The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Oo and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the Naw Yors Henaup 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 wonth, free of postage, to subscribers, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches inust be addressed New York Henaxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. ae LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, VOLUME XL... —— aes AMUSEMENTS T0-NIGHT. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, PHEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at 5 P, M. ROB N HALL, Wost Sixtoenth streot—English Opera—GIROFLE- GIBOFLA, ats P.M. 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Mr. Tilton should make a speech, Tue Derartwent or Docks now thinks of building us docks and picrs worthy of the commercial greatness of the city. must not be too sanguine. A Cantez Dzspatcu announces that there are serious floods in England. We trust our cousins will not be submitted to the cruel dis- aster which has attracted the sympathy of the world to France. Taz War Crovp in Asia hes blown over. | The King of Burmah accedes to the demands of Engiand, and that country will therefore be | spared another of those teasing and expensive wars which have weakened her power in Asia, Moca Svunprise is expressed by knowing ones that Wilbur, Corson and the gang of printing swindlers who ran the Transcript under Tammany, and m@de vast sums, have | not been called upon for restitution. The printing swindle was among the most in- famous frauds of the Tammany reign, Mr. Bracs, the Tilton coun or, seems to have indefinitely postponed his purpose of bringing before the court his evidence show- ing that the jurors in the Beecher case bad been improperly approached. If Mr. Beach has any such affidavits we shall be glad to print them. i Tse Boarp or ALprrM ineet to-day, They will again take up and endeavor to pass the city ordinances providing against the perils of pestilence and fire. Ii is to be hoped that at least one of the republicau Aldermen will have so far recovered his sense of daty and self-respect as to withdraw the partisan and scandalous opposition to these necessary measures into which the ‘miuority’’ repre. | sentatives have been forced by their trading party leaders. Rosert Date Owex.—An Indianapolis journal announces the arrival of Robert Dale Owen in that city, accompanied hy his two sons. It seems that the earliest tokens of in- sanity wero the result of disease, and that among other iu ducinations Mr. Owen belioved he was the heir to the earldom of Breadalbane and to an immense estate, anid he began to | plan how he would endow colleges and build orpbanasylums. His whole conversation was as to kind." Unless incipient paralysis should set in there are hopes Mr. Owen's mental facul- | ‘The misforiune that bas | befallen this amiable, accomplished and high- | ties may be restored, minded geatleman will be regretted by all GiKCl oa: But we | ‘the best means of benefiting man- | SEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET, Tne Regatta at Saratoga. The surprise over the victory of the Cornell Freshmen at Saratoga on Tuesday was re- peated with even more emphasis by the suc- cess of the University crew in the great race yesterday, Last year Columbia carried off the prize contrary to the expectations of every- body, while the Freshman race went to Prince- ton. An accident between the boats of Yale and Harvard made the victory of Columbia less satisfactory than it otherwise would have been, and the crews of the two older universi- ties were confident of success this year. Har- vard had the prestige of long experience and many well-won victories. Yale was not far behind either in prestige or prowess. With the betting men, and even with amateurs of the soundest discrimination, they were the favorites in the regatta just ended, and had it been predicted that the one would be only third in the race while the other should be as far down as sixth in the list the suggestion would have been regarded as improbable. It was an | occasion which called for the best efforts of both, as weil to settle the controversy of last year as to fix them in the position which they claimed at the head of the college crews. Their failure settles both questions as effectu- ally as their success could have done, By the unexpected victory of Cornell Columbia re- cedes only to the second place, while the others take their places in the rear, Yale even behind Dartmouth and Wesleyan. There were no accidents or mishaps of any kind to mar the fair fruits of victory, and though the battle on both days went to the youngest of the universities the result is to be attributed only to the excellence of the trainmg and practice of these young musclemen from Cayuga Lake. Nobody, not even those who are most disappointed in the result, will deny to the young scholars of Cornell the full merits of their victory, and it is especially gratifying that there are to be no cavillings over the means adopted to gain the results | achieved by the unexpected winners. | It would be pardonable, perhaps, should we | indulge in a little State pride over the results | of yesterday's race, The winning crew comes | from Western New York, while the second hon- | ors go to the noted crew from the East. Last | year the Hudson sent its message of victory | to the lakes, and now the lakes respond to the | river with a voice even more exultant. It is | a consolation to Columbia, however, for being | compelled to yield the palm to her younger rival that victory still remains at home, and that none except Cornell was able to pluck a | leaf trom the laurel with which our favorites were crowned a year ago. Thus it is in one sense a double victory, not alone for Cornell, but for the State—the backbone of the Oon- tinent against the Continent itself. It is a pretty idea that the victors over the youths of ali the land—these laurel-crowned lads of Young America—should come from that old | America which Agassiz has shown us was first | to appear above the waters of the great deep. Coming down to the historical | period we find the Iroquois as the head of the | Six Nations, the arbiters of the destiny of the | Continent among the aborigines. It is only | natural that the sons of the successors of the natives should, in their turn, be the arbiters of the pluck and courage of the new people and the new civilization, These are what won on Saratoga Lake yesterday against the prestige | and skill of the older universities, and as the | Hudson was the break between that old America whose story the scientist has re- vealed to us, so the Hudson crew stands be- | tween these arbiters of pluck and courage and the culture of the East, Inali this there is scope for the grandest philosophy. The- same spirit which animated the crews from | Western and Eastern New York is the spirit which made this State the Empire State of | the Union and this city the metropolis of | | America. It is the spirit that joined the great lakes with the father of rivers which | rolls by our doors, De Witt Clinton pos- sessed it when he built the Erie Canai, It has | made ‘our valleys and even our hill | | and mountain sides, from the Cats- | | kills to the Faljs, the garden of the ; | Continent and New York Bay the outlet to and the inlet from all the world. It is alleged | that Cornell learned the lesson, of which she presented such a beautiful illustration yester- day, from the rude boatmen of Cayuga Lake, | Whence, then, did Columbia, city born and | bred, derive her teachings? Certainly not from any mere muscular example. ‘These glories were inbred in the blood, in the cli- mate, in the soil, and the University victory | was only one of their outward manifestations. | In other spheres of life we seo the same spirit | all around us, and if we take the aquatic suc- | cesses of this year and the last as matters of the greatest siguificance it is because they are a sign that the elements which enabled our | fathers to make the city and Stute great and prosperous still survive in their children and children’s children and are a new promise for the future. These considerations make State pride and even sectional vanity pardon- | able and give to these simple victories of the | | college youths an importance that would not | otherwise atiach to them. Such on event, so significant in all its as- pects, is worthy of being commemorated in something more vivid than sounding rhetoric and more lasting even than the poet's song, It deserves to be a picture to the eye as well as as to the ear. A universal want will be fel day to know every position of every boat from the beginning to the end of the con- test. The Huaanp has endeavored to antici- however, science and literature work together to reproduce events as they occur, and the subscriber to the Henan is enabled almost to see that of which he reads, The newspaper at the breakfast table becomes a picture gal- lory as well as a diary of the occurrences of the day before, and the unseen has all the reality of the seen, -No ordinary pictures could accomplish an end so important; but in our maps to-day, we believe, is the key not only to the journalism, but the illustrated journalism, of the future. We need draw no moral from yesterday's race except that which we have already indi- cated. The subject of college boating in par- ticular and physical culture in general is too clearly understood to need elaborate treat- ment at this late day. For more than a quar- ter of a centiry in this country and for nearly fifty years in England have the uni- versities met in friendly annual aquatic con- tests. It is an evidence of the interest in physical training, which has been growing during the last few years with unexampled rapidity, that for the two crews which for- merly contested for victory on Lake Quin- sigamond and the Connecticut River, there were yesterday no fewer than thirteen boats on the water at Saratoga, What if some of these failed to achieve any very satisfactory results? It by no means follows that because Princeton and Hamilton and Union were behind in this year’s race one or other of them may not win in the next, No philosophy can keep them from coming in first at the finish if they are superior in skill and training to their competitors. As it was impossible to predict a victory for Cornell yesterday, so it will be equally impossible to deny it to pluck, endurance and skill here- after. Just such victories as Cornell’s it is the purpose of these regattas to afford to the contestants, and while they are so nobly won and so well deserved college boating will grow in popular esteem and these athletic sports tend toward the one great end of physi- cal culture and enjoyment without presenting any impediment to mental training. Our New Governor. The visit of Governor ‘Tilden to Long Branch, in New Jersey, has caused much comment, Noone grudges the Governor an opportunity of a visit to the sea shore. Coney Island, to be sure, is a watering place, with surf and clams and mosquitoes and other Atlantic Ocean luxuries, but it is too near the Brooklyn Ring for a prudent Governor to seek his personal health by imperilling his political virtue. Fire Island has also salty merits, but it is a noisy, hot place, frequented by administration editors, who have robbed it ofits tranquillity. The Hampton beaches have @ national fume as a sanitary resort, but. Centennial Dix, with his guns and duck shooting, is not a pleasant neighbor for a | Presidential candidate. Long Branch, on the other hand, is the summer home of the Presi- dent, of Boss Murphy and Hugh Hastings, Bishop Simpson, John McKeon and Jay Gould, | and naturally enough a budding candidate for Executive honors would find information as well as relaxation in its pleasant society, By the constitution of the State Governor Tilden by making his home in another State abdicates his office. On this point the terms of the constitution are explicit:—‘In case of the impeachment of the Governor,” says the constitution, ‘‘or his removal from office, death, inability to discharge the powers and duties of said office, resignation, or absence from the State, the powers and duties of thé office shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease. But when the Governor shall, with the consent of the Legislature, be out of the State in time of war at the head of a military force thereof, he shall continue commander-in-chief of all the military forca of the Stat So by the express words of the law, which is as much the master of the Governor as of the humblest citizen, Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer be- | comes Goveruor of the State, and is now the legal head of the Executive Department of the State. We congratulate Mr. Dorsheimer upon his elevation to this high post. There are many things he can do which were >verlooked hy his venerable and illustrious predecessor. He can settle the Corporation Counsel question, which is in abeyaned and has already become ascandal, By the aid of Mayor Wickham he can remove Comptroller Green. He can as- sist the Mayor in reforming the government of the city. He can review Irish processions, and with more effect than his predecessor, be- cause he is a much handsomer man, with a fine military bearing. More than all, he can have his picture painted by Frank Carpenter, who, having finished his Lincoln picture, would undoubtedly rejoice in giving immor- tality to the noble features of our young Gov- ernor. It is just possible that the shrewd Tilden has abdicated to give his colieague the oppor- tunity of solving these agitating problems. Bo this as it may, Dorsheimer is legally the Gov- ernor of New York, and he has our best wishes for the success of his administration. Tux Tweep Case was before the courts yes- terday. His lawyers made a motion to re- duce his bail. These are the lawyers to whom, as Tweed told a reporter with tears in his eyes, he had paid half a million of dollars, They certainly cara the money—or rather the people's money, as every dollar came from | the people. How would it do for Mr, O'Conor | pate t wish and to gratify it, In connec | tion with the Messrs. Harper we established a | photographic tower on a position to command | every phase of the contest, and from this point | | instantaneous views were taken of the progress of the struggle. These are transferred to the | map which we present to our readers this | morning, the position of the boats in the last mile especially being very clearly defined, We thus present to the eye @ picture of the ne at every’step of its progress a3 well as paint it by words to the imagination, believe this illustration of yesterday's sport will be found to rival that which we présented of the shooting of the Irish and American teams at Dollymouut. In that case evory ehot upon the targ eo in its essct position in the Henny the next morning, In this the relative position of the boats of the thirteen crews al every step o} progress is as gots wa clearly marked as it was upon the lake, Pho- tography londs its aid to journalism, and the telegraph becomes the handmaiden of both, A few years ago such daring was unthought of and aurh nerfaction wnottainahle, Now. We | to serve a notice to these ingenious men to pay over their fees to Comptroller Green? The money was stolen, and Mr, Tweed has no right to pay them stolen money. Is it not amazing that this monumental thief does not breathe a word about restitution? If he bad stolen a horse he would have remained in jail to the end of his term; but having stolen millions he can fight and defy justice, Wn Wonvzr if Poter B. Swoony thinks about coming home, or whether the proposal is not realiy a desire to blind the people, Tux Prorosep Meetina of the London radicals to protest against the government | paying the expenses of the Prince of Wales | to India has, as our cable despatehes show, | proved a failure. If the Prince goes to India it should certainly be in royal state, | Whatever the people of England may think of the government they will not be apt to con+ sider seriously whether the heir to the throne | shall or shall not travel on a political journey in a manner worthy of his rank and of the nation's dignity, Henry Ward Beecher. We are afraid that Honry Ward, Beecher and his friends are becoming morbid. The trial has hardly ended before we have a series of “demonstrations.” We have Mr. Becoher himself commending his own ‘manliness’ at a Plymouth prayer meeting, in which he informed the world that he was in the hands of the Lord, and very near to Christ, and meant to do his work to the end. We had the intemperate speech of Raymond, evidently a tender kid in the Plymouth flock, who at- tributed the whole trouble to the newspapers. We had the hundred thousand dollar vote, the most creditable thing that the church has done ; for if it believes in the pastor it should pay its money for him. We had the surprise party of Plymouth maidens and matrons, who marched over the Peekskill fields singing “Beecher,” in honor of the author of ‘irue. inwardness” and ‘nest hiding.’ We had Mr. Beecher goiag on the stand to swear two wretches like Loader and Price into prison for perjury, when if he were in earnest he would have made the same charges against Moulton and Tilton, Now we have him again making a speech to his neighbors and friends at Peeks- kill. Mr. Beecher spoke for an hour under the trees, and in his address he commented freely upon his case. He begun life bya resolution to be ‘an honest man” and to make men better. This he has done “by the help of God ;” not by the “help and permis- sion ofa few newspapers,’’ but in “spite of them.” Nor does he care for the newspapers, who are not going to “‘stop’’ his ‘“‘mouth with a muzzle.” As for himself, he asks no ‘‘but- tressing.”” He will take care of himself. Ho went through the Red Sea—‘‘through pretty deep water at times’’—but the trouble was over long ago. His trial shows what charac- ter can do—character having sustained him when, ‘not upheld by his sect,’ he was as- saulled “by the newspapers and by shrewd, cunning and experienced men.” As for the trial, it will cost seventy-five thousand dal- lars, and even with the help of the church he will barely “get through.” At the end of this address Chauncey M. Depew made an elo- quent speech in adoration of Mr. Beecher, Now, there is no reason why Mr. Beechor should not go among his friends and allow them to cheer him and give him money. Of that we do not in any way complain.” But when he and his frionds become the aggres- sors and present their pastor as the victim of a wanton conspiracy they do him infinite harm. They compel us to say that Mr. Beecher, judged by his own written and spoken record, is unworthy to preach the Gospel. By his own confession he brought ruin. upon a home he was bound to protect and cherish, and alienated the love of a wife from a hus- band who, however wayward or unreasonable, was still a husband and bound to his wife by aholy tie, By his own confession this sin on his part brought him remorse so keen that its expression has founded a new literature—the literature of contrition. We have to go back to the Hebrew psalmist for rhetoric to com- pare with that which Mr. Beecher found nec- essary to express his fault. Because of this fault his troubles came. It was not the work of the newspapers, When the scandals were first breathed the press took his side almost without an exception, They defended him so long as detence was possible. They stamped upon his opponent and did him irretrievablo injury. They had every in- clination to aid Mr, Beecher. He was a national man, a great orator and writer, with o hundred wivning qual- ities, who lived in the sunshine of enthu- siastic friendship, and whose fall it was natu- rally feared would be’ a misfortune to the couutry and religion. Mr. Beecher caused the change in the tone of the press. The newspapers were not within the mgis of Plym- | outh church, Thoy knew the meaning of | English words, and when they found a mas- ter of phrase humbling himself before an ad- versary as before his God and wishing he were dead, and that he alone was guilty ; and when they saw him paying money to pur- chase silence, and for four years a puppet in the hands of a shrewd, driving business man, arranging ‘‘devices’’ after ‘devices’ to ‘save ourselves,” they reached a conclusion which Mr. Beecher’s moaning rhetoric under a Peekskill moon capnot destroy. We do not know of anything that would have given the press higher satisfaction than to have seen Henry Ward Beecher overthrow his accusers by showing his absolute and undoubted inno- cence. Moulton and Tilion were noth- ing to us in comparison to him, andif he had been truly innocent the journals would have seen them float over the ‘moral Niagara” without a regret. Even now no one desires to be cruel to Mr. Beecher. We know of no man in public life to | whom more kindness would naturally flow. But he must not pose as a martyr. tever he may be to Plymouth church, to the world he is no longer the Beecher of the old days, The Beecher of the old days is dead. The Beecher of freedom and emancipation and religious tolerance—the Beecher who did such valiant service in England—no longer lives. He died under the pen and pistol of Frank Moulton when he signed the letter of contrition—a letter which he could no more deny to the common sense of mankind than Shakespeare could have denied “Hamlet.” This Beecher whose speeches we read is only a phantom, who haunts Plymouth church as the ghost of the Danish King haunted the castle of Elsi- nore. There will be a few faithful watchers to listen to his oracles; but the majesty is gone, the royalty is dead, the crown is tar- nished, the sceptre is broken, the glory of the past is inurned ; and the highest office which even love can bestow is to remember him only as he lived, and to turn in sorrow aud shame fromi the unwholesome apparition which bears his name, x An Exortna Scvenn in tae Trenca As- sematy.—The members of the French As- sembly became highly excited during the legislative proceedings yesterday. The ques- tion of the annulment of the Nidvre election having been disposed of adversely to the in- tention of the mover, ex-Minister Rouher un- dertook the, to him, grateful task of defending the memory and policy of tho late Emperor Napoleon. This course of action has become recurrent with M, Rouber ; bat, notwithstandiog, the Assembly, oa a body, has not become reconciled to it, ‘The ex-Minister alleged that the Logitimists and Orleanists defended their respective sovereigns in the same manner in former years. The Legitimist and Orleanist Depu- ties loudly protested against their king being compared with Napoleon, M. Gam- betta was energetic, if not harsh, against the royalty, and a scene of inde» seribable confusion followed. We cannot observe that anything definite was accom plished. It is evident that all parties aro busily engaged in preparing for a general election, and it is equally apparent that Frauce will enter on a vital political crisis when the Assembly is dissolved, The Rapid Transit Commission ana Its Labors, The gentlemen who hove accepted positions on the Rapid Transit Commission have as- sumed a@ very grave responsibility. They have taken into their hands tho most impor- tant interest of the city, Upon the ability and honesty with which they perform the duty imposed upon them depends the success or failure of the great public improvement for which the people have been clamoring for the past ten years, ‘The necossity for rapid transit is no longer a debatable question. Every person concedes that the growth of the city, the prosperity of its property owners, the health, comfort and moral advancement of its population, depend largely upon the successful solution of this question at this time. While the State Legislature held sole control of the matter the interests adversely affected were enabled to defeat all rapid transit projects or to so hamper and embarrass them as to deprive them of the confidence of capi- talists. Now that the power is in the hands of honorable business men, residents of tho city, and possessing the respect and confidence of the community, we need be under no further apprehension of favoritism or corrup- tion. All we have to urge upon the Commis- sioners is that they will lose no time in de- ciding the two points upon which wo believe will depend the fate of the project—first, the selection of the route for the proposed road, and next, the selection of the plan upon which it is to be built. As to the route, there appears to be no doubt that Third avenue, the Bowery, and so to the City Hall or the Battery, offers the greatest accommodation to the public and the most tempting induce- ments to capital The location is central; the line runs along a district built up continu- ously to Harlem Bridge; the travel is larger than over any other avenue. These facts seem to preclude the idea of any other route for a new through road, especially as the west side of the city has the accommodation of the Greenwich street elevated line. The plan accepted by the Commission should commend itself by its simplicity and evident practicability to the common sense of the people and the confidence of capitalists, and should not be too costly. It is essential that the road shall afford all the accommoda- tion as to the running of trains now found on the Third avenue horse car line, and that the fare shall be so low as to enable the laboring classes to use itas they now use the horse cars. A tender to a through railroad, a line partly for passengers and partly for freight, or a rate of fare that would exclude the poorer classes would be only a mockery, and would accomplish none of the good results hoped for from rapid transit. Hence the importance of a thorough investigation of all proposed plans by vompotent persuus, Sv that the one decided upon may not only assure the construc- tion of the road, but may promise a rate of fare within the reach of laboring men, workwomen and others of limited means. As the greatest danger of an undue attempt to control the Commission is to be feared on the question of the selec- tion of a plan, we have deplored the secret session policy initiated at Tuesday's meeting. Projectors are jealous aud suspicious, and, of course, prejudiced in favor of their own plans, It is beiter that all should be ailowed to at- tend the regular meetings of the Board, so that there may be no ground for the slightest insinuation of partiality or jobbery. No per- son who knows the Commissioners will charge | them with unfairness, but they cannot afford to be suspected even by strangers. At the same time they must necessarily hold consul- tations in private and examine critically, with the aid of competent engineers, the details of every plan. This must be a work of time, and the number of projects submitted to them already proves that their labors will be heavy. No proposition should be rejected or slighted until found to be impracticable, The hints as to “iron interests’’ are un- worthy of attention, since everybody believes that the structure must necessarily be of iron. The questions to be decided are, as we have said, practicability and cost. Some of the plans have already received the indorsement of well known engineers and constructors as to theif ptacticability. ‘The Gilbert road has been examined both in England and the United States, and, so far as the plan of con- struction goes, has been approved... The Mor- gan plan, which contemplates a road resting on arches, forming a sort of ribbed tunnel, has passed the test of several prominent engi- neers, ‘The “Williams & Onatherwood plan, known as the cable road, has reoeived the in- dorsement of the two Newtons, General McClellan, General Davies and other en- gineers. Mr, Williams, one of the inventors, himself an engineer of high reputation, died a short time ago, but Mr. Catherwood, the survivor, is an old and expe- | rienced railroad constructor. There are | other, projects, no dqubt, indorsed by com- petent, practical authority, and all should be considered fairly on their merits. As we have said, no proposition should be denied a fair examination, for the question of construction | is one of the most important upon which the Commission will be called to act, A clear | field and no favor is all the projectors can ask. Tho Commission should assure them this much by holding open sessions for the re- ception of plans, After that, they can inves. tigate them at their leisure, and take tes- timony in their own fashion as to their rol- ative merits, Tax CaNADIAN Prime Mivisrer, in a speech addressed to a Dundee audience, and which comes by cable, see#no reason why Canada and the United States should not get along comfortably on this Contiuent, There is no reason whatever. Wo haye room enough for two hundred millions of people within our present dominions, It will be wellenough to think of Canada a cantnre feam naw, Our Riflemen at Wimbledon, Some of the results of the victory won by. the American team are ludicrous enough. In England their success seems to have produced something like @ panic, and even the hardy Scots fled on the approach of our American boys. We had hoped that this demoraliza- tion would prove to be only temporary, and that John Bull, who is always boasting’ so loudly of his pluck and courage, would try a contest with our American riflemen, if only to show that Britons were notto be scared by any half dozen Yankees. We confess, however, to ® grievous disappointment. Not alone has the Council of Wimbledon refused to permit the trial of skill between the teams represent~ ing the three British nationalities, but it has also vetoed the competition between the mem- bers of the British teams of "74and”"75. We cannot guess who constitute the awful Wim. bledon Council, but it evidently represents the pluck, courtesy and exquisite taste for which our friend John Bullis everywhere so rev markable, a With characteristic generosity, though John would not allow our boys to compete with his, he offers to give our boysa silver qup, to be shot for over here in America, John was evidently afraid that the American riflemen would have made a clean sweep of the Wimbledon prizea if allowed to compete. Not liking to be beaten on his own ground, John preferred to buy off the Americans with a hundred guinea cup rather than risk a defeat, This tribute cup, however, we do not want. If the Britishers will shoot for it we will be glad ta see our boys bring it home, but American riflemen do not need ‘‘prosents’’ from foreign- ers who decline to meet them fairly in the lists. Under these circumstances our rifle- mon cannot accept the trophy proffered to them without a loss of dignity. The English and Scotch no doubt have good reasons for their disinclination to meet our marksmen at the butts. Perhayfs they are too polite to wish to inflict a defeat on Americans in England. If this be so we hope they will do us the favor of coming to Oreedmoor next year. We assure them they will find no such over delicacy. Here they will be welcomed to a trial of skill where they will have a fair field and no favor. The Indian Question. portant letter to the President in reference to the Indian question, The Professor confirms the information contained in an elaborate and able exposure of the Indian’ frauds in a recent number of the Heranp, As our readers will remember, the Herarp sent 2 special correspondent into the Sioux country to study this problem and give us the truth. His report was the most importan€ contribution that has ever been made on this! subject, and it is abundantly confirmed by) Professor Marsh. Tho Professor shows that neither the Secretary of the Interior nor tha’ Commissioner of Indian Affairs hag made any serious effort to ‘correct the present abuses in Indian manage- ment.” In all his intercourse with them the Professor has observed that their only care was to ‘prevent by every means in their power all publicity or exposure of them,” Ha "expressly asserts that all the evidence in his possession reflects unfavorably ‘on both Sec- retary Delano and Commissioner Smitb.’” He shows also that one agont, whose name he gives, is unfit for his post and “guilty of grosa frauds,”” The Indians ot certain agencies ara’ systematically overstated. The Deel, por, flour, sugar, coffee and tobacco were bad; “of little or no use to the Indians,” and in conse« quence they suffered “greatly during the past winter for want of food and clothing.” We do not see how General Grant can remain silent before this appeal in face of the evi~ dence thus presented. The reply of the Com-. missioner is printed elsewhere, and unless hia position is sustained both Delano and Smith! should be punished and dismissed from office. Coxnorny does not propose to return home even if his bail is reduced. Paris is good enough for him. We Now Lreaay that the preachers of Brooke lyn propose to send a letter of congratulation to the apostle of ‘nest hiding” and “‘true in- wardness.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ented Mr. Frank Mayo, the actor, is among the late arrivals at the Starvovant House, E£x-Congressman Theodore M,. Pomeroy, of Auburn, N. Y., is registered at the Windsor Hotel, Speaker Jeremiah McGuire arrived at the Metro- polttan Hotel yesterday from his home at Eimira, Mr, Henry T. Blow, Commissioner of the District of Columbia, hes taken up .Mis residence at the Fifth Avenue iivtel. Mr. J. H. Devereux, President of the Atlantio and Great Western Railway Company, is residing atthe St. Nicholas Hote). “Will you come into my parlor, said the spider to the fy; an old song to ® new tune, in parts; adapted to the voices of 0, O'Uonor and P, By Sweeny. King George, of Creece, will" at last not apa. cate; for, after ail, &.throne is a throne, and evem a rickety one is pleasanter to many men than the moat comiortable armcliair of private life, Mgr. Roncettt, Nuncio of the Pope, proceedea from Quebee, in the Dominion of Ganada, on Tues?’ day on a visit to the maritime provinces and gulf ports, He was accompanted to the whari by nearly all the Roman Catholic clergy of that clty and @ large assemblage of citizens, Dr. Kenealy and Mr, Bradiangn have fallem oat. Dr. Kenealy speaks of Bradiaugh as that “Atheist and Papist, who gives meno rest, but ie perpetually assailiag me witn stones, brickbats, mud and dirt, uatii I hardly kaow whether I am on my head or my heels.” Bradiangh, in his National Reformer, suggests that Kenealy is “a wind-biown biaduer, with umorella, spectack ana @ brief bag full of forms of begging-letters ft poor men’s mouey.” They are both reformers and 80 come ander the rule that two of @ trade never agree. Has the President had @ fight with the dog catchers? [tis told by a Wasbington correspon. dent that “Mr, Sharp, of Washington, a friend of President Grant, he possessor of a fine dog, which ho keeps inside his grounds now the dog lawisin force. But as that geutieman satat @ window @ short time since he saw two of the official dog catchers enticing his canine tnto the street, whioh they had no sooner done than they seized him ant attempted to throw him into thoir cart, the dog resisting vio- Jently. Mr. Starp Went to the rescue of his favor. ite and remonstrated with the catchers, busin. efectually, A short, sqna' -bullt man, wha had accompanied Mr. Sharp, also joined im tha protest, Whew he was told by the burty catcher to “aid his own business,’ accormpauying the re. mark by stl more expressive actions and a brisk pusi on the suouider. Inatantly the short man struck out @ forcibie blow from the lett shoulder, and the boor went down like alog, But ne was up ag quickly, and Ww. out to take the offen. sive, Whea Mr, Sharp pat bimgelf tn the way and said hastily, ‘Staud of, you foul; thts is the Presh eat OF the Yuiwed Staten! Aud soll want Professor Mursh has addressed an im-