The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD | ——— -—- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR O SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | NOTICE after Janusry 1, 1975, the daily and weekly | editions of the New York Hxnarp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. VOLUME XL. AMUSEMENTS "TUS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, | METROPOLITAN THEATRE, | Be Broadway.—VAKIsTY, at 6 P.M. Matinee at 2 | SOO MINSTRELS, | wenty-ninth street. NEGRO closes ati0P. M, Matinee at BAN FRANC: corner A Lsy, ara. Broad’ Hg 2PM WALLACK Bi tway.—THE DONOY Pp Mesors. Hurrigan a and ark. BOWERY OPERA NOUSE, Lg Bowery.—VAKIETY, at 5 1. Mj “closes at 10:45 ROBINSON HALL, West Sixteenth stree neg lish Steg a dal GIMOFLA, ats P. M. Matinee at2 P.M. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Pity -cightn sireet—German Opera—MARTSA, at 8 M way, corner oo Week. —SHERIDAN & HSS UR ND VARIE COMBINATION at SP Me: Toss at 0S PM Matinee ata P- ML THEATRE COMIQU No. 514 Broadway.—#UFFAL BILL, Bats P. 4; closes at1045 P.M. Mutinee OTLMORE’ late Barnam’s Hippodrome. GRAND. POLULAR CON. CERT, ats P. M.;ciosesatil P.M. Matinee at2P. M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ABT, West Fourteenth strect.—Cpen trom 10 a. 2 to5 P.M. PARK THEATRE, Broadway.—EMERSO' ALIFORNIA MINSTEELS, atsP. M. Matines at? MPIC THEATRE, RIETY, at 8P. M.; closes at 10:45 | P.M. Matinee at: I’. BOOTHS THEATRE, corner of Tyrenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue.— CAMILLE, at 8 © M.: cloves at li P.M. Miss Clara Morris. Madnce at P. E THEATRE. reet and Broadway.—TH? BIG BO. pagal MEST. Ms closes at 1030 1M. Matinee at] CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMA®’ CONCERI, at 8 P. M TRIPLE § SHEET. TREY YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE < 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and generally clear, with possibly light rain. Persons going out of town for the summer caw | have the daily and Sunday Henatp mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Watt Srezet Yustzrpar.—The prices of stocks showed some improvement. Gold ad- vanced to 117} and closed at 117}. Money was | easy and foreign exchange firm. Asorazn Amentcan Scnoonzs has been | seized by the Spaniards, on the charge of | being loaded with arms and ammunition for the insurgents in Cuba. Tur Pnouwprsess with which tbe fire on the Crescent City was extinguished is a high compliment to the discipiine maintained by Captain Curtis, and cannot be too highly praised. Tue Unvevaran Exuzs who have arrived | at Havana are a source of great annoy- ance to Captain General Valmaseda. “The story of their expatriation from their country and their detention in Cuba is one of more than usual interest. Grery’s Onstrucrion Poxicy will be severely felt if the Park Department is paralyzed through his efforts. A correspondent calls at- tention to this matter to-day and avers that the Comptroller is making strong efforts with the Governor to defeat the appropriation ne- tessary for carrying forward the contemplated Tux Latest of the new Ring suits is against the estate of the late James Watson. Amere clerk, so far as official position was concerned, Watson was the real manager of the giant frauds that were committed under tho Tweed régime, and it would bea singular commentary upon the administration of law im this State if the millions be appropriated rannot be recovered. A Goop Tnmr To Sprak Oct. Now that General Grant bas broken the political silence, | by his letter of resignation, we trust other statesmen will take courage and speak ont likewise, he General does not want a third term ; it is now a good time for any one who would like a first term to tell us what he thinks «! the bard times and the remedy for them. Aconsiderable part of the American people is juet now standing around with its hands in its tolerably empty pockets. Any one who has anything of interest to communicate is sure of an attentive audience. But we really want scmething more promising than a re- form of the patent laws, which the Ohio repab- licans content themselves with. To use tho profane tongue of the stroet boys, thatis “too | thin.” Tamaanr’ Trovoues, which have been im- | pending for a long time, seem to be coming toa head. Tho Short-bairs are in revolt, and it is seareeiy possible for the Swallow-tuils to withstand them. Under Mayor Wickham’s | rule work bas not been abundant, and a re- | duction of wages is an additional grievance which the Serco democracy cannot endure. For firet tira heads of in many years the departments bave not beea obsequions to tho Teprescutztives cf the voting population of New York, and we shall not be surprised if the Fitz Wicki. nd the Fitz Porters pull down tne Wigwam upon the heads of the Fitz Kellys and tho Morris The delicate gentlemen of tho Manhattan Club may make excellent clerks and commissioners, but they cannot pleace the Short-hairs, and there i* no | age in their trying, cys. | Standard bas always represented tkat feeling | | faith and affairs, and that we are going to the | this spirit with Englishmen and phases of | our society and our public men. | precedence in the eyes of the world. We | But does it ever occur to our English critics | | and the evil fruit we now bear draws its | were expelled for corruption he would sink | but a heated partisan believes. | istence and the same period in FE: NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, Are We As Bad As We Seem! The tendency of the American mind to | criticise its publie men and when in the | height of political excitement to deal severely | with those who have been at one time darlings | of the popular imagination is having its effect { { in many of the criticisms which come back to | us from the English press, The London of acrimony toward tho United States which finds expression in lamentations over her | bad; that we have no high sense of priuciplo; that we are abandoned to the consideration of the ‘almighty dollar,” that we are suffering from two evils, universal suffrage and a democratic form of government, and that we | are as one English author says, “almighty- dollar-worshipping, dinner-bolting, tobacco- chewing, spitting, liquoring, snivelling Yankees.” If American authors or the con- ductors of American journals were to deal in English character we should have the answer flashed back that we were jealous of English power and that we lived only in the hope of destroying the mother country. The truth is that the tone of the London press toward America is, with scarcely'an exception, of an offensive and sometimes brutal charac- ter. The difference between London and New York is that here an important section of the press is controlled by gifted and faithiul citi- zens of Great Britain, whose opinions of America represent prejudices of home educa- tion, and who, only partially informed about America, take pleasure in giving currency to all kinds of reports and criticisms concerning This is nat- | urally an immense advantage to England. These journalists look upon New York as a | | commercial residence, a place to make money. | They never feil while criticising their adopted | land to exalt the honor and the glory of Eng- | land. ‘Therefore, while England has in America an influential and gifted corps of writers, who, we will not say wantonly, but | heedlessly, never miss an opportunity of | throwing reproach upon America and exalt- ing England, there is not, on the other hand, | in London $o-day a single journalist to our knowledge of any influence with the London press who is either an American by birth or adoption or in sympathy. We allude to this circumstance, apparently trivial in itself, as illustrating the advantage which England possesses over America. The ignorance of the English journalists in treat- ing of this country is astounding. They know as much about this country really as wedo about Nova Scotia, They hold us in about the same relation. It is true that of the two countries England naturally holds | concede its antiquity, its greater accumula- tion of treasures of art and literature and | science, its wealth, its vast and spreading Em- pire. Ina hundred things we have much to learn trom England and other countries. that when they are censuring us they are cen- | suring themselves? If we are as bad as they would have it the evil is in our flesh and bone, juices from the old tree. Does it never occur to our English critics in mourning over the fall of Amsrica to look to | their own country? There isscarcely a copy | of the London Zimes whose police reports are not marked with narratives of brutality to which we in America, with all our faults, are comparative strangers—be: astly intoxica- tion, kicking people to death, husbands beat- ing their wives, conspiracies upon the part of | employers to punish laboring men, eonspira- | cies on the part of laboring men to attack employers, the constant advance of intoxica- | tion. This all shows the moving force in the | lower strata of English life. If we go higher | we find that, notwithstanding we have Mr. | Gould ond his achievements in New | York over which to blush, we have Baron Grant, with his similar ex- ploits in London. The evidence before the ‘Foreign Loans Committes’’ of the | House of Commons shows an amount of financial depravity, scheming and dishonesty iu the London money market that would put even Mr. Gould to the blush. If we look into the reports of the House of Commons we find, day after day, parliamentary boroughs whose members have been unseated for cor- ruption. There is scarcely a session in which | several members are not deliberately turned out of their seats because of corruption in the elections—open, shamefaced and avowed. | Such an incident is of rare occurrence. in our American Congress, and if a member | ont of sight as completely as Mr. Tweed or Mr. Colfax. In England such an event is nothing but a misadventure, and tho dis- | missed representative is sure to find a seat from some other borough. We have had | | stories about General Grant which no one How many stories do we hear about the highest people | in England which we have not yet found any Englishman to disbelieve? If there is any doubt about the character of some of the present members of the royal family this doubt does not exist as to the character of those who were kings of England when John | Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James | Madison were Presidents of the United | States. Take the tone of the public men | during the hundred years of our national ex- sland, and weecan match our Statesmen with those of England for man. We are willing that George Washington should be compared nh | George IIL, that John Adams should be con- trasted with George IV., that Andrew Jack- son should be weighed in the balance with | | William IV. We are wiliing that Webster, | Clay, Calhoun, Hamilton, L Ia and Seward suiould be compared with Casilereagh, Can-,| Pitt, Palmerston and Disraeli. We do not invite this comparison in any | offensive sonse. We do so simply to empba- | sizo the argument, which is, after all, the true point underlying this whole discussion, that there is good as well as bad in both countnes. not a criticism that has been made serica that cannot be retorted upon ni Thore upoa An Ex 4 the same is probably true of asimade upon Eagland by Amer- ieans. two nations trying to work ont our own y, seeking to do our part toward ¢ siign. There is no wisdom in this constant bickering and decrying of each other. America is not the America of the | | countries. | not to cherish any memories of the Revolu- | paragement, disdain and contumely which on | General Grant had he chosen to avail himself | | necticut, acting under administration influ- | of the season. the England painted by some extreme | Departure of the American Team for | Comptroller Green and representatives of the Fenian interosts. It | will be better for both countries when | those who conduct their newspapers are fair and just to each other. Nothing | could be in better temper than the | spirit which animates the discussions of the current Centennial events. We have yet to hear one angry word about England—one | effort to revive the sad dark spirit which once hovered over the relations between the two We have bad wars enough of our own since then, animosities enough of our own and of others to forget and to forgive tion but those which celebrate the fortitude with which brave men struggled for inde- pendence and loyal men strove to save for | their master and king the brightest jewel in | his crown. Mr. Gladstone in his noble and | magnanimous letter to the Lexington com- | mittee, which, by the way, brought upon him the censure of these very critics, on the ground that he had toadied to America, gave an admirablo expression to this sentiment. It is better for the two countries that there should be a political separation. England will never enforce the loyalty of her colonies by | the sword. As we are so much better by our political’ separation so we should be more | anxious to cultivate every other form of union—union in commerce, education, laws, religion, in developing civilization, in sup- pressing all influences that menace civiliza- tion like piracy, slavery, and in time we trust war, in missionary enterprises, in free trade, This union will come more readily by culti- vating justice and fair play toward each other, and by stamping out that spirit of envy, dis- so many occasions has poisoned the peace of nations, and which, jn its own time, may even sow discord between nations as closely allied | as America and England. The President’s Opportunities. We reprint this morning the action of other republican “State Conventions than the one recently held at Lancaster, at which resolu- tions were passed deprecating the third Ptes- idential term. These resolutions show that President Grant might have found at almost any time during the last year the opportunity of which he availed himself when the Lan- caster declaration was adopted. The Penn- sylvania republicans in State Convention last year expressly recommended Governor Hart- . ‘ranft for the Presidency in 1876, to show that | the party in that State was opposed to the third term, and Mr. Dickey, in moving the | adoption of the platform, declared this to-be | | the purpose ot the Hartfranft resolution. A week later the Republican State Convention of Kansas, acting under the immediate inspi- | ration of the Pennsylvania movement, passed a resolution almost in the language em- ployed by Mr. Dickey, in which it was declared that the example set by Wash- ington in refusing a third term ought to have all the force of a constitutional enactment. Surely, here was a sufficient opportunity for of it, and a few weeks later, when the Repub- | lican State Convention of South Carolina adopted a platform indorsing the third term idea, it became his duty to speak. None of these things moved our impassive Chief Mag- subsequent action of the New Hampshire re- | publicans only induced their brethren in Con- ences, to ignore the whole question. It was not until the decided course of the Pennsyl- | vania republicans began to be felt by the party | that the President was induced to define his position in regar‘ to another re-clection, and | 1t is to be regretted that he did not avail him- self of one of his previous opportunities to say as much or more than he now says. The Jcrome Park Races. The spring meeting of the American Jockey | Club at Jerome Park begins to-day, and an unusually brilliant season is expected. This meeting always has an interest peculiarly its own, because itis the first really important event of the year, and comes at the time when the opening summer is in itself a blandish- | ment to entice the winter-weary denizens of | the city to the enjoyment of outdoor sports. The change which has been made in the rez | duction of the length of the season and tho increass in the number of racing days is one | which will be hailed with pleasuro by the | community. Under the old rule too many days intervened between the races to keep up 4 the interest of the meeting, and the race days | were not sufficient in number for the length Three racing days in the week are much better than two, and a meeting of two weeks duration with seven racing days will be found much more enjoyable than the | spun out seascns of other years. The peculiar position held by Jerome Park with regard to | the other meetings of the year is one of the reasons why the opening events at this favor- ite resort should follow each other in rapid succession, This meeting is the appetizer for Long Branch and Saratoga, and if extended | beyond the middie of the month cannot be enjoyed by the people of fashion who will be | on the move by that time forthe seaside and | mountain resorts. The success of the meeting depends as much upon the brilliancy of the attendance as upon the excellence of the | racing, and in both these respects the coming | season promises to be one of unusual splen- | dor. Many entries have been made for the | different events, and there cannot fail to be one or two races of great interest every day | throughout the meeting. . Then the atmos- phere is so balmy and the drive through the | Park and over the road beyond so great a | relief from the pent-up life of the town that | ing could nore welcome in these June than the enjoyment which will be af- forded by an afternoon at the races, The commencement of the races to-day | gives a very agreeable promise of the general | character of the meeting. The events are in- | | teresting both in the diversity of interest as far as the numerous competitors are concerned | and the many representatives of ‘rapid tran- sit’ Over two hundred horses are now stabled at Jerome Park, and many South- ern and Western stables, which have never | before been represented, will be entered on this occasion, The American Jockey Club expect that this meeting will be the most brilliant and most in g in their annals. entered. When respectability and liberality combine in | Ireland. To-day the representative riflemen, to | | whose keeping the honor of America in the coming contest for the prize of skill has been intrusted, embark for Ireland. They are tried | and trusty men, on whose achievements the | nation they represent may count securely. It is not in the power of man to assure victory, but whoever knows the men who sail on board the good ship Chester for the [ish landknow that by no fault of theirs will the issue be imperilled. Nota man in the team but can | show a brilliant record of marksmanship and honors won in contests with the best marks- men of this Continent and Europe. Under these circumstances it is not to be wondered at that they leave their native shores with the confidence of men who go to reap laurels and are attended by the proud and confident anticipations of their friends that victory will rest upon their standard im the coming contest. So evenly matched are the contestants that the battle will be close and keen. Victory must be the reward of the very highest skill. The slight- est blunder is almost certain to bring defeat to the party making it. We have not data sufficiently exact in reference to the composi- tion of the Irish team to enable us to judge with any degree of certainty what may be the result of the new trial of skill between Ireland and America, The scores made by the competitors for places on the Irish team prove, however, con- clusively that there will be no want of danger- ous opponents, Some of the Irish scores re- corded equal the phenomenal achievement of Major Fulton in the international match, and a long string of competitors have made scores throwing such brilliant shots as Messrs. Mil- ner and Johnson so far behind that there is a prospect that these gentlemen may not find a place on the new team. In view of the strong reserve the Irish have developed itis well nigh certain that the Americans will elect to shoot with six men, as did the Irish under similar circumstances last year. It must be the policy of the Americans to depend on the extraordinary skil! of Colonel Bodine and Major Fulton to insure victory. Probably no two of the Irish riflemen equal in the brill- iancy of their shooting the two foremost American marksmen; but, en revanche, there is a greater uniformity of skill among the | dozen or so of marksmen from whom the selection of their team must be made, |The average scores of ‘the first eight men among the Irish competitors seem to be somewhat higher than our American records. The difference certainly is very slight and may be satisfactorily accounted for | by the fact that owing to the desultory way in which the Irish practice is carried on we cannot compare the scores made by all the competitors onany one day with the scores made by the | American team on any of their practice days at Creedmoor. In the case of the Irish rifle- | men we are therefore obliged to credit each man with the highest score made to him in order to obtain some idea of the possible re- | sult of the contest. By this system the Irish riflemen are made to ap pear at their best and perhaps more formidable than they will prove themselves, because it is well known that in no matches do the individuals composing the | team do their very best work. Some men run | istrate to utter a word on the subject, and the ahead with a remarkably brilliant score, as happened to Major Fulton in the interna- flonal contest last year, while others will un- accountably and suddenly drop far below their usual average. ‘Target shooting de- pends so much on the perlectly healthy con- dition of the human frame that the slightest | | indisposition affects injuriously the rifleman’s aim. The Americans have a decided advantage in the age of the men who compose their team. | With a single exception they have passed that | period of lite when the excitement of a con- | test would be likely to render them unsteady or ‘unreliable, as happens frequently to younger men. Their chances of success may therefore be looked upon as very good, and the Irish riflemen will find in them worthy opponents. After all, what is most im- portant for America is that, whether we win or lose in the coming contest, we must | show that our claim toa front place among the riflemen of ths world is based on solid grounds. And this, we feel assured, the men who go forth to-day as representative Ameri can riflemen will achieve. We can therefore sincerely wish them bon voyage Should they | return victorious they will meet with such a reception as a Roman conqueror might envy ; but should Fortune, in her blind decree, con- | demn them to defeat—so they lose no honor in the contest—America will still have a warm | | the paragraph to which his letter relates ap- | welcome for the men who strove for victory though they failed to achieve it. ‘There re- | maios but to wish the gentlemen of the team on behalf of the American nation a pleasant voyage and a safe and speedy return to their nat®ve land. A Manse Centenxtan.—Onur correspondent at Machias, Me., gives an attractive nar- | rative of the event upon which the people of that part of the world intend | to hang a centennial celebration of their own in a few days. Our glorious naval combats of the second war with England have so nearly overshadowed all other naval | events in our history that the only sea battle | to them with his own pen! of the Revolution commonly remembered by | the School Teachers—A Pleasant Interchange of Amenities, Oar amiab!e friend, the chief of the Finance Department, evidently belongs to that class of modest men who ‘‘do good by stealth and blush to find it fame.’’ He’ has been pleased to make such a secret of tho urbanity of his manners that we must do him the justice to bring it to the pubsic knowledge, although we are sure that we shall make him blush like a red rose when its reluctant beauty is un- folded to the summer sun. It is too late for the full blown rose to go back and hide its loveliness in the concealing bud when once the June sun has expanded it to admiring eyes. We are sorry to offend Mr. Green's modesty and suffuse his manly face with in- genuous blushes, but we cannot deny our- selves the pleasure of recording the fact that he can receive a compliment with as much grace and return it with as pleasant a courtesy as if the arts of pleasing had always been bis study, To prove that we are not indulging in o rhapsody or invent- ing compliments to soothe the vanity of a gentleman who has so long astonished the public by his manners, we refer our readers to the epistolary billing and cooing between the, Comptroller aud Mr. Southerland, printed in another column. Mr. Southerland, who is an officer of the School Teachers’ Association, is prompted by his grateful sense of Mr. Green’s kindness ‘‘in the matter of payment of salaries’ to write him a letter of grateful encomium, which affords the modest Mr. Green an opportunity to reply with along encomium on his own virtues. This charming exchange of honeyed commen- dations is now given to the press, perhaps by some subordinate of the Comptroller, who is unwilling to let these flowers of courtesy “blush unseen and waste their sweetness on the desert air.” The publication of these letters may have been so long withheld be- cause subordinates were not quick to take the hint that it would be a grateful service to steal a copy and send it to the newspapers. That the courteous Comptroller has “done good by stealth’ might be safely affirmed on a knowledge of his character. But we have strong confirmatory proof, as will be seen in the report of an interview yesterday with Mr. Southerland, who wrote the letter praising Green, to which the Comptroller replied at great length, praising himself. It appears that a factotum and underling of Green— Clark by name—whom he keeps in pay to manufacture public opinion by stealth and make it fame in the newspapers, called on Mr. Southerland and urged him to write such a letter. It appears that the President of the School Teachers’ Association merely acted the part of an amanuensis to Green’s facto- tum, so that the complimentary letter to which the Comptroller so politely replies was a letter in his own praise, gotten up by him- | self. He induced Mr, Southerland to write his reply, wherein full justice is done to his own great merits, which no pen but his was likely to set forth. ‘The literary public was amused somo years ago when Walt Whitman began his “Leaves of Grass” by the frank declaration, “I celebrate myself." This was so refreshingly cool and as | frank that the public relished it; but our | ingenious Comptroller is more artful and | refined. He, indeed, celebrates himself; but “for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain” the heathen Chince was not more ‘‘pecu- liar.” The surprise at Mr. Green’s publicly treating anybody with courtesy is mitigated by finding that he is virtually replying to his own letter; that having inspired by under- hand means an epistle of praise to himself, he echoes and exaggerates the praise in a reply. will see how this thing stands and be able to | appreciate the arts by which Mr. Green angles | for indorsements which never come to him seif-proffered. He pretends that he does not read the | Hiraxp, and that he attaches no importance to anything it says about him, and yet he sent one of his tools to Mr. Southerland, asking him to make a reply to a paragraph in the Heratp, which he had not seen. How serenely unconcerned the Comptroiler must | be at the Hxranp's comments! He does | not even read them; he would care | nothing about them if he did read them, and yet he intrigued in a way that will make him blush like a coral, now that it is ex- | posed, to get a paragraph jn the Hzrap con~ tradicted. It would seem that Mr. Southerland isa religious man; atl any rate he says he does not read the Sunday newspapers, and as peared in the Hzraxp of Sunday, May 16, it | is obvious that the idea of writing a letter | about it was put into his head by somebody | else. And he tells who it was that asked for | it—a man who isa notorious paid sycophant | of the Comptroller, and has been employed | by him before in similar tricks to practise upon the public. How very indifferent Mr. Green must be to what the Hznaup says of him when Ite resorts to arts whose exposure | will cover him with blushes to parry the | effect of its criticism. What a model of cour- | tesy this churlish man is when he dictates letters of compliment to himself and réplies So true is it in his case that courtesy, like charity, ‘‘begins st the people is Paul Jones’ desperate combat in | home,” aud bids fair to stay there. the Bon Homme Richard. In the blaze of such names as the Constitution, the United | States, the Essex, the Hornet, the names of the lighter craft that constituted our infant | navy are lost to the nation at large. But the neighborhoods which supplied the resolute spirits that manned the cutters and sloops | and schooners, upon which our daring fisher- | men first faced the naval power of the mother country, cherish the traditions of local glory | and are prepared to do honor to the whole series of events, none of which can be con- sidered insignificant in view of the great result, and in this spirit Maine will honor the capture of the Margaretta and Rhode Talend | the capture o. the Gas; Tur Qurstion or tur Dar—Why these long continued and oppressive hard times? This is the question which everybody is asking, and we hope the great American statesmen will not regard it as a conundrum and give it up, but set themselves to w it. rk to ang An anxious public waits, like the missing gen- | the sports of the turf to attract the public | tleman in our Personal columns, to hear of | London Standard. any more than Evgland is | there éan be only one result, success, something to its advantage, Tux Hance Fiats.—General created a sensation in the Board of Police Commissioners yesterday by his arraignment of the Street Cleaning Bureau for its action in regard to the filling of the Harlem flats. It even appears from the Commissioner's state- | ment that at least one of the police surgeons who signed the remarkable report made publio some days ago has declared that his signattre was obtained to the document by the peculiar | coercion which tne heads of departments | sometimes use in dealing with their subordi- nates—tho fear of decapitation. Dr. Fetter, the surgeon referred to by General Smith, is to be examined before the Board to-day, and we may hopo that before the new Commis- sioner is done with the matter the action of | Matsell and Disbecker will be so fully exposed as to make their refirement a necessity. Tus Exrrorrs or Captaris Norton upon the, seas and in the ports of the Antilles, if not so daring as those of the old buccancers of the Caribbean Sea, are quite as interesting, | and the story which we print to-day reads like | s vage trom one of Michael Scott's novels. eulogy, and the praise being pitched in too | | low a key Mr. Green takes occasion to make a Teeaders of the interview with Mr. Southerland | Smith | | Mississippi Politics. We print to-day the first of Mr. Nordhoff’t lettors from Mississippi. Ho gives a melam choly account of the politicians of the State, both democratic gnd republican, It is not pleasant to read that in Mississippi the demo- cratic leaders are still talking about the “nigger,”’ and about his natural capacity or incapacity for citizenship. That question has been decided. The colored man is a citizen; he is entitled to all the rights and privileges of a citizen ; and the fact that he is ignorant and easily led makes it only the more foolish in democratic politicians to drive him away to the republican side by silly talk about hia natural fitness. The truth which Mississippi democrats do not seem to remember is that the negro isa man; he has got to be accepted as a part of the body politic. Ho is so accepted, Mr. Nordhoff has told us, in Louisiana and Arkansas, and it is rank folly in any one to think of or treat him in any other way in other States, If he is ignorant, educate him; if he is pliable, conciliate him; if ho is fearful, reassure him by kindness and justice. That is the way to deal with the ool- ored voter. Mr. Seward said, during the canvass of 1860, that noone wena ever be President of the United States wno spelled negro with.two g's. It is probably true that no party will get the colored vote in the Southern States which makes a similar blunder in spelling. We advise these Mississippi democrats to get up a spelling match at Vicksburg, and to turn out of their party every man who is found to spell negro with two g’s. Ignorance of that kind has been very fatal to the demo- cratic party in other days, and as we are to have a general election next year it would be well for its members everywhere to examine their leaders in the spelling of certain words on which they have often blundered. To be serious, the democratic leaders of Mississippi ought to understand that violence, or threats of violence, bitterness and curs. ing the negro will not help them. A federal democratic administration would not dare to support them in any wrong toward any man, white or black, arising out of politics, To stir up political hatred is in them the height of folly. The Northern people are watching with jealous eyes the con- duct of the South. The North does not mean to deal unjustly with the Southern States; it does not wish to oppress the Southern whites; it responded, very readily, in the elections of last fall and this spring to the story of repub- lican misrule in the Southern States. Honest republican leaders defeated in Congress this spring the Force bill and the President's Arkansas policy; and did so becapise they honestly desire harmony and good government in the Southern States. But the people of the North are inclined to be very impatient of democratic folly in the South, particularly when it takes the shape of intolerance of opinion, of denunciation and threats of vio- lence. It is the duty of the good and honegt democvats of Mississippi—~who, our corre spondent says, form the majority of the party—to tuke the control of their party inte their own hands; and they must not merely control, they suis sternly reprove and openly and vigorously punish every such base and ridiculous threat as that made in a democratic organ against the Postmaster of Vicksburg. The democratic party cannot afford to coun- tenance such threats. If it wants to regain the confidence of the country its membexs in the South must promptly and in undeniable terms condemn such folly. If the Mississippi democrats are sensible people they will reject and turn out the fird-eating leaders and editors who haye not yet learned common sense, and form a coalition this fall with the honest republicans, inviting them to act with them and to share with them in an effort to relieve the State of misgovernment. Sucha coalition of the good men of both parties would show that the democrats of Mississippi are capable of sound and judicious political action, and it would entitle them to the con fidence and respect of Northern men of both parties, which they never can get while they suffer, unreproved, such language and such conduct as disgrace their party, it seems, not only in Vicksburg but elsewhere in Mis sissippi. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Oh, forthe Washington hotels! Even the Im dians couldn’t stand them, Rev. Dr. W. H. Furness, of Philadelphia, is ree siding at the Motel Branswick. Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, 18 regite tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman Thomas C. Piatt, of Owego, N. Yiy is staying at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, State Senator flenry C. Connelly, of Kingston, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Inspector General D. B. Sacket, United States Army, 13 quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge Robert H. Brown, of Atlanta, Ga., is among the love arrivals at the Sturtevant House, General George J. Magee, of Schuyler county, | New York, is sojourning at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Fulton Paul, United States Consal at Trink dad de Cuba, arrived in this city yesterday and is at the Westminster Hotel. In Europe tt is anticipated that this will be @ great year for wingedyame, The dry weather has given the birds a good start. . Professor I. J. Backus, Vassar College, was to- day elected Superintendent of the Tennessee Nore mai Scnool, just estabiisned. Mr. Wiillam Asheroft, the comedian, and Miss Kitty Brooks Jeave for hurope to-day by the steam. suip The Queen on a starring tour in England, They have had arace in England irom whichis seems a fair inference that the English horses are improved In bottom by an infasion of Arab blood. Mr. James Hamilton, the artist, is stopping at | the Hofman House, and wili soon leave for the | Pacific coast, with the purpose of making a tour of the world, Secretary Bristow and family left Loutsville yew terday for Washington, The reception given by Captain Z M. Shirley to the Secretary was a brill. jant one, and was attended by nearly every prom. inent citizen of Loutsville. ‘The last issue of the German official history of the war may correct the habit that is necomin, common of regarding the oattle at Sedan usa mere massacre of the French. It reports the German loss in that fight at 460 officers and 8,500 meo. Mr. ©, P. Leslie, a member of the South Carona Legisiavure, is at Barnum’s Hotel. Mr. Lesite is the person who was reporied im Wednesday's despatches as having left South Carolina because of teal complications arising out of ms career while Land Commissioner during Governor Scowa administration. The Postmaster General, private secreta’ A. Gustin, and Chief Spectat Agent Woodwa: will start next Tuesday or Wednesday for @ tour of observation to the offices at St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Mile waukee, Indianapolls and ovher places in the West aud Southwest, accompanied by bis