The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1875, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN. STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Heraup will be sent free of postage. 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 Yonr« Henan, : Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. : LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE 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. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. SUMMER GARDE! ome GRAND TOPULAR CON. at lt GILMOW jarnnm's Hippo at 8 P.M. ; close tthe FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Pema hth street ar Broadway,—A BUNCH OF atS P.M. Vokes Family. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAS: Toone ERT, at 8 P.M. tose se METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos, 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P.M. HALL, West Sixteenth stre: English O} LITSCHEN AND FRITSCHEN and CHILPERIC. a 9 PM. TIVOLI THEATRE, Bighth street.—VARIETY, at 5 P.M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, To Newspgauers anv THE Pubiic:— The New York Heravp runs a special train every Sunday during the season between | New York, Niagara Falls, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon and Richtield Springs, leav- ing New York at half-past two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at a quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay The Removal of the Police Commis. sioners Necessary to the Reorganiza- tion of the Department. Although a great work was accomplished in the destruction of the Tweed Ring, that movement, important as it was, has not yet resulted in any practical measures of reform. Indeed, the public service, in almost every department, has been growing worse instead of better. Most of the late Mayor Have- meyer's appointments were unfortunate, and corruption and disorganization are the com- mon attributes of every part of the munici- pality. There is no hope of a purer adminis- tration in the men who hold office, and there is no apparent desire on the part of our po- litical leaders to secure anything like real reform, Selfishness is at the bottom of every political measure, and all the political organizations in the city are _ managed with a view to the spoils. There, for instance, is the O’Creamer party, which has no other purpose than to get offices and patronage for the O’Creamers. In accord with it in this respect, if opposed to it in all others, is the O’Morrissey party, and both are in deadly hostility to the O'Wickhams | because the offices and the patronage are denied to the O’'Creamers and the O’Morris- seys. It is the purpose of all these political leaders not to serve the public, but to serve themselves. They contribute money to a campaign as they would invest it in a faro bank, and they expect it back, with a nice profit for themselves and their friends. A year ago John Morrissey gave forty thousand dollars for use in the elections, and now the whole burden of his complaint is that he cannot get it back, It matters nothing to men like these if the taxes are and every public interest suffers, so long as they can have their own way and are able to manage the city as a sort of private inherit- ance. The community, however, sees the subject in a different light, and groans under the misgovernment Which all of the political organizations unite in imposing upon the city. It is only in this misgovernment that the politicians are agreed, and, though they talk reform at all times and upon all ocea- sions, matters grow worse from day to day, while the future is almost as dark as the past. But gloomy and forbidding as the prospect is, we need not despairaltogether. There is, at least, one bit of blue sky in the overelonded firmament. One public servant has been found able and willing todo his duty. To the fearless purposes of this official our col- umns have already borne ample testimony. The interview with General William F. Smith, which we printed yesterday, was an excellent supplement to the Commissioner's remarkable speech in the Police Board on Saturday. In both cases General Smith spoke boldly and to+the point. Fitted by education and experience for the office he now fills, he has still further qualified him- self for the duties of his position by practical study of the police department and its operations. Many of the things he has learned are only what are apparent to all who have eyes, and were known to his colleagues increased Henraxp 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 Heratp office as early as possible. For further particulars see time table. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and clear, with possibly light rains after nightfall. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Herarp mailed to them, free of postage for $1 per month. Wau STREET Yesterpay.—Stocks were barely steady and business was dull. Gold sold at 113 5-8. Money was easy at late rates. Tue Story of the Nathan murder as told by the convict William Forrester is interest- ing enough, but it would be more valuable if it rested upon more respectable authority. Tue War 1s Eastern Evnorz.—The ma- jority of the reports from the Herzegovinian war have been favorable to the insurgents, and the probability of their success is con- firmed by our London despatches of yas- terday. Ovr Rrrtemen are being hospitably enter- tained in England, and visit Leicestershige to-day by invitation. This week they will | sail for home, where they are impatiently ex- | pected and are sure to be enthusiastically welcomed. Tue Cansmsts are likely to meet with another misfortune in the expected surren- der of the citadel ofSeo de Urgel. Still, it is better for the Don to be peaceably at war among the Pyrenees than to be wretchedly in power in Madrid. Take it altogether he is at least as comfortable as Alfonso. Rarw Transtr Piaxs.—Additional infor- mation is given to-day of the progress of the work of the Rapid Transit Commissioners, and we illustrate the subject with diagrams | of a number of interesting plans submitted by inventors and engineers, The Com- missioners have now received all the schemes they are prepared to consider, and will at once begin to study the question of routes, They are required by law to decide this question by September 8, and will then take up the different plans of construction. The selection of a railroad plan depends, of course, large ly upon the choice of a route, Tue Treasvny Tamrr.—An “example of what may be achieved by intelligent de- tectives has been furnished by the recovery of the funds stolen from the ‘Treasury and the arrest of the parties impli- cated in the theft. The police officers charged with this matter have displayed de- | tective skill of » high order. They have sat- isfactorily demonstrated that when the pnb- | lic possess detectives honestly bent on doing | their) duty the most skilful thieves must come to grief. There is no reason why we should not possess a police as efficient as England or France, and the reason that we do not is evidently because we allow unfit men to become members of the force. Not alone is the standard of character demanded of men entering the police force too low, but the habit of putting men at the head of the police force for political reasons rather than from special fitness for their posts, has hitherto proved fatal to its efli- ciency. as well as to the public. It is not for ascer- taining the truth that we give him the high credit we are willing to accord him. That he could hardly'fail to learn if he walks the streets of the metropolis and reads the news- papers. It is for his courage in speaking of what he knows that we respect him, and the community will honor him still more if he pushes his bold and policy to some practical result. Noman is more capa- ble of doing this than the new Commissioner. In the war he was a fighting soldier, and in peace he is proving himself an energetic and an honest public servant. Attacking the disease which is undermining and destroying the police system, he deduced the remedy from the organic causes of the disorder. “There is a bond among you, to some extent,” he said to his colleagues in the Police Board, “and I cannot fathom it.” Referring to the time President Matsell was Superintendent of Police, he declared that nothin expected from captains and subordi: the way of morals with such a Superin- tendent. His speech was a terrible arraign- ment of the Commissioners and the force, and his Innguage to the reporter of the Henaxp, with whom he subsequently con- versed, was not less fearless’ and ontspoken. General Smith was especially severe upon Mr. Disbecker’s notions of official morality, | and he was unreserved in declaring that not one-half of the disorganization and want of discipline in the police force has yet been told. It is a good sign when a Commissioner speaks with so much bravery and frankness of the public service, and we believe we may expect the best results from General Smith’s manliness and courage. less We cannot dismiss this subject without making some suggestions in regard to the duty of the Mayor and the Governor in this crisis, If Mr, Wickham was in earnest when he asked General Smith to go into the Police Board and try to intreduce something like displine and organization into the fo: must be especially anxions now to sustain the Commissioner upon whom he devolved so high | and importenta duty. The Mayor cannot overlook or disregard the charges and accu- sations of the | ce he Commissioner. They are | in themselves a suflicient warrant for the removal of the other members of the Board, and the Mayor should at once put them in shape for the | Governor's action, The sooner this course | is taken the better, especially as there is no | answer the inculpated Commissioners can make which ought to save them their places. If they were so much as able to defend them- selves there might be no justification for General Smith's treatment of his colleagues, In any event so determined an at only one of two results—it the removal of General or of the other Commiss' is no other alternative in Explanations of particular cas based ck ean must Smith ners, have end in himself There a crisis. and especially police stich 8, explanations upon | testimony, worthless. Every- body knows that a policeman’s oath is a thing of derision and scorn among honest are men. The Commissioners cannot expect to ¢ public condemnation or the judgment of their superiors upon any such uplea in the face of the corruption and degradation of the municipal police. Neither can they hope to save their offices by the counter accusations they bring against General Smith, His charges are to the point at issue and affect ese | Arkansas me | fiable measur | fonght on that line. the public service; theirs are the result of malice and disappointment. That General Smith should make a war upon his colleagues merely because they failed to make him President of the Board of Police is a story too absurd to be readily accepted as true, His ac- cusations are too direct and too much to the purpose to have sprung from any such mo- tive, the venerable Matsell to the contrary notwithstanding. The Commissioners can- not deny the disorganization of the police, and for this they must be held responsible. We have endured the evil of corrupt police eaptains and bru- tal subordinates too long already, and the only practical measure of reform is by the reorganization of the Board of Police Commissioners, It is time we gathered some of the real frnits of reform. The republicans and the ad- herents of the Committee of Seventy looked to Mayor Havemeyer for the beginning of the new epoch. Matsell, Voorhis and Disbecker in the Police Board are a singular commen- tary upon that expectation. By some strange fatality all his appointments turned to Dead | Sea fruit. After Mayor Wickham succeeded to the office Governor Tilden seemed to stand in the way of even necessary changes. The Mayor's charges against the Corporation Counsel and the Fire Commissioners re- mained unacted upon for months, and it was only yesterday that Mr. E. Delafield Smith was removed. At last, however, the work of sham reform seems ended and there is at least a beginning of a very important work. We hope it is only a be- ginning. The charges against the Fire Commissiontrs are next in order, and when these are disposed of the accusations of Gen- eral Smith against the Police Commissioners should be ready for action. Mayor Wickman must act in this matter at once and bring this important question to the attention of the Governor without delay. We can see no rea- son why Matsell, Voorhis and Disbecker should be in office twenty-four hours after the Mayor communicates the story of their incompetency to the Governor, and we look to both these officials for prompt and decisive measures. If the police force of this city is to be reformed at all it can only be by the reorganization of the Board of Police Com- missioners and the appointment of capable and intelligent men in the place of the pres- ent incapable and inefficient officials. This is what is demanded by the people of New York, and this is what we have a right to expect from Mayor Wickham and Governor Tilden. The Mountain Meadows Massacre. The trial of the Mormon Bishop, Lee, ac- cused of being one of the chief instigators of that act of wholesale assassination known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre, has at- tracted the attention of the whole country. All the ReSaave A of the trial have been strange. The jury Was composed largely of Mormons, and contained—so the telegraph | reported—several men who were relatives of The defendant endeavored to | the accused. throw the blame of the murders upon the Indians ; but achief asserts that Lee bribed the Indians to help in the killing, by the promise of clothing, guns and _ horses, and that the Indians had no_ per- sonal hostility against the emigrants. Some of the Mormon witnesses swore that they had lived near the Mountain Meadows a great many years and had never heard about the massacre. An effort was made to show that Brigham Young was not connected with the atrocity, but it is not known here whether he has been able to clear *his skirts entirely. Of the atrocity of the massacre there is no doubt. Many of its details have been known for years, nor has it ever been at- tempted to charge it upon the Indians, unin- stigated by white men. How far this trial and others which may follow it may fix the guilt upon the Mormon leaders at Salt Lake remains to be seen. The disagreement of the jury in the Lee case was expected, and settles nothing, except that it will be difficult to get justice done upon the actual mur- derers. Senator Morton in Ohio. The increasing popular disgust with the inflation platform of the blundering demo- crats in Ohio was shown on Saturday, when Senator Morton, a well known republican in- flationist, appeared in Ohio as the uriex- pected opponent of inflation, Mr, Morton has a quick eye for the set of public opinion, and his speech in Ohio may be taken as good evidence that the tide is setting against the swindling policy which Allen and Carey have so shamelessly advocated before the people of Ohio, and which the republican Kelley came over to that State to speak for also. It was natural for Mr. Morton to hoist the “bloody shirt” whenever he spoke. ‘That is what whist players would call his “strong suit.” It was said of his longest speech in the Senate last winter that it was only a con- tinuous shout of ‘murder! murder! mur- der!” He does not like the democratic party; for which we do not blame him, for it is a matter of taste, and he has a good many people with him in the dislike. But it is surprising that so shrewd a politician as he is does not see that the “bloody shirt” is no longer an effective exhibition. Since Poker Jack went back in security to live under the peaceful democratic rule in Arkansas the garment which he first hoisted has fallen into disrepute. Does Senator Morton really still believe that the Force bill and the were necessary or justi- Or does he imagine that the people's fears can any longer be played with as they have been? The next Presidential campaign cannot be It is time to reason to- gether, and the people are not going to be driven into the republican party next year by the exhibition of the rebel spectre. If the republicans mean to win they will have to show statesmanship ; they must produce a peace polic The war is over, Tue Onto Canvass.-The speech of Mr. Alphonso Taft at Marietta, Ohio, yesterday, is published elsewhere. He advocates hard money, and reviews the record of the demo- crats. n Gloncester, Mass., ‘lebrated a Revolutionary event England his- The naval victory won a century ago tory. is not the only example of patriotic zeal of which the town has reason to be proud. The Mystery of Wall Street. Those who remember the career of the eele- brated Barnum will recall the marvellous efficacy of his schemes for ‘interesting the public,” and, at the same time, building up his own personal fortunes. The story of the nurse of Washington, of the Fiji mermaid, and of the various contrivances of that cele- brated operator has been told by the trium- phant author of these experiments himself, and is now a part of the literature of the country. Weare reminded a good deal of what Barnum did so triumphantly twenty- five years ago when we see the exploits of another character, who, if he had only been in the museum of the distinguished show- man, might have been called the ‘What ‘Is It?” For the last few years there has been drifting through Wall street, through our money markets, through our polities and so- ciety a mysterious, shadowy, searcely defined influence, whose form is visible to the eyes of few, but whose name is upon every lip. In former days he was united in a blazing partnership with one of those peculiar, phos- phorescent characters which sometimes flash into prominence in America, only to fade away. His partnership came to a ter- rible end. Before the dissolution our “Wall street Mystery” was little more than the silent member of a noisy and obtrusive firm, eagerly craving notoriety, seeking the eye of the public in extraordinary tandem teams. Since the dissolution of this part- nership by the vanishing into night of the gaudy butterfly who for so long a period at- tracted the eye of the public the ‘Mystery of Wall street” has walked in darkness and silence, Atone time he had political am- bition. We saw him in Albany moving legislatures, controlling great corporations. Then we had him as the power behind the Judicial Bench, playing with judges as with marionettes, and afterward in open alliance with great leaders of the old Tammany Ring. His policy was then one of defiance ; he cared little for public opinion. Money was the only means of advancement, and so long as he made money he eared nothing for his fame. But recently the Mystery has adopted another policy. He isno longer anxious to be a power in Tammany Hall, or a manager of judicial marionettes; he no longer seeks dis- play; he ayoids sunshine; his ambition sweeps across the Continent; he will take possession of the great Pacific Rajlroad, built by the generosity of the public for the Atlantic and Pacifie States; he would become the arbiter of the journalism of the country by controlling the telegraph, and, therefore, indirectly controlling the press. From day to day he grows in strength and power, a shadowy influence, but appealing to the imagination of the people to such a degree that his very darkness is a source of strength, and operators in Wall street tremble before his nod as though he were a deity. One day, when he is ‘‘short,” he is a destroying angel; another, when he is “long,” he is an aveng- ing demon. He always carries a threat and a blight. A study of these phenomenal influences that now and then arise in our society is the best means of knowing upon what our gov- ernmental and social systems really rest. Every age has its phenomena, and the Wall street mystery belongs to ours. In the time of the East Indian conquest, when Hastings and Clive were founding the magnificent but | fragile power of England, in India, we had the nabob, the suddenly rich adventurer who returned home laden with the spoils of Hindoo princes, and who was seen in every comedy as the rich, ignorant upstart, of a seat in Parliament and marrying his daughter toa lord. In our own country we had the suddenly rich oil speculator, who floated about Saratoga. We had the Big Bonanza princes from California, who came decorated with quartz and precious stones. Then came the shoddy lords who germinated during the war, rich in the wealth that came from fraudulent contracts and rotten supplies. Our Mystery belongs to a new type. He speculates upon the imaginations of mankind. His aim is to deceive the world and to make deception barter and sale. Vested rights are nothing. The world is his oyster and he opens it with his sword. The lie of the morning is quoted in the stock list. Wherever we see the Mystery it is sur- rounded with a mist of lies that float about it like a miasma, poisoning business and sapping public credit, weakening private vir- tue, throwing distrust into all honest trade and dealing with business and industry and all honest, prudent effort, as the bandit who feels that society lives for him alone, and that he is free to plunder it with impunity. What is this Mystery of Wall street? Is it the real strength of a great intellect ora reputation gained by the means employed so effectually thirty years ago by Mr. Barnum— is it genius or quackery? Is the @Lystery a power ora name? Will it live a few days, advertised into wide prominence as the nurse of Washington was advertised, and then to be thrown aside among the old timber and wornout masks of the street, or are we really passing under the despotism of a financial character so great that its existence will be incompatible. with the freedom of a great people ? “ Blabbing.” We return, with pain, to the word ‘“blab- bing,” as applied by the World to Mr. Mor- rissey. The more we think of it the less we like it. ‘Blabbing” is, according to Web- ster, “telling indiscrectly what ought to be concealed.” Another definition, simpler, but still worse, is ‘tattling.” A “blab” is “one who betrays secrets,” a ‘babbler,” a “tell-tale.” To “blab” is to. ‘talk thought- lessly or withont discretion.” Do these definitions fit Mr. Morrissey? Is | he really a “tell-tale?” Has he been “tat- tling?” Is he a “babbler?” of one who was “avoided as a blab;” does any one perceive that Mr. Morrissey is in this category? open himself toa blab or babbler?” But a great many judicious public men have of late openetl themselves to Mr. Morrissey, Spenser speaks of one ‘that cannot hold his peace and blabbing tongue.” Is this appli- leaders at Saratoga? persuaded that Morrissey, like Moddle in Martin Chuzzlewit, has his mission, and in suffering from liver complaint and dreaming | Milton speaks | Byron asks, ‘for who will | cable to the great Ajax of the democratic | 'T NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1875—TIRIPLE SHEET “blab.” No; he is no such aman, He may seem to run around after reporters; he may appear no better than a leaky vessel; to the unreflecting he may appear incontinent of words, incapable of retaining secrets. But some day the World and the rest of mankind will find out what he meant. Thurlow Weed on the Masonic Order, It is singular that, after nearly fifty years of doubt, derision and finally of indifference, the questions involved in the disappearance of William Morgan should again command public attention. Mr, Thurlow Weed’s letter, which we published yesterday, reeapitulated the principal features of the event, as they Mr. | came within his personal knowledge, and to- day it is supplemented by another com- munication from him, in which additional facts are included. It is clear that Thurlow Weed has no doubt that Morgan was murdered, whatever may be the opinion as to the identity of the body found a year after his disappearance. The argument he makes is in answer to the as- sumption that Morgan could not have been murdered, because the Masons could have had no “adequate motive” for his assassina- tion. Mr. Weed says that no intention of kill- ing him existed in the minds of those who were connected with his abduction. He had been arrested on a charge of larceny in order to prevent the publication of his book, in which it was understood the secrets of Masonry would be revealed. He was imprisoned in Fort Niagara, and it was intended to convey him to the Far West, where he was to remain in charge of the Indians. Whether the Indians were Masons or not does not appear, but they were evidently, obedient to the wishes of the Order. But here the plan failed. The Canadian Masons refused to, assist in the affsir, and the captors of the apostate member were embarrassed. They could not banish Morgan and they could not keep him in Fort Niagara. According to Mr. Weed a few excited members of the Order determined to kill him, and did drown him in Lake Ontario. He says of these parties they were ‘‘all men of correct habits and good character, and all, I doubt not, were moved by an_ enthusiastic but most misguided sense of duty.” He says that both King and Whitney ‘would. have shrunk from the commission. of a known crime, and yet both, im- pelled by the delusive idea that they were discharging a duty, participated in the com- mission of the highest crime.” Finally, he says, “of all the persons connected with the abduction, arrest, imprisonment and subse- quent fate of Morgan, there was not one who did not possess and enjoy the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens.” Mr. Weed writes with judicial calmness, but his explanation and his tribute to the merit of the men who, according to his tes- timony, murdered William Morgan, only makes his statement more startling. Masonry must be a dangerous institution if it can thus destroy the sense of right and wrong in men of ‘correct habits and good charac- ter’—men who enjoyed ‘the respect and confidence of their fellow citizens.” A secret organization which has the effect of persuading worthy men that murder is some- times a duty is a greater danger to society than the worst vice. We do not believe that Masonry authorizes or practises this theory, yet Mr. Weed makes this accusation against the Order fifty years ago. His second letter is far more important and definite than his first, because it deals with the underlying principles of the event. Masonry permeates society, and to con- demn, it is to condemn the human race, Masons are everywhere. We may not, there- fore, assume that the Order has a new code of morals, and of crimes and of penalties, different from those which are reeognized and provided for by the law. But what we must believe—if we accept Mr. Weed's theory of the Morgan affair—is, that when seeret societies enter into po- litical disputes their immense influence is likely to be exercised in eyil ways. It is in the nature of things that this should be the result. It is the same when religion, which has all its true aims and ends in heaven, de- scends to battle for earthly prizes of power. We trust that as the Masonic interference With polities has long been a memory of the past, so religious interference with State af- fairs will never be a danger in our future. Atheism itself is but the negation of Prov- idence, but bigotry is the affirmation of that supreme insolence which substitutes the will of one man for the conscience of another. A Cure for Western Union’s Woes. Why are we always hearing of new tele- graph projects; of opposition to the Western Union Company; of a government tele- graph; of new lines and new companies, as that one which has just now been formed in California, and which has some backers, by the way, whom neither Jay Gould nor Mr, Orton, nor both combined, can frighten? Is it not because the present companies do not serve the public as well and as cheaply as the public ought to be served, and as it feels and capitalists feel it might be served? Year after year the Western Union Com- pany has bought up rivals and swallowed up otherand newer enterprises, It naw possesses an enormons capital, heavily watered, accord- ing to all accounts, and paying a handsome dividend on its stock, water and all. It is so large and important a concern that even Commodore Vanderbilt has for some time thonght it worth his attention, and has by his efforts added to the efficiency of the line, while of late we hear of another great opera- tor who is itching for its control. West- ern Union is, in fact, one of the speculative stocks; and like all enterprises which arrive at that stage it is beset on every hand with eager men anxious in some way to getashare in its profits, either by control- ling or helping to manipulate it, or by threat- | ening it with the interference of new lines, or by persuading the government to set up a postal telegraph. Now all this must cause a good deal of trouble and expense to the managers of the Western Union Company. 'o keep off the government they have to go | to Washington in the winter and give costly We should be sorry to think so, We are | dinners to influential men, To keep the field to themselves they must waste money in buying rival lines, and often blackmailing \ spite of his detractors we doubt if it is to lines, no doubt, In this and many other ways they anvo vo waste strength, ability and money, which it seems to us they might expend in a far more productive manner— namely, by making their service so really cheap, convenient and universal, as to dir tance and discourage all rivals. There is really no reason why the telegraph should not be the common medium of pri- vate correspondence; why men should not use the wires, not merely for business pur- poses, but for almost all the communications they have with friends; and no reason why almost the whole community should not ba tempted by cheapness, certainty and con- venience to this use, instead of only a small part ,as at present. If the managers of a great corporation like the Western Union should give all their ability to this problem, instead of frittering it away in other direo. tions, we believe they could solve it, and, so doing, they would not only serve the pub- lie but relieve themselves. Why can we not have a uniform yate—a rate which would be as well understood as the rate of postage? Nobody believes that it costs two dollars and a half, for instance, to send ten words from New York to San Francisco, or a dollar and a half to send it to St. Louis, Because people do not believe this they are asking for a postal telegraph, or planning new lines, Because Mr. Jay Gould does not believe thiq he thinks it would be a good thing to get con« trol of the line. What the managers need ta do is to drop every other thought than how they shall as rapidly as possible make themselves the people's cheap and rapid ser. vants. If they do this they have the field ta themselves. But if they do not—and they are a long way from it yet—they will get inta deeper trouble all the time; because the peow ple of this country have made up their minds to have electricity popularized. Mr. Orton is an extremely capable many Mr. Vanderbilt is one of those great capital. ists who can advantageously to the public be interested in a great work like this telegraph line, because he likes permanence, and ig satisfied with a moderate return for hit capital, Such men as these two can serve the public as it ought to be served. Their interest and that of the people are the same. It is different entirely with men like Mr. “Gould, who use great public works merely aa speculative footballs. Mayor Wicxuam has signed the individual pay warrants for the firemen, who will now be paid their salaries for July. At the same time he has written to Mr. Green ac cusing him of obstinately obstructing the natural movement of municipal government. The public will undoubtedly think that when he signed the warrants he did his duty, and that when he signed the letter to Green he bore witness to the truth. Tux Lasr Srrixe.—Fifteen thousand mill hands have made a “strike” at Fall River, Mass., and have not only embarrassed their employers, but themselves, Such an im- mense body of labor eannot be withdrawn from the market without serious and wide- spreading evil. Our correspondence forcix bly presents the facts. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Sefior Sagasta has gone from Spain to France, HC. Warmoth, of Louisiana, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Assemblyman F, W. Vosburgh, of Albany, is staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Surgeon Joseph H. Bill, United States Army, is quar. tered at the St, Denis Hotel. General George B. Wright, of Columbus, Ohio, has ar- rived at the Hoffman House. Rey. Dr. R. B. Fairbairn, of St. Stephen’s College, haw apartments at the St. James Hotel. Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, has taken up his residence at the St, Denis Hotel. Mr. John McCullough, the tragedian, is among the late arrivals at the Sturtevant Honse. Mr. Alexander G. Cattell, of New Jersey, 18 residing temporarily at th iholas Hotel, Rear Admiral Angustus 1. Case, United States Navy, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. John R. French, Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate, is stopping at the Fifth Avenne Hotel. Judge Seth Ames, of the Supreme Court of Massa chusetts, arrived last evening at the Westminster Hotel, Assistant Adjutant General Louis H. Pelonze and Cap- tain A. F, Rockwell, United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Brimstone is up. They have been trying petroleum @ good while, but it’s no go; and now the return to the old, reliable article has sent up the price, David Make-off—even though he spells it Maykoff—is not an unhappy name for the boy who ran away from @ conntry home to the eity wilderness at five years of age, What Morton is this who is delivering speeches out West against inflation? Any relation to the Mortom who argued last year that inflation, and inflation only, could save the country from ruin? Mr. K, Ballard Smith, managing editor of the Louis ville Courier-Journal, has acquired “a large interest" in the Evening Ledger of the same city, and will shortly, it is said, “make a newspaper of it.” Vienna contemplates with dismay the fact that the Sultan of Zanzibar's visit to London cost his hosts $35,000, and the impecunions city concludes that it does not care to see His Dusky Majesty. The Whitehall Times believes that it is better to be an unedneated man of brains than a highly cultured fool, and maybe it is; but every uneducated man must not fancy merely because he is uneducated that he is the fellow with the brains, The Boston News has an “ontrage” machine that wr turn off as neat a job in that line as any in the country, which it offers to sell, with a few second hand bloody shirts, greatly below first cost. Would exchange for basswood hams or a volume of the Congressional Globe. Dr. Birch, of the British Museum, unrolled a mummy of the period of the twenty-sixth dynasty, the property of the Duke of Sutherland, at Stafford House, July UA The body was that of a woman of advanced age and wag ina most perfect condition. The Duke has presented the mummy to the Museum of the College of Surgeons, Splendid examples for emulation are never wanting, and so simple aman as Jobn Kelly has now a fine op- portunity to imitate so sublime a person as the Sultan's Grand Vizier, It was evident in Constantinople that wages must be cut down, Just as here, and the tongh point of the problem was there, as here, who should be- gin it, Sothe Vizier bogan on his own pocket. He surren- dered $4 out of every $5 of his pay, and the others could not grumble. So we are sure that on the day when Kelly pays into the public treasury $4 out of every $5 he has drawn from it the reduction of pay will be received calmly by all others. Mr. Dion Boncteqult has arrived from San Francisco, and will sail on Wednesday for London. The inimitable actor and author delighted the Californians for 100 nights, first with his own personation bf the Shaughraun, and, second, with the play Which not only includes that admirable Irish character but many others which only need equal dramatic emphasis to that which Mr, Bouci- eault gives to become quite as popular and famous, Mr, Boncreault is almost as electrical a bond of union as the Atlantic cable; he unites the two continents with the sympathy of his pervading genins, and will soom repeat in London the triumphs of San Francisco and New York. We have only one seliish wish to express, and that js that the “Shanghrann’ may not be too suc. cessful in the English theatres, for we do not wish Mr, Boucicault to be persnaded to abandon his present pure pose of returning to America this fall, Seven citing fonght for Homer dead, but the capitals of Europe and America struggle for Boucicault while he lives. friends—who are the American. public—wish bim @ } Pleasant voyage and a speedy return,