The New York Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1875, Page 6

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Trains.—Ners- dealers and the public throughoul the Slates of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, the South and Southwest, along the lines of the Hudson River, New Yorle Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Tux Heraxp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Wart Srnzzr Yesterpay.—Stocks were dull and lower. Few outside operators are taking the risks of speculation. Money was unsettled and advanced to 7 per cent, but closed at about 6. Investment securities | were in fair demand. Tae Rerveucan Coarrrion in the French | Assembly is still astonishingly suecessful— the nine life Senators elected yesterday being all republicans. Carma Is Actine with great caution in set- tling her difficulty with Great Britain. The delay in sending an embassy to London is probably a part of the Chinese policy of fighting for time. Axsenrt Epwarp arrived at Madras yester- day and was enthusiastically received. So | far His Royal Highness has eseaped the cholera, Hindoo fanatics and other little bugbears which his timid friends at home conjured up. Tax Sarvace on the wreck of the Deutsch- | land goes to the first steamtug captain who | rendered assistance to the stranded vessel. The prudent people of Harwich, who saw the ill-fated vessel's signals of distress and failed to respond, have now a source of regret for their inhumanity which will pierce tiem to the soul. ‘Tween, it seems, felt that his position as a prisoner in the power of the law was not euch as befitted aman anxious to dictate terms to the authorities; hence he left, ‘This is the latest well-informed report, and, as Dame Rumor loves to be complete in her stories, it runs further that the great thief is willing to compromise and to tell all he knows of the inner history of the “Ring.” ‘Tae Horerecez Srony of the man Thomas, who attempted suicide on board the Mosel | after the dynamite explosion at Bremer- | Laven, is apparently untrue so far as relates | to a second case of explosive which he said dreadfully plausible, however. Until the ownership of the case which did explode is «established he will be a good man to hold, 1 Sane OF IDSAD® wh | ing men. ness why not do itat once and have it over? | | If we need a “protector” from the rebels and | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1[4, 1875.—IRIPLE SHEET. Opening of the Campaign for © Presidency—Is It To Be = Oru~ sadet It is due to Bishop Simpson that we should give immediate prominence to the fact that he denies having said that ‘should President Grant be re-elected the people will have done wisely." The attempt to saddle the nomination of President Grant for a third term upon Bishop Haven, as an indiscreet man with radical convictions, given to injudicious actions, is not success- ful. a convention composed of three hundred laymen and priests. A most respectable con- vention; much more so, we fear, than any that will be apt to assemble under the call of the republican or democratic committees. It would be folly to ignore the significance of this movement, Never before in the his- tory of the country have the political parties been so indifferent to the Presidential ques- tion as at present, remembering, too, that in afew months we must settle the question. The democrats wait, as the party out of power, to profit by the mistakes of their op- ponents. That is their privilege, and we may say their duty, in a political sense, They can only move after their oppo- nents have taken ground. Then it will be time for them to name their candi- date. But the republicans seem to have fallen into an apathy which cannot be broken. If any name is mentioned but that of Grant there is the how! of “disloyalty” and all manner of invective about going back on the party and “playing into the hands of the democrats.” Here and there a mildly-whispering republican like Mr, Curtis or Mr. Blaine ventures to say that the party will never, never, never consent, and so on, and that as for the President he is too patriotic and self-denying, and so on, to even think of such a thing, and that those who say “Nay” are men who speak without authority, and thatthe mind of the President is far above any such dreams. But every man who has any influence with the Presi- dent is either silent on the subject or openly in favor of the third term. Who has heard Mr. Fish or Mr. Bristow or Mr. Pierrepont or even Mr. Jewell say a word that would make it impossible to vote for Grant for a | third term orto remain in the Cabinet should he continue in power for four years more? Mr. Blaine himself, with all of his budding ambitions, is at liberty to-morrow to stump Maine for Grant fora third term. In order that he may not be taken at a disadvantage he has given us his platform—namely, ‘Free schools and no Popery.” The republicans rest under the spell of the third term even as the Egyptians of old rested under that plague of thick darkness which for three days covered the land. In fact, there is no light upon the canvass but which comes from Boston, and no voice out of the darkness but that of Gilbert Ha- ven, calling upon Grant to lead the people as their protector and ‘‘saviour;” as the repre. sentative of the ‘‘American people and true Chyistianity.”. We have lived nearly a hundred years. We have had wars with England and other Powers. We have sup- | pressed the greatest rebellion known in his- tory. We have lifted these straggling pro- vincial colonies into the position of one of the greatest of political Powers. Our flag is feared and respected all over the world. And yet we are really so weak and so far removed from the true attitude of a free and great people that we must have a protector—a “Lord Protector.” And this ‘‘Lord Pro- tector” is to be found for us by priests and soldiers, who are really alarmed lest we should be overthrown by the Southern rebels or vanquished by the Pope! It reads like the burlesque of politics to speak of such issues. But here they are as they have been before, and as they will always be while ignorance or passion find place in the human heart and demagognes only too glad to take advantage of them for political or personal ends. We have no issue now before the country, so far as Grant is concerned, but the rebellion, or what re- mains of it, and what remains of that re- ligious fanaticism, which unhappily we of Anglo-Saxon blood have inherited from the fierce, brave, stern men who founded this Republic. And this is really the danger, so far as the present political situation is concerned, It would matter little what Gilbert Haven or any priest or number of priests wouid say if they did not appeal to that sen- timent sometimes dormant but never dead, that furious sentiment of religious con- troversy which comes with our race, Grave, wise men, men who would dis- dain any thought of hatred in their political | actions, grow fierce at the thought of an issue which calls to their mind all they have read about the fires of Smithfield, the massa- | cres of Piedmont, the Inquisition of Spain, To their minds the spirit which one would , think had died out before centuries of light and reason is a8 much a living thing now as in the days of Philip Il. and the Duke of Alva, So when in a respect- able religious convention we have Grant nominated for the third term as ‘‘saviour,” ‘*protector” and the champion of “true Chris- tianity,” it means that this tireless and clear- mindsd demesogns means to retatn powéi by appealing to a sentimént which has never been invoked in vain among English speak- But if we are going into the busi- the Pope let us name him according to prec- | Let our Grant, who proposes to re- | edent. main in power by the aid of soldiers and priests, even as Cromwell did with his sol- diers and priests, imitate Cromwell still further and make himself the “Lord Pro- tector of our liberties and ofthe Protestant religion.” Why should we have the expen- sive and annoying farce of a convention and elections, wasteful of time and temper and money? If we begin our centennial year as & people needing protection” and requiring, not @ statesman, but a champien of “true Christianity,” let us doso without any reser- vation or deceit, If Grant is ‘‘necessary” now he will be no less necessary four, eight and twelve years hence. Once we begin the business of “protection,” and it will grow with what it feeds upon. The steps froma republic to an emp?re are easy if we only go steadily on in that direction. We have done 60 ever since Grant came into power and be- Gan unsestrionad thet covtan of iufrantinns of It was not the work of a bishop, but of the written and traditional law of the Pres- idency which began with the appointment ofa Cabinet in violation of law, and which have ended thus far in the removal of an officer of the judicial department for doing his duty. Thus far, therefore, the campaign for the Presidency is a religious crusade, with Grant in nomination for a third term as the candidate of one of the most powerful denominations in the country, and sup- ported by the rank and file of a party which has virtually acquiesced in all of his schemes for the furtherance of his power. It will be said that this is another ‘‘Heraxp sensa- tion.” So it was said when we first called ‘attention to the rise and growth of the spirit of Cwsarism in our politics, But suppose weshould have said, even in the wildest spirit of prophecy, three years ago, that in the winter of 1875, within a few months of the election, General Grant would have been nominated by a Methodist bishop, and the nomination unanimously accepted by a Methodist Convention, as the champion of “true Christianity.” That would then have been a wild and impossible prophecy. Yot it is the startling fact of the hour—a fact more pregnant with good or evil for this Republic than any that has happened since Washington, nearly a century ago, was tempted to accept the crown from men who affected to think, as Haven and others do now, that the country needed ® “protector” and a champion and not a responsible President, fearing the laws and knowing only the will of the people as the rule of his life, The Cost of Justice. There is a great deal of feeling among the members of the Bar as to the statement pub- lished by our contemporaries and now gen- erally accepted, to the effect that Mr. Tweed, during his litigation, was compelled to pay asum variously estimated from five hundred to seven hundred thousand dollars as ‘lawyers’ fees.” We have the unquestioned authority of the Sun to the effect that these payments have “reduced Tweed’s fortune.” The Tribune, in a mocking mood, intimates that when Tweed ran away it was not from his jailers but from his lawyers. Now, if the question drises, and it is a question addressed not alone to lawyers, | but to the people who have their rights be- fore the law, by what code of legal ethics is a lawyer permitted to charge Mr. Tweed vast sums of money for ‘‘fees” when, if he had | been a poor cabinet maker under indictment he would have been defended for a moderate sum. Have our lawyers a right in defending criminals to consider not the justice of their cause, but alone the amount of money they can obtain. If a man charged like Tweed with peculation upon the treasury can only be | defended by the payment of from five hun- dred to seven hundred thousand dollars fees, then there is no justice in New York. If Tweed was charged from five toseven hundred thousand dollars fees because his lawyers knew that he had taken millions of dollars from the treasury and could pay largely, then these lawyers become accessories after the fact, and, to our plain way of thinking, areas much open to indictment by the Grand Jury as Tweed. The whole question is one of more than passing interest, and we should think that the lawyers themselves would be only too anxious to have it investigated, and more so because the impression is gradually gaining ground that some lawyers in New York are little more than highwaymen, who believe their first duty to their client is to take all his money. This impression has gained ground largely from the developments of the Erie suits, the Tweed suits and the Ring suits, where vastsums were paid to mem- bers of the Bar as ‘‘fees.”. Sometimes these “fees” may have been paid for “influence,” political or otherwise. But however this may be, it is clearly the impression of the people that the administration of the law, so far as | many lawyers are concerned, has de- | generated into little more than an at- j tempt to extort money. This should No one denies the lawyer not be so. the right to charge a proper fee, if necessary alarge fee, because great ability in the law as in any profession should receive a good reward, But no ability would justify any lawyer, or any number of lawyers, in tompelling Mr. Tweed to pay from five to seven hundred thousand dollars ‘‘fees." If he has paid this money it is nothing more than another form of robbery of the public treasury. Our Avenve.—These pleasant days throw into prominence the fact that our avenue of the Champs Elysées, Fifth avenue, is reflecting disgrace upon our rulers, This great highway, in former times the glory of New York, the highway of rich and poor, ex- tending from the heart of the city to our Central Park, famous for its magnificent ‘architecture, and on Sunday afternoons as much a type of the great moving life of New York as the Prado in Madrid or the avenue of the Champs Elysées in Paris, has fallen into decay. This is partly owing to the of the Ring. But that is no argument for its continued neglect. Fifth avenue should be | the ornament of New York. The present | pavement should be torn up and macadam- |izea from Washington square to Central | Park. Wuat Noxt?—The more Mr. Henderson's dismissal i¢Jooked at the more it must be seen to be only half-way measure, counsel was delinguent for referring to th: | President in his addiress to the St. Louis | jury, how much mor®flagrantly culpable | was the Judge who failed tosilence him with 4 stern assertion of the majesty of office—the grand declaration that “the President can do no wrong.” It would be proper, there fore, to dismiss the Judge who by his neglect to rebuke the offence became a party to it. But then the President and the Cabinet can- not dismiss a Judge. This, however, does not matter, for of course if the President re- quests it Congress will change the law so as to put the Judge within his reach; and if it requires an amendment of the constitution | the President should immediately call for this by an extra message. | Turn Democratic Caucus yesterday agreed | to the appointment of a watchdog committee of eleven to guard democratic i wee ll guard the comuiittas 7 intevests. fact that New York suffers from the decadence | If this | A Great Land Swindle. The credit of the United States abroad has suffered almost as much from the machina- tions of private gangs of American swindlers as from the rebellion or the subsequent move- ments of wildcat politicians in favor of repu- diation. When English capitalists bought Confederate bonds they took risks on the for- tunes of war. They mingled speculation with sympathy for the enemies of the Union. They did it with their eyes open, and when the Confederation collapsed they did not make much noise about their losses. The war over, and a great and victorious nation pledged to the payment of every cent of its indebtedness, caused our bonds to be a favorite investment from Lon- don to Hamburg. American national credit stood as high as any in the world, but the unmasking of such gigantic swindles as the Crédit Mobilier, the Erie Railway, the North- ern Pacific and the Little Emma soon began to frighten the money markets of the world from almost all American investments not purely national. Now we learn that another giant fraud has been brought to light in the operations of a gang of land swindlers, who are said to have sold forged deeds to lands in Missouri and Arkansas to the amount of $30,000,000, Their operations have extended all over the Union, and im- mense quantities of the forged deeds are said to have been got rid of in England. This huge swindle deserves the most con- dign punishment. The classes, both here and in England, likely to have been victim- ized by these adroit and long-successful swindlers are the hard working and thrifty artisans, the small farmers and, in fact, all those who, with a little money in hand, are anxious to open up the wild to civilized life. The Little Emma shares were sold to English people in the genteel walks of life—widows, orphans and clergymen. These land-deed forgers have reached and plucked the poorer and hardfisted who did not want to dabble in fancy mining stock, but thought they knew what they were about when they purchased land. No punishment can be too severe for the principals in such a wholesale crime against the worthy poor. Wisdom in Politics. The distinguished ex-Senator from Mis- souri, Carl Schurz, in an interview carefully prépared and published in the Tribune, makes an allusion to the constitutional amendment proposed by Mr. Blaine. Mr. Schurz says:—‘‘The best thing, perhaps, that could be done is that the democrats in Congress should unite with the republicans | in accepting the constitutional amendment | proposed by Mr. Blaine and submit it to the Legislatures. One of the dangers I see in making such questions the subject of agita- tion in a national contest consists in this, that it might push other things of immediate necessity into the background.” ‘Our ex- | perience has been that emotional polities— such, for instance, as the slavery question— will permit a great many persons of unclean character and bad intentions to smuggle themselves into prominence and influence under a cry appealing to the popular heart.” The eminent Senator's advice accords with that given by the Heraup. It is based upon common sense. When a party presents a | scheme notoriously for inflammatory pur- poses, which in itself is sound, the highest wisdom is to accept it, It isa good maxim in war always to do what your opponents dread your doing. Now, when Mr. Blaine proposed his constitutional amendment, the one thing that was certain in his mind was that the Bourbons of the democratic party would oppose it, and thus enable him to make a war cry throughout the next cam- paign. It was because of this evident pur- pose that the Heratp said to the democrats, “Your true policy is to take Mr. Blaine at his | word, adopt his amendment, that is in prin- ciple sound, and thus disarm him and his party of a formidable weapon in the next | campaign.” Senator Schurz sees the wis- dom of this advice, and sustains it by the strong influence of his indorsement. ‘The democrats, if they would take this ad- | vice, could do a great deal towards expelling “emotional politics” from the next canvass, We agree with Mr. Schurz in deploring these “emotional” influences, It is the purpose of the republicans to make the next canvass one | ofan “emotional” character. That party has always traded upon emotion and sentiment. It had an emotion about slavery, about freed- men, about the national credit, and now it would excitea new oneabout the Pope. Itis to prevent this and the dangers that will arise | | from ff that we have urged the democrats to | take Mr. Blaine af his word and send his | | amendment whirling through Congress. Not | to do so would be an act of Bourbonism. | Tur Finst Gun of the winter investigating? | campaign, in which the democrats are to | force the fighting, was fired in the Senate yesterday by Mr. Davis, of West Virginia. | He wants to know why the Secretary of the ‘Treasury has not made, since 1865, the an- | nual report of defaulters to the United States and the amount of their defalcations, ' which the law requires. ‘The republican | Senators claimed that the law did not compel the Secretary to make sucha report ; but as section 272 of the Revised Statutes declares that the First Comptroller of the Treasury , | shall make a yearly report ‘‘of officers who | have failed to make settlement of their ac- | counts” the republican reply goes for very | little. A list of these offenders during the ' last ten years, covering four y | ears of John- | son and six of Grant, would make pretty Itisa | campaign documents for both sides. gvgall beginning, however. Innnxptate Duties.—There are two things | the democratic majority in the House should | do without delay; 4n order to make their rec- | ord consistent and cleaf, The first is to in- | troduce a constitutional aruendment limiting | the office of President to one term, and putting ' upon the republican Senate the responsibil- | ity of accepting or rejecting it. The second is to abolish the iron-clad oath, and thus take away the last scarecrow of the war. | This iron-clad oath and all oaths based upon the rebellion are of no more use than the military lines around Arlington or Peters- | burg. They are an annoyance, a badge | of degradation and an evil memory, They | are of no practical value to the peace of the country or the integrity of the Union. Let | them be swept away at once! Let some en- : terprwing democrat—like Mr, Qos, for jn- | | darkness. It may be well laid down as a | stance—put his party upon the record im- mediately upon these questions of Casarism and ostracism. ” Darkness and Not Light. We have not paid much attention to the letter addressed by that New Jersey editor - to Mr. Blaine in reference to the existence of & secret society throughout the country based upon the anti-Catholic idea, and of which President Grant is said to be an active member, It seems incredible that the Presi. dent would be foolish enough to take part in any such organization, We have had many rumors of the existence of some such society, but we have dismissed them from attention as a part of the gossip of politics, Secret societies among any active thinking people are apt to grow up like weeds. They should not flourish in any healthy community where the will of the people governs. The only excuse for a secret political organization worthy of consideration is that advanced by the friends of freedom under the old Bour- bon system in Italy, France and Spain. Then it was contended that only by secrecy could the friends of liberty unite in their struggle for independence. But the best judgment of political thinkers now is that even the existence of an absolute monarchy is less of an evil than that of secret political societies. In America any such political society is { an offence, because it shows that the members prefer darkness to light. Now, in a free country, with a free press, a free pulpit and a free rostrum; ina country wherea man may write or say what he pleases, the going into a secret political lodge and adopt- ing a code of grips and signs and passwords is an evidence of cowardice or evil purpose. What can these secret political societies doin their lodge rooms that could not be done on Broadway? What idea can they develop? | What campaign can they execute? What | good can they accomplish that cannot be as | easily attained in an open public con- | vention? It may be said thatthe value of secret politi- | calsocicties is the discipline and the direct- | ness of purpose which they impose upon their followers, But do not our friends see that | what they call ‘‘discipline and directness of | purpose” becomes, as a general thing, the | subordinating of all free and independent | thought to the will of grasping politicians. The history of the Know Nothing society | shows that the movement, beginning in a sentiment or an emotion about religion and nationality, and spread throughout the coun- try like wild fire, became the scheme in the | hands of designing men. The country sees | now that Tammany Hall, which, in the be- | ginning, was a humane social society, though its secret system has become the in- strument of the treason of Burr, of the rob- beries of Tweed and the arrogance of Kelly. | The very advantage which the friends of | secret societies in politics claim is not an advantage, but an evil to the Republic. | What we want in our politics is light and not maxim that when any politician believes he | can serve his principles or his party by go- ing into a lodge and calling himself a ‘‘Saga- i more” or a “Sachem” and practising all the tomfoolery of grips and signs and passwords, he is a coward who fears that his opin-— ions should be known, or @ slave only too | willing to obey a scheming leader. “The Campa in the West.” Lord Jeffreys once sustained a government. / with the machinery of the law. He con- demned three hundred and twenty persons to death in one summer, and near the close of his life, when reproached with the horrible offences which he had committed the | name of justice, he said, “I was not half | bloody enough for him that sent me.” That distinguished person was the Executive, James IL, of more or less happy memory. So difficult is it forthe tools of a | corrupt government to meet its expectations, to come up to the requirements of a bad case. Jeffreys, in command of at most only get at those who were brought up on criminal charges. All the other op- ponents were still safe. If Jeffreys had condemned three thousand instead of three hundred the King would still have wished | him ‘more bloody,” and J efipéys would have wept for the want of ‘royal approval. In | our own ‘Campaign ‘in the West,” also, it will be found, we fear, just as difficult to please the King in another style. Mr. Hen- derson’s head is off because’ he said that not even the President has the right to interfere with a sworn officer in the discharge of his duty. His successor, therefore, will note that the | | judicial “Campaign in the West,” could | qicton for rresident was received with applause, the ordinary proceedings at taw during the examination and cross-examination, Our police have no business to do these things, It is the doing of them that brings upon the force public contempt, —— “Covering Their Tracks.” One of the recent epistles from Paris which treated of the present habits and antics of the Tammany exiles said of one of the more distinguished of the number that though he had ‘covered his tracks” very effectively, as he thought, yet he would not venture within reach of the authorities here for fear ‘some of the covering might have blown off.” From which it appears that the true Tam- many brave studies with equal solicitude the double art of enriching himself at the public expense and of so destroying every possible bit of evidence of his doings that he may in the future be safe from conviction even it discovered and exposed. It is therefore not merely necessary to discover the ways ot ‘Tammany men, but to deal with them so energetically when once discovered that they cannot take this precautionary measure, Apparently there is now on foot in the Marine Court & process such as we have in- dicated.—they are ‘covering tracks.” It is re ported that the present clerk of this Court is to be permitted to resign and quietly let in a successor by some ‘Tammany combinations, for this official isa Tammany man. Our in- terest in these mancuvres is commonly not great; but in this case there is a principle involved which concerns the public welfare, The functionary referred to has not settled his accounts, and a man who wishes to re- sign an office of trust without having gone through this formality wishes practically to put himself in the position of a defaulter, and this the judges should not’ permit. No way has yet been found to make this class of officials honest, except by the example that dishonesty leads to unpleasant consequences, and the judges of a public court should not lend their countenance to any scheme for the breaking down of this guarantee. They should understand that the people are watching them now, not Tammany. Curer Justice Dary's learned paper on the exploration of Central Africa, which he read last evening at the meeting of the American Geographical Society, will be found of great value, as summarizing in neat form the results of all recorded travel in that still mysterious region. His warm tribute to Mr. Stanley and his gallant defence of that gentleman respecting his opinion of Lake Baringo and its connec- tion with the Victoria Niyanza are respec~ tively worthy of Judge Daly's scientific sym- pathies and analytical mind. Tux Br on Pensions introduced by Sen- ator Merrimon, of North Carolina, to repeal that section of the law of 1873 which pro-~ vides against the payment of pensions to “any person, or to the widow, children or heirs of any deceased person,” who aided the rebellion will attract considerable attention throughout the country. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The Duc d’Aumale has decided on rebuilding Chan- Ully according to the original designs. This will cost 4,000, 000f, “phat,” said the tramp, ‘is the top buckwheat; it has been used to keep the others warm; and I don’t eat no coverleds."’ So be laid it one side. If that pretty and romantic Chicago girl, marries Rea Cloud we hope she doesn’t object to skinning Jack rabs bits and wearing a pappoose on her back. Parson Brownlow says that if the democrats had a democratic President General Grant would have to begim again under the big apple tree at Appomattox where be jeft off, M. D. Conway is delivering a very interesting series of lectures throughout the country. Mr. Conway is one of our foremost scholars and raaks among our best writers. The French have adopted another English word Inte their vocabulary. ‘Skating-rink’’ is now to be seen used in the Paris nowspapers side by side with ‘‘meet- ing," “comfortable,” ‘club’? and ‘home,’ Hon. George H. Pendleton was serenaded at Atalanta last night, and made @n eloquent response to an im- mense crowd. General Gartreil’s nomination of Pen- Russia is, {t is said, going to abolish the passport sys. tem, and the Minister of Finance has already declared his readiness to dispense with the 2,500,000 of roubles which the passport feos annually bring into the impe- | rig) exchequer, Li French diplomatist made a smart remark when he | heard of the purchase of the Suez Canal shares, Ho | gaid:—Russia bas imprudently opened a book entitled “The Eastern Question,’ and it is England which has | | gst reached the last page. We shall now see if Aus- | tria or Gormany will not reopen {t.’” From England we have information that work people | will no longer be able to carn the wages of the past three years, and those of them who have not been thrifty in the days of their prosperity will probably | now suffer. Luckily bread continues cheap, otherwise | | we should have seen considerably more misory than ts all_unpleasagy ra Baa a dal gate t ‘ f his | iukely yo be reyeaied. 4 argument; but if he can prove sine Me OE REEF weary of deploring the decline tionally that the President has a right to sub- stitute his personal interests, whims, fancies or affections for public duty, even then he may find that he hasnot donéenough. One distinguished lawyer has already yefused to take Mr. Henderson's place because he is of opinion that to accept it would be to admit that the Executive may exercise a censorship over a lawyer's address to the jury, and wil not put himself in such a position, are plenty, however, who would not in- There in manual skill and honesty and extolling the virtuous eincerity of earlicr art, Mr. Carlyle has talked himself | hoarse in calling for a return of the silent agos, and Mr | Gladstone, temporarily escaping from his pressing | duties with respect to the Pope, says that tho English are bunglers in art as compared with his beloved Greeks. sone, de Ss a Jord Currfohill has given judgment in the aétion by Mr, Charles Reade against the Glasgow Herald for in- | fringement of copyright by the publication of his ich callod ‘A Hero and Martyr," which appeared originally in the Pall Mall Gazette, and which the | Herald had transmitted daily from London by ite special wire for the next day's paper, His decision is quire so curiously. Colonel Broadhead, who has accepted the Attorney General's re- taine?, ays lis is under no obiigation to hold his tongue. We shall see. We read in the policé geports the other day of the arrest of a you woman who is said to have been a mistress of the condemned murderer, Dolan, This by a detective, and the reporter goes on to | say that she was arrested asa precantionary | measure, because of the fearon the part of the detectives that she might communicate with the friends of Dolan and become a wit- ness in his behalf. The arrest, therefore, as it is published, is a wanton act. She was in- formed practically by this act, if not in so | many words, that the police expected her to | give no evidence that would interfere with the | theory of their case against Dolan. Now | the question arises, What, right have the police to arrest, without warrant, a woman who is not charged with any crime, and what right have they to impose upon her any restrictions as to her communication with Dolan or his friends? If it is necessary | for Mr. Reade. The organ grinders, ace ralng to the Examiner, killed | Zohn Logahs Kad Pe he iy"“made an ond of Mr. } | Holman Hunt; he probably would 60% have escapeds with his life if he had not taken refuge iti }h# Bast. We | know One literary maa who has been hunted by them from square to square, Onding no rest ult he egught a quiet harbor and an anchorage in one of the Inns, Jf Joaquin Miller is perhaps the only writer of modera® | times who does not tind organ grinders insufferable, } die not only tolerates thom, but asserts that they are | woman was taken to the station honse | the only representatives of the old troubadours, and cultivates them accordingly. FROM THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP SIMPSON. Orrick Metnovist Cacron vn | LETTER No, L018 Anon Sraewr, ParuaveLrmta, Deo, 11, 1976. To thx Eprror oF tie PHiLapeLrata [tM :— Dean Six—I havejust seen your paper of yesterday containing the report of an interview, The statements, as made, are generally correct, but in two poluts the reporter certainly misapprebended me;— 1, [did not say that tho majority of the Mothodist ministers jemocrats. 2 Tdid say “that should President Grant be re- clected the p me will have done wisoly."” The reporter did not ask my opinion, nor did [ either directly or indirectly express any judgment on the Bubject, He did not ask how the ministers of Phila- delphia stood upon the subject, as I replied that! had not beard any genoral expression of opinion, But I supposed that Methodist ministers and people would be divided on that, as on othor political questions. to protect justice by insuring truthful evidence fhat protection will found jn Will you do me tho kigdarss W insert this note? Xourw truly. M, SLAPBON,