The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1875, Page 6

6 iEW YORK HERALD ‘y ~ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, JAMES NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly e&itions of the New Yorr Henawp will be ent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every \day in the year. Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per Smonth, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic {@eepatches must be addressed New Yous ED. Letters and packages should be properly {pealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tumed. ‘LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, TARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be yreceived and forworded en the same terms ‘as in New York, — = WOLUME XLeeee oes seeeeseee i == sreeeeesNO, 181 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. GYLMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, Piste Barnum's Hippodrome.—GRAND POPULAR CON. KR, at SP. ML; closes at 11 Matinee at 2 P.M. 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From our reports this morning the probabililies partly cloudy, with possibly light rain, Ne Ey ly tig Persons gowng out of town for the summer can Yave the daily and Sunday Hxnary mailed to hem, free of postage, for $1 per month. wctive, but in some instances ehowed an up- Ward tendency. Gold was firm at 117}. $Money abundant at the usual rates. , Now for the Centennial return rifle match Ju 1876. Turner Appzars to be a dissension in the PFire Boord; but there ty still greater dissen- Bion between the unpaid firemen and their Jereditors. Tux Cooure Trapres in China ridicule the Jidca ot a proclamation denouncing their un- Jowfcl business; but they laugh only atter an beings, f the Commencement Beason was begun ye y. Our reports of fhe exercises in several local institutions and wt Yale and Lafayette colleges will be found §nteresting. Tax Srcoxp Wrex Tax Covnsex of William M. Tweed yester- Yhy attempted to have the indictments '. st their client set aside. Judge Brady isely reserved his decision on this point, owever. Cana has determined to be fully repre- ented at the American Centennial Exhibition. ‘The general government has appropriated Porty thousand taels to defray expenses, and Yhe local government of Hong Kong proposes fo send ten thousand tuels’ worth of silks and porcelain, Toe Hantem Frats bave at iength received — attention by the Board of Health. [wo feet of fresh earth is to be spread over fhe postilential district, There is no time to be lost in havin, s order of the Board car- Fied out, if we fs the Disbecker garhe e thre: » a or rather of was opened yesterdsy Tas Covrr or An ponsular juriedictior fn Egypt by the K Rentatives. is is e most important tribunal Yor the interes{s pow be able*to ap Justice in case of attempted violation of their sights by the natives. Yecome sc accustomed to marine calamities Jor which it is impossible to trace any respon- pibility that the different result in the Schiller Base will perhaps be received with decided Batisfaction. It is determined by the inquiry here that the discipline of the ship was at Poult, and that the o Mavigation at the e the ship struck are Wirectly responsible for ber loss. It is a re- Plection that must have its poignant side to Bhose who had friends on board that if the Sailing directions with regard to the tise of @ho lead had been acted on the discovery jto « nphasize to the utmost their relation to case; for only thus can we secure, in r of the safety of other thoneands of pas- gors, the salutary influence of au example Be terribly Matinee ar2P.M, | {Falls, Saratoga, Leke George, Sharon and | fn their orders to the Himaup office as early as | jare that the weather to-day will be cooler and | Wat Srrzer Yestumpax.—Stocks were less | government has stopped the traffic in | to avoid a pestilence such | | this age than all the policy and craft of kings. | Tuz Loss or mm Scuuser.—People have | Ts intrusted with the | % ould inevitably have beon made that she | 4° ont of her course, and that discovery av id doubtless have saved her; but how- © such reflections may now superflaously Q ow the sensibilities of the bereaved it is | w iy to give them the widest publicity and SEW YUKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. The Rife Mateh at Del} smount. Last year when the American team won the international match at Creedmoor we all felt there was something of luck as well as much of skill in the victory, Then the score was an exceedingly high one on both sides, and the single point upon which the decision hung would have been reversed but for a mistake of one of our guests, Then, too, the Insh contended against munifold disadven- tages—in a new and strange country, after 4 long sea voyage and despite an overflowing hospitality, This year the conditions were re- versed. The Irish were the hosts and at home, while the Americans were compelled to endire the fatigues of travel and to undergo the not less enervating obligations of favored guests. There is no hospitality in the world like Irish hospitality, and the highest praise that can be accorded to it is an acknowledgment of the fact that the American team was able to win the match after accepting it, Both sides entered upon the contest at Dollymount yesterday in the best condition, and each side was quietly con- scious of its strength. The shooting was mar- vellous, and that the Irishmen shot so well makes the victory all the more gloriozs for the Americans. We scarcely expected s0 much good fortune, and while wo exult in it itis only in the spirit of gencrous rivalry and not from any mere vainglory. In his great drama Mr. Tennyson makes the French Ambassador at the English Court speak of a game of chess with Henry, King of France, and certain of his Court, In that day it would bave been wonderful if the French Minister, Noailles,; could truthfully have said to Courtenay, the English courtier, in mere plainness of speech :-— His spare makes his moves across the Chan- We answer him with ours, and there are mes sengers That go between us, In our day marvels such as these are multi- plied a thousand times, and nothing now depends Upon the skill and swiftness of the players, The messengers have the speed of the light ning, and not across a narrow channel merely, but over a wide ocean ere borne upon the in- stant all the great moves of the moment be- fore upon the chessboard of the world. When Noailles spoke to Courtenay of presumeble gemes of chess, which were whole years aplaying, America was a newly discovered country. The Pilgrim Fathers had not yet crossed the broad Atlantic to lay the foundations of o new empire in the West. ‘The unloosed lightning had not become the gentlest as well as the swiftest of messengers bearing from continent to con- tinent the tales of wonder with which each day is freighted and picturing them to the eye as well as conveying them to the ear. Nothing can more fitly illustrate the past than yesterday’s shooting et Dollymount, and the conceptions of the past only serve to illustrate the realities of the present. This day’s Henaup is the realization of a poet's dream. In the early morn of yesterday two rival parties, one the figurative representatives of allthe Irish kings that ever lived and ruled, | and the other the veritable sovereigns of a | mation born long after all those kings were | dead, met to contend for mastership in the archery of the age. Though the contest was a friendly one two worlds waited with im- patience to hear of the result, The story wo need not recount, for it is told in these col- umns both in pictures and in words. The new-found messenger which passes under the seas has brought us the history with every | fulness of detail, and, with unerring cer- | tainty, reveals to us besides the exact posi- tion on the targets of the five hundred and forty shots which were required to de- termine the relative merits of these | archers and the triumphs of this arch- ery. If we have any regret in our victory it | is that the honors were not more evenly divided. We should have preferred to | Let all our arehery fall off iu Wings of shot &’ bote sides of the van ot the same time that our rivals gave us one | for every one we took. Our victory was too | complete, and.this is our only discontent, | Ont of this great match and this sweeping | victory at Dollymount there comes another | | consideration which deserves a passing thought. In this new archery is the new | chivalry of a new age. Since the French | | Ambassador asked the courtly Courtenay toa | | game of chess across the Channel in | Queen Mary’s time, the New World | has its pawns to play, as well as the kings and princes of the Old. The new | nation has become a part of the culture of the old States, and it is through these interna- tional competitions that the new chivalry of | this modern civilization is diffused. Better | than the knight errantry of the past, these | | jousts are fruitful only of grand and gener- | | ous impulses and great good will. Europe | | brighter future for both parties to the games of choss that are played across the ebannels of the seas as the first fruit of this right royal welcome, Little need be said of the victory itself. We have good reason to feel proud of our country- men and we have a just pride in the honors they will bring home with them, We have a greater pride, however, in their steadiness of nerve than in their scores, and in their manly bearing than in their victory, while their un- successful competitors may take more satis- faction in our appreciation of their generous hospitality than they could have found in our defeat, Our success is the success of steady nerves and a sure aim, but theirs is the trinmph of generous impulses and an over- flowing hospitality. Mayor Wickham’s Procrastination. As His Hovor tho Mayor reads in the graphic cablo despatches published in the Hunarp how the Lord Mayor of London went in state to Dublin city and was wel- comed by the Lord Mayor of tho Irish metropolis, he will regret that he allowed 80 trivial a matter as a desire to review the Orangemen on the 12th of July to delay his contemplated visit to Europe. We presume that this is the only matier that could have kept the Mayor at home, because, as oug city government is now organized, the only tunctions left to the Mayor's office are the reviewing of Irish processions, All the political patronage is distributed by John Kelly, all the practical business is in the hands of Comptroller Green, all the power is wielded by Samuel J. Tilden. As Governor Tilden has expressed a desire to review the Orangemen himself, being a candidate for tho Presidency and anxions for all kinds of votes, and as he has gone so faras to purchase a suit of orapge trimmed with blue in which to perform this office, even that excuse for delay on the part of Mayor Wickham falls to the groynd, What a proud man he might have been yesterday morning, marching out to Dollymount with the Lord Mayor of Dublin upon the one side and the Lord Mayor of London upon the other, carrying in his hands the flag of his country, and telling the listening thousands of the glories of Bunker Hill! WH Peter B. Sweeny Come Home? As will be seen from our court reports, ap- plication has been made for an order direct- ing Peter B. Sweeny to return to New York to respond to the suits brought against him on behalf of the city. There seoms to be some difficulty in obtaining the address of Mr. Sweeny so as to serve upon him the legal notice, The matter has been compromised by a publication in the newspapers and the sending of the citation addressed simply to “Peter B. Sweeny, Paris.” This the Court holds to be a legal service of the complaint. We do not see how Mr. Sweeny can remain abroad and avoid the action thus brought against him without surrendering every claim that he ever has possessed to the respect of his fellow citizens. Ever since the fall of Tammany Tall there has been a disposition to believe that Peter B. Sweeny had been the victim of circumstances which he aimed to control, but which in time controlled him, It was argued that he was not of the same mould as Tweed or Connolly, and even Mr. Greeley certified him to be “q proud, towering spirit'’’—a man, for in- stance, of the type of Walpole, who, having high sims, was compelled to use corrupt means to accomplish them. We say this has been the feeling industriously encouraged by the friends of Mr. Sweeny. It has been strengthened by the fact that until this time there has been no legal charge against him. Suits and indictments have been prosecuted ogainst others, He bas escaped. There have been democrats who, remembering Mr, Sweeny’s prodigious political knowledge, his clearness of intellect, his ability of man- agement, his power over organizations, hoped that he might return to New York vindicated, strengthened and again master of the metrop- olis, If these hopes have been cherished they will soon fade away, unless Mr. Sweeny makes the only answer he can make to the suite brought against him and returns to New York in person to meet the indictments of his accusers. He is charged with being a pub- lie robber, with having used the high place bestowed upon him and the confidence he received from a great party to. plunder the treasury of New York for his own gain and for that of worthless friends and relatives, and to be, in fact and in name, no better than the highwaymen who were banged on Tyburn Hill a bundred years ago for crimes less heinous. Peter B. Sweeny must be content to drift into history with an immortality of infamy and scoundrelism, to be remembered with Claude Duval, Dick Turpin and Jack Shep- | cannot long continue to regard the American | people as boors when it is known that | Americans shoot so well, and, though it | | may seem ao small point in itself, the mis. | | Conceptions which different peoples forth of each other are more potent for harm in In the Middle Ages the tournament was the exponent of civilization as woll pa the out- : | ward exhibition of the chivalry Of the timid, | ad foreign repre | mM ongh the times have changed they have | | not changed so much as we may think, A | but the chivalry of our civilizotion has | | changed only in form, not in substance, Our kuighta must enter the lists still, if the world would know and understand itself, | The rifle has taken the place of the crossbow | | or the lance, and we have the target eight hundred, nine busdred and a thousand yards | away instead of the shield; but these matches | | are but the tournaments of old, and a victory in.one of these must be an incitement to | nobler impulses and nobler deeds than even | | the ribbon of an Enid or Elaine. In itself | the victory at Doilymount was not munch, but the skill was something and the hospitality was overything. America has not been more | the refuge of Irishmen than of the oppressed | or the unfortunate of every nation, but | Ireland has been first to give America | aright royal welcome on her own soil. All | the world will know us better in the future, | partly because of the achievements of yester- | | day, but more on account of the interchanyes | of good feeling which have taken place be. | tween the Irish riflemen and their American | competitors. Even our rejoicings over our | vietory can not blind us to these higher con- pard, or he must come home and answer this | summons, There is no way of escaping this alternative. As it is, poor old Tweed, gray | and lonely and driven from pillar to post | until he finds seclusion in Ludlow Street Jail, is worthy of more respect than Sweeny. He has stood up to his acts and accepted the | penalty of them. Peter B. Sweeny must | either come home or accept the life of cower. frtg and skulking infamy abroad. Ler Us Haye rez Fxencu.—The extent ot of foreign residents, who will | pew world has been found, and we have | the disasters in the southern part of Fravoo ppeal to their consuls for | stean, and the telegraph and the newspaper, | seem to magnify with every despatch. It is | | guthentically reported that the effect of the | rising of the Garonne has been the destrac- | tion of at least o thousand lives and | twenty” nillion dollars worth of prop. lerty. Towns have beon swopt sway, plantations’, bave been flooded, vineyards have been @vstroyed, ond this beautifal valley of the Gavonne, memorable to all who love the rich, red wines of France, is now the scene of desolation so Widespread and cruel that the authorities of the Republic have hurried to the spot tpat ixmleir own presence they may give relief. Here is x0 opportunity | for our people to show kindness. toward the French, A handsome subscription rom our poople would be of infinite value in atrexxth- ening the relations between the two countries: ‘The French people have never beon insensible to the voice of distress from America, as was shown when Chicago burned. Now, will America show its kindness to the Frenclr? | Let our people respect the sympathy which has never been refused to us by this people by remembering them in this hour of calam- ity and by sending to the authorities along the valley of the Garoune a contribution to little watchfulness over the funds when Com- | “Earking Up the Wrong Tree” Again. It is dificult for vehement political parti- sans to learn, what seems so simple to cooler minds, that a cause is weakened by argu- ; ments which discredit the candar of the “reasoner. A democratio attnck on 9 recent opinion of Attorney General Pierrepont, in which enathemas are hurled against. that officer for not asserting the immunity of a young German born in the United States from military service in Germany, where ho has resided since he was four years of age, is the occasion’ of this frantic denunciation. Judge Pierrepont has decided a question of law in evident accordance with the analogies of law, and until his reasoning can be refutéd by more cogent arguments than have yet ap- peared there is no warrant for “alarm” and “indignation” at Mr. Pierrepont’s alleged “cringing,” nor for the spasmodic language of his democratic assailants. ‘The facts out of which this case has arisen are thata German, Steinkauler by name, was naturalized as a citizen of the United States in 1854, and had ason born in the following year, When the son was four years of age Steinkauler returned with his family to Ger- many, where they have resided ever: since, The son, still a minor, has been required by the German authorities to report for military duty. The father protests, on the ground that the son is a native born citizen of the United States. Representations are made to our Min- ister at Berlin, who refers the question to Secretary Fish for instructions, and the latter asks the opinion of the Attorney General as to whether it is the duty of our government to service inGermany. Attorney General Pierre- pont gives it as his opinion that our govern- ment is under no such obligation in View of all the circumstances of the ease. The ground on which this opinion is assailed is so obviously untenable that it will not bear a moment’s examina- tion. It rests on the assump- tion that a person born in one cotntry cannot legally be compelled to render military service in another. Our government could not assert such a docirine without stultifying itself and proclaiming that it was a wholesale violation of international law during the late civil war. Our conscription Iaws operated upon hundreds of thousands of young men of foreign birth, who had never by any act of their own sundered their foreign allegiance, They were born in Ireland or Germany, as young Steinkauler was born in America; but we never hesitated to conscript them into our armies, and we should not have tolerated the interference of foreign governments to | prevent it, The ground on which we con- scripted those foreign born youth into our mili- tary service was the provision of our own laws that the minor children of naturalized foreign- ers became citizens by the naturalization of their father, and we should assert our right to impress them into our military service against the whole world if other governments should be foolish enough to protest and inter- fere. The principle which underlies the Ameri- can statute on this subject is that the nation- ality of minor children follows that of the father. After having practically asserted this principle for more than seventy years in our legislation it would be a flagrant absurdity for us to impugn it when exercised by another government, It is to be presumed that the German authorities are merely enforcing German laws, and if those laws, like ours, make the nationality of minor children follow that of the father, the case is too clear for rational controversy. The father of young Steinkauler has unquestionably reverted to the condition of a German subject since his naturalization in 1854 by the operation of the treaty of 1868. True, this treaty is assailed by Mr. Pierrepont’s critics; but what has he to do with the question whether that treaty was unwisely negotiated by Mr. Bancroft and uuwisely ratified by the American Senate? By the con- stitution all treaties to which the United States are o party are “the supreme law of the land,” and the Attorney General, in the discharge of his official duty as an expounder of the laws, has no choice but to recognize and respect them, When called upon for an official opinion it is not his duty to make the law, but to declare what it is. The treaty is binding on our government until it shall be formally abrogated, and the question of its abrogation as well as the question of its original propriety is entirely outside the province of the Attorney General, As Steinkauler pére is unquestionably again a German subject, Steinkauler fils must be so too on the principle of our Naturalization | law that minor children change their nation- ality witha change in the nationality of their father. |The Management of the Park De- partment, The report of the Commissioners of Ac- | counts on the management of the Park De- | | partment shows that much looseness has pre- vailed in the manner of keeping the accounts | of the department, and that the law has not | always been strictly observed in its expendi- tures. We fiud, for instance, that wher the | maintenance credit has run short moneys ap- propriated to construction have been trans- | ferred to maintenance, and vice versa, In | | one instance an error of seventy thousand | dollars is found to have been made by the } | bookkeeper, and the books were in such o | condition as to render a balance sheet an impossibility. Indeed, the bookkeeper does | not appear to regard a balance shect as at all necessary. Purchases have been made by the department in violation of the wise pro- vision of the charter limiting all expenditures | without a contract to one thousand dollars. All these things are, of course, contrary to | law, aud while no corruption or extravagance is charged upon the department infringe- ments of the charter and carelessness in keep- | Ing the accounts of a public office are always | dangerous and reprehensible, | This looseness of management was initiated | | jn the Park Department under the old secret | And irresponsible system, whon salaries not contemplated by law wore paid to’ Park Com- mis#ioner Green, and when, with the aid of the notorious Tom Fields, of “Ring” celeb- | | rity, Mr. Green received large sums for exira allowances, trips to Europe, visits to Albany | and the like. There could have been but) ) missioner Green was allowed to draw nearly hows | personal expenses in ‘visiting the Park,” at the same time that his carriage, horse and coachman’s wages were all paid out of the city treasury, The slipshod financial man- agement then originated in the Park Department has since been continued under the ame influence, which, al- though no longer inside thd depart ment, ‘has made itself felt perniciously in all its operations, The payment of salary to Commissioner Williamson, in clear viola- tion of the charter of 1873, which provides that no Commissioner except the President shall reccive any compensation whatsoevor, is only a legitimate sequel to the fluancial opera- tions of Commissioners Green and Tom Fields. It is due to Mr. Willamson to say that when his attention was called by Com- missioner Stewart to the law he refused to accept any farther salary. But the payment of such an officer as Treasurer, in the face of the plain provision of the law, was a proof of the still existing influence of the old loose management, and shows the necessity, for the good of the department, of getting rid of that influence altogether. On the Wing—New York a Summer City. The steamers which sailed for Europe on Saturday were burdened with ‘flying tourists, anxious to escape the midsummer heats of New York and to find comfort and opportu- nity and recreation in England and the Con- tinent This annual hegira of pleasure seek- ing travellers to Europe increases from year to year. A journey across the Atlantic has protect young Steinkauler against military | become a matter of almost mathematical cer tainty in the way of speod and safe! Fvery yeor it grows simpler. Competition between the great steamship lines makes the Atlantic journey as comfortable as life in a New York hotel. We fear we must look toward Europo as forming in a large degree the summer resort of our citizens. Ono reason for this hogira ia tha strong desire pf the American to visit the older Jands, which aro associated with every condition of his life as the lands of history and fable and song. The cultivated mind finds relief in the ripeness of Paris and London. The artist and the lover of art can think of no holiday so charming as that which brings him to the galleries of the Louvre, the archi- tecture of Seville and Rome, The shrewd business man is tempted by the opportunity to make profit between the prices on the Con- tinent and in America, while the idler, who travels to kill time, is tempted by the ever varying ripple of pleasure that, during the summer season, extends from the hills of Scot- land to the springs of Germany. While there are natural reasons for visiting Europe there aro others, however, of a differ- ent character. It has been the policy of those who govern New York, and of those to whom wo are indebted largely for its interest and usefulness, to make it in summer an aban- doned, desolate city. There is no metropolis in the world as dreary as New York from the middle of June to the middle of September. There is no reason why it should be so. Let us consider tho advantages of this city and it will be found that we have as attractive a residence for summer as Paris or London or Berlin or Vienna. To be sure there is a little burst of summer heat now and then which is oppressive, but we have no heats like those of Vienna, for in- stance, and there are days in Paris and Lon- don os enervating and harsh as any we havo in New York. But we have the sea within an hour's journey. We are almost in the shadow of the most picturesque mountains in the world. We have river and lake and valley and hill and stream, all within two hours of the City Hall. Tho city itself is full of summer opportunities. What drives are there in Paris or London to compare with our grand drives to Jerome Park and Central Park, or across the river to Fort Hamilton and Coney Island? Where is there a city in which the resident may leave his business at four o'clock in the afternoon and either dine two.hours later by the sound of the surf or on the top of the clear moun- tain heights? What street in Paris or Lon- don could be more attractive for an evening stroll than Fiith avenuo or Broad- way? Wo could do as much with our city as the Frenchmen do with Paris, but we do not attempt it, We close tho churches and the libraries and the places of public resort, and houses are shut up for mouths and our publio squares are abandoned, and New York is given over to the very poor people, who can- not get away, and a small class of the sensible rich people who know the real merit of the city, and who find more comfort in their | homes, in their libraries and their daily suar- roundings than in the tumbling rookeries of Long Branch or the wildernesé of gossip and fashion and nonsense at Saratoga. There is no reason why Now York shonid | not be made » summer city; so pleasant that if it could not keep its own ram¥ling citizens at home it could attract people from other States, Why should we not have in our pub- | lic squares musical entertainments like those which we have in private gardens? Why should there not be in Central Park, at the Harlem end, o garden like those in the Champs Ebysées, nnd another at the lower end, where the citizens of Harlem as well as those of lower New York might for a small sum spend a delightful summer evening? They have these musical gardens in Paris and Madrid ond Vienna, and in Berlin, Stockholin and Copenhagen. In these public places the people are accustomed to flock by thousands, and find no time of the year so enjoyable as the long summer nights, when they can sit with their familics, listen to the musio and look at the stars. Give us rapid transit, so that our beautiful suburbs | can be brought closer to the cenire. Give us musical gardens in our parks. Let us have more excursion boats like those which are now sosuccessfully steaming around the rivers aud bay. Let our theatres have summer companies and light summer performances, Let our preachers remember that souls are to be saved as eloquently in July as in Novem- ber. Aud there is no reason why New York should not be as attractive a metropolis in the summer as it is found by so many bundreds of thousands to be in winter, The Washington Monument. We have a circular from Washington call- ing upon the people to make another effort for the purpose of completing the monument to the memory of Washington which now Gellar for “‘conatzuctixa’” Latauds in xapronghtul aglitude | of the Potomac. This shaft, which is not more than one-fourth of the height it was intended to attain, has foralong time been boarded up to prevent exposure to the wind and weather. Occasionally there has been a little effort to collect some money to finish it, but the people have had no heart in the mat- ter. Congress has been in spasms of econ- omy upon the questions of back pay and mileage and would give nothing to the anden taking. It would be a gratifying thing to us if this monument could be completed. It is a reproach to the energy, and we may say to the patriotism, of the American people that wo have not done the work long ago. It would be a gratifying incident if the Centen- nial year would mark the completion of a monument that would be among the wonders of this wonderful Republic. Swedon, Denmark and Germany. The German papers have been radiant with narratives of the enthusiasm and affectiom shown by the Swedish King Oscar to the Em- peror William on the occasion of the recent visit of the royal family of Sweden to Berlm. Jn a speech mado by the King, who is an elo- quent and ready talker, at a dinner given to him by the Emperor, he expressed the hope “that the old,comradeship which had existed betweon the Swedish and Prussian armieg might bo renewed and strengthened.”” Thia remark has given much offence to the Danes, who have been unfortunate enough to remom- ber, what no doubt escaped the royal mind, that “the last time when the Sweden and Prussian armies fought side by side was im 1814; that their enemy was Denmark, and that the result was the cession of Norway to Sweden. Considering that it has been the policy of this King and his predecessor to cultivate the warmest relations between Swedon and Norway and Denmark, that the union of the three crowns under one head has been the dream of the Scandinavian pa- triots, this remark of the King has made an unfortunate impression, not only in Denmary butat home. Neither Danos nor Swedes look kindly upon the march of German ambition, » Already Germany and Russia have taken from the Scandinavian territories vala- able provinces, Finland and Courland are Scandinavian, just as much as the northern part of Schleswig. Fora Scandi-~ navian prince to express a desire to see the Scandinavian army fighting side by side with. the Germans against another Scandinavian nationality, is a singularly grave and striking blunder. Tho truth is, we presume, that there wae no such meaning in the mind of King Oscar. Tiis speech was probably an idle compliment, hastily spoken under the influence of German wine. Itis to the interest of Sweden and of all the Scandinavian countries to be on es pecial friendly terms with Germany. In the march of events the Scandinavian race has acsumed an important position to the Ger- mans, and it is only expressing an undenia- ble fact when we say that Germany could at any time by the mere manifestation of her military power, or by an alliance with Raseia, extinguish what remains of the ancient and renowned monarchies ina single campaign. No prince of the Swedish house has shown so much devotion tothe ideas of a Scandi- navian nationality as King Oscar. We have little doubt that his visit to Berlin was prompted by a prudent, far-seeing patriotism, a desire té strengthen his position in Europe by conciliating the Power which, since the battle of Sedan, has become the arbiter of the destiny of the Continent. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. “Wicker coMns’’ mast be cool. An Envgtisu editor calis the American religion “powismn.”” General Neal Dow, of Portiand, Me., is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. 2. Blair Scribner and bis Dride are enjoying 8 European trip. Cable, the New Orleans story writer, is said te be the Bret Harte of the South. Mr. Alonzo M. Viti, Italian Vice Consul at Phite- delphia, is at the Brevoort House. Captain William Watson, of the steamship | Partbia, is at the Hotel Branswick. In Mexico all the vices are attributed to “the | bad influences of American exampie.” Captain Thompson, of the steamship Britanate, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. her. George W. Riggs, of Washington, is among the lave arrivals at tee Prevoort House, General Peter V. Magner, United Stares Army, arr.ved last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Brigadier General Alired B. Terry, United States Army, takeu rooms at the Metropolitan Hotel. Jud aries Andrews, of the Court of Appeals, | arrived in the city yesterday and is at the Futh Avenue Hotel. Mr. A. N. Chrystie, Vice President of the Ouio aud Mississippi! Ratiroad Company, is registered at the Glisey House. Arimori Mort, formerly Chargé a’Amaires at Weshingion, ha’ been appointed Vice Minister of Foreign Agairs of Japan. Nineteen American aorses, jast imported from Texas, and tn bad conditioa, were sold at auction ) io Liverpool for $100 each, | Victor Hago ts about to emit some new dashes of genius in the shape of @ volume in verse em utied “Francs et Germaina.” Professor Golby, Who Blled the chair of English Literature in the Univer of Berlin for thirty yours, bas just died at th of Mfty-nine. | Mr. Kirk, an Irish member of Pariiament, in- forms the world that “the sword of Demosthenes is hanging over the heads of the Irish people.” Ruskin says that Miss Thomeon’s “Charge of the Cutrassiers” is ‘the frst pre-Raphaelite pictare | or pattie we have had.” What battle aid Ruskin | ever sve? Count Porti, Italian Minister at WWarhingtoa, ; Will sai in the steampship Russia to-day for Liv- erpool, and will proceed thence to his new poss at | Constantinople, Miss Isabella Bird, who wrote “ine Englien Woman ta America,” has now put forth “siz Months In the Sandwich Isiaads.’’ It is tuli of ime | formation and energy. | Secretary Belknap left Washincton last night for West Point, where he will spend a few cays with his family and then start on nis Western toar of Inspection. lie will leave Chicago on the 10th of July, with Inspector General Marcy, General J. H. Forsyth, of Genera! Sheridan's staf, and one or two otuer gentiemen. Afte iting several posts on the line of the Union Pacifle road they will proceed to Fort Hillis, Montana, ana from there to the Yellowstone Park. They will be absent @ Month or six weeks. Here, irom “Green's History of the Eugiish Peo- ple.” 18 a good word for Wallace:—"The instinct of the Scotch people has guided It srigut in choo tng Wallace for its national nero. He was the first to sweep a We tecimicalities Of fendal law and to assert (reedom saa national birthright, Am | the despair of nobiles and priests he called the peo- pie itsel: to arms, and his discovery of the military value of the stout peasant footman, who had tit then been scorned by | aronoge and kuighthood— @ discovery copied by the burghers of Flanders 4 repeated im the victories of the Swiss—gave @