The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK H ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, co tunes JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ee THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. An- pual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic Despatches must be addressed New Yore Rejected communications will not be re- Yurned. ns apace LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Bubscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms » es in Now York — ‘Wotume XXXIX. ANPBEMENT THIS AFTERNOON "3 MUSEUM, oro Phirdioth street. —LITTLE RED ae Obes Pf ry e! P.M, THE SEA CORRE At ae ai tect phie Mies, So) . No. 219 AND EVENIN " DEN, grace: betwen fies and Vronston street, — VANGELIN®, THE BELLE OF ACADIA, at 8 P.M. 5 fgloses 25 10:05 M. Mr. Joseph Wheelock aud Miss lone os TROPOLITAN THEATRS, ‘Mo. 685 Broadway Farisian Cancan Dancers, st 8 P. M. 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Wars, Srneer Yzsrerpay.—The advance of the Bank of England rate to four per cent ‘was s surprise to the street. Gold advanced to 110, but closed at 109j. Stocks were a little unsettled during the day, but closed strong. Money loaned as high as three and | one-half per cent, but left off at two and one- half per cent. Tae VersartLes GoveENMENt will maintain intimate official relations with the Permanent Committee of the French Assembly during the recess of the Legislature. The Ministry has promised to communicate to the committee the details of any serious foreign question which may arise. MacMahon is evidently on the qui vive. Ove Inpian Pers.—These playful creatures have been guilty of some more innocent efforts to amuse themselves during the long season of warmth and ennui. Two stage coaches have been captured between Fort Sill and Wichita, and the drivers and passengers were killed and scalped with the customary neatness and despatch. Toe Basz Batt Team rnom Bosron, the Red Stockings, beat the Athletics, of Phila- delphia, in the game which was played in England yesterday. The American field sport practice continues quite sn attraction in the eyes of the English people. Thousands of persons, including many members of the aristocracy, witnessed the play. Don Cantos’ Army is being supplied with munitions of war, rifles particularly, from different sources of deposit, according to French accounts, Arms are landed on the coast of Spain at the very moment when the French police have seized a quantity of weapons destined for the use of the Carlists on the frontier. French Azwy News 1x Prvssta.—The Prussian press is giving considerable atten- tion to the subject of the demand which has ‘een made by the French Minister of War for the appropriation of a large sum of money for the use of the army. The items of the Paris estimate have been duly telegraphed to Berlin. This is quite natural. Bismarck ‘watches, even if he is not given overmuch to sprayer. Tux New Yore Yacut Cxve have begun their annual craise through the Sound. The account of the rendezvous, start and sail to New London will be found in another col- umn. An unpropitious calm, only varied by fitful and erratic breezes, made the first day of the voyaging rather dull and monotonous; but the programme of events promises to enliven the experience of the yachtsmen to a very pleasurable degree before their return to dot bricks and mortar. A German Grerartan.—Kaiser William of Germany is negotiating with the Spaniards, according to a French account, for the cession of the town of Santofia, in the province of Santander, to the domain of imperial Prussia. Zhe Germans propose, should they obtain the to erect ® second Gibraltar on its site. Germany need a Gibraltar? What can ‘@ country which personifies unity at home and peace and good will all round the world want 4o do with such an ugly looking fortress ? Tae Maron admires the world-renowned arords of Governor Dix—‘‘If any one hauls wlown the American flag, shoot him on the spot!” But he thinks that if the order had fbeen carried out unpleasant legal conse- might have ensued. The Mayor evi- wants to make Governor Dix believe it would not be safe to act on the prin- “If any office-holder violates the law, him out” ta poh. in the othex, But Governor Dix would (have been a good as his word in the one cage The Mayor's Story—What the People of New York Ask of Governor Dix. The long document transmitted by Mayor Havemeyer to Governor Dix last week is now before the public. It can neither be properly called a reply to the charges under consideration by the Governor nor a defence of the Mayor's alleged illegal and im- proper official acts. It is a rambling medley of excuses, explanations, evasions and attacks, apparently designed to confuse the mind and lead it from the real issue. But we fail to find in it a single strong point for the defence or an argument that can justify the Governor in dismissing the complaint. Its object seems rather to be the promotion of some political purpose than the refutation of serious charges of official misconduct, and if we did not know that Mr. Havemeyer’s official life is forever ended, we should believe that he courted re- moval, inthe hope that he might use the specious plea of martyrdom to aid his re- election. Indeed, he takes occasion to inform the Governor that he hesitated long before be determined to make any reply, and only concluded to do so because he thought it ex- pedient to put his story on record. Through- out the document he assumes a defiant tone, and, brushing aside his judge, claims the right to use the office of Mayor for his own purposes, so long as he keeps within the strict letter of the law in his official acts. The first plea of the Mayor to the charge that he failed to investigate the official conduct of Police Commissioners Gardner and Charlick, when offences against the law were alleged against them, is a repudiation of the plain provisions of the charter. He thinks it quite inexpedient, he says, for the Mayor to insti- tate such an investigation into the conduct of proof, But the charter makes it the duty of the Mayor ‘to keep himself informed of the doings of the several departments," and ‘to be vigilant’ and: active in causing the ordinances of the city and the laws of the State to be exeouted and enforced.” To faithfully perform this duty he must make it his business to assure himself that each de- partment is obeying and enforcing the law, and that its management is honest and efficient. He could not screen himself be- hind the excuse that no definite charges were made against the Police Commissioners by a responsible person, even if the statement were true. He is not constituted by the law a judge ; he is constituted the guardian of the public, and the trust is his, and not the public's, to administer. But charges were actually made against Messrs. Gardner and Charlick by the Board of Aldermen, when they declared it to be the duty of the Mayor to investigate the official conduct of those Commissioners, and adopted, as the grounds of such declaration, the report of the Assem- bly committee on the corruptions of the Street Cleaning Bureau and the allegations of the Tammany leaders in regard to violations of the Election law. These charges came not from a single citizen, but from the rep- resentatives of all the citizens of New York, and were the more deserving attention on that account. Further on in his disjointed statement the Mayor seems to recognize the necessity of excusing his con- temptuous refusal to comply with the demand made by the Board of Aldermen. He asserts that it was his intention to investigate the alleged illegal acts of the Commissioners at the election ; but that before he could find time to do so the indictments ogainst the accused were brought in by the Grand Jury. He therefore resolved to await the trial of these indictments. ‘It seemed to me,’’ says Mr. Havemeyer, ‘‘that I should be better en- lightened by the developments thus likely to be made in a legal form than by any investi- gation conducted by myself, and that under the circumstances, as the delay involved was but short, it would be every way more expe- dient to await the result of these trials, I think that you will agree with me that this was a prudent determination.” Surely, if Mayor Havemeyer, with his avowed opinion as to the caution that should be exer- cised in instituting an investigation into the conduct of heads of departments, had resolved to take up and investigate the charges made against Charlick and Gardner in regard to the violation of the Election law, he must have done so with the intention to remove them from office if the charges should be substantiated. Else why investigate at all? But he awaited the result of the trials, and when the accused Commissioners had been convicted he reinstated them in the positions of which the law had stripped them. It is evident, therefore, that Mr. Havemeyer does tended to make an investigation into the charges against the Commissioners, or that he had determined on their acquittal before the investigation commenced. The Mayor is yet more unfortunate in the excuses he makes for neglecting to inquire into the corruptions in the Street Cleaning Bureau of the Police Department. He did not think | the charges deserving of consideration, and he insults the people of New York by entering | into a landation of the two convicted Police Commissioners, especially of Oliver Charlick. | The Mayor had, indeed, glanced at the report of the Assembly committee, and had observed | some testimony leading to the belief that | small sums had been taken from citizens for | removing garbage, &., but he had not seen a single thing to impeach the integrity of any commissioner of police. It is singular that the Mayor should have overlooked all the testimony in regerd to the filling of Long Island lots, in which Commissioner Charlick, and, we believe, Mr. Havemeyer, are interested, or that he should have failed to see that the whole report, fixing incapacity and dishonesty onthe bureau, was, in fact, an impeachment of the Commissioners who controlled the whole management of the bureau But he deemed the report of the Assembly com- mittee o partisan sffair, unworthy of his | official notice. It is for Governor Dix to approve or condemn this of a legislative investigation. | that he may deem such an inquiry one of \ the most important that can take place; that he may find no justification of the charge of | partisanship, malice and unfairness made by | Mr. Havemeyer against the Assembly commit- tee, and that he may regard it as having been the duty of the Mayor to take notice of the eo%q qgainst the bureau inghe committee's 5¢> not tell the truth when he asserts that he in- | judgment It is possible { grave charges of corruption and incompetency | port. If so, he will refuse to accept the ex- couse offered by the Mayor on this branch of the case. We have exposed on other occasions the fal- lacy of the argument that the Police Commis- sioners were not convicted of a violation of their oaths of office, They were found guilty of a violation of certain provi- sions of a law which their official oaths bound them to faithfully perform. They were sentenced for the offence and paid the fine imposed upon them in lieu of imprison- ment, How puerile, then, to pretend that they had not violated their oaths, But the Mayor goes yet further and argues that even if they had, there is no statute that renders them ineligible for reappoint- ment. Governor Dix is too good a lawyer and too clear headed a man to allow any such special pleading to confuse his decision. The faithful discharge of all their duties under the Election law is expressly required of the Police Commissioners by the charter, and instead of faithfully discharging those duties the convicted Commissioners disre- garded and broke the law. They could not do this without violating the provision of the charter which requires them to faithfully exe- cute the Election. law, and for such violation they are rendered ineligible, after conviction, to any office in the city gov- ernment by the terms of the charter itself. We can find nothing in the Mayor's story, therefore, to render the Governor’s action on the charges doubtful. The citizens of New York are willing that an investigation shall be had, if further investigation is necessary, but they are satisfied that the Mayor’s action has been illegal, and they desire to be relieved of his administration. The new charges made | heads of departments except upon the making | 9@ainst him only render the people of some grave charge by @ responsible person, | the more anxious that the scandal who avows his readiness to maintain it by | Shall be stopped at once and the city saved from further reproach and injury. The Governor would disappoint pub- lic expectation if he should fail to act promptly | inthe matter, and to prove by his decision | that the power vested in him by the law will | be used fearlossly in the interest of the people, now that the necessity for its exercise has arisen. ‘If he should fail to do so he would justly incur the reputation of having, by his inaction, contributed to prolong the existence of abuses which every good citizen has an interest in suppressing.” Iceland’s Millennium. We publish to-day a very interesting ac- count of the island in the Arctic regions which celebrates at this time the millennium of its first effort to establish, within its cir- cumscribed limits, republican institutions. That single circumstance is sufficient to draw the attention of the American people from the contemplation of a third term, reconstruction squabbles and the Brooklyn scandal toward the bleak land where Odin and Thor reigned until Christianity drove them out, and where ice and hot springs, Polar bears and volcanoes, and fertile pastures and drear wastes alike | distract the mind. The graphic letters of our correspondent, Dr. L I. Hayes, whose name | as an Arctic explorer is already enshrined with those of Franklin, Kane, McClure and Hall, lift the veil of obscurity which has long | enshrouded the land of Odin from view and prepare the mind of the reader for the cere- monies which the King of Denmark has by this time presided over, bringing Iceland back | to the condition of original independence that | the occasion commemorates. Small as Iceland is and smaller still as its part in the world’s history has been, it is interesting to American readers, who are preparing for the | centennial of their own Republic, to | | learn all about a republic founded a thousand years ago. The noblest act of | His Most Christian Majesty’s reign is the | giving back to the descendants of the hardy | Norsemen the independence for which they forsook country, titles and wealth. A thou- | sand years ago a woman’s whim drove the | petty kings, or jaris, of Norway to seek a home and a republic in Iceland, and the same | female element is the source of nearly every trouble at the present day. The love of Harold | for a woman led him into a war of extermins- | tion against the chiefs of the Scandinavian tribes, who were probably not possessed of | the numerical strength of followers of the | chairman of a ward committeo to-day. Our correspondent also gives an account of those wonderful Vikings that swarmed over | the seas in the ninth century in their queer little boats, a fleet of which might be safely | stowed away in the compartments of the | | Great Eastern. Those daring rovers pene- | trated into regions where, for centuries after | them, no craft would venture, and the deter- mined hostility of the New England savages alone prevented them from obtaining a per- | | manent foothold on our Continent What a lucky escape for the modern Athens! | Imagine Boston going down to posterity | under the euphonious name of Skraellings- | holm! The history of the Republic of Ice- | land, however, presents an instructive lesson to the American nation. John Mitchel in Ireland, Contrary to the expectation of his friends Mr. John Mitchel, the well known Irish patriot, was allowed to land in Ireland without interference from the authorities, It will be remembered that twenty-seven years ago Mr. Mitche? was sentenced to imprisonment for life on account of the part he took in an attempt at insurrec- tion. Not liking life in the penal colonies he | escaped to America and has ever since main- tained an unflinching attitude of hostility to the government of Great Britain. His return to Ireland in defiance of his sentence naturally produced a deep sensation, and the welcome | which he received on his arrival in Cork ex- | pressed truly enoagh the esteem in which this unflinching opponent of English rule in Ire- land is held by his compatriots. The streets of Cork were illuminated by bon- | fires, and torchlight procession in which nearly five thousand persons took part, | accompanied by bands of music, serenaded the returned “felon.” It was characteristic of the man that the first words spoken in public were a fierce denunciation of the gov- ernment. He admitted that he might be cast into prison at any time, without even a pre- tence of a crime, but consoled himself with the reflection that every one of his hearers was in exactly the same predicament, He took occasion to inform all whom it might concern that he had returned in the hope of being able “to do something effective in the struggle of his country against forcign domi- pation.” There must be something, beraic im, the nature of a man who stands thus boldly forward in defence of what he conceives to be the right. The indifference to his personal safety and devotion to his cause shown by Mr. Mitchel in voluntarily placing himself in the power of his enemies, because he conceived it was right that he should do so, must win for him the respect even of those who cannot share either his hopes or his aspirations. President White on National sities. The unsatisfactory condition of our colleges and the absolute failure of our higher edu- cational system to give us a university worthy of the name are becoming generally acknowl- edged. It is only within recent years that pub- lic attention has been directed to this subject, but even at this day few of the professors in our leading institutions join in the discussion. One reason of this is that too many of them are mere blockheads, who were made college presidents and professors because they were dull preachers. Occasionally, however, one of them, quicker than his fellows, finds out what everybody else knows in regard to the backwardness and defects of the system. An instance is found in an address which Presi- dent White, of Cornell University, has just delivered before the National Educational As- sociation at Detroit. In this address President White points out, at starting, two nations which have pursued with equal success a like policy with regard to primary and secondary education—Ger- many and the United States—but he argues that we have failed in obtaining a better sys- tem of higher education because, unlike Ger- many, we have not carried out the funda- mental principle logically. ‘Though some of the German universities,’ he says, ‘‘are on very old foundations, they have been re- modelled to suit modern needs and are in reality new ; the greatest of all, the Univer- sity of Berlin, ig younger than the great | majority of our American colleges which have any reputation.” And then he goes on to argne further that the American failure is owing to the great number of our colleges, their sectarian character, their poverty and the absence of State support and super- vision in university education. In all this there is much force and in regard to Mr. White's facts there cannot be two opin- ions, But his reasoning is at fault—at fault in the first place, because the American people are not in all respects the highly intelli- gent community they claim to be. Culture is | confined to the rich and intellectual acquire- | ments to the poor. Until within a dozen years the need for a great university was not felt, The people were too poor and the popu- lation too widely scattered to make the policy which Germany pursued successful in this country, even it the peoplehad compelled the States to adopt it. Sectarian schools of a higher class than the State afforded were on the other hand a necessity. They were the propaganda of the sects, and without them we should have had no higher educational | institutions at all. All the conditions in the New World were different from those in the Old. In Germany, for instance, society is settled. The population is not scattered over | a continent. Hight universities there are | nearer to the body of the people than eighty would be in the United States. There is more wealth and more leisure to enjoy it. It is comparatively easy in every way to equip ®& university—easier, perhaps, to build up a great institution like the University of Berlin than to remodel old foundations to suit mod- ern needs. Germany surpasses usin higher education simply because Germany is done with felling trees and hewing timber and mak- ing roads and building bridges and bringing the wilderness under the subjugation of civili- | zation. To expect America to rival Germany in higher education is to expect that which ig im- possible, and it is impossible on the very prin- ciples Presdent White enumerates as axioms. “The main condition of primary education,” he says, “is diffusion of resources; the main condition of advanced education is coneentra- tion of resources." We were always able to build a schoolhouse on every hill; we are just about getting ready to found a great uni- versity, and this is the reason why we rival | Germany in our public school system, but fall so far behind her in higher education. Considering everything our sectarian col- leges have done nobly. None of them, not even Harvard, is a university, but they have made o university possible. Their usefulness has been hampered by their sectarian charac- ter, their narrowness and their blunders, All of them are very poor and some of them | too ostentatious. One reason why some of | the universities, and particularly the Catholic | colleges, are not more prosperous is because | they devote too much of their means to the addition of acres to their landed estates. ‘What they need is not land, but facilities for instruction—professorships, libraries and uni- versity equipments, In time they will learn the lessons of experience, and some of them will rival, perhaps lead, the national universi- ties which are surely coming as an outgrowth of our common school system. The great number of feeble colleges now in this country isa matter of very little conse- quence ; for in the great contest which is yet to be made in the interest of higher education the sectarian colleges will find that they must be tried by Herbert Spencer's doctrine of the survival of the fittest. But while the seo tarian colleges, including Harvard and Yale and Columbia and Princeton, will be com- pelled to contend with the national universi- ties, we do not think it would be wise to begin, what Presidgnt White seems to demand, a general and comprehensive system of State universities. Our higher education must be a growth. Already Columbia College has a powerful rival in the College of the City of New York. If we are ever to have o great conservatory of music in this city it must bes part of the public school system. The city must also give us a school of mechanical and civil engineering to equal the French Ecole Polytechnique. It must also aupply us with a museum of the mechanic arts, a mag- nificent laboratory and a college for applied science. We have just laid the foundations of @ museum of natural history which must be- come a part of the system. Every great city ought to have within itself all the resources of a great university ; but it would be a mistake to build universities among the hills before the hills require them. So far tho State uni- versities which have been founded are even more feeble than the sectarian colleges. What we want is the geadpal development gf oyr Univer- EKALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. common school system, we thank Presi- dent White for the op ; of onee more impressing this idea upon the peop!® " “Corners.” eg Chicago is as famous for “corners” in grat as Wall street for “corners” in stocks. In either case the principle upon which the com- bination is made is the same, and it is gam- bling in both. Indeed, we might go further and characterize transactions like the recent “corner’’ in grain in Chicago as conspiracies to defraud. Fortunately the speculators seldom succeed in cheating anybody but themselves. An honest business man never buys stooks at the exorbitant rates which the “shorts” are sometimes compelled to pay. At first glance the same thing appears not to be true of grain, because it is an article of general necegsity. But in the end it practi- cally amounts to the same thing. Few busi- ness men who require corn and oats are 60 shiftless as not to have on hand a sufficient stock to carry them through a ‘corner’ in grain. At most a conspiracy of this kind can affect the market only a very few days. Even speculators cannot set aside the laws of sup- ply and demand, and unless the gamblers have obtained an absolute control of the stock on hand they are impotent to interrupt the course of trade. Even when they have such control the supply soon finds its way back to the market again. The gamblers have only interrupted the ordinary flow of the crops long enough for one set to fleece the other set. It is an incident, but nothing more; an episode in the history of trade that is quite apart from trade itself. As a matter of course the effects of such an episode sre unhealthy, but on the whole they are not positively disastrous, And as regards a remedy, there seems to be none which a legislature can apply, unless it’ be to prohibit purchases of every kind upon a mar- gin—in a word, to pat stock and produce gambling in the same category with “policy,” “aro” and other games of chance. . Even this would probably prove unwise and become an impediment instead of a help to legitimate business. There is a surer remedy than any law of prevention by legislative enactment It is for honest men to do their business only through legitimate channels. A man wanting to buy stocks’as an investment would not go to s curbstone broker or a Wall street specu- lator, but to a well established house which buys and sells on commission. If there was @ “corner” he would not buy at all. Specula- tions in stocks have become so well under- stood that everybody knows the difference between buying as an investment and buying onamargin, The same thing will soon be true of grain also, the Uhicago gamblers and their New York confederates having made this species of speculation almost as common as stock gambling. The relations between the legitimate dealers and the gamblers in the grain market will become as well understood as they are in Wall street, and the remedy will be found in giving the speculative firms their true business position. Rotting in Prison. It is a common hyperbole which declares men’s readiness to “‘rot in prison”’ in certain contingencies ; but, if we may judge by the sudden decay that has seized Stokes and Wal- worth, and that is reported to afflict Tweed, this expression does not necessarily indicate a yery.extended sojourn within prison limits, Walworth's brain appears to have given out, Stokes’ physical health is broken down, and Tweed, used to luxury and ease, cannot endure the comparative hardships of a detention that would, perhaps, seem comfortable, and even luxurious, to other prisoners. Walworth’s brain was not a very sound organ at best. It was morbid inheritance, and the organ, naturally feeble, exposed to such vicissitudes in its vitality as the murderer’s crime brought upon it through the continued strain of ap- prehension, anxiety, remorse and affection, has broken down much earlier in life than it would in the natural course of a tranquil ex- istence. It is not reported that Stokes has any organic disease ; but the withdrawal of all the excitements upon which he lived is, perhaps, the cause of his condition. All that whirl of mad life that went before the murder, and all the excitements of hope, the preparations for trial, &c., which supplied its want through the long imprisonment that pre- ceded the final verdict, furnished stimulus, fuel for the vital machine. But all that has | passed away, and in the dull, dreadful quiet life of the prison, and in the weary months of it that are before him, the victim falls to the level of mere vegetative existence and finds even there hardly force enough to keep up the operation of vitalfunctions. Pride, personal vanity, affection, were what impelled these two to crimes, and in the wreck of these they can only perish. Honors To Perrarca.—The five hundredth anniversary of the death of the great Italian poet Petrarch has been celebrated at Avignon with great pomp, and made the occasion of something like international rejoicing. It is ry y incident that a lover who in life was only writer of sonnets to a fair woman who did not requite his affection should in the lapse of time become a bond of union between nations. The wonderful sweetness ond tenderness of Petrarch’s poetry is known to all acquainted with Italian litera- tare, but it is questionable whether his genius would have sufficed to win for him the recog- nition he received at Avignon had not the political necessities of the hour made it de- sirable to draw back Italy into sympathy with France, The idea was a happy but we question if even a well-timed com: it to a dead poet will make Italy forget the menaces directed against her independence by an un- wise party in France. Tua Papa, AvrHontries at THE VATICAN sre negotiating, it is said, with the govern- ments of Austria, France and Portugal, with the view to obtain a renunciation of their lay right of excluding candidates at the Papal election. Should Pio Nono succeed in this he will bring the Pontificate still nearer to. the democracy, which it is claimed will be a grand point of vantage for the Church. Tue Kansas Revonuens at their State Con- vention at Topeka yesterday passed a seriea of crude but fierce readlutions which will not mean anything unless they are supported by the nomination of honest mem and something more earnest than the words of party plat- erp ren bes We are tired of mero talk pnd would like to age agene honesty of. notion. | Where shoula the Lite be Drawat The New York Observer,,one of our most cautious religious newspapers,. recently sub- mitted some admirable viows .relative to $he intimacy that should exist ,between 6 .pastor and his flock. The -.editor cenaNres clergymen severely who ‘‘envour- age their people to-come to thom with family, matters or secret sores.” Gossip should not be permitted, and no familiarity,’ especially on the part of the femaledenomina» tion, The editor imagines how a ailly woman, “pious, perhaps, but very soft and shallow,’ may come under the influence of a pastor, “be roused, warmed, soothed, exalted, she thinks edified,” and in course of time become an annoyance and the cause of sorrow to him. “Such people,” says the editor, “never go to their pastor to ask “what they must ‘do to be saved.’ It is to tell him how good they feel, how he is ‘exalting’ them, ‘filling them with joy, peace and love.’ We cannot go into par- ticulars without offending the tastes of every reader. We make our meaning plain. We wish to be understood as saying that what worldly preachers and sentimental women call ‘communion of soul’ and: ‘kindred spirits,” ‘mutual help’ and ‘holy sympathy,’ and words: in the same strain, is not religion—it is not even religious. It is ‘of the earth, earthy.’ It is ‘carnal, conceived in sin.’ It is simply the lower nature, the human passion of one: creature toward another. God is not in it.” . There is much wisdom in these comments, At the same time the relations of a Christian minister to his flock are necessarily of the. most intimate and confidential character. In. sorrow, care, anxiety, expectation, to whom would the Christian be more apt to go than. to the clergyman for consolation and adviod The Catholio Church recognizes this in the ‘sacrament of the confession, and probably none of its sacraments contributes so largely to its discipline and power. The ministry imposes great responsibilities if it involves corresponding temptations. The true lesson to be learned is that no man should assume its solemn and awful functions unless he feels the strength of divine gracs. When a priest who accepts these sacred duties abuses them no punishment can be too severe. What would be a crime in a man of the world becomes sacrilege in the priest. ‘Tae Brrcrer-Tit0n Scanpau.—Among the mass of matter which we print this morn- ing in relation to the Beecher-Tilton scandal are a brace of “‘interviews,"’ which we find in the Brooklyn Eagle. One of these is with Moulton, ita design being to make ‘the mu- tual friend” reveal who is to be hurt by the revelations. It failed. ‘The other is a con- versation with Judge Morris, who is Mr. Tik ton’s counsel The design of this talk is to discredit one feature.of Mr. Tilton’s testi- mony—that relating to Mr. Tilton’s long con- tinued unfriendliness to Mr. Beecher—and some old letters between the men are printed to support this purpose. Beecher’s letters are not very interesting reading and mean very little, but Tilton’s show that he was more orthodox ten years ago than he describes him- self to-day. But Moulton is about to put an end to the whole business. ; A Deserter at Fort Adams was killed yes- terday by a sentinel while attempting to es cape with two companions, The killing seems to have been jastifiabie. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Aristides Welch, of Philadelphia, ts at the Hoffman House. Major General Hancock 1s at Newport, called thither by official business, Mr. Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, N. Y., la stop- | ping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Ex-Governor Rufus B. Bullock, of Georgia, ta staying at the Sturtevant House, Judge T. J. Jewett, of Philadelphia, is among the recent arrivais at the Windsor Hotel, State Senator Henry C. Connelly, of Kingston, N. Y., has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Secretary Delano returned to Washington yes terday to resume the direction of his department. Aasistant Adjutant General J. B. Stonehouse ar- rived from Albany last evening at the Hotel Brana wick. Ex-Governor Alexander H. Bullock, of Massa- chusetts, bas apartments ‘at. the Fifth avenue Hotel. General J. B. Kiddoo, of the regular army, whe has been abroad for two years, bus returned te New York. Mr. Charles A. Washburn, formerly United States Minister to Paraguay, 18 registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Duc de Montebello, aged seventy-three, bas Just died at ms estate in Champagne, He was the gon of Marshal Lannes. Mr. Waldemar Bodisco, Russian Consul General n this city, who has been spending several weeka in Virginia, returned to the city yesterday. The’ Count Harry Von Arnim, lately German Ambassador at Paris, has cured himself at Carla bad. His malady was Chagrin, which settled on is liver. Mr. ©. Dannfeld, the special commissioner sent by the Swedish government to make arrangementa for the representation of Sweden in the Centen- niat Exhibition at Philadelphia, is sojourning at the Brevoort House. ‘Three giraffes just from Abyssinia have reached the Garaen of Piants in Paris, This animal threat- ens to become extinct, He is taken now only ina, very small district, and has resisted all efforts to domesticate him a8 made in Africa, though these efforts are partly successful in European menage- ries, The Bishop of Strasbourg recently sent to the Pope 65,000 francs ($13,000) of Peter’s pence, where, upon the North-German Gazette observes that tne “oppressive taxes” do not seem so troublesome ia Alsace as they were. Alsatians may anticipate am increase in the impost, for Berlin never indulges in @ joke for a joke’s sake. Smuggling ts pursued resolutely on the Belgian frontier, but Woystin Woytdra was caught at tt the other day. He attempted to run the line bg artving at full speed, but the Custom Houre soldier brought down the horse with his rife, There was $600 worth of tobacco in the wagon, and the horse was im armor and so armed with knives about the bridle that one could not havo stopped him by hand without being cut to pieces. ‘There is something wrong on the Himalayas and on the Baur-i-doonyab and in the whole high mountain region of Central Aria. The Syr Daria at important points had only four feet of water Im April and was jailing at the rate of an inch in twenty-four hours. It has not been so low vefore for nineteen years, Perhaps some changes of tem- perature in those great monatain regions have disturbed the balances and exchanges of the at mosphere, and that's what's the matter with ow ‘weather. DINNER TO MB, TOOLB. ‘The Lotos Ciub last night entertained Mr, John Lawrence Toole, tho English comedian, at a pleasant dinner. Brief speeches of welcome were made by the President and Mr. John Brougham, the Vice Preaidont of the club. In a witty and gtacefal speech Mr. Toole responded, There were present some seventy-five guests, among them many persuns prominent in dramatic circies. The festivities were prolonged until long alter mid ’ »