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6 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hznarp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hisrarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | Four cents per copy. | Our Imperial City and State. ‘The census enumerators are busy counting the inhabitants of the city and State. Thus far we have returns from two-thirds of the counties. ‘These returns embrace forty coun- ties and seventeen cities. They show, thus far,a population of 3,295,798—an increase upon the census of 1870 of ‘203,201. It is thought that the increase in population, all told, will advance the unit of legislative repre- sentation in the Assembly to thirty-five thou- sand, and in the Senate to one hundred and thirty-eight thousand, giving New York seven Senators and twenty-nine Assemblymen, In of population, but generally the population has largely increased, especially in Albany, the advance is only moderate. Woe see the progress of manufactures from New England | westward to New York in the case of towns like Cohoes, which, in five years, has advanced from 10,320 to 15,327, thus far outstripping towns that ten years ago were much ahead of | it. Rochester and Syracuse show a large in- crease. The gain is mainly nominal in Rochester, arising from the territories added to the city by annexation. New York gains | partly in this way on account of the annexa- a few counties like Chenango, Delaware, Liv- | well upon the lesson it teaches there is no | ingston and St. Lawrence, there is a decrease | reason why we should not enter upon the | mythological, yet enongh remains in history Buffalo and New York. In the interior towns | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET should come without delay. We need the Brooklyn Bridge so as to bind that magnifi- cent suburb closer and closer to the mother city. We need tunnels under the Hudson, so that the great railway lines of the South and West may come without pause into our city. We need a comprehensive system of ware- | houses and docks, so that we may give the commerce of the world an honest welcome. We should beautify New York so that every | American may take pride in itand come to it | for instruction and amusement. That Tam- | many business was a sad blow. If wo are as | citizens only true to ourselves and ponder second century of the Republic confident that every year will add to our greatness and make us more and more worthy of our me- tropolitan rank. M Morrissey and His Mission, “Banished from Rome! What's banished but set free from daily contact with the things I loathe ?” This inquiry was made by a gentleman whose politics were offensive to the General Committee in the famous city said to have seven hills, though if we know how to count there are at least a dozen. But the inquiry thus made from the standpoint of The Liberator of Germany. The civilization of the New World seems a thing of yesterday when we compare it with the culture of the Old World. Europe has created America, and this country is little more than the fine clay out of which the great souls of past times are, by their influence, moulding the statue of the future. America is what Europe has made it, yet it may be that in the future our achievements may become the model for the action of the Old World. To-day, in the 'Thuringian forest, near Detmold, the German nation will pay due honors to one of its earliest and noblest heroes. The name of Hermann is almost to show that when Rome had conquered nearly all of the world known to ‘imperial Casar,” the Germans produced a hero who repelled the tide of southern victory and vindicated the courage and patriotic spirit of his countrymen. This was Hermann, the hero whose deeds will be to-day commemo- rated by Germany after nearly nineteen cen- turies of comparative oblivion, ‘Phis was the man who, when Rome was supreme, justified the independence of his nation. To the classic historian of Rome all the German tribes were but barbarian ; but Hermann led his countrymen to victory and united them | PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. fon ithe ale ibe} pan | bet aD F | tion to the city proper of the lower districts Subscriptions and advertisements will be \ ot Woaiblinedar waicity. Bo fe wa asiacetie te | received and forwarded on the same terms | oon ccmod, enough is known to show that we as in New York. | have a population of at least eleven hundred a - | thousand souls, and most likely twelve hun- personal superiority was a ‘‘sockdolager,” the sturdy John would say, and it put the General Committee down. In- deed, the world recognized that that man was not so much banished from Rome as Rome against all the world, The history of this struggle, its national character and its personal results are else- where fully related, ‘Through the dim mists VOLUME XL 228 | “AMU | | Nos, 585 and 58’ GILMO) Inte Barnum's Hin CERT, at 8 P.M. ; close D POPULAR CON- | FIFTH AVENUE ATRE, Twenty-cizhth sireet, near Brondway.—LIVING TOO FAST and 4 BUNCH OF BERRIES, at 8 P.M. Vokes | ‘acaily. | CENTRAL PARK THEODORE THOMAS’ CO: RDEN. 1 ato P.M. | THIRD 4 Third avenue, between VARIETY, ats P. M. t streets. — West Sixteenth street. PRITSCHEN und CHILP’ Woop’s M Broadway, corner of Thirtieth st cloves at 10:49 P.M. Matin | | GRAND OPERA HOUSE, | Eighth avenue, corner Twenty-third street. —AROUND TOR, WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, at8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. TRIPLE SWEET. NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1875. THE HERALD FOR THH SUMMER RESORTS. 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Our | letters from Rome and Venice describe the | progress recently made in the culture of | silkworms and the prospects of that produc- | tion, and in the manufacture of glass, in | which the Queen of the Adriatic ks to | recover her ancient monopoly. The deserip- | | | tion of our correspondent is full of interest to the students of modern Tae Presment’s Proc . — President | Grant recently made a visit to the Sunday | School Assembly gathered on the borders of | Chautauqua Lake, at the request of his old pas- | dred thousand, In Brooklyn the return is | about five hundred thousand. So that the two | cities—two*in name, but one in fact—may be estimated in round numbers at seventeen hundred thousand. Now, if we add Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, the towns | on Staten Island, Long Island, in New Jersey | and on the Hudson, we have a population depending directly upon New’ York, doing business in this city and in all respects cit- izens of the metropolis, of more than two } millions. This is an interesting fact. The Republic | which came into being as an independent government a hundred years ago with a population of four millions has a metropolis numbering more than two millions. A cen- tury of national growth has expression in a capital almost as large as the capital of France. The small: struggling seaboard town which a century ago scarcely extended beyond Pearl street, which regarded Madison | Square as a far outlying suburb and the Central Park a wilderness almost as distant as the Adirondacks to-day, has grown to be a mighty city, queen of the continent and one of the chief cities of the world. The growth of New York—and we do not use the term as expressing the municipality known under that name, but the real New York which sur- rounds it and contributes to its prosperity— is a suggestive centennial fact and worthy of deep thought, especially when we look into the future and try to picture what this city may become. A hundred years ago, and New York did not possess her unchallenged supremacy. Philadelphia was the elder city end the national capital. Boston was ahead. Other cities—New Orleans, Baltimore, Charleston and Norfolk—were not without claims to future ascendancy. New York might easily have been surpassed in the race if the statesmen of other sections had been wise; for, while nature docs something to indicate a city, enterprise and foresight do much more. We boast of our bay as an ele- ment in our imperial growth; but there is a better bey at Fortress Monroe. Boston and Charleston and Portland have noble harbors, and there is none in the world to surpass the Chesapeal In a military point of view our | situation is exposed to the navies of any en- i terprising Power. The country immediately about New York is not especially rich in agricultural or mineral resources. We are | not, as a city, the growth of merely local ad- | vantages, like Birmingham or Newcastle or Philadelphia, but the growth of the country. New England, Illinois, Virginia, have all contributed as much to the rise of New York as the State itself or the neighboring State of Connecticut or New Jersey. The greatness of New York is therefore national. Whe city is metropolitan in the widest sense. Now that we are about to enter was banished from him. It has surprised us that Mr. Morrissey should not take a similar view of his relations to Tammany Hall and its pygmies. This has surprised us, as we simply reflected upon him in the character of aman with a mission—the mission, say, to put a good, big, semi-gigantic foot on a wriggling, squirming, snivelling mass of political petit larceny, and crush it out of sight. But when wesee the Tammany people through Mr. Morrissey’s spectacles we are more than ever surprised that he should take any other than this view of the case. How could a man congratulate himself too much upon the circumstances that relieved him of the company of Kelly, Wickham and the other little snarling, grovelling, haggling Tammany people? How could a pugnacious man be-tdo happy over an event that set his hands free to fight these rogues and hum- bugs? This is the point of view to which we particularly direct the attention of the champion. He knows these fellows. He has in full the spirit of the popular indig- nation at their antics, and he is the man to smite them, hip and thigh, with the jaw- bone of an ass orany handier weapon. Does he not see that the way is open for him to become the Bergh of our politics? People’s sensibilities are offended by the exhibition in | the streets of cruelty to animals, and they | set Bergh to stop all that. People are dis- gusted at the exhibition of the Tammany antics, and they would throw up their caps to see Morrissey “pull” that game. we | The Clergy of the City. The return of Messrs. Moody and Sankey has naturally increased the zeal of our pro- gressive clergymen. These gentlemen have carried the ‘‘war into Africa”—that is, they | have introduced the Gospel into England, and their foreign success has created a new | spirit of interestat home. All of our clergy- men have not returned from Long Branch, Saratoga, Newport, Cape May, Lake George and all the other places where their evan- gelical missions are so energetically urged, yet enough remain in the city to preserve | the average value of our metropolitan relig- ion. Among these faithfal watchmen we may record the Rev. Mr. Matthews, who yester- day preached upon the foolishness of the cross to those who do not believe in it, com- pared with its value to those who havo | faith in the sacrifice of which it is the emblem. ‘The Rev. Mr. Murray preached upon the im- possibility of fleeing from the Lord, an idea | which De Quincey has expressed in reference to the difficulty of escaping from the power of the Roman Cesars. A modern comparison might be made with considerable suggestive force. Providence is always the sure dete c- tive of crime, and emperors and democratic authorities are only its agents. General White preached upon the kingdom of God on | Germany. Rome is no longer the spiritual of time we fuintly discover the outlines of a heroic man, At atime when the outlaw or the rebel might take ‘the wings of the morn- ing” yet fly in vain from the outstretched arm of the all-compelling Casars, Hermann united the barbarian tribes of the Cheruskii and their allies triumphed over Caesar him- self. It was a fight for Fatherland. It was resistance against imperial aggression. The Germans, whom the Roman policy had endeavored either to conquer or disunite, were combined together by the genius of one man, who hurled their united force against the master of the world. The Romans were de- feated among the mountains of the German country. Vurus, their general, plunged upon his sword. Hermann triumphed, and in Rome Augustus Casar trembled in his pal- ace when he knew the Northmen were free, and cried in his anguish and terror, ‘‘Varus, Varus, give me back my legions!” The glimpse we have of this hero, whose deeds his countrymen celebrate to-day, is im- | perfect; but it is like the sun seen through deep clouds, obscured, it is true, yet not wholly concealed. The brightness of a com- manding soul bursts through the veil of time. Hermann was undoubtedly a born leader, and his mission was to unite the divided tribes of Germany. To-day his people may celebrate in ‘Lhuringian shades, and near the scene of his victories, his triumph over Rome, with all the more fervor because of the recent union of monarch of Germany, as she was of old its temporal ruler. The statue raised in honor of the hero who lived nearly two thousand years ago is consecrated also to the purpose of the people of to-day. Germany may well be proud of this event; but when Detmold and its neighborhood is thronged to-day let the people remember | that there is something more important than even the hero worship of the past. It is the idea of the future. Hermann fought for the independence of Germany and repelled Rome, The Germans of to-day, while they honor their traditional hero, should re- member that though they give him a statuo they should give freedom their hearts, Hermann united Germany, but who in this age proposes to unite her in the service of the people? Hero worship is of little good to a nation, unless the ancient fire kindles the modern purpose. But no celebra- tion such as that which will be held to-day near Detmold can be fruitless; for to recall | the heroism of the past is to prepare the way for the national triumphs of the future. Lynch Law Outrages. The Kentucky mob that took Jesse Wood- son from jail and lynched him will probably be punished by the judicial authorities of the State. These lynching outrages are by far too common in our Western States, and tend tor, and it is stated that through what is | Upon the second centary Rai should look claimed to be a “‘preconcerted accident” ho met | carefully upon the duties it imposes npon us. ex-Governor Fenton at a lunch table. Whether | The supremacy thus maintained is not be- this is the fitting prelude to the return of a certain prodigal hero feeding among the,} labor to maintain our greatness. husks, and at a time when a fat calf would be very acceptable, remains to be demon- strated. Axornrrn Vorce AGAINsT Ixriation.—Ex- | Governor Hoffman has given onr corre- spondent at Saratoga some valuable sugge tions concerning the political situation in general. He thinks there is no danger of the democratic party becoming the champion | of an inflation policy, yet considers that the | old issues of the war are replaced by ques- | tions of finance. Altogether he seems to be | convinced that the democratic party has o | grand career before it if its leaders make no | fatal mistakes. This is a warning to the democracy of Ohio. | A Srenx Case Is a Loxe Caase.—The | steam yacht Uruguay is suspected of having on board munitions of war for the Cubans. This report was conveyed to the authorities | at Washington, and an unsuccessful attempt was made to capture the vessel. The United | States government appears to have done all | in its power to determine the question, and | certainly Spain has no reason to complain that the present administration is in favor of the Cuban insurgents. The facts in the case of the Uruguay are elsewhere presented to the public. Mr. Bexcurr.—An immense audience gath- ered at the Twin Mountain House yesterday | to listen to Mr. Beecher on the occasion of | his second appearance in his summer pulpit. Indeed, #0 large have become his congrega- tions, it has been found necessary to abandon | the hotel parlors, and as the Plymouth pas- tor is not yet quite ready to follow the exam- ple of the great Wesley and take to the fields a mammoth tent is to be provided, capable | of holding twenty-five hundred people, in which the services will hereafter be held, Mr. Beecher preached one of his character- istic sermons, based upon the great cardinal idea which seems ever uppermost with him, that man’s righteousness finds its proper inanifestation in his relations to his fellow | j | yond challenge or discomfiture. We must We have not, with all our marvellous progress, grown | as rapidly in the last ten years as many of our sister cities. It is because we haye been | willing, asa city, to remain content with what we have done, to feel that our greatness is assured, and to allow the government to pass into the hands of the Tweeds and Sweenys, who robbed it at their will. We have been too busy amassing wealth and suc- ceeding in business to think of those higher duties of citizenship without which there could be no honest, healthy growth. Asa consequence, therefore, we have allowed the city to fall into decay and neglect. We per- mitted Tweed to rob it, and now we permit Green and his party to strangle it. The Sweeny policy-the policy, for in- stance, which governed the manage- | ment of the parka—would, if it had been honestly carried out, have made New York as noble and inviting as Paris. But there was no honesty about it. The city was plundered, Money was paid out in millions for work that was never done. Tho work that was done was of a shameful character, as may be seen by looking at any one of the avenues and streets which the Ring paved, ‘‘regardless of expense.” What New York needs is a policy worthy of her imperial rank. We want rapid transit first and above all things. We shall have paralysis or congestion otherwise. So long as we throw every obstacle in the way of the citizen going ftom his business to his home we cannot expect any desirable addition to our citizenship. We claim to be a manufac- turing city, but we almost drive our work- men away by making life hore nearly insup- portable. We are a commercial -city, and emulous of commercial distinction, but we have no real docks or piers, and we surround commerce with so many local and State re- strictions that it begins to shrivel and to pass | over to Boston and Portland and Baltimore. What we need in New York is a generous, wide, comprehensive policy, one worthy of other clergymen made able arguments in eloquent tribute to Messrs. Moody and San- earth, and Dr. Porteous, the Rev. Mr. | to bring the civilization of this country into Sabine, the Rev. Dr. Brann, the Rev. disrepute, In the case of Woodson there Mr. Ludlow, the Rev. Mr. Davis and | gooms to have been no good reason for the behalf of their respective doctrines. An bine hands of the proper authorities and was violent action of the mob. The man was in about to be tried by the proper tribunal for a key was paid by the Rev. Dr. Dowling, who seemed to anticipate that the wonderful suc- cess of these evangelists in Great Britain—a benighted region in religious matters—would be eclipsed by their influence at home. Altogether, the indications of a brilliant religious season this fall are very favorable, and we trust that the labors of our leading clergymen may have a perceptible effect upon the politicians, who are so peculiarly in need of their prayers. Rarmway Manacement.—A number of peo- ple very narrowly escaped death through an accident which occurred on the Southern Railway of Long Island. Owing to the bad condition of the road the engine of a passen- ger train jumped the track. The tender, bag- gage car and engine were eompletely wrecked, but by some good fortune the passengers escaped serious injury. As this is thie second accident on this road within five weeks, the public has a right to expect something to be done for its protection. Tho railway company evidently do not care much about the safety of the public, but surely the au- thorities ought to compel the railroad com- panies to keep their lines in proper working order or close them up. Warentno Prace Porrrics.—As indicated by our Long Branch correspondence, the Southern people are feeling a profound in- terest in the forthcoming Presidential elec- tion, and speculations upon the probable candidate of the democratic party, with whom, as they consider, all their hope lies, are very rife among ‘hem. It has always been o favorite idea of Southerners that, in a normal condition of affairs, the West is the natural ally of their section, as opposed to the Atlantic and New England States ; and that this fact is to be manifested in the forth- coming National Democratic Convention, the imperial metropolis. We need a steam Ela railway fram the Battery to Harlem. pod thia | seems to be gonorally believed hy them, crime, it is alleged, he had confessed. It is not pretended that there wes any danger of his escaping, and the only reason why the mob interfered was that they desired his im- mediate execution. Like a band of savages, they were thirsting for the blood of their prisoner, and were unwilling to wait until the formalities of the law could be carried out. Such a state of public feeling is dis- graceful to a community, and the excesses arising from it exercise on the public mind of the country a demoralizing influence, It is said that the most prominent men in Rutherford county were engaged in the latest lynching outrage. This is an additional reason why they should be punished, for it is to this class that we look for an example of obedience to the laws ; and if the intelligent and respectable classes set the laws at defi- ance, what can be expected from the mob? We hope, therefore, that the judicial authori- ties of the State will punish promptly and severely every one who can be shown to have aided or abetted the killing of Jesse Woodson. Tue O'Connen, Centenary CELEBRATION.— By a special favor we are enabled to present to the readers of the Heraup to-day the scholarly address which was to have been read by Lord O'Hagan on the occasion of the O'Connell Centenary celebration in Dublin, a duty which he was unable to perform, on account, as it has been said, of the illness of a member of his family; but, as very many believe, from prudential motives, The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Peter Paul MacSwiney, undertook to supply the place which was thus made vacant on the platform ; but, as ‘our readers have | becn already informed by cable, his lordship was not heard, and was forced to abandon the work, the municipal chief magistrate not being more fortunate than would have been the ex-Lord Chancellor, resulting in the control of the nomination, into requisition, and through this irrepressible agency the American people can read to-day of the great works which O'Connell accom- plished for the furtherance of the cause of universal freedom. We append some other news of events connected with the cele- bration, in which will be found an expla- nation and defence of the course which the Trish Nationalists pursued toward the Dublin committee and its arrangements. The President and the Indian Ques- | , Hon. Mr. William Welsh, of Philadelphia, is evidently determined to ‘push things” in his righteous war upon the Indian ring. He has written another letter to Professor Marsh, and for snap and cogency it ranks with its predecessors. Ina letter addressed to the President, which we published re- cently, Mr. Welsh makes a special refer- ence to the relations of the President to the Indian affairs. ‘I desire here,” says Mr. Welsh, addressing General Grant, ‘‘as before, to make my public acknowledgment of your merciful, prompt and effective aid rendered in the Indian service when you were at the head of the army and since you have become President, Every suggestion that I ever made to you was promptly responded to, save only the investigation of frauds allowed by your appointees, Even this lamentable trait I believe springs from a distorted virtue. Your protection of General Parker when he was convicted of misfeasanco or malfeasance as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and of those who now control that office, seems wholly unaccountable except on the hypothe- sis that love in you is blind.” ‘The writer of this letter to the President is a gentleman who was sclected by General Grant at the outset of his administration as one of his Board of Commissioners for Indian Affairs. He is a citizen of Philadelphia, of wealth, high social and business standing, and a prominent member of a Christian church, When the President entered upon his admin- istration his experience in the army taught him that the only way to solve the Indian problem was to intrust its management to honorable men. Mr. Welsh was selected as a member of the commission because of his high standing. We are recalling what is familiar to the mind of every one when we say that nothing that General Grant has done during his administration has given the sat- isfaction that arose out of his appointment of the Indian Commissioners. Mr. Welsh, therefore, in addressing the President, speaks of what he knows and with an authority which we cannot despiso. He does not accuse the President of corruption, but of allowing his friendships for special in- dividuals to interfere with the cold, stern administration of justice. In General Par- ker’s case it should be remembered that the President did remove the Commissioner, al- though he had been on his staff and wasa personal friend. General Grant, however, is not as austere as Brutus. One of the strong traits of his character is his devotion to his friends. But even this “devotion” the Presi- dent has never seriously permitted to interfere with his own interests. As soon as he discov- ered it interfered with his party interests and his own personal advancement he has aban- doned it. Our hope has been that he would see in the public distrust arising out of the management of the Indian affairs that he can no longer sustain the Secretary of the Interior and other subordinates without assuming before the country the responsibility of direct complicity with the frauds on the Indian | tribes. The case against Mr. Delano is a Very simple one. ‘The evidence is clear and cu- mulative. We do not see how the President can resist it. We have the reports of the old Board of Indian Commissioners, General Grant’s own appointments when he was ftesh in his office, and composed of men of | the highest respectability and standing. We have the reports of official committees of the | House of Representatives, showing by figure and narrative, in the most circumstantial manner, the existence of frauds and the man- ner in which they were committed. We have the investigation of the Hrraxp corre. spondents who went out into the Indian | country for the purpose of searching out these crimes, and who have given us not | ne ial ‘ merely their own observations as students of | “°coTded an bn y onal the question, but the reports of the Indians themselves. We have the statement of Pro- fessor Marsh, of Yale College, a distinguished scholar, who visited the Indian country on anerrand of science, and, seeing the frauds committed upon the Indians, made a report to the President in the interest of humanity and honesty. ‘The only answer that is made to these charges is that the President does not remove his secretaries when ‘under fire,” and that the President's Board of Com- missioners are Christian men, anxious to please the Christian public sentiment. President Grant cannot allow his affection for Mr. Delano or any sense of stubbornness or pride to interfere with a marked public duty. Already he has strengthened his ad- ministration by changes in his Cabinet. Bristow in place of Richardson, Pierrepont in place of Williams and Jewell in place of Creswell, have been eminently gratifying to the people, because they showed on the part of tho President a desire to respect public opinion. His best friends feel that in carry- ing Mr. Delano he carries a heavy burden. Mr. Delano is charged directly, by evidence that cannot be controverted or despised, with #80 managing a great and sacred trust that he brings dishonor upon the nation. No one believes or wants to believe that in any busi- ness like this of making money out of starv- ing Indian squaws the President of the United States has any part. No one believes or wants to believo that President Grant would not instantly remedy the corruptions in the Indian country if he was convinced of their existence. Consequently his support of Mr. Delano in the presence of these unex- plained charges of manifest and continued corruption will produce upon the country an impression more painful than it has re- ceived during the whole course of his admin- istration. Tae Warenina Praces.—We present for the entertainment of our readers to-day letters descriptive of life at the White Moun- tains, Newport and Atlantie City—places widely different in the nature of their at- tractions, and yet almost equa’ popular The orinting press, however, ad heen called | with the pleasure secker See | Charley Ross. Publio attention is once more to be called to the strange abduction of Charley Ross. Failing in their offorts to discover any trace of the lost boy, the police authorities have de- cided on bringing to trial Westervelt, who will be remembered as the brother-in-law of Mosher, one of the two burglars shot to death by the Van Brunts on Long Island. It is asserted that the police authorities of Phila- delphia have discovered new evidence impli- cating Westervelt in the abduction, and it is expected that the boy's place of conceal- ment will be discovered in the course of the trial. The belief is strongly entertained that Charley Ross is still alive, but is kept out of sight by Westervelt and his friends. In view of the desperate character of Mosher and his associate this theory does not recommend itself very strongly, but the police are right in not abandoning the search until they’ can satisfactorily clear up the boy’s fate. It isa reproach to the intelligence and energy of the American police that a crime like the ab- duction of Charley Ross should go unpun- ished, and if there is any good evidence con- necting the man Westervelt with the crime he ought to be punished to the utmost ex- tent of the law. The detection of the authors of the Charley Ross outrage at this time and their exemplary punishment would convey to the criminal classes the important lesson that, however cleverly executed their crimes may be, justice in the end is sure to over- take them. For this desirable object the police authorities should continue to exert all their energy and vigilance. Public at- tention has been so strongly directed toward this case, there have been so many strong: clews furnished by accident to the detectives, that a failure to discover and bring to justice the guilty parties and their associates must discredit the police in the eyes of the public and bring the administraton of the law into Tas Exrraprrion Laws wrra GurmMany.—~ The subject of the extradition laws between Germany and the United States will, it is said, ocenpy the attention of the Federal Council at an early day. Considerable delay and confusion are caused at preserit by the existence of a number of distinct treaties. with the minor German States. The abroga- tion of these treaties and the substitution of one general law applying to the German Empire would do much to facilitate public business; and, owing to the intimate rela- tions existing between a large portion of the population of this country and Germany, it is desirable that the international laws be- tween the two countries should be as clear and simple as possible. ‘ Tue Annivan of Messrs, Moody and Sankey has attracted a great deal of atten- tion, and we print to-day a résumé of their labors, with the opinions of a number of our leading clergymen upon the character and value of their religious work. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Belknap will go to Newport. Kalakaua is lecturing on temperance to his army. Secrotary Bristow will return to Washington to-more row. Whitohead’s “lish torpedo” is adopted in the German service. Captain Harnilton Perry, of the steamship Adriatic, is quartered at the St. Denis Hotel. Rogattas in Italy also, Rome has beaten Genoa and Turin in aboat made in England. Ethan Allen's little granddaughter is just 101 years old. Sho remembers her grandpop. Captain R. &. Harris, mariner, of England, says that “more new ehips are lost than old ones.” . Professor Edward H. Griffin, of Williams College, is osiding temporarily at the Everett House, Senator William A. Wallaeo, of Pennsylvania, is among the late arrivals at the St, Nicholas Hotel, Why dos not Kelly compel his man Wickham to re- move the Police Commissioners—or have they bought their safety? Only imagine the depravity! There are poople on Long Island who regard the philanthropic P. Cooper aa a nuisance, Wonderful democracy! Morrissey says the prima | Ties are “alla farce.’’ But then the results, you know, are very tragic. Mr. A. J, Cassatt, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, is at the Brovoort House, on the way to Saratoga, J. B. Lippincott & Co. have in press a book on China- mania, under tie title of “The Bric-a-Brac Hunter,” by Major H. Byng Hall. ¢ Socrotary Belknap arrived at Helena, Montana, Satar- day evening, from Yellowstone National Purk, and wae ‘The Pittsburg Commercial says:—“Thurman’s spinab column bas gone into quarantine,” That is a mistake, Thurman has no epinal colurnn.—Jnter-Ocean, It looks a little as if the Boston sculptor, who is to make Sumner’s monument, would have to go to Rome and get hints from some “common Italian workman.” Karl Ahlberg, a Swede, murdered a man in Louisiana to rob him of a hatful of advertisemerits printed to look like greenbacks, which the Swede thought a great treasure. An army order just issued seems to contemplate it as possible that the Indian agent would cheat the noble red man, Is this view approved at Washingtoa, or is it only the hostility of St. Louis? ‘These lines are proposed for insertion in a second edt- tion of Longfellow’s “Morituri Salutamus” :— And old Bill Allen, though with Adum born, Beil langhs pap Thorman wnd palo Death to scorn, And so, Wickham, that was ali gammon about your not being anybody’s man? Morrissey says you have not done a thing since you have been in office except by Kelly’s dictation, and we are inclined to believe that Morrissey knows, An artificial spouting bath of sulphur water of the game temperatare as the springs of Bollicame at Viterbo was prepared in the Vatican for the use of the Pope, who had the rheumatism, but who recovered before the bath was ready. It isa funny quarrel that agitates just now the lively city of Paris. The priests refuse to pray for the Ro- public, and the radicals are furious at the loss of these prayers, though, of course, they believe all praying | mere humbuggery. Edmond About is afraid that if they let the sea into the Desert of Sahara and keep it there Europe will lose the “warm equatorial winds” and become an Arctic wil- derness, Edmond will do well to examine that subject again and write on It later in life, Moody, the revivalist, stopped last night at the Mas- gasoit House, in Springfeld, Mass,, and goes to-day to his old home, Northfield, where ho will rest for two weeks, doing no preaching. He has partially prom- ised to begin work after that timo in Springfield. At last some ono is to be tried in Philadelphia for com- plicity in the abduction of Charley Ross, Nearly all the great failures of our police, a8 we now know, were not due to stupidity, but bribery; but their failure in this case was probably an exceptiou—a pure instance of nat- ural incapacity. Although we are not strong in our astronomy, we be-~ lieve the world rested on an elephant. and the elephant on @ tortoise, and the tortoise on—what? Thin air, was it? Our city politics seem to repeat it, Wickham reste on Kelly, Kelly rests on Green, and who shall say what Green: rests on? In Italy a travotler has got himself in trouble through owning @ too intelligent horse. This animal, whenevor any person was met or overtaken on their road, threw himself in the same #0 as to stop his progress, Some people handed out their purses at once; some produced pistols and opened fire, It is supposed his formor owner , was a coutleman of the road,