The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1875, Page 8

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M.; closes at 10:45 Sane fy 27°7 peg RE, ~~ Let t as 3; closes at 10:45 FIFTH A’ piy THRAT: ‘RE. ith street and Broaiwer. ~The BIG BO. atBP. B.; closes at 10:5) P. M. Mr. Pisher, Mr. Davenport, Miz. Glibert. STEINWAY HAL! Pye street—-YANKcE SING. PARK THEATRE, Serr es CBUCKETT, at 8 P. Mj; closes at Pp. Mr. Mayo. anor THE woe IN. EIGHTY Days, Prete am SEEWL, at 8 GRAND OPERG 4 Eos iE. avenue and Iwenty-tinard street—ADMED, at 8 P, M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. BENEy'.. QUADRUPLE SHEET. 19, BOOTH'S THPEATRE, od sige avenne.— i = old. Twenty-third street. a1 ater. Closes acm NEW YORE, MONDAY. APRIL 1875, From our reports this morniing the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear and cold, A Froop at the source of Mill River, Masea- chusetts,bas done great injury to property in that section of country, as recorded in our despatches else * here. Gremaxy informs Belgium that she intends to alter her laws so as to give wdditional pro- tection to other countries from the violence of her citizens, and asks reciprocal legislation. We do not think that Germany is in much danger from the Belgians ; but the pcor wolf in the fable was always anxious to be protected from the devouring lamb. A Ruor occurred in Glasgow yasterday be- cause a platform fell in some public garden snd injured nearly.tbirty persons. In New York when such accidents happen we do not havea riot. There is an inquest, and what- ever the verdict may be that is the end of the matter. For instance, we may quote the calamity at St. Andrew's church. Toe Henatp To-Dar includes in its pages @ reproduction of Rivingion's New York Gazetteer, bearing the antiquated date May 25, 1775. ‘There is not much news fn the Gazeliecr, but in the whizligig of time its ancient truths have become fresh and interesting. Here we see in fac simile the affidavits of the mem who fought at Lexington and Concord, with other historical matter of unusual interest now. The Gazetteer was printed as ‘“‘an ojyen and ‘@ninfluenced press” one hundred years ago, and it is reprinted under the same forta- nate conditions now. Tae Memortat Services in honor of the Iate John Mitchel, as conduc*ed at the Hippo- drome yesterday, are reporied in full else- where. The funeral oration, delivered by Thomas Clark Luby, was a noble tribute to the famons champion of Irish indepen- dence, and deserves a high place e litera- ture of the great struggle which began seven centuries ago. and is uot ended now. It never will be ended till England yields justice to Ireland or till Ircland extorts it (rom her rulers. Tar Satem Gazette arises from the ashes of a century, and, Pheenix-like, reappears in the columns of the Henatp. We doubt that the broadside which tells of the “Bloody Batchery by the British, or the Runaway Fi;ht ot the | Regulars” ever had the extensive circulation which we give it now. tle and the funeral elegy to the immortal memory of those worthies who were slain at The | the world and make our way. forty coffins, each inscribed with an honored | have Conecrd are as interesting now as then. i closes at 1045 ‘The report of the bat- a ee NEW YORK HERALD, The Anntversary. ‘The whole nation, without regard to State or local fecling, will rejoice in the celebration ot the battle of Lexington. This is a tru'y American anniversar>. There is no interven- ing civil war to darken it, The gallant Eng- lishmea who set out that memorable April evening to burn the stores in Concord were loyal men, eager in the service of their king. All that we remember of what they did is their valor and devotion. All else has been long sixce forgotten under the turf which for so many generations has sheltered the war- riorsof the Revolution. That war would bea paliry chapter in the history of mankind if we still cherished its anger and hatred. We have long since learned to do justice to the sturdy King who would not lightly loose his grasp on his American possessions and to the strenuous people who clung to America as they do to every remnant of their world-spread empire. We may ina poetic mood, perhaps, fancy that if Paul Revere had not ridden his midnight errand, and if the impetuous Eng- lishmen bad not fired their pistols at the gathered Lexington yeomanry, the Revolu- tion would have been avoided. In like man- ner some of us think that it Fort Sumter had not been bombarded there would have been no civil war. But the events which led to rev- olution in 1775 and civil war in 1861 had gone beyond the control of eager soldiery. If there had not been a battle at Lexington it would have come elsewhere ; for all these colonies were charged with resistance even as the lowering heavens are suffused with elec- tuic fire belore the thunder, the lightning and the rain. The thunderbolt fell upon Lexington, but it might have fallen upon Philadelphia, New York, Annapolis or Mecklenburg. It was not within the decrees of God's providence that these States should longer remain in depend- ance upon Great Britain. It was not a ques- tion of tea or stamps, but of growth. England was not governed with the wisdom of the lat- ter days—the wisdom which we may belicve came largely from the results of the Revolu- tionary War. America was not to be beld as Ireland or India, If we had been severed from the mother country by a narrow strip of sea there would in all probability have been a speedy close to the rebellion. If we had been a densely peopled nation, weakened by centuries of tropical, sense-pampering, effem- inate civilization, we might have been held by a resolute commander, as Lord Clive held India. Macaulay, in alluding to the fact that failimg powers prevented Lord Clive from taking command of the British forces in Amer- ica, ventures the opinion that this young com- mander, who, he believed, had shown tho military genius of Napoleon, might have directed the American campaigns to a different issue, We do not think so. The conditions surrounding the Revolution were uot to be governed even by an intellect as subtle and daring as that of Lord Clive. There was the ocean to be crossed by slow sailing ships. ‘There was a country to be conquered as diffi- cult of military subjection as Navarre, or Circassia, or Northern Russia, It was English Llood against English blood, with nature, op- portunity and patriotism on the side of the Americans. We were at home fighting for honor. Our rampart was the sea. English skill might possess New York and Boston and Philadelphia, the seacoast and the important towns. Tuis availed nothing except to weaken and embarrass the invader, for the country was ever beyond their grasp. Considering the odds, and remembering that jealousy of England had made France an active and the other European Powers our passive friends, the wonder is that the British com- manders prolonged their efforts for so many years. While, therefore, we glory in the achievements of our ancestors in successfully pursuing tae work which began to-day one hundred years ago, let us no less respect the tenacity and courage of the men who fought so long for an empire that was the brightest jewel in George's imperial crown. We sometimes wonder what would be the condition of these States had we remained under the monarchy. Suppose the Ministers of George III. had foreseen that in another century the Americun colonies would be more populous than the mother country, and had permitted to otr ancestors all the privileges of Englishmen ; suppose they had granted us a parliament and a separate autonomy like that possessed by Canada and Aastralia, o militia and revenue systems, and all ina spirit of frankness, fraternity and equality. Sacha thing is probable enough, and wisdom a hun- dred years ago might have beld us in the same ties which unite Canada to the mother land. Would human progress have been as largely benefited as we think it has been by che United States of America? We have no doubt that we should have grown with the growth of the British Empire and shared in its prodigious prosperity and grandeur. The same sun would have ripened our harvests; the same seas would have floated our ships. English wealth and energy would have built our rail- roads and canals. English valor would cer- tainly have achieved as many triumphs over the Spaniard and the Mexican. But we question whether liberty would have been as nobly served. We should have had our share in the tremendous wars with Napoleon. The battle of the Nile or of Trat- algar might have been the battle of the Nar- rows or of Hampton Roads. Fora quarter of a century we shonld have had to defend our consts against the navies of Europe and the Mississippi against the ambition and enter- prise of Napoleon. Our sons would have | marched with Wellington from Lisbon to Waterloo. We should have had our share in the enormous “costs of that prolonged war. | | We should have been taxed as heavily as dur- ing the*rebellion, and in our young days, when we could ill afford t burden. The Bastile fallen, and liberty, n impulse from the shot which was “heard round the world,” would | have been thrown back for another ceutury. England is no weaker, America is ccrtuinly greater, because of the results of the war which | began on the soft bank of the little Indiaa stream a hundred years ago. Our separation from Eugland wes like tne separation of the young man irom the old home, which is too conservative, for his tresh-mount- It was our time to go out into We could separation had Fa \ narrow, ing hopes. wished that the name, are not entombed. History lifts them | been friendlier, but it was better, perhaps, from the grave aad glory sheds upon them hor eternal splendor that we should have had our time of hard- | ship and suffering, The century which has passed bas been full of achievement as well as of duties ill done, if must confess 1t. There are many things we proudly remember, many that we would cheerfully forget. That episode of slavery is dark enougb, and we did many evil things in its uame. But we made atonement, so far as men can atone for a wrong. We begin our new century a truly free nation, republican in the highest sense, under one flag—freedom, equality and justice. In entering upon this new era let us pot omit other duties. Growth is the first condition of modern freedom—growth in virtue, manli- ness, courage and the higher attributes of patriotism. Let us forget, so far as can be forgotten, all that remains to the past that is not national in the truest American sense. Let us remember in the felicitations of tne time that men of the North and the South stood side by side in the dark days; thata Virginian commanded our ancestors to vic- tory. If we could only be one again as we were when Washington and Putnam and Wayne were our generals; when New Eng- lander and Virginian and South Carolinian stood in embittled lines in defence of liberty; if we could only begin the new century re- membering nothing but the suffering and the glory of the Revolutionary past, we could feel that this anniversary was a blessed day indeed. This can only come, as come it will, by cherishing a truly national spirit. Patience, courage, frankness, will do it all. We have no memory but respect for the brave.men who challenged us in the name of their king and loyally shed their blood for him on the fields of Lexington” We have no feeling but one of fraternity for those of a still later day who strove so valiantly to sever the Union which then had its being. God, who rules in ail affairs, and in the hollow of whose almighty hand the nations are held, has disposed of events to our own good. It was His will that the English should fail in their effort to de- stroy our nationality. It was His will that the Southern men should fail in their war to dis- sever the Union. For it is His will—let.us finally believe—that these States have a grander mission than would have been possi- ble even under the egis of the mighty Empire of Englard—that the Southern States have a nobler destiny than could have befatlen the Confederacy of their proud and barren hopes. Let us so strive that when we come to another centennial day of independence and union wo shall be one as we were in Revolutionary days, and we shall honor with ever-increasing rev- erence the memory of the devoted men who had the courage to strike the first blow for independence, and whose glory will to-day be the first thought of every American heart. The April Cold Snap and the Crops. Before considering the crops we may be pardoned for adverting to the effect of this extraordinary weather on the Centennial celebration to-day, which occupies so much of public attention. With snow falling in New York late yesterday afternoon there is some reason to fear inclement skies at Lexington and Concord this morning. It wero to be wished that to-day’s sun might be as bright and the air as bland and balmy as they were in Lexington one hundred years ago. The spring of that year was uncommonly early, as it is this year uncommonly late. In Mr. Ban- croft’s pictorial pages the loveliness of that memorable spring morning is set forth in the warm cclors of poetry. ‘Day came,” he says, “in all the beauty of an early spring. ‘The trees were budding; the grass growing rankly a full month before its time; the bluebird and the robin gladdening the genial season and calling forth the beams of the sun which on that morning shone with the warmth of summer; but distress cnd horror gathered over the inhabitants of the peaceful town.”” Such charming spring weather favored the rallying of ‘the embuttled farm- ers” on that morning, and seemed to shower benedictions on their patriotic heroism. Descending to the prose side of the recent severe weather, we proceed to its possible effect on the crops. North of the latitude of Richmond it can do little damage, since none of the crops are above ground, except winter wheat, which is too hardy to be injured by such a degree of cold. The same remark will apply to our Northern fruit trees, whose blossoms have not yet reached the incipient stage of development. But there is too much reason to fear the destructive effect of this ungeasonable weather in the Southern States. The cctton crop uas probab.y suffered in ex- tensive regions of the Southwest and the produce of fruit trees been nipped in the bud. Let us hope, however, that 1! is not so bad as it seems. So far as cotton may have been killed it is not too late to plant the land with corn; butif injury has been done to fruit there is no practicable redress. Religion as a Personal Duty. The sermons we print to-day, apart from those treating the national event Massa- chusetts is celebrating, deal with many important subjects to the human race, upon all of which religion has thrown much light. But there is another topie which modern science has forced upon our attention. It is the relation of man to nature. We are certainly the superior animal, yet we are only an animal. The links in the chain of creation lead up from the lower organisms to the highest, but there is s gap between man and the best developed species infe- rior to him which, it seems, can only be ac- counted for by a spiritual power. Conceding this, the question remains whether man is really the “paragon of animals” —the ultimate posibility of intellectual force which nature can achieve upon earth. Speculative philoso- phers imagine that hereatter a race superior to man will succeed to his hopes and fears and achieve what to him seems im- It is hard to tell whether we end of the ereation or whether we shall have successors. But we may content curselves with the opinion that if such suecessors come we shall not survive to see the humiliation and to play a kind of superior monkey to the earthly angels of the future. When the superior race comes in the logic and progress of nature, it would be, how- ever, a consolation to know that Beecher trials and third terms and other evils incident to our hawan imperfection would be probably vonknown. If the future mee of highly spiritualized beings of earth is not superior to humanity in these matters we may not envy its other qualities, however they may trenscend our own, We creep in our petty pace from day to doy, and if our heirs in nature are not which inc eased knowledge would bring ad- ditional misfortune, sorrow and self-con- tempt. In the meanwhile we poor human beings must take care of ourselves, and let our su- perior successors look out for themselves. Onr religion to us is all in all, and we cannot pause to speculate upon what may happen upon the earth as it may be when we have all faded into the infinite azure of the past, as Professor Tyndall expresses it.- We have our duties and our faith, and a high part to play in the unending drama of creation. If those men who are singled out of millions to teach the mysteries of the revelation in which we are taught to believe can help us to perform more faithfully our tasks let us listen pa- tiently and try to be better for the experi- ence. Our sermons ,to-day may possibly, in this light, be of an advantage to the student, S$ oe rr TTT whether, as Darwin says, he is the logical consequence of an oyster, or whether, as the speculative idealists suppose, he is hereafter to be the ancestor of angels. The Real Estate Operations of the Ring. The operations of some of the lesser lights and parasites of the late Ring in real estate are given in the Hxnarp to-day. They are decidedly suggestive. Ingersoll, who has recently received the Executive pardon, ap- pears to have been the most extensive pur- chaser of the list now recorded. From the early part of .1869, when his association with Tweed as an active participant in the favors of the Boss commenced, up to the early part of 1872, when dark shadows began to eclipse the glory of the Ring diamonds and when the Americus badges began to find their way to the loan brokers’ offices, Ingersoll ap- pears as the purchaser of over half & million dollars’ worth of real estate. It is said that his release from State Prison was secured through his pledge to turn State’s evidence against bis accomplices in rascality and to appear as @ witness against them in the coming suits of recovery. If the bargain contemplutes his undisturbed enjoy- ment of his own share of the plunder, as well as his release from captivity, he certainly will have mide a good bergain for himself. A few months at Sing Sing will not be a very heavy price to have paid for the quict possession of more than half a million dojlars. But if Ingersoll is not, os ao part of the bargain, to be sliowed to retain his share of the money belonging to the city treasury, there will be comparatively little difficulty in reaching his property. His Fifth avenue house was not sold until October, 1872, and although the price paid for it appears to make it a bond jide transaction, the question will be, as we have remarked in re- gard to other Ring sales, how far the general knowledge of the King’s dishonesty will be held to vitiate tne holder’s title. Other prop- erty was sold by Ingersoll in the latter part of 1871 at a great apparent sacrifice, one parcel ot real estate, which cost him sixty-one thousand dollars in May, 1871, having been sold or alleged to have been sold by him in October of the same year for one-half that amount. Andrew J. Garvey, who has also given his evidence against the Ring of which he was £0 prominent a member, operated in real estate to the amount of nearly half a million dol- lars. When trouble overtook the Boss and his merry men Andrew gave evidence of the in- nocent character of his operations by selling to his brother a large amount of property cn terms very favorable to the latter. Parcels of real estate that had cost Andrew $120,000, $66,000, $53,000, $40,000 and so on, were sold to his brother at from one dollar and ninety-two cents to sixty-four cents a parcel. A seventy-six thou- sand dollar purchase was sold to another party for ten dollars. Some of this property has, however, been sold subsequently to these unprofitable trans»ctions, and, as the deeds are from Andrew J. Garvey and wife, it is supposed that the loss on the sales to the brother did not fall so heavily on Andrew as they miyht have fallen. If the parties «ho are looking aiter the interests of the city in the matter of the recovery of the money ab- stracted from the public treasury by the Ring transactions have not secured Garvey in the possession of his share of the plunder there will be no difficulty in getting posses- sion of this half million dollars, It is a ree markable fact that the “Ring” millionnaires had « passion for fashionable localities. They aspired to residences on Fitth and Madison avennes. They would not be contented with any less decided change than a step from a tenemeat garret to a five story brown stone on one of the leading avenues. Probably this ambition may prove advantageous to the city, as, it the property should be recovered, it will be found mainly in desirable localities. The “Lock-out” at Lowell. That part of the American public who do not follow the labor movements closely have probably a vague notion that the word *‘lock- out” is merely a new-fangled term to desig- nate what is commonly called a “strike.” We have never had in this country, not even at Lowell now, a lock-out in the proper sense of the word. Both a lock-out and a strike imply a stoppage of work; but here the resemblance ends. In other respects they present @ con- trast. ‘They differ as plaintiff and defend- ant differ in’a conrt of justice. A strike is a combined movement of laborers; a lock-out is a combined movement of employers. The latter is a means of counteracting and foiling the former. The organizations known as trades-nnions hove bronght the theory of strikes to great perfection and efficiency, Their practical motte is the old one of “Di- vide and conquer.” A strike conducted un- der the auspices of a trades-union is local; the laborers who demand higher wages or protest against lower wages belonging to some one town dr ono establishment, who are assured of the support of the men of their trade i other lo- calities in fighting the battle against their em- ployers. They assume to forbid the men of their organization to work for the establish- ment against which the strike is commenced at the wages offered by employers, hoping to extort the rate domanded by a complete sus- pension of operations in that locality and relying on the contributions of the unionsin other places to enable the strikers to subsist until their demand is acceded te, When that MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1675--QUADRUFLE SHEET, SHEET, Sulice tes Mateetbaen Aacean eattton Faced loadin’ Ghaiide Gamae, SID A ake ae ae local strike succeeds another is begun in Heaven forbid that we should envy a race to | another locality, supported by the same means, until that whole field of employment is conquered in detail. ‘The “lock-out” is an organization of em- ployers to defeat this arttul method of pro- ceeding. Bya simultaneous shutting up of their establishments in the early stages of a strike they get in the rearof the enemy and cut off bis supplies. If, at the present juno ture, ail the cotton spinners of the country should unite with those of Lowell and stop all the spinning mules, it would be out of the power of the spinners at Fall River, Manchester, Dover, Newmarket and other places to fur- nish the Lowell strikers with the means of subsistence during the progress of this con- test, and they would be reduced to tho state of a garrison compelled to surrender by starvation. A strike by all the cotton spia- ners of New England at one time would be suicidal. When no wages were earned by any of them no contributions could be made to maintain a local strike at a particular point. If the proprietors of all the New England mills should combine together and shut up. their establishments in this emergency, that would be a “lock-out? and the speediest of possible methods for bring- ing the strikers to terms. A lock-out shuts the doors against earning wages at all by the same class of laborers, jar or near; and when all are deprived of wages the great body can contribute nothing to maintain a loca! strike. We have never had a veritable lock-out in this country, but it is easy to see, from this explanation, that it is a potent engine in the hands of employers whenever they choose to combine and put it in operation. A lock-out is not a strike, but the antidote to strikes; it requires ex- tensive co-operation to make it effective. Whenever the employers in any branch of industry decide to lock their doors against all operatives the dispute becomes a brief ques- tion of time and endarance between men of property and men without the means of subsist- ence. But, in the absence of a lock-out, strikers can maintain their ground so long as the same class of laborers in other places make contributions of their wages to main- tain their striking coworkers in idleness. Te suspension of work in Lowell, though called a lock-out, is not so in reality. The owners of the cotton mills admit everybody to tend spinning mules who chooses to do soat the proffered rates of wages, If it were a real lock-out there would be no occasion for such a resolution of the spinners as was passed at their meeting last ‘Thursday, in these terms: — Resolved, That we, the Lowell mule spinners. do. devounce any man Who Shali_ run a pair of mules, Uoder the , resent Circuusiances, a6 & slave iu & land of liberty, a W liuing creature wituout a will, acurse upou civilized society and @ perpetual paper iu tbe land, Such a resolution shows that the Lowell difficulty is merely a strike. It it were alock- out there would be no occasion to denounce laborers who choose tv work for the offered wages, for in a lock-out there is no work at all for anybody. The Concord and Lexington Sermons. At least two men swore at the beginning of the Revolution. One of these was Captain Brown, who said, when his comrade, Captain Davis, was killed at Concord by the British, “God damn them, they are firing balls. Fire! men, fire!” ‘The other was Gen- eral Putnam, who led tke Connecti- ent troops at Bunker's Hill aud in- dulged in so much profanity when the old Continentals retreated under the fire of the enemy's artillery at tha end of the fivht that he apologized to his church after the war, on the ground that ‘‘it was almost enough to make an angel swear so see the —— refuse to secure a victory so nearly wou.” He did the brave men injustice, but the recording angel, we have no doust, blot- ted out his oaths with a flood of tears as it did iu the, case of Uncle Toby. Thuse two instances are the only ones koown of proianity in tho early days of the Revolution, As the war progressed profanity became more fre- quent, as with General Ethan Allen whew he summoned the astounded British General to surrender in the namo of Almighty God and the Continental Congress. But these improprieties of language do not prevent our clerzymen from commemorating, with religious ceremonies the patriotic ser-- vices ot the heroic soldiers of the Revolution. Boston and New York were united yesterday in honoring the events which one hundred years ago laid the foundation of Ameri- cam independenc> of Great Britain. We give the principal sermons which were preached yosterday on this subject Among them may be included that of the Hon. George B. Loring at Christ church, Boston; for, although it 1 called an oration, no sermon could be more appro- priate and solemn—a superb tribute which present patriotism pays to the glori- ous past. Mr. Loring’s address is an historical survey worthy of the- occasion, which is certainly saying a great deal. The admirable sermon of the Rev. W. H. Cud- worth, of Boston, is also presented in our columns, together with that of Dr. Adams at Lexington and the Rev. Dr. Bellows in this city wpon the lessons of the battles of Lexington and Concord; that of the Rev. W. H. Thomas upon the door of freedom which was opened one hundred years ago, and that of the Rev. Mr. Haynes upon the shot that was heard round the world. Purpose and per- formance have made bloodshed pions in the estimation of mankind, and may the time never come when the clergy will not sympa- thize with the struggle of a people to be free. Indeed, it ever there is s war upon which Heaven could smile approval it is when anation resists oppression and determines that | at any cost it will be free. We rejoice that the Church joins so earnestly in the celebra- tion of this national anniversary, and that religion hallows the imperishable memory of the desperate strnggle to which our fore- fathers pledged their hves, their fortunes and their sacred honors. Tue Base Batt Srason will soon begin, and, as will be seen by an article elsewbere, the professional clubs are ready and anxious for the tray. We hope that the matches for the championship this year will be conducted better than they were last year, for it would be a public misfortune to see our national game fall into general discredit. ‘Fair play” ought to be the motto of all the leading clubs. Tho Bill for Removing State Omtcers, It has become certain that this bill cannot pass the Senate in its original form, and doubiful whether it can passin any form. It first came before the Legislature in pursnance of a recommendation of Governor Tilden in his Canal Message, The Henatp thereupon prompily stated its conviction that the mode of removing State officers elected by the peo ple is one of those subjects that ought to be provided for by the constitution of the State rather than by the Legislature. The Govere nor had virtually conceded this in his Mex sage by explaining how the Convention of 1846 came to insert in the constitution the anomalous provision which has remained a dead letter for twenty-nine years, and which is the basis of his recommendation. He said that when the Convention of 1846 (of which he was a member) was about to adjourn it was discovered tha: no provision had been made for the prompt removal of any of the State officers except the Treasurer, and that in its necessary haste the Convention turned the subject over to the Legislature, This statement of the Governor implies a clear admission that the removal of State offi« cers is a proper subject of constitutional regue lation, It was shoved off upon the Legislae ture only because the framers of the constitu« tion too tardily discovered at the last moment that they had not dealt with it. The proper method of supplying that defect, as the Hernaxp suggested when this bill was introw duced, is for this Logislatwre to submit a cons stitutional amendment. As there is to be an election of Senators next fall the amendment could be submitted to the people within a year, anda suitable method of removal ene grafted on the constitution with a brief delay. Unless the Governor thinks some of the present State officers dishonest there is no urgent reason for haste. Whom does Governor Tilden wish to rae move? If no particular vfficer this subject had better await the prescribed action fos amending the constitution. But if there be some State officer whom tho Governor thinks dishonest and wishes to got rid of, we are willing he should have the power, provided the act conferring it is limited to a period sufficient for amending the State constitution, We expressed this view when the Removal bill was introduced, amd have seen no reason to change it, According toall precedents and all sound principles it 1s for the constitution and not the Legislature to prescribe the method of removing elocted officers, Unless the Governor has some particular officer in his eye who can inflict mischief on the State betore the constitution can be amended thera is no urgency for passing such a lawas he recommended. If such alawshould be passed it ought to contorm to the provision of the constitution relating to the Treasurer, the one State officer against whose malfeasance it establishes a pramptremedy. The constitution does not authorize the Governor to remove the State Treasurer, but only to suspend him until thirty days after the next meeting of the Legislature. The Governor would possess all authority necessary tor protecting every publio interest if the Legislature should empower him to suspend J any,other § Stete oGicer for the like period and appoint a pro tempore successor. If the bill now pending in the Senate passes atall we hope it will only be after amend- ments restricting its operation to mere suse pensions from office during the interval before the meeting of ano'her Legisiature. A sus pension from offics and appointment of a tem. porary substitute would protect any imporilled interest ; and this is as far as tne legislative power ought to venture into the domain which so manifestly belongs to the authority to amend the constitution. We Rerropuce tax Essex Gazette, a sheet coniining ‘the freshest ailvices, both foreign and domestic” (all about three months old). But, though there were no telegraphs then, there was an electric sympathy that ran throughont the vation, and it is interesting to see that joursalism a hundred years ago was as impor‘ant an agent in natiomal progress ag we boast it is now. “Tae Snot Hzanp Rounp tax Wort” isa famous expression, which now will be im» mortal as the memory of the event to which it refers. How it was heard and how the reverboration passed from American shores to the nations of Europe is told in a special article upom the way the news of the Lexington and Ocmecord battles travelled a century ago. ‘Fhe news has travelled faster since then, and, 20 one can tell | when or where it will stop, Trax Massacivuserrs Spy was a century ago one of the oracles of American Jiberty and the mot'o it then bore is vital yet. ‘Americans! Libarty or Death! Join or Tie!” should be as devr to us as to our fathers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. B, la. Mecook, of Colorad:s, is staying at tag Sturtevant House. Surveyor General J. H. Bakwir, of Minnesota, & registered at the Fitton Avenus flotel Mr. J. K. Ammet, the comefan, is among tht late arrivals atthe New York Hosel. State Treasurer J. ©. Mercer, of Missouri, a stopping at the Metropolitan flotel, The antograpm of Mary Queena of Scots cost ag entinstustic Engiishm in £57'46a late London sale, Generai George P. Foster, United States iarsnay for Vermont, has arrived ag the Grand Central Hote. Sport and Play js the vitle of a new cheap weekly paper to be brovght out in London mozt month. An antograph letter of Quen Elizabeth to Honry IY. brought what 18 accomitea the large price of £82 at @ recent London anceton. Henry Schliemann, author of “Troy and Its Re mains,” spent five years of his life benind a counter in a little grocery stare ta Mecklenburg. Sehwerin. “Brigadier Frederick,” Jirekmann Chatrian’s Jatest novel, is fuli of tuose virtuous Alsatians we know 80 woll, with their honesty, thetr industry, their amiability and their love of Kyrsch, sausage, blonde girls and domestic comfort. Mr. W. C. Hazlitt will issue this syring a new “Sbakespeare’s Library,” which will suctado, ig five volumes, all the noveis, tales, poems and plays on which the immortal dramas @ Snakes peare were founded, with ail the Lives tn Norta’s “Piatarch,” which Shukesp:are used, and pase sages from Hoilinsned’s “History of Engiand.” Mr. Joon Hampuen, who vas written a Look te maintain that the eai th 1s nut round, bat f. published it under the name o! “Parallax, lowed up his achievement by sending scarriiow ldels oo ai cards (oa reviewer of his bouR. The reviewer sued for lide, and Mr, ‘ParaliaxgtY Hampden was sentenced by, the Lord Orie! Justice to one year’s imprisonment, witn a bona in £1,290 for his fatare good behavior,