The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1875, Page 4

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WooD’s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirueth sircet—THE SPY and * SHEPPARD, at 2. M. and 8 P. M.; closes at 20:45 WITH SUPPLEMENT. JULY 26, 1875, NEW YORK, MONDAY. THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, To NewspEazERs aND THE Puntrc :— Tax New Yors Henatp 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 Ningara Falls at a quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Heraxp 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 Henan office as early as possible. For further particulars see time table. From our reports tris morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer | and partly cloudy. Persons gomg out of town for ihe summer can have the daily and Sunday Heraup mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Ovr Warermxa Pracn correspondence in- cludes reports from Newport, Thousand Islands Park and White Sulphur Springs, in all of which the season appears to have been brilliantly successful, Tue Lanor Sramzs my Encuanp are grow- ing more serious. There is a lock-out in Ashton, Staleybridge, Dunkinfield and Moss- ley. In Oldham one hundred mills will be closed and thirteen thousand hands will sus- pend work to-morrow. Tur Excrremext concerning the contem- plated expulsion of Mr. Morrissey from Tam- many Hall will result in a bitter contest | within the lines of the democracy in this city. The latest information of the warlike inten- tions of Mr. Morrissey’s friends will be found in our columns to-day. Tue Bunorars who infest the Hudson River defy the law and their depredations seem to increase, notwithstanding the pub- licity that has been given to them. Another bold robbery is reported to-day from the | flourishing town of Hastings. A regular system cf brigandage has plainly been | established along the Hudson. Manrrosa has seventeen thousand inhabi- tants and does not want a House of Lords. But the House of Lords wants the seventeen thousand people and refuses to be abolished. | This was always the way of the aristocracy. | {f there were a House of Lords with seventeen | hundred or only seventeen people it would | still insist upon being a burden to its unwill- | ing imferiors. Office-holders everywhere, | whether in a republic or a monarchy, consider | that they have inherent rights which it 1s | imvertinent for the people to dispute. Eyznts i THe O1p Worun.—We yield | a page to-day to our Enuropean ocor- | respondents, who certainly occupy the | space to the entertainment and best informa. | tion of the public. From Liége we have an admirable letter reviewing the general state | of affairs in Europe; our London letter re- news the fashionable season, the departure of | the Prince of Wales, the troubles into which | Colonel Baker has fallen and the theatrical i events of the capital; from Paris we print a | lively picture of the recent excitement of the | newspapers and the quarrels of the celebrated | Paul de Cassagnac; and these interesting | sketches are supplemented by a series of ex- tracts from the English journals illustrative | vf the news of the day. | Ma. Pumisoxt, axp tux Sarons.—Tho de- | fiant course of Mr. Plimsoll in the House ot | Commons was undoubtedly premeditated, and | has alrendy been sustained by his clients, the sailors, who desire that the Shipping bill shali be considered by Parliament before it ad- journs. A meeting was held at Birkenhead | yesterday, and several thousand mariners of England and workingmen pledged their sup- | port to Mr. Plimsoll. The attitude of the English sailors toward Mr. Disraeli, in respect to the compulsion of crews to sail in unsea- | print and pay out greenbacks, now it is re- | you've got more mowing machines now than NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT, Is Honesty the Best Policy? Senator Thurman remarked the other day to a reporter at Deer Park that ‘‘in all times of commercial depression the cry of ‘More money’ is raised, the present period being no exception.’ This is very true, and a time of depression is therefore a good time for states- men like Mr, Thurman to show their constit- uents the absurdity of this cry, There never was so good an opportunity as now for the leading statesmen of both parties to instruct the people in the simple and elementary truths of finance, and we are glad to hear that Mr, Thurman at least means to do his duty in the matter. We hope when he speaks to the Ohio democrats on the Bist of July he will explain to them that ‘more money,” which everybody wants, not only now, but at all times, can be obtained by any one only by more labor and more economy, and that, if the United States government should to-morrow either coin a thousand millions of gold and silver or print a thousand millions of rags and paper, no man in Ohio conld get into his | own pocket a aingle dollar, gold or | paper, of all this ‘more money” unless the government needed his service, and then | not until he had performed the service. When he has made this clear to them let him show them next that while, during the war, the government was spending far more than it received from taxes, and thus had occasion to | ceiving more than it spends; and, conse- quently, if it should print ten thousand mill- ions of greenbacks, these would have to lie in the Treasury, because it would have no oceasion o excuse for paying them out, If Mr. Thurman will make these two points clear to the Ohio men he will knock the bot- tom out of Mr. Pendleton's little inflation scheme, and will send his audience home a good deal wiser than Judge Kelley, Senator Gordon, Mr. Pendleton or General Butler will ever be. And when he has shown his hearers that | “more money’’ would not help them in the least unless some of it got into their indi- vidual pockets, and that there is absolutely no | way of getting it there except by doing some service which somebody who has money wants done, then he might very well go on to the third lesson and show the Ohio men that | while they are crying out ‘(More money” the banks are stuffed with it, and would be only | too glad to lend it out on reasonably good security. ‘In all times of commercial depres- sion,’’ not only is the cry of “More money’’ raised, as he remarks, but at the same time money is always a drug in the market. In- terest is never so low as ina time of com- mercial and industrial stagnation. Money is never so abundant as when nobody wants to use it in enterprises. If everybody was hard at work all over the country at some useful and necessary employment ; if we were all rushing shead, ploughing, sowing, planting, manufacturing, shipping, selling and buying, there might be sense in a cry for ‘more money,’’ for it might happen that somebody somewhere was inconvenienced for lack of | small change in paying off his workmen or settling his store bills. Fortunately in such a time money would rush in rapidly enough wherever it was wanted. But now, when we have no use for all the money we already have—as is proved by the fact that it is piled up in the banks—what sense is there in cry- | ing out ‘More money?” It is about as | ridiculous as though a dry goods man, having sold out the greater part of his stock of calicoes and woollens, should suddenly rush out of his shop and order ‘‘ more yardsticks,”’ or as if an Ohio farmer, having got in most of his hay, should run around among his neighbors to borrow ‘‘more mowing ma- chines."’ Probably some rough but sensible | neighbor would say to him, ‘ You old fool, go home and get in your hay before it rains ; | yon need for the work you have to do.” Then there is Mr. Pendleton, who is quite ready to return to specie payments whenever everybody is ready for resumption, which reminds us of the country preacher's offer to pray for rain whenever all the farmers in his congregation were ready for a rainy day. Theoretically, he hints, he likes gold and sil- ver; but practically he is opposed to any steps which lead to hard money. He is like the Governor of a Western State, who be- | lieved in a Maine liquor law, but was strongly | opposed to its enforcement, or, like his old friend, James Buchanan, who held that no | State had a _ right to secede, but that nobody had any right to prevent it. | Is it not little contemptible for a demo- | cratic leader—one who believes himself to | be a statesman—to be pettifogging a great | public question in this way? Why not speak out, so that the wayfaring man, though a fool, may understand him? Aman cannot be at once for hard and soft money, for gold and rags. We are, unfortu- | nately, cursed with # currency not | redeemed in gold. The question is :— Shall we be content with this and issue more | of it on various shallow pretexts, or shall we | stop swindling each other and make the gov- | ernment stop swindling us, which we can do only by forcing the government to take in its | greenbacks, which are simply broken prom- | ises? To muddle the brains of an audience | | on such a question, as Mr. Pendleton did the | other day, is really less reputable than the | course of his brilliant fellow deraocrat, Gen- | eral Carey, who told the people that » dollar | is dollar, whether it is of paper or gold; | ting a dollar mark on it, and that whether it | puts this mark on a piece of gold or on a piece | of paper makes no difference whatever, perch himself on a political fence and squint both ways tor votes. | There are, no doubt, a great in all parts of the country who sincerely be- lieve that if the government would only in- many people would follow, and the redemption of these quence. Such people are ignorant, and it is | the part and duty of men who pretend to be | statesmen not to muddle their brains still | further with foolish and two-faced addresses, } but to tell them how and why they are wrong, and why it is that irredeemable paper money | | to her with tremendous majorities, that he ought to clearly justify an irredeem- able currency. We did hope that, the war being over, we should at last. see parties wise enough to drop the issues which grew out of the war, among which this irredeemable currency is one. Be- fore the war we had paper money, but it was always and promptly redeemed in gold. A man who should have attempted to pay off his workpeople on Saturday night in bank bills for which they could not have got coin on demand would have been thought a swindler, and, in tact, he would have been one, Were the mechanics and farmers of the country foolish in 1860 and during all their lives before that date? Were they suffering loss all that time by insisting upon being paid in coin, or in bank bills redeemable in coin? If irredeemable paper money is so great a boon as Mr. Pendleton pretends, why was this never discovered by the democrats until 1865? Why did Thomas H. Benton, Andrew Jackson, Silas Wright and a multitude of honored democratic leaders never find it out? Did financial wisdom begin in that party | with the Pendletons, Careys and Voorheeses ? Surely it is a pitiful spectacle to see the leaders of a great party—a party which once ruled the country for a long term of years for the country’s glory and benefit—to see these new leaders countenancing a doctrine which their predecessors never tired of denouncing. Where would Mr. Pendleton hide his head if “Old Bullion” should one of these hot days be ‘materialized’ and rise before him at a democratic meeting ? The Churches and the Public. The churches yesterday were not as well at- | tended as the leading clergymen of the city might have desired to see. Still, it must be remembered that many of the leading clergy- men could not have seen the churches even if they had been full, for the reason that they are out of town. Their absence explains the otherwise singular non-attendance of the re- ligious public. A syllogism might be thus constructed:—The hot weather drives the fashionable clergy from the churches; the fashionable Christians only attend tho churches to hear the fashionable clergy ; therefore the Christian fashionables go to Coney Island and Far Rockaway on Sunday. This is logic, and if the major and minor premises are conceded, which they must be, we do do not see how the conclusion can be disputed unless the pious doubter refutes it by going up the Hudson to Fort Lee, or to Long Branch. But there is another fact to be considered, which redeems the religious repu- tation of the city. The clergymen being out of town—at Saratoga, Newport, Cape May, the White Sulphur Springs, Paris, Baden and other popular places—their congregations have resolved to foliow them. They feel the want of their pious counsel, and are too prudent to remain in New York exposed to all the temp- tations of the wicked metropolis without their accustomed spiritual guides. The emptiness of the churches may thus be explained by the departure of the clergy and the consequent exodus of the congregations. It follows that New York is, toa very large degree, drained of its religion, and that Saratoga and Long Branch, notwitnstanding their club houses, have really become the religious centres of the country, New York, however, is so rich inclergy- | men that the absence of a hundred does-not leave the city altogether exposed to tempta- tion. Among those preachers who wage un- tiring war against the weather and against evil we find many eloquent men whose ser- mons are reported in our columns to-day. There are the Rev. Dr. Booth, Rev. Rishop Potter, Rev. Father McCabe, Dr. Ormiston, Rev..Mr. Payson, Rev. Mr. J. Spencer Kennard, and others, who maintain the standard of religion in the community and prepare the way for the return of Mr. Beecher and other equally influential clergymen after the season of hay fever is ended and Chris- tianity becomes once more a leading met- ropolitan attraction. Morrissey and Cartius. Morrissey can at least congratulate himself upon the noble end in store forhim. He may by accident know the story of the Roman Curtius who leaped into a gulf, to his own certain destruction, for the sake of his coun- try, which he thereby saved; and he will be happy to hear that he is to repeat the splendid story with the little difference that he is not to jump but to be bounced into the gulf, Here, for instance, is this great coun- try, which cannot be saved without the demo- cratic party ; and the democratic party cannot be saved without Tammany, and Tammany cannet be saved unless the gulf that yawns near it is filled up by a man of fine propor tions like the Talleyrand of Saratoga. This gulf is only another name for Tammany’s bad character, for its evil repute im respect- able circles, for the bad fame it has earned before the world tor giving places of honor to prize fighters, gamblers, rum drinkers, policy pedlers, jailbirds, panel thieves and all sorts of people addicted to social eccentric- ities. It is considered by Tilden, Kelly and the other great lights that these facts frighten the decent citizen and make him vote the republican ticket; and the theory is that the decent citizen jugt now stands politically with one foot lifted uncertain which way to turn, and that if Tamrhany comes out with a splurge of heroic virtue be will turn to her numerously, overwhelmingly, and that he will vote tor her with an energy that will put | that the government inakes it a dollar by put- | the liveliest of her repeaters to shame. So Morrissey is to be literally her scapegoat, to be freighted with all her sins and run out | into the wilderness by the High Priest of the | Carey, at least, speaks out; he does not | Congregation, Joho Kelly; or,more heroically, he is to be her Curtius and close up with his brawny person the chasm that yawns between | her and the decent voters who burn to come ‘There is not one thing in this world that is more enter- | erease the issue of paper money prosperity | taining or delightful than an experiment; and this is a great experiment in democratic | pills in coin wonld be a matter of no conse. | Politics. So, by all means, do it at once. | Let the lictor strike with the sword, Tae German Newspapers regard the sub- mission of Catholic clergymen to the law re- specting the administration of Church prop- erty as a concession from Rome to the State, worthy vessels, reminds us of that of one of | ig a curse to the poor, to the mechanic, to the | and anticipate an abatement of the struggle. Marryat’s heroines toward the Admiralty:-- | farmer, to every one but tho speculator. If a | But we fear that in this they err. Thero is Poll pat her arms akimbo. “Port Admira),"’ said she, «4fyou send the ships to sea on Christmas, You may be dashed for me) man like Mr. Pendleton does not believe this, | then at least he is clear-headed enough to see | that thore is no middlc ground for him, but yet no evidence that the Pope has receded an iota from the position he hae assumed against civil intorferenco with the Church, The Indian Question. President Grant is reported in one of our contemporaries as having expressed himself freely at a recent meeting of the Cabinet upon the relation of Mr. Delanoto the admin- istration, He said that he had perfect confi- dence in Mr. Detano and that he had no in- tention of removing him from office. It was not bis habit to abandon officers whom he trusted under the clamor ot the newspapers. He ‘‘stood by his friends under fire.” No one will censure President Grant for his de- yotion to those who enjoy his confidence. On the other hand, we do not discover any dis- position to make war upon Mr. Delano. He went into the Cabinet without much feeling one way or the other as to his availability or his fitness. He hai been a sensible, busy and efficient member of Congress. When he was nominated to the Interior Department it was hoped that the appointment would give that important branch of the government a judicious head, and at the same time give the administration a Cabinet Minister who would be in entire sympathy with the party. The main reason which led to the retirement of General Cox, of Ohio, from the Cabinet, was his inability to please the ruling minds of the republican organization. Mr. Delano was more facile, and consequently when he entered this department it was with the general sat- isfaction of the politicians and without dissent on the part of the people. The objection to Mr. Delano at this time is in no sense personal. It is an objection aris- ing out of the confessed and shameless frauds that have been discovered in the management of the Indian affairs. Prosident Grant may sustain Mr. Delano, but how can he explain the infamies that have been perpetrated in the Sioux country? Nor is it hearsay evi- dence tion which these statements rest. Let us present the case as it stands now. We have allegations of fraud against the Secretary of the Interior and his agents from the members of the old Indian Commission. As our Philadelphia correspondent showed, in @ letter which was lately published, so far back as in 1870 Mr. William Welsh, of Philadelphia, then a mem- ber of the Indian Commission, presented a report to Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior, giving detailed information of cer- tain frauds in beef, flour and freight to the extent of a half million of dollars. Every statement made by Mr. Welsh, who is a geao- tleman of the highest standing and of unex- ceptionable character, was confirmed by docu- mentary and other testimony. Mr. Delano gave no directions to make any reclamation trom the author of these frauds. This is the first point. The old Board of Indian Commissioners sent a confidential agent into the Sioux coun- try to make a report upon the frauds, The author of this report has been persecuted by the Indian Ring, driven out of the Treasury and ostracized simply for doing his duty. This is the second point. On June 22, 1874, the House Committee on Indian Affairs made a report showing the existence of a ring in the Indian country, by which money was made in cattle and freight contracts. One of the men mentioned in that report was the author of the frauds charged by Mr. Wolsh. The Ring which then existed still has life, and it draws its life from the Secretary of the Interior. This is the third point. The Heratp some time since sent special correspondents into the Sioux eountry, with instructions to see the Indians, discover as far as possible the real source of their griev- ances, if there were any, and to make a report of the exact condition of affairs. That report has been published, It shows beyond controversy and with minuteness of detail the existence of a system of frauds as atro- cious and widespread as those which cursed New York under the Tammany Ring, Tifis is the fourth point. Professor Marsh, a distinguished gentle- man connected with Yale College, a student and professor of science, found himself some time since in the Sioux country engaged in scientific investigation. While there he hap- pened to see the manner in which the Indians were treated. He heard the complaints of chiefs like Red Cloud. He examined these complaints. He made a statement to the government embodying evidence of cumula- tive character, showing that the Interior De- partment, through its agents, was engaged in a series of unblushing and inhuman trauds— not merely robbing the Treasury for their own gain, but starving the Indians to increase their profits. This is the fifth point. The last point and the most serious of all is that at the head of the Indian trading stores in the Sioux country is the brother of the President of the United States, The inference which the country will draw from this Indian question is that President Grant has resolyed to sustain his brother and his brother’s agent, Mr. Delano, against the indignation of the country. Whether it isa fair or unfair inference it is not for us to say, but the country will make it. We do not charge Mr. Delano with having personally ‘engaged in these frauds. We have no evi- dence to justify that assertion. These frauds | have been committed trom the time of his accession to office. We must therefore say that be isa fool if he be ignorant of their | existence or a knave if he connives at them. Certainly a man who is either a fool or a knave has no place in the Cabinet of the President of the United States. The Bankers’ Convention. We fear it must be said that the recent Bankers’ Convention at Saratoga wos, like Mr. Toots’ declaration of love, ‘‘of no conse- quence.” A glance over the list of names tails to disclose the presence of any of the leading bankers of New York, Philadelphia or Boston, and the resolution of the meeting urging the repeal of the two cent check stamp | stows that the majority of the gentlomen who, took part in the Convention had thought more of their own convenience than of the neces- sary taxes. Pretty much everybody in the country knows that the tax collected from stamps 1s the cheapest and the least burden- | some on the whole tax list. But why should not the leading bankers of the country meet in convention and advise with each other on the condition of the cur- rency, the finances and the industrial prospect of the different sections? Such a meeting | could easily be made to have great importance. It would help to restore confidence and would thus aid industry: for the relations of the banks to the business community are so inti- mate that a comparison of views and experi- ence between bankers of the different States would give to all a most important knowledge of the real financial condition of the country and its different industries. Moreover, the bankers are vitally interested in the movements of the Secretary of the Treasury toward specie payments, and a meeting of the leading bankers of all parts of the country could, we believe, give important suggestions to Mr. Bristow, who has cer- tainly very great and somewhat indefinite powers under the Resumption act, and who would, we do not doubt, be very glad to hear the views of men whose interests must be im- mediately and greatly affected by his acta, and who have, necessarily, given much atten- tion to the financial future, Toleration in Spain. We learn by a despatch from Madrid that the Constitutional Committee have adopted, by a large vote, an article granting religious toleration in Spain. If we could feel that this vote were decisive of the question it would be a gain to civil and religious liberty throughout the world. In countries like Spain, where monarchical parties are in the ascendant, where they are strengthened by an established church, a standing army and a hereditary nobility, nothing is ever decided in the way of legislation that does not satisfy the claims of the monarchists and the Church. The disheartening aspect of these controversies is that they never can be decided without the destruction of one party or the other. The Catholic Church in Spain has always been aggressive, and at no time more so than since the accession of Prince Alfonso. That Prince came to the throne of his mother professing his desire to be a constitutional monarch like the Queen of England, and to reorganize Spain upon the English model. No sooner had he reached Madrid than all the ald reac- tionary and clerical influences swarmed around him. The army demanded the restoration of all the immunities of the old military system-—pensions, promotions, opportunities for plunder. The nobility insisted that the ancient rights belonging to their rank should be confirmed; that a grandee of Spain should be of as much consequence as he was in the time of Philip I The Ohurch was resolute in its demands. It insisted that the subven- tion formerly paid by the State to the priest- hood should be restored, and that it should be specie, and consequently we had the spec- tacle of a country like Spain, so poor that it had to borrow money at the highest rates of interest in every pawnbroker's shop of Europe, paying millions of dollars annually to sup- port Catholic priests. Not content with this, it was demanded that all religious beliefs but estant papers should not be published in Madrid; that the Protestant chapel should not be opened; that Spain was a truly Catho- lie country. In other words, the policy which expelled the Moors and persecuted the Jews in the time of Ferdinand and Philip was evoked in this nineteenth century. The new Prince has been anxious to concil- iate the powerful influence of the Church, He feels that the alienation of the Church from Amadeus and the Republic was among the causes of his downfall. He feels that any attempt to return to the policy that formerly governed Spain would be to untte against him the combined influence of enlightened Europe. This struggle has been bitter. It has continued with much ferocity. We have fears for the stability of the new monarchy publicly expressed. The clericals and the royalists threaten the new King that unless their demands are granted they will support Don Carlos. Carlism is no longer a local rebellion in Spain but a party with adherents in every part of the country. Don Carlos appeals to the royal and clerical senti- ment. He represents monarchy in the strictest sense, religion as taught by the ex- treme Catholic theologians, absolute royalty and an infallible faith. The concession of religious toleration by’ the present dynasty shows that liberalism in Spain is so potent that it can compel even from a king a recognition of the cardinal principles of liberal govern- ment. Ifthe Spaniards can succeed in estab- lishing real religious toleration they will accomplish a great work, ———-—_— — Chorpenning. There is only one fact that is certain and indisputable with regard to the Chorpenning claim, which is that we are not done with it yet. People who have claims are very apt to bore you for the last time when they get the money. There are exceptionally vital claims, it is true, that are not even killed off by pay- ment, but that are encouraged by it and re- turn next year under cover of a story that there was an error, and that the amount claimed should have been a great deal larger, Payment is, as a rule, however, fatal to claims; but their rejection, the refusal to pay, is their very breath of life, and the Chorpenning claim, that has skipped about this many o year in that sublime court of chance and chancery, the lobby of Congress, power of a kangaroo by the decision of the Attorney General that it cannot be paid ex- cept by act of Congress. The latest law point on this claim turned on the interpreta- tion of two measures relating to it that had gone through Congress, One referred it to | the Postmaster General, presumably with power; but behind this presumption that that authority lies the recognized principle that Congress has a power to step in at any stage and interrupt a course of proceedings it initiate them. Congress interrupted these proceedings at a most inconvenient point for the claims—that is, just before the paying began, So, then, the claim is on their hands with undiminished splendor, and Congress will meet next winter, Jessx Pomeroy.—No one can wisely claim intellectual insanity for the boy murderer, Jesse Pomeroy. Morally insane he may be, and in that misfortune resembles many great criminals, who, with perlect comprehension of sensible facts and of admitted principles of right and wrong, have an irresistible tendency to evil. But Pomeroy’s statement, which we | print to-day, shows that he is clever enough | to argue in favor of his own lunacy, and yet so clever that he only succeeds in proving himself technically sane, the Catholic should be prohibited; that Prot-. has just had intused into it the skipping | the case might be carried toa conclusion by | had initiated at least eqnal to its power to | —————————— TT The Hobby of Reform A very nice witness, and evidently a very useful young man, is Mr. Michael Nolan, at present Assistant District Attorney of the city and county of New York, under Mr. Phelps. From the testimony he has already given before the legislative committee now engaged in in- vestigating the affairs of Cast.e Garden it is clear that he is hiding his light under a bushel while employed in the dry and often unprofitable business of trying indictments for conspiracy, blackmailing, bribery and corruption, perjury and other eccentricities unsanctioned by the law. to which certain portions of the his . He should go to Washi vider field for his abilities. 4+ Oulu make an 6x- cellent successor of Boss Shepherd, or a place in the Cabinet would suit him, provided Bris- tow and Jewell and Pierrepont go to the wall in their fight against Delano. At all events, wherever he may go, he should go out of the office of the public prosecutor of the city and county of New York. Thatis mo place for Nolan, Nolan’s genius is of the precocious kind. At the early age of twenty-five he enlisted 4s 8 gallant soldier in the cause of reform Reform, he says, was in fact his “hobby” in the days when the mighty engine bearing that name rolled over the Tweed Ring, break- ing it into a thousand pieces and crush. ing each separate piece to powder. It may have been that the adventurous Nolan saw visions of new rings in the air as the engine noisily puffed forth its steam and smoke, At all events he rode his hobby te Albany, car- rying with him a bill to reduce the emigrant head money from two dollars and a halt to one dollar and a half. It was o very just measure, says Nolan, and went through on its merits. Bose Tweed, Alexander Frear, Larry O’Brien and other public spirited citizens then represente ing the city at Albany recognized it as @ good bill and supported it—on its merits, But the ship owners, who were to be saved from paying a dollar a head to the public treasury by its enactment, had agreed to pay reformer Nolan one quarter that sum if it be- came a law. It did become a Jaw, and Nolun, it is said, received over sixty thousand dollars for his services. This was certainly a liberal reward. But it was no more than an expert rider on the “hobby” of reform valued bim- self at about those days and no more than many other reform champions secured. And Nolan was sharp, too. ‘I had some one im troduce the bill for me,’’ says the artless Nolan to the committee; “I forget the man’s name now, but he was a country member. 1] preferred to have it introduced by a country member because I thought it would savor more of reform.’’ And Nolan succeeded. His country member, his arguments and the merits of the measure prevailed. Of course Nolan paid out no money at Albany—not 4 dollar. He was a “reformer.” 80 was hit country member. So were Boss Tweed, Aleck Frear, Larry O'Brien and the rest of — the friendly representatives. So was the bill. So were the newspapers that clamoref for the passage of this reform measure. Admirable Nolan—persuasive Nolan—reform Nolan! In justice to yourself let the people of New York persuade you to vacate an office so unworthy ot your remarkable talents as that of Assist ant District Attorney. You will do better without such an office, and it is just possible the office will do better without you. Ovr Evropean Ma, supplies the public with much tresh and interesting information relative to the recent floods in England, Switzerland and France. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, It 1s proposed to initiate in the Paris Geographt cal Congress an International Chamber of Com merce. Mme. Rique, am aeronaughty woman, wae thrown out of a balloon in a storm, July 7, bat caught by a rope and was able to regain her piace in the basket. Sir Edward Thornton has not yet left Washing ton for a summer sojourn elsewhere, he being de tained there to attend to a large number o claims before the United States and Mexicas Commission in bis capacity of umpire. It was for'a few days a great comiort to the re publican papers in Pi that the Empress Kugénle was going to pass her summer in Prus- sia, Dut now it 18 explained that the Baden she | goes tois in Argovia, Switzerland, and they are not happy. Hon. Wil'tam B. Lawton, of Warren, R. I, mem- ber of the Commission for Bullding the State Prisom in ‘hat State, was stricken with paraiysis on Satar: day in the street in Providence, and last even- ing remained speechless, but apparently improv. ing, at his home in Warren. % A certain pablisher In this city gets nis wife ta read the manuscripts of juvenile books offered to him to Nis littie daughter, and ifthe child enjoys the story he accepts it. He argues that his little girl has about the average child intelligence, an@ if a DOOK failed to please her it would not please other children. The idea is not a pad one. Lady Anne Blunt, granddaughter of Byron, pro- tests against the proposed monument to the poet in Huckral churcn. She says that when a piace in Westminster Abbey was refused to the poet bis family buried him where he lies and put over him & monument that satisfies their sense of respect for his remains, and they cannot comprenend that the public which refused him an illustrious tomb should now interiere with those who care jor the one his jamily gave. It was at Birmingham. “Dr, Kenealy addrossea the meeting. He referred to bia audience as tne lionlike men of Birmingham, and spoke of him seifas a middie aged lion whom they bad invited to see shake dewdrops from his mane. Here viewed at great length the conduct of the prose cution in the Tichborne trial, and said Mr Glad. stone dissvlved the Parliament of which he waa the head because he was afraid of tl it Which it was feared would follow the pj the verdict.” We have got some good iools over here also, but none that wonid stand that. Apropos to the promaed memoirs of Metternion, he is credited witn tuis observatioa, made tn nig old age:—“l have had to struggle against the greatest of soldiers, and to maintain harmony be- tween the emperors, ® czar, @ sultan, & pope, kings, prin d repudlics ; to untangle twenty times and t also court intrig but the thing that gave me most thread to unravel was « litte scoundrel of an itailan—thin, pale, un combed, sloven, but eloquent as a tempest, stormy a8 an apostle, cunning as a thief, ready at @ comedian and imdefatigavle as alover, .They called him Joseph Mazzint.” ‘Two members of the French Assembly lately fenced at one another at Longway for twenty- seven minutes, when one received a scraton in the arm and “the duel was names are given, but there was speech of Du Temple's, the baron havin) when a man talked that way he shonid be seat to the mud doctors, In tne Assembly General da Tomple, M. Prancheu and M, Gavardie sit togesner, They are called “the three musketeers of interes ruption.”