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M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Hrnap along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hrnato office as early as possible. From our reports this morni ave that the weather to-day w clear or partly ' cloudy. Persons going out of f towen for the sun have the daily and Sundoy Hymaxp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Tue Harvey Sunvey.—The experiences of the party on their journey from Colorado City to Canyou City are pleasantly described in our correspondence to-day. a the probabilities Ube warner, and wer con How Mz. Twrep spent what was possibly his last Sunday ia prison is told 1m our reports elsewhere. The near prospect of liberty should have made him dev but upon that point we have no particu ar i infe rmation. Faturn Tom Bune, the great preacher, is in very poor health, and our Dublin corre- epondent sxys that his friends fear tor the re- sult of his illness. Whil his eloquence and manly he was in many adr Ts, who will b sorrow. Asornrn Br Mvcrpze. — Murders have of late unfortunately ceased to be noveltics in Brooklyn, and to-day we are obliged to relate another terrible story of jealousy, frenzy and cri T deliberate, and was followed t of the unhappy man to kill him murder was Tom ALurN has ret retired trom the prize ring. It would have been better had be never en- tered it. His reasons for abandoning the dis- gracoful business are sound, and though he has a good reputation for strength the best blow he ever struck in his life was that he has just dealt at the ring. Rarm Transrr has been advanced to some extent by the completion of the Fourth av- enue improvement. The first train over the new road left the Grand Central Depot last | night, and reached Mott Haven in a quarter of an hour. Now let the Elevated Railroad connect with the Grand Central Depot. Poor Many Pomrnoy.—A monument to the memory of this unhappy girl, whose story has pained thousands of hearts, is to be erected in Jersey Ci The ladies of that city are col- lecting subscriptions for that purpose, and the monument will be dedicated on the anniver- sary of the death of Mary Pomeroy in Angust. ‘There is another monument in Jersey City to her memory, which is not so appropriate, and that is the Church of the Scandal, where Mr. Glendenning still continaes to preach in de- fiance of society and of the will of his sect. Tor Tamex Poucemes of the Nineteenth ward who yesterday attacked the heights of “@ebastopol,” where a gang of roughs and highwaymen had their citadel, deserve the thanks of tle whole community for their courage and determination. Unfortunately but | one of the rowdies was shot in the affray, for they all richiy deserved that fute. brave officer who was wounded, McEveety, will have the satisfaction of knowing thmt alt good citizens applaud his manly conduct and that of his comrades. When we find a good policeman it isa pleasure to render him the tall credit he has earned, BO- | toga | ‘The | NEW YORK HE The Bia r of the Ohio Democrats We do not say that the greenback inflation | platform is a blunder with referonce to this | year's State election, for we are not quite suro | that itis, It is perhaps the best card the Ohio | democrats could have played for immediate | success in that State. It not only expresses | the real views of a large majority of the party | in Ohio, but the real views of quite a propor- tion of the Ohio republicans, as is proved by | the timid and halting language of the republi- | can platform, which went just far enough to | commit the party to specie without freeing it | from anair of indecision. The only reason } why the Republican Convention was so tender- footed on this question was its knowledge that | the average sentiment of the State leaned to- | ward inflation, ‘The democratic demagogues saw this paltry advantage and have tried to | make the most of it. They expect to inveigle | the republican inflationists into their ranks, and if the democratic party con- templated no future beyond carrying Ohio this year this appeal to infla- | tionist prejudices would deserve the praise ot dexterity, or, rather, of low political eun- ‘ning. But even in this view it may prove a mistake, Where is Senater Thurman to stand in such a contest? He is not only the ablest man but the most effective stump speaker in | Ohio. What weight can he have ina can- vaas in which he cannot speak without bely- ing his e¢nvictions if he supports the platform ot his party? Is a canvass wisely planned which condemns Thurman to silence or neu- tralizes his influence if he speaks? This stu- pid platform also precludes assistance from eminent Eastern democrats, who will not stultify themselves and destroy their standing at home by taking the stump in Ohio. Mr. Cox, for example, who has great personal popularity in his old State and is a very tak” ing speaker, would have stumped the Siate with abounding zeal in support of a sound platform; but he will be a distant spectator of the contest; and the same is true of every Eastern democrat who has any character or popularity at home. Neither Bayard, nor | Kerr, nor Kernan, ror Seymour, nor Eaton can go to Ohio and lend a helping hand ina canvass which humiliates Thurman and conflicts with their own opinions, All the best and soundest minds of the party will pe | anxious to wash their hands of the Ohio her- esy; while the conditions of this canvass are | such that Blaine and Wilson and Coukling, and all the best republican speakers of the East, can support their partyin Ohio. The Ohio democrats will be teft to fight their bat- tle without assistance from the strong men of their party in the Eastern States, or even from their own Senator Thurman. ‘The political fossil whom they have renom- inated for Governor will, of course, exert his stentorian lungs in defence of the platform to which his acceptance binds him. He has been wheedled with flattery, and is said to have grown jealous of Mr. Thurman, his | | nephew, being vain enough to try for the Presidential nomination himself. He likes | the platform because he thinks it extinguishes | the chances of Thurman. It certainly will extinguish them, let the election go as it may. The Eastern democrats will not accept a can- | didate who halted and kept silent when his party was about to perpetrate stupendous a blunder, and if the Westera democrats should sueceed in Ohio and con- trol the Presidential nomination they will 80 not take upaman who timidly repudiates | their views. As for Allen’s candidacy, the | idea of it is ridiculous. Pendleton's friends lave made him their dupe and too! asa means of killing off Thurman. This preposterous platform threatens ruin to the fairest hopes of the democratic party, a ruin which will be all the more certain to come if the inflationists carry the State. In that case the Democratic to the high tariff zealots of Pennsylvania, while this State held an election in October, just in advance of the Presidential contest. There is no State in the Union where the triumph of inflation wouid be so mischievous asin Ohio, now that Ohio has become the pivot of our Presidential elections. As it used to be said, that ‘as Pennsylvania goes so goes the Union,” so it will be hereafter said, “As Ohio goes, so goes the Union”’ The party that carries this great State in October in Presidential years will Le filled with erultant confidence, because the pioneer victory will be thought to disclose the set of the political tide and to furnish a ure augury of the coming result, which ts shadow before.” Obio is therefore the State in which financial heresy is most greatly to be deplored. If the inflationisis carry the State this year the Democratic National Convention will not dare to incur. the risk of losing it next year in the prelimi- vary skirmish, which will go so far to decide the fortune of the general battle. Had it been one of the States which hold elections in November that indorsed inflation the conse- quences would not be so portentous. As Pennsylvania has always been the key- stone of protection so Ohio bids fair to be the fulerum of inflation, and to command the undue deference paid to a State which is in o position to advertise in advance the result of our Presidential elections. The Ohio demo- | erats have made the colossal blunder of p Sepsiving their party at large of its most | efficient political issue. ts This blunder is plain enough now to intel- ligent democrats, but it will be made plainer to the men who forced the eighth article into the platform, when the canvass actively be- gins in September. These ‘architects of rain” will then behold how rapidly the build- ing they have planned will rise in its deformity. They will learn that twenty politic: virtues can be marred by | one political sin, and that the un- compromising declaration which the Con- vention made in favor of the one term prin- ciple for the Presidency is neutralized by its open advocacy of inflation. When the canvass begins the aid the Ohio democrats will need from other States is certain to be in great part withheld. They have either gagged Thurman or compelled him to speak with an uncertain sound. ened off all democrats who do not believe in- flation to be the basis of prosperity from taking personal part in a campaign which has for E end the triumph of that heresy. Such leaders as these cannot expose themselves to the suspicion of assisting in a victory for the very principle which at home they oppose as } the greatest danger with which the business of the freer is threatened. The Ohio demo- crats will lose in the absence of such men, and in their tacit condemnation of the inflation plank, more than they will gain by an appeal to tha inflationists of the republican party. Even Thurman, under this insult, may feel that his duty to himself requires him to remain o modera Achilles in his teut. ‘The effect of this blunder upon the canvass will be, therefore, to paralyze it. It does not insure transitory success even in Ohio for the democrats, while it threatens with permanent defeat the national party itself, The Baccalaureate Sermons. We print this morning the baccalaureate sermons of President Smith, of Dartmouth ; President Campbell, of Rutgers; President McCaulay, of Dickinson, and President Ray- mond, of Vassar. ‘These discourses thus grouped make one of the most interesting chapters presented in a newspaper in @ long time. The baccalaureate sermon is one of the few marks that are lett of the sectarian character of our colleges, and yet it would be difficult to determine from any one of them the particular Church to which its author be- longs. Though Dr. Smith preached on the “Breadth of the Commandment of God," his disccurse was altogether free from broad Church’ ideas and was merely the conservative and orthodox expression of the beliets of all Protestantism. The same thing is true of all the others. President McCaulay was not Methodist and President Campbell was not Dutch Reformed. This liberal spirit is some- thing over which we ought to felicitate our- selves, since the oneness of the Christian spirit of these annual addresses goes far to make our colleges free from mere narrow sec- tarianism. Many of our most eminent insti- tutions of learning were founded only as exponents of some religious denomination and to teach some particular dogma. When the sermons, which were the expression of this purpose, become so much alike as to make it impossible to discover the sect in the dis- course they are proof not only of a generous Christian spirit but of a culture which will not trammel itself by narrow bigotry. The baccalaureate sermon is one of the quaint inheritances of the early foundations of our higher institutions of learning, but since they are no longer expressive of mere sectarianism we hope they will grow in interest and im- portance from year to year. It is for this rea- son we give them the importauce they deserve by surrendering a large part of our space this morning to such of them as were delivered at the different colleges yesterday. Consolidation of the French Republic. The latest news from Paris, as written by our correspondents, shows the difficulties under which France now labors in the process of consolidating the Republic. The merit of this French Republic is that it has grown slowly, steadil®, surely—we might say almost geologically. The mistakes of the old repub- licans have been avoided. Their crimes have become lessons. The spirit of Lafayette has | taken the place of that of Robespierre. It is seen that a new republic should not begin with the guillotine. The modern French politi- cians have learned that liberty cannot be born in aday—that it must reach the perfection of true democracy by natural processes. The danger which republicanism in France must avoid is the anarchy of the Commune and the despotism of the Empire. On one side isa wild, unreasoning, socialist influence, with mad notions about religion and property and the rights of man, believing that liberty is only a form of chaos, On the other side is a mighty military influence, stimulated by the splendor of a great name, organized, disciplined, with skilled leaders in 4 | its councils, These are the two enemies National Convention will trim next year to | the inflationists of Ohio as it always trimmed | They have fright. | which the Republic bas to fear—the Com- mune, which is anarchy, the Empire which is despotism. The legend of Napoleon is giving place to the legend ot liberty—or as we should say the faith of democracy. ‘Divine rights,"’ and the “grace of God,” as the warrants for a throne have become as obsolete as the feudal tenure or the ordeal of fire. Henry V. has about as much chance of becoming the firmly seated ruler of modern France as Joan of Arc would have in leading the French peasants against the veterans of Moltke, The Republic grows every day—in wis- dom, moderation, strength. The Republic means peace to France and to Europe. It is the only solution of this grave problem which now distresses civilization by keeping the great civilized nations of the world under arms, and ready at a pistol shot to deluge Europe with blood. The Logie of Strikes. The want of success which has attended the strike of the Pennsylvania miners does not seem to have taught them the folly of suspending work when the issue involved is of no very great moment. Under certain con- ditions, no doubt, the workingman, by a refusal to labor, may compel the capitalist to accede to his terms. But this favorable con- dition of the labor market seldom exists, and nine times out of ten it would be wiser for the working classes to submit to some reduc- tion than to engage in a struggle in which even success would not repay them for the sacrifices its attainment necessarily involves. Ata time when the finaneial condition of this | country was certainly not very reassuring and there existed a general stagnation of trade the miners of the Pennsylvania coal regions de- cided on resisting a reduction of wages by a general strike. At the same momeut there were hundreds of thousands of men in the country who would willingly have gone to work for twenty-five per cent of what the miners refused to accept, and who would have esteemed themselves lucky in procuring em- ployment at any rate that would have gnaran- teed them and their families from starvation. the mine owners found they could not profit- ably employ them at the old rate. Tho struggle inaugurated so rashly has now goneon | for many months, and im the end the work. ingmen are obliged to submit. By their want of common sense they have embittered their relations with their employers and have wasted the savings of many years of industry. Even if success had crowned their efforts it would take years to replace the loss incurred in sustaining their strike during the past few months, If, before entering upon these profit- less contests, the workingmen would calmly RALD, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1875.—TRIPLE hes, they would soon perceive the folly of the course which they are’ so frequently in- duced to adopt by the heedless rhe'oric of rash and unwise leaders, Labor strikes may injure capitalists, but it is only the working- men that they rnin. The Heraid’s Special Sunday Train. ‘The announcement in the Hzraup of yester- day that during the season beginning with July 4 the New York Herarp would run a special train every Sunday morning, leaving at half-past two, reaching Sara- toga at nine o'clock in the morning and Niagara Falls at a quarter to two in the after- noon, will be read with interest. It is not only an illustration of the tendency of modern journalism and the responsibility imposed upon a newspaper which proposes to keep pace with the progress of the time, but a direct advantage to our travelling citizens, The special purpose of this train is to deliver the Herarp at as early an hour as possible at all places within the range of direct travel through New York State. We have made arrangements to make such connections with the trains going West from Niagara Falls as will permit us to servo the Heraup in all the Western cities twenty-four hours earlier than at the present time. The effect of this arrangement will be that visitors and residents at West Point, the Catskills and all the towns and villages between New York and Albany will be supplied with the Hxraup before break- fast. Saratoga, Richfield and Sharon Springs and all towns and cities on the line of the New York Central will receive the Hera in the early forenoon. At the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls, where the Hrray’s special train arrives at a quarter to two o'clock, arrangements have been made to connect with the Great Western Railway, of Canada, for St. Catherines, Hamilton, Toronto and all points north. The metropolitan, we may almost say cos- mopolitan, character of modern journalism is illustrated in the highest degree by enter- prises of this character. They are imposed upon all representative and independent journals. It was the Heratp that some years ago started the special train to Philadelphia which has resulted in the service tothe people of that city of the New York journals at breakfast. This custom was continued on other lines, and although looked upon as a startling and novel experiment, scarce justi- fying the expense and of no value except as an advertisement, it was very soon seen to be a necessity of the growth of journal- ism, just as it has become necessary for us to introduce stereotyping and fast presses, to extend our correspondent system, to gradually transfer all news communications from the mail to the telegraph, which covers the whole world as it were with communicat- ing lines of inquiry and thought as minute snd widely spread as the nerves in the human frame. This example was followed by the English press, Last year we had enthusiastic accounts of the enterprise of the London newspapers in sending special early trains from London to the great towns of the north and west. The London Times began the ex- periment. It was so successful that its rivals were compelled to combine and run an opposition train. Then came the Eng- lish system of special telegraph wires, also an imitation of the Henaxn's system which has for along time been in use and which unites our home office with all of its outlying branches. But this new enterprise on the part of the Heratp is a widening of the influence of journalism. It is a step toward national supremacy, which has always been the aim of this journal and which it has been its good fortune toattain. We allude to it now not in any spirit of self-congratulation, but as marking another point in the growth of American journalism, showing a steady march toward that supreme power which is possible to the independent press in a land of liberty, and making it in time a cardinal ele- ment of freedom and constitutional govern- ment. Are Americans Irreligious? The charge that the American nation is not essentially devout has been frequently made, but has never been sustained. It was Sir Thornbury Holt, we believe, who remarked in his entertaining volume of travels, en- titled “Buffalo Hanting in the Far West,” that the American people were the most ir- religious he bad ever met, not even excepting | the gypsies. This opinion of a man so dis- | tinguished for his keen perceptions and im- partiality no doubt has had much weight, particularly with his own countrymen. It has strengthened the belief of many intelli- gent Englishmen that Messrs. Moody and Sankey, however successful in England, would be failures at home, and that for that reason they stay away from it. But while we concede to Sir Thornbury Holt perfect sincerity in making this startling charge, ond also admit that as the grandnephew of the Dean of West- minster he had himself enjoyed religious culture, and was therefore a qualified judge, still it must be pleaded in defence of Ameri- can piety that he had not a thorough knowl- edge of the facts. When he arrived in this country his earliest impressions were derived from New York, and nearly all of the two months he passed in this city were devoted to the study of Wall street and the railroad sys- tem which has its centre here. The Beecher scandal had just begun then, and Mr. Tilton’s statement was the universal theme. Tho revival which promised to sweep over Brook- lyn with the irresistible force of a tempest bad been checked by this publication, and though Mr. Beecher’s reply did much to restore that religious movement, still Sir Thornbury had received a profound im- pression. During this period also opéra bouffe | was the most popular of metropolitan amure- Yet under such conditions the workmen of a large district voluntarily struck work because | ments, and Mr. Boucicault had not yet begun his wonderful success at Wallack’s. Thus all things seemed to conspire to make an un- happy effect upon Sir Thornbury. It must also be remembered that, while he spent two months here and in Brooklyn, remained for | considerable periods in Washington, Chicago and St, Louis, and was obliged to stay all night in Albany, by an accident on the road, he was in Boston hardly one week and did not visit Philadelphia at all. Thus two of the most religious cities in the United States were almost wholly unknown to Sir Thornbury Holt, As if to add to this unfortunate chapter of deprivations he was received by count the anst ta thamealves and their fami- | Uoneresa in the moat bosvitable way, freely SHEET. Accepting the privilege of the floor of the House, and dining, during his stay in the na- tional capital, with nearly all of the republican Senators and all of the Cabinet officers. Mayor Wickham he had never met, while Comp- troller Green showed him the most grateful courtesy. It was upon experience such as this that Sir Thornbury Holt founded his memorable assertion that the Americans are the most irreligious people in the world, and it is plain that for the unconscious error he is not so much to blame as others, When he left St. Louis for the Plains he fell in with the buffaloes, and by them, of course, his erroneous views were but slightly modified. Had he remained a year among the buffaloes he might have gradually come to hold better Opinions of the people; but this was, unfortu- nately, impossible, and, to crown the fatal mis- take, he returned to England by the way of San Francisco, The sermons wo print to-day were, of course, never read by this eminent traveller, and yet they are a complete answer to his fal- lacious theory. It may be considered almost an axiom that the intellect and fervor of religious teaching proves the appreciation and sincerity of congregations. The pulpit of the metropolis can only be sustained by a religious feeling of corresponding greatness. ‘The ped- estal must be strong to uphold the statuo. ‘The admirable discourse of Dr. Robinson on activity in religion; the eloquent analysis which Mr, Hepworth made of true Christian zeal; Mr. Frothingham’s protest against the various ways in which religious sentiment is wasted on useless objects ; the moral drawn by Mr. Davis from the beautiful story of David ; the description of Paul's preaching by Mr. Beecher—thess and other sermons are illustrative of the truth that with all their faulis the Americans are a religious people, and that it is a grave mistake to judge them from superficial examination. The Ravages a of the Potato the Remedy. ‘That formidable scourge of agriculture, the Colorado beetle, whose native habitat is the region at the base of the Rocky Mountains, bas made its way eastward to the Atlantic coast and threatens the potato crop of all New Jersey and other extensive districts. ‘It is only ten years since this noxious insect first crossed the Mississippi, and the rapid spread and multiplication of its devouring progeny make it a national calamity. It has been tound that these pests can be exterminated by poison, and Paris green (a mixture of arsenite and acetate of copper) is the cheapest and most easily applied poison adapted to this use. But fears have been raised that the poi- son which kills the grubs of the beetle may enter into the composition of the plant, making the remedy worse thantheevil This subject is so important and requires such im- mediate action if this year’s potato crop is to be saved that the Herarp has taken pains to procnre such correctand authentic informa- tion as may be safely accepted for their guid- | ance by the suffering agriculturists. We print to-day a most timely and instruc- tive letter from Professor McMurtrie, of the National Department of Agriculture at Wash- ington. He is reputed to be the most thor- oughly and minutely informed scientific man in the country on the subject which he dis- cusses in our columns with so much clearness of statement and fulness of detail. Not the least important of the information which Professor McMurtrie communicates is the account of his own original researches and experiments. Since the eastward progress of the Colorado beetle last year he has been en- gaged in constant experiments with a view to ascertain the effect of mineral poisons, and particularly those containing arsenic, on the health of plants. He has also made himself thoroughly acquainted with the results of the most recent investigations in Great Britain, | France and Germany ; but his own diversi- fied and decisive experiments are of more | value, as bearing on the immediate problem, than those of all the other inquirers to- | gether. In relation to Paris green Professor McMurtrie has found that the intermixtare of this poison with the soil in large quanti- ties destroys vegetable growih, but that in the small quantities requisite for destroying insects it docs not interfere with or impede | itat all But there is a mora important question than the destraction of the plant. It | would only multiply the mischiof to kill the | grubs and at the same time poison the food of man. Upon this great point Professor McMurtrie’s decisive and manifold exper- iments should allay all fears, In the plants that wore killed, in the plants that were stunted, and in the plants which grew to full perfection, with the varying amounts of Paris green mingled with the soil of his pots, the most rigorous chemical analysis could detect no trace of arsenic in the composition of the | plant itself, | Whether little of this poison or much of it exists in the soil nono of it Eeetle enters into the structure of the veg- etable, The danger of its excessive use is not danger to human life but to the growth or health of the plant, But the quantity of Paris green necessary for. destroying the Colorado beetles is too small to have any perceptible effect on the growth of crops. It is possible that if potatoes were planted in the same field for a series of years with a constant necessity for the application of the poison the capacity of the soil for crops might be destroyed ; but the system of | rotation, so valuable in other respects, would | obviate this danger. It is a great satisfaction to be assured on competent scientific authority | that there is no peril to human life in the freest application of this poison to the soil, and no detriment to vegetation itself from the | quantity needed to kill the beetles. We sug- gest to the agricultural journals that they cannot render more useful service than by | copying Professor McMurtrie’s letter to the Heranp., The substance of it will also appear in the monthly report of the Department of Agriculture, whose publication we anticipate. Tow Amentcan Ririemun attended St. Pat- rick’s Cathedral yesterday by invitation of the Lord Mayor, and dined with him in the evening. The censure of the bad taste dis- played by Canon Keeper in delivering o | eulogy of monarchy and the Established Church, is, we think, deserved, A simple moral lesson inculcating the importance of having only good aims in life might have | been more appropriate to the wants of his Recover the Plunder, The energy manifested by the lawyers en- gaged in the prosecution of the new ‘Ring™ suits, commenced under the laws passed in the recent legislative session, holds out good promise that the money stolen from the oity may be recovered at last. ‘But the law has its uncertainties. In the case of the attachments against the property of Tweed, the greatest offender, we already find one valuable piece of real estate relieved from the effects of the tis pendens by the Court, on the proof that it was purchased by Fernando Wood of a third party and that ‘f'weed has no lien on the property. So far as the people, who are tho plaintifls in these cases, are yet advised, tho evidence to sustain the attachment on the Sweeny property comes only from a con- victed felon who has been released from the State Prison on the pledge that be should become a witness for the State, and who no doubt desires to make some substan- tial return for his pardon, There may be other proof of Sweeny’s complicity in the ‘Tweed and Ingersoll robberies, or the con- tinued absence of the ex-Chamberlain may bo accepted as corroborative evidence of his guilt. Still, as we have said, the law is uncer- tain, and much remains to be accomplished before we can expect any return of money into the city treasury from these suits, notwith- standing the vigor and ability with which they are prosecuted. There can, however, be no difficulty, and there need be no delay, in securing tho share of the plunder that {fell to the lot of Ingersoll and Garvey. Ingersoll confesses in his recent affidavit that he voluntarily sought to rob the city by courting interviews with Tweed and the late James Watson for that par- pose; that he conspired with those parties and others to carry out his felonious purpose; that he signed fictitious names to fraudulent bills; that he forged the firm name of Inger- soll, Watson & Co, to fraudulent warrants, and that as a public officer, a Court House Commissioner, he bad counselled and laid down a system of fraudulent action to be pursued by the Commission. Andrew J. Garvey confesses to have been guilty of like conspiracies, robberies and for- geries. Both these men have large amounts of real estate in their possession, the proceeds of these crimes, and they can offer no defence against suits of recovery. Their property should beat once seized by the plundered city, Itis true they have turned informers against their former accomplices, but that is no reason why they shouldbe allowed to re- tain their share of the stolen money. If a bank robber or a burglar should be accepted as State's evidence against his accomplices he would, of course, escape the penalty imposed upon his crime by the law, but he would not be suffered to retain his share of the plunder. The owner of the property would still have a right to get back his own. So the people, who have been robbed by the Ring conspira- tors, haye a right to get back the money stolen from their treasury, and neither Gov- | ernor Tilden nor any other authority can de- prive them of that right or give the robbers the privilege of retaining any portion of the plunder. They can take tho felon’s stripes off Ingersoll’s back, as they have done, and can forego the criminal punishment of Gar- vey; but they cannot say to them ‘you may retain possession of the money that by con- spiracy, fraud and forgery you have stolen from the taxpayers of New York.’’ The Swee- ny, Tweed, Connolly and other suits should be pressed with all possible vigor; but at the | same time it strikes us that the speediest way of recovering a portion of the money stoleu from the city would be to take it out of the pockets of the thieves who have acknowledged their guilt and confessed to the possession of their share of the plunder. Rerorm at Niacara Fatrs.—In the slow march of time it is said that the Niagara Falls will be destroyed, and the changes which are even now noted confirm the theory. One of the correspondents of the Henaup to-day gives a very interesting account of these al- terations in the Horseshoe Fall, which | are principally observed on the Ameri- ean side, But there is another evil which throatened to destroy Niagara asa placa of popular resort—namely, the extortion prac- | tised by its hackmen and those who exhibit its marvels. We are glad to learn that the authorities on both sides of the river have at last combined to put a stop to the notorious abuses to which visitors have been subjected. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The Prince of Wales has abandoned billiards and cards, George Washington i» Tennessco’s Commissionrr to the Centennial. Secretary Beiknap is going to the Yosemite tbe latter part of Jaly. General Alfred H. Terry, U, S. A., was in Hart. ford, Conn., yesterday. General Sherman ieit this city last evening for his headquarters in St. Louis, General James A. Garfield is sfraid the Uhinese | will raim American cheap labor, Talleyrand slept two boars a day. nine and isu’t much of @ diplomas, Commander George P. Ryan, United States Navy, is quartered at.the Hoffman House, Chicago insists that 90,000 of her citizens are out of work, A good way to appear lie a big city. Mr. Robert M. Wallace, United States Marshal for South Carolina, is at the Grand Central Hotel, Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe, United States Army, is residing at the Fifth avenue Hotel, A paper Metropolis of the Pacific’ speaks of “Cotter’s beautiiul poem of ‘Saruraay Night.” General Butier has started aatocking manufae- tory, and is proud because he delongs toa hose company. A young lady of New Orleans has committed icide because General Pail Sheridan married another girl. Senator Frelinghuysen is Senator Sargent’s prophesied candidate of the republican party jor tue Presidency. Captain Eade’s jetties at Mew Orleans will noid acity. Sosays prophecy, which delights in the idea of an American Venice. ry Bristow arrived in this city yesterday from Washington, and took up nls resi- dence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Senator Sharomy @& Nevada, owne real estate tn San Francisco to the amount of $7,000,000, Of this sum $3,250,000 is invested in the Palace Hote, Senator Cameron’s house is 107 years old, and has an immense apricot tree by ita aide: but the Senator is not often found up that tree—aur any ovner. . Mr. Swinburne’s critical writings, trom the Port. négitly Review, bave veen collected unger tre title of “Essays and Studies.” They are marked by equal grace of style aud buldaess of opiaion. The memoirs of Chancellor Pasquier, wao died in 1862 at the age of ninety-five, promise to be highly interesting. Me held ofjce under ail the Grant sleeps guests; but the banquet iu the evening no doubt compensated for the aarman. French eGtuee” od Was acquaimted with all 2 Of ois ime, : 4 en