The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD Ae BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. TAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Youx Henaxp will be vent free of postage. —_——-—_—_——_ AD business or news letters and telegraphic | Gespatches must be addressed New Yors Hiznav. Letters and packages should be properly peuled. Rejected communications will not be re- ‘turned. WLONDON 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, CENTRAL PARK GARD! N. THRODORE 1HUMAs’ CONC Kf, ats P.M. ROBINSON HALL, Wost Sixteenth street.—Knglish Opera—@IROFLE GIROFLA, ats P.M. i WooD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of ihiriieth street. THE DOCTOR'S OATH, ats P. M.j closes at Way P.M. Matinee ar 2, M, yREIS Sl MMER GARDE Sed ND PUBULAR CON: Matinee at2 P.M. 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Persons going out of fown for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henarp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Was Street Yestenpay.—A buoyant fee!- ing prevailed and stocks generally advanced. Gold was steady at 117}. Money loaned at the stereotyped rates. Tse Exoiisn Yacurine SEASON has been NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1875--QUADRUPLE SHERT. we Waiting for the Vordict. The climax of the trial has been, in the opinion of the public, reached at different important siages of its development, It was attained to when Mr. Tilton entered his testi- | mony, when Mr, Moulton confirmed his story, when Mrs. Moulton, with indisputable cxo- dor, related her conversations with the de- | fondant, and again when Mr. Beecher was cross-examined and told the sad tale of his moral cowardice and superhuman forgiveness | of his enemies. The climax of the trial was again found when Mr. Porter thundered his anathemas against the plaintiff, when Mr. | Evarts, with a skill surpassing that by which | he recovered fifteen millions of dollars from Great Britain at the Geneva Conference, wove the ingenious argument which was intended to exonerate his client from the entangled po- | sition into which bis own folly or guilt had | placed him—a web which un»ove a web of almost equal complexity of cireumstance— and when Mr. Beach, with a sword keen as that o! Saladin, smote what seemed to be the thin film of gossamer floating in | air. Again the climax cime when Judge | Neilson, with steady arm outstretched, held | before the eyes of the jury the even balances of justice—impartiality, not blind, as in the ancient statues, but far-sighted and percep- tive of the right in which both plaintiff and defendant have a part, and the wrong of | which neither may be acquitted. But all | these climacteric effects were illusive. The | true climax, so far as the trial is concerned, | traordinary influence and distinguished rep- very | lively and the sport remarkably good, | as Will be seen by thé interesting letter we publish on the subject in another column. Boss Twzxp stil lies in the hands of the comes only when the verdict of the jury is expected, Upon those twelve men the eyes of the | nation are fixed. They were almost acci- dentally chosen from a community, yet, so great is the faith in the jury system inherited from Anglo-Saxon customs, that their true saying is anticipated as if it were a finality of judgment. All the interest that has attended this six months’ investigation of a scandal of four years is concentrated in the deci- sion of the jury. These druggists, | manufacturers, builders, grocers, mechanics | | and merchants are expected to decide | a question which such great intellects as those of Evarts, Beach, Morris and Porter have carried to the extremes of perplexity and difference. Thus all doubts are by an ad- mirable system of jurisprudence relegated to the common sense of the people. The great lawyers may argue, but the ordinary citizen must ultimately be the judge from whose verdict there is no appeal. The jury, there- | fore, by its inability to agree at once, has be- come the central point of the trial. Evarts is | forgotten for the time, Beach is dismissed to | oblivion, in the desire to kuow wh ther Jeffrey | will stand firm or whether Carpenter wil conqner his antagonists. But here is reached one more illusion of | the public. The jury may decide the trial, it is true, but it can never decide the case. Thess twelve men cannot speak for forty millions of people in America and almost as greata number in England. In beth coun- tries Mr. Beecher is known as & man of ex. utation, and in both the question of his | guilt has been debated till the sim- ple issue of one man’s cbaracter has | transcended the possibilities of war or peace, of governments or nations. Even the fate of freedom, as it is threatened by the third term danger, is eclipsed by this spectre | , of sogial crime, as wpon the dar and sim. | soned moon interposes be guined bul Serr between tho earth and sun. The Brooklyn jary, the opinion of Mr. Jeffrey, or Mr. Car- penter, or Mr. Fitior, or Mr. Whelan, it is | notorious, can settle vothing. As a matter of | legal form Philistines. The shorn Samson of the Ring | finds that in these reform days three miliions bail is not easily procured. their unanimous verdict, it is true, would be final; yet they are but individ- uals. The nation has watched the trial as carefully as they have done, and the verdict upon the verdict will be immeasurably greater Rarm Transtr—The Mayor, it is said, will | than the legal v verdict itself, certainly appoint rapid transit commission- ers during the week. We hope this is true and that the men selected will be practical persons, who really desire the solution of this wwost important question o! transport. Tux Hantem Recarra yesterday gave evidence of @ growing interest in aquatic sports among our people. Large numbers assembled to witness the rowing, which was remarkably spirited. The pair-oar raco was won by the Nassaus, while the Aibletics proved the victors in the four-oar race. Ocr Hien Tantrr has succeeded in elevat- ing smuggling into a protession of some im- portance. It might not prove quite so profit- able, however, were the men charged with the collection of the revenue only a little bit honester. Faaycz, in D spite of her political strifes, fol- lows steadily in the paths of art Her painters limn, no matter how the political sky may be overcast. In these works of peace and civilization the ‘great nation’’ earns brighter and more enduring laurels than can be gathered on the battle field. Tux Account of the Irish college sports whieh comes to us from Dublin will be read with interest, It is to be regretted that the members of the American team did not arrive in time to witness these Irish games; but probably ao special entertainment will be given for the benefit of the viritors. The example set by British colleges oi combining physical and mental culture deserves to be followed more generally in America than is done at present. Porrrics tm Enoianp are going to the bad for want of a “cry.” Nothing that the pres- ent leaders will undertake to do has much interest for the people, who are slowly coming into power. bly the next popular sensation will a revision of the land and property laws as will amount to a small revolution, Just now noleader of importance is bold enough to make the issue, but by and by one may be found. Mostc rw tax Pank.—To the great delight of the public, who take such a lively interest in everything connected with the beautiful gummer garden of the metropolis, the first conoért of the present season was given in the Mall yesterday. Although the music should ‘have been introduced a month earlier, yet it is a welcome boon now, and the Commissioners might well afford to devote « second day in ‘the week to the same porpose. There is no reason why New York shovld not have such | free open-air concerts in abundance as may be heard wad enjoyed im any European city. The world is waiting for the verdict of the jury, but will it accept it when it is deliv- ered? Mr. Beecher bimself—accnsed of moro crimes than one, not merely of adultery, bat of perjury, not merely of perjury, but of the worst ingratitude, and not merely of adul- tery, perjury and ths worst ingratitude, but of a systematic de‘ermination to ruin the innocent that he may protect his own reputation—Mr. Beecher may answer. He who is most concerned in this trial is not | waiting for the verdict of the jury. In his | sermon on Friday evening, when he stood be- fore his congregation, while twelve men were discussing the evidence of his innocence or guilt, Mr. Beecher said: —“It don’t lie with | you or anybody on the face of the earth to de- | termine my juture. That is a matter that lies with me and God, and God and I against the | world.” Again he repested:—*However pressed I am, however I am put down, [ will come uggagain. * * * I do not care what _— thmk of me. I know what I am. * * Living or dying, I am the Lord's. | My future is in His hands. I will do my work though ten thousand devils stand in the way." This is the position Mr. Beecher has assumed. | He defies the result of tho judicial inquiry | into his personal actions. He i not waiting for the verdict, yet he of ali is the man most interested in its nature. Mr. Beecher bas appealed to Heaven first, | and secondly to man. He has refnsed to submit to the jadgment of a jury of his coun- trymen, He will preach, even if he should be found guilty of adultery, 0 long as sinners can be found willing to listen to him. There is at once something that is noble and some- thing that is low in this defiance of the law. It is noble if be be innoosnt ; but it is mani- | fest that a man accused and not acquitted of adultery cannot defiantly preach the Gospel without creating a scandal in theChurch. Mr. | Beecher has become on object of curiosity. The aromatic suspicion of crime lends a favor to bis eloquent discourse ; and when he speaks of Divine love the intoxicating spirit of illicit love lies like poison in the sacramental wine. For this reason we believe that, innocent or . guilty, bis usefulness as a clergyman is for- ever crippled. Yet this is a matter of dis- pute. He may still be able to do good to the peculiar congregation of Plymouth church, ond our purpose is merely to show that the man most concerned in the character of the verdict refuses to have his future con- trolied by any opinion whatever. The clergyman who will not aliow “hell and the devil’ to stop him in his life work is not likely to be checked by twelve Brooklyn jury- men. | Bus if Mr, Bocobor ia not waiting for the | verdict to determine his fature can we ex- pect Mr. Tilton to Le more confident? It would be folly to anticipate such a submis- sion, Mr, Tilton laid bis cause before the | whole o vilized world, and the jury to him has merely been an instrument of his will— the trumpet through which he proclaims Adultery! adultery! adultery! and hopes to | make of his enemy A fixed flrure, for the hand of scorn To polut O18 slow, unmoving faoger at, Tt is impossible not to believe that through this trial Theodore Tilton sought to wreak an immortal vengeance for a wrong, real or fancied, which he could not for- give. The money for which he sues he has declared he will never accept. It is simply the pound of flesh, with which he would bait fish withal. The accusa- tion which ho has made has fulfilled its pur- pose. He has driven a poisoned dagger into the heart of a splendid reputation. Should Mr. Beecher be convicted the stab is falae. Should tre jury disagree the knife is only loosened in the wound. Should he be ac- quitted still the poison will ranklo in the wound. Mr. Tilton is'not waiting for the verdict. Hoe has laid his cause before the world, and has already secured his object. When Mr. Beecher, brave and careless as he tries to be, enters the pulpit, his skilful foe might well say with Ingo— Look, where be comes! Not poppy, nor man- dragora, Nor ali (he drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow’dst yesterday. But though neither the defendant nor the plaintiff waits for the verdict the public, in acertain sense, looks for it with profound anxiety. This trial hay been a curse to morality, a disgrace to American civilization, an injury to religion, and even a discredit to tho law itself. If a verdict can formally end it the people will be relieved of an incubus which for six months has oppressed _ society. They wait for the verdict, not because it will absolutely de- cide the question of Henry Ward Beecher’s guilt, but because it will end the necessary | discussion of the worst, the most painful, the most dangerous scandal that is registered in modern history. No words can exaggerate the evil of this trial, and that is a verdict for which no one needs to wait, for it is already recorded in the judgment of all impartial minds. Our Riflemen in Ireland. We are able to lay before our readers this morning some details of the reception ten- dered to the American team on their arrival in Iceland. It was as hearty and enthusiastic as the most exacting could desire. Did we not already know that the hospitality of the warm-hearted islanders has exercised no bad influence on the nerves of our riflemen we might have fears for the result. In the midst of so mach friendly welcome the members of the American team must have displayed a fortitude truly Roman and a self-denial worthy of a Spartan band, else they could never have rolied up the mag- ificont scores in their practice which as- uses their friends that they are as steady- nerved and keen-sighted as when they de- ! lost his life, Dr. | discovery. | covery of the Northwest Passage and the feated the Irish champions at Creedmoor. We | hope also that they are destined to reap the | benefit of so much virtue in securing a new and brilliant victory over their skilful oppo- nents. There is no doubt but that they find themselves compelled to struggle against heavy odds, but we have the firmest faith in steadiness aud skill. Tho beat compli- | ment our men cen pay Ireland is to display their best skill as marksmen. Palpit Topics Te-Dey. If there is any time when a man ought to have light it iswhon he falls among thieves who do their business in the dark. Hence Mr. Terry will introduce light into the darkness in his rambles among thieves. The ways of the burglar and the light-fingered are not the pleas- people to walk in, nor the redemption of stolen pocketbooks the redemption that he offers them. The young woman for the times is wanted by Mr. Harris as a companion for the young man for the times, whom we sup- pose he found in his congregation last Sunday. These two, laden with enarity, not ooly for one another, but for mankind, will be likely to foliow Mr. Keanard out into the world seek- ing men to lead them to the fountain of living waters, where Mr. King will accompany those | who may be ready to start from his locality. | There, with Mr. Thomas, they may inherit the earth and enjoy a prosperity that destroys not, and with Dr. Deems unite to sing the song of Moses and the Lamb, There, too, they may escape Mr. Hawthorne's modern Pharisee, and realize with Mr. Lloyd that God's love, greater than a mother’s, isa purchase that ali should make and none abould sell again. But if Mr. Willis is correct there is too much spiritual shuffling—too many efforts to avoid responsibility—to insure prompt and generous success in this direc- | tion. Mr. Lightbourn will demonstrate that man is all immortal, and, of course, that all men are soalso. Mr. MacArthar will reveal to his people the preciousuess in God's sight of the dying Christian, and Mr. Hepworth will set forth Christ as a servant, and, as the second Adam, contrast him with the first Adam; and thus will church-goers to-day be | invited and encouraged to lead better and holier lives, and to look toward a higher and purer standard of morals than any that exists around us. Accepting these pulpit instruc tions and suggestions the pious readers of the Heat may also find « safe and pleasant re- treat By cool Stioam's shay riti, Where, swee' ly grows, Tar Froops m France.—It ia pitiful to read of the terrible disasters in the overflowed valley of the Garonne, It is impossible to estimate the exact nature of the calamities, but according to our Paris despatches thus far over one thousand lives have been lost. Bor- deaux was threatened by the rising of the Garonne, but it is believed that no serious catastrophe will befall that rich and beautifal city. swollen by the torrents that came from the Pyrenees, and carried with it houses and bu- man beings and growing crops. For a calam- ity of this kind of course there can only be sympathy of the sincerest charactor. It wouid be a» handsome act for our people to show thew appreciation of the friendship of the French by sending contributions to the aid of the unfortunate rosidouta of the Uaronna, | ant pathways that Mr. Saunders invites his | | It seems that the river was suddenly | | | and shocks of Arctic seas. The crew was se- | ered; but we are gradually gotting at facts ‘| that promise to lead us up to the main source | pected that captains and detectives are in the | houses, gambling dens, policy shops and The Cruise of the Pandora. The saddest and one of the most daring of Arctic expeditions was the last one of Sir John Franklin, in which that experienced | captain and all of his crew undoubtedly | % perished; and one of the noblest is that which sailed from Portsmouth yee | terday to recover the relics of those brave and | fated men. Sir John Franklin was an experi- enced navigator, who commanded respect and who perished a victim to his own zeal and to dangers against which no prudence can avail. Arctic navigation is neces- sarily a terrible risk. Dr. Kane nearly Ha!l died, and Mr. Tyson and his companions were saved as by miracle. Tho history of these Northern explorations is made memorable by graves over which the icebergs stand as frozen monuments forever. The uncertainty as to the manner in which Sir John Franklin met his fate has inspired several expeditions to the North, and though many years ago all hope ended of finding him or avy of his brave crew alive, humanity has dictated search for their remains. In this labor of love and duty no one has been more earnest and active than Lady Franklin, whose latest effort is announced to- day in the special cable despatches from London to the Heranp. With a fidel- ity never surpassed in the records of woman's devotion this true wife has never abandoned the hope that the bones of her husband might be recovered from the icy tomb, and the results of bis labors and sac- rifice be secured for the world of science and Once more she has taken part in an earnest attempt to recover the relics of his expedition, and this time with more reason than ever before to anticipate a successful result. The laws which affect the navigation of the Arctic Ocean, the seasons, the geography of those frozen regions are far better understood now than they were a few years ago, and tho Pandora sailed from Portsmouth fully equipped and instructed, and aided by the experience of all previous expeditions. The specified objects of the voyage are the dis- discovery of Franklin's remains, and it is probable that the JIatter at least will be secured. Invaluable as the discovery of a Northwest Passage would be to geography, humanity has greater claims than science; and if the Pandora recovers the rehes of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated ship all will rejoice in the solution of one of the saddest problems that has ever baffled the determination and intelligence of the world. Duty to the heroic dead who per- ished in the pursuit of knowledge, duty to the future, unite in making the cruise of tho Pandora almost unparalleled in Arctio naviga- tion. The people of England have taken a deep interest in the unselfish cruise of the Pandora, and, as our despatches show, she sailed from Portsmouth amid extraordinary manisfesta- tions of sympathy and feeling. Everything evi- dently has been done to make the expedition a success. The vessel was thoroughly prepared fora long voyage and to meet the dangers lected with the utmost care, and some of them | are men experienced in that difficult and dangerous navigation, Captain Allen Young, the commander of the Pan- dora, was formerly the sailing master of Admiral McClintock, and bas profited by the advice of his distinguished chief os to the route to be selected. The names of the other officers are published in our despatches, and they, with their determined chief, may be re- lied upon to find the Northwest Passage, if it is withia human power to do so, and to recover all that yet is left of one of the noblest of Arctic expeditions on record. Tho Pandora sailed freighted with the hopes and prayers of all civilized nations, and England will not more réjoice in the fortunate attainment of her two great objects, the fulfilment of duty to the immortal dead, the discovery of new paths, invaluable to science, than will the American people. They will wait with profound anxiety the end of this voyage, for all nations have an equal share in heroic endeavor, and science has become the common property of the world. Investigation Into Police Ras. ealitios. The disclosures before the Assembly Com- mittee in regard to the police rascalilies are increasing in interest. It can scarcely be said that anything new has yet been discov- The of the evil. It has long been more than sus- habit of making profitable arrangements with the violators of law and that the police gen- erally are in the pay of the keepers of panel places of a similarly vile character, who, in return, are protected by the police. No per- son has doubted that the fortunes realized on the force are the results of such combina- tions, and that the spasmodic raids on houses of evil repute are made for the purpose of covering up and concealing these rascalities. The recent changes and transfers of the sev- eral captains, and the pretended cleansing of the detectives’ office are believed to have had o similar object. The ides that any reform could have been accomplished in the force by transferring to a new precinct a captain who was known to havo been receiving hush money from law- breakers in his old precinet and by putting on patrol duty a detective suspected of being the ally of burglars and pickpockets, was simply absurd. But something had to be done to prove the vigor and honesty of the police management. What was dono has only served to increase the suspicion that the cor- ruptions extend higher up than the heads of the precincts, The evidence given before the committee on Friday proves that some mysterious influ. | ence backs up the police captains in their transactions with the lawless classes. One reputable citizen testified that as a member of the Fitteenth Ward Protective Association he had asmsted in securing an indictment against a lessor of disorderly houses, but tbe Chris- tien name of the party was incor- | rectly stated in the indictment, and, although the witness discovered and made known the fact and endeavored to have the error corrected, he could not succeed, and hence the indictment was useless, Another officer who was detailed to watch and break up disorderly houses was removed from that post by orders from headquarters, and only restored after it became evident that the act would be exposed, All these facts tend to | eonfirm the belief that the source of corrup- | tions lies higher up than the captains, and that we shall have no diminution of crime and no proper protection for the lives and property of our citizens until the knife of re- form has cut out the disease from the man- agement of the department. It is alarmmg to hear that a captain is charged with such o bold offence as that alleged against Captain Williams by Mrs. Wilson, who testified be- fore the committee on Friday. Of course, her evidence must be received with proper caution, and the person she accuses basa right to be heard in his own defence. Yet it is scarcely crodible that so many stories can be told of Captain Williams without some of them being true, and it is quite sufficient impeachment of the police management that such an officer should not have been long since brought to account, Opinions of the Religious Press, Tho scandal trial is not very much sought after now by the religious press, though little by little they snatch up glimpses and im- pressions of persons and things. As, for in- stance, the Baptist Weelly last week intimated that it had good reason for knowing and as- serting that Mr. Beach was heartily tired of Tilton’s case, and that only professional courtesy compelled him to sum up at all. And the Methodist this week intimates that the suit instituted against H. B, Claflin & Co. is a Til- tonian tactic to injure and condemn Beecher and his friends, It takes occasion, however, to read a highly moral essay to the govern- ment and Congress for their customs legisla- tion, which ia virtually a premium on smuggling and knavery. Government should take account of the weakness of human nature and not lead men into temptation nor ordain conditions that breed dishonesty. The government, the Methodist insists, allows smugglers to stock the markets East and West and to undersoll honest mor- chants, so that there is nothing for the latter todo but retire from business or be- come dishonest too. The Buptist Weelly strikes at its near neighbor, who, a few days ago made, what the Weekly calls a con- temptible reference to Messrs. Moody and Sankey andthe results of their labors in England. The Weekly sees in the contempti- ble obliquity of its neighbor in this matter, as well as in is course on the scandal, evidences that there is some one verging on madness in its editorial rooms, St. Patrick's Catholic church in New Haven was burned some months ago. Jt was in- sured in four companio:, which now refuse either to pay the losses or 10 make good the damage. Hence the church bas sued, and the Freeman's Journal and the 7ab’et devote a little editorial wrath toward those companies. Both journals recommend trustees and pastors to sew to 1t that the companies are not only hon- est but honorable. The Church Journal od- vises churches and denominatious to wash their dirty linen at home and not run with it to the editorial rooms of the Daily Slasher, the Broad Axe of Progress or the Slablown Chronicle. And this apropos of the newspaper controversy going on over the recent election of Dr. Shipman to a Western episcopate. The Evangelist is delighted that Moody and Sankey have been invited to hold services in this city on their return from England next month, and from the large and influential meeting of ministers recently held the success of the enterprise is assumed | if not assured. The Heraminer and Chronicle hardly knows how to account for the lack of benevolence in the Baptist denomina- tion. Its members are neither fow Bor ‘and yet yet ibe mitiion doilars re which th they last year ought to have beeo two millions 5 meet adequately the wanta, the several in- terests, of the Church. And still now interests spring into being every year. It wants pas- tors to instruct their congregations into lib- eral giving. The Abbé Michaud has a charac- teristic article in the Churchman on tho ‘state of the Roman Church in France. Ho» do- clares that the ullramontanes are in that country in an infinite minority, tbat the pub- lio conscience is against them and that they themselves have not their own proper con- science. The Roman Church in France is puffed, be says, like a bladder by blowing air into it, but the prick of a pin will cause a collapse. Hence he hopes and expecta in a short time that the real France will triumph over artificial and governmental France, breaking the chains by which tegitimism and Popery still hold it in servitude. The Hebrew Leader is rejoiced that the revival wave is subsiding in England, as it corroborates the Leader's prophecy that it would do 60, the excitement not having been founded in rea- son. Where it has converted one man into a saint it has made another a lunatic. The Jewish Times goes in for principles, not men— least of all such men as its coreligionist, Dr. Wise, of Cincinnati, with whom it declares no honest man can work in any cause that re- quires abnegation of self, relf-devotion and holy zeal. The Jewish Messenger roads a lec- ture to rich Jows who send their children to the Charlier Institute, where, at its late Com- | mencement, prizes were received by a great many Jewish lads for learning Scripture verses. This, the Messenger thinks, is bringing them under Christian influences, 0 that they will forsake the faith of their fathers. We always thought the Scriptures were # collection of Jewish writings, and as good reading for | Jewish lads as for Christians. The Messenger thinks not. ah Tar Dimcr Live tro Lone Braxca.—The opening of a diredt railroad between New York and Long Branch is an advantage to the city and to that thriving seaside suburb that cannot be overestimated. This new road was | opened on Friday, President Grant taking part in the ceremonies that attended the event. By this new route citizens can leave New York at n late hourin the evening and | reach their seaside homes in an bour and a half. It will be of great advantage, especially during the bad weather, which sometimes makes the sail down the bay unpleasant. We are glad to commend every evidence of enterprise which adds to the comfort and beauty of our groat metropolis, and nothing that we have done for some time will be so generally ac- ceptable to the thousands of our people as this completion of the direct overland line to [} citizen tostified that aa excellent and faithful { the seaside metropolis, Wendell Phillips as the National Helot For the common run of sensible people there is reassurance and comfort in the tact that Wendell Phillips is in favor of Genoral Grant and plenty of paper money. There will come up from time to time in the pub ie consciousness doubts of the wisdom, pr>- priety, generosity, justice of any course taken. However you go in the woods you will have misgivings till you come to the opening, where you get a glimpse of some familar evi- dence that you are right—some hill or mill or steeple—or till you bear the ugly snarl of » well known cur or the sound of the cracked bell on the factory. Thus people would re member the sentiment they bad toward Grant when he was identified with our best hopes in the war, and they might say he was entitled to more consideration than to be cast aside, even out of deference to a sacred tradition of the Republic. There would also be occa- sions when, despite of political economy and the hard experience of every age of the world, people would speculate as to whether or no it was fully wise to neglect these paper money dreamers, as to whether or no they werg not like some other dreamers—Columbus or De Gama—and whether a sail with them might not have led us to new worlds in finance. But whon Phillips comes out for Grant and paper money the reassurance that wo are right in rejecting both is as thorough as would be the sound of the cracked factory bell as an indicator of our whereabouts in the woods, Phillips is a positive quantity in our politics, He represents the possible political lunacy of the American people, and he takea a pride in giving to this possible lunacy ita extremest utterance. He is therefore ono of the safest guides the people have, so long aa they always understand that his way mad- ness lies, and that the course to take is tha one most opposed to what he urges. Sunsume iw Spary.—The recent Madrid papers give us a report of the speech of tha young King Alfonso delivered on ths occasion of the opening of a market erected by an English firm in Madrid. Notwithstanding the country was oppressed by civil war His Majesty saw in the building otf thess ‘‘splen- did monuments" indications.of the sere pros- perity of Spain. Ho called upon all thoss who heard him to unite in putiing an end to the internecine strife and secure that peaca which would certainly restore to Spain her ancient prosperity. We confess that the build- ing of a market house in Madrid is a better indication of progross than anything we have heard from that capital torsome time, If His Majesty would give more money to practical works like this and to the encouragement of foreign capital than to the subvention of the salaried army and the hired Church, in tha end Spain would not only redeem her ancient prosperity, but find herself embarked upon a career so splendid that, compared with it, even that of Charles V. would bo pale and dim. Parvate Liserauiry.—Mr. Thomas Charlea Baring, M. P., from South Essex in England, and one of the great Baring family, has an- nounced his intention to rebuild Hertford Colleze, in Oxford, and to add to its endow- ments. ‘he English journals, in noting this fact, credit Mr. Baring “with a zeal and liberality worthy the munificence of an age famous for its devotion to learning." PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Exnibit Jersey vity water operations, Xibit whole system of Mining operations. Ohio wili perhaps make It necessary Wo reiuro t@ State systeu, “One is taught to cook, but he is born to roest,” especially with the thermometer at 115, Brigadier General njamia W. Brice, United ie Hotel Branswt glow Teme ZaAaivar 1s Seyyid not to be o suite, And if chin iE Hamitie PBartie Frore ta responsible. Sefior Vor’ Joan B. Dalla Costa, Minister for Venezuela at Washington, arrived last evening at the Brevoort House. The Rev. Newiand Maynard, rector of St. Pants chareh, Brook\ya, satied for Europe yesterday in the steamsnip Utopia. Vice President Wilson Ieft the city last evening | for Long Branch, to apend the Sabbath with George W. Cotlds. He will return to the city to-morrow morning. In Remusat’s papers they have found adrama entitiea “Heloise and Abelard,” written, of course, before he Knew which path to life be would probably take. Postmaster General Jowell and Chief Speciat Agent Woodward returned to Washington on Fri- day nignt from their tour of on-er West and Southwest, and were att! the Post Office Department yesterday. Count Michacloff, the celebrated engineer, M. Zviaginzed, of St. Petersburg, Russia, are io Montreal. They visit this country for the purpose of inapecting the canals at ‘atiroads, General George A. Forsyth nas, upon the recom mendation of Lientenant General Sheridan, beem | ordered by the War Department to Europe on | business connected with the military service, Anew edition of the valuable household work, by Miss Jalia ©. Anarews, entitied ‘Breakfast, Dinner and Tea,” Is about to be offered to tne public througa ber publishers, Messra. Appietom & Co. A King of the Cannibal Isiants has jnst died im | Paris, where he bad !ived many years comfortably on money earned by exhibiting himself im this country aiter the Eaglish drove him out of bis own. By decree of the Italian government no foreiga ship in Italian waters is permitted to ase the potatoes it has on board ualess the whole suppiy 1s Washed under the supervision of the author- iues. Rastoml and his nineteen companions escaped from their cap' boat Waich they secro\ly butit in a cavern @ exiremity of the Isle of Pines. None of the party were sailors, and they put to sea im their crasy craft ou a very stormy night. It ts recorded that M. Thiers once had nis hat knocked of vy some Axiures tn fromt of @ shop to Parts, and he was 80 pleased with the fact that he was too tail for once in his life that he often revised tie shop and became # regular customer, Commodore Vanderbilt says he had a good in- tention once, He intended to give the city $5,000,000 In form of a rapid transit road; but he bas changed his mind. No matter why; for when ® man intends to change bis mind te can always find reesons. New Caledonia 4eeis the benefit of the iabor of her Paris convicts. The cigarettes manufactured there with the native tobacco arein great demand at Sidney and Melbourne, #04 are preverred in att Australia to the similar productions of tae Bogiisn colony. They are already being exported to the Cape, to india and Japan. Tne Belgian Parliament has enacted that “the proposition to undertake an attempt io the injury \s of aoouer, and the Menace of such on atvempt xpose the person Making it to a severe | penalty. ” This refers to Duchesne’s propostion | im regard to Bismarck, wich conid oot te | panwshed under (he Belgian jaw, and so led to re presentations from Germany that che |awa shoud pe mended in Us rosDeGs,