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

NEW YORK HER ALD >| Bate ANN ” STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, BROADWAY AN DANN Fiera et eee NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yort Hexaxp will be | sent free of postage. —_——— ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatehes must be addressed New York — e Arnar. Letters and packages should be properly © j sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, ® a LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Jish Ope LITSCHEN AND ats P.M. Fs 514 Broadway.—V AE . Wwoop's MU: ™M, . corner of Thirtieth eet ry DUEL ON Wat? P.M. SU SLOCUM, ats P.M; closes at GRAND OPERA HOUSE, ighth avenue, corner Twenty-third street. YORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS haha M AROUND THE closes at 11 P.M. Nos. 586 and 581 Brondw HOWE & € Joot of Houston Ing performance. DARLY Twenty-third street and si MINSTRELS, at 8PM: *OLYMP Yo, 624 Brondway.—VARTETY, late Barnnm’'s Chir are 2ATRE, VARIETY, at 9 P, M. THEATRE, —BIG BONANZA. at Miss Sara Jewett, Mr. Rig- TIVOLT Eighth street, near Third ave FIFTH AV r. Twenty-eighth street, near Browdwn POM; closes at 3040 PM NN'S PARK THEATRE, M ar closes at 10:45' P.M. WAL Rroadway and Thirteenth « BOULOTTE, at 8 Macdermort, THEATRE, and Thirty frst streets.— HEET. AUGUST ‘ TRIPLE NEW YORK, SUNDAY, oe HERAW D FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, si Re TNE To Newspratrns anp tur Punric: The New Yor« Hb D runs a special train | every Sunday during the season between | New York, gara Falls, Saratoga, Lake | George, Sharon and Richfield 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 Scxpay Henatp, Newsdealers and others are noti- 2, 1875 By fied to send in their orders to the Henaxp | For further par- | office as early as possible. tieulars see time table. From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be clear in the | forenoon and afterirards cloudy and cool, with, possi Persons going ont of town for the summer can ly, areas of rain, have the daily and Sunday Henatp matted to | them, free of postage, for per month. Warn Steerer Yrstenpay..Stocks were firm. Gold declined from 113 1-2 to 113 3-8, Government bonds were firm. Money on call loans was quoted t 1 1-2 and 2 per cent. Tue Frencn Aunty, it is announced, on the | anthority of General De 3 ganized on a peace footing. What France most needs at this time is peace. Lone Branen bas accepted the resignation of that remarkable Chief of Police who defied a police justice the other day. of New York are anxions to accept the resig- nation of two or three Police Commissioners, and if Matsell had kept his promise we would be better off than Long Branch. axioms in this country are often agraced by abnses and eruelties of the most outrageous The Kings County Asylum, at Flatbush, seems to beno exception, the investigation closed yesterday revealed some shocking barbarities. Now let there a full and frank report and ample punishment. Lexatic 4 dis character, and be A Tenneie Stony or Came is that which is told of the Kn Ktux in Franklin and jamson counties in Mlinvis. For two archy and terror have reigned in the southern part of the State, and the authori- iiex were powerless to arrest criminals or to punish crime, At last the Inws are to be en- breed, and we trust the outlaws will be aught a sharp and severe lesson, Tux Amentean Tram reached this city last aight, pleased with their experiences and treatment abroad and delighted at the warmth of their reception at home. Some of the members of the team communicated | some interesting facts in regard to the shoot- ing at Dollymount, but the occasion was one of merriment re The formal recep ‘The : than philosophy. 1 takes place to-morrow, Caxau. Ixvestication shows great laxity in complying with the Jaws of the State in the letting of contracts, Mr. Rich- mond, formerly a State engineer, testified before the Governor's commission yesterday that uo special map was nsed for the work at Port Schnyler, the only one employed being the general map for the entive canal, It is plain that the laws were habitually disregarded by those whose dnty it was to comply with their requirements, and we trust the Canal Commission will expose all | religious, but political. is to be reor- | This is wise. | The people | which | fous Questions in maigectee Conference at Bonn, | The fact that the insurrection in Herze- ; govina is largely controlled by religious feel- | ing only goes to show that in our modern | European politics questions of religion are assuming more aud more importance. There | is searcely a day during the sessions of the great legislative bodies of the Continent when the relations of the Church and the State are not under careful and angry consid- | eration, It was only the other day that Mr. j Sacatane issued a new pamphlet, calling upon his countrymen to beware of the ad- | vance of the Roman power, Within a few , days we have had a qnestion addressed to | | the French Ministry as to the government's reasons for forbidding the circulation of this | pea ie in France. | have a little lull in these controversies, but it does not last very long. We are sure to | have an alloention from the Pope, or a threat from the German Chancellor, or a philippie from the late Prime | Minister of England. Even at home | find the echoes of these religions discussions. Now | In different parts of our country we have— | | what we thonght had died away with the last generation and the presence of which we | the revival of ! cannot too deeply deplore | religious animosities. ‘the Church and the governing parties in | different Envopean States are |“ measnring | | their strength, the various churches are also {| drawing together, It is not long since we | had a conference of Presbyterian delegates | in London, intended to unite in one harmo- nious organization every branch of that | Widely spreading and powerful Presbyterian | fold, We note also that a Catholic Congress | thas been amsemibled in France, and that an | American prelate preached a sermen to its members. In Ohio we have the religious terest in local polities, while in New York no one knows when it may not break ont again | during the life of the lite Archbishop Hughes. In the presence of this peenlior condition of affnirs it is interesting to read of the con- ference which has been held at Bonn between the English and American clergymen, in connection with the Old Catholic divines, under the leadership of the celebrated Dr. Déllinger. In were | about thirty En, cler- | gymen. ‘There archimandrites and bishops of the “Tm Chureh. The proceedings were opened dy an | address from Dr, Dillinger. In this address | the Doctor proposed that the English and | American and Greek churches, who eecept the Christian religion, shonld unite ‘on amn- tual recognition of primitive truth whieh may enable Church to admit other members of other communions to its priv- ileges.” does not propose an “actual fasion of ereed or ‘% sacrifice of national or | tional peentiarities of form.” The real | bond of ‘the proposed union will be | a this conference there and American also. ish wi each declaration of belief in the Chris- an doctrine and in religious observances as taught by the Bible and by the fathers of ancient Chureh.” The anticipation of the founders of this movement is that the Eng- lish Church and the evangelical churches in America and the Old Catholie fragment in | Enrope will unite upon some common basis. | How far the Eastern or Greek Church will | consent to this alliance isa question. The | the English Church is as wide on matters of | faith as between the Roman Catholic Church and the English Church. From political or other reasons there has always been an ani- | mosity between the Protestant churches in | England and America and the Roman Catho- | lie Church that never has been shown toward | the Eastern church It is not long since | tuons joy the marriage of the Duke of | Edinburgh to a Russian princess, raised in the Greek Church. There has always been an nnusnal feeling of courtesy between the prel- ates of the English Church and those of the Eastern Church. We presume that this arises n the fact that the Catholic Church is associated in the minds of the English with | the ferocions contests of the past, when the | old popes were struggling to retain their rule over Great Britain. This feeling is also in- tensified by the teachings of men as eminent as Mr. Gladstone, who insist that the Roman See is endeavoring to revive the strifes of the | past even to bloodshed. The tendency of Christian churches toward | union is a marked feature of this generation, | is a union between the bodies of all that religions denominations opposed to the power | of Rome. There is no reason why, upon the laid down by Dr. Dillinger, there sbonld not be an active monious relation between the Greek | Church and the English Chareh. Although the Presbyterians have protested in many ways against prelacy, and dislike the English Church as warmly as they do the Church of Tome, it is still possible that there might be found a common ground npon which even the fraternal relations with the Old Catholics and the Eastern Church. Dr, Dillinger proposes basis and Presbyterian cliurches would maintain ‘The declaration which “An unam- exposition of the substance of Chris- the namely, Lignons tian d ri Bible and the is brow » in practice as ght ley hers of the meient Church, enongh, we think, for Methodist and Episcopalian, for Old Catholies and Presby- terians, But at tho same time, looking at | the matter from a religions point of view, we do not see why there is not room enongh on this platform for the Roman Catholic Church also. If the proposed conference does not mean to interfere with the peculiar traditions of each Church, if the Baptist is to be allowed his doctrine Of immersion, the Presbyterian his Westminster Confession, | the Episcopalian his Thirty-nine Articles, the Old Catholic his belief in the sacrifice of the Mass, we see no reason why the Roman Catholic should not be allowed his peenliar tenets and be welcomed for his general acceptance of the doctrines of Christianity. We presume that the main difieulty in such an alliance is the dogma of infallibility prononneed by the recent Church Qouncil. The real difference between Dr. Dillinger and those who confer with him at Bonn and the Roman See is not It would require an and then we | we | i While.the leaders of | | question assnming a sndden and paintal in- | with an activity as intense as was shown | present several | In this confederation the Doctor | the | | difference between the Eastern Church and | | the English people welcomed with tumul- | from a communion which admitted the Greeks and the Episcopalians. Therefore | these alliances, these conferences, these pro- | posed unions, are only to be regarded in | their political aspect. The tremendous power of the Chureh of Rome is strengthened be- yond measure by the decree of the last Coun- cil, which makes the Pope absolute over his | Church and over the politieal allegiance of- | the Crown. This is the power these other churehes propose to unite against and fight. If they should suceeed in forming an alliance ' which would allow within it the representa- tives of the denominations who have assem- bled at Bonn it would be an event of tran- scendent importance not only in its effects upon the activity and power of the Christian denominations, but upon the political rela- tions of the Continent and the world. Law and. Justice. The English journals are discussing the sentence imposed upon Colonel Valentine That prodigious demagogne, Dr. Kenealy, | bronght the matter before Parliament and sentence, intimating that this arose from the fact that Colonel Baker had aristocratic eon- | nections and was betriended by people in | high places. The sentence, as our readers | ‘know, was a year's imprisonment without |hard labor and a fine of £500, This leonstant cry of “aristocracy and | | “aristocratic influence” is becoming | dangerous to English polities, We think | that in the ease of Colonel Baker there could | be nothing more unjust. concerned, its administration was prompt, impartial and edmirable, and the sentence, is the smallest part of the The Colonel has | Deen dismissed from the army, in whieh he held a high rank. He loses his commission, worth several thonsand dollars, as well as his | pay and all chances for promotion; he is dis- missed from all his clubs and is banished | from the society of which he was formerly an ornament. His life practically comes to an _ end so faras England is concerned. He is | thrown npon the rocks asa broken, worthless | wreck, tortured by the remembrance of the | splendor that once surrounded him and by a sense ofthe honors he might yet have obtained. , We do not know any sentence more terrible | than this. It is the purest quackery for the demagogues of London to complain of it as | an evidence of misapplied justice. | ff severe as it wa Colonel's punishment. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Prayer and Bible reading do or should go together and in the worship of every well regn- | pleasing duty ‘fo-day to present the first | named subject to his congregation, and of Mr. Taylor to point out how we should use | our Bibles and wherein we fail to do so now. | The trne and the false in religion and | science will receive consideration by Mr. soutrel, who will give his hearers signs and | tests by which they can readily distinguish other they may attain to the beauty of holi- ness as it shall be presented by Mr. Light- bourn, oras it is portrayed by Paul. Mr. Clarke will tell us in an unsentimental way what he knows about sentiment and sentimentalism, and Mr. Hale will give synopsis of the legal aspects |of the work done by the Tempe- | rance Brotherhood of Brooklyn. Thespecu- | lators in morals and science will be at work | also giving us their views on secret and in- | visible things. Mr. Wiggin will speculate | on the weight of the human soul, as if that | a matter of much importance; Mr. | Fowler will speculate also on the primitive actualities of existence and its law of geno- were | rative wellbeing, angelic and carnal, Dr. White will bring to the front the good of Spiritualism, if there be any such element as goodness in it, which, judged by ‘its results up to this time, may well be doubted. But the speculators as well as the evangelicals stand side by side in this great city, bidding | for the masses who refuse to enter the halls or churches of either, but go on in their own way gratifying their own spiritual, intellee- tual or carnal desires without reference to either. The moral teachers must bid higher before they can gain the ears and the hearts of the masses. | | Hard Money Candidates, | | | | 1 A German journal--the Chicago Staats Zeitung —onnounces that it will support Gen- eral Grant on ahard money platform against any candidate who favors inflation or rag money. All right. But General Grant is not the only possible hard money candidate, There is Mr. Washburne, who has lived among hard money Frenchmen so long now that he would, undoubtglly, favor a hard money platform, The Vice President also would fit well on a hard money platform. Governor Morgan would prefer hard to soft money. Mr. Blaine has not been very zenl- ons in that direction, but he would aecept hard money if he were asked, we suppose. All these are repnblicans. Then there are among the democrats Senator Bayard, Gov- | ernor Tilden, Mr. Groesbeck and doubtless | thers, who are hard money men, and would stand on no other than a hard money plat- { form. Finally, there is Charles Francis Adams, who is an independent hard money | man. lave cand $s enough, and very able men at that, in both parties. Mord money is not the hard money not be in a hurry to hoist General Grant to | the masthead. going a begging; Mayon Wicknam seems as slow treatment of Mr. Townsend's charges against | the den was in the disposition of the Police Commissioners as Governor Til- of Cor- What he should have done was to cite the a d Commi: sioners before him withont an hour's delay, for it is his duty to prefer the charges to the Governor if he thinks they onght to be re- moved, They have the right to be heard in their defence, and this being the ease time enough will be lost without any judicial con- sideration of Mr, from the poration Counsel Smith, Townsend's charges apart The people demand the immediate reorganization of the Commission, and for this it ought to answers of the Commissioners, members of his Chureh to State and | Baker, of the English army, for an assault | upon a young lady travelling in a railway car. | censured the Judge for the leniency of his | So far as the law is | It will be Mr. Maskell's | the true from the false, and so discarding the | one and seeking after and holding fast to the | while | On the whole the hard moneyanen | men need | in his | Sammer Living. | places as to the management of the hotels, | ‘There seems to be a desire on the part of the hotel keeper to build huge caravansaries, | is to have one or twothousand guests around | his table, over which he presides like a | colonel over a regiment. We have no doubt that in a thriving midsummer time, when | people go to watering places, a large hotel is | sure to make a great deal of money. The system is not caleulated to promote the com- | fort of tho people, Hotels with five hundred | | ora thousand guests are sure to have within | the number all kinds of characters—good, | bad and indifferent. Nor can any discipline, | no matter how perfect, manage a hotel of this magnitude with dne regard to the rights | | of all the guests. The waiters will become | careless, the cooks will be indifferent, the | meals will be tumbled on the table in every condition, the proprietors will become care- less of the complaints of their guests ; if ten go away hundreds will remain, They eal- culate upon the indifference of the American character —its general carelessnesgabout the | comforts of lite. The result is thafwhen the ‘ summer is over the citizen who has gone off | for a few weeks to find health in the moun- tains or at the seaside returns at the first flush of a cold breeze, glad to get home again, and thinking only of the discomforts | of his summer life with horror. What we want at our watering places—at Saratoga and Long Branch and elsewhere— are small hotels, well kept, moderate in their appointments, condneted more upon the French than the American plan. Instead of bills of fare burdened with badly cooked dishes which few care to eat, how much better to furnish a simple table 7 héte, a plain, good dinner, well cooked, as we find it in the | hotels of Europe. Ninety-nine out of a hun- | dred would much prefer to sit down to a table | White and take their chance of enjoying it than to wade through an American bill of fare and | select their meals from a hundred dishes. At | | small hotels a better guard can be kept over | the character of the guests. Parents who | have growing children hesitate before turning | them loose in vast hotel parlors, where they | may form associations that will remain with | them through life. Hotel life lacks that re- serve which belongs to our best modern so- | ciety. This whole question of how to spend | the summer isa new one. Every year we learn more and more. In afew years we | shall see an end of these tremendons, vast, uncomfortable barracks which we find at Saratoga and Long Branch. We shall have a | series of small, well kept hotels, reminding | us of the inns in Germany and France, and | where every necessary comfort may be ob- | | | tained at a reasonable ¢ Beware! Tramps, From the rural districts is reported the odd mishap of a common tramp. He went to | church; but, possessed of the perverse genius of tramps, he did not go in the ordimary way, when the doors were open and the bells ring- ing and the sun shining, and while the mot- company of Sunday citizens gossiped in the vestibule. Perhaps he was modest, and | thonght that in the condition of his wardrobe he would not cut a happy figure in such a scene. So he chose the obscurity of the night. At that time the doors were shy and | the windows, but a really pious man is not prevented by such obstacles. There was a flue open, and he went in by the flue. But the flue, not contrived for the entry of the | congregation, proved an extraordinarily de- vious route. Inasmuch, however, as it is ree- ognized that the long and narrow way is the right one, the tramp wriggled forward with as much’ energy as that famous tramp whose | experiences were recorded by Bunyan, the tinker. But Bunyan’s hero never got into a flug and the man who did found it harder than any of the known ways over Jordan. He consequently decided to give it up. Alas ! he then discovered that ‘‘returning were as tedious as to go o’er’—nay, that to re- turn was impossible. It is said that the fine was in the form of the letter Z, and, of course, the turns were too sharp. What can be done by a Christian in a flue in the form of the letter Z, who con neither go forward nor return? It is evident that he must raise the voice of lamentation and alarm; and this was done so effectually that the people came | and cut the tramp out of the fine. Our pur- pose in restating this adventure is that some person may communicate it to that sturdy political tramp Kelley, of Pennsylvania. Kelley has his eyes on the temple of repub- lican glory, and we suspect that he means to get in by way of the financial flue, if he, finds it open. We warn this adventurer that the shape of the letter Z is a straight line by | comparison with the actnal form of that fine; and, furthermore, that in the ease of any accident the fine will be considered of more consequence than the tramp. Nobody will cut the flne to help Kelley, but Kelley will be torn out piecemeal to relieve ene fine, A New Srep in Jounnanism. — “The Evening Telegram of yesterday was issued at ten o'clock in the morning, containing a special cable despatch giving a full account of the London money market at one o'clock on the same day. This our afternoon contemporary is able to do becanse of the difference in time between London and New York. It is a dis- tinct feature of the pr ss of modern jour- nalism, We should think that a report of | this kind, gathered by accurate correspond. ents, and in the hands of every merchant be- fore he begins busi siness, would be invaluable. It will especially prevent any attempt to change the price of stocks for gambling pur- | poses, as has so frequently been done with the other reports. It will, furthermore, give tor two cents—the price of the Telegram—-the | same news which is furhished by private news companies to subscribers at a very | lorge rate of subscription per annum. Thus | stop by step the press supersedes the old monopolies. | | Rapp Transit in New York i is constantly | beset by difficulties, The latest problem is whether the Commission must do more than We. have a great many complaints this sum- | energetic work on the part of the Comiuic- mer from citizens at the large watering | Sioners will enable them to accomplish it, each hotel a city in itself, vast, straggling, | | incommodi bition « odious, The hotel keeper's ambition | ficen, iia Vanbbetiiug asiiaituient “of ihe | _ to infer that it has been rnnning down, owing | by an association, and Mr. Beecher will con- | censurable for their reckless disregard of | for the comfort of the peoplo so long as they | name the ronte within the sixty days allowed | by Jaw, or, failing in this, whether it can per- petnate its functions by the appointment of another commission? Neither of these qnes- the mismanagement of which the officials | acute theologian to show any religions reason | be the purpose of the Mayor and the Gove | tions ought to arise, The way to give us have been guilty. for the absence of the Roman Catholic divines e; | ernor to provide, ravid transit is to settle the whole issue NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, _1875.—TRIPLE | SHEET. Si A Sumer RAR Nr IAI that area en de RIC SEE OCS within the time rquived by the statute, and Points of the’ Religious Press. As one of the results of the recent failure of J. B. Ford & Co, this week's Christian Union announces the retirement of the firm | paper, In their résumé of labor as publish- ers of the paper Messrs. Ford & Co. tell us that in six months after they took charge of | it the cirenlation ran np from 300 actual sub- seribers to 10,000, and the end of their first ear saw them with a subscription list of 00 names, From this point it ran up to 000 in 1872, and after that they leave us 72, to the panie and the hard times, The | Christian Union will henceforth be published | tinue to be its editor, while Messrs. Ford & Co, will attend to their book publishing in- | terests exqlusively. They credit their snecess with the Union to the chromo prize business, which they were the first to introduce here, but which has since become a common | feature of religions journalism, The Observer calls wpon its readers to offer up prayers for the success of Messrs. Moody and Sankey’s ministry here in the fall, Their success here or in Great Britain, the Observer thinks, cannot be accounted for on the ordi- | nary grounds of hnman reasoning, but must be accepted according to our faith in the / promises of God. It knows of no reason why we should not ask and expect even a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit than has been | witnessed in Edinburgh or Belfast or Dublin | or Liverpool or Manchester or London. The Lord's hand is not shortened. His ear is not heavy. Tle is still able and willing to save. The Jndependent, on treating the same subject, expects the coming fall and winter to be a senson of great awakening, and it calls upon the churehes and the Christian community to give their hearty co-operation and prayer to the evangelists, so that the coming season may be a memorable one in the history of the Chureh of Christ in America. Moody and Sankey want God's work revived and souls converted, not through them, but through the faithfulness of all the churches, and they will not expect a blessing when the blessing has not already begun before their coming. The Christian al Work extends a hearty wel- come home to the evangelists and prays for them glorious liberty in whatever work is be- fore them here and « mighty harvest of souls for their reward at the last day. ‘The Hermann celebration very naturally attracts the attention of the Jewish Times, which gives a historical sketch of the efforts of the Germans in all ages for religious liberty. The present sturdy opposition of Bismarck to the Pope, the Times thinks, is a part of the contest begun more than eighteen centuries ago, and projected through the | ages to the present. And as in the Hermann celebration the civilized world has a share, so also has it an interest in the contest now going on between the State and the Church in Germany. The Jevrish Messenger wants an international Jewish congress held here next year, so that some plan for the union and co- operation of Israelites in America and throughout the world may be agreed upon. It thinks that the progress of religious and civil liberty, especially with reference to Jews, should be fittingly commemorated with our Centennial jubilee. Excursion Perils, The Coroner's jury of Brooklyn have re- turned a verdict in the case of Krummeyer, who was crowded off the steamer William | Cook on Sunday, to the effect that “the owners or lessees of the William Cook are human life in loading their boat beyond its capacity and also for not providing for the better security of passengers in the event of accidents.” It appeared in evidence’ that when Krummeyer was crowded off the vessel she had twenty-five hundred persons on board, and that the passengers were obliged to stand outside of the railing. We believe | the law limits this vessel to five hundred passengers, so that we had a flagrant viola- tion of law which resulted in the death of | one citizen. This shameless habit may at some future day, if not amended, lead to a terrible calamity. This whole business of steamer excursions should be submitted to the severest discipline. Sunday is a favorite day for excursions during the summer. On this day of rest to so many thousands of our laboring poor | nothing is more natural than that the hard | working man, with bis wife and children, | should seek a few hoursat the seashore or in the forest. Instead of ministering to this desire in a legitimate, prndent manner, our boat owners and boat lessees are reckless, avaricions, careless. Last Sunday there was a race between the Long Branch boat and the | Staten Island ferryboat ‘that frightened | women and children and came upon the verge of a terrible accident. The William Cook ran into Rockaway, burdened to the water's edge, with two thousand five hundred | people. What excuse could there be if this vessel had met*withan accident and had gone down with the hundreds of souls on board | and no possible means of saving them? Now that public opinion is awakened we trust that our authorities will not pause until they have remedied it altogether and made an example of the boat owners, who care nothing | make large sums of mon Tae Cession or tHe Brack Hirt is just now a qnestion of grent interest, and the Grand Conncil for the consideration of the | question mects at the Red Cloud Ageney on the Ist of September, It is to be hoped that the whole matter will be satisfactorily ar- | ranged, Jn the meantime a miner named | John Gordon is endeavoring to have the | right of entry into the country sanctioned by the courts, and for this pnxpose has brought an action for false imprisonment against General Ruggles, by whom he was arrested, ey. Tue Avovst Merrrixa at Saratoga closed | yesterday, the races having proved unusn- | ally snecessful, both in attendance and sport. A spirited four-mile dash between two | horses, which was so well contested that the | race was won only by a length, was the chief feature of the ‘losing day. The Saratoga ; tion where Michelet, the historian, shall be buried. | not tro, | and other grent rrvers has been not races now seom to be thoroughly established, and the meetings at Jerome and Monmouth parks, which precede and follow them, are an earnest that the American turf is to be well maintained for many years. The Place of the Demooratte Conven- tion. Governor Tilden is a gentleman of so muck character and has so many genuine titles te respect that it does not become him, even in small matters, to practise the shams or resort to the cant of those pests of politics who be- long to the genns demagogue. His talk with néwspaper reporters since the call of the Convention at Syracuse about “bearding the Canal Ring lions in their den,” and about “marching boldly into the camp of the en- emy” docs not befit a statesman who stands so justly high in the confidence of the peo- ple. ‘To those who know the facts such utterances will seem too nearly akin to the small arts and boastful bravado of vulgar politicians. The truth is that Governor Til- den wished the Convention to be held at Saratoga, and was strongly set in favor of | that logation up to the night preceding the meeting of the State Committee, sented to the change on the He con- strong | representations of Mr. John Kelly, who had come,up from New York with his Tammany quene full of his hot quarrel with Mr. John Morrissey, who was not dead, although the Tammany chief had taken his political sealp and carried it bleeding in his belt. He found that Mr. Morrissey and Governor Til- den were in perfect accord in desiting the Convention to be held at Saratoga,. For the purpose of humiliating and cireumventing Morrissey he insisted that Syracuse should be the place, and when he had persuaded several others Governor Tilden yielded. This is the true history of that small affair, It was of no real importance whether Sara- toga or Syracuse was selected, because the action of the Convention will be controlled by phi sent from all parts of the State, who will be too strongly in favor of Governor Tilden’s policy to Wp influenced by local out- side pressure. The Governor should be content with his solid strength, without at- tempting to fortify it by disingenuous yaporing. ‘The master of long fange shotted cannon should disdain to explode Chinese firecrackers in the face of his foes. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Peter H. Watson ia staying at the Grand Hotel. Paymaster Robert D. Clarke, United States Army, is quartered at the Windsor Hotel, Professor Edward H, Grifin, of Williams College, ia sojourning at the Everett House, Governor James B. Groome, of Maryland, is residing temporarily at the New York Hotel. Mr. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, arrived in this city il isat the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ral Thomas J, Haines, United « Army, is registered at the St. James Hotel. Mr. L. W. Humphrey, President of the Atlantic and rth Carolina Railroad Company, is stopping at the und Central Hotel, Jet! Davis has evidently got something on his mind about agriculture, and he intends to say itata falrin Tennesse. No sour apple trees there, Governor Tilden has appointed Dr. William Noble, of Albion, to be Coroner for the county of Orleans, tn place B. Botsford, removed from the State, alk, youngest brother of the famous pianist, will join the Camilla Urso troupe in this country next season, He is said to be a remarkably fine basso. The London Standard thinks that “history will say that Andrew Johnson was the one great man who ap- peared upon the Northern side during the progress of the war of separation.” Matsell calls the charges against him the mouso that the monntain brought forth. He could not have conceived that the tremendous ease against him should have been simmered to that, Miss Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper, daughter of the novelist, is at the head ofan orphanage on Otsego Lake, near Cooperstown. She devotes her life to the support and training of the inmates. Engineer Richmond thought that all the law required in the canal contracts was that the functionary whe acted on them shoald look at a map—any map would do; and, of course, they had an atlas in the office. Indifference to duty, ineapacity to perform it prop- erly, and culpable complicity with corrupt schemes and evasions and violations of the law—these are the points of the case against the Police Commissioners, and ta load the case with irrelevant trivialities is to weaken it, The Washington Chronicte points out that the assas- sination of State Senator Johnson, of Florida, gives the democracy two majority in the Senate, It was not what is called a political murder, bat it was one of those strange disponsations of Providence favoring the democratic party by crimes committed. oe, of Vormont, having been charged with failing to account for about $250,000 of the money that passed through his hands during the war, when he was State Trensurer, at his request John A. Page, the present Treasurer, has thoroughly examine his accounts and pronounces them wholly correct. What relation is John A, to the other? : Ono of the Paris courts is engaged in trying the qués- He died at Hy ‘sin the Mediterranean and was interred there, His wife wishes to bring his remains to a family | tomb in Pere Ia Chaise, and other relatives wish to leave the body where it is, Each claims for its own view the authority of a will, and the Court is called upon te decide. | It is proposed to have critics determine in their ob servations on plays who owns them and who has the right toy Rut if'a French novelist writes # story onda ‘h dramatist makes a play of it and an ish dramatist makes a play of that play, and then tan edition for this city, and then some “literary does to him asx he has done to othors, it will be diffientt. Perhaps the managers will furnish ag abstract of title, tis hinted that the President when he travels ex- pensively breakiasts in hotels, We do hope that it is We should be loath to believe that the héad of the nation had so far sunk himself in profligacy as to pay $1 each for meals at a public table when he might take a large i cold snack in his pocket, upon leay- ing home, to last him the length of any of his journeys. This hotel story is probably one of the wicked inven lying opposition, —Jnter-Ovean, overnor Groome, of M nd, who was a candé for Governor before the lite Democratic Conven. tion, and very reluctantly withdrew in favor of John rroll, will soon be made President of the Chesa- eund Obio Canal, ata salary of $10,000 per year, on Furthermore, he has a promise of aseatin the United States Senate four years from now, The republicang ch that the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Ring con- trolled the Conyention, and that Governor Groome had his 0, ‘Tho Marquis d’Harcourt, tho new French Ambassador at London, is by birth _ Englishman. His mother was an Englishwoman, Mr, Harcourt, the owner of property in’ Sussex. Marquis came here during the tirst Freneh revolution, and be naturalized British subject and served m the army. His eldest brother always lived in England. was page of honor to George IIL,, served in the e and Guards, inherited the estates near Windsor of Field Marshal Karl Harcourt, and married a danghter of the Jate General the Hon. Henry adish, ‘The Imperial Academy of Sciencos at Vienna bas taken np the question of the decrease of the quantity | of water in springs, streams and rivers. Ina cirenlar the Academy calls attention to the faet that for some years past a diminution of the waters of the Danube d, und expectally Tm practice of cutting down forests with. rd to consequences lias prevailed. The Aus. weers and Architects’ Union ha on tion in hand and appointed a “hydrotechne committee” to collect facts aud prepare a report, 1% Danube, the Kibe aud the Rhine were cach assigned to two members since the mod ont reg