The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1874, Page 4

ae NEW YORK HERALD sith all 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 Your ‘Henavv. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 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 | es in New York. Volume XXXIX.... aeeseceseNO. 218 | AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets — EVANGELIN«, THE BELLE OF ACADIA, at 8 P.M; glooes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. Joseph Wheelock and Miss lone WOOD’s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street—LITTLE RED‘ .atSP. M.; closes as 10:: . M. neh end Miss Sophie Miles, GLOBE THEATRE, Fo, 78 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broadway.—Parisian Cancun Dancers, at 8 P. M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Rowery. ee ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. M.; | closes at 10:. Fifty-ninth street and te seh venue THOMAS! con. fa, reet and Seventh a I Ne Car ars EMS closes at se ae” ray. corner irty-fitth st LON DaY¥. “Open trom 10.4. M. Uliduske cave eolige WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Thursday, August 6, 1874. THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. oa To NewspEALERs AND THE Pusuic:— The New Yore Henaxp 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 Sumpar Henawp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hunaxp office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilitics aie that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. Wat Srazer Yesterpay.—Gold opened at | 109§ and closed at 109}, the only figures of the day. Stocks opened firm, went off and closed steady. Taz Brooxtyy Common Covnxcm have voted two million dollars for the construction of the bridge. The question now is, What is New York going to do about it? ‘Tue Trovnze in the Bureau of Obstructions grows out of the hatred cherished by Comp- troller Green against the head of the, Depart- ment of Public Works. The bureau is under the latter department; so the Comptroller seeks a pretence for stopping its supplies, Meanwhile the streets are obstructed and the public suffer. When will the end of this miserable administration be reached? Toe Frencn Assemery voted the Treasury ‘budget yesterday and President Buffet de- clared the session closed. The members of the Legislative Body will consequently enjoy a recess to the 10th of November. President MacMahon will be enabled to carry on the government with cash and in quiet, the poli- ticians will rearrange their party platforms, and France will await, patiently it is to be hoped, for what may turn up. Tae Sours axp tue Tump Txrm.—We + publish in another column a letter from ex- Governor Hébert, of Louisiana, on the third term question, in which that gentleman mani- fests great distrust of {he Northern democracy and intimates that the only salvation for the South lies in the re-election of General Grant. While Mr. Hébert has been all his life identi- fied with the interests of the section for which | he presumes to speak, it would seem ex- | tremely illogical in the South to anticipate | Telief from the evils under which they labor from the continuance in power of one who has been repeatedly blamed by Southern leaders as the chief cause of all their recent difficulties. Dispartt on THE Evropran Srrvation.— | ‘Premier Disraeli announced to the British | Bouse of Comnions yesterday his personal | conviction that, however tranquil the general | state of Europe may be, there are “agencies at | work preparing a period of great disturbance.’’ | The famous English statesman has on more than one occasion of late excited and alarmed the Old World peoples and governments by the utterances of sentences of similar import; Dat, so far as we have seen, he has not conde- scended to indicate the point of danger or the causes which are more immediately exciting towards it. If he possesses such knowledge, based upon facta, it is, we should say, his plain duty to advise the Queen and Parlia- ment of it. Or is the great novelist merely prejudiced? Or has the sunset of life given unto him the power of mystical lore? Tae Finz Commissioners have presented to. Mayor Havemeyer their report for the gammer months, showing that three hun- dred and eighteen fires have taken place since the Ist of May, of which only fif- teen did any considerable damage and ten extended to other buildings. This is a very gratifying exhibit of the efficiency of our Fire Department, of which New York may be / Jastly proud. The greater number of the fires from carelessness and foul chim- . Gircumstances which it would be well to bear in mind. The experiments of tho cotps of sappers and miners in regard to any conflagration of too extensive a to be resisted by ordinary means ave given entire In this era of corruption and jobs it is gratifying to be ablo io point toone municipal department that is eecring of Rev » checking character The Opening of the Political Cam- paign—Gossip Among the Politicians. The political campaign of 1874 opens with the call for the meeting of the Republican State Convention at Syracuse on the 23d of September. The party thus first in the field represents the sweets of office and is strictly of tho administration faith. Out of twenty- two members of the Central Committee pres- ent’ at the issue of thecall fourteen are serving the country, including a United States Sena- tor, a State Senator, a United States District Attorney, a Surveyor of the Port, a County | Treasurer, two Postmasters and one of Mayor Havemeyer’s unfortunate Police Commis- | Sioners, who may still be considered in public | office since he is understood to hold in his possession, as a sort of reserve plum, the ap- pointment of Commissioner of Excise. » The Convention will, no doubt, be of the same complexion, for party machinery works with precision, and it is difficult to resist the will of those who hold its control in their hands, As, however, there is an important section of the republican party which, if not opposed to the administration, is, at least, in- disposed to submit to the dictation of what is regarded as an offico-holder’s ring, it will be incumbent on the Convention to liberalize its action and to study the sentiments of the out- side republicans in the nominations. All sorts of rumors are afloat in regard to the wishes of the leaders ; but many of them are probably nothing more than rumors. It is said that the temperance movement is to be handled as a weapon againstthe renomination of Governor Dix, and that those politicians who desire his defeat are anxious that the Governor should dismiss the charges against Mayor Havemeyer for the purpose of fastening upon the former some apparent indorsement of the latter’s official conduct But the people understand well enough that the ' so-called temperance movements are, in fact, the intrigues of political adventurers who take advantage of the temperance organization to promote their own ends, and we do not regard it as likely that Governor Dix will’ in any manner countenance or approve the official action of Mayor Havemeyer. Ancther item of political gossip on the republican side is an alleged intention of the leaders to renomi- nate Governor Dix, and then to trade off the Governor at the polls for members of Assem- bly, in order to secure a majority of the right stamp in the House in view of the election of United States Senator. Some imaginative persons affect to discover an inkling of such a policy in the remarks made by Senator Conk- ling at the meeting of the committee, when he urged that ‘nothing should be left undone to secure a republican majority in the Legislature, as upon that body would de- pend the choice of s United States Senator.’’ But Mr. Conkling no doubt called attention to the importance of the next Legislature in good faith and without any intention ot sug- gesting the election of members of Assembly at the expense of other republican candidates, Besides, such a plot, if contemplated, would be defeated by the personal popularity of Governor Dix, if he should be the candidate of the party for re-election. But while the office-holders, strong in the possession of the control of the local organi- zations in most counties of the State, as well as of the Central Committee, are gathering up the threads of their intrigue and weaving a plot of their own, an important movement is in contemplation by those republicans who have not of late years enjoyed the sunshine of administration favor. The Hznaup some time ago revealed the fact that negotiations were pending looking to a reconciliation between President Grant and Senator Fenton as a necessary preliminary to a complete change of programme on the part of the administra tion at Washington and a reunion of the re- publican party in New York and other States where disaffection exists. It is claimed that this treaty of peace is so _ nearly concluded as to render it probable that Senator Fenton may be a candidate before the Republican Convention for the nomination for Governor of the State, leaving the prize of the United States Senatorship to be won by Governor Dix or ex-Governor Mor- gan, as the case may be. The arguments used in favor of such an arrangement are not without force. It is claimed that the composition of the present State Senate renders it probable that damaging dissen- sions may arise among the republican Sena- tors in the contest for a successor to Mr. Fenton in the United States Senate if the breach in the ranks of the party be not healed | before the next Legislature meets. In the ap- proaching elections, it is said, the friends of Mr. Fenton will concentrate their efforts on the Assembly should no compromise with the administration be effected, and will unite with the democrats inall contestable districts to se- cure the success of a Fenton republican wher- ever possible, or a8 an alternative the deteat ot an administration republican by a democrat. The end of such a combination may be the loss of a United States Senator and the virtual paralyzing of New York's influence in the United States Senate by splitting the repre- sentation between the two parties. The elec- | tion of a friendly republican as Mr. Fenton's successor is regarded as an important if not an indispensable step toward the success of the third term policy and the projected com- promise looks to the acceptance of that policy by Senator Fenton. At the same time he would not be required to stultify himself by becoming third term advocate. He may even be permitted to enter mild protests against this departure trom the precedent established by the fathers of the Republic. But os Governor of the State he will necessarily have but little necessity to take part in the preliminary movements, and when the nomination shall have been made by the Republican National Convention, what will he be able to do but to respect the will of his party? There is a rumor that only one obstacle stands now in the way of this inter- esting political arrangement. Mr. Fenton, it is said, backed by Mr. Thurlow Weed, claims the Custom House as a security before aban- doning his outside organization and trusting to the administration, first for his nomination, and next for his election as Governor of the State. He wishes a change to be at once made in that valuable placer of political power. The President hesitates to concede t)'s point, as he well may, and here is reported to be the present hitch in the proposed treaty. The Tammany democracy, although not in office, will’ labor under a difficulty in their pproaching party convention and in their selection of candidates somewhat similar to that experienced by the administro- tion republicans. It has been decided by the leaders not to call the Democratic State Con- vention until after the republican nominees shall have been put into the field. But when the Convention meets, so far as the New York delegution is concerned, it will be found that the representation is confined to the Tammany politicians, while the outside democ- racy of the city will be without a voice in the nominations that will be made. If the democratic party desires success it will be necessary to study this outside element and to liberalize the ticket, for on the vote of New York city the result in the State will depend. Here, also, there are rumors of intrigues and plots which may or may not have foundation. epeated, and that while one candidate or another for Governor will be brought torward and canvassed prior to the meeting of the Convention, the name of Horatio Seymour is suddenly to be sprung upon the delegates and carried through by acclamation. Whether success would attend such a policy as in 1862, however, is open to grave doubt. ‘The sense of the party outside tho leaders seems to be to bury past issues and to take a new departure, and it is this sentiment which points to Judge Church as the popular candidate on the democratic side for the office of Governor. Tho objection raised to Judge Church’s candidacy by his political friends is based upon the fact that a vacancy would be created in the Supreme Court, which would be filled by a republican Governor, since the resignation could not take place three months .before the next election. But the appointed Judge would only hold office until 1875, and the selection would be certain to be wisely made by GovernorDix. Besides, it would be‘ but a poor compliment to Judge Church to urge his retention on the bench of the Supreme Court on account of his political opinions, Itis certain that careful and conciliatory nominations wiil be as essen- tial in the case of the democracy as they will be on the part of the republicans. The people are held but lightly nowadays by the bonds of party, and success or failure in the next State election, as in the city of New York, will de- pend mainly on the popular acceptance or repudiation of the personnel of the political tickets. Another Steamboat Burned. The particulars of the burning of the steamboat Pat Rogers on the Ohio River, which we print this morning, are sufficiently heartrending, even in the absence of that criminal carelessness which is usually the cause of disasters like this, There seems to have been no weak boiler in this instance, nor was the disaster due to any of the ordinary causes, and yet it was one which should not have occurred. Aspark, it is believed, ignited some bales of cotton which were part of the cargo, and thus the vessel was destroyed, in- volving the loss of many lives. Such an acci- dent should have been impossible, and yet we cannot call that carelessness which is general usage, There is scarcely a steamboat on any of our lakes or rivers which is free from dan- gers of this character. It is impossible to suppress the sparks. It is equally impossible to hide away the boat and the cargo from the smokestack. The cotton bales being more in- flammable than the ordinary elements of a boat’s cargo should have been placed so as to be least exposed to danger, and yet almost every boat that traverses our waters has equally inflammable material constantly ex- posed where the sparks may penetrate. It is not a case of individual carelessness, but it is an illustration of ao universal fault. Some- thing must be done to secure greater safety in storing the cargoes and placing the furniture of steamboats, and we can see no reason why the models of our river craft should not be preserved at the same time that it shall be im- possible for sparks to penetrate places of danger. A Startling Exhibit. The charter requires the Corporation Coun- sel to report every six months the suits pend- ing in his office, their nature and the amounts claimed, with other information. This report appeared yesterday in the sheet called the Cily Record, which the people never see. Itisa startling exhibit. Fourteen or fifteen pages are filled with closely printed matter which show that there were some four or five thou- sand suits pending on the 30th of June last or settled during the preceding six months. The amount claimed against the city in pend- ing suits appears’to be between seven and eight million dollars, independent of costs and interest. There are, besides, a large number of suits for vacation of assessments, which, if successful, will throw an additional heavy burden on the city. It will be remembered that not a dollar of these contested claims ap- pears in Comptroller Green's debt statements, but are in addition to the amount of the public liabilities as represented to the people by the Finance Department. This shows the neces- sity of a complete investigation & our finan- cial condition, and explains the motives that have prompted the suppression of the report on the floating debt said to have been pre- pared by the Commissioners of Accounts, Tus New Yors Navtican Scnoor.—The Board of Education has proceeded so far with the organization of a nautical school as to make the appointment of a Superintendent and to ask the Secretary of the Navy for the use of a vessel. The importance of such an institution in this city under the auspices of the Public School Board cannot be overes- timated. Our commercial marine ought to have officers better fitted for the duties of ocean navigation than is possible when the forecastle is the only training school. Under the old system of sailing vessels this was well enough ; but the introduction of steamships has made a higher order of ability and a more thorough education necessary. The techni- calities of seamanship have gone beyond the grasp of the forccastle, Under these circum- stances it is only by means of nautical schools that a growing demand for well educated and well trained officers can be supplied. Congress has done wisely in providing for the establish- ment of these schools, and we shall look for- ward with much interest to the success of the institution about to be fully organized by the Board of Education under the authority of that act; and we trust the Navy Department will-not be backward in placing a proper ves- sel at ths disposition of the Board, It is said that the tactios of 1862 are to be } Yr Our Mutual Friend. A deplorable feature of the deplorable Brooklyn scandal has been the apparent im- Possibility of obtaining a plain and truthful statement from any person connected with the unfortunate affair. There have been from the first concealment, prevarication and mystery on all sides. Mr. Tilton was censurable when he tattled, insinuated and threw out hints only partially revealing the truth, even granting the story to be as he now represents it If the great wrong was done him he should have made it public from the housetops, or, concealing and condoning it,once, it should have been forever buried out of sight, and, if pos- sible, out of memory. Mr. Beecher was ‘Wrong in sealing up his lips when the charges were once publicly made against him ; for, if guilty, professions of innocence though made by dumb show, could only add to the sin, while, if innocent, the cause of re- |. ligion and morality demanded an instant re- pudiation of the slander. The committee was to blame for giving to the ablio incom- plete and apparently not always impartial re- ports of the evidence taken by them. Finally, Mr. Moulton, ‘our mutyal friend,” has not been altogether blameless in absenting himself so long when he evidently holds the key tothe truth in his possession and when the public interests demanded that this reproach should be removed from sight as speedily as possible, This apparent dread of the truth and not a desire to plungo deeper into the offensive mire has given rise to the general desire for a legal investigation of the case. Pru- rient curiosity gloats on the exaggerated stories to which mystery and concealment in- variably give rise. The demand for a trial before a legal tribunal has come from those who feel that the public have nowa right to the truth, whatever it may be, and that it cannot too soen be brought to light, so that the painful story and all connected with it may pass out of sight and be forgotten. There appears now to be some promise of an end, even before the unsatisfactory com- mittee. A strong and angry letter from Mr. Beecher has drawn out a reply from ‘our mutual friend,” and Mr. Moulton has ap- peared Before the committee, armed with the license of both sides to speak. He has signi- fied his willingness to make his statement and to produce the documentary evidence he holds, on the condition that he is to be allowed a few days to arrange his thoughts, refresh his memory and prepare his papers, and on the further consideration that he shall be accompanied by a shorthand reporter of his own selection. To these terms the committee have assented. As the evi- dence of Mr. Moulton may thus be con- sidered as secured it is unnecessary to comment on his last correspondence with Mr. Beecher, or to express an opinion as to which holds the juster estimate of the position occu- pied by the “mutual friend” and of the obli- gations he is under with regard to the letters confided to his care. Tho documents are to be made public, and that is all that concerns the people. We may say, however, that the threo letters published this morning only seem to add to the singular complica- tions. Mr. Beecher is angry, but his call for the production of the documents sounds like the confidence of innocence. Mr. Moulton is calm and friendly, but his letter contains at least one hint which is scarcely reconcilable with Mr. Beecher’s apparent confidence, and certainly must cause a shudder in those who hope to see Mr. Beecher triumphantly acquitted. Mr. Tilton’s brief and decisive assent to the production of the evidence reads also like a certainty in the truth of his published statement. Surely somebody must be playing a desperate game. Shall we ever know who it is? ‘Wanted—An Opinion, Mr. Columbus Ryan, or Cornelius Ryan— what’s ina name?—no doubt makes a ‘‘good thing’’ out of his eating and drinking estab- lishments in Central Park. The refreshment and liquor business is very profitable, espe- cially when 1t is carried on as a sort of monop- oly and is not subject to close competition. It is calculated, we believe, that seventy per cent of the money taken for wines and liquors at the current prices in such first class estab- lishments os those owned by Columbus (or Cornelius) is clear gain, and dinners, lunches, suppers, ice cream, ginger ale, soda water, doughnuts, cakes and candies are all made to pay a good profit. No doubt the Casino, Mount St. Vincent and the other establishments run by Mr. ©. Ryan—we can compromise on the initial of the doubtful name—are well con- ducted, and no doubt he supplies as good wines, liquors, cigars and food ag he ought to supply for the first class prices he charges. But the question is, by what right have the Commissioners of the Central Park leased these valuable buildings belonging to the Cor- poration to Columbus, Coraelius, or any other man, when the charter requires tltat they shall be leased by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, and then only to the highest bid- der after public advertisement for bids? By what right especially have they conferred this contract or lease or these perquisites upon an officer of the Corporation when the law positively prohibits such an act ond makes it a misdemeanor? We can see only one way out of this diffi- culty. The Park Commissioners have clearly violated the law. The Comptroller, who has paid C. Ryan’s salary as an officer of the Cor- poration, while knowing him to be the owner of this valuable contract, and who has settled with C. Ryan in the matter of the contract, while knowing him to be a salaried officer of the Corporation, has been guilty of an illegal act. Nothing is left, therefore, but to obtain a legal opinion that the Park buildings are not ‘city property” and that the Park Commission is not bound by the charter powers ond limitations. This opinion might cover the ground that the pro- vision of the charter fixing salaries, which says, ‘‘To the President of the Depart- ment of Parks, six thousand dollars ; to the Commissioners of Parks other than the Presi- dent, nothing,’’ is a mere technicality, and is meant to read, ‘Lo the Commissioner of Parks, enjoying the honorary title of Treas- urer, four thousand dollars.” To be sure, some other questions may remain to be answered, as, for instance, whether the Park Department has furnished and fitted Mr. C. Rryan’s hotels, restaurants ond saloons at the | public expense, and whether the amount of - Scriptures, never looked upon this dream life NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1874.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. “his gas bills has been taken from the people's [; pockets, But the legal opinion is needed any way. Where is the Corporation Bunsby? The Loves of the Angels. In the early halcyon days of “reform,” when the fancy of emotional people painted rosy existence as the consummation and hope of years of agitation, we were told that the future generations would live in harmony, peace and love. The beauty of all the “movements” that at different times have excited humanity was in contemplating the bliss that was to rest upon society when the “movement’’ was completed. There was tho Fourier Phalanx at Brook Farm, which was to be the germ of a new system of association and universal happiness. But as some of tho brethren felt that it was their mission to look out of the window while other brethren worked in the fields embarrassments arose and the dream vanished. We had an “elec- tive affinity’ arrangement in New York under the benignant influence of Stephen Pearl Andrews; but the effort to attain perfect Jove hed the result of spontaneous combus- tion, Somehow the dreamers never passed beyond the land of dreams. Ideal life on paper, or in the journals, or under tho roses, is enchanting; but ideal life with work to do, and bills to pay, and quarrels to compose, and a hundred unavoidable duties of society to meet, is quite another affair. Worldly, doubting people, who have a stub- born faith in the Commandments and the with enthusiasm. Current events, we regret to say, only help to confirm the doubts. Cer- tainly if any ‘“movement’’ was ever bathed, as it were, in love and harmonious concord of soul, it was woman’s suffrage. Those of us who have been blessed with the sight of Eliza- beth Cady Stanton moving up the platform to take the chair ata woman’s congress, her fine, full, merry face frosted with fleecy locks and beaming with affection and courage, must have rejoiced in her as an apparition of amia- bility and charity. There were those public and eloquent love taps between Elizabeth and her Puritan Mrs. Harris, the stern-eyed Susan B. Anthony. Down the list of earnest, strong minded souls, the Woodhull, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Blake, Lucy Stone and the nebulous crowd that made up the tail of Elizabeth’s cometary “movement”—how beautiful their public ap- pearance, their angelic sweetness of temper, cooing like the cooing dove. Even the most cynical of us said, ‘‘What angels these women are! Did Damon ever love his Pythias, or Mrs. Harris her own Gamp, with the love poured upon Elizabeth by Susan? What in- nocent, winning ways! What sweetness, and grace, and tact, and exquisite modulation of tone, and infinite soaring of soul! What wives, what mothers, what sisters—nay, more, what mothers-in-law they would make!’’ In time some of us came to the reluctant conclusion that ‘woman was never seen to perfection in the fall blooming of her noblest qualities except in the “movement.” And we said also—‘‘Suppose trouble came, sorrow, embarrassment, mis- representation ; suppose that black scandal or foul faced reproach should creep into the ‘movement,’ how these sisters would love and cling to each other, how they would buoy up the weary and help the heavy laden, and bring rest and peace!” Is there not a fairy tale somewhere about a eat who was transformed into a beautiful princess, and who sat in majesty in the centre of a gracious, splendid throng until a mouse came from its hole and ran before her, and how her royal highness could not resist the innermost instinct, but must needs pursue the mouse and kill it in full sight. of the court, while the adoring circle fled in astonishment, seeing that she was only a cat after all, and that some fairy had played a prank upon them? We have had a similar transformation in the angels of the ‘‘movement.’’ A sudden grief came upon no lessa man than Henry Ward Beecher, and it seemed as if he had fallen by the way, covered with a shame as of death. Well, we remembered that in his day Mr. Beecher had been a demigod among these angels; that even Elizabeth Cady Stanton sat at his feet, while Susan B. Anthony kissed the hem of his garment, and we said, ‘‘What a blessed sight we shall now see! What love, what patience, what sustaining sympathy will be shown to this man in his sorrows by those angels with whom he has labored for so many years!” But the temptation was too great. True enough, there was a brother to be com- forted in his sorrow; but there was also a great human heart to be rent and torn; slan- der was to be rolled like sweet morsels under the tongue; women were to be wounded in their | honor and their good name; all the sacred tra- ditions which biud society in a holy relation were to be criticised; marriage was to bo demonstrated a lie, religion a comedy, ma- ternity o burden and e crime, and home only the gilded den of slavery. In‘an instant the angelic nature was gone, and, instead of the angels in loving communion and sweet sym- pathy, we had a flock of screaming, croaking, chattering, ravenous carrion birds, tearing to pieces the body of Henry Ward Beecher. Nor should the transformation surpriso us, for among the compensations arising out of this loathsome and atrocious affair is the reve- lation of the true character of the woman's suffrage movement. We now see, especially by the attitude of Mrs. Stanton and her strange, perverse course, that the movement is altogether unwholesome and base. Instead of freedom to women it means the violation of ‘woman's most sacred prerogatives. It would pull down love in the marriage temple and erect in its stead the obscene image of free love. License would become another name for law. The family would fly asunder, and home, which is the ripe fulfilment and union of human comforts and virtues, and which it is the tendency of civilization to hallow— home would be a desert of sorrow. It is not without grief that we see the angels we have admired so long only carrion birds eager for prey. But it is well that their true character should at last be known. , Brastrxa OreRations are conducted in this city without the slightest reference to the safety of persons in the neighborhood of the contractors’ work. A Coroner’s jury censured one of those heartless individuals a short time since for his criminal carelessness, and now we have another case up town where a piece of rock flow through the window of s room in a building ond injured » woman so severely that she may not be able to survive the shock. Cannot the attention of the proper authorities be directed towards this evil and The Kidnapping Mystery. Despair of the recovery of the lost boy, . Charley Ross, seems settling upon the minds of the good people of Philadelphia. The police of that city have apparently never thought ‘his rescue worthy an effort of theirs to accomplish. Our correspondent now presents the case in a new light, which seems to invest his new solution with much prob- ability. The bitter abuse of the mother which forms a large portion of the contents of the unpublished letters seems to hint that the crime was inspired by some more deadly mo- tive than that of avarice, and the question occurs to the romantic reader, ‘Is there love, disappointment and revenge behind it all ?’* According to the theory now advanced the offer of a restoration of the child for a ransom was meant by the criminals to divert the atten- tion of the father from their true object. While he was endeavoring to meet their demand the child was taken farther ond farther away from his home, and the fraces of his keepers were growing fainter with the lapse of time. By the artifice of the letters and personals the fond parents were deluded into hope, while the supposed revenge or other object was rapidly being consummated. Every good citizen must still fervently cherish the hope that the kidnappers will not escape punishment, The imbecility or the criminality of the police, however, has ren- dered this desirable result highly improbable, Tux Postat-Car Controvensy.—It seeme rather ridiculous that a short railroad, ninety- six miles only in length, should ferment and distract the brains of the Post Office Depart ment in so fearful a manner as has been done recently. President Hinckley, representing the owners of this iron thoroughfare, has declined carrying the United States mails at the com- pensation heretofore paid him. This refasa) was not absolute. It was, however, couched in plain English. It has been discussed and reiterated and modified during several days past, and still the relations of the controversialists ara not very well de fined. The postal cars will be allowed ta move on untila bill for increased compensa- tion shall have been dishonored. Without all this trouble the position of the Railroad President might more easily have been tested by offering the mail contract to another com. pany and preventing the possibility of a serious interruption in the transmission of the mails ot the will of an irresponsible corpora- tion, As the matter now stands the trouble may be renewed at any time, until Congress shall choose, next winter, to settle it. after ita own fashion, by establishing new rates for the carriage of the mails. * InreRnationat Cricker.—If the professions) cricketers who have just been beaten at crickel in England by the professional ball players were playing to win their defeat is a surprise all the more agreeable for the fact that the Amer- icans could not have been expected to ba thorough experts at the English game, and must, therefore, presumably have been better men to prove superior with less knowledge and trained skill. But if the Englishmes were not playing to win other fancies ob viously present themselves; and it is just pos sible they were at the old game of playing soft match to inveigle the strangers and theis friends into a match for a good round sum of money. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Moltke {s at Ragatz—drinking water. Governor Dix left Albany yesterday for Elmira, If it hasn’t got any tail, how does he know it’s & comet ? Gaynor is not a gainer by it either in reputation or otherwise. Mr. John T. Ford, of Baltimore, is at the Metro politan Hotel. Secretary Bristow returned to Washington yes terday morning, Bishop J. J. Conroy, of Albany, is residing at the * Metropolitan Hotel. Secretary Belknap will go to New London to morro to visit his family. Judge William W. Crump, of Richmond, ts stay- ing at the New York Hotel. Now, then, if Lightfoot, of Kentacky, can only trip the light fantastic on nothing! Did the man who Killed himself in the gunshop and “knew what he was about’ intend suicide ? Mr. Olaf Stenersen, Swedish Minister at Wash- ington, has apartments at the Hotel Brunswick. Russia ts sending men to Tashkent to teach tha people how to cultivate the grape and make wine. Judge Alnert S. Bolles, of Norwich, Conn., is among the recent arrivals at the Sturtevant House, ‘The forty-third anniversary of the accession ta the throne of the King of Belgium was celebrated at Brussels. Mr. Amédée Van den Nest, Secretary of the Bel- gian Legation at Washington, has arrived at the Brevoort House, Assistant Quartermaster General Langdon C. Easton, United States Army, 1s quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Robert Campbell, of St. Louis, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. When five or six fellows become very ridiculoug by getung themselves hall frightened to death on a mad dog scare, the hydrophobia fright will be r. *Ghantdavoine, who had been hidden away in Paris ever since the Commune, went out with his family to pass @ Sunday on the grass this hot weather, He was seen by the inevitable gendarme, who carried him away to “hard labor for life,” te which he was sentenced In his absence. It was a great mistake on the part of all those feliows not to live in Arkansas, ‘War against portraits in France. At Macon the police have compelied all the shopkeepers to take out of their windows tho portraits of Thiers and Gambetta, and required even the grocers to sup- preas the packages of alimentary substances om the wrappers of which were printed pictures of distinguished personages. Funny Frenchmen! who deem it important to take of the heads of their enemtes—from a pound of sugar. Tne Roman Cathulio Bishop of Nottingham re- proved a priest the other day for walkiug with a woman on his arm and her hand inhis, The priest asked the Bishop to whom ne was talking. “Jam the Bishop of Nottingham,” said His Lordsnip. “But we have no such Bishop in the English Church,” replied the priest. “oh!” exclaimed the Bishop, “then you belong to the English Church, I ‘am delighted to hear it, and I beg your pardon with all my life; but Ido wish you would not walk about io our uniform.” Grasshoppers have a disposition to cat up things in Algeria also; but there nature has provided a remedy against them in the form of @ “natural . enemy.” This isan insect apparently indigenous there and never classified by the entomologists. It deposits its eggs in the same hole in which the grasshoppers have depostied theirs, thus taking advantage of their labor. The eggs of the “nat- ural enemy” haten first and nis young either ive on the grasshopper eggs or destroy the coming grasshopper early in lire, This natural enemy does no harm to the crops. Now, thon, Uncie Sam, what's the use of yoor Agricultural Depart- ment if it cannot import and naturalize this feb means be taken to suppress it? lows