The New York Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1874.-—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Charges Against Mayor Have- meyor—A Trap for the Governor, If Governor Dix does not discover the trap aeons | laid for him by Tammany Hail, and baited ON BENNETT, | with the charges against Mayor Havemeyer, he must be politically less shrewd than we | have believed him to be. Mr. John Kelly's remarks regarding the Governor's letter can Es : leave no doubt of the object of the democratic day in the year. Four cents per copy. politicians, It has a beon admitted that nual subscription price $12. | the government of the city under Mayor Have- All business or news letters and telegraphic | meyer has been a failure and a reproach on NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORD! PROPRIE roRk. THE DAILY HERALD, published every An- sponsible to John Kelly, though that gentle- man may have in his eyes the same consid- eration in his support of the charges that would be accorded to any other citizen who might be prepared to support the charges, or any citizen who might be prepared to sustain | the Mayor against the charges. It appears to | us, therefore, a great error on the part of the | Governor to contemplate the charges against Mayor THavemeyer as in any especial | Sense the concern of the citizens who | made them, more than they are, when despatches must be addressed New York | the name of reform. The people know that | Huenacp. | the present municipal “Ring,” if less boldly | ‘ected communications will not be re- corrupt than its notorious predecessor, is , «5 ela | equally indifferent to the interests of the city. | turned. Men of all parties are prepared to admit that Letters and packages should be properly corruption and incapacity exist in several of | sealed. BAERS ak) LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will by the Mayor have been dictated by personal friendships aud interests and not by the pub- lic good; that money has been squan- | dered in some directions, while a false | economy, prompted by jealousy and mal- | ice, has in other directions crippled | public improvements and retarded the growth H and prosperity of the city; that while prog- ress has been paralyzel the public debt and | the burden of taxation have increased. Not | | a voice has been raised in defence of our pres- ent municipal administration, while on every the departments; that the appointments made | | | be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, Votume XXXIX............. AMUSEMENTS YTO-NIGHT. WALL. THEATRE, A Brosdway. 1G AND GOWN, at 8 Y. M.; closesatll | side it has been condemned for unfaithfulness | a % and incapacity, and its apologists have only | 0’ HEATRE, | *, corner, of Twenty street ond’ Sixth avenve.— | Ventured to plead the near approach of its KALLA LAMAR, at3 P.M; closes at 10:0 P.M, McCullough and Miss K. Rogers Randolph. John dissolution as a reason why it should be suf- | ia i: No ley: WOOD'S MUSEUM, | fered to die in peace, Taking advantage of Broadway, corner of ‘Thirtieth “street.—PUSS tN the popular condemnation of the Mayor's BOTS, P.M.; closes at 4P. M. THE DWARFS . DUEL, a M.: ‘closes at 10:30P.M. Louis Aldrich | Official conduct, and of the general manage- | and Miss sopoie Miles ‘ | — ment of the city government, the Tammany | NIBLO” RDEN, ' leaders seiz ortuni | Broadway, between Prince “and ‘Houston, streets— | leaders seized the opportunity afforded by the | RS a ES ried Houtiges wie Wd FM. | illegal acts of the Police Commissioners to | — | frame charges against two of their number. | mat SAPATRE. mine | They knew that the Mayor would refuse to en- tertain the charges and would sustain the | Commissioners, and they were ‘not disap- pointed. They appealed to the law and suc- ceeded in obtaining the indictment of the two Police Commissioners by a Grand Jury and | | their trial, conviction and sentence in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The Mayor re- | versed the judgment of the law by restoring | | the convicted men to office. Thereupon the ‘Tammany leaders made formal charges against | | Mx. Havemeyer and placed them in the hands +, of Governor Dix. Saas Thus far the Tammany politicians have won an advantage, but it is only over Mayor Havemeyer, who is repudiated by all parties. | What follows? The Mayor makes a rambling ‘- | reply to the charges, not attempting a refu- | tation of ony of them, justifying his acts, | but putting in a general plea of “not guilty.” = | The Governor next addresses a letter to the year z ¥ — | framers of the charges, asking whether they Pirichalicheias beastie’ Sle, ico ot ities PRP Ne oa ‘avisdestion into the alleged MRS. CONWAY'S B: OLIVE, Ok, ['N8 MYST: Eldridge. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. Bld Broadway.—VARIBTY, atS?. M.; closes at 10:30 v. M. OLY No. 624 Broadway.—VA v.M. Tony Pasior’s Trou) THEATRE, Y,atS Po M.; closes at 10:40 METROPC No, 685 Broadway.—Par ITAN TONY P. Rowery.--VAlIE ages at 10:20 P.M. HAL! oadway and Fifth avenne.— nstrels, at3 P. M.; closes at R Sixteenth street, bei wee The Cancan, and Pemal Wal P.M. CENTRAL P Fifty-ninth street and S CERI, close: atsP.M.;¢ WITH SUPPLEMENT THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. irregularities of the Mayor after the defence | furnished by that officer. Mr. Kelly explains the position he and his friends intend to take The New York Hrrarp will runa special 10 regard to this inquiry. The charges made train between New York, Saratoga and Lake sainst the Mayor, he says, are not denied, George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- hence the persons making them can see “no ing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., | Recessity for any investigation. "As to the and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock | ‘‘¢riminal intent” of the Mayor in reappoint- A. M., for the purpose of supplying the , ing Messrs. Gardner and Charlick, Mr. Kelly Sunpay Hzratp along the line. Newsdealers believes it to be shown on the face of the act, | and others are notified to send in their orders | but bs “leaves ee whole matter in the Gov- to the Hunaup office as early as possible. | ernor’s hands.” He has no doubt that the | | Governor will remove the Mayor. Indeed, From our reports this morning the probabilities | in the interest of justice and purity of elec- are that the weather to-day will be clear and tions he cannot do less than remove him. warm. Mr. Keily takes that as | matter of course, = 5 .. | especially as new indictments have been _TuE Latest News of the Beecher scandal is | obtained against the Police jad given elsewhere. The Sabbath was a day of | Riinena. < caily it is claimed, will rest to all involved in it, except for Mr. Moul- | establish fae Secs offences against the Com- ton, who passed the day with General Builer. | misioners than those proved at the last trial. Formosa asp Japay.—Our correspondents | But the hope of the Tammany politicians is | who accompany the imperial Japanese expe- | that the Governor may dismiss the charges dition give a full account of the character of | #8#inst the Mayor, and thus become in cig that unruly island and of the movements of | ner responsible for all Mr. Havemeyer's illegal | the forces. Another letter from Yokohama | ®%4 improper official acts. They desire to states that the relations of China with Japan | raise the cry throughout the State that neither | are still unsatisfactory. in the reform Governor nor in the reform | es Mayor can the people hope for protection of Sr. Jouy’s Guip.—The benevolent work | the ballot box from fraud and outrage; and of this institution is earnestly continued, and | certainly if the remaining indictments against | the fact that by its means four thousand five | the Police Commissioners should end in con- | hundred infants and their mothers have been | viction the charge will not be without plausi- | taken on excursions on the bay is sufficient bility and effect. evidence of the good itis doing our poorer | But the charges made by Messrs, Kelly, Ot- To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PuBLic: — classes. Next Wednesday the seventh excur- sion will take place. Tae Carnoric and royalist press of the South of France has received a special mark of favor from the Count de Chambord in the form of a letter of thanks and praise addressed to M. | tendorfer and others are not the only ones | preferred against the Mayor. It is a little | | difficult to understand why the Governor | should consult the wishes of the framers of the | charges in regard to an investigation, since the law seems to make his duty very plain. If he considers the charges grave enough to be once made, the concern of every citizen interested in the purity of government. Upon such an assumption a contrivance in our law that is intended to secure for the benefit of the | people the supervision over the government of every citizen, and which prescribes the steps by which that individual supervision shall | assume the form of a public legal process, will | fail of its purpose altogether, or will degen- erate into a mere machinery for the conven- ience of political ‘‘strikers,’’ and charges will | constantly crop up in the camps of discon- tented politicians, to be as constantly dropped nd smothered if the incriminated functionary | sees fit to ‘‘satisfy’’ his assailants. By this means a good idea in our political system will be brought into contempt. It is good for the public interest that the government should be constantly subjected to the scrutiny of every | citizen, and the public welfare may even utilize the keen vision of partisans and oppo- nents for the detection of official misconduct; but the charges that result from such scrutiny are only to be considered when they are of consequence and are in consonance with a re- spectable part of public opinion, and then they are not to depend upon the caprices and pos- sibilities of intrigue; they are not to be subject evento the men who made them; they are to be acted upon and carried to a legitimate conclusion by the public au- thorities. The Condition of the Old World. Our London correspondent to-day has al- most literally carried out the injunction of Dr. Johnson—namely, to Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind from China to Peru; verses which De Quincey, who disliked pleonasms, said meant no more than let ob- servation with extensive observation observe mankind extensively. His letter surveys the entire Old World, Europe, Asia and Africa, as if he were some lunar philosopher looking down upon this unfortunate globe and lectur- ing celestial students upon its affairs. It is interesting to see all these nations grouped to- gether, and to have them reviewed like divi- sions of one great army. All who havo studied the condition of the Old World must admit that it is rapidly undergoing enormous changes, that the foundations of the ancient order are shaken, and that the superstructure is destined to fall. ‘Europe,”’ said Napoleon at St. Helena, ‘‘will in fifty years either be republican or Cossack.’’ He was too quick in the prophecy, and he forgot the Prussians, but his philosophy was right. Republicanism is now so firmly established in Europe that it can never be driven out. With this general aspiration for political freedom other impor- tantelements are complicated ; and some of them are evil elements, which run side by side with it, like fierce beasts which were chained to the chariots of victorious consuls in the triumphal processions of Rome. Free- and disorder on the other. One of the most dangerous of these evils is the atheism of the people. They despise the fabled gods and have learned to deny the true ones. It is thought by very good observers that Europe has entered a period of social decadence, through which she must pass, as through the valley of death, before the bright new civiliza- tion can be born. Evidences of this decay of morals, of the growth of doubt, of the unrest which blindly seeks repose, of the conviction of governments that their only security is in armies, of the feeling of the people that they are betrayed and wronged, are found in this comprehensive anal- ysis of our correspondent. He has described, with a bold pen, the condition of the greater Powers, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, England, and has contrasted their different troubles. The affairs of Spain, Austria, Hun- gary, Sweden, Holland, Portugal, Turkey, are concisely treated, and even the relative positions of Egypt, Northern Africa, China | and Japan are indicated. But all these trou- bles are but phases of the one great change | in the Old World; they are different symp- | toms of one disease, or different methods of | effecting a fundamental cure. The lesson this dom marches on with war upon one hand | Roux, editor of the Gazelte du Midi and presi- entertained at all, and finds it necessary to dent of the congress of royalist journals at | take evidence, it would seem to be incum- ‘Tours. The placid Bourbon expresses his pent upon him to order the examina- eomplete satisfaction with the course pursued, tion of witnesses as provided by the and evidently believes that it is of great help | law, ‘The last charges embrace the violation to his cause. aa ted | of duty alleged against the Mayor in the mat- Tuer Recent Dnownixc Cases.—The Cor- | ter of the Grand Jury Presentment against oner’s inquest at Long Branch on the body of os Comaniasionses eee (ae aed Mr. Schilling severely censures the bather of 00. It is Pee Mee le the Mansion House for gross neglect in not undertaken by Mr. Havemeyer Mag eating providing the appliances for rescue. This is q | 12+ and designed to penis / a eh common neglect. At the beginning of the sea- the Commissioners. This surely demands in- son the professional bathers are very attentive: Vestigation, for it is necessary a lei but as the people get reckless the attendants he presentment of the Commissioners really get careless. This is the principal canse of °mbraced; whether they have or have not the frequency of drowning cases. In France violated the law, and whether the Mayor has the Humane Society has a patrol of boats to ® Sufficient indirect interest in the Department keep thoughtless persons from venturing too of Charities and Correction, through the far from shore. When the boats rescue Profite realized by his near relatives from the a reckless swimmer he is fined; if he ‘#e of supplies to that department, to make is drowned he pays nothing. A rule of this it evident that there was a corrupt motive for kind at our seashore resorts might save the his action. Surely the Governor must recog- ‘ives of many persons, excepting those of very | 2iz8 the propriety of a thorough investigation econoiitea! habits. In the meanwhile it is of this scandalous matter. _Tf not, as in the the duty of tng hotels to compel faithfal ser- prateiben aie Sant Sia ‘ ee ill be the o: rotectiun remain- vieo from the perwohis wey employ f Jog 188 people of New York Traty on tae Vartcan.—At the- dedication er It Loe eet he usa plain point in the obliga- of St. Anthony's Parochial School yestecl#y | tions of civil and political duty that charges the harmony was unfortunately marred by® yHgainst o public functionary, such as the dispute between the Italian Society of the ———. the Mayor, when they are once cbnxsh find Father James. The society de- | properly bere his political superior should sired to carry the Italian flag in the proces- | be weighed att! regarded in the light of sion, but the Father insisted that they should | public consideratians only, and without march under the Pontifical flag. Extreme feeling was displayed by some of the mem- | without reference to the persons from whom | | they have come. If the persons making | charges are reputable citizens, and the law | requires the consideration of charges so made, | and the Governor acts on the obligations of the law in giving his attention to such the Italians was misjudged. The Papal flag | charges, they ore then properly in his posses- did not seem to be popular with the Italians, | sion as a public fanctionary, and the Governor principally for the reason that they believed | is under the obligation of his oath of office in its display would be understood to antagonize regard to them, and is responsible to tho Ttalisn unity. | wuole peoale fox his conde, He is not ro- bers, and, rather than snrrender the emblem of the unity of Italy, the society dispersed. As the other nationalities—Ireland, America, Belgium, &c.—were represented by their re- | spective flags, we think the interference with | reference to any party intrigues, and even | j letter teaches is plain—it is that humanity must suffer if it would advance, and if Eu- rope is not sufficient illustration of this truth | we have only to look for convincing proof of itathome. The South: alone, in its painful progress from slavery to freedom, is a moving mirror of the universal struggle of man. American Riflemen in Canada. At the Canadian rifle meeting some of the gentlemen who have been for months prao- tising steadily at Creedmoor for the match between the Irish ond American riflemen havo achieved considerable success, They went over the border as a test, and the result shows the quality of men that will sustain the reputation of American marksmanship in the coming international match. One of the gen- tlemen made the highest possible score, ob- | taining seven bull’s eyes in succession, and another made fifty-four out of a possible fifty- six. Oolonel Gildersleeve and Mr. Cantwell, the fortunate marksmen, will probably form part of the American team in the coming in- ternational contest. The chances of an Ameri- can victory in the coming match may be judged from the fact that neither of these gen- tlemen obtained the highest place in the com- petition for a place in the American team, As | the time for the international contest ap- proaches the interest in the match increases, | and, in view of the splendid shooting of the | marksmen practising daily at Creedmoor, there is every reason to look forward with confidence to the result of the match, No matter which team wins, American marksman- | Ship will not be lossened in foreign estimation | by the performance of the men selected to represent America. In all probability the | average scoring will be as high as at Wimble- | don. To secure this result at so early a stage is itself a victory of no small importance. Taz Swrino Maron at Long Branch, by the consent of the contestants, has been post- Lroned till Saturday. | Political Philosophers—How To Be Happy im Defeat. The ways of political parties are a study for | the curious. Their workings are guided by no settled rule, and it would be as difficult to | caleulate their action upon any well defined principle as to square the circle of the moon. An election takes place one year and the dem- oerats are successful at the polls, Immedi- ately wo learn, on republican authority, that the popular verdict means nothing ; that it is an “off year," and no significance whatever attaches to the result. From the winning party, however, we ascertain that the vote is both important and suggestive, and that it clearly indicates some sweeping revolution in publio sentiment. The republicans recover their losses next year, and come out of the contest victoriously. We are instantly as- sured by the democracy that the election was altogether immaterial, that side issues con- trolled the result, and that it furnishes no sign to point out the probabilities of the future. At the same timo republicanism teaches us that the victory satisfactorily settles the political condition of the country for ten years to come, and that we may as well make up our minds to the fact. In the carly State elections the difference of opinion is marked and wide. With the winning party they are clear indications of what will occur in the later fall contests, while the losing party can find a score of reasons for a contrary conclu- sion, This year the issues are local, and as it is only the election succeeding the Presidential struggle no person takes the trouble to vote. The following year it is two years removed from the Presidential election, and so the party is indifferent. The next year it is again an off year, and as the party is reserv- ing its strength for the Presidential fight its apathy can be satisfactorily accounted for. It is fortunate that our political parties can thus find consolation in victory or defeat, since one or the other must, of necessity, lose, and it would bo distressing to think that so many patriots must be subjected to misery during one-half the period of their political existence. Just now the republican party is most in need of this political philosophy. For- tune has turned against it. Doubtful States have cast their fortunes with the demo- tions have worn a democratic complexion, and | in House and Senate the revival in the party hear from sources of republican wisdom that the early elections this year mean nothing at all, and that recent democratic victories are only indications of the coming annihilation of that party and of the continued rule of repub- that President Grant, with the figures of the last election spread out before him like a plan of battle, urges the necessity of a compromise with Fenton and a reunion of the broken ranks of republicanism, and that the cry is again raised of Bourbon conspiracies to overthrow the government, of contemplated democratic combinations to massacro all the blacks in the country, and of all those other terrible events which must follow the deteat of the republican party. avoided at all it must be by the adoption of the suggestion originating with President Grant. The republican numbers must be in- creased by the winning over of the liberals, the balance of power last year. But then Fenton is said to demand the Custom House, and that is an enormous power to place in the hands of a new convert. No wonder that Senator Conkling and his friends enter an in- dignant protest and resist an arrangement that would take from them at least one-half their present perquisites. The President’s Pedestrian Son. The son of a President is naturally expected to ride, and that is the reason we are so astonished when he walks. This accounts for the extraordinary excitement about young Mr. Pennsylvania, of which the Hrratp prints a fall account to-day. Accompanied by his younger brother Jesse, and two other young gentlemen, Mr. Grant on foot did gayly take his way, in a tour of six days, and one hun- dred and thirty-seven miles. He chose the Alleghany Mountains for the scene, and the party acquitted themselves with decided credit. But the younger Ulysses does not | begin to equal his honored father, who, on the 5th of November, 1872, walked through nearly every State in the Union. Mr. Grant., Jr, is a modest, intelligent young gentleman, and, therefore, avoided political discussion. But, as a third term means Cesarism, and as he may be consid- ered a possible Cvesar’s heir, he could not easily avoid interrogation on this subject. We regret that he said that the Henatp’s articles otherwise,” for we have always sought to speak of it with serious earnestness. The President was not amused with them; why, then, should his son be? But itis encouraging to learn that Mr. Grant thinks that his father will de- cline o renomination. ‘Iam not in his con- fidence in such matters," he said; ‘but I guess he will.” We aro glad of this assur- ance, slight as it is, for it is something to know that, although the son is resolved to walk, it is possible the father won't run. Hayden’s Expedition. If the interesting letter, published elsewhere to Hayden's expedition, be carefully read its contents will go far to remove many illusions “Go West.’’ We suppose that every American not gifted with more than a modest fortune has, at one time or another, cherished the intention of going West. Of itself it is not a bad or irrational design. But when all things are considered, when we estimate the cheap luxuries of an honest and industri- ous metropolitan life, and the hardships and tribulations of the colonist, we do not marvel that many wish they had never left the homes of their fathers. Yet we must have pioneers, for without them America would have been a wilderness to-day. Far better, however, is it that these men should not desert positions of usefulness and profit in the great cities to go out and struggle during the best years of their lives amon; @ crude class, in a polluted atmosphere, with all the chances of failure in the end. crats. Strong republican States have shown | astartling loss of strength. The early elec- | that has lain prostrate since the outbreak of | the rebellion is foreshadowed. So we now | licanism. At the same time it is significant | If the approaching danger is to be | especially in New York State, where they held | Grant's pedestrian tour through a portion of | on the third term were ‘more humorous than | this morning from our correspondent attached | which have grown out of the reckless cry, | | Many sensible people have boen led to believe | that Denvers and Ohicagos which spring up on the Plains are hives of wevlth to the poor. To be sure, men of modest or no means at all profit by these stupendous enterprises ; but the man who gains the lion's share is the silent and distant capitalist, who bas no other concern in the city than to increase his own revenues. The sad story related by our cor- respondent of the violent deaths in Arizona, where over ninety per cent of the original H settlers have perished by the ferocity of the Indians, is an evidence in itself of creditable daring poorly compensated. Let people, then, who contemplate ‘pulling up stakes’ ask | themselves these questions: —Are we prepared to rough it? Will @ crude society suit our | tastes? What will we do when we get there? Are we sufficiently well informed about the | coyntry ? Labor Agitation in England. The labor agitation in England continues, and our special despatch tells us of o meeting of fifty thousand miners, at Dur- | ham race course, on Saturday, which was addressed by several of the leading agi- | ; tators, Just what was to be gained by | this mammoth demonstration we are at a loss to determine; but one thing is certain—it could result in no real good to the cause it was intended to advance. Labor reform is a battle, nota barbecue. ‘The result of the battle may be to elevate the laborer, but the only possible result of the barbecue will be to advance the demagogue. We observe that Mr. Charles Bradlaugh was among the speakers. In spite of the old | maxim that a prophet is not without honor except in his own country Mr. Bradlaugh’s | success seems confined to England. When | he came to the United States he was met by | the utmost indifference. This is somewhat singular in view of the fact that | among his own countrymen his name and | those of his coagitators have a magic to | draw such a vast concourse of miners as that | | | | i | which assembled at Durham. The difference in the condition of the working classes in the two countries must account for the difference | in treatment of the special advocate of the labor interests. Our laborers are still content, but the absolute poverty of the same class in England makes them discontented, and so they regard with favor any political dema- gogue who professes to point out to them the | way in which relief is to be obtained. All this bodes ill in the end for the continuancs of | that state of society where there are only the | hereditary rich and the hereditary poor. This | becomes a real grievance to be redressed at all hazards, especially when to be poor means constant labor in @ condition of semi-starva- tion. If the laboring classes in this country ever become depressed as the miners are in England it will bea death-blow to the Republic. | In England it must prove a death-blow to the aristocracy. But so long as the contest is conducted by means of public meetings, managed by political hucksters, the aristoc- racy is safe. The Pulpits Yesterday. The nine sermons we publish to-day from | | clergymen representing the principal religious | | denominations will be eagerly read by many | | | persons whose engagements required them to leave the city on Sunday. This is one of the | advantages the sinner has in modern times, | that though he may neglect the church he | cannot evade the newspaper. The responsi- bility of the sinner is therefore doubly great; if he escapes conversion now it can only be | after a prolonged and desperate struggle with his friends. Less than we had reason to expect was said | | in the pulpits yesterday of Mr. Beecher, and | only general reference was made to Mr. | | Tilton and Mr. Moulton in the prayer, “De- liver us from evil.’ The Rev. Mason Galla- gher, of the Paterson (N. J.) First Reformed | Episcopal church, feelingly alluded to tho sympathy with Mr. Beecher. In the Church | | of St John the Evangelist the Rev. Frank | | Hallam, of Georgia, preached upon ‘The | Mission of the Clergyman”’ and how he some- times falls. In the Church of the Strangers Dr. Deems delivered sermon upon “Seeking | the Things Above,” and in the Spring strect Presbyterian church Rev. J. M. Hutchison, of Indiana, spoke upon the “Putting On of | | Christ’ in all His divine attributes, tal:ing the well known text of St. Paul. ‘The Ambition | of Mankind” was treated at the Twenty-fifth street Baptist church by Dr. Cordo, of Jersey City, and Rev. Stephen H. Tyng at the Church of the Holy Trinity explained “What | Constitutes Eternal Life.’ At the Madison | avenue Baptist church the Rey. A. HL Burlingham, of St. Louis, described “Progress in the Life to Come.” An / immense congregation assembled at Plym- outh church, but there was nothing sen- sational in the services. Dr. Robinson prayed | for Mr. Beecher, and afterwards selected for i his sermon the text, from Second Chronicles— | “While he was yet young he began to seek after the God of* David and his fathers,” While we cannot agree with all the theological | opinions advanced in these sermons they are generally sound in their spirit and free from | controversy upon non-essential portions of the | various creeds. That these sermons will | | benefit the absentees from church we are thoroughly convinced, and to that olass they are especially commended. —_————_—_ Late Cometary Weather and The Heraid’s Prediction. The current summary of meteorological | data for last month brings to light, to borrow , its own language, ‘an unusual series of at- | mospheric phenomena.” Such an array of | midsummer conditions derives additional | interest from its popularly supposed connec- | tion with the great comet which has recently | interposed between the earth and the sun, and | the means it furnishes us for determining | what, if any, is the interplanetary influence of cometary visitants. On the 11th of duly, | just in the midst of the extremest heat ex- | perienced for years, we predicted that tho | period of the comet's perigee would be | marked by abnormally cool weather, ‘reduc. | ing the July thermometric mean.” This cal- | culation was reiterated in the Hrratp of the 17th ult., and, as previously, assigned to the influence of Coggia in screening the earth ' from solar heat or at least diverting the solar heat-tide from us toward some other part of the solar system. ‘This novel view, | a8 we believe it was, was applied to the northern hemisphere, which, as the earth re- | volves on its axis, was, at the period named, mast larzely brought under the cometary The ——$— vapor screen. The sequel seems to have justified fully the belief then expressed. In Europe the weather, attending tho period of the comet's perigee, say from July 18 to 25, and the thermometric range of the middle and latter portion of July, was characterized by tremendous hail storms and rain storms, which, it is well known, can be produced only by very low and vapor-condensing tem- peratares, The cataclysms and inundations in Moravia, Nevada and Pennsylvania, caused by cold currents forcing themselves into bands of air saturated with moisture, soon followed. On the Pacific coast the current weather sum- mary informs us that ‘‘the low temperature prevented the maturing and ripening of the grain’ in July in the northern part of this great grain-growing belt. The local storms over the United States, we are told, were of marked severity and highly destructive of life and property. When the thermal statistics for the given epoeh are scrutinized it appears from the numerical means on the map that | the July temperature was nearly everywhere roduced below the average, except in the vast | basin ot the Mississippi, which is always in summer swept by the southwest or equatorial currents from the superheated Gulf. The lake region, which receives the spent energies of those warm winds, was thus enabled to maintain its normal temperature, notwith- standing the general reduction. But the South Atlantic States, the Middle States, New England, and the Pacific States ex- perienced a diminution of mean temperature, Doubtless, if for the special period of the perigee of Coggia’s comet, say the last half of July, the mean was known, it would exhibit a more extended and emphatic contrast with the normal summer range. Whether the coincidence between the pre- dicted and the observed results is attributable to the agency of the comet when expanded by solar heat into an immense vapor screen, or whether it is due to other causes, it may be rash toassert. But such a coincidence is in the highest degree suggestive, and presents a point for rigid astronomic research when the | next comet nears our globe. Tue IntsH in Inenanp AND ScoTLAND agitate earnestly to obtain Home Rule, as the two great meetings in Glasgow and Dungannon yesterday attest. England regards these meetings as safety valves for the harmless escape of Irish discontent. ‘The attendants at these meetings separate with a wonderful feeling of elation in their breasts. It com- bines a deep sense of national wrong with the lively satisfaction of having aired the villany of the Saxon. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Great wheat crop in Russia and Hungary. Hardheaded fellows those Kentucky sports. Rev. Dr. R. W. Pearson, of Pittsburg, is staying at the Astor House. Captain William A. Parker, United States Navy, is at the Windsor Hotel. Mile. Marie Pousin (Marie Roze of the Paris stage) has married J. E. Perkins. Commander J. N. Milier, United States Navy, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Meredith Read, United States Minister to Greece, comes home by the Hermann. * Assemblyman Harvey G. Eastman, of Poughe keepsie, is residing at the Albemarle Hotel. Captain G, E. Grover, of the Royal Engineers, British Army, is registered at the Brevoort House. Bismarck has received threatening letters whicn announce a repetition of Kulimann’s attempt. Mr. Henry Ruggles, United States Consul at Bare celona, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. J. M. Walker, President of the Chicago, Bur- ington and Quincy Railroad Company, is sojourn- ing at the Windsor Hotel. Vice Admiral Takeaki-Enomoto, Ambassador of Japan to Russia, was received by the Emperor om the same occasion on wiich Mr. Jewell took leave. During the montns of May and June there was not in the city of St, Petersburg a single murder | or attempt against life. They are surprised at it. Mr. Eugene Schuyler is now Chargé d’ Affaires at St Pe' eraburg, and there will never will be any body sent there who would make so good@ Min- ister. ’ When Bismarck first spoke to Kullmann in prison the latter declined the Prince’s acquaintance and | said he “did not know him ;” so Bis was cut as well as shot. Archduke Albert, brother of the Emperor of Austria, and the conqueror of Cusiozza, was feasted at Moscow, and responded to a toast in the Russian language. Wiliiam of Germany has given to the regiment Frederic William ILL, of Russian grenadiers, a set of “cravates de drapcau’ and Alexander has or- dered them to be carried on the colors, It seems now not fashionable to say in London that so and so died. The names of distinguished relatives are given with the statement that they “pave veen placed in mourning,” and then we are told whose demise has brought. about this’ un- happy result. Death is altogether secondary to iss effect on the millinery. Jersey, the little island in the Engilsh Ohannel, sent to the London markets in two months this spring $1,000,000 worth of new potatoes. The sea- son's Crop of this vegetable gives for the total area Of the island $35 an acre. It is believed that an equal success could be had in the southern coun- ties of Ireland if there were energy and enterprise to try tt, It is said that the horse on which Henry 1V. sits on the Pont Neuf, in Paris, ts a sort of Trojan horse, filled with the enemies of all kings—revointionary pamphlets. The statue was erected under the Restoration, when there was @ hot hunt for the destruction of revolutionary literature, and the story is that a nearly complete set of documents was, by coliusion with the workmen, put in the hollow body of the horse, Baron Anselm Rothscitld, who has just lately died, as reported in the HERALD by cable, at nis country seat at Dobling, near Vienna, was a man Of extreme simplicity of character, despite his immense wealth. By his express desire—says a Paris journal—recorded in his will, his funeral was celebrated without any pomp. A he: drawnby two horses, followed only by a few servants, con- veyed the body to the Northeastern station, whence it was taken to the domain in which the family vault 1s situated, The fortane of the Baron is estimated at 200,000,000 of American gold dollars, Recently a French newspaper published that a banker's country house bad been robbed in the night, “but fortunately the thieves in their hurry had jailed to open the secoud drawer on the right hand side of the escritoire, in which was a large sum of money in bank notes.” Two or three days later the editor received tne following note :— Mar. Eprror—I cannot sufficiently thank you for the information given in your excellent paper. I¢ was in every respect exact, as I jound on goin; Just night, for the second time, to the house of y The bills were there, and now are in my possession. (No signature —. scruples. The 2d of September, the anniversary of the French surrender at Sedan, will be celebrated in many parts of Germany, and it is reported at Ber- lin tuat that day will henceforth be @ holiday. In the Prussian elementary schools the teachers wilt be instructed to relate the events of the day, and by songs and other means to foster @ spirit of pa- triotism. Where a religious service is held they will take their scholars to church, and im the alter- noon @n open air /éée is to be held wherever prac- table, 1—. You will understand my