The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1876, Page 4

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Ninth and Arch streets — ZOOLOG' OPEAN ANATOMICAL # Chestnut street, THEATRE, OF PARIS, ast of the Philadelphia A MUSEUM, ORPHANS, 8 1876, From our reports this morning the probabilities sare that the weather to-day will be decidedly cold and partly cloudy, followed by an increase of temperature. Tue Soxc Mr. Kerry Dozs Nort Lixz— *Tammany make room for your Anti.” Tae Lrrenary Srason has just begun, and the publishers are busy. Our Boston letter to-day gives an interesting account of new poems and novels, with several extracts from advanced sheets of unpublished works. Tar Ramway Krxcs in this country gov- ern much as they please ; but in Europea railway king who does wrong is deposed, as in the case of Dr. Stroudsberg, who is about to stand his trial in Russia for embezzlement. Arnican Exproration is a subject of sin- gular interest at this day, and consequently the letter which we print this morning, es- | pecially that part of it relating to the pur- poses of the King of the Belgians in Central Africa, will be read with attention. Sour Canorrsa Danoens.—Governor Chamberlain's programme is producing its natural results, as will be seen in our Colum- bia correspondence. Race is arrayed against race; midnight arrests are made; passions are inflamed by cunning politicians ; troops are asked for of the President, and there is danger of a bloody conflict between the whites and negroes. Nothing can avert this but wisdom at Washington and moderation in the State. General Hampton is doing a good work in this direc- tion. At every meeting he reads the Heratp editorials on the situation, and urges his col- ored hearers to adopt our advice—that is, to vote for Hayes and Wheeler if they are republicans, but to vote against Chamber- lain, no matter what their politics may be. The redemption of the State from his ty- | ranny is an indispensable step toward the | restoration of peace and prosperity in South Carolina. Tre Case or Von Anrnru.—Prince Bis- marck is not the man to permit any trifling with whatever he may esteem the prerogative of his official position, and it might have been supposed but for the Von Arnim case that there was nobody in Ger- many not fully aware of this fact. It is searcely just, however, to count that Von | Arnim is pursued by the relentless Prince in & purely personal difference. In the ad- ministration of the foreign affairs of his government the Prince found in Von Arnim | not simply an obstacle to the policy which | he deemed wise, but a resolute opponent endeavoring to defeat that policy. Now, in acy logical sequence of ideas, the man who Lolis a post under a government and uses his post to defeat the government policy is nO: merely in revolt against the discipline, but he is a traitor. This is the pith of the case against Von Arnim. Bismarck defends his policy and his government and makes an example that will save the State the recur- rence of similar troubles. At the last mo- ment it is possible that by royal clemency Von Arnim may be spared; but while the ease stands on any legal ground there will _" NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. City Politics in New York. It is not merely a local misfortune, but a national humiliation, that the worst governed city in the United States is the commercial metropolis. We should have reason to blush for the country if national pride were dis- missed from the class of motives which in- fluence our publicmen. The greater part of what foreign visitors learn of the Great Re- public is learned in this city. It is here that they take their first step on American soil ; it is the local institutions of this city that they first examine as specimens of the working of our institutions; they spend more time here than in any other place on the continent; they return here from flying excursions to other American locali- ties; here they receive more social courtesies and have larger opportu- nities for intercourse with our people than anywhere else; and when at length they re-embark for Europe the chief im- pressions of the American Republic which they carry back and diffuse in their own circles at home have been derived from their observations in New York. Our credit and estimation abroad depend so much on the experience of intelligent visitors in this city that it is to be regretted, for the sake of the country, that our local administration does not furnish a better model of the working of free institutions, Good government in this city is of national importance in another and entirely domestic point of view. New York is the centre of exchanges for our domestic and foreign com- merce and the grand mart of American com- merce. It is not only the chief sent of our export and import trade, but the great point of distribution for domestic manufac- tures which are sent here for sale by the establishments that produce them. The consequence is that almost every merchant, manufacturer, banker and’business man in the United States has frequent occasion to visit this city, and has a more direct interest in good government here than in any other locality except his own immediate residence. Moreover, the attention of the country at large is constantly fixed on New York by the fact that itis the great centre and focus of intelligence, as well as of commercial ex- changes, for the whole country. The New York journals are the only part of the Ameri- can press which has a uniyersal circulation throughout the United States. Aside from their direct influence on their immediate readers they are the principal source of in- spiration to the thousands of local news- papers which multiply and diffuse this in- fluence. For these various reasons New York holds the uppermost place in the thoughts of American citizens. Hun- dreds of thousands who are not called here by business visit the city every year for pleasure and recreation; ladies to learn the fashions, gentlemen to widen their mental horizon and brush off the rust of provincial life, and both sexes to attend the opera, to sea good acting in our theatres, to look at the new works of our artists in their studios, and to enjoy such hospitalities and oppor- tunities for social observation as their titles to distinction or acquaintance with residents may give them access to. This metropolis is, therefore, ‘‘a city set upon a hill,” and ought to be a model for the whole country of generous and elevated politics as well as of fashions and social entertainments. But, unfortunately, in all matters connected with the wise working of popular institutions, it is better fitted for a warning than a model. The bad state of our city politics may, perhaps, be explained, if not extenuated. In the first place, we have our proportion of the scum and dregs which infest all popu- lous cities, with the difference that, unlike the great capitals of the Old World, our municipal affairs are under the control of universal suffrage, which gives the vilest classes a share in the government. So long as we were mainly an agricultural people our institutions worked admirably ; but the most difficult part of the problem which we are attempting to solve came in with the growth of large cities. To secure good gov- ernment in cities by means of universal suf- frage is that part of our political experiment which causes most doubt and anxiety to thoughtful patriots. In the city of New York, besides having this great obstacle to contend against, we have been unfortunate in the unrestrained predominance of one political party. Free institutions, even at their best, require a tolerably equal division of parties for their successful operation. Free government is necessarily a government by political par- ties, whose chief function is to watch each other with keen vigilance, to trip up their opponents when they make mistakes, to ex- pose their abuses when they are false to their trust, and oust them from power in the next election when they have forfeited public confidence. But in order to ac- complish these salutary results the two parties need to be so nearly balanced that that part of the community whom party ties do not bind very closely can turn the scale in a contested election. When a political party is so strong in num- bers that it cannot be made promptly re- sponsible for malversation free institutions | are more corrupting and intolerable than despotism itself. We have had a hideous experience on this head, both in the national government and in the municipal govern- ment of this city. In the nation at large the republican party has possessed such overwhelming strength that it has been re- lieved from all real responsibility and has felt it safe to venture on anything. The same thing has been true in the politics of this city, where the democrats have been as overpoweringly strong as the republicans in national affairs. Free institutions, which aro the same thing as government by parties, are the worst possible when the minority is not strong enough to put the majority in fear and force it to pay a decent respect to public senti- ment. It is a great misfortune to the demo- cratic party that its strength is not more equally distributed throughout this State, instead of being concentrated in the city. Both our State government and our munici- pal government would be better if, in all the localities, the strength ag the two parties were so nearly even that a bad nomination or an unwise measure would put the offend- ‘ing party out of power. The bane of free in- stitutions is a party majority large enough opinion. The chief reason why the munici- pal government of New York is so bad is the vast preponderance of one political party in the city. Such a party, feeling secure of victory in any event, the leaders who manipulate it abuse their influence, Wherever the majority is so large that a party nomination is thought to be the same thing as an elec- tion the worst candidate has equal chances with the best. The one autocrat or few lead- ers who pull the wires secure the nomina- tion of their pets or tributaries, and publio offices are regarded as the private property of party managers. The mass of voters in neither party take any active part in work- ing the machinery of nominations, and the only security fer good candidates is a whole- some fear that the people will not indorse bad ones, This security is destroyed when- ever a party is so strong that a nomination by it is equivalent to an election. The great strength of the democratic party in this city is the rank soil from which a new boss or crop of bosses shoots up as soon as one has been plucked up by the roots. Boss Tweed is succeeded by Boss Kelly. The latter, warned by the fate of his prede- cessor, is too shrewd to go to the same cor- rupt lengths, but the source of his power is not different. Not one yoter in twenty takes any part in the machinery of political organization, and most of those who do are the tools of party chiefs. The consequence is that the Tammany Boss is a political dic- tator; that he and not the mass of his party make the nominations, and that mere disci- plineand party servility determine the action of the voters. When this method is carried to an extreme the people rebel, as they did last fall, and as they are sure to do again this year if Boss Kelly nominates ‘‘my candi- date.” The evil of overgrown parties is, however, attended with a principle of com- pensation in the factions which arise within their own ranks in the scramble for spoils. Mr. Kelly has to face this danger, and unless he can harmonize the democratic factions there will be a joint opposition ticket, sup- ported by the republicans and German voters, and Mr. Kelly will peruse in the election returns a second edition of the mor- tifying 1esson he received last year. There is but one way of escape, and that lies in Mr. Kelly's consent to abandon his pet candidates and permit such municipal nominations as will secure the approval of all democrats. The nomination of Mr. Kane, Mr. Babcock or any approved demo- crat of similar standing would not only heal the menacing divisions in the party, but insure the vote of the State for Mr. Tilden. The fate of the democratic national ticket, as well as the cause of good government in this city, is staked upon the willingness of Mr. Kelly to make reasonable concessions, If he remains obstinate he will act the part of sightless Samson, who brought down the Philistine temple in ruins and found his own death beneath the tumbling rubbish. An Appeal to Spinsters and Others. Some people are exceedingly clever in finding the duties which other people owe to their children. As a matter of course these fortunate individuals are the first to discover that a married woman’s maternal cares make it impossible for her to teach in the public schools. If such a rule was of universal application, as it ought to be to be valid, it would deprive the world of half its benefits and enjoyments. The sylph- like figure which flits through the airy mazes of tho ballet hastily exchanges the drapéry and gauze of the stage for the garments of ordinary humanity that she may the quicker reach the little sylphs at home. Who demands that the play shall stop because there is a married woman behind the footlights? Who asks that the prima donnashall quit her triumphs because a lot of young artists are bawling in the nursery under the care of that ap- pendage of every prima donna—a husband? Does anybody think that the Lady Teazle of the hour should quit teasing the Sir Peter of the stage because the real Sir Peter can- not manage the brats left in his care? Who wonders whether the shopwoman, the sew- ing woman, the washerwoman or the apple woman is married, and demands that she shall forsake her avocation because of her maternal duties? We fear there is something very like a jealousy having its source in social condition at thebottom of this question in regard to the employment of married women as teachers. It is the single women against their more fortu- nate sisters, This is a very short-sighted policy on the part of the spinsters. Every woman expects to be married some day. Those who are loudest to decry the male sex would be the quickest to jump at the first offer. All men are not rich ; it 1s not in the nature of things that they should be; but mere poverty is no reason why even a school teacher should refuse the hand of an honest and handsome young fellow. We believe few of the young women in our public schools would refuse an offer to marry | otherwise unobjectionable merely because the suitor was not a young Croesus. Why, then, this factious opposition to married women? Marriage is all the more alluring with asnug position in the public schools to help to keep the pot boiling. We trust this argument will not escape the attention of the spinsters, aud that they will consult their real and not their fancied selfishness in dealing with this question. The Board of Education, too, has a duty to perform which heretofore has not been fully recog- nized—the duty of discouraging any ten- dency toward old maidenhood, by promoting marriage among the female teachers, Tue Eastern Question.-—The strength of the Turkish army, the history of the recent peace negotiations, the intrigue to make Prince Milan King of Servia and the Rus- sian policy are treated at length in a letter from our Constantinople correspondent, With this we publish another letter from Therapia descriptive of the diplomatic ses- sions at the villa of Sir Henry Elliott on the Bosphorus. Tre BucxsrortT Muaven—One of those crimes that startle the community by their exceptional hideousness—is fully analyzed in our news.columns, There is little doubt but that the murderer has been caught, but as Maine abolished capital punishment last be no failure to apply the law fully. . . ¥{ to release it from the restraints of public | winter he will escape hanging. The People and the Politicians. It is unlikely that the gulf between the Tammany and the anti-Tammany branchesof the democracy will be bridged over. They will stand apart like the two piers of the Brooklyn Bridge, one on each shore, while Mr. Green, like the East River in full tide, runs between them both. After the election is over the folly of the democracy will be as clearly seen by its lead- ersas it is now by the public. Here are two or three men whose personal quarrels are allowed to control the politics of the entire democratic party in New York, and reform, good municipal government, peace and suc- cess are all to be sacrificed to their rival am- bitions. Mr. John Kelly has saddled and bridled Tammany and proposes to ride it to rule or ruin. The steed is obedient to the man. On the other side Mr. O'Brien, who on Saturday defeated Mr. Morrissey as the anti-[Tammany leader, refuses to yield to the exorbitant demands of Mr. Kelly, and proposes to make a ticket of hisown. Family quarrels are notoriously worse than the disputes of strangers, and so there is more bitterness between the two factions of the democracy than between either one and the republicans, and proba- bly greater animosity between Mr, O’Brien and Mr. Morrissey than between either of them and Mr. Kelly. It is not credit- able to the democracy of this city that it should be thus demoralized and broken up, and that what ought to be a united canvass has become a disgraceful struggle for plun- der of the offices. While this condition of affairs is to be regretted for the sake of the party it may, after all, be an advantage to the public. The public has something to say in this question as well as Messrs. Kelly, O'Brien, Morrissey and the others who are running the two conventions. Let these gentlemen remember that last year Mr, Kelly insisted upon ruling or ruining, as he does now, and that ruin was the result. The Henarp and the people nominated John K. Hackett for Recorder, and despite of Tam- many and Mr. Kelly he was triumphantly elected. We do not know that the people have had occasion to regret that victory. This year they may win anothér, They certainly will ifan unpopular and unfit nomination for Mayor should be made by Tammany Hall. In that case either Mr. Babcock, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Agnew, or Mr. Kane could be elected by a popular uprising, as in the case of Recorder Hackett. Under other conditions Mr. Green would secure the office for which he is now working with energy. The people are dis- contented with leaders who seem to be only contending for the disposal of the three mill- ion four hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars at which the fifty-eight offices to be filled this election are valued, and disgusted with conventions that need to be kept in order by a police force. The problem of who shall be our next Mayor, our next Surrogate, our next Sheriff, is yet unsolved; but those are very much mistaken who leave the people out of the question. If the people undertake to settle it all the John Kellys, Morrisseys and O'Briens in New York might as well stand aside. Nowton'’s Channel. Surveys of the site of the blasted reef having now been completed, as described in to-day’s Hurarp, we can form some estimate of the effects of the great blast. It is evident that General Newton’s cal- culations have been fully borne out, and that the shell of the reef which rested on the supporting columns has been com- pletely broken up and has descended on and now overlies the pulverized débris of the columns. The task of removing this heap of detached rock will involve considerable time and the expenditure of no little skill, because of the strong currents that sweep over the site at certain stages of the tide. However, the success which has attended the demolition of the reef itself as a solid mass gives promise of a final conquest of this dangerous obstruction by the less difficult operation of dredging. The work on the Flood Rock is progressing very fa- vorably. The difficulties of drilling appear to be less than those that attended the oper- ations at Hallett’s Point Reef, so that we may look forward to an early removal of the Middle Reef, of which the Flood Rock forms a part. Nothing can delay the clear- ing of Hell Gate channel from all its obstruc- tions except small appropriations by Con- gress, and, considering the importance of the work tothe commerce of the United States, money should be freely and liberally provided. Discipline at Annapolis. Several young men have been expelled from the Academy at Annapolis because “they will not tell who did it.” In the theory of discipline their act is an offence; in the theory of schoolboys the world over their act is one of generous devotion and lofty virtue. Is there any théory or any line of conduct on which these two can be reconciled? Evidently not. It is not pos- sible at school any more than elsewhere in the world to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds at the same time. Persons responsible for the good order and discipline of colleges of every grade have pretty well made up their minds that some old-fash- ioned but one-sided and ruffianly sports of the students must be stopped; and that resolution is so evidently just that all rea- sonable steps which may be deemed neces- sary to give it effect must be regarded as good, The supremacy of order in an institu- tion of learning is of more consequence than the fate of half a dozen students ; and if practical jokes of a barbarous nature can be stopped anywhere they may be certainly in a school where the relation of pedagogue and pupil is assimilated by the nature of | the case to that of officer and soldier. But we would simply call attention to a peculiar, practical result in thiscase, Here are some scores of gentlemen who may be called upon in the future to serve the country in battle, and we should stimulate in them the gen- erous and gallant qualities of human na- ture. But what do wedo? There are two groups, tho-e who are found out and those who are not. To defend those who are not found out, and who are com- monly the leaders, the others ‘‘die game.” To be equally generous the undiscovered should, assoon as the case was seen to be L critical, disclose themselves; come fairly out, acknowledge their acts-and ‘‘stand the racket." It is cowardly to do otherwise, and they do otherwise, They remain in the school ; the gallant boys, the victims of » mistaken sense of honor, are expelled. Thus the discipline of the school discriminates against the very qualities which the school should endeavor to cultivate. Sliddery Slade. Every great progress in science must be Preceded by its hypothesis, and the func- tion of the hypothesis has been aptly com- pared tothe scaffolding that is put up for the builder to stand upon while he erects the wall. Imagination projects into the abyss of the future some grand guess, and the humbler laborers of science—the patient delvers and persistent hewers—spend their early energy and their midnight oil in the accumulation and disposition of the facts which shall prove or disprove the hypoth- esis, Some of them find the police in the way, and are obstructed often by what is called the justice of the period. This is what has happened to Slade, as it has previ- ously happened to many other investigators, Slade should be proud of this fact, for the same thing happened to Galileo, and when ascientific inquirer finds that there is any point in which his history resembles that of ‘the starry Galileo with his woes” he may be sure that he is to that extent in the right direction. Slade may go to prison. In this country we deal more lightly with science, and we only compel birds of his feather to pay ten dollars for a license as jugglers. Then they can write on a slate just as they please; and not one of them has yet done such wonders with a slate as is done every year in Tammany Hall. In fact, the Tammany Indians are the great slate jugglers of this age, and Slade’s achieve- ments are poor by comparison. But in Eng- land there is no freedom, even in jugglery. Besides, in that country the quarrel of relig- ion and science is fierce, and the Bench of Bishops would have to be reorganized if Slade were not sent to prison. But they do not see that in incarcerating him they may assist his labors ; that they may themselves become parties toa grand demonstration of the truthfulness of the hypothesis of the materialization of spirits. In this respect the world is on the eve of s wonderful dis- covery. It may not be commonly known that, when a disembodied spirit is put before the pub- lic in‘a materialized form, the spirit is then in such a relation with the medium that the two go halves, as it were, in the possession of the medium’s body. As the disembodied one acquires.an appearance more and more perceptible to the vulgar eye the person of the medium becomes more and more atten- uated, and often cannot be seen without glasses. This accounts for the fact that per- sons in a highly spiritualized condition can, with the assistance of a certain number of glasses, oftener than not see two men where ordinary people only see one. Well, it appears that this process of the material- ization of spirits was at on advanced stage between Slade and an unknown ghost when the impertinent doctors broke violently in and seized the ghost with Slade’s body on him. He had more than half already, and in the con- fusion the rest went over to him with asud- den flop, and poor Slade was left out in the cold, and inyisible, of course. That ghost, wearing Slade’s body, is what those mis- taken people have got on their hands, and the longer they can keep him the better the ghost will like it. Slade, however, is hang- ing around and watching his chance, Let them once put that fellow under bolts and bars. Then Slade will hop up on the window ledge as lively as a cocksparrow, and through the interstices of the prison bars he will just “materialize” that body of his on the outside, and that wretched unknown ghost may sneak off “‘blown in the viewless prison of the winds.” In the morning when the jailer comes in with the gruel there will be nothing there but a slight smell, and the principles of materialization will be demonstrated. English Novelists in America. Travel has become so easy that travellers have nothing new to tell, and even books on African regions which only a few years ago were marked ‘‘elephants” on the maps are becoming commonplace since Speke, Liv- ingstone, Gordon and Stanley have revealed their mysteries. The exploration of this little planet is almost completed, and travellers give less attention to geog- raphy than to other branches of science. It is necessary now to describe the flora and fauna and geology of a country as well as its superficial features, But the novelist who visits strange countries is not expected to enter profoundly into such sub- jects, for his special province of study is mankind. We look in his works for char- acter and picturesque descriptions of society. He does not visit America, for ex- ample, to investigate its political in- stitutions in a few weeks, as the Count Smorltork did in England; but if he reports at all itis upon manners and national characteristics: We have had the pleasure of viewing our features in numbers of crooked mirrors held up by such English travellers as Trollope and Dickens; but the reflection did not always seem correct. Whether Mr. William Black, the cele- brated novelist whose impressions of American society and the Western Territories are elsewhere given, in- tends to write a book about us we are not informéd, but it is to be hoped he will. The author of ‘A Princess of Thule” has shown in all his books great perceptive powers, discriminative humor, knowledge of human nature, appreciation of character and a rare faculty of description. It is true that his visit to the United States has been too short to qualify him to judge of our geology or our political condition, and he is too sensible, we think, to touch upon these profound subjects; but he has the eye ofa novelist, and there are many phases of American life which he might illus- trate with freshness and truth. Let Mr. Black put Boston and the prairies into his next novel. We assure him that the Ameri- can public, which has learned to admire his works, will be glad to study itself in his un- prejudiced desoriptions, $$$ KS The Sermons Yesterday. _ Chill winds and threatening skies seem to make little impression on the religious fervor of New Yorkers ; for, notwi both, the churches were well filled yester- day with seekers after spiritual food. The accommodations afforded for congregations in most of our city churches are calculated to attract the masses of our people apart from the inviting feasts of eloquence and music which are spread for their ben- efit, . Indeed, no trouble or expense is spared to render the church a fa- vorite place of resort on Sunday, and in this there is sound wisdom as well as moral force. The followers of Mr. Frothing- ham listened to an interesting discussion of the question of ‘Religion in Politics,” in which the preacher explained the relations that he considered should exist between po- litical and religious ideas. The Rev. Marvin R. Vincent preached a memorial sermon at the Church of the Covenant on the late John P. Crosby, and called attention to the sympa- thy of God for suffering humanity. At St, Stephen’s church Dr. McGlynn spoke eloquently on the childhood days of Christ as illustrating the divine alli- ance of wisdom and obedience exhibited in the character of the Saviour. Modern re- ligion was the subject of Professor’ Adler's discourse at Standard Hall, and at the Church of the Disciples the Rev. George Hepworth spoke on the opened heavens, and traced the growth of the knowledge of God. Mr.:Talmage defended Moses against the assaults of Huxley, and insisted that the latter made no impression on the religious faith of the American people, At Plymouth church Mr. Beecher discussed the spiritual man before a densely crowded congregation, At the other churches the services were equally impressive. 7 The Weather. Yesterday's biting cold and early morning snow took New York fairly by surprise. The genial warmth of Saturday gave promise of a continuance of the delightful Indian summer weather which points the landscape with such a variety of glorious colors and renders the atmosphere clear and bracing for out door sports. But as we announced some weeks ago, the winter was striding toward us from his home in the bleak North, and already the left wing of his army of frost and snow sprites covered the regions northward into Cannda. Yesterday’s cold and snow are but his advanced guard, giving us warning of his dread approach; for winter is, unhappily, always dreadful to a vast number of our people. The rain and snow area extended from Washington, D. ©., northeastwardly over the Middle and Eastern States and the British provinces, also embracing the lower lake region. The sheltered position of New York protects us in a large degree from the influences of the area of high pressure now moving southeastwardly over the Mis. sissippi and Ohio valleys; but, while we es- caped much of the rain and snow, the cold winds reached us in the shape of a thirty- two mile gale. The pressure to the west- ward, although still high, is diminishing, and is followed ‘by a low area and higher temperature. These changes will now suc- ceed each other rapidly. To-day the weather in New York will be cold, followed by an in- crease of temperature and: partial cloudi« ness, with westerly to southwesterly and southerly winds. The Neutrality of Greece. A correspondent of the Hzraup comes to the defence of Greece and presents his side of the case strongly. There is no doubt truth in his statement that brigandage in Greece is largely carried on by outlaws near the boun- daries of Turkey and that when they are pursued they retire into the dominions of the Sultan. It is also likely that Turkey does not keep her contract to exterminate this evil.. That the Greek fire ships did good service in the war for independence and that heroism was shown in the supplying of Crete with provisions in the last revolution may be conceded. But naval war was not, fifty years ago, what now it is, and heroism could not supply the want of iron-clads in a war with Turkey. The letter confirms our opinion that Greece wishes to remain neu- tral because she is conscious of her weak- ness, Even her King is wandering around Europe, and it is said that he prefers Paris to Athens. Ever since Lord Byron fought for the land ‘‘where burning Sappho loved and sung,” and Halleck published “Marco Bozzaris,” America has sympathized with no country in Europe more than with Greece; but when we speak of her position in the present Eastern complications we must not deal with sentiments, but with facts, Bartholdi’s Statue. There is danger that in the midst of the political excitement of the Presidential can- vass the citizens of New York may lose a great monument, which our old allies, the French people, destined for New York as. the Empire City of this continent. The idea of setting up in our harbor an immense and well nigh imperishable monument of the alliance between France and America, which contributed so much to the establish- ment of our national independence, was in itself a graceful and ‘touching tribute from the old war and weather beaten nation to the young giant which in a hundred years had grown fram infancy and taken a fore- most place among the nations of the earth. France has shown by the warm and hearty way this idea was received how much her people appreciate our greatness and the means by which we attained it. In setting up the statue of “Liberty Lighting the Commerce of the World” in the harbor of New York the French people propose to pay us and our institutions the highest honor in theis power. Up to the present it must be said that our citizens have shown very little de sire to reciprocate this kindly feeling. S¢ far no steps have been taken in New York to organize a committee and appeal for sub- scriptions to erect the base of the statue, which was the part of the work left for out citizens to do. Philadelphia has been prompt to profit by the carelessness of ont citizens, and already a committee has been organized in that city, with the avowed ob- ject of erecting Mr. Bartholdi’s statue on some site in Philadelphin. The whole coat of the proposed monument is estimated af