The New York Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1875, Page 6

6 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 Yoru Hensrp will be | tent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every @ay in the year, Four cents per copy. An- tual subscription price $12 All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hienaw. Rejected communications will not be re- terned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received und forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. VOLUME XLeweeeerereee «NO, 149 AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING, gure e. THEAT TY, at ST No, 6% Broadw Ai ; cloves at 1045 P.M. Matinee PE ph '§ THEATRE, third street and’ Sixth rapa ‘SHORE ony BLACK-LYED SUSAN, at P APM Mies Clare Morris, Mr- George Bignold. | ry oo aig ROOKLYN P PARK THEATRE, ton pe —VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1005 Pe Matinee at2 P.M. ‘HEAT! 4 ares, be Peatvee rare BIG BO. ESR. S Clowes at 1J:3) FM, Matinee at 1:30 CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. THEODORE THUMAS’ CONCERT, at 8. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, street, near sixth avenue.—LA FILLE D& SPE ANGoy asi WAUATELLE ats FM. Mle. Geoffroy. Matinee at THEATRE, METROPOL Yo, Bronaway —VAMILTY, at ¥ FN.” Matinee at 2 SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Mare Twenty- -ninth | street. GRO Bh AMEELSY. at 8 1 M.; closee at 10 P.M Matinee at ALLACK’S THEATRE, art LADY OF LYONS, at &P. M.; closes | ae lust aor ¥ Miss Ada Dyas, Mr. Montague, Matinee BOWERY OPERA HOUSF, as a Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M,; closes at 1045 ROBINSON HALL, stree' Teer Opera—GIROFLE Siforns ris M. Mat 2PM. wWoon’s MUSEUM, 1y. corner of Thirtieth sireet—ROBERT MA. eye, ‘at 8 P.M.; closes at 1045 I M. Matinee at2 THEATRE COMIQU lo. 5i4 Broadway. —VARTETY, ate) . M. Matinee at? P. M. M.; closes at 1045 METROPOLITAN MUSECM OF ART, West Fourteenth street. —pen from 10 4. M.to SP. M. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Pearteenth street.—SkY AN!" ame NotREL3, ats P.M RE THEATR Breetesy--Sax, sdcer DR ‘ratio ASSOCIATION, ae TRIPLE SHEET. SATU! RDAY, NEW YORK, MAY 29, he — Shim our reports this morning the probabilities gre that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy. a Brooxirn Errrmets.—Mr. Evarts says that the East River Bridge, when finished, should be Joade’ with a train fall of Brooklyn epi- | thets, and if it will bear that it will bear any- thing. But will he not give his colleague, Porter, a passage on that train? Lovrstaxa MiscovennMENt se an inter. esting chapter which we print this morning. The letter of our correspondent details the legislative plunderings, the Spec ulations with | the State’s money, the monopolies and exclu | sive privileges which have afflicted the people of that State during the pest t few years. Sr. Jomy’s Guip secoanpt\ shed a good work last eummer in affording fresh air for sick children and their mothers, and is already making preparations for repeating the charity during the present seasdh. An sppeal is made for funds in behalf of this worthy object, and we trust it will meet with a liberal response. A Porst ron Taz Horry Szz.—The London Telegraph makes a conclusive argument on the policy of the Church of Rome, when it ssys that the Pope “gains in England, America and Ireland, and to some extent in North Germany, irom the very liberties” he bas denounced. Nothing is becoming more apparent in the discassions of modern poli- tics than that religion will grow more rapidly ins free country than under any system of government protection. Modern science con- vinces us that protection in every shape is a mistake. It is the bandage around the body of a growing child. In time it must either’be removed or the man will die. ‘Tre Starz Census is to be taken during ¥he next month, and we hope the work will be intelligently and conscientiously performed. This is especially importent as regards the city. There was so much suspicion attending the taking of the United States Consus five years ago that, notwithstanding the work was done over again, it was far trom giving satis- faction. Let it be done so thorongnly, capably snd completely this time as not to leave room for a quibble. Prorzsson Mansn, who has shown much friendly zeal in behalf of the Sioux Indians, was placed in a very annoying position yester- day at the conference with the chiefs | through the equivocations of the savages. We have little doubt of the correctness of the position he maintains, and are only sorry that he should be at the mercy, even fora moment, of the faithless Indians | whom he has tried to befriend. In regard to the absence of the President from the con- ference, we have only to say that we have no | words strong enough to condemn the inatten- tion of the Executive. General Grant is not two great to prove his greatness by the sacri- | fice of s little personai comfort on an occasion of this kind, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. The Political Campaign of 1875. The holding of the Republican State Con- | vention of Pennsylvania at so early a period as May in preparation for an election which is not to take place until November precipi- tates a question which is usually postponed until after the summer heats. Since the change in its constitation by which its State elections are carried forward from October to | November Pennsylvania must resign its posi- tion as the keystone of our politics, and the | adage so long ‘accepted in our Presidential | contests that ‘As Pennsylvania goes so goes the Union” will be deemed obsolete. ‘he ascendancy of that State in national polities is a faded glory. It was founded partly on the | importance of Pennsylvania, which ranked next to New York in population and wealth, but chiefly on the fact that in Presidential years it held an election a month in advance of the final trial of strength, and that the great body of trimmers, who hung on the out- skirts of politics end had no solicitude but to be found with the successful party, were ready to change sides as soon as this pioneer balloon showed the direction of the atmos- | pheric current. All the floating riff-raff of | | politics has heretotore followed in the wake | of the Pennsylvania October election. It bas lost this potent influence by the change to | November, but it has gained im exchange a | more perfect control of domestic questions | which can no longer be flung into the | stream of national politics. Tho change will also tend to make national | platforms more honest. Pennsylvania has | always been a high tariff State, and the im- | pertance of carrying it in October as a pre- liminary to success in the Presidential elec- | tions has constrained the great national par- | ties to pay an undue deference to the Penn- sylvania interests, which clamor for protec- | tion. This power is lost forever by the | | change in its election day. Pennsylvania is | herea(ter merely one of the large majority of | States which hold their elections on the same day in November, and it may go eitber way | without greatly influencing the general result. This being so obviously the case we see no sufficient reason why the Pennsylvania repub!icans should | have come so early into the field this | Their election is to be held on the | | | year. same day as that of New York; but neither | chief battle jet battle feld of our political contests, This year, andim all years hereafter, Pennsylvania will be left to take its chances with the other November States, and there will be a grand concentration of strength in the pre | liminary fight in Ohio. If the republi- cans should recover Ohio in October they will easily carry at least half a dozen other States now considered as | they will not recover an inch of ground in parties are certain to pour all their forces into Ohio in October, and the result of the contest will virtually decide the next Presi- | dential election. A great democratic victory | in Ohio in October this year would insure corresponding victories in most of the | States which hold elections in No- vember, and paralyze the bopes of the republican party. Now that Ohio has be- come the pivotal State the tariff question will dwindle into insignificance in national poli- tics. The average public sentiment of agri- cultural Ohio is rather adverse to high duties, but not ina very pronounced degree. Sena- tor Thurman, the ablest democrat of Ohio, | hag always kept prudently shy of the tariff question, and the democratic party of that State will prefer what is called “revenue reform’’ to unequivocal ‘free trade.’ There is, accordingly, no likelihood that free trade will be a predominant issue in the next Presi- dential election. Ohio succeeds Pennsylvania as the most influential State iw furure elections, and the chances in Ohio this year are unfavorable to the republicans. Had business revived this spring, as everybody hoped, the republicans might have had an equal chance. But the continued stagnation is certain to act against the party in power. A great democratic | victory in Ohio will turn most of the Novem- ber elections against the republican party, moment who is the republican candidate for the Presidency. The Smelis of Harlem Flats, If we should follow our noses, as the old saying advises us, where would they lead us? Certainly away from Harlem flats. There if the olfactory organ was allowed to deter- mine the general direction of tmvel. | | of our New York parties «ill make nomina- | tions before September. Even in Ohio, which | still holds its election in October, neither | | party bas yet held its State Convention. | It would, perhaps, be a violent and strained | | inference to suppose that the Republican Con- | vention of Pennsylvania has been held so | | early with a view to crowd Grant off the | Presidential track by setting other States an example of ‘an unequivecal declaration | | againsta third term. But if this explanation | | seems far-fetched what other is possible? | | Governor Hartranft’s friends could have had | | no anxiety respecting his nomination, for he | bas not only discharged his duties to the ac- | | ceptance of bis party and the satisfaction of | | all reasonable men, but the republicans put | themselves under a necessity of renominating him by placing him forward last year as their candidate for the Presidency. The other officers are of little consequence, and there is | nothing in the political situation of Peunsyl- vania which should have impelled the repub- lican leaders to go so early into the canvass, unless their shrewd managers felt the im- portance of heading off Grant and setting an | example for Ohio on _ the third term question. It is believed on good | grounds that Blaine, and not Hartranft, is the | favorite Presidential candidate of the Penn- | : sylvania republicans. Mr. Blaine is a native | of the State, He last year made protection- | ist speeches wherever he appeared on the stump which were understood at the time as a bid for Pennsylvania support; and he has perhaps a better chance for the nomination | than any other candidate if Grant can be put | aside. Jaine’s Pennsylvania friends, in- eluding Cameron, are long-sighted poli- ticians, and if Ohio, following the ex- ample of Pennsylvania, can muster courage | to boldiy denounce the third term, Grant will | | be ‘nowhere’ in the Presidential race and Blaine’s chances will be such as his | friends can give him. For the next two years Mr. Blaine will hold a more conspicue ous position in national politics than any | other member of the republican party except the President himself. As the leader of the opposition in s democratic House of Repre- sentatives he can incur no enmities, as Grant is always liable to do by the refusal of appointments; he can- | nose is a noble member; it is the emblem of poetry, being so sensitive and devicate, and man owes to it many benefits which are not usually acknowledged. Being the most prom- inent feature of the face, its instinct is in ad- | yance of the reasoning powers, and its func- tion is to detect the presence of disease in the air, or the deleterious atoms which produce disease, before the lungs unconsciously inbale | them. It is the sentine! that stands before the citadel of the body, and now presents its bayonet point and cries ‘Halt !” to the odors | of Harlem flats. These flats include all the smells known to | nature or art, excepting those which are ex- quisite and delightful. There is no ottar of roses there, no extract of violets norof the beantiful Puritan pansies, nor of the summer winds “faint with delicious scent of drowsy flowers.’ But there is the fragrance of the decaying cabbage, the putrefied cat, the sweepings of the streets, the garbage of the alleys, the gatherings of the cbiffonier, and of all the countless substances that are included in the excretion of acity. The flats, in the language of the undemonstrative Rabelais, | smell worse than ‘five hundred thousand | million devils.’’ We cannot say of the breeze that blows above it that it comes over the nose Like the sweet south, That breathes upol a bank ol violets, Stealing and giving odor, though we might add, with good reason, the context of the Shakesperian poectry—‘‘Enough! | no mor well defined and several, found in the town of Cologne, are excelled by The seventy-two stenches, all the wonderful effluvia which the Harlem flats | combine in one general stink which defies | analysis. The nose recoils upon itselt in this region of pestilence, and the man is to be envied who is afflicted with influenza. Har- lem flats is the bouquet of poison flavors which is offered to the metropolis of New | York. We think that the public has had enongh of these smelis, and if the matter were to be submitted to vote we should need only | to ‘‘count noses’ to be sure of a majority in favor of this opinion. Surely the Board of Health should do something for the protection of the universal nose, which is being held tightly between the thumb and finger in hope- not be regarded as a mere soldier in the | ful anticipation of its action. ranks, as he would be in the Senate; while his dexterity, his knowledge of par- | liamentary rules, his force and readiness in debate, will make him conspicuous as a critie Paul Boyton’s Voyage. Even the bolletins of s commander-in-chief from the field of battle conld not be more in- and assailant of the democratic party. No | teresting than the successive announcements other republican is hkely to occupy so large a share of public attention as Mr. Blaine in the session of next winter if he does not fall short of the expectations of his friends as the opposition leader of the House. There is no réle in which so much political capital can be made by o man of talents, and if Grant's irregular ambition could be extinguished Blaine would have the best chance for the republican nomination. He is the known favorite of Pennsylvania, and, whether the Pennsylvania republicans intended jt or not, they have done him the best service | in their power by calling their Convention | early and making # declaration against the third term which only needs to be followed by the republicans of Ohio to extinguish President Grant's hopes. We cannot be very wide of the mark in recognizing the finger of so wary an old political fox as Cam- jeron in a step which is 80 obvi- ously for the advantage for ealling the Pennsylvania Convention so long in advance of any State necessity we will | give it a candid consideration. If Grout can be crowded out Blaine’s uncontested leader- ship of the republieans in the next House will give him a great opportunity. Apart from the Presidential purpose we have suggested the important election of the present year but that of Ohio. This State con- tinues to hold its election in October, and | is the successor of Pennsylvania in its ab- normal end factitious influence in national politics, By the growth of its population | a8 Pennsylvania, and so long as it shall con- | tinue to hold October elections it will be the of Biaine. If | anybody can suggest a more plausible reason | is not that of Pennsylvania | Obio has become almost as important a State | | which we print this mornmg of Paul | Boyton’s progress in his trip across | the British Channel. Starting from Cape Grisnez at three o’clock inthe morning the English coast was in view irom the steamer which accompanied him at noon. At two o'clock in the afternoon he was eight miles | from Dover, and at one o'clock this morning he was within three miles of that place. The latest news indicates that he will effect a | landing, thongh he was delayed by adverse | currents. _All through this trying ordeal he maintained a freshness that was evidence of his endurance and manifested 1 confidence of success throughout which no doubt contributed largely _to the wonderful results he was able to attain. What the practical frnit of his contrivance for turning a man into a boat by means of a dress will prove to be is a mat- | ter which can be determined only after it has been tested by less experienced hands, but it certainly affords promise of inceweased safety in cases of disaster occuring bin a reasonable distance of the shore or in the neighborhood of passing vessels. If Boyton can traverse the British | Channel, than which their is no rougher bitof | water anywhere, we can see no reason why other persons similarly equipped should net be able to keep afloxt for a much longer time even than required for completing his peril- | ous feat. Catamrry follows calamity with startling speed. In addition to the Holyoke disaster | | | | | we have the news of large fires at St. John, | N. B., and at Worcester, Mrs. The losses are heavy and will be the cause of great suf- fering. doubtful. But if they lose Ohio in October any State which they lost last year. Both | and in that case it will seem a matter of small | would be rapid transit enough from New York | The | which Coleridge | The Coming Masonic Festivitios. The dedication of the new Masonic Hall, in this city, next week, will be the most pic- turesque pageant ever offered to the public gaze in the United States by an Order which is known to the general public only by its imposing scenic displays. Every part of its | ceremonials is claimed to bave a mystic sig- nificance intelligible to the initiated and as meaningless to the ‘‘profane’’ as a gorgeous | dramatic performance in a language not un- derstood by the spectators. An oceasion of so much parade is fitted to enlist curiosity | respecting the ancient Order which furnishes this evidence of its prosperity; and we are happily able to gratify that natural curiosity by expositions of Masonry from persons who havea title to speak in its behalf and are willing to communicate everything relating to its external history. The interesting letter of Mr, Albert G. Mackey, the Secretary Gen- | eral of the Supreme Council, which we print to-day, is a production which sets forth | the pature of the Order with remark- | able clearness, intelligence and literary _ skill. It will, perhaps, be found better worth reading than anything likely to be written in connection with this occasion. Mr. Mackey is evidently no bigot to the traditions of the Order and no believer in the extravagant mytbs which have been accepted as a part of its history. Thoroughly conversant with the critical researches which have thrown s0 much new light on the subject within the last few deeades, he frankly accepts the results of the recent historical inquiries and presents the institution in a costume which gives it a better clam to the attention of intellectual, scholarly men. He renders a valuable ser- vice in clearing away the mythical rubbish which has so long been a severe tax on the credulity of simple-minded Masons. He abandons the grotesque claim that Adam was the first Mason, and has quite as little respect for the myth that Solomon’s Temple was built by the brethren of the Order. The Temple of Solomon makes, indeed, a great figure in the Masonic ritual, but Mr. Mackey expiains that that was f6unded on esoteric and not historical reasons. The intellectual part of Masonry, as he defines it, is ‘‘the science of symbols,’’ and when this science had been carried to a certain stage of perfec- tion it was found convenient to draw its sym- bols from the parts of the more elaborate Jew- ish Temple instead of from the Gothic cathe- | drals of the Middle Ages, a great part of which were actually built by the Order of Free- masons. Its symbols are a means of illustrat- ing great truths, but the only distinctive relig- | ious tenet of the Order is theism, a funda- mental truth represented under the idea that the universe is the work of an Architect. Masonry, as this expounder interprets it, is an elaborate system of symbols adjusted to | one another with a sort of architectural sym- | metry which assists the intellect in compre- | hending, as a connected whole, the great moral truths signified by the symbols. Aside from the theism which is the common foun- dation of all religions it binds its members to no specific theological belief. In Mr, Mackey’s striking language, “In Protestant England, in Catholic Italy, in Mohammedan Turkey or in Brabminic India—under the shadow of St. Paul’s or the Basilica of St. Peter's, or the Mosque of St. Sophia, or the thousand temples of Benares, Freemasonry is, tor all prac‘ical purposes, one and the same institution.” | We also print a communication (being always willing to give a fair hearing to both | sides) assailing Masonry with something of the asperity which prevailed during the anti- Masonic controversy which formed a remark- | able episode in our politics more than fitty | years ago. Our correspondent borrows his | weapons from that controversy and employs them with as little restraint as was exercised | in the heat of a fierce contention which is a very old and fazniliar story to people conver- sant with the kistory of New York politics. It into public life, including Thurlow Weed, his lite-long friend Mr. Seward, Mr. Fillmore, | who was atterward President, and others of | equal prominence in their time, but who did | not run so long a career in politics. There is no reason to doubt that Morgan was not only abducted, but murdered, by the Free- | masons because he had threatened to print | the secrets of their Order. The indignation | aroused by that outrage was legitimate; but | the horse was somewhat overridden by | the politicians who mounted it. Everybody is familiar with the story so often told of Thurlow Weed, that he got possession of a corpse, shaved it, had it pat in a nice coffin and passed it off for the dead body of Morgan, saying, when its identity was questioned, that it was ‘a good enough Morgan until | after election."” We should be glad to hear the present views of the venerable journalist and tactician on the subject of Masonry. With a mind mellowed by time and ripened and liberalized by o wide and varied intercourse with men he would speak with candor, and nothing could be more interesting than his mature judgment of the event which brought him and so many of his associates into public life. It is not probable that he would speak on the subject with the violent impetuosity of younger years. Our correspondent seems to exhibit a virulence which does not quite be- fit a question which so long ago passed out of politics yn saying that Benedict Arnold was a Mason. So also Judas Iscariot was a Christian; but it would be hardly fair treachery. George Washington was aiso om Masov, as were a large proportion of the abidingly loyal officers of the Revoln- tion, The corner stone of the national Capi- tol was laid by Washisgton with the insignia of the Masonic Order upon his person. But | we do not ses that either the infamy of | Arnold or the illustrious virtues of Washing- ton have any proper bearing on the merits of the question whether Masonry is or is not | nevertheless | | & beneficent institution. We thank our anti-Masonic correspondent for his | suggestion that the views and reminiscences of Mr. Weed would be exceedingly inter- esting. Rewtcron m Porrrics..About this time look out for the development of religious feelings upon the part of our distinguished piroet Nothing assists a candidate for the Presidency so much as a good church | record, We have that devout statesman, the Hon. James G. Blaine, making himself mani- fest as o speaker before a congregation club \ in Boston, .| being less elaborate in their ritual are not so brought some of our most remarkable men j to hold Christianity responsible for his | The Lesson of the Holocaust. In attempting to review a disaster like that which occurred on Thursday at the little Roman Catholic church at Holyoke, Mass., we find ourselves circumscribed both in the narration of the events themselves aud in the lessons and deductions to be drawn from them by the fact that we are repeating in o new phase, perhaps, and in a different locahty, the details of an old, old story. An utter disregard of every precaution for safety seems to enter into everything we do, and we never profit py the experiences of the past, however terribly they may havo moved us at the moment. An accident is apt to be regarded as concerning only those who suffer by it, and even the authorities are slow to enforce rules which will prevent like dis- asters. Though the catastrophe at St. An- drew’s church 18 still fresh in the minds of the public it has not been followed by that rigid enforcement of the law which ought to have been its consequence. The Department of Buildings is still as loosely conducted as be- fore that disaster, and it is certain that before many weeks or months or years at the farthest, wo shall have to repeat the story under circumstances if unlike yet very like those which sur- rounded that unnecessary calamity. It was an accident that need not have occurred and the like ot which need not occur again; but _it is hoping too much to hope that some other wall will not falt somewhere in a city where so many walls are ready to fall every day in the year, and so we shall be compelled to record this heedless sacrifice of human life until the people and those charged with the interests of the people learn wisdom from the succession of calamities, When the truth comes to be known we have no dgubt that the cause of the explosion in Washington street, Boston, the other day, will be found to be one which should not have existed. In the same way it is plain tbat the | accident in the Holyoke church should never have occurred. There is no reason whatever for the illuminations which area part of the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church setting fire to the drapery which adorns the altar. The most ordinary precaution, one would think, would prevent an accident from such a cause, and the Holyoke calim- ity must have been owing to the absence of any precaution whatever. The footlights in a theatre are infinitely more dangerous than the candles and drapery in a church, and yet we seldom hear of an accident on the stage, except as the result of negligence. That there should be negligence at the altar seems utterly inexcusable, and we could not have believed such an event as that of which we print full | details this morning even possible had it not occurred. Now that it has occurred, and because the like taay occur again, we are anxious that tho whole subject shall be carefully canvassed and such precautions adopted as will prevent a like disaster in the futura, Legislation may effect something, but the Catholic clergy cannot afford to wait for legislation. Wherever there is even the remotest possibility of the drapery in a church becoming ignited by the illumimations at the | altar the possibility must be removed. The first condition of public worship must be pub- lic safety, and if the priests and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church learn this the Holyoke calamity may prove ao blessing to | other churches which might otherwise be doomed to like sufferings. Protestant churches much exposed to this peculiar danger, but even they may learn greater precaution from this calamity. What is needed now is some practical step toward what we can only call the prevention of negligence, and this ap- plies not only to churches, theatres and places of public resort and to those who have them in charge, but to the authorities which ex- ecute and fhe power that makes the law. Let us learn the lesson of our misfortunes by heeding it and preventing like misfortunes in the future. The History of the War. We print this morning two communications from correspondents worthy of attention dis- | cussing the points which have been brougnt | into controversy by General Sherman's | “Memoirs.” One of these gentlemen, representing the famous Fourteenth Army | corps, defends with great earnestness | ard ability the reputation of that corps from the distinguished writer's imputa- tion of slowness. In his “Memoirs” the Commander of the Army speaks of the Four- teenth corps as partaking in a large degree of | the characteristics of its commander, the illus- trious General Thomas. It was the-fate of | General Thomas to be regarded both by Grant and Sherman as singularly slow in | action and difficult to move, and this charac- | teristic on his part led at one time to the issue | of an order to General Logan to relieve him | of the command of his army in Tennessee—a | disgrace which was only avoided by the fact | of his winning a great battle while Logan was | on the way to supersede him. The estimate in which General Thomas is held by his countrymen is far higher than that placed upon him by either General Grant or General Sherman. By this we mean that the uniform success which attended his battles and the | | sterling self-sacrificing sentiment which ani- | mated his private career have given o lustre | to his fame that even Grant or Sherman need | not despise. It is natural, therefore, that an | efficer of his corps should promptly defend it | from the by no means harsh criticism of General Sherman. We agree with our corre- | spondent in taking exception to the remark of Mr. Blair in his letter the other day, that General Sherman's trouble was ‘‘constitn- | tional timidity."" We find nothing to justify this criticism in any of General Sherman's acts. The whole tone of the man’s mind is | in the other direction, and he shows his im- | pulsiveness in the character of his writings. Another correspondent gives us some in- | teresting information in reference to who planned the march to the sea. Upon this point there is a question which has yet been undecided. Here there is a straight issue of fact. On the one side we hate General Badeau, the accomplished and trusted biogra- pher of President Grant, and the Hon. | Charles A. Dana, at one time Assistant Sec- | / retary of War, and a membér of General | Grant's military family, who distinctly assert | that the plan of the march to the sea was the | conception of General Grant. We are also reminded of a speech made by General Sher- | man in Gincinnati. in 1865. within two or | daigua, | manufactured prodact. three months after the close of the war, in which he said himself ‘that it was in Cincim nati, when in company with General Grant, they went over the maps together and agreed upon the plans which culminated in the de struction of the Confederacy; but a careful review of this speech does not justify us im supposing that during that consultation there was either a hint or suggestion from General Grant in reference to the march to the sea. Unless the evidence submitted by General Sherman is garbled or forged, which, of course, is an impossible contin« gency, it clearly shows that while the mind of Sherman was drifting toward the march ta the sea General Grant was constantly op pressed by the presence of Hood in Georgia, He did not believe Thomas’ force was able ta combat him, and was reluctant to permit General Sherman to make his proposed march, leaving Hood unchallenged and in strong military array. These letters from our correspondent only illustrate the great value of this work of Gen eral Sherman. It is better that these prob lems should be decided now, that the credit of the great events of the war may be awarded ta those upon whom the honor properly belongs; that the many controversies and heartburn. ings and dissensions should be considered during the lives of the actors and not ro manded to posterity. General Sherman hag certainly shown courage in his book, and we honor him for having invited a discussion the result of which can but be to benefit his. torical truth. Wirz Beaty has become so common in New Jersey that Justice Hoffman, of Jersey City, advocates the revival of the whipping post from the Bench. It would not do, even in a State where justice is as sternly adminis- tered as in New Jersey, to revive this “‘relio of barbarism;’’ but if there is any offence which merits the punishment of the cat-o’-nine- tails it is the beating of women by brutal husbands. Freemasons snp Home Ruiers.—Some Catholic members of Parliament have made a demonstration against the Freemasons be cause the Viceroy of Ireland happens to be Grand Master of the Order. We understand that Cardinal Cullen is about to issue on ada dress denouncing the organization as ‘an accursed thing.’’ The elevation of the Prince of Wales to the head of the Order in England in place of the Marquis of Ripon, who re- signed that station to go into the Catholic Church, has given Masonry an impulse in Great Britain which will, no doubt, be of great benefit. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Congressman William Walsh, of Maryland, ts re. siding at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mrs. Belknap, wile of the Secretary of War, has apartments at the St. James Hotel. Governor Charles R. Ingersoll, of Connecticut, arrived last evening at the Albemarle Hotel. Vice President Wilson arrived in Omaha from the West yesterday, and will leave there to-day. Congressman “idridge G. Lapham, of Canan- N. Y., 18 sojourning at the Hoffman House, Paymaster Peter P. G. Hall and Major William H. Brown, United States Army, are quartered at the Sturtevant House, General Tuomas W. Sherman and Colonel Wilk jam R. Price, United States Army, are registered at the Futh Avenue Hot Henry S. De Bevoise, ex-Mayor of Long Island City, will sail for Europe on June 6, in company with the American rifle team. At this seusoo everypody whe. has been scratched o1 the thumb by the tooth ofa dog doring the past twenty years begins to feel un- easy. Professors Theodore D. Woolsey, of New Haven; ¥. L. Ritter, of Vassar College, and J. Henry Thayer, of Andover Seminary, are staying at the Everett House. By a cabie telegram from Constantinople, ander date of yesterday, 28th inst., we learn that Hon, Horace Maynard, the new American Minister t¢ Turkey, has arrived tn the city of the Sultans, “Unele Sam" has been played at Turin, and the Fischietto 18 of opinion that between Saraou and the American people it is more probabie that the author is an ass than that his subjects are | such as he presents them. They have a scheme in operation in England for the extinction of the-national debt, which, with great comprication, will extinguish im 100 years £91,000,009, oF less than £1,000,000.a year, In 5,00¢ years we shall congratulate Jovn Bull on this. Austria complains that, as the monks and nuns drive out or North Germany take reiuge for the most part ia her dominions, she thus sufere a great “addition to the needy part of her popula- tion and to the enemies of her liberal institu- tons.”” With what fidelity the dethroned monarchs play at royalty! Chambord has bestowed the cross of the Royal Military Order of St. Louis on Count Bardi for gallantry in the Cariist service. Bardl is his nephew, and so it is all in the family, “Das bitebt tn die familie.” An Armenion Bishop and a Tarkish sertbe, be tween whom there was enmity, met at dinner at | the house of a common friend and quarrelled, The scribe pat out tne lights, and when other lights | were brought the Bishop was dead, They buried him, and are now inquiring whether he was mur dered. Dreadful misadventure! One of the small boys Who send stones through the windows of the railway carriage performed this little eperation in England the other day on a carriage In whict the Princess of Wales was on a trip to Windsor, | Woetver this is treuson, murder or sudden deat! the lawyers have not declared, lt may be interesting to our theatrical mam agers to know that there is a movement on foot in London to secure the suppression of the clause in the Copywright law that permits the adapta- tion of French plays, If this succeeds they will be putto the trouble ana expense of making their own adaptations, . ‘In an immense mass of ice and earth, detached from Mont Blanc through the melting of the snow, | bas just been foand the corpse of an American actor, John Blacklord, who three years ago made an attempt to ascend the monntain without guides; and did not reappear. The clothes ana | features @f the wnfortanate man were as on the day he was lost. Farly in May the Austrian Ministry of Commerce deliberated as to how far Austria should take par! in the International Exbibition at Pniladeipbia. It was decided toat only such articles should be sent for exhibition as are capable of being ex- ported and as are likely to obtain a market in | America, aud that the various stages o1 produc. | Hon mignt de iinstrated in the case of each arte cle, from the raw material up to the completeiy Tho number of articies which it will be permitted to send to the Extibis tion in accordance with the above rules is very considerabie, Some diplomatist interviewed Bismarck latoly and asked him whether the German government, in view of the probability of a French war cf re- venge, would not 40 Wisely to anticipate the ate | tack by declaring war itself, The Prince's reply Was thatit would be as unreasonable todo so as if he were to insist upon the instant execution 0} Kullmann on the ground that after his release from prison, thirteen years hence, he migot prow ably renew his attempt upon the Chancellor's lire, But thon we have heard of cases in which mow like Bismarck (idn’t teli the diplomatists ad theg thourht.