The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 18 NEW YORK HERALD ANN STREET. BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUDSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yors Herarp will be sent free of postage. eS THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be .addressed New York Hera: 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, NO. 201 | i CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, TAEODORE THUMAS’ CONCERT, ata r, M ON HALL, giish Opera—1HE ROSE OF aie, aus tM R West Sixicenth s'reet. AUVERGNE and CHi WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner of Lbirte b street—ACROSS THE | CONTINENT, at 2PM. and SP, M.; closes at 1045 7%, M. GILMOREDS +3. Hippod 2 | C1088 & GARDEN, —GRASD POPULAR CON- P. ML OLYMPIy THEATRE, No. 6 Broadway. —VAKLELY, at F. closes at 10 45 TRIPLE SHEET. = THURSDAY. JULY 22, 1875, THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. To Newsprarzrs aNp THE PusBLIc :— Tue New York Heracn runs a special train every Sunday during the season, between New York, Niagara Falls, Sara- toga, Lake George, Sharon and Ricbfield | Springs, leaving New York at hait-past | two o'clock A. M., arriving at Suratoga at nine o’clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at a quarter to two P. M., jor the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Henatp along the line of the Hudson River, New York Central and | Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads. Newadealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hxraxp office as early as possible. For further particulars see time tables From our reporls this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and clear or rartly cloudy. Persons gomy out ot town for the summer can | have the daily and Sunday Henaup maiied to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Te Srock Marker was responsively ac- | tive and strong upon the same condition in | breadstuffs here and in Liverpool. Gold went | off to 112%, closing at 112}. Foreign ex- change was heavy and declined. Tue Rvmor that Austria, Germany and Russia will grant military furloughs on o large scale next year is too good to be true. Jxssx Pomeroy, the Bos'on murderer under sentence of death, has tried to escape. The | attempt was discovered before it had assumed 4 formidable shape. We Anz Gran to see the movement for the relief of the French sufferers excite so mach attention among our people. Let America’s contribution to this fund be werthy of the | friendship that has always existed between | the two nations. Wa Havz a Menny Story to the effect that the Tammany people mean to throw John Morrissey and Jimmy Hayes into the cold. If John Morrissey is worthy of his ancient | fame there will be some lively skipping | before he tosses up the sponge even to John Kelly. Tae Lawyrrs say a good deal about the andacity of Mr. O'Conor’s assault upon the Court of Appeals. We should like to have the lawyers interviewed upon this ques- tion: —‘‘What is the value of justice in a State where a public officer can steal five miil- ions from the treasury, pay half a million to lawyers, leeches ani blackmailers, and | through their aid escape any but nominal | punishment and at the same cime retain the | money ?"’ es Tue Frees Are Si1t1, without their last month's pay, now more than three weeks over- due. Mayor Wickham ond Comptroller Green stand with scowling brows and doubled fists, after the approved schoolboy fashion, while the warrants remain unsigned. If Mr. | Green, when he drew the company rolls for | the May salary lind included the June pay, | thea «lso overdue, these two pnugnacious | officials might have tonght to their heart's content for a whole month without injuring | more amiable public servants. He refused to | do so, despite the Mayor's request, and now his stubbornness is entiiling inconvenience and in some cases suffering on nearly a thon- gand hard working inen. Rarmw Traystt.—Nothing of interest trans- -pired in the Rapid Transit Commission yes- terday. Alter the adjournment a model of a new plan was putin by Messrs. Meyers and | Widmayer which is suid to havo attracted much attention and was the feature of the day. The report that the Society of Civil Ringincers is opposed to an elevated road seems to have some foundation, Ono of the members accounts for this by the statement that a number of his associates had early com- mitted themselves to the underground prin- ciple and did not des.re to abandon the posi- tion they had assumed. The opinion of the society under these circumstances will havo | not betieve it. Lt is far more important that | Bailey by his son James, which took placo on but little weight. Indeed, it does not seem that the combined wisdom ot the society has over proved itself sufficiently overpowering to entitle its views to much consideration, Tae Liberat Republicans as Leaders. It is probably not an overstatement to say that the country was never before in its his- tory so earnestly desirous of good govern- ment, and that it never before had so little hope of it. We are drifting toward a Presi- dential election with a feeling in_ every theughtful American mind that neither of the two political parties which are preparing to dispute for the supremacy is worthy of con- fidence or can be hopefully trusted to serve the nation as it would lke to bo and as it ought to be served. There are wise, sincerely patriotic, states- manlike men in each party—-men to whom the people would readily trust themeelves, with the fullest confidence that they would guide the vessel of State with skill and fidelity; but these men are’ not at the top. They do not lead; they allow themselves to be put aside, and adroit, noisy, ignorant demagogues mainly usurp the places of leaders, control conventions, make platforms and call themselves ‘the party.” No patriotic democrat can look with pleasure or hope at the condition of his party, with distractod councils, abandonment of time-honored prin- ciples and reckless self-seeking everywhere predominating. No patriotic republican ean look with patience at his party dragged through an interminable and nauseous mire of corruption and mismanagement, ruled by men forgetiul of the public good, and with no leader to protest and save the honor of an organization which deserves better than to die the death of a dog. What is the matter? What has become of our public men? Where is American states- manship? Have the people no longer lead- ers fit to draw their affairs out of the mire— men with courage and ability and voice to protest in the name of good government against the reign of chicanery and ignorance in party councils, able and willing to make a crusade through the country for sound prin- ciples, and to gather around themselves the multitude of men in both parties who are deeply and justly dissatisfied with the present condition of our affairs, and hopeless of sub- stantial improvement at the hands of either party as at present constituted? The democratic party leaders hope to win next year through the people's disgust at the hard times and tho notorious corruption of General Grant's administration. But so farthe democrats are no more united upon a platform of principles than they were in 1868. They promised nothing and are agreed upon nothing. The republicans, apparently, hope to succeed by raising the ‘bloody shirt,” by appeals for the “poor negro,” who is not poor at all and | is getting on very well, and by a general beat- ing of gongs to scare people. If they have any other ideas they very carefully keep them concealed, and are even foolish enough in their State platforms to praise the present administration, which hangs like a milistone about the party’s neck. Is it not time for a little truth? Suppose one or half a dozen republican leaders had the | courage—the audacity let us say, consider- ing what a timid creature the American statesman has got to be—suppose they dared, to address to the country a plain, honest, truthful, unexaggerated statement cf its con- dition, of the evils from which it suffers, and of the remedies which they propose? Sup- pose they should tell the people that there is | no hope in either of the old parties; that the country is reaily in an unhappy condition ; that we need statesmanship and brains at the top, and not ignorance and party zeal ; that it is time for the honest and pairiotic men of both pariics to combine and try to give the nation an administration which shall have wisdom and intelligence enough to put it back on its natural course of prosperity ? Does any one believe there would be no response? Or, suppose one or half a dozen democratic leaders did the same thing, fear- lessly casting off the inflationists and other barnacles who have tov long ruined their party? Would they need to fear o silent reception ? The liberal republican ¢ancus at Saratoga yesterday was a siep in the right direction, bata very mild one, The country does not want caucuses, but a crusade. Tho people have got tired of political machines and ma- chinery ; they have learned by a long and sad experience that if they trust to political | manipulation the professional politicians of the bsser sort are pretty suro to step in at the last moment and beat them. The country does not want to see the Cincin- nati Convention repeated. What is needed is some public mar—some man of eminence, of charecter—in whom good men everywhere can have confidence, who shall set the exam. | ple of a break with both parties and organize | a crusade over the whole country for sound principles. Three great questions are before the na- tion—the currency, the South «nd the civil service. We cannot enjoy good government \ and prosperity until we return to gold and silver, until the Southern States are allowed to rulo themselves in their local affairs and until the civil service is securely placed on a business footing and is no longer the sport of political gambiers and favorites. Now, itis | certain that the mass of the people in the country desire all three of these reforms, Bot what political leader promises them? Which pvlitical party will give them? The necessities of the country require all three, aud they are of such a kind that there is no good reason why—given a few real statcemen to work for them— three at the next elec If the liberal re- | publicans mean business it is a good time for | them to step to the front. They have no time | to lose, and they need not be prudent. Let | them put their best men into tho field | }and fling out their banner of genuine | | reform. The proceedings yesterday would | indicate that the movement is still an experi- | ment, as it was three years ogo. Bat if it | has any life now is the time to make it mani- fest, for now w an excellent time for political rashness, The country is disgusted | with the sight of politicians like Governor ‘| | Allen and Gencral Carey going about swallow- | | ing their princip'es oud smacking their lips | | after the performance, as (hough it was highly | creditable, Senator Thurman tells us that a | democratic success in Ohio is of the very greatest importance to the parly, but we do | the democratic party shall be right, and those | | Of its leaders who are desirous of a political future can much better afford to throw over- bourd the inflationista in Ohio and the re- . should not gain all | pudiationists in Kentucky than to succeed with their help. The republicans in like man- ner cry out, “Stick together,”’and when some one suggests that they shall repudiate the President, who is ruining them, they are ter- ror struck and reply, “That way lies death.” Meantime they are sinking daily in the public esteem, and their chief hope for 1876 lies now in the folly of the democrats, Is there no- body who will “break the machines’’ and give to American politics a little hope? The lib- eral republicans do not scem to have much heart in the work; but let us see what the bracing fall winds will bring. The Poor Children’s Excursions. That most practical of all city chari- ties, the Poor Children’s Free Excursion Fund, is now in active operation for the sea- son of 1875. Already arrangements have been perfected for the first picnic, which is to take place on Saturday next, when nearly every street child in the Five Points will go on a trip up the Hudson River. Other excur- sions are to follow in rapid succession, the only limit being the amount of money in the treasurer's hands. ‘This is a brief epitome of the aim and scope of this movement, yet it is sufficient to show how wide a field it em- brices and what an immense amount of good is to be accomplished. These tree picnics have now become an in- stitution, not only in New York, but in other cities of the Union, and though simple and unpretending in their features they are now hailed with delight by thousands upon thou- sands of children who otherwise would not secure even a day’s pleasure such as is accorded them by means of the excursion fund. Unlike most charitable enterprises, the money re- ceived for the picnics is not squandered in paying salaries to useless people; consequently a yast amount of good isaccomplished ata com- paratively small outlay. While rigid econ- omy is practised in the management, the sup- plies and accessories are the best of their kind, and the food is given in generous quan- tity and Without stint. Amusements sulted for the children are provided, and theiryoung hearts are made glad by exhilarating music and gay banners. Ragged, wistful, woe-begone, and fecling the terrible hand of poverty upon them, these chil- dren of the street and gutters suddenly find themselves the objects of thoughtful care and kindness. They escape from the blisieriag | pavements, and geze wonderingly on the broad waters of our harbor and wander in cool The Bankers’ Convention, Every great interest that may be classified as distinctly apart {rom other great interests has its own system of ethics, its, ‘usages’ of trade and its own laws, the principles recog- nized as behind all its operations. Both ethi- cal recognitions and admitted principles differ in the various interests. Importers, mauufac- turers, cotton growers, booksellers and bank- ers, all have codes of their own—or, rather, each has its common law, unwritten, but un- disputed—and the tendency 1m all these activi- ties is to regard every regulation made with reference to them by any outside power—a Legislature, for instance—as something, if not to be resisted, at least as unwelcome and as tending to mischievous results. ‘They tend to become little S:ates, or, more accurately, ‘‘es- tates,"’ in themselves, They have possessed this spirit in every society, and out of it grew in all the old countries the great “guilds’’ in various pursuits and the ‘‘companies’’ that still survive in London. It is a conservative spirit and one whose results are beneficial, not only to the interest of those engaged in the particular pursuit, but to the interest of the people generally. Even: in coun- tris where the legislative and other governing bodies are animated most by the spirit of justice and equity this trade organization operates well, and it cannot be ultimately dispensed with where government is going so “swiftly down the slippery ways of vice’ as with us, for tho time will como when such organizations will be with us the only hope of society, It is an ideal that we should all welcome, to see this spontaneous orgamzation of every great interest make rapid progress in the country; andit would be the better for the people if no law could be made either at Albany or Washington on sub- jects related toa great interest that had not the consent of the representative body of that interest. Naturally people will believe that the body would not deal honestly by the State in such a case, for we are taught to believe that there is no honesty anywhere. But the assertion that such bodies tend to the vices of monopoly and to defend themselves at the ex- pense of the people is bald demagoguery. They are clear-headed enough to know that their best interest is in the prosperity of the people, but the people do not sce that they prosper in the prosperity of tho great indus- trial and commercial interests, and the dema- gogues take care that they shall not. Our legislators raise a cry of monopoly to cover some law by means of which they hope to woods far away irom the noise, dust and | smoke of the city, It is a wonderful work | and admirably conducted by the gentleman who takes these waifs under his care, It is better than preaching, for it is practice. But to enable the trustees to givo the requisite number of excursions, so that every | eligible child may be given a holiday, con- s.derable money 13 yet neeeded. We are con- | fident our readers will not find a more worthy | channel for doing good than to send their contributions to the treasurer, “Mr, Edward King, at No. 73 Broadway. Rifles and Riflemen at) Wimbledon. After a spirited contest Major Fulton bas won the cup effcred for competition to the Ameri- can riflemen by the Council of the British National K:fle Association. ‘The cup does not | become his property, but he will have the | honor of conveying it to America, where it is | | to be shot tor on terms to be decided by the Council of the American National Rifle Association. The scores mede by our rifle- men were remarkably good and excited general admiration. We have the more reason to be proud of this result because three members of the team proper did not take part in the compvtition, their place being taken by three members ot the reserve, who did, good work, Mr, Cunfield, Jr., pushed | Major Fulton very hard and defeated both | Colonel Gildersleeve ond Mr. Coleman, The shooting for this cup wasa severe test of marksmanship. Each contestant bad to fire thirty shots, and the distance selected was the one at which it was thought the American riflemen were least expert. The splendid scoi es piled up were, however, a cor- rective to the opinion that the Americans were weak at the thousand yards. The shooting yesterday also exploded tne notion that breech- leaders, except when loaded at the muzzle, were not equal to the British muzzle-loaders | in accuracy. On account of this mistaken idea a rule was this year made at Wimbledon compelling breech-loaders to be loaded from the breech, This rule was specially aimed at Major Fulton, whose accurate shooting was in American share profits with banker and merchant, and these in self-defence spend the money that corrupts the whole State. Their organization in such a way as shall make them ultimately independent of such legislation has been the remedy for such troubles elsewhere, and we welcome it in the hope that it may eventually operate in the same way with us. The Cotton Convention, The National Cotton Convention, which met yesterday at the White Sulphur Springs, has before it a very interesting and important pro- gramme of business, chiefly relating to the better preparation of colton statistics, im- proved methods of packing and marketing the important staple and the means fora closer and more accurate classification. These topics bear mainly upon the se‘e of cotton. It would not be amiss for the Con- vention to consider also some of the mure in- teresting problems covnected with its produc. tion. The interests of factors and merchants are also those of the planters and laborers, and the Convention might well consider the price and quality of manures, the compara- cotton States, the advisability of urging plant- ers to put in, as a rule, more corn and to raise more of their food supplies than until this year they have done; and we should like to hear the Convention discuss also a question which is sometimes agitated among the cotton planters: whether a limited production of the staple in cotton in England and America, and whether, therefore, the planter and his renters can safely expect to get as much for an average crop as for a fall one. The question of raising corn and meat in the cotton region depends, of course, upon this in a largo degree. more corn he must raise somewhat less cot- ton; if he can get as much money for less as for more cotton every planter will natu- rally raise more corn. We should like to know also what is the financial condition of the cotton planters in the great part ascribed to the mysterious effects supposed to be produced by loading his rifle j at the muzzle. A glanco at the splendid target ke made yesterday will show the un- soundness of this idea. Nineteen bull’s-eyes out of thirty shots bear witness to the splendid accuracy of the American breech-loading arms, which have proved their superiority over the cherished old-fashioned muzzle-loader as completely as did the men who used them over their competitors. One of the first eflects of the shooting at Wimbledon and Dollymount will be tho abandonment of the muzzle-loader as a target rifle. The breech-loader has so many obvious advantages over the older systems that it will be impossi- ble for the most obstinate to deny its superi- ority now that it has been conclusively shown | to possess the greatest possible accuracy at the longest ranges. Ix Exotaxp when merchants fail or are not exactly fair in their dealings they run the risk ot criminal prosecution, Two merchants, who failed a few days since, are now under | arrest for obtaining money from a bank on false pretences. In America, as Jay Gould could certify, the true plan is ‘restitution,"* | Tux Lawyers on Mn. O'Coxon.—Wo print | some interesting interviews in another column giving the opinions of ex-Judge Curtis and Ethan Allen on the letter of Mr. O'Conor ar- | raiguing the Court of Appeals, Mr, Shafer thinks Mr. O'Conorshould be punished | for contempt. To make this record complete it would be interesting to know what Mr, O'Conor thinks of Mr, Allen, Mr. Shafer and ex-Judge Curtis, Ix rar Casz of the shooting of Samuel Sunday, the Coroner’s jury have rendered a verdict to the effect that the act was com. mitted in self-de'ence. The prisoner was different States, and whether they are any- where largely in debt to factors, and thus em- barrassed in their operations, The Rockaway Railroad Massacre Resumption of the Inquest. The inquiry into the facts of the Rockaway Railroad massacre will be renewed before the Coroner to-day. It is desirable for the pro- tection of the public that the true cause of the accident be brought to light and the blame fixed upon those who are responsible for the calamity. The railroad anthorities are, of course, interested in making it appear that the carelessness of the conductor whose life was sacrificed occasioned the collision, and not the criminal recklessness of any living officer of the road or the general neglect and incapacity of the management. It is conven- ient to lay the crime at the door of a dead man, and that is evidently the object of tho railroad authorities, It is to be hoped that the Coroner and the jury will remember that they are discharging a grave public duty, and will not suffer them- selves to be diverted therefrom by any influences that may be brought to bear upon them. It has been hinted that evidence testimony tending to refute their statements is excluded. The Coroner is said to have taken the position that the time at which the collis- ion occurred, and on which there is much conflicting testimony, must be settled by wit- nesses who had watches regulated by the rail- road time. If this is true it is a virtnal the hour to suit their own interests, since | passengers and cthers who prove that the down train was within the margin allowed for regulated. ‘Ihe point is of importance, since the railroad people claim that the dead con- ductor's train was filteen minutes behind held to bail to answer the charca, @, aud should have, therefore, switched tive productiveness of the lands in different | favorable to the version of the story told by | the railroad officers is readily admitted, while | declaration that the railroad officials shall fix | its arrival at Rockaway had not watches so | 75.—TRIPLE SHEET, off at Woodsburg, and that Conductor Hol- dridge’s tram, on which Poppenhusen, the General Manager of the road, and his friends were riding, had the right of way, and were Justified in leaving the Rockaway station. Whatever way the story is told, the evi- dences of criminal neglect, recklessness and incapacity on the part of the managers of the road are go glaring and incontrovertible that no coroner, however well disposed to aid the company, can prevent the punishment of the crime by which so much misery has been caused, The matter will bo brought before the Grand Jury, and the people will insist that the guilty parties shall be dealt with ac- cording to the law. The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Justice in Utah has been not only blind but lame ; for the trial just bogun at Beaver of men concerned in the infamous and cruel Mountain Meadows massacre comes seven- teon years after the event. In the year 1857 a large emigrant train was on its way across the Plains to California, An army officer who saw it in June described it as probably the finest train that had ever crossed the Plains. It was believed to contain not less than forty headg of families, some young un- married men, women and many children, and it appears to have had an uncommonly per- fect outfit, among other things three car- riages—very unusual appurtenances on an emigrant train. One of these carriages, which was peculiarly marked, is said to have been for some years after the massacre in the possession of the Mormons. The Mormon leaders were at that time furious about some threatened or contemplated interference of tho that Brigham Young, preaching in the Taber- nacle, said that as Governor and Indian } Agent he had _ hitherto ‘protected emigrants passing through the Territory, but now he would turn the Indians loose on them.’”’ It probably increased his anger that when this train left Salt Lake City several dis- affected Mormons joined it, The emigrants were journeying toward Los Angeles, in Cal- ifornia, and were last seen by an Indian Agent near the upper end of Mountain Meadows. ‘This spot lies about three hundred miles from Salt Lake, and the leaders of the train had been told that a large spring, near the south end of the meadow, would be a fayorable spot to rest and recruit their stock before entering the Great Desert; and this they did. Tho Indian Agent was the last man who saw the train and reported it. Thereafter, and for some years, nothing was heard of its fate. It was reported “lost.” But the bloody tale of its massacre gradually leaked out, and the details, which we give below, have now been known and forgotten for many years. The Mountain Meadows were then surrounded by several Mormon settlements, Tho bishops of these one day gathered their people together and declared that they had received a command from the Mormon capital to “follow and attack the accursed Gentiles, and let the arrows of the Almighty drink their blood.” A force of sixty white men anda party of Indians, surrounded the ill-fated emigrants one morning before day- light, the Mormon whites having painted and give the movement the appearance of an In- dian attack, But the emigrants rapidly drew their wagons into a circle, made au energetic defence, and, as quickly as they could, threw up earthworks, behind which they sheltered themselves, their women and children and stock, They were surrounded and kept under fire for a long week, the Mormons hoping they could weary them out. The wife of an Indian trader afterward testified that while tha firing continued and was plainly heard at her house the Mormon leaders were going back- ward and forward between the place of mur- der and her house, and at the latter placo “pitching quoits and amusing themselves in various ways.’? At the end ot the week, how- ; ever, the Mormons appear to have got tired of this country would tend to raise the price of | : pPen ave got tired o the slow attack; they washed off their paint, resumed their clothing and appeared before the overjoyed emigrants as a rescuing band of whites who had driven off the Iudians. They were received as deliverers; the emigrants | aceepted the Mormons as an escort, and on the | ch these, at an agreed si e ies, Glacier faiess | mare ese, greed signal, suddenly opened fire upon the par'y wiom they had by a trick persuaded to luy aside their guns, In- dians s:ationed in ambush rushed in to help in the work of assassination, and in a very brief time hundred and _ twenty men, women and children were slain | in cold biood. Three men only escaped, but only to perish later by starvation or the Indians. Seventeen children were saved ahve, being supposed too young to remember the assassination. All of them were atter- ward claimed by their friends in the East, and two of them later gave evidence concern- ing the murder. The property of the emi- grants was divided by the Mormons and In- dians; and it is said that as lute as 1862 jow- elry taken at Mountain Meadows was openly worn at Sait Lake City and its origin not denied. ‘The despatch which relates to the trial now going on in Utah for this foul murder speaks of one Lee, whose confession the govern- ment refuses to accept. This is John D, Lee, then Mormon Bishop of Harmény, and one of the three chie’s who planned this cruel assassination, He appears to have been a peculiarly atrocious scoundrel; for it is re lated in the accounts of the massacre which we have seen that while the Mormons were Killing the men this Lee singled out a beanti- ful young girland dragged her out of the méléefor his own vile purposes; and he him- self is said to have related afterward that ‘she struck ot him with a large knife, where- upon he shot her through the head.’ So late as 1870 this scoundrel still lived at Harmony, in Utah; and now in the hands of justice it ig to be hoped he will not escape hanging, Tae Prespyrentan Union.—The gathering | of delegates from the various branches of the Presbyterian Church, now in session in Lon- don, bida fair to be one of the most important religious movements of modern times, The object of this convention “is to demonstrate unity of beliel among Protestants, arrange mission, work, concentrate the influence of the Church upon educational and sucial reforms ligious intolerance.’ In this council we bave OChnrab ahould aot be a unit, at least in thowa United States government; and it is related, disguised themselves as Iudians in order to | and organize resistance to infidelity and re- | delegates from the United States and Canada. | There is no reason why the Prosbyterian | matters whero the Church can act in har mony. The general principles underlying the various branches of this Church are the same. The differences that have arisen have been on points of discipline, as in Scotland, and in some respects political, as in tha United States, where the Caurch divided North and South. The great power of the Roman Catholic Church as distinguished trom that of Protes antism is in its unity. It is a Church with one head and one creed, al though in discipline and matters of detail it permits the widest difference and toleration. If Presbyterianism has any value as a branch of the Church of Christ that value will be largely enhanced by union and hari mony. Let Our Southern Friends Come, The interest shown in the recent regattas at Saratoga, the honest, healthy interest im an amusement which strengthens the body while it lightens the mind, which calls inte play the highest mental and physical qualitios, leads us to feel that the college boat race every year will become as much of a national event as the annual race between Cambridga and Oxford. Unlike England, however, our colleges are more representative, not only of States and sections, but even of denomina- tions. They should in the future be more representative, What we missed in the last regatta were our frieuds from the South. We cannot really call any display, whether a regatta ora horse race, national in whch all sec. tions are not represented. And as the specta- tors looked over the blue waters of the beautiful lake aud saw the company of stalwart, noble young fellows pulling for victory, every muscle curving, every vem swelling, fire in every eve and undaunted courage in every heart, the thought must have arisen in many minds, “We havo Pennsylvania and Massachusetta and New York, but where are Virgmia and the Carolinns? Hore are the men of the North, but whero are the men of the South? This is the blood that conquered at Gattys- burg, but where is that which won Chancel- lorsville and Bull Run?” ‘The Southern people have shown their prowoss and skill and nerve in too many forms not to make their coming into the Saratoga regatta an event of unusual interest. We trust, therefore, that in another col- lege regatta the lads from the South will take part, and the palm will compete with the pine. Nothing will do more toward reconcil- iation, reconstruction and all the good things that are to come in this swiftly coming year of concord and centennial harmony than the assembling in friendly emulation of our young men in such a strife as the Saratoga regatta. Let our young men of the North and South once come to know and respect each other and the sections will have peace upon the only basis on which true peace can rest—triendly knowledge and self-respect. Let our Southern friends come and they will have a warm and generoas welcome. Z Renicion m Sparn.—We can hardly credit the story that the Spanish government means 80 far to forget its pledzes of liberalism as to force the Protestant missionary now laboring in Magrid to leave that city. Nor is it credi- | table that the influence of the Papal Nuncio should be used to such an object. The effect of suchan example, especially whon under the direct stimulus ‘of the Papal Minister, will be most unfortunate. Here m America, in England and in other countries the Catholio Church receives the widest liberty. It is al- lowed to spread and grow and exercise all the functions of spiritual authori, In Germany we fiud laws limiting this freedom, andthe result is that the Pope never ceases to protest in tones that spread all over the world ogaimst the persecution of the Caurch, And yet, in Spain, as soon as a Catholio prince ascends the throue we have the Catholics adopting the same system as Ger. mauy. How can the Pope ask for that liberty to his Church in Germany which he denies to the Protestant Church in Spain? Tlow can wo welcome the spread of a Church in America which threatens, as soon as it has power, to oppose and suppress all other churches, and in so doing violate an express and cardinal principle of our constitution? Sxocrp a Rustic Roeper be allowed to use the stolen mouey to pay the abiest lawyers of the Bur to secare him immunity in the pose session of his plunder? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ci nie lel John Cesena, of Pennsyivania, is staying at the Meiropolitan Lovel. Yosilda Kiyonail, Jananese Minister at Wach. Ingion, has apartinents at the St. Nicaolas Hote. Rear Admiral Cnarles S. Boggs, Uaitea states Navy, has taken up Mis residence at ine Everets Honee. President Grant roturned from Washington to Long Branch jast eveutnyg in company with Gon- eral Babcock. Professor F. V. Hayden, United stares Geologist, arrived from Wasuington yesterday at the Metra+ politan Hovel. Captain W. H. D. Haggard, of tne British Lega. tlon at Washingtoa, 1s sojourning at the West. moreland Hotel. i The Count Hoyos-Spritzenstein, lately named Austrian Minister at Wasatngton, was long in the Austrian Emoussy ta Paris, Mrs, W. C. Lyman, of this city, Wio bas been im Europe tor a year, siudying, has returned to this country, aud Will resume hor lectures the ensuing winter, « Major General Winfield S. Hancock, who has been absent in the West for several weeks past, retuned to the city yesterday aud took up ms quarters at Baraum’s Uotel. Hon, Mr. McKenzie, 1he Premter, ts expected to return tu Canada avout the end of Ausust. A cudie despatch .to the Glove suys tne Canadians wilt enjoy the bevetts of a uew Internacional postai treaty immediateiy on lis resurn, Mine. Lynch-Lopez is in Rio Janeiro with her gon, Henry Lopez, and bas received much atten. tion from Brazilian oflcers aod votabilities, note withstandiag tue bad feeung Whicn prevatiea fore merly agaiast her (or her supposed conduct ia the Paraguayan war, The Heraldo del Bravo 8ay8 @ Doody aMair ree cently occurred on tne irontier of Cithnanua berween Mexivans and Caltiornians, caused by a dispute reterriug to the uwasrsalp vi some mines, ‘The Heraldo says the Caltiornians were uefeatea With che !os4 O! several Killed, bi The ex-Queea fSavelia of Spain has Just bade eon deat, Mer Majesty was re- turning to Paris (rom 4 suoagroun visit, when, om entering the svenue de la Grande Aruéo, where the fete of Newly was being held, the horses of her carriago wore Iriyhteaed by t.e roaring of & lion, and dashed off, The cvacuman triea to stop tiem, bot in vain, and in a jew seconds one of tae horses {el} aud upset the carriage, which con tulned, besides the ex-Queen, the Priucess ae Beauttremont, the Duchesse de Valence ana the pucherse d’Atrisco, The only indy injured wae the Ducnesse de Valence.” The ex-Oueen, with re markabie cvoiness and SCll-possession, was the firs) to aitend te the Ducn