The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. Rec ea ee ac a td Ot IB Ad as RS ae nn Ba a ' NEW YORK HERALD “™™* BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weckly editions of the New Yorr Huznaup will be sent iree of postage. } THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in ihe year, Your cents per copy. An- | ual subscription price $12 All business or news letters and telegraphic | Gespatches must be addressed New Your | Buna. 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. | PARIS OFFICE-—NO. 3 RUE SCRIBE, | Bubecriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms | ugeenExit Williams, Exit | Delavo. | Attorney General Williams gave in his resignation yesterday, to take effect May 15. There is no reason known to the public why he should resign now which would not have | | been equally a reason for resigning at any | | time within the last thirty months ; but there are reasons of great force why he should bo condemns him it is high time that he should | Te May Vacancies in the City De- be got rid of. Williams has been more conspicuous than Delano as a Cabinet officer by his connection with the Louisiana controversy, which has | | been so damaging to the administration. In- | stead of saving the President from his stu- pendous blunder in the first month of 1873, as a sound lawyer would have done, he found pretended laws to match the President’s | stultiiy himself if he openly dismissed Mr. dismissed. Ho was never fit for the place he | holds and dishonors; but Presid@nt Grant can- | not afford to dismiss and disgrace him. If | istration, The President condoned that act the President should publicly force Williams | of folly by nominating Mr, Williams as Chief | out of the Cabinet some very awkward ques- | Justice, but the country has not forgiven it tions would be asked. It is only sixteen and never will. But Williams’ removal, known wishes, and led his official chief into one of the worst blunders of his admin- | months ago that the President sent the name | under the color of a resignation, docs not of Mr, Williams to the Senate, and asked that yesult from his bad advice on the Louisiana body to confirm him for the great station of question. It is a consequence of his profuse Chief Justice of the Supreme Courtas the suc- | and corrupt expenditure of money in the cessor to Salmon P. Chase. After so aston- Southern States under a pretence of carrying ishing an indorsement the President would out the Enforcement laws. This part of tho | Attorney General's conduct will not bear in- | Williaws from the Cabinet, How could Gen- | vestigation, and the President thinks it better eral Grant ever afterward hold up bis head and | to get rid of the officer than to face the record. justify himself for nominating for the Chief | By putting ont Williams and substituting an Justiceship o man whom he so s00D honest, capable man, he hopes to win the discovered to be unfit for tho inierior office of | s;me indulgent judgment which has followed Attorney General? We suppose that nobody the replacing of Creswell by Jewell and is quite so verdant as to imagine that the | Richardeon by Bristow. It remaius to be resignation of Attorney General Williams is seen whether this game can bo played with in any true sense voluntary. There can be | success. Postmaster General Jewell’s recent as in New York. VOLUME XL-. seoseseeennnensNO, IIS AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. MRS, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATSE, THE TWO OF PHANS, ate l. M ; closes at 10:45 P.M. ATRE, RP EOOTETDUNG MAN, at tugue, Miss Dyas, WALLACK’S NOE GP Retr and Th exhibitions BO" No. 201 Bowery.~-VAnl P.M. Stree YARIS BY NIGHT. 13 P.M. jOUSE, PML; Closes at 10:65 woon's Broadway. corner of 1 lir KAY, at § P. M.; closes at 10» THEATRE Foe Broadway.--VARL USEUM, th Cee ones LD Matinee at? Mov PM IUE, Al. ; closes at 1045 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, ‘West Fourteenth street.—Open trom 10 A. M. toS P, M. N PARK THEATRE, Y, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:45 ROBINSON H Sixteenth street, near Broadwa. IBERNICON, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M. GERMANIA T Fourteenth street.—l)AS sTT! Moses at 10:45 F. M. Miss May: TRE, GPEST, at 8 P.M; T. OLYMPI is al Broadway.—V A{Li1 STEINWAY HALIn Seatt street.—GHAND CONCERT, at 8 P. M, rt Goldbecs. FIFT! RANZA a Mr, Fisher, Mr. Lewis, Sige Fra GRAND OPERA HOUSE, bas hee avenue and | wentr-third street. ». M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. ROOTH’S THEATRE, PEE: of Twenty-third street ond Sixth avenue— NEY V., ater. M Mr. Mayo. EATRE, BLD IN’ EIGHTY Days, ~AHMED, at 8 oses at iif. M. ar. Riguold. STADT THEATRE, So. © Bowery.—LILL! PUTAUERN, at SP. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, r th street vear sixth avenue.—LA JOLIE PaR FUMEUSE, at 87.3. Wile. Aimee. onrieenth street nnd, Irving piace -PHILHARMONT and Irving piace—! c Lato crate aa SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, —< pemcamictcaneaa 0 P.M. FRIDAY, AP? From our reports this morning the probabilities te that the weather to-day will be cold and gene wally clear. Wart Srreet Yrstenpay.—Stocks generally tdvanced. Gold opened at 114] and closed at 115. Foreign exchange was firm and gov- férnment bonds strong. Money on call was sbundant at 2) and 3 per cen Rarm Transtr.—Next Tuesday evening will be a field day at Albany on the rapid wansit question. We hope our lawmakers may pass a bill which will secure to this city the advantage of quick and cheap locomotion for the people. It isa question of the most vital importance to the welfare of New York. Sgxator Fox has introduced a bill to pro- wide for tne repaving of Fifth avenue, in ac. | cordance with the wishes of the property owners on the avenue. nator will de- serve weil of the city if he succeeds in push- ing his bill through at this late day of the session. There ough! to be no opposition to gach a law. Suanxer Wu Proparty remain for some time in Cuba. Fox, the man under whose name he travelled, has succeeded in establish- ing the fact that his passport was stolen. So far the thicf has not been actually found, but Sharkey might be held responsible as a con- federate. It may be that this piece of paper may get Sharkey into trouble in Havana. It is a bad place to fail into the hands of law- yers; but better a Spanish jail than a rope at the Tombs. Tae Brack Hitis.—The restless border popaiation are still in a ferment with the prospect of becoming suddenly rich in the new El Dorado of the Black Hills. People going there under the existing conditions of things are more in danger of finding Indian fs be se rash ad- no doubt that he has received courteous but | exposures proved that the Prosident blundered unambiguous hints from the President that | jn retaining Creswell so tong; and Secretary his room in the Cabinet is preferable to his | company. | make for him is as yet unknown; but he will | probably exchange the Attorney Gencralship | for some other office. The Russian mission | might have suited him very well when it fell | Williams took in the Catacazy controversy, ' which caused so unpleasant a stir in Was | ington society, would have made that pesi- | tion very awkward. A statement telegraphed | yesterday from Washington, that Mr. Wil- | liams resigns in order to return to Oregon | | and enter into the contest for the United States Senatorship, is ridiculous. The first vacancy occurs in March, 1877, by the ex- | piration of the term of Mr, James tee Kelly, the democratic ‘and a resignation fifteen‘ months hence would do as wellas a resignation now, if that were the object. Besides, Oregon bas become \a decidedly democratic State, and, on the ! maxim that a bird in the hand is worth two ' in the bush, Mr. Williams would do better to ears; closes at 1045 | bold on to'the office he has rather than lool | | to the improbable chances of a republican | Legislature in Oregon next year. No matter how cloverly it may be smoothed over, Mr | Williams’ resignetion has been extoried from ‘him by political necessities. Had the Con- | | necticut election been a victory instead of a _pavy’Ghockett ct’ P.M; clows at defeat this partial break-up of the Grant aff | Cabinet would not have taken place. It re-_ | sults from an imperative necessity of doing | something to retrieve the sinking fortunes of | the republican party. | The similar resignation of Mr, Columbus | Delano, Secretary of the Interior, which is ex- | pected within a day or two, will be voluntary | only in the same deceptive sense. Unfor- | tunately for President Grant, his brother, | Orville Grant, has been a recipient of lucra- | tive favors from the Secretary of the Interior, as well as John Delano, the Secretary’s son. | Delano’s claim to be “let down easy” would seem to be even stronger than that of Williams. For the President to | turn out an Attorney General whom he had | nominated for Chief Justice would seem less | damaging than to dismiss a Secretary of the ‘Interior in whose malversation a brother of the Presjdent bas been an accomplice. If President Grant should venture to make charges against Secretary Delano as a ground of removal the recoil would be fatal if it were | shown that the son of the Secretary shared the plunder with the brother of the President. | The charges of corruption against that depart- | ment relate to the Indian agents, of whom Orville Grant was one, and the President could ili afford to convert the Secretary into an enemy, knowing that so potent a weapon of vengeance was in his hands. These “‘resig- 3 are made on nations’ of trumped up pretences to save the credit of the sers and the President ; but they movals disguised, because it would ging to the President as to the dis- ls to have them appear in their true character. Removals would be confes- sions. A removal of Williams would be a confession that the President perpetrated a stupendous blunder in nominating hin for Chief Justice ot the Supreme Court. A removal of Secretary Delano would be a confession by the President that he had connived at corruption, to which his own brother was a party. General Grant is | constrained to deal gently with the dis- | placed members of his Cabinet, lest they turn upon him and rend him. He is, doubt- less, too thankful to get rid of them on any terms. Bat why does he cast them out after keep- ing them so long? There are two reasons, One relates to the most important election of the present year—that in Ohio. Unless the republicans can recover the State of Onio this year they have no shadow of a chauce of cai- the Presidential election next year. sis so obvicus and so well understood that both parties concede it, But the repub- lican politicians of Ohio feel that there is no possibility of their carrying the State with Williams and Delano in th As re- zen of that § displaced are really be as dam carded 6! Cabinet. gards Delano, who is a ci ballets than gold nugg the republicaa organs do not attempt any dis- ventarers will in all probability provoke an | , The Cincinnati Gaz » devoted ad- Indian wer which it will cost the country | herent of Grant and the lea dministration millions to terminate. We hope, therefore, | paper in Obio, leaves the President in no doubt thet the army will do its dut as to the sentiment of Mr. Delano’s own drive all intraders off the In . reached it from map we print to-day will give mtending emi- Delano is to go grants a better id of the and dan- gerous position of Bostancx arp Besc1um.—Poo gicm is trying to pleas procecdings aga ciates. These lait day, and Ducherue retuses doug their names. Why not try the and the rack? No doubt under their versua- sive mfluence stout Master Duchesne would say anything Prince might size bim to say, and imy any are hid trom the one, its approval in @ ton, but g for it."’ In ¢ What provision the President is to | | vacant by the appointment of Mr. Jewell as | | Postmaster General; but the active part Mr. Senator, | {nish their | dangerous weapon. If Louisiana forfeits | its pledges, it will be a plausible infer- | ence that all the Southern conservatives will from the Pope to the Emperor William. We Obio have no hope of recoverin § commend the idea tg**e man ot blood and with such men as Delano in the Cabinet, iron, | When his own partyin his own State thus Bristow’s policy involves a similar condemna- tion of Richardson and Boutwell. The Presi- dent cannot recover the g-od opinion of tho country by making removals which are a con- fession of his past blinduess and neglect of duty. Louisiann. The impeachment of Auditor Clinton was by so large a vote, and the preparations for his trial are pressed with so much zeal by | | the Louisiana Senate, that there is no reason | for supposing that this is a mere party move- ment. But it is of little interest ontside | the State of Louisiana. The current statement that the Lower Housg of | the Legislature intend to disregard the | conditions of the compromise is of more seri- | ous and alarming import. If the substance ot the compromise, in thesense in which it was | accepted, should be departed from, such an act of bad faith would inflict great injury not only on Louisiana, but on the conservative cause throughout the country. The Southern conservatives have again and again professed their full acceptance of the results of the civil war as embodied in the three | mew amendments, If these ere solid | reasons for taking them at their word the old | fraternal feeling between the North and the | South can easily be restored. But the country | watches with keen interest for proofs of the | candor and good faith of the South. If, after accepting the Wheeler compromise and the advantages it brings, the | gaining | Louisiana conservatives should ect in dis- its spirit, they would fur- enemies in the North with regard of act with equal disregard of good faith, and, from the moment it is believed that Southern | promises and pledges cannot be trusted, tho | South will sink to the condition of a people who have no sense of honor. If Louisiana, | after accepting the Wheeler compromise, vio- lates its understood conditions, there will bo no further trust in the South, and the last condition of that afflicted and oppressed sec- tion of the country will be worse than the | first. The conservatives of Louisiana should scorn, as a stain upon their honor, any attempt to torn the compro- mise to uses not contemplated by the other side at the time oi its adoption; tor, if the Northern people should be convinced that the Scuth cannot be trusted, and that it docs not consider itself bound by bargains and pledges in the sense in which they were understood atthe time they were made, we do not see how the sectional controversies can ever de adjusted. Unless by their engagements there is no possibility of confi- dence. We sincerely trust that the Louisiana conservatives will carry ont the compromise in good faith in the sense in which they knew it was understood at the time by their oppo- nents. There is nothing which could fatally damage them as suspicions of bad faith. men stand so Tur Removan Bun.—It seems pretty certain that if the Removal bill passes at all it will be in a form not ac- ceptable to Governor Tilde What he ate officers their con- that confer adi desires is power to remove $ judgment of certain to his own duct, It is quite the Senate will consent on him no such authority. Commitice of the Senate ha yesterday that Senator Woodin’s was unconstitutional that body fel! bac’ on The removals by the Senate on accusations made by the Governor. The question under discussion in the Senate related chiefly to the number of Senators whose votes should be necessary to a removal. already clear enough that the Governor will not get the anthority he wishes, sud in that Tt is case he would probably see the bill defea A bill in accordance wishes was offered in the Assembly yester- day, but it is against all probability that tho Senate will accept from the a bil whose leading provision it has deliberately rejected. A Trvce ms THz Mrxrs.—Ail immedis | danger of violence in mining distri seems atanend. The presence of the troops has had the effect of intimidating the lawless rits among the strikers, and th men seem revolved not to retarn to we vin |} are not Jikel oY Th en lence. on now reso) of quest nee, and there ¢ one don result. with with sults frora them to the 2 they would these destr both parties we wi | tribution of patronage? | whiskey, fill the Mayor's chamber with nicely | perfumed visitors and crowd the City Hall | democratic life may be sprung upon them | of their own school sppointed; some demo- | mission and the Dock Commission are also That they have been too few to accomplish a partments—Governor Tilden’s Action. The 1st of May will be moving day ‘or some of the heads of city departments, and | the month will bring forth new flowers in the | municipal parterre. The politicians are much | interested to know of what description the | latter will beo—whether they will be delicate exotics watered by Apollo or hardy plants of strong democratic growth, We are to havea new Fire Commissioner, a new Park Commis- sioner, a new Dock Commissioner and a new Police Commissioner. Are these important positions to tall to the share of the darlings of the Manhattan or the pets of the Wigwam? Ave the patent leathers or the brogans to march to the front in this first important dis- Is broadcloth or corduroy to sit in the seats of office? Those are the questions that now agftate the politi- cal mind; that keep up a constant clatter over bottles of Cbfiteau Lafitte in Fifth ave- nue, exci'e noisy discussions over barroom Park with cracked boots. The Police Commissionership is regarded as the most important position to fall vacant by expiration of a term of office next month, and hence the probable successor of the fussy non- entity, General Duryee, who dies out in a few days, After a term of office as useless te him- selt as to cverybudy else he occupies the prin- cipal share of the publicattention. The ‘boys’’ Go not like the air of mystery and secrecy that hangs about the leaders, and they fear that some name hitherto unknown in active from the Executive chamber. They want one crat known by his works, and approachable by democrats even if their brogans are heavy and their hands ungloved. ‘The Park Com- regarded with interest, although not in an equal degree with the Police Commission. These departments employ many laborers; hence the ‘“hard-fisted democracy,’ as it is called, desires to see men in active sympathy with them in both boards, if Mr. Thomas E. Stewart should be superseded. When it is remembered that four months have drifted away without any change in the personnel of Maydr Havemeyer’s administration it is not to be wondered at that the democracy are ex- | ited over these May appointments or that the nds of the aspirants for the positions should manifest intense feeling over the con- ; on character there ought to be. te A marked feaiure of the preliminary | manceuves is the effort made by the different | interests to enlist the sympathies of the Alder- | men in thelr favor. As the appointments | made by the Mayor, being for full terms, will | have to stand the ordeal of confirmation by | Board of Aldermen, it will readily be un. | derstood why the importance of a city father | has incressed so materially within the past | week, | It is to be hoped that amid all these rival- ries, struggles and intrigues Mayor Wickham | will remain true to his early pledge to be “no | men’s men," but to make bis selection of | public officers in the interest of the people | and of the city rather than in the interests of individuals. Thus far his appointments have | been of a character to meet general approval. | general reform in the city government is not his | fault, but the fault ot Governor Tilden. | ‘Mayor Wickham has proved that he would | obstruct and de | tion. in his power to | Governor Tilden, present unfo ntissioner will go into the Police Department in place of Duryce; but Disbecker and Mat- | sell will still be fastened upon the city. the Ps retires, but he has acted throughout in the cause of reform, and his successor can do no more. | Dep: structed, as they ought to be. therefore, that Governor Tilden’s reprehen- give New York an efficient, capable, high- toned and harmonious government if the : singularly narrow or inexcusably dilatory | duite agree with the Sun that Judge Blateh- | policy of the Governor of the State did not | ford has discharged his duty with a manly ing their offi having the po or disapprove lieves the a tice to them « his efforts in this direc, | nents he will now have it ake, without any thanks to 1 not greatly better our e position, A good Com- The appoi' In | Jepartment Mr. Thomas E. Stewart | The Fire Department and the Dock | tment will not be thoroughly recon. | It is clear, | ible neglest to aid in the reorganization the city government will be as mis- | rievous ter the May appointments as it has heretofore been. “The heads } of two of most important departments in the city e been removed by the Mayor, so | far as bi exiends, on charges affect | ntegrity. The Governor, under the law to approve action of the Mayor, does ils himself of a power he ssess to evade all action and | wralyze the arm of the Mayor. If he be- cused officers to be innocent jus- | ands that he should promptly so declare and veto their removal. If he be- ieyes them to be guilty be grossly wrongs the utes his official duty by neglect. | « to confirm the sentence of the his unfortunate dilatoriness the increased the demoralization of brought, the high office of pt and rendered good gov- | If he is not trifling with | w York, or disposed to tréat | ni sentiments with contempt, ble the Mayor to reconstruct xt month or make public | r declining to do so, ing or r Mayor. raor hi ‘The Canal Committee of the » two reports, one from acnuding the reduction of ir mills and the aboli ight, exeepting foreiga ppose any reduction of It seems clear 8 report that it will be un- the tolis until measures are | better and more economical | We aro on’ the | nm our bout, will ¢ Assemb the tolls on lt of all lis on wp year's sheet. wise to re adopted 1 maw aul poltey, 3 to ont mjustice to y inter- will be | a reduction that proposes to rom c or 1 dollars, But atres pay five hundred dol- vay one hundred dollars— hundr th dred dollors ult why eh Jars for | coucessions, to a tive tkes which waste in a few months the | why fi hy one? We leave Mr. Hauschel | boarded gains of years of toil, | to answer the conundrum, | titute the law to private vengeance. | of the plantati The Dana Habeas Corpus Case. We think we shall never find reason to re linquish the opinion we bave long held—that the editor ofa journal who casts unfounded aspersions on public officers or private citi- zens is justly amenable to the law of libel. If there ere not penalties for causeless attacks We believe the editor of the Sun is of the same opivion, for he maintained it with great force of argu- | ment against a city contemporary two years ago, If he has slaudered Boss Shepherd or Boss Grant or Boss Anybody we should be willing to see him surrendered, though @ member of our own profession, to condignu punishment. The tremendous power of the press to destroy reputations and tortare pri- vate feeling ought to be under strong legal as well as strong moral resfraint. Every right thinking man regards honor as infinitely more precious than life, and an assassin of character deserves the severest pen- alties which the law can inflict. If the Sun bas been guilty of wanton libels on innocent men we should rejoice in the inter- est of sound morals and honorable journalism to have it taught a lesson which would impress journalists with a just sense of responsibility. ‘There are few crimes of deeper turpitude than the wanton destruction of character by the editors of public journals. But editors, like other accused persons, are entitled to the protection of the law. It is one of their duties to expose public corrup- tion; and when, in the discharge of this duty, they incur the hostility of powerful men, the law should protect them so long as they act from honorable motives. Mr. Dana’s scathing exposures of the Washington Ring has raised up hosts of enemies who scruple at no expedient to bring him within the clutches of the law. Ina recent case before a Wash- ington court he was fraudulently subpoenaed as a witness, in the hope that his attend- ance would bring him within the Dis- trict. This device for entrapping a New York editor was so palpable and so barefaced a trick that Mr. Dana was justified in refusing to obey a subpcena issued on a false pretence, whose real aim was not to secure his attendance as a witness, but to bring him within the jurisdiction of a Wash- ington court for purposes quite foreign to the case in which he was summoned. When Mr. | Daua retused to obey the subpoena an attach- ment was issued against him for contempt of court, and he very properly resorted to a judicial tribunal for @ decision as to his duty. Judge Blatchford has decided that the court of the District of Columbia had no legal au- thority to bring Mr. Dana before it. He makes this so clear by an able and lucid re- view of statutes avd judicial decisions that no | intelligent man can doubt it. We approve of the public spirit of Mr. Dana in getting an authoritative exposition of the law on this important subject. The condtctors of public journals will heve a clear perception of their liabilities since Judge Blatchford’s decision; and although we have no wish that newspapers shou'd be exempt from responsi- | bility for what they publish we are already of the opinion that their responsibility should be defined by lawand not be subject to the caprice of tricksters, who are willing to pros- If Mr. Dana has libelled anybody let him suffer; but every good citizen must abominate the attempted tricks to bring him to Washington on a false pretence as a witness for the real purpose of arresting him as a criminal. We sense of judicial independence. Mexico.—The synopsis of the speech made by President Lerdo at the opening of the Mexican Congress, which we publish in our j telegraphic despatches, will be read with satise faction in this country. It is consoling to | learn that the sister Republic is comparatively peaceful and that measures of wise reform are | being pushed rapidly forward. In order to keep pace with the times education 18 to be’ made compulsory and normal colleges are to be established for the higher education of women. Tt is evident that Mexico has entered upon a new road, in which we wish her success. The people have certainly shown themselves pos- sessed of many virtues, and it may be that a bright future still lies before the sister Re- public. Mn. Parxcr, of the Assembly, is making commendable efforts to force action on the rapid transit question, Thé general bill to | authorize rapid transit roads in cities came up yesterday, and a Mr. Kennaday won the | unenviable notoriety of moving tq report | progress. The vbject of the motion was to delay and defeat the bill. It was, of course, in the interests of the horse car lines and other opponents of rapid transit. Bat Mr. | Prince subsequently succeeded in getting all | the rapid transit bilis made a special order for Tuesday next. Tee Wan i Cuna.—The activity of the insurgents seems since Valmaseda has taken the That redoubtable commander has gathered the largest force ever moved against the insurrection, end if he fails to check Gomez and his lieutenants Spain’s chance of holding Cuba is at an end. In the meantime | the insurgents, true to their policy of devasta- tion, are applying the torch to the plantations in every direction. Never at any period of the st te did the insurgents penetrate as far west as they have done within the past week, and there seems | little reason to doubt that they will suc- ceed in reducing the Western Department to the condition of a desert. By the destruction cripple the Spanish treasury, but every estate destroyed adds to their ranks numbers of men se utilized in the straggle for inde- Within iba will be decided. If Valmaseda | fails to disperse Gomez's force the insurree- tion may be Jooked upon as having at length secured its final triumph. ‘Tre Boarp or Ati bs, by a vote of four- | teen to five, have called npon the Legislature to reject the » Comy ifs sent wp to Albany by ollie Greca and pressed by his loboy at the 5 ‘They declare that these bills, if they » laws, will inereage the power of the Comptroller and retard the growth and prosperity of the city. direct representatives of the taxpayers of the city they protest against them as misebievous jobs. in no way diminished | field. | | thatmany murders had been committed by the is the insurgents not alone | As the | | more injury. Police Violence, The policemar’s club has again been brought into notice by the cowardly and une provoked murder of a man named Campbell. ‘This unfortunate, attacked in the first m- stance by some infuriate ruffian, is slain by a blow, a wholly unnecessary and unwarranted blow, given by a man who, by a strange mis« nomer, is called a guardian of the peace, ‘There must be something very lax in the man- ner of training our police force when a mem ber of that body believes it to be his duty to strike any man who may become involved ina scuffle on the head with his club, without wait- ing to inquire into the merits of the quarrel. In this way a respectable man, attacked by a highwayman, is inas much danger from the staff of the officer of the law as from the unlicensed ruffianism of the thief, Camp. bell’s case is an illustration of this danger, In endeavoring to preserve the peace he offended some drunken ruffian and was actus ally protecting bimself from the violent attack of a rowdy when he was slain by a blow from a policeman’s club, There must certainly be a limit to the privileges of policemen, and we think they ought to stop on this side of mur- der. If the regulations of the force leave this point in doubt we hops they will becorrected, so that the ordinary policeman will under- stand that he must not kill unless at the risk of being hanged. We believe the man who killed Campbell did so in the conscientious discharge of what he considered his duty. It isto be hoped the jury that tries him will have at least as much regard for their duty and send this model guardian of the law into seclusion for the term of his natural life. ParuAMeENt AND THE Prrss.—Mr. Sullivan, one of the prominent home rule memberg gave notice in the House of Commons las night that he would nightly call attentior to the presence of strangers in the gallery. As no one has a right to bein the House of Commons except the members the press re porters will be obliged to withdraw, as, ac cording to the etiquette of Parliament, te notice the presence of strangers is equivalent to demanding their expulsion. Mr. Sullivan's object is to compel Parliament to fix the status of the press, so that the reporters may not be subject to the caprices of the House. Mr, Sullivan is himself a journalist and the pro- prietor of two ot the most powerful papers in Ireland. A Comancuy SuRRENDER.—Wild Horse, the celebrated Comanche chief, and some forty of his braves, with their families, have surren- dered to the agent at Fort Sill. We hope these people will be at once disarmed and sent to some reservation where they can do no Itis almost time to be done with the farce of inviting the Indians to be peaceable and then supplying them with arma and ammunition in order to tempt them to Lisintsted er sn et Dia eae ‘Tue Iyrrnoceantc Oanau.—There is a dif- ference of opinion as to whether Panama or Nicaragua furnishes the best route for the ine teroceanic canal that is destined to join the Atlantic and Pacific, Atfirst sight Panama, on account of its shorter canal line, appears the most suitable, but as the doctors disagree the matter will have to be settled by consultation, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The “Shaughraun” has reached Drury lane. ‘There is @ project on foot in France to cross the Atlantic in @ balloon. Senator Theodore Ff. Randolph, of New Jersey, is sojourning at the New York Hotel. Baron and Baroness de Bassierre, of Paris, have apariments at the Hoffman House. Surgeon Lewis A. Edwards, United States army, is quartered at the Sturtevant House, Senator Wilitam Windom, of Minnesota, ts re siding temporariiy at tae Filtu Avenue Hotel, Commander L. A. Beardsiee, United states Navy, is among the late arrivals at the Gilsey House. Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Wisconsin, | has taken up his residence at the Hofman House. Prince Napoleon bas started a new party Im France. It's like the Grant party here—very se- lect. Sixty-five women are to be appointed to clerk. snips in the savings bank branch of the English Post Office. General W. T. Sherman and wife are in Cincin- nati to attend the wedding of Miss Phillips ana Mr, Onaries Leaman. Aithougu there are ® great Many saints in the recorded lives there are 4,070 saints whose lives have not been written, Consolidation of the leading freight lines means that the ratiroads have made up their quarrei an@ the next victim !s to be the public. Lieutenant Colonel John W. Barlow, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, bas taken up his quarters at the Hoffman House, George Sand is said to be more deeply interested in that “profound spiritaat tragedy,” the Brook lyn trial, than she ever Was on any subject belore, Orton Demonstrator—I don’t care whether he’s orton, or Ticnborn, or Cashtro, or who he Is, but I hate to see a poor man kep’ out 0% his prop’iy— Punch. Cardinal Manning and Cardinal de Luca went to a social gathering at the house of Mr. Story, the American sculptor, in their splendid ecclesiastical costume, At Monaco ® gentleman came to the roulette table and put down lis hatfull of goid pieces, Another said to him, “Beg your pardon, sir, but could you favor me with the address of your hat tert” ‘Che Turkish Minister declares that the report ‘Turks in Bulgaria and Roumania is without foun. dation; and he adds a good reason—-There are no Turks 1a Roumania.”” Gvod idea—Those artists in France whose pictures have been rejected jor the Exhibition are again to have an exoibition of their own, and the world will have au opportanity to learn whether com mitiees alw: uo reject only the good pictures. Very careful on some poinis, the French govern: ment. As the Tichborae case iu England nas as sumed the dimensions of an opposition, aod oper- ates at public mectings, the Paris censorship hesitates to authorize a play made out of the trial. ‘Sho monument to Maximiltan, just raised at Trieste, # a statue whien represents dim in the dress of an Austrian admiral. On one side of the | pedestalis written, “fo all my friends, whom J ext few weeks the | | us ber former successes, is engaged for the nex! leays on the shores of the Adriatic, my last adieu. Maximilian.” Mra. Allen, at one time #0 favorabiy known to playgoers here, and who recently revived among season atthe Chestnat Street Theatre, Pailadei phia, which it 18 intended, if we may Judge oy this instance, to organize on @ first class seale, Maria Augusta Generoso Kstrelta, the only daugh. ter of a weaithy gentleman of Brazil, vas come hither to study medeine that she may re turn bome and devote her life to the service of the poor.* Avis ave amateurs— We lady was under | stood, when she leit brazil, to bave pledged het self to celibacy. The Marquis de Coatiilon is a knight errant o modern times. In the streets of Paris he surprised several small boys hanging a dor or inn. Me let out right and left, rescued ths anima! and gave @ poor Woman fifty ranes to take care of it. The Marquis 18 clearly an estimable gentieman, not withstanding bis partial resemblance to an agent of the Society for the Prevention, &c.