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4 NEW YORK HERALD! | darkening the air. There was never such a | feast for the carrion flock before, and their hoarse rejoicings are heard everywhere. For | here lies the body of the first clergyman of - 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 York | Heap. Rejected communications will not be re. tarned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms iin CS a a eee ee NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. a ‘The Gathering of the Ravens, And now they come, birds of evil omen, | the age, of America’s most distinguished and gitted divine, and a shame as of moral death | has come upon it, and it lies exposed and | naked to the pelting storms of detraction and | slander. How happy we should feel if it | should only be slander after all! There was and it will probably not come again in this | generation. So the birds of evil omen are swiftly, eagerly coming for their feast of defamation and reproach. From California comes the Queen of Shame, a raven of the | darkest hue and most insatiate maw. From | Kansas we hear the croakings of another, who has long been conspicuous at every carrion feast and whose soul must gladden at this precious opportunity. From the summit of the Palisades Elizabeth Cady Stanton threat- ens to undo all the honest fame of an active never such a temptation to the carrion nature, | as in New York, | life in the cause of “reform" by showing == | that she too has raven instincts, and that she No, 212 will not be debarred from the feast. Smaller | ——== | birds come in this train, not ravens merely, AND EVENING but bats and vampires, crows and buzzards, | and meaner creatures, and reptiles of base ts.— | degree who will not stay away. This feast was to be expected, perhaps, for Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERN NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston stree’ BYANGPLING, THE BELLE OF ACADIA, ats P. Closes at Wt BM. Mr, Joseph Wheelock and Miss Lone Burke, ie | never had these birds of the night and dark- WOOD'S MUSEUM, | net i: i is i Brosaway coruar Eeiriein Giese THE DRAD wir. | Hess so tempting a festival. This is the body NESTA \Uitk! ate'O att closes at1030. Louis | Of Henry Ward Beecher that is to be picked | Aldrich aud*Miss Sophie Miles. | and torn to pieces. He fell, let us say, for we are now supposing that all the evil that | has been said of him is true; he fell, and with | him the most conspicuous reputation of the | age. Good men may say, ‘‘Let us weep at CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, = this fall, and. pray God that we may avoid Seah ret Sees ae nth svende—THOMAS’ CON: | 14 snares that encompassed him, and ask Christ's mercy that we may also not be led | METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 broadwry.—Parisian Cancan Daucers, at 8 P.M. TONY PASTOR’ RA HOUSE, Bowery.—VARIETY ENIERTAINMBNT, at 8 P.M; closes wi 10:30 P.M. col bar Os 5 Sarna, ot aren dnek Street—LONDON BY into temptation.” Wise men may say, “Let | y : py us gather from this man’s life that no genius, ROMAN HIP ROME, . Madison avenue. and. Twenty-sixth 'street.—GRAND | @Nd no services, and no popularity can atone PAGEAST—CONGRESS OF TONS, at 1PM. and | for g sin—that they make the sin graver and at7 P.M. lis ” ——— | its results more disastrous.’’ Generous men rT SU oy 7 NJ’ | may say, ‘Let us only remember all that was Wit H oe uPP L ME N i ‘| great and true and manly and brave and ia York, Friday, July 31, “4s7a, | kindly in the man’s life and work and think = | of him at the best as we all may hope to be rd THE HERALD FOR THE sUNER RESORTS. | remembered.”’ But no such thoughts enter meh, | the minds of the ravens. Have they not been To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PUBLIC: — | croaking for years this dismal chant: —‘‘Love The New York Heratp will run a special | is 4 lie. Marriage is slavery. Maternity is a train between New York, Saratoga and Lake | crime. Witehood is degradation. Religion George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- | is hypocrisy. Christianity is an obscene ing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., | comedy. The Scriptures are fables. and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock The Ten Commandments are a collec- A. M., for the purpose of supplying the | tion of Hebrow jests. The Sermon on Sunpay Hrrarp along the line. Newsdealers the Mount is irony. There is no truth but and others are notified to send in their orders | that license is religion and that we are to the Herat office as early as possible, prophets.” Now they say, ‘(Here is the one —— | champion of these lies and fables—a minister From our reports this morning the probabilities | of the religion which is a falsehood—and he are thatthe weather to-day will be clear and warm. | is no better after all than the worst of us, and ORE: — | his voice is forever silenced, and the example Wat Srager Yesterpay.—Stocks opened | of his fall will be our pride and pleasure for firm, but closed off Sales 138,400 shares— | years tocome.” And as if the horrid scandals higher than for weeks. Gold opened at 109}, | Which come from Tilton himself are not sold at 109§ and closed at 1094, the lowest | enough every hour bears a new one—more figure of the day. Cruise oF THE Brooxtyn Yacuts.—The graphic account of the eastward run of the Brooklyn yacht fleet given by our correspond- ent will be found extremely interesting. It shows clearly that, notwithstanding the rival attractions of the summer resorts, our yachts- men are not to be induced to abandon the briny deep. This healthiest and most useful of all our national sports takes yearly firmer root in public favor. Sararoca AND Goopwoop Racrs.—Three important races were run on the Saratoga course yesterday, in the presence of a large and brilliant assemblage, the Saratoga Stakes being won by Willie Burke, Springbok carry- ing off the Saratoga Cup, while Galway secured the prize in the mile and three-quarter | dash. In England the Goodwood Cup was run for in the presence of royalty, and was won by Doncaster. Both at Goodwood and Saratoga the weather was delightful, Szwator Gorpon on tHe Turep Term.—It will be seen from the communication from Senator Gordon, of Georgia, which we print this morning, that the position of the Senator on the third term question has been mis- stated. He is not only opposed to a third term for General Grant because his re-election | would keep the republican party in power for four years longer, but he is opposed to a third term for any President. It would have been surprising if the Senator had assumed any other position, and we gladly give him the opportunity to deny through the Heraxp the views erroneously attributed to him. Tux New Yor« Repupucan Strate Cx Tron is to be held at Utica on the 23d of tember. This gives nearly two months for the quarrels among the politicians over the candidates, and a period but little longer for the active work of the canvass. No address to the people is to be issued, and the leaders seem to rely on the divisions of the democ: and the opposition to Tammany for sne We know of no way by which the republican party can be beaten so surely as by these tactics. A Governor and other State officers, a majority of the delegation in Congress and a United States Senator, together with the control of the Assembly, are likely to inspire # great effort on both sides; butif the repub- licans do not make it the democracy is not likely to imitate their example. cy War Dors Nor Tiron Dimanp a Dr- vorce ?—There has been @ great deal of dis- cussion, involving every phase of the unhappy Brooklyn scandal, but, strange to say, nobody has yet suggested divorce as a remedy for the wrongs Mr. Tilton alleges he has suffered. Indeed, Tilton himself seems never to have | thought of such a procedure, and not only affected to believe his wife a good woman in the face of his own charges, but is willing to in- trust his children to her and bas even endeav- ored to visit her since the separation, All this is strangely at variance with the line of conduct men usually adopt under like cirenm- stances. A divorce suit would bring ont all che facts in the case, even to the reasons why | the injured husband condoned his wife's fault, In no other way can the truth of the whole question be so thoroughly sifted. If Theo- dore Tilton is in earnest he will bring ths roatter before the courts on a petition for divorce, and so end the feeble investigation by | Dx. Beccher's committe, | offensive, more painful, and, we hope, more | and more untrue. | There was never such a gathering, and it | pains us to find Elizabeth Cady Stanton lead- | ing the flock. We do not hold up this woman as our loftiest ideal of the American mother and what should be the crown and queen of | the American home, because we believe the irect result of her philosophy would be to ‘ob motherhood of its sacred bloom and | make our home life no better than that of the Fantee or the Sioux. But we have held her as apart from those who have acted with her in | herited a name which in its day was an honor | to this Commonwealth. We have been dis- | posed to feel that, while conscientiously im- | pressed with the necessity of woman suflrage and the limitations imposed by society upon the usefulness and freedom of her | sex, she was still dispossd to rate the virtue of woman and the honor of man as | something higher and more precious than any | mere political advantage--that she has always in her agitation been an earnest seeker after | good results by the wisest and most honorable | methods. Between her teachings and princi- | ples, for instance, and those of this prophetess | of nastiness and shame who came only yes- | terday with her obscene oracles to distress and offend society, we have felt there was a chasm | as wide and deep as the valley of Yosemite. It is hard to surrender such a belief. But | how can we cherish it when in this festival of | scandal and sin and defamation Elizabeth — Cady Stanton comes to the front and bids us listen to a story as brutal and as wicked as | | the chorus of the witches in ‘‘Macbeth ?” We say brutal and wicked, because it is scandalous gossip after all, affecting not only Mr. Beecher, but Mr. Tilton and his wife. There is no evidence, no prudent averments, not even a formal, careful statement of facts, given in the interest of truth and open to | investigation. All we have is an idle story told to a cheerful reporter; told with eager- ness and joy—with what the Germans would call mischief-joy—as though shame and slan- der and sorrow had a rarefying influence upon | her spirits and made her feel that her mil- lennium was at hand. So we ask, ‘Is this the | end of her life of earnest agitation? Is free love, after all, the real keystone of woman's suffrage?” Is this movement, which has been com- mended to us as the beginning of woman's freedom, really the beginning of home ruin ? Must political enfranchisement mean do- mestic destraction? Does Mrs, Stanton ask us to admit that before we accept the principles she has advocated for @ generation with force and sin- cerity we must say that honesty in man and virtue in woman are incompatible with those principles? When, in short, we have set her | apart from the unclean and noisome birds | who shed an evil influence over society are we to be reminded that we erred in that dis- tinction; that reform, no matter under what specious name, so far as woman's franchises | |‘ are concerned, is only another form of free love and wickedness ? As we look npon this unpleasynt and offen- sive sight—the saddest we have seen in many a year—this gathering of the ravens over the body of Henry Ward Beecher, another thought comes upon us. After all, do not all these scandals and sorrows and misfortunes, | these shames and heartburnings, result naturally from the modern tendency her strange fancies, remembering that she in- | can | of mischief making agitators and “te- formers” to cut loose from the old moorings, to abandon the orthodox prin- ciples of our fathers, to ran wild after forbid- | den Insts and strange gods? Perhaps we are wiser than our fathers, and, no doubt, in many ways we have learned things the ig- norance of which made them a clumsy race indeed. But there are some venerable tradi- tions left that even Elizabeth Oady Stan- ton cannot improve, There is the tradi- tion of home, with all its sweetness and purity, its rest and comfort, bathed’with the spirit of love. There is the tradition of mar- | riage, which Mrs. Stanton will permit us to | remind her came from the holiest inspiration, which binds the world together in the ties of virtue, charity, self-denial and hope. There is the tradition of motherhood—we mean a motherhood which does not mean shame to one and burning dishonor to the other. We confess these are venerable traditions, going back a long, long time, even to the prophets and the apostles, and, perhaps, they are out of date and old fash- ioned, and it may be that out fathers cherished them, as they cherished stages and coaches, because they knew nothing better, and it may be that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her at- tending ravens, not to speak of the crows and buzzards and meaner creatures and reptiles of base degree, who are now gathering around this feast, will give us something wiser. But we have not seen it. And if the developments that are coming out of the Beecher scandal, and more especially those that come directly from Mrs. Stanton’s lips, are to be the fulfil- ment and fruition of the new philosophy, then we spurn it as an offence to humanity and truth and all that is sweet and ennobling in our modern life. As it now stands let us hear no more of this ‘‘reform;’’ and we shall probably hear no more of it for a generation. Mrs. Stanton, who has done more to give it life than any one else, has in one,day undone all that she has ever achieved. Thirty years of agitation in favor of woman suffrage ends in the trooping of a flock of ravens to pick the carcass of Henry Ward Beecher and croak the downfall ot home, marriage, love, motherhood and re- ligion. This is the end of it, and, perhaps, it is a blessing that it should so end. Jones, of Nevada. Senator Jones, of Nevada, whois a representa- tive statesman and high in the confidence of the President, has been making public his views on the third term issue. He does not seem to have any definite information on the sub- ject, but, like Senator Anthony, Mr. Roberts and other coy statesmen, simply argues the question. General Grant, he assures us, has strong common sense, and, as a man of sense, cannot become a candi- date for a third term. He was elected to the second term “in the face of ven- omous attacks from every side and against a popular candidate, and should be satisfied.’’ “He has the best chance in the world,” the Sen- ator thinks, ‘‘to retire with a record clear of a single defeat, and cannot risk a trial for a third term.”’ The opinions of the Nevada Senator aro worthy of attention, but, after all, they are only opinions, What does Senator Jones himself think of the subject? Is he ready to support Grant for a third term or is he will- ing to support whoever the Convention nomi- nates? This is the true position of Senator Jones and leaders like Mr. Anthony and Mr. Roberts. While they would not prefer a third term they are careful to say nothing to pre- vent their support of Grant should he be again in nomination. One manly declaration from a Senator like Jones, of Nevada, for in- stance, that under no circumstance would he support Grant or any other candidate fora | third term, would do more towards destroying | this third term folly than anything else. As it now stands there is nothing to prevent Grant’s nomination and nothing to prevent the whole republican party, headed by Jones, of Nevada, from supporting him with energy and enthn- | siasm. Tae East River Improvement—Neciect | or Conaress.—Among the many subjects of | national interest neglected in the frantic rush to secure the passage of pet schemes during | the last session of Congress not the least was | the appropriation for the removal of the ob- structions at Hell Gate, The mean, insuffi- cient appropriation granted by the precious representatives of nothing of squandering millions on rascally jobs and swindles, will tend to postpone for this great work. The delay of seven months operations on account of the failure of Con- gress to supply the necessary funds has been | productive of harm .in damaging the work already done. The removal of the obstruc- tions in the East River is of the most vital | interest to the mercantile community, and the | completion of the work will exercise a most | important influence on the welfare of the principal port of the United States, Morper ix Vimern1a.—The latest Virginia sensation is a mysterious murder. The vic- tim was shot down near his own house by men inambush. Two neighbors of the mur- | dered man have been arrested on the informa- tion of a negro who alleges that they paid him | to help them in disposing of the body. In | order to cover their own guilt they induced the negro to hide himself in the woods, evi- dently intending to direct suspicion on him in case the murder should be discovered. Suspi- cion of their intention dawned on the negro’s mind, and not wishing to be offered up as a victim for others’ crime he denounced two of the murdered man's neighbors as fhe assas- | sins, | Insunance Fravps iN Ineranp.—Some smart persons in Ireland got up a little con- spiracy to cheat the New York Insurance Company, but unfortunately for themselves they were found out. Among the accused were two doctors, who certified as to the health of their neighbors from general knowl- edge, without taking the trouble of asking the interested persons whether they wanted their lives insured or not. The jury | considered that this was criminal neg- lect, and found them guilty, as well os the agent, who seems to have been the organizer of the conspiracy to defrand, All three were sent to prison, with hard labor, the | doctors for twelve months each and the agent | for eighteen, In the opinion of the Irish | press the punishment is too light. Consider- | ing the hardship of Jrish convict discipline the nation, who think | another lengthened period the completion of | which has taken place since the cessation of | and the loss of position in society involved, however, the lesson is likely to prevent any further attempts at swindling insurance com- panies, Aas 9 Namba Spain and Germany. The stupid barbarity of the Carlists in shooting a German newspaper correspondent is likely to have very serious results. As we foresaw, the German government has ex- pressed dissatisfaction with the way in which the French government performs police duty on its southern frontier. Strongly worded protests have been sent from Madrid to Paris on the same subject. Serrano is no doubt encouraged to assume a bolder tone in addressing his brother Marshal by the knowledge that he has at least the moral influence of Germany at his back. That Bismarck means seriously to aid the struggling Republic in Spain against its reactionary enemies is proved by his sending the German fleet to act as a coast guard to suppress the smuggling of arms from England into Spain. France, in adopting an attitude of hostility to Spain, shows that she has learned nothing from the severe lessons of the past. If French states- men were truly wise they would seek to in- spire confidence and good feeling in their southern neighbors, but instead the aim of the French government to-day seems to be the humiliation, if not the dismemberment, of Spain. The wisdom of this course is as doubtful to-day as at any former period. It ought not to be impossible to make of Spain a firm and useful ally. Had the French gov- ernment at its head a far-seeing statesman he would seek to assure Southern Europe of the absence of aggressive or ambitious views on the part of France. The stupid faction that persists in aiding covertly the invasion of a friendly country by an unscrupulous pre- tender have already robbed France of the fruits of the regeneration of Italy. From being a faithful ally they have made of Victor Emmanuel a reluctant enemy, and now by their open sympathy with the reactionary fanatics who curse Spain with a civil war they bid fair to place on their southern frontier a new enemy. If they were obey- ing the orders of Bismarck they could not work with better effect to deprive their country of its few remaining friends, Germany, on the contrary, sees the advantage of cultivating the government of Madrid, and we should not be much astonished if an un- derstanding should be arrived at with Spain similar to that arranged with Italy. France would then be completely isolated. The folly of her statesmen and the fanaticism of the monarchical parties render this result almost inevitable. If the rumor brought by cable that France intends at last to recognize the Spanish Republic be well founded it would go to prove that the government recognize the serious error of their former course. It would have been wiser, however, to have given this proof of good feeling somewhat earlier, We do not place much faith in the ramored proposals for an armed intervention in the affairs of Spain. Such action would be abhorrent to Spanish pride, and might lead to complications which European statesmen will not lightly risk. But the action of Germany in using her influence with the French govern- ment to stop the supply of arms and war munitions across the frontier, combined with the blockading of the coast so as to shut off supplies from England, will prob- ably exert a very unfavorable influence | on the Carlist cause. That cause owes ita present strength as much to the indifference of the Spanish people as to any inherent strength which it possesses. At most it can but harass Spain. Once it descends from its | mountain fastnesses it becomes powerless. Its suppression is but a question of time, and did the government at Madrid possess the con- fidence of the people the cause of the Pre- tender would have ere now received a crush- ing blow. The usurpation of Serrano and his military friends checked the national spirit evoked by Castelar; but if there were danger that the adherents of Don Carlos might obtain an ascendancy the republican masses would rise as one man to overwhelm the men who seek to impose on Spain a government repre- senting the ideas of the Middle Ages, Indian Outrages. The redskins have scored a victory in Texas, defeating the rangers and cavalry op- posed to them. On the Canadian River they | have not been qnite so fortunate, as the militia succeeded in killing nine Comanche braves, not, however, before they had imbrued their hands in white blood, as the fresh scalps found upon them bore testimony. It is evident that unless vig- orous measures are adopted settlers on the frontier will have an unpleasant time of it. It would be wellif the local militia were or- ganized thoroughly for defensive purposes, so as to allow all the regular troops to operate, | Infantry are next to useless on the plains, but if the government would mount them they might render very effective service. It is absurd for the regular army to be kept on the defensive, waiting to be attacked in their forte while the wily red man is plunder- ing and mardering pretty much as he pleases | the undefended settlers who live remote from the posts. The force of cavalry on the frontier is evidently inadequate to the duty of securing the settlers from attack. | The country would be glad to see the Wash- ington authorities display a little more energy in punishing the Indian savages. It is useless to parley with them now that they have put on their war paint, and rifle volleys, properly madness from which they just now suffer. Tur Sroren Cump.—There was a report yesterday that tho stolen child, Charley Ross, | had been discovered with a band of gypsies at Hamburg, Pa. Investigation revealed the fact that the child was not Mr. Ross’ son, It was scarcely possible that the boy could have | been abducted by a band of gypsies or thatthe real kidnappers would turn him over to a party of strollers. The gypsies are generally be | lieved by the rural population to be child | atealers, ond it was from this, we suppose, that the suspicion arose in the present im- stance, Tur Rervpricans or New Jensey will hold their State Convention at Trenton on the 27th of August. A candidate for Governor is to be | nominated. The names of George A. Halsey, Amos Clarke, Jr., Marcus L. Ward and John Hill are prominently mentioned, and a lively cime among the politiquans iy cxngctede administered, alone can cure the scalp-taking | The Great West. As we find ourselves in the midst of the touring season, and with the still unchecked tendency of the American mind to “go West,’ unusual interest is bestowed upon our Territories, Those Territories embrace one-half of the area of the United States. The chief characteristic of the East is a moist climate; of the West a dry one ; so that the United States are divided into two equal parts, having two different cli- mates—one corresponding to the climate of Europe, and one to the climate of Asia, The average annual rainfall of one is about fifty inches, and of the other fifteen inches. The Territories of the interior are Montana, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mex- ico and Arizona, Dakota and Washington might, in part, be included, but they do not | belong to this group. Along the eastern bor- der are the plains, two hundred miles wide | and one thousand miles long. The plains have a greater extent eastward, for they lap over into Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota, two hundred miles more, so that they are four | hundred miles wide and one thonsand miles long, and this side of their eastern meridian line the country may be called a prairie, where the rainfall is sufficient to grow all farm products, and beyond it is called the plains, where no crops can be grown without irrigation. Lot us say, then, that the East is moist, the West is arid. From the west boundary of the plains rise the Rocky Mountains, and all the remainder of these Territories is mountainous, there being no more plains; and here great rivers have their source—the Missouri, the Platte, the Arkansas, the Red and the Rio Grande on the east side, and the Oolumbia, the Grand, the Green, the Gila and the Colo- rado on the west. Within the mountains are many small rivers and streams, which sink or discharge into lakes having no outlet. The eastern elevation of the plains is about two thousand feet above the sea; at the base of the mountains the average is about five thousand feet and the whole average of these Territories must be six thousand feet, or more thana mile. The loftiest mountains, some of which stand upon the borders of the plains, are nearly three miles high, and of such in the whole range there are over two hundred. The most valuable portion of the great in- terior is, at present, along the eastern base of the mountains, stretching from British America to old Mexico, and it is probable that it will always remain most valuable on account of the superior pastoral and agricultural re- sources; for the plains are covered with a nutritious grass, which, according to un- doubted testimony, furnishes feed well suited for horses,. cattle and sheep the year round, inasmuch as there are no fall or “latter rains’’-to bleach and destroy its value for winter pasture, and seldom does snow cover the ground. Even California does not possess this advantage, and there are few other regions in the world which do, because they have the latter rains. The region which is similar lies in Central Asia, stretching through Turkistan, Bokhara, and what is | called the great Desert of Cobi; but this is less | valuable than the American steppes, for it is | between lines of latitude without climatic variation, while here the course is across lines of latitude reaching from the frigid to the tropical. It is manifest that the revenue to be derived from the grass'of the plains must be constant and long, and in the aggregate enor- mous. The many rivers and streams which issue from the mountain canyons furnish water sufficient to irrigate not far from five millions of acres—that is, from the Missouri to the Rio Grande. This does not seem a large amount | of land in cultivation, but it is large when | irrigation is considered; and os the average yield of such land is double the yield of the Atlantic States, and as the plains will support millions of cattle, the capacity of the country of this long line for supporting human beings may be estimated at not less than fifteen mill- ions. Of necessity, population must be | gathered in the valleys and largely in cities and in towns, while the country beyond the irrigating canals must be forever devoted to pastoral solitudes, to cross which will require from two to five, ten, andin some cases twenty-four hours’ travel. Mountains perpetually covered with snow are always seen from irrigated fields, whether | | in the Eastern or Western world, because a | | sufficient supply of water during the hot | months of summer can be obtained only from | melted snow; and hence it may be said that | glaciers and snow fields formed a part of the | | landscape beheld by our first parents in the | | Garden of Eden, which was watered by rivers. | | Thus the human race was nurtured by the | | side of murmuring waters, and in a climate | | where the sun ever shines ; and having spread | thence to lands beneath rainy skies, it has finally, in these last ages, completed the cir- | cuit of the earth, and again are beheld gardens | and fields made green with the waters of melted snow. The common mind believes, without know- ing, that amidst mountains nothing can be | grown unless it be forests, and that they are | uninhabitable. But the Rocky Mountains are different, and we have reports from scientific and practical men that the rainfall in the | | mountains is considerable, for these elo- vated masses arrest or attract the moisture evaporated from the smooth surface of the | plains below, which in winter falls in snow and in summer in rain, 60 that upon slopes and plateaus all kinds | | of vegetables and the hardy cereals yield | luxuriantly. These mountains are in part covered with forests, elsewhere grass covers the ground, and in the valleys it can be cut for hay, so that the whole of the vast Rocky Mountain country is a pastoral region, cer- tainly inferior to the plains, but still habit- | able, and capable in the aggregate of sup- | porting millions of people. The reason why these mountains are more fertile than Eastern mountains is because the granite is soft and | constantly crumbling, and it was this primi- tive rock and others in connection which, in | remote times, were washed and ground down | to form the soilof the plains and of the prairies. Geologists tell us that these moun- tains are more recent in formation than any others and possibly an improvement may have been designed. Still these mountains crumble only in detail, and under the in- fluence of a limited amount of moisture; hence their peaks are always sharp. On the con- trary the mountains of Switzerland, much of ns Methods of Capital Punishment. Some tender-hearted parties in England are engaged in an agitation to secure the abolition, of the gallows, Hanging appears to these Persons to inflict unnecessary suffering on criminals condemned to make their exit through the trap door of a gallows. The Spanish garrote is proposed a8 @ substitute for the old-time gallows. ‘There is no evidence that the class interested in the Proposed change have any marked choice as to the mode of strangulation. No doubt the Spanish system has in its favor greater de- ceney and decorum. The criminal is spared the ridiculous dance at the end of a rope which even the terrible circumstances gur- rounding it cannot make impressive. So far as we know, the quantity of pain sufferod by criminals executed by the one system or the other does not differ greatly. In both cases insensibility is almost instanta- neously secured, and the suffering of the victim may be regarded ag terminating the same instant in which the execution of the sentence of law begins. On the score of humanity there is then scarcely any choice to be made, and the objection to hanging as a mode of ex- ecution narrows itself down to the question whether in legal executions the tastes of the condemned should be consulted. No doubt murderers, like other men, have their feelings, which they object to have outraged, They would like to leave the world with as much sense of personal dignity as possible, and on this ground may object to being strung up by the neck, an object at once ridiculous and re- pulsive. Hanging is perhaps the form of death with which the world has associated most strongly the idea of disgrace and degradation. This in itself would be an ex- cellent reason for continuing it as the system of judicial execution, even if it could be proved to cause criminals a little more physical pain than more decorous modes of killing. There is no reason why the fine susceptibilities of murderers should be consulted. They are pun- ished in order to deter others from shedding blood, and whatever tends to render their meniories infamous adds to the effectiveness of the punishment. For this reason if for no other a change in the system of legal execu- tion is to be deprecated. If by some modifi- cation a still greater stigma could be attached to the culprit it might be worth while taking the matter into consideration; but when the change is suggested in theinterest of men who show their contempt for law and society by shedding blood no maudlin sentimentality should induce lawmakers to forget the very dangerous results their clemency may have im lessening the dread entertained by the crim- inal classes of the executioner. Tue Frencn Asszmuiy have turned their: attention to the question of a recess as that best way to evade dissolution. Never befora was a body more greedy of power nor more chagrined because it gave itself over, tied hand and foot, to MacMahon. Bat after the recess will come dissolution anyhow, and if these legislators were wise they would agree to it while there is morit in the adoption of this course. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. J. H. B. Latrobe, of Baltimore, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. We nave not yet had anf revelations from the spirits apout it. ‘ Judge J. M. Woolworth, of Omaha, is stopping at the Windsor Hotel. Count Campo Alegre, of Havana, has apartment at the Brevoort House. Judge Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, is staying: at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, is quartered at the Westminster Hotel, And now the Richmond Enquirer wants & “‘puddenhead” President to succeed Grant. A pretty picture—Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stan- toncomparing the stories of a ‘phase of social life.” Judge Martin Grover, of the Court of Appeals, arrived from Albany yesterday at the Metropolitan Hotel. Senator Carpenter is quoted as authority for the statement that bis first name is Mathias, not Matthew. Assistant Inspector General FE. A. Ludington, United States Army, is registered at the Metropolt- tan Hotel. General Cowan returned yesterday to Washing- ton and resumed his duties as Acting Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Tilton should have required Mr. Beecher’s Post Office address in Canada long ago. —Indianap- olis Sentinel, Mr. J. H. Saville, Chief Clerk of the Treasury De- partment, 1s among the recent arrivals at the Hoffman Honse. Mr. Edward McPherson, Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, is residing at (he Fifth Avenue Hotel. Collins Graves is going to take the road again. He is one of the contractors for rebuilding the highways of Williamsburg, Jones, of Vermont, said on his dying bed that he had never written a line which e cared to erase. | The whole State was proud of him till it was found out that.he could not even write his name. When Molesworth’s History of England appeared only 200 copies of the book were sold, but Jonm Bright casually alladed to the work in @ speect { and the whole edition went off within a fortnight. The Emperor of Russia has invited the ’rince Im- perial to pay him a visit at St. Petersburg, by way of returning the hospitality which Napoleon [IL showed the Ozar at Paris during the [nternational Exhibition of 1867. Baron Schwarz-Senborn, the recently appointed | Austrian Minister to the United States, and Mr, P, A. Havemeyer, Austrian Consul General in thia city, arrived trom Europe in the steamship Russia and are at the Brevoort House. ARMY INTELLIGENCE, | Judge Advocate Gardner Assigned to a Professorship at West Point. WASHINGTON, July 30, 1874, Major Asa Bird Gardner, Judge Advocate, has been assigned to duty as Professor of Law at the West Point Military Academy. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Waiting Orders—T Senate. Naval In- spection. Lieutenant William N, Emory has reported his return home, having been detached trom the Asiatic station, and has been placed on waiting Engineer Jonn J. Ryan is detached ranac, and placed on Waiting orders. The a States steamer Dispatch leaves here on Tuesday next, with the Senate Committee on Naval Afuirs and the Secretary of the Navy on board to make @ tour of inspection of the navy yards and stations on the Atianuc coast, with @ View of ascertaining if the number can be ree duced, 2) RR ate x MINISTER JEWELL'S RECEPTION, Hartrorp, Conn., July 30, 1874, Ata meeting of the citizens this evening com mittees were appointed Trange for @ reception to Minister Jewell on his irom Russia, OBITUARY, Daniel Park. Bosron, July 90, 1874. Daniel Park, Treasurer of the Cocheco Mannfac turing Company, dicd suddenly this morning at | orders. Assistant from the 5 the time dripping with moisture, have rounded, summits and sloping outlines, the age of fifty years. He was iM tts uguat good A Weal laa MARE WED Ue LObUTedy