The New York Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1875, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY ANN STREET, AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and ‘after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Hzsaup 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 Gespatches must be addressed New Yorx Henap. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW ORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received snd forwarded on the same terms as in New York. GUM li oo non cascen—ccescsecnnnveno reas, Ill AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRBLS, aor: corner of Twenty-ninth gen-vanee NSTEELSY, atS P. M.; closes at 10 P. TIVOLI IHEATRE, Figehth street, between Second nd Third svennes— | VARIETY, at 8 P. Ni. | c.oses at MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, THE TWO ORPHANS, Eee ST closes at 10:43 Ba road: ROWAN A Peo TOUNG MAN, at ROM AD Hs Mi; closes at 10:40 P. Mr. Montague, Miss Dyas, | COLOSSEUM, Broadway and Thirty-iourth strect FABRIS BY NIGHT. Two exbivitions daily, at 2and 8 P. BOWERY Cer ia iy 201 Bowery. poy TRIET at M.; Closes at 1025 WOOD'S MUSEUM, eaeg eens ot ove h ‘Nrset,—DON ALD Mo ¥, ato P. al. ; closes v. M. BA MIQUE, Eu" Broadway nVARIELY, ats’. M.; closes at 1045 METROPOLITAN MUSECM OF AR’ ‘West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A M. ws. M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, Bem avenue.—VAKIETY, at § P. M.; closes at 10:45 | ROBINSON HALL. Pent. street, near Broadway.—NIBERNICOMN, ats P.M. Matinee at2 P.M. GERMANTA THGATRE. Fourteenth street. —VAS STIPTUNGFEST, at 8 P.M; The Meaning ef the German Menace. The letter we print this morning recording the joy attending the reception of the Em- peror of Austria av a guest in Italy—the Italy torn from him by the valor and persistence | of Victor Emmanuel—accords sadly with the | despatebes we print in reference to the pro- | posed interference of Germany with Belgium. ‘As we understand these despatches Bismarck, dissatisfied with the reluctance of tiny Bel- gium to accept his masterful assumption of | superiority in European politics, bas sought | the aid of Austria and Russia to enforce his | demands. The situation is briefly this. Some time since there were rumors of a “‘plot’’ in Belgium ‘“ogainst the life of Bismarck.” These were attended by “demonstrations on the part of the Jesuits and ultramontanists against the power of Germany." The exact nature of these demonstrations has never been voucbsafed to us, but we gather from the remarks of Lord Derby in the English Parliament that they must have been of a serious character, for they actuated Germany to address a note to England upon the sub- ject. Germany in the attitude of complaint against Belgium—the strongest Power in | Europe actually asking aid against one of the weakest Powers—is a wonder to those who take only the surface indications of European politics. But affuirs on the Continent are never free from these wonders, and what we see now is only an indication of what may surprise us at any time in the extraordinary development of affairs. Belgium occupies a unique position among the European countries, Nature and geog- raphy, which have so much to do with the polities of the modern world, have made it the battle ground of Europe. From the time of Cwsar to Napoleon embattled legions have contended in Belgium for the peace and the mastery of the Continent. Never a free and independent nation by the operation of natural causes, it has either been the vassal of some great Power like France or Spain, or erected, by the intervention of greater Powers, into a dependent independence, like what it now possesses. The people have shown marvellous industry and thrift, Although the climate and the soil have few advantages, compared with what is seen in Italy or Greece, for instance, the energy of the people has made it a beehive of industry and wealth. Belgium is now the busiest, wealthiest and most densely peopled country in Europe for its size. Lying on the edge of the Con- tinent, like a mere flapping fringe on the edge of Germany and I'rance—under the fogs and tides and damp, incessant mists of the pitiless ocean, not as large compared with the loses at 1045 P.M. Miss Lina Mayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, bg y @4 Broa¢way.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.: closes at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUF oh THEATRE tyeignth srreet and Broatway.—THE BIG BO. Hs M.; closes at 10:3) P.M. Mr, Fisher, Mr. Lewis, fas fiaveapoee Mrs. Gilbert. —— | ARK THBATRE, | Broad way.—DaVY POROCRETT, at P.M; closes at | Wa P. Mr. Mayo. OWERY THEATRE, Bowery AROUND THE WORLD IN’ EIGHTY Days, P.M. ; closes at 10:45 P. M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, of Twenty-third sireet and Sixth avenrue— Heng V., atS P.M; closes atll P.M. Mr. Rignold. TRE, ue.—LA JOLIE PAR Pounce, ray PM ACADEMY OF MUSIC th strect and Irving piace. —GIROFLE-GIEO- SSP. M ; closes at li P.M. BARNUM’S HIPPODROME, Fourth avenue an’ Twenty-sev street —Mim LIEDA | GILBERT'S CONCERT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1030 F. ML ESDAY. ark IL From our ae this morning the probabilities fre that the weather to-day will be cold and gem erally clear. Te Revoucrroxany Exrza which the | Henarp printed, and for which the demand was enormous in Concord, Boston, Lexington and other New England towns, as well as at home, is still required by the public. We are glad to announce that, having preserved the plates of this Centennial edition, we shall be able to supply avy reasonable demands from pewsdealers in any part of the country. Wat Sraget Yesrerpar.—Stocks were ir- regular and in many instances lower. Foreign exchange was firm, money easy on cali at three per cent and gold steady at 115}. Remons or CantvetT Cuances are floating about like icebergs upon tropical seas, and melting in the ocean which first buoys and then engulfs them. Now we are told that the Attorney General may soon retire. Well, who knows what next ? We Are Giap to Nore that the Mitchel committee have adopted our suggestion of eaising a fund for the relief of the bereaved family. It 1s far more sensible and decidedly more pleasing to the general public than au empty parade. Now, if the Hibernian socie- ties would only see the advantages of devoting the money they spond in Patrick's Day pro- cessions to some great public work, how much better it would be also! We hope the collec- tors for the aid fund for Mrs. Mitchel will be successful. There is no reason why fifty thou- sand dollars should not be thus raived. Tue Bus to exempt lager “beer from the Provisions of aJl laws relating to “‘intoxicat- ing and spirituous liquors* hangs fire in the Assembly, but will probably pass that body and die if the republican Senate. Itisa dem- ocratic ‘tree lager’’ bid for the German vote. Tae Porvianrrr of the Tichborne cause is shown by the applause which greeted the dismissal of the complaint against Dr. Ke- nealy for libel. It is evident that the English Masses regard the counsel and the client in this case as one, and the case has become something far mo yportant than a mere struggle for the heritage of a nobleman’'s estate. It is a social question, in which the people are the opponents of the aristocratic government. i Dvsri6 mw Pans.—The Paris editors when they quarrel are merciful to cach other. They fight with swords, and wound each other in the hand. It is true that to disable an author's hand is to interfere with his work ; but then he can be just as satirical through an amanuensis, especially if the latter has wit enough to make an improvement on the inflamed denunciations ofhis principal, ’ | to the Pope is the King of Belgium. | rights and greater States as Delaware or Bhode Island compared with the United States, it has at- tained a higher and more substantial if not a more ostentatious prosperity than its neigh- bors. Ever since its independence has been | guaranteed by the greater Powers the people | have contented themselves with work. They have avoided the dissipation of politics. The influence of a wise King like the elder Leopold has been shown in this. The humbler glory | | and Russia we believe to be a diplomatic | Protestant faith against Papacy and wooden of spinning and weaving has been more gratefal than that which comes from the shock | of battle and the roll of drams, Sheltered by its apparent insignificance from the contin- | gencies which oppress other States, there has | been no, necessity for those crael conscription laws and bloated armaments which distress | the greater nations. The people have been always Catholic. They have never failed in | their devotion to the Holy See. The only | monarch who bas sustained his filial relations | The | only country where a Catholic policy has abso- | Iutely raled the governing councils is Bel- gium. They have never forgotten their neigh- | borly relations with France. At one time, | under the French rule, they show that affec- | tion for France and its institutions which | seems inseparable from all countries who have | ever fallen under their influence. The two things which Germany dreads in Europe are France and Catholicism, and Belgium is to- day Frew nd Catholic. | The at jie of Bismarck toward Belgium is | thus explained. In the first place, Belgium 1s French and Catholic. In the second place, | her freedom is guaranteed by England. So | long as and is a power on the Continent | Germany has a rival which she cannot despise, | The question must, sooner or later, arise how far will the policy of England be reconciled with that of Germany. Ever since Bismarck has attained power in Prussia his policy has been defiance. He has trampled upon the feelings of any Power that did not bend to his will. Avowing in the beginning that his statesmanship was simply a question of blood and iron, he has warred with Austria and Denmark and France, and now threatens war with Belgium. | However the German notes may be smothered in diplomatic rhetoric they mean war unless Belgiam accepts the dictation of Bismarck. Nor would this acceptance be difficult or ill- timed from a small nation anxious only for peace and o chance to spin and dig. But Belgium is under the dictation of England. The independence of Belgium is as much an act of England as the dependence of Ireland. How, then, can the country serve two masters, and how can England guarantee the ireedom of « cabinet which is asked to amend its laws to suit the will of the German Chancellor? Thereiore, if the diplomatic struggle be- tween Germany and Belgium means anything, it means that England is the real party. How long will England consent to the policy of Germany? In other days we could easily answer this question, for Bugland and Ger- many bave always been united on questions of religion. But in the past few years there has grown up a strange sympathy between France and England. The turies, under the influence of free trade, stant intercourse, commercial advantages and @ more pertect knowledge of one another, has hatred of cen- con- >to a kind and permanent alliance, war gave France When Napoleon from the field of Sedan an exile Englishmen re had been their ally k iness of the German policy in the matter of the indemnity and occupation—a harsh- deemed bya single spark of courtesy or good feeling—prodnced a profound impres- igland and wounded its sense of fair play. Therefore in that contest which Bis- marck has never ceased to prophesy since the fall of Sedan there is no certainty what England will do, If Germany means to given pla The last pathy. English limping a@ prisoner and embered that he The sym- went Russia, ness sion upon | gainer. \of a | might have wider application in the experi- | of the category. The story that she will be joined by Austria fancy. If it were true then it would mean that Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy and Spain had come to an alliance against the suro enmity of France and the probable enmity of | England. We cannot resist the conclusion that the real meaning of the controversy between Ger- many and Belgium is an effort to solve the problem of English sympathy with the future of European politics. When Prussia made warupon Denmark ten years ago England came within an ace of interfering. The fact that she did not do so has always been remem- bered as a reproach to her, because she was bound to Denmark by ties of moral alliance, She stood by and saw the forlorn and distant Scandinavian King- dom despoiled by the overmastering German Colossus The impression has gone forth that, because of this, she will consent to any interference of Germany with other Powers ; that she will not even protect Bel- gium; that she will feel that Bismarck, like Frederick the Great, is the defender of the shoes. But those who suppose that England will be content to remain silent, inert, dor- mant, a jelly-fish among nations, caring nothing for the world around it, mistake the character of that strange and valiant race The men who accepted the challenge of Na- poleon and held on to him with mastiff grip for twenty years until they brought him down will not fly from Bismarck. If the menace to Belgium is really, as it seems to us, a chal- lenge to England, it will be answered in time, and in the manner worthy of the men | who conquered at Agincourt, Blenheim and Waterloo. Mr. Beecher as a Missionary. A correspondent informs us that kissing is unknown in China. Civilization in that country has never been considered to be as fully developed as it is in the East, and the Chinese are undoubtedly ignorant of much with which younger nations are familiar, Hu- man nature, as Mme, de Stael says, is the same everywhere, and there will be found noth- ing all over the world but men, women and children. To Americans kissing seems to be so natural that we can hardly understand how the Chinese are ignorant of the art. In- deed, if we should physiologically enter into an investigation of the subject the mys- tery would become more profound, Our intelligent correspondent proposes that, as the art of kissing appears to be en- | tirely unknown to the Chinese, missionaries should be sent from this country to give them the proper instruction. He wishes to export Se EO ER Se ee Ty eee ee KGa) Pee eM eT Te ET eR Le ae gee ee oo NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET, | she cannot count upon fhe aid of England. Which of the State Omcers Does the | Governor Wish to Remove? The Removal bill was debated with some sharpness in the Senate yesterday, The ground of objection to it most dwelt upon was the danger of intrusting so much power to party governors of the ordinary stripe. Governors like Tilden or like Dix might not abuse suck a power; but who can answer for the conduct of unscrupulous party politicians in that office? .If Governor Tilden had a lite tenure of his office it might be safe to make over all powers of the State administra- tion into his hands; but nobody can vouch for the character of his unknown successors, So much authority would be less objections able if the other State officers were elected at the same time as the Governor. In that case they would all belong to the same political party, and he could have no party motive for making removals, But in point of fact all the heads of the executive departments are chosen by the people in a different year from the gubernatorial election ; and if they should belong to one party and the Gov- ernor chosen the next year should be- long to the other there might be a strong temptation to remove them on trumped up charges for the purpose of giving the Governor's political friends a majority in the Canal Board, of which those officers elected ata different time from the Governor always form a majority. If all the State officers were chosen at one time it might be safe enough to allow the Governor to remove his political friends elected on the same ticket and by the same party as himself. In that case he would be under no temptation to make removals on false pretexts. If there are any particular State officers now in power whom Governor Tilden desires to remove the Legislature could act more in- telligently if he would let it be known who they are. When the bill was before this Legislature for conferring upon Mayor Wick- ham the same power which Governor Tilden asks for himself nobody was kept in ignor- ance of the specific use which the Mayor would have made of the authority. It was because the Governor knew at which of the heads\ ot municipal departments the bill was aimed that he exerted his influence to have it defeated. If Governor Til- den would disclose his precise aims with the same candid frankness the Legisla- ture could act with a more intelligent percep- tion of the effect of this Removal bill. As he set his face against the bill for conferring on the Mayor the same kind of power which he asks for himself, he should not be surprised at the hesitation of Senators to gratify his wishes. It is supposable enough that the next Governor of the State may be in no re- the Rev. Mr. Beecher as the champion kisser of the United States. Paroxysmal, paternal, sisterly, reconciliatory and inspirational kisses appear to be as familiar to Mr. Beecher | as household words. The honorable defend- ant, according to his own account, has done a great deal of kissing. He has kissed | Mrs. Tilton (sisterly), Mrs. Moulton (in- | | spirationally), Mr. Moulton (experimen. | tally), Mr. Oliver Johnson (unwillingly), | Sam Wilkeson (unavoidably), Mr. Evarts | (professionally), Mr. Shearman (indignantly), | Bessie Turner (fatherly) and Theodore Tilton | (reconciliatory). After this extraordinary | experience in osculatory performance Mr. | Beecher should certainly be fully qualified to | teach the barbarians all that they are ignorant | of in the delicate art. Brooklyn might prob- | ably miss him, but Pekin would be the | If he should, after the triat, con- to go to China in the capacity Plymouth missionary he might | conjugate the verb ‘‘to kiss’’ with greater | success than he has done at home. The con- | jugation ‘I kiss Tilton, thou kissest Tilton, sent | he kisses Johnson, Johnson kisseth us, Wilke- | son kisseth Bowen, Bowen kisseth Beecher,”’ | ence of Oriental climates. But as Mr. Beecher has kissed almost everybody in | Brooklyn it would be a pity if he sboutd go to the home of the Brother of the Sun and Moon and leave the unkissed Mrs. Morse out The Louisiana Keform, The Legislature of Louisiana has been | organized under conditions different from those to which any other Legislature in the history of tbe country has been subject. It is | the creation of the people modified by a com- promise. The whole country is interested in its,action as an experimental effort to recon- cile the factions of a passionate State and to r-deem the wrongs which a free people have endured from a national administration. The North therefore watches its action with ex- treme interest. But it does not follow | that because Louisiana is willing to faith- fully execute the terms of the Wheeler | compromise she should be atterly blind to the wrongs of delinquent and corrupt officials. The resolution which Mr. Lowell, a republican member of the House, introduced yesterday, to impeach for high crimes and misdemeanors the Hon. Mr. Clinton, the Anditor of Public Accounts, is therefore no violation of the political compact | into which the conservatives aud radicals en- | tered by unanimous consent. The country | will approve no compromise which recognizes wrong, and will approve every effort that is sincerely made to purity the government of the State. There has been a great deal of stealing in Louisiana, and any effort to dis- cover the guilty parties will have the moral support of the nation. Wecannot expect the South to be prosperous and peacetul till the State governments are honest and independent of federal control. Tue Rowny’s Kxire has been busy in Brooklyn, and peaceful and unoffending citizens have been struck to death by a raffian without provocation. No de the Jax ad- ministration of our laws has much to do with the prevalence of this murdor spirit. Were rowdies convinced that th » draw- ing of a knife, though no injury were in- flicted, would consign them to ngthened imprisonment, these cases of stabbing would be less frequent. Few of these mon draw their knives with a deliberate intention to kill, but the blow sped i ment of pase sion makes them murder: Phe enre is in discouraging the carrying abou! of danger- ous weapons by the rough element, and this ean only be done by punishing in an exem- plary manner all persons guilty of using | aovern Europe, as scems to be her ambition, | deadly weapons in street brawls, | supporters | move? spect superior to Mayor Wickham ; and if our worthy Mayor, against whose integrity there has never been a breath of suspicion, cannot, | in the Governor's estimation, be trusted to remove city officers for cause, it would seem an assumption of superior virtue for the | Governor to ask precisely similar powers in relation to State officers. Inasmuch as the heads of city departments are appointees of the Mayor, and the heads of State depart- ments are elected by the people, it would seem that the Mayor's power of removal, instead of being more restricted, ought to be more free and untrammelled than that of the Governor. It does not become any Gov- ernor to ask such a power as a mere mark of personal confidence in himself. It is hardly in good taste for the Governor to arrogate to himself lofty moral superiority to a Mayor whose integrity was never challenged. The people of this city have aright to de- mand that Governor Tilden be consistent. Let him stand on some defensible principle. If it be a sound principle that the Chief Executive should have power to remove sub- ordinate officers, let him acknowledge that | what is sauce for the Governor is sauce for the Mayor, unless. like Comptroller Green, he thinks honesty is in so few hands as to bea | What good reason can he assign | monopoly. why Mayor Wickham may not safely be trusted with the same power of removal which he asks for himself? Mayor Wickham honestly showed his hand, but Governor Tilden conceals his. So far as frankness and open-dealing are a title to con- fidence the advantage is on the side of the Mayor.+ The public have been in no doubt as to whom Mayor Wickham wished to re- move, and the opponents of the Costigan bill acted with full intelligence. But the and adversaries of the Re- bill are called. to: legislate in the dark. Why does not the Governor give some which of the State officers he wishes to re- If nobody in particular, then there is no particular reason why the bill should be passed at this session. There will be a State election in November, at which the people will choose six of the nine members of the Canal Board—a two-thirds majority. If, therefore, there is no immediate necessity for removals, the Governor is asking a mere mark of personal confidence in himself. It would be beneath the dignity of the Legislature to moval pass an innovating law as a mere compliment to Mr. Tilden. If the Governor does not want power to remove any of the present State officers, but only the officers who are to | be elected next November, his reqnest implies | a discrust of the people. What present rea | son has he to fear that honest officers will not | be chosen by the people in the next election? | Why should he ask legislation against such a There is no excuse for his re- | s he thinks some of the present State officers are knaves. th Ex-Governor Seymour was inter- a week or two since by the reporter of a leading democratic organ, and be expressed | the opinion that the power of removal will | not be exercised by Governor Tilden when he gets it. What, then, does he want it for? If it is to lie dormant, as mere brutum fulmen, it ean be of little consequence whether the bill ps ency ? practical 8 or not. Tue Lxptans continue to give trouble, and wiil until the savage tribes are taught n lessou and the peaceful tribes are ice by the Quaker policy. Onr In- agement has been a blunder almost time of Penn. always a Sheri done since th Tax Beeenrn Triat.—There are rumors that the climax of the Beecher trial will be reached to-day. The climax has been reached | sv often that we despair of any decisive infor- mation until Mr. Bowen's testimony makes | further excitement impossible, intimation as to | But which are | The Centennial Celebration as ® Means of Education, One excellent effect of the commemorative observances begun at Lexington and Concord on Monday, and likely to be kept up for the ensuing year or two, is the widespread popular interest in early Amorican history. Mr. Bancroft's copyrights and the copyrights of Mr. Irving’s heirs will have their value in- creased in the period through which we are passing; but that isa small matter in com- parison with the great flood of information which will be poured before the public in the daily press, and which will find hundreds of readers for every one who purchases and peruses the volumes of our popular authors. The mass of our people eagerly read news- papers, but not books; and they are no losers when the press is so active and alert as it is in this country, The Henatp, for example, has, within the last five days, thrown more light on the events of April 19, 1775, than can be gathered from the pages of our popular historians. It has not merely repub- lished the chapters of Bancroft and Irving which recount those interesting transactions, but it has spread before its readers a great mess of original documents and fac-similes of the newspapers of the time, which give as graphic a picture as we are accustomed to present of exciting contemporary events. We have, moreover, reproduced all the patriotic poems in which men of genius have breathed forth the soul of those remarkable transac- tions, freed from the encumbrance of minor details and adorned with the striking inci- dents which touch the popular heart and are embalmed in the public memory. In life, force and picturesque effect there is no comparison between what is found in the pages of histo- rians and the more vivid representations which the Hrnaxp has given of the same trans- actions. Besides, the digested information presented in such admirable orations as those of Mr. Curtis and Mr. Dana, who have gone over the subject in the light of recent re- searches, gives the best record and the most enlightened views. There has been no pointof time between 1775 and 1875 when the Ameri- can public has been so minutely and accu- rately informed respecting the opening scenes of our Revolution as it is to-day, in conse. quence of the recent celebrations, lf the other events of the great struggle for independence shall be as fully and pictur- esquely brought out in connection with ensu- ing centennial celebrations the American people will have a more intelligent apprecia- tion of our revolutionary history than has been possessed at any former period. Such information is a necessary element of our national life. Without it, and without the national spirit and national pride which can come from no other source, we are 4 mere accidental agglomeration of sojourners bound to one another by no strong common tie, There can be no true national unity where currents of national life do not pulsate and throb through the whole body, and it is only through our patriotic historical recollections that we can reach unity of sentiment and feeling. The great revival of national spirit which we may expect from the wide diffu- sion of what is admirable in our history in this interesting epoch is especially valuable in reference to our large and increas- ing immigrant population. Unlike our native population, they have not inherited the | feeling and the traditions of our revolutionary | era. Agreat portion of them will acquire | their first real knowledge of that part of our | annals which is best fitted to foster a just na- tional pride through the centennial celebra- | tions which will occupy so much of public | attention during the ensuing two years. If | the fathers of the Republic were really as great and admirable as the illustrious Lord | Chatham deemed them, if his splendid eu- | logy which gave them precedence in the order | of merit of the wisest men of the master | States of antiquity was deserved, our whole population, immigrant and native-born, can- not but profit by the education in American history which has now commenced with such splendid vigor and promise, The Legislature and the Canals, Since Governor Tilden Jaid before the | country his admirable Canal Message, in | which the frands of the Canal Ring were so clearly and effectively exposed, we have been struck by the number of political leaders and retired State functionaries to whom the evils pointed out and the remedies suggested in that able State paper have long been familiar. Ex-Governor Hoffman has been the last to favor us with a review of what he knew about canal matters during his term of office and of the policy he favored. It would have been fortunate if these gentlemen had | possessed the tact and vigor in assailing cor- ruption and the energy in pressing reforms manifested by Governor Tilden, as in that case the people of the State might have saved many millions of dollars unjustly taken from the treasury. Butas they all agree with the Governor that gross corruptions exist in our canal management, and that material changes in our policy are demanded for the public protection, we have a right to expect that they will strengthen his hands in his | efforts to bring to justice those who have de- | trauded the State and to secure wholesome | reformatory laws trom the Legislature. To this end they will perform better service by | earnest appeals to our representatives at+Al- | bany to adopt some practical measures for | the protection of the State before they ad- | | journ than by criticisms of the Governor's | | recommendations and speculations over what | might have been. | ‘Phe Legislature has not yet made for itself a good record on canal matters. The deplor- able indiscretions of the Speaker of the As- | | sembly and of Senator Lord when the ex- | posure was first made cast the suspicion of | | insincerity | over all subsequent professions | from the same influential quarters of a willing- ness to favor investigation. The appointment of a joint legislative committee of investiga- | tion was an idle show, and was not unjustifi- | ably suspected to be a trick in favor of the | Canal Ring. It would have been far | better for the reputation of the Senate and | Assembly if they bad accepted the Governor's | allegations as well founded and set themseives seriously to work during the brief remainder of the session to enact laws calculated to pro- tect the people against similar corruptions in | the {uturfé This would have afforded prac- | tical proof that the Legislature was not under the cont | of the Canal Ring, but earnestly desirous of acting in the public interest, A ee | National Guards of Pennsyivanta, hurried investigation by a legislative com~ mittee could not possibly have any beneficial result. The laws recentiy enacted in relation to frauds on the people are aufficient to enable the Governor and the Attorney General to reach and punish any person who may have robbed the public treasury without the aid of 4 legislative investigation, and Governor Tilden is not likely to neglect to avail him. self of their provisions. The fact that abuses actually exist in our canal manage. ment and that under the present sys- tem the people are robbed and the canals wronged hag never been denied even by a Lord or » McGuire. There could be no good reason, therefore, why remedios should not be supplied and safeguards erected by legislation; hence the waste of time on a useless investigation in the closing hours of a session naturally appeared to many like an attempt to prevent any interference with the privileges and profits of the Ring. We now warn the Senators and Assembly~ men that if they neglect to pass some practi~ cal reformatory law in relation to the canal mavagement they will be branded by the people as the accomplices or creatures of the Canal Ring. Differences of opinion will nat- urally exist as to the most desirable plan of reform; but if our representatives are honest they will harmonize these differences and’ agree upon some legislation in view of the urgency of the case. They will not allowany trifling disagreement as to details to confirm the men who are plundering the State and injuring commerce in the undisturbed posses~ sion of their power. No matter whether the Davis bill or any other bill may be agreed upon, the evils to be reached are well known, the remedies to be applied are patent, and a failure to act on the subject will stamp the present Legislature with a character as info mous as that of any of its infamous predeces sors. Love Murpzrs.—Another person who de scribes himself as a lover has committed murder. Itappears he coveted the possession of the woman be killed, and because she scorned his love he slew her. This will be attributed to madness, and, doubtless, it isa species of insanity. But it may be fairly questioned whether it is of a kind that society may safely accept as cone doning the crime committed, There is evidence enough on hand to show that this last outrage was not the result of a sudden and uncontrollable outburst of passion, but the deliberately planned act of a disappointed and bratal man. Under these circumstances it is to be hoped that the full measure of the law may be dealt ont to the assassin, The laws yers will, no doubt, be ready to argue for the irresponsibility of the murderer; but a man who has sense enough to plan a deliberate murder ought to be held to possess enough sense to justify his being hanged. Tae Mrvers, as our despatches from the Pennsylvania coal regions indicate, are un« certain whether it is to their interest to com tinue the strike, and have called a meeting of their Executive Council to consider the subject. With moderation on both sides, and with the withdrawal of the military, we think a satis- factory adjustment might be effected. It will not be wise to exasperate these men by the display of military force after the emergency is ended. Tue Pustic Scnoon question, in reference to religion, was discussed yesterday by some of our churches, whose deliberations are elsewhere reported. It is surprising to see Roman Catholic rights defended by Protestant divines. Vatmasepa’s Hann is beginning to make itself visible in the conduct of the Cuban war. Whatever the faults of that General may be he is certainly not lacking in encrgy. He is bringing into the field such a force of volunteers as no previous Captain General could command; and if the forces undes Gomez can make head against the gathering battalions which Vaimaseda is bringing to- gether for a supreme effort Cuba may be looked upon as definitely lost to Spain. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. pene Now for a new edition of “Nurwood."” Protessor L. H. Atwater, of Princeton College, ie staying at the Everett fouse. Bishop Jackson, of Antigaa, is among she late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colone! Thomas H. Ruger, Commandant of West Point, is sojourning at the Hoffman Hoase. Stave Treasurer F. L. Cardozo, of South Caro lina, Is stopping at tne Westmoreiand Hotel. Cardinal Manning anticipates a “flery crisis.? We thought ail the cardinals would escape that Captain Jobn Mirenouse, of the steamsnip City of Montreal, is quartered at the New York Hotel. That was & happy stroke of the lawyers to find the real significauce of ‘nest-hiding” in Norwood, Mr. Van Pestel. Datch Minister at Washington, has taken up his residence at the Hoffman House, Another theory about that first snot—It was probably fired by an Irishman in the British army. General P. V. Hagner, of the Ordnarce Depart Ment, United States Army, has arrived at the Fitty Avenne Hotel. Right Rev. Jobn J. Williams, Roman Catholie Bishop of Boston, arrived last evening at the Everett House. There are some things, then, that Mr. Beecher does not want to say to Mr. Fullerton with “em. phatical accaracy.”” Why? Some of the London press men seem to fancy that Schenck’s retirement {rom London is in con- sequence of that treatise on poxer, They don’t know us. A circular letter from the Arehbisnop of Quebed, Canada, has been read in ali the Roman Catholic | churches, ordering public prayers for the cossa- tion of the smallpox, Messrs. William Jobnson, A. ©. Connelly and | Charies Kellogg, a sub-committee of the Senave Committee on Canals, arrived in this city last evening from Aibany. On April 5 Paui Boynton showed the operation of all his iife-saving apparatas to Queen Victoria, in Cowes Harbor. Her Majesty ana the royal family Were on the yacat Alberta. General Prevost, commanding the First division, has tendered his resignation to Governor Hartrantt, This is supposed to bave grown out ofa disagreement be. | ween them. The levée held by Cardinal Manning in Londop Was attended by all the members of the ¢ nlerarchy in England, sav bury, and an immense asse nobility and gentry. The Du Marquis o' Ripon, Lord Deuly vorough, Lord Howard of Gio. members of the House of Com thole Te presont. Im the last published part of wv man history Of the war this order appears as issued August | 0, 1870:—""In case the enemy should pass on te the Belgian territory, and should not be disarmed | immed ly, follow witout awalting further ime structions. DE MOLTKE.” Many officer had binndered toto Belgium og that occasion they might aot have punished vim soversly, a