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

NEW YORK HERALD’ AND ANN STREET. BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--Ou and ‘er January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly ‘itions of the New Yorx Henaxp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every duy in the year. Four cents per copy. An- | sual subscription price $12 Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly | pealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE | HERALD—.NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | | received ond forwarded on the same terms | es in New York. VOLUME XL TONIGHT. AMUSEMENTS ‘wenty-ninth greek NEGRO ELT eat WP. 3 LLACK!s THEATRE, acne SAN Lge 1 MINSTRELS, meee. st closes WAL Per heTHe ikloM HEL #63, ats P. M.; closes at Pa a Miss Ada Dyas, Mr. Montague. LOWERY OPLRA HOUS! nee We VARIETY, at 8 P.M; ag ee, atlow ROBINSON HALL, aftteet English “Opera—GIROFLE- Hy Fironfit sta. 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Fizerwoop Park Races.—The trotting yes- terday was witnessed by a large and entbusi- pstic assemblage. The harness purse was won by George H. Mitchell and the team race by Lady Barnbam and mate. The programme for to-day prowmiees excellent sport. Tae New Carrion © SSION Was agreed om in the Conference Committee yesterday, and is to consist of the Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General and Cena! Anditor. The proposed appropriation for this year is one million dollars, and Mr. Eaton is to be con- tinued as Superintendent, subject to removal by the Governor. Forrest fimes are raging in Pennsylvania, ‘nd threaten several towns in the lumber regions with destruction. The local authori- ties seem alive to the danger and are making every effort to arrest the conflagration. Unless, however, there shonid come a heavy fall of rain it is to be fesred that great damage may be done. Srvaror Sruxnec ; distinguished himeelf the other day by solemnly promising to consider the Rapid Transit bill in the open Senate, when at could be properly discussed and either passed or defeated. The Senator, in the in- terest of the enemies of rapid transit, delib- erately broke this This is a courageous act on the part of Senator Selkreg. to say the least, and deserves to be publicly acknowledged. ‘Tux Day Ser Apart for paying honor to the gallant dead who fell in defence of the Union draws near, and the notes of preparation are heard in the camp of the Grand Army of the Republic. This year the National Guard of this city will not parade, owing to « well grounded objection on the part of members to the use of the National Guard as a political engine. It is urged, with stronz reason, that the honoring ct the Union dead should be the care of the nation, not of a secret and irresponsible body like the Grand Army of the Republic. Szyaton Mappers, of Orange, told the listening Senate the other night “that anew born desire tor rapid transtt’’ bad seized | many members. Senator Madden has learned ,A great many things since he lived on the tonte of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. Ho will learn « great many more when he comes before the people fo defend his extraordinary course on this great question. promise, Tan Yeuow Fiac.—-the quarantine au- thorities are busily engaged making preparn- tions to ward off any intections diseases that may come into port from the tropics during the summer. There does not seem any good feason to fear uny extraordinary visitation from Yellow Jack or the cholera, the twin bugbears of all creat ports. Experience teaches that in presence of proper sanitary | precautions they are not so formidable as they sre commonly esteemed, and as our health wuthoritics seom wide awake tho citizens can dismies ail fear about chs health of this city during the summer months. | have shown, he simply follows the example | Grant sent orders, NEW xyOKK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY -21, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET. Sherman and Grant—Let Us Have the Truth, The diseussion attending the publication of General Sherman's “Memoirs” is taking a wide range. Many opinions are expressed as to the wisdom of the General in inviting the contro- yersy. Some military critics think that it would have been wise for him to have | ignored the subject altogether, leaving to history the adjustment of his own fame. Others recall the generosity shown by Pres'- dent Grant in restoring to him his protest against the attack of Vicksburg—an attack which was successful against Sherman’s jndg- ment, and was the reat foundation of the Presi- | dent's military fame—and contrast this with what appears to be a desire on Sherman's part to invite a controversy with the President. | Others regard the book of General Sherman | as simply a tribute to the West Poiat ‘‘aristoc- racy’? which was so unfortunately dominant | : ‘not be more clearly joined than upon this | during the war, and an attack upon the volun- tecr system and volunteer generals. General | Logen, in correspondence with‘n Philadelphia paper, published yesterday, makes the apt | point that if General Sherman did not think | | him fit to command after McPherson's death, General Grant did think him fit to super- | sede Thomas, a greater general than McPher- | son, and holding a higher command. This point we think aptly taken.. The friends and admirers of Mr. Stanton are preparing to vindicate the great Secretary from Sherman's | So that we are really em- | severe assaults. barking upon a discussion that bids fair to be more interesting than any we have had | | since the war. Clearly enough, General Sherman has a right to publish the memoirs of his military career dnring his life. In doing 80, as we ot commanders as illustrious as Xenophon, , Cesar, Frederick, Napoleon and Scott. Nay, more; he follows the example of bis imme diate predecessor, General Grant. It is well understood that the President has given official sanction to the admirable and com- | in | prehensive work of General Badean, “The Military History of General Grant,’’ the | second volume of which is soon to be pub- | lished. The difference between General Sherman and General Grant is that Genoral Sherman —a ready, interesting and at times a brilliant writer—prefers to tell nis own story. General Grant is a clumsy writer, and has been too much concerned in public affairs to give the time necessary to a history; so he has selected the facile and scholarly pen of one who was near him in the army. More than this, no harm is ever don by telling the truth, In the inter- est trath no can the course of General Sherman, As Milton says, in an extract quoted by Judge Porter the of one” | other day, ‘Though all the winds of doc- trine were let loose upon the earth, so Truth | be in the field we do injariously to inisdoubt | her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. | Who ever knew Truth put to the worstin a free and open eneounter? For who knows not Truth is strongest next to the Almighty? She needs no policies, no stratagems, to make her victorious. Those are the shifts that Error uses against her power. Give her but room and do not bind her when she sleeps."’ These majestic words can find no more appropriate application than to the discussion of General Sherman’s ‘‘Memoirs.” The only question we have to ask is, Does General Sherman tell the truth? Does he tell it without needlessly of- fending any one and without the violation of the proper amenities and reservations of life? It he does not then there are a hundred thousand witnesses who can rise and confront him. Every general in the army who served with him, the officers, the private soldiers, his antagonists, the people whom he conquered, the War Department, the civil servants of the administration—ell have it in their power, on one point or another, to testify whether General Sherman speaks what is true or what is false. Itisim the interest of truth and history that this discussion should proceed now. Better have the truth determined when the witnesses are living than to wait until the accumulated dest of generations makes honest investigation impossible. ‘Take one point alone, and this is only one of the points about which there will be wide disenssion. General Sherman, in his book, plainly says that the march to the sea, con- ceded by toreign critics to be the most brill- iant achievement of the war, was his own act, and that he has been denied this honor by the friends of President Grant. Let us qnote bis own word: make our statement exact. On page 16¢, volume ii., of his “Memoirs,” the t “This wes the first time that | ant Asse to the march | sea, and although many of his warm friends and admirers insist that he was the author and projector of that march, and that I simply exeented his plans, General Grant has never, in my opinion, thought so or said so.’ This clearly means that General Sherman enffers under the in- justice pat upon him by the “friends and ad- mirers’’ and historians of General Grant's career. In order that it may be seen that he does not speak without reason,and as showing the wisdom and courage of these ‘‘Memoirs,’’ let us quote again from two at least of the military authorities whose position and intor- | mation entitle them to respect. First, we take General Badean, whose work is published ander the personal supervision of the Presi- dent, so tar as its facts are concerned. eral Badeau, an honorable and trastworthy author, in volume i., page of his “Mili- tary History of General Grant,’ says that “with a view to the move- ment against Atiggta and Mobile, which, not- withstanding his promotion, Grant still in- | tended to lead in person. This operation had , now been frequently explained by him to his staff. It was his plan at this time to fight his way to Atinfita, aud then, holding that place and the line between it and Chattanooga, to ent loose with his army either for Mobile or Gen- | Savannan, whichever events should designate as the most practical objective point. He meant to concentrate Sherman's, Thomas’ and Schofield’s armies for this purpose, and enter- tained no doubt whatever of entire success. When he started for Washington it was his firm intention to return to Chattanooga, and while he retained control of all the lead in person tnose which moved toward the sea.” No armies, to this, and to show, iurther, that General Badean | was not alonein this opinion, let us qnote from the work of Hon. Charles A. Dana, formerly Assistant Secretary of War to Mr. Stanton, a qnestion | | road can be built which is not wanted, statement could be plainer than | | member of General Grant's military family, o writer of his life, and one who, from his posi- | | | tion under Mr. Stanton, would have a thor- | ough knowledge of war. Mr. Dana, on page 160 of his “Lite of Grant,” says: — that the idea of severing the rebel territory nooga to the seacoast first presented itself to his (Grant’s) mind.”’ Again, on page 414, the events of the | “It was about this time | again by conducting a campaign from Chatta- | “The Atlanta campaign and the.march to the | sea” and ‘Sherman's grand holiday excur- — sion and picnic party through the Carolinas, lating and scattering its armies, breaking its communications and cating out the vitals of the Confederacy,” ‘‘bear ample testimony not | only to the grandeur of Grant’s conceptions, but to the heroic and unshakable resolution | with which he carried them into effect.” Now, what is the truth? The issue could Did General Sherman plan the General Badean and Mr. one point. march to the sea? other Assistant Secretary of War—attribute contends that it belongs to himself alone. | mitted to the discussion of the public. What- ever harm may result in the controversy, the end. More than this, there are questions affect- ing the fame and ability of other command- criticises Hooker, McClernand, McClellan, Roseerans, Logan, Blair, McPherson, Palmer and others. Tosome, like Howard, Schofield, Slocum and Thomas, he awards praise; to others censure, Many of these officers still live. They can write, or they have 1riends who cav. Naturally, those whe are censured complain; but how much better to answer the assaults now than to have them mado when with iilitary men is that we are apt to allow their glory to hide their faults, to look at them as though wrapped in glamour ; as mys- | terious, supernataral beings, above envy or reproach or question. | Itis something for us to see that they are | mere men after all. and that under the uni- form there is as much envy, passion, ambi- tion, love of praise and dislike of censure as uuder the civilian who knows no more of battle than a spinster. The best interests of | the country will be served by the controversy, | and all we have to say is, let there be a wide, open field and fair Play, and may the trath win. Rapid Transit in the pore We think there is no longer any reason to fear an adjournment of the Legislature before the new Rapid Transit bill has been acted on, but whether it will pass the Senate without amendments that would render it nugatory we are not contident. Senator Jarvis Lord and other soreheads of the Canal Ring are doing all in their power to obstruct its progress and load it with crippling amend- ments. In the diseussion Inst evening they indulged in unrestrained and ribald invec- tives against the Governor because he is known to favor it. Most of the objections against the bill which have been raised by Lord and his Canal Ring con- | federates are preposterous. The pretence Certainly, in the interest of history there | could be no more important question sub- | The Mecklenburg Centennial. The great success of the celebration at Charlotte yesterday, following, atter a month's interval, the equally successful celebrations at Lexington and Concord, relieves us from misgivings respecting the grand Centennial | of 1876, which will not be local, but national. These vecent demonstrations, in the South as well as the North, attest an all-pervading na- tional pride and fervent spirit of patriotism which kindle into enthusiasm as occasions are offered which render their proper exhibition. | We have not dissembled our deep anxiety again severing the Southern territory, iso- | Dana—the one Grant’s private secretary, the | the glory of it to Grant, General Sherman | that the Mecklenburg Celebration should satisfy public expectation, and our col- umns for the last month bear witness that we havo done all in our power to invest it with interest. Our zeal has been stirred— first, by a genuine sympathy with the local feeling in North Carolina; secondly, by a con- viction that these preliminary centennials are a gauge of the patriotic feeling of the country by which the country may judge of the great celebration next year; and, thirdly, and more especially, by a feeling that the success of | these patriotic festivities at Charlotte would bea test of the interest of the South in the | great oceasion which is beginning to attract i | | the attention of all civilized nations. We feel greater satisfaction in the Meckien- burg celebration than in Lexington, Concord and Ticonderoga, because it has taken place in solemn interests of truth will be served in the | the South and is a conspicious proof that the recent civil war has not quenched nor abated the patriotic spi of that section of the | country. The glorious memories of the Revolu- | ers which General Sherman discusses, He | reply is impossible? General Sherman invites | as free criticism as he bestows. ‘The trouble | tion are the strongest bond of union between the North and the South, and we fervently rejoice at the proof given yesterday that the emulous patriotism of Cyrolina founded on Reyolutionary memories is not inferior to that of Massachusetts. How trivial is the recent controversy respecting dates and documents in comparison with this proof that our civil war has not dimmed the fires of patriotism ! ‘The Centennial Celebration in North Carolina deserves more credit than that in Massachu- setts. Charlotte is not, like Lexington and Concord, in the inmediate vicinity of great cities like Boston and Lowell. It is not lo- cated in a densely populated section like East- ern Massachusetts. It had not the attraction | of the presence of the President and his Cabi- that it would saddle each county of the State | with the expense of five commissioners is a ' sample of the intelligence and candor of these eavillers. The bill does not permit the appomtment of commissioners until twenty- | five respectable citizens and resident in the road, If a petition should be made tora rond that is not needed, and commis- sioners bé thereupon appointed, not a dollar of expense can ensue to the county, for the bill explicitly provides that the compensa- tions of the commissioners shall be paid by the company that builds the road. The coun- taxpayers county petition for a | net and the participation of literary men known to fame, thronged, its military and civic display as imposing, and the success of its celebration as great as that in the most densely populated part of New England. ‘This speaks well for | | Southern patriotism. It proves that the spirit of our forefathers burns even more brightly in Southern than in Northern hearts. It ; shows that the South, in irs unsuccessful at- | tempt to secede, did not intend to desert the principles of the American Revolution. The | fact that the Confederate constitution was copied almost word for word from the constitution of the United States proves that while aiming at a geographical | separation they still clung to the same politi- | cal principles which were held by the founders of the Republic. We hail the success of the | Mecklenburg Celebration, its great outpouring | of people, 1ts pride in national memories, its | reverence for our Revolutionary fathers, its | satisfaction in Southern priority in efforts for independence, as the most auspicious and healing event which has occurred since the Sonth Jaid down its arms im the spring of | We are now confident tbat the great | 1865. Centennial Celebration next year will restore the harmony ot the Republic after the unfor- tunate estrangement of the last fifteen years, Bratality on Blackwell's Island, ‘The interesting chapter portraying the ill treatment inflicted by the keepers upon the | | petty offenders imprisoned on sy waeke) ties can be subjected to no expense, whether | The to roads are built or not. fact that the commissioners are be paid by the railroad companies will prevent their accepting office uniess they have reason to believe that the need of 2 road is so Island which we printed the other day sug- | gests a darker side than it reveals, The story | was simply and artlessly told, and it is plain | on its face that the experiences of the Hrnaxp | representative were notoverdrawn. His treat- ment was the average treatment of every per- son who is unfortunate enough to be sent to | the Island, and the brutalities he witnessed and experienced where his opportunities | were so limited are a sare sign that great urgent that it will be actually constracted. | The amendment of Senator Jarvis Lord on Wednesday evening is equally preposter- ous except as a stratagem for nullifying the bill. That emendment contines the operation of the bili to the counties of New York and Westchester, thns making it a local bill end rendering it unconstitutional, since the new amendments of the constitution for- for Jaying down railroad tracks, Al- though it is true that there is no imrme- diate need of rapid transit except in this city, Lord's amendment was conceived m a spirit of malignant hostility to the bill, whieh would be void and worthless if so limited. There was no need of the limita- tion for protecting the other counties, hecanse law would never be put in operation in them. The design of Lord's amendment was simply to kill the bill the | by rendering it unconstitutional, and not to protect other ports of the State, where no and even if it could be built it would be at the risk and expense of the stockholders and not of the county. The success of the bill depends on the fidelity of the Assembly. If the amendments of the Senate should be unsatisiactory the Assem- | bid the Legisiature to pass any focal law | | there ‘this mismanagement. wrongs are inflicted upon the inmates of our public inetitations every day of which the public can form no just conception. Fear in- by blows and abuse seems to be the only idea of discipline possessed by the sub- crdinate officers of the prison. understand how poor Stockvis came to his death when we know that in every case a blow is the only argument of the keepers. And it isnot kind and gentle treatment, such as is due alone is lacking on Blackwell's Island, but is even & want of cleanliness under circumstances where dirt is the lowest cor- dition of evil. Evidently public opinion, which was*so painfully aroused by the Stockvis ease, has not yet wrought its fnll | measure of reform, snd much remains to be accomplished by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction before the institutions | under their charge may be said to be even reasonably weil managed. Jt is impossible to read the Hrnatn’s story without being impressed with the full force of The disgusting com- pliments of the ciérk who received the pris- oners ought never to have been uttered ino prison, and, thongh the circumstance was ao | | small maiter in itself, it shows that complete bly mast refuse its concurrence, and keep the | Legislature in session until a satisfactory re- sult is reached in a conference committees. Way Gevrrat Surrm took his seat in the Police Board the old Commissioners endeay- | ored to reduce him to the position of financial clerk of the Board by electing him Treasurer. General Smith declined the office and refused to qualify. The other Commissioners now claim that he was elected Treasurer and must qualify or resign. If he should tender his resignation the Board would refuse to aceept it, and then he would be held to be de facto and de jure Treasurer. The trick is too trana- parent. AsGeneral Smith has never accepted, qualified for or filled the office, he has nothing to resign. Board, and as he is the only capable Commis- | sioner he should not allow his usefulness to be hampered by accepting any such clerical position, We want a practical reform in the force, and General Smith should devote his time to securing it He is not the Treasurcr of the | | lack of anything like prison discipline which ean only be overcome by eruelty. ‘The scenes at the stable, where a surly overseer seeks ont victims upon whom to wreak petty cruelties and annoyances which only a bad man would seek to inflict, are a sure sign that the morale of our institntions has been completely broken down. Closer serutiny would have revealed grosser wrongs. From what we have been able to discover it is plain that a day on the day of tortare and torment for every men and woman so unfortunate as fo fall into the clutches of the law. Island is ¢ take the place of kind words and brntality | usurps the pla The baths are ected on w the keepers. The cells are poisoned by foul air because no provision for cleanliness and decency has been made, Even profanity and obscenity are not repressed. The slams of the Fourth and Sixth,wards are not more un- healthy, morally physicaliy, than the boasted public institations of New York. Is it possible this state of affairs is longer to con- tinuc ? We learn, as detailed elsewhere, that Commissiongg, Bailey and bis associates are » of wathority. And yet its streets were as | We can well | even to the vilest of offenders, which | Hard blows | ‘onnt of the lazy disregard of | | disposed to correct the evils, but the task is one of great magnitude, and it will require | unceasing endeavor on their part to make the public institutions what they should have been throughout their whole history. Jadge Porter’s Argument in Defence of Mr, Beecher. Mr. Porter ranks in the estimation of his which he so greatly excels. Although he has to the samming up, his four or five months’ attendance having no other object than to quality him for the task which he is now dis- cbarging with his customary ability and elo- quence. He has already spoken two days, | and those who have listened to him say that the printed record does but scant jus- tice to the effect of his powerful man- ner. But, after all, it is-the substance and not the manner of his address which can have any legitimate influence on the judgment of either the jury or the public, It is not by the arts of the orator, but by the force and pertinence of his arguments, that his client must be acquitted or condemned. His speech, as it appears in print, stripped of the advantages it derives from his manner of | delivering it, is the only thing to be weighed by cool men. During these two interesting days Judge Porter has been skirmishing with the outposts of the case without coming into close quarters with its real points. He has occupied the at- tention of the jury almost exclusively with what Tilton did in matters which had no im- mediate connection with the charges against Mr. Beecher. He has dwelt at great length and with much ingenuity on the gushing correspondence between Tilton and his wife for several years previous to the alleged adultery. All healthy minds must regard this correspondence on the part of both husband and wife as simply nauseous. Nobody would think it safe to say what peo- ple whose amorous susceptibilities are so ab- normally quick and outflowing might or might not be capable of doiug. But what have these sickening effusions to do with the question of | these prove anything they prove that both hus- | duct of either under circumstances of tempta- | tion. It is just as supposable that this dis- gustingly warm temperament disclosed by the letters may have led to aberrations on one side | a8 on the other. This lovesick correspond- | ence between husband and wife for years be- | fore the alleged offence proves nothing as to the subsequent conduct of Mr. Beecher, which | must be judged by its own proper evidence ; and not by the antecedent billing and cooing | and mutual confessions and complaints of this | strange couple. | Judge Porter on their preposterous love letters | have no proper bearing on the ense. Another of Judge Porter's topics seems equally irrelevant. He dilates at great length | on the improbability of Mr. Beecher getting strong and too evident to require such an ex- penditure of argument, But this is a weapon with a double edge. The intrinsic improba- | bility, the protection which Mr. Beecher de- ived from his character, the shield of his un- ; bounded popularity, his hosts of admiring | friends and his great services, would naturally | have discouraged false accusations. The made nnless founded on evidence. There is another argument that Judge Porter worked up with striking rhetorical — foree, which the public will accept with some | abatement. It was the improbability that | ‘Filton could have taken place in his own house, where the presence of his wife, his stream of calling parishioners precluded | secrecy. This is more plausible than con- vineing. It has never been charged that any act of the kind beyond the first was com- mitted in Mr. Beecher's house, and the alleged | date of that was October 10, when Mr. | Beecher’s tamily had not returned from their ‘summer sojourn in the country and the stream of callers was interrupted by the sup- posed absence of the pastor. Judge Porter's eloquence on this point is therefore founded on an assumed state of facts and surround- ings that did not exist at that date, and it was imprudent for him to make an argument which could be so easily refuted, We are not discussing the question of Mr. Beecher’s guilt i | | or innocence, but only the speech of his advo- | The substance of | ‘ cate so far as it has gone. | our criticism is that he has not yet grappled with the main parts of the evidence. | Mrs. Lincoln, | i | | It is with a feeling of sad satisfaction that we note the action of a court of Illinois in reference to the widow of President Lin- coln. This court hax considered carefully | { v her case and declared her to be insane, She control of her affairs given to ber son, Fora | long time there has been no more painful seandal than that which has associated around | the name of the widow ot the illustrious Pres- | ident. Her acts have excited the apprehen- thoughts in the minds of the people. It would be ungracious to recall them now, and we only make this reference to express our con- tentment that the result of a legal investiga. | tion has proved that her eccentricities have been the result of an irreparable and griev- ous calamity. Nor can we wonder that her reason should have given away before the appalling events which culminated in her hus- | band’s death. The action of the Minois court will restore Mre. Lincoln fo that respectful sympathy which it was feared ai one time she had forfeited, and will adda new sorrow to what was felt over her husband's murder. When the assassin destroyed the life of the first American of his time it was not alone lite that he destroyed but the reason of his life companion. Morr Coroners.—Major General Hosted, | whose title of Major General represents mili- | tary service performed since the war, has as- sumed a very serious responsibility by a reso- lution giving the Governor power to incrense professional brethren as one of the most per- | suasive and impressive lawyers of the State in addressing a jury. He was retained in the | Beecher case solely in view of this talent in— been constantly present during this protracted | trial he has taken no active part in it previous | Mr. Beecher’s guilt or innocence? So far as | | band and wife were habitually in » state of | | amorous semi-insanity which would justify | almost every inference as to the possible con- | The extensive comments of | into such a scrape. The improbability is too | | great improbability of such charges being be- | lieved should have prevented their being | Mr. Beecher’s criminal intercourse with Mrs. © children, his grandchildren and a constant | will be remanded to proper custody and the | sion of her friends and led to the most cruel | the list of colonels, It isa esfe caloulation te | say that nine men outof every ten in this pro» | gressive community have some military title of | which colonel is the lowest expression, Even | major has become a term of contempt or uD+ | due familiarity. If we keep on in this busi- | ness of allowing our Governors to shower | titles npon people who have neither earned | nor deserve them tho highest mark of distine- tion in the future will be the simple Christian name of a gentleman, Princeton’s Raid. We publish in another column an in teresting account of a raid made by the students of Princeton College on the College of Rutgers, in which the students of one of our chief universities proved themselves daring and expert burglars, In reading the graphic account of the raid given by our correspondent one would imagine from the expertness displayed by the Princeton boys that there must bea professor of burglary somewhere in that institute of learning, for we find Abe students well acquainted with the use of the ‘‘jimmy’’ and the crowbar. We did not before imagine that “bits and braces” had anything to do with polite learning, but wesup- pose it is due to the progress of the young generation that they are above the prejudices which used to keep men honest and forbade them to compromise themselves by vio« lating the law in a manner that, judged strictly, would make them felons. We are much mistaken or this prank of the Princeton students will meet with strong con- demnation from public opinion. It is not pleasant to find the students of an im- portant college thoughtlessly playing the part of brigands. Yor the repu- tation of both Princeton and Rutgers it is desirable that the affair may be dropped out of sight as soon as possible ; but students had better learn that they have no special privileges that law is bound to respect. All connected with this Princeton raid have exposed themselves to the danger of | being sent to State Prison, and if they escape it will be because the law officers mercifully close their eyes to the crime that has been committed. It would be well, how- | ever, if the students were made to understand that vagaries of this nature cannot be per- mitted to pass in future without adequate punishment. Porvran Versvs Conrorare INTERESTS. — ‘The action of the Albany legislators in killing the bill intended to prevent the erection of » huge abattoir in this city offers a curious com- mentary on the value of popular representa- tion, It is the will of the people of this city | that no slaughter houses should be licensed ‘in populous neighborhoods or in theis vicinity, but as the interest of a wealthy cor poration is involved the wishes of the citizens | count as nothing against the lobbying power of rich corporations. ‘The result of this con- stant disregard of the interests of the people by the men chosen to represent them must end by discrediting republican institutions. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge Henry R. Selden, of Rochester, is sojourm ing at the Metropolitan Hotel. | Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, te | etaying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Surgeon John H. Frantz, United States Army, it quartered at che Sturtevant House, Congressman Albert G, Egbert, of Pennsylvania, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor Joseph E. Nourse, of the United States Naval Observatory, has arrived at the Union Square Hotel, Lieutenant Aulick Palmer, of the United States Marine Corps, has taken up his quarters at the Glenham Hotel. | In Germany there are nearly 1,000,000 more we | men than men. Reasons—Slaughter tn battle and tJreedom in America. Protessor F. 8. Holmes, of Charieston College, South Carolina, 1s among the late arrivals at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge J. 8. Landon, of the New York Supreme Court for the Fourth Judicial district, is residing at the Filth Avenge Hotel, Henri Matile was sentenced to two months’ Im- prisonment for speaking disrespectiully of the | President of the French Republic. The Dake of Cawbridge wants England to “earry weight in the councils of the worlu.” But she already carries so much that she is easily beaten everywhere, By the letters of Robespierre, lately fonnd, it seems that the Count de Provence, subsequentiy Louis NVIIL, Was reafdy to behave toward Louis XVL just as Louis Philippe subsequently behaved toward Charlie: Mr, Brarhooge!, the New York correspondent of the Gartenlanve, Uber Land und Meer, Saton, Neve Freie Presse, has become the associate editor and proprietor of the Belleiristisches Jour. wal, the most important of our German weekiles, Waldeck, who lately died in Paris aged 110, was a soldier In the French army at the siege ot Toulon. If a freak of destiny had given this great age to another soldier whu was there—i' Napoleon had hved till 1875, how it would have coanged the face of Furope. Commander George P. Ryan and Lieutenang Commander Charles J. Train, who were detailed to accompany the transit of Venus expedition to Kerguelen Istand, revarned tn the steamship Oa- tario from Rio Janeiro, yesterday, and are at the | Hoffman House. | Count Louts Corti, the Italian Minister at Wash- | Ington, Will go to Constantinople. This news will | distur fashionanle society, as the handsome Itstian Count bas always been a great favorite | among the ladies. Count Corti’s successor will ow Dr. Mantegazza. Mme. Deneef, of Brussels, bequeathed her im | mense fortune to the Jesaits, The Brussels Court of Appeals has decided that tne wil! is not valid, and that the fortune must goto the legitimate heirs, An idea may be formed of the amonnt of | the fortune by the fact that the Jesuits tad offered the sum Of 3,000,0901., or $900,000, tu some of the legitimate heirs ti they would not go to law. ‘They fave hitherto ted the snakes In the Garden | of Plants in Paris, on tive rate, which satisfied the snakes and nearly every one « but the other day a rat became unreasonable, differed with @ snake worth 2,000f., a8 to who should eat and who should be eaten, He killed the snake, and now they will Kull the rats before they put them in, and won't give the oid ieilows a change, Long current London rumors about the dis asters which had overtaken one of the old bistoric families are now confirmed. The sale of tne Marlborough jewels, of al! the property in Dorset | shire and elsewhere, excepting, of course, Blew. heim, is advertised. Nota single rhing will be ed from tne general wreck. The Duxe of Marinoroug bas already sold his London house and ahut up Blenheim Palace and will reside abroad, The Naznim-nd-daoule, Governor of Knorassan recentiy gave tue Shan of Persia an evide | bis affecvion by sending him “murseis of Turcomim rebels, Killed or captured in wattle. | Had ft not been for the diMculcy of transport, the Governor Would have seat tne entire heads of these enemies of the Shan to Teheran, The dis tance between the #eat of his government and the captt: tae unusual number ef the trophies compelied him to resort to the expedient of sepa rating the skins irom the skulls and forwarding the skins only.” Scaipe im fact