The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK If HERALD | BROADWAY * AND > ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ey NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Heratp will be sent free of postage. orereeenitinns All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yous® Henaw. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL-. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—HAMLET, at 8 P.M. Mr. Barry sullivan, DAR ‘Twenty-third treet MINSTRELS, at 8 OLYMPL © THEATRE, oe ag Broadway.—VARIETY, at 6 P. M., closes at 10:45 GILMORE'S 8' ER GARDEN, Jate Barnum's Hippodrome.—GRAND POPULAR CON- CERT, at 5 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—V A! ARIETY, at 8 P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATR: ighth street, near Broadway. PATERICAN JUVEN- TROUPE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. ‘nda y Moron. COLONEL SINN’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. pope RA CENTRAL PA! THEODORE THOMAS’ CON WALLACK'S THEATRE, Bs adway and Thirteenth street. —English Comic Opera— iy LOTTE, a8 PM. Miss Julia Mesbews, Mr. G. d, ROBINSON HALL, ‘West Sixteenth street.—English Opera—PRINCESS oF TREBIZONDE, a8 P.M. THEATRE COMI Bo se Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 UE, . M.; closes at 10:45 WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, ae of Thirtieth street.—ZYKES THE SHOW- MAN, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Matinee at 2 P. M. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Fighth avenue, corner Twenty-third street.—HAMLET, at 8 P.M; closes at 11 P. Me METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. HOWE & CUSHING'S CIRCUS, foot of Houston street, East River. Afternoon and evening performances, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place and Fourteenth street.—AROUND Si BLD LN EIGHTY DAYS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street 2 Eighth avenue.—FRENCH OPERA BOUFFE, at 5 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, or re ‘House, Broudway, corner of Tweuty-ninth street, TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1875, Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Heratp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clearing. Rarm Transit is a problem fruitful in suggestions, but if half the plans already submitted are to be considered by the Com- missioners we shall not obtain either an underground or an elevated road. What the people of New York want are a practicable route and practical plan, and these it is the duty of the Commission to afford them, Toe Insvnrection mm Hehzrcovrsa con- tinues, and owing to the illness of the Rus- sian Uonsul at Ragusa little is hoped from the mediation of the Fowers between the in- surgents and the Turkish government. It is not likely the Porte will be able to suppress the revolt unless the great Powers intervene. A Post Orrice worthy of the metropolis and commensurate with the business wants of our citizens has been obtained at last. The removal from the old rookery in Nassau street to the new building was all but com- pleted last night, and when business opens to-morrow morning the new Post Office will open with it. Cantism In Spar seems once more doomed to defeat. The fall of Seo de Urgel and the capture of General Lizzaraga cannot fail to be a terrible blow to the cause of Don Carlos, Our despatches this morning confirm the previous reports and inform us that Lizzaraga and the Bishop of Urgel have been im- prisoned in a fortress near Barcelona. Tur Exrra Meetixe at Monmouth Park, Long Branch, closed yesterday, after three days of successful racing. Though not marked by any startling events, the season has been one of unusual good fortune, and we can look forward to the fall meeting at Jerome Park as to one of much promise. Boarp oy Auverwen.—Nothing could be more pernicious than the course of the republican Aldermen in staying away from the meetings of the Boatd when any matter that is distasteful to them is to be considered. Such was their course yesterday, when the Croton main ordinance was to come up for action, and, in consequence, nothing could be done. This kind of opposition will soon bring minority rule into disrepute, ‘Tae Monpenes or Mz. Nor has not yet been found, although the police have arrested anamber of persons without any géod or apparent reason. It is not likely, however, that the guilty man will be brought to pun- ishment. That would be expecting too much from a Police Department which has not nade a single important arrest in a month, Poor Carupren’s Prowic.—W hat was proba- Jy the last poor children’s excursion of the eenson took place yesterday, with an in- | cvoased number of participants. The history | of hese picnics shows an increasing interest in them from the beginning, and the best yeenlts have flowed from them. Immediate contributions will be necessary to enable the trustees to give more excursions this season, and as it is still almost too early to close this ‘beneficent charity it is to be hoped sufficient funds will soon be in the hands of the Treas- urer for another picnie NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET. The Coming Season. ‘The weather reports begin to speak of cool and clear days. The hotel arrival lists slowly recover from their midsummer poverty. The express wagons are laden with the baggage of returning citizens. The steamships which leave our port carry few passengers, while those which come home are full. The trees show the first tinges of the coming autumn. The summer is a dying season. In a few days the seaside | watering places will be abandoned. In a few weeks the inland summer resorts will return to their original inhabitants. The theatres show signs of their winter activity. Western trains bring an unusual number of visitors, From all cities we hear of the activity of trade. The dry goods dealers say that they are selling more during this month than they have sold during any cor- responding month for some years past. Money is plenty in Europe and in New York. Here and there we have a crash, a Wall street banking house to-day, the California bank- ing house yesterday, large business men in the South or some daring bill broker i in Lon- don. But this is only individual rottenness, The surest sign of our genuine prosperity is the fact that the falling of these houses makes no impression upon the general busi- ness community. If at any time shortly after the close of the war we had had such a financial calamity as the fall of the California bank it would have made a panic throughout the Republic. It was be- cause during that time our whole business system has been in a morbid, unhealthy condition. The country seemed to be suffer- ing from a fever or a congestion. We have been gradually growing into a better state. These financial failures, these local business panics, are simply the efforts of nature, as it were, to throw off the false conditions under which our business has been laboring since the fall of Richmond. All the indications, as we have said, point to a prosperous fall and winter. The adver- tising columns of the Hznaup, which are the barometer of business prosperity, show early signs of this steady increase. sudden development of activity. The good times began, really, last spring. The ‘‘de- pression of the summer” has arisen from nothing more than the summer lassitude. The improvement which we observed in the spring was well founded and continues from day to day. We have been conservative as a people during the past few months, With the exception of the Big Bonanza excitement in California and a little rippling in stocks in Wall street the country has been steadily avoiding mad enterprises and foolish schemes. As the Hxnatp showed at the time, the Big Bonanza excitement on the | Pacific coast was a false prosperity, and the first sign of its weakness is the fall of the great bank. As we showed also, from time to time, the “activity” in Wall street stocks was not a healthy expression of business feeling, but the emulation of desperate gamblers. This is shown by the fact that a large section of the securities bought and sold on the street during the last six months have been of a suspicious or uncertain character. This shows that the people took the advice of the Henarp and kept away from Wall street. It is well that they should continue to do so. Wall street is and has been for the last few months a den of iniquity, little more than a shop for the receiving of stolen goods. It has been controlled by operators, many of whom care nothing for mercantile honor and who look upon the people as the banditti of the Italian mountains regard the travel- lers through their country. It is a sure maxim that whoever goes into Wall street will be robbed. The fate is as certain as that of the thoughtless wayfarer in Sicily or Greece. This isnot a discour- aging sign. It simply shows that one depart- ment of our business has fallen into the hands of bad men. So longas the people keep away from these temptations, from the bulls and bears, and compel them to rob each other or go out of the business, there will in the end be no great harm. Wall street will burn itself out like a dirty chimney. We shall have an explosion or two, like what we see in California, and aclearing of the atmosphere. After the removal of the débris even Wall street will respond to the genuine business prosperity of the country. The “Big Bonanzas” will be driven from the street. Good honest values will be bought and sold, just as they are bought and sold over the counters of respectable merchants. The foreclosures in real estate, which seemed ominous of bad times, were only a symptom of this settling down to a conservative basis. Men had overtraded in this way as in every other, and the squeezing process, which sent weak holders to the wall, will only leave the way clearer for those who can safely own real estate. We note these signs of business activity and of the reviving season which speak with so much emphasis through our advertising columns with pride and pleasure. There is no reason why the country should not stead- ily recover from the misfortunes of the war. There is no reason why, by earnest, prudent effort on the part of the people, we should not restore our business to even a better con- dition than it has ever before enjoyed. All the signs are propitious. The cotton and sugar harvests are large. From the Northern and Western States we have good tidings of the corn and wheat, Even the misfortunes of our sister nations are a benefit. England, always demanding grain, also ngw complains of dear meat. The floods in France and Hup- gary will compel us to furnish even a larger supply of the staples of life, These uneasy complications on the Gonti- + nent have had the effect of depreciat- ing foreign securities and strengthening our own, In these uncertain times, with war cloud fellowing war cloud over the Euro- pean sky, tiem begin again to look with anx- iety to America asa haven anda lome. The tide of immigration, which was arrested a year or two since by our own mad folly, be- gins to resume a steady, life-giving current. We can only secure this prosperous time by avoiding the mistakes which have brought us disasters in the past and by especially avoiding the pernicious principles which would be forced upon us by wildcat politi- cians of the East and West, who believe that political success should be obtained by preaching national dishonor and repudiation. Nothing would do more to check the pros- pneritv of the country than the success af ; morning. Many distinguished journalists of Nor is it a} any such scheme as is now defended with | | such blatant pertinacity by men like Carey, | of Ohio, and Kelley, of Pennsylvania, and Butler, of Massachusetts. We are now “on the straight road, Let us keep to it with jealous care. The Lightning Train, This morning the last lightning train of the season is whirling ‘“‘down the ringing grooves” of the New York Central toward Niagara Falls, with a freight perhaps not quite so important as that the Connecticut River brought to man, but certainly far more precious than that it carried to North Hadley ; for it bears a representative delega- tion of journalists from the cities of this neighborhood and its usual supply of Heraxps. This train left the Grand Central depot at 2:30 A. M. to-day, and will reach the Falls this afternoon at 1:30, Returning it will leave the Falls at 1:30 P. M. on Mon- day, and will arrive in the city on Tuesday this city, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and New Jersey have accepted our invitation to honor the occasion with their presence ; and the Post Office is not represented only because of the pressure of ‘moving day” in that establishment. In an enterprise that has not been unfruitful in exhibiting the possibilities of rapid transit on an extended scale, and in giving an impulse to a more liberal use of the means actually in our possession for | more effective communication between dis- | tant parts of the country, we have experienced the moral support of our contemporaries, local and remote; and we are happy to believe that they have recognized that every triumph over time and space in the diffusion of printed papers is not the advantage or the victory of any one journal, but of the entire press. Eventually it will be seen that these triumphs are, indeed, not so much the advantage of the press, which finds its | strength in extended popular support, as of | the people who will find, in the concentrated page that is an epitome of the world’s history of the day before, the real source of the power with which they are to shape their own destiny and defend their libert#es, There is no interest in the growth and prosperity of which all are interested as they are in that of the press. The Case of Lord. One of the great wants of the century has been a clear case against a member of our State Legislature. It has been known for at least one generation, and suspected for two or three, that our honorable representatives went to Albany every year, not so much be- cause we wanted laws as because they wanted money. It has been known to every one but the authorities just how they made their want and its extent known to the people who desired modifications of laws in existence or wholesale additions to the printed volumes. How they operated through the lobbymen, at what hotel the agents of this or that financial magnate put up, how much money he had with him, whether it was a dear year or cheap year in Assembly or Senate—all this has been readily accessible knowledge at the capital and in the metropolis ; but placid Justice stood on all the cupolas and never saw the wink of the’knowing ones—partly because she stood so high and partly because her eyes were tied up. Now, however, the case is before us, and, strangely enough, there seems to be as yet no lobbyman compromised in it. Can such things be? Is it possible to filch the public treasury without the aid of the lobby? All the world has heard of the case in which every poet was to be his own Aristotle ; and have we now come to that wretched condition when every member of the Assembly must be his own lobbyman and black his moral boots with his own official hand? Sixty thousand dollars was fraudulently obtained from the State treasury to ‘‘relieve” one of our suffering contractors. Forty thousand went to Lord—and what did he do with it? Bennett, Hand's partner, got twelve thousand dollars, and Hand, perhaps, got the other eight thousand dollars of the twenty thou- sand dollars that Lord did not get. Buta canal appraiser is already arrested on the charge of getting sixteen thousand dollars, and this must have come out of what Lord received. Who else did he divide with? This inquiry is the more pertinent because the case is so clear that it seems to promise convictions, and a clean sweep of every man whose fingers were defiled with that money would wonderfully purify the Albany air. Palpit Topics To-Day. ‘be regarded as indicating that in the mere The brevity of life is a topic not new, bat it is not the less important on that account, and because of its increased importance in the warm season Mr. Hiscox will expend some ministerial thought upon it to-day. But if life is so short, is there time to consider what we shall be? Mr. Clark thinks there is, and he, therefore, will engage to answer the question satisfac- torily this morning. What we think of Christ will greatly modify and control our behavior toward Him and our affection or dislike of His moral principles. Professor Loutrel will, therefore, ask his hearers that important question, and while he shall at- tempt to answer for them each will doubtless make the like inquiry of his own heart and | give a conscientious answer thereto. The Church universal will be Mr. Haskell’s theme, and akin to it in thought, though probably not in treatment, is that on which Mr. Tay- lor will discourse-—salvation for everybody. With such a salvation we onght to havea Church universal, and with a right bearing of the soul toward Christ honor is assured us \ for any seryice rendered to, im, his Dr, Harizelf aasnves | tis, and this o Wil declaié to his congregation this morning. The im- mortality of character is, perhaps, admitted by all except the few who deny the immor- tality of the soul. But for the benefit of these and all others Mr. Lightbourn will rea- son and demonstrate the proposition this evening. Spiritualism will be kept before the public by Professor Hume, and Mr. Platt, of Brooklyn, will tell the story of his semi- miraculous cure of lameness, suddenly and completely, in answer to prayer. We can count so far, at least, on one Methodist miracle, Even New Tensky does no escape, and it is said the State Treasurer is a defaulter to the amount of fifty thousand dollars. There is one consolation, however, and that is that Jersey justice is almost certain, The Post Office and the Postal Tele~ Sraphy. There has been much disenssion recently | in the English papers in reference to the | resignation of Mr. Scudamore from the Postal Telegraph Department. A few years since, as our readers will remember, the telegraph system of England was taken by the govern- ment. It seems that under the management | of the government it has not been a financial success. During the current financial year | the expendituré will exceed the revenue by | @ million three hundred thousand dollars. Some dissatisfaction is expressed with this result, especially as Mr. Scudamore, a san- guine man, has been promising that the financial results of the amalgamation of the Post Office and the telegraph should be gratifying to the people. Some time in 1868 the rule was adopted charging one shilling a message from any part of the United King- dom to another. When this rule was deter- mined upon Mr. Scudamore went so far as to express a belief,that in time the business of the office would justify the reduction of the rate to sixpence. We learn that in con- sequence of this cheapness there has been an enormous increase in telegraphic busi- ness. Atthe same time there has been an increase in the working expenses. The gov- ernment has not been able to. manage the telegraph as cheaply as was done by private companies. The ‘newspaper press service” is complained of as being at ruinous rates, The salaries of officials were largely raised after the government took charge of the service. Altogether the official report may matter of financial returns the amalgamation of the telegraph and Post Office has been a mistake. But in every ihe view it seems to us, taking these unfavorable reports, to have been a success. The enormous increase of business shows that the telegraph has been brought home more and more to the people. It might really be questioned whether the adyantage arising from being able to send a telegraph despatch, from one extremity of the United Kingdom to the other for a shilling is not worth the million or million and a half dollars annually which Parliament is called upon to pay as a deficiency. If we look over the estimates in a government like Great Britain—estimates for civil service, pensions to the members of the royal farnily, arms and equipments and ships—we find millions of dollars expended without a murmur to gratify the pride of rank or warlike ambition. Yet here is a great benefit to the people, which is felt in every home, which tends to knit the bonds of society and to make every Englishman feel that he touches the palm of every other Englishman on his island, no matter how far apart, and the whole amount is not as much as the cost of the Prince of Wales’ visit to India. So far, therefore, from regarding the financial estimate of the postal telegraph in England as an argument against the system we should prefer rather to regard it as a strong argument in its favor. Ifthe government of the United States could putit in the power of every citizen of this country to send a despatch to any part of the Union for twenty-five cents we should be perfectly willing to have it done, even if Congress had to vote every year one or two millions as a deficiency. The California Failure. Further particulars of the great event of the time in California are given to-day; for, as in all such cases, the full detail of a story of this nature only becomes known gradu- ally, and it will be many days yet before the facts will all be before the public. Already Ralston’s suicide has given the dignity of a great personal drama to what without it might have appeared a mere swindle—a swindle gigantic in its proportions, it is true, but yet as essentially vulgar in its nature as every mere swindle must be. But whena man stakes his life on a throw his game is not that of the thimble rig- ger; and he who was so crushed by calamity that he could go nowhere but out into the Pacific was not a mere spoiled favorite of fortune yielding before an ordi- nary mishap. Ralston’s own words point to the persistent combination to break the bank ; and all that is known points in the same direction—to the fact that the great- corporation went down in the conflict of a Titanic rivalry. All the world moves by rings in these days; and, as Ralston and his confederates ruled the Pacific slope by rings, they could but expect rings to rise up against them. It seems, however, not to have been a generous rivalry, but a battle with fierce passions, great ambitions and monstrous cupidity behind it; and all that can be drawn out of the story in its present aspect is that the great corporation went to ruin because of the brilliant victim's too great confidence in others and in himself. They who planned the run on the bank and contrived that assistance should be inacces- sible were the stronger because they had cared more for themselves; the victim was weaker because his resources were dis- tributed in the enterprises of half a continent. The Sound Currency Convention, The failure of the Inflation Convention at Detroit will perhaps induce Mr. W. D. Kelley to think that the American people do not want “more money.” But he would be in error. They do want ‘more money;” but it begins to be seen that they do not want more rags, more shinplasters, more irredeemable promises to pay money; more stuff which pretends to be adollar, but may go down from eighty to seventy ceutgin the ) ngchanic’ 's pocket while he sleeps! Which 1 varies in valu at the bidding of any speculator who chooses to make @ ‘ies {n gold or create a panic of any kind. What the people want is real money, and we suspect that the Sound Cur- rency Convention, to be held at Cincinnati in October, will be as great a success as Mr. Kelley's Convention has been a failure. The New York delegates to this Convention have issued an address, urging the people in all parts of the country to take part in the meet- ing by sending delegates, in order that a method may be agreed upon by which we may be brought back to a sound and redeem- able currency, the equivalent of gold, and of aconstant value, They rightly remark that the country has suffered long enough from a currency of constantly variable value, which | opening of the fall season. We have at some | given over to just such amusement as we has brought upon us repeated panics, gen- eral disorganization and prostration of in- dustry and poverty. It is time to makea | change. Irredeemable paper money has had a fair trial and does not answer, Tons of it | are now lying idle in the banks, while in- dustry languishes and poverty increases. The Coming of the Players. Our amusement columns show signs of the of the theatres the light, pleasant pieces ; which round off the summer. The greater events will come as the days grow shorter. Our summer musical gardens have been a success and have gone far toward establish- ing the argument which we have urged so frequently in the Heraup, that New York can be made during the summer as attractive asany of the great capitals of Europe, to which our people flock in such numbers for health and recreation. Gilmore's Garden has done much to popularize music in New York and to show that the American people are a music loving community. Mr. Thomas, in his garden, has kept the standard of classic music high, Hoe has been in many respects ® benefactor of the people. He has made popular the best works of Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner and the other great masters of har- mony. Weshould have as many of these gardens in New York as they have in Paris. The Battery, the Park in Harlem, the upper and lower ends of Central Park, Madison square, Washington and Gramercy parks, and even our modest, almost abolished little park opposite the Post Office, should be have at Gilmore's and Thomas’. The abandonment of New York during the summer season is a great blunder. We un- derstand why our citizens should desire in the warm days tp seek a change of scene and rest and recreation, but in a country like this there is no reason why New York should not be made an attractive place to visit and why our fellow citizens of the other States when they seek a summer holiday should not come to New York. This could be done by utilizing our great advantages, by giving rapid transit, by putting our excursion boats undera severe discipline, by opening our theatres for light comedy and for minor operas, by keeping open our churches and libraries and public places. There is no rea- son why students or pleasure seekers or tired merchants should not find an August month in New York as full of attractions as they find it in Paris or London. We do not mean to say that we have the advantages in the way of libraries, public buildings and his- torical associations, because these other cities have centuries the advantage of us, but we have a great deal in ourselves, and we should so use our resources as to attract visi- tors and make New York city not an aban- boned, desolate, surrendered metropolis dur- ing the pleasantest part of the year, but a summer capital as well as a winter capital. Opinions of the Religious Press. The Jewish Times has a tilt with its con- temporary, the Messenger, on the organization of a central ecclesiastical authority which should henceforth settle all conflicting ques- tions between differing congregations or members of the same. The Times deprecates any such authority, and cites instances from contemporary Jewish history in Europe to show its evil effects. The present freedom of the Jews in this country to settle their own disputes in their own way—and they have no more of them than Christians have—is due to the absence of a central power in their communion. But the Times has no fear that any such ecclesiastical head centre will be created here for Judaism. The Messenger, in the meantime, grows eloquently irate over the changes now going forward in the Thirty-fourth street syn- agogue. It draws a terrible picture of the degeneracy of Judaism because the sexes are permitted to sit together in the synagogues, because the men are throwing off their hats, and female singers are admitted to the choir lofts. These desecrations of old time Judaism ought to wake the patriarchs ont of their graves and bring them down to New York. But, seriously, if there is nothing more sub- stantial in Judaism than these traditionary customs, it would be as good a time now as ever to bury it out of sight. But we don’t so read the Mosaic law nor the prophets nor the Psalms. ‘here is a Judaism, as there is a Christianity, that is found in the heart and not in the hat, that worships God in the spirit without much regard to form or ritual. That is worth preserving; the other is not. Men do not honor God any more by taking off than by putting on hats. They may honor Him by both acts. The Independent has a characteristic four column article from the pen of the Methodist Bishop Gilbert Haven, in which he ad- yocates most vigorously the doctrine of amal- gamation of the races on this continent. The Bishop thinks Garrison and Phillips did a very unwise thing when they dissolved the old Anti-Slavery Society. He calls for its restoration, that it may ‘‘ding-dong” in this behalf until equal rights are, in fact and not in name, secured to all the people of this land, The Christian at Worl: exults over the novelty and the pleasure of a pastor sitting in a pew instead of preaching in a pulpit, of being prayed for instead of praying for others, and of singing a hymn that he does not know where it is until itis given out. Dr, Talmage thinks that ministers who preach forty-four Sabbaths in the year have a right during six or eight Sabbaths to listen. The Catholic Review says President Moreno's great fault and the one for which he was assassinated was that he was a Catholic and tried to build up a Christian Republic and not a ‘*progres- give” one, The olive oil which the Freeman's Journal fs supplying to the J American lamp at Patay-le-Monial being in danger of freezing or giving out, the editor is now anxious to know at what point such oil, of the best qual- ity, will cease to burn. A small theme for a large paper. ‘Tue ‘‘Cupan Pactricaton” is at his old game againr If he cannot conquer the rebels he can levy on the merchants of Havana, and he certainly makes them bleed in # manner worthy of a master butcher, Many months ago Valmaseda left Havana with much blow- ing of trumpets to exterminate the ‘‘bands” led by Maximo Gomez across the famous trocha. Not a vestige of the unfortunate Cuban forces would be left save the little bits into which they were to be chopped by the Spanish machetes, when Valmaseda the terri- ble moved forward on the warpath, Such, at least, were the promises of the official Spanish journals ; but somehow the chop- ping up never took place, and Maximo Gomez and his lieutenants move about the Villas much as they please and make it rather hot now and then for Valmaseda and his val- iant men. Like other famous warriors, Val- maseda ‘‘S'en va-l-en guerre ;” but the diffd- ence is that he comes back with great fre- quency and always in need of pocket money, We wonder how long the Spanish merchants of Havana will submit to this farce. It is bad enough to be governed by a tyrant, but it requires some patience to submit to the exactions of a poltroon and a brigand, American Art and American Artists Mr. Davenport informs us in our advertis- ing columns that ‘‘the New York public will be afforded an opportunity to judge whether American actors can render Shakespeare's masterpiece on Monday night at the Grand Opera House, when Mr. Davenport and an American company will appear in ‘Hamlet.’” This advertisement is published as a response to our expression of opinion that there was no danger of Mr. Davenport's attempt ‘to play Hamlet with American artists resulting in anything more than a burlesque.” This will be the probable result of Mr. Daven- port’s adventure. He is a good actor—in some parts we have none better. He can play Hamlet well, no doubt as well as Mr. Sullivan. An actor so accomplished degrades his art when, instead of asking public attention to his work as an expres- sion of, the genius of Shakespeare, he ostentatiously announces that it will be an “American” performance with ‘Ameri- can” artists. This he does as a challenge to Mr. Sullivan, who is a foreigner and who re- turns to America after fifteen years of ab- sence. Mr. Davenport appeals to the same feeling which was invoked by Forrest against Macready nearly thirty years ago, resulting in a painful and bloody tragedy and in every respect a disgrace to our city. He should remember that that brutal enter- prise was the beginning of Mr. Forrest's de- cline. He drove Macready from the coun- try, but in so doing committed the suicide of his own fame. These passions live only fora day. Behind them there is a common sense and love of fair play on the part of the people. There is no reason why Mr. Davenport should not play Hamlet—none whatever. There is every reason why we should protest against his playing it—not as a creation of Shakespeare, but asa mere rowdy endeavor to revive old animosities. It comes with bad grace from Mr. Davenport, who has never received anything but courtesy when in England. It comes with especially bad grace now, when we have Miss Bateman, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Jefferson and we may say Mr. Boucicault and Mr. Sothern, five distin- guished artists, Americans by birth or naturalization, enjoying the hospitalities of the London stage, This ‘‘American” busi- ness is altogether unworthy of an actor as eminent as Mr. Davenport. Before he is through he will be heartily ashamed of the business. The Church in Germany. The German: Catholics evidently do not take very kindly to the voluntary support of the Church. Weare informed that the result of the efforts to get means to replace the stipends hitherto paid by the government to the priests has scarcely amounted to fifty per cent of the grants withdrawn. Either the Catholic Germans have not become accus- tomed to the idea of paying for religious ser- vices directly out of their pockets, or the re- ligious enthusiasm of the people must be very lukewarm, It is just possible; too, that an appreciable number of good Catholics do not approve of the attempt made by the priest- hood to set themselves up against the laws of the Fatherland. The Church in this age has shown itself peculiarly militant and inclined to be aggressive—many Catholics think too much so—and this may be one of the causes why the collections for the support of the priesthood gave such a poor return, In any case, it will have a ten- dency to check the disposition shown by clerics to defy the civil law where it happens to interfere with their privileges or ideas of right. No doubt religion is a very good thing and church discipiine is necessary ; but, after all, people were put in this world for something else besides praying, and it is necessary that the priesthood everywhere should keep this fact wellin mind. If the religious element were allowed to control the destinies of mankind this world would soon present a very strange spectacle. But intel< ligent people intend to keep religion and government strictly apart, and in the end this arrangement will be found the best for all concerned. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Pay Director John $. Cunningham, United States Navy, 18 staying at the Hotel Brunswick. Mr. Henry T. Blow, Commissioner of the District of Columbia, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Leland Stanford, President of the Central Pacific Railway of California, bas arrived at the Windsor Hotel. It is a singular circumstance that everybody who hag seen the “wonderful sea snake’ compares its diameter o a barrel. Captain Otho E. Michaelis, of the Ordnance Depart. ment, United States Army, is quartered at the Sturte- vant House, The Christian Register says that Beecher’s best friends wish him to seclade himself for a time, that people “may forget.” Mr. John Bigelow, chairman of the Canal Investi- gating Committee, arrived at the Westmoreland Hotel last evening from Albany. Sefior Don Carlos Erenchun and Sefior Don Luis Polo de Bernabé, of the Spanish Legation at Washington, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Peter Cooper designed the first locomotive that was ever turned out on this Continent, and ate the frat beans that were ever boiled in Boston. Sefior Don Antonio Mantilia, Spanish Minister at Washington, and Count Romero and family, of Spain, arrived in this city last evening from Saratoga, and are ‘at the Clarendon Hotel. Among the distinguished arrivals yesterday at Long | Branch was Congressman Richard Schell. He ecnter- tained Mr. Hugh Hastings, Dr. Henry and Mr. Tiffany, of New York, at dinner at the West End Hovel, Mr. Beecher, being introduced to a Quaker gentleman atthe White Mountaina, said to him:—{ understand your belief deprives you of some of the pleasures of this life,” The other replied:—‘‘It shieids us from some of {ts temptations, also.” “It is remarkable that the only high American office which has in late years been almost always reserved for gentlemen, is that of Minister in England.” So says the Saturday Review; and England, we hope, is duly gratified at the distinction made in her favor in this re. spect, But it is just possible that if Englishmen were as well acquainted with some other of our high officers as they natarally become with our Minister o London, | they might form digerent opinions,