The New York Herald Newspaper, July 1, 1875, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD + BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly ” editions of the New Yonx Hxnatp will be sent free of postage. "THE DAILY HERALD, published every day 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 despatches must be addressed New Yore Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, | PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertis¢ments will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, IENTS TO-NIGH! OLYMPIC THEATRE, Yo, 66 Broadway —VARLETY, ats P.M. ; closes at 10x85 PM CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at 8 P.M. ROBINSON HALL, West Sixteenth ‘nglish Opera—GIROFLE GINOFLA, at 5 P. M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Prreds%, corner of Thirtieth | street.—-TWENTY BARS: OR. THE TWINS, at o 2. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee ac2P. M. GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, 's Hippodrome.—GRAND POPULAR CON. | foses at ll P.M. Matinee at2 P.M. TRI ee Z NEW YORK, THU THE HERALD FOR THE To NewsDEALERS aNp THE Pusric :— | Tue New Yous Henaxp will run a special | unwholesome theme. | by teeling. | which it was tried was composed of the Lord | weeks. The Lord Chief Justice, unlike our ~ | days to delivering his charge. f ; |whe Latest Phase of the Brooklyn Trial—Let Us Punish the Perjurers. Our readers must not be surprised at any { development in the Brooklyn trial. If it were merely an issue between two men, one claim- | ing that he had been wronged by another, an | issue to be decided by the jury and the courts, there would be no difficulty in coming to a result. Oddly enough, | this question has | assumed every phase of importance—social, | political, personal and moral. Brooklyn is a | | divided city upon the question of the inno- | | cence or the guilt of Mr. Beecher. Through- | | out the country every community has become | partisan, and there is scarcely a conversation in the street car, in the parlor or at the din- | ing table that does not drift surely upon this We have never known a question where judgment was s0 little con- | sidered and where everything was controlled In some respects it has a singu- lar resemblance to the Tichborne trial, the great case which was tried in England some eighteen months ago, and which, from being a simple issue of perjury, has become one of the political - issues of that country. In the Tichborne case we had the government on ono side and an adventtirer who claimed the estates of a baron on the other. The Court before | Chief Justice of England and two dis- | tinguished colleagues. The counsel on each | side were permitted to address the jury for Chief Justice in Brooklyn, gave twenty-two The verdict of the jury was returned in less than half an hour, and upon that verdict the claimant was sent to prison for fourteen years. The Beecher trial, like the ‘Tichborne case, has had its extraordinary incidents, and none more so than the attempt of Loader and Price to destroy Mr. Beecher by perjury. During the progress of the Tichborne trial a Swedish sailor, who took the name of Jean Lute, made his appearance before the counsel of the claimant and told them how he had been at sea when the ship in which the real Tichborne had embarked was a floating | wreck, how he had taken Tichborne on board his vessel and attended him, and how he had secn him afterward | in Australia. As the claim of | the prosecution of Tichborne was that the real heir to the baronetcy had been drowned at sea, the story of Lwe, if uncontradicted, | would have given the verdict to the plaintiff. The Swede, imperfectly acquainted with the | train every Sunday during the season, com- mencing July 4, between New York, Niagara | Falls, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon and | Ricbfield Springs, leaving New York at half- past two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at | ® quarter to two P. M., tor the purpose of | supplying the Sunpay Henaxp along the line | of the Hudson River, New York Central and | Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads. Newsdealers and others are notified to send | in their orders to the Henaxp office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities ere ihat the tceather to-day will be cool and | Persons going out of town for the summer can | have the daily and Sunday Heraup mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. | Wart Srreer Yesterpay.—Stocks were | Steady, with a firm undertone. Gold declined | to 116]. Money was freely offered at 2and 24 | per cent. | Raxroron axp Bayxnuprcy.—We notice by | the legal reports that an uptown church nas | gone into bankruptcy. Is this one of the results of the Brooklyn trial ? We Have an Intzrestinc Lerrer from our forrespondent in Brussels describing the | Church question in Belgium—a question that bids fair to become one of the most important in European politics. ASvrr ror Damaces.—Judge Neilson has succeeded in securing for an aggrieved plaintiff in a libel case against a Brooklyn | newspaper the suggestive «um of six cents damages. Mr. Tilton will, no doubt, be | content if the Judge does as we!l for bim in | his suit against Mr. Beecher for damages. Aw Eastern War Crovp.—The relations between the English government and the King of Burmah are still unsettled. It would not surprise us to see in that far distant coun- try one of those teasing, expensive and inglo- rious wars which have bitherto marked the progress ot Englist and Russian power into | Asia. Tue Pratrorm of the Iowa republicans, re- ported at their Convention yesterday, gives forth no uncertain sound on the question of the third term. Distinctly, and without any reservation, the Convention enters its oppo- sition to this proposal, and says that it is ‘‘an issue that is tairly removed from our politics.” Tar Astor Lisrary bas now reached more than one hundred and fifty thousand volumes. This great institution grows in usefulness more and more every day. We wish it could be made more accessible. It could at least be | open in the evening during certain seasons. The peopie who care most to read are those | who are compelled to work in the daytime. | Swinpiinc War Craims.—We congratulate the Governor for declining to approve the bill appropriating 4 million of dollars ‘to provide for the payment of the war of 1812 militia."" We have already given a quarter of a million to this object. There is a tright~ fal amount of humbug about these old ‘‘war claims.”’ It takes the bloom from patriotism to find soldiers hammering at the treasury for a half century for extra pay. In the main these claims have passed into the hands of shrewd and swinaling claim agents, who have power enough to influence the Legislatures to vote money in their interest. Ovn Amemcan Tram has won another | victory, in the Spencer Cup, which was car- ried off yesterday. Our Irish friends take their defeat with characteristic generosity and good Humor. One of the Dublin papers hopes the contests will become annual events. Any- thing that tends to inspire a better feeling between the two countries, and to make their representatives better acquainted with each other will bea benefit. When nations begin to understand one another we shall believe in ual peace. These gentle strifes are the purest ways of sccuring such au understand. ae | failed to shake his stoxy. . He went from the | dence has been submitted to the jury. The | story they told was not, as some of our con- | Jean Luie deceived counsel as eminent as Mr, English language, went upon the witness | stand and told his story. He so impressed | the friends of the claimant that as respecta- | ble a gentleman as Mr. Whalley, M. P. and | adriend of the claimant, took the trouble to | visit New York to ascertain it bis story coutd | be corroborated. The distinguished counsel for the government, headed by Mr. Hawkins, | cross-examined Luie ag great length, but they stand apparently a creditable witness. The | Lord Chief Justice did not ask bail for his reappearance. It happened that in the ex- citement of the trial photographs of Luie were sold at the stores. A stranger passing a | window one day happened to see one of these | pictares, and remarked to a triend that he had known that face under another name in aoother city. This idle remark, dropped in hasty conversation, was conveyed to the counsel for the goveroment. This stranger visited the court next morning and recognized Luie as a Swede who had formerly been knvown as Lundgren and who had been sent to | prison for felony. Investigation proved the | | truth of this story; that Luie was really Lund- | gren; that he was a ticket-of-leave man; that | his whole story was an outrageous perjury, | fabricated without motive, trom a prurient | desire for notoriety or the lust for lying | which is in many a disease. He was com- | mitted to prison by the Lord Chief Justice | on the charge of perjury, and a few weeks | afterward was found guilty of the crime and sentenced to prison, where he now remains. The intrusion ot Luie into the Tichborne case was a phenomenon. Its moral effect | upon the jury was tatally detrimental to the claimant. In the Beecher case Price and Loader make their appearance after the evi- temporaries would have us believe, on its face an improbable story. It had as much the semblance of truth as the statements of | Tilton or the evidence of Moulton. ‘he | counsel for Mr. Tilton seemed to have taken | all possible pains to investigate the credibility | of their witnesses. Mr. Beach in offering their | evidence certainly believed it to be true. On any other assumption their action would | have been criminal folly. Judge Morris, the attorney of record, visited the homes of these witnesses, made inquiry as to their credibility, and seems to have taken all the | pains that an honest lawyer could adopt to satisfy himself of their veracity. Mr. Pryor, | his colleague, when the witnesses came before | him to give their evidence, solemnly warned | them of the responsibility they assumed; ex- plicitly told them that if their evidence was not true it would be perjury; that they were | not asked to go into the case, and that if they signed the affidavits they must do so at the | peri! of indictment for perjury. Mr. Beach ] in presenting the evidence showed that be | | was satisfied that his colleagnes had done | | their duty in making all preliminary investi- | gation. We do not see how the record could | be clearer as to the prudence and integrity of | these counsel. They were deceived, just as | Hawkins and a judge as clear sighted as Lord Chief Justice Cockburn. Deceptions like this are natural consequences of such a trial. But this does not in any way diminish | the enormity of the perjury, and we honor | Mr. Beecher’s counsel for their promptness in | summoning them to accept the penalties of | their crime. This act of Loader and Price is by no means the smallest feature in this proceeding in Brooklyn. What to us is a distressing fact is the certainty of outrageous perjury. Whether verdict is rendered tor the plain- tiff or defendant it implies upon either side perjury as coarse as that of Loader and Price. If this jury find for the defendant then they virtually say that Mr. ‘Tilton and Mr. Moulton have committed deliberate per- | jury. If they find for the plaintiff they im- pose the same judgment on Mr. Beecher. | Kither Mr. Tilton and his friends have en- | terea into a conspiracy to destroy Mr, | see fit. | ions of dollars had been lost. Beecher—a conspiracy based upon wilful and persistent perjury—or Mr, Beecher and his friends, to save their client, have resorted to | the same disastrous and lamentable expe- | dient. What we, therefore, admire in the | action of Mr. Beecher’s counsel in dealing | with Loader and Price is, that they are be- ginning to bring us to the real work of this | trial. The scandal suit is at an end so far as | its moral results are concerned. There is | nothing that can be written or said that will change the minds of the people as to Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton. The people have wade up their minds upon this subject. But something is due justice. If the scandal suit dies away without investigation of these charges of perjury, or if the trial for perjury is to be confined simply to Loader and Price, then we shall feel that justice has not been served. The absence of any apparent motive on the part of these two wretched men is not re- markable to those who study human nature, A prurient love of notoriety, the lust for ly- ing, are moral diseases. Tho wonder is that we have not had them, as in the Tichborne case, at an earlier stage of the case. The fact that in the two most celebrated cases of modern jurisprudence—the Tichborne case -in England and the Beecher case in America— there should have been phenomena so strik- ingly gimilar as the perjury of Jean Lnie in favor of the claimant and the perjury of Loader and Price in favor of Mr. Tilton, is a | a peculiar phase of this wonderful trial. We trust that the perjuries of these ‘upholster-: ers,”? as wel as that of other and moro con- spicuous witnesses, will be punished as se- verely as English justice punished Jean Luie. Are the Firemen To Be Paid? It is outrageous that the employés of the Fire Department—the men who do good ser- vice for the city and on whose courage and fidelity we rely for the protection of our homes and property from conflagrations— should have been kept for a month out of the money due them jor their services through | the stubbornness of two squabbling officers— | the Mayor and Comptroller of the city. If Mayor Wickham and Comptroller Green | choose to quarrel snd snarl at each other; if | they are jealous and spiteful, and willing to degrade the positions they hold by unseemly brawls whenever their public duties draw them together; if the Comptroller despises the Mayor and the Mayor hates the Comptrol- ler, they still have no right to indulge their personal feelings at the expense and serious inconvenience of a large body of better be- haved public servants. We are vow in July and the firemen’s pay for June has not yet been received by them. The cause is well known. Comptroller Green, out of malice toward Mayor Wickham, suddenly changes the manner of paying the firemen authorized by law and pursued ever since the present Mayor entered office, that is, by drawing a single pay roll war- rant for each company, and adopts the cumbrous and inconvenient method of paying each individual on a separate warrant. He claims the right to make this change on the ground that the charter empowers him to pay the city employés in such manner as he may Strictly speaking he has this right; but that is no reason why he should use it to embarrass the city government and unneces- sarily occupy the time ot the Mayor, who has sufficient official duties to perform withont being reduced to the standing of ao clerk. Besides, the needless and injudicious change desired by Mr. Green would delay the pay- ment of the firemen every month at least a week longer than under the old system. There are nearly eight hundred firemen and less than sixty companies, and to perfect, sign and countersign and check eight hundred warrants would necessarily occupy more time than to draw sixty warrants. On these grounds the Mayor refuses to allow Mr. Green to make the change, and withholds his signature trom some eight hundred or a thousand separate warrants placed before | him by the obdurate Comptroller. Mr. Green will not give way; Mayor Wickham will not budge. So the suffering and hard working firemen, between these two official Dogberrys, are cruelly kept out of their money. It is time that this disgraceful farce should end. No person in the city except the par. ties concerned cares a straw whether the Mayor beats the Comptroller or the Comp- troller the Mayor in their contemptible quar- rel. If the law unfortunately gives the Comptroller the power to obstruct the public business, insult the Mayor and put a large number of the city’s employés to needless trouble and annoyance, the Mayor has noth- ing todo but to submit. He can read the charter, and if he finds that the Comptroller has the authority claimed he should cease his opposition and pay the firemen. Some of the men are in serious distress for the want of the money. We have had instances brought to- our notice in which firemen’s families have been turned out of their homes through being unable to meet the rent due. And while the poor fellows are thus suffering the Mayor and | Comptroller stand making faces at each other, like two quarrelsome schoolboys, each refus- ing to give way. . The Inundations in France, The figures that como to us giving the esti- mate of the damage caused by the inundations in the valley of the Garonne are appalling | enough. We ere inclined to accept. them | with reserve. A despatch the other day told us that property to the extent of sixty mille Now we find that in two cities alone the damage is twenty- four millions. We have no doubt there has | been a vast loss, but these figures are in somo | respects incredible. The principal crop in | the valley of the Garonne is wine. The vine- yards are generally on high places, which | would not be reached by the flood. In the great floods of 1856, in the valleys of the Rhone and the Loire, which were more disas- trous in their operation than these recent un- | fortunate occurrences, the loss did not reach so high a figure as that which is expressed by our telegrams. The wheat crop, which suffered so mach in the former | floods, is not largely cultivated in | the Garonne country. The real loss, | therefore, would be apt to fall upon bridges, | town property and material works within the reach of the rising tides. If the figures were placed at twenty-five millions of francs or | five millions of dollars they would be intel- | ligible.. At the same time tho loss of life hag been very great. We are glad to see that sub- scriptions are pouring in for the relief of the sufferers from France, Switzerland aud Hol- land. We wish we could announce that America had remembered the *traditional friendship of France for this country by sending a subscription to her suffering sons. Why Not Begin With Restitution? The tone of the discussions before the Su- preme Court on the motion to reduce Tweed’s bail is worthy of study as showing the inge- nuity and courage of attorneys resolved to free their clieut, The zeal of Tweed’s attor- neys can be better understood when we re- member the statement made some time ago to the reporter of a contemporary to the effect that Tweed had paid half o million dollars since the beginning of these suits to members of the Bar. There is one point, however, that cannot escape observation, and that is the resolution of Tweed’s counsel only to have their case heard before favorite judges. A contemporary described the other day with some vividness the resolution of Mr. Field, as ‘Tweed’s attorney, not to made any motion be- fore Judge Davis. We believe he even went so far as to withdraw a motion when under the ordinary course of proceedings it would have come before that justice. The spectacle of Tweed going to the courts of New York and endeavoring to dictate what judge shall or shall not hear him recalls too vividly the past days when he was master of tbe judiciary for us to look upon it with patience. What right has ‘Tweed or his counsel to say which justice of the Supreme Court shall determine his appli- cation for bail? Ho is no longer the chief of Tammany Hall, master of political clubs, with Supreme Court judges running at his beck, and his voice "potent in the sacred halls of justice, commanding decisions, referee ap- pointments and commissioners .on street open- ings or quartering his friends and his relatives upon the Treasury. Ho is a convicted thief whose crime has every element of baseness. He was trusted by the people of New York with vast responsibilities, He was clothed with great power. Ie was the head of a dominant political organization. He had every awbition, every opportunity to achieve great things. Hs abused these mighty trusts. Like remorseless, vulgar robber he took possession of the funds of the treasury and squandered them upon Ingersolls and Garveys and Woodwards and Keysers and Davidsons and a shoal of spies and informers and blacklegs. In so doing he not only robbed tho treasury of millions but brought infinite sbame upon New York. Here we are suffering for rapid transit. ‘The money stolen by William M. Tweed and his associates would have built the finest railway in the world from the Battery to the Harlem River. Yet this criminal presumes to dictate to the justice of New York what judge shall hear his application for bail. Why does not Twoed seek mercy by restitu- tion? The Americans are a generous people. They feel how keenly must be the fall of a man like Tweed. They thoroughly sympa- thize with the emotions of the once ruler of New York and who is now an im- prisoned ‘felon. If Tweed were to make the first advance toward public opinion there would be no difficulty in his receiving the fullest measure of mercy. This he stubbornly refuses to do. The money he stole from New York he keeps, or at least as‘much of it as his lawyers have permitted. He has not mado the first concession to an outraged public opinion. Stubbornly resisting, sustained by lawyers who are paid out of money that belongs to the Treasury, be resorts to every agency to stifle justice and to continue his defiance of public opinion and the law. As we have said, there is no desire on the part of any one to be rude or harsh to this wretched old man. Sut when he ap- pears before our courts, not as a supplicant for mercy but as a master endeavoring to dictate whether Judge Davis or Judge auy- body else sball hear his application for bail we must receive it as another illus- tration of that high-handed, outrageous ty- ranny which began in corruption and which has been an immeasurable calamity to the people of New York. An Unnecessary Proceeding. Acontemporary informs us that it is pro- posed to address Governor Tilden-upon the point of removing Mayor Wickham from of- fice, on the ground of his failing to meet the wants of the people. We do not know the nature of the charges against the Mayor, nor do we see any real ground for an action of this kind should it really be in contemplation. The incumbent of the Mayor's office occupied the most useless position in the community. It is simply an ornamental station, Its main on the 17th day of March, the Orangemen on the 12th of July, the Freemasons and any other target company or saengerbund or mi- litia company that may happen along. He is also permitted, we believe, to make speeches to the Manhattan Club and at society dinners, as the representative of the glory of New York. But for the real attributes of the office his po- sition is a sinecure. Wickham is governed by a triumvirate composed of John Kelly, Andrew H. Green and Samuel J. Tilden. Governor Tilden exercises the supervisory office of Governor so rigidly that he has not even deigned to answer a complaint made six months ago by Mayor Wickham in reference to Corporation Counsel Smith, The Gov- ernor has kept Mr. Smith in office. Although | Smith is o republican the Governor has | allowed him to appoint to other offices his | | own partisans and friends, thereby generating | a great political scandal Yet Mayor Wick- ham can do nothing. Andrew H. Green | holds all the executive functions of the | municipality in his hands, and, if Mr. Wick- ham does not do his bidding, quietly ignores him. | Kelly dictates all appointments to office in all departments and regards the Mayoralty asa legal formality to carry out the wishes of Tammany Hall. Yet the Mayor can do nothing. Why go to the trouble of removing sucha man? He is simply a prize pig in our municipal fair, with a ribbon around his neck anda good salary, to be stared at and paraded around, and when his time is up to be sent to the political slaughterhouse to make room for some successor. The Mayor does nobody any harm. We would just os soon have Mr. Wickham review Irish pro- cossions as avybody else. The way to amend duty is to review the St. Patrick's procession | Yet the Mayor can do nothing. John | NEW YORK AERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. move Mayor Wickham, but to give us a charter and the Mayor power to carry out its provisions. The Insufficient Water ply and the Danger of a Conflagration. The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department addressed a letter to the President of the Board of Commissioners threo months ago, while the Legislature was in session, calling attention to the dangerous insufficiency of the water supply for fire purposes. After thor- oughly investigating the matter the Chief Engineer arrived at the conclusion that we have not enough water, and that many of the mains are not of sufficient capacity to render the city secure against a destructive confla- gration. Whilo the city has been spreading out and tho buildings increasing in area and height the water supply has remained al- most stationary, or at all events has not by any means kept puce with the city’s growth, In some sections of the city where there is the greatest danger of fires the supply comes from a six-inch pipe, and there are not a sufli- cient number of hydrants or a suflicient pressure of water. It is startling to find that in some of these perilous localities are situated some of our largest theatres and public halls, The Chief Engineer points out the principal neighborhoods where a better supply is imperatively demanded for the pub- lic safety, and expresses the opinion, in which we concur, that ‘ns a rule the city should be covered with hydrants not more than two hundred feet apart.” It is singular that this communication should not have been made public at the time it was written. ‘he tacts it sets forth are of great importance, and it was the duty of the President of the Fire Department to suffer the people to learn officially of the danger that threatens the city. A bitter opposition was made by the Comptroller to the bill pro- viding fora better supply of water when it was before the Legislature; but although the pretence of this opposition was economy and a saving of taxation it was really induced by enmity toward the departments by which the work is done. This should not have induced tho suppression of the letter. Now that it | has been made public no delay should take place in providing against the dangers it .points out. It has been well known that the water supply is less than it ought to be, and the Chief Engineer's statement shows the im- mediate necessity of its increase and of the increase of the capacity of the mains, Paris Green and the Potato Bug. Since it was ascertained that Paris green was an effective agent for the destruction of the potato bug experiments to determine the effects of the poison upon vegetation and upon the vegetables are of great importance. As is proper the Agricultural Department at Wash- ington is taking the lead in these investiga- tions, and the report for May and dune con- tains some interesting results of the experi- ments of Mr. William MeMurtrie, the chemist of the department. In the case of Paris green Mr. McMurtrie has ascertained that vegetation is not seriously affected under the limit of 500 milligrams for the quantity of soil used, which was equivalent to 145.6 grains per cubic foot, or 906.4 pounds per acre, cal- culating for a depth of one foot. Above this limit the effect of the poison was in propor- tion to the quantity of the compounds used. These facts argue, Mr. McMurtrie thinks, against the possibility of the accumulation of sufficient arsenic by regular applications of the Paris green in the quantities recommended for the de- struction of the Colorado potato beetle, The quantities recommended are—tor Paris green, about 900 pounds per acre; for arsenite of potassa, about 400 pounds per acre; and for arseniate of potassa, about 150 pounds per the arsenic cannot be absorbed and assimi- lated by the plant in the economy of growth, and from some specimens supplied by Mr. J. §. Nixon, a reputable chemist of Chaimbers- burg, Pa,, and an enthusiastic student of the effect of poisons upon the plant and the yeye- table, it seems to be satisfactorily determined that the presesce of arsenic need not be feared in the potato, This inquiry ought to be carried still further; for if the scourge which threatens to destroy the esculent upon which ail the world has learned to depend can be eradicated without injury either to the growth of the plant or the vegetable itself, the pest may soon become comparatively harmless, Tue Moxmovrn Park Races.—The eyes of the lovers of sport are now turned in the direction of Long Branch, and the chronic | investors of the pool rooms are beginning to | “bet their money on the bob-tailed horse,” or any other they may fancy better for the first meeting of the season at Monmouth Park, The racing at that popular track commences on Saturday next, and will be continued on the following Monday, Wednesday and Thurs- on the heels of the first, commences on Satur- week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Tho Jersey Derby Stakex, the Monmouth Cap, the Ono Thousand Dollar Purse, the Parse are the events of the two weeks that attract the most attention, and the character of the horses entered promises some excellent racing. Then, as in addition to the sport at this hot weather, there will, no doubt, be a large attendande on the Jersey shore for the racing weeks. Gorp Acaty.—Our correspondence from the Black Hills country shows that the expedition of Mr. Janney confirms all the stories we have heard about the riches of thisregion. There is certainly gold, butas yet no deposits ot a marvellous character. Woe suppose it will bo the reat wealth of the country is agricultural, main to plant wheat and corn. A Question ror tae Next Canvass,—The most dangerous phase that our polities bas democrats of the South and West to form an alliance on the question of inflation. most ominous incident of this alliance is the action of the Convention in Ohio. Our last campaign was fought for a preservation of tho Union against premature reconstruction, acre. These experiments seem to prove that | day. The second meeting, following closely | day, July 10, and runs through the following | Jersey Jockey Club Purse and the Grand | | Intendent of the Insurance Department, arrived Monmouth Park, the sea breeze and the cool | | and tempting surf are peculiarly attractive | found, as in California and Australia, that | | the government of New York is not to re- | and it looks now as if our next eampaigs would be fought for our national credit against repudiation, Northern and Southern Courtesies. Nothing could be more gratetul than the treatment bestowed upon the representativer of the Southern Army who, went to Boston during the Bunker Hill celebration, They were overwhelmed with courtesies and honor and every evidence of kindness and fraternal) feeling. The effect of this has not beea lost upon the South. Governor Kemper, of Vir ginia, has given public expression to his feel. ing, and he regards the treatment by Boston of Virginians ‘‘who went with the smell of Confederate battles on their garments” as “a step toward inaugurating the true work of the Centennial period, the work which is to exe tinguish all sectional animosities forever,”* The undervalue of these Centennial festivi ties, and especially of the exhibition which is to be held in Philadelphia next year, is aptly expressed by Governor Kemper. All that we want to remember of the war is its devo- tion, chivalry and the romance which always surrounds these tremendous strifes. Any ree membrance that implies bitterness or anger is an act of moral treason to the Union, The South has no greater enemy than the statese man who woukl endeavor to revive the smouldering fires of secession, while the North bas no more mischievous leader than the implacable republican who insists upon brandishing the fiery tresses of war and radicalism in every political campaign. Axroxso AND THE CaRuists.—The governs ment of King Alfonso has adopted a measure which, if the telegraph reports it truly, will inflict a severer blow upon the Carlist rebol- lion than any that has yet been dealt. A de- cree has been issued expelling from Spain all families of which any member is in the Car- list service, all members of the Carlist com- mittees, and directing that the property of the Carlists be confiscated and sold and the proceeds turned over to the communities suf- fering from Carlist exactions. The difficulty with this movement has been, at least since the fall ot Amadeus, that it was a half recoge nized influencé, and was dealt with, not as a treason against the State, but as a political party. The Carlists maintained their com. mittees all over Spain, they had their newse papers in Madrid, their coteries, their clubs, even their military organization. To be a/ Carlist was no more under suspicion in Madrid during the reign of the Republic or the Savoy dynasty than it is for a citizen of New York to be a democrat under a republican administration. If Carlistism is treason to the government of Spain, as it undoubtedly is, then it should be treated as treason, The Madrid Cabinet is perfectly justified in using the severest measures to suppress it, This is the only way to peace. } » A Reviva, Nsexpep.—In an action before the Marine Court yesterday it seems that all the witnesses had been married and were now divorced. We think it would be well for Moody and Sankey to return home and begin a series of revival services in New York ag well as in Brooklyn. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, He was a tolerable Loader and his charges were promptly exploded, T. Fakhry Bey, of Turkey, is among the late ar- Tivais at the Hotel Brunswick. Cpancellor John V. L. Prayn, of Albany, is re- siding at the Brevoort House. Rev. Jonn De Witt, of Boston, has taken up bis residence at the Hoffman House, Rev. Dr. T. K. Conrad, 0! Philadelphia, is regise tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Joseph Jefferson and family sailed for Liver+ pool yesterday for an absence of two years, Paymaster George L. Febiger, United Stater Army, 18 quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Ex-Governor Alexander H. Bullock, of Massa chusetts, has arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Captain R, Frederick Ward, of Governor General Dufferin’s staf, is staying at the Brevoort House, Mr. Thomas Dickson, President of the Delaware and Hudsoa Ganal Company, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Lieutenant Commander H. ©, White, United States Navy, has quarters at the Union Square Hotel. Dr. Rudolph Blum, of the Austrian Legation at Washington, bas apartments at the Brevoort ‘ House. Exactly what are they up toin the Tiltom Beecher case? Is there any sort of compromise on foot? General Jobn M, Thayer, formerly United States Senator trom Nebraska, 18 sojourning at the Everett House. Mr, Alfred T, Goshorn, Director General of the Centenniai Exhibition, arrived last evening at the Brevoort House. Mr. Power Henry Le Poer Trench, Second Secre- tary ol the British Legation at Washington, is at the Westmorelin’ Hotel, The London Court Journal says that Sankey i the sweetest aud loudest singer through his nos¢ they have ever had in that country. Secretary Delano and Commissioner Smith ar« rived in Washington vesterday morning, and were at the department during the day, Jt appears that the terribie epidemic of measies in Fiji Was an early result of civilization, as the disease was communicated to the natives from @ British man-ot-war, From an accurate computation made in London of the present number of missionaries and heath ens in the world it appears that the missionaries have the best of it by eight, Mr. Dewitt U, Bilis, Superintendent of the Bank‘, Department, and Mr. Orlow W. Chapman, Super trom Albany yesterday at tne Fifth Avenne Hotel tis sweet to hear from the President of the Board of Health thatil that inert body can get hold of the necessary sum of money it will abate the nuisance at the Harlem flats im ‘about ninety days.” A cable despatch from Vienna, under date o . June 30. reports that Count Hoyosprinzensteip has been appointed Ministery of Austria to the United States in place of Baron Schwartz-Sen. born, resigned, Z by arecent law on the miittary organization in italy the priesthood ceases to be a refuge against conscription, and the Pope informs th ‘orld that this law will cause the destruction of une enemies of the Church Alfonso has just escaped a fate like that of the Spamish Republic. He was nearly the victim of @ military conspiracy, but the plot was discovered before ripe by the Portuguese Minister and the | consptiators have been divided between the Bale and’ that people who go to dig gold will re- | Jearte and Canary Isiands, The reported iliness of the well Known actress Miss Charlotte Cushman, at her summer rest- deuce in Newport, KR. 1., 18 without foundation, She was seen on Bel evue avenue on Tuesday af. ternoon, in apparently as good health as sne hag assumed recently is the tendency of the | enjoyed for many years. In Spain @ poor musician hanged himself at The night with a cord made by rolling together homber of fiddle strings, but a favorite monkey amused himself by playing with bis master’s bow on tuis hew sort of fiddle and made such a row aa to wake up every one in the house, and the dds dier was cat down in lume to save bis lie, A