The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1874, Page 8

6 NEW YORK HERALD cemenaseh BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- | nual subscription price $12, ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yors Hana. Bejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly The Outlook for Governor. Here is a gentle rumor that comes like a zephyr from the pleasant town of Ithaca that the “liberal democrats,”’ or some such body of men, have ‘nominated Mr. Tilden for Governor."’ It is not much of a token, but it is something; and now that we come into the autumn political season we must look criti- a summer, but it is not too much to think of summer weather when we see a swallow in the | sky. One nomination, even from as classic a | down as an axiom that in a free country any | citizen could run for the Presidency, and, if | he was not modest, be sure of at least one eutled. _—__ 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. ; AND EVENING | AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNO WALLACK’S THEATRE, | PAUL PRY, and OFF THE LINE, at 8 P entre ar iP. ie J. Ls Voole. Matinee atl 30 P, M. SEUM, y, corner of Thirtieth street—THE My pn and at BP. i, closes at 10:30 les. Broadwa:, LAstT NAIL, at yw Louis Alarich and Miss Sophie OLYMPIC THEATRE, | No, 6% Broadway.—-VARIETY, at 3. M.; closes at 10:45 | P.M. Matinee atz P. M. | TRE, FIFTH AVENUE THEA WHAT SHOULD =HE DO? OR, JEA Y, at 2 Mm. THE FAS? FAMILY. at 8 P.M; closesat II P. Miss Fanny Davenport, Miss Sara Jewett, Miss Ada Dy: Lewis James, D. U. Harkins, LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenué.—LA TIMBALE | D'ARGENT. a3 P. M.; closes at 10:0 P.M. Mile. Aline, Mule. Minelly. Matinee at2P. M. Pr. M. as, THEATRE COMIQUE, | vote. Mr. Tilden already has one nomina- | tion, and although it is a small one, he will | accept our felicitations on the result, and | allow us to examine the situation in which it | places him. | The democratic party in New York was | never ina more forlorn condition, so far as candidates are concerned, than at the present time. Loyal democrats, who respect the tra- ditions of party and do not crave extra politi- “Boss’’ Tweed carried nominations to tho @ convention was a body of record, and dele- gates were selected for their screaming powers, their duty being to indorse, with ‘‘nn- paralleled enthusiasm,’ whatever the Boss | the exercise of these functions candidates have risen and fallen with strange rapidity. The situation is not an easy one. Governor Dix seems to be an | inevitable candidate on the republican side. That party must take him from No. 514 Broadway —VARIETY, at 8 P, M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Matinee at3 P. M. BOOTH'S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.— BELLE LAMAR, at8 P. M.; closes at l0:30 P.M. John McCullough and ‘Miss K. Rogers Randolph, Maiinee at 130P. M. NIBLO'S Broadway. between Prince THE BRID!, OF ABYDOS, ats P.M; clos M. Joseph Wheelock and ‘Miss Ione Burke. aor. a ouston streets. — ses at 10:45 P. Y “THEATRE, RIGTY, at 8'P.M.; closes at 10 P.M. Matinee ac2 P SAN PRANCI CO MIN! Broadway, corner of Twenty-ni MINSTRCLSY, ats P.M. Mauuee METROPOLITAN THEATRE, | No. 58 Broadway.—Parisian Cancan Dancers, at §P. M. Matinee atz P. M. BRYANT'S OPERA HO) West Twenty-third sireet, near Sixth avenue. —NEGRO MINSTRELOY, ato P.M’ Dan Bryaut Matinee at 2 Fifty-1 CERT, TRIPLE SHEET. | New Sept. York, Satarday, From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather io-day will be partly cloudy, with possibly light rain. Wain Srreer Yestznpay.—Siocks were un- | settled throughout the day, with moderate ac- tivity, but closed strong. Gold was dull and steady at 109} a 109}. Ovr Corgesponpence to-day from South Carolina, Petersburg, Va.; Lansing, Mich., and other points gives the latest important developments of politics in the South and West. Gewenat Saezmay’s Notice 10 Gory Hur eas bound for the Black Hills is calculated to be decisive. Threatened with the burning of Matines at | necessity and not from love. No democrat ‘has been named who can beat him. Judge Church seemed to have the faculty, but the | Judge preferred a bird on the Bench to a pros- | pective pair of birds in the executive chairs of Albany and Washington. Governor Seymour is named, bnt it would be incredible that he could accept a nomination. If he did we | | fear that he would not have “‘staying power’’ | in the race, Mr. Seymour has generally been nominated for office, and not because he was Mr. Seymour, but because he was not some- body else. That is an advantage in some re- spects, but it becomes monotonous. It would | be hard to convince loyal democrats who be- | lieved in war, that when Mr. Seymour ran for | Governor in 1862 he meant to prosecute the OMAS’ CON- | war and not injure Lincoln’s administration. | | Mr. Tilden has a better record as a war demo- crat than Governor Seymour, tor Mr. ‘Til- | den’s patriotism was as manifest when hostil- ities raged as it was when peace came—a cir- | cumstance in which he differed from Governor | Seymour, and, indeed, from the greater body | of the democratic party. But we are not about to fight the war over again in the canvass for*the Governorship. | We must consider Mr, Tilden in his complete relations, not merely as a war patriot. He is a distinguished and meritorious citizen, widely versed in affairs, with a generous, ripe experi- classes, and who showed that he valued public warfare upon the Fweed dynasty of Tummany Hall. That is an achievement to be remem- | bered to Mr. Tilden’s honor in the next gen- | eration even more gratefully than now. But, like the compromise speech of Webster, the | | “popular sovereignty’? dogmas of Dougias, cally atall men. One swallow does not make | | town as Ithaca, does not secure the Governor- | ship, but it gives the candidate an apparent | | if not the presumptive right to consideration. \ | The late Mr. Greeley on one occasion laid it | cal trouble in the exercise of suffrage must | | regret the days when ‘Boss’’ Richmond and | conventions in the lining of their hats. Then | decreed. Recent transactions have imposed | deliberative duties upon the democracy. In | } ern Powers. | ence, who possesses the confidence of the best | welfare higher than political expediency in his | their wagons and with arrest as trespassers, | the fierce protectionist hallucinations of Clay, we dare say that the parties who have been the “higher law’ and ‘irrepressible conflict’ equipping for the Black Hills will give it up. { oracles of Seward, it was not the achievement | EOP PL calculated to make a man an available candidate | for high office. When a citizen assumes the | responsibility, and in most cases the patriotic 2 i responsibility, of acts like the overthrow | oa Pt | ot Tweed, or hke the distinctive acts of Clay, | The pressure upon the Commissioners is very | estes ewer ae mae fn oe emery Ovr CorrEsponpDENTs continue to complain | of the regulations of the Park which forbid gentlemen to play croquet. Old and young | operations in the field which preceded the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER no more admirable selection than Mr. Tilden. But unfortunately there are not enough philo- sophers to carry a convention or an election. Here, then, lies Mr. Tilden’s glorious and honorable ineligibility. Governor Dix is said to be anywhere from seventy-six to eighty-two years of age. 1t would notsurprise us to learn that he was reallya hundred. But against Mr. Tilden he would bave, as things now look, an easy victory. There is more life in his old body than in that of two-thirds of the young men now in politics, not even excepting Fenton and Cornell, General Jackson and John Quincy Adams were men who, the older they grew, the more the people yearned to vote for them. Although General | | Jackson has been dead for thirty years there are honest citizens who still insist upon giv- ing him their suffrage. General Dix has this quality, and if he were to die to-morrow he would poll a better vote than many living gentlemen mentioned as his successor. Can | the democrats find a man of this temper? Can | they not findsuch a man as Edwin D. Morgan in their ranks? We mean a citizen who, like Mr. Morgan, represents the business, living, | practical Commonwealth of New York. Is it necessary always to have lawyers and poli- ticians? Is it not a pity to damage as useful acitizen as Mr. Tilden by forcing him into such an unequal race as a contest with Gov- ernor Dix? And is it not also a blunder to submit the democratic party, now recovering trom a series of unhappy mistakes—nomina- tions of Blair, rejections of Chase, exaltations of Tweed and so on, and needing all the aid | that can be gained from popular candidates and a generous policy, to any new experi- | ments? The democracy want a candidate for | Governor who willhelp carry the State, not & man whom it will be necessary to carry. the phuosopnicat democracy we can think of | | | | | | | | | | American Relations with Japan. It would be a pity if the United States should be involved in any diplomatic diffi- | culty with Japan, a country with which we have | so earnestly endeavored to cultivate friendly | relations. ‘The end of the war of the Japanese | against Formosa, which is.announced in our correspondence from the Kame Yama camp to-day, fortunately removes one contingent cause of trouble. The determination of Japan not to be forced into a conflict with Ciina is | also a hopetul indication. But thereare other | events which are unfavorable and show that | the foreign representatives are disposed to | prevent an amicable settlement. The arrest | of General Legendre, who was sent to China | by the Japanese government to continue the | peaceful negotiations begun in Formosa, was the act of United States officials at Amoy. It ; | is accepted in Yokohama os an evidence of | the determination of foreign representatives to defeat the Japanese policy. The French Ambassador has acted in a similar way, and altogether, if Japan escapes war it will not-be the fault of these representatives of the West- | | Trouble of another kind has arisen from the Simonoseki indemnity, Mr. Bingham, our Minister in Japan,’ has received in- | structions from Washington to demand pay- | ment in full of the American claim, and it is | | said that the Japanese are not more disap- | pointed than Mr. Bingham at this unexpected | | course of our government. The claim is not urged primarily as a matter of justice, but in | order to place ihe United States upon the | ; Same footing as other nations. But our friend- | ship for Japan should make us act in a very different spirit from that displayed by Euro- pean governments. [If it is not necessary to | American honor that the balance of this claim should be exacted then it is an error to en- force its payment. Our correspondence gives an interesting and complete account of the close of the war with Formosa, and of the | details of the peace negotiations, and it is to be hoped that our next mail. will show that the effort to prevent the settlement of the dispute between China and Japan has been wisely abandoned. What permanent Ameri- | can interests could be served by stirring up | | engineered by General Grant himself, and | if left to the decision of General Grant, It anco with the forms prescribed by the stat- | generally followed. Bad Indians, like utes. We notice that Justice Wandell refuses to commit Libby Doris upon the bench war- rant issued from the office of the District At- torney, aud her case is likely to be somewhat embarrassing to our authorities. Nebraska Against a Third Term— What of New York? The republicans of Nebraska, in their recent State Convention, adopted as part of the platform upon which they expect the suf- frages of a majority of their peoplein their coming State election, a declaration in favor of the election of the President and Vice President of the United States directly by the popular vote, and prononnced emphatically against the new idea of a third term to the President. | The Nebraska republicans thus boldly have placed themselves in line with their brethren of Pennsylvania, Kansas and West Virginia against the entertainment of this dangerous idea of a third term to President Grant. | Doubtless we have here the general sentiment | upon the subject of the republican party | throughout the Union, and yet the impression | prevails that not only within the party lines is | there a formidable movement on foot for another term to General Grant, that it is gain- ing strength from day to day, but that it is | ! promises to be successful, at least so far as the issue of a third term may be determined | by the Republican National Convention of | 1876. ‘ It is apparent that the question will not be , settled before the meeting of this Convention, appears that, though very quietly, he is very actively working for another term. If, there- fore, in this view, he has become a dead- weight upon the republican party, the party must act if it would be relieved of the bur- den. So far as Pennsylvania, West Virginia, , Kansas and Nebraska are concerned, the party has acted ; ‘but it seems to be understood that | the President relies upon New York to neu- tralize the action of these other States against this third term project. Whatever mdy be the official programme designed for New York we believe that if the republicans of this great Commonwealth, at their approaching State Convention, declare against a third term to the President, they will settle the question. What then will be their action upon this important matter at Utica? Looking to the support of the people the liberal republicans of the State have already, we may say, defined their position, The democrats, in their State Convention of the 16th inst, | | will no doubt declare likewise in favor of a faithful adhesion to the Presidential limit’ established in the examples of Washington, | Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson; but ' this will not meet the present necessities of the case. They can this month be met and settled only by the republican party of New York in State Convention assembled. The ! Pennsylvanians, to go no further, have shown | that there is no difficulty in a distinct and positive declaration upon the subject; but in New York, it is feared, there are difficulties | in the way which the republicans, looking to the support of the administration in our November election, cannot overcome. In any event the crucial test of the coming Utica Convention will be upon this new Presidential idea of a third term. The Attorney General at the Head of the Government. The President of the United States in his recent letter of instructions from Long Branch @o General Belknap, Secretary of War, at Washington, after calling his attention to the “recent atrocities in the South, particularly in Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina,” and | , to the dangers which they threaten ‘‘auless | speedily checked,’ and to the duty of the | government, under such circumstances, ‘to give all the aid for the protection of life and civil rights legally authorized,” says, that ‘‘to | Tely on that protection, ) The Outy of American Universities. | tion of lay enterprise; the Church only came 5, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, bad weds men, should not only be pu for wrongdoi but they should be deprived of Pie to repeat their offences. The general disarmament of the hostile Indians would be the best and cheapest way of securing the peace of the frontier. Indiang living on agencies should be protected by the government and taught to _ The origin, growth and interior organiza- tion of the first universities of medieval Europe are a subject full of practical instrac- tion for the men of our day and country. They were the offspring of the people—of the Popular thirst for acquiring as well as for im- Parting knowledge—not, 98 is generally be- lieved, the creations of the wealthy and the Great. Princes, prelates, popes and rich men did, indeed, much to aid the progress of these institutions when already in the full tide of success and fame; but, as they sprang from the bosom of the Masses, so were they—ex- cept in England and long after their birth there—supported by the masses, and replen- ished with masters and scholars from among the sons of the people. : ‘There is one feature, however, which deeply distinguishes the first universities of Italy and J Southern France from those of Paris and the Great schools which were’ the early centres of civilization in Western and Northern Europe. | In Italy the most ancient universities, like those of Bologna and Salerno, were the crea- in to aid the builders after the goodly structure had assumed its main features. The schools of Bologna were founded by the Italian youth, who, like the Romans of good family in every preceding generation, had made the study of law an essential part of education ; and tho | school of Salerno was at first, chiefly or ex- clusively, a medical school. Not so in the | West. The most ancient of them, the | great schools of Ireland, like that of Lismore, were monastic schools. The and Germany on tais model were all eccle- siastical schools attached to cathedrals and | Thus, the University of Paris ; Was at first an Episcopal school, where not | only candidates for the priesthood, but men,| destined for every profession, were taught all | monasteries, that was known of the sciences and liberal arts. So was it at Cambridge and Oxford; their beginnings were in schools attached to the chief churches, and the teachers were for the most part clerics, priests or monks. This is a fact fomiliar to all acquainted with the history of these early times. There is another feature to which we solicit attention in the early organization of. the three most ancient universities, which served asa type for all the others, At Bologna and Salerno the schools were founded by lay stu- | dents, who were in quest of the best teachers | schools formed in England, Gaul | be the death of more than one of these publie frauds now chartered ag colleges and aniver- sities. The Situation in Tennessee. Governor Brown's action in offering a large reward for the arrest of the masked men who lynched the sixteen negroesat Trenton, Tenn., entitles his opinion upon the causes of disor- der in that State to respect. Our Nashville correspondent gives the result of ¢ long interview he had with the Governor, and it begins with the emphatic declaration that the present troubles are due to the agitation of the Civil Rights bill. Until this measure was thrown as a firebrand into the South the whites and blacks had lived for years in amity, and this we know to have been the fact. But since then the negroes have made demands for social equality which the whites resisted. The spirit shown by some of the colored leaders, and the acts of vielence and outrage—for the truth of which Governor Brown vouches— prove that they are not yet fit for the equality they demand. The Governor regrets the lynching of the prisoners, but exonerates the majority of the citizens of Tennessee from approval of such deeds, and is confident that the guilty men will be detected and punished. This result is greatly to be desired for the sake of future peace in Tennessee. The only way to deal with the disorderly negro popu- lation is according to law, and now that troops have been ordered to the South, we | think its best citizens comprehend the im- portance of prudence and of suppressing everything that resembles a revival of the Ku Klux and their lawless rale, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Thirty-five persons committed suicide at Vienua in the month of July. Congressman William Loughridge, of lowa, is staying at the Grand Hotel, Ex-Governor Leland Stantord, of California, ts | Fesiding at the Windsor Hotel. Proiessor E. N. Horsiord, of Cambridge, Mass. has arrived at the Albemarle Hotel, Ex-Congressman F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermoat, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Comptroiier John Jay Koox arrived from Wash- ington yesterday at the Filth Avenue Hotel. General Spinner leaves Washington to-day on & brief tour of recreation among the Northern lakes. | Ex-Congressman Stephen Sanford, of Amster- dam, N. Y., 18 among the recent arrivals at the | Gilsey House. Mr. George S. Bangs, superintendent of the Tailway postal service, is sojourning at the Sturte- vant House. Four thousand Americans live tn Parts, 7,000 Englishman, 47,000 Germans, 32,000 Belgians and 12,000 Swiss. é Mr. John Williams Wallace, President of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, ts atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel, General A. A. Homphreys, Chief of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, 1a registered a+ the Hoffman House. Judge Theodore Miller, of the New York Supreme Court for the Third Judicial district, has apart- ments at the Windsor Hotel. General Joun Meredith Read, Jr., United States of law and medicine. ‘There was general cul- , ture in Italy, and its sons were willing to pay for the highest instruction. They united ina corporation or guild, which invited the best professors in law and medicine, They found them because they paid them well. But the students composed the corporation, and when | medicine in Salerno, the corporation (univer- | silas) continued to be a corporation of stu- dents (universitas scholarium). This feature became that of the great university schools which existed for a time in Southern Gaul, and which was in existence in Spain down { to our own days at Salamanca and else- | where. They were universities or corporations ‘ of scholars, who elected their officers, chose | and paid their professors. and there what all professions and trades | around them had done—they became a corpo- | | ration and allowed no one to open a school in | | the city who was not one of their associates. | the schools increased, and other faculties were | | added to that of law in Bologna and that of | The teachers, men of letters, clerks, did then | this end I wish you would consult with the } ; . ; Attorney General, who is well informed as to | pos eet Vara cr ates wees ister es : ; ginning a corporation of teachers or profes- the outrages already committed and the local- ' gore (universifas istrorum), and, in the Minister to Greece, arrived in the city yescerday ; and 16 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, | Baron Ferdinand James de Rothschild recently | bought 2,763 acres of land in Buckinghamshire , from the Duke of Marlborough for $1,000,000, | Many Britisn officers, who were on the Ashantee | expedition and retained their heaith witle im Af Tica, are now sufferiag irom diseases then con- tracted, Joseph Suzini Ruizeko, an Italian, has obtained @ patent In Kassia for a machine for manufacturing Russian cigarettes, 80 that one of these days they may be cheaper. | Justine Durut has just died at Paris, aged forty- three, She was remarkabie only for her appetite. ‘ She ate every day six pounds of bread and a pound ' and a half of meat. | Ali the Britisu Lords of the Admiralty got sea- | sick on the trial trip of the new ship Enchantress, \ save Mr. Ward Haut, the First Lord, who was the only gentieman who came up to breakfast, Wiliam Jordan, citizen of the United States, , has Ovtained a patent in Russia for a ship espe- ; Ciaily constructed for the transportation of petre leum or other highly infammavle substances, The London Spectator, wuich is certainiy far enough away to be out of the passion of the Beecher row, thinks it strange that if innocent ‘he “yielded to the demands of a criminal ex- tortioner.”” ‘The Polish journals of Posen publish & commu- nication from a number of Poles in Chicago ad- ptt ide sigeat course “ill teito: pike in tae gratitude of the next generation, and | render ut once, before the fair sex take them by assault. Tae Avstuian Expepition to THE PotaR Region.—The members of the Austro-Arctic Search Expedition have been heard from after shipwreck. They passed two winters on the ice and travelled seven months on sledges. A darge tract of iand was discovered to the northward of Nova Zembla. There is little doubt that the fnll report of the new dis- covery will be quite interesting and very use- ful to the cause of science. Destruction or tHE Town oF Brazos Sawriaco.—Brazos, tue port of Brownsville, has been swept away, I. occupied.gn ex- posed position on a sandy island, .Scarcely any effort had been made to guard against the action of the sea, which frequently threatened | its prosperity during the spring tides, | It was of importance as the landing | place of passengers and goods for Brownsville | and the Rio Grande towns, but contained only a few houses and a small population. Fears are entertained for the safety of the latter, who are said to have taken refuge in -boats, the wooden houses having been floated away. t Onz Honviev Years ago to-day the first | Continental Congress aesembled in Carpenters’ | Hall, Philadelpiia, to demand of Great Britain redress of the grievances tue colonies endured. It was then that Patrick Honry made the noble declaration—the key note of union in the Revolution—‘'The distinctions be- tween Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New York- ers and New Englanders are no more. Iam | nota Virginian, but an American.’’ A cen- tury has passed, and yet how far are many of our public men from possessing this pure spirit of national patriotism ! | | Mn. Benoa iso paradox. Professing to be a kind-hearted man, be is constantly perpe- trating the cruclest acts. His latest torture is ‘tho vivisection of the Bellevue Hospital Col- lege, an operation which is skilfully per- formed in his letter to Dr. Austin Flint, elsewhere printed. The paugs which he ac- cuses the Faculty of inflicting upon animals he himself inflicts upon the Faculty. But if it is to the interest of science that these med- ical gentlemen should be cut up alive by Mr, Bergh we hope they will be patient. Pain was held by the Stoics to be a good, as it | offered an opportunity to show the fortitude | of the mind. Mr. Bergh does his utmost to | | believe be wili do things when they must be | notin the suffrages of the present. A man | | may be too great, too conspicuous in his party to be its leader. He may inspire awe, or reverence, or fear, like Calhoun, and Sumner, and Greeley, but not that unquestioning con- fidence which a tree people give to their Chief Magistrates. ‘The stony-faced, silent, inserut- able Grant, who never contributed an idea to politics in his life, who took office because the party could not refuse him, was more | acceptable to the people than a man of | genius aud courage like Greeley, or, indeed, than avy man in public affairs. He had no | political life. He had no ideas on contested | affairs, and, consequently, offended no men of | ideas. No party was sure of him; all parties | hoped that he might serve them, and accord- ingly he gained and possessed—and we are not quite sure that he does not still possess-— the overwhelming confidence of the practical men of the land, Mr. Tilden has no such hold on the people. | Generai Dix, on the other hand, is in many | that they should laugh than frown,” said his | respects like General Grant. He has never | adviser. It may be possible for MacMahon been a speculative, obtrusive, adventurous politicion. He has never wasted his strength seeking to sail over stormy seas in treacherous weather. When there were burning questions abroad the old Governor contented himself with rauway management aud snipe shooting. | But wheu office became simply the doing of cold | duty without the necessity of political manifes- | when a murderer ora spy was to be hanged, | or au ugly bill was to be vetoed, or a rebei was to be shot down for meddling with the flag, then the Governor came out in his reful- | gence. So yradually the people have come to toes, done. They do not know whether he will | sustain one ring or another, whether he favors a third term for Grant or not, what he thinks on many disputed questions; but they do know that be will never pardon Tweed, for in- stance, ond that if any man commits a murder in the first degree neither money, love nor tear will save him. It may be said by philo- sophical politicians that the career of & man like Mr. Tilden—the leader of ao party, the inspiration of o hundred oan- vasses, the Hercules who slew the Tam- many hydra, the unparalleled wirepuller, the Warwick of candidates and the counsellor of the democracy—is more to be de- sired than that of a mam like Governor Dix, who spends his life in avoiding responsibili- ties and awaiting opportunities. From a | under the Presidency of Sefior Sagasta, who | people. | strife in the East it is difficult to see. | MacManon anp tHE Frenco Press.—At | | the meeting of the Permanent Committee of | the French Assembly an important discussion was held upon the relations of the govern- ment to the press, and the debate is detailed | in our Paris despatches to-day. The attitude | of MacMahon’s administration to journalism | is more worthy of the most tyrannical period } of the Empire than of a republic. The | attempts to exclude foreign journals from | France for no better reason than their publi- | cation of current news, such as the Bazaine letter, the suspension of republican journals, the fear displayed of the Bonapartist press, are evidences of weakness and not of strength. It would be well for Marshal MacMahon to remember the advice which Morny gave to Louis Napoleon when he proposed to deprive the Parisians of Charivari. The Emperor | complained that the Parisian Punch made the | people laugh ot him. “It is better for you | | } | | to persecute the press fora time, but he can- not destroy the spirit which animates it. Sparm.—Serrano has formed a new Ministry holds the Home Office as well as the Presidency of the Council. The other members of the Ministry are not of note. Sefior Sagasta wasa colleague of Serrano when Amadeus was King. He combined with Serrano to dishonor that young monarch and drive him from the throne. He is regarded in Spain as a man of cunning, energy, audacity and mendacity, the worst type of the worst phase of Spanish political character. Sagasta | believes only in himself, and will serve the interest that suits his own. There is this about Serrano, that he is nota ruler to be trifled with, and so he may receive the loyal aid of the able, dangerous and unscrupulous man whom he has summoned again to a post from which he was driven two years ago by the honest, patriotic indignation of the Spanish A Cuaroe or Inirca, Commitment has been preferred against another police justice, but not under circumstances which show an improper motive. Judge Donohue, however, said he intended to make this a test case as to the powers of magistrates to commit, The netessity of such inquiry is not to be ques- tioned, if it be true that there are now four philosophical point of view we can compre- make that virtue common in society. hend this preference. and as the candidate of or five thousand persons on , Blackwell's | lgland who were committed withant comnli, | in serious emergencies, turn over his highest ities where the greatest danger lies, and so order troops as to be available in case of ne- | cessity,”’ and that ‘‘ail proceedings for tho Been eye our ce annet ae ew of medieval science, to which Europe and Department of the government, and will be directed by the Attorney General, in accord- ance with the provisions of the Enforcement | acts."* It thus appears that under the Enforcement acts the Attorney General, so far as the resto- ration of law and order in the Southern States is concerned, is practically the head of the government and charged with duties which | Constitutionally are the duties of the Presi- dent. The Attorney General, for instance, sends for the Secretary of War, and the Sec- retary, on reporting in person at the Law De- | partment, is told that three thousand troops are wanted in Louisiana, two thousand in South Carolina and fifteen hundred in Ala- bama, to be distributed at such and such places, &c., and the Secretary, having received his instructions, bows himself out and pro- ceeds to execute his orders accordingly. Then we have a circular letter of instructions from the Attorney General to certain United States | marshals touching their duties in the premises, iStructions which should emanate directly from the President and over his signature. We conclude that the Presi« dent, having had enough of it, has turned over the unpleasant business of enforcing law and order in the South to the Attorney Gene- ral, under the idea that the deputy in (hese duties will serve as well as his principal. But this is a grave mistake and a bad precedent, It is the bounden duty of the President ‘to by the revolutionary legislation of 1790. | Certain it is that these three great centres | the entire human race owe an everlasting debt | of gratitude, succeeded in sectring one in- estimable benefit, for which we, here in America, are now contending. They obtained the most eminent skilled talent existing at the time, and they rewarded and honored it to the utmost. The pecuniary compensation for ' cultivated genius, rich as it was, was but | trifling compared with the honor, the worship, | almost the idolatry, paid to men of transcen- | dent culture. No dignity in the Church was too high for them, and the highest in the 1 State was bestowed on them in preference to’ \ the claims of birth and blood. Colleges ought to be only parts of a uni- versity ; but in the schools which call them- selves colleges and universities is there the serious, conscientious endeavor to secure for every chair the most eminent talent? Is youth, clergymen or laymen—the disposition of every class, from lowest grammar to philosophy, theology, civil and canon law, medicine in all its vitally important ramifi- cations and science in its highest theories and widest applications ? Parents are foolish if they do not seek for their sons the best masters wherever they can be found, while cultivating the hearts of their dear ones by home influences, American youths are foolish if they do not seek the high- est knowledge wherever it can be found, take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” The duties of his office are the execution of | the laws. He cannot properly, and especially | responsibilities to his subordinates. As Com- mander-in-Chief of the army it is his business to instruct directly the Secretary of War touch- ing the movements of troops. In a word, the President should be now domiciled not at | Long Branch, but at Washington, for the | prompt and proper discharge of his ofticial duties. Teacnina THE InpiANs A Lusson.—The operations carried out so successfully about Washita by General Davidson reflect in- finite credit on that gallant soldier. Not | only has he whipped the redskins, but he has | united with the purest morality. And the time is fast coming when both parents and children will act on this principle. There- fore educational establishments founded and supported by denominational interest are most unwise and unforeseeing if they con- tinue to employ the disgraceful system of makeshifts which sacrifices the future of the child and the dearest hopes of his family to the miserable expediency of the present hour, instead of providing, in every instance and before all else, the best teachers at any cost and wherever they can be found. Else—and we give them fair warning of it—the day is not far distant when men of talent will band together to form corporations of teachers, whose skill and accomplishments will secure main, so it continued till it was swept away - there among us—among the educators of our | | minions are interested. to have none but the most skilful for teachers | shown a proper appreciation of the mode of | speedy recognition from the public; and dealing with them in the hour of victory. | young men who are bent on acquiring knowl- General Davidson has disarmed the hostile | edge from the best. sources will also band warriora—gn axamnle it wonld be well ta have | together to aecure the best masters, This will vising Polanders to remain at home and not come ' to America, and not to “permit themselves to be seduced by Lue fallacious promises of emigration agents.”” Rev. Dr. Deems, pastor of the Church of the , Strangers, bas accepted the Presidency of Rutgers ‘ Female Coliege of this city. Dr. Deems nas for many years been actively identified with the cause of education, ana will bring into his new field of useiuipess a large experience, coupled with ability and energy. | Mile. Albani was nearly “knocked out of time” on the Lundon stage lately by something thrown to her by “nm admirer in the boxes. It was one of those litle cases in which jewels are placed and was attached to a bouquet. The case hit her fair | on the forehead and she was copelled to leave the stage; but the sight of the contente of the box—a tiara of dalamonds—completely restored her, | Judge Victor C, Barringer, of North Carolina, | who has been residing at the Graud Central Hotet | for several days past, Will sail for Europe to-day ‘in the steamship Repuabiic, On his arrival in | furope Mr. Barringer wii at once proceed te , Egypt, where he isto represent the United States , government as a member of the Court of Appeals organized to try ali civil and criminal cases ta which ioreigners resident in the Khédive’s do Victor Emmanuel is hunting the wild boar in the Alpine valleys. He generally starts at three in the | morning, mounted on one of the little Sardiniag horses, s0 surefooted and so ardent, and does not return un‘il nightfail. Sometimes he Joses his companions and hunts alone, If seized with hunger, after a jong excursion, he enters the house of the first peasant Ite meets, asks for an omcies anda pot o/ light wine, and, while eating, com verses with the host and tne famtiy round him about the neighbors, the crops and the petty inci- dents of the Village. His quality is ony kaown by the price which he pays for his breaklast. Where 18 the italian brigand of the period ? TRIBUTE TO GENERAL FOSTER Boston, Sept. 4, 1874, The Boston Harbor Commissioners at a meeting to-day adopted resolutions complimentary of the engineering skill of the late General Foster, as shown by fhe improvements in the harbors of Massachusetts under his supervision, and exprease ing regret for NS death and accepting tie invita. tion Oo; the authorities Of Nashua to atteud bis juneral. COURTESIES TO REDITH READ, JR, N.Y, Sept 4, 1874, Alarge number o! the leading citizens of Ale pany have ten@erea a puvic dinner to General J. Meredith Read, Jr, m recognition of his services ag Cousal General to Parts during the war between France and Germany uid as Minister to Greece, The dinner wih be given un Monday, the 14th inet. BISHOP OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL OHUKCH NAPANRKB, Ont., Sept. 4, 1874 Rev, A. A, Carman, D. D,, President of Aloert College, was elected Bishop of the Methodist Epis- copal Church of Canada at the General Conierence this MoUs Dre eid declined to acceDt tke, alice. ALL \