The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 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 Witions of the New Yorx Hrnarp 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. TONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD--NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms as in New York. TOLUME XL-.-.-cnsser0-e» AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON “AND EVENING. soveeesNO, 107 = GRAND OPERA HOUSE, yenue and iwenty-third street. ~AHMED, at 8 Peat tcloses Ae 10:45 P. Me Matinee atz P.M, BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.— Parte Bret i; closes at 11 F. M. Mr. Bignold. atl: P.M LYCEUM Tit pope srsar Me ELIZABi TH. Mme. TRE, nue.—LA JOLIE PAR: ve. Matineo at 1:30 Astor. INSTREL‘ enty nine Kieet NEGRO closes ac 10 P.M. Matinee at SAN FRANO. 0 P.M. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. La JOLIE PAKPUMECSE, at2 P.M. Mile, Aimbe. TIVOLI JHBAIRE, Tiebth strest, between Second and Third avenues.— VARIETY, at 8). di; c o8es at i2 2. M RS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. THE Two ORPHANS, ats YM; closes at 10:45 P, M. matinee at2 P.M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN, ai +4 |.; closes at 10:10 P.M. Matinee at'l20 P. M.— jway ana Thi Fho'exinbitions Ga Ache 10] SEUM, vronstie sires? —PARIS BY NIGHT. at2and 3 P.M. ERA HOUS) ts POM Bloses at 10:05 BOWERY SS a Bowery.—VAKIcTY, we "3 MCSEUM, ia oo Phirdierk street.—ACROSS THE . corne! TRE COMIQU! FB Sit Broadway oY AriEnY, at Bu i: closes at 10:45 . M. Matinee at2 P, M. ETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, West Fourteenth street pen from 10.4. M. to 5 P. M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE. avenue. —VAGIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 PE Maines at 2? aM BALL. for Broadway BIBERNICON, ats rh street, near Po Wadneeat2 FM. GERMANIA THHATRI bis J ereae ND IG. atsP. a closes at 10:45 a Lina Mayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 Fue itiee tae FIFTH RE, street and Brotiway.—THE BIG BO. SP. M.; closes at 10:3) P.M. Mr. Fisher, Mr. eu ‘Miss Davenport, Mrs. Gilbert. Matinee at 130 STEINWAY HALL, fee street. CONCERT, at 2 P.M, Theodore Broad D. wy Ohock ett at's P.M; el t )way.—DA’ y KET?. at . + closes a Wau P. Mr. Mayo. Matinee at2 P. Ma. Bowers uous THe WORLD A > arse. Matinee at? P. M. ATRE, IN EIGHTY Dars, TRIPLE SHEET. a NEW YORK, APRIL From our reports this morning the probabi gre that the weather to-day will be clear and cool. Watt Sraeer Yrstexpar.—No new features were developed in the stock market, prices be- ing still unsettled. Gold was steady at 1154, morey easy cn call at 2 and 2} per cent, and foreign exchange firm at recent rates. Ma Berecnre’s Appress at Plymouth prayer meeting last evening was cheerful, picturesque and hopeful. All things consd- ered, this us an enviable frame of mind. We Have the same old story from Cuba— plantations destroyed, rogular troops mas- sacting the rebels, the Spaniards preparing for pew campaigns. Surely, no country was ever so miserably governed. If this is Spanish rule in Aroerica the sooner it ends the better for our civilization. Tue Exoumsa Newsrarrns float the rumor that Mr. Disraeli is in bai health, that labor dlistresses him, that his Catinet is the prey of factions and that he will be compeiled to re- organize it. Mr. Disraeli is an old man, and among his Ministers is Lord Salisbury. So neither of these rumors is improbable. Loxpon ano Bers: © have fallen un- | believe it till they find themselves utterly ilities | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1875-—TRIPLE SHEET, | Wrench Finance in sn American Aspect—Big Bonansas Abroad. A curious phenomenon may just now be observed in France, reminding us of many of the achievements of Jay Gould and men of his stamp in New York. It shows that, according to the old proverb, ‘history has a confirmed habit of repeating itself." Thus, amania for speculation has seized upon the French precisely similar to that which has | almost invariably followed unsuccessful wars and greai national disasters in,every country. We have glimpses of the same spirit in Germany and in our own Wall streot advertisers, They may be compared, with perfect propriety, to those wild experiments which were contemporary with the Mississippi scheme of Law and the South Sea bubble, which ended so unluckily for Huntingdon and Craggs, not inaptly called ‘the most respectable public robbers of their time.” A similar rash de- sire to make fortunes quickly and out of | nothing was also felt by the French, soon after the battle of Waterloo, and by our own American people after the close of the great- est civil war on record. We are far from hav- ing recovered from the war panic now. Paris, like New York with its Big Bonanzas, has lately become the meeting place of all the wild adventurers and speculators upon earth. | Funds not worth a cent, Baratarian fifty per cents, Utopian consols and Lunar bonds, Big Bonanza shares of every description are bought up eagerly and resold at premiums which may well induce ignorant people unac- quainted with the tricks of stock jobbers to believe that such securities really have a sub- stantial value. They do believe it and will ruined. They always do. Suspicious and calm business men will, nine times in ten, throw aside a sure and slow government security for o Pacific Big Bonanza. It is therefore high time to call attention to the present state of the Paris money market, because already the warning note of disaster has been heard, and we may suffer in New York from sympathy. A Swiss house has recently given the first signal of the com- ing crash, and more recentiy another firm failed for two million five hundred thousand doliars, The causes which imperil the gen- eral solvency of Paris credit may at any time be felt in New York. In examining the causes which have led up | to the existing state of things in France it is well to take into account the national charac- ter of the most brilliant and reckless people in the world. The French have all the pre- cious foresight ot the ant in the fable. They toil with a courage which bas often something very beautiful, if not sublime, in its self-de- nial. They save and they hoard from their little earnings and meagre salaries to secure themselves an honorable provision for old age, to educate their sons and to dower their daughters. Tae habit of wise parsimony, so eminently French, has made their coantry a very granary of abundance. This is ex- tremely attractive to the impecunious and offers an irresistible temptation to speculators of all denominations. It must be added that, although the French people have the art of making and of saving money, they have not always the fortitude necessary to keep it against the blandishments of well spoken persons and eloquent adver- | tisements. The career of a Jay Gould is as | possible in Paris as in New York. The French, | like the Americans, are almost incredibly sim- ple and easily persuaded by clever rogues, Their vagabond humor was especially excited by the law of 1867 respecting les sociétés anonymes. This was a hberal law indeed, but, in the condition of utter finanvial ignorance | in which tbree-parts of the population are content to live, it docs not sufficiently | Protect dupes egainst those sharp cus- tomers who are anxious to deceive them. Immediately after the war of 1870 there was | asort of halt in the steeplechase of specula- | tion. The promoters of bubble companies | perceived that it woutd be no use to attempt | | to float them during the period of patriotic fervor which had absorbed the French nation. The one preoccupation of the national mind was to pay off the German indemnity and to free the soil of France from a foreign invader. It seemed, indeed, for an instant, as if the era of cosmopolitan speculation was over, and for | some time there was no more unlikely place than Paris to raise money on a foreign loan. But the French are a light-hearted people, and the wisdom of one day, however deariy purchased, gives no security against the im- prudence of the next. They have the sanguine | American temperament, and have a pro- | found belief in to-morrow. Avarice, cupidity, to become rich without labor, soon | reas ted their old spel! over a vivacious and | imaginative race. French funds went up to such a price that they ceased to be a satisfac. | tory investment; and the prospect of a con- | version of the five per cents also had its influ- ence in keepimg the smaller capitalists from flocking all together into the funds. From satellites in considerable number, Some of them, indeed, are said to be among the most influential officials of the Third Republic. ‘There was a story, which is of course untrue, that one of them received twelve hundred thou- sand francs for floating around M. Philippart, so that it is possibly a good business, M. Philippart is chairman, president or manager of at least a quarter of a hundred public com- panies, the most part of which has something to do with the railways, and he aspires to suc- ceed the late Mr. Hudson as railway king of Europe, just as Jay Gould would be railway king of America, His view of life at the present moment seems to be that man- kind bas an urgent want of a round- about means of communication between St. Etienne, in the Department of the Loire, and some unknown place in Belgium, which M. Philippart will introduce | to their notice ata future day. Persons (they are not numerons) who desire to proceed by tortuous methods from St. Etienne to unde- cided points in Belgium have many opportu- nities of doing so. They may go by way of St. Petersburg or Naples. There is likewise a direct means of going from St. Etienne to any part of Belgium, and people of ordinary intel- ligence do not at once perceive the necessity of other communications being offered to con- fuse their choice. M. Philippart, however, is a great man, and he is quite clear that the first thing now to be done under the sun is to give the people of St. Etienne, whomsoever they may be, an opportunity of going ina roundabout way to some locality in Flanders or Brabant. So are the sbarcholders asgo- ciated with him in that promising under- taking. In order to realize this and other projects of equal magnificence and utility M. Philip- part has invested part of his fortune in eighty thousand shares of a popular institution and ‘obligingly caused himself to be named Presi- dent of the Crédit Mobilier, which is the very fortress and stronghold of French speculation, whence has issued, full armed for conquest, three-fourths of the terrible speculations ot late years, including the Transatlantic Company and the Spanish Crédit Mobilier. There seems but one crook at present in the lot of M. Philippart, but it is certainly not an awkward one. The spirit and variety of his enterprises have unaccountably caused the Versailles Par- liament to take fright, and they have hastily voted the urgency of discussing a law tend- ing to prevent strangers of property appoint- ing themselves presidents of French public companies. Should this law take effect it might materially interfere with the spirit and enterprise of M. Philippart, at least among the French people; but it is said in whispers that no law disagreeable to M. Philippart is mentioned even the project of a law which might discomfort him has been referred toa committee of fourteen members of Pas lament, eleven of whom are, well, perhaps it is most polite to call them, satellites of the new planet. “We shall watch the career of this French Jay Gould with interest, and see how long our Parisian friends will submit to a domination like that which Jay Gould has imposed upon New York. The Ming Real Estate Transfers. We publish to-day a record of the real estate operations of ex-Comptroller Con- nolly and Mr. Peter B. Sweeny, ex- Chamberlain and ex-President of the Park Department, ot the city of New York. We make these publications as a part of the his- tory of the transactions of the democratic leaders who were associated with the city gov- ernment in the days ot the old Ring, and not with the intention of implying that all the purchases and sales recorded are of an illegiti- mate character. By the side of the gigantic operations of Tweed and the reciless sales and transfers made by him in the latter part of 1871, when the corrupt practices of the Ring had been exposed, the speculations of Messrs. Connolly and Sweeny do not appear to have been extraordinarily large. Stiil it seems that Mr. Sweeny between 1864 and 1871 invested over one million and a quarter dollars in real estate, a-large portion of his purchases having been made in association with Mr. Hugh Smith, an extensive and shrewd operator and real estate agent. It alsoappears that Mr. Sweeny retams in his own hands and in his own name all the property he bought with the exception of apparently bon? jside sales, almost all made prior to 1871. The only important sale made by Mr. Sweeny in that year was the one-fifth share in the Sixty- ninth and Seventieth street and Madison and Fourth avenue block to Mr. Thomas Murphy. As over one million dollars’ worth of real estate now stands in Mr. Sweeny’s name the city could have no difficulty in en- forcing any clam it might have against the property. Although tbe purchases of real estate by | ex-Comptroller Connolly appear to have been small, so far as they can be traced, he was possessed of a considerable amount in 1871. der @ strange religious influence. Crowded | that period their eyes, ears and francs were | Betweon 1864 and 1868 no operations are tound revival meetings are held every day, and at one of them, where Mr. Moody preached, there was great entiusiusm. Mr. Smith seems to be doing good work in Berlin. It is odd that the conversion of London should be the inspiration of an American clergyman. Ter Vivetaxp Arram.—We print an im- portant despatch from Vineland in reference to the recent shooting of Carruth by Landis. The belief as well as the hope is that Carruth will recover, although be is still in a precari- ous state. Inthe meaotime Landis remains in prison to await the resalt of the wounds. Monrrrxe axp Broxezy Leos,—There is no great mystery in the case of the policeman who died in unusual circumstances on Thurs- Gition of his brain—a condition analogous to that found in the familiar malady of apoplexy ; but whot it was that put his brain in that condition is notso evident. It is possible that it was the morphine. His system was ex- hosted by the shock and pain of his injury, end in that state the really small doses were relatively large ones. But then, the condition way also have been a natural sequence of the great irritation of the original injary. Ex- tensive or severe injuries of the body or limbs frequently canse death in precisely this way, and the official of the Board of Health who paid the doctor's statement of the cause of some small branch railways, and that he acted | fleath was ‘‘too thin,’ merely exhibited the at the service ot any one who could invent a | plausible tale. It was the era of the Big | Bonanza over again, the opportunity for a “financier” like Jay Gould. So, dur- | ing the last six months all soris of baseless monetary schemes have succeeded | each other with alarming rapidity. The | very rubbish of the Stock Exchange, which | was supposed to have been long since given | over to ‘contempt and cblivion, sud. | denly reappeared before the public with jumps and bounds quite marvellous. Inasmuch | as every situation in a nation’s annals is sure to bring forth some individuality which personifies and symbolizes it, the great M. Philippart has risen up, and bestrides the | Parisian Stock Exchange as the Colosens of | day. His death was due directly to the con- | the ancient world bestrode the harbor of | Rhodes. M. Philippart is the Jay Gould of France. He is a geutieman of the Belgian nation and an enterprising character, which has recently | itself in a remarkable manner. | Very little was known of M. Phillippart till | recently, and he has taken the French, os it | were, by surprise and enchantment. In the | developed same meteoric fashion Jay Gould took possession of New York. Something, how- ever, was known of Philippart, and tradi- tion relates that he was a petty contractor who had laid down or helped to lay down the part of a satellite to the planet Pereire. recorded in his name. Between 1868 and 1871 his purchases are under two hundred | thousand dollars. In the latter part of the year 1871 and the commencement of 1872 Mr. Connolly sold ail his property, the purchasers having been mainly Mr. Joel A. Fi to the amount of two hundred and thirty thou- sand dollars; Mr. Robert C. Hutchings, sixty thousand dollars; Mr. Thomas Murphy, forty- seven thousand five hundred dollars; Mr. W. | ©. Wetmore, twenty eight thousand dollars, besides other small buyers. The only proper- ty Mr. Connolly transferred for nominal con- siderations are one house on Thirty-eighth street, near Sixth avenue, to a danghter, for | “one dollar and love and affection,” and one on the samo street, near Lexington avenue, to his son, for ten dollars. If Mr. Connolly should be sued under the new law the legal- | ity of the sales and transfers in 1871-72 will, of course, be contested. Farenps or Peace and humanity will be glad to learn that the German ariny, which has only numbered 1,329,600 men, can By the | process of a new law be made to reach 1,600,000 men. The French have only 1,089,400 men, but hope todo betier. How much more advantageous to civilization if these two and a half millions of wen now arm- ing to cut each other's throats could be safely transplanted into some of our States—Texas or Kansas or Virginia—where they could work An Explanation of the Pre-eminence Accorded to Lexington. By Americans, whose loca] pride 18 not en- listed by residence in Lexington or Concord, the important events of April 19, 1775, are regarded as a connected whole, and all the fighting of that memorable day as parts of the same transaction. The best part of the fight- ing wes neither at Lexington nur at Concord, but along the route of the redcoats, in their precipitate retreat to Boston, The greater part of the seventy-three British soldiers killed on that day and of the one hundred and seventy-four worfhded, fell on the road in the course of the retreat. It was not merely the patriotic yeomanry of Concord and Lex- ington, but of ten or twelve neighboring | towns that participated ig the honor of in | flicting disaster and disgrace on the redcoats. Each of those towns is entitled to its share of grateful remembrance of the noble par- all acted on that eventful day, If that sec- tion of Massachusetts bad not been divided into townships the centennial of April 19, 1775, would be equally worthy of celebra- tion; and, in that case, the selection of the spot would not have been embarrassed by local rivalry, As the patriots who hung upon and harassed the retreating foe did not lose more than one or two of their number at any one point, the range of selection would have been confined to one of two places— either the place where the first American blood was spilled or the place where the first British soldiers fell. The first American blood was shed on Lexington green, and the first British soldiers fell at the Concord bridge. But if these two points had been embraced in a single township, so that local pride and rivalry would have been out of the question, the controversy among its citizens would have been between the site of the bridge and the green. But on what principle would it have been decided? On the ground of personal bravery the claims are equal; for although the patriots at Lexington dispersed and fled and those at Concord stood their ground, it must be remembered that on the Lexington green they numbered only seventy or eighty, while at Concord they were four hundred and fifty, with numbers con- stantly increasing. If the decision were to turn on the number of martyrs, the advan- tage would be on the side of Lexington, where eight Americans were killed and ten wounded, whereas in the affair at Concord only two Americans were killed and one wounded. Such honors, so far as they relate to the merg selection of a place, are oiten governed by a respect for the memory of mar- tyrs. Bunker Hill Monument, for example, is erected on the spot where Warren fell, al- | though he served in that engagement only likely to pass, and that in the instance above- | as a private soldier. Altogether more martyrs to liberty fell at Lexington on the 19th of April than at any other spot, and, on the principle of consecratifig the ashes of those who have died for their country, Lex- ington is entitled to the precedence; but if awarded to vigor of resistance to the British arms it as clearly belongs to Concord. However these local claims and this ques- tion of fitness may be ultimately decided, it is true as a historical fact that the chief honor of that day has heretofore been accorded to Lexington by the most accomplished histo- rians of our country and by traditionary pop- ular sentiment. It has been the constant practice of our orators to link the name of Lexington with the 19th of April. As one example out of thousands we cite the follow- ing sentence of the speech of Mr. Evarts at the great meeting in Union square after the tall of Sumter:—‘‘When Providence puts to- gether the 19th of April, 1775, when the first blood was shed at Lexington, and the 19th of April when the first blood was shed at Balii- more, I tell you it means something.” The fact that Lexington rather than Concord has always been associated with that day by our historians, orators and people—even if it has been done by mistake —requires some ixtel- ligtble explanation. The explanation will not seem difficult to those who are | acquainted with the first sources of our history. It is idle to cite later historians or anything but original documents on disputed points. Now, in regard \o the events of April 19, 1775, the authentic fountain head of in- formation is the records of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress on April 26, 1775—just one week after the transactions. Benjamin Franklin was at that time the agent in Eng- land of the Colony of Massachusetts. Imme- diately after the events which are to be com- memorated on Monday the Provincial Con- gress assembled at Watertown, and within a week it had prepared an authentic account to be despatched to Franklin,*in London, ac- companied with an address to the people of Great Britain, with instructions to Franklin to circulate boti the address and the evidence through every town in England. The evidence consisted of affidavits, twenty-two in number, by eye-witnesses of the transactions. Of those | twenty-two aflidavits seventeen were dated at | Lexington, two at Concord, ono at Lincoln, one at Worcester and one at Med- ford. This simple statement shows how greatly Lexington overshadowed and eclipsed ali the other places in the estimation | of responsible actors who were nearest to the event. That great array of affidavits, pre- | pared within a week, related chiefly to the affair at Léxiugton, which was placed by the Massachnsetts Provincial Congress in the foreground of the picture. And it remained in the foreground ever afterward until Con- cord began to question its title to such prom- ineuce. But fairness requires us to consider the purposa with which those documents | were prepared. Their chief aim was to show that the British troops had committed a wanton and unprovoked aggression against the colovists, and to rouse public indignation by proving that the soldiers had shed innocent blood. ‘The affidavits did not dispute that the patriots at Lexington had fired on the British soldiers, but they one and all «flirnved that not an American trigger was puiled until the British bad first fired. The Provincial Con- gress sought to prove that the British troops were guilty of am unprovoked massacre, and this was their reason fot concentrating attention on Lexington, where the contest commenced. The pre- eminence given to Lexington in that view has beon continued down to our own times; and if the testimony taken at the time and on the spot was cclored it was not colored to mag- | pify, but to underrate, the resistance of the before us, but we have no space for auote~ ignorance and vulgarity generally found in | Lately, however, he bas decided that he and live and raise children and be a blessing patriots at that place, The documents lie “Organizations of thatsort =» _ ’ will be » planet himself and he, too, has | to mankind! - tions ai present, They are the original | sources of information, and if we should feel moved to sum up the evidence when this controversy has run its course it may be | necessa#y to quote trom them liberally to sustain our views. Repent While Thore Is Time. We trust that our republican friends, espe- cially those like General John Cochrane, who are sitting on the fence, and those who like Speaker Blaine have been looking through the bars with one foot on the lower rail, will not be uumind{ul of the lessons taught by the carvass in Connecticut, If our readers have studied the tone of what is called the ‘‘in- dependent” press for the last two years they will discover that cothing is more calen- lated to give a politician reputation than to abandon his politics as republican aud be- comes democrat. In England, where there is a parliamentary form of government, .it is ® question of honcr fora manto stand by tho side of his party. When, during the dis- cussion of the Reform bill, there was a little secession, the edging off from their party of a few liberals, headed by Robert Lowe, and the consequent forming of the party of the ‘‘Cave of Adullam,” the action was a mat- ter of reproach, From this reproach they have not yet recovered. When Mr. Lowe was suggested as a proper successor to Mr. Gladstone as the leader of the liberal party it was made ao fatal objection that he bad been disloyal to his political friends. But in America we adopt a new rule. So long as a republican remains true to his party he isa ‘‘beef-cater,” an ‘‘organ-grinder,”” © postmaster, a stipendiary, a believer in the third term, a “creature” of Grant's. The mo- ment that he begins to question the authority ofthe Prosideutand the party he then be- comes a “liberal and enlighteved statesman.” Now that Connecticut hes determined the probable aspects of the canvass for the Presi- dency why should not our hesitating republi- can politicians and beef-eaters leap the fence and become statesmen at once? Take the case of Governor Dorsheimer, for instance, aa an example of the value of this transformation. Four or five years ago Governor Dorsheimer was District Attorney, under a republican administration, in Buffalo. He was then simply ‘‘Bill’’ Dorsheimer, ‘Grant's beef- eater,'’a “‘stipendiary,” audsoon. But ‘Bill’ Dorsheimer became dissatisfied with Presi- dent Grant—especially after his removal from office—and in process of time was the suc- cessful democratic candidate for the office he now holds. Consequently, Lieutenant Gov- ernor Dorsheimer is now a {ull grown states- man in possession of the ruddiest faculties, the ‘successor of De Witt Clinton,” the “rising hope of the honest men of the demo- cratic party.” Ten years ago Carl Schurz was denounced throughout the country asa raving German, a hot-hecded radical, who believed in socialism, negro suffrage, and in introducing into America the disintegrating ideas of communism and internationalism. Mr. Schurz in time differed with the republi- can party, andlo! he has become the suc- cessor of Sumner, of Gallatin, of Hamilton— a great statesman! When Andrew Johnson was a republican and resolved to “make treason odious” he was denounced as a drunken renegade, a Tennessee tailor ; but immediately Andy Johnson saw the constitu- tion shining before him, like the cross in the sky, he became also a statesman, and he is now the ‘successor of Jackson” and of Jefterson, the leader of the highest thought of the country. Look at Fenton, the republican, who, as Governor, wasaccused of being the ally of the Tammany Ring, of signing tax levies and of being at the beck and call of Tweed and Sweeny. But a new light fell upon the Governor, and he is now the leader of ‘‘the re- form movement” in the State, And so we might recite instances, taking Chase, Trum- bull, McClure, down the list, to show that in every case where a republican has abandoned his party and become either a democrat or a halt-democrat the transformation has made him, in the eyes of the independent journalists of the country, as pure as though his sins had been washed with hyssop and he had become as white as snow. Therefore, men and brethren of the repub- lican party, you who would have a good name, repent while there is time! There is hope for all of you! Why should not General Butler, for instance, have a spirit of awakening” and become the great reformer of Massachusetts ? Or why should not ex-Collector Tom Murphy, the boss cf twenty Custom House rings, if we may believe the opposition press, also have a sense of quickening and become a leader of the “anshackled republicans’’ against the cor- ruptions of the administration? Now is the time, and Connecticut points the way! Those who are on the fence had better leap over. Trere will be music in the air at Tammany Hall on Monday evening, How. C. M. Scmierreris, a member of the Assembly from Westchester, does himself credit by declining to accept a pass trom Mr. | Vanderbilt over the Now York Central Rail- road. We commend Mc. Schieffelin @ this action. No gentleman who has seat in the from a railroad. In fact, we do not seo how a gentleman can take a free pass under any circumstance. This doadhcad business is only a meaner form of alms-seeking, and a gentleman can never be a beggar. Taz Bryant Trstroxiat.—Dan Bryant, behind him a large and interesting family wholly unprovided for. With characteristic generosity his brother professionals have re- solved to come to the reseue and save the children of their departed friend from the pangs of poverty. It has been resolved that a series of performances will be given on the 29th of this month at all the leading theatres, with the object of creating a fund for tho benefit of the deceased minstrel’s family. There can be little donbt that the public will orphan children of Dan Bryant. The money raised by these benefits will be placed in the hands of prominent financiers to be invested for the benefit of the family, and we hope generous and large-hearted city like New York. Mrs. Swiesnenm, as one of the snaris of the Beecher case, declaims against kissing at random, as among the corroding evils of our pociety. Legislature con afford to accept a tree pass | the genial, gifted actor, who made New York | his debtor for many a pleasant hour, left Sad News from Mexico, ~ Woe shall mistake the temper of our people, no'matter their faith, it they do not read with indignation and horror the report fu nished to the Navy Department from Acw pulco by Captain Queen, commanding the United States steamer Saranae. As our road ers may remember, there have been out rageous proceedings at this Mexican town, af fecting the happiness and even the lives of American citizens. Stories of these acts have come to us from time to time in a vague way. Now we have an official report. From it we learn that the former narratives were in na way exaggerated. A Presbyterian mission wat established in Acapulco under the care of Rev. H. H. Hutchinson. This mission soon embraced sixty-eight members, mainly natives. While tho members were at their devotions, one day in January, a party of Mexicans made an assault upon them. Shot were fired. Three men and one woman wert killed and eleven men wounded. One a those killed was an American citizen, a nativi of Boston. The missionary, by advice of thi American Consul, fled to San Francisco There is a charge that the Catholic curate im stiguted the assault. But this is not a credi ble story. Nothing has been done to punish the offenders, and the Governor of the Stat has been petitioned to expell the Protesiants The facts stand out that an American cler gyman has becn banished from Moxico and a1 American layman murdered in a Mexican town because of their religion, and thai Mexico has made no atonement. Nothing it clearer than that the American, wherever he goes, has tho right to worship God as he pleases, Our missionaries have a right to the protection of our flag. We cannot submit to their massacre. If it should appear that there has been wanton murder in Acapulco, then our people, Protestants acd Catholics, will de- mand summary redress. The freedom we give to all creeds we must demand for our citizens. Unless Acapulco explains and atones for this outrage she shou!d feel the quality of our guns. General Grant should send three or four of our best ships to Acapulco without delay, and either receive satisiaction or take it. We Aurupep the other day to the interfer- ence of the British in St. Domingo as one of the reasons for the entire elimination of American influence from that beautiful and interesting island. It now seems that the British have appeared at Port au Prince to demand from Hayti the payment of certain sums due to British subjects. The British contend that these sums amount toa half mill- ion, while the Haytians aver that fitty thon. sand dollars would pay all that is honestly due, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Professor E. Loomis, of New Haven, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. William Beals, of the Boston Post, is among the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Yeoshiea Kiyonari, Japanese Minis'er at Wash ington, 1s sojourning at the St. Nicholas Motel. Senator George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, is residing temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Robert &. Carr, Presiaent o! the Kansas Pa- cifo Railway Company, is at the Fiftn Avenue Botel. Senator Cameron’s party, which reached Jack. sonville, rla., the other day, has gone to St. Aw gustine. British gratitude! They have perverted the letters or “Moody and Sankey” into “Many sad donkeys-o.”" Captain Buckman, United States Consul at Ottawa, Ont., has been transferred to @ similar post at Morrisburg. Mr. George Worthington, United States Consul at Ghent, Belgium, has taken up his residence at the St. Mehoias Hotel. Judge William J, Wallace, of the United states Court for the Northern District of New York, has arrived at the Hoffman House. On April 24 Marshal MacManon received the Order of tne Golden Fleece from the Marquis de Molins, the Spanish Ambassador. Congressman James G. Blaine and family were atthe Hofman House last evening, on the way from Wasning'on to their home in Maine, Eyre & Spottiswoode, the English printers, will prodace a copy of the Bible with alt the proper names accented to show the pronunciation. ‘They have just put up in Paris a statue of Jean @Are, which was in fact made originally as a statue of the Prince Imperial, and is very Jike him. Mme. Ratazzi ciarged her femme de chambru with the theft of jeweiry, but the woman proved her innocence. .Then she sued Mme. Ratazzi for damazes and gained the case. Comptrolier Nelson K. Hopkins, Assembiymen James v. Brown and F. W. Vosburgh and Mr, Wheeler I. Bristol arrived from Albany last even- inz at the Metropolitan Hotel, The Lonton Atheneum langhs at a writer whe once called a revolver @ “pistol with many bar res.” The writer in the Atheneum, tnerefore, never saw a revolver of the “pepper pot” pattern. Aittashionabie and diplomatic Paris was lately gathered in one place to witness the signing of the contract of marriage between the son of Prince Gaiitzin and the daughter of the Duke de Chauines. It weil regulated monarchies it is not only ne- cessary to have in hand an occupant of the throne, but alvo an heir tothe throne; and in Spain toe latter office appears to devolve on the Countess Girgentt, Alfonso’s sister. The French horities have refused to put on the wails of “Salon” the picture of a distine guished painter, because it presents an episode gi the war, and is likely to excite paininl thoughts and political passions, “to which art should be a stranger.’ New views of art and historical pio tures. They were, perhaps, pretty full a: bedtime, and one of them was sure he could never sleep with- outa window open. Kut theycoulda’t open the window, so they broke out two panes of giass, had plenty of fresh alr and slept splendidly. Ip in the morning they found they had broken twe glasses in the bookeuse. Paris Figaro has this “answer to correspond —A note, writtea by a female hand, asks ns why, in polite society, etiqaetre allows a lady to pay a visit with her velldown? TIreally do not know, macame; but I would bet it is the ugiy ones who set the fashion, and that It is omy the pretty women who make Inquiries about it. in the principatity or Licarenstein there 1s no prison, but they condemned a man to imprison. ment for a year. Tocy kept him im the Royal palace, and he liked it #o weil What when they offered to release him if he would quis the country he decined. They Onally bought tim of by giving co-operate heartily in the work of helping the | that the sum realized will be worthy of a | him money for his passage to America and an tne demnity for going into extie. He went to Eng. land, where he has eitaer been hangea or married loto the high nobility. | Melingue, the French actor, just deceased, was very successiul as Benevenuto Cellini, and mod. elied on the stage in presence o1 tae audience ag effective sketch of @ statue in twenty minutes, Ip by many there was some artifice ly Stripped crude clay iroma tT} prepared in advance, He proposed that a claquer im the gallery should cail this out, and then ho would break ap the whole mass of the clay ana mould the figure entirely; but the plan was not carried out for fear of the consequences to the claquer, as the house was frequenied by Bonem> ans of the ateliers, who knew the modelling be honestiy done on the stage as pretended,