The New York Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, VROPRIETOR. pe ee NULICE TO SUBSCRIBERS,.—On and aiter uary 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Hxrarp will be tent free of postage. sani Sea THE DATLY HERALD, published every day ix Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. he year. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorr Hana. 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. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL-..--++ NO, Lt AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WALLACK'S THE . Brosdway OAD TO RUIN, avs P.M; closer at 10.40 Ph. Mr. Montague, Miss Jeffreys iewis, Matinee at COLOSSEUM, ¢ Broadway an Thirty-ourtn street —PARIS BY NIGHT. Two exhibitions daily, at 2 ¥. M. and 5 P.M. OWERY OPERA HOUSE, B 5 Fo, Bowers VARIETY, at 8 P. Al.; closes at 10:45 | Wood's MUSEUM, Broadway. corner of Thirtiet sirest-—-DONALD Mo- KAY, at 5 l. aw; closes at 10:49 P.M. Matinee att", M. qe sit , Me METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, West Fourweeath street—Open from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. THEATRE COMIQUE, Maunee at2 P.M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, Fulton aveunue.—VARIETY, at 6 FP M.; closes at 1045 YM. Matinee at2 P.M. ROBINSON HALL Sixteenth street, near Broadway.—HIBERNICON, ats P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M. GURMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—GIROFLI-GIV OFLA, at 8 P.M; Cloves ati 45 P.M. Miss Lina Mayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No. 6% Broadway.—VA Ie 1X, at 3 Pd ; Closes at 1045 P.M. Matinee at2 P.M. FIFTH AVENUK THEATRE, Twentyerighth street and Broad —THE RIG BO- NANZA, at 5 P. M.; closes at 1) 2 Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lewis, Miss Davenport, Mrs. Ui: Matinee at 120 PARK THEATRE Broadway —DAVY CROCKET/, at 3 ¥.M.; closes at 10:30PM. Mr. Mayo, Matinee at 1.30 P.M. BOWERY THHATER, Bowery —\ ROUND THe WURLY IN BZIGHTY Days, acaloM. Matinee at 1:3) P. M. GRAND OPERA HO! hth avenue and Twenty-third M., closes at 10345 P.M.” Maune Ry —AHMED, at 3 ¥ go P.M BOOTH'S THEATRE, eorner of Twenty-third street avd Sixth avenue-— HoNRY V., ate ¥. M.; closes at UTM Mr. Kignuld. Mates a lw PY. M. LYCEUM THE Poarteenth street, near Sixth ave A JOLIE PAR- ato PM. Mile. aAimce. aumee at 1:50 FUMBU OK Me ie E ACADEMY OF MUSIC, aati ‘ ourteenth street aud Irving place.—PHILHUARMONIC CONCERT, ats P.M iad SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway, corner of Twenty-uintu sireet,—NEGRO pines ReLoy, ats P. M.; closesatlu P.M. Matinee at trv Fighth street. bet VABLETY, at 51. M5 RE, .M. Matinee. MRE. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, THE TWO ORPHANS, a8 F. M.; closes at 1045 P.M. Matinee at2 i. M. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 24. 18 From our reports this morning the probabilities @re that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy. See a Wau Sreeet Yusterpay.—Several of the Western speculative securities advanced. Money was easy a gold closed at 1 steady. Tur Removal bill bas passed the Senate. a 3 per cent on call, and . Foreign exchange was Its prospects of passing the House are not | encouraging. We Parr an interesting article this morn- ing on the relations between Germany and Belgium. Tue State Senate Committee on Cheap ‘Transportation met yesterday. There was little done beyond general conversation. Tur lingering wioter brings trouble on sea and land. We have stories of enormous ice fields in the North Atlantic Ocean. The phe- nomenon is unusual and interesting. Tux National Board of Underwriters held meeting yesterday. ‘There was an interest- ing report read on fires caused by the use of matches. This is a question that shoald be considered in every family. Tue Boentxe ov Taree Sreamenrs at New Orleans yesterday is a startling calamity, in- asmuch as it is supposed that about filty lives were lost, either by drowning or burning. The details of the disaster at present known seem to indicate that heroic endeavors were made to save as many as possible. Wuen the Henatp spoke of the Tichborne trial as likely to become as important an event in English history os the diamond necklace in the French Revolution the London journals mocked our judgment. But when the despised, ejected and disbarred Kenealy is returned to Parliament and when he comes down to the House of Commons to assail the Bench, fol- lowed by thousands, as he did yesterday, it looks serious. Dr. Kenealy may be supported by a mob, afier all; bat what isa mob when ‘we come to resolve it down to its constituent elements as a part of society? Tar Brecuen Tatar bas become a question of classics, There was a Latin despatch from Mr. Redpath so vulgar and absurd that Mr. Bergh, who, as President of the Society for the | Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, must take cognizance of it. Dog Latin should make it @ cause for action. Mr. Fallerton has with- drawn from the scene to a series of regenerat- ing Turkish baths, while Mr. Beach and Mr, Evarts are said to be in training under the discipline of the men who trained Mr. Mor- rissey and Mr, Heenan, The trial, bowover, has fallen dead, Sroadway.—VARIETY, at 3 0. M.; closes at 10:45 | | the bad lessons instilled into ignorant minds a’ Thira avenues— | The Demoralization of the Police | Feree—How Can feform be Accom= plished? The intelligent, prudent and honest man- | agement of the police of a great city is ono of the most indispensable requisites of a good government, Without a well conducted, effi- cient police force there can be no safety tor life and property, no protection for the public health and morals. If the men whose special duty it is to see that the laws are not violated and that peace and order are preserved are themselves ruffians, violators of law and asso- ciates of thieves, the very authority with which they are clothed becomes an extreme public danger. It would be unreasonable to suppose that a body composed of over two thousand men, working at an unenviable busi- ness for a small compensation, could be wholly tree from objectionable characters, No citi- zen ot common understanding would expect to find a saint buttoned up in every patrol- man’s uniform. But the fact that, in a large and poorly paid police, we are certain to find many rough and dangerous spirits, renders it absolutely necessary that such a force should be under the control of heads capable of ruling and curbing these elements; of superiors who can command respect and enforce their authority as much by their moral strength as by their efficiency and firmness as officers. It will scarcely be claimed that the police force of this city is now under such manage- ment, and it is about time that the people should look into the actual condition of the department, for the purpose of discovering the underlying causes of the present demoral- ization of the force. We have recently had some alarming evi- dence that the armed patrolmen and detec- tives, who are supposed to be the protectors of peaceable citizens, are as much to be dreaded as the ruffians who infest the streets | | with the object of violating the laws. Only a few months ago a hard-working, honest man was shot dead in the presence of his wife and | children by a detective who was breaking into | their bedchamber in the middle of the night, | under the mistaken belief that he should find an escaped murderer there. About the same time two policemen astonished the citizens by engaging in a clubbing match in the pub- lic streets and beating each other unmerci- fully. A few days since an officer en- tered his station house and made a | murderous assault upon a companion, cutting his head in four places. Now we have the case of a citizen who was assaulted by a ruffian in the streets, and while defending himself was clubbed to death by a patrolman who desired to preserve the peace and took this decisive method of doing so. Numerous other instances of the brutal use of this favor- ite weapon, the clab, have been brought to light within the past year and conveniently | hushed up, either in the police courts or be- | fore the Commissioners. We cannot believe that wanton cruelty prompts all these assaults, or even the larger portion of them. We are rather disposed to attribute them to | | before we can hope fora thorough reform. The Commissioners do not now dare to do their duty. The present Board have delib- erately declared their conviction that many of the captains have been in the habit of re- ceiving hush money from gamblers and other law-breakers; yet, instead of dismissing such corropt officers from the force, they have simply shifted them from one-precinct to another. The Board have by their official action branded certain detectives as the paid allies of thieves; yet they have been willing to compromise with these detectives by putting them on post duty. Charges of levying blackmail are made against officers of the force. When the time for trial arrives the complainants do not appear and are not to be found. No per- son but the accused officers can have any in- terest in bribing or terrifying the accusers to prevent their appearance ; yet the Commis- sioners quietly pass over the matter. Tho political influence behind the officers and men paralyzes the commission and keeps the force filled with disreputable characters. These are notorious facts, and so long as tho Police Department remains under the’ control of the politicians we can expect no substan- taatial and permanent improvement. We may easily have a more capable commission, and under new heads we may secure some changes for the better. But if we desire the real protection of the people; if we wish that the force shall not continue to be a terror to peaceable citizens ; if we are anxious that the laws shall be enforced, that crime shall be punished and that life and property shall be safe, the reform must go deeper than a mere displacement of obscure and incapable Commissioners. The best forco we ever had was that under the Metropolitan Police law, and we must make the department in good faith non-partisan before we can hope to have as good a one again. The ©. There seems to be some delay about the return of Sharisey to the United States. anticipation that Sharkey would be surrendered anyhow as an act of courtesy by the Spanish government was premature. ernment, have made no demand for the sur- render. We have no such claim upon the Spanish, and, of course, would not assert it. Between Spain and the United States there is no treaty of extradition, and in the absence of such a treaty Spain can ose her sovereign discretion without question from us. Mr. Fish is understood as saying that he would not make a request on the behalf of the gov- ernment for the return of Sharkey, because this would give the Spanish the opportunity of Sharkey. | of asking from us the return of Cuban exiles now here and under sentence of death in | Cuba. Rather than give the Spanish authori- ties, in Cuba especially, this pretext, Mr. Fish | waives the gratification that would naturally | result from the return of: a murderer like Sharkey to justice. Without such a request from the administration the Spanish, no matter how anxious they might be to oblige by brutalized officers and to the contempt | felt by the force generally for the authority of | the heads of the department. When Hugh | Gardner was a Police Commissioner he did | not seruple to publicly express the opinion | that “gentlemen” were not wanted on the | force, and, in effect, that ruffians who would | | not hesitate to use the club and had sufficient | muscle to use it effectively were the sort of | material out of which to make good | policemen. The present Board is only | ® cuntinuation of the Gurdner and | Charlick régime, with less capacity. Captain | | Williams, on the occasion of charges made | against some of his men for brutal clubbing, | avowed before the present Commissioners his | beliet in the free use of the club, and boasted | that he had given his men instructions not to | spare the locust on the heads of their prison- | ers. When commissioners and captains ex- | | press such sentiments, and when the Police | Board fails to remove an officer who upholds | | the free use of the club and glories in his | | brutality, it is natural that the frightened de- | tective should lodge his bullet in the brain of | his victim on the firet appearance of resist- | ance, and that the ignorant patrolman, find- ing a citizen defending himself from the as- sault of a rowdy in the streets, should fell | him to the sidewalk with a death blow by way of preserving the peace. | The city of London is more than three times | | as large as New York. The English rough is | | @ notorious desperado, and English crowds | generally are fullof pugnacity. There isa | great deal of drankenness and dissipation in the English metropolis and far more license at night than is allowed in New York. The police preserve order admirably in the | streets; life and property are safer | there than here; yet a case of clubbing j onthe part of a policeman is exceedingly | jealously than Spain. At this very moment rare. When a disturbance of the peace occurs & patrolman quelis it without resorting to | the person of Marshal Bazaine, She would no | violence, and, if anable to do so, he calls for | assistance. He never uses his club except in | actual self-defence; and when he is compelled | to resort to that weapon he 1s held to strict accountability for the act. Bat the London police is not run as a political machine. At | its head are men of established reputation, of intelligence and integrity. It is a force for | the protection of the public, not for the con- venience of politicians. Its discipline is per- | fect, and while the average London policeman may not be any more intelligent than the average New York policeman, his position on | the force is obtained by his qualifications and his character, and not by the influence of an | Alderman,a ward politician or country member of Assembly. The London police- man obeys orders and fears the displeasure | of his superiors. The New York policeman is | probably a secret ally in the illegitimate operations of his precinct superiors, and has no great dread of the Commissioner who has | given bim his appointment for @ political | consideration. If we hrd strong, capable, | high-toned citizens in the Police Board we | | should not have bruisers and ruffians wearing | captains’ uniforms. With efficient and repu- | table captains we should naturally have o different feeling and a different discipline | among the men. But until wo reform the system and the heads of the department we are not likely to get rid of the demoralization | that at present prevails in the jorce, and to | which the “clobbing’’ evil and all other ex- | isting evils are to be traced. without recognizing the fact that the police , force rust be wholly separated from politics | retary of State. | mon sense of intervational law makes the po- | fence isas much against the justice of Spain It is impossible to consider this subject | us, would hardly return Sharkey. Any ap- plication from the District Attorney or the Mayor, or even the Governor of the State, would have no value. Neither of these offi- cials bas any right to address a forsign Power. That right rests alone with the Sec- | If Sharkey is not returned tothe United | States the reason will be, no doubt, that | our government has not asked it. We re- member the Bidwell case, which occurred not long ago. Bidwell, an American citizen, had | been engaged in forgery upon the Bank of England. He escaped to Havana. The Bank of England used extraordinary efforts to cap- ture him. As soon as it learned of his es- | cape to Havana the British government at | once, through Mr. Layard, the Minister at Madrid, asked for his surrender. At this | time there was no extradition treaty between Great Britain and Spain. Indeed, Spain, then a Republic under the Presidency of Castelar, had not been recognized. Castelar asked the | United States if there wis any objection to | the surrender of Bidwell. Mr. Fish answered, giving his assent. Bidwell was arrested, sent | to London, tried and is now in prison for life. At the very time when England asked for the surrender of the forger the Carlists were maintaining a committee in London to find arms and money to prosecute the war against the government. Mr. Castelar might have asked England to return these Carlists to Spain to be tried for ‘treason’’ and ‘*murder"”— justas Mr. Fish fears that the Spanish will ask for the bodies of the Cuban patriots who are now on our soil should he express a wish for Sharkey. There can be no parallel case, and we are surprised that there should be any fear of such action on the part of Spain. No country in Europe cherishes the right of asylum more she protects a'refugee from Freneh justice in more return Bazaine to France than she would expect us to return the Cubans, She regards Bazaine os a political prisoner, just as we re- gard the Cubansas political refugees. The com- litical prisoner a free man when he passes into another jurisdiction, But Sharkey isa mur- derer—vnot an alleged forger like Bidwell, but murderer under sentence of death, He is the common enemy of mankind. His of- as of America. To deal with Spain under the impression that because we ask for murderers she would demand political refugees is to do her injustice. There could be no severer reflee- tion upon the honor of Spain, and it would not surprise us to see the Spaniards viewing it in something of this light. ‘Tax Hoxperp THovusann people interested in pablic travel will be glad to know that there is a new ship called the City of Berlin, which will do many things on the summer sea. We print a description irom our Liver- pool correspondent. Srxator Lonp, in opposing the Removal bill, wanted to know if any canal officer had been found guilty of fraud or malversation in office. We have no doubt that Senator Lord, as a canal expert, knows more about the in- corruptibility of canal officers than almost any of bis associates. But then it might be just as well if some other Senator would stand forth as the champion of their honesty. Or, perhaps, it would be better to allow it to remain an open question until the indefati- The | We, a8 ® gov- | The President's New Departa It seems to be understood that Mr. Williams has definitely retired from the office of Attor- ney General, and that Mr. Delano will soon resign the Portfolio of tho Iaterior. This, at the least, is the way we read the ews, There are many rea- sons assigned for the act, for under this administration the old axiom has been always observed, that few die and none resign. Mr. Williams has had a run of ill-luck in the Cabinet. In the Senate he stood very high, and when his term expired he was looked upon as a man the party would delight to honor. He served acceptably as a member of the Joint High Commission. As Attorney General he gave satisfaction until he was pamed for the Supreme Bench. The criticism and reproach, not unmixed with enyy, probakly, which this sudden and whimsical nomination excited, injured Mr. Williams. It was found that even his own party would not confirm him. He never recovered from that blow. It was cruel in the President to force him to this test. Under a more sensitive administration Mr. Williams would have resigned, as the cen- sure of his party made his usefulness in any ing trapeze people in distress. This is not the | on the part of the Governor warrants negloct way to remain in a Cabinet. Somehow, when the silent Ulysses wants a portfolio he generally obtains it. If he means to give the Cabinet a new tone the country will commend him, but in thatcase he must not pause with Delano and Williams. If it really is a new departure he must wake it more striking and commendable. The Mecklenburg Dec’ tion of In- dependence. We publish a letter from Charlotte, the county svat of Mecklenburg, defending the disputed authenticity of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Our corre- spondent sets forth the North Carolina claims with the best arguments that can be adduced in their support. But our readers must: bear in mind that this is a question to which there are two sides, and as we have made arrange- ments for presenting both sides ip our col- umns by some of the ablest and most erudite pens in the country, we advise them to hold their judgment in suspense until they see the best that can be said pro and con on this con- troverted point. The Hrnanp is trying to avail itself of the great interest awakened by the current centennial celebrations to edu- Cabinet impossible. If he were not compo- tent to sit on the Bench how could he be com- petent to advise the President m matters of law affecting the honor and the peace of the country? But the President, who hasa stub- born element of fidelity about him, would not abandon his Attorney General. Mr. Williams has consequently remained in the Cabinet, but his usefulness has been at an end. He has never had tho respect of the country since his defeat in the Senate, This has appeared in a certain recklessness of party devotion quite out of keeping with an office almost judicial. He has been the most | consistent partisan in the Cabinet. When any- thing was to be done for ‘“‘the cause,’’ when a | State was to be dragooned into obedience or robbed of her sovereignty, the Attorney Gen- eral was prompt and ready. The President | has had no more obedient minister, and now that docility is no longer required the com- pliant Williams is forced into retirement. ‘There have been rumors of his seeking one | mission or the other—of his being sent | Russia and Spain. But Mr. Williams p' ably feels that ho has more friends at home, | and that in America at least he can live with- out making explanations. We do not doubt that when the record of this Cabinet is made up the Attorney General will be regarded as an unfortunate rather than an altogether un- worthy man. He always seemed to us to be no better and no worse than his associates. He is not as good an officer as Judge Hoar, but he is wuch better than Akerman. His partisanship was more the effect of his associations and his responsibilities than from any express desire to reduce a legal into a par- tisan place. If the President had insisted upon his Attorney General attending to law and ignoring politics we have no doubt Mr. Williams would have been well enough con- tent. He would bave had an easier and a more honorable position, and he would have retired from the office with a higher fame as a lawyer than wnat be hasearned. But, unfor- tunately for Mr, Williams, many things bad to be done. He was content to do them and to accept the odium of the actions. Because of that odium he must now retire from the Cabinet “tor the good of the administration.”’ Mr. Delano would seem to be in the samo position, Mr. Delano, when in Congress, had independent tendencies, and was never docile in the party traces. If he had remained there he would probably have turned up at the Cincinnati Convention lke J. D. Cox, and by this time have beeome a model statesman | like Carl Schurz, who, a few years ago, was a | “wild, crazy radical;” but now that he has left his party has become an “illustrious” and “independent” statesman like Dorsheimer and Jobn Cochrane. But when Mr. Delano entered the Cabinet he became a sturdy and resolute party man, believing in drill and discipline and the “cause.” If he could not shout as lustily for the causs as the eloquent | and resounding Jewell he had a silent efli- ciency in forcing results which commended him to the President and the majority. At | one time he was thought of for the Treasury. | If Boutwell could only have been excavated out of the Cabinet his place would have been given to Delano. But there was a good deal of the geological formation about Boutwell, and he remained until by some volcanic action in Massachusetts politics he was pitched into the Senate. But Delano had by that time outhved his usefulness. His department began to have an ill name. This, we sup- pose, is because the Interior will always have anillname. It is a sort of barnyard to the Cabinet, and is filled with ail manner of noisome débris. There were Indian rings and pension frauds and land grant troubles and difficulties about patents, and it became evident to the country that the Secretary of the Treasury should come from a purer atmos- phere than the Department of the Interior, Mr. Delano has not been as hearty in partisanship since Mr. Bristow’s appointment to the Treas- ury. Whether he is justly judged or not far be it from us tosay. But the impression has become general that the Interior Department is corrupt and that Mr. Delano has not made himself conspicnons in arresting corruption. We cannot say how true this is, and we pre- sume there is a good deal of lying under it all; for, all things considered, we do not regard an officer of the Cabinet as necessarily a can- | didate for jail. And, indeed, ever since we have had cabinets we have had these rumors hovering over them like a cloud of summer in- sects on the Jersey shores. Mr. Delano has no doubt done his work as well as he could in the Interior, with decent regard to what was due to the government and the people, and at the same time not unmind{ul of his party and his friends. This is not a serious offence, especially inthe age which Mr. Tweed has celebrated by going to jail. Jf the Cabinet do nothing worse than to ‘‘take caro of their friends’’ the country will survive it. The purpose of tho President in making these changes does not appear. We speak of Mr. Delanoas baving retired, al/hough he still lin- gers, and the President has ‘unabated con- fidence” in him. tion of time. Mr. Delano must feel that he has survived his usefulness, aud no doubt he be an “independent statesman.” From the last despatches he seems to be holding on to gable Governor and his Commission get Vbrough their investigating labors the Cabinet with his fingers and toes and cate the American public in the revolutionary history of the country. Even on points respecting which our own opinion is fixed we will not dogmatize, because the greatest benefit we can confer on our readers is to familiarize them with the nature of historical reasoning, of which they will see admirable specimens in connection with this controverted question of the Meck- lenburg Declaration of Independence. We conceive that we shall confer a far greater benefit in teaching the popular mind how to reason on this class of questions than by reaching and announcing conclusions of our own and asking the public to accept them in deference to our judgment. ‘There is one point on which we totally dissent from our North Carolina correspondent. He contends that even if the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is merely a patriotre myth it is | not wise to disturb so pleasant an illusion. On the contrary, we consider the claims of trath as paramount to all other claims. The country would lose one of the chief advan- tages of these centennial celebrations if the deep interest they excite were not utilized in deciding the disputed points in our national history. The great events which are recalled to the public mind by these centennial observances are so splendid and glo- rious that there is no need of tricking them out with fictitious plumes. The simple, naked, majestic trath will amply vindicate the claim of our patriotic forefathers to deep gratitude and lasting admiration. Our na- tional history is too great to need the aid of fiction, and every true lover of his country should disdain and scorn meretricious decora- tions of what is so admirable in the simple light of trath. There are some points in the Mecklenburg affuir which no intelligent historical inquirer calls in question. It is undisputed and indis- putable that in the month of May, 1775, there was a courageous demonstration in Mecklen- | burg county against the pretensions of the British government, But it is disputed that the 20th of May was the date of that patriotic demonstration, and it is disputed that the resolutions copied in the letter of our North Carolina correspondent are genuine. The grounds for contesting these claims will be | very ably presented in our columns by writers whose acuteness and research | entitle their arguments to critical | examination and their opinions to great def- erence. These accomplished scholars will | maintain that the 3lst of May and not the | 20th is the great North Carolina date; that the series of resolutions copied by our North | Carolina correspondent are apochryphal; that | the resolutions actually adopted are those | from which Mr. Bancroft qnotes in the seventh volume of his history; and that if a centennial celebration takes place in Char- lotte on the 20th of May instead of the 31st it will commemorate a fiction and not a fact. Having thus stated the points in dispute we have prepared our readers for the interesting discussion which will follow by writers whose mastery of the subject will enable them to present instructive examples of historical | Corvantes. The Spanish residents of this city will to- day hold a religious memorial service in honor of the great Cervantes, the author of “Don Quixote.” Among the famous men of a great age this romance writer stands boldly forth as the literary and intellectual rival of | Shakespeare. His profound knowledge of buman nature, combined with wonderful satiric power, has made him famous through- out the whole civilized world. Perhaps no writer that has ever lived has been so generally read or univer- sally admired, and it is certain that so long as any shreds of our present | civilization exist his story of the Knight of La Mancha will endure. It is a pleasing evi- dence of the sympathy of the Spanish race with the higher mental efforts of the human mind to find them honoring the memory of a great literary man at a time when their coun- try is torn by civil dissensions and rebellion | threatens to destroy the integrity ot their empire. It is a curious illustration of the power of the pen over the sword, for while | the great captains are forgotten the writer | lives, as powerful for good now as when he wielded his pen, and growing stronger us the world grows older. | A Wonp to tae Mayor.—Mayor Wiclfttum will probably take notice that another build- ing fell in this city yesterday. Only one man was killed, but three others who were on the point of entering the building would have doubtless shared the same fate if they had arrived a few seconds sooner, The deceased, like the victims of the Duane street calamity, was not of the silk-stocking democracy. He belonged to the “‘brogans.” Nevertheless, life was no doubt sweet to him, and if we had an efficient Superintendent of Buildings he might have been alive to-day. And so might But we rogard it as o qnes- | oll the poor creatures who met their death in | St. Andrew's church, mirid Mayor Wickham that charges of criminal | would say if pressed to it that he would rather | neglect of duty are pending against the Super- Probably this will re- intendent of Buildings, Why are they not tried? Is it true that the Superintendent finds special favor in the Mayor's office? Or | tecth and his head upside down. like the fiy- does the Mayor suppose that neglect of duty | British Legation at Wasuington, tg at tue Ci of duty on the part of the Mayor? The Uncolored Trath About Louisiana. Lhe interesting letter of Mr. Nordhoff which we print this morning conveys a clear idea of tho present politics of the miégoverned State from which he writes. The coolness of Mr. Nordhoff's temper, his practised powers of observation and his conscientious fidelity qualify him for disentungling the truth from the conflicting statements of partisans, and the public will be glad to get at last an intelligent and trustworthy descrip- tion of the present state of affairs in Louisiana bya writer who observes them from the stand- point of trath without any party bias. Ie porirays the actors, sets forth the motives and recites the facts, exaggerating nothing, extenuating nothing, but representing all with the faithfulness of a photograph. We have the characters of Wiltz, Kellogg, Packard and the other active politicians sketched with fairness and discrimination, accompanied with a portrayal of the parties or factious they control. Among the many instructive facts presented by Mr. Nordhoff we will notice only one. It relates the gross inaccuracy of the federal census of that State in 1870, which made tho number of white males of the age of twenty- one years aud upward and the number of col- ored males of the voting age nearly equal, the difference, as represented in that census, be- ing only » few hundred; whereas, in point of fact, the real difference could not have been less than ten thousand. This correction is of great importance. The chief argument employed, both in Louisiana and in Congress, in support of the fraudulent conclusions of successive returning boards has always been based on the census report that the number of white and black voters is about equal. As tle negroes acted almost unanimously with the republican party it was contended, with specious plausibility, that they had been pre- vented from voting by White League terrorism when great discrepancies wore found to exist between the actual election returns and the figures of the census. The whole strength of the Kellogg argument has consisted in this plausible inference from the census of 1870. But this line of reasoning is exploded by the fact that the Louisiana census was erroneous. It was taken in June, a bot month in that climate, when a large portion of the white inhabitants are absent trom the State ; whero- as all the blacks remained at home, hot weather being congenial) to the negro consti- tution and the negroes being too poor to seck relief from summer heats and diseases in cooler latitudes. This fact clears up so many difficulties that we single it out for particular mention, The whole letter abounds with facts equally pertinent and enlightening, although no other one dissipates so many misconcep- tions, Tux trial of the Guicowar of Baroda, an In- dian prince under the dominion of the Queen, on the charge of having attempted to poison an Euglish officer, came to an end recently. ‘The commission did not agree upon a verdict. A proclamation from the Viceroy, however, removes the Guicowar from his sovereignty. Another member of his famiiy will be nomi- nated to the throne. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sevator William W. Eaton, of Connecticut, ia residing at the New York Hotel, Rear Aamiral Wiliam Reynolds, United States Navy, i$ quartered at the Gilsey House. General William F. Bartlett, of Massachusetta, is among the late arrivals at the New York Hotel. Senator Jonn P. Jones, of Nevada, arrived at the St. James Hotel last nignt trom Washington, Sefor Don Antonio Mantilia, Spanish Minister at Washington, fas apartments at toe Hodman House. Captain William Gore-Jones, naval at/aché of the a don Hotel. Secretary Bristow leit Washington last night jor this city. He wil: be absent from the capital three or four days. General Garfield, of Ohio; Governor McCook, of Colorado, and a number of otiers leave Cuicago Jor San Francisco to-day, Southern people fancy that even in the North men have a better opinion of Lee than of Granw vs a pity that Grant became President. In & French tywoin the Department of the Jura the washerwomen have struck for wages. They aemand twenty cents @ day and their meals. General J. W. Hall, of lal) Valley, vol, of the Filth Army Corps memory and present member of tne Colorado Legislature, is stopping at the Gilsey House. There is an average of five “lost children’ picked up every day in the streets of Paris, aud the larger number of them are purposely avan- doned, General Egbert Viele wiil read a paper defore the Geographical Society, next Thursday eveving, on the “Mountain and River Systems and General Physical Geograpny” of this State, an interesting theme. A cable velegram from Rome, under date of yes- terday, Aprii 23, reports that Admirai Worden, of the United states bas arrived at Florence, Italy, where he is tue guest of Mr. Granam, we American Consul. Alas! where is no freedom of the presa. The Jatest literary development in France is a didactic treatise on the various forms of highway roobery, intended for the instruction of adventurous young gentiemen, It was ruthlessly destroyed, General 8. W. Crawford, United states Army, ‘will represent the American Geographical Society at the Parts Congress in the Section of Expiora- tion. General Crawiord was one of the heroes of Fort Samver and was severely wounded at Gettys burg. At a petit sowper of actors and actresses in Paria they toasted the mother of a charming | artiste because she had “brought ner daughter ;'* they toasted another mother because she nad sent bers, “Jn the bright Lexington of youth there's no soch word as {ail was the pithy exclamation of a Boston reporter, as ne endeavored to reach tie centre of the lace Centennial celepration by | ing on to the railing of the rear platform o. a | Tailroad car. There recently died in Paris, at the age of seventy-cight, a man who had carried the willow basket and hook of @ ragpicker in the streets of that city for filty years. Head gone through « fortune in his youth at Toulouse, and had studied 1a subsequently, but feli from point to point wit he got to a station below Which it was apparentiy impossible to fail, and there he rested, a great example of conservatism. Ali the way from Colorado comes this expiana- tion of the hole in William venn’s pocket hanv- kerenief:—*This morning Mr. Peun went out anuer the tree to conctude his celebrated land-gravbing operation witn the Indians, the forest joliage waa laden with @ heavy dew, and, a8 the young Indiun chiefs and maidens put on the brass rings and giass beads, which the conscientious Wilitam pad given them in exchange for their broad squere jeagnes of fertile Jand, and commenced to dance | in joy, they shook down the dew on tis venerabie | head and be canght a severe cold in nis nose. And the Vigorous use to which he was obliged to pat bis handkercwel resulted tn wearing big Bole Lt Uy”