The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIEPOR THE DAILY HERALD, fm the year. ‘Three onal per copy tawny encivted § ar dollars per year, or at rate of one dollar per month tor any period less ‘bun’ six months, or Sve dollars for six mouths, Sunday luded, free of postage. ET rere aren inuner or Calegpephle Suapetdhen sinet Hanato. (Ali business, new: should be property sealed. Bg addressed New Yo cjatied eecksnns ookions wil ast vo returned. Rejected commun! PSLLADELPHIS OFFICE-NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH 8 E LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— N FLEET STREET. dO. 46 PLE! A PARIS OFFICE~AVENUE DE L'OPERA. NAPLES OF FICE—NO, 7 STRADA PACE, Subscriptions and advertisements be eceived and forwarded on the same terms ns BILMORE’S CONCERT GARDEN—Sumamn Concern FLIPTH AVENUE THEATRE—V) BOWERY THEATRE—Rocaawork. NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Quaun Prsues. WALLACK’S THEATRE—Kosipane, BOOTH'S THEATRE—Hxwny V. UNION SQUARE THEA BROOKLYN ACADEMY ACADEMY OF DESIGN. CENTRAL PARK GARI TIVOLI THEATRE—Vanter: ELLEW’S PHEATRE—? TONY PASTOR'S TILEA’ MAY 31, 1877. THURSDAY, NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. In future alt advertisements presented for pub- lication aster etght o'clock P. Mf, will be charged doubdie rates, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and fair or partly cloudy with, probably, @ thunder storm in the afternoon. Tax Aguantic Yacur Cup had a pleasant time yester on their annual cruise. Westrort, Conn., has established steam street cars which promise to be successtul. ‘Tuere Was a Fark Arrenpance at Fleet wood Park yésterday, notwithstanding the at- tractious of Decoration Day. Tue Brookiyn Porice have been ordered to Kill any dog found on the streets which is not securely muzzled, A siiilar order in New York would be timely. Jersey is becoming as famous for its ruftian- isin as it used to be for its legal severity. Tho netors and victims in the lutest Jersey outrage seem to be u bad lot. Eicut Hunxprep Dowtars were yesterday awarded as damages to a person who had been illegally put off a Third avenue horse car. This lesson was badly needed. Monrrvav has again fallen victim to fire. The flames, fanned by a high wind, ran through blocks of wooden houses with frightful rapidity, but were in the end checked by the energetic etforts of the fire brigade. Fortunately, no lives were lost. The lesson of these conflagrations is that wooden buildings ought not to be permitted in great citi Tne Vatur of General Miles’ campaign on the Yellowstone in bringing the noble red man to his senses ca& be fairly judged by our corre- spondent’s interesting letter from Tongue River. Only for his operations during the winter we would probably have had a long and bloody campaign; but cold and hunger do their work more surely even than bullets. They cannot be dodged even by a redskin. Tur Mysterious REEF on which the City of San Francisco struck on the 16th inst. demands the immediate attention of hydrographers, The theory that it was upheaved by the recent earth- quake is weakened by the statement of the fisherman who asserts that he is well acquainted with the reef and has frequently caught turtles apon it. The splendid conduct of the officers and crew of the ship, as well as the coolness and fortitude of the passengers, are deserving of the highest praise. It is fortunate that this disaster was unattended by loss of life, inasmuch as it locates a p anent dang tively trifling when measui have been. “ost Compara- Lby what it might We hope immediate steps will be taken to @ave this treacherous reef tully sur- veyed and charted. Tur Great Troat Wav which was really due to a volcanic the Pacific Oces ruction to » has carried tmany towns on the South An an coast. Par- ticulars of these disasters, so far as learned, are published in the ALD this morning. It would appear that the waves were expericnced along the entire Pacifie coast from Oregon to Chili, which proves thatthe disturbance was not a local one, but extended probably from Japan southeastward toward Peru. The sht of the wave at San Francisco was comparatively small, while on the Pernvian coast it swept over t towns and demolished some of them completel; destroying hundreds of lives. Reports from the Sandwich Islands will probably inform us of an eruption of the voleauoes of that group as well as the effects of the wave movements. Tie Weatuer.—The stor west has developed into a distu able energy. Th sntral pressure is now below 29 inches and heavy winds and gales are pre- vailing on its eastern margin, Only light rain bas yet fallen and that at a northerly point of the storm area, but as it advances to and over | the lake region we may expeet a heavy precip- j itation. The low pressure is slowly moving uorth northeastward from Nova Scotia, at- tended by fresh winds from the southwe pressure is also low over Florida and the E: Gulf, where the margin of a stort va has ad- vanced, inducing brisk northeasterly winds and light rain. The heut area within the isotherm of 70 degrees has changed its outline sin esday | ouly in the Northwest, where it has retreated southward of Duluth and Pembina before the advance of another cool wave, Still the temper- ature is extremely high southward from Lake Superior through the Mississippi Valley. The isotherm of 80 degrees yesterday embraced Chieago and Detroit and curved eastward to Philadelphia, but excluded Toledo and the lake sities of Erie and Outario, Detached areas oc- curred embraging Albany and New London and Chatham on the New Brunswick coast. Bebind the storm area in the Northwest the temperature falls rapidly, It is probable that owing to the decided variations of pressure and temperature now prevailing in the neighborhood of the storm frequent tornadoes will occur in the region bes tween the Missouri and the Ohio, and also in the St. Lawrence Valley and New York State. Vio- leut wind squalls will endanger vessels on the lakes and aloug the middle Atlantic coast. The weuther in New York to-day will be warmer and fair or partly cloudy with, probably, a thunder storia iu the altermoodis in the North- ce of remark- ’ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. Two Volees on the Civil Service. There are severa: opinions in the country abont the civil service, A good many excel- lent men believe that the subordinate and merely ministerial officers should be perma- nent; that they should be promoted for merit and efficiency; that appointments should be made only after examination, and that political considerations should have no weight in making them. But there is an- other and perhaps even more numerous class who dissent from all this. They fear that permanence in office would create a beaurocratic spirit and lead to a state of things in which the government would exist mainly for the benefit of a set of obstructives who draw sal- aries. They hold that the minor and non- political officers have but light and easy duties to perform, which need no special skill or training; that in the exceptional cases, even under our loose system, capable offi- cers are retained ; that civil service exami- nations are foolishness; that on the whole ‘it is better to simplify the administration than to form a permanent civil service. We believe we have stated fairly the two extremes of opinion on this subject. The one side would entirely abolish patronage, and carry on the government service strictly as a mercantile establishment is conducted. The other sees dangers in this system, and prefers to let things take their old course. Meantime the friends of civil service re- form point out not only the improvements growing ont of examinations and systematic promotions for merit in such branches of the service as the Patent Office and the rail- way mail service, but they hold up to pub- lic view the various abuses which have become conspicuous during General Grant's edininistration. Look, they say, at a Cabi- net officer stooping to’ carry on a partisan canvass; look at United States marshals and collectors spending their time and misusing their influence for partisan ends; look ata consular service composed largely of favor- ites, invalids and incapables, and of no use to commerce; at custom houses misused to obstruct commerce and rob merchants ; at the public offices stuffed with favorites ; at the party in power compelling the clerks to pay political assessments and spend their time in the service of the party. See, they add, how in the last Presidential campaign the whole force of the government was di- verted to the illegitimate use of maintain- ing the party in power in defiance of the will of the people ; see conventions manned and controlled, and nominations made almost exclusively by office-holders on the one side and by oftice-seekers on the other, to the exclusion of the people, who yet are supposed to govern, but who are powerless in the hands of political machines formed to grab and plunder the taxes. If this system is per- mitted to go on it will be impossible to get a party out which once has gained power, without a revolution after the Mexican fashion. : But, reply the others, we do not defen these abuses: we maintain only thit the remedies you propose are impossible; that the use of patronage to secure political ob- jects may be legitimate, and that if it is abused the people can and will punish the authors of the abuses; and they point to the fact that in spite of the mon- strous wrongs and demoralization of the last eight years the people cast a vote last November which, but for the unconstitu- tional and revolutionary military interfer- ence of the administration, would have ejected the party which had countenanced these abuses, Let us now try to see what are the facts about the civil service. The federal gov- ernment is in the main a vast business establishment. It has comparatively few purely political duties, and these are very simple. It has an insignificant army and navy, a judiciary which touches only a few interests, a foreign service of trifling im- portance. The Cabinet, the federal courts, the army and navy and the minis- | ters and consuls abroad are the whole political staff, and they form numer- ically but a very small part of the service. All the rest are non-political; they are clerks, no matter by what more dignified names they are called, and they are hired to perform clerical duties more or less complicated and important, but which have | no proper political relations or functions. They are members of » vast business estab- lishment, whose duty it is to collect taxes, keep accounts, pay out interest on the debt, and salaries, and buy necessary supplies. A collector of customs is simply a clerk of the Treasury Department; a marshal is a clerk of the Attorney General’s office; a postmaster is a clerk of the General Post Office Department, and so on. Looked at in this way there seems to be no reason why these persons should make themselves conspicuous in partisan strife, and there is an eminent impropriety in their doing so; for when a collector or a marshal engages himself as a party leader | he is spending the time and using the in- | fluence of the government—of the whole | people, that is to say—to benefit himself and that part of the people with whom he agrees in politics. Itis a source of great mischief and demoralization. But when, on the other hand, it is urged that, being in, a government officer should never ke removed except for cause named, we do not agree. This rule would hamper the Chief Executive, destroy his responsibility to the people, and enable him fairly to claim, if abuses are complained of, that if he had been allowed to work with tools of his own selection he would have prevented them. Whatever lessens the responsibility of the Chief Executive to the people is quite certain to produce inefficiency and corrup- tion. We hold that the President ought to possess the right of summary removal of his subordinates ; that because he does he is rightfully held responsible for the abuses which may occur; and that if he misuses his power over the appointments he and the party which elected him will be punished by the people at the ensuing elections, And here it is useful to remember that if during the last eight years groat and scan- dalons abuses have crept into the federal civil service without meeting with a decided check from the people, this arose mainly from the unfortunate situation of the a terrible war, was, inthe North, deeply prejudiced against one of the political parties on account of its course during that war ; and as to the South, bitterly resentful and suspicious of the whites who had fought againstthe Union. The political issnes were therefore false and unnatural; the real is- sues, among which reform ‘and economy would under ordinary ciroumstances be prominent, were entirely set aside. And yet, in spite of this, we have seen the party in power gradually losing its predominance in both Houses, and the opposition, laboring under many disadvantages, slowly increas- ing in strength, in spite of not a few follies. It seems to us that in his letter to Secre- tary Sherman the President has laid down with admirable exactness the plan on which the civil service should be conducted:— It is my wish that the collection of the revenues should be free from partisan contro! aud organized on a strictly business basis, with the same guaraptecs for etliciency and fidelity in the selection of the chief ana subordinate oflicers that would be required bya pru- dont merchant. Party leaders sbould bave uo more influence in appolntments than other equally respect- able citizens, No assessments for political purposes on officers or subordinutes should be ullowed; no use- less officer or employé sbould be retained; uo officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, con- ventions or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either oraily or through the press, is not de nicd, provided it does not interfere with tho discharge of their official duties, The War News. The most significant feature in the news of the great conflict is the attention given at Berlin to reports of mediation, peace pros- pects and an armistice. Germany appears to be the mediating Power; and while there can be no doubt the Sultan would make peace on almost any terms if he dared it is certain the Czar would not be difficult be- yond his demand in regard to Bulgaria and the Christian people of the Sultan’s do- minions. This disposition of the belliger- ents, therefore, exhibits that a fair peace is possible, and the anxiety and eager- ness of England to see peace: restored before Turkey is crushed will certainly supply an active impulse. There may, then, be more in the peace reports than is yet apparent, though it should be remem- bered that peace rumors of the liveliest sort are always an incident to the first tew months of war. It is ‘‘officially reported” that the ‘Turks have retaken Ardahan, but this is Constantinoplenews, made for a mar- ket that demands reports of Turkish suc- cesses, and must have them. It isa highly improbable story. ‘There is no progress on the Danube, and bad weather is also likely to delay decisive events in Asia, though there seems some likelihood that the Rus- sians will get between Mukhtar Pacha and General Grant tn England. Our special despatches by cable continue the report of the splendid hospitality with which our British cousins have welcomed to their shores the late President of the United States. They love a lion in England. In- deed, a demonstrative admiration of a man who by his own qualities or force of charac- ter has distinguished himself from the many is the one channel in which the Brit- ish mind runs to extremes of enthusiastic fervor. Personal superiority is the corner stone of the social and political fabric in those islands. As we stand by the declara- tion of personal equality, they hold with resolute faith to the contrary view that some men are better than others; and when the happily constituted in- dividugl has given evidence of his superiority in war, in science, in diseovery, in commerce, in any other leading sphere of human activity, they build him into their wallif he is one of their own men—mnake him a duke ora lord at legst—a permanent part of the fabric that restrains monarchy on the one hand and democracy on the other; while if ho is from a foreign land they accord to him the sincerest admiration they ever yield to any product of another country. In their demonstrative reception of the ex-President, therefore, while they mako this quite honestly an occasion to exhibit good will toward this country they are really earnest in it because they uncon- sciously ‘‘celebrate themselves ;” they em- phasize a tact that sustains, so far | as it goes, the philosophy of their own system, All the honor they pay him evidently sits easily on the General, who seems really more at home at Manchester than he ever was in Washington ; for we do not remember any oecasion on which his words appeared to follow one another so readily in any occasional address as they did at the reception of yesterday. There is a certain propriety in the fact that our great comimander makes his entry to London at the house of that great commander of British armies, the Duke of Wellington, and his countrymen will not quarrel with him if for a dinner with the Duke of Wellington he puts aside for another date the invitation of the Earl of Beaconsfield. There will always be premiers, but there is only one house in London that is part of the history of Waterloo, Death of J. Lothrop Motley. The decease of this eminent historian in the fall vigor of his faculties and in the midst of labors whose completion would havo Erzeroum, which will mean the loss of Mukhtar's army. Decoration Day. Many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air, but the lilies and roses which were gathered yesterday from gardens and conservatories and strewed upon the graves of our dead heroes served a holy purpose and are more beautiful in their decay then in their fresh- ness. These flowers laid by fair hands upon unforgotten graves to wither and die cannot wholly perish, but even in » their dust will keep alive the memory of the dead and the gratitude of the living. When the comrades of the fallen soldiers placed these fragrant garlands on their tombs many a night in camp and many a field of battle must have been recalled with sorrow and with pride. Both the North and the South united yesterday in celebrating, not so much the causes for which they fought asthe bravery and sincerity of the men who bore the brunt of battle. The old issues are rightly for- gotten in the homage paid to the heroism of the American soldier, no matter whether he wore the blue or the gray. With the lapse of time not only are the passions of the war subdued, but the sorrows for the dead are softened, and so Decoration Day has ceased to be one of mourning and gloom, but rather one of tender recollection. In all parts of the country the usual cer- emonies were observed, and never with more earnestness and feeling. If among the pines of the Wilderness or the mountains of Georgia many a nameless grave was un- noticed Nature decorated them with the wild flowers of spring. The Derby. ‘That great event, the Derby Day, probably the most important of all events in the racing of the world, to see which all London leaves for Epsom Downs, and Parliament itself, in spite of the protest of Tom Hughes, adjourns, occurred yesterday in the pres- ence of an unusually large assembly. Our despatches give a picturesque description of the brilliant throng of fashion and beauty and the excitement and gayety of the stirring scene. Even war cannot stop the interest of the English in this great national holiday, and fortunately the same sun that looked kindly upon Decoration Day in America smiled upon the green turf at Epsom. The | great race was strongly contested and the result altogether unexpected. The best laid schemes not only of mice and men but also ot horses gang aft agley, and in this case all the favorities were beaten. The Newspapers and “Business De- pression.” Certain of our contemporaries seem to be curious about the Herarp's circulation. Now and then they urge us to publish the figures, intimating that we do not because we dare not, and confessing that they them- selves have lost circulation in consequence of “the marked depression in business and especially in newspapers.” It has not been our habit to parade our circulation, pre- ferring to make a good newspaper and let the circulation take care of itself; but we are willing to be as frank as any of our in- quisitive contemporaries in this matter. If any one of them will join with us in the selection of a committee to examine and report upon the question of comparative circulation we shall be most happy to fur- nish them with the facts, No doubt they will be glad to learn that the business de- pression has been followed by a business revival, in evidence of which we may state that the circulation of the Hxnatp is thirty thousand larger than at this time last year, and that its advertising has increased in the same proportion. We are no believers in the prevailing humbug about business de- counts, which, having just passed through pression, instructed the world and have added to the greatness of his fame, is a misfortune to his country, to letters, to the human race, Like Prescott, he is cut off at the age of sixty- three; but Prescott had more nearly finished the historical tasks he had set himself. Ma- caulay died four years younger, and also with an uncompleted history on his hands. But Prescott’s ‘History of Philip IL” and Macaulay's ‘History of England” were so far advanced at the time of their respective deaths that the world possessed the greater part of the fruits of their researches, while not a volume has yet been published of the ‘His- tory of the Thirty Years’ War” to which Mr. Motley has been devoting his industry since his retirement from the English mis- sion in 1870. It is to be hoped that some of the earlier volumes are completed, bat on this point the public has no knowledge. He has never published any of his histories by instalments, his rule being to wait until each separate task was fully done before giving any part of it to the world. Our knowledge of this habit, and of the fact that he has given five or six years to this magnificent subject, may justify the expec- tation that his literary executors will be able to publish a considerable portion of the great work which has so long engaged his ripest faculties. The cultivated public both of this coun- try and Europe long ago took out of the hands of obituary writers the task of assigning Mr. Motley his proper rank among historians. He undoubtedly be- longs to the first class, though not to the highest place in thatclass. In breadth of research, in the value of his materials, in the new light he has shed on great transactions, by original information, he is inferior to no writer of history who has instructed the present age. This is saying a great deal, because the historians of the last thirty years surpass all their predecessors in this great requisite. Nor is Motley in- ferior to any in the importance of the peri- ods he has undertaken to illustrate. His own countryman, Bancroft, and the most brilliant of English historians, Macaulay, have written national histories ; but Motley, like Prescott, selected events of universal interest to mankind, and the consequence is that their fame is nearly as great on the Continent of Europe as it is in their own country. Motley has been translated into all the languages of modern Europe— into French by Guizot, into Dutch by the most eminent historian of Holland, into German and into Russian by very compe- tent hands, He succeeded Prescott as a member of the French Institute, and has received distinguished honors from most of the learned societies of Europe. These marks of recognition are due not only to the great breadth and value of his researches, but to the clearness of his narra- tive, the depth of his penetration, his pic- torial power, and above all, to a glowing and sympathetic enthusiasm for the heroic men whose great deeds he recounts. In faultless taste and easy, limpid flow of nar- rative he is not equal to Prescott, but he excels him in depth of teeling and force of description. Prescott narrates like an im- partial spectator; Motley like a contem- porary who shares the passions of the period. He is less artistic than Prescott, but the throb of life seems to pulsate in his glowing pages. The death of this great historian is an irreparable loss to literature. A Cvunrovs Inquiny.—Our Washington correspondent states that the British gov- ernment has called the attention of Secre- tary Evarts tothe fact that one of the persons killed in the Kemper county riot in Missis- sippi was a British subject, aud Mr. Evarts is requested to ascertain how and why he was killed. Governor Stone would do well to Legislature might very well offer an indem- nity if it is shown that Mr. McClelland was wrongfully slain. Meantime we advise peaceable people, foreigners and Americans, to keep out of Mississippi until somebody enforces the laws down there. The whole of Africa is open to persons of an adven- turous turn, not to speak of Mexico and South America, . About the Fourth of July. We have received several communications vindicating the sacred right of the Ameri- can boy to blow off the top of his head or the ends of his fingers on the Fourth of July. Now the Henaxp is not the enemy of the New York boys. It has in many ways and on many oceasions defended their rights and been helpful toward their amuse- ments. But there are other people in New York besides boys; and, what is equally pertinent in this case, there are other amusements from which New York boys can get pleasure on Independence Day besides making themselves a nuisance and a danger to the remainder of the community. We propose that they shall have their fill of fireworks in the evening, in an orderly way, and with such precautions as shall not endanger themselves or other people. But we should like to see the use of fire- crackers, torpedoes, &c., prohibited in the streets. Why not? The streets are com- mon property; they are used by horsemen, by ladies, by elderly and nervous people. The noise and the fire are both dangerous in the public streets. There are many other ways to amuse chil- dren on the Fourth of July. Why should they not assemble at the public schools in the morning and have a parade? They could have ward picnics in the Central Park, or on the river, or the bay, or in the country. They could assemble in the public squares and be amused with ice cream and the Declaration of Independence and harmless games. There are dozens of ways to amuse the boys and girls, and do it so well that they will not regret their firecrackers and torpedoes. We call attention to what our Mayor says on this subject elsewhere, A Sanitary Rip Van Winkle. The Insanitary Bureau of the Ill-Health Department has made a discovery. Having been taken over to Brooklyn in the train of that doughty knight Don Quixote de Bergh, one of its superintendents has found out that swill. milk establishments are actually in operation in that City of Churches and its vicinity ; that in one close, foul stable, some seven or eight hundred sickly cows are fed on swill and distillery waste; that these an- imals breathe an atmosphere ‘‘saturated with exhalations from their bodies, their ex- erements and the sour, fermented swill,” and that the diseased milk they yield is sold in the market as pure. And the high sanitary Board of Health medical authority who has brought these wonders to light sagaciously argues that such milk cannot be healthful food for infants and young children. The discovery made by the Sanitary Bu- reau is an old story in the Hrzazp columns, where the facts have been told for weeks past. We expect no aid from the incapables of the Board of Health either in exposing or abating this or any other public evil. Mr. Bergh, who is at least honest and earnest in all his efforts to do good, may accomplish something if he will set practically to work and reach the evil through the power given him to prevent the cruelty practised on the cows. But he must aim his lance at the breasts of the proprietors of the swill milk pest houses, and not at neighboring wind- mills, and he will do well not to associate himself in any way with the sanitary inca- pables in his work. For the rest, the milk dealersin the city should be closely watched, and any one found selling the Brooklyn or any other swill milk should be punished as severely as the law allows. The lives of thousands of children depend on the total suppression of the rascally traffic in impure and adulterated milk carried on in this city, God help the little ones if they had to rely solely on the New York Health Department for the accomplishment of such a result! Who Will Give Us Cheap Cabs? The new movement to establish cheap cabs in New York through the medium of the joint stock ‘‘Manhattan Cab Company, limited,” bids fair to be a success. The eapital is to be a quarter of a million dollars, and of this one hundred and seventy thou- sand dollars, or two-thirds of the whole amount, was subscribed when the books were opened on ‘Tuesday, The fact that one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of this first stock goes into English hands is not very flattering to our boasted American enterprise. The books will be opened again to-morrow, and it is to be hoped that our own capitalists will take some interest in a project that cannot fail to be fairly remunerative and that will be a great public convenience. We should like to see a good portion of the remaining stock go into the hands of our present hack proprietors, large and small. We have had atolerably good hack system in the city under discouraging circumstances. Some owners have taken pride in giving the pub- lic clean and sometimes handsome carriages and civil, careful drivers. For a great city where the laws are not enforced with the most signal efficiency the hack service has been remarkably free from abuse, as @ gen- eral rule, except in the matter of fare. ‘The high charges have limited the use of public carriages and crippled the business. Ifthe old proprietors will enlist in the present en- terprise it will secure, in addition to such eapital as they can bring, the more valuable aid of their experience in the business, and | we shall have the satisfaction of knowing that a number of deserving men will not be | thrown out of employment through the suc- cess of the new cab company. Reaching the Rope's End, There is consolation in the fact that two unfaithful bank officers have been sent to the State Prison in Connecticut. The triumph of justice in the instance of the Hartford Bank will probably encourage some of the sufferers by the frauds of the Third Avenue Savings Bank in this city and other swindling concerns to take their griefs be- fore the Grand Jury and secure the indict- |, ment of some of their victimizers. In view assist volunterily in this inquiry, and the Averue Bank officially reported that secari- ties had been stolen from that institution, in addition to the many wilful violations of law, perjuries and false pretences with | which the records of the infamous institu- tion are crowded, it is surprising indeed that the public prosecutor has not deemed it to be his duty to initiate crimi. nal prosecutions against the dishonest bank officials, and the neglect and its alleged causes may need future investigation, The Senate committee holds still in its hands the charges against the present Bank Superintendent, who should now, by the way, be suspended by the Governor unti) the result is reached. Whatever the inves tigating committee may finally determine will not, fortunately, relieve the Superin« tendent from prosecution under the pro- vision of the Revised Statutes, which says, “when any duty is or shall be enjoined by law upon any public officer, or upon any person holding any public trust or employ- ment, every wilful neglect to, perform such duty, where no special provision shall hava been made for the punishment of such de. linquency, shall be a misdemeanor punisho able as herein prescribed.” Romeo and Juliet. What is properly called ‘‘a marvellous dramatic novelty” will be presented at Booth’s ‘Theatre this afternoon, when “Romeo and Juliet” will be produced with one Romeo and seven Juliets. The man. ager, no doubt, considers this multiplicity of heroines an attraction, but to the intelli- gent play-goer itisarepulsion. When such a person attends a Shakespearian perform. ance he desires to see a great character well conceived and thoroughly developed by a single actor. Instead of this there will be a monstrosity. Juliet, will be distributed among seven ladies entirely unlike each other in voice, face and figure, and, more than this, in their conceptions of the part, All illusion, continuity and poe- try will be thus destroyed. Shakespeare when he should be the most beautiful will be made the most ridiculous. Nothing more absurd can be imagined than a Romea who will dance with one Juliet in the ball. room scene, woo another on the balcony, wed a third, part from a fourth when ban- ished and die upon the bosom of a fifth, leaving a sixth to take poison alone. He can be true to none of them and must be false to his art. Shakespeare makes Richard say “I think there be six Rich- monds in the field; five have I slain to-day;” but he is too artistic to produce more than one of them on the stage. Such a Romeo as this is worse thana Mormon. We do not blame the estimable actresses who will as- sist the eminent actor in the farce which is to be played to-day, but we regret. very much that the theatre which was built by Edwin Booth as a temple for legitimate art should be mado the scene of its degradation, Ben Butler Objects. From the juicy letter of General Butler to Mr. J. R. G. Pitkin, U. 8. Marshal, it would seem that that doughty champion of repub- lican purity and high toned politics feels bed about Louisiana, It appears that a gen- tleman named Pitkin, who is a protégé of General Butler, is to give place in an.of- fice ofsome emolument to a gentleman named Wharton, who is a protégé of somebody else, This is a common fate with office-holders and has happened under nearly every ad- ministration that we remember. Bat it ia not palatable to Ben that the common fate should overtake his protégés. He would like to clothe all who have the remotest re- lation to his fortunes with a sacred immu- nity that should lift them above the reach of the political guillotine. No doubt this isa pleasant trait in his quaintly made up character. It is honorable toa man to have friends and to stand by them; but shall nobody else havefriends? Alas! there is the trouble. That somebody else's man must have the place implies that that some- body else is of more consequence than Ben. But for that touch of wounded vanity we do not see that it wonld be worth while ta ake such a pother over this change in the Marshal’s office in Louisiana, Everybody will rejoice to see with what delicate scorn the General treats the bargain in regard to thia office, It is a great pity that Ben never had his attention called before this to bargains of that kind in politics. How he would have roasted the perpetrators with sarcasm! How delightfully he would have scathed such a case as the appointment of Simmons to be Collector of Boston! PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, President Hayes will visit Boston June 17. Shad flios and widows’ tears do not last long. The new democratic drink is lager—in a horn, The Red Sea, unlike a good many politicians, dried up. Hartford Courant:—"'The United States ought to be represented at Paris,” When Gail Hamilton puts her foot down the chande. liers and shoemakers tremble, Jersey mosquitoes ure now swooping down and catching porgies on Raritan Bay, A Russian citizen went into the City Hall yesterday and asked to have one of bis names “off.’” There is enough smacking round a boarding house tabie to make the wails of Joricho feel uncasy, When the editor of Chicago /ribune gocs to bed nights he bangs bh over the back of a chair, It draws salt tears to a fellow’s eyes to see Dr. Mary Walker sit down of an evening and put in patches. A Berlin society arges that hats be no longer taken off in the street as a mode of salutation, but that a simple bow bo sufiicient, ‘The Charleston Journal says that the real troubles of the South are inefficient and high-priced labor and ruinous and destructive taxes, It ts said that the presence of young and beautifu Indies in the French Chamber will compel the Depu- ties to make enthusiastic speeches, The St Paul Dispatch says there is no good in {rote ting; but the Dispatch nover went into a jamboree and jamble of bouseclouning and sat down on a sucootasb of carpet tacks. No doubt the agitation against the use of liquor In Massachusetts has bad a great effect toward muking lommperance respectable and pablic drunkonness in/re+ quent in that State, Minnesota people take a piece of sheet iron with the euds slightly turned up and with its sarface smeared with coal tar and drag it over a tield. Each trip re sults In the capture of a groat number of gras® hoppers, Sometimes a man gets up @ stunning joke, slaps hie kuee with pleas taxes up exchange, sees the same joke, scratches his own out, and wants to hang himeclf to a ima-beam pole, You needn’s laugh; you koow how it is yourself, The only people who speak about a mutual admiras “on society in American humor are those who cannot, for want of bumor, get quoted. Tho paper that say@ [of the fact that the receiver of the Third & good thing will, if it reaches our notice, receive ag much credit as i! it were ‘mutually admired.”