The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1875, Page 6

6 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 Nzw Yorx Henarp will be sent Sree 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 Yon« Hxnawp. 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 advertisements will be received ond forwarded on the same terms as in New York, ++-NO. 190 VOLUME XL AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. sol, TAReeEe ‘Third Exghth strect, between Second al avenues. — Fetfirmanes ‘comteces at 3 o'clock and Closes ati o'clock. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner of Thirtieth street—JACK SHEP a at 8 P.M; closes at 1035 P.M. Matinee at? GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, late Barnum’ Hippodrome. “Ge Nb POPULAR CON- ate P.M. ; closes at OLYMPIC THEATRE, A uP. M. poo Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 45 CENTRAL 'AKK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at 5 P. M, ROBINSON HAL! rest Sixteenth street—English pera—GIROFLE. HBOFLA, at 5 P. M. IP NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1875, pe wees mes —s THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, To NewspEALERS aND THE Pusiic :— Tur New York Henaup will run a special train every Sunday during the season, com- mencing July 4, between New York, Niagara Falls, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon and Richfield Springs, leaving New York at half- past two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga fat nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at & quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Henatp 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 Heraxp oflice as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities wre that the weather to-day will be slightly warmer and c’ear or partly cloudy. TR = LE SHEET. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Hernan mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart, Srrevr Yrsterpay.—Gold declined from 116} to 115§, bat closed at 116. Stocks were somewhat unsettled. Foreign exchange was firm and money easy. Beterom.—We publish to-day an interesting letter on the Church question in Belgium and the concessions made by the government of that country to the demands of Germany. Tur Wreck or THe Saranac on the Pacific coast has been officially communicated to the government at Washington. Captain Queen | recognizes, in the most cordial manner, the | courteous action of the British civil and naval | suthorities at Vancouver’s Island. Tue Poor Curpren.—The free excursions | for poor children which have been so success- fal during past summers are to be resumed. No nobler charity ever appealed to our gener- | ous public, and liberal contributions should ‘be cheerfully extended. Tux Storms ry Huncany, which have been previously reported, prove to have been of a very destructive character. The bodies of | twenty-cight persous were found, and over | one hundred people are also reported missiny. The loss of life and property has been of such an extensive nature that aid forthe relief of | the survivors is earnestly asked for, ‘NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1875~TR The Indian Question—How the Ad- ministration Deals with the Na- tion’s Wards. We print this morning an interesting and valuable letter trom the Indian country of the Northwest. The circumstances under which this letter was written give it a special value. When the rumors of probable Indian troubles, with small, teasing, expensive wars in their train, came in every mail, it seemed that*the Hexatp could do no better service to the cause of peace and bumanity than to makea thorough investigation of the whole subject, to seek out the source of all these quxieties and troubles, to find how much truth was in the | constan'ly-repeated rumors of corruption in the management of Indian affairs, and to awaken the people and the authonties at Washington to a sense of what we owe to the savage tribes who are owr wards in a sacred sense. To do this it was necessary to avoid the thousand obstacles which have always sur- rounded an honest investigation of the Indian problem, to go directly among the Indians themselves, to,see their life, hear their stories, examine their complaints and to strip off as far as possible tbe mfstery which enfolds the administration of Indian affairs. It was still more necessary to weigh carefully the rumors and stories that always surround any attempt at inquiry, and to give the exact truth as calmly as possible. The writer of this letier has fol- lowed out these instructions with courage and fidelity, and the first result of bis investiga- tions now goes to the country. We do not think we have ever been called upon to recite a sadder story, We see the whole Indian population given over to jobbers, Among them we find no less person than the brother of the Presi- dent of the United States. The trading posts are leased to special contractors. These con- tractors are protected by the administration. If Indian delegations, composed of the rep- resentative chiefs of a great tribe, seek jus- | tice in Washington they have scarcely a hear- ing. It Orville Grant, the President's brother, finds an Indian woman trading near one of his posts he con have a command from Wash- ington by return mail to close up the rival store, even if necessary to use the soldiery. “One thing,’ writes our correspondent, ‘is certain. When Orville Grant gained control of the trading stores on this river the Indians began to starve, and the more power he gained in a mercantile way the less the In- dians had to eat.” Nor is this a vague, hasty impression, thrown upon the mind of a corre- spondent by those who are rivals of Orville Grant or anxious to share with him in his profits. We know. what Inoian starvation means from the In- dians themselves. Three of the chiefs— Sitting Crow, Two Bears and Bear Rib—send us statements, certified by their uncouth autographs. It has been the fortune of the Heraxp to receive communications from many | men of renown. We have never received a | communication which appeals to us with the pathetic eloquence of these rude savages. When Sitting Crow, in his odd fashion, ad- dresses ‘‘the Big Medicine of the white edi- tors,” and with almost Hebrew quaintness begins his epistie by saying, ‘These words are for the chief of newspaper makers,” he is entitled to as much attention as Bismarck or Napoleon. It is in this‘sense that the inde- pendent newspaper has become, to uso an Oriental hyperbole, world,” and we give to Sitting Crow and his wild, dusky compatriots all courtesy and honor. Let us see, then, what Sitting Crow has to say of the treatment he receives from the men who are intrusted with the comfort and wel- fare of the Indians, and at the head of whom we find the brother of Ulysses 8. Grant, | President of the United States. says Sitting Crow, “two things are needed greatly—one is food; one is ammunition and ‘the asylum of the | “My friends,” | Territories looks upon the killing of an Indian asupon the killing of a wolf. The frontier society is imbued with traditions and narra- tives of cruel massacres, of women carried into captivity, to a fate compared with | which death would be a _ blessing; of men slowly tortured to death by delighted and frantic warriors, We are told with a barsb, blunt truthfulness that we do not challenge that manifest destiny has solved this distressing problem; that the aborigines must be driven from the continent, } that the white men need their hills and val- leys and rivers, and that whether war or dis- ease or intemperance exterminates them it matters little, the end must come. Even if this were sound policy, even if it became the duty of the government to deal with the Indians as with wolves, it would not justify the trans- actions which are recorded by our correspond- ent. Laying aside any question of duty to the Indians as our wards wo seo a system so corrapt in all respects that it is a question whether it is more injurious to the white or the red man. We see possibilities of misgov- ernment on the part of our authorities in | Washington that make us fear that an admin- istration which can tolerate such a state of affairs in the Sioux country must be corrupt in every department. This criticism bears directly upon the Pres- ident. When he accepted office he especially charged himselt with the settlement of the Indian question. He knew it well, for he had lived on tho frontier asa soldier, Tho President was wise and “bold at the outset. Humane men rejoiced to feel that at last the Indian problem, for generations the stain upon our civilization, would be solved. Tho | President selected irreproachable agente— | wise, experienced and devout, But their work was doomed. The Ring was too pow- erful. The men who grew rich while Indians were eating dogs and ponies, rich out of the money belonging to starving tribes, were tap strong, The ‘Quaker policy,” as it was called in scorn, failed. The President sur- rendered to influences which he began bis administration by fighting, and the Indian policy, which at the outset had William Welsh and George H. Stuart at its head, is now typified by Orville Grant, the President's brother, a partner in Indian trading stores, | and sustained in his monopoly by the gov- | ernment. This fact is so flagrant and scan- dalous that it carries its own comment. Even the admirers of General Grant concede that claims of his relatives upon the treasury. It was bad enough to send an incompetent rela- tive to a foreign court and to appoint a cal- low son, who stumbled through West Point, to be a lieutenant colonel before his lieuten- ant’s straps had lost their fringe. But how much worse itis to find at the head of this system of mismanagement and inhumanity | which now prevails in the Sioux country the President's own brother } It is the most dis- heartening incident of the President's term. An American Doctor in London, Dr. Fordyce Barker is reported to have “prodoced a profound impression’’ on the medical mind of London by his lecture before a learned body in that city on the American treatment of puerperal fever—a fact that will | searcely surprise those who know the bold difference in the view of this disease taken by the practice here from the view on which tho practice in England rests. It is assumed by the practice here that while the cases of this diseage may be grouped in two classes, yet in the class that includes by far the larger num- ber of cases the fever may be practically re- garded as of traumatic origin; that all its | phenomena are due to the communication by | the nervous system of the irritation conse- quent upon what may be considered as an extensive injury, and that con- sequently, if you interrupt this com- | munication by keeping the nervous | goods, that we may hunt and eat.” This Indian telis us that he is a chief and has been | @ warrior, and now wants to live in peace. As to ‘‘the missionaries and holy men,’’ there are divided opinions in the tribe, but he thinks well of them. As to the agents who have starved them, “my tongue cannot find the words that will express my feelings.’’ ‘The Great Spirit,” says Sitting Crow, ‘the Father of us all, will listen to this my complaint, and may He carry it deep into your hearts. The greatest pun- ishment the agents can have when they die | is to be cast away from the Great Spirit and the good Indians in the hunting ground of the | good spirits. They cannot live together. The bad agents will be scalped by the bad Indians, The little Mther is starving us and he never comes to see us, With a good heart I shake your hands.” What Sitting Orow thus ex- presses in his simple, poctic fashion, our cor- respondent demonstrates by a clear, cold, logical statement. He shows that in no one system under the influence of opiates till the injury is remedied by ordinary physiological | processes, the large majority of patients will | recover. For fifteen or twenty years this | treatment, with or’ without the theory, has | been practised in this city; and, as all the bet- | ter doctors of the country study here, it has | spread to other cities, and with results so | eminently satisfactory that a disease once’ re- | garded with great dread is now commonly | esteemed as fairly within the number of man- | ageable maladies. Dr. Alonzo Clark, of this city, one of the ablest American physicians, first publicly taught this practice; but we be- lieve he does not claim that it is his inven- | tion, but attributes it toa hint from Dr. Arm- strong, who flourished in London in the early | part of this century, and who, curiously | enough, was a bleeder and a purger. In Len- | don they have not heeded the success of this | treatment here because there is an unfortu- | pate fashion there of fancying that in the science of medicine what is not known in Lon- Measverxsc Worms, aiter an absence of | particular have we kept our faith with the | don or Paris is scarecly worth the attention of nine years from the city parks, have put in an | Indians. He shows that traders are allowed | busy men. appearance this summer, but the sparrows are | on the lookout for them, and there is little fear of stch a nuisance making headway against our vigilant little birds, It would be | well were other municipal pests as easily dis- ee ee Ovn Amentcan Rrriemen are undoubtedly objects of terror in England, as the British | team selected to shoot for the Elcho Shield at Wimbledon, from which contest, according to rule, the Americans are excluded, decline meeting our marksmen m the match for the Floyd's Cup, wnless the latter consent to | have as opponents the best representatives | of three British teams. | Moxmovrn Park f meeting of the summer season at Long Branch | dlosod yesterday in a very brilliant manner, | Parole, Ratherfurd, Spindrift and Scrateh | were the winners in four exciting races. The to rob them, to sell them goods ata price far beyond their value; that in this robbery they are protected by the supreme power o! the government, and that chief among the traders | is the brother of the President of the United | States. | have been compelled to eat their ponies and He shows that in many cases tribes dogs. ‘We ate nearly two hundred horses last | winter,’ says Sitting Crow, “and all of our While to an dogs but the are thus reduced pets.” the extremity Indians the | traders and agents are constantly adding to their fortunes. Ho shows that all of our plans for educating the Indians | and teaching them the arts of peace, | how to sow and plough and become useful | | P ; and industrious citizens, are pretexts—that they never have been seriously attempted, The ground given them was unfit for tilling ; they were not allowed adequate tools ; their “teachers’’ were not competent to instruct | Tae Movuton Lien Ixpromrext.—Mr. | Moulton and District Attorney Britton have | exchanged correspondence regarding the late | unpleasantness between Mr. Tilton and Ply- mouth church which is of a decidedly spicy character. Mr. Moulton wishes to meet any charge that may have been preferred against | him, and the Brooklyn District Attorney re- plies in quite # humorous vein, playfully referring to the late trial asa sort of tenement house quarrel. Now that the public are rid | of a nuisance which can be only equalled by | the Harlem flats it is advisable to laugh | down all attempts to resuscitate it. | Opsrnverrxa StpewarKs.—Many Fersons complain of the obstruction of the sidewalks in some of the downtown thoroughfares by wayons and tracks backing from the street in order to deliver goods to wholesale establish- ments, thereby impeding travel for an unwart- course and the arrangements made for each | them in the industrial arts; the wogons sent rantable space of time. The Board of Alder- meeting by the committee of gentlemen appointed to superintend the races give uni- versal satisfaction. The second meeting be- gins to-morrow afternoon and will last four days. HAM Mid lod cL Tue Unstvensrres’ Boat Racr.--As tho great aquatic event of the summer on Sara- toga Lake draws near the interest of the pub- lic becomes more intense, aud the strong and wenk points of the collegiate oarsmdn, as shown by their preliminary practice, attract | marked attention. Our correspondent at the | lake, where so mony stoiwart athletes will contend next week in one of the most excit- | Ing of sports, gives some interesting details | soncorning a few of the prothinent crews were without harness. The whole catalogue is a dreary, sad one. Corruption, mis- management, folly, an absence of all true consideration for the real wants of the In- dians, utterly ignoring our dutics as guardians of this dependent, interesting and unhappy race. The Indian question is generally considered as wholly sentimental, and our practical men are impatient when we ask their attention to events occurring thousands of miles away, among savage tribes, with whom we have no sympathy, who are alien in every sense. We are told by our resolute, driving citizens on the frontier that there is no good Indian | but a dead one. The public opinion of the | ruption. the | men hove taken needed measures to abate this nuisance, There is no reason why our sidewalks should be unnecessarily occupied tor private business to the detriment of the public, Tux Hepsox County Rrxo, which has becn so long a disgrace to our neighbors across the Hudson, has at length been driven from power, and the jail frands, that were apparent to every one in the adjoining county of New Jersey, are now thoroughly exposed by the majority of the Board of Freeholders, in which body they were championed and en- couraged. The power of the press in this | instance proved too powerful for official cor- he has not been wise in his ideas as to the | | Butler to class our enormous national debt ; ways | General Butler Indorses the Ohie In- ‘Mlationists. Butler’s approval of the financial heresies of the Ohio democrats is in perfect keeping with his past record, In 1868 he disputed | Pendleton’s elaim to priority in the greenback policy, and he has consistently spoken and voted in Congress for the ideas embodied in the Obio democratic platform, If the infla- tionists carry Ohio and get control of the democratic party Butler will no doubt join it and aspire to the position of a democratic leader, The only point in Butler's recent manifesto plausible enough to require an antidote is his illustration of the oppressive effect of specie resump- tion on the debtor class. ‘There is at least one-third of the wealth of the country,” he says, ‘‘invested in indebtment, national, municipal or private. All this appreciates. All other property depreciates. To illustrate, a man’s house has within the last two years depreciated thirty-three per cent in its ex- exchangeable value—that is, he can sell it for that sum only as compared with:two years ago; but the mortgage for greenbacks bor- rowed upon it has appreciated ten per cont in comparison with gold. The property grows continually smaller, while the bond and mort- gage grows continually larger. So with ail property aud all debts,” The whole strength of the anti-resumption case lies in this argument, That there is some force in it cannot be disputed. Indeed, the whole obstacle to an immediate return to a sound currency lies in the opposition of the debtor class, who would undoubtedly suffer some injustice if the change should be abrupt and violent. The considerations presented by Butler are a good reason for making the process gradual and ‘tempering the wind to the shorn lamb.’’ But the obstacle to re- sumption is grossly exaggerated, and we take this occasion to reduce it to its proper dimensions. General Butler speaks of ‘indebtment, national, municipal or private,’’ declaring that one-third of the wealth of the country is invested in this form. We will take up these three classes of debts in the order in which he mentions them, beginning with the in- debtedness of the nation, We assert with en- tire confidence that the national debt is no obstacle to the immediate return to a sound currency. This is too obvious for eliborate argument, The national debt is contessedly payable in gold in any event, be the state of the currency what it may. The interest on it is regularly paid in gold, and the faith of the government is solemnly pledged to pay the principal in gold. That burden would not be increased if specie payments were resumed to-morrow. The government is the greatest debtor in the country, and its colossal debt is payable in specie any way, both principal and interest, The national debt is not only no ob- stacle to resumption, but is a strong reason why resumption should be as early as is at all consistent with other interests. The goverv- ment pays its debt out of the excess of reve- nue over expenditure, and as resumption would reduce the cost of all government sup- plies it would increase the surplus which goes toward the extinction of the public debt. The strong point in this connection is the fact that the goverhment cannot release itself from the IPLE SHEET. an epidemical scourge results from their dis- inclination to remove such a fruitful source of death and disease they will be held respon- sible by an indignant and most oppressed public. A slight covering of earth is now be- ing placed over the reeking mass of filth, a sort of poor man’s plaster for Disbecker’s ail- ing district; but threo feet of clean earth, certainly no less, is what the horrible mias- matic area demands. " The Collision at Rockaway. So far as can be judged from the testimony taken in the Coroner’s investigation at Far Rockaway yesterday, the responsibility rests chiefly upon Mr. Poppenhusen, the general manager of the road, who was on board the train with Conductor Hibbard and encouraged him to start. Goodenough, a telegraph operator at Far Rockaway, _ testified - that he received a telegram stating the posi- tion of the train and that he communicated the information to the conductor, who disre- garded it. He further testified that, accord- ing to the rules of the company, conductors are bound to disregard all telegrams that do not come to them from officers of the road. But it is a dictate of common sense and common prudence that when trains are out of time conductors should resort to the telegraph to learn the position of trains with which there is a possibility of collision, The position of the coming train was known to the operator at Far Rockaway and the information was disregarded. Even if it had not been known, it was the duty ot General Manager Puppenhusen to have gone to the telegraph office and found out betore permitting Conductor Hibbard to start his train. Mr. Poppenhusen would there- fore seom responsible for the collision, whether he knew of the telegram or not, When trains get disarranged the great resource for finding their position is the telegraph, and if mes- sages do not come it is the duty of those in charge to seek them. Neglect to do so is utterly inexcusable, Mrs. Stankliff, the wife of a brakeman, tes- tifies that she heard the whistle of the ap- proaching train, and excitedly gave warning, of which no’ notice was taken. She saw the telegraph operator give the conductor a piece of paper, and when she saw the train start, after hearing the whistle of the other, she exclaimed, ‘My God! is this train going out ?—the other is coming in!” Within two or three minutes after the horrible collision had taken place.’ It was the consequence of disregarding or at least of failing to scek in- formation by telegraph of the position of the coming train, and of being deat to the sound of the whistle when it approached. Conduc- tor Hibbard has paid the penalty of his negligence, but General Manager Poppen- husen, who, as his superior, ought to have controlled him, has a fearful load of guilt resting at his door according to the present state of the testimony. Juan N. Cortina, The departure of the notorious bandit chief Cortina from the Rio Grande border in charge ofa force of cavalry, en route for the city of Mexico, is an event in the history of that locality the importance of which few persons unacquainted with his remarkable obligation to pay specie on its own indebted- ness, whether the currency is inflated or con- tracted. It is, therefore, absurd for General with the obstacles to resumption. Specie payments on the national debt do not await resumption; they are already the settled | standing rule. The next great branch of indebtedness is not municipal, but corporate, the railroad cor- porations being the heaviest debtors next to the government. Resumption would be for their advantage, because it would reduce their expenses in a larger proportion than it would increase their burden as debtors. The reduc- tion in the cost of rails, iuel, rolling stock and labor would be more thau a compensa- tion for the additional interest on their bonds. | Moreover, a large portion of their bonds is heid in Europe, and payable in coin any | The burden of municipal debts would, no doubt, be increased; but there would be at Jeast a partial set-off in the diminished cost of | prosperity and stability. « We come last to private debts, which stand third in General Butler’s enumeration. It is here that the whole pinch of the difficulty lies; but even here it is enormously exagger- | municipal improvements and in the geseral | career, extending over a period of more than twenty years, can appreciate. Since 1859 it has been a problem with every one of tho shifling administrations at the Moxican capi- tal how to rid the section of this notorious freebooter, whose catalogue of crimes prob- ably surpasses that of any living man. The warring of the conflicting parties in that dis- as (o make the possession of every element of strength desirable, has proved his salvation heretofore, and his present arrest is the natural result of that strength which has ac- crued to the government durmg the long term ot comparative peace which has followed the downfall of the Empire and the death of Maximilian. antagonism between the half-breed Latin and ing that struggle, when the reepective com- batants became impersonated in the ‘“Greaser” and the “Gringo.” This antagonism has been | the more marked on the Rio Grande frontier, where the two races have been in constant | wanting on either side. Reaching the years | ated. So far as mercantile debts are con- | munity stands in the double relation of debtor and creditor, and its gains in one relation would balance its losses inthe other. A mor- | chant borrows of his banker t6 enable | him to extend credit to his cus- | tomers, and to far as he makes neither gain nor lose by resumption. owners of mortgaged real estate belong to a different class, aud General Butler has | adroitly drawn his chief illustration from their supposed hardships. But even here there are strong mitigations. For example, the handreds of thousands of mechanics and | small traders who own houses for whicn they have partia'ly paid have deposits in savings | banks, which gradually agewmulate in prepara- | tion for the time when their mortgages will mature. They make their final payments by | taking money out of the ravings banks ‘o discharge the mortgages on their property. | Their losses as mortgagecs will be balanced by their gains os creditors of the savings | banks, and to this extent thoy would suffer | | no hardship by resumption. The savings banks themselves would be saved from serious losses by the operation of the same double relation of debtor and creditor. They loan out all the money they receive from their | depositors, and their debts and credits aro always nearly equal. The oppression of the debtor class by resumption, though not wholly fictitious, is, therefore, n bugbear which dwindles to small dimensions as soon as it is examined. Tur Hantzm Frars.—The trightful stench from Dishecker’s pest beJs increases as the thermometer rises. The city authorities throw the responsibility from one to the other, and the Board of Aldermen, to whom the peo- ple finally look for relief, are disinclined to take any active measures on the subject. The remedy is so easy that the indifference of the municipal magnates is not only inexcusable but may be considered actually criminal, If cerned the great mass of the mercantile com- | his payments out of his collections he would | The | of manhood soon after that struggle was over, | his earliest recollections were of the defeat and humiliation of his people, over which bis Indian nature was constantly brooding and | to revenge which he seems to have devoted his life “I did not sign the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,’’ he said, white laying siege to the city of Brownsville in 1859, after murdering several of its moro | prominent citizens; and itis not recorded that the important omission has since been rectified. time by a combined force of citizens and the few United States troops stationed there, he has since kept upa bitter, unrelenting war | upon the persons and property of American citizens, hundreds of whom he has caused to be shot or hung toa tree, as is the peculiar | custom of the country. During this time he Cortina is the embodiment of that spirit of | contact, and where constant incentives to re- | newed bitterness of fesling have not been | tracted Republic, generally so evenly balanced | Defeated aud driven off nt that | has been a partisan of every causc and of | every faction in Mexico, constant to no one of them long. Secure amid the ranches and | small villages of Northern Tamaulipas, hy | has detied the power of both the national and | State governments at intervals as his services were required or his demnands imperative, | serving as Governor of the State, Mayor of Mata- moros, Adminisirator of the Custom House, Major General of the Army, or whatever other position he chose to assume in order to reward his followers or punish his enemies. | He has been the head and front of the cattle | raids into Texas, all of which have been carried on by his immediate followers and | under his immediate directions. In arresting | him in the midst of his retainers and friends, | who comprise a large proportion of the citi- zevs of Matamoros, President Lerdo has done what no other head of the Mexican govern- ment has dared attempt, and ‘bas doubtless | prevented grave complications between his | own and the government of the United States, | It is sincerely to be hoped a fitting termina- | tion to his career may be found against the wall made memorable by the death of Herron, Vidaurri ond others, victims of the hundred revolutions in Mexico, | handkerchiefs wontd be appreciated 1 .wonder there should be discontent. Spain Cowrmves to rook in the uneasy seas of civil war and bankruptey. The apprében- sions expressed by the London Times in o leader, the substance of which we printed yesterday, have been for some time anticl- pated in the Henatp. The accession of the Prince Alfonso to the throne of Spain wae in no respect an advantage. He did not come as the choice of the people. He wag the candidate of a military coup d' élat—an armed insurrection in which a sovereign Coo- gress were driven out of the halls of Ingisl» tion at the point of the bayonet. Personally he had no qualities of the king but amiabil ity, and no claim to that respect which attends along, unsuilied line. He was only a boy fresh from his tops and ponies. His birth was clouded. His earlier life had been spent in the stained circles of a dishonored court, So when he came to the crown he was only another new adventurer in the palace where so many adventurers have endeavored to fod lodgement since the time of Charles Il. Ne We see no future possible in Spain but Don Carlos os the Republic. Either of these governments mean sothething. Alfonso means nothing, and it would not surprise us to see him some morning burrying over the road to Portugal which Amadeus took one early morning im February when the crown became too harsh a burden. The Madrid despatches indicate that the Carlists are vigorously pushed of late, but nothing like a decisive engagement has occurred, Dorregarry preferring flight to bat tle. ‘The combatants on each side seem only capable of oftensive operations up to a certain point, but that point leaves everything like “thorough’’ work unessayed. Taz Frexcu Invnpations.—As the de tails arrive of the disaster that has brought suffering and desolation to one of the fairest | valleys of France we begin to recognize its extent and importance. The districts lying along the Garonne have been absolutely laid waste by the flood. The loss of life will, in all probability, prove greater than at first was feared. Two other rivers in the same region, according to the latest enable de- spatches, haye overflowed their banks, and the results have been equally disas trous. Public and private efforts are be ing made to furnish relief to the stricken people, and it would be only a grateful return for America to do something to help the un- fortunate inhabitants of the Garonne Valley. Many of our countrymen annually seck health in the invigorating air of the Pyrenees, and not one but brings back kindly memories of the inhabitants of all that region. Now is the time to express practically their sympathy by giving something from their store to sup- ply the wants of those who have been de- prived of all means of subsistence by a ca- lamity no human foresight could have pre- vented. Tue Carz May Reoarra.—Extensive prep- arations are being made at the beautiful sea- side resort in which the denizens of the Quaker City principally delight for next week’s regatta. A large number of crack yachts will be present as competitors for the valuable prizes accompanying each race, and the events set down in the programme will extend over three days. — Tue Rarm Transit Commissioners have organized with promptitude, and give gratify- ing evidence that this great subject is in ener getic hands. They passed a resolution yes- terday declaring one or more steam roads for rapid transit a public necessity, and they invite plans and suggestions. They are to meet again next Tuesday. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ab, well! if we could have some “true inward ness” at that price! Congressman Jotun A, Kasson, of Jowa, is stay+ ing at the Clarendon Hotel. Rev. H. H. Waters, of Toronto, 1s among the late arrivals at the Westminster Hotel. Governor Tilden is not expected at Albany for "i a } . aith fi ving. Indian of Mexico and the Saxon of the Unitea | * “°°k 7°" Seta athaudee States which existed before the war between | the two republics, and which took shape dur- | Hastonfinney Hellersshouts 1s the name of the newest poet; discovered in St. Lous. Secretary Robeson returned to Washington yea. terday morning from Rye Beach, N. H. Assemblyman George W. Schuyler, of Ithaca, te sojourning at tiie Metropolitan Hotel. Protessor Thomas &. Price, of Virginia, arrived | last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman Elias W. Leavenworth, of Syrae cuse, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Kindly done on the part of Wimbledon. don’t want to beat our fellows too suddenly, General A. G. Lawrence, of Rnode Isiand, has taken up his residence at the Albemarle Hotel. ‘The part of the theatre that wo call olympus i¢ in Paris called paradise —because they eat apples. A cable despatch from London, under date of this morning, 9th inst., announces tha Professor Cairnes is dead. Mgr. Roncettl, the Pope’s nuncio, and suite, and the Connt and Countess de la Rochfoucald, of Paris, are at Montreal. “ype non-execttion of article 6 of the Treaty of Prague,” said Field Marshal von Moltke, “will cost 1s two army corps.” Brevet Brigadier General George B. Dandy, of the Quartermaster’s Department, United States Ary, is at tne Metropolitan Hotel. Fonché, Napoleon's great policeman, was buried at Trieste ; but his body has just been exhumed to be put in a famtly vault in France. Viscount de Thury, of France, arrived at the New York Horel yesterday irom St. Louls, He will sail for Earope to-morrow in the steamship Ville de Paris. Right Rev. Dr. Thomas A, Jagear, Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, arrivea at the Coleman House last evening, with nis family, on the Way te the White Mountains, At Chinon, in France, o joyous fostival fs in preparation to celenrate the memory of Rabelais, The plons press objects, and seems to forget that Rabelais wis a priest. In nfs first leeture of the course now on Pro- fessor Claude Bernard held that through tho study of physiology science would eventually mast er the secret of life. ny They pretend to bave in Parls an American Innatic—a “rich gentleman of Cincinnati.” The story rans that he went all the way to Paris to be embalmed, and tried to commit suicide in the empatmer’s establistiment as a preliminary. Ali tat Brother Shearman wants as pay for hie services is love; but probably a few flue pocket Ir the brother ever does take a “wiper to his bosom’ it should be of that tear-absorbing sort, Under the régime of President Grant there has been one economy. [n the btils of previous Presi. dents there Was a regitar yearly salary Of *$250 fot b Oks for the library of the Bxecutive Man. sion.’ Under Grant that salary disappears, They don’t want any books. More Siaveries than one,—Rignt Hon. B. Dw Now that Your Highness has seen the blessing ot frecd m, i trust we may rely upon your strennoag help in putting down slavery? Sultan Seyyid Barghash—Ah, yes; certainly! Bat rememr, Ove Sheikh Ben Dizzy, conservative party very strong n Zanzivurl—Punch, They