The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ANN STREET, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yous Henaup will be | sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic a must be addressed New Yorx 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. Bubscriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL. ..0-ssreverceesceeeesscereeeeseeNOs 110 =————————————————————— AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BARNUM’S HIPPODROME, avenn i Twenty-sevemih street —Miss LINDA BREUR ETT caren Ses cloces at 0a FM. SAN FRANOIS.O MINSTRELS, . corner of Iwenty-ninth street—NEGRO EONTEELSY. Dr 8 PM.; closes at UP. M. | treet, beinecs Second and, Third ween Second, an PaRiery wes Posse oses ac 2 Pe at CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. THE two ouPaass, atS P.M; closes at 10:45 P, M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, ROMANCE OF A POOK YOUNG MAN, at PENDS Tones atl00 P.M, Mr, Montague, Miss Dyas, COLOSSEUM, ke ed Thirty-iourth street —PABLS BY NIGHT. Prva ations daily, at2and5 P.M. JOWERY UPERA HOUSE, ng aa Bowery VARIETY, at 6 P.M; closes at 10:45 WOOD's MUSEUM, Bsx* corner of ihirtieth street.—DONALD Mo- | Yard P. PM. 1045, A. ; closes THEATRE core. Fie, fi6 Broadway.—Varie TY, at SY. M.; closes at 1045 METROPOLITAN: MUSEUM OF ART, West Fourteenth street —Open from 10 A. M. to5 P. M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE. Free avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 4 ROBINSON HALL. id th street, near Broadway.—RIBERNICON, at8 P.M. Matinee at2 P.M. Pag street —iNDIGO, at8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 | Mj OLYMPIC THEATRE, fo Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. Mf; closes at i013 FIFTH AVENU® THEATRE atreignth street and Broatway.—THE BIG BO- ANZA, at 8 F. M.; c oses at 10:3) P.M. Mr. Fisher, Mr. wis, Miss Davenport, Mrs. Gilbert. PARK THEATRE, Broadway.—DAVY CRUCKETT, at 8 P. M; closes at We P.M” Mr, Mayo. FOWERY THEATRE, Ry 5 nimchiidad THE WORLD IN EIGHTY Days, até P. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, hth avenue and Twenty-third stree.—AHMED, at 8 M.; closes at 10:45 P. MI BOOTH’s Ti TRE, r_of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.— ENBY V., ats P.M ;closesatil?. M. Mr. Biguold. LYCEUM THEATRE. fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue.—LA JOLIE PAR- UMBUSE, at8P.M. Mile, Aimee. ACADENY OF MUSIC Fourteenth street and Irving place.—TONY PASTOR'S VARIETY COMPANY, at 5 I’. M.; cloves at Il P. M. QUADRUPLE SHEET. 0, 1875, @re that the weather to-day will be cool and cloudy, with possibly light rain. Watt Srnzet Yesterpar.—An exceptional Bdvance occurred in Panama; otherwise the stock market was comparatively steady. Gold opened and closed at 115. Foreign exchange was firm and money easy at three per cent on call loans. Now for seven years of Centennials. Taz Counrr or Mzatn, Ireland, has re turned Mr. Parnell, a home rule champion, to Parliament. A Baecraz Wirz Mcnpen in Jorsey City is reported in our columns to-day. Rum or Jealousy seems to have been the exciting cause. Tue Lopcrxent of a fish bone in the throat resulted in the death of a citizen under rather peculiar circumstances, which are elsewhere detailed. Ex-Govenyon Horruan has given his opin- | ions upon the Canal question in an interview tlsewhere published, and bestows his approval on the Message and policy of Governor Tilden. Tue Prorosrrion to call Mrs. Tilton asa witness in the Beecher trial meets with gen- eral approval. Her story will be a strange one, no doubt, but cannot fail to throw light upon the mysteries of the case. Escarrs from Sing Sing Prison have been go frequent of late years that the baffling of an attempt to seize a vessel yesterday by some of the convicts will give general satis- faction, even though it was attended with probable loss of life. The guard displayed mnch presence of mind and courage, and de- serves commendation for his prompt action, Tnx Brecnen Triat was resumed yester- dey, and Mr. Fullerton, having recovered from his own vertigo, undertook to make fizzy the head of the defendant. There was tather a lively scene, caused by the counsel's tomplaints that Mr. Beecher did not give lirect replies to the questions. Some strong points were made on both sides, and it is likely the cross-examination is drawing to an end. Would that the trial were! Tux Mraxest of thieves should be ashamed fo rob the poor-bor of o church. But ao young man who has for some months been engaged in such contemptible larceny was yesterday arrested at St. Patrick's Cathedral. He is supposed to have stolen about five bandred dollars, all of which was taken from orphans and widows, whose distresses the sharitable supposed they were relieving, while, in fact, they were sustaining this jabberly scamp, too lazy to work, but indus- twious encugh in theft, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1875.-QUADRUPLE SHEKT, [ame Comtennial Celebrations Yester~ a The one hundredth anniversary of Lexing~ ton and Concord has come and gone. No | patriotic American has reason to blush for the | manner in which it was observed. The emu- | lous feeling between Concord and Lexington | is a more than pardonable rivalry, since it has | had an excellent effect in enhancing the inter- | est of the occasion. No lover of his country | place in either town, whether in the prepara- | tions or the observances. The celebration in | | each town has been more splendid and attrac- | tive than if that town had been the sole scene | of the commemoration, and the occasion has | differed from ordinary celebrations of the kind like a natural day in which two suns | should rise in the east und diffuse their joint splendor in the firmament. Nothing occurred | in either place which we could wish away. | Each town was thronged with as great a mul- | titude as if the day had not been celebrated in ibe other, and nothing occurred in either | which was not consistent with perfect good | taste and with the | which befiis so remarkable an occa- | | sion. The oration of Mr. Dana at | Lexington and that of Mr. Curtis | at Concord were alike admirable, and we | | should sincerely regret to have missed either. | Had there been but ono celebration instead | | of two the country would have lost some- | thing which it will delight to bear in memory for the next hundred years. The statues of | Hancock and Samuel Adams which were un- veiled at Lexington, with the truly admirable remarks of Mr. Charlies Hudson, were sin- | | gularly appropriate for that town, in which | | those distinguished patriots slept during the | generous patriotism } early part of the night of the 18th of April, would wish anything undone which has taken | benevolences and | and whose capture by the British troops would | have been infinitely more important to the | | British cause than tho destruction of the | | stores at Concord. Had the celebration | | taken place at Concord alone the honor paid | | to those great patriots would not have been in such perfect keeping, and would probably | have been omitted altogether. If, on the ; minute man, which was | with the exquisite remarks of Mr | Emerson, would very likely have | been left out, which would have been | a great loss and omission, involving a failure | to recognize the sturdy virtues of the Maesa- | chusetts yeomanry, whose uncalculating valor made that great occasion what it was, | All honor, ther, both to the people of Lex- ington and to the people of Concord, whose | noble emulation has made this interesting | celebration doubly resplendent. | The contest between these ancient and honored towns is something very different from the petulant, carping spirit which would fix o different date for a centennial celebra- tion of the first resistance to the British Crown. The priggish assertion of other dates for those memorial observances evinces a spirit sadly out of harmony with the p triotic sentiment of the country. If the views of these carpers had been adopted there | would have been no celebration at all. They have merely evinced their inability to discrim- | inate between the substance of history and its frippery. The importance of his- torical events, in any just estimate, is meas- ured by their fruitfulness in important con- sequences. The occurrences which shallow sciolists put in competition with the resist. ance which took place with those of April 19, 1775, were followed by no consequences which weighed a teather in the strugzle for independence. But the events celebrated yesterday electrified the country and brought the controversy between the colonies and the mother country to a swift crisis. As a conse- quence of the affair at Lexington a Conti- nental army was promptly gathered in the vicinity of Boston, and within sixty days the battle of Bunker Hill attested the resolution of the colonists to resist to the utmost. It waé a direct sequence of the events com- memorated yesterday that Washington was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Conti- | mental forces and the Revolution put on a stable footing. How idle and impertinent, then, is the petty, carping spirit which, in this hour of commemorative rejoicing, tells the country that it has made a historical mis- tuke, and that this great act of patriotism should have been done at a different date, and in commemoration of some petty and forgot- ten affair which had no influence on subse- quent history! Men who are in full patriotic sympathy with this interesting occasion could not descend to such cavils. The honorable | rivalry between Lexington and Concord is not exposed to this censure, because both sides alike recognize the just historical importance of the day which virtually dissolved the colonial tie. It would be wonderful indeed if Jefferson, it Jobn Adams, if Washington, if all the chief actors in the Revolution mis- took the supreme importance of the events of April 19, 1775. It is because that day was so pregnant in great consequences that emulous townships in Massachusetts contend for their respective shares of the honor. It is a just topic of congratulation that no speaker yesterday, no set orator, no poet, whether at Lexington or Concord, uttered one word which tended to revive the ancient feeling of animosity between America and England. The foremost of them all, Mr. Emerson, the one man whose every utterance is sure to cirenlate as far as the English tongue is spoken, was careful not to impli- cate the English people in the oppression of the colonies. Mr. Emerson's wisdom is equal to his knowledge ot the facts. He fixed the blame where the Declaration of Independénce put it, on the misguided King, whose blind obstinacy prevailed over the better sentiments of his Ministers, his Parliament and the wisest of his subjects. ‘We had many ene- mies,"’ said Mr. Emerson, ‘‘and many friends in England, but our one benefactor was King George III. In the resistance of the colo- nies he alone was immovable on the question of force. Parliament wavered, all the Ministers wavered, Lord North wavered, but the King had the insanity of one idea.” Had the English people been blest abthat time with a wiser king the great strife conid not have arisen. The most illuse trious of English statesmen were mainly cn our side, Lord Chatham, Burke and Fox, the three greatest orators who ever spoke in Parliagent, strenuously opposed the mistaken policy of the pig-headed King, and even | Lord North, his pet Minister, stood by his other hand, the celebration had been at Lex- | gteat statesmen and orators who took our | ington alone, the statue of the typical | sidein that struggle. Our centennial cele- unveiled | brations are, therefore, not a reproach to the | English nation, but a justification of the con- | fidence and admiration it unanimously be- | Sidney and Locke, on Chatham, Burke and | at Philadelphia next year. | the | graphed fer , Ring suils, sovereign only from a sentiment of loyalty to which he subjected his better judgment. Our own statesmen drew their most effective weapons from the great armory of English rights and English freedom. Their cardinal principle, that taxation and representation went hand in hand, and that a free people could be taxed only by their own representa- tives, was a principle imbedded in the very foundations of the English constitution. Their resistance to illegal taxation proceeded | from the same spirit that stood out against | ship money under the Stuarts. Our fathers were imbued with the sentiments of Sidney and Locke. The Declar- ation of Independence repeats the views and even borrows the phrases of Locke's cele- brated treatise on government. We stood in our great struggle on the habeas corpus, on the trial by jury, on the English common law, on the great bulwarks of English freedom. We fought English oppression with English ideas, The most illustrious of English names—Hampden and Pym, Sidney and Locke of a past generation, and Chatham, Burke and Fox of the generation then living— were the authorities which our fathers con- stantly cited. The whole body of the Eng- lish whigs sympath‘zed with us, and we were really fighting an English battle against the tories. We borrowed the phraseology of English party contests, and stigma- tized as tories the recreant Ameri- cans who sided with the mother country, It was not a contest against English ideas, but a contest against the tory party and a tory king. The enlightened | public sentiment of modern England long ago | decided that the colonists were in the right and George III. in the wrong, even on sound English principles. We rejoice that all the orators at Lexington and Concord yesterday recognized this truth, and that no word was spoken which would obstruct a full and free participation of the British people in our | great Centennial next year. The whole British people long since indorsed our resist- ance to the British Crown, as they are logi- cally compelled todo by their pride in the stows in this age on Hampden and Pym, on Fox, the most illustrious names in British history. We therefore hope to see a full | British representation in the great.Centennial The Herald’s Centennial Extra, The fac-simile reproductions which ap- peared in the H#narp yesterday morning | were only a part of the contents of a special | sheet, ‘‘A Revolutionary Extra,” of which we sent an immense number to Boston on Sun-— day night. They were sold out early in| day and the Boston dealers tele- | large additional supplies. | Copies of the newspapers which first pub- | lished the news of the stirring events of the | ever-memorable 19th of April, 1775, have be- | come so scarce and so rare that they hardly | exist outside a few great public lioraries and the collections of two or three eminent historians, | Asingle copy of any one of those papers of | that particular date would sell for a fabulous | price, and the purchaser would think himself j fortunate in procuring it at all. This extra | sheet, as well as our regular edition, con- | tained fac-similes of several of these American newspapers which printed the events as news, with the very form of their antiquated type, | their head lines and their devices and em-'| lems, thus conveying a lively impression of | the news as it first struck the eyes of Ameri- can readers. As a contemporary remarked: — | “No speech or poetry or porade at Concord | or Lexington to-day can at all compare, it, seems to us, with the effectiveness for good of | the matter which the Hzranp’s enterprise haw | set before the country in so striking a form."’ | We preserve the plates a day or two at some | inconvenience. The ‘Revolutionary Extra” will be sold to dealers at the same price as the ordinary editions of the Hrnaup. Wo have to thank Mr. Moore, of the Historical Society, for the fac-simile of Rivington's Gazelte. We | are indebted to the Massachusetts Historical | Society tor copies of the Massachusetts Spy | | and the Essex Gazette. | Taz Braraxt Testimostat.—The arrange. | ments made by the managers of the New | York theatres for the forthcoming per- formance for the benefit of Dan Bryant's famiiy are such as to secure an overwhelming success. The series of performances will be something phenomenal. It only remains for | the public to do their duty toward the de- ceased minstrel, to whose genial nature they | are debtors for so many hours of honest mirthtulness. It is something to remember a man who often made us lingh, yet never caused a blush. What is asked from the public is not so much charity as patronage. The members of the dramatic pro- fession have pledged themselves to give the | public more than the value of their money, and we have no hesitation in saying that that promise will be redeemed right royally. Bose ton and Philadelphia have resolved to contrib- ute their quota to the Bryant testimonial. It would be adisgrace to New York if the people among whom Dan Bryant made his home failed to mark their appreciation of his merit | as an actor and his worth as a man. | Awsiversanies.—This is the hundredth anniversary of the assembling of the “Pro. vincial Congress” of this State, which body was made up of delegates from the counties, and which named the representatives of the colony in the Continental Congress that set at Philadelphia in the next month. This day is also the one hundredth anni- versary of the seizure at Williamsburg, Va, of a quantity of gunpowder stored at Rich- mond for rebel use, for which gunpowder Governor Dunmore shortly after paid its full value to Patrick Henry, who demanded it at the head of a company of armed men. Jcpor Lawnencer yest®day granted a mo- tion requiring the plaintiffs to file a bill of particulars in the two suits brought by the city against Marrener, Miller and T weed to re- cover a million of dollars paid for materials furnished to the Strect Department during the | ‘Tweed régime, on the ground of fraud in the | bills. It is evident that the lawyers are likely | they feel tolerably confident that they will be | painted in the darkest colors of our partisan to reap a most profitable harvest out of these The German Note to Belgium, The relations between Germany and Bel- gium will find 4 new illustration in the very important cable despatch which we print this morning. There has been an impression, largely gathered from the tone of the Conti- nental newspapers, that these notes of Ger- many to Belgium have been harmless commu- | nications in the interest of peace and comity. In the latest Germany calls upou Belgium to revise her laws so that her territory shall not be used as a basis of war upon friendly Pow- ers. We do not know how far any Belgians have declared war upon a Power as friendly as Germany, but it seems that there has been a plot or conspiracy against Bismarck—a Jesuit ultramontane plot. The health and safety of the great statesman would appear to be the aim of modern German diplomacy, as we find that Bavarian editors are arrested in Austria and returned to German justice for libelling the Chancellor. If Belgium or Austria were really menacing Germany we could comprehend the rigor of Bismarck. But no one for a moment supposes that the arrest of the Bavarian editors or the harsh demand upon Belgium do not represent a deeper purpose than appears on the surface. Take the demand made by Germany in its lightest sense and what is it? Let us sup- pose that after the St. Alban’s raid, when armed rebels invaded Vermont from Canadian soil, the United States had addressed a note to England in the terms of this Ger- man note to Belgium, what would have been the answer? And yet we had a case against England a thousand fold more important than that of Germany against Belgium. Our soil had been invaded. Our citizens had been killed and their homes destroyed. Property of great value had been carried away. Aplot had been matured for the assassination of Lincoln, which in time suc- ceeded. The mon who did these deeds rode to Cannda in open day and were discharged | by a Canadian judge. When an American general threatened to pursue them, should they repeat the offence, his order was recalled and an apology made to Great Britain, No one believed that we did not deal with England in the higkest spirit of international law. England herself showed a similar caso during the time of Napoleon IIL After the failure of the Orsini plot to destroy him, and the escape of some of Orsini’s confed- erates to England, a demand was made by Napoleon for their return. Lord Palmerston was in power. He had had close relations with the Emperor and was avx- ious to oblige him. He was the undisputed master of the House of Commons and the gov- ernment. He was in the flower of his singu- lar popularity. It seemed as if he could do what he willed with England. He had driven it into a French alliance and a Russian war, and what was easier than to modify the laws of the Empire to prevent it from becoming the refuge of conspirators against the peace | and fortune of Napoleon? But this matchless Englishman, who had fathomed every phase | of his countrymen’s character, found out that | he bad blundered. Even Palmerston could | not touch the right of asylum to oblige an | | Emperor of the French. He was beaten in his own House of Commons and driven out of power. Tbe demand, therefore, which England re- fused to France and America, Germany virtu- ally makes upon Belgium. No one will doubt, we think, that England was right in protecting the integrity of her soil and the sanctity of | | ber laws. No one knows better than Bismarck | that what was right for England cannot be | wrong for Beigium; that what a great Power did with the applause of the world, a small, modest, harmless power like Belgiam must | necessarily do. Why, then, address this note to Belgium when he could have done so to Russia or Englind? We except France, because he has been addressing that patient country in the loftiest and most insolent style since Sedan. The reason is that he means to make Belgium an example, | President Lincoln was wont to say whenever the war Congress would pass an unusuaily radical bill that it would be tried upon the District of Columbia as an experiment, and afterward, if need be, upon the country at large. Bismarck would seem to be dealing with Belgium in the same manner. He tries diplomatic experiments upon it, and can thus judge of their probable effect upon Europe, | Belgium is a safe country to tease. France cannot defend it. England will not, unless driven to it by a public opinion which already looks kindly upon Bismarck as the enemy of the Pope and the detender of Protestantism. This religious controversy has given Bismarck a party in England which will defend him if he takes Belgium and Hoiland in the bargain. tradition that Belgium's independence is Eng- land’s duty? In this light we can understand | the meaning of the German note. Nothing would be more important to Bismarck than the exact attitude of England in the event of that general war he has been expecting and predicting since the battle of Sedan. Great Britain is the party really addressed in these notes to Belgium, and the peace of Europe | will more largely depend upon the response | made by England to their letter and spirit than upon any other contingency. Tue Srarets or New Yorx.—The messen- ger of an iron company was robbed yesterday afternoon of three thousand five hundred dol- lars. He had been to the bank, drawn the | money for the payment of the employés, and on his return was seized and stripped of the amount by men, who, after committing the | daring act, jumped into a wagon and escaped. | We have no intention to hold the police re- sponsible for all the robberies committed in a large city like New York. If we hada really efficient and well managed police force a pocketbook snatcher might occasionally ply his vocation and escape. A policeman cannot ve omnipresent, But this bold highway rob- bery in the busiest time of the day was evi- | dently prearranged, and if thieves had not a | shrewd knowledge that our ‘‘best police force in the world”’ is utterly demoralized and inef- ficient they would not venture on such ex- ploits. Criminals have not now much fear of detection. They may occasioually oblige a police commissioner by restoring » watch stolen from one of his friends, but otherwise lett in peaceable possession of their share of ll the spoils their nimble fingers can secure. May | it not be a test of the fealty of England to the | The Women and the Concerd Comten~ nial. The Centennial celebration at Concord and Lexington yesterday did not give universal satisfaction, the female suffragists resenting it asacommemoration of a century's wrong to woman. The ladies who met last night at the Union League Theatre were particularly ingenious in finding in this patriotic occasion proof of the injuries they endure. It was eloquently pointed out that our fathers, the heroes of the Revolution, fought for the grand principle that taxation without representation is an outrage upon human rights. Then the startling fact was cited that of the money raised by taxation to pay the expenses of the Concord celebration one-fifth was paid by women who had no voice in the disposition of their property. That there are grave questions involved in this complaint must be admitted, tor taxation isnot a matter of sex, while representation is. A woman may not vote a tax, but she must pay it. It would open an endless field of discussion were we to inquire how far re- sponsibility to the State is equally imposed upon the sexes and how far a prop- erty owner is disqualified by being a woman. But did it ever strike these fair Indies that their sex, in being deprived of the ballot, is really paying ths penalty of its greatness? The female sex already possesses too much power, and it it were allowed to vote would be irresistible. Man, desirous of retaining some privileges, has seized upon the ballot box, and in this tyranny pays woman the highest compliment in his power. He palpably admits that he is afraid to give any additional opportunity of reducing him to utter subjugation. The ladies who spoke last night at the meet- ing, and compared their effort to obtain the ballot with that of the brave men who fought in the Revolution, should remember that this makes some difference. We do not regard Mrs. Blake as a slave, though she seems willing to be considered one, nor Mrs. Westbrook as a victim of oppression, One thing is encouraging, that, although the ladies have resolved to urge their claims and to resist taxation without representation, they have agreed that this shall not be done by an unnatural resort to the cruel sacrifico of war. They intend to depend solely upon reason, which has always been the favorite and the most effective weapon of the sex. Our Dirty Linen Abroad. The London Times sends us an interesting homily upon our national characteristics, based upon the Message of Governor Tilden to the Legislature on thecanal question. The Times attributes the rise of the corruptions thus exposed to the indifference of Americans about local politics, ‘They have,”’ says our contemporary, ‘their own private affairs to look aiter, and unless the nuisance becomes excessive” it is allowed to run its course. It | informs us that ‘‘the solemn league’’ which | our citizens at one time formed for, ‘‘the effec- tual reform of New York” ‘was first neglected by its most trustworthy members,’’ and “finally betrayed to the enemy by its own paid officials.” It is difficult to understand | what this means, unless it is that the majority | of the Committee of Seventy were glad enough to steal when they could do so with impunity in quiet days and are seeking new opportuni- ties. The Times thinks the exposure of the Canal Ring will do some temporary good, but | that it will not be permanent. At the same time it cannot fail to remark “the quiet cyni- | cism” with which Americans regard pecula- tion, and we have the assurance that these | Tammany and canal frauds will be perennial, | But all this time the Americans are a great | | people, and are not to be judged by the | wickedness of New York. | It is not pleasant to read these criticisms in a foreign journal, especially when we see their injustics ; but this is one of the troubles of our excessive frankness in dealing with | public affairs. An American writer reports Wordsworth, the poet, as expressing his won- der that in America Congressmen were charged by the journals with actually stealing spoons. ‘That was in another generation, when Martin | Van Buren was President. But we have not tempered our criticisms. Suppose upon the | next Centennial of Lexington one of our de- , scendants was to open a file of the journals of | the present day. What would he think of our | | soc'ety, our politics, our municipality, our | | President? He could not but blush for his ancestors. And yet we know that this fury | of criticism and defamation is not sincere, | that it is meant to serve party ends and per- sonal malice, and that many of the best men now in public life are among those who are most severely assailed. How, therefore, | can we expect a different opinion from | the London press, whose editors look at us with something of the eye of posterity? They | only see the surface of society here and hear | its clamor. They see many things that we | | wish were otherwise. They see the chief of our city power a prisoner in jail, like a common | vagabond. They see at the head of Wall street a financier who, after he had been ousted from | | the control of a large railway, returned nine millions of its money, which he had taken for | his own uses, toavoida suit. It is hard to | expect much commendation for a city which | | has produced the twe men who have brought more discredit upon the American name than any other two since Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold. American credit has been | imjured to the extent of hundreds of millions by their practices. | But there are other influences in America. | It is unfair for the Times to select men of this stamp and their confederates as representatives of American character. We might as well take Walpole and Pelbam as types of purityin English public life, and George IY. as a model King. The Tammany conspiracy was sad enongh. This Canal Ring is not much better. But when we find these | corruptions we expose them. How long could | there continue such a system of bribery as | was known in the Parliament which glories | in the presence of Pitt and Burke? How | much corruption attended the union of Ire- | land and England? How many members of | Parliament ars unseated from time to time, | even in the present day, tor bribery and im- | Proper practices in the franchise? How long | would America submit to a king like George IV.? What picture of American life, even if press, will rival the ‘Memoirs’ of Greville? Even in our own profession there has been no | English Composition. | dott, M. A. Boston: Roberts ros, suon revelation of shameless corruption as thas which marked the career of a leading editor of the great Times. We have our taults, but we talk about thom and correct them, When acreature like Tweed gains power we send him to jail as soon as we find him out. When acreature like George IV. gains the throne he is sheltered, protected, worshipped in his in- famy and buried like a real king. George IV. robbed the treasury of England of far more money than Tweed. He died full of yeara and honor and now rests in the tombs of English kings. Tweed is in jail. Nothing could better illustrate the two sys tems. We do not claim to be purer than our English cousins, but we are certainly no worse. The difference is that we say what we think from day to day. In England it is written in a journal which will only appear in the next generation. Tue Arnmn Fine Escarz Jos.—Now that the connection of the Secretary of the Fire Department with the aerial fire escape job has been exposed the Fire Commissioners have called upon him foran explanation. The Sec- retary will, no doubt, comply with the request of the Commissioners. But will the Commis- sioners, on their part, explain what share in the transaction was taken by any member of their Board? Dida Commissioner interest him- selt in securing the purchase of the patent by the city? The Board of Aldermen should order a full investigation of this particular transaction. Probably Goveraor Tilden will now recognize the propriety of taking some action on the charges already on record against this department, and which have been established to the satisfaction of the Mayor. Tae Tammany Exuctrox,—The “boys” stand by Mr. Kelly, as the result of the great Tame many meeting last night will prove to even the most incredulous. He is the most influ- ential Sachem now, and all tho chiefs elected are his friends. Tammany seems to be ste preme in the party. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Jeejee-boy Daddy-boy has may the tour of India. Commander Jonn W. Philip, United States Navy, is at the S:urtevant House. The Progressive Shipby!ider, fiths. New York: J. W. Grimths. Mr, Lucias Robinson, of Elmira, is among the late arrivals at the St. James Hotel, Colonel Charles ‘Iracey, of Governor Tilden’s staff, 1s stopping at the Hoffmin House. Here ts tne Lexington Centennial, and Wendell Phillips unable to get in a single scream, Gongressman Charles H, Adams, of Cohoes, N. Y., ts staying at tne New York Hotel, ‘ Alice Brand; a Romance of ths CapitaL By A G. Riddie. New York: D. Appleton & Co, There 1s some dissatisfaction tn Engiand ovep the organization oi the ar tc Expedition, Naval Constructor W. L, Hanscom, United States Navy, is quartered at th> St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Ro/ney W. Daniels, Collector o! the Port of Buffalo, 18 registere | at the Fi th Avenue Hotel. Days Near Rome. By Augustus J. U. Hare, Niup trations, Two volumes, Philadeiphia: Porter & Coates. Aristarchi Bey, the Turkish Minister, arrived from Washingtoo yesterday and is at the Aibe marie Ho ei. Mr. Henry Howard, ‘Second Secretary of the British Legation at Washington, 1s residing at the Brevourt House.» Lieutenants Robinson and Eden, of the Britist Navy, have ‘taken up their quarters at the St, Nicholas Hore!. Reat Aamir 1 Charles S. Poggs and Captain K, R. Breese, United States Navy, have aparimepts atthe Everett Hous». Mr. Rovert Grant Watson, First Secretary of the By Jobn W, Grit | British Legation at Washington, is sojourning at the Westmoreland Ilotel. General Sveridan and staff passed up on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad last evening, en route to Chicago, Abvé Liszt has been named by the Emperor or Austria resident of an Academy of Music .ow In process of organization at Pesth. How to Write Clearly; Rules and Exercises op By the, Rev. Edwin A. AD Mr. Julius Morgan, the American banker, | sued in the British cour's ia regard to disputed accounts in the French Morgans loan, Toere 1s some reason to believe that the boastee | benevolence of California millionnaires Is only what | plain people call ‘a Lick and a promise.” Grand Transformation Scenes in the United States; or, Glimpses of Home After Thirteen Year Abroad. By TI. Fuller. New York: G. W. Uarletor & Co. Here 1s a frst rate Pennsylvania coonndrame “Does the Lord love & man who speous at 4 church festival the money he owes bis washer woman ?” They say that the old tree on which Farmer Lyveb first illustrated his law 1s stillin good conaition, Time enougn yet, therefore, to get a few slips for gratting. A book from the pen of the late Mrs. Menry ML Field, entitled “Home sketches in France,” 1s iq Putnam’s press, Tne accomplished writer was @ ative of that country. Count von Arnim’s latest appearancs Is in a duel, He acted as second to the Hungarian Baron Atzel. The Baron's adversary, Count Jarvezews, was wounded by a shot In the hip. The popular autnoress, Marion Rariand, has 6 second cookery book in Scribner's press, to be en- ttied “Breakiast, Lanch and Supper.” It will ige nore the tocsin of the soul—tno dinner bell. Captain H. W. Howgate, who 1s prominently connected with the Signal Bureau at Washington was receatly throwao from his buggy, woich came in contact with @ street car, and was severely in Jared. At the trial of the Guicowar of Baroda a man tes tifled that ne was a punkawailan, In ail the hard names cailed tn Brooklyn no one bas equitied this. Neither Beecser nor Tilton bas calied tne other & punkawailay. It 18 the opinion of a French punster that Moses was a usurer, because he autnorized sang pour sang, Which, transiated by the sens». 1s blood for blood; but, transiated by the sound, is near enough to cent per cent. The History of the Reigy of the Emperor Charies the Fitth, By Wiiltam Robertson, DD. With an | Account of the Emperor's Life After his Abdica tion. By William H. Presrort. tnree volumes. Vol. IL pincott & Co, ‘There isa telewrapher’s paisy. The operators kopt very busy find that alter some years they are um able to signal certain signs distinctly. They change their fingers and get rid of the |rouble—foy a time; but these fingers fail, and, ifthe labor persisted in, the whole arm gives ont and the brain becomes aftected, “There is a dog.’ This trivial phrase was used by an instructor of actors in Paris as the vebicia of an important lesson. He taught them to give it in the sense of various impressions, as, ‘ear o, the dog; love of the dog; contempt ‘or the cog astonishment, regret, &c., and so exhivued tha it mattered less wuat words an actor had to giv than how he gave them, In case the Beecher jury shoud’ want tw know how to get at the som « damazes due to filton they may fm @ hint im the plan adopted by the jury the recent case in Scotland, in which a verde: was given against the London Ataon@um. geven of the Jury avored damages, but could not agree on the sum, so they cach one wrote dowa prt vately bis own idea of the sum. They added all these sams together, dividea by eleven ani gare the result as the amount of damages, New edition. In Philadeipnia: J. Be Lip