The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Hurarp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic deSpatches must be addressed New Youe Henan. 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 SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms TO-MORROW, BOWERY OPKRA HOUSE, No, 301 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10-45 M. TS Wheto ROBINSON BALL, Pe naERe ent xteenth — street.—English Opera—GIROPLE. | OIROFLA, at5 P.M. . WOOD'S MUSEUM, * Broadway, corner oi Thirticth sureet~UNDER PAL goLons, atS P.M; closes at 10:45 I. M. Matine: THEATRE COMIQUE. No. 514 Broadway.—VARILTY, ats P. M.; closes at 10:45 reM. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. West Fourteenth street —Open from 10 A. M. to 5 P.M. OLYMFIC THEATRE, No, 62 Broadway.—VABIBTY, at 8¥. M.; closes at 10 45 GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Fichth avenne and Twenty ibird street.—TWELVE | TEMPTATIONS, at 82, M.; closes at 1 P.M METRO 38 Broadway .— TAN THEATRE BTY, ats. M VS THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenne.— JANK SHURE, at 5? M.; closes atil P.M. Miss Clara Morris. De BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, Fniton avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M.; closes at 1045 PM GERMANIA THEATRE | He wishes to set up a government of all State | that were permanently satisfactory. Ger- | penal laws of a severity quite astonishing to NEW YORK TERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1875--QUADRUPLE SHEET. | Diplomacy tn Europe. European war waa at tand startled the world a few weeks aco the Heranp was almost the only paper which at once put the true value on itand endeavored to calm the minds of | those imaginative people who foresaw an im- medinte fall in the public securities and the probability that all the available capital now lying idle—which amounts to a large sum— would be shortly required for loans and con- tracts to enable the belligerents to march sword in hand against their creditors. Tn- deed, the war rumors suited a large class of | persons perfectly, and they came like sun- shine in harvest or like showers after a long drought. Something rather more than sus- picion exists among well-informed people that the hopes and fears of the Stock Exchange were mixed up with the business. The financial crisis, both in Paris and Berlin, must have ned many respectable moneyed men, and they may not have been sorry to see @ way open to them out of unusually hazardous Moreover, there has been a most harassing dearth of news, and editors have been everywhere suffering | from it. Even those most in the confidence | of Prince Bismarck, Mr. Disraeli and the Duke Decazes, who are all accustomed to use the press freely, have felt the scarcity of early and trustworthy intelligence. The German Chancellor bas very little to tell the world which the world does nct already know. alai ions, and no Church. Perhaps he will succeed ; perhaps not. The experiment has often beon tried before, but never yet with results many led the way to reform 0! what were then called obsolete superstitions, 2 long time ago, under the guidance of Martin Lnther ; yet there are still fifteen millions of Roman Catholics in the German Empire, and Austria is all Catholic. Henry VIEL and | Queen zabeth of England chopped off the heads and roasted many excellent clergymen who professed a respect for the Pope. Queen | Mary used similar arguments to convince’! those who set him at naught. King James L did | what he conld publicly for Protestantism ; yet | Father Huddleston administered the last sac ment to his grandson, even although a st cessful revolution had decimated the adherents to the old faith. Then the dynasty was changed n England for the Protestant cause, and fourteenth street. —MEIN LEOVOLD, at P.M FIFTH AVE: Jwenty-cighth street wnd F NANZA, at. M.; closes at BO. | CRNTRAL PARK GARDEN THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCEKA, arse | LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street, wu ixth avenue.-—GIROFLE GIBOFLA, at8 P.M, Mile. Gooflroy. BAN FR Broadway, MINoTRELSY, at HALL f Mis. ANNIE LYNCH EL Fourteenth street —CONCE RT ats P.M. WALLA K s mT ATRE, | Broadway.—THE La oO at - P.M... closes at lotr. M. Mass Ada Dyas. Montague, | QUADRUPLE SHERT. NEW YORK DA From our reports thie morning tie probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cooler aud clear. Want, Srreer Yesrerpay.—Stocks were lower at the close. The ing of depression | ia unchanged. Gold steady at 116} a | 116}. Money easy «nd toreign exchange in | | | usual request. antic Caste will soon be step toward cheap tele- with the Old World. Tae Dmxcr Ar finished. One m graphic communicati Evps began their an- nis city yesterday, and the ring the week. Tne § nal moetix proceedings will Tue Yare Araieric spring meotin: New Haven yesterday, and | our correspor an entertaining de- ssoctaTion held its scription of the var Furetwoop Pane ing at Fleetwood Park closed yesterday, and | the managers have reason to be satisfied with | fits success. It 18 an sesurance of a brilli future if the park is properly conducte Now the season of out. door sports hus fairly begun, and the rivers are as gay and lively An excit- ing event of yesterday was the race on the beautiful Harkin River een the Athletic | and New York rowing clubs. which was won | by the former. “Aquatic as the land. Tar Fonurst Frors are still raging and their heat is felt and seen in the neighborhood of New York. Our correspondence gives a full account of these calamities. The region bas been doubly devastated this spring, by flood first and fire now. It would have been better, perhaps, to have bad the fire first and the water afterward. Awormrr Wan Croup Fapep.—A special cable despatch to the Hzraxp gives the result of an interview of our correspondent with the King of Burma, which was held on Friday The news is important, as indicating the probability that peace between Burmah and England and China will be preserved. The King is desirous of an amicable settlement of the trouble. News Tuat Cowreapicrep.—It was as- serted that Germany bad reqnested Belgium to probibit reliy bat the cable despatches to-day declare that there is no foundation for the statement. We also learn that the reported change of the Belgian Ministry is incorrect. There have been too many of these con racdictions by cable lately, end it would be well tor the Associated Press agents to avoid them in fntare. ms processions ; A Onaptea or Hoxnons.—-The unpleasant aty of recording crime which is imposed pon the press is not often illustrated so markedly as it is to-day in the description of the three murders which oceurred in this lo- @ality. In one case a German tailor killed bis gecond wife with an axe, and then shot him- eclf dead upon the grave of his first wife—a sensational situation indeed—and in the other a husband kicked or beat his wife to death in the prewenes of their hittle con, 2 boy nine yeats of age. Team had much to do with these crimes, which shock the community With their oxceptional repulsivenoss, | the modern | in tull force till the passing of the Emancipa- | Peer and Her ditary Marshal ot England; yet | he has not swerved from the ancient faith of | pistical as ever historical siadent were against the Catholics—lavs which remained tion bill eneration ago. by the British Parliament only a Jt had been said loudly ugh by many'wiseacres that the Catholic faith was only kept alive in England by persecution, and that so soon as papists olr re- Toman ceased to be worried on account of t bgi ald die out as a sect, just is belief they wo as the Quakers, who were once also a numer- ous and influential body, are now fast disap- The plen hos been tried tor more than thirty years. Roman Catholics are under no disabilities in Eugland at present, except that they cannot aspire to the throue, and there isa tradition that they must not hold | Cabinet office. What respect is really paid to this tradition may be seen in the case of the Marquis of Ripon, a Roman Catholic, who tus been a member ot a whig government ; and so, after every sort of contradictory legisia- | tion has been tried by turns, and first power hes blown hot and then cold | upon the Catholics, they have been strangely insensible both to penal enactments and to royal favors. The Order of the Garter was pearing. | been challenged, ‘I perceive you don’t under- | stand; be so | sama way as the recent dispute between | Let Us Begin the Rapid Transit Road. | another indefinite postponement of this re- | was the Appian Way, which meant rapid given to the Duke of Norfolk, a Catholic nobleman, who is acknowledged as Premier the Howards. Lord Robert Montagne, brother of the Duke of Manchester, has had a prom- | isin itical career blighted becanse he is a | Rous tho! and yet unevenhanded justice | haz not brought him back to Protestantism; and it would hardly be going too far to say | that, after what has often appeured a death stri bee on for centuries be- ing | tween English Protestants and English Catho- lies, the predonnnant inflnence in England is | still that of the Church of Rome; while blood and fire have done their worst again and again, without perceptible result, to drive the ancient faith from Ireland. Crom- well brought his curse upon it; William | UL crusned it under the heels of his George IV. graced it with | his amiable presence, yet Protestantism had | still to listen to the lond protest of the electors of Clare, and Ireland is as obstinately pa- Therefore, although many victorious ho impatient and short-tempered politicians wish Prince Buwmarck well and quickly through with his high-handed measures against the | Rorman Ostholic Church, the more thonghtfal statesmen think that he has a weary and | arduous task before him, a task which he | would have done better never to have begun. | At all events, nobody can tell us anything | new about so old a story which has invariably progressed to nothing, and of which uobody has yet imagined the ending. To read the repetition of discussious whieh are hundreds ars old; to be pestered with fallacies which bave been put forth and refnted a is worse than being con- e Tichborne trial or the -Tilton case. thonsand times, demned to rerea of the Buech In like manner news has been difficult to get let details at in England and the other European States; | worthless when got, becanse the reasonable people of ali countries are becoming so heart- ily sick of politics that the balloon accident to ‘Tissandier and bis companions, and the exploit of the man-fish Captain Boyton arouse more attention in Enarope than the simualtane- ous fall of half a dozen Cabinets would have done. Mr. Disraeli is sleeping on his copy- rights and behind bis majority in the English House of Commons. He is old; he has heen very ill, and he does not want to be disturbed. Marshal MacMahon, who has taken a fancy to bis situation, would be glad to hear no more news as long as he lives. The King of Italy expects po intelligence which would place bim Letter position than he is, as stor of Europe. The Emperor of Austria, at lepyth reconciled to his subjects, desires only to live at peace with them, and is content with things as they are. The Em peror of Russia is gossiping and « tie oni Khe King of would doubtless like to see some changes in bis dominions , bat the only news he is in @ waters ata Gersoan bath. Spain | will not be much time required to decide upon of Carlist advantages over his troops, and his ] When a sudden rumor that another great’ Ministers devote all their energies to concoal- ing or falsitying such intelligence whenever it ts possible to do so. ‘Those are the reasons, or some of them, which indaced the European press to give eager currency to the idle report that hostili- ties were again abont to commence between two or more of the great Powers; but really there is no chance of any such absurdity being perpetrated. The danger could only threaten mankind trom Germany, and no nation would venture to drive her into a war of defence. Those who have the meanest opinion of Prince Bismarck'’s prudence will hardly be disposed to believe that even he would wantonly rush into a war of aggres- | sion. Wor the rest, the little State of Belgium glided with a very quaint and demure polite- ness ont of her difficulty with her potent neighbor. She said in extremely courteous language that, considering Germany was about making lawa to silence the Roman Catholic priesthood, Belgium would be glad to learn from the example of Germany rather than take the initiative herself, and the whole affair much resembled the queer story which is told of a duel in Japan. Two Frenchmen were among the first of the European adven- turers who arrived at Jeddo, and they torthwith got into a quarrel about a lady, and the one Frenchman chal- lenged the other Frenchman to decide their pretensions to her hand by single combat. The man challenged was of a& cooler temperament than the challenger, as generally happens in such eases, And, more- over, he was the favored suitor of the lady. “Therefore,"’ said he, with refreshing calm- nosa Ata 250d immior, “1 have not only the choice of arms, but by the laws of duello I am entitled to choose the method in which onr canse shall be tried by battle.” I con- sent to anything,”’ replied the challenger hotly, ‘so that we fight, and fight at once.” “Very well,’’ replied the other, “by all means; I choose the custom of this country. Pray begin at onco;’’ and he handed his ad- versary a large carving knife. ‘What do you mean?” inquired his foe, astonished at this “Ah! replied the man who bad proceeding. ” 00d as to open your stomach It is not known how the pretty quarrel ter- minated, but there is good cause to believe that 1t may have come to a conclusion in the France and Germany—that is to say, in nothing. After extraordinary exertions a good Rapid Transit bill has been passed, and the great lifticulty of beginning 1s overcome. The | concerned this is especially the case in the | McQuaid’s Graveyard. It seems almost incredible that so large a tract of low fand as that known as ‘the Har- lem flats,"’ the extent of which is exhibited by the map we present to the readers of the Henatp this morning, should have been filled in with garbage almost in the condition of compost under the very eyes and apparently with the connivance of the authorities. Yet such is the fact, as is clearly demonstrated by the article we print in another column. The region is one formerly traversed by watercourses, and, until recently, frequently overflowed by the tide at high water. ‘That the flats should be filled in was a work of necessity, required as much from considera- tions of the public health as by the growth of the city. It is only of the manner in which the work was performed that we have reason lo complain. Instead of using only such filling as that contemplated by law, in which there should be an entire absence of disease-breed- ing substances, organic matter has been prin- cipally employed by the contractors in accom- plishing their work. This matter is of a kind that could be best handled with a fork, a shovel being an inconvenient implement in the hands of the workmen. Naturally enough this method of making a graveyard in the heart of a great city gave rise to complaints and protests to the Board of Health ; butthese were not only disregarded by that body, but a semi-official sanction was given to the out- rageous action of the contractors by a require- ment that the terrible compost employed by them should be covered with three fect of earth. It is plain, even to the meanest understanding, that this provision could only result in prolonging for years the evil of which the people of Yorkville and Harlem had so much reason to complain. Every time the earth is opened contagion and disease will spring forth like the plagues from Pandora's box. The whole region will thus become one vast district of insecurely im- prisoned death. Already the deadly effects of this public crime have been felt in the com- niunities subject to its influences, and the evil | can only increase with years. Unless a remedy is found, and that speedily, the whole ot the upper part of the island, on the east side, will become a plague-stricken district, and all because of the selfishness and greed of a few coatractors and the criminal neglect of duty on the part of the officers charged with caring for the public health. We have repeatedly spoken of the complete want of any feeling of official responsibility on the part of the officers composing the different deparimenis of the municipal gov- | ernment. So faras the public interests are | Police and Health departments. Under no } other authority in the world, we belicve, Legislature adopted this measure on the very lust day of the session, and only acted then | under the coercion of an aroused public opin- | ion. Indeed, if the pressure upon the Senate | had been less it is doubtful whether rapid | trausit would not have been sent to the tomb | of the Uapuilets ; but this bill was like a re- | prieve to one condemned. New York may rejoice at the narrow escape she has had from form. It isa new lease of life to the city. People taik of the decline of the metropolis (the Inman line thinks of sending freight jirect to Baltimore) and compare it to Car- thage, but that city might be living yet if it had bad rapid transit, What saved Rome transit, and we have no fear of New York’s future if rapid transit is given at once, Now that we have determined to build a rapid transit road the Commissioners should be at once appointed by the Mayor. The ex- cellent provision of the act which leaves the Mayor free to act untrammelled makes de- jay unnecessary. ‘The Mayor cannot fail to find five men who are true and capable friends of rapid transit. Let the Commission- ers then select one of tho several routes | already surveyed, and not go through the tedious .aree of making new surveys and in- vestigation. The work has been done and the estimates have been made by perfectly competent men, skilled engincers and sur- veyors. Why should not their labors be utilized at once, and time and money be saved to the city? The choice of the ronte will be a matter for grave thought, and the Commissioners will, no doubt, give careful consideration to the claims of the different avenues. their conven- ence to the travelling public and the prop- erty and business interests of the city. But if the Commissioners are at once selected and the Mayor appoints good, practical, energetic | men, whose hearts are in their work, there the route. We have the measure, and now want the road, and surely of nothing could we say more emphatically than of rapid tran- ait, ‘If 'twere done when 'tis done then ‘twere well it were done quickly.”’ Jerome Park Races. The American Jockey Cinb, enconraged by the deep interest taken by the public in every part of this country in the sports of the turf, and emboldened by the increased patronage | and enthusiasm evinced at all the spring meetings in the South and West, propose at their next meeting, commencing on Saturday, June 5, to eclipse all their former efforts. ‘There will be seven days of racing and thirty | three events, and in addition to the well- | known stables which bave been so long iden- tifed with tbis favorite race course many | new comers will be represented. Heretofore | some sections of this conniry, abounding in | equine stock of the Hest kind, have not put in an appearance at Jerome Park, but on the | forthcoming occasion thete will be horses | enough on the course to supply & cavalry | brigade. The character of the events will be | of the most interesting kind, and many novel- | ties will be introduced. The admirable man- | agement that has placed the American Jockey Chab first of all racing associations in this land may be relied upon to harmonize and make entirely enjoyable the thousand and | one elements that are required for a first class summer meeting at Jerome Park, Tux Cuntrensian. The real interest which the citizens of New York take in the Centen- nial Exposition next year—freshly awakened | by the recent celebratious at Concord and | Lezington and Charlotte= the meeting at Stemway Hall last nigut, The | | people have been perpetrated as the filling in | could such a barefaced crime against the of these flats on the East River. No other community in the world, we believe, would | have submitted, even for a day, to the deliber- ate creation of a vast hotbed of disease under | the very noses of a million of people. But neither the Health nor the Police Commission- ers must suppose that this thing can go on without punishment reaching them in the end for permitting it. The time will come when each one of them will be called to a terrible reckoning for this outrage upon the people of New York, and that time cannot | be tar distant, either for the Police Commis- sioners or the Board of Health if McQuaid’s graveyard is allowed much longer to send forth its death-spreading exhalations. Trinity Sunday Pulpit Topics. The Church to-day, in certain of its branches, commemorates the doctrine of the | ‘Trinity, and calls to mind the relation of the persons in the Godhead to human salvation. But while that doctrine in some of its aspects, we may presume, will be treated by many of our city pastors, only one—the Rev. Mr. McCaffrey—bas undertaken, especially and particnlarly, to speak about it. Dr. Thomp- | son will look at it in the light of God reveal- ing Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, | and Mr. Lloyd will tell his people what they ought to do with this Jesus and how He | may become in them the bope of glory. Mr. Kennard will present Christ as the world’s food and the revelation of heaven, who, as Mr. Lightbourn will demonstrate, breaks not the bruised reeds, but cherishes and nourishes them for the last great day. Mr. Pullman will give a reason for the Christian hope of immor- tality'and will indicate how the soul becomes conscious of its uninterrupted existence, and this theme will be in keeping with Mr. Haw- thorne’s on the future lite. But the causes and consequences of lying, though the habit is 80 common, are 80 little known or thought of that the same pastor will direct attention to the subject this morning, so as to prepare the way for the future life discussion in the even- ing. Lying must come from defective moral reasoning, and Mr. Alger will try and correct that moral defect to-day, though the under- taking may require heroism, as Mr. Willis will show, in view of the power of sympathy over so many minds as we have seen during one hun- dred aud thirty-five days past in Brooklyn. Dr. Ganse will touch on the subject of cheerful obedience as indicated in Samuel's words, “Speak, for thy servant heareth ;"’ and Dr. Holme will have something to say about the gentlemen of the Bible. It is time that this class was introduced to our modern societies. Weare so apt to look upon thoseold patriarchs and prophets end seers and apostles as boors, or only a step above such, that it is interesting to find @ champion of such ability standing | forth in their defence to remove that stigma from their character. Mr. King will take | hold of that interesting subject, ‘The Chris- tian Mother,” and paint her as she should be | rather than as she is too often in real life. And | while Mr. Harris is considering the relations | of thé bridegroom and the bride Dr. Stryker will introduce the Witch of Endor, and Mr. Saunders will point ott he men we can rely upon, and Dr. Lord will illustrate the evils of | religious persecution and political ecclesias- ticism by sketches from the lives of the Hn- gnenots. And thus in part will the pulpit of | the city be occupied to-day. ‘Tar Burcian Count at Liege does not séem | Prince Bismarck, and plainly expressed its | goods to put much faith in the plots to assassinate | scepticism when it dismissed the charges | was manifested im | against Duchesne. It is said that in Berlin | better satisfaction than it now appears to give | it is believed that Germany will not be satis- | ment condemn? 'The course which Germany may take in such a dilemma is not very clear. Echoes of the Religious Press. Dr. George R. Crooks takes his leave edi- torially of the Methodist, which he founded fif- teen years ago and has managed 60 suceess- fully since. He commends his successor, Professor D. H. Wheeler, to the kind consid- eration of those who have admired his own crisp editorials. The Observer reviews the fifty years’ work of the American Tract So- ciety as an answer to the question, What has the Christian press done in half a century? and gives the statistics of its latest reports as the best proof that the society commands the attention of the intelligent community. The editor of the Baptist Weekly has been reading IL. Kings, iii., 16, lately, and he saw so much water in ditches while he read that he has con- cluded there is a very close relation between obedience to God's bidding and God's bless- ing, and that we are not to gauge our expec- tations by appearances. The Christian Union pleads pathetically for humor in the pulpit as well as in the religious press or on the platform. It would have wit and humor, as well as seriousness and dulness, consecrated and used in God's service and to His glory. The Jemish Messenger deprecates the appeal of religious bodies to the courts to settle grievances which a little forbearance on either side might conclude more amicably than any legal trial can do, It cites two in- stances in its own community—one relating to the sale of the cemetery ground of the odngregation Anshi Chesed or Beth-El, and the other relating to the reform in building and appointments of the congregation B'nai Jeshurun, which was reported in last Mon- day's Heratp. In each case bad blood is likely to be stirred up by the appeal to the courts, which might be appeared by moderate meas “on either side in the synagogues. The Avangelist wants to know what can be done to increase the annual contributions to the Presbyterian missions, It suggests that if agents were employed to look after this matter by appeals to local churches and indi- viduals; if missionaries from heathen lands conld be utilized in this way occasionally, and if’ Presbyteries or Synods would take a direct mterest in a specified field the effect desired might be obtained. Church and State defends Dean Stanley against the sneers and insinuations of a class of ‘‘church- men” who do not think anything good can come out of the Nazareth of dissent, becanse the Dean is liberal enough to mingle with and praise some dissenting neighbors of bis. It shows tiiat he merely carrias out by this spirit the principles and policy of the re- formers and of multitudes of their successors, Council Revenue Frauds. A meeting was held at the St. Nicholas Hotel on Friday evening last which purported to be called to consider by stauggling can be prevented. The animus of the affair seemed to be opposition to the Ap- praiser’s Office rather than the suppression of frauds on the revenue, The the city are very well satisfied with the present Custom House management. But there is need of o more liberal policy on the part of the general government if we are to expect anything like a thorough prevention of smuggling. When the present Collector took office in 1871 he recommended the establishment of a govera- ment dock at the Battery, ou which passen- gers’ baggage should all be landed and where the examination should take place. Aside from the convenience this would afford to the passengers, a government dick would keep the inspectors and other officers under closer surveillance and secure greater vigilance and more honesty on their part. The amount of smuggling done in passengers’ bag- gage is probably overestimated, The law exempts wearing apparel in use, and there is no limit to the amount to Le allowed. ‘Tne courts have held that this must be matter of discretion, guided by the condition in life of the parties and their namber. It seems scarcely just that a wealthy family of four or five per- sons may bring Lome fifteen or twenty trunks filied with valuable made-up dresses trimmed with laces, lace shawls and other articles duti- able as merchandise, aud aay pass them free as wearing apparel, while a comparatively poor man and his wife who Dring a silk dress unmade as a present fora relative must pay duty or have their baggage sewed. Yet such is the law. No doubt the uniortu- nate passenger who finds himself thus situated and sees a fellow travel- ler's valuable trunks pass free imagines that the officers are corrupt and that a great deal of smuggling is permitted. Nevertheless, many articles subject to duty are allowed to pass the inspectors either through carelessness or in consideration of a bribe. The expendi- ture of seventy thousand dollars on a govern- ment dock aud barge house would be repaid in a year or two by the stoppage of this leak- age. Up to this time the government, while constantly urging vigilance on the part of the heads of the Custom House, has not expended | asingle dollar on the means to make that vigilance effective. It has been suggested that wholesale smug- ghog, such as that deve.oped in the Law- rence case, may be rendered impossible by sending all packages and cases to the public | stores and subjecting them all to examination. ‘There are several reasons why such a course would be impracticable and unjust toward importers, We should require ten times the room we at present have for storage and at | least a thousand more examiners to do the business at all. Then, the delay to which the | merchant would be subjected would be | ruinous to his business. Tue best safeguard | against wholesale frauds on the customs such | as those recently brought to light 1s in the in- | tegrity of the heads of the Custom House, | care in the selection of deputies and vigilance | on the part of the officers who are on the | watch to detect dishonest practices. When. ever parties are suspected of fraud all their | are taken to the warehouse for examination under the present system, but this would not be practicable as a general rule. There bas never been a greater amount of vigilance practised by the heads of the Custom House than there is under the present régime, and the management has never given Importers in on what means merchants of to tho business community. A complaint | speeches of Mr. Evarts, Judge Van Cott and | fied with this disposal of the matter; but | from o merchant is now a rare occurrence. thers ably uttered the patriotism and pur- what are they going to do about it? When | likely to hear for some time to come is that | wose of New York | the courts agauit how can @ foreion govern- Ba a little Liberality on the part of the gov- ernwent in gfording its offigera betier faciji- | tare am ——_-—- | ties for enforcing the laws we should soom find an almost total cessation of the business of smuggling either by the wholesalo or through passengers’ bagaage. Thieves with Brass Buttons. If any ingenious youth of easy or uncertait morality and without the fear of the law before his eyes should venture to reflect upom the enormous spoil gathered in the aggregate by the thousands of thieves who prey on @ community so rich as ours, what would probably be his next thought? We fear it might be an aspiration to share the plunder a8 an easy road to sudden wealth. | His imag~ ination would group in .one common han! the diamonds at 'Tiffuuy’s, the laces and tissues at Stewart's, the gold ina thousand vaults, the bonds everywhere, and even scorning the petty pilferings that with their apparently pitiful accretion perhaps outdo the great, strokes in the general result, he would be fired! with the thirst of cupidity and resolve to make an effort thus to enrich himself. But if he were a coward, too—if he were a mean rogue,, who, with enough spirit to desire great success! of any sort, was without the mettle to face perilin the pursuit, what then? His probleny would be how to divide with the thieves and keep up an appearance of honesty; and the problem would be solved for him as if by aw drish echo—which would instantly answer—~ become a detective policeman. And we not sure that this is not just the mental prow cess by which our detectives are led to aspire to their places. ‘The policeman’s place is @ safe ground from which to tap the great stream of plunder, and it would be surprising if the temptation were always resisted, and still more surprising if the evil did not grow, to gigantic proportions when no policemam who thus becomey the confederate of thieves has ever been sent to Stete Prison, though we know offences of this sort to be the come monest in the calendar. But what is the remedy? Here is this enormous amount of: the stolen property—a corruption fund to bribe the police; and on the other hand is the moderate stipend of honestly earned pays How in the disproportion of these two shall we make them content with the smaller sui, whev good repute seems not to be regarded on one hand nor dishonor feared on the other, and when our whole criminal system is so rotten that punishment is impossible? Tue Vacur or THE Pnresipent’s Sianae vure.—By a Washington item it appears that the market vaiue of General Grant's sige nature is ten doliars. For the signature of ai silent man and a hero this is not exorbitant, and yet it is proposed to pursue criminally the man who wrote the signature and sold it for this moderate sum. Apparently, the nam@ was written as well as General Grant ever writes it himself, and in evidence of this stands the fact that it was supposed by some persons to have been written by the General. But it seems to be considered that the crime in the case was in signing this great name tof a document recominending the appoiutment to office of a worthless person. Now, whem we consider what sort of persons Grant hag himself recommended to office—when we con« sider that the same great name, as written by its bearer, has scarcely ever urged the ap- poiutment of any but the unfit—we wonder that his flatterers can be so maladroit as to propose the imprisonment of anybody for am offence that His Excellency commits on am average three hundred and thirteen times evory year. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Bishop Eddy, of Massachusetts, is at Haric’s Hotel. Secretary Robeson returned to Washington List evening. Judge P. Ord, of San Francisco, ts staying at the Pita Avenne Hotel. General Jonn W. Singleton, of Illinois, bas takem up hus residence at the Windsor Hotel. Congressmae Frank Joaes, of New Hampshire, is sojourning at the Grand Ceatrai Hotel. Geperal Senjamin Pf. Butier arrived in this city yesterday, ana is at tne Fifth Avenne Hotel. Toe principal duty of tue whole Prussian police nowadays seems tu be to keep Bismarck alive. Ip Paris the name |uval appears to be equiva- lent to Sito in this city, There are 4,90 of them. Congressman Joseph H. Rainey, of South Caro- lima, 1s among the jate arrivais at the Westmore- land Hotel. Odtion Barrot is called aman who “passed bis lite in making Mustard plasters which he belleved were pouitices.” General Adam Badeau, United Staves Consul General at London, is residiag with his briae ab the uth Avende Hotel. in Inds they bave a Trichinopoty jail, which combines in one all the evils aud horrors of monopoly and Trich:nosis. There is & new Rochefoucauid who says, “Women love but once; endeavor to be the man of every other occasion that.” It is to be hoped that Beecher’s discourse on death does not mean that be feels once more as it he might have a stroke of apoplexy. People who believe in having the Bible read tn schools witi be sorry to hear that Kari Russell w a great advocate of that sort of institution. They have a very flerce lion in Paris, who ts mace crazy with fear at the sight of a grasshop- per. He has sad experiences in Africa, perhaps. In Turin, [taly, there is @ woman who wes born in 1770, The ts the widow of a porter im the Royal Palace and so Well KnNOWD [thal deception seems impossible. The marriage is announce! in the Paris Figaro of Mile, Lamvert de Sainte Croix, the daughter of ® Depaty, to the Vount de Rochefort—wnhicn ts apparently the too famous Henri. Feopie in France seem to fancy that the article in the London Times on the danger of Europe frightened the Czar, put him 1m opposition to the Prussian policy, aud so assured peace. By a cable telegram from Rome, under date of yesterday, the 22d inat., we leara that fis Excel. lency Count Cort), Italian Minister at Wasningtun, as been transferred to Constantinople, ‘The citizens of Saratoga Springs have tendered Mr. George 5. Bat rat ‘eli reception on | Monday evening mext before bis departure for Figspt. sadge Batcnolier will sail om Saturaay next. q wardeas of an American barkon the Rangoon River tried to kilt her husband witha revulver and Woanded bim seriously. This is re- po ted without the name of the vesselia the mm- dian Public Opinion. Rey. Father Nicholas Bjerring, of the Orthodox Oriental Ouapel in this city, is the American corre- pondent of the Zerkowny Westnik, of St. Peters uurg, @ widely circulated ecelesvastical journal. His correspondence will render Russian readers familiar with the peculiarities of our social struc. ith our religious systems, A pastoral letter from ‘ina! Manning and the Roman Catholic Dishops bas been read inthe Rowan Catholic chapels throughout Kogiand, The pastoral provests against the “persecution” whien Roman Catholics are suffering ‘for conscience ke’ in Germany and Switzeriand, and secnses e German Chavcrlior of endeavoring to poine the abimosiltes of governments against the liberty of tae DexXt Conciave. As Bismarck remonstrated with little Belginta in regard to pastoral letters that referred ta bis policy will be do the samo wih Eguingde