The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1875, Page 6

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PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. | and friendship, Frenchmen doing honor to | New York should be asked to accept the Subscriptions and advertisements will be | weeeived! andi forwardsa). om: the same: terme | becoming the guest of the Lord Mayor of as in New York, VOLUME XL---+ a OP#RA HOUSE, 1ETY, at 3 P.M; closes at 10 45 ALL, West Sixteenth giish Opera—GIROFPLE- BIKOPLA, at8 YM. WOOD'S MUSEUM, ay, corner of Phurtieth streot.—SHERIDAN & eas GaN VARIELY SCOMMINATION, ate P.M; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at2 P. R GAR A POPULAR CON. Ladies’ and chil- GILMORE: birt pp zernae's Hippod: ERT, at 5 P.M. ores at il dren's: ibatinee a2 2M. PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN. VARIETY, at 8P. M.; closes at 10:45. M. METROPOLITAN M West Fourteenth street.—O) UM OF ART, rom 10 A, M. toS P. M. PaRK TRE, Broadway.—EMERSO\'S CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS, ats P.M OLYMPIC THEATRE, bat 624 Broadway.—VARI»TY, ats P. M.; closes at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Prentyeienin- greet and Broadway, the BIG BO- ANZA, at 8 P. M.; closes wt 10:30 Y. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERE, at 8 P.M. METROPO|ITAN THEATRE, No, 585 Broadway.—VARIZTY, ats P. Me WALLAC SARE, Frith 2—THE DON SP. M Messrs. Berrien sod Hare TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1875, _ From our reports thie morning the probabilities ere that the weather to-day will be cooler and clearing. Persons going out of town for the summer can Rave the daily and Sunday Heratp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart Sruser Yzsrexpax.—Stocks were lower, and the tendency is apparently toward farther depression. Gold was steady at 117a 116}. , Foreign exchange was firm. The Mayor Over the Se We are afraid that His Honor the Mayor | was premature in declining the invitation of | the Lord Mayor of London to visit the an- cient capital of the Enylish race and become the guest of the Corporation at Guildhall. In this season of centennial celebrations and international exchanges of amity the tendency | of Mayors and Lord Mayors to come together is a beautiful illustration of the advancement | of civilifation, It is not long since the chief municipal cfficer of Paris and the chief mu- | nicipal cfficer of London had a pleasant as- sembling, with more than the ordinary mani- | festations of friendship. The meeting of | Paris and London was 2 noted event in this, that history has no incident more frequently | repeated than the contest between the great | French and the great English Power in | which London and Paris took so promi- nent a part, Therefore, when we see the two mighty cities of the world in social converse, in the exchange of courtesies | Englishmen and Englishmen forgetting the trrumpb of Waterloo in courtesies toward Frenchmen, nothing is more natural than that this feeling of international affection should take a wider scope, and that the Mayor of hospitality of the Lord Mayor of London. Tbe mere circumstance of Mr. Wickham London would in itself be interesting. | | Lord Mayors from time immemorial, and the present Lord: Mayor particularly, have been famous for their hospitality and their patriotic | | desire to manifest on every occasion the glory | | review the processions on St. | bis military bearing, his Napoleonic prowess. Cj closes at 10x40 ‘tries by boldly making his appearance in | Tae Rovctespers of the crew of the Amer- | fean schooner Jefferson Borden, who mutinied ¢ on the bigh seas, will be sent to this country for trial from England. Moopy axp Sawxaey are still fighting Satan of England. We have never had a chief officer of this municipality more competent to represent the best phase of the American character than Mr. Wickham: He sings a | good song and tells a charming story. He is an American trom the top ot his hat to the sole of his boots. No one who has seen him Patrick's Day or the gathering of Masons could fail to note Mayor Wickham at a dinner party recalls what we have read of those charming ambrosial feasts which form so pleasanta part of the literature of England and Scotland, | The difficulty between England and America, vo far as social sentiment is concerned, is that | | Englishmen too often form an ideal American, impossible in every teature, based upon the exaggerations of our humorous writers and the follies of many of our citizens who go abroad. The best idea we have o. other nations is the character of the people they send to us, When we recall the character ot many of those who visited the Old World in the last few years we can well understand why the advent of a Mayor, a real Tammany Mayor, from New York wotld be looked upon at | Guildhall with interest if not with alarm. | Mr. Wickham would contribute largely to a better understanding between the two coun- Gaildbali and showing that as an officer he is in every essential a Mayor as well as a gentleman, It would be a deprivation in some respects te lose Mr. Wickham, but when we think of thdse who would attend his visit to London | we can reconcile ourselves to the surrender. | We have many men in our city, especially those in authority, whose departure for Lon- don would be a comforting sight. He might take Mr. Green, in order to show the authori- ties of London howto manage financial affairs in such a way as to give the least amount of satisfaction to the greatest number of people. He might invite Disbecker to instruct the sanitary authorities of London that the com- | fort of the people is more largely served by | sition. tooth and nail’ in the great city of London, | and have enlisted the children under their revival banners. The arch enemy is evi- dently losing ground under the persistent ettacks of the two modern apost | for A Dex of unusual ferocity was fought near | Havana on Friday, betw citizen of New York, Dr. Algernon Sy Caban merchant nam salvador Cortereal. We give the full particulars of this shocking encounter, which was ended by the suicide of Cortereal, who aprarently believed he had killed his adversary. publish to- of the prepara- the new crew of Am- ¢ forthcoming struggle aduates of the oar on Saratoga at Wonx.— AMHERST between tue Lake. They will prove ists os fer as pluck, will and muscle are con- werned. formidable antagou, Tux Iypiass.—A tribe of the Comanches, who have been raiding for five years in Texas, have agreed to surrender, and it is expected that the remainog | le Apaches in that Btate will follow the exa But the Indian trouble is one which, when suppressed in one place, always breaks out in another. Now the danger is at boand Black Hills, Tux feove: Inpraxs, who have had along but spparently fruitless talk with the ‘Great Father,” are now in New York, and are hav- ing a good time, secing the sights and receiv- ing invitations everywhere previous to their departure tor the Plains, where they may turn @p again at their old pranks of murder and fapine. It is a disgrace to our civilization bat these cutthroats showld be permitted to appear at public assemblages in this city, wearing the trophics that t from their defenceless victims. parade the scalps they have taken with the utmost non- ehalance, Yet they are end are protec: ed by our benis Tar Jmnoun Pank Races.—The second day's races of the spring mee of the American Jockey Club commence at three o'clock this afternoon at Jerome Park. The principal svent Will be the race for the Westchester Cup, which will bring out some of the principal horses entered for the meeting. It iv to be aoped that the rac lo sccount of starting e Ut warrantable extent wet, and that some effort bey us exer. tions of the clerk of t to avoid the disay dust, “Tho immense attend day of the meeting is a good au Interest taken by the public this season 2 pf the noblest racing aesociations ever organ- ized in America. tore They nation's wards’ government, n Tewill be made of anec on the first va ble prese nry of the in ¢ Curtis, and a / the greutest amount of nuisance and decompo- There are a body of police surgeons | who have arrived at the astounding discovery | that no place on this Continent—Saratoga, Long Branch, the‘ parks of the Rocky Mountains or the table lands of the far-reaching Sierra Nevadas—can compare | salubrity, healthtulness and natural beauty of scenery to the Harlem flats, We do not know anything that would afford us more pleasure than to see our Mayor slowly steaming down the Bay, with Disbecker and Green and the police surgeons and about two- | thirds of the present officers of Tammany Halil accompanying him as his body guard. If the Mayor should desire to make his visit | to London not only a matter of enjoyment to himself but of comfort to the city he might extend his courtesies and invite other gentle men of distinction, There is ths Hon. John | Morrissey, for instance, who, if really put upon his mettle, could make as great a sensation in London and give o surer mavifestation of his powerful statesmansbip than any of our leaders. There is the Adonis of the New York democracy, the Hon. Thomas J. Creamer, a man of large wealth and influence, who could teach the rising generation ot London politicians many things as yet unlearned in their lessons of political management. There is our silent mmany Sachems, John Kelly, as imperturbably chiet of the 1 who could keep the peace the as Grant. it Mayor were 60 dispwed he might take the whole Beecher trial—Judge, counsol, contestants, jurymen and all—and deposit them in London under the ministrations of Messrs. Moody and Sankey with much benefit to our people, the result might be to true religion. n and Mr. Beecher bmve botlt about exhausted influence in New York. There is no knowing what they would be able | toaccomplish in London. Beecher and Tilton their might succeed Moody and Sankey. The achievements of Moody and Sankey show | that there is no better field for the develop- | ment of true American talent than this | exhausted old metropolis. London has been in many respects a field for the manifestation of unappreciated American genius. It was in London thi Barnum accomplished noble results with the India rubber‘nurse of Wash- ington,’’ the woolly horse and Tom Thumb, It was in London that famons financiers suc- ceeded in imdueing ingenuous investors to buy barren Utah lands under the impression that they pe d real silver mines. It is in L at’ clergymen whose idea of the wor of Christianity is based upon the instru ctions of Mr. Barnum have suec d in revolutionizing the r rus its centre to its ci nterence and sand princesses and ladics avd nen of high degree to the foot of tho in ® condition of hysterical devotion. | | With examples like these what could Beecher | | more we regret that our accomplished and | | ties of discussing our common language, our | common literature and our common religion. | refer to the fact | the Americans were a greater race! | are dinners of whitebait at Greenwich which ‘looped up on the driver's seat, But there | the largest number of votes from the smallest | | hall of this venerable municipality and to sit | Shiloh. General Buell believes that it is the | right to take his own life in certain circum- | was that the sum of the insurance was due to | act, | satistaction. and Tilton not do, especially under the dis- creet instruction of the Mayor? | On the whole, the more we think of it the | able Mayor has not concluded to visit Lon- don, He would have more than a royal wel- come. There would be abundant opportuni- | What fino thoughts he could have evolved | about Shakespeare and Cromwell and Lord | Bacon! With what magnanimity he could | that if the English were whipped in the Revolution it was | not because they were weaker, but because | There | he could appreciate if he could not enjoy. We should not advise him to follow the example of our somewhat famous fellow citizen, Sergeant Bates, and ride down Pall Mall and the Strand with the American flag would be no objection to his indulging in this harmless entertainment if he found it neces- sary tor the glory of his land. ‘The true value of Mr. Wickham’s visit to London would be not so much in his going there as in his leaving his friends behind him. We | should miss the Mayor, but there are a few of those associated with him who would be gladly spared. Nor would they fail to learn a lesson of the vanity of human wishes. London is full of statesmen of the old empire, the tol- | lowers of ‘Tweed, the men who displayed the | diamond pins and ruled over the Americus | Club, and disbursed appropriations with as- tonishing rapidity, and knew how to extract given number of voters, The lesson of their exile would not be lost upon a Disbecker or a | Green. vor this reason, if for no other, we | still regret that Mr. Wickham has not ac- | cepted the hospitalities of Guildhall and re- solved to be one of the great multitude of | Mayors so soon to assemble in the illustrious in honor and comfort and high enjoyment | with the Mayors of Paris and Vienna, and Cork, and Peoria, and Timpuctoo. General Sherman and General Buell. We print this morning a letter from General Buell in response to our suggestion that he might find it convenient to discuss the parts of General Sherman’s book commenting upon | himself and his campaigns. General Buell is | a distinguished, and, as the country believes, | an unfortunate soldier, whose career daring | the war was interrupted by invidious circum- stances rather than by his own action. Although | the references to General Buell in the work of | General Sherman are, so far as we can recall | them, of a conciliatory and altogether of a courteous nature, the General is disposed to take issue with the commander of the army as | to the estimate he places upon the battle of effort of the author to ‘‘conceal the faults and | misrepresent the facts of that battle."’ At the same time General Buell concedes the impor- | tant fact that it is proper that all who took | any part in the recent war should now place upon record their remembrance of it. He | agrees with the Hzratp in looking upon Geb- eral Sherman’s example as calculated to stim- ulate that object. General Buell reservés his final judgment of the work of General Sher- man until another timo, We need hardly say that anything he chooses to write upon the subject will be read with deep interest by the country. No one is more competent to write upon the war than a scbolar and soldier and gentleman as accomplished as General Buell. Suicide and Insurance, By the judgment of the highest Court of the State of Maryland it appears that a man’s stances is still intact. In that State a gentle- man had insured his life on the ordinary form of policy, by which the insurance is void “if the assured shall die by his own hand or act.” He subsequently hanged himself and the com- pany refused to pay, which there is reason to believe is the common rule with insurance companies in all circumstancee. The com- pany was sued and held liable; they ap- pealed, and again the inexorable judgment the heirs, felo de se to the contrary notwith- standing. It was held by the Court that there are circumstances in which a man may take his own life that do not come within the prohibition of the clause in the policy. They | hold that the policy only prohibits am act that is deliberately intended by a sound mind. Ifa man looking into the muzzle of a re- volver fire it by accident he dies by his own hand literally, but by an unintentional and tor such a loss the com- pany must pay; and inasmuch as insanity interrupts healthy volition, an in- sane man cannot be presumed to intend his own death any more than the man does who kills himself by sueh an accident. It is not our duty to reconcile the view the Court takes of suicide with the view taken by some phi- losophers—especially in England—who argue that the mere fact of suicide is evidence of insanity, and that, therefore, there cannot be any distinction as to suicides intended and suicides not intended. In the absence of such a duty we contemplate the decision with Insanity has been most inge- niously used to defraud the gailows for many years, and if it can now be employed in the interest of a much defrauded publicto compel slippery insurers to come down with their dust we shall be glad to know it. West Porrt.—The all important question as to whether the fair visitors from Vassar College were frightened or not during their late raid on the cadets at West Point, when the boys executed a brilliant charge, seems to be as far trom solution as ever. A cadet comes to their rescue to-day, and defends them against the insinuations thrown out by “One of Benny Havens’ Boys.” Mn. Evans yesterday resumed his speech | in the Brooklyn trial, and ridiculed the story | of Mr. Beecher's alleged suicidal inclinations and the controversy about the paternity of the boy Ralph. He complimented Mrs. Woodhall for her delicacy of trust and honor, so far as it was exhibited at the trial, and proceeded to argue that Mr. Tilton was on intimate terms as @ visitor at her resie | to | bas also considered the matter, and as the | that Messrs. McQuade, Ambrose, Jones, Mills | is the most dangerous of all that now threaten | leum factories on the East River, which poison | the air with their smelis, As the ships and | steamers from New England approach New dence. Mr. Evarts, itis expected, will con- clude his exhaustive argument to-day, JUNE 8, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET, The Nuisances of New York. The folly of trying to conceal great nui- sances by official misrepresentation was never shown more strikingly than in the late report ot the police surgeons upon the Harlem flats. The coercion of these officers by a Com- missioner resulted, first, in the exposure of the true condition of the flats, and, secondly, in the exposure of the means that had been used to hide it, If Mr. Disbecker had been a wise man or an honest official he would have either avoided the blunder of attempting prove the pest beds to be whole- some or he would have addressed himself to the difflonlt Inbor of making them so. But the course he chose to adopt has con- vinced the public that he is personally inter- ested in the garbage outrage on the public, or, what is almost equally as bad, that he is to- tally unfit for his position. The surgeons’ report did not cover up this infamy of the Harlem swamps, but, on the contrary, led to retraction and investigation, The cooked-up report not only failed to ac- complish its own purpose, but has elicited unanswerable testimony to the existence of the nuisance. Commissioner Voorbis on Sun- day visited the scene, and bears witness to the truth of the statements in the Heraup. The Common Council has taken up the subject, and yesterday continued an investigation, which the public ex- pects to be thorough, The Bonrd of Health remedy lies directly within the power of that body"we hope it will not hesitate to apply it firmly and without delay. The Board of Heulth can compel a citizen to remove a | nuisance and make him pay the expense, and it should deal with the contractors just as it wouid with private persons, We do not say and the other model contractors should now be obliged to remove the filthy, pestilential organic matter with which they have filled the flats, for in the heat of the summer season that step would be dangerous to the health of the city. But they should be compelled | toat least repair the injury they have done the community by using powerful disinfect- ants in the garbage fields and covering the mass of rotteuness already deposited by three or four feet of pure, fresh earth. If it is, as | we believe, in the power of the authorities to make the contractors beara portion of the expense of this purification, the public will be gratified to see the penalty imposed; but under no circumstances should they be paid the balance of the money due them from the city until they have removed the intolerable | nuisance which their own recklessness created. The authcrities should not limit their atten- | tion to this nuisance only, though, of course, it the health of the metrdépclis. The Boards cf | Health of New York and Brooklyn | held recently a conference in respect to the petro- York by the entrance of the Sound their pas- | sengers are regaled on the one side by the | odors of Harlem flats and on the other by the | stench of the petroleum refineries of Long Island. They are between the Scylla and the Charybdis of stinks, and unhappily can | eseape neither. Then thero are the foul streets, several of which are described in our reports to-day. All of these nuisances should be abated now, before the extreme heat con- verts them into sources of widespread disease, | and we shall gladly assist in exposing all cases of the kind to which our attention may be called. The matter is one in which every citizen has a direct interest, for the health of the entire community is threatened by the filthy portions of the city. An Aspect of the Railroad War. One of the letters of the Postmaster General | on the subject of the transportation of the | mails between Washington and this city bas | more interest for the public than is usually | found in communications of this nature, for it deals with a point that Postmasters General will be compelled to keep in view in future contracts. It appears that the department | makes its contract with one railway company to carry the mails and then leaves it to that company to make its own contract with other | companies in cases where it does not own all the lines over which the mails have to go. If, | then, these companies quarrel between thom- | selves the company tbat has the government contract cannot fulfil its obligations, and de- lay necessarily ensues. It may be responsible | and the government may be able to punish its delinquency in that way, but that does not | secure the regular and prompt discharge of | the function that the postal authorities are charged with, and the indication is that no } fature contract for carrying mails over a route | divided between several lines will be com- plete or secure as beyond possibility of mis- hap unless the government has guarantee in the contract by which the carriages of one road are allowed to pass over other roads. Tax Barriz or Bunxen Hit.—We publish elsewhere a communication from Mr. George 8. Ellis in reference to this great national event, the centennial celebration of which is | close at hand. It gives a graphic description | of the bold stand made bya small portion of the hastily organized Provincial Army against the veteran soldiers of England, and ascribes to Colone! Prescott the principal share of the honor of that memorable day. Not even the disastrous retreat of the British column from Concord und Lexington inspired the redeoats with such wholesome fear of the determination, courage and unconquerable | spirit of the newly awakened patriots of America as did the short and bloody struggle | on Bunker Hil, when a few thousand farmers beat back their best troops and were only | compelled to retire through lack of support and want of ammunition. Then the British Cabinet understood what a difficult task it was to bring those “rebellious colonists” to terms. The topographical map of Bunker | Hill, as it appeared during the historic fight, will allow a complete study of the action, Tue Cuaracrenistic Crime for which so many negroes bave suffered, and which seems to be the besetting sin of the desperadoes of the colored race, has been repeated in Mary- land. The victim was a farmer's daughter, and the circumstances are revolting. The dastardly perpetrator has been arrested, and will, likely, dangle at a rope’s end ere long. | the dispenser of patronage. The University Crews at Practice. By the word coming in from New England and all over the Middle States there 1s promise of a very brilliant aquatic meeting at Saratoga on the 13th and 14th days of next month, While the work of the next few weeks must reduce the weights of the rowers con- siderably there is already abundant proof that most of the crews will come to the score heavier than their respective colleges have usually sent, and hence, as all seem to be taking a good share of hard work, fitter for the arduous strain of wind and back and limb that is in store for them on that Wednesday morning. Occasionally a team, the Wesleyan, for example, has even at this early day thinned down to racing weight, and though they have done so more than once before, and yet made a capital second, the experiment is at best hazardous. A little extra beef on ® man, especially in our hot summer months, will geaerally render him abler for long tiresome work whether on land or water than he would be without it, A very noticeable feature of the training at most of the colleges is a decidedly greater at- tention to legwork than formerly and less to enlarging the arms. Tho sliding seat bas in part led to this, the rower finding that’ the more firmly he braces his fect against the foot- board—technically, ‘kicks his streteher”— the more effective work results. Of course, too, the present style of rowing, introduced by Captain Cook, of the Yale crew, and learned byhim in England, which has been more generally adopted this year than ever before, by cutting down the forty-three or forty-four per minute of former days to thirty-six or thirty-seven strokes, renders each stroke more deliberate and s0 likely to be more thorough and give the legs more to do. Not only will there probably be more uni- formity also in the style of the first six or eight crews this year than ever before, but when the fast European amateur teams row | next summer on the Schuylkill and at Sara- toga and over other famous courses it will be found that their stroke and ours have at last grown much alike. And as two or three favorite builders get about all the orders for the boats the races become more and more nearly a test of the actual | skill and strength and staying power of the oarsmen. A very welcome incident of the con- tests this year is the marked increase of inter- est in the single scull race. Mr, Kennedy's performance the other day near New Haven shows him to be, what any careful observer even a year ago would have found him, a really formidable man, and, close as the various races promise to be, perhaps no safer prediction could be advanced wow than that he will be able to make sure that the winning colors in the single scull race go where some months ago we thought it likely, and still think it | likely, the colors of the University race of 1875 will go, and this notwithstanding the loss of one valuable man—ndmely, to the in- stitution whose well appointed and costly new boathouse to-morrow, for the first time, floats its flag over the waters of New Haven Bay. The Office and the People. The keynote of the discussion attending the letter of the President in reference to the | proposition to nominate him for a third term is involved in the idea that the office of the Presidency is greater than the people. One difficulty with President Grant’s letter is that he so regards it. This applies in a large degree to the political leaders of both parties. It has been the tendency of modern political discussion—at least since the close of the war—to regard the President as in some respects the father of the people. We address the incumbent of the White House very much as Spotted Tail and Red Cloud and the Indian chiefs do when they come to beg for blankets and corn and rifles. He is our ‘Great Father.” necessary consequence of the war. It arises also from that sentiment of adulation with which time servers and office holders | surround the country as The truth is that in no republican government, especially in America, was it ever intended to make the generally of the and politicians Chief Magistrate President anything more than the chief | ministerial officer of the people, and not in | | any sense their ruler. The whole danger of Casarism in this | country does not arise from any attribute in the character of General Grant or any special | incident of his administration, but from the adoption of this political heresy, that the | office is greatér than the people. Unless we can eliminate this from our politics we shall drift steadily on to imperialism. It will only be a question of time, a generation or two, before we are directly confronted with it. | Imperialism will grow from this root as surely | as the onk tree from the acorn. In an ad- | ministration based upon this heresy the ten- | dency is to regard the patronage of the people as a military force, to drill it, to wield it for party purposes. Place any man at the head of this vast power, and teach him | that he is the possessor of an authority above and apart irom the people, and it is not in human nature that he should not wield it for , his ambition or his revenge or his pleasure, even as Napoleon and Tasar. Therefore the | danger of Casarisin is not a personal danger, but » fruitage of the war. President Grant in his letter shows that he has thoroughly em. braced this heresy. We have yet to learn of any distinguished republican leader who has taken cour- ageous ground on the third term. Sumner tned to do so, and many dem- ocratic statesmen during the urgencies of the canvass last year indorsed him. Mr, Sumner’s efforts died ont, and when | tho democratic leaders succeeded in defeating tho republican party upon the issue of Cesarism they ignored the subject as soon as they came into Congress. We do not | end this controversy, therefore, by simply dis. | counting General Grant's prospects for a re« nomination, That is simply to chop off a limb or hewa few branches from the tree. The root and trunk remain, with all their life- giving juices. We shall have the strite over again in the next generation. What we want, therefore, is that this should be a distinct and emphatic issue in our next election—that wo should have en amendment imposing one term and no re-election. What we desire is not a | President who is necessary to the pedple, but & people who are strong enough to govern thomselyos in spite of the President, This arjses partly from the central- | ization that has crept into our politics as a | Mr. | Clafiin’s, Silks. We shall be very much surprised if the #0 tion of the District Attorney in causing the arrest of the agent of one of the richest mer cantile houses in the country on the chargé of having purchased silk goods knowing’ that they had been smuggled will not be one of the most important acts of his administration, If properly sustained by the evidence and by the general government it will lead to the most salutary results, Without expressing an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the party implicated the position is this: A buyer of the house of H. B, Claflin & Co. is accused of having pur chased for the use of that house a large quan- tity of silks at a less price “than they would have been worth had the duty been paid. To the argument that these silks might have been depreciated lot, which had fallen in value on account of the exigencies of the trade, it is answered that the purchase was made, not from parties engaged in the buying and sell~ ing of sill, but trom the clerk of a liquor store. This is o serious maiter for a dis tinguished and rich house. The District At torney deserves credit for making his point upon a firm strong enough to defend their representative and widely enough known to receive from the public all the consideration due to their high commercial character. The lesson that we trust will be taught by this action of Mr. Bliss is that our dealers, our merchants and importers cannot exercise too much scrutiny in dealing with the govern ment. If a package of silk is offered toa merchant at a less price than the duty would justify the inference is irresistible that it was smuggled. If a merchant purchnses goods upon which such a suspicion can fairly rest he is morally as much a criminal as the adventurer who evaded the customs laws. In our rush to get rich we are not always careful about the means of making money. We are afraid that our best merchants have not always looked at their purchases with open and inquiring eyes. If a cheap assortment of desirable goods can be found tree from legal imputation they are too apt to take them as gifts from the gods, and are not always anxious to know whether they paid the duty, We trust that it will be found that Mr. Claflin’s agent in this matter is unjustly ac cused. Tux Sovurn Pacrrrc Isuanps.—An earth- quake, succeeded by a tidal wave, has caused immense loss of lite and damage to property in one of the South Pacific islands, Taz Port or Honon.—Alexander, the man who was shot four times by a police officer in Philadelphia, refused before his death to tell the name of his murderer, and in Brooklyn a similar case has occurred, A rowdy was stabbed fatally three times in the lungs on Saturday night, and when asked to tell who was his assailant, re plied, “I'd die with the name of the fellow in my throat before I'd give him away.” The point of honor thus shown is very coarse, and in some respects criminal, yet it is a point of honor. Bad as this concealment is, it is better than the educated and deliberate treachery which is so frequently found in higher circles of socioty. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Rev. F. H. Weninger, of Cincinnati, is registered at the St. Nicao! ‘orel, Mr, Matt. H. ©: ter, of Wisconsin, yesterday arrived at the St. James Hotel. siding at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Pay Inspector W. W. Williams, United State Bavy, is quartered at the Hotel Brunswick. Paymaster George L. Febiger, United States Army, 18 stopping at the St, Nicho'as Hotel. | Deputy Attorney Gene S. Faironild, o Albany, 18 stopping at the Hoffman House, | Major Peter ©. Hains, of the Engineer corps | United States Army, is at the Brevoort House, D. McDougall, Registrar of Waterloo, Canada, | has been appointed Centennial Commissioner, | Jenkins, of Ginx’s Baby, twaddies terribly about | the peace of Europe, which, Indeed, is normal | wirh nim, | Rear Admiral Henry K. Hof and Captain Jone | HL Upshur, United States Navy, bave apartmenu at the Everett House, Mr. R. R. Bridgers, of North Carolina, President of the Atlantic Coast Kallway line, has arrived at the St, Nicholas Hotel, Another party of Canada Pacife surveyors left Ottawa for Manitoba yesterday, im charge of Oljilvy, for a two years’ trip. Judge Theodoric R. Westbrook, of the New York Supreme Court for the Third Judicial cistrict, i sojourning at the Sturtevant House, Associate Justice Stephen J. Fieid, of the United States Supreme Court, arrived at the Albemaria Ho-el last evening trom Washington. The Emperor of Germany has conferred on Baron Cari de Rothscniid, of Frankfort, the Cross and star of Commander in the Order of Hohenzol- lerne General Adam Badeau, United States Consal General at London, returned to this city yester- day and took up his residence at the Fiith Avenag Hotel. Major D. R, Cameron, R. A., Her Majesty's Com missioner for the settiement of the boundary ling between Canaaa and the United states, hasan rived in Ottawa, The Cologne Gazette states that General de Ka mecke, Prussian Minister of War, intends to re sign, avd that General de Volgts-Rnets is desig ated as his successor, It is said that Mr. Gladstone will contribute ay article on the Prince Consort and the Court o Queen Victoria to an early number of the Gon ) temporary Review. Prince Louis of Battenberg ts in England, and ta thought to fancy Princess Beatrice, Pour épouser ung princesse Le Prince Paul s'en est alle, Secretary Delano says the report that he would resign ‘Was started by parties who have fatied to | use the Secretary in furtherance of their personal interests,” Therefore it was not started by the Inaian Rtog. M. Safforgnan de Brazza, leutenant in the | French Navy, but an Italian, who goes to continue in Africa the explorations of Livingstone, “nag full power irom the Minister of Marine” to supply himself jrom the public arsenals, Count Maretoseni, Envoy of His Holiness the | Pope, will visit Jerome Park to-day as the guest of Colonel Dancan B. Cannon, of Baltimore, ana Hon, Alfred H. Mare, the son of Her Britannia Majesty's Consul ot New Orleans, | General Grant 18 said to have replied, in answer to an inquiry of the Secretary of War, that be haa Tread Sherman’s book, but was disaappointed in it, ag It Reemed to involve the conclusion that h¢ (Grant) was not in the war at ali, Mr. Carlyle 18 ap for discussion in regard to what he said and dia when Bryan Hunt, the grandson of Leigh Hunt, shot himself in the London Liprary, Mr. Carlyle was im the liorary when the act wast committed, Young Hunt feli near him, in front of some shelves from which Mr. Carlyle wanted 1 book. “Was he mad?” said the sage of Chelsea t one ofthe librarians, “No. “Was he starved? | “No.'? Something more was muttered soon | “inconveniences,” and then Mr. Uarlyie said ne | Was in @ harry and must have nis book, which had to be given him almost over the bedy of the anicida, Senator A. T. Caperton, of West Virginia, is re © %