The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, LONDON OFFICE OF. THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. Volame -XXXIX ANUSEMESTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | woop THE DEAD WIT. | road tre P er ay 0PM. TAK STREETS | BF NEW ¥ ai : closes at 100 P.M. Louis didrich and Miss Sophie Miles. NiBLt |ARDEN, wre and Houston streets.— | EeeE Lise, vit OF ACADIA, ats. Mg closes at 10:45 B, M 2 Wheelock and Missione Burke. et ae OPERA HOUSE, TONY Past ‘ tee RTAINMENT, at 8 P, M.; | Bowery.—VARIETY closes at 10% PM METRE @% broadwry.—Parisian Car )POLITAN THEATRE, can Dancers at 8 P. M, VARD ave Bue EXHOMAS! CON. | CENTRAL } street and Seve P, M.; closes at Fittye CERT, Broadway, corner of | DAY. Open from 10 A ROMAN i cea e-oRaxp | s uc_and Twenty-sixth ‘street — | eae EONGRESS OF NATIONS, at lsd P. M. and h street.-LONDON BY | itdied away after a moment's wonder. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET: —_—_——_—_—— ll Pamaceas for Peace anid War. Every now and then we.havea lull in the | atmosphere of European politics, and wise | men bid us to be happy-in the anticipation of a great peace. We do not know how often and ‘‘the peace of the Cantinent assured.” A | bad tired of war and conquest and each nation | bad had as much war as it craved, we had @ season of love and harmony which was | rudely broken by the falling of the Bastile and the catastrophe of the French Revolu- tion. Then it became necessary for the kings to take up arms against the people, and from this they continued to take up arms against each other. So it continued trom Valmy to Waterloo, the bloodiest quarter of a century that has been seen since Hannibal's day. After Waterloo we bad a holy and precious aud fraternal time—the Napoleon of war sleep- | ing at St. Helena while Louis Philippe, as the Napoleon of peace, was ruling France. Every now and then there was a rumbling in the heavens as of thunder, and a flash as though lightning was in the skies; but it was only summer lightning—a quarrel between Palmers- | ton and Thiers about Egypt, or some little Carlist eruption m Spain, which has been | smoking for forty years as it smokes now—and We do not know how long this Waterloo spell would have remained unbroken had not a Napoleonic | empire come ‘which was peace.’’ So anxious was the new Emperor to keep the peace that he began to construct armies and threaten all who did not support his policy. As emperors do not construct armies uselessly it was found that Napoleon had a use for his. So he made | war upon Russia and upon Mexico and upon Austria and finally upon Germany, with what result all the world knows. TRIPLE SHEET. | New York, Wednestay, July 29, 1874. THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER 5 RESORTS. | To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PuDLIC: — The New York Henatp 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 Suxpay Henarp along the line. Newsdealers | and others are notified to send in their’orders to the Henaxn office as early as possible. | ee ee i From our reports this morning the probabilities | ere that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy | with light local rains. \ Wart Srazzt Yzstznpar.—Stocks were firmer upon a more active market. Gold went off to 109, and closed at 1094, Tae Assistant AtperMEN are looking for information from the Comptroller as to the true condition of the city finances. We wish they may get it. Frexce Internationa, Recatra.—By our special cable despatch we learn that the inter- national regatta organized by the Club de France has furnished American yachtsmen with an opportunity of distinguishing them- selves, Although the Enchantress, represent- ing America, had the misfortune to be be- calmed all night, she managed by clever sail- ing to get in first. ance the rach will, however, be decided in fivor of the Coriana. We are glad tosee that the French are waking up to the importance of cultivating amatggr seamanship. It will do much to remove the antipathy to the sea only too prevalent in France, and may be the means of improving considerably French sea- manship. Icztanp.—The announcement that Mr. Cy- rus W. Field will go to Iceland for the cele- bration. to be accompanied by Mr. Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, shows the inter- est that is felt by-Americans in this new and interesting country. The peculiar position of Iceland in the geography of the world leads us to hope for the best results from these in- vestigations. the command of Dr. lL I. Hayes, the cele- brated Arctic explorer, will make a thorough *Xamination of the island. The subject is one apon which the Doctor is well informed, and his reports will be valuable contributions to science and history. Srezzt Osstructions.—Mr. Schaffer, Super- intendent of the Bureau of Encumbrances, says that his department has been practically sus- pended during the past few months, owing to the persistent refusal of the Comptroller to pay the expenses of the removal of street ob- structions, although obliged to do so by law. The financial Czar of the city seems to hold the law in very little reverence, as he is con- stantly running foul of it. Meanwhile un- sightly signs extend across every street and the sidewalks are rendered impassable in many places, and all because there is no money to pay for the removal of such nuisances. Tar Great Union Muxrixe on Moxmovrr Bartpe Freip.—Oup patriotic readers, we are sure, will peruse with interest and pleasure the special report which we publish this morn- | ing of the reception of the Fifth Maryland regiment yesterday, and of the honors show- ered upon it in behalf of the State, the people and the soldiers of New Jersey, at Freehold and on the famous revolutionary battle field of Monmouth. The spirit of patriotic bar- mony and fraternity which governed this re- markable assemblage of republicans and dem- ocrats, of Northern and Southern men, of Union and Confederate soldiers, in the name and for the cause of the Union, is certainly ealeulated to make the day of this cordial meeting on the historic field of Monmouth memorable in our political history. Tae Ixptans.-—-The usual contradictory re- ports from the frontier leave us in doubt whether or nol the tribes seriously contem- plate a general war. Agents see the same events with different eyes, and very little re- | liance can be placed on their reports or state- | ments. It is evident from the number of out- mages reported from the distant settlements that unusual agitation exists among the In- dian tribes. It is useless to argue with these hot-headed warriors. them within bounds is to make them under- siand that any acts of violence they may com- mit will be punished severely and promptly | A volley of rifle bullets has | more effect than all the speechifying long- | * by the arwy. winded peacemakers may address to the ecalp-taking warriors. . Owing to time allow- | The Henaup expedition, under | The only way to keep | During his pauses from war, while his army needed a resting spell for equipment ; aud reeruitimg, nothing pleased Napoleon more than to ‘‘summon a Congress.” The cannon would scarcely cease when it would be whispered in the official newspapers that in the ‘interest of peace” a Congress would assemble st Paris. This espe- | cial Congress, it was hoped, would finally | settle all unsettled questions—arrange the Rhine boundaries, pacify Poland, adjust the boundaries between Denmark and Prussia, discipline the Ozar for his tyranny over reluc- tant subjects, compel Russia to respect the armies of the Sultan, and, by removing every | pretext for quarrel between the nations, insure perpetual peace. But somehow no good came from these sanguine and beneficent anticipations, for Germany had also been con- structing an army in the ‘interest of peace," and so resolute was its Emperor to preserve peace that he actually made three wars in six years. Three wars in this short time are enough to satisfy even a warlike Hohenzollern, certainly, we think, to satisfy a nation like the Germans, who do not care to throw a hundred thousand of their sons into the ditches and trenches when it suits the will of an Emperor as august as this anointed King. So now we see a disposi:ion towards a Congress. To be sure the Congress is nom- inally at the invitation of the Czar, but we all | know that, since Sedan, at least, Russian diplomacy is only another name for the diplomacy of Bismarck. That astute states- man does not caro to imitate Napoleon in any dramatic attempt to settle all the angry questions of Europe ata Congress. He knows how absurd it would be to hope for such a result, But no eountry has so little to lose by a Congress as Germany or so much to gain. The burning questidns of Europe are German questions. Tbe one thought that dwells in all minds is, “Can Germany and France live | much longer without war?’ What Ger- many wants is time and opportunity to | consolidate the fruits of her three victorious campaigns. She is rich in newly acquired pos- sessions, in spoil wrenched from Austria, Den- mark and France. She desires to gain from some tribunal that will in some way represent Europe, or at least speak with the authority of an alliance, an indorsement of her right to hold and enjoy this spoil. It is true that scandal has arisen because of the manner in which much of it was acquired. People have charged her with violating treaties in Schles- wig and Holstein, of dishonoring the sacred principle of nationality in the annexation of Lorraine. And although not of an over sensi- tive conscience on these matters, how painful it would be to dritt into a war, even with France, in antagonism to the public opinions of Europe! So, therefore, if there can be pro- cured from any European Congress the ex- pression of a belief that Prussia should not be compelled to observe the Treaty of Prague, and that she was right in annexing Alsace and Lorraine—if, in other words, it can be declared | that Prussian force represented European jus- | tice—then Germany will have gained a pre- cious diplomatic victory. ‘To be sure no considerations of this nature appear on the surface of the speculations | attending the meeting of the Brusseis Con- gress. In the interesting historical résumé of the Congress, its purpose and origin, which was printed yesterday, nothing is more attrac- tive than the schedule of ideas that will be | considered. We believe the usages of war are to be amended. What is good and what is evil in this bloody business of massacre, rapine, devastation and death? What powers shall be conferred upon commanding gene- rals in an occupied country? Can a brave garrison that will not surrender be refused | quarter? Should troops be armed with ex- | plosive bullets? Would an army be justified | in bombarding an open, undefended town? | | Who are spies and who are neutrals? What | status shall be given to newspaper correspond- le nts? Are they neutrals or spies or pris- oners of war? Who are non-combatants ? | What laws shall determine what is and what all distracting questions have been “settled” | | hundred years ago, after Frederick the Grent | \ing in the Geneva Conference. jbecome of them? England has not shown England will be regarded os the Germans | or town inthe Sate, It might be imagined insisted upon regarding the franc-tireurs in France, as spies and mutineers to be captured | | England and Holland and Belgium, and other nations, where there is not a large standing | army, toarm atonce. A principle like this would make America powerless in the event of the landing of an attacking army, and give the German columns a clear and practically unde- fended road from Dover to London, Furthermore, we have maritime questions to be considered. England and France have a ied navy. England especially is powerful enough to drive the flag of any other nation that no vessel belonging to a country with which another country is at war shall be at- tacked, provided she is a merchantman on a peaceable errand and not carrying stores to ithe enemy. The effect of such a law would be ‘to limit and practically destroy the influence sof England's naval power as an antagonist of cher enemy's commerce. Ifa nation can make ‘war and, at the same time, continue her com- smerce unmolested, then there is renewed temptation to war in the removal of one of its ‘most formidable dangers. And so from this )to other questions! These are the three rules jin reference to the rights and duties of neutrals adopted in our Washington Treaty and result- What is to any undue enthusiasm in their behalf. Will :the Congress be more considerate? So long ;as the Congress confines itself to explosive ! bullets and the treatment of newspaper cor- respondents its deliberations will be of about the same value as those of our own Mr. ; Bergh and his Society for the Prevention ; of Cruelty to Animals. So long as its } members confine themselves to the sentiment }of war and the passage of humane and complain. Such meetings do good in this, that they give the essayists employment. But war is war, and no Congress can invent a panacea by which it can be made as harm- less as peace. overthrow, and the only Congress that can moderate it is the army which has the largest number of guns. We are convinced that this Congress has some graver purposes in view than any that have been alleged; that its in- tention is to commit the Powers represented in its sessions to some new policy on inter- national questions. Such a decision, how- ever, would seem to be impossible, consider- ing the jealousies and distrust that now per- vade the diplomacy of Europe, and the reso- lution on the part of England, at least, to consent to no such amendment of the laws of war as will place her wealth and unarmed population, and more especially her tremen- dous navy, at the mercy of great military nations like Germany, Russia and France. The on Unfaithful Public Officers. Mayor Havemeyer sent.a communication to the Board of Assistant Aldermen, at their meeting the day before yesterday, the tone of which will meet with general approval. The Assistant Aldermen had at a prior session adopted a resolution requesting the Commis- sioners appointed for the opening of Seventy- third street, eastof Third avenue, to pro- ceed at once aud complete their labors, so that the street might be made available to the property owners. The Mayor in returning this resolution without his approval reminds the Assistant Aldermen that the Commis- sioners to whom these instructions are ad- dressed are William Chalmers, Thomas Coman and Cornelius J. Farley; that these persons were appointed some time ago by Judge Cardozo; that they “belong to an era which has now happily passed,” and Mayor that he does not think it desirable “to invest them with any new vital- ity.” Mr. Havemeyer’s letter was no doubt prompted by the fact that one of these Commissioners, Thomas Coman, is under in- dictment for a misdemeanor committed while he held a position in the city government, and involving a violation of his oath of office. Mr. Coman has never been tried on the in- dictment, for the reason that he thought it more advisable to absent himselt temporarily | from the city than to stand the risk of a trial. | Nevertheless, a man over whose head hangs an indictment for malfeasance in office ought not, as Mayor Havemeyer implies, to holda public trust, and it would not conduce to the interests of the city to invest such a person with any ‘“‘new vitality’ after he has been once disposed of. It is a pity that a similar sense of the pro- Mayor Havemeyer in the case of the two Po- lice Commissioners, Gardner and Charlick, who were invested with “new vitality” by the Mayor, not only while indictments were hanging over their heads, but after they had been tried and convicted of a misdemeanor involving a violation of their official oaths. Every person will agree with the Mayor that Thomas Coman is not a desirable person to be invested with a public trust, even of such secondary importance as a strect opening. But they will also insist that Gardner and Charlick, a‘ter having been found guilty of a violation of their oaths of office, and with other indictments hanging over them, were not proper persons to be iutrusted with the control of the police force of the city. It is to be regretted that the Mayor did not see his line ot duty as clearly in regard to his own Police Commissioners as in the case of Judge Cardozo’ s Commissioners for opening Seventy- third street. ‘The report of the Commissioners of Tax and Assessment answers completely the complaint so often made by country politicians that this city is not sufficiently taxed on its valuation. is not booty? How shall hostages and re- | So far from this charge being true the figures prisals be regarded? shall be bestowed prisoners of | war? These are the apparently innocent and nutural questions that are now about to be considered in this Belgium capital. comes another question of more value to na- tions like Russia and Germany than all the remainder of the schedule. that only regular troops shall carry on wars, and that the masses of the people shall be ex- upon cluded from resisting the inveder, or, if they | great do so, the attempt will be regarded as the | work of guerillas or outlaws. In other words, | if this principle is adopted, then no nation is | All | higher rate of tazation on New York assessed armed unless every citizen is # soldier. And what treatment | But here | prepared by the Commissioners show con- clusively that both personal property and real | estate are taxed in the city on a much higher | valuation than is country property. The State assessors seem to labor under the idea that because New York is rich she shonld be taxed ata much higher Tate than less pro- It is proposed | gressive districts. Ina fact, “there is something | like a desire to impose a fine on our commer- | cial activity. If New York possesses wealth, she has a right to contribute proportionately to the ex- penses of the State government; but there can be no justification for imposing a } the volunteer organizations of copntsy like | property than on property in any other city from the seas. Suppose this Congress enacts | | Christian resolutions no one will criticise or | and shot. Itat once becomes incumbent for | establishing so Cangerou; a precedent as in- War m dedeeabticninaa | Mr. Tilton demand a preliminary examina- | action against himself, and exhibit a ferocity | munity has shared in this shame, and it is no | latitude allowed in the cross-cxamination of | The publication of Mr. Tilton’s cross-exam- ‘ Z 4 | time for pistols or a policeman was in the tection due to the people was not realized by | beginning, that even students in political economy would understand the injustice and inexpediency of equality in taxition, and yet men charged with the important tynctions of assessing the property of the State allow their jealousy of this city to so blind them to the principles of right and justice that they insist on continuing ® vicious and unsound system. -It will be seen by the report that, while the assessments on personal property in the country districts have only increased about fifteen per cent in thirteen years, the increase in New York dur- ing the same period has been seventy-seven anda half percent. This is sufficient answer to those who pretend that New York does not contribute her fair share of taxation to the State expenses, Another Step in the Progress of Folly. The latest phase in the Beecher-Tilton scan- dal is the worst, An unknown man, appar- ently anxious to lift himself from the obscu- rity in which he has hitherto been compelled to live, and willing to obtain even-a question- able notoriety at the expense of other people's sins and misfortunes, has instituted proceed- ings against Theodore Tilton for criminal libel against the character of Henry Ward Beecher. Desirable as was some such action it was only desirable as coming from the inculpated party. No good can result from the meddlesome in- terference of this busybody. But there are always mon ready to eat heartily ata buz- zard’s feast, and this fellow seems to be one of them. Debauched by the evil example of his betters, he evidently wants to drag Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton before a police magistrate, regardless of their own desires in the matter, and so add another chapter of folly to all the follies that bave gone before. A police court is of all places the least suitable for hearing even a part of the evidence in the case, and it is to be hoped the Justice will either dismirs the case or simply hold Mr. Tilton for trial. We will not believe that this movement is made by connivance ; but should tion, as he can do when he appears to give bail this morning, he will, for all practical purposes, become a party to the criminal not exceeded by Hawthorne’s picture of Roger Chillingworth. We cannot regard this scandal in any other light than that of a serious calamity, not alone to all the parties concerned in it, but to the entire community. A popular and power- ful preacher has been stricken down before the flock by whom he was revered, and his usefulness is not only impaired, but utterly destroyed, unless he can explain the accusa- tions which are really based on his own let- ters, A wife and mother is publicly dis- honored by the husband who had condoned her fault. The husband has shown that he could basely forgive, and then, more basely still, turn upon and seek to destroy those whom he had forgiven. Ladies and gentle- men of high social standing and professed moral worth have busied themselves for years as common scandalmongers, all the time discussing the shame of these three as a phase of social life. The saints seem to have been turned into very devils and to have been bereft at once of everything like moral understanding and all sense of social decency. In acertain sense the com- wonder morality and religion suffer. But it is now too late to sit down and grieve over the wrongs of the past. They have become mat- ters of impartial investigation, and in the end they must become matters of solemn judg- ment. Unfortunately the inquiry so far has been without good results. The tribunal itself was not of a kind to commend it to the public. In conducting the investigation the committee hes made serious mistakes, especially in the the accuser and principal witness. Instead of confining the inquiry to the simple issue of the guilt or innocence of Mr. Beecher upon the charges preferred against him and to ascertaining the value of the proofs bear- ing upon the cas2, extraneous matters were permitted to be introduced on both sides, and a hired attorney was allowed tu practice | the pettifogging tactics of the police courts. ination destreyed the committee’s usefulness, and this imposes upon it the necessity of dis- solution. A calmer and safer tribunal—a tribunal having judicial authority—must hear and determine the case; but Heaven forbid that it shall be a police court, with 1 Mark Meddle as the master of ceremonies! The but now a different course must be pursued, while the busybody who has caused Tilton’s arrest ought to be bundled out of court for the trouble he has taken, In one aspect it matters very little whether the case proceeds another step. Mr. Beecher is already convicted, and the verdict will stand against him unless he makes his de- fence and exculpates himself. Even Theo- | dore Tilton, if he rejoices in such a sorrowful triumph, ought to be satisfied with the advan- tage he has gained. Unless Mr. Beecher speaks with a distinctness that will command belief ‘Tilton has had his wish and has destroyed his antagonist. In the present state of the case Tilton has no need of a police court examination. Beecher alone is on the defensive. If ‘Tilton is to be prose- cuted Beecher is the man to prosecute him. This, we believe, would be the wisest course; but it is for Mr. Beecher to determine whether it is the safest. No other man in all the world has the right to doit for him. For this reason the action of yesterday afternoon is in the nature of ar outrage, and such meddlesomeness cannot go unrebuked. Mr. Tilton was entitled to make his charges and he made them in his own way. We sternly rebuked everything which looked like interference with him in this re- spect. Mr. Beecher is also entitled to make his defence, and in his own way. If he fails to make it in the best way, that is his own matter, not Tilton’s, and especially is it no business of the unknown indi- vidual who turns up in the case like the meddlesome lawyer in the play. Mr. Beecher may not choose to prosecute; he may even insist upon waiting for the testi- mony of Moulton and the production of the originals of his letters before putting in his answer. Moulton ought to testify, so that the public may know whether or not he has been a too much trusted friend; bet Mr. Beeches Iknows that Moulton cannot be compelled to | | appear beford such a tribunal, and he cannot fail to appreciate the fact that the genuine ness of the letters isto be assumed until he traverses it. If he fails to prosecute Tilton or to answer the charges he must accept the popular verdict, but it would be an outrage to drag him into a police court and question him concerning his own and another's honor. The Pittsburg Calamity and Its Les- sons—Late Cataclysms in the Northern Hemisphere, The particulars of the direful disaster that visited devoted Pittsburg on Sunday evening are heartrending in every sense of the word. The account of such a rain storm with its awful consequences reads to us, far removed from the scene of its fury, like a chapter from romance. The floodgates of heaven seemed to have been thrown open to their widest ex- tent and to have converted the rills on the hill- sides surrounding the city into raging Niagaras. As the overwhelming volume of water poured down and rushed through tho densely popu- lated streets the giant-like force of the de- stroylng element was at once revealed. Tho ghastly details cannot be read without emo- tion. As the liberated waters of the reservoir on Mill River converted the fair valley be- neath them into a shapeless ruin, so the deluge of rain that fell on tho hills around Pittsburg swept a portion of the ill-fated city as if the destroying angel had passed over it. “So resistless was the torrent,’’ says a local paper, ‘‘that nothing in its path es- caped destruction—houses, fences, bridges, trees, all going down before it.” In one place the sewers burst and the water rushed under the houses, tossing them up in the air, tearing lampposts and gaspipes asunder and causing universal de- struction. During that awful Sunday night over two hundred lives were lost, the particu- lars of the disaster being more painiul, if pos- sible, than those of the Massachusetts calam- ity. In the presence of this appalling visita- tion the only feeling that can be experienced is one of awe and fear. No human foresight or power could have provided against it. No contractors, engineers or builders can be charged with negligence in this case. As an earthquake, or the sudden eruption of a vol- cano, the deluge came into a crowded city, and before its might the stoutest structures built by human hands melted away. From the dismal scene of death fetid odors arise, and through the dense mass of ruin workmen are digging day and night in search of the bodies of their neighbors and friends. The two cities, Pittsburg and Allegheny, and their suburbs for miles around, have suffered so terribly by the storm that the opportunity should not be allowed to pays to show that New York is truly the city of charities in ex- tending immediate aid to the sufferers. The terrible storms which have recently burst over various portions of the Northern Hemisphere may well elicit profound atten- tion. The tidings of the Nevada waterspout, followed by those of the Pittsburg tempest and cataclysm, were re-echoed over Europe by the similar storm in Moravia, of which the cable has informed us. «At this season of the year the Continent is heated, and the rising air columns must be replaced by immense in- draughts from the surrounding oceans. It is not remarkable that such indraughts furnish the vaporous material for the most terrific dis- turbances. The poet was not far from the truth in picturing these storm-liden currents as— Silent, borne along heavy and slow, With the big stores of steaming oceans charged. Meanwhile, amid these upper seas, con- densed ‘around the cold, aérial mountain's brow,” the moist southerly winds which came to us last week from the Atlantic, it would seem, were suddenly condensed amid the Alleghanies, and, precipitating their burden of water, caused fearfnl scenes at and around Pittsburg. The same phenomenon was witnessed on the Pacific Coast, in the Nevada cataclysm, and no doubt, under similar circumstances, the same thing occurred a few years ago, in September, in the valley of the Patapsco, causing tremen- dous disasters, On the 26th of July, just fitty- five years ago, at Catskill, in this State, there fell fifteen inches of rain in half that number of hours, and in 1861 a similar deluge of rain visited Fairfield, Ohio, on the 12th of August, with eight inches of rain in eleven hours. These remarkable facts seem explicable on the grounds stated as explanatory of the Pitts- burg horror ; but the low temperatures which we have experienced, and which the Huraup some time ago predictéd as likely for the perigee period of Coggia’s comet, have, doubt- less, had much to do with condensing these floating vapor masses and precipitating their watery reservoirs upon the surface of the earth. The physical connection between these apparently far separated phenomena needs earnest investigation. Mr. STanvey’s EE acknowl- | edge the receipt of o large number of cum- munications from all parts of tbe country and from people of various accomplishments and adventurous character. ‘These correspondents have been inspired by the successes and the fame of Mr. Stanley in his former expedition in search of Livingstone, and are anxious to accompany him in the expedition which he now commands in behalf of the London 7ele graph and the Hxraup in search of the haunts of the slave trade and the sources of the Nile. Some of these wish to attend to the astronomy of the expedition; others are physicians, who would like to look after its health. Two or three are enthusiastic mission- aries, who would be happy to convert the heathen Africans. Some are journalists eager to write the history of the enterprise, but the majority are young men possessed with the spirit of adventure. One wretched person whose domestic life is unhappy would like to bury his sorrows in Ujiji. We cannot make personal responses to these applications, and | we say now in a general way, and as an answer | toall such letters, that Mr. Stanley's expedi- | tion is complete, that there are no vacancies, | and that it 1s impossible to consider any | of the applications with which we have been honored. Tse Exponsmment sy tue Assistant At- DERMEN of the charges preferred against the | Mayor by the Board of Aldermen gives addi- tional force to the action ot the latter Board, The charges now stand as the indictment of the Mayor by the Common Council, in both bscanches, as the direct representatives of the people of Now York of all political parties. | A Few Words to the Kidnappers ef «Little Charley. The abduction of poor little Charley Ross does not appear likely to yield a profit to the perpetrators of the crime. The notoriety given to tho affair, the means of the bereaved parents, the time that has elapsed since the child was stolen, all render it unlikely that the sum demanded as ransom, or indeed that any money whatever will be paid for his rese toration. The sense of the community is opposed to such a compromise, and even the sad alternative of the death of the little inno- cent would be preferred to the terrible evil of allowing the criminals to succeed in” their object, and thus encouraging repetition of the crime. Every heart would bleed for Charley’s parents, it is true; but better that one family should be thus stricken than that every family should be exposed to a similar danger. A word of advice to the cruel men who have caused all this misery does not seem now out of place. We presumes them to be calcu lating villains, who will adhere remorselessly to their plan so long as there may be the slightest prospect of securing money, but who will not heedlessly incur arisk. They are not the sort of rufflans to gratify revenge when they find themselves foiled, if by so doing they increase the chances of detection or the penalty to be paid in case detection should come. They would gain absolutely nothing by taking tho life of poor little Charley. A murder would be difficult to cover up and would insure the hanging of the murderers if they should be discovered, The living child could be turned loose ins dozen safe ways, and on his restoration the hunt after the kidnappers would prob- ably cease. At all events, if afterwards found their punishment would only be imprisonment, and the fact of the restora. tion would no doubt be successfully pleaded in mitigation of the sentence. Under \these circumstances we think we may safely appeal to the selfishness and common sense of the men who have Charley Ross in their possess sion to restore him at once to his parents, Should they delay until their arrest takes place, with the child still in their possession, the people will take it for granted that mur- der waa intended and the utmost penalty of the crime will be exact Tue Saratoga Raczs,—The second day of the races under the auspices of the Saratoga Association passed off successfully, the weather yesterday being favorable, though the track was a little heavy. Under the influence of the fine weather the beau monde turned out and enjoyed the spirited contests between the favorite stables, Seven horses started for the Alabama Stakes, the race being won by Regardless, a filly that before the start was not looked on with much favor, The organization of these popular sports will do much toincrease the attractiveness of Sara toga by giving that variety and excitement which is so essential to the thorough enjoy. ment of life by our pleasure-loving people. Tue Enctisk Acnicurturan Lanorers,— The strike among the agricultural Inborers in England begins to show signs which encourage the belief that the end is not far distant. As the harvest season approaches the power of the masters becomes more apparent. The lock-out has proved much more effective than at first was believed possible. The Laborers’ Union Committee have decided that the locked. out laborers in the eastern counties must ac cept the alternative of emigrating to Canada, or depending on their own resources. Thia resolution has been come to because the gentlemen of the Union Committee feel that they are no longer justified in appealing to the public for support. Emigration to Canada is not popular among the Engiish laborers. This is the less to be wondered at, as Mr. Joseph Arch, the oracle of the agricultural laborers, has spoken of Canada in terms the very reverse of encouraging. The presump- tion is that the harvest season will see the end of the lock-out. Left to themselves the men will seek employment ; the masters will make their own terms, and thus another strike will have ended disastrously to the workingmen. Another victory for the masters, however, does not imply that the fight will not be ree sumed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. CRT SAE Hale wants to be a Senator instead of Hamlin. Newport isto have a mounted police. It will comprise a man and @ horse. Mr. Dewitt C. Littlejohn, of Oswego, N. Y., is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel, Some people are troublins themscives about the | ques‘ion whether Lady Amberly was an infidel. Count Zanuini, Secretary of the Italian Legation at Washington, is sojourning at the Albemarle Hotel. Colonel J. W. Barlow, of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, ts quartered at the Everett House. Professor M. B. Anderson, President of the Rochester Untversity, has apartments at the Eve erett House. Mr. William E, Chandler, formerly Assistant Sec» retary of the Treasury, ts residing at the Fith Avenue Hotel. Sefior Don Luis Polo de Bernabé, of the Spanish Legation at Washington, is registered at the Met+ ropolitan Hotel. General T. ?. Mott, of the Egyptian army, with his wile, sailed on the steamship Goethe yestere day, on his way to Alexandria, Colonel Michael V. Sheridan, aid-de-camp to his brother, Lieutenant Genera! Sheridan, has quar ters at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, General Thomas H. Nelson, of Indiana, late United States Minister to Mexico, yesterday ar rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, fo the two great questions—Who struck Billy Patterson aud who killed Tecumseh another has been added, James A. Sylvester, of Austin, Texas, says that he and not General Robinson captured Santa Anna. M. Fontaine, a jewelier of Havre, exhibits in his window a beautiful tobacco Jar made of polished steel representing @ capstan and other marine ap- paratus, It was made for Mr. Moses Grinnell for a yacht race prize. They have a poetin Newport who thus advere tises the climate at that favorite resort:— Llest 1s your lot, who draw lite’s breattt Hi ‘ec, In this: tempered island air, oft sunlight quickeneth, nines serene, but doth not glare.’ ‘The Privce of Wales bas had another escape trom being injure a headiongehorseman, At the Aldershot review @ troup-horse, hecoming unmanageable, dashed at full specd against tne Prince, Who was mounted, and Aung both horsy and rider tothe ground, The Prince, however, escaped unhurt, and was m the saddi¢ again in w Jew minutes, A baby ts about to make its débyvtin Rio Janctro whose appearance may make a difference. The Count d’Ku and the Princess Imperial have arrived from France to {uifil tie constitutional clause which prescrives that the heirs of the throne shall be boin in Brazil Li the child is a mate he will set aside the sons of the younger sister, tne deceased Princess Leopoldina,