The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1875.-W1TH SUPPLEMKN', NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henaxp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Zwelve dollars per year, or one dollar per @onth, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or ncws letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yorr Hunawp. 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 and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, VOLUME XLesee ; AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. MMER GARDEN, me.—GRAND POPULAR CON- ti P.M. GILMORE’ late Barnum's Hipp: CERT, at 8. M. ; close THEATRI bg a Brosdway.—VARIETY, at § P. M.; closes at 10 45 OLYMPIt CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at8Y. M, ROBINSON HALL, ith street.—English Opera—THE ROSE OF and CHILPh sll, at 8 P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Detween Second and Third avenues.— commences at 8 o'clock and closes at 12 West Sixtee SUVERONE. Eighth street. Pertormance o'clock. eran Bi ron Th tock aitet—ACROSS THE wy, corner rhirtieth street.—. CONTINENT: ats POM: closes at dM BLACK- WELL’S [SLAND, at2P. M. WITH SUPPLEMENT 19, 1875. THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, ‘To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PuBLIC :— Tae New Yorx Herarp runs a special train. every Sunday during the season, between New York, Niagara Falls, Sara- toga, Lake George, Sharon and Richfield Springs, leaving New York at half-past two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o’clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at ® quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of | supplying the Scxpax Hxnatp 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 Hrnaxp office as early as possible, For further particulars see time table. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cooler and generally clear. Persons gomg out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Hrrarp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Tae Rior rm San Micuxt, in Salvador, on June 20, originated in religious feuds, and, as will be seen by our Panama letter, the loss of life and destruction of property was terrible. This riot is said ‘‘to have no equal in the his- tory of Central America.” It recalls by its wanton cruelty and indiscriminating ferocity the reign of the Commune in Paris. Tae Rirtz Snoorme near Belfast is de- scribed in our extracts from the Irish papers to-day, and includes an account of the re- markable contest between Colonel Gilder- sleeve and Mr. Lee, which, after two ties, the former won by a score of three successive bull’s-eyes. Our excerpts also give the speeches made at the civic banquet in Belfast. Tur Far West.—The mountains which have the unpronounceable name of Uncom- pahgre run through a newly explored mining | district in Colorado, in which little towns, with all the accompaniments of civilization, are springing up, and their peaks overlook a country beautiful and rich in minerals. A pic- turesque description of this strange region is given by our correspondent with the Hayden | expedition. Tse Excise Rervericays are making all the political capital they can out of the in- tended visit of the Prince of Wales to India at | the expense of the nation. Twelve thousand persons held an indignation meeting yester- | day in Hyde Park, and after a violent speech | by Mr. Bradlangh adopted a resolution of | protest, The bitterness of fecling is shown | by the facts thateight persons who voted wgainst the resolution were mobbed and that the police had to protect them. Tue Boy Pomeroy, like Ruloff and other | great criminals, is anxious for literary dis- | tinction, and has written a confession, which, in its length, recalls the statements in the | Beecher trial We print enough of the de- sultory story to show the singular compound of eunning and ignorance in the boy's mind. He now retracts his former admissions of guilt, and endeavors to explain his motives in making them and the evidence against him. | Tae Orrsions of the English press, and especially of the religious papers, of Mr. Beecher will be found interesting reading, and it will be seen that the Nonconformists are flivided as to his guilt. The Rev. Mr. Parker thinks him innocent, and has ledin the move- ment for @ clerical ‘‘vote of confidence,’ but | the Rev. George Gilfillan has expressed his | belief that Mr. Beecher is guilty, in a letter | which the London Christian World could not recept the responsibility of printing. Lonpown has ber fashionable season in mid- summer, and autumn is the time when every | one gées out of town. Our English corre- | spondent furnishes o lively description of the meeting of the celebrated Fonr-in- Hand Club in Hyde Park, each member of | indulgence in alcholic drinks, is not without | the figures pul lis which is his own coachman, The four-in- | hand team is peeuliarly British institution ; in this country two swift trotters are preferred | by the lovers of fast driving. Improvement im the Foreign Grain Market=Prospect of a Brisk Fall Business. The strong upward movement in the grain trade which has been going on for the last ten or twelve days gives an unwonted im- pulse to business in what is always the dullest season of the year, and is fitted to | raise hopes that we may soon see the end of a long season cf stagnation. With an abun- dant grain crop and a heavy and unexpected foreign demand we may look for quite a re- vival of general business at the beginning of autumn. Our cereal products are the main pillar of our trade, that branch of industry being the foundation of prosperity for nearly all the others, Railroad stocks are already improving under the certainty of a large fall | business, and this tends to a revival of the iron industry, of which the railroads are the chief customers. General trade will be quick- ened and invigorated because abundant crops, a large foreign demand and good prices will make the agricultural population liberal purchasers of manufactured goods. The grain trade is the main pivot of the business of the country. It gives cm- ployment to the navigation of the lakes and the canals, supplies the railroads with the greater part of their freights, and is the toundation of the commercial intercourse be- tween the East and the West, the trade | of the agricultural West being the great prize for which all the seaboard cities com- pete. The prosperity of Western agriculture will feed the sour¢es of all other prosperity ; and although there is reason to lament the occasion which has given this sudden mid- summer impulse to the grain trade, its effect will be none the less beneficial. A large proportion of the heavy purchases of grain which have had so stimulating an effect, and have made the market so buoyant in the dullest season of the year, is in supply of French orders, proving that the destruc- tive inundations in the south of France aro the source of this movement. Similar dis- asters in Hungary and on a smaller scale in England justify the expectation that a larger | proportion of the food of Europe will be supplied by America than in any former year, Wine growing was by no means the chief occupation of that large portion of France which has been devastated by the floods. Although the cul- ture of the vine is widely diffused in France its chief seat 1s a belt of the middle region between the north and the south. Only four per cent of the productive land of France is devoted to the vine, and the great Valley of the Garonne is chiefly given to cereals and other articles which serve for food. Vines which are raised on the hillsides are not so much exposed to the destructive effects of a mighty inundation as the food crops which cover the lower lands. Every kind of crop used for human subsistence having been swept away in the Valley of the Garonne the great body of the inhabitants will live mainly upon bread made of materials grown on other soils, and although their poverty will compel them to use maize, rye and barley, the drain- ing of the other parts of France of the cheaper grains will create a general increased demand for imported wheat to supply their place. Besides supplying a large part of the food of England, as we have always done of late years, we shall also this year supply quite a large proportion of the food of France, while the deficient crops of Hungary will create a demand which will absorb much of the wheat exported from the ports of the Black Sea, divert it from the markets of Western Europe, and thus incidentally in- crease the demand for American grain. The prospects of the foreign grain market stand thus:—The English demand will be rather greater than ordinary; the French demand, which is new and exceptional, will be very large; and the supply from Russia, which has always been the chief competitor of the United States in the European markets, will be par- tially diverted to supply the deficiency in Hungary, which suffers like France, though in | a lesser degree. The prospects of our grain trade were never better than they are this year, and the impulse to general business could not possibly be more opportune. It would not be correct to represent us as rejoicing over the _ calamities of poor, smitten France, overtaken with this appalling disas- ter when she has scarcely emerged from the desolating effects of a great for- eign invasion and a cruelly oppressive pecuniary indemnity. America unites With the whole world in sincere sympathy and commiseration. But we do that a kind Providence has blessed us with bountiful harvests, which can be exported to alleviate the distress of the sufferers. It is one of the most solid and beneficent advan- tages of modern commerce and intercourse that a tremendous waste of human life by famine is no longer possible. The heart sinks even to read in history of the appalling decimations of the people which were of such | frequent occurrence inthe Middle Ages, when every province of Europe was dependent for its supplies of food upon its own production. In those times such an inundation as has re- cently taken place would have gone far toward depopulating nearly one-sixth of France. But in this age, though there will be great and | widespread suffering, there will be no abso- lute starvation nor any of the gregt pesti- lenees which used to follow on the heels of famine. This is one of the victories won by modern commerce over the miseries which assail the human race, Narrow. minded philosophers (falsely s0 called) may bewail the luxury which commerce en- genders, but the very taste for superfiuities which it fosters is a guarantee for the supply of necessary wants. The immense trade in Inxuries and superfinities that has grown up am@ng modern nations has covered the ocean | | with ships which are always available, in any sudden emergency, for transporting supplies of food to hunger-bitten populations who have lost their domestic supplies. The trade in superfluities which gives ordinary employ- ment to the vast shipping of the world could | not be stopped for any length of time without abandoning the countries which are occasiun- ally desolated by floods or impoverished by bad harvests to the fearful train of miseries which followed the great famines of former | times. Even the worst form of luxury, the its compensations. The large market for the cheaper grains, which is kept open by dis- tillation, increases the amount raised | from year to year and strengthens the | rate. rejoice | protection against famine, Tn seasons of great scarcity the prices of grain me too high for profitable dis- | tillation, and’ at the same time the con- sumption of spirits necessarily falls off, be- cause when a mau’s whole meats are needed | to purchase food for his family he has no | money to spend for liquors. The additional | crop raised to supply the market for distilla- | tion insures a sufficient supply of food for the human race in the worst of seasons, and inter- | national commerce has created and keeps in constant existence the means for its prompt | distribution. While deploring the great calamity whi¢h has befallen unhappy France it is allowable to rejoice that we can feed her | out of our abundance and to appreciate the relief which a heavy grain trade will | bring to the depressed business of our own | country. The vigorous preparations which will soon be made for moving the new grain crop of the | West will mspire our long despondent busi- | ness men with fresh confidence, and we may | reasonably expect a brisk and active autumn } under a beneficent Providence which ‘from | seeming evil still educes good.” The Churches During the Summer. Aclosed church resembles & spiked cannon. It occupies its place upon the fortifications of Zion, but for the time it is useless and frowns | unavailingly upon the enemy encamped in the fields, Fortunately for the piety of the city, however, our fashionable churches are | only closed in that season when they are least | needed. Thousands of our best and most re- | spectable sinners annually leave town for | Long Branch, Saratoga, Niagara, Cape May and other watering places, and the clergymen follow them, not simply for recreation, as some people foolishly suppose, but in order to watch over them in places where they are particularly exposed to temptation. The summer exodus of the clergy may be, there- fore, compared to the sally which a garrison | makes from the citadel. Or they may be said to resemble a shepherd who, when he finds | his sheep have run away from the reach of his | erook, does not idly sit down and bemoan his loss, but pursues the flock, resolved to | bring them’ back into the fold or share their wanderings and dangers. Nor is it to be forgotten that in the summer time there is less danger to religion than in win- ter. The theatres are generally shut in sum- mer. So when the opéra bouffe is away it is safe to close the Church of St. Bartholomew, and when there is no circus at the Hippo- drome there need be no preaching at the Tem- ple. Our theatrical managers and clergymen seem to pair off, as members of opposing par- ties do in the United States Senate, and thus maintain the slatu quo ante bellum with honor- able fidelity.. The churches, however, have the advantage just now of the theatres, for of those that are open the former far outnumber the latter. We publish to-dgy sermons by the Rey. Stuart Dodge, the Rev. Dr. Steel, Rev. Mr. Forrester, Rev. Robert Scott, Rev. J. Spencer Kennard, Rev. Mr. Lloyd, Rev. Dr. Cyrus Dickson and others, which emphati- cally prove that the clergy have made ample preparation for protecting the metropolis during the hot season, Lafayette and France, The statue of Lafayette which has been pre- sented to the Central Park by the French gov- ernment is a graceful and timely courtesy. It will be most welcome. Any memory of La- | fayette must always be grateful to the Amer- | ican people. He represents the ancient alli- ‘ance between France and America; the de- yotion of the young nobleman to the cause of | liberty ; the important, and we may almost | say vital, aid given to our young coufedera- | tion by France. At this time, also, the gift ‘has another meaning. France suffers from a | terrible catastrophe. Some of her most fer- | tile valleys have been desolated. The floods | have inflicted losses on her people amounting | to millions of dollars. Lives have been lost ‘in great numbers. One of the most important | sections of France—a section upon which the | government must depend for a good share of | revenue—has become keggared. Congequently, not only are the people in distress, but the government, with its extraordinary obliga- | tions and its diminished revenues, is limited | | in its power to aid them. Other nations have | hastened tosend France material help. Amer- ica should do her part in the good work. We | should think of Lafayetie, of what he and his | King did for our fathers and for ourselves, | and celebrate the coming of his statue by | | sending to the sufferers in France a munifi- cent contribution. | Tar Wowetepon Matcurs.—Major Fulton | has been tied in the shooting for the St. | | Leger Sweepstakes by Mr. J. Rigby, of the Irish team of 1874. Last year, in the | match for the Bennett Cup at Creedmoor, | these fine shots were very nearly tied, Mr. | Rigby making 159 to Major Fulton’s 158, | and, now that they are actually tied upon the highest possible score at the two hundred | yards range, this reminiscence will add to | the interest of the contest. It is possible | that, at the request of the English, Trish and | Scotch teams, the Americans will be permitted | to shoot for the Elcho shield. Should they be victors they will not be able to bring tho | shield home, as the terms of the competition | require that it shall not be taken from the | | United Kingdom. Gorp axp Corn.—To-day we give some special information which will prove a cor- | rective to the recent rumors in Wall street | that the published accounts from the Treasury Department were incorrect. The so-called “coin balance” of the Treasury is given in our Washington letter as $68,500,000. Of this | $24,000,000 is in coin certificates, $6,000,000 in silver bars, $14,000,000 in silver coin and | $24,500,000 in gold coin. Of this $24,500,000 | there is due on a call for bonds already made, $5,000,000; for interest due the 1st of July }and unpaid interest previously due, , $10,000,000. There are in Rand and dispos- | able therefore only $9,500,000 of gold coin, | whith may legitimately be regarded as tur- | ther reduced by the sale of $2,000,000 to be made this month. It is the large accumula- | tion of silver returned as coin which has led | | to the misapprehension in regard to the | | Treasury statements; for it was known that | Secretary gave a | statement of “eoin’’ in excess of the gold in | hand, it being assumed that coin meant gold, by the The Plans for Repid Transit, The chief obstacle to the construction of a rapid transit railroad in New York has been the want of confidence in the remunerative character of such an investment. Capi- talists are always ready to invest their money in a scheme that holds out a good prospect of returning an interest larger than mouey ordi- narily commands; and if at any time the law had authorized the building of a road on a route on which the travel was certain to be large, and on a plan known to be practicable and not too costly, we should speedily have raised the capital required for its construc- tion. But when rapid transit propositions, made in good faith, were before the State Legislature, they were certain to meet the opposition of the Vanderbilt roads, of the horse car companies, ‘the stage lines, the ferry companies and others who supposed that their own interests would suffer by the success of a city ‘railroad ope- rated by steam, The consequence was that bogus schemes were started to embarrass honest enterprises, and bills were hampered with provisions and restrictions calculated to render them worthless even it they skould be- come laws. A road would be prohibited from running over the Third avenue réute or the Fourth avenue route, thus sacrificing public to private interests, or some clauses would be introduced to destroy the confidence of capi- tal in the investment. This was the work for which Senators and Assemblymen were paid, session after session, and upon the profits of which the honest representatives of the rural districts paid off their mortgages at home or became millionnaires in the city. The great advantage of the law creating our present Rapid Transit Commission is that it takes the matter out of the control of a venal Legislature and a villanous lobby and places it in the hands of citizens of New York of es- tablished integrity, who have the interests of the city at heart and who are directly respon- sible to the people of the city for their action. Presideut Seligman and his associates would scarcely venture to sell out rapid transit toa through railroad corporation or to the Third avenue or any other city railroad line, even if their reputations as honorable business men did not preclude the idea of such a course. They stand independent of all existing interests and influences, bound, first anfl last, to consider the success of the great work they have undertaken to accom- plish. They can have no hesitation, there- fore, in selecting the route that promises the greatest amount of travel and the largest convenience to citizens, and in adopting the plan of construction that is pronounced by competent authority to be the most practi- cable and that can be built at a cost suffi- ciently reasonable to insure low rates of fare. They will have no right to consider whether this or that existing company will be injured or benefited by their decisions. They are initiating a revolution in travel in the city. They are originating an onward movement that will give the metropolis new life, and they must do their work energetically, faith- fully and fearlessly, regardless of individual | interests. We publish to-day a description of some of the plans which have been placed before the Commission. It is unnecessary at this time to discuss their merits, since it will submit them all to competent criticism, and the question of their practicability will then be fully examined. No doubt a great many impracticable propositions will be submitted, and when the worthless projects are set aside it will then be easier to test the respective recommendations of those that may be left. The Commission will, of course, call in the aid of a board of engineers to assist them in this important portion of their labors; for we regard the decision as to the plan of con- struction to be as vital as that of the route to be granted. We do not believe that it would be wise to leave the plan of construction un- settled, even if the law permitted such a course. There seems to be as little doubt that an iron elevated road must be determined upon as that the Third avenue route is the one that should be selected. Ifa plan pronounced practicable by competent engineers and the cost of which can be safely estimated as mission capital will then know precisely what it can calculate upon, and the money necessary to build the road will be fortheom- ing. It the route alone should be settled and the plan of construction should be left toa general scramble we should be as far off from the accomplishment of rapid transit as we were before the present law was enacted. The Commission must present to the people—first, | aroute that insures immediate profit by its established volume of travel ; and, next, aroad that promises capacity to do the business offered, safety to pussengers, accessibility and cheapness of construction, sioners have a clear field before them. Their hands are untrammelled, It will be their fault alone if New York fails now to secure the great boon she has so long pleaded for in vain, The Sad, Old Story. We note that the Roman Catholic clergy- men in Lawrence, Mass., have issued a card deploring the riots which took place on Mon- day, the 12th of July. It seems that there have been disturbances in Canada arising out of the Orange celebration, some of them of a very serious character. In New York we got along very well, the terrible lesson of four years ago still bearing its fruits. The though they were convicts intended for Black- yond a blow or two. This anniversary, cele- brated with so much anger, and at times bloodshed, commemorates the Battle of tho Boyne. centuries ago, between William of Orange, a Dutch prince, who was seeking a throne, and James IL, an English prince, who was flying from one, The issue was one of power and personal ambition. William IIL wanted a | higher place, and to fight France, the hered- itary enemy of his House. He joined the whigs in England and seized the cro #n of his father-in-law. Like Frederick the Great, who was an atheist, he cared nothing for religion. But he knew tho value of o cry, and wrote on his banner that he was ‘the detender of the Protestant | and that therefore the repages were imaccu- bea part of the duty of the Commission to | sufficiently moderate to warrant five and six | cent fares shall be decided upon by the Com- | The Commis- | Orangemen who went out to a picnic in honor | of the day were guarded by policemen as j well’s Island. Still there was no difficulty be- | This battle was fonght nearly two | have written his faith on his banners, But religion to him and his antagonist was really a pretext. There were good Catholics who followed the fiag of William and good Protestants in the army of James. Catholi- cism was only one of the questions between them, and not in any sénse a vital question. It hecame so after James was in exile, and largely because he was dependent upon o Catholic King for hospitality, But the Battle of the Boyne was no more a religious contest than the Battle of Gettysburg was an anti- slavery contest, Religion was to some extent an issue in one as slavery was in the other. The battles were for empire on the part of William, and for union on the part of Lin- coln, Why, then, should Irishmen, in this far land and at this, late day, celebrate the Battle ot the Boyne? Why shoulda tradition, dark and bloody, become year after year a flaming brand in free, unpartisan America? What do Americans care about the Battle of the Boyne ? Even suppose it to have been purely a re- ligious fight, should we, as Protestants, care to cherish it? This is a country of religious freedom, absolute, unquestioning, where Pope and presbyter have spiritual respect and, power. Why should we brood over these sad memories of the time of the Prince of Orange? When Irishmen come to America to leave its citizenship a heritage for their children why should they cherish such a tor- bidding memory as that of the Boyne? Of course no one questions their right or that of any citizen to celebrate any anniversary. We are only dwelling upon the taste of these displays. Americans, whether by citizenship or birth, should always be Americans, Aiiens should bring with them only pleasant thoughts ef home. There are many festivals in all countries, sweet, domestic, religious, which we are glad enough to welcome. It is these war legacies that we despise—these anniver- saries of hatred which are rarely celebrated without bloodshed. Why should the Germans celebrate Sedan, or the Frenchmen Jena? Why should Englishmen honor Waterloo, or Protestant Irishmen the Battle of the Boyne? Why should there be any celebrations of events that have no connection with America, and that in their intent and meaning are an ‘insult to worthy fellow’ citizens of different creeds and nationalities? Let our anniversa~ ries be those of peace and of amity, celebrating great achievements in science and art. Let the dead and bloody past bury its dead. Let our anniversaries be American in their spirit, and their coming and going will not be so dismal as this foolish memory of the Battle of the Boyne. The Trae Position of Tweed. David Dudley Field is afraid that if it were not prohibited by the constitution there would be a bill of attainder against Tweed. Mr. Field’s argument is that the public excitement | ran so high in New York after the discovery | of the Tammany frauds that his client would | not receive justice. Mr, Field does not state Tweed was never in dan- | ger from any excess of public clamor. He always had behind him a large party. He was clected to the State Senate after the ex- posure of his crimes. He had money enough to engage eminent counsel—in addition to what he paid to leeches and blackmailers. He | was powerful enough to defy Governor Dix and Mayor Havemeyer and render his impris- | | onment a nominal one. He has broken | through the bars of one prison, and from the decision of Judge Donohue it looks as if he would break through the bars of another. When one court did not suit him he went to | another, sure at last to find some minion of | a judge who would obey him. When one in- tropid magistrate, three years ago, committed | him without bail to answer for his crimes. he had another around the corner to release him | on nominal bail. His progress through the courts has been a triumph. He has demon- strated the suggestive fact that for stealers of | hams‘ and gas pipe there are twenty years’ imprisonment, while for the stealers of mill- ions there is only a nominal punishment. There was never any fear of a ‘bill of at- tainder.’’ Public opinion has never been harsh toward Tweed. He would have had | ample mercy had he songht it. He had mill- ions of the people’s money and he has the money still. He had only to restore what he ) had stolen to establish a fair claim to mercy. | He was an old man and had wielded immense | power. No one wished to be eruel toward him, The fall of one who had been so high was in itself punishment not to be ligutiy considered. Instead of restitution Tweed re- solved on defiance. The money he stole, through his Garveys and Ingersolls, he in- tended to keep, He has kept it, with the ex- ception of the half million paid to leeches, blackmailers and lawyers. In this defiance | of tne law and of public opinion he is fortu- nate enough to win the aid of the highest men in the land. The “bill of attainder” is not against Tweed, but against public justice. This is the painful aspect of the Tweed case. Here we have a confessed and con- victed criminal defying the law by the very assistance of his crime. He robs ths treasury and uses the money to protect himself. This is the pass to which justice has come in New | York, The Tweed trauds were possible un- | the case properly. | der honest administrations. There is | no go, ment so wise and prudent but | | it may)J,4robbed. But when the robbery is | | discov and the money is found on the | persons of the thieves, the natural course of | the law is to put it in safe keeping, and in time restore it to its owners. It is against reason | that the thieves should be allowed to retain their stolen money, and pay it out to lawyers and leeches and blackmaiters to protect them- selves, Once let that be an admitted princi- | ple and all an expert gang of burglars need | | to do 1s to force the Sub-Treasury or the | Safe Deposit Company, and, spending a lib- eral share of the plunder for lawyers, take their chances with the courts. This is what Tweed has done and what he is doing now. He defies justice by the aid of the public money. His confederates do the same thing. | Who has seen a dollar of the money of Garvey or Ingersoll? How much has Mields returned? | It is possible, as the law is now administered, | for men im power to take millions, and to ‘keep them, That is the painful fact in the | whole Tweed caso, It is not ‘bills of at- | tainder” that Tweed bas to fear. Ho is the vietor in the contest, and it looks as if he | | would leave the field victo¥, carrying with him | | James. was a Catholic, and would gladly | million paid for immunity. The Indian Question. We do not see how the President can deal with the Indian question, as presented with 80 mueh eloqnence and detail by our corre spondence from the Sioux country, without removing Mr. Delano, the Secretary of the Interior, and Mr. Smith, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The facts cannot be dis proved. They are incapable of explanation. They are confirmed by the evidence of Pro- fessor Marsh who has been in conference with the President’ on the subject, What makes it incambent upon the President to act with firmness and promptitude is the fact that bis own brother is a storekeeper in the Indian country, that he is sustaizied in his monopoly by the government, and that the President cannot protect bim without bring- ing upon his administration the darkest odium, a ve From one point of view it may be argued with fairness that the President's brother is @ free citizen, and if he chooses to sell goods te the Indians he has a right to do so. But, the country will draw an inference most disaw+ trons to the President if it finds his brother largely profiting out of frauds as base and persistent. as those perpetrated upon the Indians. Orville Grant is allowed to open a store in the Sioux country and to join the Indian Ring solely because he is the brother of Ulysses S, Grant, the President of the United States. If the President fails to take summary action upon the facts as presented it will be said that he prefers Mo interests of his brother to those of the people, The President has done so well in his recent Cabinet changes, and has given hia administration so much strength by them, that he should not fail now, He gave us Bristow tor Richardson, Pierrepont for Will- iams and Jewell for Creswell, ‘The country in every instance approved the change. Now let him give us some strong, sound, hones! man in the Interior Department—a man of sense, integrity and courage—whose going into the office would mean reform and jus tice. If the President can find such a man, even though it is necessary to dive as deeply below the surface of apparent availability as when he selected some of his present advisers, let him do so. A strong appointment in the Interior Depart ment—such a man as the late Mr. Stanton, for instance—would immensely strengthen the administration, The removal of Delano would give us the most popular Cabinet we have had since the time of Pierce. Fish, Bristow, Jew- ell and Pierrepont are unexceptionable. Now and then we have a growl about Robeson and Belknap, but they have in the main done well, If Delano is not directly involved in the Indian frauds he has not suppressed them, and this sin of omission in a Cabinet Minister is as flagrant as any sin of commission. Let the President remove Delano and Smith, and then send for Orville Grant and bring him home and give him some honest employment. Let it be Fred Dent's old place, if none better offers, to carry in the cards and talk statesmanship to the boys from Newspaper row. But he has no business in tho Indian country, making money out of the poor, starving squaws. It is a dishonor to the President and a stain upon his admin- istration. A Tax Nationa, Temprrance CoxvENTion, which closed its annual session at Sea Oliff yesterday, no doubt did a great deal. of good. The evils of intoxication are so many and so, painful that all agencies which are arrayed against them deserve the sympathy of all who seek the welfare of the community. But the temperance crusaders frequently injure their cause by their extravagance. Drunkenness is bad, but what aid does a speaker give to sobriety by frightening mothers with such language as this, “Oh, how many have gone down! As you press your child to your heart you don’t know but you are nursing a murderer.” Of course, the mother don’t know, and we cannot see the relevancy of such a remark unless the lecturer means that if the child is to be brought up by hand, like Pip, there should be no milk punch in the bottle. Nor do we think much good is achieved by telling such stories as that of “a Mrs. Laverty, in Cincinnati, by whose labors a whole family were saved from intems perance and brought to Christ within an hour anda half.’’ There is temperance in speech as well as in drinking, and we are compelled to fhink that these worthy champions of a good cause would sometimes do well to re- member it. A Discracerun’ Arratn happened in this city yesterday among a number of negroes who were gambling ina saloon. In a fight which followed a quarrel over the cards one man was slashed with a razor, and in return killed one of his assailants with a knife and mortally wounded another, ~ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Dr. B. da Rocha, of the Brazilian Navy, is #o& Journing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Israel 8, Spencer, of Syracuse, is among the lute arrivals at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Captain James Kennedy, of the steamship City | of Berlin, is residing at the New Yor« Hotel. ‘The name of the Garonne signifies “savage river.’ It 4s {rom the Veltic garoh anhuin, Mr. John Nolan, Secretary of the irish Home Rule Association, arrived in thia city irom Zurope by the City of Beriin yesterday, Liewentnt Commander &, W. Nichols and Pay- mister W. Goldsboroagh, United states Navy, are registered at the Sturtevant Ho: ‘The London Spectator says —~ js no hope for Turkey except in the advent of a sultan whom Europe within five yoars would put down as postis generis christiani.” ai Uaptain Weob, of the Emerald, swum twenty miles for @ Wager on the River Thames, on the 4ch of July. Time, 4hours and 53 minutes. be never rested of floated to rest im the whol¢ course. A cable telegtam from Turin, under date of the 18th instant, reports that Sigaor Rossi, the Itali trageaian, nas been engaged vy Manager Maurice Grau for a series of Atty periormances in the United States, to begin at tue Lyceum Theatre, New York, in November next. It is rumored that tue Princess of Gitgenti, sis- ter of King Alfonso, is to marry 4 Hohenzollern prinée, Sad Don Alfonso the duughter of Prince Frederick Charies, of Hohenzollern, The tratn of the King’s reported marriage is denied, but the unton of the Princess of Girzenti with tho som of Prince Frederick Cuaries gains some credit. An article of MM. John Lemoinne in tho Paris Depats tends to demonstrate that France, asa Republic, will remain isolated in Europe. No one can suppose," it argues, “that the Emperor of Rnwit, devoted and reapsctiul nepnew of the King of Pi ussia, become Emperor of Germany, win abandon the jeague which unites all the monarch religion.” | every dollar of his plunder, excent the half | tes to throw bimser! mes toe ovam@ of the Frenor Republic.” ‘