The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1874, Page 6

OM. / Sa Miemmnrmrmnese 8 NEW YORK HERALD —_—-——_ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. Dakine JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR sltiedhvispsabedencetiot THE DAILY HERALD, published every Hoy in the year. Four cents per copy. An- pual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Hepat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. ——__ LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX = eee AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. a between: Prince and Houston streets way, between Prince and ‘oust ‘— Fe BRIDE OF ABYDOS, at 8 closes at 10:45. M. Joseph Wheelock and Miss ione Burke, 'S THEATRE, WALLAC dway.-HANDY ANDY, and THE IRISH EMI- Bia M. Dan Bryant, GRANT, at 8 P.M; closes at il t : closes at 10:90 P. M. Louis Aldrick and Miss Fophie Miles. OLYMPIC THEATRE Ko. 624 Broadway.—PEEP O'DAY, at 8 P. M.; closes at [o:0 P.M. Miss Sara Montague, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY. AUGUST 27, 1874.—I'RIPLE SHEET. The Theusendth Anniversary land. The splendid moon which last night bung over this city, silvering its steeples, towers and streets, ite rivers and the forest hidden islands, of tees | markable man is called by Dr. Hayes Germany's Colonial Policy. “the Bismarck of » Iceland," The discussion of the alleged bargain and, he | | Iceland free to elect her ruler. The very in- | the cession of Porto Rico has produced some | tensity with which the Icelanders have striven notable diplomatic peculiarities. In the lan- adds, would be chosen Chief Magistrate were between Spain and Germany in reference to | Massacre ef Negroes in Tennessee, Sixteen colored prisoners were taken out of Trenton Jail yesterday bys band of armed men and murdered in cold blood. This atrocity was committed by the white men of ss, | prideand pomp, which is so fully described in shines upon a far different scene when from | turies upon centuries of Arctic winter the | bas been proved. The interview which Dr. | molten mass was cooled and Iceland Hayes, as the representative of the H=Ratp, | became, what we now know it, a bad withthe King ot Denmark is additional | | and of desolation, with abysses and | evidence that he is a monarch who would rule, not by divine right merely, but by the right of intellect and zeal for the general good. He intelligently explained the differences between the old govern- ment and the new, and expressed that principle which formerly all kings held in horror, ‘that in all constitutional governments the people must have a system- atic representation and a local form of admin- istration.’’ The sovereign who could speak with this wisdom could not fail to appreciate the purposes and the uses of our modern journalism, and it is not surprising that Caristian IX., should have been polite enough to tell our distinguished correspondent, in English, that he considered it a great compli- our pages to-day. Iceland is of little material value to the | ment that the world should care to know his | opinions through so popular a journal as world, nor would it make much difference to | , commerce or progress if it could sink | the Henanp. It is a pleasure and an | peaks and waste places, ‘‘where no man | | comes, or hath come, since the making of the | | world.”” Its interior is a desert of snow and | | ice, between which and the tempestuous sea | | a thin girdle of green gives inhospitable re- fuge to a hardy people. To the unfruitful zone of this cold Venus of the North | they have clung with as passionate a love as in the warm South the islander clings to the shores of Cyprus, daughter of the Mediterranean foam. A thou- sand years have come and gone, and the Ice- | lander celebrates the birth of his republic, in | that strange, earnest way, not without its THEATRE, | ; 5 Fourteenth strect sod Bis Nenue. LA TIMBALE | again into tbe sea from which it | Houor for us to report the plans of so polite a LAE GE tisat 8 PM: closes at10:30P. Me Mile. Aimee, | oe Yet its millennial celebration has | ™Owarch; but Christian TX. should know that FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. WHAT SHOULD SHE DO? OR, JEALOUSY, at 8 P. : closes atll P.M. Miss Fanny Davenport, Sera lewett, Mr. C. Visher and Mr. James Lewi THEATRE CONTQUE, 5 a Broadway.—VARL tv. Me; closes at 10:30 BOOTHS EATRE, corner of Twenty-third. sirect omd Sixth aven' eet. LAMAR, at 8 P. closes at 10:80 P. M. cCullough and Miss K. Rogers Randoiph, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Bo, 58 Brosdway.—l’arisian Cancan Dancers, at 8 P. M, GLOBE THEATRE fo7%8 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8P.M.; closes at10 ENTRAL PARK GARDEN. neh stiget ond Seventh ayenue-THOMAS? OON- t 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. TRIPLE SHEET. Sew York, Thursday, August 27, 1874. To NzwspEALERs AND THE Pupzic:— The New Yorn Henaxp will run a special train between New York, Saratoga and Lake George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- ing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., and arriving at Saratoga at nine o’clock A. M, for the purpose of supplying the Buwpay Henarp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send ‘n their orders to the Hzraxp office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear or partly cloudy. ‘Wart Srazer Yzsterpar.—Stocks were heavy and declined. Gold was dull—109 5-8 2 1093-4. Hs Masesry, Christian IX., King of Den- mark, endured the tortures of sea sickness in his voyage to Iceland, which shows that a naval uniform does not convert a king intoa sailor. But he was repaid forall his suffer- Ings at sea by his welcome on shore. A Lapr Forozz is the last Connecticut sen- gation. She robbed her family to enrich her male friends. Perhaps she belongs to the woman’s rights movement, and thinks that men have been msking fools of themselves long enough for the fair sex, and that the time has come to change all that. Like most reformers the young lady has, however, come to grief. Tue Lone Braxcn Swomrc Matce hav- ing been twice postponed, to the disappoint- ment of a great multitude of travellers, it is to be hoped that the affair will surely come off to-morrow, for with another disappoint- ment the assembled crowd of distinguished visitors will be apt to pronounce the Long Branch method of drawing custom an impo- sition upon the public and a fraud. A Bunoran Sxot.—Oficer Nicholson ad- ministered a lesson to a noted burglar yester- day which he is not likely soon to forget. | Discovering the thief in the act of robbery he pursued and captured him. The burglar e' dently disliked to lose his freedom of action and made a bold effort to escape, but the officer pursued him with mach perseverance, | bringiug the fugitive down with a shot just as be was about to place a garden fence between him and his pursuers. Damacz to THE Lona Brasca Rammroap.— Considerable uneasiness and annoyance was felt at Long Branch on Tuesday evening, owing to an accident which occurred to the road, which, being unprotected from the yea, is liable to be damaged when the waves aro high. In the present in- stance the track was rendered impassable, to the annoyance and discomfort of the pas- yengers. A similar accident happened at the yame spot last year, yet the Jersey Railroad Company have taken no serious steps to pre- vent its recurrence. Bercuer’s Comuitter.—-The Plymouth In- yestigating Committee held a meeting yester- Tay to finally agree upon their report. There was a lively and goodenatured discussion as to ihe propriety of mildly censuring Mr. Beecher jor imprudence in his pastoral visits to Mrs. Tilton. But it was finally agreed not to in- jure the value of acquittal by remarks that might appear like condemnation. We poppose the result will be — satis- factory to Mr. Beecher and to Plymouth thurch. But will it be equally so to Mr. Tilton? The public have pretty well made up their minds on this question, pro and con, and we fear the report of the committee will not exercise any great influence in changing popular convictions. In all probability we have not heard the last of this nasty affair. Is Iceranp the schoolboys appear to know America only as a land which Ericsson discov- ered. This is somewhat humiliating, but we must remember that our Repubiic is not a eantury old, commanded the attention of the world | ‘bere are many kings whose remarks the Almost inaccessible as it is, certainly | Henarp could not consent to publish, unless far beyond the usual paths of travel, men from they were paid for as advertisements. nearly every civilized country were present at There is a lesson in this celebration of the Thingvalls, when the new freedom was given | ‘ousandth anniversary of the birth of o to Iceland by Denmark to console her for the | Bation so small, so weak, so far away in the loss of the old. In the harbor of Reikiavik, | Polar seas. Why should the busy, whirling where a strange 1 is an unfamiliar sight, | world pause to look uvon this plain and unpre- French, Danish, German, English, Swedish anniversary. The Star-Spangled Banner waved above a little vessel which bore upon her deck a man who had planted the American colors in regions far nearer to the Pole than even Iceland—the famous Arctic explorer, Dr. L IL. Hayes, to whom the public is indebted for the powerful and thorough narrative the Henatp prints to-day, And for the first time in her history Iceland looked upon her King, whom she welcomed with enthusiasm and joy, because he came not, as monarchs generally do, to take away liberties, but to re- store long forfeited rights. But so difficult is travel upon this strange island, which can hardly be traversed from coast to coast, that at | Reikiavik but three thousand persons were | present out of a population of seventy thou- | sand. The King’s reception was none the less cordial. There was no atmy to receive him, for Iceland is with- out a soldier. But the Governor, the priest, the Icelandic girls in the singular | picturesque costume of their country, the judges of the courts, and the three policemen (two having been recently appointed, because the other one, who had formerly sole charge of the island, complained earnestly of the extraor- dinary length of his beat) were present in all their dignity and splendor. Dr. Hayes intimates that there was some disappointment at first because Obris- tien IX did not wear crown nor carry a sceptre, insignia which some of the Icelanders, no doubt, supposed to be insepa- rable from a royal display. He was arrayed in the simple Danish naval uniform, and in the end, no doubt, his Arctic subjects were better satisfied to have a king who waived superfluous ceremony and came among them as @ friend rather thana ruler. The recep- tion at Reikiavik was but preliminary to the grand celebration at the plain of Thingvalla, the ancient seat of judgment, years ago abandoned. But there the Icelanders rightly thought it best to commemorate the birth of the nation and to receive from the of the first Danish King who ever trod their shores the new constitution, which virtually gives them independence. This charter does not free Iceland in law, for Den- mark still retains the sovereignty, and the King has the veto power over the Althing, or Legislature. But the heavy burden which Denmark has hitherto imposed upon Iceland | is removed; the people are allowed to } raise and expend their own revenues as they please. This is the great gift of ; the new constitution, and in the end | will not only endear Christian IX. to | the Icelanders, but will remove the | enmity which they have long felt toward the | Danes. The cause of hatred, injustice, is | | destroyed by this wise concession of freedom in local affairs. The Evangelical Lutheran | | Church is declared the national Church, and | the State is required to assist it as such; but | freedom of conscience is also fully guaranteed. | Public education is provided for, and ‘‘the | To us the | freedom of the press is absolnte."” theoretical control which is reserved by Den- mark is a radical fault of the charter, but it is likely to remain a mere formal affirmation of sovereign rights, withont any practical effect upon the actual liberty of the people. right of self-government is virtaally conceded | by the Crown. The effect of this new constitution upon | | Iceland cannot but be for progress. The island belongs more to the past than to the present, and its glory streams from the | darkness in which the ancient Republic, | founded a thousand years ago, is hid- den. Yet it would be presumptuous to say that Iceland has no future. Her sons are not like those adventurous sailors who in the | eleventh century carried their wars into Norway, and, as there is reason to believe, | even ravaged the shores of Spain. Yet they are worthy of their ancestors. They cherish the memory of the ancient heroes and have an | original and noble poetry inthe Sagas. Their | history, it is true, dwarfs their present as a majestic mountain makes insignificant the narrow valley at its feet; but in this modern age the spirit of the olden times may take new forms, which, if uot so heroic and grand as the old, may be more nseful and bappy. It is said that no Ice- landic farm is without three things—‘‘books, a coffee pot and a portrait of Jon Sigurdsson, the leader of the vatriotic varty.”” This re- six men-of-war were anchored, and the | and Norwegian flags floated in honor of the | hands | The | tending holiday in Iceland? It is because amid those extinguished fires, those eternal snows, Liberty sat enthroned. Liberty hallows the lava-strewn plains and the rocky shores. Liberty has been the sole possession of the people, and so long as they love her they will not be forgotten by the world. Our Icelandic Letters. There are many novel and interesting | nial celebration in Iceland which we’ publish to-day that deserve especial mention. Our fair readers will learn with surprise that there exists in the icy regions of the far North a people singularly gifted in a musical point of view and speaking a language as melodious as thatof Sunny Italy. The specimen of their music which we give in another column is full of rich melody, and brilliant enough to find a place on the opera stage. Thero breathes a spirit akin to the ode which Verdi once composed in honor of the Sovereign Pontiff. The description of the fashions of the Icelandic belles will also be read with interest by the ladies ot the metropolis of America, particularly that of the headdress, which Dr. Hayes calls ‘the cunningest thing imaginable." A New York modiste would be apt to look with disdzin on a helmet of white silk as high as an _ ordi- nary stovepipe ‘fat, which is carried forward on the fair wearer’s head and pinned to the hair, while the wide-spreading veil falls from the base of this strange headdress, enveloping the form like a mantilla. Yet over the gold-embroidered jacket the effect of such a diaphanous cape can hardly be unbecoming. The excellent map of Iceland which we also furnish will enable our readers to trace the course of the gentle Prince of Denmark from the capital to the wild lava plain of Thing- valla and the ‘Law Mount.”’ The Icelandic poster, announcing the order of the millennial festivities and the hymn, ode and greeting from America, are curious examples of the old Norse language. Altogether the narrative is as strange and interesting as a chapter from the ‘‘Arabian Nights’ Entertainments,’’ and is a striking example of the power of the press | and ot the comprehensive talents and re- | search of the celebrated Arctic voyager, Dr. I. L. Hayes. : | An Indian Chief's Talk. | We publish in another column an interest- ing interview between the celebrated Sioux chief Red Cloud and our correspondent. There are the usual complaints against the | Agent No doubt the dislike of the | Indians is well founded. There is no | reason why supplies should be short, as | the sums appropriated by Congress are | more than enough to maintain the tribes in luxury if it were honestly distributed. Most i men are directly the result of dishonesty in the Indian Ring, and until the government takes steps to put an end to the present sys- tem all efforts to reconcile the tribes to civili- zation must fail. It would be much better to place the Indian administration in the hands of the army offic who would be pre- served by professional pride from the mean- nesses to which the present class of agents so frequently resort. The fear of dismissal and | degradation which the officer would have | constantly before his mind in the event of any scandal would also exercise a deterrent effect on military agents inclined to be dishouest. It is evident that the adoption of a system of justice in our dealings with the Indians would insure peace and render the civilization of the tribes comparatively easy. Under the present system it is not to be wondered at that, finding himself plundered and having no means 0 redress, the Indian should put on his war paint and seek to execute vengeance on his | oppressors. Tun Axenican progress of A marked by the delphia Base Ball clubs to England. It was to be expected, perhaps. that in their base ball contests with the Britishers they would be successful, because it is so distinctively a national game; but not alona ha tained the superiority of Americans in this sport, but they have carried off the palm of | victory in the truly British sport of ericket. The last match was played in Dublin, where the same suc attended the American | visitors as in England. They are now on their way home, having covered themselves with glorv, features in the graphic sketches of the millen- | of the small troubles that arise with the red | £ Bart Prayvers.—The | ericans in field sports is well | sit of the Boston and Phila- | e they main- | to obtain the constitution, the love ard | guage of the Courts a general denial has been the northern sky it looks down upon Iceland. | Tespect they have for the King who gave it It is @ land so unlike our own thatimagination | bem, proves that they are not a dead can but faintly realize its nature. Long ages tion, from which the ancient spirit has de- ago the bottom of the sea rose above the waves parted, as from the innumerable extinct vol- a vast volcanic plain, out of which, in some con- | “R088 the fires have faded which once made valsion of the subterranean forces, mountain | Pallid the auroras of the north, ranges were hurled, with craters pouring from | Nor is it likely that Christian TX., who by their enormous jaws oceans-of lava and fire, | ne act has sought to atone for centuries of In that distant time what we call Iceland now | Danish injustice, will fail to do more for Ice- was a land of flame and smoke. Then in cen- | ‘and when the wisdom of this experiment set up in behalf of Germany, purporting also to prove that the latter Power has not now and never has entertained any serious thoughts concerning the acquisition of colonial posses- | sions. The very idea 1s scouted as preposter- ous. The Prince Chancellor, we are told, has | | enough to do to watch the schoolteachers and clergymen of Alsace and Lorraine, who will per- sist in denying the right of the victors to levy excessive taxation, and if this acquired terri- | tory near home requires so much solicitude and constant attention how much greater would be the difficulties of governing a distant colony. And yet amid all these statements touching the disinterestedness of Germany, her resolution to remain within the prescribed limits of Fatherland, her desire to consummate the work of unifi- cation and settle down to an era of internal reform and peaceful progress, comes the un- | guarded confession that she was but recently bargaining for the island of St. Domingo—a fact known to the American Commissioners and duly reported to the various Powers by the State Department. And we think we can show from a purely commercial view why she | desired colonial possessions, notwithstanding | | the wholesale system of denying and prevari- .cation adopted by the diplomats to hide the truth in this relation. Schleswig-Holstein spoils between Prussia and Austria been settled on the field of Sadowa | when the then Prime Minister of Prussia com- | menced to direct his attention to | the great question of emigration, which had begun to assume alarming proportions. Thousands of mechanics and laborers released from service in the army until further notice, with all the horrors of swift but terrible bat- tles fresh in their memories, and conscious that no considerations within their reach could prevent their being compelled to undergo similar military service in the future as often asambition or diplomatic pique should em- broil Prussia in war, left their workshops and farms and departed, mostly for the United States. At this time it was rumored in Berlin that a strong effort would be made to secure more remunerative labor for the people; that if the cotton and wool and silk manufactories could be supplied with the raw material direct there would be additional inducements to the operatives to remain at home, while the country would be} the gainer by just so much profit as the amount aunually paid to England and other couutries through whom the sup- plies were then principally derived. It was stated that the government had already called for reports from different quarters of the globe, wherever they had representatives, and notably in Sout America, which state- ment was apparently borne out by the subse- quent aprearance of lengthy and exhaustive articles in several leading German news- papers, including the Allgemeine Zeitung, of Augsburg, and the Voss Gazette, of Berlin, concerning the most available points for the investment of Garman capital, the cost of pro- | ducing the articles most desired and giving | other valuable information. We remember some striking points in an article of this kind in the latter journal, which was said to have been sent through the government offices in Wilhelmsirasse. The article was apparently intended to reflect seriously upon the Peruvian authorities for their brutal treatment of the coolies, but was in reality a plea for the founding of German colonies in South America. | | “We see,’ said the writer, ‘in the splendid countries of South America but discord and mismanagement ; the penalties of corruption in the slave trade curas their fruitfu! soil, which, by comprehensive cultivation, good management and free labor, could be made to command the attention of the commercial world. The raw products of North America | | are now being worked at home toa large ex- | tent, and a similar remark applies to Austra- | lia. Let England aud Germany, for their own advantage, raise South America to their | Scarcely had the bloody quarrel over the | | horses has been manifested in every succeed- | and | Monmouth Park August meeting, and we can | | what the Derby course is to London. level. We want more food, more grain, more fruits, more meat, as well as more wool, more cotton, raw silk and other material for manu- | facture and export. But where is this ad- | ditional cotton, coff2e, tobacco, sugar, tea and raw silk to come from?’’ The writer then | | proposed a grand scheme for the acquisition | and colonization of all available tracts of | country in Brazil, Pern and other countries | in Central and South America. The propo- sition included the guarantee of the respective governments that the land should be practi- | cally given to the colonists forever and secured | by regularly executed grants, postal rights and safe transportation inland included, the cost to the government or private corporations | of sending out ten thousand settlers, their | maintenance, and the first year’s implements | and sced for cultivating the land, the building | of villages, towns, market places, slaughter | houses, churches, educational establishments, | hospitals, the crection of cotton marts, pack- | ing presses and machinery, the establishment | of steamship lines, the making of roads and | | drainage and irrigation. Provision was also | wade for the regular inecrporation of the _ towns, the free election of officials, police | justices and the higher functionaries having general jurisdiction. In addition they were to claim exemption trom export duty for fifteen years, while the home government was to | make the import duty merely nominal on all produce imported direct; all agricultural, kitchen and domestic implements and utensils, ted to the new colonies free of duty. This ‘was the tenor and purport of the article, which was gencraily commended at the time. | Now, itis just possible our diplomats may eurred by the Ger behaif of the Asi undoubtedly indicate an government simply in but we think the facts the “colonial” ten- dencies of Germany, and that it the policy so | set forth and encouraged has been suspended the change has been extremely sudden and hitherto unexplained. Tux OansMen are mustering at Saratoga for the international regatta, All the crews are now on the ground. ‘The grophic description given by our correspondent of the different crews and their styles of rowing will be | read with interest by all interested in manly | avorte, | riage o loss, for she certainly knows that she | rest are only “Church arrangements.’”’ | consternation of the other ladies, from No. 2 machinery and building material to be admit- | argue that all this trouble and expense were in- | the district without any provocation which would give to their cowardly act even the color of justification, | If the white men in the South imagine that acts like these will be tolerated by the nation they are sadly mistaken. The spirit which led the masked band at Trenton to invade the sanctuary of the law and commit & cowardly and brutal crime may yet | bring on the South countless mis- eries. The men who hate most bitterly the negro race can scarcely hope that they will be allowed to massacre the colored people without interference; and acts like the pres- ent point to the necessity of making the law respected at all hazards, A revival of Ku | Klux outrages will inevitably lead to the | adoption of such repressive measures as may be necessary to the security of the peaceful inhabitants in the disturbed district. In the present case the duty of the government is clear. Unless the local authorities immediately arrest and bring to justice the perpetrators of this cowardly massacre the general government should take the matter in hand and sce that fitting punish- ment be meted out to the murderers. Such crimes are a'blot on our civilization. Horse Racing in America—The Mone | mouth Park Meeting. We are getting to be a nation of horse racers, and soon the turf will be with us, as it has long been with our English cousins, a national sport. Our jockeys are showing year atter year a decided improvement in their riding, and our horses are beginning to prove their excellent qualities as more atten- tion is paid to their care and training. We have already this season beaten the best four mile time on record with the new as- pirant tor fame, Fellowcraft, and we are be- | | ginning to learn that it only requires devo- | tion to the sport anda proper spirit in the lovers and patrons of the turf to show the world that we can breed as good if not better blood horses than are to be found in Eng- land. Felloworait is an evidence of the im- portance of training. A horse, four years old, that has never accomplished anything won- derful before, suddenly runs a four mile race as such a race was never run by the most famous horses on the turf. What is the explanation? Simply that Fellowcraft at Saratoga was in as perfect condition asa racer can attain, andin sporting parlance ‘fit to run for a man’s life.” The fact that we are paying more attention to the care of our ing meeting this year, and in none more than in the August meeting at Monmouth Park, the first day of which is recorded in our Long Branch correspondence to-day. It is desirable that the love of the turf should bs encouraged among our people, for there is no more interesting and harmless sport than horse racing, provided we can profit by the lessons of experience avoid its evils. There is no reason why the turf should be _prosti- tuted to gambling any more than yacht racing. Both are the sports of gentlemen, if gentlemen will take them in hand aud properiy control them. The spirit that has ruined hundreds of homes and broken hundreds of princely for- tunes in England will never, itis hoped, be encouraged in America. Indeed, the people are differently constituted here, and we should seldom find a Marquis of Hastings on the American turt, But the improvement of the breed and in the care and training of horses is very desirable, and nothing can accomplish this but a lively interest in the turf. We are therefore glad to record the success of the see no good reason why the prediction of our correspondent should not be fulfilled, and Monmouth Park track become to New York New Chnrch Arrangements. When a lady, with the full knowledge that her proposed husband has already eighteen | wives, deliberately consents to commit Brig- hamy, she should be prepared to find mar- will have a small share of the prophet. This has been the experience of Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the No. 19 of the Mormon ruler, | who, as every one knows, became weary of wedlock and devoted herself to lecturing in- stead. But while in her tour through the country she eloquently exposed the evils of polygamy she kept a sharp eye upon her dis- solute lord—an abandoned husband in the double sense of the word-—and, though she could not share his sorrows and joys, thought herself entitled to 1 comfortable portion of his income. Mrs. Young, theretore, brought suit against the prophet for alimony, and our de- spatches to-day indicate the nature of his de- fence. Brigham actually has the audacity to say that he has but one legal wife and that all the The to No. 63 inclusive, must be great. Church | arrangements are said to be common in the | Eastern States, but we never supposed that Brigham Young would be capable of such an | imitation of the Gentiles. The result of this novel defence will be awaited with unusual iu- terest, aud the mere fact that 1t has been ad- vanced ought to make all but the ‘A No, 1” wives in Utah very uneasy about their legal and social status. Imagine the prophet gravely introducing his family, ‘Mr. Smith, my wife. Mr. Smith, my Church arrange- ment.’’ No doub: it would end in a new | matrimonial phraseology, and a prophet | might make a distinction between his chil- dren and his Bible class fixings or his prayer meeting combinations. Tue Iceanpic Joxvrs, enormous piles of | snow, which melt at the bottom and topple over, crushing all beneath, remind one forcibly of the Brooklyn jokuls. ‘There the same peculiar tumblings are observed and the same crushing effects are experienced. ‘Tue Istanp or Porto Rico has been visited by its periodical earthquake. The duration of the vibrations was considerably longer than has been experienced on late occasions. The most remarkable circumstance about the whole matter is that this shocking quake shou!4 have occurred so soon after the publi- ; cation of the Abbé McMaster’s diplomatical | theorizings, | zibar and Ujiji. ee eee The Third Term Question-One Men Can Decide It. If President Grant would accept the advice which the Hznaxp has so often respectfully tendered him and declare that be will not per- sonally accept a third nomination, and that he is opposed to a third election on settled grounds of public expediency, he would thereby do an act as meritorious and Popular and which would be more uni- versally applauded than his veto of the Inflation bill. Why, it may be asked, should the people give themselves any anxiety respect ing General Grant’s intentions when it is so completely in their power to prevent his third election if they consider the principle dane gerous? The answer is that, although the people have no doubt of their power to defeat Grant by voting against him, they deprecate the revival of questions which have long been regarded as settled. What wise citizen would not deprecate the revival in 1876 of the secession issue or the negro suffrage issue, although nobody can doubt that the existing settlement of these questions would be reaf- firmed by aon overwhelming vote? Their revival would baye an inflammatory and mischievous effect on the public mind, producing distraction and political cone fusion, and, most of all, affording a screen to the corruption that is as sure to creep in when the public mind 1s absorbed by an over shadowing issue as thieves are to be active during a great conflagration. What a mighty crop of public corruption has grown up undeg shelter of the existing issues of the last twenty years! Public attention has been too much oceupied by great questions to keep a close watch of the political knaves who are always on the alert for opportunities. If the third term issue is brought actively into our politica by the renomination of General Grant it will swallow up or dwarf all other questions; it will prevent a clear declaration of the public will on the great subjects of the currency, the finances, taxation, transportation, monopolies and other topics connecied with the business interests ot the country, and put the people ina frenzy of excitement on one all-engross ing issue thrown as a firebrand by General Grant into our national politics. The mischief will not consist in his third election, for the people will take good care to prevent that, but in the arrest of all healthy reform by the agi- tation of a question that ought never to be raised. The winds of passion and com troversy would not be more effectually let loose by a revival of the secession issue in the next : Presidential election, nor would the decision of the people be more overwhelmingly against disturbing the settled order of things. The example to which we have alluded may saffice to show how perni- cious it might be to raise a controversy oh au exciting subject when there is no doubt that the result would be to triumphantly reaffirm the present order of things. But why should the country be driven through such a need less, bootless agitation to gratify one man’s already overfed ambition? Tue Arnican Stave Trape.—We print this morning the official report of Lieutenant Came eron to the Earl of Derby regarding the ex- tent of the slave traffic on the eastern coast of Africa. It will be found gener. ally interesting as embodying the observations made by Lieutenant Cameron up to the 4th of. March last, during an extended tour through the vast region of country lying between Zan- His proposed method of in- troducing civilization mto the heart of Cen tral Africa is urged with mora enthusiasm than the financial obstacles in the way ot its vas ea ee PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. There bas been no statement for several days. An uncommon number of political arrests tp Ru recently. Captain Hains, of the s! the New York Hotel. Rev. Dr. Hodge, of Wasbington, is sojourning at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Lucius Robinson, of Elmira, bas apartments at the Hotfman House. Secretary Delano was in this city last evening om his way to Washington. Governor Joel Parker, of New Jersey, is regis: tered at the Windsor Hotel. Count de Jarnac will probabiy be the new French Ambassador to Londoa. " Ex-Governor H. C. Warmoth, of Louistana, ts again at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. Professor T. R. Lounsbury, of Yate College, ts stopping at the Sturtevant House. Professor Charies F. Hartt, of Cornell University, has arrived at the Hoffman House. General David Hunter, United States Army, is quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. State Senator Wiliam Yonnson, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., is staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Engiand is agitated over the right of certain preachers to be called “reverend.” Sois Brooklyn. Susan B. Anthony she Should not have behaved so with naughty T. T. Absolute social aud political equality for womea in Schwytz-Surtzeland—but it docs not matter there. Generai Jaco® Zetlin, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, has quarters at the Astor House. Now they say tn England that the conservatives have made more blunders in five months than the liberals did in five years, © that wonderful Board of Health! With an epidemic of diphtheria in the city, due to filth, it bothers with the toot of the locomotives. In a jeweller’s window iv the Rue de la Patx, Paris, there is a breastpin made from a single diamond ane marked with the price oi $100,000, Sir Stephen Hill, Governor of Newfoundiand, will visit Montreal and Ottawa next mouth, im company With Admiral! Wellesley, of the Bellero- phou. It is explained in the French papers that the guaid kept over Bazaine was merely formal, because he had given his word of honor not to attempt escape, Lord Claud iiamilton and Lieutenant Colone? the Hon. W. Trelusis, of England, arrived in the steamship Abyssimia yesterday and are at the Brevoort House. Sefor Don Antonto Mantilla, the recentiy ap. pointed Spanish Minister, has returned from Washington and taken up his residence at the Clarendon Hotel. ‘They say in Paris that “an aucient Marshal of France should have had more respect for the law than to attempt to escape from its penalties.” How imbecile to suppose the man of Metz capable of such bigh notions! If there was ouly somebody at the head of the Heaith Departinent who had th ne idea ot his duty in that position that Mr. bergl has of duty tm his position, how the city would be cared for aud how the death rate would fall! ‘The “war of races” in the Souta ts for juture use in Congress. Every ical who ts beaten for office will contest the seat of tie man eiected and then produce the ‘war of races” in evidence that there was not a fat election, Governor Generai Dufferin and suite were re ceived with honors at the towns of Ingersale and London, Ont., yesterday morning and evening. They are just returnimg from the extended visit inat completed in the United St: teamship Abyssinia, is at