The New York Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1875, Page 6

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The horse car com- ranies would have defeated the bill in the Legislature had they been able ; but the pub- | he sentiment of the city had been so aroused | on the subject and its pressure brought to bear with such resolute urgency that the horse car companies reserved their money and their strategy for a new field of opera- tions. We may be sure of two things—first, | that thoy will not be idle in such a con- juncture as now arises; and, second, that they will mask and conceal their activity, artfully attempting to accomplish their pur- pose by undetected methods. They will have | only the five commissioners appointed by the Mayor to influence instead of the one hun- dred and sixty members of the Legislature, and as nobody has ever affected to doubt their readiness to spend money in Albany to protect their interests it would be absurd to suppose they have any scraples about spending money here in New York, They may not make any direct attempts to bribe the commissioners. Itis to be hoped that Mayor Wickham will appoint men of such incorruptible integrity | and pecuniary independence that nobody will | dare to approach them as needy members ot the Legislature of no personal standing are habitually approached by confidential agents in the lobby. Instead of direct, valgar bribery, the horse car companies will subsi- dize engineers, enlist rival real estate owners in the upper part of the city who desire to value of their own property, and make sophistical representations to disinterested citizens with a view to delude them into giv- ing adyice of which they do not see the prac- tical bearing. The cunning stratagems of these underhand schemers must be frustrated | by the same means that proved effectual in defeating them at Albany. They must be | met at every point by the sleepless vigilance bea settled and concentrated public opinion on the points which will be most strenuously contested. The main batile will be fought on the se- lection of a route. If, by any arts of plausible sophistry, the commissioners can be induced to place a rapid transit road where the pros- GIKOFLA, at 5 TRIPLE NEW 1 1 WHE HERALD FOR T LEET. ER RESORTS, To Newsptaters axp THE Prsric :— | Tae New York Henatp will ran a special train every Sunday du: mencing July 4, between New York, Niagara Falls, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon and Richfield Springs, leaving New York at half- | past two o'clock A. M., ng at Saratoga | at nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at @ quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of supplying the Suypaxy Heratp along the line. | Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hunaxp oflive as early as possible. | From our reporia this morning the probabilities ere that the weather to-day will be warmer, and | ‘elear or partly cloudy. | ng the season, com- | | Persons going out of town for the summer can | Prave the daily and Sunday Heraup mailed to Wem, free of postage, for $1 per month. Warx Srezer Yusrrerpay.—The market | Pwas excited by a sharp spect! e advance in Pacific Mail. Other stocks were generally steady. Gold moved up to 117}. | ial of Mrs. rday, the Tur Juny disagreed in the “Merrigan and was discl unhappy woman ret A Crovp or W and Mexico apy ‘border. ed States 2 Rio e hat it will O- one of the | i 1, bas sailed T rew of Sir John The {aithtalness of Lady g, and her zeal seems to Franklin's 7 Franklin have inspired t Tux Pore was well enough yesterday to re- ceive visitors, and in reply to an address of | congratulation made a speech, of which the | important point was that the rnmors of a reconciliation between the See and the Italian Kingdom were not even worthy of mention. Tae Loss of the United States steamer Saranac is another event in the long chapter ot recent shipwrecks. Happily no lives were lost, but the Vancouver coast is not « pleasant place fora crew tocamp. A vessel has been promptly sent to their relief. Tax Snont Harms.—A great meeting of work- ingmen employed by the city on the public ‘works was held yesterday at Cooper Institute, to protest against the reduction of their wages. Resolutions denouncing Mayor Wickham and Jobn Kelly were adopted, and Mr. Charles W. Brooke compared the salaries of the Swal- low Tails with the poor wages of the Short Hairs, making an immense contrast, Mz, Twaep is n@ over anxious to leave Blackwell’s Island, though the Court has de- clared him a free man. He resembles that prisoner of the Bastile who had to be dragged | public wants to provide rapid transit merely | seems destined at no distant day to achieve from his dungcon,s0 much had he become | attached to it, Our prisoner, however, does not wish to merely exchange one cell for another, and is prudently holding back till hhe can arrange some little legal difficalties. It is possible that 0 to-day. Comprnotzen Garren Cnanors Barorr Casuy, who scrubs the city offices, with at- | tempting to defraud the city, because she | seeks to collect pay for four weeks’ work when slfe was confined to her bed with fever and fague, caught in the neighborhood of the Har- Jem flats, for six days of the time. What does he think of Park Commissioner Green, who | makes a pleasure trip to Enrope, draws his expenses out of the public treasury and re- eeives his large salary for the whole term of his absence? But then Badriget Casey receives only a dollar and a half o day, while Park Commissioner Green’s pay and perquisites ‘were nearly ten thousand dollars a year, fais makes oll the dilference in Whe woEkd, | ion dollars for such a decision. | on the question of the route they are capable pect of dividends would repel capitalists the horse car companies could afford to pay a mill- A rapid | transit road cannot be built without capital, | aud capital will be embarked in such an | enterp only when its owners feel assured | of fair profits on the investment. It is the duty of the commissioners when they shall | havo been appointed to select the route which | will bring the greatest amouut of business, If they fail in this vital point we shall still be as far from rapid transit as we were before the Husted bill was passed. The paramount diffi- culty to be encountered is the difficulty of | prompily raising the money. If an unprofit- able route is chosen no money will be sub- | scribed; if the best route is chosen the stock | of the road will be ail taken within ninety | days. Tue plan of construction must, of } course, be economical, as well as the route wisely chosen; but the great, the vital thing is the proper determination of the route. Fortunately this isa point on which the community is as competent to judge as any five experts. As to which of many methods | of construction ought to be adopted the com- munity at large may be very poor judges; but | Our correspondents at Port Jervis, Albany, JUNE 22, 1875,—TRIPLE almost a continuous village along the line of the Harlem Railroad for a distance of eight or ten miles. Third avenue is the line of greatest travel of any ia the city, as is proved by the enormous business of the horse rail- road on that avenue as well as by the density of the population which spreads out on both sides of it throughout its whole length. Here, if anywhere, a rapid transit road would immediately carry passengers enough to make the road profitable. There is no other route which would possess half the ad- vantages in the eyes of capitalists, or on which they would feel half as safe in inyest- | ing their money. The authority of the | commissioners to select this route is un- questionable, and the reasons in its favor are so obvious and so overwhelming t if it is not adopted it will be because the Third Avenue Horse Car Company find means of influencing the commissioners. The road should ran near the residences of the great body of the people who want to use it, and on Third avenue it would accom- modate twice the number that it would on any other possible route. The success of rapid transit depends on offering sufficient inducements to capitalists, and it is idle to expect to overcome their hesitation by laying out any route on the west side, or any other than Third avenue on the cast side. This is the selection which the public will demand of the commissioners, who cannot make any other without laying themselves open to the suspicion of having been influenced, either directly or indirectly, by the wealthy corpora- tion with whose business a rapid transit road on Third avenue would interfere, The Potato Bug. The potato bug advances with terrific rapidity and is so insatiable in his appetite that to-day we surrender him a leaf of the Haenaxp, where he will be found as he is in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Burlington City, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other places have made careful and accurate reports of the ravages of this insect, the dangers with which the crops are threatened | and the means used toavert their destruction. The potato is the most important of all our cultivated vegetables, and the bug which at- tacks it commits a deliberate and unjustifiable assault upon every dinner table from the highest | to the lowest in the land. He is the sworn enemy of boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, fried potatoes, Saratoga fried chips, stewed potatoes, potato cakes, potato salads, Lyonnaise potatoes, roast potatoes, potato croquettes, cold potatoes, sweet potatocs | and ail the countless forms into which | Governor Tilden and the City Gov- ernment. Governor Tilden is at last free from tho labors imposed upon him by the logislative session. The bills left for his examination are either signed or dead ; tho canal corrap- tions have received a parting Executive kick ; the investigations are going smoothly on. The Governor can now throw himselt into his easy chair, dismiss from his mind for the moment the puzzling problem of the Presi- dential election and turn his eyes on the city of New York, What he beholds bere will probably excite his wonder. He will discover that we have a Counsel to the Corporation who is resting under charges of misconduct, for which he has been declared by the Mayor of the city unfit to hold office. He will see that the most important interests of the city have thus for five months been held in the hands of an impeached and partially convicted official He will find the Fire Department ruled by men declared guilty by the Chief Executive of the city of malfeasance in office and laboring under suspicion of corruptions other than those charged against them in an official re- port made by competent authority, The Governor may have heard of these things be- fore, in an unofficial way, it is true; but he has repeatedly declared that he has had no time to inquire into them or even to glance at the documents in relation to them. Hence they will appear before him officially for the first time, and he will probably be surprised to find that matters so vital to the good government of the metropolis have been se long neglected. Now that ho is at leisure he will, no doubt, hasten to act on these cases, and to discharge the important duty required of him by the law. The Governor will, of course, understand the importance of prompt action as soon as he examines the documents forwarded to him by Mayor Wickham five monthsago. He will cee at once that there can be no goodand efficient government in the city while the Mayor's removals are hung up in the Executive | Chamber at Albany, unacted upon one way or the other. It the Corporation Counsel isa competent and faithful officer he should be sustained by the Governor, and his removal by the Mayor should be disapproved. If he has been unfaithful the great interests of the city which he controls should be taken out of his hands. In like manner the charges against the Fire Commissioners should be disposed of one way or the other. The present condition of these departments, rest- ing under grave charges that are left unacted upon by the Governor, is disgraceful and injurious to the city, Besides, until the that useful and protean esculent trans- forms itself, The bug equally threatens the | luxuries of the rich and the necessities of the poor. We might as well almost have the bug | upon our tables as in our fields, yet there he | is now, by millions upon millions, an army | more dangerous to the American farmer than | the hosts of Xerxes were to Greece, | The potato bug, as will be shown by our full reports, extends over a vast range of the richest agricultural region of the United States, and does not content himself only | with devouring the potato vines, but has just as sweet a tooth for tomato vines, | egg plants and similar delicacies of | our summer. In many districts he | has laid the land waste for miles. But, happily, this little monster does not have it all his own way. Our farmers fight him with the determination which gives no quar- ters to an enemy which will give no quar- ter. The methods adopted are described in our letters, which will supply the agri- cultural reader with a fund of very interest- of forming a sound opinion, and they must | unite in demanding that the road be built | where it is most certain to pay dividends and | al. Ultimately we shall have secured | roads traversing the whole length of the but at present we must concen- | trate efforls and make sure ot one. When | operation and is foand to pay ds, the timidity and hesitation of | | tempt ca rapid trai one is p’ good dis capitalists will have been overcome, and as many additional roads will be built as the put convenience may require. But unless 1 transit road should proves | sts will not be persuaded to | undertake another. The whole future of | rapid transit is staked upon the judicious | selection of a route by Mayor Wickham’s com: missioners; and this most important part of their task is the least difficult. In the first place the commissioners should | consider the entire west side of the city as ont of their purview. Certain it is that not a | dollar of capital will be subscribed for a new quick transit road on that side until after the | Greenwich street and Ninth avenue Elevated | Railway shall have become profitable. This | road has direct authority from the Legisla- ture, quite independent of any action by | Mayor Wickham’s commissioners, to extend | their track and to connect it with the Grand | Central depot. Until this experiment has made further progress and proved its success by fair dividends on the investment it is idle | to talk of a new rapid transit road on the weat side of the city. Broadway and Fifth avenue are expressly excluded by statute. Sixth avenue is excluded by the in- | terraption of the route at Fifty-ninth | street, and Fourth avenue (which | would be better than nothing) is an | undesirable selection for many weighty | reasons. Above Forty-second sireet the commissioners have no authority on that avenue, and it would be a mockery of the to Forty-second street. Our immediate ne- | cessity is ® rapid transit road at least to the Harlem River, but Mr. Vanderbilt’s four tracks from the Grand Central depot to | | Harlem are not suited to the public accom- modation. With the numerous trains of the | acter, and he opposes the lean conqueror with ingand imporiant information Axgcrmm or Anscess.—Wonders in the | science of medicine are somewhat plentiful of late. Some time ago there was a report of aman in Bellevue Hospital who, contrary to all principles, obstinately refused to die atter the rupture of an aneurism. Now there is in the Roosevelt Hospital another man with an anecurism, as reported, of a still graver char- an even tougher fight for life. It is commonly safe to scrutinize the story of a wonder, and if a man will not die after the rupture of an aneurism in his chest doubts of the diagnosis | are in order. It is probable that this so-called | aneurism is an abscess, originating in the in- jury received last year, and which has made its way to the front wall of the chest from the neighborhood of the spinel column and has | opened some minor artery in its course, and this artery bleeds through the cavity of the opened abscess. Comprnotien Greex Pronarty Dm Ricat in refusing to pay seventy-five dollars out of | the city treasury for ‘‘coach hire’’ for the Mayor while in the discharge of his official duties. At all events the short-haired democ- racy approve of his action on the ground that Mayor Wickham ought to walk, or ride in a five-cent car. But when Mr. Green was in the Park Department he drew a salary of | nearly ten thousand dollars a year for visit- ing and superintending the Park; made the city pay about three thousand dollars for a horse, carriage and coachman, to enable him to visit and superintend the Park; and then drew three hundred dollars a year for cleven years for his “constructive” expenses in visit- | ing and superintending the Park. It would have been a great saving to the city if Comp- | troller Green had been in office to pass npon | Park Commissioncr Green's little bills, Brooxtys Mvurpers.—The City of Crurches | a painful notoriety in the annals of crime. Looking over the long list of outroges, seandals and murders which disgrace its everyday life we are compelled to ask Ourselves what has become of tho holiness ot our sister city? Was the piety paraded Hudson River road, the Harlem road and the | beyond the river onlysham and pretonce after New Haven road constantly coming and go- | all? Or has there fallen upon the doomed ing, those tracks will be so occupied as to place a moral eruption as destructive of the | preclude constant trains, with frequent stops | good in humanity as isthe lava that flows between Forty-second street and Harlem, for | from Vesuvius to human life? It is certainly local city travel, All that @ rapid transit | difficult to account for the sudden change that | road on Fourth avenue could do would be to | has come over our pious Brooklyn friends. | deliver passengers at Forty-second street for | They have scandals that disgust the whole the regular trains; but none of these trains | country and damage the influence of religion, stop between the Grand Central depot and Murder succeeds | L. lem. What is wanted is a rapid transit road with trains every few minutes, stopping at frequent intervals all the* way between the City Hall and Harlem. On Third avenue | city of agsassination and moral turpitude. and | the city is continuously and densely built to | There is ceriainly pressing need of xeforma- but they do not stop there. murder with appalling rapidity, and unless some check is put to the rising tide of crime Brooklyn will become familiarly known as a Governor shows a disposition to act on the | Mayor's removals, it is not likely that any | further attempts to purify the departments will be made. The evils we now labor under in the Police, Street Cleaning, Health, Building and other departments must remain unreme- died until the Governor finds time to attend | to New York affairs. Indeed, public officers who are suspected of improper conduct defy the Mayor to remove them, relying upon the Governor's inaction. We believe they will | find themselves less secure than they deem themselves to be. Governor Tilden’s hands are now free, and he wili disappoint his friends if he does not use them to untie the red tape which at present binds up the Mayor's removals. The Com AChicago despatch gives us an account of a picnic celebration which was held in that city on Sunday by the Communists, at which | “a, number of incendiary speeches were made,” but ‘no definite action taken in refer- ence to their future course.” In a country as free as America, where we have Mormons and Oneida communities and Indian rings, we can tolerate almost any form of political opinion. If our citizens choose to become Communists they havea perfect right to do so so long as their theories are restrained within the limits of the law. At the same time there is nothing more puzzling than to | account for the Commune socicty in a coun- try like ours, None of the conditious that have generated Commune ideas in Europe exist here. If any man is poor in America it | is his own fault. Here are all the oppor- tunities for advancement, for earning a liveli- | hood, for obtaining the highest prize in the in Chicago. race of life. If a community becomes too densely populated there is the vast Western territory in which the surplus population may receive lands from the government and found their own home- | steads, We have no conscription laws to compel every citizen upon reaching man’s estate to give the freshest and best years of his life to the army. We have no threats of impending war to disturb industry and pre- yent our national development. We have no religious controversies to revive old passions and rend society to its foundation. Com- munism, as it is professed in France even by the best men in the Commune, by those sin- cere fanatics who really believe in it as a prin- ciple and who deplore the extravagances and crimes of the movement in 1871, is impossible in America as a movement against imperial- ism. It would be curious to know upon what ground our Communistic agitators in Chicago rest their claims. We presume, however, that it is simply a fashion, a desire to imitate the Old World, another form of maintaining the relations between this country and Eu- rope, and that it is as harmless in reality as the processions on the 12th of July in mem- ory of King William, or on St. Patrick’s Day in memory of the patron saint of Ireland, At the same time there is this thought which recurs to us whenever we hear of these Communists, or Socialists, orextremely radical movements on the part of our foreign fellow citizens: Is it wise for these gentlemen, when they come to make their home with us and to accept our citizenship, to foster the prejudices and passions of the Old World? What ad- vantage is to be gained bya picnic in Chicago in favor of Communism, or a parade on the 12th of July in memory of a Dutch prince, who governed an English kingdom two bun- dred years ago? What possible sympathy can wo have with the agitations which | prompted the Revolution in France or the ambition of the Prince of Orange? Would it not bo well for our foreign fellow citizens, when they come to us, to be Americans in sentiment and in speech and in political feel- ing as well as citizenship? Can they not find Harlem Bridge, and beyoud the riyor jhore is | tign among our udighhor inspiration enough in the history of the country they have adopted to make them aemombgr of tueis gid homes only pat which, . SHEET. is beautiful and domestic, which brings back their personal relations with kindred and an- cestors, and which buries in oblivion those dark historic memories that inspire 50 many anniversaries ? The Retirement of Two Distinguishea Statesmen. General Grant's letter explaining his posi- tion on the third term has become a source of interest and speculation to the journals in England and Americas The excitement which this sphinx-like publication has caused inthe minds of discerning and thoughtful people has hardly died away before we have another letter from another distinguished fighting man which will be read with an in- terest as deep as that of the great hero of the war. President Grant, if our readers will remember, said that he did not desire the third term uny more than he desired the first or the second and that he would not run for the Presidency unless he was compelled to do so by an imperative duty. In other words, the republican party might take the Presi- dent’s declaration as they pleased. As a candidate he would be either fish or fowl, as they chose to regard him. Mr. Allen announces that he will retire from the prize ring, in which he has “figured for nearly twenty years.” Like President Grant, Mr, Allen informs us that he has little to say of his career or the sacrifices which he has made to maintain a distin- guished reputation. ‘I leave the public,’’ says this powerful ex-pounder of the constitu- tion, ‘‘to judge of that, and flatter myself that it will bear inspection and not compare un- favorably with the records in general of the profession of which I now take leave.’’ The modesty of Mr, Allen reminds us of the modesty of the President, who in his letter to General Harry White makes similar references to his own achievements in the ficld. Mr. Allen informs us that he regrets his mistakes ; that “we are all liable to make mistakes,” but that his errors have been ‘those of the mind and not of the heart.” If any of his former rivals or competitors for public favor reading these sad lines recall any incident when Mr. Allen was too vigilant, or struck too hard a blow, or was reluctant in leaving his corner, or too precipitate in throwing up the sponge, or not altogether particular abont hitting above or below the belt, they are to bolieve that they were “errors ot the mind and not the heart.” “I realize when too late,” says Mr, Allen, ‘that I have been the dupe of a cow- ard, hungry for pugilistic fame and the dollars that have been made by it, and yet afraid to fight or even put in an appearance upon the battle ground. This ends my career in the ring. I bid it goodby now, once and for- ever.” Mr. Allen’s tone is more emphatic than President Grant's in this, that he does not say that an imperative duty could ever take him back. Like the President, he | feels that he has made many sacrifices, that they have not been appreciated, that the ring, of which he was the glory and the pride, has become unworthy of him. At the same time we should not desire to | see Mr. Allen tempted to change his mind | The difficulty even with his emphatic letter is that it is written in high temper, and we have the authority of the Duke of Gloster, another famous champion, for saying that promises made in anger cannot long be remembered when passion cooled. So that although there are partisans of President Grant and Tom Allen who are willing to believe that the let- ter of the President to Harry White and | ‘Tom's letter to the public are indications that they have each retired from public life and no longer seek the arena, yet, between the lines, we feel assured that President Grant may find an imperative necessity in a nomi- nation by the Convention that is to be held next year that will compel him to make another sacrifice for the good of the country, and that if any aspiring hero thinks that Tom Allen will allow him to tread upon his coat- | tail with impunity or to knock promiscuous chips from off his hat, he will find himself knocked out of time according to the rules of the London prize ring. What Should Be Done with the Con- tumacious Aldermen? The presence of the republican minority in the Board of Aldermen is regarded as advan- tageous to the interests of the city, inasmuch as it affords a check to partisanship and an opportunity for the discussion and criticism of such measures as may bo proposed by the majority. This is the only consideration upon which it would be justifiable to legis- | late into office and clothe with the powers of members of the Common Council men who fail to receive a majority of the votes of their constituents and who are not elected by the people. The ‘‘minority representation” docs | the wrong of depriving the electors of their choice in order to accomplish the good of allowing the minority the privilege of having a voice in matters of government in which all are concerned. When the republican Alder- men, only two of whom were elected by their constituents, break the rules of the Board, defy its power, insult its dignity and then absent themselves from its meetings with the avowed purpose of interrupting the business ot the government, they not only emulate the worst features of Tammany rowdyism, but bring the principle of minority representation into contempt. The Common Council has power under the charter to compel observance of its rules and | the presence of its mambers at its meetings. One of the republican Aldermen, Mr. South- worth, was not in the chamber when the vote on the resolution recommending a return to the old pay of the city laborers was taken, and is not, therefore, in contempt, as are his associates who evaded the issue by contu- maciously refusing to vote. But he absented himself from the last meeting of the Board, and is announced as uniting with his asso- ciates in their attempt to disorganize the city government. The duty of the Board is plain. It should send its Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest the insubordinate members at its next meet- ing, if they should persist in their revolution- ary conduct, bring them before the Board, severely reprimand those who are in contempt and compel them to vote in accordance with the rules on all questions on which they are not excused. If they are unable to enforce the powers given them by the law they are worthless as a public body and will be held } in contempt by the whole people. France has made a liberal appropriation to The Police. Woe have already spoken in terms of com- mendation of the courage of the police offi- cers who had a severe contest with a party of “youghs'' on “Sebastopol,” in Third avenue. The only remaining considerations are the facts that in the very face of ‘the best police force-in the world’’ such a place as “Sebasto- pol”’ should exist at all, and that a gang of thieves should have the courage to meot this model police force in a hand to hand fight in the open day. All this is only another evi- dence of the impunity allowed to the criminal classes so far es punishment is concerned and the uselessness of the Police Department im serving the ends of justice. The other day we asked whether the police of this city are blackmailers, and since we put the question we haye seen the remarkable spectacle of a Police Commissioner trying to prevent an answer by an attempt to make the investigation so general as to render it practicaily useless. And now we see a number of policemen openly resisted by a gang of thieves: in their own stronghold, maintained in de- fiance of public authority and the general security. Only the personal courage of the officers prevented the thieves from having their own way and making the administra- tion of justice impossible. Thus we are con- fronted by a double danger—the demoraliza- tion of the police for the corrupt purposes of the men who command it and the supremacy of the dangerous classes. Not only are panel and gambling houses kept open under the auspices of police captains, but burglars and. thieves find in some of these such efficient guardians that they are able to commit crime with impunity. A party of pickpockets are able to “work” a street car before the eyes of the conductor, certain that he dare not ask the protection of the police, and the streets. are becoming more and more unsate. The whole police force needs overhauling. As @ mere measure of public security the corrupt and ineflicient mon must be weeded out of the service, and we call upon General Smjth and such of the Police Commissioners as are dis~ posed to do their duty to so remodel the de-~ partment as to free it from the dangerous elements which are destroying its useful-~ ness, Tue Brzcuer Turan was enlivened yester~ day by a sensation by which a momentary glimpse was obtained of the mysteries which are supposed to be beneath the sur- face. A juryman took the extraordi- nary course of asking the Judge to instruct counsel to make no more remarke about attempts to corrupt the jury. It was an unwise act, for Judge Neilson may be de- pended upon to protect the jury without prompting. But Mr. Boach did not shrink from the position into which he was thus forced, but exclaimed that he was ready to prove tho fact that the jury had been approached. With his usual good sense Judge Neilson ended this scene by deciding that the charge of tampering with the jury should not be considered till the end of the trial. As Our Caniz Desparcues show, Messrs. Moody and Sankey have become the theme of Parliamentary discussion, the question being whether the boys at Eton shall be allowed to attend the meetings these eminent revivalista intend to hold in the neighborhood of that famous schoo. ‘The subject appears so im- portant that notice was given in the House of Commons by Captain Baillie Cochrane that he should ask Mr. Gladstone if he had given Mr. Moody a letter to the authorities at Eton. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Plenty of peaches coming. Rev. Pelham Williams, of Boston, is among the late arrivals at the Albemarle Hotel. Senator Theodore F. Randoipn, of New Jersey, is sojourning at the New York Hotel, A telegram from Treasurer New announces that he will reach Washington on Wednesday next. Captain Samuel Brooks, of the steamship City of Richmond, is quartered at the Grand Central Hotel Count Litta, Secretary of the Itallan Legation, arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday from | Wasnington, Mr, Thomas Dickson, President of the Delaware and Hudson Canai Company, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. George B. McCartee, Chie! of the Printing Division of the Treasury Department, bas arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Juage William I, Learned, of the New York Supreme Court, for the Third Judictal district, is | registered at the St, James Hotel, Prince Charies, of Orleans, sou of the Count of Parts, and aged four months, died in his nurse's arms in a carriage while taking the air, Mr. U. S. Grant, Jr., son of the President of the United States, and Colonel McCook, of the United States Army, are at the Hotel Chatham, in Paris. Peruvian guano is now charged with the crime of introducing the potato beetie; but in Colorado, whence this fellow comes, they don’t trouble themselves with guano. pr. Sehweinfurch, whose name Is honorably as- sociated with researches in the interior of Africa, is to be the representative of the Knedive at the Geographical Congress at Paris. M. Thieme,-a writer on tne Germania, Catholie journal of Berlin, has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for having insulted Prince Bismarck and excited the citizens to disobey the laws. The Baroness Von Donop, daughter of Baron Reuter, has mysteriously disappeared from Seven- oaks, Kent, She had been unweil for some time and fears are entertained that she has destroyed. herself, Before the departure of Oscar IL from Stock« holm the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs sent to his diplomatic agents in foreign countries a cir- cular, declaring that the King’s joarney had ao Political object. Itis said as Ottawa that Hon. Edward Blake Will probabiy visit England before the Premiers return, and that he goes with tie view of disouss~ , with the imperial government. Mr, Thurman says that truth is mighty and wilt’ prevall, As applied to the Unio platform, this, , perhaps, means that if inflation prevails tts sue.j cess Wili be @ suificient evidence that 1+ is the trath of the occasion; and that if it is mot thas truth, then it will net prevail. The President and Mra, Grant, with their sem Jesse and Mrs. Fred. Grant, arrived im this city yesterday morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotei, Ia the evening the President and Mrs. Grant re- turned to Long Branch, and thelr son and daughter-in-law left the city tor Chicago. Mr. Heary Steers, the well known shipbutlder,, sailed for London yesterday afiernoon in the, clipper ship Carnarvon Castle. ie will be gone about three momtos, during which time he wilt make a tour of England, France ana Germany. | MroSteers’ young son accempanies him. ‘tthe funeral ceremony over the remaina of Migr. Plantier, ate Bishop of Nimes, the memyere of the Civil Tribunal wiikdrew from the Cathedral at the moment tho procession was being jormed, in consequence of precedence having beon given to the Mayor in @ post of honor, which, according ‘nid in securing a worthy revresentation a's the | Conteuuial Mxhibition, to a law of tne revolutionary times, belouged We uo President vi the Vive TyLbanal ing the question of federation of the Dominion | is