The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1875, Page 4

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M., for the purpose of | supplying the Sunpar Henarp along the line ot the Hudson River, New York Central and | ake Shore and Michigan Southern roads. | Newsdealers and others are notified to send im their orders to the Hznaxp officeas early as NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT, Suggested Impeachment of the Judges ef the Court of Appeals. The remarkable letter of Mr. Charles O' Conor, which we publish to-doy, is more likely to make a deep impression than any- thing which has ever before proceeded from his ineisive pen. Mr. O'Conor always com- mands attention, He never appeals to the public judgment except on questions of con- sequence, and his aeumen, force and moral intrepidity lay a strong grasp on all minds in- telligent enough to follow his trains of argu- ment. Moreover, his sarcasm is so stinging and his use of it so unsparing, and the sea- soning of his legal arguments is so pungent | that, in his hands, the driest reasoning is full ot life. But of all the exhibitions of Mr. O'Conor's singular and unrivalled powers the present letter is fitted to make the greatest sensation among the Ban, of the State of which he is now the venerable Nestor, as he bas long been the conceded head. We shall attempt nothing so presumptuous as a critical review of his positions, but it is perhaps within the competence of journalists and lay- men to estimate their practical drift, and that drift, as.we are constrained to interpret it, tends toward nothing short of an impeach- ment of some or all of the Judges of the Court of Appeals, ‘This remarkable assault on our highest ju- dicial tribunal by the ablest of all the counsel that have ever argued cases before it is ostensi- bly a vindication of Judge Davis in response to his letter of inquiry. Butit is not probable that Judge Davis would have asked Mr. O'Conor’s opinion except at his own suggestion. Mr. O’Conor disdains petty arts of concealment. He uses language which implies that he isa volunteer in this arraignment, Alluding to the Court’s citation and adoption of his own opinion on the turning point of its’ decision Mr. O’Conor says, ‘that citation bas forced upon me the duty which I am now perform- ing’' He shrinks from no proper responsi- bility and is not a puppet to be set in motion by Judge Dayis. He felt “forced” to take public notice of the use the Court of Appeals made of his mame, and, instead of Judge Davis making him ® convenience for his own vindication, Mr. O’Conor catsed ; Judge Davis to furnish him the occa- sion for his purposed strictures on the Court of Appeals, To be sure, the letter “is @ powerful vindication of Jadge Davis ; but its main purpose is to set forth Mr. O’Conor’s inculpation of the tribunal by which Judge Davis was overruled. All its peculiar pungency is derived from this volun- teer purpose. In defending Judge Davis Mr. O’Conor cites @ recent previous opinion of the Court of Appeals against its judgment annulling the sentefice of Tweed. He admits that he once employed the argument before that tribunal which it quotes and pronounces ‘‘unanswera- ble.” This was in 1871; but the case Mr. O'Conor then argued was decided on other grounds, without reference to that particular argument. He shows that in a subsequent case, in which the same argument was brought to the notice of the Court of Ap; 5 it pro- | nounced this argument invalid, and established possible, For further particulars see time tuble. From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be slightly warmer and cloudy. Persons gorng out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henatp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. dilbert Ba RRS Ware Sruzet Yesrznpar.—The stock mar- ket was dull and featureless. Gold advanced $> 115. Foreign exchange was steady and money easy at recent rates, Excuse Mencantie Faruvnes.—Another large London firm has been added to the long list of houses that have succumbed to the present hard times. Tue Cantisr Wan. —Dorregaray, according to Spanish accounts, is in fuli flight before the Alfonsists. He may yet turn up as a dan- gerous pursuer of the representatives of Queen Isabella's stripling. Tar Rep Frac m Iranz, under which so much has been achieved, has been converted | into a pawnbroker’s sign. Victor Emman- uel's government wishes to sella gallery of paintings at auction. St. Peter’s and the Vatican may be put up next. What a down- tall for Italian pride and genius ! Arrrz THe Recarra.—Although the great Tegatta struggle between the thirteen Ameri- * can Universities is over, other athletic sports among the collegians attracted much interest. } There is something to admire in this fine exhibition of brawn and muscle on the part | of our college boys. The pedestrian contests | yesterday were in many respects remarkable, and are described in our Saratoga letter to- | day. Mernororrran Foorpaps.--The frightful | state of affairs in this city at present, so far as kidnappers, burglars and pickpockets are concerned, grows daily worse. In another | eclumn will be found an account of the dan- ger of crossing the Williamsburg ferry at pight. When policemen consort and affiliate with ruffians there is no reason to be sur- | frised that even in this nineteenth century Dick Turpins abound, and that after dark no | man’s purse or life is safe in certain parts of | NOw York. Ieospations m France.—The frightful @alamity which lately befell the fairest dis- tricts of France, causing widespread destruc. | tion of life and property, has made a profound | impression on this side of the Atlantic and | created deep-telt sympathy and an earnest de- sire to alleviate euch miseries by practical | sharity. When Chicago was almost swept ont | of existence by fire the generous nature of the | French people was evinced in the most noble and kind-hearted maaner; and on numerous | occasions, from the days ot the Revolution | down to the present time, the American peoplo have had reason to feel gratetul for the active sympathy of the French nation. There is an | excellent opportunity to returng those favors. Our Franco-American fellow citizens have | responded nobly to the appeal, and it may be sarneetly hoped that all others will follow their example. A subscription list las also the contrary principle as the law of the State. ‘Whatever intrinsic force there may have been in the argument, Mr. O’Conor maintains that Judge Davis was compelled .to disregard it after it had been solemnly rejected by the court of ast resort by whose decisions all the inferior tribunals are bound. The report of this decision of the Court of Appeals was published in May, 1872; and if, eighteen months afterward, Judge | Davis bad not followed the rule so recently promulgated, Mr. O'Conor says he “might bave been proclaimed inexcusably ignorant | of it, or justly censured for insubordination.” This neat argumentum ad curiam is even more pungent than the argumentwn ad hominem em- ployed by the Court of Appenis for spiking Mr. O'Conor’s opposition to their decision. He thinks it ridiculous ior them to pronounce one of his positions “unanswerable” after they had solemuly adjudicated it to be unten- able. At any rate, Judge Davis was con- strained to follow their authority rather than the reasoning of Mr. O’Conor, whieh they had deliberately rejected as unsound. Mr. O’Conor not only impugns the substance of their de- cision, but objects to its form, which remits the penalty without revoking the judgment, end thereby protects Tweed against liability to a separate irial and penalty for each of the offences, The proper appli- eation of the rule which the Court of Appeals has established, by reversing i's own judgment, would be a series of trials on successive indictments, measuring out justice to the great pectlator in regular instalments. Mr. O’Conor charges tvat the | Court of Appeals have precluded the pos- sibility of this by the peculiar form of their decision, by whieh a great public thiet is shielded from separate trials for his offences. ‘Mr. O'Conor does not restrict himself toa | discussion of this last decision. He sharply | erraigns the whole action of the Court of | Appeals on all the Ring suits which have been before them. He declares that Tweed, “either in his own person or through a rep- | resentative, has ttrice bearded public justice | in that high tribunal whose voice islaw, and, on each occasion, has received the award that, as against him or his, the weapons devised by the people’s advocates were vain and hortless."” He then speaks in a tone of bitter derision of the way in which the Court of Appeals deprecated the failure of justice, while “in every case a majority held, with unvarying constancy, that the law Jorbids such a temedy as that under review.” No | great lawyer ever before indulged in | such relentless severity against a tribu- | nal of last resort of which he was leading counsellor. ‘Try, try again,” he says, with a dexterous pun on a ness, throughoet its allotted term, as a species | of amusement, periodically recurring proofs how thick-witted the people’s lawyers are, and | how admirably astute, in the same direction, | toward impunity, the judges of the last resort are when dealing with peculators.” This impatient scorn is not unmingled with suggestions against the integrity of the Court | of Appeals, which make a painful impression been at Montreal by the French Vice Consul, and in this city at the office of the Consul General of France, acting under in- stractions from the Duke Decazes, Minister of Worning Afinirss from so bigh a source. Speaking of the ob- | stacles to a successful proyeention of the rob- | bers at an early stage, in consequence of the | corruption ot the local judiciary, Mr. O’ Conor | porting to show a farge excces of exports over familiar phrase, ‘is theimplied advice; and | it the patience of the public proseeutor shall | hold ont this generation may expect to wit- | 4. @, himself and his associate counsel—‘nad no suspicion that like agencies had influenced the construction of the highest court.” He even goes so far as to throw out an intimation against Chief Judge Church, Alluding to Gov- ernor Tilden Mr. O'Oonor says, “A glance at the names that during the preliminary canvass came into notice as his rivals for nomination tothe executive chair would be suggestive of pertinent inquiries.” Considering that the most prominent of those rivals was Judge Chureh this is a curiously suggestive hint in such a connection, 4s is algo the allusion to the fact that the Court of Appeals was elected when the Tweed régime was at the height of its power in the State. Mr. O’Conor suggests a possibility of a further impeachment of judges, and states that four-fifths of the mem- bers ot the Court of Impeachment are soon to be elected. He indeed mentions only local judges in this connection, but the whole bur- den of bis argument is against the judges of the Court of Appeals, who have so often de- feated justice and saved the robbers by over- ruling the local tribunals. “If the local de- cisions had stood Mr. O’Conor and his asso- ciates would have triumphed in each of the Ring suits. Speaking of the final decision of the first by the Court of Appeals he says, “This was the peculators’ first triumph,” He gocs on to deseribe the second, and adds, “It was the second triumph of peculation.” Coming to the onse im- mediately in band he says, ‘Whatever may become of these two decisions the third is likely to live in story.” Live in story it undoubtedly would if it should bo made a ground of impeachment against the Judges ot | the Court of Appeals. Reminding them of the fact that the thirty-two Senators who form four-fitths of the Court of Impeachment ‘wil! soon be elected,” is very noteworthy iu a pro- duction whose main intent is to bring the Court of Appeals mto discredit and vindicate the decisions of the loeat courts, If further impeachments of judges are necessary in order to secure justice upon peculators the readers of Mr. O’Conor'’s letter can have no doubt as to where, in his opinion, this great remedy should be applied. The public rob- bers escape because the court of last resort, ‘with unvarying constancy,” reverse the decisions of the local courts against them and have given the peculators a first, a second and a third triumph. This is a bold hint which the menaced judges will not be slow to understand, and it is only with a view to im- peachment that there would be a justification in assailing their character with so much severity by the head of the New York Bar, oo Our Riflemen at Wimbledon, The unwillingness of the Wimbledon au- thorities to extend the usual courtesies to the members of the American teem has preduced an unwillipgness on the part of some mem- bers ot the team to take any part in the meeting. We always had the utmost confi- dence in the manliness and self-respect of the team, and it is not to be wondered at that some of tne members resent strongly the un- friendly attitude assumed toward them by the Wimbledon Council, We can ynderstand the effect of a letter such as that sent to the captain of the team by Mr. Parson, of the English eight, on gentlemen like Colonel Bodine and Mr. Yale, and the natural resentment they feel toward the men who had the bad taste tosend it. The acceptance of tne elee- mosynary cup proffered by the Wimbledon Council was probably only an act of ordinary courtesy in the opinion of Colonel Gilder- sleeve, but it will be seen by our cable de- spatches that it does not commit the team, and that some of the members may refuse to take part in the contest. We cannot see what English riflemen have gained by the course they have seen fit to pursue. In refusing to meet on their own ground the American team they have acknowledged the superiority of our marksmen, and their refusal to fight is more disastrous to their reputation than would have been an overwhelming defeat. We hope the differences existing at present betweén our riflemen and the Britishers may be satis- factorily arranged, so as to allow our mento measure themselves on equal terms with the English and Scotch marksmen. If not we fear our people will consider that the Ameri- can riflemen have been shabbily treated by their dear British cousins, Copa.—Exactly who is mancuvring the latest plan for the termination of the war in Cuba, or even who is mancouvring the pub- lished story in regard to that plan, we cannot say; but the story is put forth adroitly and is one of the’ sort that should be true, If there is no such plan it should be invented immediately, for the story involves the right parties—the United States, England and Ger- many. Germany is quite ready to take a hand, in the hope that her good influences will inure to ber advantage in the possession ofa port in the West Indies. England would like to help im order to see the dispute in Cnbda settled ona basis that would keep the island out of our hands, and we should be de- sirous to further every step of the inevitable progress of Cuba’ ‘‘manifest destiny.’’ Soi there is not such a plan on foot it should be put on foot at once. What does Uncle Dick know about it? ‘Tem Ovennaviane or THe Custom House of this port by special agents of the Treasury | brought from other cities will be a great thing if the rascals are discovered and punished. It would be premature to praise the investiga- tion until it is seen whether it is likely to be snecesstul. A statement made to one of our reporters by a ‘Treasury agent will necessitate a great change of opinion as to the recent con- dition of our foreign trade if proved by com- petent evidence. We have been consoling ourselves with the Treasury statistics pur- imports, which is a delusion if it be true that ‘nearly one-third of the goods imported into this port last yeer were undervalued fifty per cent or smuggled boldly.” Neither the stuggled goods uor the undervaluations ap- pear in the government returns, and we there- tore know nothing of the actual amount. of our imports. Froops 1x Exoranp.—The disastrous floods that have devastated the most beantiful dis- tricts in France have been repeated im the west of England on a smaller seale. Im- mense destruction of property and the loss of thirteen lives have been reported. Heavy rains seem to have swollen some of the rivers | makes the significant addition, ‘but they’—- | to an unprecedented extent, | The “Ragged Edge” in Ohio, ‘The rag money platform of the Ohio demo- crats will not hurt their patty much in the election of this year in that State, and we look with foreboding and anxiety upon the possi- ble consequences: of a victory in demoralizing the genern! politics of the country. The re- publicans of Ohio will make but a feeble show in denouncing the rag money principles of their opponents, because they have ‘long flaunted in rags themselves and cried them up as embroidery. It is only in a deep twilight of financial ignorance that the rag money tatters can be mistaken tor fluttering finery, but o deep twilight has long overspread the West on this question of the currency. The greater portion of the Western mombers of Congress in the last Congress, republicans as well as democrats, Senators and Representatives alike, were zealots of rag money, and nothing but the President's veto pre’ d their tri- umpb, The republican champions of in- flation acquiesced with sullenness. They did not = renounce their views, but yielded ungraciously to the force of circum- stances, thinking it inexpedient to split the party by en open quarrel with the President. But, like all mep ‘‘conyineed against . their will,” they are ‘tof the same opinion still.’’ Their constituents know full well that their opposition to the rag platform of the Ohio democracy is false and hollow. The ground taken in that platform is the popular ground in the West, and all Presidential candidates are so well aware ofit that neither Blaine, nor Wilson, nor Tilden, nor Hendricks will utter @ lisp on the currency until atter the Ohio election. It is the popularity of inflation among both parties in the West and South that makes the dangerous Ohio platform ‘‘the tagged edge” of our politics. The political courage of the hard money Presidextial oan- didates on both sides wilts in view of the situation. If the democrats carry Ohio both parties will trim on this vital question. Obio is the only great State which will hereafter hold an Octuber elec- tion in the Presidential year, and the prelimi- nary contest in October will virtually decide the Presidential election, as it has generally done heretofore when Pennsylvania was the lead- ing State. It is with an ill. grace that the friends of other Presidential eandidates de- nounce Senator Tharman for hissilence, when it is certain that Blaine and Wilson and Hen- | dricks and even Tilden will be as dumb as ‘oysters until it is seen how the political cat jumps inOhio, Thurman is in a more diffi- cult position than any of them, because Obio is his own State and he is compelled to take an active part in the canvass. All other Presidential candidates, of both parties, will watch with keen aud curious interest his de- portment on the ragged edge. Thurman is not lacking in dexterity, and his most obvious cue, so far as he discusses the currency question on the stump, is to ex- pose the inconsistency and hypocrisy of the republican opposition to the democratic plat- form and hold up the inflation record of Mor- ton, Butler, Logan, Kelley, Ferry, Carpen- ter, Cameron and the republican ma- jority in both houses of Congress. He will represent this campaign against the demooratic platform in the light of a suit brought tor adultery by a husband who can be conyicted of the same offence by overwhelm- ing proofs. Such # countercharge does not, indeed, establish the innocence of the accused ‘wife, but it defeats the suit. There is noth- ing which public patience is so little disposed to tolerate as Satan rebuking sin, and Thur- man will make such a handle of the votes and speeches of a majority of the republicans an the Inst Congress as will cause their shafts to fall harmless at the feet of the Ohio de- mocracy, Tho republican party of Ohio isitself so infected with the inflation heresy that Thurman will make as ragged an edge for them as he is forced tostand upon himself, The mischief of the Ohio rag-money plat- form lies in its tendency to lower the tone of both political parties and of all our public men on the subject of the. currency if the democrats carry the State. In that event both of the national conventions will next year ‘speak with bated breath’’ on the most important issue of the time, and every Presidential candidate will be demoralized, Our experience since the war has taught us some humiliating lessons as to the plinbility of ambitious public men, Horatio Seymour accepted a Presidential nomination on a greenback platform, though hhe was fresh from making public speeches against Pendletonism. What reason have wo for supposing that Tilden is a man of sterner yirtue, or is less controlled by political am- bition than Seymour? If the inflationists are strong in the convention he may as easily for- get his annual message as Seymour did his strong anti-greenback speeches. Poor Horace Greeloy, who had kept insisting for years in the Tribune that it was the duty of the goy- ernment to resume at once, went to Cinecin- nati as a Presidential candidate and made a speech to the Board of Trade, in which he said that resumption would necessarily be post- poned many years by practical obstacles, avd thet Wostern business men need feel no alarm. Tt is not safe to put much trust in politicians, and there is great danger that an inflation vic- tory in Ohio will fatally debauch both parties im the West and undormine the integrity of Presidential candidates in the Hast. In that event the whole country will be on the ragged edge. . Tux Rar Transtr Commission was again in session yesterday, but its proceedings were veiled in secrecy. We publish a com- munication sent to the Board by Mr. Daniel Butterfield, advising that no specific plan of construction be determined on by the Com- missioners, but that the choico of materials | and mode of building be left in a great mens- ure to the contractors, It is a fatal ob- jection to this advice that the Commission- ets cannot adopt it in’ consistency with the law which requires them to decide on o plan after examining such as mny be offered for their consideration, The law under which they act also requires them to fix the amount of capital stock and divide ft into shares, How can they estimate the cost of the road and fix the capital stock ex- cept on. the basis of some definite plan of construction which prescribes the kind and amount of materials? Moreover, the pubho authority must judge whether the conditions imposed on the contractors are complied with, which is impossible if so much is leit to thoir discretion. The Demoralization aud IncMiciency ef the Police Foree. The deplorable inefficiency of our present Police force in all its branches is a fact brought before the eyes of the citizens of New York almost daily by the increasing boldness Of the criminal clisses and in the constant failure to détect and punish the perpetrators of crime. It would be unjust, as we have already said, to hold the police responsible for every offence that is committed in a great city like New York. If our patrolmen were as yigilant as men could possibly be they could not always be on the spot to prevent o burg- lary or a highway robbery, especially as the des; makes it his study how to best avoid the notice and avail himself of the ab- sence of the police. But when we find crime increasing in boldness, when thieves lay out plans of highway robberies and burglaries to be committed in crowded thoroughfares and in the busy hours of the day, we may fairly conclude that their confidence is due to the knowledgo of the carelessness, inefficiency and general demoralization of the force. They know not only that they will moet with no interruption from the preservers of the public peace while in the com- mission of their felonious acts, but that they can rely on the inoapacity, indifference or corruption of the police for their escape from detection or punishment. But for this knowledge we should not have had the rob- bery of a messenger in a crowded car at two o'clock in thé afternoon by a band of armed ruffians, or the midday burglaries and highway robberies which have startled the community for the past week. A police force known to be ably and honestly managed, woll officered, with shrewd, capable, incorruptible detectives and activo, vigilant, well disciplined patrol- mep, would act as @ check upon the criminal classes, and mesure the citizens against those reckless and daring outrages that seem to put the lives and property of the whole popula- tion at the mercy of robbers and cutthroats, The disclosures before the legislative in- vestigating committee have already proved that the officers of the force, captains and others, are in improper intercourse with law- legs characters, and are in the habit of levy- ing blackmail and receiving hush money from eriminals of all degrees. The ward deteo- tives seem to be only so many stool pigeons and receivers for their captains. Starting from this point, can we expect to find honest, efficient and wel} disciplined patrolmen under the command of such officers? On the other hand, can any sensible man believe that such practices would be followed by captains if they did not know those in au' ity over them either to be as corrupt as themselves or utterly incapable of properly managing the de- partment? The conclusion is, therefore, in- evituble that the evil commences at the head and permeates the whole department. Prac- tically the Commission is still in the condi- tion to which it was reduced by the late Mr. Havemeyer’s yufortunate appointments, and no substantial reforms can be carried out un- til the Board shall have been: reorganized. ‘We had Gardner and Charlick holding the power of the Board until the courts of justice disposed of them. Now we have Matsell and Disbecker. The idea of any competent man- agement or control of a great force under such men is ridiculous, Inefficiency or worse in the heads is followed by inefficiency or worse in the immediate subordinates. From these we come down to detectives mak- | ing large fortunes out of their connection with thieves, to captains who are blackmailers and receivers of hush money, and to patrcl- men who, knowing the character of their superiors, discharge their own share of the duties of the force after their own fashion. This is the true explanation of the boldness of the criminal classes. This is why armed highwaymen rob passengers in railway cars in the afternoon, and why burglars enter houses at midday, bind and gag the inmates and plunder at their leisure. This is why the perpetrators of these bold crimes escape ar- rest and punishment. We shall have no proper protection to life and property until our entire police force is reformed, and the first step necessary to secure # substantial re- form is to place in the office of Commissioners citizons of charactor, capacity and integrity When we get rid of the diséased head we shall soon purify and invigorate the entire body. olenay Ae wong 8 Tue Tasmsant Bons Contnvz to excite the interest and incite the eloquence of the corner grocery politicians. Will Morrissey be expelled? is the momentous question among the short hairs. It may probably be a consolation for them to learn that there can be no “expulsion” about the matter. The Tammany Committee on Discipline is exam- ining the condition of the Assembly district in which Mr. Morrissey resides, with the object of ascertaining whether any cause exists for a reorganization of the district in the interest of the regular democracy. This duty is assigned to the Committee on Discipline by the Commit- tee on Organization, and the former commit- tee will report to the latter committee the re- sult of their inquiry, If they find it unne- cessary lo reorganize tho district they will so declare. If they find reorganization desira- ble they will report that fact, together with a resolution directing such action to be taken by the disirict. If the Committee on Disci- pline shall accept this report and resolution the take place. No action is necessary on tho part of the General Committee, the fall power in such cases being delegated by the rules and bylaws to the Committee on Organiza- tion. The Assembly district must then be reorganized, and if Mr. Morrissey has many Hall. If not he goes ont. This is the polite manner in which such affairs are man- aged. There 1s no expulsion, Nothing un- gentlemanly takes place, The offending mem- ber, if he goes out, is handed to the door by kidded hands, not kicked ont by hob-nailed | boots. Tux Rervpuican Avperwen Have AGAIN placed themselves on record as obstructing the improvement of the water supply of the city and as the champions of the Harlem stenches. Obedient to the orders of outside | party lenders they voted yesterday against the rdinances neces: t ity from | beat 4 tecemaaty, We rere seed | all toings.” IS it the fault of gold that gold does the threatened dangor of fire and pestilence. | The partisan obstructiveness of their course was renderod tho more apparent from their reorganization of the district must | own stupidity. The exouse made by their spokesman for voting agsinst the water ordi- nance was a desire to obtain information on the subject. When that information was tendered by the Commissioner of Public Works they objected to recoive it. The course of Alderman Morris and his associates proves thé folly of the minority representa- tion principle. If these Aldermen, without constituencies at their backs and denied the eonfidence of their districts, had not been legislated into office the public business would not have been obstructed, the impending danger of @ destructive conflagration would have been averted and the abominable nui- sance of the pestilentinl Harlem flats would have been abated. The French Government Sustained in the Assembly. During the session of the French Assembly yesterday a member delivered a speech of three hours’ duration on the subject of the annulment of the legislative election in tho Department of the Niavre. M. Savary, the speaker, is the reporter of the Committee upon Elections in that district. He ro« ferred to the prominent dangers which are just now present before the Ree public, These he classifies as Bonaparte ism and revolution, a rather strange coms pound of political elements, apparently, but a power which has hitherto moved France rapidly in the most remarkable eras of her modern history. Minister Buffet said that the Bonapartists are more dangerous to Mace Mahon than the reyolutionists—an acknowl- edgment which may be taken as another indi+ cation that the policy of the President is and will be that of a progressive reformer, under | the guide of a moderate conservatism. The members of the different party sections were deeply agitated at times. M. Gambetta was moderate in his expression. He was, per- haps, pleased with the confession of the Ex ecutive against the Bonapartists, and its par« tial adoption of the revolution. The division appeared to warrant this assumption, for the government managed to obtain a vote of con- fidence by four hundred and eighty-three to three votes. The members of the Extreme Left sustained a defeat; the Bonapartists are pleased ; the President is so, most probably ; so that the government must remain pretty much as it is until after the general election, Isprcruents Acarsst Loapzr AND Pics, for the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury, were found by the Grand Jury of Kings county yesterday, and they are expected to be arraigned to plead to the indictments to-day. They will doubtless get their deserts in the State Prison, but their conviction will depend as much on the confession of Price and the self-contradictions of Loader as on the testi. mony of Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton, the only witnesses against them. If their filthy story had been consistent with itself and steadily adhered to it would have been diffie cult to conyict them, because the parties to such illicit intercourse as they swore to would equally contradict them whether their story were true or false. Its intrinsic improbability ~ and their own confessions and contradictions make a yery strong case against them, and their trial may not occupy more minutes than that of Mr. Beecher did days. They have really no defence, and will receive speedy retribution. Moulton will never be tried for perjury, and it would be absurd to attempt it, ‘because he could never be convicted if guilty. The law requires two witnesses in a case of perjury, and from the nature of the circum- stances Moulton could be confronted with but one. If he committed perjury it was in swearing to statements made to him by Mr, Beecher when they were alone, and Mr, Beecher is the only witness who could be brought into court to contradict him. There will be no perjury trials except those of | Loader and Price. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, TE ae ees The latest appeal irom Plymouth—‘‘Let us haws peace.” Rey. Adam Lind, of Elgin, Scotland, 1s stopping at the Union Square Hotel. Commander E. P. Lull, Unitea States Navy, ig quartered at the St, Nicholas Hotel. dudge Martin Grover, 9! the Court of Appeals, it sojourning at the Metropolitan Hotel, The Count and Countess of Romero, of Havans, have apariments at the Clarondon Hotel. Ex-Governor Frederick Smyth, of New Hamp- shire, is staying at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Lientenant Boutonef, of the Russian Navy, ie among the late arrivals at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Brevet Major General Quincy A, Gilmore, United States army, has taken up his quarters at the Union Square Hotel. Mr, Warren M. Bateman, United States District Attorney for Southern Obio, has arrived at the. | Grand Central Hetel. Captain William Gore Jones, naval attaché of the British Legation at Washington, is residing tem- porarily at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr, J. N. McCntlongh, Vice President of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Com. pany, is at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Hon. Power Henry Le Poer Trench, second Sec- revary of the British Legation at Washington, is registered at the Westmoreland Hotel, Chiet Justice Morrison K. Wait, of the United States Supreme Court, arrived in this city yester- day and tcok up his residence at the St. Nicholas Hotel. If you could get into the Plymouth soul you would tnd that they all worship Henry ag imnocent, but that they all believe Elisavet guilt Geueral William F, Barry, Commander of the Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, left for Oaper Springs yesterday morning, where he will spend a few weeks. A telegram received at the War Department from Secretary Belknap sanounces that he left Chicago yesterday for bis tour of laspection of the Western forts, alter which he will visit the Yel lowstone Park, and retura to Washington about strength enough in bis district to get back on | Me madieof August, tho General Committee he returns to Tam- | Robert Dale Owen is described as the son of a man “intellectually stronger toan himself,” and of A Presbyterian mother. He inherited bis father’s errors and his mother’s ‘stern fidelity” to her ideas; and when a man inflexibly adheres to a punch of erroneous fancies, where must he come out? ~ General Longstreet arrived 10 Washington yes: terday, and bad an interview with Secretary Bris- tow. it is said he desires permission to have ac- cess to the rebel archives deposited in the Trsas ury Departinent in order to make transcripts ot certain documents relating to the battle of Gettys- burg. Carlyle seems to be hopelossly an ass with re- gard to politicdl economy. Me snarls at California because it produces gold which is “overturning society, making the ignobie prominent, increasing every whe} be expenses of living and confusing ail that? This is like the dog who runs and bites the stone that is thrown at him, bat docs not bite the thrower,