The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1875, Page 8

HERALD AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR pt ei ali NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | after Janusry }, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New York Henarp wil! be sent free of postage. NEW YORK BROADWAY THE DAILY HERALD, published every | doy 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... sees see NO, 156 AMUSEMENTS ‘THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING, | | height of political excitement to deal severely | | finds expression in lamentations over her METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Boyer Arent war —VAKISTY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner of Twenty-ninth stree! YX, ard?. M.; closes at 02. My NEGRO Matinee at Broad: MINSTXE. 2PM rae Do loses at 10:40 Lway.—' ON A PS Messrs. Harrigan and Mart. Tig P.M. BOWERY OPERA HOUSE, as rz Bowery.—VAKIETY, at 8 V. M.; closes at 0 ROBINSON HALL, West Sixteenth street.—English Onera—GIROFLE- GIKOFLA, at8 P.M. Matin’ 2P.M. | ‘4 TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Eityy éignes ‘sireet—German Opera—MARTHA, at 8 Woop's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of (nugjeth street. SHERIDAN & MACK'S GRAND VARIEIY COMBINATION, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10451. M. Matinee at2 P.M . THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—BUFFAL? BILL, at SP. ML; closes atl045 P.M. Matinee at? P. M. GTLMORE?S ER GARDEN, late Barmum's Hippodrome. —GRAND POVULAR CON. CuRT, ate P, M.; closes at ll P. M. Matinee ata P, 3 METROPOLITAN MU. West Fourteenth strect.—Open ‘M OF ABT, WA. M105 P.M. PARK THEATRE, Broa@way.—EMERSO'S CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS, ataP. M. Matines at? I’. OLYMPIC THEATRE, | No, 624 Rroatway.—VARIETY, at P. M.; closes at 10:45 | P.M. Matinee at2 i’. M. | BOOTH’S THEATRE, | corner of Twenty-third street and) Sixth avenge. AMILLE, at 8" M.: closes at 11 P.M. Miss Clara Morris. Matinee at 1:°0 P. af FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, zowendty- hth street and Broadway.—TRR BIG BO. atSP. M.; closes at 1030 1. M. Matinee at 2 CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAs’ CONCHRI, at 6 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. | REW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 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 cap | have the daily and Sunday Henatp mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart Sreest Yzsrerpay.—The prices of stocks showed some improvement. Gold ad- | vanced to 117} and closed at 117}. Money was | easy and foreign exchange firm. | Asoruzs Axenicay Scnooxzs has been | seized by the Spaniards, on the charge of | being loaded with arms and ammunition for the insurgents in Cubs. Tux Promrryess with which tbe fire on the Crescent City was extinguished high | compliment to the discipiine maintained by Captain Curtis, and cannot be too highly / praised. | Tux Unvovaran Exiuzs 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. Grey's nvction Porrcy 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 | improvements. | Tux Larcsr of the new Ring suits is against the estate of the late James Watson. Amere clerk, so far os official position was concerned, Watson was the real manager of the giant frauds that were committed under the Tweed régime, and it would be a singular sommentary upon the administration of law im this State if the millions be appropriated tannot be recovered. A Goop Trix to Sprax Ovt.—Now that Genera! Grant has broken the political silence, by his letter of resignation, we trust other statesmen will take courage and speak ont likewise, The 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 of the bard times and the remedy for them. Aconsiderablo part of the American people is just 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 themseives with. To uso tho profane tongue of the stroet boys, thatis “too | thin.” Tamsawy's Troveies, which have been im- | pending for a long time, seem to be coming toa head. Tho Short-bairs aro in revolt, and it ia scarcely possible for the Swallow-tuils to withstand them. Under Mayor Wickham’s tule work bas not beon abundant, and a re- duction of wages is an additional grievance the Gerce democracy cannot endure. For tho firet time in many years the h of departrients have not beea obsequions to the Tteprescntatives cf the voting population of New Xerk, and we shall not be surprised if the Bitz Wickha: d the Fitz Porters pull down tae Wigwam upon heads ot the Fitz Keliys and the Fitz Morrisseys. gentlemen of the Manlattan Club excellent clerks and commissioners The delicate cannot please the Short-hairs, and there i« no | age in their trring, | ing of this country is astounding. They | | but a heated partisan believes. | istence and the same period in Eng! NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUN 5, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET, Are We As Bad As We Secm! Tho tendency of the American mind to criticise its public men and when in the | 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 | Standard has always represented that feeling | of acrimony toward the Uxited States which | faith and affairs, and that we are going to the bad; that we have no high sense of principle; 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 this spirit with Englishmen and phases of 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 faithtul citi- zens of Great Britajn, whose opinions of America represent prejudices of home educa- tion, and who, only partially informed about America, take pleasure in giving currency to | | pendence and loyal men strove to save for the England painted by some extreme | Departure of the American Team for | Comptroller Green and the School 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 ore angry word about England—one effort to revive the sad dark spirit which once hovered over the relations between the two | countries. We have had wars enough of our | own since then, animosities enough of our own and of others to forget and to forgive | not to cherish any memories of the Revolu- | tion but those which celebrate the fortitude | with which brave men struggled for inde- | their master ond 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 admirablé 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- all kinds of reports and criticisms concerning our society and our public men. 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 fail 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- know as much about this country really as | we do about Nova Scotia. They hold us in | about the same relation. It is true that of | the two countries England naturally holds | precedence in the eyes of the world. We | 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. | But does it ever occur to our English critics | 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, | and the evil fruit we now bear draws its 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 is scarcely 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—beastly 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 and 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 Committec’’ of the | House of Commons shows an amount of financial depravity, scheming and dishonesty in the London money market that would put even Mr. Gould to the blush. If we look into the reports of the Honse of Commons wo 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 of rare occurrence in our American Congress, and if a member were expelled for corruption he would sink out of sight as completely as Mr. Tweed or Mr. Colfax. In England such an event is nothing but a misadventure, and the 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 ot some of the present members of the royal family this doubt does not exist as to the character ot 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- 4, aad wenn match our statesmen wi 086 of England man for man. We are willing that George Washington should be compared with 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, Ciay, Calhoun, Hamilton, Lincola and Seward should be compared with Castlereagh, Can- ning, Pitt, Palmerston and Disraeli. We do not invite this comparison in any | offensive somse. We do so simply to empha- size the argument, which is, after all, the trae point underlying this whole discussion, that 20d as well as bad in both countries. ot a criticism that has been made erica that cannot be retorted upon land, and the same is probably true of ng made upon England by Amer- ‘6 two nations trying to work ont our part There is no wisdom in is there to do ing atipn. at bickering and decrying of each America is not the America of the other. | London Standard, any more then England is , there éan be only one result, success. | | idential term. These resolutions show that *ranft for the Pr vating justice and fair play toward each other, and by stamping out that spirit of envy, dis- | paragement, disdain and contumely which on | 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- | President Grant might havo 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- |. idency 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 of the Hartfranft resolution. A week later the Republican State Convention | of Kansas, acting under the immediate inspi- | ration of the Pennsylvania movement, passe: 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 o constitutional enactment. | Surely, here was a sufiicient opportunity for General Grant had he chosen to avail himself of it, and a few weoks 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- | istrate to utter a word on the subject, and the | subsequent action of the New Hampshire re- | publicans only induced their brethren in Con- | necticut, acting under administration influ- | 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-slection, and | it is to be regretted that he did not avail him- self of one of his previous opportunities to | say as much or more than be now says, The 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 it is the first really important event of the year, and comes at the time when the opening summer is in itself a blandish- Jerome Park Kaces. | men among the 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 Lrish landknow that by no fault of theirs will the issue be | imperiled. 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 ot 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 it is 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 skill! 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 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 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 eo much on the perfectly 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- eight | | | | TeachersA Pleasant Interchange of Amenities, Onr amiable 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 pubic 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 a rhapsody or inyvent- 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, perbaps 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 go 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 eulogy, and the praise being pitched in too low a key Mr. Green takes occasion to make a 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 somos years ago when Walt Whitman began his ‘Leaves of Grass” by the frank declaration, “I celebrate myself." This was so refreshingly cool and frank that the public relished it; but our | ingenious Comptroller is more artful and refined. He, indeed, celebrates himself; but ‘or ways that are dark and tricks that are vain” the heathen Chinee 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 exagyerates the praise in a reply. | Readers of the interview with Mr, Southerland test would be likely to render them unsteady | or 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, unreliable, as happens frequently to | whether we | | win or lose in the coming contest, we must ment to entice the winter-weary denizens of | show that our claim toa front place among | the city to the enjoyment of outdoor sports. The change which has been made in the Tez | duction of the length of the season and tho increase in the number of racing days is one | which will be hailed with pleasuro by the | community. Under the old rule too many the interest of the meeting, and the race days | were not suflicient in number for the length | demn them to defeat—so they lose no honor | ofthe season. Three racing cays in the week 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 | days intervened between the races to keep up 4 reception as a Roman conqueror might envy ; | but should Fortune, in her blind decree, con- in the contest—America will still have a warm are much better than two, and a meeting of | welcome for the mon who strove for victory } two weeks duration with seven racing days | though they failed to achieve it. There re- | will be found much more enjoyable than the | spun out seascns of other years. The peculiar } mains but to wish the gentlemen of the team on behalf of the American nation a position held by Jerome Park with regard to | pleasant voyage and a safe and speedy return | 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 to their nat®ve land. A Marxz Centexni1at.—Our correspondent succession. This meeting is the appetizer for | at Machias, Me., gives an attractive nar- | 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 e: racing, and in both these r 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 belmy and the drive through the | Park and over the road beyond so great a | relief from the pent-up life of the town that | nothing could be more welcome in these June days then 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’ entered. Over two hundred horses are now stabled at Jerome Park, and many South- ern and Western stabies, which have never before been represented, will be entered on this occasion. The American Jockey Club expect that this mecting will bo the most brilliant and most interesting in their annals. When respectability and liberality combine in the sports of the turf to attract the public | 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 of the Revolution commonly remembered by the people is Paul Jones’ desperate combat in 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 Island the capture o. the Gaspée. Tur Qurstron or tur Dar— Why these long continued and oppressive bard times? This | | | 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 Henaxp, 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 Hxrap'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 Hzraup con- tradicted. It would seem that Mr. Southerland | isa religious man; at any rate he says he | does not read the Sunday newspapers, and as the paragraph to which his letter relates ap- 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 Hxnaup says of him when le 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 to them with bis own pen! So true is it in his case that courtesy, like charity, ‘begins at home,” and bids fair to stay there. Tuz Hantex Frats.—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 public some days »go has declared that his signattre was obtained to the document by the peculiar coercion which the heads of departments | sometimes use in dealing with their subordi- | nates—the fear of decapitation. Dr. Fetter, | to be examined before the Board to-day, and | | we may hopo that before the new Commis- 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 work to answer it. An anxious public waits, like the missing gen- tleman in our Personal columns, to bear of | | » vage trom one of Michael Scott's novels. something to its advantage, the surgeon referred to by General Smith, is sioner is done with the matter the action of Maisell and Disbecker will be so fully exposed as to make their rofirement a necessity. Tus Exrrorrs or Captatn Noxron upon the, seas and in the ports of the Antilles, if not so daring as those of the old buccaneers of the Caribbean Sea, are quite as intéresting, and the story which we print to-day reads like Smith | Mississippi Politics. Woe print to-day the first of Mr. Nordhoff’t letters from Mississippi. Hoe 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 hig 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 col- ored voter. Mr. Seward said, during the canvass of 1860, that noone would 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 o 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 sericus, 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 democsats 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 must 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 members 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. Such a | 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. Rey. Dr. W. H. Furness, of Philadelphia, ts ree siding at the [otel Branswick. | Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, 1s regia: | terea at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman Thomas C. Piatt, of Owego, N. Tuy | 1s staying at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. State Senator flenry ©. Connelly, of Kingston, | has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotei. Inspector General D. B. Sacket, United Stater Army, 13 quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Jadge Ropert H. Brown, of Atlanta, Ga, te | among the late arrivals at the Sturtevant Houso. | GeneraiGeorge J. Magee, of Sonayier county, | New York, is sojourning at the Metropolitana Hotel. | Mr. Folton Paul, United States Consal at Trink | dad de Cuba, arrived in this city yesterday and is atthe Westminster Hotel. In Europe tt is anticipated that this will be & great year for wingedgame. The dry weather has | given the birds a good start. . Professor T. J. Backus, Vassar College, was to- | day elected Superintendent of the Tennessee Nore mai Scnool, just estabdiisned. | Mr. William Asheroft, the comedian, and Miss | Kitty Brooks leave for nnrope to-day by the steam | suip The Queen on a starring tour in England, They have had arace in England irom whieh it séems a fair inference that the English horses are improved !m bottom py an infasion of Arab | blood. Mr. James Hamilton, the artist, is stopping at the Hofman House, and will soon ieave for the Pacific coast, with the purpose of making @ tour of the world. Secretary Bristow and family left Louisville yew terday for Washington, The reception given by Captain Z M, Shirley to the Sec! ry Wasa brill. jant one, and was attended by nearly every prom. inent citizen of Loutsville. ‘The last issue of the German offictal history of the war may correct the habit that is necoming common of regarding the pattle at Sedan as a | mere massacre of the French. It reports the | German loss in that fight at 490 officers and #,500 | men. Mr. ©, P. Leslie, 8 member of the South Carolina | Legisiavure, is at Barnum’s Hotel. Mr. Lesite is ‘tne person who was reported in Wédnesday’s despatches as having left South Carolina because of egal complications arising ont of ms cart | while Land Commissioner during Governor Scows | administration. The Postmaster General, accompanied by his | private secretary, G. A. Gustin, and Chief Spectat | Agent Woodward, will start next Tuesday oF Wednesday for # tour of observation to the offices ls St. Lotts, Clicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Mule waukee, indianapolis and other places in the West aud Soutnweas,