The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1876, Page 6

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Wart Sreeer Yestenpay.—Stocks were generally lower and subject to depressing influences. Gold opened at 1121-2 and closed at 1123-8. Money on call loans was supplied at 2 and 21-2 percent. Govern- ment bonds were active and firm. Foreign exchange quiet. Railway bonds steady. Enoranp Rerrerates Hen Rervsat to join in the Berlin memorandum, but Mr. Disraeli declines to state the why and wherefore. Tue Berxnar Impxacument drags along very slowly. The question of jurisdiction seems still far from a settlement, and the dog days are approaching. : Tae New Jersey Democrats meet in Con- vention at Trenton to-day, and have, it is said, serious inclinations toward ex-Governor Parker and a warm admiration for Governor Tilden in the matter of tlre Presidency. Oxp, Buinp anv Destituts.—The sage whom Robert Burns met along the banks of Ayr, and whose doleful burden was that “man was made to mourn,” would have found a striking illustration of his sad philosophy in Daniei Price, colored, who at the age of one hundred and nine years was turned over yesterday to the tender mercies of the Department of Charities and Correc- tion. ‘Tae Nore or Mn. Fisa on the Ashburton Treaty is not so easily disposed of as Earl Derby imagined when he penned his reply. The thinkers of England are rétreatinug from the support of the government, and a com- promise is suggested by taking the matter into the English courts. That we assume to be England's business ; for it is absurd to expect America, after a treaty has been ad- ministered in one sense for over thirty years, to go to law with England in her own courts (a very suggestive proceeding) to find out whether the treaty. should not be admin- istered in another sense. In the meantime Winslow will probably be detained still another ten days. Parser, THE Mustaxc Riper, we are glad to see, proposes to repeat his attempt to ride three hundred and five miles in fifteen hours, His throwing the blame of failure mainly on the rain and the heavy track is doubtless just, but we are glad to see that he admits his mistake in attempting to ride for such o length of time without’ proper nourishment. When Sidney Smith was advised by his phy- sician to walk two miles every morning on an empty stomach, he innocently asked, “Whose?” The moral of thisin Mr. Parker's case is that the sinking diaphragm should be in somebody else's system, if fasting is necessary to win the race. However Exogvest Victron Hugo may have been in his speech favoring amnesty, we fear that his argument, which in effect was that ‘‘two blacks make a white,” will not be accepted for its logic. In rebuking France for its wholesale condonation of the crime of the 2d of December and its con- sequences he had indeed a lofty sermon to preach; but in asking France because of its pardoning Napoleon's sin to pardon the Communists he entered such o transcenden- tal region of ethics that it is difficult to fol- low him seriously. His motion was almost unanimously rejected. We think from all | that has been developed in the two debates that the’ Communists out of prison aro re- sponsible for their brethren being kept in. President Grant’s Party Coup d@’Etat. The President has done at last what the | Henatp strongly advised him to do nearly two months ago, and the effect is electric. The appointments made yesterday are not | only the greatest sensation but the most im- connection with the Presidential canvass. | The clear indication of his purpose which | General Grant has now given puts quite new face on the politics of the republican | party. The apparent apathy of the Presi- | dent has left the party without any directing head, and it was rapidly disintegrating into factions and bodies of political stragglers. There were almost as many Presidential candidates as there are distinguished men in the party; and they have been mancu- | vring against one another and pouring bot | shot into one another as if they hed no need to ,unite ond exert their whole strength against the common enemy. What the President did yesterday is a com- | mand from headquarters to combine the scat- tered columns and put them in compact array for the coming battle. It is interpreted as a movemont in favor of Conkling, but it is rather a movement toward party discipline and efficiency. Of Inte the party has ‘“wobbled;” it needed to be steadied. Its squabbling candidates have been pushing their claims on grounds that were subversive of the phalanx-like strength and solidity essential to success against a powerful enemy. Mr. Morton has mar- shalled his forces like a lame Mephisto- pheles—a weird giant of a candidate Who waved the bloody shirt. Mr. Blaine has figured in the canvass as the ‘‘artful dodger,” skilled in political intrigue, with an unsur- passed faculty of making a little strength look like a great deal. Mr. Bristow has been the cynosure of political sentimentalists; Mr. Hayes the whispered candidate who played upon the sense of mystery and was expected to start up and expand, all of a sudden, like the poodle in ‘‘Faust,” into a spectre of wonderful dimensions. A truly fantastic canvass, as it has been managed by the cafrices of these motley aspirants! But General Grant now comes upon the scene with the authority of a leader and under- takes to abate this distraction. If he favors Mr. Conkling it sis probably because Mr. Conkling has indulged in none of the vagaries of his riygls, has cut no antics, and has sought success only by steady adherence to the recognized and settled principles of the party. His corps is selected as the best nucleus’ for restoring discipline and re- awakening party loyalty. 1f, when the repub- lican army has been organized, he shall be found the strongest and most deserving, the party may be united on him ; if not, he and his body of disciplined supporters will ex- hibit their party loyalty by supporting the candidate who has the best prospect of success. But at all events General Grant has determined to rescue the party from its chaotic condition and make it formidable to the common foe. He begins this work with the aid of Senators Conkling and Cameron, be- cause they are stanch party men and work by party methods. When the discipline of the party is restored they will doubtless be as ready to support the candidate who shall, on the whole; seem the strongest, as they are to aid the President in bringing order out of the present chaos. We suppose there can be no doubt that the President really prefers Conkling, nor that Senator Cameron will co-operate with the President in seeing that Conkling has fair treatment. ‘hey will secure his nomination if they can in consistency with the disci- pline and harmony of the republican party, but they will not disorganize it to promote any man’s chances. The President's passive preference for Conkling has heretofore seemed more likely to harm than to help him, by its tendency to array against him whatever hostility exists against the Presi- dent in the republican party, without bring- ing him any overbalancing advantage. Mr. Conkling has had to stem this feeling, and yet, in spite of it, he has not only stood his ground remarkably well as 0 candidate, but has steadily gained in strength and party favor. It was, perhaps, wise, it was certainly discreet and cautious, for the Presi- dent to wait and see whether Mr. Conkling had good running qualities of his own and developed independent strength as a candi- daie before deciding to give him a vigorous support, as underwriters dislike to insure a ship until she has made a successful trial voyage. When sho has been tested, when it has been proved that she is stanch and well constructed azd has good sailing quali- ties, the underwriters can safely indorse her as “A No. 1.” Senator Conkling has made his trial trip as a candidate, and though competing with a friend of the administra- tion like Mr. Morton, and with insidious or open enemics of tho administration like Messrs. Blaine and Bristow, he has stood the accidents of political weather better than any of them. Having done so well without as- sistance, ho has proved that he is a safe can- didate to assist. Now that the President has determined to give him efficient aid, his canvass, already under a good head- way, will make a rapid progress. Every day will bring him new adherents and fresh recruits. President Grant's passive preference has hardly benefited him, and has, perhaps, been an impediment. But President Grant's action and determined support will be one of the most efficient ele- ments of the canvass. Nobody can doubt the prodigious influence of a President in office when it is actively exerted in the poli- tics of his own party. Its power is so tremendous that General Grant could have procured a third nomination for himself had it not been for the mortifying and fatal events of the last five months. The power remains in his hands, although it can no | longer be wielded for his personal ad- | vantage. But in behalf of a candidate so strong by his own merits and popularity as Mr. Conkling its effect may be quite as great, and it will haven flavor of generosity and public spirit which would not attend it if exerted for the President himself. In giving the great influence of his office to Mr. Conkling the President breaks no custom, he violates no line of prece- dents which have come to have a bind- ing force almost as sacred as the consti- | stacles which lay im the way of his third term aspirations, The Executive influence portant event which has yet happened in | | tution itself, and encounters none of the ob- | | should therefore be more potent in support of Mr. Conkling than it could have been in procuring a third nomination for President Grant. Every one of these new appointments, though made on unimpeachable grounds of personal fitness, will contribute to the sne- cess of Senator Conkling’s canvass. Taking Judge Pierrepont, it is well known that this gentleman has not favored Mr. Conkling’s nomination. He was suspected of a willing- ness to be nominated himself, but his avowed preference was understood to be Secretary Fish, Hoe goes abroad, where he can have no influence on the canvass, and Mr. Conkling is thus exempted from the op- position of a prominent republican of his own State holding a high official station at the national capital. Judge Taft, who was supplanted last year in Ohio by Governor Hayes, does not favor the Presidential hopes of his successful rival, and the Department of Justice is in the hands of an able lawyer who will indorse the President's choice, which Mr. Pierrepont did not. But the most significant of these appointments is that of Mr. -‘Don” Cameron, whose own influ- ence and that of his shrewd and sagacious father will be actively exerted in favor of the New York Senator, The fifty-eight delegates of the great State of Pennsylvania can now be as securely counted on for Conkling as those of New York. Moreover, President Grant is not the kind of man to mount his horse and swim as far as the middle of the stream and then turn back when it would be more dangerous than to cross. Having deliberately done enough to incur the hostil- ity of Mr. Conkling’s rivals he is not going to be foiled by them if he can help it, He can control nearly all the Southern dele- gates, and after the first ballot or two they will all vote in a body for Conkling. A fore- knowledge that this is to be the case will help him in the West and insure him a ma- jority on the third or fourth ballot. At any rate Mr.. Conkling’s chances, better than those of any rival before, are wonderfully brightened and strengthened. He is like a general in a doubtful battle, who hears the signal guns which announce the approach of a heavy body of reinforcements and rein- spirit his own soldiers with the hope of a splendid and decisive victory. Andrassy on the Peace of Europe. Count Andrassy has declared at Pesth, and apparently in positive terms, that the peace of Europe will not be disturbed on account of the troublesin Turkey. It is but afew years since another Prime Minister in Europe formally announced that there would be no war, when war was declared on the next day, and that a Minister of War declared that there was not so much wanted in the army as a button for a soldier's gaiter, when buttons for soldiers’ gaiters were about the only things the army had of what was necessary. It is, therefore, permissible sometimes to take Ministerial declarations with some allowance; and it is well to re- member that the present declaration was made in Hungary, where, if anywhere, the Austrian Premier would strain a point to give this particular subject a rose-colored aspect. He was, in fact, before his depart- ure for Berlin, practically pledged to the Hungarians on this point ; and he reports to them now simply that he has redeemed his pledges and has prevented foreign interfer- ence in Turkey. In his statement of the immediate purport of diplomatic activity the Count, is, however, explicit. He says :—‘‘The present action of the Powers is directed toward the peaceful removal of obstacles preventing the accom- plishment of the reforms.” Certainly if this labor is feasible, if the obstacles pres venting the accomplishment of the reforms can be peacefully removed, there will be no war, just as water never falls from the clouds except when it rdins. An exhibition has, however, been given on a small scale of what these obstacles are; and it has been’ made plain at Salonica and at Constanti- nople that to enforce the reforms will be to stir up from the depths the savage spirit of fanaticism. The Padishah has no public force of any value except what is inspired by that very spirit, and to put this spirit in the field against itself would not be a military success. Force is necessary to carry out re- forms, and the more the Sultan rallies his own force the worse it will be for reforms. Either, therefore, the programme of reforms will become a dead letter as others have be fore—a mere cheat and delusion of the insurgent populations—or other armed force than the Sultan's must guarantee their ap- plication. It is on the introduction of this other armed force that disputes and war may arise, and this stage of the case has not been reached. Tue Cuersxrantne of. the democrats in attempting to cut down the pay of the officers of the navy is not likely to result in much advantage to their party. They had better first settle all their Fitzhugh difficulties be fore “going for” Porter, Rowan and other distinguished servants of the Republic in its day of trial. Tae Fenian AMNESTY Question made quite astir in the British House of Commons yes- terday, several excited speeches having been delivered ; but Mr. Disraeli.settled the mat- ter by saying that he could not now recom- course to conciliate the Irish people, and what possible use the prisoners aro to the British government, except as furnishing the Irish nationalists with a chronic army of “martyrs,” we cannot clearly see, Tux Metnoptist Minisrexs yesterday were troubled about the prospect of paying for the services of a certain Mr. Ives at the Sing Sing camp meeting. Mr. Ives would not, it appears, preach without a pecuniary com- pensation, and as the brethren do it for pure love of saving souls they resolved not to go | to St. Ives this year for heavenly instruction, Tue Postrronements anv Dexays in bring. ing Charles A. Lawrenco to trial should come toan end, We do not at all presume to interfere with the discretion of the goy- | ernment in takingadvantage of any confcs- sion Lawrence may be prepared to make, but it is high time somo definite action ; Should be taken. them in their order and beginning with | mend amnesty. There is nothing in this | The New Cabinet Changes. | President Grant is following in the foot- | steps of General Jackson in his determina- especially in this centennial year of pence | and patriotism. All we ask from the man- | agers of this Exposition is not t® turn it into | be Naval Investigation. The first part of the printed evidence taken by the Naval Committee of the House | tion that his Cabinet shall be so composed | aone-horse show, This is simple enough. | of Representatives is before us. It chiefly as not to obstruct his own views of what is | best for his party nor his own preference of | Ssuccessor. He is too strong and deliberate | to go offon a sudden impulse, and when he commits himself to any course his character | is a guarantee that he will ‘fight it out on that line” against all obstacles that are not | insurmountable, The step he has now ; taken has doubtless been pondered with a deliberateness proportioned to its gravity its political consequences. He cannot be unaware of the interpretation which will be put vpon it by the country, and he is evi- | dently willing that it should be understood in its most obvious sense. It is a public declaration of his preference of Senator Conkling for the Presidency and of his de- termination to aid him in every way con- | sistent with the duties and decorum of his station, It would be unbefitting for the President of the United States to descend into the vulgar political arena or to make improper appointments for effect on the Presidential canvass, But in this case President Grant has done neither. These new appointments are, one and all, defensible on their merits. None of them could easily be improved, if the sole object were to fill the vacant places with men thoroughly competent to dis- charge their duties; nor can it be said that the vacancies were created for the purpose of making appointments which havea poli- tical bearing. The most important of our foreign missions has been too long vacant, particularly as we have a critical contro- versy with Great Britain relating to the Ex- tradition Treaty. The President nominated an able successor to General Schenck while the latter was on his voyage home to meet the. charges against him, but Mr. Dana? was rejected “by the Sen- ate. The sending in of another nomi- nation had become a matter of urgency, and the selections of Judge Pierrepont, who is admirably qualified for that mission, cre- ated a vacancy in the office of Attorney Gen- eral, which needed to be filled at once. Sec- retary Taft, an eminent lawyer, who has spent his life in that profession and who ound his duties in the War Department new and uncongenial, desired to be trans- ferred to the Department of Justice, and his wish was very properly acceded to, which left another Cabinet vacancy. It can as little be said that this vacancy was created without good cause, as that in the Attorney General- ship, The vacancy in the War Department could not be filled by a Cabinet promotion, and the President had to go outside as he did when he appointed Judge Taft. The only question of fitness that can arise re- lates to the personal qualifications of Mr. “Don” Cameron. They are really of a very high order, or, at least, the Senate has shown that it so considers them by promptly con- firming Mr. Cameron with the other two. Ho is a young man—not yet forty, we believe— and he has never before held a political office. But he is widely known as one of the most capable, shrewd and ener- getic business men in the State of Penn- sylvania, He has been accustomed to man- age extensive undertakings, and has the trained sagacity, knowledge of men and largeness of view which are both required and cultivated in the management of great enterprises, He is one of the most rising among the younger men of tho country, and is fitted to make even a more important figure in business and public affairs than Senator Simon Cameron, his distinguished father. Nobody can affect to doubt that he will prove’ not merely a good but a singu- larly able and efficient Secretary of War. All of these new appointments, therefore, which make such an unwonted stir in politi- cal circles, are fully vindicated by their fitness, and the occasions for them have arisen naturally in the necessities of the public service. But it cannot be denied that they have also a political meaning, and this it is which touches the nerves of poli- tics and causes an almost convulsive move- ment. Philadelphia and the Centennial. The venerable and courtly North American, of Philadelphia, which has been a daily journal since Washington’s time, is dissatis- fied with us because we allow our corre- spondents tq criticise the Centennial Exhibi- tion, and intim&tes that an ‘‘editorial” hint to them might remedy the evil. In New York—nnd we presume the same thing is true in Philadelphia—nothing is easier than to praise everybody and everything. We wish we could do so as to tho Centennial. We bestowed a good deal of praise upon that enterprise at a time when praise was life. The enthusiasm of Philadelphia, the enter- prise of her people, the ability of the man- agers in the .Board of Finance, the single- minded devotion to the work when every one seemed to be against it—all is worthy of praise, which we would willingly bestow again. We supported the Centennial as a national undertaking, and favored Philadelphia as the site because of its historical associations. All we asked of Philadelphia was to rise to the dignity of the responsibility sho accepted. Yet the Centennial was scarcely opened before we read in o leading Philadelphia newspaper an article of rare ability, showing how the Centennial would overthrow the commercial supremacy which the Erie Canal gave to New York and restore metro- politan dignity to Philadelphia, The editor of the North American can imagine the dis- may with which we read this article, and the foelings with which wo discovered that what had been urged upon us and by us upon the country as 6 national and international undertaking was really a scheme to deprive New York of her metropolitan supremacy, Now, we are willing to do what we can for Philadelphia or any of our sister cities, But how can we be expected to carry this sentiment to the extent of committing sui- cide? Wo mention this fact not to excite ill feeling, but for the purpose of showing our contemporary that it we were disposed to lose our temper we might make serious charges against our Philadelphia friends as to their designs against New York. But far be it from us to harbor any such feelings, and resolved upon with a clear perception of | Let them search out the abuses, the annoy- | ances, the ‘pettiness which are the burden of so many articles in the Philadelphia | newspapers. If we were to: quote one-half | | of the stories we read in Philadelphia jour- | nals we should have a much severer story | | than that which excites onr venera- ble contemporary. The trouble is in | the fact that the Centennial is held jam an inland city, the metropolis of a State, and not in New York, the me- | tropolis of the nation. Philadelphia is not | accustomed to burdens like the Centennial. She is a home city, a city of manufactures, a city with many attractions which we find | in no other. But an enterprise like the Cen- tennial is not in her way. Nor is it in the habits or temper of her people to grapple with so stupendous an affair. The people are too much excited to deal with it as it should be dealt with, as a practical, common sense undertaking. What it wants isa head. It runs itself. The managers seem to think that the work is done, when it has only begun. If our criticisms on the Exhibition will stimulate the managers to renewed activity we shall be satisfied. Now that Philadel- phia has her Centennial it is our inter- est and the interest of the nation that it should be managed with wisdom and liberality, that it should be dealt with as a national affir and not as a mere advertise- ment for Philadelphia, and that there should be a higher policy than that indicated in the leading Philadelphia journal to which we referred, that the Centennial would become the means of depriving New York of the com- mercial and financial supremacy she has held for fifty years. If our friends under the judicious lead of a journal as sagacious as the North American will only see that the Centennial becomes what the country in- tended it should be we shall praise it to the end and take our chances as to the success- ful rivalry of Philadelphia in the race for metropolitan precedence, A Plea for Cricket. We have frequently taken occasion in these columns to notice with satisfaction the great impulse that within the last few years has been given to the practice of athletic sports in this country; we have now base ball clubs, cricket, tennis, rowing, athletic, coaching and other clubs of a kindred character, and one of the oldest of them all is the St. George’s Cricket Club. From this parent stock have sprung a large number of other associations for the practice of this manly sport, each possessing its favorite hard hitters and pretty fielders, and all of them, real lovers of the game and interested in its development in this country, It seems rather hard to believe that, while in England every village has its gréen and every publio school its cricket ground, pro- ducing hundreds of young men who play as good cricket as a large number of those who adorn the county elevens, in this city several cricket clubs are about to abandon their organization from the hard necessity of seeking in New Jersey and other places far distant from the city grounds upon which to practise their game or to play their capital and well contested matches, ; This is nevertheless true, and it seems besides a great pity and a wrong that theso cricketers should be obliged to forego their favorite exercise while the broad and unused sward of the Central Park lies invitingly open before them, and would be so gladly resorted to were permission granted for its use, * It cannot be urged by those who ‘have the misfortune to be unacquainted with cricket that the Park would be defaced or injury come to the turf through its practice; for the fact is that one of the first necessities of the game is a perfect condition of the ground, and its preservation the first care of the player. So far from being an injury a well appointed cricket ground of four or five acres would be an ornament and the matches played there a great attrac- tion and source of pleasure. The roads are open to the riding and driving public; the walks are beautiful and well used; the waters round the city are open to the lovers of yachting and boating; but to those who prefer a more vigorous exercise, or who can- not afford horses or yachts, the privilege of. following their own course of physical cul- ture or that best suited to their own means or personal requirements seems to be denied, at any rate within a reasonable distance from the city limits, Tho Commissioners of Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, have wisely set apart a portion of their grounds for the use of a cricket club, and no spot on its beautiful meadow is more carefully guarded from injury, no keeper in the place is more jealously watchful of its condition than the cricketers who play there. Philadelphia, too, offers every en- couragement to her clubs, and, as a conse- quence, the game is in high favor there and the play the best in the country. The authorities are very cageful to keep the clubs - within their own domain, and do not compel them to seek other States and counties for the opportunity of cultivating their strength and manhood. 4 It really seems almost ignoblé that ina great metropolis like New York, with the means at its command and the ground al- ready made, this splendid sport should be allowed to languish and die out without offering a helping hand to rescue it, and the more especially because it can be done without the expense of one farthing to the city. Wo advise the clubs that are contemplat- ing dissolution to make one more appeal to the Commissioners of the Central Park, and there must be reason to hope that those in- telligent gentlemen will receive their peti- tion with the encouragement it deserves. Tamp Tena Buxcomnz,—Mr. Page, of California, who introduced a buncombe reso- lution into the House ‘of Representatives, covertly favoring a third term, had his ‘ game spoiled by a prompt motion to lay the resolution on the table. The incident is only remarkable at this time in recalling how clumsily Mr. Blaine dodged the third term resolution in the beginning of the session, ; refers to the Kittery Navy Yard, and, though only the preface to the great work of the in- | vestigation, is a voluine in itself. It unravels the fraudulent system by which the lawa relating to contracts are evaded and nulli- fied. It shows the villanies perpetrated through “open purchase.” It discloses the collusion of Chief of Construction Hanscom, with contractors ; the purchase of worthless machinery at extravagant prices ; | the debts contracted by the department, to be paid from future appropriations ; the destruction of original bills for materials furnished, and the making of new bills with new dates to cover the transaction ; the destruction of a valuable ship, the Vir- ginia, to provide work for men at election times ; the breaking up and selling for old iron, at private sale, of valuable engines and boilers ; the trading of old and new iron and metals by methods whoily illegal and strongly tainted with suspicion. The evidence of Commodore Howell, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, reveals the fact that the Secretary of the Navy disposes of the appropriations for the bureaus, and does not even condescend to inform them what he does with the money. He also testifies that he is never called upon to advise the Secretary with respect to the building or the sale of vessels, and sel- dom for anything else. The Commodore demonstrates the value of the bureaus as advisers of the Secretary of the Navy. His evidence needs no comment; but the evil which overshadows all the rest and which concerns the American people most is the political corruption in the navy yards, established and sustained by the Navy De- partment in Washington, The naval appropriations are made from year to year by the party in power—for what? The people believe the object is to sustain the navy as | means of defence to the country. But itis not so, That is only the pretext for the appropriation. The in- terest the partisan politician takes in it is to make the money subserve his own purposes, The interest the Navy Department takes ip it is for personal and political advantages, The patronage buys the influence of the Rep- resentative, who may be an investigator 3 OF the Senator, who may become the judge of the Secretary when he is charged, as at present, with crime. The evi- dence before us discloses the fact that Senator Sargent held the defaulting clerk Pinney in his place, and no, paymaster could be ordered to that yard who would not accept Pinney as his clerk. The same is said of the clerk of Paymaster Russell, in Philadelphia. Russell was re- lieved after three years’ service, and the new paymaster (Fulton), who was not allowed to choose his clerk, declined the place and Russell was reinstated. The evidence of Commodore Fairfax shows Senators Cragin, of New Hampshire, and Morrill and Hamlin, of Maine, struggling to keep supernumeraried employed at the navy yard, and striving, in- stead of reducing expenses, to consume tht appropriations for the benefit of partisans, One of these supernumeraries was a mem: ber of the Legislature of New Hamp shire when Cragin was elected Senator. Another was a member of the Legis lature, and held an office in the navy yard at the time of Mr. Hamlin’s olection to the Senaté. The navy yard at Kittery seems to have been divided between the republicans of Maine and New Hampshire, the number of men employed from each State depend- ing upon the times of the elections, Robe- son and his tool Hanscom seem faithfully to have responded to all demands from their political friends, and to have appointed whomsoover they desired, whether the work- man was skilled or unskilled, a convicted thief or an honest man. When the report of this committee shall have been made from the full testimony all men will be convinced that the navy must be reformed and that if is time for the people to domand that they shall not be taxed to supply the administra. tion with the means of purchasing its own continuance in office. The naval appropria- tions since the war have been devoted to that purpose. The “World” Nowspaper. An announcemeht was made yesterday by our able democratic contemporary of a transfer of proprietorship and a change of editors, Mr. William H. Hurlbert has pur- chased the establishment from Mr. Manton Marble, its owner, and succeeds him as the editor of that vigorous party journal. The public will be surprised at: thie change, for Mr. Marble had put such a strong impress of individuality on his paper that jt is as difficult to separate him from the idea of it as it would have been to think of Mr. Greeley apart from the Tribune, or Mr. Raymond apart from the Times, until the association was broken by an event which, we trust, is very, very far distant for Mr. Mar- ble. There are few instances in journalism of so younga man achieving 80 distinguished areputation. He has been connected with the World from its foundation, has been for fourteen years its chief editor, and for the grehter part of that period its sole proprie tor. With varied attainments in literature and winning social accomplishments he al- ways seemed to give his whole heart to his profession, ahd to make it his pride and his chief pleasure. We: are sure that his retiremont from journal. ism can be only temporary, and we shall welcome his reappearance, -for we donbt if he can find any other pursuit se congenial. Unlike most conductors of party journals, he has a supreme contempt for trimming oxpediencies, and tho World, under his management, has been conspicue ous for unflinching devotion to great prin- ciples. It has also been remarkable for intelligent interest in all the pro gressive movements of modern thought— in philosophy, in science, in theology ané in every department of human culture, Mt Marble’s deep interest in this high range o topics may have impaired the snecess of hit journal by the prominence he has given t discussions which are above the average in. telligence of the community. If he made any mistake as o journalist it was in sup- posing that the ordinary public vould be