The New York Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1875, Page 8

tal NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1875.—QUA NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, JAMES NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New Yorx Huratp will be | sent free of postage. + All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ihe CC aaa 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 "AMUSEMENTS TO-MOR' ehh METROPOLIT. West Fourwenth street. PARK THRATRE, Rroadway —EMERSON'S CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS, aah. M HEATRE, ars P.M. OLYMPIC No, 6M Broadway.—VARLs ; closes at 10:45 Yr. FIFTH AVENUE TREATRE, Twenty-eightn street and Broadway —THE BIG BO- DANZA, at 3 P. M.; closes at 10-30 2. M. PARK GARDEN. ONCERI, at 8 PM. CENTRA THEODORE THOMAD’ METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 985 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P.M WALLAC . Rroadwav.—THE DONOV ;; closes at 10:40 Vo a, Messrs. Harrigau and Bi. ROBIN ALL, West Sixteenth stree.—English GLLOFLA, ats P.M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner of Thirtieth street.—LITTLE SUN- SHINS, at 8 P.M; closes at 1049 P. M. Matince at ‘Opera—GIROFLE- GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, late Barnum's Hippodrome.—GRAND POPU con. CERT, atSP. M.; closes at IL P.M. Ladies’ and ebil- dren's matinee at? ¥. M. CONWAY'S BROUKLYN THEATRE. MAUD'S FAITH, at8 P.M. Miss Minnie ier. QUADRUPLE SHERT. NEW YORK, SUNDAY. JUNE 13, From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be cool and partly cloudy, with rain. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henan mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Watt Sreeer Yesterpay.—Western se- curities were depressed and the general mar- | ket was unsetiled. Gold was steady at 116} a 116], and foreign exchange was firm. | Jznome Pazx Races.—Bright skies and fast time rewarded the attendants at the | Jerome Park races yesterday. There were five events, end some of the favorites were defeated—Springbok, Calvin, Wildidle, | Spindrift and Survivor being the winners. Tue ¥Errecr of the reduction of the wages | of laborers for the city is explained in a | special article elsewhere, and the intelligent ; statement of a workingman in respect to the | Tammany rule no doubt expresses the views | of thousands of his class. Tas Sanatoca Laxe Boar Racz this year | will profit by the experiences of last season, | and all the college clubs are anxious to sur- | pass the brilliancy of that contest. Our cor- } respondence to-day fully describes the prepa- | rations that are being made by the fine crew | of Williams College. Tae Lroat Ervorts to recover the money | stolen from the city under the Tweed Ring rule are energetically continued, and attach. | ments have been issued against the property of ex-County Court House Commissioners Walsh and Coman, under circumstances else- where described. Tae Tartons now complain of the revenue frauds as an injury to their business. Smug- gled clothing is said to be a decided injury to the American trade, and Secretary Bristow, in an order to collectors of the customs, has nobly come to their relief. No gentleman wears # smuggled pair of breeches; in prefer- ence, he would dress in Highland kilts. Avwrnat Wonpex and the United States fleet under his command are soon expected to arrive at Kiel, and the brave commander is promised a warm welcome when he visita Berlin. The North German Gazelte announces that the American officers will be hospitably received as representatives of an intimate friendly nation. Tae Pcvtsc Batas are not only of direct interest to those who use them, but indirectly to those who do not. To be ciean is easy for | the wealthier citizens, but it is not always easy for the poor, whose tenements are fre- | quently without the modern conveniences of | bathing. The opening of the public baths upon the Fast and North rivers is therefore valuable to the entire community. Tax Mostcrpat, Exopvs tro Evropz.—One of the great questions of the day is whether the Mayor will go to London to attend the International Banquet of Mayors, to which the Lord Mayor has invited him. From the interview elsewhere related it is clearly established that he may or he may no', with the probability in favor ot his departure. The | next question of interest is, Who will he take | with him? Colonel Morrissey? A good man— | to go. Major Kelly? Another good man—to | go. Captain Disbecker? A very popular | Official—to leave. These gentlemen seem | uncertain about their intentions, per- haps being also uncertain as to their receptions; yet if they attend upon the | Mayor they need have no fear. Purser Green would also like to visit London, and he would | be an excellent man—to stay. But we fear | that the Purser does not like to desert his | office, lest when he roturns he should find the | new born child of reform installed therein. | Now, , bim. The Proposed Abdication of the King of Greece—Monarchy ia Europe. A cable despatch announces upod what seéms to be unquestioned authority the speedy abdication of the King 0% Greece. The position of this monarch is pecu- | liarly irksome and no a litile ridiculous. | Greece is, in plain fact, a country with- out an upper or middle class population, and the very civil list of its Sovereign is derived in part from foreign contributions. All those wealthy merchants who are so proud of their | Hellenic descent—the Rallis, the Rodoeona- chis, Spartalis, and that numerous, mixed race of Venetians, Turks and Genoese who claim the Byzantine emperors and Homeric heroes among their ancestry—take especial care to make their habitations far from their native laud. They may be found in New York and in London, and they congregate at Manchester, Marseilles, Liverpool, Trieste, Caicutta and other large commercial centres ; also at Constantinople, where there is a good deal of business doing in the financial way. The Jews have only just driven them out from the great corn | markets of Southern Russia; but they con- tinue to Lold their own both in Austria and in England. Baron Sina, a Germanized Greek, is | one of the richest men in the world, anda Greek has just been elected to the British Parliament. in Greece, The country produces little, and that little is hardly worth exporiation, The population is too poor to foster a flourishing import trade, and Athens has no Stock E change or none worth notice, so that an enterprising commercial man would be quite lost there. The public officers and the commands in the army or navy are quite beneath the attention of ambition; and the whole interest of the windy, sun-dried little capital is concentrated on the purses of travellers in search of an- tiquities and im the miserable intrigues of a petty court. It is a very scandalous place, | tor all the Athenians and strangers who are there still spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. ‘The late King Otho and his Queen were real!y very worthy people. He was a quiet, respect- able man, by no means wanting in good sense, who had a taste for dabbling in litera- ture. Her Majesty was fond of dancing and fine raiment. Nothing evil could fairly be said about either of them, but if an inquiry into their character had been made at any barber's shop at Athens the answers would have been utterly disastrous to their reputation; and one day, when they went out to breakfast on the water, they were | dethroned and sent about their business. | King George, too, and bis royal consort are worthy folk enough. They have a large pri- vate property, which must be good for the trade of such a small town as Athens, and the worst that can be told of them is that the King drives a phaeton, and gossip says that “the gray mare is tre better horse.” Any one acquainted, however, with the state of society in Athens might reasonably be dis- posed to doubt if the King and Queen have ever been left for a single day in peace at the ordinary sort of villa which is called the royal , palace. There is a beautiful story which re- lates that after the battle of Issus the com- plete rout of the Persian army put Alexander | in possession of the camp of Darius, in which were his mother, wife and chil- dren. A rumor had been spread that | Darius was slain, and Alexander, willing to give them comlort, paid them a visit, As | he entered their tent Hephwstion, who was rather taller than Alexander, was close by his side, and, as soon as they approached, the | Queen-mother addressed herself to Hephms- tion, supposing him to be the mighty con- queror. Hor attendants telling her of her mistake she was much embarrassed ; but the great Captain answered, ‘‘It is of no impor- tance, Madam, for he, too, is Alexander.” We hardly know which of the two we should first congratulate—him who pad the generosity to | | make such a speech, or him who had the hap- piness to hear it spoken of himself. It is one of the prettiest anecdotes of history; but if | Hephestion bad forced his way into his Sovereign's dressing room and cried out “I, too, am Alexander,"’ his behavior might have been inconvenient, and the story of it could not have been told in as pleasant a manner. that was the sort of thing that used to happen to King Otho, and which | may possibly have happened to King George Bright-eyed, talkative gentlemen, in the cos- tuntes of their country, consisting chiefly of white petticoats and embroidered gaiters, thrust themselves into his presence at all hours to insist that he should turn out his | Ministers and appoint them or their friends | to the vacancies thus created. M. Edmond | About relates that the ladies of his court openly wore jewelry which had been just stolen on the highway, and Hadji Petro, who was strongly suspected of being a brigand, walked about with noble Englisn ladies and anarmed guard at his heels to protect him from molestation whenever he thought fit to confront the King and have some talk with has been put down in Greece during the reign of King George, or that brigands now are less powerful or less insolent than Hadji Petro. What cana poor king do under such circumstances as these ? Almost any private station, almost any | employment which will permit a man to earn his living in a quiet, gentlemanly way, is better than being constantly watched, con- stantly slandered, constantly bullied and com- pelled to associate habitually with objectiona- ble people. Nothing that the King of Greece has to give can satisfy even his nearest sur- roundings, though he gave all he had, as kings of Greece have done before. ‘“‘Sire,’’ asked Parmenio of the Macedonian, “what do | you keep for yourself?” and he answered, “Hope.” But King George could never have any bope of better fortunes. About twenty years ago there was some talk of incorporating Thessaly and Epirus, with other parts of European Turkey, into # Greek kingdom, which might have been manageable by ® shrewd monarch under the requisite conditions ; not only energetically oppose any further at- tempt to weaken Turkey, but none of the great Powers would look with favor on the | establishment of a large commercial kingdom of Greece setting up probibitory tariffs at | Smyrna and Constastinople and driving the Commerce does not prosper | It does not appear that brigandage | but that project has fallen | wholly into the water, and England would | | easy-going, commodious Turks back into Cen- | tral Asia. More»ver, the increase of territory which was given to Greece by the cession | which Great Britain made ot the Ionian Islands bas turned out a dismal speculation | for all parties concerned, and the colony which was so prosperous a few years ago has | sunk into a deplorable condition as part of an independent State. Now, what is the position | of aking of Greece amid all this hopeless | trouble and confusion? He and his connec- tions are merely marks set up for calumny. He is obliged to live in an uncomfortable honse in s small town without any of the amasements of civilization, He must listen to demands which he cannot grant, some whining. some threatening, all day long anda part of the night. He must march in pro- cession under a blazing sun to be looked at and insulted whenever called upon to do so, and he must fulfil this hard engagement | | for the rest of his life at his peril merely to | | be culled by the empty name of King in official despatches and trade advertisements. | According to the cable news, therefore, he | | proposes to abdicate—to utterly abandon the | dreary business and take up his residence at St. Petersburg. If so his triends will surely congratulate him upon deliverance from an- noyances which must be almost too great for ; human endurance. A question now arises which the nations of | Enrope will be forced, by the natural course of events, to consider very shortly. What is the form ot government under which they henceforth intend tolive? If they mean it to be republican they will have frankly to pro- claim republics as France did yesterday, and as Spain did the day before and may do again to-morrow, for the new King she bas chosen already wants to abdicate. Wise men will no | longer accept kingships. The Duke de Mont- | pensier is among the halt dozen gentlemen | who have refused the crown of Spain. ) Tbe Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke {of Oambridge have both declined | to be troubled with « throne. Boys | like King Alfonso and King George | may still be set up by parties of place hunters ' to be knocked down by rival factions after a | brief term of office; but their parents and \ guardians will soon interfere to protect them, | because it is clear that even such well-mean- ‘ing young men as the ex-King Amadeo can do nothing with the shadow of authority | committed to them, and the whole thing is | made up of yexation of spirit. The wives and | | womenkind even ot weak-witted princes, | urged by silly ambitions, will prevent them | from running into danger, as the Countess de | Chambord lately stopped her husband when | bent on a foolish errand. Respectable fami- | lies will not allow their younger or more un- | reasonable members to ircur loss of character | and other disagreeable consequences, only to | | be called by the half-obsolete name of King | for a few montbs; and mations, when thoy | want to proclaim a monarch, will have se- riously to consider how they are to find any ‘one of average intelligence and creditable | antecedents willing to accept the situation. | The South American Earthquake. | Those voleanio countries which are wi ancient volcanic outlets seem to suffer terribly | from earthquakes when those subterranean | forces operate with more than usual violence. This was the case with Lisbon, when it was nearly destroyed near the middle of the last cen- ‘ tury, as compared with the region of Naples, | which appears to be saved from devastating earthquakes by the constantly recurring erup- | tions ot Mount Vesuvius, upon whose misty rim perpetually With outstretched hands ‘The gray smoke stands O’eriooking the volcaate lands, This is the case apparently with the vast | tract in New Grenada which was dreadfully | shaken by an earthquake on May 18. The | subterranean fires in this inland district had no previous mouth from which to belch forth their furious * strength, and eight cities were toppled over and _ thou- sands of their inbabitants killed before the voleano opened on the mountains in ‘front of Santiago. By this awful calamity | | it is estimated that thirty-five thousand persons were either killed or made home- | less, and, although the particulars bave not | been learned, the reality is likely to be more appalling than the imagination of the ruin. Ssuth America has in the last half century | been vigited by many dreadful earth- quakes, but with few that compare with this. The fact that the Santander | region is inland adds greatly to the interest which scientists take in the event, because of the new theory that earthquakes are not caused by immense fires in the centre of the earth, but by the chemical action of water—a theory that is supported by the fact that vol- canoes are generally found close to the ocean bed, as in the cases of Mounts Heela, Etna and Vesuvius. Sut for the present all scien- tifie speculations as to the causes of these tremendous visitations will be forgotten in the horror their appalling destruction of bu- man life has occasioned. How Not to Do it. For several weeks the public has been ex- cited by the existence of an unexampled nuisance in the very heart of the city. This | nuisance was created according to the sug- | gestions of the Board of Police Commission- | | ers and with the consent of the Board of Health. Its cost was paid without question | by our vigilant Comptroller, whose zeal ia | cutting down the wages of exorbitant scrub | women is only equalled by his want of in. | sight into the claims of Jones and McQuade. | Aiter the nuisance bad been planted it soon j began to threaten the city with an epidemic. | The complaints of the people of Yorkville | and Harlem failed to move the Board of | Health and only excited the derision of the | Board of Police Commissioners. The newspapers took up the subject, and Mr. Commissioner Disbecker at once put him- self forward as the champion of the con- tractors who had created the nuisance, while the police surgeons united in a report deuy- | ing its existence. This untruthful report could not atond, and | so, after a month's sensation, the Police Board tound out that something was wrong. The Board of Health made a similar discov- ery, but apparently without going to much trouble to ascertain the facts in the case. The nuisance arose from dumping garbage mingled with ashes, or asbes mingled with | garbage, into the Harlem flats. Under all these circumstances the Board of Police Commissioners resolved that hence forth ashes and garbage should be separated. The plan was characteristic. Oboupants of houses were ordered to supply separate recep- tacles for each and the cartmen were required to dump the ashes and garbage into different carta, ‘The Board of Health resolved that the in- | fected matter should be disinfected. ‘The stagnant pools in the marsh lands were also ordered to be disinfected. It was like attempting to catch a bird by putting salt on its tail. An evening contemporary said it was covering a cesspool with a handkerchief. What is the result? ‘The dumps have not been disinfected. ‘The ashes and garbage are not separated by house owners except in rare cases, and then they are thrown into the same carts by the cartmen, ‘The stagnant pools are as noxious as ever. Nothing has been done. Are Criminals Automata! Men of science seem to be wasting a vast deal of sympathy upon the criminals who have Jately made the community shudder at the atrocity of their deeds. They have very sagely concluded that the pilferers, the burg- lars and the murderers who infest society are the victims of a moral or immoral hallucina- tion, and no more accountable for their acts of mischief than one of Maelz«l’s automata. The proof of this statement they find, curi- ously enough, in the supernatural horror con- nected with the deeds themselves. Ifa man who commits # murder does it as a fine art—that is, quiotly thrusts his poniard into the breast of his victim, or, being a good marksman, draws a bead on him while the mystic shadows of night are falling and drops him in his tracks, then goes home to weep and wail over the deed, tears his hair in agony, clutches at imaginary daggers in the air, talks incoherently in his sleep and exhibits other symptoms of remorse— he is, according to the learned science of the day, a double-dyed demon, for whom hanging is too good. It is folly to waste any commis- eration on a man who regrets his crime and who has moral senso enough to wring bis bands in despair and cry out piteously for mercy. Tobe sorry for a murder committed is a sure sign of moral health and puts the villain beyond the pity of science and delivers him up tothe clatches of the law. But when a man commits a murder in a peculiarly brutal tashion, when the details aro such that they must be read after and not before breakfast, then modern science finds an interesting case and one which multiplies pity by pity, until one begins to feel that the surest and shortest road to the heart of these great men is to do something unaccountably bad. They scorn a petty deed of deviltry, but find plenty of excuses for a crime whose chief peculiarity is that it is unutterably horrible. They look the guilty party over with scrupulous care to find out whether his nervous and muscular systems are in a healthy condition; they in- quire concerning his parentage, and, finding some ancestor that had set a barn on firo or some relative, ever so distant, who had red hair anda hot temper, they cry ‘Eureka’ with a delight wich is profoundly surprising, and in their diagnosis of the case render a verdict of moral unaccountability. They then deliver a very interesting lecture on the automatic mechanism of crime,and end by recommend- ing that the patient, instead of being banged, be confined in a lunatic asylum and dieted for a while on oatmeal porridge. Now, while the psychology of criminals may be a fascinating study, this morbid and increasing sympathy for them which has passed the limits of the metaphysician’s | brain, and to some extent take possession of the Judge’s bench, the jury box and the popular heart is simply folly. It results in offering a premium on the very worst forms of crime, while it spurns the ordinary scoun- drel with contempt. Ifa deed be only passa- bly bad it is punished; but if it be most hor- ribly bad then it is not punished but phys- icked. The safest course for a murderer to pursue is to muti'ate hiswictim and make each particular hair on the head of society stand on end. The worse the deed the better for the doer of it. This may be startling, but it is nevertheless true. Simple con- fusion is contemptible, but confusion worse confounded is equivalent to a verdict of not guilty. The motto of science is, a prison for the man who steals once and feels sorry for it, and a dose of paregoric for another who steals all the time and laughs at it. It is absolutely necessary for the welfare of the community that the accountability of all classes be emphasized. It must be proclaimed in tones which know no such thing as com- promise that evil deeds of all kinds and grades will meet with severe and unpitying retribution; that justice holds the balances firmly, and there is no appeal from her decisions. It must be remembered that society punishes crime, not sin. What sin is, what is the weight of motive that prompts to it, what is the just and exact pun- ishment for it, is not for us to decide. A higher power will take irge of that matter, and, without doubt, of the decisions of that higher court startle us. Con- demnation will strike in uflexpected quarters and pity and mercy will go hand in hand along surprising paths. But what is known as crime in political economy cannot be tampered with with impunity. It will not do for Despine to sit in the Judge’s chair and treat the criminals of a great city as so many automatons whose peculiar psychological bias renders them amenable to no law. Such a policy would disintegrate our social system in a very short time. It is well enough for the philanthropist to mix crime and disease in such inextricable fashion that they become inseparable, but it would be ex- | coedingly disastrous if the so-called dangerous class should learn that that theory prevailed | to any great extent, either among the police who arrest, the jury who listen to the testi- mony, or the judges who hear the case. Heaven help us all when we leara to pity and fear to punish! The age is just a bit softhearted and un- reliable in this respect. A litte more stern- ness and inflexible rigidity in the exeoution of law would do us no harm. The best way to subdue crime is to punish it severely when it is discovered. Let philanthropy do its utmost to increase all educational advantages and by every means in its power prevent the commis- sion of crime, but when crime has once been committed let it be passed upon and dealt with ag i devervea Rewards gud punish- ments—tho first justly distributed, tho latter justly administered—are at the foundation of all healthy social progress. The First Naval Battle of the Revo- lation. ‘That the Revolution, whoso early events the American people are now commemorating, was not the result of hasty anger, kindled by the blood shed at Lexington and Concord, but was brought about by a universal spirit of re- sistance to a long series of unjust interferences with colonial liberties on the part of the British throne, even the imperfect history of those times establishes, Freedom seemed to have a simultancous growth in the thirteen colonies from Maine to Georgia, and the Revo- lution was not the result of consultation be- tween the leaders, but of the inspiration of the people of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Mecklenburg, Concord and Lexington. As these events quickly occurred the col- onies became aroused and the skir- mishes of the year 1775 precipitated and compelled the Declaration of Independence in 1776, An illustration of this is furnished by the first naval batile of the Revolution, which was celebrated yesterday with appro- priate ceremonies at Machias, Me. When this battle was fought Machias was but a set- tlement of twelve years, hidden in the pine forests of an almost unknown land. Its people were few and poor, but they were resolved to be free. It was a colony from Massachusetts, and tho inhabitants inherited the stern, uncompromising spirit of that pio- neer State, to which all America owes so much of intellect and energy. The people of Machias were brought into the preliminary rebellion against Great Britain by almost an accident. They had raised a liberty pole as a protest against certain exactions, and were ordered by Captain Moor, of the British cutter Mar- garetta, to take it down. Instead of yielding, Captain Benjamin Foster, aided by Colonel Jeremiah O'Brien and other colonial heroes, resolved to take down the Margaretta. The expedition was hastily organized, but i was bravely executed. Colonel O’Brien pursued the British cutter, boarded her, and was left alone on her deck, jumping into the water and escaping to his own sloop. The Mar- garetta was finally captured, her captain mor- tally wounded and the prize brought trium- phantly to the town. Thestory, as it is related by Mr. George F. Talbot, reads like a romance, and, as usual in romances, fictitious or real, women play an important part in the action. The names of Hannah and Rebecca Weston, two young girls who brought forty pounds of powder ten miles through the wilderness for the use of O'Brien and his daring comrades, have long been hidden in antiquérian darkness, but in a few days tbis publication will make them famous throughout the country. They have waited a century for their reward, but it has come at last. The battle of the Margaretta and the Unity prefigured the glories afterward achieved by the little but gallant American navy, and the eloquent oration of Mr. Talbot will be read everywhere with the extreme interest which is naturally attached to the events im which the American Revolution was founded. At this time the history of the contest is to be rewritten; it was told before, but now it has an audience of forty millions who treasure every heroic deed, every patriotic character, as wo reverently brush away the dust of a hundred years from the immemorial past. Justice in Brooklyn, The Beecher trial will soon be over, unless unforseen circumstances prolong it. Until the verdict of the jury is rendered it is proper that any comments upon the evidence or the management of the case should be reserved, but there is one feature appealing to our sense of public decency and our respect for justice which demands a severe comment. We refer to the attempts that have been made by the indiscreet partisans of Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tiston to convert the Court House of Brooklyn into a Tammany Hall convention. On one side we had what was called the Plymouth church crowd, whose duty it was to surround the clergyman and stimulate the laywers. We had flowers, “spontaneous” levees, the daily coming and going of Mr. Beecher becoming a triumphal procession. During the speeches of Judge Porter and Mr, Evarts, the friends of Mr. Beecher, these in- discreet partisans, took occasion to show their friendship by bursts of applause. There was a great deal of indiguation about this on the part of the friends of Mr. Tilton, and | we were called upon to look at this abandoned, lonely, heartbroken man in the isolation of the desolate court room, without friends or companions or sympathy and hounded by Piymouth church. This has been changed now that Mr. Beach is addressing the jury. We have the Plymouth church tactics applied by Mr. Tilton’s friends. The other day when Mr. Beach entered the court room he was greeted with ‘‘a round of applause;"’ the same was repeated at the next session; | Mr. Fullerton, who accompanied Mr. Beach, was similarly greeted, and during the speech of Mr. Beach applause has been so frequent that the Judge on two or three occasions has been compelled to rebuke indignantly the un- seemly and indecent manifestation. We will not question who is right or who is wrong im this business, and no doubt the | fault is largely with the friends of Mr. Beecher, who have from the beginning | endeavored to make the trial more of a demonstration of public approval of their pastor than a cold, careful scrutiny. But what are we to think of justice when it is per- mitted to the lawyers on either side of a caso | to pack the court room with partisans whose duty it is to cheer? How can a/ jury be expected to decide calmly upon | the evidence when they are surrounded by a shouting multitude of retainers, paid o7 | coaxed to attend the court room and cheez on their champions? We can understzad how justice could be seriously injured oy proceed- ings of this kind. Let us srppose, and it is | quite possible, that a mex be on trial for an alleged offence ; that ae lies under the ban of , popular resentmext at the time, and that this | resentment ia allowed to find expression in the court zoom. How could the jury caimly de- cide upon his innocence or guilt ? These proceedings in Brooklyn recall to our minds many of the trials of the French Revo- lution, when the laboring men snd women assembled in the court and shook their fists at the judge and jury when tho proceedings did not suit them. Judge Neilson bas won many golden opinions by his behavior ducing this —_——— trial, but he could add more largely to his fame by taking judicial cognizance of this un- seomly attempt to overawe justice. Pulpit Topics To-Day- Among the Methodists this is technically known as “Children’s Day,” on which the Sunday schools make donations and subser p- tions toward the education of young persons of both sexes for missionary work and ot students for the ministry. Special services will therefore be held in most ofthe Methodist Episcopal churches throughout the country to-day, Mr ‘Thomas will show the absurdity of giving promises instead of pounds in this direction. It is like giving stones instead of bread to the hungry, and the children who are thus called upon to give of their pecuniary ability in this cause are also called upon to remember their Creator in the days of their youth, Mr, King will speak moro directly in his church to young men, and Mr. Hepworth will give his followers some suggestions about the next world, as well as a Bible exposition of “the spirit of God," or the Holy Ghost, against whom to sin hath no forgiveness, as Mr. Lightbourn will explain; and this explana- tion will be preceded by an exposition and definition of heart purity. Mr. Lloyd will identify the living Redoomer and the thorn- crowned King as one whom ho will exalt abova all others, while Mr. Ganso presents tho same Christ as the Word of God. The faith of Abraham has stood for ages as the pattern for mankind, and as such it will be presented to-day by Mr. Saunders, who also will show his people that Protestantism, and not Catholicism, is the pattern for Ameri- can institutions, Mr. Willis will put prayer over against naturalism, and demonstrate the power of the one and the inability of the other to restore a ruined and great king or an humble peasant, And Dr. Porteous will have some characteristic things to say about the providences of God in accidents by land and sea, as well as about modern Daniels and their lions’ dens. There is no explanation of accidents ayd misfortunes half so easy as ta throw them over on God or the devil; but investigations are apt to bring in other and more tangible parties as guilty of neglect or crime. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘They expect the United States squadron at Kiel this month. Mr, Alexander R. Shepherd (the Boss) 1s #o- journing at the Windsor Hotel. Rear Admiral Augustus L, Case, United States Navy, 1s residing at the Giisey Hot Major George W. Schofield, United States Army, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. In Scotland they fancy they would be very fond of the Pope tf he would turn Presbyterian. The Duchess d’Otrante, wile of Fouché, Napo- leon’s Chief of Poltce, has just died in Paris. Sir Moses Monteflore, aged ninety-one, is about to make a journey from Lvndon to Palestine, sSefior Benjamin Vicuna MacKenna stands a good chance of being elected next President of Obui. They caught a crab in Australia lately which ate eleven pounds of beefsteak in three minutes. Mr. de Pestel, Minister for the Netuerlands at Washington, bas apartments at the Albemarle Hotel, Mr. Gladstone contradicts the announcement that he is writing an article on the Court of Queea Victoria. mr. Algernon Sartoris, the President’s son-in- law, arrived frem Washington yesterday at the Westmoreland Hotel, ‘dhe Marquis and Marquise de Bassano, of France, returned to this city yesterday irom Canada and are at the Brovoort House, Disraeli says he will be bappy if he caf see the return of the Arctic expedition because he “should like to see that point setticd.”’ ‘There is a boa constrictor at Havre, on his way to the Garden of Plants, which takes a sheep at @ meal, It is twenty-four feet long. Mr, Amédée Van den Nest, Secretary of the Bei- gian Legation at Washington, has taken up bis residence at the Albemarle Hote. Acable telegram from Berlin, dated vesterday,. 12th inst., amnounces that Cari Schura has leit that city for the southern part of Germany, Mr. Beecher thinks tt isa ‘a business “to make religion radiant,” and bis position in the trial indicates that be bas done bis share in thas way. To see how many sturdy tramps annoutes them- selves as ready to kill Bismarck for money is amusing at this distance, but Bismarck does adt, apparently, enjoy It. Baroness Burdett Coutts says that one Parisian milliner uses 40,000 humming birds every season, and she fears the species will become extines, What is the use of a baroness Uf sue cannot change the fashion ? One of Tennyson’s friends qnoted one of Tenny- son's lines, tn poet's presence, as bappy in- stance of the natural expression of a spontaneous tnoughi, and the poct said, “1 smoked a dozen cigars over that line." The Lord Chancellor of Engiand, a short time since, said of Moody:—“The simplicity of that man’s preaching, tho clesr manner in which he sets jorth salvation by Carist, is to me the most striking and the mos: delightful thing I ever knew in my life.""—Court Journal, Kita Sbira Kava is the name of the Japanese prince who has entered @ grenadier regiment of the Prussian Gaara, He first went to Europe two years ago, and then spoke no janguage but his own; but now speaks with some fluency French, German and Baglish. ‘We are specially informed trom Soath America, ‘that Don Adolfo Ibaiiez, recently named Minister from Chili to the United States, has left Valparaiso, via the Straits, for New Yorks and Washington, Mr. Thafiez is a distinguished diplomat, and has done his country gond service as Minister to Pera and Secretary of Foreign Affairs, How to make glas# that is not brittie, recently discovered for the second time, was discoverea for the first time when TWerivs was Roman Em- as recorded by Pliny; but Tiberius fearea vention would deprive gold and silver of and, having learned that tne inventor le depository of the secret, he caused of King Dago- bert the Abbé Denis found ahen’s nest fail of eggs. They had ten there 1,20) years, hidden from the light and the air and the changes ot temperature, and tne hen herself had, perhaps, barely escaped when the falling wails sealed her eggs hermetically for future times, Abbé Demis put threo eggs ander a , and they were batched. The Long Branch. Surf (s the vite Of a neatly peated sheet, gotten up by Messrs. Morrissey & anderson, with especial reference to the gather- ine and ventilation of Long Branch fashionabie p. In the inival number the editor, Mr. 0. a, ted Into i's columns, ana, before us, it may be safely predicted that the sury will be true to its name and continue to furnish ite | readers with sparkling jeu de sprays. There seems to be but one peasant in Germany whose head is thoroughly level. At the time of the Czxar's visit @ great panic Was created in the coun- tury by the repors that the German Kmperor had sold him idren at two thalera a head, wich which to people Russia, and that the children were to be taken by the Ozar from the schools. it ia thought the report was spread by the priest hood to induce the country people to keep tneit chlidrem away from the schools, It had that effect very generally, but one sound old fetlow said to his boys, “Go to the school without fear; oF Emperor will take ruzat good care got to sell tutare soldiers,”