROUBLES. ~The Indians in Wyoming Territory are in the habit of attack- | ing every party of whites whom they believe to be defenceless or nearly so. They have latterly, however, quite frequently found the emigrants and settlers ready to receive them, and it is to be hoped that this policy of our Western citizens will develop itself into an ever-ready and thorough system of defence. This is all that is necessary to teach the | savages more respectful manners, ‘Tae Parnapeveata [zdyer, a journal famous for its extreme caution and conservatism in expressing an opinion, asks, in reference to Mr. Beecher's celebrated letter in reference to “death being far sweeter than any friend he had in the world,’’ this qnestion :—''Can it be im- agined that any man would write those words of intense anxiety, remorse and despair tor no other reason than because he was sorry he had meddled in a family dispute?” tion it properly answers that only unbounded faith in the man would believe so. To this qnos- or intataated credulity ‘Tarpr Hononrs.—The Springfield Republican makes a note of the fact that Governor Talbot has offered to Wendell Phillips the position of Commissioner in Lanacy, and remarks that thia is the first time that any appointunent has been offered to this great citigen, by vither the | State or ostional government, av ‘a fact not wholly creditable to the appointing power.'’ [t does seom strange that a Commonwealth which makes & merit of its disposition to saramon all men of merit into its service should have | allowed Wendell Phillips to yrow trom man- hood into age without the slightest recogni- tion of his eminence. We presume no one is less disappointed at this fact thao Mr. Phillips. He began life a8 an iconoclast, and we are never disposed to honor in our generation the meno who have destroyed our iduls, Their time will come in another generation, After all there is no higher reward for daty than the consclonsness of duty well done, and this comfort will attend Mr. Phillips when he thinks of these reluctant honors of Massa- chusetts, Ia the meantime we hope he will sccept the modest but useful ofice which Liss | poum eBid bis next? The | quarrel is an ugly one, and is likely to prove | could be sustained the law which deprives a man of his office on conviction of a violation | ot his oath to perform its duties faithfully would become a nullity. Lhe object of the law is to secure fidelity in the discharge of | public trusts. If an office-hoider commits an infamous crime, or is guilty of a violation of | his oath of office, the law regards him as un- | worthy, and on conviction takes bis office from him. Is it consistent with common sense to believe that the intent of the law is satisfied when the guilty party is deprived of his office one minute only to be restored the But in the case of municipal officers, | like Gardner und Charlick, the charter, as woll as the general law, steps in to prevent the outrage of their reappointment. It declares | that no office-holder who has been convicted | ofa violation of any of the provisions of the | charter shall be thereafter eligible to any position uader the city government. | The pretence that the offence of the two Com- missioners was a violation of the Election law and not of the charter is too shallow to require | notice, The Election law is virtually embodied | in the charter, tor the Police Commissioners | are expressly required by the charter to faith- | fully pertorm all the duties assigned to them | by that law. Two legal barriers were there- | fore erected against the act performed by the | Mayor; the barrier of the general law and the | barrier of the charter. It is charged that in striving to force back Gardner and Charlick | into the office of Police Commissioners he en- | deavored to break down both these barriers | and defied the law. | The second plea advanced by the Mayor in | justification of his action will scarcely be ac- cepted as satisfactory by so clear-headed a man as Governor Dix. The political squab- | bles between Charlick and Havemeyer on the | one side and the Tammany politicians on the other are of little interest and of less impor- \ tance to the people. If the charges that haye ; been placed before the Governor bad any | relation to these family brawls he might well dismiss them without ceremony. ; They would be undeserving of his ; consideration. But, while it may be true that | political interest incited the imvestigation and | detection of the illegal acts of the Police Com- | missioners, that fact does not lessen their | guilt, and cannot be accepted as a reason why | the penalty of the law should not follow their | conviction. Jt is immaterial what motives may prompt a prosecution. When a person | charged with au offence against the law has | been fairly tried and fonnd guilty the public | satoty demands his punishment, no matter | whether the crime has beer brought home to him through malice from the purest | motives. The plea of the Mayor amounts to nothing unless it can be shown that political | considerations obtained the indictment of Gardner and Charlick, influenced the verdict or trolled the action of the Judge in the condact , of the trial and in the sentence he pro- By accepting the plea as directly or indirectly a justification of the reappoint- ment of the convicted men, or even as an excuse for the action of the Mayor in seeking | so-called “legal opinion” to excuse their reappointment, Governor Dix would impugn | the honesty of the Grand Jury who found the indictment and of the judge and jury by whom the accused were tried. The Gov- ernor will hesitate to take any snch course, and the Mayor should have accepted the trial wnd the verdict in good faith, as the Governor will accept them. What value would either of them have set upon a plea advanced by ‘Tweed after his conviction, that his prosecu- tion had been brought about by his political What would they think of a Mayor who, as soon a8 ‘T'weed has filled his term of imprisonment, sbould seek a favor- able “opinion’’ from a Corporation Counsel, and, backed by such # precious document, should place the violater of the law back into the position he filled before bis conviction, nonneed, opponents? on the plea that the law does not vender him | ineligible for reappointment * The Governor bas a heavy responsibility him hpon in the matter of these charges | agwinst the Mayor of New York. If hia de- cision should uphold the Mayor and fail to | remove him from office, it will justify the reappoiutinent of any faithless public officer who may hereafter be indicted, con- | vieted: and sentenced for breaking the laws and violating his oath of office, tt will practically nullify the Revised Statutes which | pronounce the forfeiture of office as the penalty of the commission of an infamons | crime or for the violation of the official oath, It will paralyze the arm of justice and render absard any future atterapt to prosecute an an- taithfal public official, It will cast an unjust imputation on the court and jury before whom Gardner and Charlick were tried. It will indorse aud justify the mischievous practice that hax grown ap nader the present municipal goverameat of aceking ‘legal covinigua” mady to vege as a clowi Yohiad of the jury against the evidence, and con- | which the most glaringly illegal acts may be perpetrated. [t will be accepted asa proof that the power vested in the Governor to re- move the Mayor on charges, the same as & sheriff can be removed, is regarded as a fiction and is never to be acted upon; for if the reappointment of Gardner and Charlick is to be justified, and if the Mayor's action is to be indorsed, the violation of a public official's oath will hereafter be considered a trifling matter. It will be well for Governor Dix to bear in mind that the charges growing out of the at- tempt to restore Messrs, Gardner and Char- lick to the Police Commission are not the only offences of which Mayor Havemeyer is ac- cased. In January last a statement of the public debt was made public by Comptroller Green, in which it was alleged that warrants to the-amount of six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars had been drawn and paid, when, in fact, such warrants had never been detivered, but wore still in the possession of the Comptroller, and the money due on them remained in the city treasury. This false exhibit made it appear that the public debt was one million three hundred and thirty thousand dollars jess than its true amount, for the reason that the sum of six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars was deducted | from the debt, as if it had been actually de- creased so much, and the amount remained also as a credit in the treasury, to be again deducted from the gross debt. The war- rants thus alleged to have been paid by the Comptroller prior to December 31, 1873, were not paid until January and February following, and interest upon them was paid up to the day of final settlement, thus proving that they were actually part and parcel of the public debt, bearing interest, long betore December 31. The Commission- ers of Accounts, on examining the Comptrol- ler's and Chamberlain's accounts, found that the debt on December 31, 1873, was six hun- dred and sixty-five thousand dollars more than the Comptroller had represented it to be, And their report disclosed this tact. Mayor Have- meyer, having obtained possession of this re- port in violation of law, referred it to the Comptroller and Chamberlain, of whose dy partments it was an investigation. As soon as it was discovered that the report exposed Mr. Green's false exhibit of the public debt the Mayor insisted that it should be altered. The Commissioners of Accounts at first re- fused to falsity their report, but were eventn- ally coerced into the improper act by the Mayor, under threats of removal in case of re- fusal. This is one of the charges that yet re- mains to be made against Mr. Havemeyer, but it is to be hoped that the Governor will render further trouble unnecessary by his action on the indictment now under examination, The Freach Assembly. Adjourument or dissolution is the question of the hour at Versailles. The exciting scene which took place in the French Assembly yesterday indicates that the subject has become one of intense interest to the nation. The movement for a recess is likely to prevail a3 a party compromise, but of this there can be no certainty antil after the conclusion of the de- bate, which is fixed for to-morrow, the 29th instant. In one respect adjournment would be the wisest course to follow. It would give the country time to think aud make up its mind. It would be a benetit to the members of Assembly quite as much as it would be to the country at large. They | need repose and leisure for reflection, 1b might be a gain to President MacMahon himself. The fury of debate and the irritation produced by conflicting sentiment cannot but worry him. In the interval, before reas- | sembling after the recess, the factions would have time to find out their strength. On the other hand it must be admitted that France is impatient and that long waiting has made her weary and anxious for the end. Something decisive is wanted, and a recess before dis- solution, which must come as soon 4s the re- cess is ended, will only prolong the uncer- tainty. The great fight must be fought at the ballot box, and when all ranks and classes of the people are anxious for the fray it is qnes- | tionable whether delay is desirable. If the people desire a republic they and they alone have the right to say so. [f they are in favor of the monarchy or the empire the ballot box must be allowed to tell. The time bas come when the people must be allowed to speak, ‘Tow Kronaprrna Manta.—The sacecessful abduction of little Charley Ross in Phila- delphia, successful so far on account af the immunity enjoyed by the inbaman child stealers, has produced already the inevitable result, fresh candidates in this new field of crime. A case of this kind occurred in this city on Saturday afternoon. A beggar, the best disguise for a child stealer, presented her- | self at a house down town, and, while asking for alms, she took advantage of the occasion and made off with a three-year-old child. A mere accident, but a fortuitous one, discovered the stolen child the same evening in a tenement house, whither the alms solicitor had conveyed her. The worthlessness of the | police of Philadelphia in failing to discover the abductors of Charley Ross has undoubtedly | been the means of inaugnfating an era of child stealing, which can only be stopped by stern, swift justice on any perpetrators caught j in the act. Three of the persons arrested there on Sunday on suspicion of having | some knowledge ot the crime were released | yesterday. The detectives seemed plunged into a slongh of inanity and stupidity, out of which they cannot be roused by the strongest { denunciatious of the public. Here is a good opportunity for au example which our authori- | ties shonld not neglect, A term of years in the State Prison for each criminal will soon put a stop to the nefarions practice, { | rec ue Tun Yacarine Season.—The fleet of the | Brooklyn Yacht Cinb, on its annnal crnise, | reached New London yesterday. The weather has been snch as to give to the amateur. sailor every means of fully enjoying the | pleasares of skimming the bine main, This delightful season will cause an ine creased interest in the sport among landsmen, thousands of whom might be converted from morose skeletons into jolly jesters if they would but try such an antidote for the curse of dyspepsia, A charming race occurred on the Hudson yesterday between yachts of the Hadsou Central Yacht Clab for ed vee Grianall, | asilver prize wou anc a second time to compotilors by Come Side Glances at Plymoath Charch. ‘The question of Mr, Beecher’s guilt or in- | nocence io the terrible charge made againat him remains in abeyance. Upon that ques- tion judgment has not been reached, nor will it come from the tribunal selected by Mr. Beecher, The testimony would close the case were it not for the letters written by Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. Wo have ana- lyzed these letiers, and until we have Mr. Beecher’s promised explanation of them we can only arrive at one conclusion—that their authorship makes it impossible for him to re- main longer in Plymouth church as a teacher of morals and religion. Nor do we see how such an explanation can be made. That, how- ever, is with Mr. Beecher, and until be has the final opportunity it would be unjust for us to pass a final opinion. But what a picture of Plymouth church religion we have in these invistigatious so far as they go! Here is Mr. Bowen, a heading saint, who carries Mr. Beecher a letter de- manding his instant withdrawal from the pulpit under threats of exposure. Here is Mr. Tilton, another brilliant and most prom- ising saint, writing that letter, not as an in- jured man seeking reparation, but to please Mr. Bowen, who wished to destroy a rival newspaper! It never seems to have occarred to the holy minds of Mr. Bowen and Mr. Tilton that if Mr. Beccher had called a policeman and given them into custody they could have been tried for blackmail, nor does it seem that Mr. Beecher thought of doing this prompt and manly thing. Again, we have a saint of Plymouth church locking his pastor in a room and denouncing him as the author of the ruin of his hearth. He had known this fact for months ; he had not spoken of it be- cause he had business relations with the pas- tor and his friends; but these business rela- tions had ceased, and the wrong at once assumed new life and was made to secure the prompt adjustment of this most pious claim. ‘Then we have the pastor of Plymouth church, an apostle of the new dispensation, asking a parishioner to give him a letter of exonera- tion, A day or {wo after we have Mr. Moulton, a third saint, armed with a loaded ptstol, compelling the pastor to retarn the jetter. We wonder that so little attention has been paid to this loaded pistol, for the story is one of the most dramatic, as it seems to be one of the most authentic, incidents in the drama. Why does not the Plymonth chaw- pion of muscular Christianity explain this memorable interview? What did he mean to gain by the loaded pistol? What was the in- ducement that led him to go thus armed into the presence of Mr. Beecher? Did he warn Mr, Beecher of his weapon? Had Mr. Beecher any intimation that the Plymouth saint was armed? And supposing Mr. Beecher had not returned the paper given him by Mrs. Tilton what asd Would the godly Moulton have made of his pistol ? Tt would naturally seem that Mr. Beecher would have called another policeman and sent his Christian antagonist to the station house to answer the charge of carrying con- cealed weapons, just as soon as the saints be- forementioned had been tried tor the utterance of a threatening blackmailing letter. There would have been an explosion and disclosures to be sure; but what a different attitude Mr. Beecher would have held trom what he holds now! On the contrary, he enters into a covenant with those who menaced him with rnin, according to a fourth saint, the saintly Carpenter, he offered to divide his fortune and fame with one of them, and he dictates a letter to another in which he wishes he was dead. Whether the pious Moulton had the pistol in his pocket or not when he acted as the amannensis of the act of degradation snd shame does not appear in any accessible narrative of these proceedings. But Mr. Beecher does not seem to have had the feelings natural to a man who had been thus menaced and humiliated, for within a few weeks he thus apostrophizes his Christian asso- ciate: —‘'Many, many triends has God raised up to me, but to uo one of them has He ever given the opportunity and the wisdom so to serve me as you have.” ‘His hand it was that tied up the storm that was ready to burst upon our heads.”’ How far Mr. Beecher’s confidence in the one friend of his life still continues it would be curious to know, especially as we read in the letter of contrition these lines: “In trust with F. D. Moniton."” “I have trusted this to Moulton in confidence.” Any- where outside of Plymonth charch the pos- session of a letter so shielded would have been a trayt as sacred as death. But one of the accepted phases of this extraordinary manifestation of religion, morals and honor is that no one has questioned the possession by Mr. Tilton of a letter ‘‘trusted to Moulton in confidence.’’ We should think Mr. Moul- ton would so far break his rule of silence as to illustrate this point. Whatever this investi- gation may determine, it wilt be sure that before any other of this holy man’s friends introst him with any document “in coufi- dence’’ they will be apt to ask whether his confidence is necessarily shared with ‘Theodore Tilton. id Mr. Beecher's present attitade, however, is only his own work. Whatever his offence or his crime, his misery began when he pot- | tered with it; when he took to covenants and “desires ;'' to writing letters in confidence to persons who wrote shorthand. For two years he had a straggle with fate that brings to us some of the scenes in “Inferno.” In one letter, written to ‘Dear Frank,’ bat somehow in the portfolio of ‘Theodore, he dwells upon this agony. ‘Theodore’s temperament is such that the future, even if temporarily earned, would De absolutely worthless,’’ ‘*He had condoned his wife's fanit.’” “He had enjoined upon me" “not to betray his wite uor leave bis children to a blight.” ‘There's no use trying any fur- ther.” “I havea strong feeling upon me, and it brings great peace, that lam spendi my last Sanday and preaching his last sermon,’’ “But to live on the shorn and ragged edge of auxiety, remorse, fear, despair, and yet to put ou an appearance of serenity and happiness, cannot be endured much Jonger.’’ We wish we could think these are the words of inno- cence, but they do not seem to be so, nor to be consistent witb any theory of that nature that has as yet been advanced by Mr. Beecher and his friends. At the sama ti the investigation, these side glances at Ply- mouth church and the inside of its Christian work, and the “brotherly love’ and “charity” that animate thove of its saints that appear in this ingvicy, aeg not wholesome, Th Qlucia- %, whatever the result of | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1874,—1TRIPLE | or who, more correctly, see only the good of | | record of Mr. Roberts and of his associates to SHEET, tianity cannot make a better development of its influence than the Brooklyn harvest, then the seed sown in many of our vineyards is seed sown in vain, The American Cardinal. Our learned and ingenious correspondent, | “Prudentius,” in a letter addressed to us on | Sunday, gave a concise history of the relations of the Pope toward the Sacred College. ‘“*Pra- dentius’’ shows how custom has dictated the appointment of cardinals, and that the pope must follow ‘‘the teachings of traditional wis- dom." In some instances, he says, Popes have been guided by their own knowledge of persons to be honored, and in other instances by what is due to sovereigns aud natious. In one of these classes we have cardinals like Wiseman and Cullen, “men of eminent learn- ing and ripe virtue ;” in the other, cardinals like Bonaparte and Hohenlohe, ‘appointed to secure or to keep the sapport and co-opera- tion of governments."" ‘The reason why the United States do not come within either of these classes is that America is a new country, that Congress is too mean to send an ambassa- dor to the Pope, and that other considerations prevent the honor being awarded to an Ameri- can prelate of ‘eminent learning and ripe virtue,” as it has been awarded to Wiseman and Cullen. There is one point that our learned cor- respondent overlooks, and that is the declara- tion recently made by His Holiness that in no country is he so much Pope as in America; for here he can say and print what he pleases. If, then, America has given the Pontiff the highest measure of treedom he enjoys in the Christian world, is it too little to expect that in the distribution of the supreme honors of the Church he should torget the Catholic fold in the United States? If tradition and custom do not show him how this is to be done, may we not hope that he will find in the attributes of infallibility, with which he has so recently been clothed, a means of seeing how it can be done? The Papacy is now pass- ing through sore trials. It bas depended for centuries upon the support of the kings? And now the kings abandon it. Hus the time not come for it to rest upon the people, and how better make this alliance thau to pay the com- pliment of a cardinalate to the United States ? For we agree with “Prudentius” that ‘“‘when- ever Providential circumstances will allow the present Pope or his successors to reward dis- tinguished merit in the New World by eleva- tion to this sacred dignity, they sball find in South America prelates kindred in soul to the martyred Mosquera, and im the North men who can be worthy heirs in station and merit of the Carrolls and the Englands, the Chevrer- uses, the Kenricks and the Hugheses, just ag actoas the Canadian frontier mea shall not fail to grace, with equal learning and piety, the ancient see of Montmorency-—Laval."’ Floods tn Penosylvania and in Kurope, Water has not yet exhausted its power for evil in this country at this time, as will be seen by our account of the flood at Pittsburg and Allegheny City, Pa., on Sunday evening, by which nearly two hundred lives were lost aud property to the value of thousand. of dollars swept away. While the people in large numbers were gathered in the charches a cloud of inky blackness concen- trate over the locality, and with little warn- ing burst with teariul force and aa thongh the heavens were opened. Houses and bridges were swept away like chaff, and the doomed inhabitants—men, women and chil- dren—hurried to destruction in a moment. We also receive by cable particulars of a ter- rible storm in Moravia, by which many houses were demolished and but tew of the inhabi- tants escaped with their lives, Can it be that | the comet as a parting salute gave us a whisk of its tail and disturbed our atmosphere to such an extent thatsuch unwarrantable tears on the part of Jupiter Pluvius followed? A Serious Question. ‘The Utica Herald, alluding to the third term discussion, says ‘“‘it started as a newspaper joke’’ in these columns, ‘‘but some duil peo- ple took it for serious work, Harm has been done by making people familiar with the thought. Perhaps our namesake now dreads the devil which it meant to play with.” It would be a poor compliment to the American people if a bit of pleasantry on the part of the Heratp should become one of the most widely discussed subjects that we remem- ber in our political literature. If the Utica Herald has any remembrance of the somewhat celebrated series of articles that first foreshadowed the controversy that now excites the country, and the dangers that | threaten republicanism, it must know that none more grave and earnest were ever ad- dressed to the nation. Mr. Sumner was not given to jesting on national snbjects, and we recall now the extraordinary impression the discussion made upon him. He certainly did not regard it a4 a “newspaper joke.” Without referring especially to the points so often presented we repeat that the great danger of a possibility of the third term, as it then ap- peared, still exists. Uhat danger consists in the apathy of earnest republicans, like the editor of the Utica Herald, who hesitate to put the good of the country above the party, | the country in the success of the party. Gen- | eral Grant is to-day the strongest man in | ciliatory in his manner, | inference does Mr. Tilton injustice, that at no the United States, His party is dominaut. Tt he chooses to be nominated he can secure the nomination, and there is nothing in the | prevent their sopport of that nominution. ‘This is certainly a situation of grave danger. | {t is most assuredly not a ‘newspaper joke.” What should be done is, that earnest honest republicans should declare: first, that under no circumstances would they support Gen- ral Grant for a third term; and, sec- ond, that in order to prevent a re. currence of the present danger the con- | stitution should be amended that no President could bold office tor more than on ‘The real danger is in the vast power that has been allowed to crystallize around the Presidency and the Senate, Diminish this power, make the Presidency an offices more | honor than authority, limit the fume- | tions of the Senate, and this problem will be solved. The obstacle to its solution is the strength of Girant and the terror he hae in- | spred in the minds of cantions mea like Mr. Roberts, so term, ot ‘Tan Sranma anno Cusan (oaces continue to fight in quite a lively manner,,as will be sequ by de patches from Uavana, $$ Ren, Was It Blackmail? Mr. Beecher might have known, had he been a man of affairs, ond certainly any Tombs fawyer could have told him, o diffi. culty that began with a threat of blackmail and which had a loaded pistol as an incident, conld only have had one resnit. So the | covenant was broken to the winds, and Mr. Beecher himself was again addressed on the subject of money by one of ‘Tilton’s intimate friends. It is proper to know that Mr. Tilton, as soon as he learned that money had been demanded and refused, wrote an in- diguant note denying that he would accept money from his enemy. But he has nover held the act of this triend inconsistent with friendship, and we have no reason to doubt that Mr. Carpenter might have been the author of a covenant as eloquent as that im- spired by Mr. Wilkeson, had Mr. Cleveland, as Mr. Beocher's representative, been more con- Tt may be that this period of thi8 controversy had he a desire to make money. But he would probably also | say that the letter addressed to Mr. Beecher, demanding his retirement from the pulpit, waa not blackmail, and that he did not write another letter to Mr. Bowen threatening ex- posures, saying he would print it anless his claim was paid in dealing with Plymouth church and ita representative saints, like Beecher and Bowen, Tilton and Moulton, we are constantly surprised at the view holy men, blessed with the drippings of the Brooklyn sanctuary, take of affairs and circumstances about which the world long since bas made up its mind. What was needed at the outset of the whole proceeding was a policeman. Avnican Expionations.—The interest ox- cited in the proposed expedition into Africa under the command of Mr. H. M. Stanley, and directed by the London Daily Telegraph and the Hexarp, will be comprehended from an extract we reprint from the London Times. Lieutenant Lovett-Cameron, who went out to succor Livingstone, writes that he was at Ujiji in Febraary. This is the point where Living- stone was discovered by Mr. Stanley. The information farnished by the Lieutenant ia not of a high character. The living is good. Fish, eggs and milk are cheap. From all be could hear Livingstone was right in his speculations about the source of the Nile, and he means to “cruise around the lake for e couple of months.’’ The country between Unyanyembe and Ujiji, once fertile and pros- perous, has become desolate, ‘owing to the depopulation caused by the slave trade." He reports that Arab traders, mainly those in the slave intorest, threw all manner of gbstacleg io, his way! that all the money he received origi- nally has been exhausted, and that a contri- bution of ten thousand dollars would bring him home. It would not at all surprise us if Stanley's expedition of discovery were again to become an expedition of relief. We trast both expeditions may succeed. Africa has been opened, and the more light we throw upon it now the better for civilization and humanity. Tax Ackansas Ws, which the Congres sional sub-committee, now sitting at Little Rock, are endeavoring to unravel, seems to grow more intricate with each day's session, the testimony of the witnesses upon either side being directly contradictory, and leaving the question as to who perpetrated the elec- tion frauds in the same condition of uncer- tainty as heretofore. A resolution has been introduced into the Constitutional Convention to declare all the offices vacant from that of Governor to the constable, and this will probably be found the only practicable sola- tion of the question. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, See Bishop Colengo has been ill Odger pays bis creditors 4 shilling oa the pound Generai Sherman is visiting the battic folds of Northern Virginia. Mr. Lucias Robinson, of Fimtra, is stopping at the Hoffman House. Generai J. N. Knapp, of Governor Diz's sted, we at the Windsor Hote). Postmaster John F, Smith, of Albany, ls staytag: at the Fituh Avenue Hotel. It is not true that Mr. Parton is writing & viography of Tom vollins. “Plymouth Sewerage,” they call in the West—ia the South “Nest Pouung.’? General Josep RK. Anderson, of Richmond, has, arrived at the Hoffman House. Proteasor J, 8, Schanck, of Princetou College, a sojourning at the Astor House, Ex-Governor H. C, Warmoth, of Louisiana, ts re~ siding at the Fifth Avenae Hotel. Jn Delaware the price for calling the Ooart “ms bloated vld rhinoceros’ is just $5. It is now announced that Karl Russell will pabltes a volume covering sixty years of public life, Prince Napoleon bas left Paris for (ueppe, where he intends remaining until the ist of August. Mr. Gladstone was present as a witness (ae other day at the Oid Bailey in an action for !ibel. £x-Congressman William 8. Upson, of Ohio, ts among the recent arrivals at the st. Nichotss Hotel. Lientenant Commander Silas Casey, Jr., United States Navy, is quartered at tbe Metropolitan Hotel. ACNicago father whose son wanted to enter Columbia College deckaed becanse it{s woo aesr Brookisa. Colonel Thomas A. Scovt, President of the Pena- syivania Railroad Company, tas apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Lieatenant Aboer A. Merrill, Professor of Mile tary Tactics at Aranerss Coliege, 14 registered a6 the Everett House. General B. R. Cowan, Assistant Secretary of the Ivtertor, arrived (rom Washiugsou yesieraur at tie Windsor Hotel. Mra, Ward, of Knoxville, is still besteged hy the crum crasadera, The siege is longer and more | threatening than Longstreet’s ip 1465, Major Gencral Thomas P. Mott, of the Peyptiaa ariny, will sailip the sreamstip Qbetbe todas (oc Kurope, whence ne will proceed to Egy {1 Henry Clay Dean shonid get Mr. Schurz’s piace in the Senate spoviess ahitt bosoms would ae louger be a point of etiquette aniversally observed. JH. Pyles, of Panola county, Miss, @ iow months ago convicted of stealing law, Dooks, tas been elecied Presiveat of the State Normat Cot~ The Corporation of London hae presented the, freedom of che city to Si Bartle Frere, im recogme tion of tis services In suppressing te Zansivar! wiave brane, Mr. Dieracii’d afternoon conferences with Ue peers have heen discontinued for the season, Why they Dave been discontinued 1 as much a mate | ol mystery as were be tneetings themselves. Kiadarraaisch, (he German Punch, putiinhes set extraordinary statement to the effect tat tae! Prince tinpertat of France waa “plucked! a& Woolwich dlemy, Whe be weal up for bin am amination the other day. A Kentucky judge is anxious to pal John Cockerill, editor of the Cineinnat Aageurer wo sicep with the ald of & Derringer ab twenty paces. Cogkertl makes Woo good & paper, aud, at CoutHa, decuaes bo geder a COND,