The New York Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hxraup will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 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 XL.-- seveeeeNO, 106 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BOWERY THEATRE, GRAND OPERA HOTS: hth avenue and Twenty-third (rect —-AUMED, ats gi P.M. closes at 10:45 P. M. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue.— ats P.M; closes at ll ¥. M. Mr. Rignoid, LYCEUM THEATRE, street, near Sixth avenue—La JOLIE SE,avS P.M. Mile. Aimee. BROOKLYN MY_OF MUSIC, CUCREZIA BOKGIA, at8 P.M. Mme. Ristori. MINSTRELS, corner of ty-ninth | street—NEGRO LY, ats. M,; closes at 10 P. M. corner of HENRY V., Lx nth ‘ARKU MEU: Broadwa, MINST! Fighth street, be avai tea atsP, NWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, MRS. CON THE TWO ORPHANS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE, tween Second and Thw@ svenues— ‘M.; closes at 12 P. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—RAFAEL, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:00 P, M. COLOSSEUM, and Thirty-fourth strect. Broadwa; Two exhibitions daily, at 2and 8 P. WOOD'S MUSECM, Brest way, corner of ‘Thirtieth | street.—CORSICAN BROTHERS, OP. M. ; closes at 10:45 P. M. at2 P.M. ACROSs THe CONTINENTS, at | THEATRE COMIQU: fee decneway—F 4 RiETE, as Pi: closes at 10:45 — homed BY NIGHT. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, West Fourteenth street.—Open from 104, M.toSP.M. | ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street and Irving place.—IL TROVATORE, ie. Faurel, Signor Heniraselli. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, wipe avenue.—VARicTY¥, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | ROBINSON HALL. Eixteenth strect. near Eroadway.—AIBERNICON, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 5 P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE, fourteenth street.—INDIGO, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 M, Miss Lina Mayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Joes Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 FIfTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eichtn sire Ent atsP, way. —THe BIG RO. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Fisher, Mr. wis, Miss Davenport, Mrs. Gilberc. et and Broad: Y HALL, RT, at 6 P.M, Theodore BOWERY OPERA HOUSE, 35 Bowery. —VARIETY, at &P. M.; closes at 1045 PARK THEATRE, Proadway.—DAVY ROCKET, at'§ P. M.; closes at bos P.M. Mr. Mayo. F LE SHEET. FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1875, —— = —— From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with | A | rain. Wart Sreret Yestrepay.—Stocks were | again irregular but active, attended by some | recovery at the close. Gold sold at 115} a 115}. | Money was easy at 2 per cent and foreign ex- change steady. Ovr Inxvustrations.—Although we publish | to-day illustrations of the battle of Lexing- ton we must disclaim any intention of ap- | pearing as an illustrated paper more than once in a century. The pride we take in the | heroism of our Revolutionary forefathers must | be our excuse for the pictures of this day. | Tux Firrn Avenve poultice pavement job | has been happily laid at rest. The enacting | clause was yesterday stricken out in the As- | sembly and the bill killed. The House de- | serves credit for this action. Now, let it fol- Aow up its good work by passing a law that will insure the repaving of this important | Byenue in an honest manner and in accord- ance with the wishes of the property owners. Ir Govervon Trxpen will kindly remember | that the Ist of May is moving day he may | probably be induced to help us to get rid of gome of the objectionable and unprofitable | tenants in our city departments. One-third ofa year ought to be time enough to enable | the slowest and most caatious man to decide whether public officers, resting under grave pbarges of official misconduct, ought or ought not to be removed. Suarxer.—It is just possible that, after all, | Bharkey may escape the just punishment of his crime. Some point of international law has arisen which may prevent his surrender hy the Spanish authorities. We hope the diffi- rulty may be overcome, because it is, above all things, important that murderers should je taught that in this world there is no refuge where they can hope to be free from the ven- geance of human justice. Once bring this fact home to the mind of the violent man and the homicidal disposition will be effectively curbed. ‘Tne Movers’ Sterke.—The quarrel between Vabor and capital goes on in the coal regions, neither being willing to yield. In the mean- time business is almost suspended, and the damage to the interests of the State is consid- erable. Rumors are afloat that the bitu- aminous coal’ miners are about to strike nlso. If they should carry out this threat within a few weeks every furnace and factory in the United States wonld | be stopped. The damage that would | result cannot easily be estimated. The miners are evidently resolved to hold ont to the last, and as they are strongly supported | by other trade organizations the stru; by no means near ils end, unless some method of compromise should be adopted, | Boston that day and in virtue of which Lord | not find them and by compromising with | that day, and in the afternoon “strolled into | gone The Shot Heard Round the World— Who Fired Itt For the world at large the name of Lexing- ton sufficiently identifies the little great battle that makes the 19th of April, 1775, © mem- orable day in our annals, and, indeed, to those far away that name sufficiently indicates the locality of the occurrence. But it is otherwise with the people near by, and it should scarcely surprise any one to learn that the men who now dwell near Concord and Lex- ington are disputing somewhat warmly the relative glory and hardihood of the men who lived m the respective towns ‘tin the brave days of old;’’ that there are claims and counter claims as to who began it and who did it the more strenuously, and soon; and all that is legitimate enongh. Massachusetts has the general honor of leadership in the famous struggle, and the possession is so definitely hers that, while the first centennial of an im- portant event—that of the tea party—had its scene within her limits, the next important event, with an interval of more than a year, isalso hers, no act having been done in the meantime in ali the other colonies that their people now deem worthy of celebration in this connection. Now, if it is an honor to Massachusetts over other States that she was the first to draw the line between the acts of authority that seemed legitimate and those that she would resist as unjust and oppres- sive, the honor is just as good for one town of Massachusetts against other towns—as for that, one State above other States. In the so-called battle of Lexington we note what has been noted of many more bloody combats. There is a battle of Waterloo, which was not fought at Waterloo; there is the battle of Arbela, which was not fought within many miles of that little town. It would fill a respectable volume to catalogue the battles that have no topographical right to the names they bear. Alexander, having thrashed the barbarians, his custom always in the afternoon, went quietly to the rear, to the little town where he could be comfortable, and there wrote his despatches. His despatches, therefore, came to the people at home ‘from Arbela,” and spoke of the battle without defi- nite designation of its scene; and so it “be- came the battle of Arvela. Wellington did the same thing with a similar result, It is generally the case that battles are called by the name of the place from which the re- ceived account of them goes to the world. We do not mean to say that the Concord peo- ple fought and the Lexington people talked about it, but the story that was hurried into Percy was sent out with reinforcements evi- dently went from Lexington; and when the patriots exchanged cheery salutations on King street that night, or the tories uttered their agitation, they all assumed the occurrence of the event at the place from which the news had come—it was ‘out at Lexington”—and so arose the association of the name and the event, for in any other way the association is not justified by the tacts. By the 19th of April it must have become a very difficult point with Governor Gage to determine how far he was justified in inaction in the presence and full view of the organiza- tion of resistance. But what could he do? It was becoming terribly serious, to be sure. All the judges of the land were charging all the grand juries that ‘‘resistance to tyrants was obedience to God,”” and the peop'e of that generation meant to obey God so iar as they saw the way. Patriotic eloquence fired the national heart at all the cross roads. Old Ben Franklin had lost his place in the Post Office, and a Provincial Congress, under the nose, as it were, of this sadly badgered Gov- ernor, had sketched an army on paper, drawn up rules for the government of the sol- diers, and urged the accumulation of war ma- terial. Ah, here was something he could do! Where was this material? They said there was a store at Salem, and an expedition was sent to destroy it; but.that district of sinister fame missed a new immortality by hiding away its treasures so that the soldiers could the soldiers in regard to the passage of a bridge. Salem never compromised with the witches. Butas no stores could be found at Salem, they must be found elsewhere ; for it was now a clear case with Gage, and on his | conscience, that these stores—this revolu- tionary flour, patriotic oats and dangerous mmunition—must be put out of the way. So it was ordered that an expedition should go to Concord and destroy the stores. Not a word about Lexington as yet. The expedition was planned for a surprise ; and, in fact, it was a surprise in the same sense in which the Russian soldier caught the Tartar. His Majesty's authorities picketed | the road to Concord on the 18th. Some offi- | cers went out and dined at Old Cambridge | the country."" These were depended upon to | stop any couriers who might be sent out from Boston upon the departure of the troops to give to the patriots at Concord snch notice as | would enable them to hide or remove the stores. Consequently when Paul Revere was | waiting at night on the other side of the river | for Robert Newman’s signal in the old North | tower at Boston the men who were ac- tually to capture him were already far ahead | of him on the road. At night the troops were | put over on the Cambridge side—the grenn- | dier and light companies from every regiment then in Boston—and this force, | of perhaps fifteen hundred men, was pushed forward rapidly in the hope ap- | parently of striking at or near daylight. But in this they fell sbort, and at sunrise they had only made some two-thirds of their intended | twenty miles ; that is, they were at Lexing- | ton. Asa surprise the expedition was already @ failure, for the word of their coming had | before them. One courier had es- caped, and Paul Revere, thongh captured, had been released as a mere countryman of no account. Consequently the country was up, the minute men in all the neighboring towns were assembling on given signals at pre- viously fixed points, and as fast as gathered | they were pushed forward from Acton, Bed- ford, Sudbury, Pillerica and other towns—all toward Concord to defend the stores. Even there, in presence of the troops in fact, the Lexington men were actually assem- | bled on the common, for John Parker, their | commander, had called them out early. These Lexington men had consulted what to do, and | had pacifically conctuded “not to be discov- less they should insult us.’’ So says Parker himsglf; and as the soldiery came uv Parker accordingly ordered his men ‘to disperse and not to fire.” However they may have obeyed that order, the troops fired and killed eight men, and then there was a scene of tumult and confusion. But the troops, say the thirty-four citizens of Lexington who deposed to the facts, ‘continued firing until we had all made our escape.” How many sbots the minute men fired on that occasion cannot be known. . It cannot be supposed that they did not fire at all, but they seem not to have hurt the enemy, and it is only claimed that they wounded one man. If they fired some fugi- tive but ineffective shots we should scarcely care to call any one of those the ‘‘shot heard round the world.”’ We should nationally pre- fer a shot that made less noise and did more execution. As the troops halted some time at Lexing- ton they probably breakfasted there and rested after their rapid night march; then they pushed on to Concord. At Concord the minute men and militia, under intelligent command, were moved in bodies as occasion required, and were posted at critical points with definite regard to the service required of them. As only the Concord men were pres- ent when the troops came up, and as they were insufficient to make effective resistance, they were withdrawn and posted at the bridges that cross the river above and below the town, and the town was thereupon occu- pied by the troops, who proceeded to destroy what stores they could find. But, reinforced by the constant arrival of men from the neighboring towns, the patriots formed a line of battle near the North Bridge, and, showing a disposition to assame the offensive, drew upon themselves a volley from the British infantry that killed two men. They did not disperse. They stood their ground and re- turned the fire, and several soldiers fell at the fire so given, three being officers, These troops then withdrew upon their supports in the town, and the sudden change in the aspect of affairs thus given by this single, steady fire of a line ot men who were now advancing upon his retreating outpost deter- mined the British commander to discontinue the prosecution of the expedition and with- draw his troops, and so the retreat began. As the retreat and pursuit continued all the way to Boston it was from that point a con- tinuous battle, and the weight of the evidence seems to favor the view that the real battle began in Concord, and that the Concord men who organized it are entitled to the main credit, though, undoubtedly, men from many other towns were in the line of battle that gave that first fire. The Louisiana Compromise. The proceedings in the Louisiana Legisla- ture yesterday remove all doubt as to the suc- cess of the compromise; and we congratulate the people of the State on so auspicious a re- sult. They have not, indeed, secured all they thought they had a right to demand; but the compromise is a great improvement on the state of things which would have resulted from an enforcement by the federal government of the decisions of the republican Returning Board m respect to the claims of the conser- vative members to seats. The compromise gives the conservatives the advantages to which they were entitled by the election of 1874, but it leaves Kellogg in possession of the Governorship. It is a great deal better to have Kellogg for Governor with a legislative check than without a legislative check. By the compromise he is reduced to the position of a mere executive officer, who can do nothing important without the consent of a Legislature of which one branch is opposed to him. His powers for mischief are curtailed and nearly de- stroyed, and it is a great deal better that the State be tranquillized on this basis than to keep a distracting controversy open. The election of 1876 will make everything straight by the election of a new Governor, and mean- time Louisiana must endure Kellogg, as ths country is compelled to endure Grant, although it has no confidence in him. There wasa pleasant incident in the Louisiana Legislature yesterday, which reflects credit on the good temper of one of the unseated negro members. Mr. Poindexter, a colored member from the parish of Assumption, was ousted by the award, and, like a man of honor, he ex- pressed his satisfaction that it was given to his former master, to whose justice and kind- ness he bore testimony. Such generous sen- timents have a strong tendency to eradicate the old prejudices of race and to raise colored Asornen Mepican Mystery is furnished by Westchester. The doctors give a man a dose of morphine to set him asleep, and suc- ceed so well that he never awakens. Now the Coroner will have to find out what killed him. Parents’ Ricuts.—-By the decision of a Néw York Court of Special Sessions a man has been sent to prison for boxing his son's ears. The youngster, who is about nine years of age, objected to having his ears slapped, and applied for a warrant for his father’s arrest. The warrant was granted, and, though the dutiful son failed to | appear in court, the father, on his own ad- mission that he had slapped the boy's ears, wad sent to jail for five days, there to medi- tate on the beauty of parental relations as established by statute. The decision of the Court is somewhat startling, and we hope the small boys of the community may refrain from pushing their advantage too far. But parents in future must dispense with that ter- ror of boyhood, “the rod in pickle,” other- wise they may find themselves in the jug. Americas Revrvauists.—People are busy in looking out for religion in England, and America has sent her benighted cousins two | apostles in the persons of Moody and Sankey. It we can trust the telegram the success of Paul was nothing compared to the American preachers, who seem to have fairly taken Lon- | don by storm. Even royalty troops to hear the famous revivalists, and there seems a pros- pect that the people of England will find all the religion they may need before the energetic preachers have brought their campaign against the Evil One to an end. Some unconverted heathen, who owns a seat in Her Majesty's Mr. Beecher’s “Friends” and “Enc mies.” The Brooklyn Eagle—the most vigorous and enterprising journal in the State outside the city of New York—expresses dissatisfaction with what it construes as the unfriendliness of a portion of the press to Mr. Beecher dur- ing his trial. It strikes us that friendships and enmities are equally out of place in pub- lic journals during the progress of an investi- gation in a court of justice. Newspapers vio- late a plain duty when they attempt to throw an atmosphere of either prepossessions or prejudices around any of the parties. Neither anger, nor favor, nor zeal can alter a past fact. It is not within the power of Omnipotence itself when a thing has been done to make it otherwise. Now, it is the proper business of a judicial investigation to ascertain the un- changeable facts, which must alike remain facts in spite of human belief or disbelief. Passion, prejudice, friendship may distort or discolor the truth, but they cannot alter it. We think, therefore, that the Brooklyn agle’s warm partisanship for Mr. Beecher in the course of this trial is not conducive to the ends of justice. If Judge Neilson or the jury should evince a similar spirit they would forfeit all claim to public respect. This would be equally true if their partialities or prepossessions were given to the other side. It is too evident that Plymouth church and the people whom it can influence have been engaged from the beginning in a strenuous attempt to bias the public judgment, if not the opinions of the jury, by demonstrations of friendship and confidence; their floral offer- ings in the first days of tho trial, their out- bursts of applause in the court room, their warm and ostentatious grectings and hand- shakings in the presence of the jury and audi- ence at the close of each day's proceedings, are calculated and intended to surround Mr. Beecher with ‘an atmosphere of favor to serve as acontrast to the solitary and neglected plaintiff. Such things tell on public sentiment, and it is because they tell that they are so freely and demonstratively indulged in. Mr. Beecher’s hosts of friends would show atruer confidence in his innocence if they trusted his vindication to the simple facts given in evidence. He must stand or fall by the facts; and if he is innocent the facts ought to acquit him inthe judgment of im- partial men without a resort to such arts. That part of the press which wishes to see the scales of justice held even tries to guard itself against the influence of the electioneering tactics which are so freely practised on one side in this extraordinary trial and which the fewness of Mr. Tilton’s friends does not per- mit to be used on the other. For the charge of unfriendliness against a part of the press there is no other foundation than their un- willingness to form a judgment on any other basis than the evidence. The Beecher demonstrations in the Brook- lyn court room will recall to classical scholars the arts practised in ancient courts of justice, when the rules of evidence were not reduced to astrict science as they are in modern tribu- nals, and cases were decided by appeals to the sympathies of the judges. Even in those times the absurdity of such practices was keenly felt by shrewd observers, and strik- ingly displayed by the comic poets. There is a laughable scene in one of the plays of Aris- tophanes, in which he ridicules the adminis- tration of justice by a scene in which a dog ot the feminine gender is put on trial for steal- ing & piece of meat, and a litter of puppies is brought into court to play on its sympathies and influence its decision by their piteous whinings for their afflicted parent—the poet intending to ridicule the practice of appealing to mere favor and sympathy. In a mod- ern court the sole question would be whether the mother of the interesting lit- ter did actually lay felonious jaws on the piece of meat in question, and the piteous would be allowed no place. This change of practice has been assigned by critics as one of the reasons why modern judicial eloquence is less passionate and affecting than the ancient. The Plymouth church demonstra- tions in court are a partial return to the ancient methods. But ‘the truth is the truth,”’ no matter in what direction preposses- sions may run; and the truth is to be ascer- tained by a cool examination of the evidence. Friendship and unfriendliness aro alike ir- relevant, and it is an impertinence to try to influence the public judgment by anything but clear argument based on ascertained facts. Concord vs. Lexington. The rival celebrations which are to take place in these emulous and patriotic towns on the 19th inst. have raised an interesting his- torical question upon which each of the con- it is in the right. The discussion is likely to go on for some time and with increasing inter- est. We give a fair hearing to both sides in the Henarp this morning. Mr. Frederic Hudson, the author of the valuable and most interesting article in Iarper's Monthly for May, telegraphs us a communication from Concord .in which he strongly asserts the claim of the town where he re- sides and in whose local pride he par- ticipates. Another gentleman of the same name, Mr. Charles Hudson, many years ago a distinguished whig member of Congress and the author of local histories of that part of the country, in good repute, asserts the claim of Lexington, as is set forth in an interview with our correspondent on the spot yester- day. Mr. Frederic Hudson fortifies his argu- ment with documents; Mr. Charles Hudson fortifies his by historical proofs; and in the present state of the argument we will not un- | dertake to decide between them. We also print a letter from Mr. George William Cartis and the report of an interview with him on the same subject, in which he praises Mr. | Frederic Hudson's article as the best history of the transactions of April | 19, 1775, which has yet been written, the fire of the British at Lexington was re- turned by the Americans, though without any order from their commander. We also publish Opera House, objects to the carrying on of | extracts from Mr. Bancroft’'s ‘History’’ religious services in that establishment, and | and Mr. Irving’s ‘Life of Washington,” has brougot the machinery of the law to bear | which clearly support the claim of Lexington. on the preachers. Reinforcements are, how- ever, on the way to join the praying band. gle is ered, nor meddle or make with the troops, un- | What a pity we cannot induce Beecher and | Tilton to emigrate! What o band they would make | | The point is just now one of great popular interest, and we invite attention to the first instalment of the controversy in other col- umns, advising readers to hold their judgment in suspense until other distinguished authori- plea of the about-to-be orphaned puppies | testing parties professes to be very sure that | ___NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. ties have been heard from. The British ac- counts of the period differ widely from the American, and both ought to be examined and weighed. Bismarck and the Catholic Church. Prince Bismarck, in one of his recent speeches, announces that he is not an enemy of the Catholic Church, that ‘‘he warred only against the Papacy, which had adopted the principle of the extermination of heretics and was in enmity with the Gospel as well as with the Prussian State.’’ It is difficult to follow the exalted, and at times feverish, temper of Prinee Bismarck’s recent speeches. He has told us that he believes the Jesuits forced France into a war. Now he insists that the Pope means to renew the Inquisition and the “acts of faith.” We can hardly believe that Prince Bismarck thinks that if the Pope had his way he would ‘exterminate heretics ;” that he would insist upon putting to the rack or the sword all the Germans and Americans and Englishmen who do not subscribe to the dogma of infallibility. We could compre- hend statements of this kind from street preachers of the fervent school, who have given their minds to the study of the Book of Revelation and who know the meaning of the different vials ; but we cannot imagine a tem- perate and responsible minister, charged with the peace of a great kingdom, seriously ex- pressing an apprehension that if the old Pope had his way he would throw him into the embrace of the Iron Virgin at Nuremberg or condemn him to the noisome depths of a Madrid dungeon. The feverishness of Prince Bismarck’s rhetoric throws a strong light upon the exact position of the Holy See in Europe. The German Chancellor makes war upon an in- fluence he cannot reach. He aims his blows at the Pope, who is really an intangible, evanescent power. Heis, so far as the material forces ot the conflict are concerned, simply a venerable and rather stubborn ecclesiastical dignitary, who exists in Rome by the suffer- ance of the King of Italy, and who could be sent over the trontier to-morrow by an Italian policeman should Victor Emmanuel so will. He has unlimited command of excommunica- tions and anatnemas, but not a soldier. What has Prince Bismarck to fear from this old clergyman? Nothing in one way and many things in other ways. The powerless priest is in truth the most powerful of poten- tates. Asa prince he is nothing; as an in- fluence everything. He is the chief of the largest body of civilized people in Chris- tendom. His authority is obeyed to the utter- most ends of the earth. He has not shown the full meaning of his authority. Bismarck makes war upon the Pope as the minister of a monarch who reigns by the grace ot God. In this capacity he disdains and assails the Roman pretensions to infallibility, which he regards as a scheme of the Jesuits to strengthen the Holy See. But has the Pope not as much right to assume infallible power as the Emperor has to claim his crown by God’s grace? If one is the legend of priests the other is a legend of princes, and, even trom a worldly view, one has as much right to the support of mankind as the other. But in this struggle between divine right and infallibility there is an agency open to the Pope which he has not wielded; an agency of irresistible power. We mean the dogma of democracy. The Pope at the outset of his pontificate showed a disposition to cul- tivate liberal ideas and act with the liberal party in Italy. But he was prevented by the influence of the Italian party which then sur- rounded him. He preferred the support of the kings—a support that has vanished. He sees now that the kings bave only used him for their advantage—that there was no sin- cerity in their friendship—that so long as he blessed ‘divine right’’ and encouraged his flocks to be faithful subjects they aided him. But in the time of trial no Power in Europe, | no matter how Catholic, dares to salute His Holiness with true filial affection. Belgium has just been soundly bullied by Prussia for presuming to do so, and Marshal MacMahon has been compelled to moderate his bishops to prevent another scene with Bismarck. All this time the Pope sees that only in republican countries is the Church free—in republican Peru, which is Catholic, and in republican America, which is Protestant. He sees that if his Church will live it must rest upon the affections of the | people, and that without this support it will never possess true independence. This is the meaning we attach to the appointment of an American prelate to be cardinal for the first time in our history. This is why the Pope has given special privileges to the President ot Peru. This is elso the reason why he has maintained with the President of the French Republic relations of ostentatious amity. The quarrel between Bismarck and the Pope is really a quarrel between two dogmas—divine | right and infallibility. Let the Pope accept | the other dogma, America’s contribution to the political wisdom of the future, tbat ‘‘all men are created free and equal,” and there will be a severer blow to Bismarck and his class than they have received at any timesince the fall of the Bastile. ‘ Criminal Games. We are not disposed to limit the amusements of our people, for we have often felt that we are too sombre. work is a blessing. When it comes to these Harlem races, that we have from day to day on our East River, we feel that there should be a protest and a limit. There are two boats that rin from Harlem and Morrisania to | Fulton street. They start at the same time and claim to be “the fastest in the world.” They race at fall speed. Sometimes, when one seems about to pass the other, ingenious contrivances are adopted to prevent this, such | | as getting jn one another's way, rigging out but thinks he errred in not mentioning that | planks and spars. Sometimes, on high oeca- sions, there are collisions; buat these have thus far been managed with so much ability that no ono has been injured, We are not without our fear that there will be an exciting collision in a few days, and we havo made all the arrangements in Harlem for a full report. When two steamboat captains are bent upon a collision they are sura to win their point in time. But while we should hesitate to lose a sensas tion in the way of enterprise, there is one consideration that should not be overlooked— the lives of the passengers. This racing busi- nesg may and probably will lead to a frightfal disaster--the loss of many lives and wide- spread misery, Why should this be invited Woaiever enlivens oar daily | by a constant violation of law? And is there no law to prevent this daily and shameless trifling with the lives and happiness of the people? Basiness and Circulation. An ingenious correspondent addresses us & letter upon; the advertising business of the Herp. me of our contemporaries have also amused themselves with calculations and estimates based upon such a paper as we printed on Sunday last. A curious fact about tho Heratp of Sunday is that it marks the highest point ever reached by the advertising department of the Hzraup. More than this, it 1s the highest point ever reached by any newspaper in the country. A singular fact is that we reach the highest point about mid- April. It was so last year and the year preceding. It shows that the tides of our business rise and fall with the tides of busiv ness generally. Some of our contemporaries are discussing the question of circulation with interest and eagerness. We do not enter into these discus- sions, especially as they all admit the leadere ship of the Henaup, except to congratulate them on their prosperity and their energy. The Tribune celebrates its entrance into its new, unique and imposing building by print- ing certain tables showing that its circulation is about fifty thousand a day, We have been so accustomed ourselves to print an edition more than twice as large that we thought, until we read the figures, that the Tribune printed a great many more copies. But at the same time this is a very large circulation, justifying the pride the Tribune takes in its success. More than all, it vindicates the judgment of the editor in taking his journal out of the rut of politics and making it en tirely independent. The Tribune is a strong, decorous, able paper, and deserves its pros- perity. Another point marking the advance of journalism is the doing away with all depend- ence upon mail facilities and the establishe ment of special trains. Private enterprise is so much more alert and persistent than the government service that fora long time the aim of the daily journals has been to do with- out the mails. They prefer to dispose of thew papers by wholesale to news agencies, who take upon themselves the duty of circulation. We have always preferred to do business in this way ond have sometimes considered whether it would not be better to transfer the whole mailing duty tothe news companies and our own special agents. Wherever we have pressed our circulation it has been with this purpose. Thus we sent special trains to Phila- delphia, delivering the Hrraup before break- fast. This has resulted in the establishment of a general news service in which all the journals now take part and which enables the Philadelphian to buy the Henaxp as early in the morning as the New Yorker can buy it, We did the same with Saratoga, running a special train along the Hudson on Sunday as far as this famous watering place. We should gladly spend as much for one special train te accomplish a point like this as would pay for the postage ten times over. By this policy: journalism in New York has always maine tained its supremacy, a supremacy in which the Hrnaxp has ever striven to lead. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Rey, Phillips Brooks, of Boston, is sojourning a8 the Brevoort House- Mr. Benson J. Lossing ts among the late arrivals at the Coleman House, The Bric-A-Brac series of books have averaged @ sale of 7,000 copies each. Congressman William Lawrence, of Onto, if staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Captain Cook, of the steamship Russis, has taken up bis quarters at the Brevoort House. Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, | is quartered at the Westminster Hotel, Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock, of Nebrasks, ts residing temporarily at the Windsor Hotel. Congressman Frank Hereford, of West Virginia, has taken up his residence at the Windsor Hotel. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived at the | Grand Central Hotel yesterday from Philadeipaia, Lieutenant volonel C. G, McCawley, of the United “States Marine Corps, 1s at the Futn Avenue Hotel, Major Jared A. Smit, of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, is regisvered at the Gtlsey | House. Mr. James F. Joy, President of the Michigan Central Railway Company, 1s stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Amédée Van Den Nest, Secretary of the Bel- | gan Legation at Washington, has apartments a¢ tne Hoffman House, Congressman William H. Barnum and ex-Con | gressman Stephen W. Kellogg, ot Connecticut, | nave arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Hon. G. s. Orth, Minister to Austria, and Hon. Horace Maynard, Minister to Turkey, will sail | from New York in the steamer Russia on her next trip. ‘Tyrwhitt’s letter on landscype art, entitled “Our Sketcning Club,” illustrated by the wood cats of “Ruskin’s Elements of Drawing,” will appear from the press of Roberts Brothers. That “New” signature is worse than the old one; but the puzzie of it, since they call it a i puzzie, is, perhaps, that spellsit new both ways— that is, when read properly and when inverted; | for “a” in running hand is inverted “w” and flourishes easily enough biurr or duplicate the letter “e.”” How often we heard at a certain moment in the war times that “Hood had Sherman just where he wanted him.” Strange that an analogous fancy should come from Brookiyn. Now it appears by the Plymouth organ that “Fullerton asks jast the questions that Beecher wants him to.” Now, Mr, Fullerton, give the old man a chance, Bard, of Georgia, was “too unanimous,” That is the way they put itat Washington. Therefore his pead is in the basket, He was too desperately | fond of @ third term and made too much noise | about it. He was 4 lieutenant of a company and | was determined to show his zeal by forcing a gene eral action at a moment when the commander-in- chief was not ready jor battle. His summary exe cntion will moderate the dangerous zeal of other | Heatenants. Raiph Meeker, who writes ‘Moss Agates” in the Danbury Vers, describes how a Colorado Yankee has tamed buffaloes for aomestic purposes. “Water,” says Mr. Meeker, “18 scarce on the piaing and in many places pools are almost dry. Jack Thompson, the manager, found that six barrels o cheap forty-rod whiskey poured in a small pone woula make the animals too drunk to walk, ane | when once in this conaition they can be subdju gated with laughing gas and tamed in 4 week s¢ as tobe yoked and worked like oxen. When a buffalo has once sipped at the intoxicating fount he loses all control of himself and becomes a siave to his appetite.” é | The Albany Sunday Press prints an elaborate report of the presentation to St. Joseph's Catholi¢ chureh, Albany, of a copy of Murillo’s famous paint- ing of the “Virgin and Child.” This copy was ordered oy James H. Coleman, of this city, when | in Fiorence, and was presented to the church op the behalf of Mr. Coleman, It Is said to bea re. markavle work of art. Io receiving the picture Father burke said it was only one of the many kindnesses of Mr. Coleman, “who had shown og more than one occasion the abiding love he he") for nee Joseph’s church, \(s pastors and comgrey ; Won.” _