The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1874, Page 4

4 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. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore HErayp. pee 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. Volume XXXIX..... teveee No. 211 = — = AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WOOD'S MUSEU Broedway, corner Thirtieth street “THE DEAD WIT i t2 P. M.; cl at 4:20 P.M. TOE STREETS Se EW YORK: ate Peat: ‘closes at 100 P.M. Louis Alavich and Miss Sophic Miles NIBLO’S GARDEN, Bieince, and, Houston a BELLE OF ACADIA, ats P. M.; 10:45 P.M. Mr. Joseph Wheetock and Miss ione Burke. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Bowery—VARlET? ENTERTAINMENT, af 8 P.M; closes at 10:30 P. M. 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From our reports this morntng the probabilitics re thatthe weather io-~day will be clear and cool, ‘Warz Srazrt Yustenpar.—Stocks were ac- live and higher, closing firm. Gold went off vo 109 and closed at 1094. Tae Azasama Dewocaatic Starz Convzn- tron has nominated George S. Houston as the party’s candidate for Governor. Taexz Is Oxty Ove War in this world after ul—the right way. People who keep steadily nit need not fear Frank Monlton and his | pistol. | Tae DesatE ox THE Mortons for the dis- solution of the French Assembly was con- | tinued yesterday, and a division was taken, | | violence upon the nineteenth, and at its head | what appeared to be a harmless item of news, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 80, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT, Spain and Spanish Affairs. We are disposed to think that the accounts of the relations of Germany and Spain are exaggerated. We can well understand how | any government would resent such acts as the | | shooting of the German correspondent by | , Don Carlos. But we cannot understand how | Germany should seek to vindicate her honor | through France. If the German government desired to aid the Carlists it could adopt no | more effectual plan than to intimate to the | French people that such aid would offend the Emperor. The statement that Seyrano has | addressed @ remonstrance to France on the | | subject is more credible, because the course of | France, even during the time of Thiers, was certainly in violation of treaty obligations and international law. Spain was weak and M. Thiers’ political necessities wore urgent, and his custom was, when he could not please the | legitimists by shooting a Communist, to allow | the priests to smuggle s load of rifles and | beads and prayer books across the Pyrenees to | Don Carlos. Castelar, when he was Foreign | Minister to Figueras, addressed a strong remon- | strance to Thiers on the subject, but beyond a | | friendly note from Count Rémusat no good results ensued. Carlism, however, has become a grotesque | conducted by Dorregaray and lizaraga and the Commune movement when it fell into the. hands of Bergent and Ferry. The Com- munists burned the palaces and shot the | hostages. What have the Carlists done and | what are they doing? The act of the.one could be excused as that of madmen, | especially maddened by the course of Mac- | Mahon’s troops, who shot every Communist found in arms on a barricade and thus in- | vited reprisal. The Carlists are in the field and pretend to wage open, honorable warfare. | They have a king and a vast number of | clergymen, and when not in action are sup- posed to be at prayer. What excuse have they for their acts of brutality? What ex- cuse, indeed, for their movement at all? Carlism is simply the eleventh century doing is a young man, neither Spanish by birth nor ancestry, who was never south of the Ebro, who has never lived in Spain except when encamped’ in the Biscayan hills with his bandits, and yet who, because of an obsolete law, claims to be absolute king and to assert | that right with arms. If murder and arson, the destruction of property and the violation i of order are crimes, then who is a greater criminal than Don Carlos? We are glad to see that this view is gathering sirength in Europe, and that journals as conservative, and influential as the London Times support itand feel that the time has come for the nations to | suppress the movement as s scandal to civili- | zation. But there are evils in Spain even more seri- ous than Carlism. The other day we noticed but which was really full of meaning. Gen- eral Zabala, having been appointed to com- mand the Army of the North, several of his subordinate generals at once resigned. The reasons they gave for this extraordinary act, this virtual abandonment of their commands in face of the enemy, was that, while Zabala was a radical, they were supporters of Alfonso, away before a sudden resolute burst of mili- tary strength, but it must come again. It represents the young Spain of this generation, and every day it grows stronger. This is the only influence that can antagonize the three mighty classes that now curse Spain—the no- bility, the standing army and the established Church. The contest must come between progress and light on the one side, antiquity, tradition, privilege and corruption on the other. Our only fear is as to the nature of the contest. The Spanish character is so pecu- liar that should revolution break forth it would be more terrible than any seen in France. The hopes and prayers of all should be that when it comes it will be peaceful, orderly and conservative. But it will come, and when its work is done we may hope to see Spain, with its noble people and its marvellous history, en- ter again upon a career worthy of the nation that was a civilized member of the Roman Empire, and in later years was the ungues- tioned mistress of the world. The Herald’s Special Train to Sara- toga. The Henaxy's arrangement for a special Sunday morning train to Saratoga is very, gen- erally applauded by our contemporaries as o praiseworthy evidence of enterprise, and some of them express surprise that a journal should incur an expense for which it cannot hope to reimburse itself by the sale of papers which would be purchased just the same if delivered by the regular trains Newspapers nowadays cannot pause to reckon the mere direct profits of an enterprise. A journal must expect to make large outlays for the benefit of the pub- lic if it desires to keep pace with the spirit of the age and to establish a reputation as a lead- ing newspaper. Expeditions are sent into the heart of Africa; to accompany an army to Abyssinia or Khiva; with & party of explorers to the Arctic regions; on a dangerous mission within the insurrectionary lines in Cuba, or on a similar duty among hostile~Indians. The journal represented by the adventurous cor- respondents does not expect to repay itself directly for the cost of these expeditions, but they are undertaken in order that the public may have the earliest and most reliable intel- ligence of all the great and interesting events The Communion of the Saints. The iatest B; saint to come to the front is F. B. Carpenter. This holy man was at one time, like his brethren, Bowen, Tilton and Moulton, high up in the Plymouth synagogue. When differences came he joined the fiery Moulton and followed Theodore. Car- penter seems really to be one of the most in- teresting saints in Theodore's flock, evidently from his testimony of a sweet, pensive nature, truth-loving and truth-telling, with a practical turn of mind that must have been of advantage to his impetnous master. It was Saint Francis who discussed with Mr. Beecher the pro- priety of ‘sharing his fortune’ with Theodore. It was Saint Francis, according to Mr. Wilkeson, who impressed upon him the wis- dom of Mr. Beecher’s business partners paying Theodore eight or ten thousand dollars s year, as a, contribution, we presume, to the ex- penses of the new dispensation. It was Saint Francis who intimated to Mr. Cleveland, another business partner of Mr. Beecher, that five thousand dollars paid to Theodore would “avert the storm.” This good soul had a Perfect conception of the wants of his master and of the practical methods of building up a religious influence, and he wasted no time dreaming. Theodore might write his little “sermons on the mount," and parables like the “Grace, Mercy and Peace” note to Mr. Beecher. The flery Moulton could look after the pistols, and obtain the letters ‘in con- fidence;’’ but what Saint Francis wanted was money, and “‘subscribers to the Golden Age by the thousand.’’ Not one of the holy brother- hood had such a sound conception of what was needed as Ourpenter. Nor must we suppose that he lacked in senti- ment either. For when not looking after the means for his master’s work he seems to have made a point of discoursing on his sor- rows. The ‘sufferings of Theodore’ make him touchingly eloquent and show the true religious fervor. He quotes Mr. Kinsella, the editor of the Brooklyn Hagle, as saying that “Theodore Tilton had suffered more than any man since Jesus Christ.'’ ‘‘Tilton told me,” he continues, ‘‘the night he put the Bacon letter to press that he would rather take thirty- nine lashes in the flesh, and drawn blood every time, than have printed this thing against Mr. Beecher.’ What is more, Saint occurring in the world. Steam and electricity | have created an insatiable appetite for news | among the people, snd a truly great news- | paper will seek to satisfy this appetite. Its re- | ward comes indirectly in large circulation, in liberal advertising patronage, in that wide- | spread and universal reputation which always | attends intelligent and useful enterprise. Our special Saratoga train was secured be- cause we desired to please and accommodate those of our own citizens who are spending the summer at Saratoga or elsewhere up the Hud- son, as well as the people living on that route. The Sunday Hznatp is eagerly sought and is | always an interesting and valuable paper. New Yorkers are accustomed to read it on | Sunday morning, and its absence from the | breakfast table is always regretted. Under | our special train arrangement they receive | their paper as promptly at Saratoga and inter- mediate points as if they were in the city. We have additional evidence every week that the enterprise is acceptable to our readers, and this is sufficient to convince us that it hich resulted in the defeat of one of the mo- | and could not serve under a general who was | WS Wisely undertaken and repays its cost. tions by a vote of 332 to 374. The second | motion was then withdrawn. So the Assem- bly has resolyed to ‘‘stick,’’ although the smallness of the majority does not render its | existence very secure. | Tue Receprion of the Marylanders by the Seventh rogiment yesterday, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather, was such a reception | as the Seventh can give and as the splendid | Fifth Maryland deserves. The marching of | both regiments was excellent, and a rolling | fire of lusty cheers was kept up all along the | line. Tae Detaus or THe Prrrssurc CaLamrry which reach us to-day only add to the sadness of the story. The loss of life is larger than was at first supposed, but it is impossible yet | to reckon the total number of the victims. | Dead bodies continue to be found, and with each discovery the circle of misery extends. | The sufferers find prompt and generous assist- ance, but it will be long before the city recovers from the shock of the terrible event. Tae Internationa, Conauess, sitting at Vienna, to consider the best means of check- ing the spread of cholera—or, as some dread- ful people call it, the ‘‘International Cholera Congress”—propose to create a permanent commission, whose members are to visit all places where the disease rages. The applica- | tion for positions on this commission are not | numerous, although there will no doubt con- | stantly be vacancies to fill. | | New Encuaxp Viotency.—The murderous | attack made on the railroad train on Monday night, near Palmer, is one of the worst things of the kind of which we have any recollection. If such offences against law become common railroad travelling will be exceedingly unsafe. It is earnestly to be hoped that the perpe- | trators of this horrible crime will be discovered and severely punished. Snch offences are not creditable to New England. Tae Inuo1s Democratic STATE Centra | Oommarrrre met yesterday and issued a call | for a State convention at Springfield on An- | gust 26. The call is made liberal enough to include all opponents of the present republi- | can administration and is indorsed by several , prominent republicans, among them being the | editors and proprietors of the Illinois Staats.| Zeitung and of the Chicago Times. A union | ticket for State officers will no doubt be the | result. BrsmanckeaND THE ATTEMPT aT Assassi- Nation.—We print this morning a graphic and | | Amadeus conceded every demand extofted | it appears to the ex-King is not pleasant. not ready to join with them in betraying the army toa pretender. Ina country like Eng- | land or the United States a general who left | his command with any such a purpose would | be cashiered or shot. With us the army serves | the country and the soldier serves the army ; | but in Spain the soldier only serves the army | so far as it serves his ambition. If he is a | bold man, like O'Donnell, he ‘‘pronounces,”’ | and makes himself a Minister ; or when he sees a government that means a real reform he sends his troops, as Serrano did, to disperse the Legislature. What can we expect of a country the public spirit and patriotism of whose citizens are seen in acts like those of the | Alfonsist generals who, because they cannot remain in the army and fight for the Pretender, | insist upon resigning and returning to Madrid, to draw pay froma bankrupt treasury and con- spire against the government? The result is | that the standing army is the curse of Spain. It has generals enough to command all the armies in the world; more field marshals than | Napoleon employed. Its officers are a privi- leged, idle class, who remain in the army not to serve the country but to serve themselves. They can never be depended upon to preserve | order, and are really a source of weakness and | not of strength. | Amadeus, the ex-King, who is a gentleman | and was certainly a good King, had a proper | estimate of these troubles. In a recent note- | worthy conversation on Spanish affairs, which | | we find in the Pall Mall Gazette, he says truly | that the madness of parties in Spain gave the Carlists their chief encouragement. What alarmed him, he adds, was ‘‘the criminal discussions among the famous saviours of Spain and the system adopted by the gen- erals, who accompanied every decree and every discussion of their demands by a threat of a pronunciamiento.’’ This was the situa- | tion under the King as it is the situation now. from him until he was asked to violate the | constitution. He declined and left Spain, | seeing in ‘‘the increasing strife of parties’’ the impossibility of his throne. The situation as “Serrano,” he says, ‘‘is incapable of leading either the army or the administration; Sa- | gasta is quite impossible; Zorilla, if he re- turned, would tind deadly enemies; Espartero has become a mummy; Pavia has no tradi- tions to support him; Concha is dead—per- haps the victim of anti-Alfonsist jealousy | rather than the balls of * the royalists; Moriones, Campos, Blancos, Lama are inex- extremely interesting account of the recent | perienced youths.’ This is true, but we do attempt made upon the life of Prince Big- ; not share the conclusion at which the King | Marck and of the seer which followed. It arrives, that Spoin will in two years be will be seen fromthe narrative that the de- , Carlist or in the power of the Carlists, tails conveyed by cable were at once cireum- | Amadeus does not recognize a power stantial and correct. The young man Kull- that has grown into life in a few years, | mann evidently intended to kill Bismarck. | and that has shown fairer results in Spain Strange to say, he is a Prussian, and hails | than in any other European nation—the re- from the neighborhood of Magdeburg. He | publicans, ‘This party has of course the is a Prussian but a Catholic, and belongs to | oainm of recent failure—odium due to the the Catholic Society of Young Men. We com- | stubbornness of Pi y Margall, the gentle weak- mend the letter to our readers, It tells a | ness of Figueras and the timidity of Castelar. | story which is full of interest to the great mas of the American people. Kullmann is evi- dently a maniac. Poor Lederer, who cap- | tured the would-be assassin, suffered more | than Bismarck himself, { Had these men been fitted for government, had such a man as Castelar, for instance, pos- sessed in addition to his incomparable genius for oratory the least firmness in adininistra- tioh the Republic would have lived, It passed | The Third Term in the South. The Tribune quotes an expressive article from a Charleston paper in favor of the election of | | well persuaded, how the new gospel would | Grant for a third term ‘“‘as a danger less press- ing than the immediate danger of utter ruin | now threatening the South.’’ This aspiration the Tribune regards as showing ‘that a good | any people in the South have been deprived | of their reason by the long continued wretch- edness of the political situation in most of the Southern States, and by the seeming impossi- | bility of curing it by any constitutional means." This is an extreme view. The Southern feeling in favor of a third term for Grant is as much the offspring of # desire to embarrass the government as was the move- ment in favor of secession. Sensible men in the South must see that no one is more to blame for the misfortunes of the South than Grant. They are a part of the secord of his own administration, and he cannot erase it. If Grant has done nothing for the South in six years but confirm the wretched rule of the | Caseys, Kelloggs and Moseses, what have wea right to expect in four more years? The Southern third term aspirations are unsound. What the South wants is not a third term of | Grant, but one term for some bold, earnest, manly leader,~ who will neither whine nor mourn, but lead the people to a full concep- tion of the truth that the Southern people must save themselves, and not by angry threats against the negroes nor by reviving the memories of the past, but by patient, reso- lute work. The spirit that moved the Con- federacy is certainly not dead, and the time has come for it to assert its life. Circumstantial Evidence. The last Jersey City murder, as it has been’ called, makes o romantic story. The body of a man, named James McCann, was found on the road with two bullet holes in the head. The police arrested one Frank Wagner on stspicion of being the murderer. The cir- cumstantial evidence against him was strong. He had been on the rond at the time the pistol shots were heard. He bore a bad character. He betrayed signs of fear when arrested. He denied having been out, which was proved at | once to be an untruth. He had that night exhibited a pistol at a saloon close by the spot where McCann's body was found. . Finally, the bullet taken from McCann's head fitted the chambers of the revolver discovered in Wagner's room. What stronger case could be made out against ® prisoner? Bnt suddenly aman comes forward, a harmless and inno- cent fish dealer, Thomas Brooks by name, who tells how McCann met his death. Brooks was | driving into New York for a load of fish, when McCann sprang into his wagon and attacked him. Brooks fired at him twice and passed on, ignorant that he had hit him and thinking he had jumped from the wagon. The mystery is solved; but if Brooks had not told the truth, would Wagner have escaped hanging? Ir 18 an extraordinary coincidence that one editor of the Brooklyn Argus should have printed Theodore’s statement ond that another should have bad him arrested. And Mr. Tilton really says that be thinks Mr. Beecher inspired it atl, Francis really believed him. If any master knows his saints Theodore is that man. He makes no blunders. When money is needed, Moulton does not go on the errand, for Moulton is like Saint Peter, and has a soaring, combative coul. Neither does he intrust the enthusiastic Carpenter with the loaded pistol. A disciple of his emotional nature, who really believes in his master’s sorrows as only to be compared with those of divinity, would have brought the new gospel to a sudden catas- trophe had he been trusted alone in Brooklyn with a deadly weapon. It is the great virtue of Saint Francis that he believes in his master, his sorrows, his virtues, his rhetoric, his life, and probably no one more sincerely grisves to-day than this good soul that Cleveland did not pay the five thousand dollars ‘necessary for peace,” or that Wilkeson did not secure | lasting harmony by entering Theodore on the | books of Mr. Beecher’s firm as the recipient | ofa salary of “eight or ten thousand dollars a | year.” | This is an instructive picture also that Saint | Francis gives us of the saintly Bowen at that memorable conference, when a committee of | Plymouth saints proposed to “discipline” | Bowen for ‘‘slandering Mr. Beecher.’’ There was Saint Francis himself, wondering, we are | thrive if money did not come. There was the | holy Moulton, we presume, with his loaded pistol. There was Claflin, who now, it seems, was the good Bowen himself, insisting that what he signed in the covenant was untrue, and that Beecher had been ‘‘on his knees be- fore him’’ confessing his sins. The spectacle of Henry Ward Beecher at the feet of Henry Bowen as a tearful penitent is extraordinary, and leads to the suspicion that Bowen himself had become jealous of Beecher, and meant to have a new religion of his own and his own jecollection of saints to worship him as Beecher | and Tilton are worshipped. Here, perhaps, is the key of the whole trouble. A religion like | Plymouth church, that seems to have ignored | the old landmarks of faith and orthodoxy, that rested simply on the eloquence and the | genius of one man, that adored Henry Ward Beecher instead of Jesus Christ, could only result in this downfall. Men are human and have their vanities, and why should not | Bowen and Tilton, after paying divine honors to Beecher, feel that in time they should re- | ceive similar honors themselves? We can well understand how two saints of their yearning temperameut, impatient of the overmastering | presence of Beecher, should have united in | sending him a blackmailing letter, for which they could have been indicted. Since Mr. Beccher received the letter, and, instead of calling in a policeman and delivering his tor- mentors into custody, saw fit to enter into | covenants with them, nothing that bas taken | place should at all surprise us. Had he been | innocent he would not bave thus fallen. We are far from encouraging dissensions among holy people, but Carpenter's testimony shows us that Theodore should not despair of acareer. He has destroyed Beecher, or rather Beecher has destroyed himself, unless he ex- plains his inexplicab!o letters. That is one step, and we find destruction at the begin- ning of most earnest religions. Now let church with new doctrines. We donot recom- latest biographical contribution to religious literature, and we are afraid that the use of Demosthenes as a spiritual influence, preach- ing to the stars from the top of a Murray Hill house, is at an end. But he bas genius enough to make a new creed, and he has his saints all is not often that disciples like Frank Moulton and Frank Carpenter are vouchsafed to the founder of a new faith. That teacher may well be blessed who has followers as fiery as the one and as docile as the other to obtain papers “in confidence” with a loaded pistol and to geo that the church does not starve for the room in either fold for Bowen; but he has the same chance as Theodore. Ina free coun- try like America any tax-paying citizen may start a new religion when he pleases. What Bowen seems to lack is attending saints; but in time this want may be supplied, and in- wtead of one Plymouth church we shall have is “the possessor of the covenant," and there | him found » new faith of his own, a new | mend the special tenets he propounded in his | in hand to begin the work of proselyting. It | want of funds. Unfortunately, there is no | es _ three—holy infiuenes on Brooklyn Heights throwing out their light to all the world. The Approaching Transit. The army of astronomers destined for the observation of the great transit of Venus is in motion and rapidly advancing to the vari- ous positions assigned it. No astronomic phenomenon of the century has attracted so much ‘attention or called forth such lavish labor. The United States, by the confession of all, has most largely embarked in this high | scientific emprise, and her observers will occupy stations the most difficult of access and least pleasant of tenure, but most promis- ing of rich results, both in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. These stations are dis- tributed, three in the Northern and five in the Southern Hemisphere, and selected as suitable for observing the entire passage of Venus across the sun's face, Russia's corps of ob- servers is next in importance, and though their stations are to be all within Russian territory the field will be ample for the most satisfactory research, The English will have seven parties at work, the Germans at least four and the French five or, possibly, six. To comprehend the nature of this interna- tional co-operative work it is necessary to note the progress made in transit observations since 1639, when the famous Jeremiah Hor- rocks and his friend Crabtree witnessed the first transit which astronomy had predicted. The prime object of the transit observation is to determine the exact distance of Venus from the earth, since in the determination of this distance are wrapped up the solutions of the several important problems of solar astronomy so long sought after by science. There are four methods devised for obtaining the grand result, all, however, based on the fact that Venus as seen from different terrestrial view- points at any instant of her transit will ap- pear projected on different parts of the sun’s face. If two widely separated observers should at the same instant find the exact ap- parent place of Venus on the sun's face a comparison of gbservations would show how much the star was displaced in direction, and the distance between the observers being known and serving as a base-line the required distance of Venus from the earth is easily transit observation. But the nicety required in measuring the distance between the two observers and the difficulty of obtaining it in the last century | led Halley to devise another. scientist proposed that two observers, one at a northern and the other at as southern station, should note the exact time the star consumes in completing its transit across the sun's face, along the two different paths she will seem (as viewed by them) to follow, and thence to deduce the length of these two apparent paths, which affords the very displacement of the star required. This method is dependent for success on conditions which make the entire transit visible, condi- tions hard to realize, since, barring cloudy weather, the transit iasts several hours, and the axial whirl of the earth may take one or both of the observers out of position to see the whole transit. The Delisle method aims to escape the contingencies which jeopardize the success of the Halleyan method, by sim- | of the moment when, from opposite sides of the globe, the transit is seen to begin earliest | and to begin latest. If one station observes when the transit begins first and another sta- | tion on the opposite side of the earth notes | when it begins latest, a comparison ot records affords the data for computing the distance of Venus from the earth, and thus, consequently, | of ascertaining the exact distance of the sun. But to put this method into successful opera- tion, each observer must have previously as- certained with great exactness his longitude and also his local time, which are hard to ob- tain, and make the Delislean method some- method, consists in making the sun picture his own disk, with Venus on the face, at any instant, which furnishes data for a compari- son similar to that obtained, but without pho- tography, by. the direct method. The American observers will rely mainly on the Halleyan and photographic methods, but not to the exclusion of both the others. The Russians will employ the Halleyan method in their most important expeditions, and the English the Delislean and Halleyan. The French will combine the Halleyan with the photographic apparatus, and have already prepared for very extensive observations. It is pretty well agreed upon that, of all the methods to be employed, the photographic has to contend with the fewest difficulties, and ; the value of its results will be largely en- hanced by the fact that the actual measure- excitement of the observer has cooled down. Apart from the elucidation of many other practical problems, the success of the present observations will aid materially, it is said, in perfecting the lunar tables of our nauticml almanacs, so essential to navigation. The motions of the moon are disturbed by the sun’s attraction, and when this is accurately determined by ascertaining the sun’s distance the moon will becomé to the mariner a grand celestial clock, giving’ him the absolute time. As Inrengstixa Inqurmy.—The New York Star makes a shrewd observation to the effect that, while all “‘the men interviewed believe Mr. Beecher innocent, the women are positive of Mr. Beecher’s guilt.’’ The inference is that men have more faith in man’s honesty than women have in woman's virtue. We might be important, perhaps, to inquire into the character of the women who have been in- terviewed on this subject, and the question would then arise, Are they competent to speak as representatives of the highest and purest womanhood ? | Tae Srortinc Worry in ENGiaND is ina j atthe races are to be put down, and one owner has been fined ten pounds. Tho bet- ting men insist that if their calling is unlaw- ful at all it must be unlawful when followed by members of the Jockey Club on the Heath at Newmarket. They have therefore taken | proceedings against Mr. Henry Chaplin, member of Parliament and well known turfite, | for betting on the Heath, and if they convict | him they wiil next proceed against the Duke of Richmond, the owner of Goodwood Park. ‘The sporting men strike for high game, but it certainly seems only fais that the sane law should apply to all who follow the same trade, Mr. Chaplin is the old adversary on the turt of the unfortunate Marquis of Hastings, Lady Florence Paget, who married the Marquis of Hastings, was affianced to Mr. Chaplin. On the eve of her intended marriage she eloped with the Marquis. Mr. Chaplin revenged himself by aiding in the ruin of her husband, He bears the reputation, however, of being one of the most honorable, as he is certainly one of the most enterprising, men on the English turf. Mr. Cornell’s Opportunity. The Republican State Committee for New York will assemble to-day at noon at the Fifth Avenue Hotel under the chairmanship of the Hon. A. B. Cornell. The journal which con- veys this information hopes that ‘‘it will bea full meeting, and that it may prove the initiation of » most vigorous and successful campaign on the part of the republicans of New York.’ This is a prudent anticipation. It must have been a stronger motive than the enjoyment of Mr. Cornell’s society that would attract the committee to New York in mid- summer. At the same time nothing is more needed by the republicans than the “initiation of a most vigorous and successful campaign.” The way to go about it will, we fear, tax the genius of the committee. The republican party has not made a brilliant record in New York recently, and but for Governor Dix if would have been swamped. It has shown na life, no growth, no power, and it must accept its share of the faults ond misdeeds of the party elsewhere. There are some points, however, on which original ground could be taken and about which we shoyld be pleased to hear from Mr. Cornell’s committee—such, for instance, as the back pay, Crédit Mobilier, Havemeyer, the revenue frauds and twenty other ques- tions that have excited the interest of the | country. There would be a wide scope for a series of resolutions on the condition of the Southern States, the usurpations and rob- caloulated. This is the direct method of | plifying the observations to the determination | ments will be made after the transit, when the | land in représetited, should be sorry to draw this inference. It | This famous | | turmoil of excitement. The betting booths | beries in Louisiana and South Carolina and | the responsibility of Grant’s administration | for these crimes. We hope the committee will not separate without some declaration on | these living themes that will satisfy the | country. If they, however, should not be of impor. | tance enough to inspire the eloquence of s | company of politicians in midsummer, there | is that never failing topic, the third term. Mr. Cornell can make a deep impression by a declaration of opinion on this question. As he is no longer an office-holder, but, as some tell us, an aspirant for high honors, let bim assume the leadership that such an avowal would give him, or let him exact from the President such a statement of intentions as will satisfy the country. There need be no difficulty about this, Long Branch is within an easy sail of New York, and the hospitali- ties of the seaside clambake Cabinet appear to be comprehensive and abundant. Why could not the committee honor the President with call, and, with some such spokesman ag the many-tongued Ellis H. Roberts, or the thunder and lightning Husted, or the states manlike Baconian John M. Francis, ask from the silent Ulysses whether he means to exert “ another trial from the loyalty of his faithful New York liegemen? If Mr. Cornell can in duce his committee to make this experiment he will do great deal to clear the political skies and to ‘initiate’ a campaign. What, also, about Roscoe Conkling? The committee must not forget that Mr. Conkling declined the mantle of Chase, and that a man who could look down upon such an honor could only look up toa higher one. Has the time come for his friends to speak, or shall we have another season of hidden purposes and bated counsels, of mystery where there should be light, and weakness where there should be courage ? Tue Two Pornts.—The Utica Morning Here what precarious. The iast, or photographic | ald says that Mr. Moulton should speak. | “Mr. Tilton,” says the Herald, ‘‘conveys the impression that he desires him to speak, and puts the responsibility of his restraint on Mr. Beecher.’’ Mr. Moulton should address him- self to two points without unnecessary delay. The first is, What did‘he mean to do with his loaded pistol when he went into Mr. Beecher's presence ? and, second, How does it happen that documents addressed to him ‘in confi- dence’ are printed in the newspapers? These two points seem to us to be of the greatest interest to Mr. Moulton, and upon them he should speak. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain Cook, of the steamship Russia, is at the Brevoort House, Bishop Jesse T. Peck, of Syracuse, is residing at the St. Denis Hotel. Mr. Shaughnessy has taken @ gand in it, and Ire- T. B. Harris, Grand Secretary ofthe Free Masons of Canada, is seriously tll. Colonel Henry 8. McComb, of Delaware, is stop. ping at the Everett House. Assemblyman F. A. Alberger, of Buffalo, is stay- ing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel J. K. Mizner, of the United States Army, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Viscount De Gouy and Bardn Benoist, of Paris, have apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Disraelt has appeared in the House in fan evening costume only twice in thirty years. The London Court Jownal thinks Sir Edward Thornton would be glad to have another post. Paymaster George W. Beaman, of the United States Navy, is quartered at fhe Hoffman House. “Room for the leper! room!” and, as he came, the cry passed on, ‘Room for the leper! room !” The ex-Moderator has retreated to thé woods to prevent a raid by interviewers upon New Haven’s Bacon. Baron Geymueller, of the Austrian Legation, ar. rived from Washington yesterday at the Hoffman Honse, The Hon. John Sherman began a canvassing tour of two or three weeks in lowa, Kansas and other States yesterday. The crusaders of Pentwater, Mich., have closed all the saloons and want the name of the place changed to Pentwhiskey. Elizabeth R, and Etizabeth Cady contradictes eachother. Can Susan B. tnduced to straighten our the kinks in the statements of tie (wo Kilzabeths ' Mr. Disracit has just given @ vaant canonry to Mr, Forester, brother of the Countess of Ches. terfeld, whom the goseips lately betrothed to the Premier. Ladies who Would see their charms portrayed in the illustrated papers shoutd tell their husbands they like their pastor better than their husbands, make them jealous by admissions, and they suce ceed. There is another pretty story as to how Bis- marck’s lile was saved. A conjurer made the Prince a bow and the Prince in returning tt raised his arm. The conjurer, who is famous for the trick of catching @ butiet with his teeth, was naively asked by the Prince how it was he did not catet hat bullet. His reply was, “Because Your Raves lenicy cought it’! NON a ny } | i j | i