The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1875, Page 6

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The Pennsylvania Republicans snd | the Third Term. ‘The wiseacres, who fancied they could put down the third term talk by shrugging their derisive shoulders and calling it a flashy newspaper sensation, must see by this time that there was a great deal more in the idea than their shallow wits were able te ander- stand, If it was sensational moonshine it should have waned, like the moon, in the course of its little month and have passed into the limbo of forgotten things. Why is it that the third term stands as & permanent spectre in the political sky? The Repubtican Convention of Pennsylvania in its session at Lancaster yesterday bore te» timony to the foresight and penetration of the Henatp in raising its persistent cry of warn- ing two years ago. The resolution against » third term is an accusation of General Grant. If he has no such ambition why should his | own party superfluously denounce it? The | Pennsylvania resolve is more than a per- sonal accusation; it is the confession of a fear that the republican party may be brought to support the irregulfr aspirations of the President. If, when one member of the re- publican party desires o third term, the other three and a half millions of the perty were of the unanimous opin- ion that he should not have it, there would be no need of a protest against his un- supported ambition. President Grant’s aspi- = ———————— AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. seeNO, 147 | THEATRE COMIQUE, Yo fle Broedway.—VAabIirY, ato MM; cldses at 10:45 | METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, | ‘West Fourteonth street—Open irom 104. M. to P. M. | OLYMYVIC THEATRE, fof Broadway. VARIETY. a8 P.M, ; closes at 10 45 METROPOLIT, No. 585 Broadway.—VAKii! 0 ‘THEATRE, | esP. M, THE. ATRE, rations are dangerous only because he basa strong body of personal adherents who are | willing to gratify his wishes. He would not — | indulge such an ambition if he had not hopes | | of success. The Pennsylvania republicans- would not have made the confession implied in their resolution unless they had felt com- pelled to take such a step by their sense of danger. It would otherwise be a gratuitous and uncalled for inculpation of a republican President by the republican party. It was never thought necessary to erect such a barrier against any former President. It is the fault of General Grant himself | that a convention of his own party is con- BROOKLYN PARK TREATRE, | strained to make this protest against his FuYjon avenus.—VARIETY, at 8 P.3.; eldses at 1045 | J ooitions designs. It has always been in his FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, | power to extinguish these fears by a few em- SIVA grees aad Browlway “THE BIG BO- | phatic words. He had only to say that he Puere = | Tespected the example of Washington and THEODORE fnomas CONCERT ata PM. | that nothing could induce bim to violate so | wise a precedent, and the third term excite- ment would have subsided from that moment. His stubborn refusal to speak convinced first | the democrats and afterward his own party that | President Grant had set his heart on a third | election, The rebuke of this pretension by | the Pennsylvania republicans attests not only | their fears for the safety of the party, but a Foz Bowery VARIES, ai 8PM closes at 1048 | patriotic determination which rises above 4 party considerations to guard the institutions of the country. This respect for a settled | national usage and protest against its viola- | tion comes appropriately from the State | which was the cradle of our national indepen- corner of Thistirin aweet—WEALTH AND | dence and is to be the scene of its Centennial gRDE, P.M. ; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at2 | In Pennsylvania, if anywhere, | celebration. TRIPLE SHEET. BOOTIE) of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue.— gee ‘shone atSP Me; cosesatl P.M Mise Clare orris LYCEUM THEATRE, Zyprygenth atreet, near atxih avenne.—GIROFLE- | GIROFLA, ats P.M. Mile. Geoffroy. | : SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Braedreay, corner ol, Twenty-ninen ‘street—NEGRO oTRELSY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P, M. WALLACK’S TH Broad: w=THE LADY OF LY BATE A Miss Ada Dyas, ROBINSON HALL, weet —Englieh Opera—GIROFLE. PARK THEATRE. Brostway.—GALATiA, at +P. M. Miss Lina Wassmann, ‘Wert Sixtee: Gimorta. at ae. | the ideas of the fathers of the Republic should | be respected. ees | Am attempt was made to coat the bitter pill | administered to President Grant with compli- ——_————————— | mentary political sugar. He was to be in- From our reports this morning the probabilities dorsed as a patriot, his administration was to ye Dat the weather to-day will be cooler, clear be praised and the third term imputation to wd dry. be denounced as an egregious slander against ‘Tux Dexsr wos run yesterday, Galopin be- | ® high-souled patriot who could never be so Ing the winner. From the detailed accounts unmindful of his duty as to violate a princi. which we print elsewhere it will be seen that | Ple as sacred as the constitution itself. This NEW YORK, THURSDAY, May 1875, te proper stage of the proceedings, the plat. | form was reported by the Committee on Reso- lutions, in which the first resolution was sim-— | ple, naked, unqualified denunciation of the | third term, without any attempt to “temper the wind to the shorn lamb," and this was the | only part of the platform whieh was vocifer- ously applanded. All the emphasis of the Convention, ell the vigor of approbation _ which attended every part of its proceedings, was concentrated on the anti-third-term reso lution. Let us hope that President Grant will _ heed the lesson. Enforee the Contracts. Notwithstanding it seems impossible to escape the conclusion that the Police» Boar, and the Street Cleaning Buresu especially, | possibly even the Board of Health, have been insist that these contracts shall | the letter. Neither the Police Board nor the Bodrd of Health bas anthority to law or to consent to its violation, and | ever may have been the action of these bolies | Mr. McQuaid and the other contractors must be held to the full performance of their under- takings. | Mr. MeQuaid’s contract provided that the | ground for embankments should be carefully | prepared by grubbing and clearing it; thet all muck or improper material should be rensoved and that the embankments should be formed of good loam, gravel or sand. | fectly free from garbage or other imparities | were allowed to be used, and it was further | provided that where the trenches do vot eup- ply sufficient material of the proper quality | the contractor should supply such de- | ficiency at his own expense. The other con- | tracts were similar in terms to this one, and show conclusively that garbage was not con- templated to be used as filling when they were made and that the contractors can be forced to remove the stuff they have been sup- | plying in violation of their agreements at their | own expense. This is the only proper course | to be pursued, because this is the only way fn | which they can be punished for the wrong | they have done to the community. If greed induces men to violate every principle of right | and justice, even to the extent of endanger- | ing the health of a great city, the surest rem- | edy will be found in the punishment | which strikes at their pockets. McQuasidand | the others must be made to suffer loss on ao- | count of the wrong they have done in this matter, Such a course seems the only one | that will prevent like wrongs in the future aod make contractors feel that honesty is required in the fulfilment of their contracts. The complicity of the Police Board and the Street Cleaning Bureau is no excuse for the con- tractors, for they knew that the character of the work they had uadertaken and the terms upon which they undertook it would preclu‘le the use of garbage in executing their eon- | tracts. It is no justification for them now to | say that they had official authority for and | official participation in the violation of their | agreements, and they must be required to re- move, at their own cost, all the noxious mat-— ter with which they have been poisoning a— whole neighborhood. At the same time we wish to say that the complicity of the Police Board with this great wrong seems oly too plain. In every way have these officials and their friends sought to | conceal the truth about all this business, | there were the usual great attendance and the | ™ethod of rebuke is as amusing as sustomary scenes of excitement and interest Im the great event of the English turf. { ' Tax Comsurrez or Turartr in the French Assembly was reconstructed yesterday, and is | now composed of twenty members from the | Left, this preponderance being attributed to the dissensions in the conservative ranks. Apmamam Jaczsox, the distinguished de- faulter of Boston, whose unexpected delin- quencies threw a bombshell into the modern Athens, is in the bands of the police. Now | for a trial of Boston respectability which will east the Beecher trial into the shade. Navotron.—It 1s officially announced that the French government will replace the statue of Napoleon upon the summit of the Column Vendime. ‘This is wise. Whatever any French government may think of Napoleon- ism the erection of the column without the erowning statue would be an argument in favor of Bonapartism more cogent than ten | thousand monuments. Tae Presmext’s Covnsets to the Indians ‘were in the main sound and good advice ; but ‘we can see no good reason why a man as reti- cent as General Grant usually is should insist upon doing all the talking when the braves had come all the way to Washington that he might hear their complaints and right their wrongs if full justice has not been done them. The Secretary of the Interior lacks the confi- dence of most of the chiefs, and the Indians | are not alone in this feeling. Many white men would not care to commit their interests to his keeping or subject themselves to his wil, and we onght not to ask the Indian to rely upon an official whom they, rightfully or wrongfully, distrust. It was the President's duty to hear everything the chiefs may choose to urge in their own behalf, and we are sorry he did not lend a willing ear when they evinced a desire to be heard. ‘Treatwent of Curnprey.—P. A. Taylor, M. P., has recently called the attention of the British government to the case of a child, seven years old, who had been sent to prison for stealing sugar plums. The Home Secre- tary did not deny the truth of Mr. Taylor's statement, but said, in explanation of the ex- | traordinary circumstance, that the father of the child was an habitual drunkard ; that an- other child of the same family had died from Starvation, caused by the father’s neglect, and that this same child, seven years old, had previously been convicted of stealing, and “ns it was too young to be sent to a reformatory {it was only sentto prison as an act of kind- ness to remove it from the evil influences of the parent.’’ The Secretary further added that the attention of the chaplain and school- master had been directed to the cage. At the seme time this is an extraordinary com- mentary upon the state of society in Lugland that children of seven years can ouly be rescued from the evil treatment of 2 worthless (ether by being formally eonvieted of 6 crime | pad sent to prison, | thongh the person charged with the filling in | The Erie Reeciversnip. Once again the Erie Railway Company has come around to an event frequently repeated in ite history, and its property is in the hands of a receiver. Commonly an occurrence of this pature is not regarded with complacency by the owners and ndministrators of such property, and is more than a pleasure to its enemies; but the position of Erie is alto- gether and the interpretation of facts that relate to it must be different from ordinary interpretation—on the same princi- ple on which it bas been believed that prayers to the mfernal powers should be said back- wards Recciverships may be calamities where we expect prosperity and success ; bot there may be cases where they are rela- tively victories, where they appear, when the whole story is summed up, much like well conducted retreats that saved armies from is one of that character. If this 1s the trué state of the case then the appointment of a receiver simply gives the administration of the road vent estrous extreme in the confiscation of the property by foreclosure. Hostility of the most relentless sort, that never tires and is never inactive, that is fruit- fal in resources, almost diabolical in its watehfaulaess and ingenuity, inspires all the attempts to cripple the adumnistration of the road; and oll this hostility connects itself with one sufficiently familiar name. At the | time of the capture of the road, some years since, from the men who had almost ap- propriated it as their personal property, this ingenious enemy was put out, only to be found more troublesome to deal with asa declared foo than os ea unfaithful servant; and from that time till this he bas exeried his imagina- tion mainly, it would seem, in the contrivance of pitfalls, im some one of which he has al- ways hoped to recapture this splendid game. From the time of the Dunan disclosures on- ward he has been the malign influence to de- tect every weak point and to magnify it, until throngh this course the credit of the com- pany—naturally not high—has been made such as to completely cripple it for ordinary transections; and this condition, joined to the disastrous consequences of a railroad war and a time of general financial stagnation, has precipitated a crisis out of which there was no fair issue but an appeal to the courts. | It ie, of course, well known tha: the immediate | couse of the present crisis was the tailure of | the company to borrow half s million dollare, upon the receipt of which it seems to have counted with or without good reason. Per- | haps the organizations that were relied upon to lend this money were not satisfied with the proffered security, and no one is under obligation to give reasous for holding on to his own fand+; neither do we know that it is necessarily to be implied that this mishap is also to be traced to the activity of Jay Gould. But the operation of the receivership clearly is to save the property for the time from the abyss into which it was boped to | cast it. Itis arged that Jay Gonld's desire was to put the road into the hands of a re- ceiver; but, if so, it was with a view to en- | forcing an early or immediate declaration of its bankruptcy, while the present receiver- ship, if we understand it correctly, is ac- | cepted by the friends asa measure contrived to prevent a hostile receivership and to give a new opportunity to redeem the property. It | attempted to be couched would only have | enabled the Convention to express its unmeas- | ured denunciation of third term aspirations | such intentions to General Grant. | ing Grant from the charge they might one of the love and ten- ® comedy, It reminds paternal expressions of | derness which sometimes accompany the vigorous laying on of the birch in punish- ment of juvenile peccadilloes. The tingle | a Harlem property ownen which attends the strokes is not perceptibly | diminished by the loving kindness of the in- terjected words. General Grant would not | have been less significantly told that a third | term is forbidden fruit which he cannot be | permitted to touch by hollow professions of # belief that be has no such intentions. The courteous reserve in which the resolution was | with a freedom and vigor which would have been unseemly if it had openly imputed | The polite | artifice of treating the third term accusation asa slander would have set the Convention | free to express the indignant reprobation of | the American people of so dangerous an ambition. By the adroit fiction of separat- | have lashed the idea without openly inculpat- ing its author. Under the thin pretence | of defending him from a calumny | the Convention would have gained a | liberty of denunciation on which it would not | otherwise have ventured. This dexterous sub- terfuge was, however, rejected by the plain | cannot, we believe, be for a moment contem- | process, as it is conducted by the Street Clean- | plated that Mr. Jewett is in any sense a crea- | ing Bureau, was willing enough to agree to | ture of Gould's. As a receiver, Mr. Jewett | violate the law when a Henaxp representative | stands on somewhat firmer ground than approached him in the assumed character of | was possible for him os president; and if, Even the tes- | | Disbecker always was ambitions, but nobody | timony taken at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last | | winter by the Assembly Committee on Cities in regard to the Street Cleanmg Department — has been suppressed, though required to be | printed by a resolution of the Assembly. This | testimony must be made public, because, like | | the revelations which we print this morning, | it throws much light upon the whole subject of street cleaning. It may even afford us some | information in regard to the ‘operations of ; Mr. Disbecker, whose great discoveries, it seems, are already honored by the workmen of | the bureau, who have named the largest heap | of garbage in the city ‘Camp Disbecker.” will seek to deprive him of the distinction he | has succeeded in earning for himself, but most people will rejoice when the men who bought dirt from him with which to poison a whole city are compelled to cart it away again at | their own expense. Railroad Outrages. The Pennsylvania Railroad has been brought before the public in very unenvia- ble light recently. The conductors on that line seem to have peculiar ideas about their | of the enemies of the Erie Company, but the common sense of the Convention. It would | anty. {t may be that many representatives of | have been idle to sny that such vigorous de- | that undesirable class known as “beats” at- nunciations were not directed against Presi- | tempt occasionally to ride in the cars of this } dent Grant. If he bad ever disclaimed the | road without paying fare, but that is no reason | kind of ambition against which they were | gor the conductors to adopt a course calculated | , directed there would have been no necessity | to ill or endanger the lives of their passen- for the Convention to say a word on the | gers. Putting a passenger who has not paid subject. It is only becanse he has stubbornly | his fare off on a treatlework or on a bridge at refused to relieve the republican party of this night is an unjust method of getting even | heavy incubus that the Pennsylvania re- | with him. In onecase such a conrse resulted | publicans thought it incumbent on them | in the death of the party concerned. Again, to pubiicly cast it off; and had they adopted | beating a man into a state of insensibility the resolution denouncing it as the foulest | is equally objectionable. Yet it has beon | calumny thet could be uttered against the | charged and proved against some of the con- President they would still have proclaimed | quctors of the Pennsylvania Railroad that | their sense of the turpitude of such an am- | they have frequently acted with the above- | | bition. Nothing is more evident from the |‘mentioned brutality toward some of their | proceedings of the Convention than its pur- | passengers, It is very easy for them to hand pose to denounce the thing rather than | over delinquent passengers to the police at relieve President Grant from the imputation. | the first station, instead of exposing them to The subject came up three separate times in | death by clubbing them into insensibility or the course of the day's proceedings, and each putting them off on a bridge at midnight, A time it evoked the warmest expressions of ¢oroner's jury might bring them to their feeling. It was first presented, at an early | genses by ordering an arrest. stage of the session, as a simple, | — frank resolution, denouncing the third term, | Jvper Porrer’s Ancument iu behalf of the and in this naked form it was grected with | defendant in the ‘Tilton-Beecher case was | thunders of applause, proving that the real | closed yesterday, and it is to be followed this | purpose ot the Convention was not to exon- erate Grant bat to d:0unce his known am» bition, perceiving from this indication that they aid not suppress @ declaration on the sub- ject, set their wits at work to frame a resolu- His sycophemts and oflicesholders, | morning by the speech of Mr. Evarts. In what remains to be said on this side of the case we presume we may expect the close and | cogent reasoning characteristic of the distin- guished advocate who is now tobe heard. Mr. Evarts’ speech is anticipated with great in- meantime, the shareholders—the real owners of the property—ean be bronght to agree on some common policy for the reorganization of the finances, and if, especially, they will con- sent to an assessment of their shares in such sums as may be necessary to raise o fund for the discharge of the floating debt, then the company will be restored to its legitimate po- sition and will go on. But, in the scarcely supposable contingency that such an operation cannot be carritd out, the company will fall into bankruptcy. This is the true character, we believe, of the receivership; not a vietory salvation of the property from their clutches | for the time. A Pentrvent Question. the new Police Commissioner, succeeds in | enforcing his ideas, that there should be no policemen but those “who have per- | fect physical health and sre an exhi- | bition of superior muscular and physical development,"’ what is to become of | Tammany Hall? General Smith's posi- tion is a blow at the civil service system of New York city, which is to-day, as it has been for twenty years, the most corrapt fMias- tration of the tendency of American institu. tions. Inno department of this government have we seona more shameful rystem of nepo- tism, of using public patronage for political power, of subordinating all the resources of the government to the wishes of scheming politicians, as in New York. We do not find that the new Tammany régime has in any way reformed it. We expected some reform from General Fitz John Porter; but it is under- stood that that gentleman upon taking charge of his office tarned over the whole patronage toa committee of Tammany Hall. General Smith is making o vain effort to do better; but he will have to give way before the flood tide, as other well meaning men heave been | compelled to do in the past, Tre Rarw Trassrr Association bes in- dorsed the Husted bill and yesterday adopted bylaws which may prove an importent aid in securing the objects of the measure. The real work only begins now that the oppor tuoity of building o rapid transit reed has been afforded, and weare glad that the promi- nent gentlemen who compose the association show a willingness to go forward with the work without any further delay. | A Dustincorsren Scorca Purwean has written an article proving that typhoid or enteric fever, now prevailing in certain dis- tricts of Scotland, is traceable to the milk sap- ply, and that the poisoa is introduced into | the milk from the sewage. It would be well tion whieh would be tender of the President's | terest, and every word that Le may utter will | to note the observations of an investigation personal feelings, ‘and this was greeted with applouse, the Convention being too much bent on denouncing the | | thing to stand upon the form. Afterward, at be read and considered by all who wish to arrive at an intelligent conclusion in | regard to the most remarkable scandal of the he ag | of this kind, especially considering what | New York nfly become daring this summer, i oon we do something fo remove such an- moyances as the Harlem flats, The Boston Calamity... The calamity in Boston, which 1s reported in the news columns of the Hznaup this morning, if not without parallel, is so far, at least, without explanation. Au explosion of terrific force suddenly occurred, and the eye- witnesses of the accident unite in saying that o bright flame suddenly burst from all the doors ond windows of the building, when the structure crumbled and fell, burying in the débris many of the occupants and some of the people who chanced to be pass- ing in the streets. The scene was a heart- rending one, and as yet its full horrors have not been revealed. Wounded men and women were rescued from the ruins, and there are still some of the dead and perhaps dying victins ef the calamity beneath the crushed and fallen walls. Every incident of the calamity is in itself a tale of woe, and the details forma chapter of disaster only less terrible than the breaking away of the dam at Mill River a year ogo, Even the falling wall which crushed in the roof of St. Andrew’s church and killed and wounded so many of the worshippers was not so appalling in its effects or so sug- gestive ot the dangers which constantly menace the unsuspecting multitudes in great cities, If any building is secure against disaster this Boston structure, if we may judge from the accounts which reach us, ought to have been safe, The edifice was well built, and apparently every precaution had been taken against acci- dent. The premises were to all appearances a safe and harmless drug store; no dangerous chemicals, so far as is yet known with any degree of certainty, were stored in it, and yet almost instanta- neously and without warning of any kind the building was shaken from its founda- tions and fell to the earth, burying all its inmates in the ruins. Such was the foree of the concussion that, even @ passing street car was overturned in the passers-by had no time to escape from the falling walls. Wo search almost in vain for a parallel to the calamity, and the cause is a mystery as profound as the ruin was complete and overwhelming. We shall be compelled to wait for a day or two for an ex- planation ot this singular event? though we believo it will be found in one of two hypotheses:—Either the soda fountain in the drog store exploded the street, and | with such force as to destroy the building, or some chemicals considered harmless by | the proprietor produced all this havoc | and death, If the latter should be found to be the cause of the explosion no rebuke can be too severe for the temerity which thus exposed so many lives to constant peril, and, in the end, resulted in such great loss, so much suffering and so many deaths. The former hypothesis, however, will prob- ably be fonnd to be the true solution of the disaster. Explosions of soda fountains sometimes occur from causes which may escape the attention known to be something wrrific. While it seems almost impossible that a simple soda fountain should work such overwhelming rain, we can see no other explanation of this disaster that has so much the air of probability. this hypothesis is the correct one these little engines of effervescent refreshment will be invested with a terror which few of us imagined belonged to them. And in such case a new duty will devolve upon every vender of the cooling beverage. Tt would not do to have an engine of destruction so powerful in its force at almost every strect corner in our towns and cities, and yet our people will be slow to give up a lnxury which is within the reach of all. There wust be a remedy, and pow that the unsuspected danger seems so terrific the remedy must be tound and ap- plied. Even if it should turn out that the explosion was due to another cause— of | even the most vigilant, and their force is | Should it turn out that | | | | | | | i his course under the protecting shadow of re ligion. What were tne uses he made of the op» portunities given him by his position as sexton can be judged from the stories told by young girls whom he enticed, under one pretence of another, into the church. Piper seems te have been as fond of kissing as some othes religious lights. Several children seom te have complained to their parents of the atten tions and caresses bestowed on them by this man, but no noticeappears to have been taken of their complaints. Kissing, indeed, seems in danger of becoming part of the religions ritual. Perhaps promiscuous kissing is looked on as correct and proper by the Athenians of America. This would accourit for no action having been taken 6 the complaints of the young girls. It is to be hoped, however, now that the character of the man has come to light, that be will be dealt with promptly by the stern hand of jus tice. If it were not for the fanaticism of belief we could hope that murders like this horror of the church tower and the motivelers maurder of Jesse Pomeroy would induce thoss euthusiasts who demand the abolition of capi tal purtishment to confess the folly of their course, This wanton murder is another ap- peal to those who hold the sword of justice to smite swiftly and with terror-striking effect those who imbrue their hands in the blood of their fellow beings. There has been tender ness enough shown to the criminal; let the hand of authority do something for the pro. tection of the law-abiding citizens. The Vanity of Human Wishes. There is no moro striking evidence of the Vanity of human ambition than in the pro. posal to sell the house of Mr. Jay Cooke in Pennsylvania and the transter to a railroad company of the palace of the late Mr. LeGrand Lockwood, of Connecticut. Ten years age Mr. Cooke and Mr. Lockwood were among the richest, most enterprising and most cele. brated merchants of this country, Wealth rolled upon them in the fulness of a spring tide. With wealth came the ambition te found a family and a home—an ambition which, whatever we may think of our demo. cratic and liberal institutions, seems to be az instinct of human nature. Mr. Cooke buili his house at Ogontz, which, from reports, cost him more than a million dollars. The auctioneer the other day could only obtain a bid of three hundred and fifty thousand dol lars, Although the sale was under decree of bankruptey it was postponed. Mr, Locke wood's palace at Norwalk cost one million two hundred and fifly thousand dollars, and was recently offered for sale at one hundred and ten thousand dollars. This, the ree porter informs us, ‘is probably the finest private dwelling in America, constructed of solid blocks of granite, finished inside with rosewood and mahogyny and cedar of Lebanon.”’ Mr. Lockwood is dead, and a railroad corporation possesses his domain, Mr. Cooke is a bankrupt, and the auctioneers are vainly asking the world to buy for a song what ccst hima fortune. How true it is, as the wisest of men once said, ‘All is vanity Tue Avruonirms in England are very anxious to repress the growing disposition of the people to indulge in cockfighting. Sev- eral arrests have been made <ycently and fines imposed, but the tendency to cultivate this amusement increases and is the subject of much discussion in the newspapers. Cormcrpznces.—An English journal notes and thero is an allegation that there was nitro- | glycerine in the building—the disaster will | serve a good end in promoting greater pre- | : ata has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. cautions in the use of a material with such immense explosive force. Fanaticiom of Belief. The reluctance with which mankind re- ceives testimony damaging to any favorite theory is nowhere more strongly or more con- stantly observed than in religious circles. Let a man or woman belonging to one of the mumerons sects be accused of a crime and the body with which the secused is associated in | belief immediately resolves itself into a fac- | jegation at Washington, are at the Albemarle | the singular coincidence that Mr. Michac] | Levy, the leading publisher of Paris, and Mre | John Harper, the leading publisher of New | york, died on the same day. Another coinci- | dence is that Mr. Breckinridge and Mr, Bright, whom he succeeded as the presiding officer of the Senate, died almost at the same time. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Alexander G. Cattell, of New Jorsey, is resid ing at the st. Nicholas Hotel. Captain E. R. Moodie, of the steamship Bothnia, is quartered at tne New York Hotel, Mr. W. A. Brahe, German Consul at Melbourne, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator Amorose 1, urnside, of Rhode Island, Eltas D. Bruner, United States Cousul at Talca | puano, Chili, 8 staying at the Coleman House. tion for the defence of “injured innocence,” | No matter how strong the circumstantial evi- | dence h i | oo SEEM Be eommntn M1 msde he } on the 29tnof April. It took twenty-tnree shots to curious sight is prevented of respectable members of society associating’ themselves actively in the defence of the accused until such crurhing evidence has been brought to | bear on the case that defence ie made imporsi- He. Biven then it is with something like regret | yas been appointed to represent the United States that the religious communities yield up the criminal to the vengeance of the lew. This peeahar weaknem of the religious mind is well understood by villains, and whether evil doers are intent on stealing a railway or imbruing thetr hands in blood their first impulse seems to be to attach tlemselves ta some religious body. They establich « kind of right of eanctnary, which they know only the ntmost power of the lew con break through. The peculiar condition of mind to which we owe this phenomenon can beat, perhaps, be desig- nated the fanatioum of belief. In the latest Boston horror we find thie strangely exempli- fied. Piper, who is cheryed with the murder of poor littl Mabel Young, was scarcely the kind of man worldly people would be apt to put inte & position of trast. He was strongly saspected of the murder of Bridget Sanderson — a ortme whieh startled Bowton from its pro- priety, and though the evidence failed tw fasten om Lom the guilt, it leit him uncleared. ‘The potter sil! contioned to took on him as the murderer, though they tailed to prove the crime against him. it would not have been too much to have expected that a man With such o record would have been regarded 6 an improper person to be the sexton of a eharch. But the tanaticinm of belief came to his rescue, oe it has to the aid of many ® rascal, snd Piper was looked on as an injured person and probably the vetim of some vile conspiracy of worldlings And so , the poor, wortby man was allowed to continue Right Rev. William H. Hare, Bishop of Niobrara, is among the late arrivals at the New York Hotel, A normal school for girls Is about to be opened in the capital of San Salvador. The professors are to be brovght from Germany. Messrs, Aizpura, J. N. Herrera and a Major Vegal have deen banisued the State of Colombia for conspiracy to upset the government of Sefjor Mirs. Mr. Robert Grant Watson and Mr. W. H. D. Hag- gard, First and Third Secretaries of the British Hotel. Melendez, who assassinated the ex-Vice Presi. dent of San Salvador some time ago, was.execated kt him, Herr Adolph Neuendorf™, manager of the Ger- mania and Stadt theatres, satls to-day per steam- ship Frisia, to bring over Mme, Peschka Leutner and Herr Wachtel. Judge George 8. Batcheller, of Saratoga, who government on the Egyptian Bench, 1s registered at the Fifty Avenue Hotei. Sir A. T, Galt bas been appointed one of the fPritish Commissioners to dectde on the amount of compensation to 6e paid by the United States to | Canada tor fishery privileges. Lieatenant Frederick Collins, United States Novy, Commander of the Darien Surveying Expe- dition, arrived from Aspinwali in the steamship Acapulco, and is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Owing (o tbe absence in kurope of the Hon. Mr. MeKeorte, Minister of Public Works of the Cana dian government, the Hon. Mr. Huotington wil’ administer the affairs of that department. ‘The departure of the President's family for Long Branes, it Is understood, has been somewnat hastened to avoid the birth of a British subject beneath the root of the Executive Mansion, Mr. Leteliier de St. Just, Canadian Minister of Agricatrure and President of the Canadian Com- mixeion at the United States Contennial Exnibi- tow, arrived In this city last evening from Ottawa, and took np his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. dames 7. Gardner, Onlef Geographer of the Geovogical and Geographical Survey of the Unitea States Territories, lef yesterday morning for Denver City, Colorado, where, with his staff of nine setontivts, he will muke bis headquarters watt October. The proposed ficid of operations will be Withim a radius of two hundred muijes of Denver City. r Generat Pre Ss arrived at Callao from Coie, The people ¢ 4 OU EN MasKe, Escorred the pop wiar candidate for the Presidency of Pera to the raviway Station, aud burned more powder, m the shape of Grecrackers and rockets, in bie hone: then the Glstingoished chieftain expended op shells and heavy cannon charges when he whipped the Spanish fees tm Callao Bay, Prado is the prospective Winoer in the Presidential race,