The New York Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1875, Page 6

"y 6 NEW YORK HERALD ANN STREET. BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hzsaup will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New Youre Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly pealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Ae LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, ——: VOLUME XL.-+++e- AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. ++:NO, 204 WOOD's MUSEUM, " of Thirneth street—THE SPY and Page Basen arse. 2. and ST M.; closes at 10:45 GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, late Barnum's Hippodrome.—GRAND POPULAB CON- CEBT, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 11 P.M. OLYMPIU THEATRE, 6% Broadway,—VARILTY, at § P.M. ; closes at 10 x46 a AL PARK GARDEN, ONCERT. at. M. 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Persons gowg out of town for the summer can “hawe the daily and Sunday Hxnaxp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart Srrzer Yxsrerpay.—Stocks were moderately active upon restricted dealings. Gold was heavy. Foreign exchange un- We ek a a ‘Tux Arronnax Genzrat, by his decision, has remanded the Chorpenning claim back to Congress, and it is doubtful if that body can be again induced to take it up. For the present it is effectually dead. Taz Report of the sub-committee of Tam- tpany, as will be seen, arraigns in strong terms Hon. John Morrissey, Thomas A. Led- with and James Hayes, and recommends steps which will result in their expulsion from the pociety. RS Tue Exrtosion of a locomotive boiler on thé Erie Railway near Port Jervis yesterday killed three men, and its tremendous force say be inferred trom the fact that the body of the engineer was blown a thousand feet from the engine and thrown into a tree on the top of a hill which rises seventy feet above the tailroad. Spam, it is said, intends to contract a loan of seven millions of dollars to indemnify the former slaveowners of Porto Rico. The present financial condition of the Madrid gov- ernment recalls De Mauprat’s reply when Richelieu told him he must pay his debts— “With ail my heart; but who then shall I borrow the money from?’’ Canapa is taking an interest in our Cen- tennial, and the western towns of Ontaria ‘will hold meetings soon to arrange for a proper representation in the Exhibition. ‘Well, we shall welcome our Canadian neigh- bors all the more warmly because they, too, will show what America has done in the last hundred years. Tux Dania Arrempr to Escape made by a mumber of convicts while being conveyed from Ward's to Blackwell's Island suggests the unpleasant thought that somo of the keep- rs were not wholly ignorant of the plan. If this suspicion be weil founded the guilty men should be immediately dismissed, and if it be mere wild rumor it would be well to have it disproved by » proper investigation. Tax Amentcan Rirte Tram.—Our burgh letter reviews the tour of the American riflemen in Ireland, and especially their visits to Wicklow and Belfast, where they were so cordially received. avs have 1s that the hospitality extended to our representatives may turn the tide of emigration, and that the celebrated star of empire will retrace its steps eastward. Concent Saroons.—The efforts made by the Excise Commissioners to suppress the concert saloon nuisance deserve public ap- proval. In refusing to license these crime- breeding dens the Excise (« mmissioners ren- der an important service to public morality. These haunts of shameless immorality have Jong been a disgrace to this city. They serve | to familiarize youth with the most dangerous and degrading class of vice, and their sap- on would be the means of saving thou- gands from lives of infamy. We hope the Commissioners will adhere to their detormina- tioa to refuse these dens a license and use all the machinery of the law to suppress the shameful trade on which they prosper. The only fear that Ameri- | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1875-—-TRIPLE SHEET. City Politics and the Police. It is the season when the rural shades and the sunny sands, the cosey farm and the long | piazzas of the seaside botels invite to retire- | ment, mixed drinks and political meditation. | Twaddle as people will of the intelligence, re- finement, culture and activity of the cities, | instances are against them; for is not politics, insomuch as it has bumanity for its contents, | the finest and noblest of sciences in propor- tion as man—or woman either—is the finest | and noblest of material? And yet of this noble | science the cities have none, and know it only | in its coarser processes. In the cities they | put into operation the notions that have been | thought out under the trees or that have sim- mered in the smoke of the clumbake. In the cities they swuff the ballot box, they forge | vouchers, they build expensive court houses, | they repeat, they indulge, iu short, all the | activities of politics that establish the rela- | tionship between governments and State | prisons; but the noble flights of the imagina- | tion in which the processes have their origin can only reach the earth at Indian Harbor, | Lake Mahopac, Saratoga, Long Branch, or | | the White Sulphur Springs in this generation, | | as they did at Coney Island, Rockaway and | Turtle Bay when there was a Dicky Riker in the land, or at Communipaw, and up “the | Bowerie” in the days when, ‘‘the faalt of the | Dutch was cheating too little and smoking too much.” It is not his fault, therefore, that Grant goes to Long Branch. He goes because | of the pressure of all-compelling tate. It is a very thin fiction, also, to put Tilden’s trip to | the account of boils. Both these great men are called upon to govern, and to govern one must be able to digest political concep- tions; and the cities desolate us with | political dyspepsia, and the fine con- nections of political science can only be seen away from the dust and noise and | turmoil of town, and in the calmness, retire- ment, placidity and sobriety of the seaside air or the breezy upland levels. And now is the time when the political brain incubates its bakers’ dozen of ideas at every chosen re- treat to prepare for the terribly crowing and cackling and political pot-pies of the fall. Already we are in a fair way to reap some of the results. Formerly we used to have them only in October and November; | but formerly we had green corn in the middle | of July and now you can get it by the Ist of | June. Formerly we had strawberries in | strawberry time, but now you can find them | in Santa Claus’ luggage, if you care to. Prog- | ress, railroads, steamboats and the discovery that the sunshine is as warm in Florida at | Christmas as it is in Communipaw in May have helped us here, and it seems that an analagons spirit of enterprise has invaded the political world and now plunges its rare fancies on the market at this early season. Sammy Tilden’s first happy inspiration when he reached Long Branch was that he would seize the occasion to take a look into the Henaip, a paper of which he has heard a great deal. It seems possible that this im- portant act may have momentous conse- quences in city politics, for Sammy got hold of a copy of the paper in which was reported the proceedings of the day previous in the police investigation. It appears that the j Governor had known before that there was a police here, but the exact limit of his knowl- edge in regard to it he could scarcely define himself; but he was natu- rally startled by the disclosures made | in that copy ot the report, and between the interest it excited and his boils he passed an uneasy, perhaps sleepless night. Another day’s Henaxp and another was called for, and still the story grew worse, till at last the Governor, like the famous boy under the apple tree, resolved that something must be done. By a process of elaborate ratiocina- tion he reached the point that he was of all men the one most called upon to do it. From that point to the fact of a conference with Mayor Wickham, like the journey from the sublime to the ridiculous, is but a step; and if the clairvoyants are well informed there was a conference. And here we must take occasion to do justice to an injured man. Byron paid a tribute toa gallant soldier the | more earnestly ‘partly because he did his | sire some wrong.”’ More practical, we accord our meed to the Mayor because we did wrong, | not to his sire—whom we never knew—but to the stupendous keenness of his perceptions. We advised him to go to London, for in fact we thought he was not needed here, and | would be out of harm’s way there; but he saw farther than we did, and stayed at home, He evidently had reasoned out that ‘Tilden would walk into his office some day, and that | it would be important for him to be there— | and he was there. Now what did they talk about, those two? Silk stockings, the boat tace, the Centennixl, the rifle match, Tweed, O’Conor and the Court of Appeals, the P. R. | and Morrissey? “Nota word of any of these | important topics. They talked about the po- | | lice, and Sammy entertained the very remark- | able opinion that the Police Commissioners had something to do with it. This staggered | Wickham, whose methods of reasoning are | | not very direct. But, after an argument, | | Wickham yielded this point. In the ow and | | drift of conversation between great men | | everything comes up sooner or later, and thus | ‘was cast out from one side or another the fine train of political logic, that if a police is re- sponsible for crime and the Police Commis- | | sioners for the police, then somebody else | | ought to be responsible for the Police Com- | | missioners, and that this ultimate official re- sponsibility could not fall on more distin- | guished, capable or handsome men than the | Mayor of the city in which the poljce was | found and the Governor of the State in which | | that city stood. Here, evidently, they must | have taken a recess and chatted on some in- different subject to rest their brains, Then, | | again, they returned to the charge, and estab- | | lished the position that Police Commissioners | | know what happens or do not know it; that | if they know it and do not remedy it they are dishonest, and if they don’t know it they are | incapable, and in either event they should be | | removed and give place to better men. | Naturally at this point there was some con- sideration ot the constitutional point—who | has the power under our present system of government to remove the Police Commission- | ers ; ond this point was pursued through the eighty recent charters of the city and through about four hundred volumes of Jaw written | and unwritten. They could not come to any | conclusion, of course, but all the authorities seemed to agree that the Mayor is, at all events, required to initiate the process, and that the Governor has a later duty; and it is possible that the Governor at this point gave expression to his opinion that if the Mayor did not initiate o process on this occasion of course the Gov- ernor could not continue it. If the Mayor had at this moment hinted to the Governor that he had formerly initiated processes—that, indeed, there were several processes in a very initiated state which the Governor had neglected, and even seemed to treat with con- tempt—he would have told no more than the truth; but the Governor would probably have pleaded the annoyance of his boils,-the urgency of his visit to Long Brauch, the in- clemency of the season, the floods in Europe and his interest in the boat race, while the Mayor, famous for his softness and yielding temper, would probably have melted at these intimations that the charges against the Cor- poration Counsel and the Fire Commissioners only awaited their turn fora share of the Ex- | ecutive attention, and have accepted, in fact, the official hint that if this was all that stood in the way any communications touching the police might come on. Perhaps, in consequence of this important conversation, there may therefore be other charges, and Disbecker and Company, with Matsell, Walling and the rest, may be sud- denly put on their defence betore the Gov- ernor. Dare the Mayor propose the removal of Disbecker? It is apparently the opinion of the great American dumper that he dare not. For our part we trust he may, the more especially if there is avy reason why he need fear to, for then Dis- becker will come out with his reason, and as we publish a newspaper we naturally rejoice at every disclosure of any fact of contem- porary history and hasten to lay it betore an appreciative public. As we look at it in fact Disbecker’s hint is a challenge, and the Mayor must now necessarily remove him, or people will conclude that there is some cor- rupt reason why he dare not, With this beautiful budget of political science wafted up from the stimulating breezes of the sea- side we have another scarcely less important from the Sage of Saratoga, that Talleyrand of the P. R., John Morrissey. Mr. Morrissey is the only typical and thoroughgoing demo- crat we possess in this region. He is of the people, for the people and with the people—a man of courage and tenacity, with strong, though ill-directed conviction ot honesty—who has shown thata man may pass through the worst phases of life without personal degra- dation. They propose to put him out of Tam- many Halil, and we hope they will do it, for there is nothing so interesting as a lively fight in local politics. Well put out he will be like a@ certain person who was once banished trom Rome. He may make the old establishment “howl.”” Pulpit Topics To-Day. Solomon’s magnificent woman, as portrayed in his song, will be exhibited this morning by Mr. Taylor to the gaze ofa Jersey audience of Congregationalists, so that they shall be able, doubtless, to contrast her with some of the magnificent women of the present day and generation. There can be no question but that faith and hope have an influence on our physical health and lite, but how far this influence extends it will be Dr. Porteous’ privilege to tell his people, and how and what are ths things that discourage us in this lite will also receive a share of his atten- tion. The sympathy of Jesus has never been fully tested, but what we know of it will be set forth by Mr. Leavell, and the cry of de- liverance that comes up from sin-bound and sin-freed souls will also be presented by this pastor. The pity and love of God are the Di- vine attributes that men love most to dwell on, and the former will be considered by Mr. Lightbourn to-day in its fatherly aspect. The unstable believer, who is constantly shifting his anchor from one idea and form of beliet to another, will be cautioned that danger lies ahead in this path. And Mr. Willis will show the importance of promptitude in religious matters, as well as fatality o! unfruitfulness in the Christian life. Mr. Kennard will take his people to the brink of the gladdening river and there will show them Satan as an angel of light, so that the contrast may be as marked as pos- sible between the true and the false in reli- gion. These are among the topics on which our city pastors will discourse to-day, and by which they hope to feed their flocks with the bread of life. Rerorm um Lovistana.—Governor Kellogg, if he is in earnest in his promise to prosecute the unfaithful officers of Louisiana, will do much to compensate for his past course. It is to be inferred that he is sincerely snxious for reform from the fact that Attorney Gen- eral Field has filed an information against the Auditor, the Treasurer, the Secretary of the State, the Speaker of the House and State Senator Herwig, all of whom, excepting the last, have been members of the Funding Board of 1874. They are charged with mis- demeanor in office or frauds, and the fact that they are thus arraigned justifies all that was said of the corruption in Louisiana last year. The accusations against the State officials were denied then and were laughed at in Washington by the administration, but now they are confessed. Governor Kellogg seems to have profited by the example of Governor Chamberlain's change of policy in South Carolina. Mn. Micnazu Nowaw 48 ax Onator,— Eloquence is a valuable quality, and its owner deserves to be well paid when he uses it for the benefit of others. For this are the lawyers. But it is not often ‘that a speech of an hour before a legislative com- mittee is worth from forty thousand to sixty thousand dollars. A fee between these amounts was, however, paid to Mr. Michael Nolan tor such @ service by the steamship companies, if we are to trust his evidence yesterday before the Legislative Committee on Emigration. But how fleeting is the power of the orator! The persuasive tongue which in one short hour could talk the Legislature into framing an important bill to reduce the head money upon emigrants materially, was hesitating and slow when asked to answer afew plain questions ot fact, Mr, Nolan’s examination yesterday, printed else- where, is decidedly interexting, but we are compelled to say that it does not support his claim that the steamship companies paid him forty thousand dollars for his eloquence only, nor do we believe that his eloquence alone secured the passage of the bill in which they are so profoundly interested. | The Absent One. The eyes grow tearful and the heart beats | heavily as we read the cable despatch an- | nouncing the names of the guests who are to honor the Mayor of London with their pres- ence at the coming banquet. We see the chief | magistrates of Paris, Calais and Bordeaux; of | Geneva, Rome, Turin and Florence ; of Chris- | tiana, Boston and Quebec ; of Brussels, Ant- | werp and Amsterdam, Here are French- men, Italians, Swiss and Swedes, with one in- trusive Yankee all the way from Boston. But we do not see the name of the Mayor of New York, This is to bean ‘international banquet,” | and, as we urged the Mayor when the invitation came, it was due to New York that ho should assert our Manbattan’s place among the cities of the world. We warned him that the Mayor of some rural inland town like Boston or Philadelphia would quietly edge im at the last moment and proclaim his city as the exclusive home and dominion of the Eagle. It is just as we feared. Here is | the Mayor of Boston among the guests. He will have all his own way about Boston, and this at a time too when we are anxious about our metropolitan supremacy, our commerce, and so on. To allow a brazen-faced, talkative, impudent Yankee, who has probably made his money out of hickory nutmegs and cedar hams, to stalk into Guildhall to the music of ‘Yankee Doodle’ and exalt Boston in the eyes ot the assembled mayors of the world, with no one to say a word for New York, is maddening. The result will be that the mayors of Calais and Bordeaux, of Christiania and Rome, of Geneva and Brussels, will return home feeling that Bos- ton is the only American city, that Boston is the metropolis and that henceforward all the goods should be sent to Boston. So that from this time forward we may expect to see the commerce of Boston rise in value, while New York sinks into a provincial inferiority. And all this because the Mayor did not have the genius to grasp a splendid opportu- nity. He could not tear himself from the charms of the Manhattan Club. There were Trish processions to review, and this, his only undisputed function, he would not sur- render to Tilden. There were short-hair and swallow-tail controversies to arrange, and he could not forego the pleasure of mingling in the strife. And yet what a display the Mayor might have made! How he could have tow- ered over the Dutch Burgomaster from Am- sterdam, the macaroni-munching'’ Mayor from Rome, the cheese-nibbling magistrate from Geneva! How he could have defied the British Lion in the face of the mayors of the world and dared the Lord Mayor to come out in the street and show which was the better man! How he could have appealed to the Italians, the Dutch and the Swedes to leave their decaying and bloated old nations and come with him to the land of the free and the home of the brave, where the citizen can vote early and often; where land is cheap and plenty and we have the freest, if not the most economical, government, the land of Tammany Hall and taxation; where a Morrissey rules in politics, a Jay Gould in finance and a Tweed in the adminis- tration of justice! He could have told them how New York is governed by four descend- ants of Irish kings—Boss Murphy, who comes from Heremon, son of Milesius, first Irish monarch, and who is now king of the beef- eaters; Boss Kelly, of the swallow-tails, de- scended from the. O’Kellys, who were kings antecedent to Brian Boriohme, the great mon- arch of Limerick, who now rests with God; Morrissey, of the short hairs, whose name signifies ‘‘a brave man,’’ and who descends from the Tipton Slasher, successor to the Staleybridge Chicken, who ruled centuries ago in Donnybrook Kingdom ; Boss Creamer, of the Plug Uglies, descended from the O'Gradies, also sons of Brian the Great, whose motto is ‘‘Shannet a bool” which means to ‘‘take what you can and answer no questions.’’ Mayor Wickham could have ex- plained to the assembled mayors, in French and Dutch, Italian and Swedish, all of which tongues he speaks with equal facility, how, under the benign government ot these kings, | New York has become a great city, a city in which honest work receives honest pay; where “restitution” has become a mark of gentility; where virtue reigns; whero court houses are built; where taxes are collected, and where if a laborer steals a ham he receives twenty years’ imprison- ment, but if a statesman steals five millions he has only to pay a half million to lawyers to enjoy the remaining four and a halt with im- munity. He might make a profound sensa- tion in the minds of the Italian mayors by showing how much better this is than bri- gandage in Italy, which has now become an established industry. Italian brigands bave only the smallest gains after‘all, and are apt to be hanged, while brigands in New York are never in danger of anything more than a few restful months on the Island. But why dwell upon it all? Why mourn over speeches that might have been made? | We know well what our own Wickham would have done once he felt himself on his feet, the tountains of his eloquence opened by generous wine. We know that he would have been worthy of himself and his city, worthy of the ceutennial year and of the descendants of | Bunker Hill. Bat the vanity of reviewing Irish processions—the only function now be- longing to the Mayoralty—has kept him home. In the gathering of mayors the Mayor ot New York will be absent. American greatness will | have no representative but Boston, and we know what advantage an unscrupulous Yankee | will take of his opportunity to inflict a vital stab upon New York. Tux Summer Resorts must either present unusual attractions this season or be the fashion. Saratoga, Long Branch, Niagara and other places frequented by summer visitors, if not full to overflowing, are all well patronized, and the promise now is of: very successful season. While the warm weather lasts these places and their fashions aod gossip will have much interest, not only | to the habitués, but even to most of those who are prevented irom enjoying their pleasures. We present this morning a series of letters from the most important of the watering places, and these will give some idea ot the success of the season thus far. At Long Branch there | are only the Imperial family and the suri and | the ordinary run of summer visitors. The | races give Saratoga a temporary importance, Niagara, with its special attractions, its his toric hackmen, and the Henaup at early dinner every Sunday, is more than’ usually enticing. All these find o place in our news columns to-day, and make on interesting chapter for both town and country. The Juice of the Religious Press Many, if not most, of our religious ex- changes this week devote their editorial rt, Politics or to questions of social life. The Golden Age, speaking for the liberal party, says neither of the great parties want to grant the concessions asked for in 1872, though it thinks the republicans would be glad to weloome the liberals back again and to do what they could for them. But 1876 will bring forth new questions, and the Age thinks the liberals had better remain inde- pendent for another while. The Christian Union gives a sarcastic review of Professor Marsh’s Indian exposure, and then makes some serious comments thereon. While it professes strong confidence in Commissioner Smith’s personal integrity it says there are several weighty reasons for scrutinizing very closely the course of his department, That en Indian Ring exists—the Union says— has been proved to o moral certainty. Professor Marsh has all the qualifications of a first class witness, and his statements are cor- roborated by army officers, so that they cannot be offset inerely by the good character of the Commissioner nor by his personal assurance that everything is right. The Methodist on the same subject shows the difficulties in the way of having an honest and upright admin- istration of Indian affairs, and then adds that we shall have trouble, investigations, rotten- ness and disgust until we get the Indian out of wardship and treat him as we treat other people. The reform, it thinks, is yet a good way off, but these and similar exposures will hasten it. The Christian Intelligencer excludes Professor Marsh’s items of evidence concern- ing sugar, coffee and flour, of which he admits he knows very little of bis own observation, but as relates to the other eight articles con- stituting bis arraignme:t of the Interior and Indian departments the Intelligencer says they present a strong case of mismanagement, incompetency and fraudulent practices. The case wears an ugly look and the charges involve the honor of the nation and the rights, comforts and fives of a helpless people who are largely dependent upon us, The Observer speaks of the hostility to sec- tarian appropriations as the new plank which State after State is inserting in its political platform, though ithas no fear that any po- litical party will be so stupid as to commit itself to the support of the Roman Cathohc demand. It trusts and believes that both po- litical parties will be found faithful to the American principle of equal justice to all and favoritism to none, and in this view it would have the Ohio democratic plank put into every State platform, completely severing Church and State. The Baptist Weekly has no idea, ‘‘in view of recent utterances by Romish ecclesiastics, that any measures which can bo adopted will ever reconcile them to our school system,” but thinks it is worth while to con- sider how far our own principles logically lead us in our schools, supported by general taxation as well as other institutions. The Jewish Messenger regrets that in its Church there is no judicatory akin to bishop or | council, conference or assembly in other denominations, to whom questions of govern- ment and Church polity may be referred. The rabbi is the exponent of ecclesiastical law in the synagogue, and when his opinion con- flicts with the congregation there is no re- course but to fly to the civil courts, as was Gone in the case of the congregation B'nai Jeshurun recently. It calls for a Coun- cil of Israelites, with a presiding rabbi, and thinks such an organization would give them more respect among other denominations than Jews have now in their ecclesiastical relations. The Hebrew Leader agrees substantially with Judge Larremore’s decision in the case above referred to, and thinks that many customs were expedient in ruder times which are not necessary now—such as the separation of the sexes in the synagogue and the like, “1 Am @ Poor Bit Mon.’ Detectives Warlow and Reilly are in the condition of the happy pair in a recent car- toon. A brace of beggars had gone into bus- iness together, the tall and slim one wearing the legend, “Iam a poor blind man,”’ and the short and fat one being placarded, ‘Sd am I.” No. 2 chanced to be detained at home, and his wife took his place, with ludicrous effect, as may be imagined, when she an- nounced herself as a poor blindman. The detectives, chosqm simply because of their eyesight, stand before a game of faro in full blast, and while Warlow sighs, “I ama poor blind man,”’ his associate, Reilly, responds, “So am L” Had Reilly assumed the woman’s garb he could not have made himself and his companion more ridiculous; but these men, if men they are, cannot escape upon so ab- surda plea, Hud they been actual beggars, standing on the sidewalk in Broadway, they would have been kicked into the gutter by any chance passer by upon the fraud they were practising being so clearly exposed. As they are detectives, caught in the practice of the blind beggars’ trick, wo sce no reason why they should escape a less ignominious fate. Never was exposure more complete. The officers were led to a place where they had only to open their eyes | and see the offence it was their duty to dis- cover and suppress. They could not help seeing the game unlcss they deliberately closed | Detective | their eyes and refused to see it. Warlow swore that he looked through a win- dow into the gambliog room, but could see no | gambling. Detective Reilly could hear the “chipe,” but could see no men gambling. There was a blaze of light m the room, and the blindness of the detectives, under the circumstances, was, to say the least of it, remarkable. Mr, Theodore Aub, however, explains the cause of the officers’ misfortune, “Warlow,” the witness said, “went to the window, but did not look out in such a man- ner as to command a view of the room; War- low said that he could bear the ebips, but could see no gamblers; the witness urged him to go back and look so that he could see | and recognize the man, but Warlow declined.” | ‘This is the way in which the police have been dealing with the public fur years, When crime was committed in the open day they refused to see it, and the guilty have con- stantly escaped through the determined blindness of those whose business it was to detect guilt. Wo shall be surprised, even now, if the “blind men” of the Central Office ase punished. Woman's Rights in Japan. It is about time for the woman's rights People to send a deputation of missionaries to Japan. The Japanese have adopted, with asingular and imprudent zeal, most of the manners and customs of America and Europe. They have already an irredeemable paper currency ; and they have even a writer out there who is as brilliantly ignorant as Genera Carey in Ohio, for he recently replied to 4 complaint about the paper currency: —*I you had more sense you would see that this saves the whole expense of a metallic currency, which is, of coutse, so much silver and gold purchased by labor, but used only for the purpose of facilitating exchanges.” They bave not only railroads, but also a ring seéking government subsidies for building more, They have begun a representative government and a parliament, and they display a strong natural taste for sparkling wines. But they stop when they are asked to treat women after the European or Americau fashion. So far from giving women more rights they declare that the sex has already more than it deserves. A Japanese journalist ‘thus gravely discourses on this matter :— If we look into the theories of this subject it would appear the! pOehonstOn'e, equal power by husoand and wife is based on natt ural reason. But il we observe the practi Europeans it would appear that the power ae wile is greater (han that of the nasband, and tons this error has been brought about by the want of & correct view Of the dictates of nature, We will point out examples Of this, In going through a door the wife passes first and the fusvaud tof lows ber; the wife takes the best seat andthe husband the next best. Jn visiting the wilelg first saluted; In forms of address the wife is first ménuioned, ' Moreover, while men ure in the com- pany of ladies they must be purticular m shetr conve sation, and wre not permitted to smoke witnout the ladies’ permission oeing first ob- tained. Tuese and like customs are fanumerapble, and tne power 01 the women 18 iar greater than that of the men, If ladies do not like tobacco smoke, he adds, they ought to leave the room when pipes are lit. He thinks the whole question of the position and rights of women very serious, and refers it to the wise men of the country :— Toe equality of rights between husband and wife is much misunderstood, and that men \dol.ge their wives the purpose of pleasing them. And | tis 18 the reason wuy some of the celebrated wo meu of Europe bave benaved iv a manuer which 1t pains us even to hear of and which is terrible, At preseot there is much discussion in this coun- try as to the relations which should exist between men and women. it 18 well, thereiore, that our learned men shuuid take tnis into consideration, Otherwise the power of the other sex will grow gradually, and eventually become so overwhelih- ing that it will pe impossiole to coutroli. Ye learned men, what are your views? The woman’s rights people will see that there is a subtle insult in this last question— What do the learned men think? Rather, What do the learned women think? would be the question here, Tae Bercner Question has been trans ferred from America to England, and for thigq relief many thanks are due to the Rev. Dr. Parker, who, by undertaking to pledge the English Nonconformist clergy to a declaration of faith in Mr. Beecher, has divided the Church. Our London correspondence showa how the matter is regarded by the pulpit and the press, and the English are not altogether grateful to Dr. Parker for bringing them into a contest with which they have really litle to do, Mr. Beecher has again reason for regret« ting the disposition of his friends to make ‘a ruinous defence’? of his character. The eulogy of Dr. Parker has done him no special good, while it has brought out a strong public expression of belief in his guilt which would otherwise have been withheld. Tax Carpren’s Excursion. yesterday wae a great success. Nineteen hundred little boys and girls hada trip up the Hudson River, and enjoyed the novelty of a whole day under the trees, with fresh air, entertainments of all kinds and « banquet at the end. The cost of this excursion was but six hundred and twenty-four dollars, and it may be safely said that more pure enjoyment is seldom secured to so large a number of persons for so small a sum. The children look forward to this ex cursion of one day with more delight than a millionnaire’s family does to a voyage te Europe, or a New York belle toa whole sum mer at Saratoga or Newport. Send the sub scriptions along. “Tue Saratoga Races opened brilliantly yesterday, D’Artagnan, Grinstead and King Pin being the winners, the former making remarkably fast time for a three-year-old. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prangins, Prince Pion Plon’s villa on Lake Geneva, is for sale. Rey. J. B. Parceil, of Baltimore, is among tn¢ | late arrivals at the Coleman Hvuse. | Surgeon Basil Norns, United Svates Army, ig quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. " Senator George G. Wright, of Iowa, is residing temporarily at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Mr. James A, Bayard, of Delaware, has takew up his residence at the New York Hotel. Senator Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, an Fived lust evening at the Metropolitan Motel, One of the minorevil consequences of the re turn of the deluge in Eurore will perlaps pe the complete aestruction of gam Fischtetto pictures progress as a most obstinate | fly on the gigantic nose of & Jesuitical company, dm the midst of whom is Pio Nono, Fischietto pictures Spain as a silly sheep, ew corted on one side by the big wolf Carlos, and | On the other by tne little wolf Alionso, It is evidently impossivle to spe: English names witu French type, Inthe Figaro Tweed becomes | Twoet, and poor Sam Ward comes out a Wadd. Bya decree of the Khédive, dated July &, the | calendar in use among Christian nations will | henceforth be used in Egypt instead of the Mo | Ramimedan calendar, dating irom the Hegira. | The President, accompanied by Lieutenant Cob | Onel Frederick D. Grant and wile aud Master Jess¢ R, Grant, arrived at tne Filth Avenue Hotel from Long Branch yesterday moraing and lit by the aiternoon boat for West Point. M, Herbette presents the necessary constitution of Casarism in three articles:— ARTICL# 1.—The sovereign people thinks and acts oniy im tbe person of one sovereign man. ann 2.—1nis man is 4 universal genius and ts in. * Amr, 3.—He {s hereditary. M. Thiers was once younger than he fs now, and in those hud @ very warm correspond. ence with 4 Parisian actress. He recovered his letters from her, but did not destroy them—put them aside, on the contrary, and forgot them, But wnen the Communists plundered his house they were found, and now tiey are in London, ia the bangs oi & man who is willing to exhange | them for letters—of credit, M. Goudinet, the Freucn dramatic author, served in the war, and nad a rifle of a bad pattern whick he succeeded io changing with anotuer solvier for a Chassepot, The condition oi the trade was that the other soldier should have an orchestra stall at night of Goudinet’s plays; and he has eral ‘imes enjoyed this advantage, ap bservation that it was a fine trade hot might Dave relieved Goudinet of | Ris @vligation or inflicted on bi (he loss of bis | gun without fair remuneration.