The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD a orempatl JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR. << LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Votame xxx 225 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING seit corner 0 enty- street a § — BKLLE LAMAR, at8 P.M; closes At wo 1 eS Sohn MoCullough and Miss K. rs Ransoiph, WoOOD's MUSEUM, —DICK WAIT closes at 4". M. PROUD OF NEW YORK, r Louis Aldrich and Miss Sophie Miles. NIBLS ARDEN, Broegrer, Detween Prince and Houston streets — GRIFFITH GAUNT, at 8 P.M; closes at 145 P.M. Joseph Wheelock and Miss Henrietta Irving. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broadway.—Purisian Cancaa Daocers, até P.M. TONY PASTOR'S ¢ BRA HOUSE, Rowery.—VAKIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 3 P. Mi; ‘Closes at 10:30 P. M. ROBINSON HALL, Broadway and Firth avemue. — Minstrels, at P. M.; closes at THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 3. M.; closes at 10:30 Pr. 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From our reports this morning, the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be rainy, followed Watt Srazer Yesterpay.—Stocks were un- settled, but closed firm. Gold opened and closed at 109§, selling at 109} im the inierim. Tar Hanpicap Yacet Race was sailed | yesterday at Newport, the race of the day be- | fore not being completed within the specified time by any of the contestants. The weather | was fine, and the event was regarded as full | eompensation for the previous disappointment, The Magic won the cup for schooners and the Gracie the cup for eloops. Lorp Gorpon’s Surcrve.--Some of the par- ticulars of ‘‘Lord’’ Gordon's suicide are trans- ferred to the Heratp this morning from the Manitoba papers. The arrest, under the ex- citement of which the act was committed, was, to say the least of it, of a very doubtful character, but the moral of Gordon's death is the same as in the case of Van Eeten and one or two others of like character, where the adventurer closes a career of crime by becom- ing his own executioner. ‘Tae ProressionaL Parianrsropists in this city seem to be in sad need of an overhauling. A lady correspondent this morning makes some very pointed charges against the management of the Girls’ Lodging House in St. Mark’s place, which bear on their face something very much like proof of their truthfulness. Isit possible that our charities are managed on the principles of greed and selfishness which | obtain in our politics? Accusations like those of our correspondent against the Girls’ Lodg- | ing House suggest its possibility, and some | means must be taken to ascertain beyond all | doubt how this and similar institutions are managed. Tar Bercoer Casr.— There are no points in the Beecher cuse which rejaire comment this “morning. When tie report of the Investigat- ing Committee is made public or its purport clearly understood it will be time enough to discuss it. We cun only hope that it will be judicial in teinper and just and fearless in judgment. It will be seen from the reports that a good many people are quoted as expressing = | what on the wisdom of government, it will Southern Social Formentation—Friondly Coansel to the Southern Whites. Ina little town on the Mississippi River there are events on foot which are chiefly im- portant aa indicating the condition of society everywhere in the reconstructed States. Two races of men whom their respective claims to superiority and to equality bave placed in an attitude of hostility to one another on funda- mental facts are in such an excitable condi- | tion that any occurrence may provoke a col- lision, which collision’ may become a battle ; and when the battle shall spread ont and generalize itself and assume the dimensions of a civil war, though this may depend some- | depend far more upon the capacity of either | side to prepare for the conflict. Reconstruc- | tion, which would have been a sufficiently | difficult and delicate labor if treated legiti- | mately in the best light of political science, | was treated by that monstrous agglomeration | of ignoramuses and knaves, the national Congress, as a scheme for the propagation | of partisan successes and the robbery of State treasuries, It eventually made | the South iree enough to give the South- | ern people all their political. power, but | | kept them under foot sufficiently to make them | bitter and to incite them to make the worst use | they possibly could of the power so given; and the attitude of the Southern white men is | the consequence; they are hostile and have | all the power to do harm. They naturally are badly disposed towards the negroes, so far as these are inclined to assert any of their | recently bestowed rights; and the negroes, | even a little less wise than other human crea- | tures, misunderstand the position in which | the changed condition of the country has | placed them, and are certainly too much in- | clined to self-assertion for their own good. It may not be longer possible to ultimately avoid the collision which tends to generalize itself from these elements of hostility. They are like | the superficial evidences of disease; repress | them in one place, and they break ont in ap- other; or, if you succeed apparently in the labor of repression, you merely hide from | your eyes the workings of the poison, which gathers in secret channels an accumu- lated force, to be spent in a more furious and even less controllable manifestation. Collis- ions like this at Austin, and like others | before it in different places, will continue to | trouble us from time to time, and we can- not justly complain, for we have prepared | and stored the elements of such trouble. But | it is out of the laws that will be made by | these collisions that the new social fabric of | the South is to take shape. ‘he relations of | the races in the Southern States must be fought out, and the position of the negro must be won in a conflict that has in great | degree been made necessary by his own acts | under the bad advice of men who pretended friendship that they might use him. So far as yet appears the general government has no function but to look on and try to aid the | average of justice where it may. Candid Southerners must admit, however, that they have many reasons to think well of the forbearance and fidelity of the negroes. During the war they took no advantage of the | absence of their masters and of their oppor- tunity for combination. to assist an enemy | who was fighting in their interest to achieve | their freedom. From the beginning of the war to its end there was not a negro insurrec- | tion in the whole South. If blazing buildings | threw their glare upon the midnight sky the fires were lighted by the federal soldiers and not by the Southern slaves. If Southern matrons and children were put in peril and | terror it was not by their blacks servant but by the invading foe. Throughout the war | tiers. The unbroken internal quiet of the South during the war is ons of the most won- | derful facts in human history, especially | when we consider that the war was waged by the Sonth to retain these slaves and that the | success of the absent masters would have riveted their chains for generations. This astonishing fidelity of the negroes cannot be | accounted for on the theory that they are nat- nral cowards. Negroes fought well enough in the Northern armies. The South is under | strong obligations of jastice aud gratitude to | recognize the industry, forbearance and good | order exhibited by the colored population | during the war, and for the sake of it they should make some allowance for the insolent pretensions with which the negroes have been | inspired by a white political party in the | North, Fairness to the negroes also requires | that some allowance be made for the sudden- | ness of their emancipation and the headlong, impulsive haste with which they were elevated | by their white friends in the North to full po- | the negroes toiled as faithfully in the planta- | | tions, and obeyed as submissively their | defenceless mistresses, as if nearly all | | the adult white males had not been | absent for military duty on the fron- some remarkable opinions; but all this unclean- | jitical equality. They were like mechanics neas is to be expected as the outcroppings of | get to practise a trade they had never learned. such a scandal. The reporter's pictures of | Of course they do much worse at first than the two households, sketched under great dis- | they are likely to do afterwards. With time, advantages, will be reccived with a painful | oyperience and education they may improve, interest, for it is the social aud domestic side | ang it would be wrong to condemn them of this tragedy which most nearly touches | utterly antil they shall have had a reasonable the hearts of the community. Take it all in | tial, if all there never was a parallel to this scandal | But, aside from these considerations ad- from its inception up to the present moment, | dressed to Southern justice and magnanimity, and its significance is enhanced because it | thera are reasons of greater weight founded seems to imply that what is placid in our on Sonthern interests for treating the negroes social life is but the outer crust of a seething | with protecting kindness and indulgence. voloano. AG ADS They are an indissoluble part of Southern “A Moraen’s Sorrow.” —The familiar story society. The hot climate of the South is con- of the play which tells of the frenzied husband genial to them. They will multiply but will seizing his child in the night and bearing it | not emigrate. They can never be divested of from the cot in which its mother had placed , the equal political rights conferred on them it and of the subsequent search and finding of by the amended constitution. There they are, the little one by its mother is partially retold | a permanent part of political society in the in the Hxratp this morning. It will be found | South, strong enough in numbers to exercise to contain all the elements of a drama in the | a potent influence in the Southern elections. customary five acts, The first, second and | The ail important practical question is third acts were related some weeks ago, end- whether they shall be influenced by their ing with 4 very effective tableau of the hus- | officious, intermeddling Northern patrons or band binding the wife to a chair that he | by their Southern neighbors. By one or the might bear the child away in safety The | other their votes will be controlled until they fourth act, which portrays the mother’s | shall have risen by slow progress to a condi- search and the finding of the child, together | tion of greater independence. One would with her struggle with a lady of uncertain | think that the South has had by this time ex- age and all that kind of thing tor its posses- | perience enough of the mischiet of sur- sion, isthe part of the drama last enacted. rendering the negro mind to fanatical Naturally enough, the play is to be concluded Northern control. There is only one method in the courts. Caldwell is the name of the | by which it can be rescued trom this malign leading characters, and the scenes are laid in influence, and that is by inspiring the New Jersey and the comic village in Connec- | negroes with confidence in the friendly ticut known as Danbury. For further par- | intentions and sincere good will of their white ticulars we refer the reader to our news | fellow citizens of the South: The whites must oolamns, not seck to obstruct and humiliate. but to encourage and assist them. Their ambition to improve their condition and rise in the social scale ought to be fostered by all reason- able methods, but chiefly by assisting their efforts to become owners of property and free- holders. The rights of property will never be under safe guardianship in the Southern Legislatures until » considerable body of the negroes have risen into the rank of taxpayers and are thas united in acommon interest with the taxpaying community. The most capable and energetic negroes will first rise into this rank, and when, to the influence of capacity | and energy they shall have added the natural influence of property, they will exert a salu- tary control over their more dependent and | less thrifty colored fellow citizens, Property | will become safe in the South in proportion as the colored population participate in its ownership. Of course they can acquire prop- erty only by earning it; but the | money already accumulated in the freed- men’s savings banks is a gratifying proof both of their budding industry and frugality. But as property in that form escapes taxation they should be encouraged to invest their earnings iu a different way. A cottage and piece of land purchased on credit is the best and securest of all savings banks. There ought to be a universal willingness in the South to | sell land to the negroes at a low price, with very easy terms of payment. They should be enticed and persuaded by friendly interest in their affairs and the offer of good bargains to withdraw their money from the savings banks and put it in land. Be the first payments ever so small the sellers could protect them- selves by mortgages, and even if they should sell the property below its value there is no | other way in which they can so cheaply insure | the great bulk of Southern property against legislative rapacity. Instead of vainly fight- ing against destiny let the South try to make of the negroes the most that their natural capabilities will permit, teaching them to rely on real friends at home rather than lean upon pretended friends in the North. Prior’s rule for treating a wife is the wisest that can be adopted towards the inevitable negroes :— Be to their virtues very kind; Be to their faults a little blind. Filtering Metropolitan Atmosphere. A valuable contrivance has recently been tried in London for the purpose of filtrating the air breathed in that misty metropolis. During the last vacation Dr. Percy, F. RB. S., who for many years has had the control of the warming and ventilation of the houses of Parliament, experimented with cotton-wool filters, through which all the air entering the two houses would be driven. The result is highly instructive and suggestive of the sani- tary conditions of London atmosphere. The originally snow white fleeces of Dr. Percy’s air filters soon became of a heavy, murky brown, thick with dust and infiltrated with organic impurities. The experiment was mada also during a characteristic London fog, and the large amount of lung-irritating and floating impurities strongly illustrated the advisability of adopting the proposed expe- dient. if Another ingenious contriver in the same city had anticipated the experiment of Dr. Percy in his own mansion, which was venti- lated from beneath by fans. The air was driven through fine wire sieves, and the bank | of black dust winnowed from the injected air tells a fearful tale of the enormous extent to which it had been contaminated. London, however, is not the only metropolitan city whose atmosphere is loaded with the dele- terious matter arrested and exposed by the air filter. The localities around factories and machine shops in nearly all cities are not much more salubrious than those impreg- nated with crystal-laden mine air. In our Western cities, especially the manufacturing and bituminous coal-burning centres, the de- terioration of the air is a prolific source of disease and debility. Besides, the experi- ments in chemical climatology show that usu- ally the life-giving element of oxygen is de- ficient and the deadly element of carbonic acid is in excess in those more crowded and dusty portions of the great cities. The sanitary bearings of these interesting experiments of Dr. Perey ought not to be ignored, and their significance will appsar if we remember the extraordinary amount of air daily taken into the lungs. We inhale, in twenty-four hours, between one thousand and two thousand gallons of air, so that, if the Jungs are forced to act as the uir filters, they must soon become clogged under the load of impurities. The contamination of drinking water, which so horrifies communities, is un- important as compared with the pollution of the air they breathe ; for the amount of water drunk in a day is very small. The remedy for the corraption of metro- politan atmosphere, on a large scale, may be hard to provide; but the -introduction of smoke-consuming furnaces in the large fac- tories, hotels and public buildings would greatly mitigate the evil. It is also evident that with a little and inexpensive mechanical contrivance it would be easy to supply filtered air to hospitals, hotels and private dwellings. Baby Farming—A New Species ' Slavery. ‘Lhe entire abolition of the slave trade has yet tobe accomplished in New York. Al- | thongh the days of slave ships have long since | passed the traffic in human flesh flourishes in | another and even a more heinous form. Poor | little helpless intants take the place of the dusky children of Africa and brutal nurses that of the overseer. Starvation is found to | be a more efficient instrument of torture than | the lash which ronsed the nation once to crush | the relic of barbarism that existed in the South. | Recent visite to the hannts of the “baby farm- | ers,’ as they are called, reveal a condition of | affairs absolutely shocking. The mortality | among the poor children in those vile dens hei gods gathgenliemica mathe portion to their present business; which | | each year, and the survivors generally have a | worse fate before them. Child murder and the sale of infants at this present day can only be regarded as a crying dis- | grace to the great city, The unfortunate babes who escape the discipline of the institutions fare little better when they are handed over to | individuals who, for the sake of the few dol- | lars paid them, are willing to undertake their | charge. The usual result is death from starva- | tion, treasuries of the foundling asylums which are recognized by the authorities and which urovide for the health and comfort of thore of The want of sufficient funds in the | helpless little ones prevents them from adding to their present responsibilities and leaves j large surplus of uncared-for children at the | Rene Af. dens of infamy over which baby farmers preside. There is an excellent field here for the exercise of the well known charitable spirit of the metropolis and for the vigilance of the police. Bosten and the Export Trade—Com- mercial Supremacy of New York. We applaud the spirit of the enterprising, ambitious towa of Boston, but its citizens, who hope, in spite of fate, that State street will yet be the headquarters of the grain trade, are ¢herishing hopes that can never be gealized. Emerson somewhere says, in his quaint way, that it is probably better, on the whole, that there are five thousand two hundred and eighty feet in a mile and that the ground cannot be got over without passing that distance, His mercan- tile fellow citizens of Massachusetts will have to reconcile themselves to the inevitable facts of geography which forbid their thriving city to compete with success for the export trade in Western grain. Inasmuch a8 the distance by rail trom Albany to Boston is longer by many mules than the distance from Albany to New York, and as every one of those miles contains the full number of linear feet, it is evident that Boston is at the same disadvan- tage in this contest that is experienced by an army operating against an enemy who is in possession of short interior lines. There is no possibility of transporting grain as cheaply by rail from Albany to Boston, two hundred miles, as from Albany to New York, which is only one hundred and forty-two miles. Be- sides, there is no point but Albany from which Boston can receive Western products, and between those cities there is but a single railroad, which precludes competition. A new road would be more likely to increase freights than to reduce them, because the inevitable distance would still have to be passed over, and if two roads had to be maintained to do almost the same amount of business, compe- tition with New York would be still more hopeless. Capitalists are too prudent to build a new road against these certain dis- advantages, and Boston must accept her natural inferiority of position. There is no help for it unless the distance between Boston and Albany can be shortened fifty-eight miles. It may be thought a valid reply to this reasoning to say that Boston had at one time a share in the export grain trade. Nothing is so delusive as an argument founded on an ex- ceptional fact. Boston had fora few years a small share of the grain trade, because the Central Railroad lacked terminal facilities for handling and transferring grain in New York These have been partially supplied, and the Erie road and the Pennsylvania road will be compelled, in self-defence, to create like facilities on the west bank of the Hudson. Nothing is more certain than that New York will speedily be relieved of the standing reproach of being behind the West- ern grain cities in this important respect. Nothing could be more futile than the ex- pectations of Boston. It may be said, indeed, that these argu- ments, however conclusive as regards Boston, are not reassuring with respect to Philadel- phia and Baltimore. Both of those cities are nearer to the great Western grain marts than New York, and it may be thought that the reasoning founded on distance tells as strongly in their favor as it does against Boston. But here again we must be on our guard and not jump at a conclusion without viewing the whole case. Advantages in dis- tance may be counterbalanced by difficult grades. The configuration of the country has stamped New York with the broad seal of commercial supremacy. The connected moun- tain chains which extend in a continuous line from Georgia to Maine—the great Appalachian range which rans parallel to the Atlantic coast—is cleft to its base only at one point. In the Highlands of New York an opening is made for the passage of the Hudson, and there only, in the whole distance, does tidewater pass through and extend beyond the range. The hand of nature, by opening this single gateway through the mountains and forming a spacious sheltered bay at the mouth of the pass- ing river, marked the spot for the commercial emporium of this Continent. Siretching west- ward trom the upper waters of the Hudson is the valley of the Mohawk, and beyond that a region almost periectly level to the shores of Lake Erie. It was this configuration of the country which invited the construction of the Erie Canal, and which has made it so profitable, bringing the rich stream of West- ern commerce which gave such an impetus to the growth of New York. At the comple- tion of the Erie Canal Philadelphia was a larger city than New York; but five years later New York had outstripped her, and is as certain to maintain its rank as the Hudson is to flow through the Highlands to the sea. The same configuration enables the Central and Hudson River Railroad to convey freights from the lakes to the seaboard without climb- ing and descending the great mountain range, and with corresponding advantages of grade. Even the roads which are compelled to make heavy grades prefer New York as their East- ern terminus, although the distance is some- what shorter to Philadelphia. The reason is that New York isa more favorable point for exportation. The sagacious, far-sighted men whd heave controlled the Pennsylvania Railroad could not rest until they bad opened the way to New York by their lease of the New Jersey line, effected in the face of so many legal obstacles, If they had had faith in the future of Phila- would not have plotted and schemed with | such indefatigable persistence to get posses- sion of the New Jersey road. They have also, with keen foresight, acquired an immense | water front in Jersey City, entirely out of pro- | attests their belief in the continued growth | and peerless greatness of New York and the expected expansion of their own business at | this its chief terminus. Within the ensuing | two years both’sides of the North River will present a spectacle of tall elevators, like those which are so conspicuous a feature of the ‘| harbor of Chicago, and the pretensions of other Eastern cities to rival New York in the grain trade will sink to a topic of pleasant ridicule, Tae Fioarme Hosrrrat.—The account which we print this morning of the sone NEW YURK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1%, 1874.-TRIPLE SHERT. Harvest Home will be found painful reading, on agcount of the suffering and misery it un- folds ; but the sombre colors are relieved by the ailver lining to the cloud in the relief and happiness afforded by these daily excursions projected by St. John’s Guild. There never was a time when there were more want and misery in the city, and never was there more generous and open-handed charity. The Influence of Women. Beginning with the fall of Adam and end- ing with the very latest event in history, the influence of women over the actions of men is something marvellous—almost beyond belief. The Eastern Prince who, whenever he heard of any new offence, was accustomed to ask, «What's her name?" was led to the inquiry by the same experiences which have made ‘‘a woman in the cage” a recognized phrase in modern speech. History is full of the strug- glea which women imposed upon nations and on men, Achilles and Agamemnon quarrelled over the possession of Briseis even while seek- ing to punish the abduction of Helen. Hero- dotus, the father of history, begins the world’s before the people by the been artfully pat 4 and that the general feel- President's friends, ing is against it, The Germantown Kidnappers. ‘The abduction of » child from the house of its parents would be likely to create surprise and consternation under any circumstances. ‘The first feeling consequent upon the ruthless dragging away of an infant of tender years from the care of those who have learned to love and train it is one of anxiety for the vio- tim, Jest the brutality that could condesoend to such a revolting act should culminate in premature death. The next thought is nat- urally for the parents, whose grief and horror can be readily imagined by all. There have been many instances of abduction recorded, and it is fair to presume that envy and spite have been at the bottom of nine-tenths of the cases reported, both in this and other civil- ized countries. It was not strange, therefore, when Mr. Ross announced to the world that \a set of villains had deprived- him of his child, and subsequently demanded twenty thousand dollars as a ransom, that every annals with the two versions of the carrying | parent shonid assume an interest in the offoflo. Coming nearer to the verities of | matter. Any household might be subjected history, we find the impassioned story of | toa similar affliction. But it did appear sin- Pericles and Aspasia, and later still the won- | gular that Mr. Ross deemed it expedient to derful sacrifice of Demosthenes for Lais, the | partially shroud the affair in mystery, instead model veo Julius Cesar, “the foremost | of publishing far and wide every detail of his man of all this world,” forgot everything, in- | ‘loss, and the surreptitious correspondence of cluding ambition, in his dalliance with | the thieves in their attempt at blackmail. delphia as a grain mart for exportation they | | in all the vocations of life; if the high estima- | Cleopatra, and Mare Antony, with Cosar's example to warn him, is chiefly remembered for his infatuation for the same woman. From the reign of Francis I. to the close of the career of the grand monarch Lonis XIV. French history is the history of noble ladies whose actions were ignoble. It is a charge not wholly groundless that Luther brought about the Reformation because he wished to marry, and Henry VIIL, who ostentatiously claimed to be the English reformer, was the husband of six wives during his lifetime. Napoleon's downtall dates from the time he divorced the wife of his youth for the Austrian princess who brought him a gon but not a suc- cessor. History is a succession of episodes in which the influence of women marks the des- tinies of great men and powerful States. Poetry is but the repetition in a thousand dis- guises of the passion of Heloise and Abelard. Fiction has no other purpose than to illus- trate the relations of men and women, and the modern stage must content itself with giving life and form and color to the passions with which the novelist or dramatist has imbued his creations. And in prao- tical, everyday life, we occasionally meet the counterparts of the miscalled heroes and heroines of history or the imagination. We have witnessed the remarkable spectacle of a wife and mother claiming Catherine Gaunt as her ideal. Even Hawthorne's ‘Scarlet Letter” seemed about to be reproduced scene by scene and sorrow for sorrow. What is so common to history, to literature and to art must have a very deep significance and be indeed the groundwork of all social existence. We have not cited these examples for an idle purpose, but as illustrating the great lesson of all human experience. In the earlier. ages of Greek civilization men captured the wives and daughters of their enemies, and States warred with each other in consequence. Later still Cleopatra lost a throne and, it may be said, conquered a world by her fascinations. From that hour up to the beginning of the Setiemihg century emperors and kings, despite the in- fluence of the Christian religion, were little better than this heathen queen and these heathen soldiers. Even George I. carried the “Maypole’’ and the ‘Elephant’ into England and was not ashamed to be as vicious in his dull German way as the vivacious Charles II. The example of Lonis XIV. corrupted every court in Europe and society was as cor- rapt as the courts which set the fashion. Royalty bas grown better since the last cen- tury, and society, as a matter of course, has im- proved with royalty, while, strange to say, men of letters, the leaders of thought, the brightest examples of high dramatic and artistic culture, have been the heroes of the scandals of the age. That romance which savors of vice and in which kings were once the principal figures is now sought in the domestic infelicities of genius. Byron has the reputation of being the most profligate man of bis age. Scott was unhappy in his domestic life, Lytton im- prisoned his wife on a charge of lanacy—his | enemies say to be rid of her. Dickens turned away from his home the mother of his chil- | dren because she could not appreciate his { genius and minister to his vanity. These | things were due, however, to exceptional causes, and society in the later ages of the world had so purified itself that the latest | great scandal seems almost impossible ; so | nearly impossible, to say the least of it, as to \ require the strongest and most unequivocal proof before it can be accepted. If there is always a woman in the case now | as heretofore, the Aspasias and Cleopatras, the false countesses and the ignoble ladies and the whole army of women whose lives have been a wrong to womanhood are fewer than ever be- fore, while those whose work is high and pure and great and good—with whom charity is the highest duty and a bright example the noblest ambition—have wonderfully increased in num- bers and influence. But for talse reform this There were numerous letters sent to him whose contents might have aided in the recovery of the boy had they beem niade public. They were resolutely withheld, however, and, consequently, rade criticiams and conjectural statements were circulated concerning the motive for this policy. No matter how pure a motive may be, there are always some who will question it. The mat- ter had become public property, as it were, and the complaint he made to our cor- respondent, as set forth elsewhere, that he had baen abused and maligned by newspapers and evil disposed persons, seems scarcely a fair conclusion, in view of all the circumstances of the case, It was well known that he had received certain communi- cations proposing a ransom and ‘the means whereby restoration could be effected. To have handed copies of these proposals to the press would have entailed neither trouble nor expense, while the act would have silenced the evil scandalmongers, of whom he so bitterly complains, and would have shown hia earnest desire to grant every facility looking to the speedy return of his son. ‘The fear of violence to the child and a sentiment that any indiscretion might prove fatal to his wife would, no doubt, begood and sufficient reasons in an ordinary case; but we cannot see how this case could have been made worse than it is to-day, when not even the faintest clew has been indicated as to the whereabouts of the little fellow who was so suddenly snatched away. Had the evidence in Mr. Ross’ posses. sion -been published in time the abductors might long since have been tracked and the child be again in the bosom of the family. ASpantsa Newsparse reports that England, France and Germany have recognized the Re- public, This report is probably premature, but it isan act of justice which cannot be much longer delayed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Emperor William will vistt Italy in the autumn, Secretary Bristow has retarned to Washington. At the Observatory in Pari they say it will bea cold autumn. Hornbiower sounds the mote of salvation im Allegheney City. Mr. John Youag, of Montreal, is residing at the Brevoort House. Judge R. D. Rice, of Maine, is registered as the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Assemblyman Warner Miller, of Herkimer, N. Y., ig at tne Gilsey House. State Senator 8. 8. Lowery, of Utica, ts stopping at the Metropolitan Hovel. Fiity-flve condemnations in one day at Havre for “manilest drunkenness.” Mile. Andreline Donmergue has taken 8 degree in pharmacy at Montpelier. Beecher’s friends now declare that Moulton is “a man of honor,.”’ Ha! ha! hat Congressman Freeman Ularke, of Rochester, nas arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Prince Hohenlohe, German Ambassador at Paris, will take “a change of air” at Berlin. Hotyoake, the secularist, says Bunyan would have been a great man bat for his rettgion. Count de Paris has borrowed 3,000,000f. to put in order his chateaux at Ba and at Amboire. The Princess Marguerite of Italy, travelling as the Marquise de Monza, has arrived at Spa. Judge W. 1. Learned,,of the Commissicn of Ap- peals, ia sojourning at the Westminster Hotel. Adjutant General James A. Cunningham, of Mas- sachusetts, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Robert G. Watson, Britisn Chargé d’Affairea at Washington, haa apartments at the Westmore- land Hotel. Moulton’s silence bas given Beecher’s advocates great confidence. ‘They begin to vility people who had doubis. ‘The Swiss Continental Herald fancies the Abbé McMaster may be the first American cardinal. Why not Mullaiy ? The British Cuargé a’Afaires, Mr. Watson, is to meet Secretary of State Mr. Hamilton Fish at Long Branch to-day. Will Theodore Tilton and his wife probabiy go abroad together, as was once proposed, and whe will furnish the money ? turned to this city from Saratoga yesterday and ig at the Filth Avenue Hotel. The German War Departmen’ is organizing two would be almost a millennial epoch. It is those who are professing to seek new spheres for | women who are the worst foes of womanhood. | It is # noble characteristic in man to take upon | fifinself the severe toil for the race—the surest | sign ov.the real influence of women—the bright- est thing’ty onr modern civilization. It this natural divigion of labor is to be disregarded; if women are to’.stand side by side with men tion in which women aro held is to be rudely set aside for some fancifdl advantage, all the | gains of society will be destroyed» Free love | | is scarcely more pernicious than fhe other questions which a few women are agifasing and which are akin to it. The influence of women so long felt for evil in the world is at last felt mostly for good; but it is as easy to go | backward as forward, and we certainly do not } want to crown the Aspasias and Cleopatras over again. | 1 | | Tar Tamp Term Discusston has become an active clement in our politics. It has even reached that point where the prophecies of politicians like General Blair are recounted, and in the next few months we may expect much speculation upon the subject. thing, however, ia cartain, and that jp that the parks of stege artillery—to have a practical com- pleteness not hitherto usual. Modeaty.—At Uhambrey, in France, the masons are striking for an hour less a day and an addition ol five cents to their wages. The Right Hon. A,S, Ayrton, late Judge Advo- cate inthe Giadstone administration, arrived im this city yesterday from Burope. Baron von Bunsen, German Chargé d’Affatres at hington, and Captain von Eisendecher, of the ‘man Legation, are at the Clarendon Hotel, The Figaro was suspended for # fortnight and shows that by that circumstance the French gov- ernment lost 24,000f. in postage and stamp anties, ‘The International League of Peace and Liberty will meet at Geneva in September, and will discuss | from the “republican’’ side the problems now ta hand at Brussels, somebody out West has lad the sublime impa- déneg to invite General Grant to deliver an oration, Did théy read hits “oration” on New Jersey and her reiation td'she Uaion ? Isabella of Spain, Countess Girgenti, Prince Alphonse, “three young !nfantas,” and several dukes have left Paris to take sea baths at Houle gatte, on the Norman cost. The veteran Commodore of the Cunard line, Mr. Lott (the successor of Mr. Judkins), is sudering in England from a paralytic stroke, and was not able vo bring out the Scotia this trip, French journals now report murders almost aa systema’ a8 our own, which formorly was not done. Tho resnit isa discovery that we by come Pariwon aro QOL the WosAs OeODle Im the WOKide Ex-Governor H. C. Warmoth, of Louisiana, re-~ a