The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK NERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and ‘piter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the Nzw Yorx Hxnaxp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every | ay in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic flespatches must be addressed New Yoru fen. Letters and packages should be properly Bealed. \ Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK ' HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, WARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be wreceived and forwarded on the same terms jas in New York, Soar = NOLUME X ie a AMUSEMENTS WoOD's MUSEUM, roadway, corner of (birtieth street-—THE DOCTOR'S UaTH, ats P. M.; closes at Ui) P.M. Matinee ava 2. M MER GARDEN, RAND POPULAR CON. |. Matinee at2 P.M. GILMORE!'s SI late Barnum’s Hippodrome. CERT, al 52. 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There NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1875—TRIPLE SHERT, ] Emgland and the Peace of Kurope. ‘The English people are passing through one of those phases of excitemont and speculation which every now and then fall upon a free people like a panic, and which have peculiarly marked the stolid calm English character at certain periods of its history, There was a Napoleonic panic during the time of Pitt, when it was thought that the great Emperor was about to leap from the heights of Boulogne into the plains of Kent and to seize the capital before the people could strike a blow. There was the panic in the time of Louis Philippe, about the period when M. Thiers was Minister and Syrian questions were agitating the two countries ond the Duke of Wellington was 80 much concerned about the safety of the kingdom. There was the panic of Napoleon TIL, when it was thought that the am- bition of the restless Emperor, flushed with triumphs in Russia and Italy, would seck to avenge the wrongs of Waterloo. It was then that the poets mourned over the “long, long canker of peace,” ‘the peace that was fall of wrongs and shames,"’ when a Tennyson called on the “riflemen to form” against the French £mperor. There was the panic which came after Sedan. This was inspired by the genius of a famous pamphlet called the “Battle of Dorking,” in which a patriotic essayist pic- tured the conquest of England by a Prussian army. It seems from the tone of the English press that the people are now emerging from another panic about Germany and Belgium. Essay- ists ask, What could England have done tosave Belgium or protect France in the event of sudden war? What power could she exert in defence ot her guarantee of the inde- pendence of Belgium? What influence could she oppose to the march of the German battal- ions from the fortresses of Strasburg and Metz should ambition or interest lead them into tho tions which have been addressed to the English mind by the newspapers, and which find ex- pression in Parliamentary speeches. They have been powerful enough to bring out Lord Russell from bis retirement to endeavor to revive the war cries against France which ani- The cause of the recent panic has been France andGermany. The English stood by, acquiescent, during the war, in the main well pleased at the idea of France, which had been the terror of their fathers and grandfathers, the France of Napoleon and the Papacy, being trampled into the dust by the descendants of the Protestant Frederick, their ally at Waterloo, This moment of complacency passed away when England found as mistress of Europe, in place of France, a mightier, sterner, more resolute and: more implacable power. The Napoleon who was stricken to the earth at Sedan was, after all, an English who knew the English character and institu- tions, and whose soldiers had fought side by side with the soldiers ot England in defence the Black Sea. The Bismarck who rose in his place cared nothing for England except so far as her policy served his purpose. The result of the fall of Napoleon was that Belgium, Hol- land and Denmark, and even Switzerland, were open to the armies of theGerman. Ger- was no way for England to reach her, even in defence of her allies. As Frederick the Great said on one occasion, when the prospect of a war between England and Prussia was dis- cussed, it would be as easy for Prussia to fight psmal. fl Areas’. aS my "Tue Miyers have resumed work in the | high region, and we hope that we have | uheard the last of that wearisome strike. Tae Cononavo Brrtiz has reached West- jehester and Staten Island, and the farmers in Mhose localities have already had reason to be ‘plarmed at the visit. Neagry four bunodred thousand dollars Wave been voted by the French Assembly for fhe relief of the sufferers by the floods in the Garonne valley. The Deputies also will sub- cribe to the fund. | Taz Brooxtrn Jury receives more pity ow than the principals in the trial. Why br send those excellent twelve men to Long ranch, so that they may deliberate in com- ort and at their leisure? _ Tae Spawisa Fizer has bombarded the | Carlists at two of the northern ports; but ‘these positions are not of vital importance. his war has lasted even longer than the | WBeecher trial, yet it has not done half as anuch harm. In Anorent Tomes Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton would bave had to fight with lances on orseback, and the victor would have been declared to have right on Lis side. If the jury should disagree we suggest that this test adopted; and whata crowd there would be ‘to aee the knightly battle ! Tar Awtr-Taumeny short-Leirs’ meeting | Bast night was very carnest aud outspoktn ‘one, a8 will be seen 'y our report of the reso- Wations, and speeches. This muvement | ithrentens to be dangerous to the present | democratic organization in New York. Tria sy Jury is » noble institution, but it Bppears to be a very ancertain method of ar- @iving at the truth. The twelve jurors now 4n the Brooklyn Court House are gentlemen | English ond Russian minds. Before we | few months because he robbed the city of | of average intelligence, but who would be | willing to submit his personal trouble to their decision? The fact is, justice is bard to get | ©n earth, and juries are Taz Doo Laws.—Mr. Henry Bergh has ddreesed a letter to the Board of Aldermen | w#rguing against the re-cnactment of the ordi- mance for muzzling dogs. Mr. Bergh has not fmmuch faith in hydropbobia, and so far as he protests against the wholesale slaughter of be dogs which was caused by the panic Dust summer he has a show of justice on ‘his side. Costom House Fravps are not confined to | ‘tie dry goods trade, but other importing | Vmnches are thought to contain dishonest | ‘firs who are desirous to deprive the gov- ‘ersment of its just revenne. The crockery m rehants have been recently excited by the | 4) covery of frauds ia their line ef importing, ont the particulars ore given elsewhere, "0 reputation of New York is not increased ‘Ly these revelations, but where the importing | we have the strange rumor of an alliance be- | now seems that Germany would have resorted | | be sincerely in sympathy with each other. England as for a dog to fighta fish. Eng- land's strength would be nothing arrayed against Germany. She has at best o small army. Germany has very few ports. Upon land she is invincible. As military men clearly see, the influence of England in pro- tecting the sovereignty of Belgium would be nothing, and the result of the downfall of Napolcon bas been to place the minor Powers of Europe at the mercy of the conqueror of Sedan. Out of this panic and this feeling of anxiety tween Russia and England. Our latest Lon- don papers detail to us the intimate relations | that have arisen between Russia and England | and the satisfaction they give to the people of both countries. Russians and Englishmen congratulate one another upon their success in compelling Germany to keep the peace, It to war against France to reduce her armament had it not been for what the Russian news- paper Golos says—‘‘iriendly advice tendered by Russia and England—advice which the Ger- man government could not ignore."’ This | journal says explicitly that if Russia had ap- | proved ‘‘the opinions expressed in the highest Berlin circles’’ the German regiments ‘“‘at | this time would be preparing to invade France, But Russia, seconded by England, did not approve.” Russia informs us she does not care for war. She was willing enough to enter into an alliance with Austria | and Germany, but this alliance bas not sur- | vived ‘the tension put upon it,” In other | words, the necessities of the three contracting Powers are too much at variauce for them to So in place there has arisen on English and | Russian alliance. } It is curious to note the interest which the rumor of each a relation excites in | were told that the two nations must sooner | or later come to antagonism in Asia, | and that upon the plains of India, | | on the battle fields of Aloxande?, they would | dispute the supremacy of the world. Now we learn that Rassia never dreamed of invading | India; that even Asia is large enough for the development of English and Russian inter- | ests; that there is work enough in that vast | | Continent for both people, and that after once | reaching an understanding as to the nature of | that work they will strike hands to insure | peace in Europe, ‘We sheuld welcome,” | anys the Golos, “the revival of the Russo- | English alliance with unqnalified delight—a delight we are sure whfch is cordially suared by Rassian cultivated society at large." Of course the time-honored statesmen of the British Empire, men like Lord Ruesell, born in the Napoleonic times and imbued with | the fierce traditions of Waterloo, look with resentment upon any alliance that would | make England, even to a remote degree, the friend of France. We question if it is possi- | byosiness is so enormous of course there is mach opportunity for irregularity. ble for the navy of England or the armies of | Russia to keep Germany quiet shonild that | would not be bestowed upon one who ig ua- | general discontent among nations, which fad ~~ country resolve upon an enterprising policy. At the same time the alliance between Eng- land and Russia means virtually an alliance between Austria, France and Italy. It is not to the interest of either of these countries that Germany should become too great. In fact, the policy of these Continental nations has been when any one of them attained eminence for the others to unite and pull it down, We do not marvel that Germany should find herself menaced by alliances as imposing as those which in time overwhelmed the great Napoleon. If Germany can learn from this lesson, from the rebuke she has just received from Russia and Englind, that even to victo- rious empires there is no purpose higher than justice and no policy more advantageous than moderation, it will be well for the peace of Europe, well for the happiness of the world and no less a blessing to this new German Empire, this United Germany which has grown into being amid the sympathies of all free nations and which we should sincerely regret to see wrecked upon the shcals of inordinate ambition. Rapid Transit. It is announced that His Honor the Mayor will to-day appoint the commissioners who are to carry out the provisions of the Husted bill. This will be the first real step toward rapid transit. We have the iullest confidence that His Honor will name commissioners worthy ot the confidence of the people. What we have to avoid is the conflicting powers who have no interest in rapid transit but to stab it, The danger in the past has been that rapid transit has been given over to the hands of its enemies. In- stead of an honest measure calculated to benefit the city and add to the comfort of the people we have had smothered charters whose usefulness came to an end as soon as they served the interest ot the proprietors of rival corporations. Rapid transit in New York has really be- come a simple matter. We have now a steam line from the Battery to Thirty-fourth street. It isa tolerably fair line, and does its work well, It might be largely improved and so built as to inspire more confidence in those who live within its radius. But it is something. It grows from day to day. Its managers have shown a desire to accommodate the people. They are now building new stations, new switches and run- ning trains more frequently. It may be looked upon as a thorough success as far as it goes. We have rapid transit also from Forty- second street to the Harlem River through the Fourth avenue improvement, one of the finest modern works of engineering. This Fourth avenue improvement was largely built by the city of New York to benefit Commodore Vanderbilt and his railroads. We have not only built the improvement, but we gave him the site for his depot. Therefore we have some claim on the Fourth avenue improve- ment for rapid transit, a moral claim, at least, which, we think, the Commodore will only be too glad to respect. There is no reason why a quick local line should not run through this improvement. There are four tracks and places at different poi.te for stations, so that the cars might stop at every ten blocks on the | way up the island and every station between here and New Rochelle. Now, all we need as a first step toward repid transit in New York is to connect the Elevated Railway with the Forty-second street depot. This can be done in ninety days by running the elevated line down Forty-fifth or Forty-sixth street, or by running it down Thirty-second street andconnecting with the tunnel. This would be rapid transit immediately, the beginning of a sound system. a system of improvements that will make New York wortby of its position as the queen city of America. We need rapid transit trom the Battery to Westchester. We need a tunnel under the Hudson River, so as to bring upon this island all the railroads that come from the South and West We need a bridge over the East River, so as to bind more closely tothe mother city that great and beautiful and growing suburb, Brooklyn, Wé want to make New York one city, and embody in that metropolitan union Brooklyn, Newark, Staten Island, Williams- burg, Hoboken, Jersey City and Westchester. There is no reason why this should not be one metropolis with two millions of souls instead of being broken up into a dozen dif- ferent municipalities, standing in each other's way, interfering with the general welfare of all. Tweed as a Hero, No one, we think, would willingly add a sorrow to those which rest upon the prisoner 1m Ludlow Street Jail. It is due to him to say that, instead of running away like Sweeny and Connolly and others who were associated with him in the great crimes for which he suffered, he has stood up and met every de- mand of justice. Nor do we ask for Tweed any punishment more severe than that be- stowed upon others who have committed sim- ilar crimes. But we do not believe in this attempt to make a hero of him; these inter- views in newspapers, especially with a person like the much-talking Major Quincy, whose | views of law, ag recently expressed in the Henatp, are as lucidas those of Dogberry and Verges—these attempts to make sym- pathy for “the old man” are utterly un- worthy. Mr. Tweed hes been in prison fora New York of millions of dollars, Yet there is scarcely a month in which Recorder Hackett does not send some poor devil to the Peni- tentiary for ten or twenty years fora crime that does not begin to compare with those of Tweed in real magnitude. If William M. Twoed twenty or thirty years ago, as o struggling chairmaker, before he became a politician, had stolen oa ham or an overcoat he would have been sent to jail without mercy, and kept there until his time expired. Why should a differ- ent treatment be given to William M. Tweed, who, as a ruler of New York, the chief of a great city, with control of a victorious party, and trusted with the largest public con- fidences, deliberately robbed, plundered, de- based the city for his own gain and for that of his associates? This is what Tweed hus done! Jn plain words he has proved himself to be the monu- mental thief When his friends seek to make a hero of him, and appeal to our sympathies to parade him as a martyr, they invite a judgment which What we want is | of the nineteenth century. | the law. The application to reduce his bail, postponed till Wednesday, is not to be urged upon any basis of sympathy, but purely on grounds of justice and security to tho city. Tweed cannot expect mercy from the public in New York until he returns to the treasury a part of the millions he stole from it If he had given the half million dollars to the city that he squandered upon lawyers and blackmailers he would be in a better condition to excite our sympathy and respect, Ho is, after all, the convicted, punished thief, whose crime has attained every degree of baseness, whose name has be~ come a stigma upon the American character and the fame of Now York. There is no pos- | sibility of making him-a hero. The Herald and the Rifle Match, We copy this morning from the Bvening Telegram of yesterday fac-similes of the highest scores selected from the practices of Friday and Saturday last of the Irish and American teams at Dollymount, showing the numorical order and exact location of each shot on the target, with the scoring appended. We shall to- morrow give in the same manner a full report of the international match between the Irish and American teams, which will take place to-day. The feat of publishing by cable next morning a fac-simile of the targets is not only 4 novel incident, but an event in journalism. The reader of these accompanying diagrams will have an idea of what we hope to give to the public in the Hmmaxp of to-morrow. By aspecial system of telegraphic target report- ing, secured under letters patent, which has been elaborated with great care and at great expense, it will be possible to present to the public, not only the result of the shooting, but an exact fac-simile of the target made by each contestant at the end of the match. concerned timely warning of the exclusive privilege secured and how it will be applied. An event of this kind is not only an incident, but one of the responsibilities of journalism. When the cable was laid across tbe Atlantic Ocean it was well said that it de- stroyed the special correspondent. It became the duty of the independent press and of every journal that claimed to be any way representative of the two countries to publish from day to day the events of the Old World as well as thoso of the New. A simple barren narrative of the champion match at Dollymount would be interesting to all who cared anything about the controversy between the two countries. When, instead of this, the resources of science and of enterprise make it possible for us to not simply give a narrative of the event that will take place to-day, but to present to the eye an exact picture of the achievement, we cannot fail to note it as a step in the gigantio progress of modern journalism in ao free country. From the cable despatches we publish this sent our country are in good form and are cheerful as to the result of the contest. The | men selected to oppose them are, with two ex- ceptions, members of the team who were de- feated at Creedmoor last year. that the air of Ireland bas an excellent effect on these gentlemen, for they have managed to defeat Mr. Rigby, who attracted a great deal of attention here 3 a@ steady and reliable marksman. It is perhaps to be regretted that Mc. Rigby, who led the Irish score in the | last international match, should have failed to secure a place on the new team, while Messrs. Milner and Johnson, who made far inferior scores in the same match, have been lucky enough to win places in the new team. In Messrs, Wilson and Hamilion the Americans are certain to find formidable adversaries. Both sre brilliant and re- liable shots, while of the two new men Mr. McKenna promises to be a realiy dan- gerous antagonist. It is, however, question- able whether he is as reliable a marksman as Mr. Rigby, whom he replaces. One of the peculiar features of the present contest is the disappearance of a large number of the best known Irish riflemen, not because they were unwilling to take part in the contest, but be- | cause fortune seemed to settle on the banners of the younger competitors. It remains to be seen whether the new men will prove more formidable than those they have displaced. In the meantime we have to thank onr hospitable Irish friends for their generous welcome to our compatriots. It little matters upon which side the honors fall in a strife like this. They are the only controversies that should be per- mitted in modern civilization. It would be a blessing beyond estimate if there should never be a difference between the two coun- tries more serious than that which will ani- mate the gallant men who will to-day strive for the championship at Dollymount. We trust that success will attend our American team ; but we would be very well content to see the honor go to their chivalrous and skilled opponents. The Ven-Lined Spearman, The potato, that esculent which Sir Walter Raleigh introduced to a grateful world and which bas done so much for the civilization of mankind, has been menaced for several | years by a most relentless foe. Our fears are excited lest there be no more potato forever, Just at present it isan even chance between | the bug and the vegetable, though in some gloomy sections of the country the bng is a litle ahead. The succulent stems of this humble plant, on which the digestive hopes of the generation depend, seem to come up from the ground in a hide-and-seek sort of fashion, as though life were held by a very | uncertain tenure. A most excruciating du- | biousness hangs about the whole crop of this | year, and we are at present fluttering between | | the hope that our Shenangoes will be able to | hold their own in the conflict of natural selec- tion between the plant and the worm, and the fear lest the potato, and not the bug, will be driven to the wall. The interests of appetite which are at stake simply appalling. With the extermination of the potato the culinary genius of the world is prostrated. The trinmph of the bug moralization of the cools involves a universal loss of temper, since tae seat of good nature is the stomach, and this catastrophe may bring such rumors of wars and excite such fortnnate enough fo be under the duress of | it hard to keep on peaceable terms under the which came up yesterday in court and was | Thus we give the public and all | morning it will be seen that those who repre- | It would seem | in the conflict aro | most favorable circumstances, that Heaven only knows what and how far-reaching the consequences may be if the worm wins. The inwardness of mankind shudders at the pros- | pect, The song of the doomed agriculturist is fading away—fading away as he marks the victorious and resistless march of his enemy and ours. Henceiorth the plebeian potato will be an aristocrat in the market, no longer the sole necessity of the poor, but the luxury of the rich, Instead of being regarded as a common vegetable and used only as the priv- ileged companion of roast beef and spring lamb, it will be dignified ag a frait, christened with a new name, and constitute a whole course at the fashionable dinner. We should bo glad to give a detailed history of the arch enemy of mankind known as the potato bug, but farmers have at present little leisure to study its habits, and possibly as little inclination. As a class they are not in a particularly equable frame of mind just now. They are smarting under the conscious- ness that they are raising a crop not for o remunerative trade with city markets, but for the unsatisfactory purpose of satisfying the voracious appetites of an army of beetles. It may be urged by sceptics that the farmer is always in a state of chronic discontent, and it is true that he has a larger capacity of finding fault with Old Prob than any other class of men. A really happy farmer has never ex- isted, and probably never will until some shrewd Yankee gets a weather contract and runs the season on commission. But in the present emergency there is areal sorrow in which we all have an interest. The extent of this sorrow will be better appreciated, per- haps, whon we stato the enormous capacity for reproduction which this cunning foe, whose name is doryphora decemlineata, possesses. It is a curious fact, by the way, that the more pestiferous the insect the larger seems to be its capacity in this direction. A curious scientist, whose mathomatical development is astounding, tells us that an ordinarily active pair of these ten-lined spearmen can produce in a single season something like sixty million lively duplicates of themselves. What a pity that some prophetic fingers had not caught the first pair, the original cause of the devastation of these many years and saved the potato, But this was not to be, and now poor little children get a penny a pint for eggs and beetles, and drive a thriving trade on the misery of the farmers. Well, tempora mutantur, and so have pota- toes. Life is hardly worth having without them. We can give up our summer vacation and the delights of the rural brook, the fly rod and the cloud of mosquitoes; we can part with our country cousins and bid a tender farewell to the indispensable mother-in- law with heroio fortitude, but when it comes to giving up potatoes we weaken, we suffer spasms abdominal and shrink back with in- ward horror. It is, however, necessary that every generation should have some discipli- nary affliction, and ours seems to have as- sumed the shape of the cheery grasshopper and the silent potato bug. The Beecher Jury—Let This Be End, The time has gone by when a verdict in the Beecher case can have any significance. Had the jury come into court on Friday morning with a judgment either for the plaintiff or de- fendant it would have carried with it a cer- tain weight of authority with the friends of both parties, as well as have been conclusive ot the legal aspect of the case. Now a ver- dict is mo more than o disagreement, and a disagreement has been the result which was generally anticipated during the six months of the trial The moral interests involved are so great that no jury can be expected to give the proofs an unbiassed consideration; and even if the case had not been one where the jurors are almost certain to be controlled by their sympathies, the testimony was so voluminous that no average jury could grasp it sufficiently to reach an intelligent conclusion. The only use of the trial was to settle the case with something of judicial fairness and authority, but the hope of such a determina tion was dissipated as soon as it became ap- | parent that counsel had resolved upon a policy of elaboration. One side was not more at fault than the other for prolonging the cause. The Court allowed the utmost lati- tude in the admission of evidence, and both plaintiff and defendant on all occasions availed themselves of the utmost limits of proof. This policy was justifiable, perhaps, in the legal aspects of the case, but it defeated | the one great object of the trial—the deter- | mination by a judicial investigation whether Henry Ward Beecher had been guilty of adultery. That is @ question which no ver- dict and no court can settle now; and so all these weary months of inquiry and invective have been wasted upon issues which must await the solemn judgment of posterity. The jury is, perhaps, not much to blame for the course it has pursued since the case was submitted for judgment. It is true the mystery which hangs about the jury room and the Jong-continued delay, without any sign of impatienee from either side, are some- thing remarkable in themselves; but 4he par- | ties and the counsel and the Court have ali | set an example to the jury of making the most | of this case, and so we need not be surprised | when the twelvo honest gentlemon who are | to pass upon the facta take their own time in finding the truth in this matter or failing to find it. There may be another aspect to this delay, however, upon which we can look with less satisiaction, No reasoning can justify a | majority of the jury in an endeavor to coerce the minority into agreeing upon a ver- dict. Such verdict would be even more useless fo the defendant than to) | the plaintiff. Indesd, it would open up new | grounds of bickering and dissatisfaction, amd | still more completely unsettle a case which it now scems no human judgment can eettle. It this is what the delay means—and it seems highly probable in view of al) the circum- stances—it iw as unfortunate ti itself and must prove as serfous a blow to the jury sys- tem as have been the scandal and the whole course of the trial to the public morals and the | administration of justice, Whatever may be the verdict now, the case | is at an end. A disagreement is only the the ees. Se Se eee sides have been heard, and it is plain their proofs can bother, but not\gonvince, a jury. Failing to get his verdict last Jriday, it mat- ters not to Mr. Beecher whether he ever gets it; in no case can his lot be better or worse. The same thing is true of Tilton, and we con- fess we never want to hear of him again. Vir- tually both parties to this issue have been defeated, and if they are wise they will leave their cause to the judgment of the generation which is to come after them. Neither of them has anything to hope from the courts, and though it may not much conduce to the happiness of either, the general good de- mands that they shall cease their warfare, letting the dead past bury its dead. As re- gards the jury, we have no opinion nor even & wish to express. It may come into couré to-day, or next week, or next year, with a ver- dict or without one, but whatever its action it is all the same, for the Beecher jury is as dead as if it belonged to the Middle Ages. Joun Burowr.—We are intormed that Mr. John Bright is about to imitate the example of General Sherman, and to publish at am early day a momoir of his times. Mr. Bright can hardly be supposed to have survived his political ambition, although his health for a long time has been of such character as to make his retirement from public life not improb- able, It is generally observed in statesmen abroad that they mark their retirement from the public service by writing their own history. At the same time there is no man whose con- tribution to the political literature of the time would be more valuable than Mr, Bright's. He has had a stormy, illustrions, and, in many respects, a successful career. Ho hag never sacrificed the right for the expodient, He championed ,the cause of free trade in England against the aristocracy, and was tho friend of the Union in America when opposed by the same influences We trust that the ru- mor of his memoirs is well founded. There is no publication that we should welcome with more pleasure than the recollections of this renowned and virtuous statesman. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mojor Green Ford, of Dover, England, is in town. Paris has thirty-nine “journals,” but no news. papers. Paris papere tell of rabid dogs, rabid horses and Fabia cata. 5 “Unser Frirz's” eldest son will enter the Bava-~ rian infantry. - State Senator Roswell A. Parmenter, of ‘troy, is sojourning at Barnum’s Hotel. General KE. ©, Walthall, of Mississipp!, is among the late arrivals at the Everett rouse, President Grant will attecd the Princeton an nual Ooimmencement on Wednesday next. Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connectl- cut, 18 residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General George A, Sheridan, of Loutsiana, bas taken up bis residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Anthony Higgins, United States District At toruey for Delaware, bas arrived at the Albemarle Hotel. Mr. Richard Pearson, United States Consul at Verviers and Litge, Belgium, is staying at the Unioa Square Hotel. Secretary Robeson left Washington on Saturday evening last for Rye Beach, N. H., with his family. Te will return early next week, © There is & Chinese oMcer of distinction in Eng- land, sent to inquire into the manner of working coal mines, for application of te system in Ohtna, Mr. Kilbourne Tompkins has published a@ most beautiful edition of Volsriage’s “Rime of An- cient Mariner,” with twenty remarkably fine Hlas trations by Noel Paton, R. 3, A. Files are the scavengers of vitiated air, where they fatten on the parasites that settie upon them iu myriads; while they grow leau and starve ina pure atmosphere where their fayoriie game te ecarce. Tue Emperor of Austria has aceepted the dedl- cation of Herr Julius Payer’s work on the Austro- Hnogarian North Pole expedition, and granted from bis privy purse 4,000 forins for the puolica- tion of tt That Prince Bismarck retires from public lufe Is certain ; but diplomatic Europe ts In doubt whether this 1s a temporary congé or whether he {9 out permanently because of the final triumph of infla- ences hostile to his predominance, A fatal duel wita pistols took place at Heidel. berg, on (he 12th inst., between two students, M. Riedel, of Stralsund, belonging to the “West. phalian Union,” and another, @ member of the ‘gaxo-Borussia."” The former fell dead at the first exchange of shota, Jn London the so-called Sultan of Zanzibar was mach astonisue the display of flowers, car- riages and gay dresses in the park. “Verily,” he remarked to Dr. Badger, “the present world te uudonbtediy yours; whether the next will be yours aiso 18, to say the least, uncertain.” Theolugical England bas been startled by the fact that Mr. Gladstone had apparently put the prophet Dante] tn the same fire with Meschach, Sbadrach and Abednego in a p: ye in an article on Prince Albert; but the religious world is re- heved now twat is ts denied that Mr, Giadstone wrote the article. Among thé in'@ arrivais at the Long Branch hotels are the foliowing:—At Howland’s—Gover- hor Tilden and staff, Generals Van Viet, Van Allen, Cadwallader and Biddle; Bradley Marten, [esvac Sherman and Dr. Markoe, At the Ucean— George P. Otis, General B. W. Blanchard, Dr. R, G. Radway, Cornell Jewell, 0. M. Tooy, of New York; Colone! James M. Bennett and Colonel BL F. Ponetien. Harper # Bros. annonnee for this month, “Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast," by Samuel Adams Drake; ‘Tne Character and Logical Metho4 of Political Economy," oy Profes- vor J. Cairnes; Oarlyle's “Early Kings 0; Norwa: ‘i@ying the Misenie!,” by J. W. De For. eat, and “Biuo Beara’s Keys,” oy Mias Thackeray. Later tuis drm wil! bring ont, “Might and Mirtp of Literature,” by J. W. Macvetn, and the “Life of Jonathan Swift,” by Forster. This book was begua Dolore the Dickens’ viography, and is said to do its weiter more credit, Foyton will probably fai! 1 Enrope if he applies for pacents, because it is pointed out that nw dress 1s described by Lycophron, who wrote tn the third century 8. C. That poet explains very clearly now, at the time of the deluge of Deuca- Darecanus, having bis body wrappei upin® e of skins, blown out with air, like # leather bottle, swam, propelling himsei! by » atn- gle oar, toward the coast of Troy, where he founded the c1ty of Dardania. Among the Nineveh marbles at the Dritisa Museam there is a bas relict representing the manner in which (he tnnabitants of that cliy crossed tue river with leather bags in- flaied. Dean Strniey, at the anaual banquet of the Newspaper Press Fand in Lo said he some- times thought whata word “leader” was if they really dived into its meaniog. T are some chapters in the Koran calied tne "yerrific Sarasa,” it is said, the prophet’s Dair tarned white night while he was composing them. He thought the “terrific Suras’ of our modern joarnals mast be th Jers composed in the dead of bight on some heart-stirring event with resuits whieh might shake the najiou. What responsi bitity, what labor Could be greater than that? It gecmed to him to be One of the most unattatnabie, anapproachabie pivcos of buman workmanship twat could be Couceived, Speaking for a moment is the consternation of ¢he cook. The de- | logical consequence of the trial as it was, and | of himself, When Ne thought what an eifort It cost of necessity had to be, conducted. There must not be another trial in any event, and we are | free to confess there would be as much neces sity for a new trial with a verdict for the de fondant ga withagt a verdict at ail, Both nim to write even a single letter, anonymous or otherwise, to one of our great journais, address ing bimseifto the whole reading pubite of England, he Gould not reflect how incaicuinbiy greater must be the effort of those efusious a wuica be ad Just spoken,